All of this happened in less than a minute, and the restless crowd had already quieted down, and some of them wanted to slip away when the wind was not good. Cao Huachun shouted: "No one is allowed to move, and whoever moves will be taken down by the chaotic party." The surrounding fans claimed that it was, but people who wanted to leave did not dare to move.

Cao Huachun stepped forward and said to Wang Limin: "You come to testify against those people who are in trouble." Wang Limin was overjoyed, and the first one pointed to Shen Cuili, who had no time to escape: "My lord, this matter is the leader he leads, and he still wants to kill Xiaomin, please be the master of Xiaomin." ”

Shen Cuili was not afraid: "My lord, this is here to petition, you see, I didn't bring a knife." After that, he unbuttoned his coat and pulled the corners of his clothes to Cao Huachun to see.

Wang Limin immediately shouted: "My lord Mingjian, he is the one who instigated everyone to come to the tax bureau for trouble, and this person is listening to him to kill me." After speaking, he pointed to the one-eyed man who had injured him.

The big man hurriedly distinguished: "The small one doesn't have one, and the small one doesn't have a knife, yo?" Yes? This person reacted slowly, and Cao Huachun said that he was not allowed to move just now, but he heard it, and he really didn't move, and he didn't even know how to throw down or put away the bloody knife in his hand, and he didn't react until he said that he didn't bring a knife.

Fang Zhenghua made a flying leg, kicked him to the ground, and said with a smile: "You really didn't bring a knife, you were holding a knife." ”

The crowd took all the people with the instruments into custody, and Wang Limin pointed out a few people who were in a meeting together, and the fat man Lin was also among them. Cao Huachun ordered that the names of all the people present be written down, and those who were merchants were allowed to go back after the knot, and those who were not merchants should be retrieved by the people of Baolilai, especially those who fought in the line, and they were all brought back to the Dongchang branch by Fanzi.

As soon as he returned to the branch, the prefect Shen Cuizhen came with the head of the yamen in a menacing manner, Cao Huachun saluted and invited the prefect to enter, Shen Cuizhen refused to enter, and said: "My third brother doesn't know what crime he has committed, and he was arrested by Cao Gonggong into the East Factory, and now he has come to inquire." ”

Cao Huachun explained: "Someone reported that Ling Di gathered a crowd to storm the tax bureau and buy a murderer, so please come and ask the cause of the incident and assist in the investigation." ”

Shen Cuizhen smiled disdainfully: "Assist in the investigation, look at what bullshit words you use, my third brother is a lifter, you are ......"

Fang Zhenghua didn't wait for him to finish speaking, stepped forward and knocked Shen Cuizhen to the ground, then stretched his hand back, and handed over a rope to him.

Shen Cuizhen would never have imagined that Dongchang would dare to do it without saying a word, let alone dare to do it to his dignified prefect, and tied himself up, and he couldn't turn around in one breath, and he fainted.

Lin Pinghe, the magistrate who followed the prefect, was also stunned for a while, and it took a long time to react, pointing at Fang Zhenghua and eating: "The prefect just said a bullshit that doesn't make sense, you dare to tie up the prefect, Dongchang is too arrogant." ”

Since Wanli, Dongchang has been low-key, and even in Wanli, there has never been an example of the prefect being tied up after saying a word. Lin Pinghe looked at Fang Zhenghua, just like looking at a dead person, there is a Ming generation, and the inner prison must have died in the end if he dared to do this, and he died quickly.

Cao Huachun has not stopped Fang Zhenghua, and only then did he say slowly: "He said that assisting in the investigation is a bullshit word, this sentence can destroy his three clans, and the Holy Decree Dongchang can detain the suspects and ask them to assist in the investigation, does the prefect never read the weekly report?" Don't you read the weekly newspaper and don't read it? There's a decree on it! ”

After that, he ignored the stunned Lin Tuiguan and asked Fanzi to carry Shen Cuizhen in. Last time, the governor said that he would kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, but Shen Zhifu was unfortunate and became this chicken. Although this chicken is fat, it is just a chicken.

The interrogation methods of the fans were not covered, and soon Fang Zhenghua led people to the Liyi Hall and arrested Li Youyi, who was packing up and preparing to avoid the limelight. Li Youyi quickly turned Shen Cuili's plan upside down, and then Shen Cuili confessed that it was all instigated by Shen Cuizhen, as for Shen Cuizhen, after waking up, he finally understood why he was tied up, but he insisted on refusing to confess any accomplices, only saying that he did not want to see the people suffer from harsh taxes, and did not say anything else.

