Seeing that Qian Shisheng resisted his questioning with an uncooperative attitude, Li Jin was not angry, he turned his head to look at Zhang Shenyan and said: "Your Excellency, Lord Qian just said that I insulted Sven, then I still have a document here that I want to read to you, and I ask your permission." ”

Zhang Shenyan looked at the people outside who were a little emotional, and just was silent for a moment before nodding and agreeing, "You can read it." ”

Li Jin then continued to question Qian Shisheng and asked: "Lord Qian, when you were the right attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, you once received the emperor's order to inspect and supervise the construction of schools in Jiaxing, Huzhou, and Hangzhou, and to raise donations from local squires. These squires donated a total of more than 17,000 acres of fertile land to you for the education of the three places.

However, after that, your clansmen Qian Ningyuan, Qian Shizhao and others, together with your in-laws Lu and Ye, exchanged 4,700 mu of high-quality paddy fields for Zhongtian, Xiatian and river beach wasteland.

Qian Ningyuan also used the donation of school fields to collude with the Jiaxing government to occupy the 324 acres of fertile land owned by the Huang family, who had a grudge against him, for the donated school fields...

Do you know about the above things? Or, in your opinion, taking the cause of national education for your own profit is just a trivial matter, and it is not considered an insult to Sven? ”

Qian Shisheng opened his eyes violently, and said a little angrily: "This, I, I don't know about this at all." I've never had them change schools..."

Under a series of interrogations, Qian Shisheng was finally stimulated to lose his coolness, and let Li Jin lead him into the trap step by step. The people outside the court were disappointed in Qian Shisheng, and they spit on him and scolded him for being a sanctimonious hypocrite.

Under Zhang Shenyan's constant warnings, the people quieted down a little. Looking at Qian Shisheng, whose face was pale and his body was shaky in the seat opposite, Li Jin finally delivered the final blow.

"Master Qian, I don't know if you have heard of such a sentence: loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. What you have done has shown that you are not loyal to the country, nor to the people, and even less to Your Majesty.

All you are loyal to is your own interests, and the power that can bring you benefits..."

Qian Shisheng finally couldn't bear it anymore, he seemed to want to get up and refute, but his body quickly fell backwards again, and the messenger standing behind him suddenly shouted: "It's not good, Lord Qian fainted..."

Zhang Shenyan obviously didn't expect such an unexpected situation, he hurriedly asked the clerk on the side to observe, and after making sure that Qian Shisheng was only in a coma and not dead, he immediately interrupted this one-sided public prosecution, and he said to everyone in the hall.

"This case has been tried to such an extent that this judge believes that there is no longer any need to continue the trial. However, because Mr. Qian was unconscious, the official decided to postpone the release of the verdict, and now suspend the trial, and send Mr. Qian to seek medical treatment first. ”

Although he couldn't hear the end of the trial, seeing Qian Shisheng faint, many of the spectators who had just despised him were already satisfied. In particular, the reporters sent by the newspaper felt that today's audit was worthwhile, and they finally found a very interesting piece of news.

Hui Shiyang and Ni Yuanlu, who were sitting in the back hall, were both surprised when they heard the outcome of the trial. The two were silent for a long time, and Ni Yuanlu couldn't hold back his anger and said: "It's a mistake for me to wait, I didn't expect that these eunuch remnants actually collected so many materials, they must have been eyeing me for a long time." ”

Hui Shiyang is much calmer than him, "Now is not the time to complain, let's go and see if he is okay first."

We drove Yang Suoxiu, Yang Weiyuan, and others out of the procuratorate, and Li Kuilong naturally wanted to fight back.

But now we haven't lost much, as long as we can reach a compromise with Li Kuilong, we will no longer continue to pursue the matter of Yang Suoxiu and Yang Weiyuan, in exchange for his letting go of Brother Zhizhi, and everyone will be considered a draw in this game. ”

Hearing Hui Shiyang's words, Ni Yuanlu couldn't help but raise a glimmer of hope and asked, "Then can you keep the position of Brother Yu?" If we let my brother return to his hometown in disrepute, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Wen family to trust us. ”

Regarding Ni Yuanlu's innocence, Hui Shiyang shook his head in his heart, but he still comforted him with kind words: "Let's go and see Brother Zhi first, some things have to be decided by himself, we can't decide his advance or retreat..."

After Li Kuilong heard the report of the observer who went to the next door, a heart that was hanging in the air suddenly fell to the ground. He couldn't help but be very excited and said to his cronies: "Lao Tzu finally didn't ask Li Jin to come to our procuratorate in vain, Qian Shisheng, a hypocrite, talks about benevolence, righteousness and morality all day long, but does everything he can to steal chickens and touch dogs, and he really treats others as blind." This time, I'm going to see who can help him get off the stage..."

