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Chapter 379 Tyrant
Because of this, for a while the elders didn't know how to reply to the emperor.

Don't let the emperor see it, the emperor has already opened his mouth, if they stop, I don't know what the emperor will think, if let the emperor see it, based on their understanding of the emperor, once the emperor sees the crimes committed by those people, I don't know What kind of disturbance will arise?

The silence of the elders naturally attracted Zhu Houzhao's attention. Seeing the expressions and reactions of the elders, Zhu Houzhao was not stupid, and soon thought of something.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao's expression was straightened, he stared at Yang Tinghe and Wang Yangming, and said slowly: "It seems that what Li Qing said in the memorial is indeed correct, those people in Jiangnan are really lawless and lawless. .”

As he said that, Zhu Houzhao sneered and said, "The Qing family don't want me to see the criminal evidence of those people presented by Li Qing."

As soon as the emperor spoke, the elders who had just got up immediately bowed down in front of the emperor again.

Yang Tinghe said with a look of sincerity and fear: "How dare you wait!"

If this charge is true, at worst it is an obstruction of the hearing, and several people are naturally unwilling to bear such a charge.

Flicking his sleeves violently, Zhu Houzhao said to Qiu Ju who was beside him: "Qiu Daban, pass on my order and order someone to bring me the criminal evidence submitted by Li Qing about the officials and powerful people in Yangzhou Prefecture immediately. Want to see!"

When Qiu Ju heard the words, he quickly responded and sent someone to deliver the decree immediately.

Ignoring Yang Ting and the others who were kneeling on the ground, Zhu Houzhao turned around and walked into the pavilion not far away and sat down.

Qiu Ju, who was serving at the side, first glanced at Yang Ting and several elders kneeling there not far away, and then whispered to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, calm down, don't hurt the dragon's body."

Qiu Ju has been by the emperor's side all these years, and he is very clear about the emperor's temper.

With Zhu Houzhao's temperament as the emperor, he would never get angry with his important ministers under normal circumstances, but now he turns a blind eye to the elders who are kneeling there, which shows that the emperor is really angry.

Zhu Houzhao slapped the stone table beside him, and said with a cold snort: "How can I not be angry, the officials of my Daming dare to kill even the imperial envoys, they still have my emperor in their eyes, but they still have Daming. "

Speaking of which, Zhu Houzhao said coldly: "Fortunately, it was Li Qing who went to Jiangnan this time. If other people went to Jiangnan, they might have been killed by these people. By then, these local officials will still be powerful. I don't know what to do." You are making fun of my Son of Heaven."

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's annoyed look, Qiu Ju comforted him: "Your Majesty, calm down, Brother Li Huan has already arrested these people, and has presented their criminal evidence, and they will be severely punished in time. "

Under Qiu Ju's persuasion and venting, Zhu Houzhao's anger subsided a little, took the teacup from Qiu Ju's hand, drank the warm tea, and fell to his knees on the ground not far away Yang Tinghe and Wang Yangming let out a soft sigh.

"Qiu Daban, let the Qing family get up."

Qiu Ju responded, and hurriedly trotted to Yang Tinghe and Wang Yangming and said to them, "Masters, Your Majesty has an order, everyone get up."

After hearing the words, several people first bowed to Zhu Houzhao who was sitting in the pavilion, and then slowly got up.

With the will of the emperor, naturally no one below would dare to be negligent, but it was just a cup of tea, and when they saw a few guards of the imperial city, they came slowly carrying a few big boxes.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on those big boxes, and there was a bit of anger in his eyes.

As the box fell to the ground and was opened, just as Zhu Houzhao had imagined, there were piles of cases in the box.Needless to say, these must be the crimes of those officials in Yangzhou Prefecture and local tyrants.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao got up and went directly to those boxes, took a case file from one of the boxes, opened it, and scanned the lines at a glance.

This case is about how a powerful Zheng family in Yangzhou prefecture used the guise of business for decades to traffic people in the south of the Yangtze River.

According to the statistics in the case file, the person in charge of the Zheng family said that in the past few decades, there has been a huge profit chain of human trafficking with the Zheng family at its core, and the number of people trafficked and trafficked by the Zheng family alone is no less than [-].

