Although Meng Anwei finally succumbed to Shen Yichen's might, he was still grinding and chirping in his movements, looking reluctant.

Descending the hill at a high point, a foul smell came to my nose as the displaced people gathered closer and closer to the river bend.

And it is different from the victims on both sides of the canal who will take the initiative to gather and cry for help when they see officials coming. The victims here didn't move much, their eyes looked at Shen Yichen and the others blankly, and their expressions were full of despair waiting for death.

may have made them understand that they are abandoned sons and doomed to have no way to live.

didn't go far, Meng Anwei stopped next to a large vat, and then said with an embarrassed face: "Back to Youxian, this is the porridge shed built before." ”

Shen Yichen didn't reply, but came directly to the vat and leaned over to look inside.

In later generations, I saw the plot of the disaster relief of corrupt officials and corrupt officials on TV, and no matter how thin the porridge boiled in the porridge shed was, it still looked like rice soup.

Shen Yichen didn't see a shadow of rice grain in this big vat, all kinds of unknown weeds and bark floating in the black dirty water, and he didn't know how Meng Anwei had the face to say that this was a porridge shed.

"Is this rice porridge cooked?"

Step by step, Shen Yichen already felt that his anger had been suppressed to the extreme, compared with well-known traitors such as Wang Zhen of the imperial court, local officials close to the people were called real cannibals!

"This ...... Maybe that'......"

After a long time, Meng Anwei actually admitted it.

I've really seen shamelessness, but I've never seen such shamelessness.

Shen Yichen didn't say anything more, picked up a broken bowl on the ground next to him, scooped out a bowl of "rice porridge" from the jar and handed it to Meng Anwei and said.

"Meng Xianzun, since this is rice porridge, how about this official invite you to taste it?"

Faced with Shen Yichen's words, Meng Anwei replied with a smile on his face that was more ugly than crying: "Xian, this is the ineffective handling of the lower officials, and when I return to the county office, I will definitely urge the warehouse and the squire to transport grain." ”

"This official is letting you taste what it tastes like, can't you understand human words?"

Shen Yichen's face showed a touch of fierceness, and there was no more hypocritical politeness.

As soon as he saw Shen Yichen's face, Meng Anwei trembled in fright, and said in a begging tone for mercy: "The lower officials know their mistakes, and they still hope that they will forgive their sins." ”

"Forgiveness? Then you have to ask the people of Yanggu here if they agreed. ”

Shen Yichen sneered, and then glanced at Canghuo and the others.

The Fujian miners understood that they had long been holding back their anger at Meng Anwei, and immediately stepped forward to control him.

At the same time, miner Wang Neng pinched Meng Anwei's chin, took the bowl of "rice porridge" in Shen Yichen's hand, and poured it down.

"County Honor!"

Seeing this scene, the officials of Yanggu County were shocked.

The literati value face and integrity, but the Yanggu County Commander is also a county parent official of Zhengqipin, so humiliated in front of his subordinates and the people under his rule, Shen Yichen's move is really a bit arbitrary!

Even if he is the imperial history of the capital of Beijing, he only has the right to impeach and correct, how can he dispose of the next official without trial?

After pouring a bowl of "rice porridge", Meng Anwei immediately fell on the ground and retched. At the same time, this scene finally made the desperate victims of Hewan have a different picture in their eyes.

"What happened to this, the county lord was punished?"

"Who is this young official, and why does he dare to treat the county lord like this?"

"The red official robe is said to be a big official, could it be that the imperial court sent someone to save us?"

"Didn't you say that the champion came to Shandong to control the water, could it be him?"

The victims of the river bend whispered, and some of them struggled to gather around.

If you haven't been deceived too many times, who wants to wait for death if you can have hope of life?

Now that there is finally a different scene and a different official, maybe there will be a different result!

After retching out the sewage poured down, Meng Anwei staggered up from the ground with the support of the county officer.

I saw him shouting timidly: "Shen Yichen, Shi Ke can be killed but not humiliated, I am a dignified court official, what right do you have to humiliate me!" ”

"Even if this matter costs his life, this official will inevitably be impeached to the court!"

Hearing Meng Anwei's threatening words, a grim smile appeared on Shen Yichen's face.

Shen Yichen was not afraid of Meng Anwei's jumping, but he was afraid that he would not be able to endure it, and he would not find a chance to punish the crime.

