Chapter 318: Who has any objections?

Everyone tensed as Wu Zhizhan’s words came out.

Yao Guangxiao is old.

If anything, he died of senility on his journey.

This is actually acceptable to everyone.

But the fact that he died of starvation, illness, or was even beaten to death is totally unacceptable.

Who is Yao Guangxiao?

This is behind the whole Yasukuni thing.

Almost all the princes and generals in the court today have been greatly benefited by the pacification.

To put it bluntly, even Hu Guang, Yang Rong and these people, if it is not because of the Jingnian, Jianwen in the time, they want to get ahead, at least to wait for twenty years.

After all, Jianwen surrounded Huang Zicheng and others, but with Jianwen’s trust, he almost held the court.

Not to mention, this person’s relationship with Zhu Di.

If Zhu Di is King Wu of Zhou, then Yao Guangxiao is Jiang Ziya.

But on the contrary, the success of the war, all people get what they deserve, Zhu Di as expected to become the emperor, the rest of the people or for the Prince, or into the cabinet, or to become a department of the Ministry of the Church.

Only Yao Guangxiao, who declined all the high and lucrative posts, accepted only a minor post in the Monk Records Division.

Although still from time to time for Zhu Di advice, but once out of the palace, will immediately change into a monk’s clothes, fasting and Buddha.

Almost everyone in this hall, felt that Yao Guangxiao was a terrible person.

But every one of them, however, expressed respect for him.

You can dislike him, you can pick a hundred faults out of him, but you have to be courteous and respectful in his presence.

This is the same man who was killed …… starved to death ……

What is this if not a travesty?

“Nonsense!” Someone stood out, and the person who spoke was a royal historian.

This imperial historian was young and immediately sensed a problem.

Yao Guangxiao accident place is Ningguo House, this is not obvious, is someone want to frame Ningguo House?

The imperial historian subconsciously thought that this must be a plot by some people in the Taiping Mansion to frame the Ningguo Mansion, so he tensed his face and categorically said, “Who is Lord Yao, and who would dare to harm him?”

“It’s a minor official, the local county lieutenant, the governor, and the government office.” Wu Zhi Zhan at this time but answered very calmly, he was prepared for this.

He then said, “When Yao Gong arrived at Ningguo Fu, he was mistaken for an unusual monk, so he was charged by the police as a medical household Latin, and has been tortured ever since ……”

Zhu Di’s face was ugly to the extreme, and he didn’t say anything for a while.

He only felt his heart boring, he wanted to cover his heart, but in front of the courtiers, he was unwilling to show his vulnerability.

That royal historian continued to question, “Lord Yao is old, how could he be treated as a medical household?”

Wu Zhizhan did not hesitate to take out a document from his sleeve and said, “The situation is like this, in order to guard against the plague, so the government office asked for a large number of medical households to be recruited, and this is the document sent to Xuancheng County from the government office, asking for seventy-six medical households to be recruited.”

As soon as he raised this official document, a eunuch took it with fire and sent it to Zhu Di.

Zhu didn’t look at it, only shook his head with difficulty and nodded at Yang Rong.

The eunuch understood, so he sent the document to Yang Rong again.

Yang Rong took it, took a look, and immediately said, “It’s not bad, it’s just that there’s nothing wrong with enlisting medical households and slowing down the bubonic plague.”

Wu Zhi Zhan at this time then took out a yellow book to, said: “So the next head of the counties, have recruited medical households, which …… Nanling County side, according to the government Yamen’s order, the recruitment is thirty-nine households, so Nanling County bet on forty-seven households to move.”

The crowd was silent.

But still, a young rash man came forward and said, “Since thirty-nine households were drafted, how could forty-seven households come?”

Wu Zhi Zhan said, “More should be drafted as attrition.”

The rash man raised an eyebrow, “There’s wear and tear on that?”

Wu Zhi Zhan said, “Of course there are, some will escape, and some will die of hunger and disease halfway through.”

The crowd is silent again, to be honest …… this Nanling County to the Taiping government rule is only a day s journey, so that there can be a large number of people starve to death and die of disease, the reason is really farfetched.

