As mentioned last time, a small official impeached King Yi for his crime in front of the ministers of the court, and Duanmu Gang had long wanted to clean up this King Yi! However, although he repeatedly reprimanded this prince and asked him to restrain a little, this prince relied on the old and sold the old because he was a person of Duanmugang's uncle and grandfather's generation, and he ignored the holy decree of the imperial court. Now, it's time to deal with this guy!

On the eighth day of the fifth month of the 33rd year of Duanning, Yu Liang, who had been appointed as the governor of Haohu Province, had come to Yizhou in Haohu Province, that is, the fief of King Yi.

And Yiwang Duanmu Hao didn't know at all that the people who cleaned up themselves had come to their fiefdoms. Although the imperial court has accepted the private soldiers in his hands, he is still domineering and preyman. However, they have forgotten that people are doing it, and the heavens are watching, and if they do too much injustice, they will kill themselves.

At this moment, Yu Liang began to visit the homes of the people who were persecuted by King Yiwang Duanmu and his relatives and minions, and visited door to door, because in the fiefdom of King Yiwang Duanmuhao, these suffering people had long been fed up with this King Yi, and with Yu Liang, a person with almost the same accent, visited, they naturally carefully explained all the crimes of King Yiwang Duanmu and his relatives and minions.

With a month of private interviews with Weifu, all the crimes of Yiwang Duanmu Hao and his relatives and minions are known, and dozens of officials in Haohu Province are also involved, but Yu Liang is iron-faced and selfless, so he hates these people at all.

After some tidying up, Yu Liang, the governor of Haohu Province, personally went to the yamen of Yizhou to personally handle the case. At the beginning, when he came, Emperor Duanmu Gang, that is, Zhou Shuyu, in order to prevent King Yiwang Duanmu Haogou from jumping off the wall in a hurry, arranged for him an elite army of the Imperial Tiger Army to follow him.

For Chen Yingzhong, the general of the Tiger Army, Yu Liang respected this general who was strict with himself and loved the people like a son, so he said to him in the yamen: "General Chen, please arrest King Yiwang Duanmu Hao and his relatives and minions according to the list!" ”

Chen Yingzhong, formerly known as Chen Si, was bought by His Majesty from human traffickers when he was eight years old, and when he was already sick and dying, His Majesty asked the imperial doctor to treat him personally, and then took him with him, together with a group of children who were also taught by His Majesty, to be carefully taught by His Majesty and Niangniang. Like those children, he regarded His Majesty, Niangniang, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince as his relatives, and was willing to be born and die for them. His name was obtained for him by His Majesty, and he was also a great achievement, and he never pretended to be a tiger because he was a close minister of His Majesty, but started the war from a small soldier, and as a result, he was promoted to a general by virtue of his military merits, and he will soon be promoted to a general! His character followed His Majesty, he always advocated simplicity and did not like luxury, his wife was given to him by His Majesty to marry, and he and his wife have always been like glue, and almost never quarreled.

This time, in accordance with His Majesty's will, to protect this Governor Yu Liang Yu came to this Yizhou, seeing that the people were deeply poisoned by the minions of this King Yi and his relatives, and their lives were so difficult, he couldn't wait to break this King Yi into pieces.

Therefore, Yu Liang asked him to catch these people, he was very willing, and the soldiers under him were also very willing.

When King Yi Duanmu was still holding the beauty, listening to the play, and tasting tea, the tiger army under Chen Yingzhong had already surrounded King Yi's mansion. At the same time, Chen Yingzhong had already sent people to arrest all the evil relatives and minions of Yiwang Duanmuhao, one by one.

Yiwang Duanmu looked at the general who came to him, and still thought about relying on the old man to sell the old, he said arrogantly: "What? I'm the prince, why didn't you, the general, kneel when he saw me? ”

Chen Yingzhong looked at him coldly, suddenly took out a secret edict, and read it to him: "At the behest of His Majesty, King Yiwang Duanmu Hao connived at his relatives and subordinates, colluded with local officials, and preyed on the people, making the people's grievances boil and the people were miserable. Taizu once said that if any of the heirs of my Duanmu family is greedy like a wolf and harms the people, he must be taken to Kyoto, and His Majesty will be judged for his guilt. King Yi's crime was conclusive, and his people were escorted to the capital, and his relatives who committed the crime were all asked about their crimes, and they were punished as an example. ”

Yiwang Duanmu Hao collapsed directly on the ground, he should have thought that although he did not participate in the forced palace eighteen years ago, but what he has done over the years has long been angry and resentful, he knows that the emperor who loves the people like a son and is jealous like hatred, how can he let him go? However, he really did not expect that this day would come so early.

Soon, except for Yiwang Duanmuhao, all the relatives, officials and gentry related to him were arrested one by one to the Yizhou Yamen, and the governor Yu Liang began to try the case.

