Zhu Houwei's questioning was like a thunderbolt on the ground exploding in Xu Zhenqing's ears!

In Xu Zhenqing's impression, although Yongwang Zhu Houwei is young, he is gentle and elegant, and he still exudes a faint bookish atmosphere, not looking like a prince, but more like a scholar who has read the books of sages.

And King Yong has a good temper, Xu Zhenqing has never seen him angry with anyone, this is definitely an outlier among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, never harshly criticizing the people, and even not blaming the people who can't pay the land rent, and sometimes helping them get through the difficulties.

Take the money village as an example, not to mention whether the palace money bank has made money over the years, but even if it does, it definitely hasn't made a lot of money, because more than half of the reserve silver in the money bank has been lent to the small people who lack silver.

Some of these small people were about to go bankrupt because of poor management, some had poor harvests in the fields, and had to borrow some silver to pay their taxes to pay their taxes, and some even wanted to borrow money because the merchant lacked the principal.

The money bank only charges extremely low loan interest rates for the silver lent out, and this measure alone has made many wealthy gentry who rely on high loan interest to earn money behind their backs be extremely depressed.

At least in Huzhou and even in the surrounding areas where there are royal mansions, the plan of the wealthy gentry to rely on usury to achieve the annexation of land and common people's property is completely bankrupt.

Xu Zhenqing can even be sure that if this money village is not the property of Yongwangfu, I don't know how many times it has been smashed, but the money village belongs to Yongwang, and Yongwang is the most honorable prince of the Ming Dynasty today.

What if you can't bear it? Is it possible to shout for the eternal king? That's a rebellion!

Yongwang is sealed in Huzhou, which is the blessing of the people of Huzhou, and the people praise Yongwang as a generation of virtuous kings, which is definitely from the bottom of his heart.

However, today's generation of virtuous king Zhu Houwei has made Xu Zhenqing realize what is a king, grandson, and noble.

In the past, he was kind to you, knowing that you wrote an excerpt on the affairs of the palace and sent it to Beijing, Zhu Houwei never said anything, let alone excluded or coaxed them, everything was so frank and unrestrained.

But now King Yong is angry, for the sake of a small people.

Does the lives of the people matter? Of course it is important, Confucianism believes in the set of 'the people are important, and the monarch is light', but later generations believe in this more to limit the imperial power, in the eyes of the high-ranking literati, the lives of the people are really not so important.

Xu Zhenqing believes that Lu Liu's case may really exist in the possibility of unjust, false and wrongful cases, even if this unjust case will lead to the loss of innocent two lives and will make Lu Juren die blindly, but even if it wants to be rehabilitated, it should be an internal matter of civil officials.

How can this matter not be the turn of the first lord of the Ming Dynasty, King Yong, if it is confirmed that this matter is indeed Ji Lan's misjudgment, then Ji Lan is suspected of reckless human life.

But Ji Lan is a Wenchen and a member of the famous religion, his mistakes have made Xungui corrected, where is the face of the famous religion?

Therefore, Xu Zhenqing and Li Mengyang's first reaction was nothing else, they just wanted to cover it up, but maybe they still had a conscience in their hearts, so they asked the Huzhou Government to take Lu Liu into custody and wait for the review of the Criminal Department.

In short, this matter cannot be interfered with by Xungui, the reason is that King Yong cannot interfere in local government affairs!

"The King." Li Mengyang arched his hand and said: "The lower officials think that they can temporarily put the Lu and Liu families in prison, and wait for the imperial court to send people to Huzhou or promote the Lu and Liu families to Beijing......"

"Imprisoned?" Zhu Houwei sneered: "If Lu Liu's family dies violently in prison, what will Li Changshi say?"

Li Mengyang's face turned pale, the meaning of King Yong's words could not be clearer, this matter is not just a criminal case, this case also involves the government!

Before Li Mengyang, who was about to open his mouth to refute, could speak, he heard the voice of the lieutenant of the palace coming in.

"The king, the treasurer and men of the Chu family and Renjitang have been brought."

"Companion, take these people down separately for questioning, and there is no need to torture."

Ren Xing was ordered to go out of the hall and bring Chu and a cadre into the side hall.

In the side hall, Ren Xingyin smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, you have committed a crime."

The shopkeeper Fang's cold sweat ran down.

"Lu Juren's concubine Chu had an affair with Ji Ningde, the son of Ji Lan, the general judge of Huzhou, and was already pregnant with Ji Ningde's seed when she became Lu Juren's concubine, and after being hit by Lu Liu's adultery, she blatantly killed Lu Juren and planted it to Lu Liu's family and Wang Si, the arsenic used to kill Lu Juren came from Renjitang, and the shopkeeper Fang claimed that this arsenic was bought by Lu Liu's family when he was in the Tongju Mansion, right or not?"

"Right...... Yes, arsenic was indeed bought by Lu Liu's Wang Si. ”

"Shopkeeper Fang!" Ren Xing sneered: "Now that this case has been taken over by King Yong, and it involves Ji Tong's judgment, no matter how deeply involved Ji Tong's judgment is with this case, our family can tell you clearly that Ji Tong's judgment can't protect you, not only can't protect you, but also it is difficult to protect yourself, you dare to give false testimony at this time, that is, to deceive the prince, what will be the consequences of deceiving the prince, we don't need to say more."

Shopkeeper Fang immediately knelt down......

"Father-in-law, even if you borrow ten guts, don't you lend ten thousand guts to the grass people, and the grass people don't dare to deceive the Yongwang."

"Well, our family doesn't need you to do perjury, we just need you to write out all the original copies you know, then King Yong will only treat you as coerced, and nothing will be investigated, but if what you say is not true, once it is proven, it is idle to raid the house and destroy the door, take it down and record it!"

In this stall of kung fu, Wen Po Zhao and Ma Dafu were also brought in.

"Do you two remember the incident of seeing Chu's midwife?"

"Father-in-law, it's been more than a year since this happened, and the grass people see doctors every day, and they have seen countless patients, and they really can't remember clearly."

"Can't really remember?"

"The grass people don't dare to deceive their father-in-law."

"Well, Wen Po, if you think you have delivered countless babies this year, you must not remember whether the son of the Chu family is full-term."

Wen Po was stared at by Ren Xing's cold gaze, and couldn't help but shudder, but she still stiffened her head and said, "Yes...... Yes, the women of the people ...... I really can't remember. ”

"Okay, okay." Ren Xing sneered and shouted, "Someone."

The palace guards came out in response.

"Drag these two thieves who dare to deceive the prince out and beat them to death!"

"Whoa!"

Ma Dafu and Wen Po were suddenly stupid, and then began to mourn like rushing to the sky.

Lu Liu and Wang Si were arrested and beheaded, these two knew the inside story, and naturally they had a fall, but Ji Lan and they couldn't afford to offend, and they received benefits a year ago, once the incident happened, they all wanted to get rid of it, so they were summoned by the palace, and they had already paid attention, and they were born at full term!

Who would have thought that the palace would be so ruthless, there was no intention of forcing confessions at all, and they would be killed if they disagreed!