Chapter 130: Distinguishing Right from Wrong (II)

The torch illuminated the inner courtyard of the Ma Mansion, and Li Chonggao, the counselor of the Xuan Mansion, held his head high, blood gushed in front of his body, and his body shook but stubbornly refused to fall.

Qin Kan looked at him quietly, and somehow, compassion suddenly appeared in his heart.

This is a wretched bunch of abandoned people who have been sacrificed, who have paid a heavy price for their greed for ink, and who have gone beyond the crimes they have committed, and who have even sought revenge from the wrong people......

Li Chong was still roaring as if he were mad, and his feet were full of companions who had died in silence, blood staining the ground.

The captains in brocade clothes gritted their teeth, and a row of people with spears in their hands waited to come forward, but they were stopped by Qin Kan with his hand raised.

When a person is about to die, at least he should be given a chance to speak, this is the most sympathetic mercy Qin Kan gives to the enemy.

The crowd surrounding Li Chong made way for a way, and a team of captains escorted Ma Wensheng and walked out slowly.

When Li Chong saw Ma Wensheng, his god suddenly became excited, his strength had been exhausted, and he still raised his hand to him with difficulty, his blood-red eyes spewed with the flame of extreme hatred, which was a kind of gaze that wanted to devour life alive.

"Ma Wensheng dog thief! I returned more than 400 lives to my more than 30 brothers, wives and children! ”

Ma Wensheng looked cold, stared at Li Chong with cold eyes, and said in a deep voice: "The old man is Ma Wensheng, Li Chong, the general of the Xuanfu, the old man remembers you, when the old man was ordered to patrol the Xuanfu, you went to the governor's yamen to visit me, the old man has been a man and does things all his life to look up to the sky, and he is not afraid to the ground, Li Chong, the old man did dismiss you and more than 30 generals, but the old man never ordered to kill your family. The sin of waiting for you is not enough to destroy the door, Li Chong, you have found the wrong person. ”

"Ha Luha, looking for the wrong person? Ma Wensheng, do you think Li is a three-year-old child? You were the one who revolutionized us in the first place, and who were you who destroyed me? ”

Ma Wensheng said angrily: "The old man's case." The old man's conviction is not enough to destroy the crime, if the old man gives this order. How can you escape the world? The old man patrolled the border with only a guard of honor, if you are killed, who will obey this order? What's more. The old man has no dealings with you, no grudges and no hatred, why do you want to destroy you? Li Chong, you are a bunch of confused bastards until you die! ”

Li Chong's angry god gradually stiffened, hung his head and was silent for a long time, gradually revealing a look of anger, and trembling violently.

Qin Kan stood not far away and sighed secretly.

Li Chong understood, but unfortunately he understood too late, and it was even more regrettable that there were more than twenty companions lying at his feet, all of whom died in a daze. Poor and sad again.

Ma Wensheng ,...... It really wasn't you? Who would it be if it wasn't you? Li Chong's eyes were pleading, he wanted to wait for an answer he wanted, he wanted to prove that the bitter hatred he and his companions for years was not a ridiculous and pitiful mistake.

Ma Wensheng looked at him with clear eyes, and sighed deeply: "The old man has no fornication with you. Not to mention hatred, how could you do such a thing that harms Yang Shou? ”

This is undoubtedly a hint that interests are an eternal reason, it can make enemies become friends, and it can also make friends turn into enemies.

Li Chong's face turned horribly pale. Even his lips lost their blood, and he muttered distractedly: "It's him, it's just him, Liu Qing, Liu Qing...... Ha Luha, what a town guard eunuch, what a benevolent and righteous friend! More than 30 of us are so stupid, but now we know the truth, we died unjustly, and we deserved to die! ”

"Li Chong, to this day, the old man asks you......" Ma Wensheng's eyes gradually became sharper: "There is a lot of resentment in your words, and you said that back then, you were greedy for food and salary and were dismissed by the old man, but you were wronged in the slightest?" ”…,

Li Chong looked up to the sky and smiled like a madman: "Wronged? No, Ma Shangshu is like a god in judging the case and discerning everything, how can he wronged us? Yes, I am greedy, more than 30 brothers have gone up to me, a general, and down to a small hundred households, all of whom have drunk the blood of soldiers, and Li has pleaded guilty three years ago......"

Ma Wensheng took a step forward and said coldly: "So, what qualifications do you have to be full of resentment?" Destroy you all over the house, and leave it alone for the time being, isn't the old man's disposal unfair? ”

"Ma Shangshu's conviction is appropriate, none of us will disagree with it......" Li Chong paused, and suddenly roared as if he had changed into a person: "But, Ma Shangshu, have you convicted the entire Xuanfu border army?" ”

The roar was like Huang Zhong Da Lu, deafening, and everyone's eardrums were buzzing.

"Greedy for ink, who is not greedy among the border army generals? As small as ordnance pig iron, as big as money and grain, how much the imperial court allots, the governor's yamen deducts half, the command envoy deducts half, and the following thousands of households and hundreds of households deduct again, when a stone of soldier food falls into the hands of the sergeant, it is less than two taels, the border army's greed for ink has become a rule, which general dares to disobey the rules, and when and the Tartars clash, I don't know when and where we will be stabbed in the back by our own people, and finally report a martyrdom in battle, the border army is like this, who can not be greedy? Who dares not to be greedy? ”

"Master Ma, Li was also a bright and upright man, Li went into battle to kill the enemy, and he also saved more than ten Tartar lives in his hands, fighting for the future, Li can not even want his life, but in Xuanfu to fight for the future, it is not possible to get it by killing the enemy bravely, if Li is not greedy, he will not be a person with all the generals, and he will be ostracized and suppressed everywhere......"

