"Look at it, this is no self-love!"

Yang Qing put on a distressed face and placed a stack of confessions on the speaker's seat.

Jinyiwei is very efficient.

In fact, those deputies, gentry and gentry, had ghosts in their hearts.

Coupled with the deliberate connivance of Yang Qing over the years, the exaggeration of the horrors of the Jinyi Wei Beiya, when they stepped into the gate of the wolf's den, they were already weak, and then Yang Yong's executioners, who could be said to have been tempered thousands of times, put out all kinds of torture tools, and most of these guys collapsed instantly......

If you don't collapse instantly, you won't last long.

It's really a fake name for the Ming brocade clothes to guard the wolf's den!

The representatives of the four people were sentenced to the same punishment.

They did have criminal immunity, and the Ming court officials at all levels had no right to arrest and interrogate them during their tenure as representatives of the Four Peoples.

But this is not an arrest warrant signed by the imperial court.

This is an arrest warrant issued by the people's procurator who is specifically responsible for supervising them, and then the people's procurator entrusts Jin Yiwei to handle it, and Jin Yiwei does not interrogate them on behalf of the court or the empress, but on behalf of the people's procurator. The latter is that the empress has the same right to sign an arrest warrant for crimes, not to mention them, as for the use of punishment, this is an inevitable means of interrogation, and whoever tries the prisoner in these years is not allowed to use some punishment. In the end, most of the representatives of the Four Peoples and the arrested gentry confessed in a short period of time, and then their confessions were taken by Yang Qing to the speaker seat in the Great Hall of the Four Peoples and placed in front of the remaining 229 delegates.

There was silence in the delegates' room.

"It's simply sad that the people trust them, choose them, and they exercise power on behalf of the people, but what about them?

Take bribes!

What do people hate the most?

It is corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and it is those officials who accept bribes and bend the law for personal gain!

But what about them?

They were elected by the people, with the trust of all the people in the world, to supervise the court for them and prevent the court officials from being corrupt and perverting the law, but they themselves did things that were corrupt and perverted the law! Shame, shame, look at these confessions, look at these names, they are no longer worthy to represent the people, they are no longer qualified to sit here, the votes they cast after taking bribes are no longer fair, such votes have tarnished the sanctity of the Four People's Assembly! ”

Yang Qing continued his performance.

"Yes, the previous vote is invalidated, and we must not let the results of the bribery election ruin the notarization of the Four People's Assembly in a grand manner!"

Xu Si stood up and waved his fist and said.

"Yes, all voting results from the time they took bribes will be nullified, and a new vote will be cast!"

Another delegate shouted.

"Revote!"

"Revote!"

……

The Peasants' and Workers' Party deputies shouted.

Even the people who came to see the excitement shouted for a new vote.

And the representatives of the scholars continued to remain silent, they could not find a reason to refute, because these confessions were certainly not false, and the secret investigation of Jinyiwei during this period of time actually mainly relied on the servants of the gentry. The latter was the main force against the gentry this time, and most of the testimonies and even some key evidence were provided by them, after all, the reason why these servants had to stay under the gentry was because the imperial village in Jiangnan could no longer accommodate the excess population. However, after the Public Land Law, the amount of land cultivated by the tenants was also reduced, as the burden on the tenants was greatly reduced, so that there was more land to accommodate these servants.

They will be able to get rid of the gentry.

After all, no one wants to be a dog to these old men all the time.

Their testimony, coupled with Jin Yiwei's long-term secret surveillance of the representatives of the Four Peoples, and the investigation of those bribery gentry, finally allowed Yang Qing to have enough conclusive evidence. Otherwise, he would not have been able to get the arrest warrant signed by Huang Duanbo, this old man who was originally called a tough guy from the south by Duoduo in history, is an absolute hard bone.

Without evidence, Yang Qing could not force him to sign these arrest warrants.

Equally.

His signature is conclusive.

Those scholars were very aware of this, and they also believed in Huang Duanbo's justice, so what else could they do?

Sticking to the results of bribery?

That's really shameless, maybe you will be spit on when you go out.

"This matter is indeed sighing, since all the deputies think that it is time to re-vote, then it is okay to re-vote, according to the results of Jinyiwei's investigation, the bribery of these deputies started from the land law proposed by the Protector Prince, then we can vote on this land law again, everyone, who agrees with the Protector's land law?"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"Wait!"

