Kyoto is much warmer than the northern frontier, and chūn means that the branches in the morning urge the flowers to bloom. Every night, the lights of thousands of homes are noisy chūn bridge, very lively, ten miles of red candles reflect the flower river, all kinds of fragrant, it is a good time to step on chūn to appreciate chūn lane chūn obscene chūn.

But during the day, Kyoto is a little quiet, and it seems that both the people and the officials are a little sleepy and lazy, so there are not many pedestrians on the streets.

At noon, a scholar with a yīn Shen Zhi sè on his face walked in from the east gate of Kyoto with a woman in his arms. The expressions of these two people did not resemble mother and son, and they did not go to live in an inn, but went directly to an inconspicuous house in western Beijing, and only a few people knew that the real owner of this house was a doctor of the Imperial Palace.

The chūn was sleepy, but it could wake up, and a certain rì in the middle of March, like the rì after the chūn 闱, was struck by a few chūn thunderbolts for no reason, and a dripping chūn rain fell, soaking every building and alley in Kyoto.

After the Supervision Yuan retrieved the relevant corrupt officials and salt merchants from Jiangnan everywhere, the case of fraud in the field was finally concluded, except for a squire who was sentenced to 3,000 li, and a total of seventeen officials involved in the case were sentenced to death, which was the will of His Majesty the Emperor, and the evidence was ironclad, no force dared to say more, and no Wenchen dared to put forward the slightest opinion.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Guo Youzhi was also sentenced to beheading, this is the founding of the Qing country, the most senior official who was convicted of capital crimes, the news came out, the government and the opposition were shocked, it is said that even the Queen Mother went to the palace to intercede, but after the emperor's gentle words, he wiped some tears of the Son of Heaven, changed it to a hanged in prison, leaving Guo Shangshu a whole corpse, the Queen Mother was gloomy, and said no more.

There were also 16 officials who died with Guo You.

............ Raindrops slowly fell from the sky and fell on the ground of Shioshikou, the most lively area in Kyoto's Pingrì, but it still did not drive away the people of Kyoto who braved the rain to watch the execution.

Sixteen officials dressed in white punishment clothes, kneeling on the wooden platform that had already been erected, their clothes were already stained with blood, thinking that they had suffered a lot of punishments, these officials who used to be glamorous, but now they were defeated, their hair was messy and tangled, and they looked extremely miserable, but they didn't know what means the Supervision Yuan used, and some of the more powerful prisoners forced themselves to open their godless eyes, trying to find their relatives in the crowd watching the punishment, their lips were wide open, but they couldn't shout.

The third division of the prison sentence and Mu Tie, the charge d'affaires of the Supervision Yuan, sat under the tent and watched the scene in front of them. Mu Tie's face was expressionless, but the rest of the civil officials were a little uncomfortable on their faces, those convicts who were waiting to be killed under the torture table were all their colleagues in the past, and they had been happy together on the flower boat, drunk together at the wine table, but now they had to watch them die.

The rainwater falls on the eaves of the restaurant next to Yanshikou, and then flows down the channel next to the tiles, forming a small waterfall from the sky. There are a lot of buildings here, so there are more than a dozen small waterfalls, hitting the bluestone ground like a white dragon, making a crackling sound.

Some high-ranking officials stood up and announced the decree loudly, but they were disturbed by the crackling sound of these small waterfalls, and they seemed to be a little inaudible. The crowd of onlookers only saw his mouth moving, but they didn't know what he was talking about, only to see that the last high-ranking official had a solemn face and shouted: "Cut!"

When the onlookers heard this word clearly, they immediately became excited, shouted and rushed forward, wanting to get closer to the wooden platform to appreciate this rare liveliness.

The executioner on the wooden platform spat a mouthful, wiped the rain from his face, put the big knife behind his back, kicked forward, stretched out his left hand and gently pressed the back of the neck of the first prisoner, confirmed the position of the bone joint, and then roared, and the knife flashed!

When the knife fell, it made a muffled sound like a sharp knife cutting into pork.

With a swipe, blood spurted out of the headless cavity, splashing far away. The head of the prisoner fell to the wooden platform, as if he was still afraid of the big knife of the Qingguo court, and rolled up with a rumbling, but it was by the flow of rain, it did not stop, rolled to the side of the wooden platform, and fell.

Seeing a blood-stained head fall at his feet, the people of Kyoto, who had been in high spirits before, took a big step back in fright.

Where the skull rolled, there was a trail of blood, but it was washed away by the rain and quickly faded away.

............ It was only at this time that the people watching the execution let out a cheer, but there were not many people who applauded, and they were not very neat, and they looked a little gloomy. On the high platform, Mu Tie, who was sitting on the lowest chair for the execution, showed an uncertain expression on his face.

Immediately after that, the executioner stabbed again, another head fell to the ground, another bloody light went to the sky, another exclamation, and another xìng life was never there. There were three executioners, but in a matter of moments, sixteen prisoners were beheaded in unison, leaving only blood and corpses all over the ground.

