Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 28

"Ouch, ouch," the dog slave, Butler Xia, touched his buttocks and got up from the ground with a scream.

Standing up straight again, the old dog slave's face turned red with anger, and he yelled at Shen Lian indignantly: "Okay! You are a seventh-grade sesame official, but you dare to disturb Tai Sui. Do you know that I am Xia Shoufu's son?" My nephew, I am the housekeeper of Xia Shoufu's family? If you hit me, you are hitting Xia Shoufu. Do you want to be this official again?"

"Hitting you means hitting Xia Shoufu, you dog slave, you have such a big face. Okay, okay, ok, dog slave, let's go to the lobby of Shuntian Mansion now. I want to see if Xia Shoufu will do this for you. Dog slave, go and cover the sky with one hand. Let’s go to Shuntian Mansion.”

"Go to Shuntian Prefecture? Hahahahahaha! Little county magistrate, you are such a wonderful person, you make me laugh to death. Little county magistrate, do you know that the people will not sue, and the officials will not pursue it? If you want to sue me to Shuntian Prefecture, do you have the guts to do so? Sufferer?"

"The Sufferer? This food stall owner, the stalls that were overturned by your carriage along the way, and the innocent people who were injured because your horse was frightened along the way, which one of them is not the Sufferer?"

"Hahahahaha, little county magistrate, this is all your nonsense. Now ask this food stall owner, ask the unruly people around here, do they have what you just said? Hahahahaha!"

After saying this, the dog slave Butler Xia smiled wildly again.After Shen Lian listened to the words of the dog slave Butler Xia, he also realized something.After all, Shen Lian is 40 years old this year. He is not a child with no social experience. Moreover, he had previously served as a county magistrate for two terms in Liyang, Zhili Province, and Epping, Shandong Province.Shen Lian is all too aware of the fear of power and timid nature of the Chinese people.

So after listening to the words of the dog slave Butler Xia, he glanced around with a worried look.Sure enough, as far as he could see, all the people eating melons lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.

That's it again!Shen Lian was an upright person who hated evil as much as he hated evil. Before he became an official, he was very fond of fighting injustices, and after he became an official, he couldn't tolerate any dirt in his eyes.But every time he is heroic and not afraid of the powerful, most of the victims are willing to accept hardships and compromise with the powerful and bullies who bully them.

It's like this again, it's like this again, lamenting this cruel reality in his heart, Shen Lian's heart is so cold at this moment.But at this time, Butler Xia, the dog slave who saw Shen Lian's hapless face, faced Shen Lian with a victor's attitude, smiling like he was leaning forward and back.

"County Magistrate Shen, I am willing to go to Shuntian Mansion with you to sue this dog slave of Xia Shoufu's family."

Everyone at the scene was silent, except for the dog slave's bursts of evil laughter. Wang Daoqiu walked out with earth-shattering words.

When he came to Shen Lian, Wang Daoqiu first bowed his hands and saluted, and then said: "Wang Daoqiu, who was born late, had the courtesy name Liangzhen, and was the winner of this year's provincial examination in Zhejiang Province. I would like to work with my predecessors to express my gratitude to the chief minister for the people who have been bullied today." Sir, please seek justice."

"What, you are at the gate of the Gongyuan this year..."

Wang Daoqiu reported his name and said that he was the winner of this year's Zhejiang Provincial Township Examination.This suddenly reminded Shen Lian of Wang Daoqiu's well-known "catching a son-in-law under the list" at the gate of Gongyuan in Zhejiang Province, in the forest of Ming scholars.So he blurted out the above sentence, but in the middle of the sentence, Shen Lian realized that it was inappropriate to tease Wang Daoqiu about the embarrassing incident on this occasion.So he stopped mid-sentence.

Since it is not convenient to talk about what happened at the gate of Wangdao Qiugongyuan here, Shen Lian decisively changed the subject and said, "My dear brother, you are so brave. Aren't you afraid of the chief minister?"

"Afraid! But my little brother still has some character left, and my damn conscience won't allow me to just sit back and watch such injustice happen."