Wu Zhizhan, however, went on to take out a document and said, “This is the book of dawning, which is from the milling house. The guilty minister dared, let the servant to go to the government’s milling house, demanded the dao dao book, the reason is to transcribe a copy to keep a file. You see ……… this is Nanling County’s dawning book, in which this person named Zhang Ye, is Yao Gong.”

The eunuch took the book again and sent it to Yang Rong.

Yang Rong only took one look and his face changed greatly, he took a deep breath and his eyes had become a little red.

People like him can actually see the cat’s meow at a glance.

So Yang Rong’s hoarse voice read, “Zhang Ye, year 27, medical household, face with a mole, short beard, tall ……”

There was a deathly silence in the hall.

“Over in Nanling County, the Yao Gong that was sent to us is this person, Zhang Ye.” Wu Zhizhan confirmed it.

Yang Rong trembled and said, “Why, why do the people in the Shoumasho …… Shoumasho obviously can not be right, why do they still need to accept?”

“For one thing, I don’t want to offend Nanling County, and for another, the government office is looking for medical households, so if I block it back, the number won’t be enough. The government office urges urgently, and in the end, if there is no corresponding number, the culpability will not come off.”

Wu Zhizhan’s logic is clear.

Before he came, he knew that this time he sued the Royal Court, it is related to his life, only success, can not fail.

The worst result would be to be punished with a false accusation, and a false accusation against the mandarin’s heavenly officials, and so many of his superiors and colleagues, would be enough to bring him to his doom.

So he was well prepared.

At this time, he continued:: “which the next official also learned, someone escorted Yao Gong after the starvation of two days, but the record is Yao Gong along the way has eaten meat, but in fact …… there is also a medical household starved to death, the next official went to learn about it, there are pallbearers that will be starved to death along with Yao Gong for the autopsy of the person. Found that this person s stomach, almost empty. Thus …… the recorded so called rice and meat along the way is simply empty talk.”

At this, the hall was in an uproar.

This operation, it’s breathtaking.

Many people subconsciously sneaked a look at Zhu.

But Zhu only sat down, and at this point, he actually did not say a word.

Not to mention him, even Zhang Anshi are a little taut, for a moment, like a dull chicken general standing in place, actually can not say anything.

Yang Rong is still calm, he stared at Wu Zhizhan, said, “And …… you said that the disease died?”

“Yes, it’s sick, and it’s in a bad way, that’s what I learned from the side of the healer who went with him.”

Yang Rong then asked, “Since those who went with them were all medical households, why did no one give a helping hand?”

“Because quite simply, all of them, although they are counted as medical households just like Yao Gong, in reality, there is not a single true medical household, they are all forced strongmen.”

“……”

“The guilty minister also deliberately went to ask some of the county’s officials, they were forced to ask the urgent, this is the truth, said …… traditionally medical households …… are mostly scholars, and the local gentry quite a source, or in the county to open the drug The government office wants to impose a compulsory levy without compensation, but the government office is not willing to do so. The government office wants to force the medical households without compensation, how can the real medical households be willing to go? Of course, they will be indiscriminately recruited.”

Yang Rong winced.

He had sensed that the hall was filled with murderous rage.

His Majesty is no longer the only one with a murderous streak, even if he is not a minister of honor, he now seems to be provoked into fire by this operation.

Zhang Anshi suppressed his anger and pursed his lips tightly, as if he was trying very hard to hold back and didn’t say anything.

When Yang Rong heard it, he just sighed in his heart and said quietly, “In this way, the so-called prevention of the plague ……”

“The bubonic plague has already begun to emerge in the counties.” Wu Zhi Zhan sighed and said, “Hundreds of households have already appeared in Xuancheng alone, and more than thirty people have already died.”

Young Wing: “……”

Wu Zhizhan then said, ”In addition to that, there is also the issue of money and grain. In order to prevent the plague, the Ningguo government side has amortized a lot of money and grain. Originally, it was agreed that it would be the gentry and wealthy households that would donate, but it wasn’t enough to make up for it, or rather, it wasn’t enough by a long shot. So they taught everyone to think together, the counties had to connive at the counties and the ri chiefs, pressing around for food, for this …… is also a chicken and dog. The guilty minister side …… in order to gather enough 40,000 stone grain …… has already made every effort …… the people are afraid to live.”

