Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 184 Chapter 180 Chapter [-]: Beating a woman

After handling the affairs of Kong Lao'er's family, Wang Daoqiu went to Jeju, where he and Yang Jinshui planned the location of the Jeju Iron Works. After that, he returned to Jinan Prefecture to fulfill his duties as governor of Shandong.

On this day, Wang Daoqiu was reviewing official documents, and the clerk came over to report that there was a civilian woman at the door asking to see him.In the Ming Dynasty, the distance between the government and the people was not like that of a large country, where they were completely two worlds. The leadership had no idea how the people at the bottom lived. The two sides were like two parallel lines, completely non-intersecting.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was normal for ordinary people to meet officials. Even if an ordinary civilian wanted to meet the governor of a province, the governor would usually meet him.If you go to knock on the Dengwen drum at the gate of the yamen, then the chief official of the yamen will definitely have to see you. Even if you go to knock on the Dengwen drum at the gate of the palace, Emperor Jiajing will still have to see you no matter how impatient he is.

This is an iron rule formulated by Comrade Zhu, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect the smooth flow of speech and allow low-pitched voices to reach the top.No one is allowed to disobey, not even the emperor.

Therefore, in the Ming generation, except for the complete chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people at the bottom no longer trust the court or the emperor at all, and are determined to speak to the Ming court with their fists.At other times, communication between the upper and lower levels in Ming Dynasty is still possible.

At least in the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people's petitioning by leapfrogging was encouraged in Lao Zhu's time, and the government along the way would provide board and lodging for the petitioners.The Ming emperor after Lao Zhu felt that it was unseemly for the crowd to cheer up and leapfrog petitions, so he no longer encouraged such behaviors.But not encouraging is not encouraging. If any level of government dares to block the masses from petitioning, it is still a felony under the Ming law and will be severely punished.In a word, the principle and purpose of the Ming Dynasty's laws focus on protecting the common people, not the officials, not the kind of big country that does not see the blue sky but only sees the officials.

Just like now, a civilian woman goes to the governor's office and tells the officer at the door that she wants to see the governor of a province.In a large country, this is definitely a joke. The government officials will drive this civilian woman away instead of reporting to the governor.But in the Ming Dynasty, the same thing happened. Whether the governor saw this civilian woman or not was the governor's own business, but the officer at the door had to report the matter to the governor.Otherwise, these guards at the door are guilty of blocking the flow of speech, and they will be exiled without their uniforms.

So now a civilian woman asked to see Wang Daoqiu, the officer in the Shandong governor's Yamen quickly came to report the matter to Wang Daoqiu.And Wang Daoqiu heard from this clerk that there was a commoner woman who wanted to see him. He thought that this old commoner woman did not go to her county magistrate when she had something to do, but she bravely came to him, the governor of the province.It must be that this woman is either in serious trouble or her county magistrate is acting unfairly.

Thinking of this, Wang Daoqiu asked the scribe to bring the civilian woman in.

Not long after, the scribe brought in the civilian woman who asked to see Wang Daoqiu.Wang Daoqiu looked at this civilian woman. She was in her 40s, her figure had gained weight and was out of shape, and her face had been damaged by time. The word "beautiful" had nothing to do with it.

Although this woman looked old and was very plainly dressed, she had fair skin. Seeing Wang Daoqiu, the governor of the province, she did not show any nervousness on her face. She gave Wang Daoqiu a standard Wanfu gift in a dignified manner. .

Just because of the woman's good complexion, especially her calmness when meeting officials, Wang Daoqiu knew at a glance that this woman was definitely not a commoner's woman, but an official from an official family who had seen the world. Mrs.

After roughly understanding the other party's identity, Wang Daoqiu didn't say anything, waiting for the woman to speak on her own.After the woman performed the Wanfu ceremony for Wang Daoqiu, she said slowly: "Ms. Chen, a commoner woman, and Kong Renhui, a dog son, accidentally bumped into you in Qufu not long ago. The commoner woman came here today specifically to apologize to you. .”

