Chapter 60: Cutting
Chongzhen felt that he couldn't stay in the palace all the time. The future has been at home for many years, and now there is no Internet, no 1024, no chopping cats, and no second-hand east, so he doesn't want to stay at home.
Of course, at this stage, Chongzhen can't go to the waves as much as Kang Mazi or that perfect old man, so he can only move in front of his house, or out of the backyard, in the big courtyard in front. After all, the entire Forbidden City is his home, but no one asks him for tickets.
Chongzhen was dressed in a cyan robe, shaking a spring palace fan in his hand, opening it from time to time to glance and closing it, although it was already winter, but the commotion and cheap smile on his face revealed a spring that could not be concealed, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like a prodigal child.
As for Fang Zhenghua, some beards were glued to his bearded face, and the whole person looked a little funny. And Wang Chengen is still pretending to be a housekeeper like the last time he slipped out of the palace.
Along the way, Wang Chengen kept chanting: "Young master, let's just come out and have fun, it's better to go home early." It's not that the old slave is talkative, this face can be had at home, so why bother to come out and be cold? ”
How could Chongzhen, who finally came out to make waves, listen? The last time I came out, I went out to see Jinyiwei and Dongchang to collect protection money, and this time I really came out to play.
Chongzhen was annoyed by the chatter, and simply said: "Okay, okay, don't say a word, no one treats you as a dumb person, let's go back when it's almost over." What's the fun out there today? Can you go to a temple fair or something like that? ”
Even if Wang Chengen was unwilling, he had to signal Wei Liangqing, the head of the brocade guard who was pretending to be a nurse, to come over and answer.
Who is Wei Liangqing? That is Wei Zhongxian's son, who has been advised by Wei Zhongxian, knowing that the Son of Heaven is not a master who is easy to fool, and now he is in a position to act again, and suddenly got the position of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, even if it is not as powerful as Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun, but the commander in charge of the emperor's travel honor guard and guard in this Jinyi Guard is not something that anyone can do.
Wei Liangqing was used to messing around outside the palace, and he was very familiar with the situation in the capital, so he said cautiously at the moment: "Young master, why don't we go to Dongyue Temple for a walk?" ”
Chongzhen thought about it, anyway, there was nothing left and right, so it was better to go farther.
It's just that when he arrived at Dongyue Temple, before he went in to see the temple fair, Chongzhen's anger was provoked again.
In the open space in front of the Dongyue Temple, there are stalls selling snacks and small things on the left and right, mixed with the stalls of several fortune tellers, and even a few monks here.
If there is only these, it is estimated that Chongzhen will just take a stroll and eat some snacks that he has never eaten, and then he will go back to the palace to find Queen Zhou. It's just another group of people that he saw in front of him, but it caught Chongzhen's attention.
In the bustling crowd in front of him, there were a few eight or nine-year-old children begging.
If that's all there is to it, it's nothing, just go back and kill a few bastards in the nursing home, just look at these children, but it is clear that someone did it on purpose.
Among the six or seven children, some had their hands and arms cut off at the root, some had no feet, some had legs and hands, but they were twisted into extremely strange angles, and some were even more cruel, their mouths and noses were cut off. Of the children, none of them were in good health.
Although several children with legs were shivering from the cold, they knelt down and kowtowed when they saw people, and if they had no legs, they lay on the ground and moved, and shouted: "Please have mercy on the uncle."
If someone gave a few copper plates, the children would not dare to spend it to buy some food, although they had some money from others in their hands, they only drooled at the small stall selling steamed buns next to them, and did not dare to delay and continue to beg.
Seeing this, although Chongzhen felt that these children should be controlled by someone, he pretended not to know, and asked, "Steward Wang, look at the children in front of you, why are they so pitiful?" The officials of this almshouse took the money given by the court and His Majesty, but they didn't care about these children? ”
Wang Chengen looked at the children Chongzhen was referring to, and said helplessly: "Young master, don't say that the nursing home doesn't have the money to help these children at all, even if they do, they can't take care of it." ”
Chongzhen knew what was going on, but he wondered: "Why? The sanatorium has no money, I know, what is the matter if it can't be managed? ”
Wang Chengen replied: "Son, these children have all been cut off. Deliberately there are people who make them like this to make money, and most of those people call themselves beggar disciples.
The sanatorium wants to manage it, but it has no soldiers or horses in its hands, and it can't catch people; The local government can catch it, but there is not much oil and water in it, so it doesn't want to care. Moreover, if one batch is caught, there will be the next batch. Over time, there will be fewer people in charge.
My dynasty is much better than the previous dynasty. This is also because in recent years, when the people have not been able to eat, some vicious people have taken risks and done such a thing. ”
Chongzhen knows that it is a problem that has not been cured in later generations, and it is too difficult to completely solve it in the Ming Dynasty. It's just that I don't know how Da Ming treats these criminals? Therefore, he then asked, "According to the Great Ming Law, what should be done with these people?" ”
It's just that Wang Chengen's next words startled Chongzhen: "Back to the young master's words, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty: Whoever picks a person and cuts people will be executed by the mastermind Ling Chi, and the accomplice will be beheaded, and the property will be cut off to the family of the person who has been cut." Although his wife, sons, and family members did not know about it, they were resettled for 2,000 miles. Slash for the Servant. Li Zheng knew that he did not report it. ”
Chongzhen thinks about the future generations, the biggest blow to human traffickers is just a peanut, and the strength of Da Ming Law is very considerable.
In my previous life, I didn't have a good way to take this situation, I couldn't do anything, and now that I am the son of heaven, I must teach these people how to behave!
Chongzhen, who had made a decision in his heart, simply stopped going to the temple fair, turned around and said a few words, and then found a food stall to sit down.
When there was time for tea, the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division had already blocked the entire vicinity of Dongyue Temple, and then the Jinyi Guards rushed in and cut all the parts into small pieces, making it difficult to form a group.
At this time, Tian Ergeng, who specializes in controlling domestic people's livelihood affairs, also came to the scene. After the ceremony with Chongzhen, everyone present knew that the white dragon fish costume had come to this Dongyue Temple to privately visit the people.
There was a weak-hearted person in the crowd, and he immediately whispered to a person next to him: "Big brother, I just said that I can't come to Jingshi, didn't this just happen to bump into?" If we find out, we'll ......."
The man who was called this big brother was born with big shoulders and a round waist, and he was quite majestic, and when he heard this, he also whispered back: "What are you afraid of, and you didn't come to us specifically." Besides, if you don't come to Jingshi, I'm afraid that the dog surnamed Zhang will still chase and kill us all over the world, and only at the feet of this son of heaven will the person surnamed Zhang have nothing to do with us. ”