Indeed, Yang Qing was afraid of scaring away the gentry who were buying off the representatives of the Four Peoples.

He's going to get a big jail.

Just two are harvested, which is too little.

Two hundred and ninety-nine deputies of the four peoples, how can it be dozens, and then by the way, a large number of bribed gentry were implicated, saying that his redemption plan cost an astonishing amount of money, so spend as little as possible!

But all those who bribed the election were all raided.

So this is just the beginning, you can't scare people away in a hurry, you have to properly show the Protector's respect for the law, as well as the appeasement of the gentry, and then whether you are bribing or accepting bribes, you can rest assured and bold. Xu Si's report was transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate by him the next day, and then the Metropolitan Procuratorate officially opened a case to investigate it, and the rest is to follow the procedure, but in any case, Cao Rong and the others will not really have any major incidents. After all, as far as Xu Si's report is concerned, there is no other evidence, nothing more than the servants of the Cao family to investigate, and these servants did not hear what the three of them talked about, and Xu Si also confiscated the money, not even physical evidence.

Anyway, let's investigate!

As for Suo Etu's assassination of Xu Si......

This was the work of a small group of Jiannu rebels led by Fu Lin, who wanted to create chaos in Nandu by assassinating the representatives and officials of the Four Peoples, and then take the opportunity to get Fu Lin out of Nandu and flee to the north to lure the Jianzhou Wei Ministry, in order to rebuild their Great Qing State. For this crime of treason, it must be resolutely cracked down, and then Jinyiwei quickly arrested Fu Lin, and tortured him in Beiya, and soon Fu Lin confessed to the whole plan, and there were also a group of henchmen who secretly colluded with him. A huge rebellion plan surfaced in this way, led by a group of young Zhuang factions like Suo Etu who were unwilling to fail, with Fulin as the core, plus a large number of old Jiannu officers and soldiers who were originally captured, a total of nearly 3,000 people secretly colluded.

I have to say that Jin Yiwei is a little derelict on this issue.

But it's also normal.

After all, in recent years, a large number of Jiannu have been sold to Nandu and all parts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and there are actually tens of thousands of Jiannu in Nandu alone, and there are two or three thousand adult men in it, they must not be willing to accept their fate, and it is normal to try to resist.

But Jin Yiwei can't prevent this.

Because these slaves were all domestic slaves in those wealthy families, and their supervision responsibilities belonged to the private property of the latter, it was impossible for the Jinyi guards to go to the homes of these gentry to monitor their domestic slaves!

As for weapons......

There are no restrictions on hand crossbows.

These gentry have crossbows, even muskets, and usually no one takes a house slave out to hunt or something, so the Jinyi guard is also unable to control these things. In short, this matter was careless in the past, whether it was Jinyiwei or the police of Shuntianfu, or those slave owners.

It can't be like this again.

Then, at the same time as the mass arrest was launched, those who kept the Jiannu were warned, especially with the advice of the Protector to put the Jiannu in shackles. Of course, these people respect this, although wearing shackles affects their work, but Jin Yiwei can say that they will have to be jointly and severally responsible next time, not to mention that they are afraid that their house slaves will really have rebellious intentions, and one day they will give themselves a knife with the intention of dying for the Qing Dynasty. Since this is the case, of course, it is an inevitable choice to shackle the slaves, anyway, these are the slaves, and they are not even counted as people in the Ming Dynasty, and the master just hangs himself if he doesn't like it, and no one cares, so the slavery system in the Ming Dynasty is seriously regressive. It is said that in the past, domestic slaves were not killed casually, at least they had to be punished by a hundred boards, and even those with bad circumstances could be executed, such cases have been had, but now slaves can be disposed of casually.

Servants can't.

Even if a servant is whipped, he can sue his employer for intentional injury.

Servants and slaves must be separated.

Therefore, Cao Rong was warned in this matter only because he did not take a good look at his house slave, let him escape and assassinate the representatives of the four people, and because Xu Si was summoned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate for his report, and then he was restricted from leaving the southern capital.

That's all.

As for the fellow sage......