A pin dropped in the temple.

Wu Zhizhan continued: “Of course, the more terrible problem, not only this …… because of the amortization, resulting in the escape of households is very serious, many fleeing households, either fall into the grass as a bandit, or is to other provinces, became a migrant.”

“The government treasury, which has long been empty ……”

“The guilty minister these days, for the tiger as a devourer, in the government office under the pressure, do countless things to mutilate the people, daily fear …… today …… not dare to say that it is repentant, is actually afraid of the crime, and therefore came to ask for a crime …… million death.”

Wu Zhi Zhan said and directly bowed down.

The hall remained still silent.

Only Yang Rong pondered for a moment and said, “How can the government treasury be empty? As a matter of fact, this summer grain has only just been collected, even if it suffered from the precautionary rodent infestation, there should still be spare capacity, and why should the levy be increased?”

Wu Zhizhan lowered his eyes and said: “Because there is a deficit, and the deficit is extremely serious, the government in order to compete with the Taiping government, repair a lot of county schools, to implement the indoctrination, coupled with …… because of the Jian Gong to the Ningguo government, a lot of readers have brought their families here, said they want to defect to the Jian Gong. Not to mention the other, alone curtain friends, there are more than thirty people, these people want to eat and drink, weekdays also want to advise Jian Gong, the government and the county, and to entertain, these are money and food.”

“Then there is the fleeing households, a lot of people, heard that Taipingfu has money, and thus have to go to Taipingfu, prohibited unceasingly. Previously led to a fall in land prices, after the fall, the gentry asked the counties to find a way to ban, so again recruited a large number of people, strict defense, these people, but also want money and food.”

“Later, the price of land was stabilized, but many squires and township sages, still suffered a lot of losses, in order to make up for this loss, they bargained with the shoguns and the officials, saying that how much money and grain to donate, how much of their own hidden fields.”

“After this matter is negotiated, the summer tax for the coming year will, of necessity, be greatly reduced. In order to ensure that the coming year’s summer tax can be more than this year’s, so as to appear that Mr. Jian’s political achievements in Ningguo Fu are outstanding, so the counties have long been rubbing their fists together and are ready to add to the heads of the ordinary people.”

“When these people heard that there was going to be an increase in the distribution, they sold their fields and did not dare to cultivate them any more, and the fields that were sold away were taken by the squires and township sages and turned into hidden fields again. So the cycle is repeated, not to mention other, say Xuan County, last year the registered field is 310,000 mu, but now, the registered has become 240,000 mu. With so many fields missing, the summer tax for the coming year will still have to be more than what was levied last year, what should we do?”

“But not so dry, there is no way. Because of many things in the government, have to ask the gentry and the townspeople to donate, encountered things, have to beg to their head, if not they put out some money and food, the government office pushed down to do things, nothing can be done. Sin minister as xuancheng county magistrate, every month to convene the county’s gentry and township sages three times, which is not to beg them to take some money out to build roads and bridges, or to repair the school building? If they have hidden their fields, and they all have to be cleared, I’m afraid that in the future, no one will be willing to donate money or grain.”

“And local matters, a slight change in the whole body, you offend a village sage, they are in the local, through marriage and friendship, and the county has long been close to the people, offend a person, is to offend dozens of hundreds of people. And this dozens of hundreds of people, almost holding everything in the county. Even all the local chiefs are their bailiwick, the county’s officials and civil servants, most of them are close friends with them, offending any one of them, the county’s hat, it will not be stable.”

