When Hunjun begins to make elixirs

Chapter 163 The Great Official Prestige

The Yang family saw their head being taken away by the Shenji Guards.How can you be willing to obey someone who is used to being arrogant and domineering?Several people wanted to step forward to stop him, and even used their true energy.Yang Wei immediately stopped them with sharp eyes.At this moment, you are doing too much and making too many mistakes, but you still think there are not enough things?

Chaokong noticed something unusual about the Yang family. Wasn't the proportion of cultivators a bit too large?For an aristocratic family, becoming an official should be their pursuit.He has never seen so many practitioners in a family.

In the Nanshan County Government Office, Ding Ao put on his official uniform and sat in the lobby. Bao Mingtong accompanied him below. Opposite him sat Officer Yue Lang of the Shenji Guard.The villager who complained yesterday is from Nanfeng Village. The survivor is kneeling on the left.The servant who beat and silenced people is kneeling on the right.

Bao Mingtong angrily asked the servants: "You are so brave! It was not enough to beat people yesterday, but you dared to kill people and silence them! Tell me! Who is behind this!"

The servants all looked sarcastic and kept silent.

Seeing how arrogant and lawless these people were, Ding Ao said, "President Bao, there's no need to ask. They were caught on the spot by Shenji Guards. The evidence is conclusive and they should be convicted according to law. They want to fight for their master, we Just fulfill them.”

Bao Mingtong immediately began to convict: "The murder at the county government office and contempt for the court is the first crime. Beating the people and resisting the New Deal is the second crime. Being unrepentant and killing people to silence them is the third crime. The punishment for several crimes is the death penalty and the third crime is barbarism. clan.”

Ding Ao said to Shen Jiwei: "I am an imperial envoy sent by the emperor. These people are resisting the New Deal. I have the right to deal with them immediately without submitting them to the Ministry of Punishment. Please do it if you can."

The two Yuelang officials stood up and called the Shenji Guards. As they spoke, they were about to drag him out of the hall for execution.

The servants saw that he seemed to be serious.His body trembled like chaff in a sieve: "Sir, you are unjust!"

Ding Ao sneered and said: "Unjustly? Are the people who were deprived of their fields, driven out of the village, and died tragically innocent by you not unjustly accused? I hate you the most in my life for those who are the accomplices of tigers. Aren't you the ones who were born and raised by the common people? How can you treat these homeless people? The poor people who can be returned can afford to kill you! I will give you another chance! Tell me who is behind the scenes and what the purpose is, and I will avoid any involvement in your family members! Otherwise, even if I don’t I have to be patient, but the king’s law is merciless!”

Along the way, Ding Ao has seen too many such unscrupulous slaves, sometimes worse than their masters.The place has been out of the control of the imperial court for too long. Each of these people regard the king's law as child's play and feel that killing an individual is easier than killing a chicken.The powerful local families colluded with the government to prey on the common people and disregard human lives.

He is a person who is careful about punishment and killing, and he can hardly suppress his inner anger.The surviving villagers were all skinny, with earth-colored faces. Every one of them was injured, and some were even disabled.In this day and age, taking away a person's land is equivalent to taking away half of their life, and they will not be able to live long if they lose the ability to work.

Nanfeng Village and Beifeng Village are both large villages. The combined population of the two villages is at least nearly a thousand households.Now, there are only a few dozen people left in Nanfeng Village.Even if the Yang family has nothing to do with the Gao Wuyong case, because of this crime and giving up his official title, he still wants to seek justice for the people of the two villages!

"Master Ding is so powerful!" Yang Wei walked over from the yamen gate and stared at Ding Ao with a gloomy face.He came to the hall and stood upright without saluting.

Bao Mingtong shouted angrily: "Kneel down!"

Yang Wei said: "Yang Wei, a common man, was elected in the 32nd year of King Sejong's reign. He has great fame and will not kneel before officials."

Bao Mingtong said: "Master Ding is the imperial envoy! On behalf of the emperor, he inspects various places!"

Yang Wei had no choice but to kneel down and say: "The common people respectfully wish my emperor to be in peace." Ding Ao replied: "Holy peace."

