Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 102 Wanmin Sees Off, Wang Yue Poems Again

With the three of Jiang Hong being questioned and beheaded, the matter here has been dealt with.

As for the crimes committed by King Chu and related personnel, they only need to be reported to the imperial court according to normal procedures, and the imperial court will naturally punish these guilty people.

The king of Chu committed the three major crimes of trafficking in private salt, going out of the city without permission, and attempting to murder an imperial envoy. Even if Hongzhi did not punish him severely, the title of King Zhu Junkui of Chu would definitely be deprived of his title.

The next morning, the official ship to Yangzhou was ready.

Now that the matter here has been dealt with, Wang Yue naturally still has to go to Yangzhou, after all, that is the source of all the troubles.

Wang Yue left in a dignified way this time. In addition to the imperial guards who have been accompanying him all the time, there is also a guard escorted by Huguang.

In front of the Huguang Governor's Yamen, the horses are ready.

Unlike civil servants who like to ride official sedan chairs, since Wang Yue stayed in Jiubian, he doesn't like to sit in sedan chairs even more when he goes out, but likes to travel on horseback.

"Let's go!"

Influenced by Wang Yue, Wang Yu's childhood dream was not to win the first prize, but to become a young general, so he has always been keen on riding and shooting, and immediately walked ahead and raised his fists.

The corners of Lu Song and the others raised their mouths slightly, and immediately raised their whips to follow.

After all, they are out-and-out fighters. After seeing what Wang Yue has done along the way, they not only feel admiration in their hearts, but also are very satisfied with the current days of beheading rape and eliminating evil.

Although there have been hardships along the way, those guilty people were finally pushed to the guillotine and made them responsible for their corruption.

Although Yangzhou in front is more dangerous, and even the situation is a hundred times more complicated than here, they all believe that Wang Yue will definitely lead them to a new world.

As for how many moths there are in the salt matter, as long as they are all killed, then the salt matter will naturally go smoothly, and they can report to His Majesty.

The time is approaching November, and the weather is getting colder and colder.

A group of people left the city smoothly from the gate of Wuchang City, but when they rode their horses to the pier, they were suddenly dumbfounded.

"My lord, I'll see you off!"

"My lord, please drink our farewell wine!"

"My lord, thank you for eliminating harm for us, we must take care of ourselves!"

……

On this small platform, tens of thousands of people have already gathered here, and many people behind have heard the news.When they saw Wang Yue appearing, the people at the pier rushed over one after another, and several old men took the lead in expressing their opinions.

Although this is the beheading of a king who is disgusted by the officialdom, but seeing what Wang Yue did in Wuchang City, everyone knows that this is a good official who really dares to do practical things for the people.

Now knowing that Wang Yue is going to leave Wuchang to Yangzhou to sort out the salt affairs, many people came here spontaneously, wanting to send off Wang Qingtian, who is willing to do practical things.

This……

Wang Yu and Hu Jun also did not expect such a huge scene to appear. They first looked at each other in dismay, and then looked at the people rushing in disbelief.

When Lu Song saw this situation, he just thought of what Wang Yue had done along the way, as if he could really afford the courtesy of the people of Jingchu.

The other attendants were also very emotional, just looking at the simple faces, they all silently turned their heads to look at Wang Yue who had already won the hearts of the people.

Looking at this scene, Wang Yue felt a sense of warmth welling up in his heart, and his eyes turned red.

"Your Majesty, you are a truly good official, and this old man is here to see you off!" An old woman came with a cane and shouted with tears streaming down her cheeks.

More people came to Wang Yue's side. When Wang Yue killed the dog official Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, many people's grievances accumulated in their hearts were relieved.

Seeing the people flocking towards him, Wang Yue led them down from the horses, and the softness in his heart was also touched by this true feeling.

Whether it was killing the Tartars on the Nine Borders earlier, or rectifying the salt affairs and beheading corrupt officials now, what he wants is nothing more than to make the people of this land of China have a better life.

Now looking at the vicissitudes of the face and the hands full of calluses, I feel that what I have done is still not good enough.

The people here have suffered too much, and corrupt officials like Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, should have been exterminated long ago, instead of leaving them to cause harm to this day.

"My lord, this is our Wuchang wine from Jingchu, also known as Osmanthus Burn, please taste it!" An old man had already poured out a bowl of wine, and said eagerly to Wang Yue.

The other younger generations poured out the fragrant Hanfen wine one after another, and then sent the wine to Lu Song and others, also to express their affection.

They don't understand the struggle in the court, but seeing Wang Yue dare to kill corrupt officials, they know that Wang Yue is not a good official who is in the same class, so they naturally want to come to see Wang Yue off.

