Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 197
According to the inspector Wang Ren's forehead, he couldn't help but sweat. He is a senior official in charge of the criminal law of a province. Originally, a murder case under the nose of His Majesty was enough for the officials to give him an inferior evaluation. The current situation seems to be worse than this. What's worse, if there is really a major case that will shock the whole country, Wang Ren doesn't know whether he will be dismissed by His Majesty later.

Looking at the corpses carried out one after another, Kong Zhenkan, the magistrate of Qufu County, was already trembling at this moment. He was originally from Bagong, and he finally spent some money to get it from Kong Yinzhi, the sage of Kong Yan. Li obtained the hereditary Qufu county magistrate, but now Qufu is almost dominated by the Confucian family, so he has not had time to recoup the cost of being an official.

This is not a big deal. As the parent official of Qufufu, as long as he has a good relationship with the big gentry represented by Kong Yan Shenggong, the big gentry will reciprocate and give him some benefits. At least he can satisfy the "three-year Qing magistrate" , One hundred thousand snowflake silver" wish.But now that such a big case happened, Kong Zhenkan, the magistrate of Qufu County, did not dare to extravagantly hope that he could stay in the position of magistrate of Qufu County and continue to make money, he just hoped that he would not lose his head.

At this time, Gu Tingzhuo, the chief minister of the left, and Luo Maoji, the prefect of Yanzhou, also rushed over, and saw that there were countless yamen soldiers digging soil and rocks in this area, working in full swing.The two were asking each other what happened, when they saw a yamen servant in front of him shouting as if asking for credit: "Come on, here's a hand!"

As soon as the yamen servant greeted him, several yamen servants came over, sprinkled lime, and after doing some simple anti-epidemic treatment, they began to dig the soil outside.Yi Zuo also hurried over, put on homemade antiseptic gloves, covered his nose and mouth with a linen cloth, and said: "After digging it out, spread it out immediately, don't get close, be careful of evil spirits getting on you."

The evil that Wu Zuo said actually refers to some anaerobic infectious bacteria that are concentrated around the natural culture medium due to the decay of the corpse. Everyone knows the danger of these evil spirits, and they also consciously retreat after the excavation, leaving only Wu Zuo here Operation.

After the homework was finished, soldiers who also covered their mouths and noses and wore lime powder gloves came over and carried the corpses aside, covered them with curtains, and waited for someone to come to confirm.

Although Kong Zhenkan, the county magistrate, knew that his official position might not be guaranteed, he did not dare to neglect his duties in front of His Majesty, so he had already sent people to investigate everywhere. Wait, although some corpses have decomposed, some can still maintain a basic appearance, and immediate family members may be able to identify them.

Seeing this scene, Gu Tingzhuo, the chief minister of the left, also guessed that some major incident was about to happen, and he was also worried that His Majesty would make a big fuss about it. He couldn't help but turned around and asked Luo Maoji, the governor of Yanzhou Prefecture: "Dong Ya, next time I When I ask you, you have to answer truthfully, this is related to your future, understand?"

"The lower official understands", Luo Maoji's heart is like a river and a sea at this time. Although he is an official living in the fourth-rank magistrate, he is still a little inferior and cowardly. Listen to the arrangement of Gu Tingzhuo, the chief minister of the left.

"As far as I know, your master is good at housework, and the number of maidservants in your family is even comparable to that of the court. Now these corpses are related to your master?"

Gu Tingzhuo looked at Luo Maoji with sharp eyes, and Luo Maoji's heart was bristling when he saw it. He didn't know what to say for a while. Since he was a close servant of his master Kong Yan Shenggong Kong Yinzhi since he was a child, he naturally knew his master's temperament, but He also didn't want to tell outsiders about his master's habits.

Seeing Luo Maoji hesitating, Gu Tingzhuo, the chief minister of the left, was also a little annoyed, and cursed in a low voice: "If you have it, you have it; The future fate of the world's gentry!"

"Yes, yes!" Luo Maoji, the prefect of Yanzhou, nodded: "The student also accidentally heard that the disappearance of Kong Zhiqi's daughter was in the master's mansion, and the master also secretly asked me to take this case Press down."

Gu Tingzhuo saw the fan from Youdongchang approaching, and waved at Luo Maoji, and Luo Maoji had no choice but to wave.

Then, Gu Tingzhuo walked over as if nothing had happened, and seeing that the current sage Zhu Youxiao was also there, he bowed respectfully to Zhu Youxiao: "I have seen Your Majesty, I don't know that Your Majesty has personally Come here, the next official came a step late, guilty and guilty."

Luo Maoji, the magistrate of Yanzhou, also saluted and apologized.

