In the past few days, the eight-character wall in front of the yamen in Changlu County is the favorite place for the people of Cangzhou to gather. Compared with the various notices that were often not updated for dozens of days until they faded and fell off after the wind and rain, the Bazi Wall is now updated at least once a day, and there are even government officials or small officials who read aloud next to them, and everyone is willing to come and take a look or listen to the latest news.

So, early in the morning, more than a dozen people gathered in front of the yamen of Changlu County - some were the owners of nearby shops, taking advantage of the fact that there were no customers to join in the fun, and some were people living nearby, who got up early to listen to the news and planned to go to work. When the two officers finally came out with a few scrolls of posters, they immediately came forward in a hurry and with a lot of literacy.

Seeing that the first notice was pasted, without waiting for the errand officer who read it to speak, he squinted his eyes and read as he read it: "Today's headlines, General Mingwei will interrogate Xu Cheng and the county government's subordinate officials and servants in Chenzheng......

He was stunned for a moment, only to feel a surge of excitement. Before, it was rumored that Xu Cheng and other officials were going to be escorted back to the capital to be tried, and most of them would thunder and rain, and they would be demoted and resigned, but they didn't expect to be tried in Cangzhou! After reacting, he hurriedly said to the people around him: "Great, General Zhu wants to interrogate Xu Cheng's dog officer!" ”

The news spread so quickly that when the officer lazily skipped the first notice that had already spread in the ears of the people, and began to read the second one, many people did not pay attention to it.

"Dr. Zhang, the superintendent of the country, will interrogate eight people, including the textile worker Xian Yunhe."

It wasn't until someone realized that the news was also extraordinary, so they shouted it, that people couldn't help but look at each other. Before, it was a big family, an idle man and a bully, but now it's the turn of officials and rioters? Sure enough, it is worthy of a quick knife to cut through the mess, and the speed is so fast!

So, the ruthless General Mingwei came to interrogate Xu Cheng and others, and the gentle and amiable Dr. Zhang came to interrogate Xian Yunhe and others, does this indicate the final result?

One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the workshop did not all resume work, most of the spinners and cotton farmers had already gathered with the news, gathered in front of the county yamen, hoping to witness Xu Cheng's final fate as soon as possible. Not only them, but also all the big families who had been hit hard before, all sent people to some extent. Some are in charge of errands, while others are there themselves.

For example, Jiang Dashao ignored his injured buttocks, which had not yet healed, and came in person in the carriage. However, his carriage had only stopped along the base of the wall for a short time, when he suddenly heard a sound like a tsunami outside.

"Kill Xu Cheng, that dog officer!"

"Officer Xu Gou, I think you have today when you instigated those servants to beat us away with sticks!"

"General Mingwei is fair and strict, and he will definitely give justice to the people of Cangzhou!"

Jiang Dashao almost turned over and got up, and he didn't care about the still hot ass, so he hurriedly opened the curtain and looked over. I saw that Xu Cheng was actually sent to the county government sitting in the threshold car, and a lot of rotten vegetable peels and rotten fruits could be seen on the threshold car, and he even smelled a smell of rotten eggs from a distance, which was obviously smashed all the way.

Although he also hated this guy who didn't take care of him-because if the Changlu County Order was a strong order, then the eldest prince might have gotten out of the way long ago, and his father and the three brothers would not be so unlucky-However, Jiang Dashao still knew that as a grasshopper that was once tied to a rope, the Jiang family and the other families were worse than the other, and Xu Cheng certainly couldn't be exempted from the crime.

He rubbed his buttocks unconsciously, feeling frightened when he thought of the beating that day, and couldn't help but scold in a low voice for a while: "How many people you have beaten in the past, and you deserve to be beaten back today!" ”

However, as soon as the words fell, he only heard the coachman outside whisper: "Young Master, you can't help but think too easily. If you can't punish a doctor, you can't give a courtesy. Xu Cheng is the Jinshi nominated by the Xingbang in the end, no matter what the crime, he will not be beaten. ”

Jiang Dashao was suddenly unhappy. What does it mean to be a doctor who can't be punished - the three brothers together suffered forty, and his father alone suffered forty, why did Xu Cheng escape because he took the Jinshi exam? Just by virtue of this Changlu County Order, he has been perverse in Cangzhou for several years, and it is at least one hundred and eighty canes!

As for killing Xu Cheng, he had no extravagant hope at all. That's also a Qipin county order, it's not so easy to kill. In the play, what Bafu Patrol holds Shang Fang's sword and pushes all the way, killing corrupt officials, killing corrupt officials, killing bullies and inferior gentry, that is singing, and it can't be taken seriously.

