Rule over Ming Dynasty

Chapter 80

This……

Seeing Li Guangming being so arrogant, the people in the hall could not help but look at each other.

I have seen a lot of arrogant people, but to dare to be so arrogant in front of imperial envoys is really something I have never seen or heard in my life. Today is really an eye-opener.

Wang Yue is confident that he has cultivated his temper after living in exile, but looking at Li Guangming's face in the hall, he finds that this person is even more hateful than those tartars.

Until now, not only did this person not have the slightest intention of repentance, but he wanted to use the atonement system of the Great Ming Law to escape his punishment by relying on his own money.

"Li Guangming, even if you want to lose the atonement, there is no disaster in the world today, so you can't lose the atonement!" Wang Yu who was standing next to him couldn't help but said.

Li Guangming glanced at Wang Yu lightly, and said proudly, "Not to mention the floods in Shandong this autumn, in addition to losing millet for atonement, didn't the court also use horses for atonement? The old man has a close relationship with horse dealers, and he got A hundred or so horses is not a problem, and this is enough to atone for sins!"

Wang Yu frowned, realizing that he was not as thorough as Li Guangming in understanding the law, and he didn't even know if there was a real disaster in Shandong.It's just that thinking that such a cunning person will be fine in the end, he can't help turning his head to look at his grandfather anxiously.

Wang Yue took a deep breath, and said to the arrogant Li Guangming: "Do you know what your Majesty's reason for sending Ben to be the Prime Minister of Yanzheng?"

"The imperial court just wants to increase taxes, and it's only about money. In fact, it's common sense!" Li Guangming knew that the imperial court also had a greedy mouth, and immediately looked disdainful.

Wang Yue saw Li Guangming's face in his eyes, but he said very seriously: "Wrong! Your Majesty sent a message: To govern the salt, you should govern the government and business, and the salt is expensive, you should eliminate the evils, that's all!"

Huh?
Yang Jizong, the inspector of Huguang, faintly felt that these words had a deep meaning, so he looked suspiciously at Wang Yue who was sitting in the courtroom.

"Running officials and businesses? Eliminating malpractices? What do you mean?" Li Guangming always believed that the imperial court still wanted to make money after all, and he was very puzzled.

The people in the hall couldn't understand the meaning, but they felt that the words His Majesty passed on to Wang Yue seemed to have some deep meaning, but Wang Yue could understand the deep meaning.

Snapped!
At this moment, Wang Yue grabbed the gavel on the table and slapped the case hard.

mighty!

The Zaoban yamen servants on both sides of the court held the long sticks of water, fire and wood in their hands and pounded the blue bricks in front of them heavily, making mighty sounds from their mouths.

People in the courtroom were affected by this man-made noise, and couldn't help feeling their scalps go numb.

"The criminals Li Guangming, the prefect of Shunde, and Xiao Zhang, the magistrate of Jingshan County, colluded together, and were protected by the magistrate of Jingshan County. Li Guangming opened a shop to sell salt and sold private salt in Jingshan County for profit. , Four criminals of monopolizing salt, and now the two are sentenced to death!" Wang Yue pronounced the verdict loudly.

Make a decision?
When the people in the hall heard the verdict, they couldn't help being completely stunned.

Li Guangming originally thought that Wang Yue was only punishing himself heavily so as to force him to pay more property to atone for his sin, but he was also dumbfounded when he heard the verdict.

The system of atonement is for crimes below the death penalty, but if the death penalty is imposed, no loss of millet is allowed to atone for the crime, not to mention that Wang Yue is still sentenced to death.

Li Guangming didn't know why Wang Yue put himself to death in such a way, he said furiously, "Wang Shichang, don't abuse the code, I'm not guilty of death!"

"Master Imperial Envoy, please spare your life! This county... this county doesn't want to die!" Zhixian Xiao was already frightened to the extreme at this time, begging for mercy immediately.

Yang Jizong, Huguang's procuratorate, frowned slightly. Although he felt that Li Guangming wanted to deal with him, he didn't understand why he would be sentenced to death.

"If an ordinary trader sells private salt and spends [-] years or [-] years, it is indeed a crime. It is not wrong to lose millet to make atonement! It's just that you and Xiaozhi County have joined hands to monopolize the salt market in Jingshan County, harming the salt class and infringing on the interests of the people. Why can't this imperial envoy kill you?" Wang Yue naturally knew that the sentence was indeed severe, but explained without thinking there was any problem.

Li Guangming was considered a slippery man in the officialdom, and he immediately defended himself: "I don't agree with the officials! Not to mention that there is no such regulation in the law, if you say it's a lesson in harming salt, then it's fine, but where does the invasion of people's interests come from? It’s not that the lower officials sell Cantonese salt, the price of salt in Jingshan must be the same as that of Anlu, how can the people of Jingshan have cheap salt to eat?”

The people in the hall could not help but look at each other, and finally had to accept this fact.

According to the rise of Huai official salt in recent years, if they don't eat Guangdong salt, they really can only eat high-priced salt every day and accept the joint squeeze of those officials and businessmen.

"Don't confuse the public here! If it weren't for invading the interests of the people, how could you, Li Guangming, have a lot of fish and meat every day, and still have money to entertain the imperial envoy? You are selling Guangdong salt for salt profit. As for the people in Jingshan, they eat at high prices Yan, the imperial envoy will try to solve this matter!" Wang Yuezao had seen through Li Guangming's greedy mouth, and retorted realistically.

