When Li Mengyang didn't come back to his senses at all, when he came back to his senses, he had already knelt down directly: "Your Majesty, why are you so partial to him Ma Wensheng, he is harming you, he is making you isolate yourself from Shilin and the world!" A minister is a loyal minister! The minister's impeachment of Ma Wensheng is not only for himself, but also for Your Majesty, for the sake of Daming! ”

"You're right for yourself, but you said for me and Daming, then you really treat me like a three-year-old child! But I also understand what you mean, you just think that you scholars are not to be provoked, and if you provoke you, you will only be burned, even if I am the emperor, but what I want to tell you is that I would rather set yourself on fire than be the puppet emperor of your scholars! ”

Zhu Houzhao turned around and left, and issued an order again: "Pass the decree, reward the Taishi Ma Wensheng's bullfighting costume, reward ten pieces of antique jade, and give a mansion!" His son gave the brocade clothes and a thousand hereditary households! ”

Zhu Houzhao is now trying to raise Ma Wensheng very high, which is not only to support Ma Wensheng and other reformers, but also to express his attitude to the people of the world.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Ma Wensheng knew Zhu Houzhao's intentions, and also knew that His Majesty treated himself like this, nothing more than to deliberately let his Ma family cook oil and flowers in brocade, so as to give himself confidence, and he could no longer regret it, so he could only insist on going his own way and resolutely implement the reform.

A few days later, Li Mengyang was escorted to the execution ground, and Zhu Houzhao specially instructed him to hang signs around his neck, such as "selfish villain", "traitorous minister", "scum in the Shilin world", and "incompetent official", which were criticized by officials and Li Mengyang's relatives.

"Scold or not!"

At this time, an eunuch asked a Qingliu official.

"Don't scold! Li Gongnai is a direct minister! ”

The Qingliu official replied.

"Cut!"

The Qingliu official was cut directly to the ground.

The second Qingliu official couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this.

The eunuch asked again: "Scold or not!" ”

"I scold! Scold! Li Mengyang is a traitor and a shameless villain! ”

The Qingliu official hurriedly replied in a trembling voice.

"You can go back, but the scolding is not good enough, according to His Majesty's will, you haven't scolded for more than half an hour, and you won't be rewarded!"

The eunuch replied.

The Qingliu official was so frightened that he hurried away like a mouse.

Then, another official, and a Qingliu official, didn't wait for the eunuch to ask, so he pointed at Li Mengyang and scolded: "Li Mengyang! You scumbag! Be a scholar in vain!

In the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, you stole and raped a merchant's wife, but you manipulated the prison to make the trader guilty of killing his wife!

In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, you connived at Haonu to kill a villager, just because the villager did not pay the rent!

In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, you returned to your hometown and province, and forced the county order to kill this post soldier because of poor hospitality! You are a gentry in vain!

Although you love the officials, you don't love the people! You only dare to impeach your relatives, but you don't dare to impeach your relatives! You are a person who bullies the weak and fears the hard, and has no king's law, and his crimes should be punished......"

"The scolding is very good, write it down, and when the time comes, it will be compiled into a book by the Hanlin Academy and distributed to the world, and he will be given twenty stones of grain!"

As he spoke, the eunuch gave the grain receipt voucher to the Qingliu official.

Seeing this, Li Mengyang scolded directly: "The surname is Zhou!" In vain, I pleaded for you back then! How dare you slander me like this! You're the villain! ”

The Qingliu official surnamed Zhou had already left, and only Li Mengyang was there scolding.

Next, officials came to scold Li Mengyang one after another, and even spat directly, and couldn't help but kick with their fists, because the more angry they became, the more food they were given.

"Whew! Li Mengyang, how did our Li family produce a scum like you! It's you, it's you, the disloyal and unfilial person, that made our Li family have to change their surname from now on! It's you who let our Li family tree be destroyed! ”

Li Mengyang's clansmen naturally began to scold Li Mengyang in order to save their lives, of course, they originally blamed Li Mengyang for ignoring the safety of their family, if Li Mengyang died himself, it would be good to earn a reputation for the family as a martyr, but now that the family is involved, these clansmen are not polite.

Li Mengyang couldn't help crying when he saw that his parents and nephews were scolding him for breaking off relations with him: "Master! The child knows it's wrong! Patriarch, don't scold me! I was originally for the good of the family, if I can earn a name of loyalty for the Li family, you will be more treated by the gentry in the township in the future! ”

"Phew! Don't think that we can believe what you say, you fatherless and motherless! Where is the Li family, you don't look at who you are, and you still want to earn the name of a martyr, my Li family is ashamed of you, I shouldn't have let you read and write in the first place, I should have drowned you when you were born! It's you, and it's all your family that has been exiled! ”

These clansmen scolded one by one and were not polite.

And even the tenants and servants of the Li family, as well as the neighbors and the Li family who followed them into Beijing, also scolded Li Mengyang, these people scolded more harshly, and they were snot and tears, and the scolding was more real!

Li Mengyang was completely devastated, he felt like he had been abandoned by the whole world, and he wanted to commit suicide now! I also regret why I did that in the first place, and what I got by doing that.

……

After the meeting to criticize Li Mengyang ended, Liu Jin personally came to ask Li Mengyang: "Do you know the guilt now?" ”

"Guilty! I'm a traitor, I'm a villain, I'm shameless, I'm despicable! I was wrong, I was really wrong! I have sores on my head, pus on my back, I go to hell, I don't have to die! ”

Li Mengyang instinctively repeated the words of the officials and villagers scolding him, and immediately broke down and cried: "Please, please stop scolding me, let me die, I die, it's all right!" ”

"And how are you going to die?" Liu Jin is stable.

"Let's beat it to death with a stick," Li Mengyang replied.

"Drag it down, beat it to death!" Liu Jin commanded.

So, Li Mengyang was dragged down and pressed to the ground.

Syllable!

When the first stick was hit, Li Mengyang screamed directly and struggled: "It hurts!" I don't want to die, I don't want to die! ”

Syllable!

Of course, this is not for him.

In this way, Li Mengyang was beaten to death with a stick.

……

At this time.

In the courtyard of a deep house, an official was clenching his fists and asked, "Li Mengyang was really killed?" ”

"Yes!" One of his students replied.

The official couldn't help but have a cold face: "Zhu Houzhao! You're really poisonous! I never thought that you would use this trick to prohibit the people of the world from slandering Ma Wensheng, and let the people of the world criticize Li Mengyang, you did this to make the literati go against their hearts and become villains! Ruthless, really ruthless! ”

"Teacher, what should we do next?" The student asked.

"Don't do anything, let's talk about it after entering the cabinet!" As he spoke, the official gritted his teeth again and read: "Zhu Houzhao!" ”