Li Chongtong's red eyes looked at Ma Wensheng: "Ma Shangshu, you take us and others to ask for the crime, Li has nothing to say, but why did you only take more than 30 of our generals and let the others go?" ”

Ma Wensheng's calm demeanor gradually changed, and his face turned involuntarily pale.

"The border army has been eroded, you Ma Wensheng can't get rid of evil, why is my Li Chong not qualified to be full of resentment?"

Li Chong hissed loudly and laughed.

"It is said that now the Ming Dynasty is prosperous in the middle of the world, the world only sees gold and jade, how have you ever seen the Tartars commit my Ming land burning, killing and looting, how have you ever seen the border army generals deduct layer by layer, the sergeants can't even eat enough and still hold weapons and resist hard, Ha Luha, such a prosperous world, Li is better than dead!"

After speaking, Li Chong's body shook a few times and fell to the ground, and the captain stepped forward to check and found that he was not dead, but fainted from excessive blood loss.

Qin Kan and Ma Wensheng were silent and stayed in the courtyard for a long time. Ma Wensheng sighed suddenly, and when he slowly left, his back looked much older.

Everyone is greedy for border generals, who wouldn't know? Unveiled the coat of the prosperous world, but the inside was full of devastation and erosion, and the emperor did not dare to reveal it. The civil servants did not dare to reveal it, so they covered their flashy coats with sores and pretended not to see anything. So the song and dance were leveled. The warbler sings and dances, what is the pleasure......

Tonight, Qin Kan learned another thorough lesson, and he found that he knew more and more about this dynasty that was in the middle of the rise.

However, the more I know, the colder I feel. I feel sad for Li Chong, sad for the border army, and even more sad for the more than 400 people who died innocently.

Qin Kan looked up at the night sky that had regained silence, and there was a fierce light in his eyes that no one had noticed.

He didn't want to be a saint, but he didn't want to be as insensitive as those officials, the generals were greedy for ink that he couldn't solve, and there was nothing he could do about the erosion of the guards, because he was just a small person and couldn't change this era. All he could do was to seek justice for the more than 400 old and weak women and children. If I don't report it, I'll report it...... Li Chong's life was great, but he was hit by several bullets but did not hurt the vital point, and was taken to the imperial prison.

No need to interrogate, Cema Palace. The Emperor's Gate Arrow alone was enough to knock him down to eighteen layers of hell.

No matter who it is, no matter how big the reason and injustice, those who dare to provoke the imperial power of the Zhu family will definitely not end well. …,

Emperor Hongzhi breathed a sigh of relief, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty also breathed a sigh of relief, especially Mu Bin and Wang Yue. is even more smiling without eyebrows, these are the most under the pressure they are under.

The inspectors of the imperial history began to be restless, they had been waiting for this moment, if they were not dissatisfied with the righteous impeachment of human injustice, if they did not denounce those officials who had made mistakes with enthusiasm and frustration, how could they be embarrassed to be the imperial historians?

The reason why Qingliu is called Qingliu is because they never believe in the saying "when the water is clear, there are no fish", they want to be clear and clear, and they must not mix a small grain of sand.

The officials and imperial historians of the six departments and thirteen provinces worked hard to write, and countless impeachment books flew into the cabinet like snowflakes and flew to the desk of Emperor Hongzhi. They participated in Ma Wensheng, the governor of Xuanfu, and the eunuchs in Xuanfu, and the imperial historians went crazy like mad dogs that bite people when they see them, and in their eyes except for themselves, they are all bad people, and they should all go to hell.

Emperor Hongzhi had experience in dealing with such things, and after staying in the middle of the two years, the celebrant finally issued an edict from His Majesty.

Li Chongcai beheaded the public at the entrance of the city, Ma Wensheng was not at fault, he was not investigated, the holy will was appeased, and Liu Qing, the eunuch of Xuanfu Town, was derelict in his duties, so he immediately removed the post of the eunuch and sent Fengyang to guard the imperial mausoleum.

It's all over, and everyone is happy. At least for the vast majority of people, it was a good result, and those who were worried breathed a long sigh of relief.

Among the vast majority of people, not including Qin Kan, he was not satisfied with this result, of course, a small thousand households no one cared about him...... After the third day, at noon on a rare and beautiful day, Liu Qingman, the eunuch who was the former guard of Xuanfu, was full of joy and fear, and took a carriage out of the Desheng Gate of Jingshi and rushed to Fengyang, the central capital, to guard the imperial mausoleum.

Liu Qing was not depressed at all, he sat in the carriage, and even had a smile on his face.

He is only forty years old, he has a tough backstage above him, his life has just reached a low point, guarding the imperial mausoleum is just a mixed qualification for him, within two years, he will definitely be activated again, this trip to Fengyang is just a two-year long vacation, that's all.

In the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, a hundred miles outside the capital division, the eunuch Liu Qingtu was robbed by a strongman, and the robbers not only robbed the property and killed the coachman, but also unloaded Liu Qingda into eight pieces, and threw the body in the wild to feed the wolves.

Xiao Jing, the master of ceremonies, was furious, and ordered the factory guard to investigate thoroughly, but in the end, the factory guard had to take a few death row prisoners from death row and cut them as murderers, and Liu Qing's case ended in such an unknown way.

On the same day that Liu Qing was killed, Li Chong was escorted to the entrance of the vegetable market, and the executioner swept off his head with a swing of his knife.

Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil.

Qin Kan was satisfied, this was the result he wanted. (To be continued) RQ