Jiajing Chengming

Chapter 311 Please take revenge on my clan more harshly!
at that time.

Lou Yingkui, Zhang Shi and other rioters were so frightened when they saw the prefect being killed that their faces turned pale.

Lou Yingkui and Zhang Shi also retracted their feet that were about to step forward and stood where they were.

Some of the thugs who followed them even knelt down.

Saying.

The common people who came with these scholars were indeed mostly ruffians.

They are idle and have always liked to please these gentry, work for them, and rely on their power to bully men and women.

After all, decent people would rather support their families through hard work.

Stop gossiping.

Here.

Feng Jing had already fallen to the ground, his hands covering his bleeding stomach, as if trying to stop the bleeding.

"Zhu Wan, I am an official appointed by the imperial court!"

Feng Jing reminded Zhu Wan weakly.

Zhu Wan then took out the secret decree sent by the cabinet and said, "I know you are an official appointed by the court, but I have received a secret decree granting the judicial department the power to make arbitrary decisions. Officials and gentry who obstruct the defense against the Japanese pirates and prohibit the sea will be treated as obstructing important military affairs. The death penalty can be decided in advance and reported to the court. Therefore, killing you is nothing more than a formality after the fact."

Feng Jing was stunned for a moment, and then he died.

Zhu Wan turned around and looked at Lou Yingkui and Zhang Shi who were brought here.

Lou Yingkui looked at Zhu Wan: "What do you want?"

"Who ordered you to do this?"

At this time, Zhu Wan asked Lou Yingkui in a deep voice.

Lou Yingkui smiled coldly: "No one ordered me to do this! I just did it for the sake of hometown righteousness!"

"very good!"

"The Great Ming Code clearly states that anyone who protects smugglers will be punished with the same crime as the criminals!"

"According to this, this man shall be beaten with a hundred sticks first!"

After Zhu Wan gave the order, he shouted again: "Hit him hard!"

"Yes!"

Lou Yingkui was pinned to the ground by the soldiers of the Coastal Defense Office, who then took out a large stick and started beating Lou Yingkui hard on his waist and back.

The sergeants showed no mercy.

Because what Zhu Wan said was true.

Snapped!
Therefore, Lou Yingkui felt like his waist was broken after only the first blow, and he couldn't even scream out in pain.

Snapped!
When the second baton came down, Lou Yingkui fainted from the pain.

Then, in the third round, Lou Yingkui vomited blood.

As a scholar, he was weak and frail. He died before he could endure ten blows. By the time he had endured a hundred blows, he had turned into a puddle of mud.

Zhu Wan looked at Zhang Shi and asked, "Were you the one who spat at this dynasty's meritorious official just now?"

"So what?"

"You call him a hero, right? He was just a foreign merchant who came to pay tribute and do business. The treacherous minister Wang Hong exaggerated his words. How can he be called a hero?"

"The one who can enter the imperial examination and even pass the imperial examination and be named by the imperial edict is a good man!"

"They are just impoverished military families!"

"Traitor, you are also a Jinshi, but you insist on treating scholars with contempt. Aren't you afraid that your entire clan will be implicated in the future?!"

As Zhang Shi spoke, he asked about Zhu Wan in a deep voice.

Zhu Wan simply said, "If you can tell me who's behind this, I can consider it a merit, forgive your crime of rebellion and disrespect, and give you a lighter punishment!"

"Don't think about it!"

Zhang Shi said in a deep voice.

Zhu Wan's face turned sullen and he said sternly, "Then drag him away and beat him up, one hundred strokes of the cane!"

"Yes!"

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Zhang Shi was also hit hard with a stick, and soon he vomited blood.

Zhu Wan asked the soldiers to bring another scholar over and asked, "Tell me, who gave the order for this?"

"Big, big."

Before the scholar could finish his words, Zhang Shi, who was being beaten, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Brother Liangqing! No!"

The scholar, whose courtesy name was Li Junmin, raised his head and looked at Zhu Wan, gritting his teeth and cursing, "Traitor! You will die a miserable death sooner or later!"