It is obvious that Hui Shiyang and Li Kuilong are not the only people who sent people to observe this trial. Yang Suoxiu and Yang Weiyuan, who were hiding in the private room of the restaurant opposite the compound of the Criminal Department, also drank three cups in a row to celebrate after hearing the news that Qian Shisheng had fainted.

Among the citizens who left the compound of the Criminal Department, 6 people soon left the team and walked along the alleys of the street towards the Xianyifang rice market. These six people were Chongzhen, Zhang Chonghui, and several guards dressed as civilians.

Unlike others who think, Zhu Youzhen, who seems to have casually agreed to the prosecution of Qian Shisheng, is actually extremely concerned about this case. Therefore, on the day of the trial, he dragged his former secretary general to observe the prosecution in disguise.

After watching the pedestrians on the side gradually thinning out, Zhu Youzhen broke his silence and asked Zhang Chonghui: "What do you think of the trial just now?" ”

Zhang Chonghui thought for a while before replying: "Although Li Jin played well, he offended more than one Qian today. The minister thought that from now on, the gentry of the world would probably hate Li Jin to the core. ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the road ahead, and continued to ask him without any waves: "So what do you think Li Jin did today is right or wrong?" If it were you, how would you handle this case? ”

Zhang Chonghui couldn't answer for a long time, and after walking dozens of steps, he said cautiously: "The minister thinks that Li Jin is a loyal minister. If the minister was in his position, I am afraid that he would not be able to make such a brave move. ”

After listening to Zhang Chonghui's answer, Zhu Youzhen was also silent for a long time, and was about to walk out of the alley before he said: "Actually, I can't do it, how many people in this world can challenge the default rules of the whole society like him?" Such a person is either a hero or a madman. However, if we want to make Daming our ideal country, we need countless such heroes and madmen. ”

After leaving the alley, Zhu Youzhen and the others boarded several carriages that had been waiting here for a long time. There weren't many pedestrians on the streets behind this alley, so no one noticed that it was the Ming emperor who boarded the carriage.

Xianyifang Rice Market is the second largest rice market in Beijing, and it mainly supplies rice and noodles and other grains to the people in the Xicheng area. With the development of grain processing machines, especially the development of flour grinding machines, the proportion of people in Beijing eating noodles has begun to increase rapidly.

Although there has been no rain in many areas of Hebei this year since spring, the prices of various grains in the rice market have not skyrocketed as before.

The reason for this lies in the basic completion of the Haihe River control project, the construction of various reservoirs in the upper reaches of the river, and the well-drilling campaign in Hebei, so that the agriculture in Hebei can still get a part of the water source.

In such a dry season, there is still grain to harvest in the fields, so naturally there will be no food panic. Truckloads of rice from the south have alleviated the concerns of urban residents about food shortages.

By the 10th year of Chongzhen, although the number of urban residents in Beijing had grown to about 1.2 million, the city's industrial and commercial population had also reached nearly one-fifth of the level. In absolute terms, this is almost three times that of the first year of Chongzhen.

As far as the entire Hebei region is concerned, the population of industry and commerce is about more than 600,000, accounting for 68% of the population of the entire Hebei region. However, these 68% of the industrial and commercial population have created nearly one-third of Hebei's total industrial and agricultural output value.

In other words, the increase in wealth created by Hebei's industry and commerce is enough to make up for the losses encountered by Hebei's agriculture in the drought. As long as the workers have money in their pockets, then they can buy grain from the south.

In addition, with the continuous expansion of overseas markets, factories in Hebei have been constantly expanding. These factories absorb a large number of surplus rural labor, which in turn provides great support for farmers to resist natural disasters.

The stability of grain prices in the grain market also represents the optimistic belief of the people of Hebei to survive this year's drought, which is a good thing for the imperial court.

This state of affairs has also greatly encouraged the officials who advocate the development of industry and commerce, and made them more firmly believe that only the development of industry and commerce can enable the country to have the material ability to resist and save itself in the face of large-scale natural disasters.

After looking at the rice market, Zhu Youzhen was also relieved. This let him know that local officials in Hebei believe that this year's drought in Hebei is not serious, and it is clear that it is not a lie used to deceive him.

When Zhang Chonghui returned to the palace, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting in the carriage, said to him: "I have already thought about it, and from next month, you will officially serve as the speaker of the Ming Gentry Conference."

The first thing I hope you will do when you take office is to use this case today to remove the representatives of the gentry who evaded taxes and stole state property in the gentry meetings.

I think what Li Jin said today is very reasonable. Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal. Since they are not even willing to pay state taxes, how can they be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, to me and the people of the Ming Dynasty?

Such a person is not suitable to be a representative of the gentry, nor is he suitable to be a representative of the parliament after the transformation in the future..."