"Zhou Xing, what do you think this is?"

On the carriage, Zhu Gaoxu showed Zhou Xing the petition he got from Xiang Renjie.

At this time, they had already left Yangwu and were on their way back to the capital.

"Hmph, with this, not only Yang Wu, but also those who are involved with him will all be arrested and killed. Hmph, dare to mess with me, it's just boring. ”

Obviously, Zhu Gaoxu is still worried about being imprisoned. Zhou Xing didn't kill Nan Dongtian, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't know how many times he had said it.

Zhu Gaoxu was able to get such an important thing, Zhou Xing also felt very surprised, he flipped through it casually, and saw that it recorded some evidence of Nan Dongtian's corruption and perversion of the law, and there were also handprints and paintings of the people's petition, which was shocking to the eyes.

"This evidence is really sufficient, if it can reach the hands of the emperor smoothly, the big and small officials of Yangwu County will basically not be able to escape. No, all the officials of Kaifeng Mansion have to peel off a layer of skin. "Zhou Xing understands Zhu Yuanzhang's personality very well, this is a murderous emperor, it is estimated that he lived a relatively pitiful life when he was a child, his human nature is a little distorted, and there is only one way to solve anything after becoming an emperor, that is, kill, kill, kill.

Zhu Gaoxu snorted coldly: "It's not a pity to die. ”

Zhou Xing, who lives in a modern country ruled by law, knows that the harm of doing so is great, and sometimes simply killing people can't solve the problem - otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang has been the emperor for more than 20 years and has killed no less than 100,000 people. This illustrates the irrationality of these systems.

In a society governed by man, in fact, all laws boil down to only one - depending on the emperor's mood.

How long can such a society be stable?

"Of course, the embezzler wants to be killed, but I personally feel that this method of sitting together is a little inappropriate. Although the Chinese people have a tradition of one person attaining the Tao and the chicken dog ascending to heaven, it can be implicated too widely, but it is inevitable that the heavens will be angry and resentful. ”

Born in the emperor's family, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Yuanzhang have many of the same thinking, for what Zhou Xing said, Zhu Gaoxu seemed a little incomprehensible, and said: "How do you say this?" ”

Zhou Xingdao: "You see, this Nan Dongtian is corrupt and oppresses the people, and it is not a pity for such an official to die, right." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said as a matter of course: "Corrupt officials will die, there is nothing to say." ”

Zhou Xing also hated corrupt officials, and he also hoped that all corrupt officials would die, but Zhou Xing had a lot of opinions about the Zhujiu clan.

"Although corrupt officials should be damned, I have been thinking about a question, why are you talking about these corrupt officials? The emperor gave a death order, and if he did more than sixty taels, he would be guilty of a capital crime, and you said that sixty taels of silver is only how much. That's not a ten-year cold window, it's worth these sixty taels of silver? It can't be. ”

Not to mention how much it takes to get famous, just those who can afford to read will lack the sixty taels of silver? Obviously not.

"Then why are they greedy?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little confused, "You're right, embezzlement of sixty taels will lead to death, this price is too great." ”

Zhou Xingdao: "I think there are three kinds of general corruption. On the one hand, he became an official just to make money. Anything that serves the people is nonsense, and making money is his first purpose. This is the first of their kind. Being an official purely for the sake of money. Then, after they become officials, they will not think about corruption or anything like that, and they will make the money they can get. ”

"Then these people are really desperate for money. What about the second? Regarding Zhou Xing's argument, Zhu Gaoxu seemed very interested.

Zhou Xing said: "The second kind is that he is the official, if he comes step by step, it will be a loss." As I said before, in order to be this official, he studied hard, right? Not to mention how much effort is put into it, it will cost a lot of money alone, right? As a result, in the end, I finally survived enough to be an official, and if I did the math, if I just received a lot of money, mixed with Zhishi, and removed those expenses, I couldn't even earn back the capital when I was studying. In such a situation, do you say he is greedy or not? Be greedy, you want to be killed, don't be greedy, then your heart is too unbalanced. So the balance came and the balance went and began to reach out. ”

Zhu Gaoxu listened very interestingly, he never thought that there were so many things to say about corruption.

"What about the third one?"