"Okay, that's great!"

What Wang Daoqiu said was not impassioned or righteous, but it was full of sincerity and unyieldingness.This made Shen Lian very passionate and applauded repeatedly.

Ignoring Shen Lian's excitement, Wang Daoqiu turned to the people eating melons and said, "I was sitting at this food stall just now and ordered a bowl of wontons and two pickle pancakes. Before I had even eaten a few bites, I was taken to Xia Shoufu's house. The carriage was overturned. I want to ask for the money for the bowl of wontons and two meatloaf from Xia Shoufu. Everyone, since I have such a debt to settle with Xia Shoufu, what are you doing? You also have a debt with Xia Shouxu, so you might as well sell the debt to me and I'll go to Shouxu's house to collect it as well."

After saying these words to the melon-eaters, Wang Daoqiu said to the food stall owner Chen Laosan: "Shopkeeper, I know what happened today. It's not that you are not angry, let alone that you don't want to seek justice. It's just that you are afraid that justice will not be obtained. It brings disaster, so you chose to compromise. It is understandable that ordinary people in Shengdou have a hard time surviving, and some things are helpless. But you are afraid of the store owner, but I, Wang Daoqiu, am not afraid. Now that I have a tattoo of ten taels of silver with you, are you willing to put your food stall on What kind of thing should you resell to me? As for whether it is Xia Shoufu who should compensate me for the money from now on, but I should pay Xia Shoufu's family 100 taels, that is my business and has nothing to do with you."

"That's right, that's right. The carriage of Na Xia's family just knocked over Tan Fu and injured someone. All your losses can be resold to me. As long as you write down the paperwork and your losses are more than three If you are a witness who is willing to sign and stamp your documents, then I will pay you money."

Wang Daoqiu's approach of buying the claim rights and becoming the owner of the suffering immediately inspired Shen Lian.So Shen Lian also announced loudly that if those who were harmed by this incident did not dare to seek justice themselves, they could sell their compensation rights to him.

As soon as Wang Daoqiu and Shen Lian announced the idea of ​​purchasing claim rights, the people around them responded immediately.After all, although ordinary people did not dare to claim compensation from the chief minister's family, they were very unconvinced, not to mention that they still had money to take.So as soon as Shen Lian finished speaking, the victims around him started clamoring to sell their claim rights.

At this time, Wang Daoqiu and Shen Lian also divided their duties. The young and strong Wang Daoqiu pushed the dog slave, Butler Xia, to the ground to prevent him from escaping.Shen Lian, who had served as the county magistrate of Liyang in Southern Zhili and Eping in Shandong, had practical experience in handling cases and knew how to write documents to better litigate, went to sign documents with the victims.After a while of busy work, when Shen Lian had more than 20 documents in his hand, Shen Lian came over happily and said to Wang Daoqiu: "Brother, we have the evidence. Let's go to Shuntian Mansion to sue this evil slave now."

"No, brother, I just thought about it. What we want to sue is not just this evil slave, but also his Xia Shoufu's incompetent management of the family, which caused the evil slaves in the family to use his power to oppress the people."

"What, dear brother, are you going to sue Xia Shoufu?"

Wang Daoqiu directly wanted to file a lawsuit against the chief minister of the dynasty, which frightened Shen Lian, so he looked at Wang Daoqiu in surprise.

Faced with Shen Lian's shocked face, Wang Daoqiu just raised his fingers and asked Shen Lian to come over.

When Shen Lian came over, Wang Daoqiu whispered in a low voice: "Only by suing Xia Shoufu, Xia Shoufu is an accomplice, so he can't use his identity as chief assistant to excuse this dog slave; only by suing Xia Shoufu Only then will the chief minister and the powerful officials be able to take good care of the servants in their own homes in the future. After all, after we sue today, the powerful officials will also understand that if the servants cause trouble outside, they will be jointly and severally liable; only Tell Chief Assistant Xia that unless he no longer wants his reputation, he will not use his power to take revenge on us and these people."

