Thief Emperor

Chapter 667 The biggest punishment
Due to productivity constraints, at least half of the people in this era are hungry.

Take another world as an example. Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, half of the people, or even more than half, still could not get enough food to eat.

In this situation, a human life is worth only a dozen or twenty strings of cash. What about the dignity of the common people?
Worthless.

Just as Li Yun saw, before he even mentioned the matter, someone had already come to help with it, and some even did it themselves, just to enter the palace and become a eunuch.

Most of these people are at the bottom of society, and there is no easy way out for them. If they enter Li Yun's palace, they can at least get something to eat.

If Mr. Li were to gain control of the world now, countless people from the lower classes would rush to him to become eunuchs. At that time, if they wanted to enter the palace, they might have to spend money and use connections.

This incident did have a certain impact on Li Yun's values.

By this time, he had been here for several years and thought that he had a good understanding of this world, but as it stands now, many things are completely different from what he thought.

After leaving the palace gate, Liu Bo, who was stationed in Jinling City, came running to greet him in just a cup of tea time, saying, "Second brother, come this way."

Li Yun nodded and followed him.

After walking a few steps, he looked back at Li Yun and said with a smile: "Second brother, do you know that the one in Li Zheng's family is about to give birth?"

Li Yun was startled, then patted his head and shook his head, saying, "I've been so busy lately that I really don't know."

"Li Zheng probably knew that my second brother was busy, so he wrote me a letter and asked me to help take care of him."

Liu Bo continued: "He said he would not come back."

Li Yun took a deep breath and nodded slowly: "I understand."

Not long after Li Zhengnian's birth, he left Jinling and returned to Lingnan, which means that it was difficult for him to see the birth of his child.

"I'll say hello to your second sister-in-law later and ask her to go to Li Zheng's house and help take care of him."

Liu Bo responded and said with a smile: "That's good. As a grown man, I'm really embarrassed to go to his house."

While the two were talking, an inconspicuous courtyard came into view. Li Yun glanced at Liu Bo and said, "I remember Jiusi was not here."

Liu Bo smiled and said, "A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Now the Nine Divisions have quite a few places in Jinling City. I don't know exactly how many there are."

He looked at Li Yun, coughed, and said, "Don't worry, second brother. We got the house through legitimate means. We have the title deed and the land deed."

After saying that, he pushed open the door of the house. There were people from the Nine Departments guarding inside. When they saw the two people coming in, they all knelt on the ground and bowed their heads in greeting: "Your Majesty, Si Zheng!"

Li Yun ignored them, while Liu Bo waved his hand and said, "Everyone get up."

Several people quickly stood up. Li Yun looked inside the house and asked, "Are those five people all inside?"

"Yes."

Li Yun said calmly: "Find a clerk to record it, and the two of us will go in and question them."

"it is good."

Liu Bo nodded, turned around and called a clerk, then he and Li Yun entered the house one after another. Inside the room, there were five middle-aged scholars, each sitting on a chair, but they were shackled and it was not very convenient for them to move.

Seeing Li Yun and the other man come in, the five people stood up almost at the same time and looked at Li Yun in unison, but because of Li Yun's aura, none of them dared to speak.

Mr. Li glanced at the five of them, then turned to look at Liu Bo: "Jiu Si is pretty good to them. They have been slick for a few days."

Liu Bo coughed and said, "Someone reminded me that it's not good to be cruel to them, as it would hurt my second brother's reputation, so I never tortured them."

At this time, an old man in his fifties looked up at Li Yun and sneered, "Li thief, stop talking nonsense. He dares to speak for justice, so he has never been afraid of death. Go ahead!"

Li Yun touched his chin and muttered, "Your last name is He."

He turned around and looked at Liu Bo: "Last name is He."

Liu Bo replied: "He Xiu."

He paused, then added, "All dead."

Li Yun turned around and looked at him with a slightly sympathetic look, then said with his hands behind his back, "Mr. He, all your family members are dead."

He Xiu's face suddenly changed. He raised his hand and pointed at Li Yun. His hands were shaking uncontrollably and his voice was trembling violently.

"You...you...you are talking nonsense!"

"The imperial court has clearly taken my family away from Jiangdong!"

Li Yun shook his head slightly and said, "It seems that you personally entrusted your family to those people in the court. No wonder they were not on guard at all. Your whole family was poisoned and then hacked to death."