"The third is forced, for example, his wife blows the wind on the pillow, his father and mother ask for it, and his seven aunts and eight aunts and uncles ask him to use his power for personal gain. And so on and so forth, if you ask too much, you will inevitably make mistakes in principle. This mistake is like opening a floodgate, opening a gap, and if you want to plug it again, it will be even more difficult. ”

"Now that we've talked about the causes of their corruption, let's talk about the rest. Second Young Master, let me ask you, if it were you, there were 1,000 taels of silver in front of you, or 10,000 taels of silver, which one would you choose? ”

Zhu Gaoxu was listening with relish, and as soon as Zhou Xing asked so coldly, he replied: "I think I will choose 10,000 taels of silver." ”

Zhou Xing smiled: "If it were me, I would want both." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment, and then scolded with a smile: "I was taken into the ditch by you." ”

Zhou Xing said with a straight face: "No, I just want to say that if an official has embezzled a hundred taels of silver, according to the law, he should be guilty of a capital crime." So what will he do at this time? There is no doubt that he will continue to be greedy, and he will be greedy even more and as greedy as he pleases. Because he is already a capital crime, and he is already going to punish the Nine Clans, so do you say that he is not a broken jar? ”

"yes, what do you think you should do?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly shook, and then the neighing of the horses was heard, and the carriage shook for a while before stopping. Zhu Gaoxu suddenly said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter?" ”

"Second Young Master, we are surrounded!" Qiao Mo, who was in charge of driving the car, opened the door of the carriage and said to Zhou Xing and Zhu Gaoxu.

"Besieged?" Zhou Xing was startled and asked, "Who dares to surround us?" ”

This is the frame of Yanwang's Mansion, who dares to stop it?

Qiao Mo said: "I don't know, there are more than 20 people on the other side, Second Young Master, you stay in the carriage first, don't come out." ”

Immediately afterwards, the sound of ping-pong came from outside, and Zhou Xing and Zhu Gaoxu stayed in the car.

"Zhou Xing, who do you say dared to hijack our car? Could it be the person sent by Nan Dongtian? Zhu Gaoxu clenched the Shang Fang sword in his hand. Zhu Gaoxu has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, riding horses and archery, and he is proficient in knives, guns and sticks, and it is precisely because of this that he makes Zhu Di like it so much. At this moment, he was holding Shang Fang's sword in his hand, and he was still a little nervous.

Zhou Xing thought for a moment and said: "Theoretically, I don't think it should be someone sent by Nan Dongtian, first of all, we have left, and we have not hindered him in anything, nor have we investigated his corruption, and he has no reason to send someone to hunt down and kill Qin Cha." Even if he found out that we were not Qincha and wanted to arrest us back for revenge, he wouldn't be so fast. After all, we're not slow. ”

"Who should it be, as far as you can see?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Before Zhu Gaoxu could speak, the carriage shook, and Zhu Gaoxu instantly drew out Shang Fang's sword, followed by Qiao Mo. Qiao Mo's face was stained with blood, and he said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Second Young Master, the matter is settled. ”

When Zhou Xing heard it, sure enough, the sound of fighting outside was gone.

"Who's out there?" Zhu Gaoxu asked.

Qiao Mo said: "Hey, it's a group of robbers, a group of people named Hanako, I thought it was someone, killed a few, and all the others escaped." ”

Zhou Xing was suddenly embarrassed and said, "What does this mean, so that Hanako dares to come to the carjacking?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and said: "Ah, have you forgotten that when we were in Fugou County, weren't we also chased all the way by the disaster victims?" I guess there were also victims at this time. ”

"It's still so far away, can't it." Qiao Mo was very depressed, a dignified master, and was chased away by a group of disaster victims, what is going on.

This encounter with disaster victims in the wild is unexpected, but it also reminds everyone that it is not safe here.

If Zhu Gaoxu was sent by the emperor to investigate the corruption of disaster relief silver, then there would be no problem in coming with great fanfare. But Zhu Gaoxu went out this time, because he wanted to play in the mountains and rivers, and Zhu Di deliberately released this son to attract everyone's attention, so that the danger increased greatly. Not to mention the forces that may be used at any time in the shadows, even Nan Dongtian and the others may have some small movements.

Zhou Xing believes that the purpose of going out this time to help Zhu Di attract firepower has been achieved, and the most important thing now is to return to the capital as soon as possible to ensure his safety. As for Nan Dongtian's corruption, as well as this petition of the people, whether it can be handed over to the emperor and let the emperor deal with it, Zhou Xing feels that it is an inconsequential matter.

This is just a seemingly inconspicuous episode, but in fact, it was deliberately arranged.

You say, how could an ordinary disaster victim come to the official road and rob a carriage? And it's not the previous one, it's not the latter one, it's the one Zhou Xing and they are riding?

Not long after Zhou Xing and their carriage left, the two appeared at the place where the fight was fought.

"Uncle Mu, from your point of view, what is the strength of these four masters?" The one who spoke was Zhu Zhang's son, Zhu Shangbing.

Uncle Mu said: "The strength is very good. ”

Zhu Shangbing asked again: "Then, if you want to annihilate them all and don't let anyone escape, how many people will be needed?" ”

"Thirty." Uncle Mu gave a number.

It's just four big internal masters, but it takes thirty people to be able to ensure that they are defeated, and I have to say that Uncle Mu gave the inexplicable four full respect.