"Get up and answer, I came here temporarily, I don't blame you", when Zhu Youxiao said, in the sweltering woods, the green grass was already covered with forty corpses and skeletons. Almost the entire governor's yamen and the inspector's yamen dug up the entire grassland.

Even Zhu Youxiao himself, as a person who had been in the dissection room in his previous life, felt extremely horrified at this moment.

What's more, the forty corpses whose features could still be seen or had been decomposed to the point where only skeletons remained were found to be females between the ages of thirteen and sixteen through the observation of their pelvic structures.

The assistant summoned by the county magistrate of Qufu also came over at this time: "Your majesty, and gentlemen, the grassroots have checked and found out that these forty corpses are all women from thirteen to sixteen, and they were all tortured before death. The methods of whipping and beating were very cruel, and 0 of them suffered fractures, and seven of them bit their jaws tightly. It is guessed that they bit their tongues and committed suicide due to the unbearable humiliation.”

"Kong Zhenkan, Magistrate of Qufu County, Luo Maoji, Prefect of Yanzhou Prefecture!"

Zhu Youxiao asked coldly.

Kong Zhenkan, the magistrate of Qufu County, was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, while Luo Maoji, the magistrate of Yanzhou, also replied dully: "My minister is here!"

"What's going on here? The hometown of Confucius and Mencius, the birthplace of Confucianism, has such a shocking case happened. As parents and officials here, what do you have to say!"

After Zhu Youxiao asked a question, he flicked his sleeves angrily, turned his back and walked away.

Kong Zhenkan hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead, and didn't care about the muddy land, he just knelt down, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said, "I'm guilty, I'm guilty!"

Luo Maoji, the magistrate of Yanzhou, was already standing there dumbly. He couldn't turn his head at this time. His official was earned by his master, even with fame, and even he himself belonged to his master, so Even if he stands in front of the emperor Zhu Youxiao and faces Zhu Youxiao's questioning, he is still indifferent.

Zhu Youxiao didn't reprimand the magistrates of the two prefectures and counties any more, but turned to look at Wang Ren, the procuratorate, and Lou Xi, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate who also came at this time: "And you are in charge of the criminal law of a province, and you are in charge of the criminal law of a province. The imperial court has entrusted it with great trust, so it should benefit the local people and uphold justice for the people. As far as I know, Kong Zhiqi has brought the complaints to your branch patrol yamen and inspector yamen, why are you still ignoring it!"

According to Wang Ren, the procurator, and Lou Xi, the sub-inspector Daotai Yan, had to plead guilty again and again, but at the same time, they also complained. How did they know that such a big incident would be caused by such a small person's complaint, and logically speaking, such a person dared to go straight Sub-road patrols and prosecutors' yamen file a complaint, not to mention redressing grievances, I'm afraid they will be charged with picking quarrels and provoking trouble and then thrown into prison.

However, as local dignitaries, they don't have the awareness to be upright officials, so they don't have the time to care about political matters. Common affairs are usually handled by the master or someone reliable below. They don't know if that is Kong Zhiqi. He was also locked up, but even if he was locked up, someone in the yamen must have released him, or he had some other means.

Now the two of them hated Kong Zhiqi so much that they gritted their teeth, and secretly made up their minds to go back and clean up the internal affairs. To actually let a commoner appear in front of the emperor, this is simply a matter of serious dereliction of duty, very serious!
　I didn't expect to write this episode to cause such a big reaction. Well, I am not targeting the Confucian family, nor do I want to deny Confucianism and the family. What's more, I am not at that level with my shallow knowledge. The shameless people who have taken refuge in the Tartars have opinions. It is the same as the connection between the Donglin Party and the Tartars and the connection between the Shanxi Merchants and the Tartars. The theoretical point of my setting the plot comes from Mr. Gu Cheng’s history of the Southern Ming Dynasty. He said The fall of the Ming Dynasty and the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty were the result of the collusion between the military aristocrats of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties and the big gentry and landlords. I was deeply bewitched by him without reading a few books, so there were these plots of the Donglin Party and the Tartars. In addition, the construction and processing of the plot of Kong Yinzhi originated from the records of Kong Yansheng's prostitution of dozens of women in the Chenghua period, and the fact that a farmer in the Republic of China was falsely accused of digging the ground by the Kong family. I don’t know if the above is true or not, but I’m just a writer, not a historian, just writing a YY novel. , You don’t have to be harsh, and I don’t intend to deny Confucius’ academic status in Confucianism, nor do I intend to completely deny Confucianism’s status in Chinese culture, as you will see later.Sorry if I got hurt.There are many flaws in this book, but I am happy that you are reading it, and I am also writing it. I feel that there is still a lot to write about in the future. There is another plot involving the struggle of a new social class after the emergence of capital. Refer to the story of the five people's tombstones, which can be regarded as spoilers in advance.

　　
　
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