As the beheading progressed, the crowd of onlookers gradually became emboldened, and the cheers were louder and louder, and finally when the head of the ceremonial department finally left his body miserably, the applause was even louder!

Several officials of Kyoto Prefecture were busy looking for the head of the prisoner who had fallen earlier, but they did not find it for a long time.

After a while, a black dog ran out of the crowd, holding a head in its mouth, its sharp teeth biting the ears on the skull, and a pair of dog eyes glanced around, but the light in the dog's eyes made people feel cold for no reason.

"Wang!", the black dog was sheathed by the Kyoto Prefecture official on his buttocks, and he loosened the head in his mouth in pain, screamed several times, and jumped into the heavy rain.

―――――――――――――――――――――――― then counted rì, repeated actions again, the criminal department of Shangshu because of corruption and perversion of the law, by the Supervision Yuan in his third aunt Taibei courtyard found a number of gold and silver, a number of forbidden objects, reported to the imperial court, transferred to the Dali Temple Council, seized the post and demoted to Yizhou Prefecture, it was directly from the first product to from the seventh grade.

Yizhou is far away in the south, and it is full of miasma, heat and poison, but I am afraid that Han Zhiwei, the secretary of the criminal department, will never return to Kyoto.

And Guo Zheng, the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate, did not seem to be affected on the surface, but he was still found by the imperial court and rushed directly to Jiangnan. Although Jiangnan is a beautiful place of water and beauty, the Supervision Yuan has long been full of people in Jiangnan, just to see when to think about it and how to treat him.

On the one hand, because of the relationship between the prime minister, and on the other hand, it also felt that the Supervision Yuan had solid evidence and was not too ruthless, so it did not hold it together, and attacked the Supervision Yuan because of this matter.

But all the officials know that this is revenge, and this is the revenge of the Supervision Yuan because of the Tisi Fan Xian, who is far away in the Northern Regions, for the incident in the lobby of the Criminal Department.

............ Retaliation and counter-retaliation, accusation and counter-accusation, until a tacit balance is finally reached, is the constant theme of Qingguo officialdom for decades. So no one thought that when the retaliation of the Supervision Yuan and the Prime Minister was very tolerant and stayed within a certain limit, the counterattack from Xinyang and the Empress would still come so quickly.

The young scholar mentioned earlier was He Zongwei, who could not participate in Chūn because of the death of his father in the family. He was a student of Zeng Wenxiang, a university scholar, and had always been close to the Guo family. Unexpectedly, when he was in his hometown, he heard the news of the explosion, Lord Shangshu was waiting to die in prison, his family property was confiscated, and his friend Guo Baokun didn't know where he went, what made He Zongwei a little angry was that the prince of the East Palace didn't lend a helping hand in this matter!

The woman who entered Beijing with He Zongwei was even more bizarre, and she was actually Wu Bo'an's wife. That Wu Bo'an was a strategist placed by the eldest princess in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and last year he persuaded the second son of the Lin family to join forces with the Northern Qi Dynasty to assassinate Fan Xian on Niulan Street, but in the end he died tragically on the grape trellis.

Lin Ruofu, as the prime minister, naturally hated Wu Bo'an, who killed his only normal son, although Wu Bo'an died early, but the Wu family still has a lot of property in Shandong. The local officials were the protégés of the prime minister, so in the spirit of the will, they tortured the Wu family, and in just half a year, they didn't know how many silver taels were looted, and Wu Bo'an's biological son was put in prison for no reason and tortured to death.

Although this woman didn't know how to write and ink, she also knew that the prime minister was powerful, and it was definitely not the Wu family that could compete, but she was saddened by the tragic death of her son, so she turned her heart sideways and went to Kyoto alone to prepare a lawsuit against the emperor.

When he was resting outside the city, this poor Wu happened to meet He Zongwei who was returning to Beijing.

He Zongwei was a smart man, and after hearing this, he knew that there was a lot to be done in this matter, so he comforted the Wu woman and said that he would definitely find a way to seek justice for her.

After entering Beijing, He Zongwei relied on his teacher's relationship to temporarily settle the Wu family in a mansion that relied on the old imperial history. In those days, there were often some mysterious characters who came in and out of the mansion and asked Wu in a gentle voice about some details of the tragedy in his hometown.

He Zongwei looked at this qiē with some indifference, and it was only when Wu asked him a question with some trepidation that he would smile and comfort her, saying that the righteous officials of the imperial court were working on it, and the prime minister would soon fall.

The garden of the old imperial history mansion was a little dilapidated, standing behind the rockery, He Zongwei's face flashed a slight smugness, and he destroyed the secret letter of Xinyang in his arms, thinking of the Kyoto officialdom after the fall of the prime minister, he couldn't help but think of Fan Shangshu, the in-law of the prime minister, and the eldest lady of the Fan family, who was a little indifferent, and his heart was slightly hot.