You must know that the Zheng family raised a large number of thugs and went into the countryside to kidnap and rob a large number of children and women, and sold them as goods to various places.

Looking at Zheng's crimes recorded on the case book, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help holding the crime case so hard that he almost crushed the case book.

"Damn it, you should kill it. It's not an exaggeration to exterminate the Nine Clans for this kind of people who have lost all conscience."

While speaking, Zhu Houzhao put down the case file in his hand, and took another case file. This case file is exactly how the Yangzhou government officials planned and how he personally dealt with it, as explained by Xu Wei, the general judge of the Yangzhou government. He led people to attack the Yangzhou Jinyiwei Qianhu House at night, and killed the dignified Jinyiwei Qianhu House from top to bottom.

It also explained how he colluded with the prefect Xu Lin and led people to attack and kill the imperial envoy.

In Li Huan's memorial, it is natural to mention it briefly, but in the case files that Xu Wei explained, it is extremely detailed, which makes Zhu Houzhao feel like he is in the scene.

However, the more this is the case, the more angry Zhu Houzhao is, because in Xu Wei's confession, Zhu Houzhao saw that almost all the officials in the Yangzhou mansion were rotten. The king, however, was full of thoughts on how to corrupt the law, and even dared to do such audacious things as attacking imperial envoys.

With a bang, Zhu Houzhao slapped the big boxes in front of him, smashing one of the boxes to pieces on the ground.

"It's time to kill, I'm going to kill their nine clans!"

The two case files in succession made Zhu Hou's caretaker grit his teeth and growl in anger, roaring to exterminate the nine clans of these people.

After flipping through it casually for a few minutes, Zhu Houzhao became more and more annoyed the more he looked at it, and walked around angrily, an invisible force spread out, only scaring Qiu Ju and the few servants who served him into a panic. He didn't dare to take a breath, for fear that he would be used as a punching bag by the angry emperor.

"Qi kills me, Qi kills me!"

As if he couldn't find anyone to vent his anger on, Zhu Houzhao kicked a big tree next to him hard.

Immediately, the big tree as thick as a bucket was kicked by the emperor and shook violently, and immediately saw the withered and yellow leaves clattering down.

Withered and yellow leaves fluttered down, many of which fell directly on Zhu Houzhao's body.

Yang Tinghe and Zhang Cai who were nearby couldn't help showing a bit of surprise when they saw this situation.

It was the force that Zhu Houzhao showed unintentionally that made Yang Tinghe and Zhang Cai, who are literati, couldn't help but look sideways at him.

When did the Son of Heaven have such amazing force, why didn't they know.

Although they also knew that the emperor had practiced martial arts with Li Huan for a period of time, even today, the emperor would take a period of time to practice martial arts every day.

But neither Yang Tinghe, Zhang Cai nor the officials above the court took this to heart, they just regarded it as the emperor's preference.

It can be said that no one thought about the results of the emperor's martial arts practice. After all, apart from Taizu and Emperor Wen, there were not many emperors in Ming Dynasty who liked martial arts.

He vented fiercely, but he felt sorry for the big tree. After being kicked by Zhu Houzhao several times, the roots of the tree that were rooted in the ground were shaken, so that the ground above the ground was cracked. A series of cracks, shocking.

Breathing out a foul breath, Zhu Houzhao suppressed the anger in his heart, looked at Yang Tinghe, Wang Yangming, and Zhang Cai and said: "About this big case, how do you think we should deal with it?"

Yang Tinghe glanced at the emperor, hesitated a little and said: "Return to Your Majesty, this case is of great importance, involving as many as nearly ten thousand people, it should be held in a grand court meeting and discussed by hundreds of officials."

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help snorting and said: "Deliberation? The evidence of these people's crimes can be said to be conclusive, so why should hundreds of officials discuss it? In my opinion, the people involved in the case should be punished severely according to the national law."

Yang Tinghe bowed his head slightly when he heard the words, and when he lowered his head, he looked relieved.

Zhu Houzhao didn't notice this, but said coldly: "Preach my will..."

"Your Majesty, I think what Elder Yang Ge said is true. This case needs to be discussed by all officials..."

Just when Zhu Houzhao was about to speak, Wang Yangming, who had not spoken all the time, directly interrupted the emperor's words, and bowed to the emperor solemnly.