Yes, if the lawsuit becomes bigger, will this lawsuit be easier to fight?After all, big shots want face and will cherish their feathers.I sued the dog slave about this matter. The dog slave shamelessly denied it at the front, and the chief assistant was trying to get involved behind the scenes. It’s hard to say what the final outcome of this lawsuit will be.

But if we directly sue the Chief Assistant, would the Chief Assistant have the nerve to say something like this in broad daylight and in full view of everyone?If he dared to lie, then what was originally an evil deed of the dog slave would become an evil deed of his chief assistant.Even if his chief assistant can cover up this matter with one hand, what about his reputation? Wouldn't it stink on the street?
A dignified chief minister, the head of hundreds of officials, how could he even give up his own reputation for the sake of a servant in the family?After all, in this matter, as long as his chief assistant can be selfless on the surface and severely punish his own housekeeper, in the final analysis, he is just too busy with work and has temporarily neglected to discipline the servants at home.

Precisely because he understood the logic behind this, Wang Daoqiu advocated directly suing the dog slave's master, Xia Yan, the chief minister of the dynasty.Shen Lian, who has many years of experience in handling cases, understood immediately after hearing Wang Daoqiu's explanation.

So Wang Daoqiu and Shen Lian, together with the dog slave Butler Xia, followed by two to three hundred melon-eating people, went to Xiyuan where Emperor Jiajing currently lived, and went directly to complain.

A group of people roared to the gate of Xiyuan, startling the Jinyi guards guarding the place. They hurriedly sent people to call for backup, while all their swords were unsheathed and their guns stood upright, pointing at Wang Daoqiu, Shen Lian and the others. people.

"Who are you, son, and what do you want? Do you know that this place is a forbidden area of ​​the palace, and those who trespass will be killed without mercy?"

When Wang Daoqiu and the others approached, a hundred households who were on duty here issued a loud warning.

After Wang Daoqiu and Shen Lian heard Jinyi Baihu's warning, they didn't argue, but just knelt down together with the dog servant Xia Steward.Then Shen Lian held the pleading paper he had written earlier, and shouted loudly at the brocade clothes: "Shen Lian, the magistrate of Qingfeng County, Henan Province, sued the chief assistant Xia Yan for not being able to manage the family well. .”

Fuck, it turned out that a small county magistrate wanted to sue the chief minister of the court. This frightened the labor papers, thinking that you were going to assassinate the king!After hearing Shen Lian's explanation of why he came here, Jinyi Baihu felt 1 "fucking shit" in his heart, and Laozhi was scared to death.

Xia Yan is usually arrogant because of his talent. He bosses his subordinates around and treats them like dogs.When speaking to subordinates, it is always in the tone of a master ordering a servant.

Even the eunuchs and Jin Yiwei who are not under his leadership are the same. For example, the eunuch passed on the emperor's message from his family, saying that the emperor announced him to enter the palace to discuss matters. You can see, and from time to time, he would give someone else's little eunuch a lesson.

It can be said that Xia Yan's madness knows no bounds. Except for Emperor Jiajing, his attitude towards everyone else is the same, that is, he is arrogant and does not treat others as human beings.

So after Xia Yan was imprisoned, none of the civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty wrote a letter to intercede for him.After all, there is no one in this world who would not want that person who always insults his self-esteem to die.

Later, when Yan Song talked about Xia Yan's arrogance, he also said that if Xia Yan didn't have this problem, he wouldn't have lost his position as chief assistant and his old life.

He puts on an air of death every day, thinking that he is great and everyone else is a dog.Then his popularity is naturally hated by others, and everyone wants him to die.

Just like now, if Wang Daoqiu and Shen Lian file a complaint against someone else, the Jinyi Hundred Households will definitely let them complain to the relevant government offices in the imperial court.But what if I tell Xia Yan?Then this will be fun.

So after Jinyi Baihu heard what Shen Lian said, they not only did not drive people away, but also sent people to report to the higher authorities.

(End of this chapter)