Wang Yue took the wine bowl and followed the crowd to salute, and even after drinking it all in one gulp, the mellow wine brought a different taste to his intestines, so he couldn't help but praise: "It's really good wine!"

"My lord, it's a great honor for you to remove the salt damage for the people of Jingchu, please accept our worship!" Seeing Wang Yue drink the farewell wine, several old men led the people to kneel and salute.

Wang Yue wiped off the wine stains from his lips, and hastily helped up the senior elders, while looking at the common people kneeling on the ground with ruddy eyes, he said, "If you can't settle the matter when you go to Yangzhou this time, you will lose face Jingchu's father's hometown! If you can return from the salt incident, I hope Jingchu's father will send you more sweet-scented osmanthus, and you will drink it when you are drunk!"

As soon as this remark came out, the sentimental people couldn't help crying.

They are ordinary people who work hard. Although the increase of tens of pennies per catty of salt does not seem to be much, they are all people who want to spend a penny. Who can understand the sadness in this?

They also hope that the price of salt will come down, and they have also expressed their dissatisfaction with the continuous increase in the price of salt, but their people are so insignificant, and they can only watch this gang of corrupt officials and profiteers exploit them.

But now, a good official who dared to ask for justice for them finally came, an imperial envoy who guaranteed them a ticket, how could they not be moved?

"I'll wait for the people of Jingchu to prepare the wine, and I'll just wait for the prince to come back and get drunk!" Several old men responded seriously to Wang Yue's promise.

The weather was beautiful, and the sky that had been gloomy suddenly fell into a golden sun.

The people who were seeing off on the pier were bathed in the sunshine, especially after hearing Wang Yue's assurance just now, they couldn't help but look forward to the price of salt in their hearts.

"Mr. Yue, I have heard that your poems are amazing. Today I will come to see you off. Please write a poem for our Jingchu father!" An old man who seemed somewhat educated approached, but he made a solemn request.

Wang Yu knew that his grandfather's poems caused a lot of trouble, not to mention that he was ordered to live in Anlu by the court for his poems a few years ago. Said: "Grandpa, please be careful!"

"My lord, don't do it!" Lu Song knew that Wang Yue had just beheaded Jiang Hong, Xu Pu's favorite student, but he knew that Wang Yue would definitely be attacked even more by the court, so he also wanted to stop Wang Yue from saying.

Wang Yue didn't know that his situation was getting more and more unfavorable, but he met the expectant eyes, and finally said softly: "In this situation, I should leave a poem for everyone!"

Although he was never soft on killing Tartars and beheading corrupt officials, only the people of Jingchu never hardened his heart.

As for those civil servants in the court who like to pick bones to attack him so much, his king is worthy of the king, and he is worthy of the people, so he should live a magnanimous life.

After learning that Wang Yue was willing to inscribe poems, the common people took out their desks, paper, pens and inkstones immediately.

"Come on wine!" Wang Yue didn't want to live as a timid person, so he yelled loudly.

A young man immediately sent it back to Wang Yue respectfully. Wang Yue drank the wine in one gulp, but he was still the old general who could kill the enemy on horseback.

Most of the people don't understand poetry, but they all want to see Wang Yue's talent.If it is a good poem, after a few years, someone probably knew that the people of Jingchu sent Wang Yue off.

Wang Yue wiped off the wine stains on his beard with his sleeve, looked up at the people around him, and immediately wrote a poem rustling.Then he threw a pen and boarded the ship, and stood at the bow of the ship and headed towards Yangzhou while the people saw him off.

The matter of salt is still unresolved, and the people of Jingchu eat salt expensively.

Today, I am about to go by boat, and the elders send sweet-scented osmanthus to burn.

The aroma of wine is strong and courageous, and I went to Yangzhou in the cold winter of March.

How many white-headed people are not idle, only willing to cut off the evil spirits with their bodies.

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The people of Jingchu looked at the official ship going away, and they also shouted loudly in unison: "I hope that the prince will return after killing the evil spirits, and we will prepare wine to welcome you, and congratulate Yan on peace!"

The peace of salt affairs is so far away, but after the Ming Dynasty came out of Wang Yue, it seems that it is not so far away.

Of course, many people don't seem to realize that there has always been an extremely powerful pusher pushing all this over the rectification of salt.

Just follow what Jiang Hong and others said, even if they are in prison, they still want to expose Wang Yue's numerous "crimes" in Shanghai.

Zhu Youtang, who was far away in the Qianqing Palace, received the memorial from the Huguang inspector Jiang Hong and other officials in prison. It was still illegal to impeach the imperial envoy Wang Yue, and the main crime naturally included chasing and killing the King of Chu in the street.

But, didn't he fail?

Alarmist talk, cut it off!
Huh?Could it be that Wang Yue had already beheaded him?
(End of this chapter)