After saying this, Mrs. Chen wished Wang Daoqiu another blessing.After Wang Daoqiu heard about Chen's identity, he quickly waved the clerk away.

When the scribe went out, only Wang Daoqiu and Chen were left in the duty room.Wang Daoqiu asked: "Are you Kong Renhui's mother? Don't people say you are a nun?"

"Yes, my lord, I used to be a nun in the temple. But a few years ago, I moved to the mountains to practice spiritual practice. After seeing no pilgrims, I had my hair renewed. This made your lord laugh."

When asked by the governor of a province, Chen was not nervous at all and responded calmly. She even had a strong sense of force in her bones, which made Wang Daoqiu very unhappy.After all, those women in later generations were so strong that any man with some self-respect would want to go up and beat them up when he saw their dead looks.

Now Chen's strength from the bottom of his heart immediately aroused Wang Daoqiu's deep hatred for those girls in later generations.

So facing Chen's dominance, Wang Daoqiu confronted him very bluntly: "It's not true that you escaped into the deep mountains to practice, but it's true to look at his wealth for your son!"

Anyone with a brain can understand what Wang Daoqiu meant by this. Chen also felt at this moment that her heart seemed to have been severely hit by Wang Daoqiu.But in the past, her concubine Yan Shenggong Shen Hongtai took her to eat, drink, and have romantic affairs with many officials in private.Therefore, Ms. Chen has long since developed the demeanor of a master's wife in front of officials.Therefore, even though Wang Daoqiu exposed her scandal, Ms. Chen still looks calm on the outside.Mrs. Chen did not answer Wang Daoqiu's words, but changed the subject and said: "The child is young and ignorant, and he bumped into the adults. The common woman apologizes to the adults again. But adults, what do you say, the child is also the Saint Kong now and remains in this world. His only bloodline. You tortured him in public and imprisoned him because of a misunderstanding. Isn’t this too disrespectful of Saint Kong?"

What?What does Chen mean?Is she questioning herself?Seeing the respectful expression on Mrs. Chen's face and the extremely tough attitude in her words, I then thought about the message revealed in Mrs. Chen's words just now.It seems that Mrs. Chen doesn't know the agreement between her son Kong Renhui and her!Didn't she go to Qufu Prison to visit him?

Thinking of this, Wang Daoqiu asked Chen: "Ms. Chen, I just heard your tone. You seem to know nothing about your son! Didn't you go to Qufu Prison to visit him?"

"Sir, although you are still young, you are already a world-famous Liuyuanjidi. At your age, you were granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister, and you were ranked as the Grand Tutor of the dynasty. You have a great reputation. For a big shot like you, take me for granted. The civilian woman was amused, this is such a low price!"

"Hahahaha, Mrs. Chen, you know that I, Wang Daoqiu, have great achievements and high position, but you still have a tough attitude in front of me, Wang Daoqiu. How dare you say that you are a civilian woman? Mrs. Chen, I have something to say. I feel it is necessary to remind you, not to mention your adulterer Yan Shenggong Kong Hongtai, who has been tortured and thrown into the cesspit by the mob long ago. Even if he is standing here now, I will not be afraid of this bullshit Yan Shenggong. So Chen, I would like to advise you that when you talk to me, you'd better have a correct attitude."

"Hahahaha, I'm so ridiculous! Wang Daoqiu, before you speak harshly to the concubine, the concubine also reminded you that although you have a high position and authority now, don't forget that you are learning the way of Confucius and Mencius, and you have passed the four books and five classics." You have to worship the statue of Confucianism all your life. You are a student of Yanshenggong Confucianism all your life. You are a teacher for one day and a father for life. Wang Daoqiu, you are definitely not someone who can desecrate Yanshenggong , wake up!"