Zhu Houzhao was interrupted by Wang Yangming. Originally, he was simmering with anger because of those cases, and now he was about to get angry, but when he saw Wang Yangming's solemn expression, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

The emperor's reaction was naturally in Wang Yangming's eyes. Seeing that the emperor was about to get angry but was stunned for a moment, Wang Yangming said in a deep voice again: "Your Majesty, this case is of great importance and must be discussed by all officials."

At this moment, Yang Tinghe, Zhang Cai, and Wang Jia all looked at Wang Yangming, and a trace of complicated color flashed in their eyes.

Regarding Wang Yangming, to be honest, Zhu Houzhao still has great reliance and trust, even if there is a bit of anger in his heart, but seeing Wang Yangming's solemn appearance, and repeatedly emphasizing that all officials should discuss together, Zhu Houzhao realized it even if he was slow to respond. what.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao glanced over the people in front of him, looking thoughtful, and then slowly said after a while: "I'm a little tired, gentlemen, please leave first. I will think it over carefully before speaking.”

It seems that they didn't expect the emperor to react like this, but the few people didn't say anything, they bowed to the emperor and then slowly retreated.

Several elders walked in the empty palace city, and they could see the tall and straight figures of the heavily guarded imperial city guards all around them from a distance.

Zhang Cai paused, glanced at Wang Yangming and sighed softly, "Brother Yangming, you shouldn't have..."

The eyes of Yang Tinghe, Zhang Cai and others also fell on Wang Yangming. Although they didn't say what Zhang Cai said, they knew what Zhang Cai meant.

It was nothing more than to say that Wang Yangming should not have prevented the emperor from making a decision on that major case.

Wang Yangming glanced at them indifferently and said: "Several, it is the so-called loyalty to the emperor. As a subject, Wang, how can he just sit back and watch his father bear the bad name of a tyrant for a while."

While he was talking, suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps behind him.

The sound of footsteps dispelled the slightly discordant atmosphere among the few people. They followed the prestige and saw Qiu Ju, who was serving the emperor, trotting over.

Walking to the front, Qiu Ju first cupped his hands at several people, then his gaze fell on Wang Yangming, and with a smile on his face, he said: "Hou Xinjian, Your Majesty asked the old servant to come and stay with you. Your Majesty has something to call for you." .”

Yang Tinghe, Zhang Cai, and Wang Jia looked at each other, nodded slightly to Wang Yangming, then smiled at Qiu Ju and said, "Since His Majesty summoned you, I will take my leave first."

With a smile on his face, Qiu Ju nodded to Yang Ting and the others and said, "Guesses, go slowly."

When Wang Yangming and Qiu Ju saw the emperor again, the emperor had already returned to the imperial study.

In the imperial study room, Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting there changing his clothes, stopped Wang Yangming who was about to salute him when he saw Wang Yangming, and said, "The Qing family doesn't need to be too polite."

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao waved to Qiu Ju and said, "Big Companion, give Wang Qing's family a seat!"

After thanking the emperor, Wang Yangming sat down and his eyes fell on the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Wang Yangming with a solemn look and said, "Why did the Qing family keep trying to dissuade me?"

Zhu Houzhao is not a fool. If Wang Yangming's obvious dissuasion was not noticed, he might not be able to sit firmly on the throne of the emperor.

Wang Yangming said solemnly: "Your Majesty, don't you know that if His Majesty personally orders to deal with the major case of Yangzhou Mansion today, His Majesty will not be able to bear the name of tyranny in the future."

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he heard the words. After all, Zhu Houzhao was too young. Even if he had received excellent royal education since he was a child, and was even instructed by Emperor Xiaozong to teach the emperor's art, it still couldn't change him. After all, he was only in his twenties. fact.

Compared with those old ministers who have been up and down in the court for decades, it is normal for a young and vigorous emperor with a young heart to be impulsive and careless.

Looking at Wang Yangming, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help showing a thoughtful look on his face. After all, he is the emperor who has been educated in the perfect emperor's mind.

Taking a deep breath, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing angrily: "Okay, okay, I'm really a good subject, do they want me to bear the name of a tyrant? If you kill these people, you will be a tyrant." name, so what if I become a tyrant!"

Wang Yangming's eyes lit up when he heard the words, then he shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, the matter is not that simple."

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