Xu Cheng never dreamed that after taking the car, he would not go to Beijing, but be sent to Changlu County. Yesterday, he did have the idea of committing suicide, but after Du Heng came over in person and reasoned with the facts, he dispelled this idea after he woke up to the fate of rashly begging for death.

Not to mention that the suicide of an official cannot solve all problems, and if he dies, he will also affect his family, and if he dies, he will be extremely unlucky, let's just say that he does not have connections in the same year in the capital. These people may not be able to help him get rid of his crime, but it shouldn't be difficult to save his life, right? He didn't kill people and set fires, but he was greedy for a little money, so why should he die?

In this case, what is a momentary humiliation, just get through it!

Thinking of this, when Xu Cheng stepped into the county hall with his arms left and right, he was naturally ready to endure humiliation. However, when he saw the familiar environment, he still felt unusually depressed, so sad that he almost burst into tears.

Once here, he stood high in the hall, shocked the wood, whether it was the complainant or the defendant, all of them could only obediently kneel down and wait for him to fall, he could hit whoever he wanted, and he could hit whoever he wanted, and he could drop as he wanted.

The thrill of controlling the power of life and death is something that people who have been going around the capital all their lives, serving their bosses and forming good colleagues, and who have never had the opportunity to be in charge of one side of the government, cannot experience.

But at this moment, although he has not been tortured, he is a prisoner under the guilty hall, even if he does not have to kneel......

Xu Cheng just thought that fortunately he didn't have to kneel, but his knee suddenly took a heavy kick, and immediately after, he couldn't help but pounce on his knees on the ground. He came back to his senses in a moment, and immediately shouted in shock and anger: "I am a county magistrate from Jinshi, Zhu Tingfang, why are you trying me, why are you making me kneel!" ”

Zhang Shou, who was listening, couldn't help but smile, thinking that he would have to put up a fight when he was dying, and it was really the superiority of the reader. When he looked at Ge Yong again, he saw that the old lady was really frowning, and he looked unaccustomed to it. Compared with their mere ridiculed response, Zhu Tingfang's response was much more straightforward.

"You are no longer the Changlu County Commander from Jinshi, because you have been dismissed from the imperial court as a citizen and chased your origin. That is to say, all the fame you have achieved in the field in the past, whether it is a showman, a lifter, or a jinshi, has all been taken away, and there is no one left! See the officials with the people, do you dare to kneel? ”

With the sound of the words, Xu Cheng only felt that his mood was shocked, and he suddenly collapsed to the ground. There are so many officials who have been dismissed from their posts for the sake of losing the political struggle for a while, or because of corruption and other crimes, but the pursuit of their origins is the most serious one. It can be said that since the dynasty, there are only a handful of people who have been punished so severely!

Why was he treated like this? It was not without pastoral officials that the people were transformed in a hurry......

Zhu Tingfang ignored Xu Cheng, who felt sorry for himself, and said in a cold voice: "As a shepherd, during your many years in office, you accepted bribes, bent the law for bribes, embezzled grain depots, and robbed people's property......

After listing more than ten charges against Xu Cheng in one go, he motioned to Master Sun on the side and said, "Read out Xu Cheng's detailed charges, as well as witness testimony and physical evidence, so that Master Ge and Dr. Zhang can listen to them carefully." ”

Seeing that Master Sun glanced at himself arrogantly, and then began to read out his guilt aloud, Xu Cheng listened to it, and then sensed that something was wrong, and suddenly a spirit suddenly woke up. The guy who usually had to be careful in front of him now looked at him kneeling at his feet, although he was angry and hateful, but he could still bear this breath, but what the other party read was not trivial.

Because it didn't involve many details of his collusion with the eldest prince, it just brought together many of his bad deeds in Cangzhou over the years, which seemed to be a lot of crimes, but in fact, it was suspected of avoiding the serious. However, he suddenly heard that not only in this hall, but also at the entrance of the county government in the distance, there seemed to be a loud voice reading his accusations to the people.

Although he didn't know that when Zhu Tingfang dealt with the Jiang family, the Qi family and other wealthy families before, he didn't focus on colluding with the eldest prince and so on, but at this moment, he still shuddered. Is this an attempt to weaken the popular uprising, but to beat him as a corrupt official and punish him severely, so as to appease the people?

He struggled to prop up the ground with his hands and straighten up, and when he saw the chair on the left hand side of the main seat in the lobby, Master Ge was listening attentively, thinking of what people said when they came to see him yesterday, he knew that it was impossible to expect this respected emperor to let him go, and immediately moved his eyes to Zhang Shou on the other side.

