"Hmph, what a criminal! It's just a miserable man who has been defiled by the law of the land! Zheng Shili saw that Zhu Di had taken many prisoners of the empty seal case to come, and he couldn't help but snort coldly in front of the people.

Then he actually stood up, and in front of the people, he explained the reason for the empty seal case and the content of his own chapter concisely and clearly, and finally shouted: "This is the old system that has been customary since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty!" It's not some heinous sin! ”

"Isn't it too much of a humiliation for His Highness to press them into the middle of the city?"

As soon as he said this, the people suddenly had a preconceived impression, and many people turned their heads and felt compassion for those prisoners.

"Just because of a blank piece of paper, you were arrested and your family was ruined? It's a bit too much......"

"So, those people with flail on the stage are all officials? I'm a good girl! What is the origin of this highness and these military masters, they are so ruthless? ”

"You don't know that dress? Those are Jinyi Wei, when Prime Minister Hu Cheng fell a few days ago, it was these people who were making trouble everywhere in the city, so they almost robbed the ...... directly."

"Hey, it's Jinyiwei! It is the one who fell into their hands according to the legend, and if they don't die, they have to remove the skin, and they can stop the children's night crying......"

The people exchanged heads, and soon, everyone's eyes when they looked at Zhu Di and the Jinyi guards became strange.

Zhu Di glanced at the complacent Zheng Shili, and his eyes seemed to be smiling. This scholar can stir up such a big public opinion, and he really has some kung fu. He turned his head to look at the struggling official who was kneeling first on the left, asked someone to pull out the cloth stuffed in his mouth, walked up to him and asked, "Zhao Quande, you are struggling like this, is it just as this Zheng Shengyuan said, is it wronged?" ”

"Yes, yes, Fourth Highness, I am wronged, I am wronged!" When an official named Zhao Quande was able to speak out, he immediately shouted loudly. "Your Royal Highness, the lower officials are conscientious and conscientious for the Ming Dynasty, there are eighty old mothers on the lower officials, and there are babies waiting to be fed......"

"Your Highness is clear, the villagers are clear, the lower officials are wronged, the lower officials are really wronged!" As he spoke, he kowtowed to Zhu Di and the people in the audience.

How could Zhu Di not know his shameless intentions? It's just that he thought that things had taken a turn for the better, so he deliberately shouted out his grievances in an attempt to incite the people and get away with it. These civil officials, manipulating the people is a necessary skill, and seeing that he said so miserably, the people below really had a love for him. They all feel that it is too violent to punish a large number of people for the sake of a customary blank paper.

"You're here now, shouting grievances?" Zhu Di lifted the hem of his clothes, squatted in front of Zhao Quande, looked directly at Zhao Quande, and the hint of banter in his eyes slowly began to fade.

He turned his back to Zheng Shili, Zheng Shili didn't know what was happening, but he was surprised to see that Zhao Quande, who was still shouting and kowtowing, gradually did not dare to move under the forced gaze of this fourth highness.

At this time, Zhao Quande looked at the eyes of this young man who should not be good-looking, and only felt that the fear in his heart was bursting out. Originally, he was still putting on a show with a little joy and pride, but now he didn't dare to move at all.

Zhao Quande swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and at this moment, he felt that what was in front of him was ......

…… Emperor.

"There may still be injustices in the world, but you Zhao Quande are innocent of death!" Zhu Di said coldly. He got up and no longer looked at Zhao Quande, but shouted to Jinyiwei: "Come on, go and summon the old man of the Liu family!" ”

After a while, an old man in rags was trembling and was helped here by the brocade guard. The old man seemed to be still ignorant, seeing this battle, he was still looking left and right in fear, but when he saw Zhao Quande kneeling on the stage, the whole person said "ah", his originally pale face turned red, and he wanted to break free from the brocade guard and rush to the stage directly.

"Traitor! You're here! Old man...... The old man fought with you! ”

Saying that, under Zhu Di's secret signal, the old man really broke free from the brocade guard, and rushed up to punch and kick Zhao Quande.

The onlookers were stunned, and Zheng Shili was also stunned, what was the situation? Which old beggar on the street is this? His Royal Highness asked him to come, what was he going to do?

"This person is the old beggar Liu Laohan in the land temple in the east of the city, and the one kneeling is Zhao Quande, the former chief judge of the Criminal Division." In the background sound of Liu Laohan beating Zhao Quande, Zhu Di spoke to the audience. "I believe that some of you also know that this old man Liu is also a wealthy family with little money outside Yingtian City."

As soon as he said this, someone below responded and said: "That's true, that Liu Laohan also has a few acres of thin land at home." In the fourth year of Hongwu, he was also elected as the chief of grain. ”

"Speaking of it, the size is also an official!"

As soon as he said this, he remembered the majesty of the grain chiefs in his township, and looked at the old beggar who was crying bitterly and punching Zhao Quande in the face, and the curiosity of the onlookers was completely mobilized. The people didn't care about being sympathetic to the officials, and someone urged them to ask: "Your Royal Highness, what trouble did this Liu Laohan suffer?" Ended up in such a field? ”

"And why do you hate this surnamed Zhao so much?"

"It all started with a grain delivery." Zhu Di said. "In the fifth year of Hongwu, Liu Laohan escorted a batch of tax grain to the household department according to the system. But when he encountered trouble in the delivery, the household official who delivered the transaction asked him for a bribe, but when the bribe failed, he accused him of being greedy for ink and tax grain. ”

Liu Laohan was not convinced, and immediately quarreled with the household official, and Zhao Quande came out to judge the case at that time. The result of the verdict was that Liu Laohan was indeed guilty of embezzlement of taxes and grain, and the evidence was conclusive and irrefutable, so there was no need to try it. ”

And that so-called conclusive evidence...... It's the one that the scholar just said, the empty seal document that is 'conventional' and 'making a big fuss'! ”

Zhu Di pointed at Zheng Shili and shouted angrily.

Zheng Shili was stunned, and he couldn't imagine how an empty official document could be involved in the problem of greedy ink when a grain chief escorted tax grain. The people were also at a loss and didn't know why. At this time, I only heard Liu Laohan, who was beating Zhao Quande, crying fiercely, and said sadly: "Physical evidence...... What physical evidence ......"

"At that time, in front of the old man and this Zhao Quande, the household official took out a blank paperwork, and directly wrote in front of the old man that he should have transported 30,000 stones......

"Thirty thousand stones! The old Han family transports grain for the imperial court, and the whole village loses less than 3,000 stone of tax grain a year! ”

"The extra 27,000 stones are all considered to be old man's greed for ink...... Every day is clear, every day is clear! Anyone who writes a document on the spot can be used as evidence of the crime of robbing the house and going to prison! ”

"It's just that this Zhao Quande, when he took the paperwork, he said that the printing was correct, and he was indeed greedy for ink, and he took the old man to prison with a smile."

"Together with that household official, I swallowed the land and property of the old Han family and the villagers!"

"The old Han family escaped the raids of the Mongols and the tyranny of the former Yuan, but they did not escape this group of corrupt officials who killed the heavens!"

"God-damned corrupt officials!"

The old beggar looked up to the sky and cried.

(End of chapter)