"According to the "Da Ming Law", scolding the envoy and the chief of the department, the maximum rod is 100. If the official is separated by three products, a hundred catties of flail will be used. ”

"You just called Shangguan's name, what kind of crime should you be guilty of!"

The Ming law has strict punishment provisions for insults, among which scolding envoys refers to the situation of being sent by the imperial court to send an envoy but being abused by local officials.

Shen Yichen is the imperial history of the capital, and he was ordered to go out of the town of Shandong to control the water, which just meets this article. And the magistrate is a seven-grade magistrate, and the imperial history of the capital is a fourth-grade Beijing official, even if you don't calculate the difference between Beijing officials and foreign officials, there are three grades apart.

In other words, Meng Anwei's name just now can make him take a hundred catties of shackles and a staff to punish him for a hundred!

Let's get off the book

Hearing Shen Yichen's questioning, Meng Anwei was directly frightened.

He didn't remember that there was such a clause in the "Da Ming Law" at all, after all, for most literati officials, they spent their lives memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, and who would read the Da Ming Law if they had nothing to do.

Normally, the county government sentences and sentencing, and the sentencing can also be handed over to the general judge or the master's staff, and a county magistrate only needs to convict.

What Meng Anwei didn't expect was that Shen Yichen, a Hanlin nobleman, could remember "Da Ming Law" well, which is really outrageous!

With his own body, let alone a hundred with a flail, fifty can be beaten to death, Meng Anwei will definitely not be able to be punished.

"Shen Yixian, your move is a personal vendetta of the communiqué, and the lower officials are not satisfied!"

"Tell me, what personal enmity does this official have with you?"

Facing Shen Yichen's rhetorical question, Meng Anwei opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say why.

It's just that what scared him was the next sentence.

"Having said that, what if the official is a personal vendetta, take it!"

didn't catch the evidence, if Shen Yichen killed the subordinate in vain, he would inevitably be held accountable afterwards.

Now that I have a handle, I don't need it now, but when?

To be honest, Shen Yichen didn't expect Meng Anwei to be so presumptuous, it may be his young face, or it may be the gentle appearance before, which made him relax his awe of Shangguan!

After Canghuo and the others listened to the order, they pressed Meng Anwei to the ground without saying a word. On the other side, Wang Neng took a killing rod from the hand of the county official and prepared to start the cane punishment.

And when he passed by Shen Yichen's side, he also heard a cold instruction: "I want his life." ”

This sentence was not only heard by Wang Neng, but also by Bian He, who was close to Chi Qi.

He quietly admonished with a solemn face: "The proprietor, calling the name of the official is not enough to be a heavy punishment, it will be very troublesome to kill him!" ”

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, insulting Shangguan can indeed be punished with a hundred rods. But if you really want to study it carefully, calling your name is at most disrespectful, and it is not enough to insult it, Shen Yichen is already a crime that has been limited to the top.

It is okay to teach Meng Anwei a lesson, and it is no problem to even be dismissed on the spot, if he is killed on the spot according to this charge, it will leave Shen Yichen with trouble.

Bian He is different from Shen Yichen, he has a wealth of local staff experience, and the county commander dares to contradict the imperial history so recklessly. Either there is an extremely close chain of interests, or there is a great god behind it.

It's better not to give someone a handle.

"If he doesn't die, he won't be able to build the trust of the people of Shandong, let alone make those corrupt officials in the local area feel afraid."

In the eyes of these victims, Shen Yichen only saw numbness and ashes, what kind of desperate state of mind can appear?

My mission to the Shandong boundary is not for disaster relief, but for water control!

It is not the power of one person to control water, and it is necessary to call on all the people of Shandong to overhaul water conservancy together, and to adopt the method of dredging, plugging and dredging at the same time in order to achieve success.

Without the trust of the people, no one will respond to the call, let alone the people's strength to carry out projects such as dredging and diversion of rivers, building embankments for flood control, and digging ditches.

There is only half a year left before the flood season in the summer and autumn of next year, and if you want to reverse this situation and gain the trust of the people, you can only use Meng Anwei to "behead Lixin" and calm down the people's grievances.

Of course, the consequence is that his own actions may become the handle of political opponents to attack.

And how can the things of the world be as good as they should be?

What Shen Yichen can do now is to be worthy of heaven and earth, worthy of all beings, and worthy of his own heart!