Wu Zhi Zhan finished these words in one breath, then sighed heavily, and then went on to say: “I heard that the most popular right now, is to let the ordinary people who own some land, directly contribute land, that is to say, do not spend a penny, will be placed in the land in the name of the township scholars and squires. In this way, the squires and township sages, using the means, make the land become hidden land, do not have to pay taxes. The original farmers became sharecroppers, paying a little rent to the gentry and sages every year, and still cultivating their own land. ”

“This kind of situation, there are quite a few in Xuancheng, a family of the surname Liu in Xuancheng, without spending a penny, in just half a year, got forty-five households of the people to pitch in. Getting seven hundred and sixty mu of land, and that’s just one family.”

It was a direct showdown of sorts with that comment.

Many of the ministers in the hall, however, did not show surprise.

They are not unheard of this, not to mention the Ningguo Palace, in fact, this situation, in other places, there are also ends.

It’s just that …… people don’t know what they’re talking about.

Of course, no one expected that the situation in Ningguo Fu under Jian Gong’s rule was even more serious than the rest of the country, and that it had gotten so serious that it was outrageous.

After all, the other governors, just lying flat, nothing to do, let nature take its course, so the township sages and gentry request is also relatively small.

But Jian Gong inaugurated the Ningguo House, but want to have some action, and Taiping House to compete, so that, on the contrary, deepen the dependence on the squires and townspeople.

The end result is that the harder you try, the more you die.

Yang Rong took a deep breath and asked, “Does Lord Jian know about these things?”

“My humble servant does not know.” Wu Zhizhan replied dryly, “It is not for the subordinate official to ask about the affairs of the government offices.”

And just at this moment, Zhu Di is finally ready to open his mouth, these words …… he only heard numbness.

He had only now managed to calm himself a little.

But at this time, the ministers were no longer calm, and one by one began to whisper, filling the hall with buzzing voices.

It was not that they wanted to lose their manners before the king, but they were too surprised.

Zhu Di said, “Yao Gong …… he …… he ……”

His words didn’t go any further as Wu Zhi Zhan said, “His corpse, without any surprises, should be burned tomorrow morning.”

Chu: “……”

When Yang Rong saw that His Majesty had begun to be wordless again, he asked Wu Zhizhan after him, “Burned, why is that?”

Wu Zhi Zhan said, “The matter is too big, the government office has panicked, and eventually everyone took the idea, this matter, can only destroy the corpse. So ……”

Wu Zhizhan next, put out a more terrible news: “They have prepared …… will be detained all the Nanling County ‘medical households’, together with a clean burn. In this way, it will only be considered a fire, this Yao Gong in the head, the death is only counted as a medical household called Zhang Ye, as for the other medical households, it can be considered to kill and exterminate.”

Zhu blushed miserably.

This Zhu Di has been regarded as a murderous devil, when he went out to the desert, I do not know how many Tartars were killed, and since then the Jingdan, I do not know how many people’s blood was stained.

But Mercy doesn’t care about killing, he doesn’t care about killing at all.

However, after hearing this matter, he is feeling unimaginable, or …… is feeling like a man in the back.

“The guilty minister after hearing, also was shocked, just do not dare to show, but back to the county office, then immediately searched for some incriminating evidence, fled out of the Ningguo Palace at fire speed, day and night, came here to ask for forgiveness.”

Wu Zhi Zhan knew that he had said all he needed to say.

It doesn t matter what …… your own fate is next.

At most, he would lose his own head, but the extermination of his family should not be a problem.

As for the others …… none of them had anything to do with him, that was their business.

He fell to the ground and bowed sincerely, “For the sin of ten thousand deaths, please punish Your Majesty.”

At this moment, Zhu felt light all over his body, feeling as if his chi had been emptied by something.

He raised his eyes and looked blankly to his left and right.

I’ve seen a lot of ups and downs in my life.

But this was the first time, he felt a taste of terror.

And this horrible taste is coming from a group of unarmed readers.

“Your Majesty, I thought …… that I should immediately send someone to verify this matter …… if it is fruitful ……” Yang Rong immediately put forward his own suggestion.

“Yes, Your Majesty, this matter is unimaginable …… Please ask Your Majesty to be clear about it before discussing it.” Hu Guang also busily said.

The other hundred officials are dumbfounded, and to be honest …… they actually can t say what they feel.

Zhang Anshi didn’t say anything, he still pursed his lips tightly and looked up at Zhu Di.