He is already bedridden, and he can enjoy some privileges in his old age, in fact, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who are below the age of the army are directly exempted from punishment, and exile and the like are replaced by children and grandchildren, and stealing and injuring people can be ransomed, that is, pay a fine, and if they reach more than 90, they will be exempted from punishment for capital crimes. So he didn't even summon him, he just asked the imperial history of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate, but he was already so stupid that he was talking nonsense. In this way, the matter quickly calmed down, because no other physical evidence was found, and it was impossible to convict Cao Rong legally by relying only on Xu Si's report.

In the same way, he sang and danced in his house.

As for the only unlucky one......

"I've been wronged!"

On the square in front of the Hall of Filial Piety, the former Qing Emperor Fulin was crying on the cross.

However, there are very few viewers.

Nandu is a busy city, the pace of life is getting faster and faster, and there are not many idlers running to see Ling Chi, especially those workers, who are not on vacation and ask for leave to come out to see this. After all, in the past, a prison sentence was crowded with people and there was a lack of entertainment, but now who would be interested in this kind of thing!

"What are you crying about, you still have been the Emperor of Jiannu, your ministers haven't cried, I have chopped so many Jiannu, the first time I see you so sloppy!"

The executioner retorted.

Then the knife in his hand fell on Fu Lin's chest......

Fu Lin suddenly screamed.

The few cheers around him rang out immediately, but the sharp pain made him sober, and he looked nostalgically at the red flowers and green trees in the middle of summer in front of him with pain and despair, and looked at the bustling city in the distance. Now he is only fifteen years old, he really doesn't want to say goodbye to this world like this, he really wants to live another 500 years! His gaze quickly fell on the face of a middle-aged noblewoman, of course, it was an exaggeration to say that middle-aged, to be precise, it should be a young woman in her thirties, and on the latter's still charming face, a pair of eyes were looking at him with pity. But then an old man next to him appeared, took her waist and turned away together, and the young woman, who was supposed to be an aunt, looked back at him again.

Looking back at this moment, Fulin seemed to forget the pain......

"Isn't that Dong Xiaowan?"

The executioner next to him said as he cut him.

"Oh, the famous prostitutes in Qin Huai back then are also old, and the day before yesterday I saw Gu Hengbo, who was like a maid after Princess Qin, and it didn't look like it was back then."

The other executioner sighed.

She was also unlucky, she originally wanted to be prosperous and wealthy with King Qin, but King Qin died early, she had no children, she didn't even have an official title, and Gong Dingyu no longer wanted her. If it weren't for Princess Qin's good heart and continued to let her stay in King Qin's Mansion as a sister, it is estimated that she would have to go to Qinhuai River to resume her old business at this time! ”

The executioner said.

Because of his lack of concentration, the knife in his hand suddenly pierced deeply......

Fu Lin suddenly let out a heart-rending scream.

"Scream, scream, scream!"

The executioner retorted.

Fu Lin looked at him sadly......

"Singing about wine, what is life? It was my youth that passed away with them! ”

In the gazebo in the distance, the protector raised his glass and lamented.

"Tomorrow the Four Peoples Assembly will vote, you are very leisurely, as far as I know, because of your connivance, but many representatives of the Four People's Congress have become emboldened, according to this situation, your public land law may not be passed. And Wang Fuzhi also contacted those delegates, thinking that the Four People's Congress cannot be reduced to your puppet, and must try to say no to you, obviously they want to test whether you really respect the Four People's Congress or fake respect for it. ”

Li Laiheng said.

"Respect, of course I do!"

Yang Qing said.

"I set the rules, if even I don't abide by the rules, wouldn't it be a slap in the face, if the Four People's Congress rejects the public land law, then I have to wait for the next session to mention it again."

He said calmly.

That's true.

Wang Fuzhi has obviously really brought in the role of speaker, but he is not out of his own interests, but he really has to contact those representatives of the four peoples to oppose the public land law, one of the most important points is that the four people's assembly should not be his puppet, the four people's assembly is on behalf of the people, he should not say whatever he says, he must learn to say no to him, so as to prevent him from acting recklessly.

To put it simply, it is to limit his power.

This is also inevitable.

Once the world is settled in any dynasty, those scholars begin to worry about limiting the power of military generals, including limiting the power of the emperor, and Yang Qing happens to be counted both now.

"There's no way they can't think of that."

Li Laiheng said.