Faced with Wang Daoqiu's warning, Chen completely tore off her disguise and bared her fangs at Wang Daoqiu.And Chen's appearance completely angered Wang Daoqiu.

In anger, Wang Daoqiu didn't talk nonsense, he rang the bell and called his guards in.And when the guards came in, Wang Daoqiu directly ordered that Chen's mouth should be gagged, and he would give him a hard blow first.

Seeing Wang Daoqiu's disagreement, he ordered the guards to beat her. Mrs. Chen was also frightened. She really didn't expect that Wang Daoqiu would really dare to beat her, the woman of Yan Shenggong.Therefore, after hearing Wang Daoqiu's words, Chen felt a deep sense of unreality and suspected that he had heard wrongly.

While Chen was stunned, Wang Daoqiu's guard's fist hit Chen's stomach with a heavy blow, immediately turning Chen into a shrimp, bending over and losing the ability to speak.After knocking Ms. Chen dumb, the guards' fists and kicks struck at Ms. Chen one after another. In just a short while, Ms. Chen was beaten until she was lying on the ground, unable to even hum.

Seeing that someone might be killed if the fight continued, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly shouted out to stop the guards, and asked them to tie up Mrs. Chen and throw her into the stable.Then he asked them to call Li Qianshi from Jinyiwei.

After receiving the order, the guards tied up Mrs. Chen and dragged her away like a dead dog, and then called Li Qianshi over.

As soon as he saw Li Qianshi, Wang Daoqiu asked: "Li Qianshi, what's going on? That Kong Renhui's mother came over just now. Listening to her words, she seemed not to care about what Kong Renhui discussed with us. I don’t know about it either. Could it be that Qufu didn’t let her visit the prison?”

"Hey, Sir, why are you visiting the prison? In order to prevent anything from going wrong, Kong Renhui was pushed against the wall in the lobby of Qufu, so we, the Jinyi Guards, secretly detained him and did not let him see outsiders. There is also the Qufu Lin County Magistrate, I also We lied to him and said that if we follow you, you will be promoted quickly, and we asked him to hand over the government affairs to the county magistrate and follow us, and then we also took him into custody. Now Kong Renhui and County Magistrate Lin are both under custody when we last This is where a group of Jinan corrupt officials, led by the acting magistrate of Jinan Zhang Liangwei, are imprisoned. So Kong Renhui’s mother, where can she visit the prison?”

So that's the case, it seems that people who do this kind of thing are still professional in Jinyiwei, but I am careless.Knowing this, Wang Daoqiu disrespected himself just now because Chen was the woman of Duke Yan.But he couldn't suppress his anger for a while, and asked the guards to beat Chen to death, and told Li Qian everything in detail.

After saying these things, Wang Daoqiu said to Li Qianshi with regret: "I originally planned to coax Kong Renhui to come to Beijing and take him to see the Chief Assistant. Then let the Chief Assistant's genius son Yan Shifan, one by one, Kong Renhui was coaxed into giving money. After all, when it comes to deceiving people, Yan Shifan is a genius, and his ability is definitely not comparable to Kong Renhui. And as long as Kong Renhui comes back to get the money, we will send spies to follow up, where is the Kong family's treasure? , wouldn’t it have been leaked? But now I couldn’t hold back and beat Kong Renhui’s mother Chen, then this matter will definitely change.”

"In this case, Li Qian, you send someone to inquire about Kong Renhui's mother, Chen, in which temple in the deep mountain she practiced. Then send Jin Yiwei to control that temple and interrogate the nuns there. , I suspect that there may be a treasure hidden in the Confucius family in that temple. In addition, if you arrange a secret interrogation of Chen, I suspect that Chen not only knows about a treasure hidden in the Confucius family. And you should send a horse back to Beijing immediately, Tell Governor Lu about this matter and ask him to dispatch the detective experts from the Jinyi Guards to come here immediately for their advice."

"Here"

(End of this chapter)