"Wang Neng, Meng Anwei must die!"

"The little one understands."

Seeing that Shen Yichen was so resolute, Bian He could only stop speaking.

wants to compare the broad road of Shitu, Shen Yichen once again chose the people!

Feeling Shen Yichen's real posture, Meng Anwei finally realized that the situation was wrong, and a sense of fear arose in his heart.

"The lower official is guilty, beg Shen Youxian to spare his life, beg Shen Qixian to spare his life!"

The sound of the wail for mercy resounded throughout the river, and it also alarmed the victims like walking corpses.

It wasn't until this moment that they finally believed that the high-ranking county lord was going to be punished, and the young scarlet-robed official in front of them was going to ask for the people's life!

As soon as the board went down, Meng Anwei's begging for mercy instantly turned into a roar like killing a pig, and at the same time, the officials of Yanggu County who were present were sweating profusely without blood, and their bodies couldn't help but tremble.

Because just from the technique of this board, they understood that Shen Yichen was not scaring and scareting, but rushing for his life!

In the Ming Dynasty, there were two kinds of cane punishment techniques: "heavy on the outside and light on the inside" and "light on the outside and heavy on the inside", the former seemed to be very heavy, but in fact it was greeted on the buttocks, and the skin and flesh were just written flesh wounds.

The latter is to the waist beckoning, a board down does not look like a lake of flesh and blood, in fact, broken bones and shock internal organs. With the medical conditions of the Ming Dynasty, let alone a hundred rods, ten rods will definitely die.

The respect of a county, the dignified court seven-grade life officer, just one sentence to die.

The high-ranking officials are mighty, and they are terrifying!

Compared with the frightened officials of Yanggu County, the people of Yanggu County at the bend of the river showed gritted teeth and cheered.

"God has eyes, and finally let the dog official subdue the law!"

"Lord Qingtian is here, we are saved."

"Please also ask the eldest master to show mercy and give the grass people a way to live!"

"Daddy, mother, child, if you have a spirit in the sky, you can go all the way with peace of mind."

All kinds of cries and wails rang out one after another, so that the originally lifeless river bay finally had a trace of human scene.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shen Yichen stood on a high platform and shouted with all his strength: "Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, this official is Shen Yichen, the imperial prince of the imperial court who sent Shandong to control the water, and he is also the champion of the three yuan and the first!" ”

For the poor people who don't know how to read big characters, they don't know what the imperial history of the capital is, on the contrary, the title of Zhuangyuan Gong is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows it.

Sure enough, when Shen Yichen said his identity as the champion, a cry of joy sounded in the crowd.

"Sure enough, it is the champion who came to Shandong to control the water, and he is finally here!"

"Champion Gong, the grass people are waiting for you so hard, save us."

"Please also ask the champion to open the warehouse to release grain, we can't hold on!"

"Champion Gong, save us!"

Listening to the people's cries for help, Shen Yichen also felt an indescribable discomfort in his heart.

He exhaled deeply and said: "Fellow villagers, rest assured, since this official has come to Shandong, you will not be left without clothes and food. ”

"At the same time, this official also assures you that you will do everything you can to control the floods of the Yellow River, and if you can't stop the dam burst for a day, I won't return to Beijing for a day!"

This is Shen Yichen's promise to the people of Shandong, mourning the difficulties of people's livelihood, and they can no longer bear the suffering of the Yellow River floods every year.

"The champion is very kind, and the grass people are willing to be cattle and horses to repay each other!"

"The champion is a bodhisattva, and we are saved."

"Thank you, Master Champion!"

The people of Daming are simple, even if Shen Yichen hasn't done anything now, they are still willing to believe and rekindle hope!

Shen Yichen didn't continue to talk to the victims, but turned around and walked towards the officials of Yanggu County.

At this time, according to the county order Meng Anwei, who fell to the ground, after being beaten with more than a dozen boards, he was already dying and silent.

In front of the example, the officials of Yanggu County saw Shen Yichen coming, and before he could speak, they fell to their knees, for fear that the next person to be sentenced to punishment with a cane would be themselves.

Now these ground snakes can be regarded as understanding, what is called the authority that controls life and death, and those who violate the order die!

"Where is the county!"

Shen Yichen looked at the officials who were prostrate on the ground, and he went straight to the point and beckoned the county to come out.

