Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 142 It should be punished according to the "Dagao"

Zhu Di asked coldly, "Where is that old thief?"

"Your Highness, wait a moment, I will go and capture that old thief in the end."

Zhu Liang roared and ran to the back house of the He family.

A moment later, Zhu Liang walked over with one hand dragging an old man in gorgeous silk obscene clothes.

While being dragged along, the old man shouted loudly: "Who are you?... This old man is a scholar... This old man knows Cui Zhizhou... This old man knows the commander of Tongzhou Guard..."

"Snapped!"

Zhu Liang slapped him directly, his hair disheveled, and he fell in front of Zhu Di.

"Your Highness, this guy is that old thief He Ji."

On the side, a group of people who had just come out of the firewood room stared at He Ji, wishing to eat his flesh and lay down his skin, which made He Ji's back shiver.

However, he quickly realized what a group of untouchables could do to him, and he just looked at the majestic man in front of him with suspicion.

"Your Highness? But His Royal Highness King Yan came to the humble house?"

"Humph!"

Zhu Di asked coldly: "Are you guilty?"

He Ji was in a daze for a while, and hurriedly climbed a few steps in front of Zhu Di, with an aggrieved face, "Your Highness, old man... no, Caomin, no, the student is not guilty, the student is not guilty!

Students are sages, gentry, and kind families...

I was sleeping in a sweet dream at home, and was broken into by soldiers under His Highness..."

"Fuck your mother..."

Zhu Di couldn't hold back anymore, so he kicked He Ji hard, sending He Ji flying a few steps away.

"You are not as good as a beast, or a good family? Are you innocent?"

He Ji still covered his chest with one hand, and said with a sad face: "Caomin... the students have been wronged, the strange injustices of the ages..."

Zhu Di snorted coldly, and glanced at Deng Qiang, the deputy envoy of the Procuratorate behind him: "Is he guilty?"

Deng Qiang quickly replied: "The crime is heinous!"

Zhu Di asked again: "How to deal with it?"

Deng Qiang said: "Behead for public display!"

Zhu Di turned to Zong Zhi, the chief envoy of Beiping, and asked, "What does the chief envoy think?"

Zong Zhi quickly replied: "If you confiscate your property, you will be punished by the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Di turned to Zhu Fu who was beside him and asked, "What does Zhu Qing think?"

Zhu Fu was also full of anger at this meeting, "Your Highness, these thieves not only harmed the people in the village, but also wantonly killed them. The most abominable thing is to use the name of Your Highness to kill and exile relatives!"

In fact, as a gentry, Zhu Fu had also seen many gentry who oppressed the villagers.

However, this is the first time he has seen this old thief in front of him use the name of King Yan's Mansion to oppress the people and wantonly kill them.

If this matter spreads to the capital and His Majesty blames him, Zhu Fu will be the first to suffer. In other words, He Ji and the others are trying to kill Zhu Fu, how can Zhu Fu not hate him!

He Ji's face was filled with grief when he heard this, "Your Highness... Caomin is a scholar... Students are kind people!
They are all troublemakers, troublemakers who do not obey the government's edict, the students are not wrong.

Even if the students have done it well, it shouldn't harm the family..."

Zhu Di was a little curious when He Ji mentioned his status as a scholar again.

"What year did you become a scholar?"

He Ji was dumbfounded.

Pu Sanji on the side added in time: "Your Highness, this thief is a scholar of the former Yuan Dynasty."

"Humph!"

Zhu Di suddenly snorted coldly, "It's the Ming Dynasty now, but he still claims to be a scholar of the former Yuan Dynasty, and the crime is aggravated."

He Ji opened his mouth, looked up and looked around, but unfortunately, seeing faces glaring at him, he couldn't help being limp and weak.

Zhu Di looked at Guo An again, "What does Guo Qing think?"

Guo Andao: "Your Highness, Your Majesty just promulgated the "Great Law" last year, and I originally thought that my Beiping Mansion should be a good place, so there is no need for this "Great Law".

Now, I feel that it is most appropriate to punish He Ji, the thief, according to the "Da Gao"! "

After Guo An finished speaking, the entire backyard was silent.

Officials such as the Procuratorate, the Chief Commissioner, and the Beiping Government Yazhi all changed their expressions.

Although the "Great Law" was promulgated to the world only last year, those who hold the "Great Law" are guilty of the crime of exile with a cane and stick, and can be reduced by one grade. Logically speaking, the "Da Law" is very kind.

However, more than half of the officials in Ming Dynasty boycotted the "Da Gao" from the bottom of their hearts.

Without him, the criminal law in this "Da Gao" formulated by Lao Zhu himself is too harsh.

Whenever an official commits a crime, the death penalty will start, and there is no chance for the crime of exile with a cane and stick.

As for clan punishment, Ling Chi, foot cutting, toe beheading, knee removal, castration, tendons removal of knees, skinning and eating grass... all of them can be easily obtained.

As for He Ji, although he does not belong to the ranks of officials, he is among the powerful gentry.

Ling Chi, the execution of close relatives, exile within the five clans, and confiscation of all family properties are all minor.

Guo An is also an old and ruthless person. He can't control other places in Ming Dynasty, but in Beiping Mansion, this is the place where he will settle down in the future.

King Yan's Mansion will inevitably requisition many places. He must severely deter a wave of officials and gentry in Beiping Mansion. He cannot exploit the people at will, let alone exploit and kill the people in the name of King Yan's Mansion.

Zhu Di nodded slightly, "Very good!"

"No!"

