"Sinner, if you have your majesty's high hopes, you deserve death!"

Qi Kangping's face was full of guilt, but he didn't regret it at all.

If it weren't for the help of the neighbors, he might have starved to death, and it can be said that without those villagers, there would be no Qi Kangping.

Doing something for the villagers is the only way he can repay them, even if his way of repaying his kindness has seriously violated Zhu Houzhao's bottom line.

If he is greedy for thirty or fifty taels of silver, Zhu Houzhao will save his life, after all, the official salary set by Lao Zhu is indeed very low, and sometimes it is not enough to spend at all, and he is greedy for a little bit as a living expense, Zhu Houzhao can understand and tolerate it.

But Qi Kangping is not only suspected of corruption, but also has many major crimes such as buying murder, colluding with profiteers, and abusing power, and Zhu Houzhao can't protect him, so he can only die.

Once Zhu Houzhao chooses to save his life, the civilian-bureaucratic clique will take the opportunity to stir up trouble, and it will become more difficult to change the law and strengthen the country.

This is also the ultimate goal of the civil official group's calculation this time, to protect Qi Kangping, or not to protect Qi Kangping, Zhu Houzhao can only choose one.

Bao Qi Kangping, the road to change the law will become extremely bumpy, and even die; If he doesn't protect Qi Kangping, Zhu Houzhao can't even keep the Yingtian Governor who he single-handedly pulled, and his face is gone!

No matter which result it is, it is what the civil official group wants to see, and of course, what they want to see most is Zhu Houzhao to protect Qi Kangping.

In that case, Emperor Zhu Houzhao, who is the biggest supporter of the reform, took the lead in violating the new law, so what is the significance of the change to continue!

For the sake of the law of the country and the protection of the new policy, Qi Kangping must die.

"Is it worth it to get yourself to such a field for the sake of your group of neighbors?"

Zhu Houzhao asked, he has always adhered to the view of the supremacy of interests, and he did not understand what Qi Kangping did.

"It doesn't matter if it's worth it or not, the sinner only knows that if it weren't for those villagers, the sinner might have died a long time ago!"

"Your Majesty has the grace of knowing the guilty ministers, but the villagers are the grace of life to the guilty ministers!"

Death is coming, Qi Kangping's face and eyes are as calm as water, maybe he has long expected that he will have today, and he has been mentally prepared early, even if he dies, he is not afraid!

"The grace of life, go all out to repay, you are a person who understands the grace of retribution!"

Zhu Houzhao was about to laugh angrily, "Do you know who brought Wang Lao'er from Shanxi to Jiangnan from Shanxi who was the first to ask you for help?" ”

"It's Jiang Haiping, a big family in Suzhou who gave you 100,000 taels of silver."

"He has successively taken the villagers from your hometown to Suzhou, and kept asking them to ask you for help, just to pull you into the water, once you touch something that shouldn't be touched, the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy families behind Jiang Haiping will have a handle to pinch you."

"You have not only done things for your hometown and neighbors over the years, but also for Jiang Haiping and the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy families behind him!"

"From the very beginning, you fell into the big net woven for you by the Jiangnan gentry and wealthy families, and now you have become a pawn of the civil official group against me, you idiot."

Zhu Houzhao scolded Qi Kangping, and his heart was angry: "Shanxi is so far away from Suzhou, and how did your hometown neighbor get to Jiangnan, haven't you thought about it." ”

"Arrange your hometown neighbors far away in Shanxi to Suzhou, your folks are having a better life, and the Jiangnan gentry are also satisfied, but you are all ruined!"

"You used your future to repay the favor, but you happened to be used by others, you are destined to die!"

"I can't save you!"

After speaking, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, feeling sorry for Qi Kangping from the bottom of his heart.

This person's knowledge and ability are good, and his character is okay, but he made a mistake and planted on the words "human feelings".

This is also the strength of the civil bureaucracy, even those who do not enter the oil and salt have their weaknesses, and they only need to see the needles and turn them into their own use.

Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang, who were firmly bound by the civil official group, were like this, and so was Qi Kangping in front of them.

Liu Jian, Xie Qian, and Li Dongyang's weakness is "reputation", and Qi Kangping's weakness is his hometown and neighborhood, and the civilian-official group has grasped their weakness very well, and after repeated operations, they directly pulled them into the water and made it difficult for them to get out.

Money opens the way, coercion and temptation, grasps its handles, and attacks its weaknesses, and this trick of the civilian-bureaucratic clique can be described as tried and tested.

This is how many officials who have just entered the officialdom have joined the civil official clique, and at the beginning they still have a little conscience, but later they can't get rid of it, so they simply put it on the spurs, and what the civilian clique does in general, he follows what he does, and corruption and bribery and abuse of power are just basic exercises.

Its severity is even more terrifying than that of the pyramid schemes of later generations, which demand money to kill people, and the civilian clique not only wants money to kill people, but also brings disaster to the country and the people.

"The criminal knows that he deserves death, and he does not dare to ask His Majesty to spare his life, but I only hope that His Majesty will cherish it, and under the nine springs of the criminal minister, he will also pray for His Majesty and pray for my Daming."

"May my emperor have no time!"

Qi Kangping finally couldn't hold it anymore, burst into tears, and cried.

He was also a clean official who was dedicated to the country and the people, but he was helplessly pulled into the water by the design of the civil official group, and since then he has never looked back, and can only make a wrong step, step by step, until he is imprisoned, and his life is on the verge of death.

It's pitiful, it's pathetic, it's hateful, it's lamentable.

"Alas......"

Zhu Houzhao sighed slightly, he knew today, why bother in the first place, things have developed to this point, Qi Kangping is not dead, and heaven is intolerable.

It's true that he is incorruptible, and all his belongings are only twenty taels of silver, but he is still an unforgivable crime for his hometown and neighborhood, and if he doesn't die, he can't give an explanation to the people of the world.

Waving his hand, people were taken away by Qi Kangping, lying on the Taishi chair tiredly, and the young handsome man he picked up became the corrupt official and criminal he had to kill, which was a big blow to him.

"Liu Jin, has King Jingjiang arranged it?"

Tired to tired, the problems that should be dealt with still have to be dealt with.

Qi Kangping is already certain to die, and then it is the turn of Zhu Youqi, the king of Jingjiang, who connived at his family to kill the officials of the government and openly shouted at Zhu Houzhao!

"Emperor, it has been arranged, and the slave maid asked the maid to arrange King Jingjiang in the Qinghe Courtyard where King Ning lives."

Liu Jin hurriedly replied.

Qinghe Courtyard was originally an abandoned official residence, and after Liu Jin asked Dongchang to find someone to repair it, it became the residence of King Ning in the capital!

Although King Ning has taken refuge in Zhu Houzhao and has become a chess piece in Zhu Houzhao's hand to call on the vassal king to cooperate with the imperial court to change the law, after all, he has a history of rebellion, and it is already the limit for him to eat well, dress well, and live well.

It is completely impossible to build a big palace for him, and then with dozens of maids or something, Zhu Houzhao is not so generous, and Liu Jin is even more unlikely to waste the funds for the operation of the East Factory.

"Check it out."

Zhu Houzhao's face was indifferent, Qi Kangping's matter made him angry, and the clamor of King Jingjiang made him angry, he wanted to see why King Jingjiang dared to argue with him.