"And then what will they do? They would come up with a new land law on their own, and Wang Fuzhi was already doing so, and he was working on a new land law with the representatives of the scholars and some of the local gentry. According to the system of the Four People's Congresses, the Four People's Congresses have the power to legislate and law, and they can deliberate and vote on the laws proposed by the cabinet, and the deputies of the Four People's Congresses, they can also propose a law themselves, and they have the legislative power. Therefore, they have to formulate a set of laws on their own, re-clarify the land system of the Ming Dynasty, and prevent me from proposing the public land law again at the next Four People's Congress.

You see

The class was already clear in the Four People's Congress.

Wang Fuzhi is the core, the landed gentry, the merchant and the emerging capitalist, and they are forming an alliance.

The landed gentry were reluctant to pass the Commonland Law, and then their land was divided, and the new capitalists were unwilling to pass the Commonland Law, so that those workers could have more choices, thus increasing the cost of their wages, and the benefits were thus brought together, and they were in the same class.

And what about the peasants and workers?

They're clearly still in a mess.

They also need someone to unite them. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Isn't that a partisan struggle?"

Li Laiheng said.

"Party strife is inevitable, this kind of thing can never be eradicated, so simply let it be open and institutionalized, Wang Fuzhi is forming a political group at the Four People's Congress, which represents the interests of the landed gentry and the emerging capitalists. Then another political group representing the interests of the peasants and workers needs to emerge, otherwise the peasants and workers will not be able to fight them if they continue to be scattered. ”

Yang Qing said.

"You want me to set up this political bloc?"

Li Laiheng said.

"Yes!"

Yang Qing said frankly.

"Political parties can meet at the Four People's Congress, but the military and political system is not allowed to appear, neither the cabinet nor local officials are allowed to join any political party, at least not openly, and the military is not allowed to do so.

The army is the empress's.

Her Majesty the Empress is the protector of the Empire.

The army obeyed only the empress.

Similarly, the empress is also the ruler of the country, she appoints the cabinet to govern the country, and the Four People's Congress represents the people, supervises the empress for the people, and the party can only appear in the Four People's Congress, the empress must be neutral, and the military and political system she appoints must also be neutral, and if she joins a party, she loses neutrality, so the cabinet can have party strife, but the military and political system does not allow party strife.

At least there can be no open partisanship.

So I can't come forward to form this party, and I have to find someone else that I can trust in. ”

Yang Qing said.

"Then why me?"

Li Laiheng said.

"Because there are people behind you, behind you are the Huangzhuang in Guanzhong and Shanxi, and even the Huangzhuang in Hebei, these Huangzhuang people who have nothing to do with the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are your backing, especially those in Guanzhong and Shanxi, they will fully support you. And my cronies are not good, they are inextricably linked with the gentry, in fact most of them are in the same party as the gentry, after all, they are all new capitalists.

But you're not.

And you no longer have a military position.

You don't have to be subject to any restrictions.

Your reputation is also enough.

If you co-opt the workers' and peasants' representatives as defenders of the workers and peasants and form a political clique opposed to the gentry clique, you will be able to fight against Wang Fuzhi's gang at the Four People's Congress. ”

Yang Qing said.

Lee Rae-hyung is the most suitable candidate.

First of all, he is an idealist, and he is still full of yearning for equal wealth and poverty, second, his fame is enough for people to gather for him, and third, his basic plate is strong enough that the representatives of the northern Huangzhuang District will support him unconditionally. His own ideals could quickly form a political program with the help of Yang Qing, and the support of the northern base allowed him to form a force in a short time, and all that remained was to attract more supporters. In the future, even if this group of deputies to the Four People's Congresses, a political party with Wang Fuzhi as the core has actually been formed, and then the workers' and peasants' party with Li Laiheng as the core can fight against them at the Four People's Congress.

In the final analysis, political parties are inevitable.

It's useless to suppress, as long as there are people, this thing will definitely appear, rather than suppressing them to fight underground, it's better to simply put it on the surface.

"You're making me the target of the public!"

Li Laiheng said.

"But who would dare touch you?"

Yang Qing smiled and said: "You are a marquis, there is a huge military group behind you, it doesn't matter if you fight politically, who dares to use other means to deal with you, then the soldiers of the old Qin domain and the millions of militia in Guanzhong will not agree." ”