He Ji's face was full of anxiety, he had already figured it out by now, he definitely wouldn't live long.

However, thinking that his relatives will be implicated and other distant relatives will be exiled, it is equivalent to killing his big family at once. Nothing!

Everything is gone!
He Ji couldn't help being distraught, and knelt down in front of Zhu Di with a thud, weeping bitterly, and begged for mercy with a miserable face: "Your Highness, student... Even if Caomin is guilty, how can Caomin's wife and children be blamed? ...

They are all kind people who have never oppressed the common people... Especially the wife of the Caomin, who has been eating vegetarian food and praying to the Buddha for decades, and has donated tens of thousands of taels of silver to the Buddha in the temple over the years...

Your Highness, please forgive me..."

Guo An was already very angry, so he stepped forward and gave He Ji a few backhand slaps.

"You animal's family is your family, so the dozen or so households, and the hundreds of households who have been exploited and persecuted by you, are not human?
How many people in Tongzhou have lost their wives and families because of you, an old thief?
Now you are using your wife and children to beg for forgiveness?Since they have enjoyed the blessings brought by you, an old thief, and still don't dissuade you, an old thief, then they can spend the rest of their lives repaying it.

His Majesty said at the beginning of "Da Gao": "Parents, wives, brothers, and friends, how can you advise and teach Hugh to be such a wicked person, and it is not good to act in accordance with the principles of heaven and benevolence?"

There is a family of first-class officials, parents, wives, and brothers who harm others together, and there is no one in the whole family who is benevolent. '

If you don't punish your wife and children this time, and don't implicate your relatives, wouldn't the gentry and powerful men in the entire Beiping Mansion learn from you and feel more confident in oppressing and killing innocent people?
How many innocent people will suffer?

Even, the entire Yanwang Mansion will suffer accordingly..."

In all his life, when has He Ji been insulted like this, especially when an unknown official wanted to exterminate his family, so he opened his mouth and scolded, "You thief..."

Guo An glared angrily, "You old thief dares to chatter, I will ask His Highness to send someone to cut you up now!"

He Ji immediately shut up, not daring to say anything, but kept crying, as if he had been wronged by the sky.

Zhu Di glanced at him with disgust on his face, and shouted directly to Zhu Liang and Li Wang who were at the side: "You wait and imprison the family members, guards, and servants of this old thief's house quickly.

And I will search the entire He Ji Mansion carefully. Today, I happened to take all these villains who oppressed and exploited the people together! "

"Here!"

Zhu Liang, Li Wang and others were already furious at this meeting, and they immediately took orders to leave.

On the side, looking at He Ji, Yu Rentian, Deng Qiang and others on the ground, their faces were complicated, and at the same time, there was still some fear in their hearts.

According to their experience, if the investigation continues at the level of Yan Wang Zhu Di, some officials in Tongzhou will definitely be found in the end.

I hope that this matter will not be further implicated, otherwise the Beiping Mansion will be bloody again.

As for the officials of Yan Wang Fu, Shi Si and other officials, looking at He Ji on the ground, they were both shocked and terrified.

What is surprising is that these gentry officials are so reckless that they dare to use the name of His Highness King Yan to bully and kill the people.

What is scary is that the families behind them are all gentry.After returning, you must write a letter to your family, and you must not act recklessly.

Afterwards, seeing Guo An who was chatting with a group of people one by one, each one of them also had a heart.

This Guo Changshi usually looks kind and friendly, who would have thought that he would dare to use "Da Gao" directly after being offended so badly!
After a while, a few royal guards came in, dragging a few terrified doctors.

Seeing that these wolves and tigers will capture them and really treat the common people, the doctors are also slightly relieved.

Taking advantage of this time, Guo An got up and came to Zhu Di's side.

"Your Highness, these people have only eaten one meal in the past two days, and they are already too hungry.

And we marched overnight, and after walking for such a long time, the soldiers were already hungry.

It's better to just bury the pot here and cook. After eating, I'll arrest the other thieves later.

After dawn, go to the city to find the magistrate of Tongzhou! "

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Di also felt a little hungry in his belly, and ordered to the left and right.

"You quickly bury the pot for cooking, and as for the scribes, you also go to help search the house!"

"Here!"

A personal guard beside him responded and hurriedly arranged to go.

All the clerks of the History Department, the chief of Yan Wangfu, also hurriedly dispersed.

As a big local family, the He family has a lot of food and meat in the house.

Although more than 1000 people were directly squeezed in, it was completely enough.

After meals.

With the participation of the scribes from the Changshi Division, the results of the entire He family's house raids were quickly calculated.

"13 taels of silver, 3000 taels of gold, [-] treasure banknotes, and two large boxes of various gold, silver and jewelry.

There are two houses for grain, and there are two thousand stones in total.

In addition, there are fifteen large and small shops under the name of the He family, with a total of [-] mu of land..."

After a scribe finished reading, Zhu Di was shocked.

"Damn it, a little country gentleman actually has so much money in savings?
Moreover, with [-] mu of land, why don't we know that there are such big families in our Beiping Mansion? "

As he said that, Zhu Di looked at Yu Rentian who was on the side, "Prefect Yu, have you heard that there are so many big families in our Beiping Mansion?"

Yu Rentian couldn't help but smiled wryly in his heart, three thousand and five hundred acres, these gentry's brains are really pig brains, they are so bold.

"Returning to Your Highness, according to what I know about the Yellow Book of Beiping Mansion, the largest household registered in the Yellow Book in the entire Beiping Mansion is only 650 mu."

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(End of this chapter)