Chapter 692. It's time to pay the price
Zheng Man was completely relieved.
When he was released from the detention center, the prison uniform "silver bracelet" was returned and a set of clothes were changed, but the old man's decadent feeling could not be concealed no matter what.
But he didn't go on the road alone, he followed the exile from Beijing, as well as Mao Jue's cheap father-in-law, the former imperial history Chen Zanzhong, although this old guy's character is not good, it is a typical two-sided bet on the wall, but he is also Chen Jiao's father, and it also played the role of this fuse, and the court arranged him quite leniently.
The spacious four-wheeled carriage symbolically followed the two officials, and although in order to draw a clear line, the Chen family did not come, as a married daughter, and it was the regent concubine, Chen Jiao came.
The roles of the two people have also changed a bit, losing their former authority, Chen Zanzhong is like a child who has made a mistake, while helping him arrange his collar, Chen Jiao is concerned like an adult.
"Although Liaodong is not so barren and bitter cold, it is still quite cold in winter, remember to put on the mink hat and mink jacket when you go out, and go to seriously obey the transformation, don't cause any more trouble!"
"The Chen family, just get rid of the princess and take care of it!"
"The Chen family doesn't need to be taken care of, as long as they follow His Highness, they will naturally get a good development, you can rest assured!"
The grandfather and grandson were chatting about their daily routines, but Zheng Man on the other side turned back three times in one step, and when he got into the carriage, he really couldn't help it, and turned around and bowed heavily.
"Princess! I really can't understand it, you are a descendant of the Zhu family, and you really watched the Ming Dynasty destroyed in your hands? ”
It has been involved in the huge Northern Ming Empire for a few months, and the exile of the two out of Beijing can be regarded as one of the endings of the Zhengcheng County case, as the editor-in-chief and witness, Changping also sat until the beginning and the end, writing the last report, listening to Zheng Man's dejected words, she finally put down the small book that she had never left her hand.
But there was a smile on her cheeks.
"If you succeed, how will you treat the Mao family?"
Zheng Man couldn't help but be silent, even if she was the princess Zhu Yujun, she could get rid of it when necessary, and the struggle for imperial power could not tolerate the slightest mercy, of course, it was to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
didn't expect him to answer, Changping continued to say to himself: "If you were Your Highness, Your Highness is you, you would have been tortured to death at this time, but he let you live, and when you get to Liaodong, you can know that things are not so bad!" This is not only a mind, but also a unique angle of his way of doing things, maybe the world is in his hands, it is not a good thing! ”
"I hope you won't regret it, princess!"
Zheng Man didn't believe it at all, he had experienced the tragic political battles during the Apocalypse Chongzhen, he didn't believe that Mao Jue could let him go, and this time he went out of Beijing with the mood of going to death, and finally didn't say anything about Changping, in her smile, the old master bowed heavily in sorrow, and then got into the carriage in a dull manner.
At that end, Chen Zanzhong was also said to have finished saying goodbye, from the other end of the carriage, he was helped up, the coachman raised his whip, Zheng Man also lowered his head silently, but he didn't notice it, looking at him, the wry smile on the corner of Changping's mouth.
To be honest, maybe Mao Jue killed him, it would be easier for Zhu Yujue, but it was true that Mao Jue let him go, it had nothing to do with the kindness of the woman, it was purely a political need.
The enemy wearing the same uniform is the most terrifying, and the exposed opponent is easy to deal with, like the previous dynasties and dynasties, Mao Jue thinks it is simply stupid, the wildfire is inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows! There are always some opposition careerists who come out, so it is better to keep Zheng Man, the leader of the royalist party who is loyal to the Zhu family, he will not die, according to his reputation, most of the old guards will rely on the past, such an enemy on the surface, it is easy to prevent any changes.
And there is an old saying, if a scholar rebels, it will not be achieved in ten years! A large number of sour and rotten literati gathered together, except for complaining, there is no substantive power, and in the future, there will be a ruling party and an opposition party in the United States, just treat them as an opposition party.
And most importantly, awe!
Like Zhu Yuanzhang is a typical example of overkill, he killed all the heroes, wanting to leave a relaxed environment for future generations, but because it was too relaxed and lacked awe, his grandson Emperor Jianwen made a drastic move to cut the feudal domain as soon as he came to power, and the result was that Zhu Di hit Nanjing together, causing a disaster of Jingjing.
The descendants of Huaxia are too smart, I don't know if it's a gift or a curse, too smart people are piled together, it's easy to intrigue, now the Liaodong faction is in power, and they are still working together, because the head is still the enlightened emperor of the Zhu family, and the Southern Ming Dynasty has not been extinguished, but even so, such as Zhao Cheng, Song Xiance and other veteran factions and Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and other traditional literati backward factions have also branched out, so Mao Jue has to allow royalists like Zheng Man to continue to exist, find them an enemy, stare at them behind their backs, and can't let them live too easily!
With a common enemy, the two departments of Liaodong can continue to work together, and will not take the old road of party struggle like the Ming Dynasty.
So Zheng Man didn't know that the fate waiting for him was not bad, although it was exile, restricting him from entering and leaving Acheng, but the position that Mao Jue arranged for him was the director of the library of Acheng Academy, where there was the largest library reserve of Dongjiang translating Western classics, and in the Western Renaissance, almost all the classics of the Byzantine Empire that were translated were there, according to this old guy's unwilling to be lonely, it is estimated that it will take more than ten years.
Then he has to be the main opponent of Changping, the mouthpiece of the Dongjiang River, thinking about the old guy's hatred, Changping is a headache.