Yang Qing suddenly stopped him.

"What else is the matter with the Lord Protector?"

Wang Fuzhi asked.

"A new vote is necessary, but the problem is that there are many deputies missing, and there are now 229 of the 299 deputies left in the Standing Committee of the Four People's Congress, and such a vote is obviously still unfair. Although it is inevitable that there will be deputies who will not be able to vote in full due to one or another event, it will certainly not be less than a quarter, so we will need to fill the vacancy of the permanent representatives before the re-voting. These deputies have committed a crime and have betrayed the trust of those who elected them, and it is nothing more than a matter of re-election, which is not a difficult task, and there is no impartiality in voting until the Standing Committee has made up the case. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Protector of the country, at this time, it is less than three months before the next Four People's Congress, how can I convene those representatives again?"

A representative of the scholars said immediately.

"What's so hard about that? First of all, there are no scholars among the representatives of this group of bribe-taking representatives, which is still gratifying, and the representatives of the scholars have shown noble sentiments in this matter, and I would like to pay tribute to all the representatives of the scholars! ”

Yang Qing said.

There was laughter all around.

Of course, it is an open secret why the representatives of the gentry did not take bribes, because the gentry knew that there was no need to waste money on them, and if they did not bribe, they had to do what the gentry wanted. The Protector of the Kingdom said that he was respectful, but in fact he was laughing at these guys for not being able to eat bones when they were dogs.

"So there is no need to convene the scholars!

The rest is to reconvene the representatives of agriculture and industry, this session of the Four People's Congress is only part of the provinces to participate, even the farthest is only Yunnan, with the communication tower to send a notice, it is estimated that it can be delivered to them within three or five days, and now our communication tower has been built to Tengchong. Then they came from all over the country, even from Tengchong, it was nothing more than a light carriage to change horses at various post stations, even if the mountain road was impassable, they could also ride horses. From Tengchong horseback riding to Kunming for up to half a month, and then half a month to Xuzhou, a month to board the ship, from Xuzhou along the Yangtze River straight downstream, no more than a month to reach the southern capital, this is still the farthest distance, not to mention others.

Within two months, we will see the representatives of agriculture and industry gathered in Nandu for this session of the Four People's Congress, and then they will re-elect 70 delegates to fill the vacancy in the Standing Committee. ”

Yang Qing said.

Actually, it won't take two months.

For example, the representative of Yunnan had already received his invitation to come, and it was estimated that it would only be a month and a half at most, and this section of the road was difficult to walk on the mountain roads in Yunnan, but because of the preparation for the crusade against Burma, the people and militia of the provinces arrived in Yunnan and began to build the road while transporting.

The road is clear.

Even some of the mountain roads and suspension bridges that affected the passage of horse-drawn carriages were rebuilt.

It is still impossible to take a heavy carriage like a national highway for the time being, but the light carriage dedicated to the mountain road can basically be passed from Xuzhou to Tengchong, this kind of carriage even uses bearings, and the body is very small, originally it was mainly a postal letter transportation, unless it encounters the strange level of terrain such as Jianmen Pass, otherwise other mountain roads can be passed. Even if it is the Jianmen Pass, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal that a post station is equipped with multiple carriages to play relay all year round, in short, these deputies will definitely gather in Nandu within two months, and then re-elect 70 deputies to solve the problem of vacancies in the Standing Committee, and then they can vote again.

"Lord Protector, what if the Standing Committee still vetoes your land law after the by-election?"

Wang Fuzhi said.

This is the restart, everything starts to return to the original point, those deputies after the by-election will certainly not have any bribes, first, no one will dare, and secondly, it will be too late, a total of one month, not enough for those deputies to be polluted, and likewise not enough for those gentry to complete the operation, so the vote after the by-election is fair.

"If it is still vetoed, it is the real public opinion, and I have nothing to say, I respect the people's choice!"

Yang Qing said calmly.

If that is the case, he respects the result.

This result is fair.