After a set of procedures, Yang Wei stood up and looked at the imperial envoy who was more than ten years younger than himself. He was thin and had dark skin. He looked like he had been exposed to the sun for a long time and looked older than himself.If it weren't for the official uniform, he would really look like an old farmer.As soon as Ding Ao entered the local area, he attracted the attention of the noble families from all over the world, and his previous experience also reached the ears of the powerful families.

He was a Jinshi scholar, served as a Hanlin scholar for less than a year, and served as county magistrate. He had outstanding political achievements and was promoted to magistrate.Because of his role in defending the city, he was transferred back to the capital by the emperor and served as Minister of Household Affairs. He became an imperial envoy and first supervised disaster relief.After that, he also served as the censor of Youdu, and still served as an imperial envoy to inspect the implementation of the New Deal.

The Shengtong Emperor employs people who are useful only to the point of death.

Many people speculate that Ding Ao will have to join the cabinet or work in the Privy Council when he returns.In this dynasty, the cabinet bachelors are at least from the first rank.Although the privy ministers are not of high rank, they gradually have the tendency to compete with the cabinet.Although some ministers now hold concurrent positions in the Cabinet and the Privy Council, anyone with a discerning eye knows that sooner or later the two will be separated.

Now Emperor Shengtong has the power to appoint and remove officials with one hand, and controls the army with the other.Whoever can gain the emperor's trust will be the prime minister.Temporary power is also power.For officials, power is temporary. As long as you retire, who cares how big an official you were before?

Yang Wei knew that this kind of hard-working person who was promoted from the local area was difficult to deal with, so he had no idea of ​​​​pleasing with him. The other party made it clear that he was here for him: "Master Ding summoned the common people to come, what do you mean?"

Ding Ao saw that he knew what he was asking and said directly: "Your servants made trouble at the gate of the county government yesterday, beating the people and resisting the implementation of the New Deal. The county magistrate Bao threatened to participate in the performance to the emperor, but was threatened instead, and the impact was very bad. I am a starry night before I came here to find out the facts, but I saw them killing villagers in the west of the city, and they were captured on the spot by the Shenji Guards. With such lawlessness, can it be that I, the king of Dayin, cannot control the people of your Yang family?"

Yang Wei squinted at the group of servants and rebuked angrily: "You unscrupulous slaves, yesterday you caused trouble without permission. I thought of your devotion to protecting the Lord, so I drove you out of the Yang family. I didn't expect that you were so bold that you killed innocent people without permission." Although you are no longer members of the Yang family, I am still guilty of lax discipline. Please plead guilty! I will take care of your parents, wife and children."

Seeing what Yang Wei said, all the servants knew that they could not escape their guilt. If they did not commit suicide, their wives, children, and children would definitely be harmed.However, they didn't want to die, but looking at Yang Wei's stern eyes and thinking of his treatment of traitors, they shuddered: "We did these without permission, and the family owner didn't know about it. We are willing to plead guilty and obey the law!"

Bao Mingtong stood up and shouted: "What do you want to do?" Before he finished speaking, all the servants had fallen to the ground and died, their faces were blue and purple, and they were all poisoned.

Ding Ao saw everything in his eyes, with a solemn look on his face, thinking that this Yang Wei was so cruel, he could make all the servants who were afraid of death commit suicide with just one sentence.The incident happened suddenly, and Shenjiwei had no time to stop it.I originally wanted to have a confrontation in court, but it came to nothing.

"Drag it down! Autopsy!"

Ding Ao suddenly felt a headache: "The Yang family master is very clever. He got rid of responsibility and destroyed the evidence in just a few words."

Yang Wei smiled and asked Ding Ao: "Master Ding, please don't make this up out of thin air. This group of slaves obviously committed suicide out of fear of crime. Did the common people ever say that they wanted them to die? The discipline is not strict. I admit it. Instigating murder and contempt for the court, such a serious crime, The common people don’t dare to recognize it.”

Ding Ao pointed to the people in the hall and said: "These are the villagers of Nanfeng Village. Yesterday they came to the county government to sue the Yang family for seizing land and driving them out of the village. Can you admit this?"

Yang Wei glanced at the villagers with disdain: "Occupy? Ask them if they have received any money from my Yang family! I bought those lands from them."

(End of this chapter)