"Next...... The next official is ...... It is. ”

The county man crawled out of the crowd tremblingly, still not daring to look up at Shen Yichen's eyes.

"What's your name?"

"The lower official's name is Jiang Pei, orthodox for four years, and Yanggu County has been in office for less than three years."

Jiang Pei, the county leader, not only told his name, but also reported his fame and experience in the imperial examination, wanting to show that his qualifications were still shallow and had little to do with the county order, and begged Shen Yichen not to be angry with him.

For these things, Shen Yichen has no interest in understanding them at all, even if Jiang Pei is Meng Anwei's person.

A dead man, who will be allegiant?

"This official promoted you to a temporary county order, and immediately went to Kaiyanggu County to store and release grain for disaster relief, if this matter is done beautifully, this official will recommend to the Ministry of Officials, remove the word temporary!"

Shen Yichen used the life of the county commander Meng Anwei to establish his authority, and now it is time to show grace. Without the assistance of local officials, a dozen or so people alone would certainly not have been able to help the victims.

The county is the second-in-command of a county, and according to the normal promotion process of the three-year examination, he has to get an excellent grade in the preliminary examination to have a chance of promotion. Judging from the current situation of Yanggu County, not to mention the excellent inspection, it will most likely be judged as incompetent.

Even if you take 10,000 steps back and say that it is excellent, as long as the county order does not move, it will be difficult for the county official, as the second official of the left, to have a chance to take the position.

Shen Yichen's recommendation helped Jiang Pei save at least three years of time for his promotion, and even far more.

This kind of utilitarian temptation, Jiang Pei couldn't resist it at all.

However, in addition to being pleasantly surprised, he quickly sobered up to the reality of the situation, and said with an embarrassed face: "The grace of the Xian's recommendation is unforgettable. It's just that there is not much grain in Yanggu County, so I am afraid that it will not be able to help so many victims. ”

"Where is the grain storage in Yanggu County!"

Shen Yichen's tone became cold again, you must know that the Ming Dynasty is different from the previous dynasties, and the grain also plays the same value as currency, and almost every state and county stipulates the specifications of the granary and the amount of grain stored in the law, just in case of emergency.

Along the way, Yanggu County has not taken any action to provide disaster relief to the people since the Yellow River burst its banks, and even planned to trap the victims to death and starve to death, in case Shangguan noticed the ineffective disaster relief.

Since there is no disaster relief, where is the food, is it so greedy for ink?

Feeling Shen Yichen's suppressed anger, Jiang Pei, the county leader, couldn't help but tremble again.

Under heavy pressure, he could only muster up the courage to reply: "Yanggu County belongs to the fief of King Lu of Yanzhou Prefecture, and most of the cultivated land is the land of the royal mansion. ”

"In recent years, there have been continuous floods and droughts in Yanggu County, and not only can we not collect grain taxes, but we also have to continue to allocate surplus grain from storage for disaster relief. has been unable to make ends meet for a long time, there is really no grain available in the warehouse, and the lower officials are also powerless. ”

It's Luwangfu again!

Hearing this term, Shen Yichen felt a deep sense of disgust.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty was a typical emperor of the world, do you say that he punished corrupt officials in order to make the people's lives better?

Answer: Yes, he has experienced poverty and understands the suffering of the people at the bottom.

But the various policies he formulated have in fact become mountains on the heads of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the people are struggling to make a living!

The hereditary household registration system, the martyrdom system, the spy system, and so on, all turned into bad government later. In particular, the vassal king's support system has changed the prohibition of officials to be greedy to only allow my family to be greedy.

The number of feudal kings in various places swelled dramatically, and the initial fiefdom was not enough at all, so various encroachments forcibly occupied the people's land. In the eighth year of Jiajing alone, half of the country's land was cultivated by the clan, and 30 percent of the state's fiscal revenue was used to pay the feudal government.

Even if it is now the orthodox year, King Lu, who was enthroned in Yanzhou, has given birth to six sons, in addition to the eldest son, it means that there will be five more county kings!

There are many people, and there is naturally not enough land, in addition to the original Wangfu Zhuangtian, King Lu hit the idea to the fiefdom of the people's land.

Once it is annexed by the royal government, it is equivalent to tax exemption, and the more it is swallowed, the less local taxes will be, until in the end, it will be upside down to the clan.

It can be said that Shen Yichen wants to help the people in Shandong, and King Lu is an unavoidable hurdle!