"Hit him hard, too!"

Zhu Wan only gave one order in a deep voice.

Then, Li Junmin was also beaten.

Zhu Wan then had another scholar brought over and asked the scholar, "What's your name?"

"Xin Shizong!"

Xin Shizong replied.

then.

Xin Shizong trembled and said, "I can't say it, I can't say it!"

"Then hit me hard!"

Zhu Wan continued to speak in deep thought.

"slow!"

"Zhu Wan, you are so cruel, aren't you afraid of being infamous forever?!"

At this time, Zhai Zan, the deputy governor of Zhejiang Province, walked out of the sedan chair that had just stopped with a sullen face.

Zhu Wan asked, "What does this have to do with you?"

"I sent them here."

"I want to do Mr. Hushan a favor."

Zhai Zan said something at this time.

Zhu Wan smiled faintly and said, "It's good enough if the Grand Master admits it."

"That's it!"

Zhu Wan waved his hands and said, "Since he is an accomplice who was instructed by someone, stop beating him. Carry him back to the prison with the others and call a doctor to treat his wounds. We will discuss the rest after his wounds have healed. For the deceased, let his family come and claim him."

"Yes!"

then.

Except for Zhang Shi who died from being hit by too many sticks, Li Junmin and Xin Shizong survived and were carried to the prison of the Coastal Defense Office by soldiers.

Other soldiers and civilians were also taken to prison.

Zhu Wan looked at the Deputy Commissioner of Education, Zhai Zan, and said, "As for the cause of death, please ask the Grand Master to issue a certificate stating that it was you who caused them to suffer this disaster, so that their families will know the truth."

Zhai Zan looked at the prefect Feng Jing who had fallen to the ground, and Lou Yingkui and Zhang Shi who had died. His face was extremely ugly. He took a deep breath and said, "Okay!"

Zhai Zan then asked his attendants to distribute the cards.

Zhai Zan looked at Zhu Wan and continued, "It would be fine if it was just two scholars, but why did you kill Feng Futai as well?"

"He wanted to die himself!"

"Don't worry about that. I will prepare the paperwork to explain the situation and attach the corresponding confession."

After Zhu Wan said this, she looked at Zhai Zan and said, "Now please just come with us."

Zhai Zan asked, "Why, do you still want to take me?"

Zhu Wan took out the secret decree and said, "Look for yourself."

Zhai Zan took the secret decree and took a look at it.

Afterwards, Zhai Zan couldn't help but close his eyes and took off his official hat: "Put on the shackles."

Zhu Wan then had Zhai Zan put in handcuffs.

At this time, Zhai Zan asked Zhu Wan again: "If you do this, I'm afraid that the wealthy families along the southeast coast will want to eat you alive. Are you really not afraid?"

"What's the fear of death?"

Zhu Wan asked with a sneer.

"Aren't you afraid of implicating your family?"

"Your immediate family members can be protected by the imperial court, but what about your clan members?"

Zhai Zan asked through gritted teeth.

Zhu Wan was even less concerned: "I hope they can retaliate more harshly!"

Zhai Zan then remembered that Zhu Wan's growth experience was different from theirs. He was a bastard son of a branch family who had been bullied enough by the clan. If it were not for ethical constraints, he would have settled the score with his clan members first. If the wealthy families in the southeast coast wanted to cause trouble for his clan members because of this, it would undoubtedly be exactly what he wanted.

Zhai Zan had nothing to say.

Let’s talk.

Xie Dou had just learned from his son Xie Cong that Grand Master Zhai Zan had asked a group of scholars to protect Mr. Hushan, the Song Mian family, from smuggling, and said, "Great! As long as they rescue Mr. Hushan's people, the ships cooperating with us can continue to go out to sea."

Xie Wuze asked, "Sir, in that case, should we settle their payment first?"

"How can we pay them the money for the goods? Let them pay for it themselves first! Even if we have money now, we have to use it to bribe the imperial envoy who will come to investigate Zhu Wan!"

Xie Dou said unhappily.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)