Li Guangming sensed the murderous intent on Wang Yue, and warned very seriously: "Master Imperial Envoy, we are officials in the same dynasty, so we have to forgive others! To tell you the truth, I am the same as Xueshi Xu of the current dynasty. Old friends in the same year, the officialdom is not fighting and killing, but the worldly way. Do you really want to stop offending the entire court officials like before?"

Yang Jizong knew that the Xueshi Xu that Li Guangming had heard about was the emperor Xu Pu, and now he might have entered the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister, and even became the second assistant of the current dynasty, so he couldn't help turning his head to look at Wang Yue.

This officialdom is really not about fighting and killing, what is more important is the worldly way.If Wang Yue is still the same as before, I am afraid that people will use poems to make articles again, and there will still be no one in the court to say a word of justice for him.

"The way is different, don't conspire with each other! The imperial envoy doesn't care who your backer is, but the imperial envoy's backer is His Majesty the Wise. Even if Bachelor Xu commits a crime, the imperial envoy will definitely kill you. Why don't you dare to kill you today!" Wang Yue naturally knew that he was still a lone minister in acting like this, but he still firmly believed in the truth.

Li Guangming realized that the man in front of him was a lunatic in the officialdom, but he still had a trump card after all, so he said with a half-hearted smile, "Master Imperial Envoy, you seem to have forgotten one thing!"

"What's the matter?" Wang Yue frowned slightly.

Huh?
Yang Jizong, the inspector of Huguang, noticed Li Guangming's confident appearance, and turned his head to look at Li Guangming in doubt.

Facing the confused gazes of the people around him, Li Guangming raised his mouth slightly and said: "Although the official is a fourth-rank official in the prefect of Shunde, he has passed the nine-year examination and passed the official examination, so he will be promoted to the next level. If the official remembers correctly , even if you want to behead the official, you have to play the flag of the king's order, and you can't make a decision!"

At this point in the matter, he can only be killed for a while, and then he can use the relationship in the capital to exonerate himself.

Huh?
The people in the hall didn't expect that the flag of Wang Ming was so particular, so they couldn't help but looked at each other in blank dismay.

Yang Jizong, Huguang's procurator, noticed that Wang Yue was looking at him, so he nodded slightly and said: "Master Imperial Envoy, that's true, Li Guangming is from a third-rank official to an official!"

"If that's the case! Come, take the two of them to the execution ground, and the imperial envoy will personally supervise and execute them!" Wang Yue took out the warrant and threw it on the ground, then issued an order.

"Wang Shichang, you are reckless, I am a third-rank official of the imperial court!" Li Guangming roared in horror when he saw the order slip in front of him.

"Ah? Still beheaded? The imperial envoy, please spare me!" Xiao Zhixian was so frightened that he lost control of his urine, and immediately begged for mercy again.

The four Jinyi guards immediately stepped forward and took the two prisoners from the hall down together, while someone had already gone to prepare the prison cart.

The inspector of Huguang, Yang Jizong, frowned, and finally couldn't help but said: "Master Imperial Envoy, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to kill a third-rank official without going to the court, right?"

"Master Yang, since that's the case, please join me as an imperial envoy to ask for the king's order!" Wang Yue naturally knew that it was inappropriate for him to kill a retired third-rank official without asking, but he still stood firm.

"The Imperial Envoy is going to ask Zhan Li Heixin!"

"Go, go and take a look, we finally have hope in Jingshan!"

"Chen Laoliu died strangely, and Li Guangming even took his wife. It's hard for such a person to die!"

……

Jingshan County is not big, and after learning that the imperial envoy wanted to kill Li Guangming, the people immediately rushed to the execution ground from all directions, wanting to witness Li Guangming being beheaded.

Beheading turned out to be a big event, not to mention the famous dog officials Xiao Zhixian and Li Guangming, so people from the entire county came to the execution ground to watch.

Dongshi, the execution platform has been set up here.

Li Guangming and Xiao Zhixian stood in the prison van and were escorted over, resolutely reduced from being a glorious official to a death row prisoner.

"God finally opened his eyes!"

"If it weren't for you, the dog official, my father would not have died, and retribution is coming!"

"Li Heixin, you have done so many evil things, you think you really don't know how many evil things you have done!"

……

The people in Jingshan County used to dare to be angry and dare not speak out, but now seeing these two Jingshan pests subdue the law, they threw rotten vegetables and rotten eggs at them and cursed.

Li Guangming had been cursing and complaining for himself, but a rotten egg just hit his face and covered his face. The bad smell and disgusting fluid finally calmed him down.

Lu Song led a sedan chair to line up the crowd of onlookers to the center of the execution ground, and sang very dignifiedly: "The king's order is here, the officials and the people kneel!"

Now a retired third-rank official is going to be beheaded without an invitation. Even if Wang Yue is an imperial envoy, he can't be beheaded directly, so Wang Ming needs to be invited out.

The flag symbolizes the emperor's order, and there is a certain ceremony when using it, so it is called respectfully asking for the king's order.

"I respectfully ask for the king's order!" Wang Yue led Yang Jizong and other officials to the front of the sedan chair, and knelt respectfully to greet him.

"Wang Shichang, since you have invited the flag of Wang Ming, you have no right to directly kill me. You are in chaos..." Li Guangming was still clamoring when he was put on the execution platform, but he glanced into the sedan chair and suddenly froze.

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