"It's nothing more than a trick to set an example for chickens and monkeys. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "King Jingjiang sneered.

"Then whether the prince is going or not!"

"Go, of course!"

"Do you really want to go?" The chief eunuch said with some concern: "The butcher is merciful and ruthless, and the thirty-six gentry are strong, and they will kill when they say they will be killed, and they will even be exempted from playing, which is really bold." If the prince goes, he may do something to make trouble! ”

"He dares!" King Jingjiang snorted lightly and said: "The king of this domain, the prince of heaven, is ranked as a superb, and he is still afraid of a little governor?" If you don't go, you will look weak and weak, so that you can look down on it, and Ben Fan really wants to see what tricks he can play when the time comes! ”

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In the morning, as soon as the morning glow broke through the clouds, the four walls of Guilin slowly opened, and the displaced people poured in from the four open gates, scrambling to converge at the entrance of the city's vegetable market.

The dozens of gentry and gentlemen involved in the case have all been escorted to the tents set up temporarily at the entrance of the vegetable market, and the fearful, nervous, and curious people have rushed to see the excitement, and some shrewd small traders have taken the opportunity to set up various stalls to sell water, food, and odds and miscellaneous goods to the onlookers.

In the middle of the entrance of the vegetable market, a thousand guards and pro-army Fu Pacesetters lined up a huge legal field, isolating all the people who rushed to the periphery.

Within the encirclement, more than 30 selected knife and axe hands wrapped their heads in red cloth, holding thick-backed machetes, neatly arranged.

On a temporary high platform in the center of the court, sat the cold and majestic Chen Bangyan. Zhang Jiayu and Ma Yingfang stood solemnly behind him. After the two, there were officials of the same size as Chen Yiben, the political envoy of Guangxi, Gu Yi, the envoy of Guangxi, and Yu Chao, the prefect of Guilin. They lowered their heads and made eye contact with each other, their expressions quite flustered and confused, obviously frightened.

Approaching three o'clock in the afternoon, the car of the king of Jingjiang finally arrived, according to the Ming etiquette system, the full set of honor guards of the king of the county is only more than 100 people, and the honor guard of the king of Jingjiang has five or six hundred people, there are more than 100 people who carry the flag and the flag, there are more than 100 people who carry the arrow guard and the halberd guard, and there are dozens of people who hold the golden spittoon and carry the gold chair and pedal, the entire honor guard stretches for miles, and the guards and inner supervisors are dressed luxuriously and brightly. Everyone looks forward to being arrogant, so not majestic.

After the county king's honor guard entered the execution ground, Chen Bangyan immediately took the state officials down the high platform and bowed down to greet them.

"The ministers have seen the king of the county, Chitose, Chitose."

After a long time, a lazy and rough voice came from the car: "Let's all be flat." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

While speaking, the curtain of the car driver opened, and the huge King of Jingjiang, with the support of the chamberlain, stepped on the wooden couch and stepped out of the car.

I saw that he was wearing a vermilion dragon robe, wearing a black gauze and a crown of wings, a jade belt around his waist, he was over the age and was not confused, he was short and fat, his eyes were not bright, his eye bags were protruding, his eyes were deep-set, and he looked overindulgent.

After seeing the ceremony, Chen Bangyan took the lead in leading the King of Jingjiang to the high platform, and the King of Jingjiang walked in the forefront with a big belly, and asked knowingly as he walked: "What crime did those squires at the entrance of the vegetable market commit, and they should be sentenced to be beheaded by Lord Chen!" ”

Chen Bangyan said with a cold face: "Those local tyrants and inferior gentry privately swallowed a large amount of military land, good land, concealed huge taxes, and had the account books of acres of land as evidence, and instructed the domestic slaves to obstruct the officials and soldiers from measuring the acres of land, violently resisting the law, contempt for the king's law, and deserve to be punished for the crime!" "When it comes to the last cut, it is categorical and unquestionable.

King Jingjiang saw that he was robbed of momentum as soon as he came up, and said with some dissatisfaction: "The so-called courtesy is not inferior to the concubine, and the punishment is not the doctor, after all, they are all gentry with meritorious reputation, and they are the pillars of the dynasty. ”

"They are all capital crimes, and they have the right to cut first and then play." After Wei Yi explained, Chen Bangyan changed his words: "The prince is a clan, he should abide by the laws of the imperial court, this time he came, just watch the punishment, and it is better not to ask about the criminal affairs, so as not to embarrass the officials." ”

King Jingjiang was speechless when he said this, and he had no way to refute it.

It should be explained that the vassal kings of the dynasty had a lot of power in the early stage, not only holding heavy troops, but also having the power of the people in the fiefdom, and could control the civil and military officials in the local area. However, since Yongle, the political and military power of the vassal kings has been gradually slashed, and the clan has gradually become a parasitic group that does nothing, holds a vacant position, and looks up to the county officials for high lords.

Ming Chengzu was born from the vassal king, and after he ascended the throne as emperor, he was most worried that other vassal kings would follow in his footsteps, and on the surface he changed a series of policies of Emperor Jianwen, but in fact, the policy of cutting the feudal domain did not change.

After Yongle, in order to prevent the feudal king from rebelling, he gave him a lot of rice to maintain the righteousness of the heavenly family, and at the same time, various restrictions on the clan were also issued one after another, such as the prince reached a certain age after the feudal kingdom, he must go out to the feudal country, and he was not allowed to enter Beijing unless he was edicted in the future.

The vassal kings also had many restrictions on the fiefdom, such as the two kings were not allowed to see each other, and they were not allowed to leave the fiefdom without reason, even if they went out of the city and provincial tombs, they had to apply in advance, and they could only do so after getting permission. Except for his birthday, the vassal king is not allowed to drink alcohol with the priest and is not allowed to make friends with the priest;

The clan was not allowed to participate in politics or serve as officials, and was engaged in the business of the four people, such as scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants. It can be said that the eunuch will never be, the farmer and the merchant are not allowed to enter Beijing without a purpose, and those who go out of the city to cross the pass to the Beijing division will be asked to reform the people first, and then send them to the Fengyang high wall to encircle them, and the people who go with them will be sent to the border guards to fill the army;

The ban was strict for a while, until the Jiajing period developed to its peak, until after Wanli, the ban was loosened, allowing the clan without a title to engage in the business of the four people, but there are clans to participate in politics and take charge of the army, which are still strictly prohibited.

Chen Bangyan moved out the ban on the sect law of the imperial court, and King Jingjiang was really a little jealous and didn't dare to say more. Honestly, as Chen Bangyan reached the main seat on the high platform, he pretended to be calm and began to watch the execution.

As soon as three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Jiayu walked to the front of the high platform and ordered loudly: "Escort the prisoners into the court!" ”

The chess and card officer on his side waved the order flag in his hand, and the pacesetters in a circle immediately gave way to a door, and the people involved in the case were escorted into the court one after another.

Dressed in prison clothes with black and white backgrounds and chains on their feet, they slowly squirmed towards the center of the court. The people around the court were silent, they saw so many squires in prison clothes for the first time, and for the first time they saw the mighty and neat sword and axe hands like a phalanx on the battlefield, everyone's hearts were both excited and afraid, and there was a sense of revenge in the dark. Those squires no longer have the arrogance and impetuousness at this moment, they all hang their heads and turn pale.