But Grandpa Mao said well, there is endless joy in struggling with the sky, endless joy in struggling with the earth, and endless joy in struggling with people! In the end, it was the battle Ji in the palace concubine, she just felt nostalgic for a moment, and then Zhu Yujun put away the finished manuscript and waved her hand, and she also got into the carriage that had been waiting for a long time on the side, and there was a major news that she needed to report!
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After more than a month of interrogation, several families in Zhengcheng County colluded to embezzle state-owned assets, occupy the land of the imperial court to help the poor, organize underworld forces to oppress and abuse the people, robbery, brawls, murder and a series of crimes, which Zhengcheng County several powerful people confessed.
Although they are chess pieces, but these vicious things are indeed done by their own hands, even the Meng family, a descendant of Mencius, has not been forgiven, a total of seventeen people were sentenced to death, and more than 6,000 people were sentenced to exile, and this is the day of execution!
The execution of corrupt officials has always been what the people like to see, especially compared to the past, when the Qingtian Lord upheld justice, but this time it was public opinion that was exposed, and the people followed and participated from beginning to end, so that everyone seemed to have found a sense of existence and self-meaning.
The Jingshi police force escorted these depressed prisoners out of the Dali Temple Prison, and the people of Jingshi followed by hundreds of thousands of Jingshi citizens on both sides of the road, I have to say that the commercialization brought by Mao Jue was thorough enough, and some people saw the business opportunities, and entered a batch of rotten eggs, rotten vegetables, leaves, cow dung bags and other garbage, selling them along the street, and the business was not bad, reading the newspaper was stimulated, and the people of Jingshi, who gritted their teeth with hatred, rushed to solve their pockets, and then smashed these garbage on the prisoner car, which was bitter to the escort police force, In order to protect these prisoners from being stoned to death by garbage, the two teams had to carry shields and defend on both sides, and from time to time a rotten egg that had been left for an unknown number of days would be stuck on the door of the head.
The side of the vegetable market has long been prepared, but compared to the catchy launch of the vegetable market entrance beheading, something has changed here, and ten huge gallows have replaced the beheading table in the past.
To tell the truth, Mao Jue didn't know how much the bloodless hanging was more civilized than the bloody beheading, but the beheading was abolished in later generations, but the hanging still existed, and the hanging was basically used to execute war criminals after World War II, and in the Iraq War, President Saddam was also hanged, in order to express his progress towards civilization, he also changed the death penalty of Beiming to hanging.
Although it was opposed by some people, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, Ling Chi was the heaviest, beheading was general, and hanging was the lightest of the death sentences, not only in terms of pain, but also in terms of concept, according to Confucian philosophy, it was a kind of good death, which of these guys did not have more than ten or twenty lives in their hands, and it was simply too cheap for them to be hanged.
It's just that Mao Jue insisted, and Dali Temple finally had to come to a hanging, and under the full crowding of the escort police force, it was not easy to squeeze out a crack at the entrance of the street, and the two were sandwiched by one, and the prisoners who were full of rotten egg yolks and rotten vegetable leaves went to the execution ground.
There is a tyrannical side in people's hearts, and under the guidance of public opinion, the citizens of Jingshi also have the same tendency to develop into mobs, and they are eager to see blood. Fortunately, even if the hanging made the citizens very dissatisfied, justice was served, and it was still very happy.
In the chanting of the sky, Shen Rui, the young secretary of Dali Temple, recited the verdict highly.
"All acts hostile to the Ming Empire and its people will be destroyed! According to the laws of the Empire, hang and decide! ”
The first ten prisoners were pushed onto the stools with the sound of the ropes creaking, and in their frightened expressions, the executioners put ropes around their necks and removed the stools from which they had rested.
The once high-ranking landlord and bureaucracy who exploited and tortured the small people as cattle finally realized the pain of the small people who were abused by them, and the county policeman Zhang Baihu still wanted to pretend to be a tough guy, but he didn't hang it twice, he was already sticking out his tongue and kicking his legs desperately, and his eyes were protruding with fear, as for the descendant of the Meng family on the side, the seventeen-year-old man Xie Yuan, Chongzhen, a stream of yellow soup was already flowing down his pants.
Just near the execution ground, a richly decorated four-wheeled carriage just ran by, as a slave was paid tribute to the Beijing Division, listening to the crazy shouts outside the car window, the Spanish chick with a small hand wearing a triangle flail with difficulty opened the curtain covering the car window, this scene, see that Serita is discolored, gasp, hurriedly blocked the curtain again, closed his eyes in fear, clenched the small fist cuffed in his chest, and couldn't help muttering.
"Savage Orientals!"
This scene not only frightened this visitor from the foreign lands, but also looked at the few inmates who walked with him in front of him in the crowd's excited shouts, and it took a few minutes to suffocate in pain, the old man with his tongue sticking out, his face was pale, like a terrible ghost that was simply unsightly.
It turns out that in the face of death, these guys who claim to be loyal and patriotic are not much better than the poor people.
His teeth trembled violently, and the sweat on his forehead flowed downward, looking back, only to find that Shen Rui's expression had also been watching him, and fear had finally broken through the psychological defense of this old man who had read the books of sages.
Regardless of everything, he suddenly broke free from the guards guarding him, and screamed at the shouting crowd.
"This official is doing things for the emperor! Even if he dies, he is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he will be remembered through the ages! You mob pariahs! Bewitched by Mao's rebellion, brutalized Zhongliang, followed by the filth, waiting to be taken! On the day of the emperor's personal expedition, he will definitely avenge me and kill you all!" ”
"None of them are left! Not a single one to stay! ”
Suddenly, the outburst of this house brought the cheers of the citizens who were short to the left and near to an abrupt end, and the great silence spread as if it were contagious.......