Outside the yamen, there are hundreds of people crowded, they are all people who have suffered under the power of Yiwang Duanmuhao, and now seeing that the culprits like Yiwang Duanmuhao and those minions who are fighting for the tiger have been arrested by the governor sent by the imperial court, they are naturally here to redress their grievances.

As a result, the trial lasted for two full months, and the number of cases reached nearly 585,645, involving nearly 3 million people.

For a whole month, Yu Liang's daily sleep could not exceed three hours, but he was young and he could bear it. He has deep sympathy for these suffering people. Therefore, he did not want these people to be wronged again.

Yu Liang's spirit of enforcing the law like a mountain and being the master of the people also deeply made Chen Yingzhong feel extremely admired. They were like-minded and became brothers completely.

After the trial, Yu Liang slept directly for three days and three nights.

And in the whole Yizhou, and even the entire Haohu Province, all the people are like the New Year.

When Yu Liang and Chen Yingzhong were about to quietly leave Haohu Province, all the people flocked to see them off.

Yu Liang and Chen Yingzhong finally escorted King Yiwang Duanmu Hao to Kyoto, and Duanmu Gang looked at the person who was kneeling in front of him, who was considered his uncle and grandfather's generation, and he didn't feel any blood feelings. He only felt that he wanted to split his body into five horses for what he had done.

When Yu Liang was thinking about the crime of Duanmu Hao, the king of Yi, Duanmu Gang said directly: "Cheng Aiqing, Duanmu Hao colluded with local officials and took people's lives, how to deal with it?" ”

Cheng Tingjing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, said: "Tell Your Majesty that you should be beheaded." ”

Duanmu Gang continued to ask: "Cheng Aiqing, Duanmu Hao connived at his relatives to be the evil party, robbed the people's daughters, and did all kinds of evil, how should I deal with it?" ”

Cheng Tingjing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, continued: "Report to Your Majesty, and behead him." ”

Duanmu Gang continued to ask: "Cheng Aiqing, what should I do if Duanmu Hao secretly hides military armor, secretly raises dead soldiers, and does not follow the national policy that the vassal king of the imperial court is not allowed to privately raise military armor?" ”

Cheng Tingjing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, continued: "Report to Your Majesty, and behead him." ”

At this time, Duanmu Hao was already in a cold sweat and collapsed to the ground, but Duanmu Gang said: "Duanmu Hao, I didn't think about it!" You should have killed three times for just these three crimes! There are so many crimes, I don't know how many times to kill? ”

Duanmu Hao was so frightened that he couldn't even speak at this time!

As for the courtiers of the Manchu Dynasty, except for a few, everyone else looked at Duanmu Hao angrily.

Duanmu Gang said lightly: "Back then, Taizu divided the prince of the clan for the continuation of the clan. However, at the beginning, Taizu indiscriminately sealed the kings and gave them various rights, allowing them to hold armies and kill them in their fiefdoms. These vassal kings, greedy and insufficient, were not satisfied with their fiefdoms, but colluded with local officials, wealthy merchants, and wealthy families to constantly annex the people's fields, leaving the people with no land to cultivate. When the people lost their land, they could only serve as tenant farmers for the vassal kings, local officials, wealthy merchants, and wealthy families, and these forces continued to loot the people's fat and ointment, and they accounted for almost half of the world's taxes. If this continues, the land in the hands of the people will continue to decrease, but the burden on the people will continue to increase. It will definitely rise up, and the world will be in chaos. Therefore, the people's hearts must not be lost, even if I deprive those vassal kings of their interests, I will not dare to harm the people. Therefore, I will issue an edict that all the vassal kings of the world, those who are guilty, will be stripped of their titles, and punished according to their crimes. And he who is truly innocent shall be reduced to his title, and his land shall be cut off, and the people shall be restored. Ladies and gentlemen, I wonder if you agree? ”

All the ministers have long hated those vassal kings! So, with the exception of a few who remained neutral, the other ministers agreed.

Naturally, this Yiwang Duanmu became the first vassal king to be disposed of by the law of the country. This is also a solemn warning for the future kings of the Chitang Empire, anyone who violates the law and harms the people, although the Son of Heaven, can also be punished according to law. Later, why did the Chitang Empire have almost no faint kings? That's one of the reasons. Of course, there are many more reasons, but that's for another time.

As a result, when the edict was conveyed to the world, Duanmuzhen, the crown prince who was bringing his fiancée, that is, the crown princess Feng Xuege, also received this edict. He was naturally overjoyed, after all, in Hanoi Province he passed through, there were three vassal kings that he wanted to get rid of, they were Ning Wang Qi, Lin Wang Zhe and Xiyao Wang Xin, who were in their fiefdoms, doing evil and harming the people.

Soon, the crown prince immediately sent an army to take down all three feudal kings, and after the guilt was tried, but the officials and relatives of these feudal kings who were willing to serve these feudal kings were executed one by one according to the law.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.