Kong Yu generally does not go out after going down and resting, but practices calligraphy in the study. He doesn't like to be disturbed when he practices calligraphy, if it weren't for the fact that most of the expenses in the house rely on Chen Ji Buzhuang, how could he see Xu Youcai again and again?

Menzi ran to say that the captain of the Jinyi Guard was here, and he thought he had heard it wrong. He rarely interacts with his colleagues, and he doesn't have any lawlessness, what is Jinyiwei looking for him?

But he didn't have time to reprimand the disciple, and the captain of the Jinyi Guard had already rushed in like a wolf, and he couldn't help but say that he would catch him and leave.

It wasn't until he was put in a prison car that he remembered to ask: "Why did you arrest this official?" After thinking about it, he asked another question: "Did you catch the wrong person?" ”

No one paid any attention to him.

It wasn't until the two big black characters of "Edict" appeared in front of Kong Li, that he frantically hit the prisoner car with a wooden flail, making a "woo" sound.

The prisoner's car stopped, and the two lieutenants opened the door, one of them grabbed him by the arm and dragged him out.

"Why did you send this official to prison?!" How can Kong Li still look half majestic? While struggling, he asked hoarsely.

Who doesn't know that there is death and life in prison? When Wang Zhen was still alive, the officials who offended him and went to prison, and the famous officials who ran to rescue him were also covered in bruises after they came out, and they were dismissed and returned to their hometowns; Those who have no reputation die miserably inside, and they cannot even save their bodies after death.

Out of fear of the edict, Kong Li just wanted to end his life immediately, and when he was pulled into the gate by the captain, the whole person threw himself towards the door frame, but unfortunately he was pulled back without touching the door frame.

"The lower officials have been wronged, Lord Zhang." He wailed, could it be that Zhang Ning, who was born in a noble family, looked at him unpleasantly? He didn't talk to the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, right?

"What howl?" A fierce-looking, meaty-faced lieutenant said impatiently: "Let you pay taxes, but if you don't pay them, you don't want to die if you want money, who can you complain about?" ”

Kong Li suddenly remembered what Xu Youcai had said: "...... If you can't get the silver today, you will let Jinyiwei take people. ”

Take people...... It turned out to be him, the owner, not the shopkeeper of Xu Youcai.

He was arrested and imprisoned for refusing to pay more than 2,000 taels of silver?

He was stunned, and he had been dragged into the edict, his legs dragged on the ground, hit the wall, and hurt painfully. He shouted: "I, the lower official is willing to pay ten times the sharp silver." ”

As long as you can escape death by paying the silver, you can pay more silver.

The fierce lieutenant said: "Master Kong, don't talk about it. You stay in the cell for two days, and then let the people in the palace go to the Yamen of Yingtianfu to pay the money, and take the slips to take you back." ”

Go to Yingtianfu to pay the silver?! When did Jinyiwei and Ying Tianfu collude together? No, when will you go to prison and pay the money?

Kong Li's thoughts were full of thoughts, and he suddenly realized a word that made his soul flutter: "Stay in the Imperial Prison for two days!" ”

After two days in this place like the palace of Hades, is he still alive? He hurriedly said: "I, I'll let the people in the house bring the silver." ”

The fierce-looking lieutenant said, "No, the top orders to let you stay inside for two days." "If I don't let you taste the hell, will you know that you are afraid?

Kong Li was stunned until he was put in a narrow cell, and then he said, "You can ask for as much silver as you want, just ask you not to use torture." ”

Before the words fell, a person in the next cell said, "Brother Kong Xian, are you here too?" ”

There were many people in the cell, all of whom were officials who impeached Zhou Ping for collecting taxes from merchants.

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The sun is setting, the heat is not abating, Jinyi Weidong Courtyard, next to the peony that covers an area of half an acre, a handsome young man with sword eyebrows, straight nose and thin lips, and a python robe is leisurely drinking tea.

Jiang Wenju, who was white-faced and beardless, stood opposite the handsome young man with an expressionless face, and saluted: "My lord, there are thirty-eight people in total, and they have been imprisoned. ”

The emperor's intention was to punish the most violent people and make them pay ten times the amount of taxes, and if they did not pay, they would be sent to prison, but it was a joke. He didn't expect that there would really be people who didn't pay it. When Zhou Ping went to collect taxes and silver, he would first pass on the emperor's dictation, who would dare to disobey it?

Zhang Ning's views are not different from Zhu Qizhen's, he will impeach, and even the officials who have been impeached many times with fierce rhetoric, may not be the largest in the name of the cloth village, but they definitely value money. As for the impeachment purely for the so-called "justice", it can only be the imperial history.

As expected, Zhang Ning got Jiang Wenju's list, hooked the corners of his lips, and thought, no wonder the world adds the word "wind bones" in front of the imperial history, can't they only drink the northwest wind?

In addition to the imperial history, everyone else has an estate under their names, or a grange, or a shop, the least one is a new science and technology scholar who has just been promoted at the beginning of the year, and he has a small cloth village in the west of the city, and this time he is also collecting taxes.

He impeached Zhou Ping in three consecutive chapters, accusing Zhou Ping of being "the great traitor of the country." ”

Today, Zhou Ping came to the door again and charged ten times the tax silver, the shopkeeper did not dare to take the claim, and sent a man to invite him, and after he rushed over, he just cried poor.

This time, Xinke Hanlin, who had just been proud for less than three months, entered the edict prison and collapsed.

Zhang Ning put down the teacup and said nonchalantly: "Unify the prison for three days, and let their family members redeem people with silver after three days." ”

"Yes, sir." Jiang Wenju said expressionlessly.

This man is paralyzed. Zhang Ning picked up the teacup again and said, "There's nothing else, you go down." ”

"Yes, sir." Jiang Wenju was expressionless and bowed after speaking.

The ability is good, but it's a pity that it's a facial paralysis, and I don't know how to rise to Tongzhi, so I'll have to check it when I have time in the future. Zhang Ning muttered to himself silently, beckoning Ren Rong, who was standing not far away, to continue tea.

"My lord, it's not too early, it's time to go home." Ren Rongdao. Since the adults became the commander of the brocade clothes, they have become more and more busy, but don't get tired.

Zhang Ning smiled: "Why don't we go to the Imperial Prison and see what they look like?" ”

"Don't you, do you?" Ren Rong hesitated: "If they scold the adults, and the adults are angry, will they be tortured?" ”

"No, but it will be locked up for a few more days, until they doubt their lives." Zhang Ning got up as he said and said, "This chair is hard, and it is still comfortable as a soft chair in the house." ”

He had a few sofas made, genuine leather sofas, filled with fabric, which were not as comfortable to sit on as modern leather sofas, but much better than the officer's hat chair.

"Humble duty, let the craftsman make two more pieces of sand and send them over." Ren Rong is not a reckless man who can only fight and kill, he is delicate and loyal, and can understand Zhang Ning's meaning.

"Hmm." Zhang Ning nodded.

Ren Rong drove out of the carriage, Zhang Ning got into the car, leaned against the back wall, and began to close his eyes and recuperate. Although I don't have to get up early every day to go to the court, the habit of catching up on sleep as soon as I get in the car can't be changed for a while.

The carriage quickly drove out of the compound, and it didn't take long for a rider from behind to catch up and say, "Childe, my lord's letter." ”