He paused and continued, "I guess it's because if they just poisoned someone to death, it wouldn't be easy to spread. They have to see blood, so they did this."

He Xiu turned pale and could no longer hold on, falling directly to the ground. The other four people's faces also changed suddenly, and they couldn't help but look at Li Yun together.

Some people gnashed their teeth and said, "You are such a thief who refuses to change. We just said a few words of truth, but you, a thief, are so cruel!"

Four men, each dragging their shackles, were about to walk towards Li Yun, but Li ignored them and walked straight to the main seat, sitting down with his horse and sword in his arms. After he sat down, he glanced at the four men, who were all obedient and did not dare to come forward.

Even the most powerful masters in the world would not be a match for Li Yun if they were wearing shackles, let alone these scholars.

Li Yun's aura alone was enough to scare them away.

Li glanced at the four people and said calmly, "I took time out of my busy schedule to come here today to explain this matter to you so that you won't die with regrets."

"You guys were all invited by Jinling Prefecture. Three of you were clerks who went there at the end of last year. The remaining two are closer and were the clerks who went to you last year."

"You all arrived in Jinling at the end of the first month."

"On the second day of the second month, you were at Zhongshan, saying those stupid things."

At this point, Li Yun paused, looked at a few people, and said expressionlessly: "At that time, there should have been other people on Zhongshan Mountain, watching your movements. As soon as you did what they said, they immediately started to take action."

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"Most of your family members were assaulted in the third year of junior high school."

Li Yun glanced at a few people and asked calmly, "Do you understand?"

Four people, you look at me, I look at you.

Finally, they all looked at He Xiu, who was sitting on the ground, stunned.

Mr. Li tapped the table with his hand and said expressionlessly, "Because of the stupid things you did, this matter has become my fault. In ten days or half a month at most, the court will make this matter public. Believe it or not."

"You are all scholars."

Li Yun stood up and said calmly, "They shouldn't be that stupid. Think about it. They should have promised you that as long as you sacrifice yourself, they will protect your family."

"If they really agreed to your request, they would have spent at least half a month to a month to do this. Except for some important roads, the roads in and outside Jiangdong are unobstructed. For such a long time, none of your families left?"

As he spoke, he looked at the five people and said, "You five families."

Li Yun held up four fingers: "Only four people survived, and they all escaped by luck."

"Think about it carefully, don't be so stupid."

After saying that, Li Yun stood up, walked to the door with his hands behind his back, and glanced back at the five people at the door.

"You five are all from Jiangdong. I would like to ask you five more questions. How do you think Jiangdong compares to the old imperial court after I arrived there?"

After asking this question, Li Yun gave Liu Bo a look, and Liu Bo immediately lowered his head and followed.

After the two brothers walked out of the room, Liu Bo stopped, turned around to listen to the noise in the room, then quickly caught up with Li Yun and smiled: "Second brother, they are crying!"

“I heard them cry!”

Li Yun glanced at Liu Bo and scolded him with a smile: "You are already the chief judge, but you still act like a monkey!"

Liu Bo chuckled and asked, "Second brother, how do we deal with these idiots?"

"Let's hand it over to Jinling Prefecture. Let Zhuo Guangrui go through the legal process, re-examine it, and keep the files."

At this point, Li Yun narrowed his eyes and said in a muffled voice: "You meet with Zhuo Guangrui and tell him not to kill these five people."

"As long as they live, they suffer."

Mr. Li hummed, "This is my greatest punishment for them!"

Liu Bo thought about it seriously, then shuddered and lowered his head slightly and said, "Second brother's temper is still the same as before."

Li Yun looked at him and asked with a smile, "What do you mean?"

Liu Bo said softly, "Resentment."

Li Yun laughed, patted his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Pay more attention to the affairs of the Imperial City Bureau. I'm going to the Secretariat. I'll leave this to you."

After saying that, Li Yun left here and went all the way to the Zhongshu in the new city of Jinling. He soon met Du Qian. After receiving Du Qian's courtesy, Li Yun looked at him and asked with a smile.

"Brother Du, if there is anything else urgent, I will deal with it as soon as possible."

"If nothing else, I will... lead the troops into the Central Plains."

(End of this chapter)