He didn't recognize this young man who helped Ge Yong to see him yesterday, but just now Zhu Tingfang said that he was Dr. Zhang, and he saw that he was handsome, and he remembered that he had heard the rumors of the new textile machine of the eldest prince before, where did he not know who it was? Although he was not sure at all whether the other party would be on this side, he could no longer care about it, so he could only grasp the possible straw that could be a lifesaver.

Because the eldest prince once inadvertently mentioned when he was drunk that although Zhang Shou was very loved by Mrs. Zhao Guotai and Mrs., and won the heart of the eldest lady, he and Zhu Tingfang, the future eldest brother, did not seem to be so harmonious!

"Dr. Zhang, yesterday Taishi Ge also said that he would send me to Beijing by car to wait for the imperial court, but how can he interrogate me in Changlu County today? You are Dr. Guozi, knowledgeable, proficient in the law, you should know that even if I have been dismissed from the civil government and chased from my background, but after all, I used to be an official of the imperial court, and I should be judged by the three law judges, General Mingwei, he is overstepping his authority! ”

How blind do you have to be to come to me? Do you think I have to say goodbye to my future uncle and steal the limelight? Also, what the hell is mastery of the law? My familiarity with the Da Ming Law is far worse than Zhu Tingfang's, and it is still a book that I have been reading temporarily in the past few days!

Zhang Shou's heart was stunned, and then he said unhurriedly: "Taishi Ge said yesterday that he would send you to the capital, but this time he also brought the will of the imperial court to grant General Mingwei the opportunity to dispose of the Cangzhou prison. Since you are already a prisoner, you are naturally among the prisoners. ”

Today's matter, Zhang Shou and Zhu Tingfang discussed in advance, and specially borrowed the four students with the best memory and the fastest response from Xu Weng, and conveyed everything that happened in the hall to the outside in a timely manner, and announced them one by one, in short, it was to build an information broadcast channel, so every word in the public court at this time was clearly transmitted to the onlookers outside the county yamen.

When Zhang Shou hit back at Xu Cheng like this, in the crowd, I don't know who shouted loudly: "That's right, that Xu Cheng has been scraping the land in Cangzhou for so many years, of course he should be tried in Cangzhou, otherwise wouldn't our Cangzhou people have suffered for so many years in vain and suffered for so many years!" ”

Xu Cheng couldn't fully hear the shouting outside, but it was still no problem to capture a few words. He felt the turmoil of the people for the first time, and he didn't care about Zhang Shou's statement, which was almost equivalent to standing in the same boat as Zhu Tingfang, and said hard: "How can a civilian prison be the same as a scholar's prison?" I'm not convinced! ”

"Even if you Zhao Guogong Mansion are relatives of the emperor, you can't cover the sky with one hand!"

"When you were covering the sky with one hand in Cangzhou City, someone shouted in front of you, how did you respond to him? If I don't remember your crime wrongly, I think that someone was convicted by you and took away the family property, shouted in front of the county yamen, and was finally beaten by someone you sent to beat him with a stick, and then died at home, right? Zhu Tingfang got up in his robe and walked straight to Xu Cheng, but he grabbed the person's collar.

Seeing this scene, even if he had muttered about his future uncle in the past, Zhang Shou couldn't help but praise in his heart - although this kind of behavior is really too messy, in all fairness, for a corrupt official who is so cheeky that he is completely shameless, he actually wants to roll up his sleeves and beat people. So, without thinking, he hurriedly got up and rushed over quickly.

"General Zhu can't ......be impulsive," Zhang Shou said, pretending to stop Zhu Tingfang, but by the way, he kicked Xu Cheng in the stomach with a shadowless kick. Seeing that Xu Cheng, who wanted to call for help, suddenly gasped, but he couldn't scream because his collar was grabbed by Zhu Tingfang, he said unhurriedly, "This kind of person who harms the people is indeed extremely evil, if General Zhu is provoked by him, wouldn't he be evil?" ”

The scene just now naturally couldn't hide from Zhu Tingfang's eyes. He glanced at Zhang Shou's foot in surprise, thinking that he didn't look at his future brother-in-law Wenwen as weak, the kick just now was quite ruthless, but it turned out to be a man of temperament, no wonder Yingying would like him. Of course, with this kick, if he really fights, he still can't beat his sister......

After such a completely irrelevant and nonsensical thought flashed through his mind, he said lightly: "Who said I was provoked by him? Since he claims that the scholar's prison has nothing to do with the civilian prison, then, I will take him out and let him see what the attitude of the people of Cangzhou, who has been plagued by him for many years! ”