Of course, in fact, he knew very well that such a thing would not happen, because the letters sent by the representatives of the four peoples from various places calling for the reconvening of the plenum and the plenum voting on the land law had already expressed the true will of the people. Not only the representatives of peasants and workers, but also the representatives of businessmen also wrote a large number of letters, asking for a vote at the plenary meeting, in the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty drew lots to select representatives, and the vast majority of the elected representatives of merchants were small businessmen at the lowest level, even merchants. They and those gentry and those capitalists are still not all the way, and the public land law only harms the interests of the landlords and capitalists, and does not harm the low-level small industrialists and merchants.

There are even benefits.

Especially the small traders.

When the public land law was implemented, they could also apply for land, which could then be cultivated by their families, and they became small self-employed individuals who were half businessmen and half farmers.

Half of the basic peasant and industrial representatives of the Four People's Congress supported the public land law, and even one merchant representative supported the public land law, and the result would be the passage of the public land law, not to mention that there could not be only one. Even the representatives of scholars have written to support them, whether they are out of speculation or sincere support, there are such people.

"Well, let's wait for this fair result!"

Wang Fuzhi said.

"What does the Protector want to do with those bribe-taking representatives?"

He then asked.

Now that everything is restarted, the victims of these struggles are useless, he still hopes to be able to save it, from this point of view, he is still a good person, at least not the kind of thin and cool person who unloads the mill and kills the donkey.

"They? They are not prisoners of the imperial court, how to punish is decided by the people's judges, I have no right to interfere with the trial of the people's judges, besides, how to punish the crime of accepting bribes, the Ming law has long been clearly written, shouldn't it be done according to law? ”

Yang Qing said.

He had long since lost interest in these people.

These people don't have much property to copy, and those bribe-givers in the Jinyiwei prison are what he really cares about, and their punishments are the more than 200 gentry that need to be carefully studied. Although they were offering bribes, the nature of bribing the deputies of the Four People's Congresses, and manipulating the Four People's Congresses to bribe elections, was obviously worse than ordinary bribery. This is an interference with the country's capital, and it must be recharacterized, otherwise according to the current law of the Ming Dynasty, bribery is actually not a big deal, bribery is reduced by bribery, bribery is eighty yuan, or the current eighty yuan or more hanging, but bribery reduction is to be punished by 100 boards. According to the law, Yang Qing can't raid these people's homes for bribery, unless they are convicted of one of the worst crimes.

After all, raiding the house is the most important.

But according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, there are not many crimes of copying the house, rebellion, rebellion, and treason, and the traitor crime created by Yang Qing himself is actually classified as treason, treason. The crime of traitor is just a name, legally it is treason, there is no crime of traitor, and heretical crimes are classified as plotting against the great rebellion, after all, the Ming Dynasty is to worship Haotian God, and heresy denies Haotian God, so it must be a great rebellion.

Except for these three, there is no raid.

The Daming Law is not a harsh law, in fact, many contents of this law are still commendable, such as entering people's homes at night for no reason and beating them to death, and those under the age of 12 who commit adultery must be hung up whether they agree or not.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's edict, it is not implemented as a law, at least it is no longer used for now, in fact, it has not been used for hundreds of years, and no one knows when this Taizu treasure book will disappear. Anyway, the original edict that Zhu Yuanzhang had to read in school has become a Confucian for a long time in the Jiajing period, and even when the history of the Ming Dynasty was repaired, those royal literati of the Qing Dynasty could not find it, and finally it became something hidden by private bibliophiles.

I have to say that the speed of Zhu Yuanzhang's death is also very fast.

Yang Qing didn't reuse it either.

He really wanted to, but the Manchu Dynasty civil and military plus the Four Peoples Conference did not pass, it is obvious that the ministers have a very deep psychological shadow on this thing, and the people are not very interested in it. However, some revisions and additions were made, and at the insistence of Yang Qing, some of the contents of the Great Decree were added, and then voted by the Four People's Congress, and this new version of the Ming Law is currently the most important law of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, if you want to raid these people's homes, you must redefine bribery.

This cannot be a simple bribe.

Either the crime of bribery in elections should be established separately and the crime of bribery should be punished by raiding the house, or the act of bribery should be defined as rebellion, rebellion, or rebellion, which would have to be revised by the Four People's Congress. Fortunately, this problem is very easy to solve, and it is not necessary to wait until the next session of the Four People's Congress to raise it, as for these prisoners, they will be locked in prison first, and then their homes will be raided when the next Four People's Congress solves this problem.