But no one here had noticed that the fist in his sleeve had been clenched tightly, as if he had been trying to suppress something.

Just then, Zhu finally stood up, actually showing a bitter smile, but it was even harder to see than crying.

His eyes swept toward everyone and finally his gaze landed on Zhu Gaoqi who was not far away, “Crown Prince …… Crown Prince ……”

Zhu Gaoqi has long been alarmed, his impression of Jianyi has always been very good, but never thought that things would come to this point.

At this time, when he heard Zhu Di’s call, he hurriedly stood up and said, “Father ……”

Zhu Di said in a deep tone of voice, “You …… supervise the state.”

“Father ……”

Zhu waved his hand, signaling him to stop talking.

Zhu Di then said: “East Factory, Jin Yiwei, draw all the hands, immediately set out, I want to see …… starry night with me, Wen Yuan Ge university scholar Yang Rong accompanied, the Ministry of households, Xia Yuanji, the Ministry of war, Xia Yuanji, the Ministry of Criminal Justice Jin Chun companion, in addition to … …Ducha Academy, Hanlin Academy …… of Ministers, also accompanied by driving around.”

As if with deliberate vigor, Zhu uttered the last sentence, “Do not delay, travel immediately.”

Everyone was startled by this statement.

But see Zhu Di has been windy and hot down the hall, like even lazy to prepare the traveling clothes.

This was a rush.

Just after Zhu Di descended from the temple, walked to the position in the middle of the temple, but also to go forward, an imperial historian hurriedly out of the class, Zhu Di stopped, said: “Your Majesty …… can not ah, not to mention this matter is true or false, Your Majesty should not be biased to listen to biased beliefs, and if this Ningguo Fu really have the bubonic plague, would not it be …… Wouldn’t it be …… not to mention why would your majesty want to make such a big deal out of it? This matter …… is really too sensational, I thought …… I thought …… I thought …… I should let the three departments …… ”

He said eagerly, Zhu Di even at this moment, had already slammed a fist directly towards his face.

The Zhu of the party was light, but from the moment he made the decision, it was as if he had found his strength again.

That punch went out with a vengeance.

And to the face of the door, perhaps the force is too domineering, and as swift as the wind, simply not as good as this imperial historian to react.

Bang ……

Skull Crushing ……

Half the face is directly sunken.

Zhu killed a lifetime of people, the gas is extraordinary, usually beat people, even if they are angry, but also to collect the strength.

But today, this punch, without any gimmick, without any skill, was just such a punch pounding away, and the words of this imperial historian came to an abrupt end.

The man came crashing down all at once.

When everyone went to look in horror, they saw that the person’s head had been tilted to one side, his face had been sunken in, and he could no longer distinguish his eyes and mouth and nose, only a distorted face.

Apparently out of breath!

The ministers were in an uproar, and all of them came out in shock.

Zhu Di glanced down at this person, there was no expression on his face, he just said, “Who is this person?”

No one dared to respond.

Zhu’s voice was a bit higher pitched, “Who is this person?”

Also finally someone said, “Your Majesty, this …… this person …… is the Metropolitan Police Department Yunnan Road Supervisory Royal Historian Wang Zhicheng …… ”

Zhu said faintly, “Compassionate him.”

“It’s …… it’s ……”

Zhu continued to walk forward, dragon-walking and tiger-stepping, and said under his breath, “Who has objections?”

Hundreds of officials thrashed.

Zhu spat out two words, “Seng Xing!”

After a brief moment of silence, the hundred officials said, “Obey the decree.”

Zhu Di was about to walk out of the hall, but then suddenly stood still, turned back, and hooked Wu Zhi Zhan with his hand, “Er lead the way.”

When Wu Zhizhan heard it, his blood rushed up violently, and because of his excitement, his eyes widened slightly, and he realized …… violently that he still had the possibility of surviving.

Because …… he has a chance to wear the guilt.

He had gambled correctly, so he tried hard to suppress the excitement in his heart and said without hesitation, “Obey the decree.”

Who wants to die if they can live well?

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