A dignified person was beheaded on the spot in front of tens of thousands of people, many people were stunned, and the other gentry who were escorted to the side waiting for the trial were frightened one by one.

"Okay, good kill!"

The captives in the audience shouted loudly, and some of the captives squeezed forward desperately, trying to tear a few pieces of flesh off the heads of the falling people. was stopped by the Praetorian Guard soldiers on the side.

One gentry after another were dragged onto the high platform, their crimes were read on the spot, and those who committed murder and reckless human life were all sentenced to be executed and killed on the spot by the executioners. The heads were rolling down, and the blood was flowing like a river, but the captives in the audience didn't care, and they all shouted frantically. Watching the gentry and lords who have oppressed them for generations being executed, the mood is extraordinarily comfortable.

In the entire Qingjian County, there are nearly ten gentry who have made great achievements, all of them are full of crimes, and none of them do not oppress the good and occupy the fields. The gentry here are so evil, of course, there are also environmental factors, the land in northern Shaanxi is barren, there is no business environment, and the gentry want to live well on their own, only relying on their identity to desperately squeeze the people.

All the gentry were beheaded on the spot, their money and food were confiscated, and the fields they had occupied were returned to their original owners. The powerful slaves and servants in their families who were bullying people were also punished as they deserved. Every verdict that has been read has attracted bursts of applause.

After the gentry came the judgment of the wicked officials. In the past, the officials and officials who were powerful and prosperous were taken to the high platform one after another to pronounce their sins.

These evil officials are the most hateful, in the past, they were the most ruthless in oppressing the people, relying on the status of the government to do misdeeds, colluding with the gentry, taking advantage of the opportunity of taxation to revise the accounts and wantonly recourse, accepting bribes and disregarding people's lives, one by one there are many crimes, and there are few honest people.

Those who committed the most heinous crimes were executed on the spot, those who committed lesser crimes were exiled from their homes, and all the officials in the county, and those who were not guilty were less than one palm.

Seeing that these former officials who were proud of their might were defeated, the people who had been bullied applauded.

Not all those who were arrested were eligible to be put on the high platform, and those gentry and wealthy slaves, and those ordinary officials did not have such qualifications at all. There were only a few dozen people who could be pressed to the high platform for trial, but even so, the whole trial took more than two hours, but none of the prisoners and civilians in the audience felt tired.

When Peng Youmin, the county governor of Qingjian, was escorted to the high platform, the atmosphere reached its peak.

"Peng Youmin, the magistrate of Qingjian County, has been an official in Qingjian for more than two years, shielding wealthy families, greedy for disaster relief food, disobeying His Majesty's tax exemption decree, apportioning tax money without authorization, and driving the officials to maliciously pursue tax collection, so as to cause civil unrest. According to investigation, he has been the county governor of Qingjian for two years, and he has bribed as much as 18,000 taels of silver. Committed serious crimes such as deception, disrespect, and greed for ink, and in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, he was sentenced to beheading, and the male of his family was exiled for 3,000 miles, and the female dependents were enslaved in the sect. ”

Peng Youmin knelt on the stage and listened, his body trembled involuntarily, and there was no trace of luck in his heart.

"Your Majesty, the sinner has something to say!" At the moment when he was pulled to the edge of the stage and slashed, Peng Youmin suddenly struggled and shouted sadly.

"Shut his mouth." Xu Xianchun waved his hand, and the brocade guard who was dragging Peng Youmin stuffed a rag into his mouth.

"Slow, let him speak!" Zhu Youzhen suddenly stopped, he wanted to hear what the county order had to say before he died.

"Your Majesty, although the criminal ministers are guilty, they also have the merit of defending the city and protecting the people!" Peng Youmin kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen again and again, and shouted sadly.

Zhu Youzhen said lightly: "Although it is meritorious to defend the city, it is only your duty, and it cannot offset the sins you have committed at all." ”

Peng Youmin tried to raise his head: "The minister is guilty, he shouldn't ignore the tax exemption decree issued by the imperial court and collect taxes from the people without authorization, but how to pay the salaries of the county officials and servants if they don't collect taxes?" Besides, it's not just me in Qingjian County, but in more than 10 prefectures and hundreds of counties in Shaanxi, where is this not the case?

Your Majesty, if you have killed all the officials of Qingjian County today, can you still kill all the officials of Yan'an Mansion and Shaanxi Political Envoys, so who will help you herdsmen? ”

After studying hard for 20 years, he was finally admitted to the third list of jinshi, and was sent to such a barren place as a county magistrate, but he ended up like this in only two years and endangered his family, so how could Peng Youmin be willing? He asked himself that he was honest enough compared to other officials, and he was not convinced by the emperor's disposition, and when he was dying, he also let it go.

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly and said sharply: "Those who dare to bully the monarch and abuse the people, as long as I find out, I will kill one of them, even if I kill all the Yan'an Mansion, kill all the political envoys in Shaanxi, and even kill the whole world!" When Taizu dared to embezzle sixty taels and peeled off the skin, two hundred years have passed, is the sword of the Son of Heaven unhappy, or is the court too good to you corrupt officials?

If it weren't for you shameless and corrupt officials, why would the world be like this, and why would my people take risks?

Peng Youmin, you have studied hard the books of sages and sages, and you have been promoted to the rank of scholar, and you are called Youmin, but you are actually a remnant! The book of sages can teach you to deceive the king, and the book of sages can teach you to bend the law for bribes?

Now that he is dying, he still has the face to ask me, is it shameful?

Who is the herdsman? Could it be that without you corrupt officials, I can't find the herdsmen, and this Ming Dynasty will not work? ”

Peng Youmin was speechless, and just muttered: "Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, who is not the case with so many officials in the world?" ”

Until he was dying, he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, he only felt that he was unlucky to encounter a civil uprising.

As Peng Youmin's head landed, the arena fell silent, and tens of thousands of people were shocked when they looked at the blood-spurting headless body. This is the county master, and he was killed with a knife like this!

The emperor was so rigid!

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!" Whether it was the captured rebels or the people who went out of the city to watch the trial, they all knelt down and shouted sincerely to Zhu Youzhen.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

The shouts grew louder and louder, more and more uniform. These helpless and helpless people who can only be oppressed by others have felt the sage of the Son of Heaven and the grace of the emperor for the first time!

The humiliations of the past were all caused by those bad gentry and evil officials, who deceived Your Majesty and brutalized the people! Now the Son of Heaven finally realized that he had heard about the people's suffering, and he had come to northern Shaanxi thousands of miles away to get rid of the bad gentry and evil officials for them, and avenge their grievances!

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"

The shouts are getting louder and louder, and they are louder and louder! Not only the civilians, but also the Praetorian Guard soldiers shouted along.

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen's prestige has reached its peak in the land of northern Shaanxi!

Looking at the people kneeling and shouting in the audience, Zhu Youzhen felt for the first time that everything was under control!