Chapter 1209: Intercession

A Concubine Guo Ning made Zhu Yuanzhang restrain his hands, and when Queen Ma heard the news, he couldn't get rid of the whip at all.

Queen Ma was also distressed when she saw the tragic situation of Lao Shi being beaten, and she didn't allow Zhu Yuanzhang to beat him again, so she let him be carried down for treatment.

"There's no need to bother, he's going to die anyway!" But it is completely different from the usual practice that as soon as Queen Ma spoke, Boss Zhu gave in, and today Zhu Yuanzhang insisted that the old ten or two must be executed.

"You are not allowed to stop us today, otherwise you will do this emperor." Zhu Yuanzhang blew his beard and glared at Queen Ma.

"Who's rare?!" Of course, Queen Ma was not used to his fault, and waved her hand and said, "Carry people down."

"Let's see who dares?!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glared viciously at the palace people who were about to step forward.

"It's against you!" When Queen Ma saw that she instructed the people of the immovable palace, she stepped forward to take matters into her own hands and went with Concubine Guo Ning to help the old ten up.

"Of course, there is Lao Qi making trouble here, but the fundamental reason is that his madness has aroused the anger of the common people, so he will be used!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said: "And he also raised cultists in his mansion in order to assassinate Lao Liu and Xiongying and his party, although Lao Liu spoke for him, saying that he didn't know about the actions of those cultists, but he raised people in the palace, and he still has to bear the main responsibility!"

"Don't." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, turned sideways and said to Queen Ma: "We didn't say that we wanted to spare him, even if we healed his injury, we still have to take his life!"

"As a result, before he arrived in Yanzhou, he met the eunuch who captured the child......" The prince hid the section where the prince was almost captured and castrated, and said: "After interrogation, I learned that Lao Shi actually had no remorse, and as soon as Qin was gone, he arrested the boy again. Moreover, the urging is even more urgent, and even the eunuchs are sent to the countryside to stay in the villages, colluding with ruffians and villains, and harassing the people very much."

"In addition, the officials and people of Yanzhou have been in Beijing to control it, suing Lao Shi for misconduct after becoming a vassal, building a large number of buildings in the fiefdom, not to mention the clever robbery, and also wantonly arresting boys into the palace. The father had already sent a eunuch to rebuke Lao Shi, and ordered him to release all the children immediately...... These queens and concubines know about them." The prince continued:

"The sixth child happened to pass by Yanzhou, and his father asked him to stop by to see if the tenth child had reformed himself."

The prince sighed, and then briefly explained what happened: "The matter has to start with the previous case of fraud in the imperial examination, when it was found that Lao Qi was complicit with a cadre and helped them coerce Lao Ba to act as a protective umbrella. After the incident, the eighth brother and the concubine were deposed, and the father was worried that summoning the seventh brother back to Beijing would cause him to overreact, so he asked the sixth brother to go to Shandong."

"Yes." The palace people hurriedly stepped forward, took over King Lu with all hands and feet, and carried him down.

"Again, I can't blame the sixth child about this, we forced him to go." Zhu Yuanzhang emphasized again, it can be seen how inauthentic he is in this matter, and he feels embarrassed to the sixth child.

"Now you know why we have to kill him, right?" After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he waved his hand violently and said, "It's not enough to be angry if you don't kill him, understand?!"

"Ah......" Concubine Guo Ning's face turned pale when she heard this: "He castrated more than 2,000 children?"

"Huh? So serious?" Concubine Guo Ning almost fainted when she heard this.

"The concubine and Sister Guo, Emperor Xie, is very gracious." Queen Ma rubbed her shoulders and said a blessing to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Queen Ma and Concubine Guo Ning listened dumbfounded. Neither of them could imagine that Lao Shi had only been in the domain for more than a year, how could he do so many heartbreaking actions?

"The whole of Yanzhou and even Shandong is already boiling with public resentment! The sixth tried his best to put out the fire for him, but he was still provoked by the people of the whole province! Half of Shandong's government has been captured by the common people!" Zhu Yuanzhang added with a dark face.

"With such a big formation, how many children has Lao Ten caught?" Queen Ma asked in surprise.

"More than two thousand......," the prince sighed.

"What is he doing with so many kids?" Concubine Guo Ning asked anxiously.

He was bewitched by demons and indulged in alchemy, and it is said that to refine an elixir, the main medicine of which requires the human power of 3,600 boys to refine it." When the prince said this kind of thing, he felt blush.

"Your Majesty, what crime did Lao Shi commit that made you have to ask for his life?" Queen Ma said helplessly: "You sent the sixth child to Shandong a while ago, let's ask him what he is doing, he just said that he was taking his younger brother and nephew to visit relatives, but he didn't tell the truth."

"Understood." Queen Ma nodded and said, "Lao Shi is really guilty and must be severely punished, I completely agree with this."

"What? More than 2,000?!" Queen Ma was stunned, and even Concubine Guo Ning, who had been kneeling and crying, was stunned, and forgot to cry for a while.

In fact, what he said was covering up for the sixth, after all, it was specifically aimed at the seventh, and the seven and the tenth were completely two different natures.

"That's not true, fortunately, the sixth child rescued him in time, so he didn't cause a big disaster." The prince sighed again and said, "This is not true, because one hundred and eight of the more than two thousand children died of shock, disease, and beatings during their captivity. Moreover, dozens of children have been castrated before, not to mention that in the past few months, the people of Yanzhou have hidden their children in cellars, and those that are missing from the caves are sent to other places and cannot be found."

He sent Qin to take the matter of the old ten and two returning to Beijing, and kept it from the harem, otherwise he would be half a month in advance, and he would be annoyed by the old ladies every day like now.

"Speaking of this princess, we're even more angry! Why did you say that Tang He gave birth to such a girl? Not only did she not persuade Lao Shi, but she also acted nonsense with him, and she has been handling the matter of catching children! We must put her to death!" The more Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, the more angry he became, and he couldn't stop the car.

Seeing Queen Ma's struggling appearance, Zhu Yuanzhang said helplessly, "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and replace the queen, don't you know that she has a bad waist?"

"Also, before he became a vassal, let's remind him repeatedly that your palace has been built, and when you go to the fiefdom, don't build any more construction projects, and waste the people and money. But he promised well, but as soon as he arrived in Yanzhou, he wantonly demolished the houses in Beicheng, preparing to build a palace outside the royal city, and play with the princess at any time!"

"I don't complain about the sixth child about this, he doesn't want to go at all, we forced him to go." Zhu Yuanzhang said, and asked the prince to tell the queen mother and Concubine Guo Ning about the crimes of the old ten.

"The emperor can abolish him, imprison him, punish him as a soldier, or physically punish him." Saying that, she sighed and said, "But after all, he is the prince of Daming, our child, so he still has to ask the emperor to spare at least his life."

After speaking, Queen Ma lifted her robe, knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, leaned over and said in a deep voice: "I know that I can't treat everyone equally, I don't deserve to be this queen, so I will use this queen's position for the old ten, one life."

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