Cao Huachun did not notify Nan Zhili of the case, and directly sent a cadre of criminal witnesses to Jingshi. In the morning of the next day, Zhu Youxiao asked the ministers to discuss the case.

After the clerk read the case file, the Commissioner of Taxation, Bi Ziyan, came out and said: "Your Majesty is sympathetic to the merchants and the people, and only sets the commercial tax at half percent, and there are still people who try to resist the decree, and the minister thinks that he should be severely punished to set an example." ”

He mentioned such a height all at once, which made some people very dissatisfied. Zuo Guangdou said: "It's just that the businessman is greedy for profit, and the minister thinks that if His Majesty can open the net, the businessman will be grateful, and no one will resist taxes in the future." ”

The official should be shocked and stopped: "Your Majesty, if you don't obey the decree, buy murder, how can you use greed to excuse such an act, the minister thinks that he should confiscate his family property and raze his three clans, so as to warn the latecomers, so as not to do this great rebellion." ”

The ministers discussed a lot, and most of them felt that they should be severely punished, but there were not many people who wanted to exterminate the clan like Guan Yingzhen, and most of them thought that Shen Cuili should abandon the city and confiscate the family property, which was almost the same.

Zhu Youxiao said: "The Shen thief was mad, and he actually bought a murderer, and caused three deaths and ten injuries to Dongchang Fanzi, and he can be sentenced to behead and abandon the city, and confiscate his family property to compensate for the losses of Dongchang and the people." It's just that according to the Dongchang report, he has no family property, although he is a famous businessman in Suzhou, but all the property is under his father's name, which is owned by the family. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent. In the Ming Dynasty, it was generally a big family, except for the head of the family, the individual actually had no private property at all, and now if you want not to implicate Shen's father, then you can't copy the house, at most you can copy the house where Shen Cuili lives. And if Shen's father is implicated, then the matter will be a big problem.

Zhu Youxiao didn't have a good impression of exterminating the clan or anything before, so he just wanted to kill Shen Cuili, but he wanted the Shen family to compensate for the loss of Dongchang Fanzi, and now this kind of family-style property problem made him very difficult.

At this time, Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of Dali Temple, came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a strategy, and orders Shen's father to pay compensation for the loss of the East Factory, if he is willing, he will be fine, if he is unwilling, he can copy his home." ”

His idea is actually a normal way to deal with it, but in fact, this is still a matter of connection, but there is no better way now, so let's do it first.

Then it is time to discuss the issue of Shen Cuizhen, many ministers think that they should be downgraded to see the after-effects, which is of course the reason for the death of the rabbit and the fox. Wu Liangsi believed that he was not inferior to the Holy Decree and connived at his brother's misdeeds, so he should be ordered to resign so that he could leave him a little dignity.

After the ministers finished discussing, they all looked at Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao said slowly: "Message: deprive Shen Cuizhen, the former prefect of Suzhou, of his origin, and immediately behead Shen Cuili to show the public, and order Shen's father to compensate Dongchang for 80,000 taels of silver, and other people involved in the case will be punished by the department according to the law." ”

Liu Yixiao hurriedly came out and said: "Your Majesty, deprive yourself of the text of your birth, this punishment is too much, you can remove the official." "Depriving oneself of the text of one's birth is equivalent to losing all the original Jinshi or anything in the examination, and becoming a real civilian, inferior to Xiucai, this kind of punishment is too fierce, if Shen Cuizhen can choose, he will definitely be selected to prison and is not willing to be punished.

Zhu Youxiao looked at the sympathetic faces of some officials, stood up and shouted: "Does anyone dare to refute my will!" ”

Zhu Youxiao has always behaved well and spoken in the court, and has never scolded the minister. Today, he suddenly shouted so sharply, and although the words were right about the matter, but in fact he was about Liu Yixian, a cabinet member, which surprised many ministers.

Everyone thought of a sentence in their hearts: "The dragon has reverse scales, and those who touch it will die." "It seems that our Majesty is already very dissatisfied with certain people.

All the ministers knelt on the ground together: "Your Majesty Shengming." The ministers did not dare. ”

Zhu Youxiao turned to sneer: "I just don't dare, it seems that I still want to!" Let's retreat. ”

Zhu Youxiao's performance today allowed the ministers to see the other side of the emperor's cold-blooded ruthlessness. The results of the handling of the Suzhou tax resistance incident made the ministers understand that whoever dares to do the business tax again will really be looking for their own death.