Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 364

Li Soltai is very painful now, suffering that he himself did not succeed in martyrdom for his Qing Dynasty, so that he is now in a situation where he is scolded.

When one person scolds him, he may be angry, and when a group of people scold him, he may just smile lightly, but when countless people scold him, and criticize him one after another, Li Soltai There is a feeling of being cut into pieces by thousands of knives. Under verbal and written criticism, it is like a thousand arrows piercing the heart.

Basically every day during the day, Li Sutai would be dragged out of the imperial prison by Jin Yiwei to accept the scolding of officials and scholars, and then he would be taken back to the imperial prison at night.

And Zhu Youxiao didn't mean to kill Li Sutai, so after a month or two, Li Sutai couldn't stand it anymore.

At the dawn of the day, when the two captains of Jinyiwei came to take him out to accept criticism and re-education from the officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty, he finally knelt down to the two captains of Jinyiwei and kowtowed like garlic: " Two bad guys, please let me die, whatever you want!"

Li Shuitai cried so much that his tears flowed down his cheeks. He knelt on the ground and approached the two Jinyiwei captains step by step, pointing to himself, and said, "Use a tiger stool, use a soldering iron, press with sackcloth, whip with a whip, cut into pieces with thousands of knives." Anything is fine, I just beg you, don't let them scold me again, okay, I can't stand it, I can't stand it!"

"But it's weird. His Majesty didn't do anything to you. He just made you drink some saliva and made you suffer like this. You just kept begging for death. But, I'm sorry. It is not up to us to decide, the life and death of everyone in this world is determined by His Majesty the current emperor, His Majesty will not let you die, we two little Jinyiwei captains dare not make decisions on our own."

The two Jinyiwei school captains said that they dragged Li Sutai out of Beizhen Fusi and walked towards the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

Today, it is in the Ministry of Rites that the meeting to criticize Li Sutai is going to be held. All officials in the Ministry of Rites have to criticize Li Sutai's traitorous behavior and the guilt of killing his mother, his wife and children because of his martyrdom for slavery.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Officials, and the officials of the Six Divisions will also come to the scene to assess and supervise these officials of the Ministry of Rites based on their performance.

Once there are criticisms that are not good enough, or that do not move Li Sutai, they will be recorded as bad records, and even the censors and six divisions can use this to impeach these officials.

For this reason, the officials of the Ministry of Rituals had to quote scriptures and scold Li Sutai. In order to make Li Sutai feel moved, they even grabbed Li Sutai's prison uniform and pointed at his face. Just spit a few mouthfuls of saliva on the face, and then kept cursing.

According to the regulations, as long as you don't beat your hands, you are allowed to pull the collar and accidentally spit out because you are too angry, so these officials of the Ministry of Rites who are too excited can be forgiven.

Ming officials are good at scolding, especially these noble officials who work in the Ministry of Rites, the Imperial Academy and other places. Their biggest political advantage is their sharp tongue. '

However, today's Zhu Youxiao has turned their advantage from scolding himself as the emperor to scolding the stubborn diehards who worked as slaves and even wanted to be a model traitor!

The current feeling in Li Shuitai's heart can be described as mixed. He didn't expect that he would be scolded by so many people who are also scholars. He couldn't stand it. He couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and knelt down. Get down, and kneel down to the officials of the Ministry of Rites who are talking like shrews and cursing in front of you: "Masters, I beg you, please let me go, you kill me!"

Although Li Sutai had already knelt down, the officials of the Ministry of Rites still ignored him, and scolded him even more fiercely, because they all knew that his majesty knew about his performance today, and they had no time to care about Li Sutai. Ty's feelings.

Seeing that these Ming officials were still indifferent, Li Shitai had to lower his dignity again, and knocked his head heavily on the ground: "I was wrong, I was wrong, I shouldn't have forgotten my ancestors, I, Li Shitai, Sinner!"

"I was wrong, I was really wrong, please let me go, I am a big traitor, I am a big traitor who is reviled by thousands of people! Huh!"

Li Sutai couldn't help crying loudly, tears streaming down from the corners of his eyes.

However, the officials of the Ministry of Rites still didn't care whether Li Sutai was sad because of despair or really because of repentance. Anyway, they have only one goal now, and that is to keep scolding and reprimanding Li Sutai. Let the Jinyiwei and the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate know, so that His Majesty can know that he did not try his best.

"Your Majesty, in the early hours of this morning, I just got the news that Li Sutai committed suicide by crashing into the wall in the imperial prison. It seemed that in order to be able to crash into death, his brains came out of the crash, and he cried for a long time before. .”

Wang Chengen reported Li Sutai to Zhu Youxiao when he came early in the morning, so Zhu Youxiao had to throw the pearl rice porridge on the table, not interested in drinking any more, and said: "I didn't expect him to be like this." Unable to bear the scolding, he chose to commit suicide in the end, but it is no wonder that when faced with scolding by everyone, even if he is really a devout believer, his belief will be shaken, but I did not expect him to be so unbearable, I still want him to Go to Jiangnan and get scolded again."

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao ordered: "Shouldn't you just cremate him directly? The bones of such a person are not worthy of staying in my Daming!"

Li Soltai's incident is just a small incident in the ten years of Ming Dynasty. He is more like an ingenious way of dealing with it deliberately by His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, but this way of handling makes everyone The literati were all shuddering, and no one thought that His Majesty would deal with a person who was determined to stay innocent in the world in this way!

For civil servants, they are not afraid of death in many cases, but they are not immune to the words of fearful words, so this time Li Soltai's incident is just a punishment for a traitor, but it does make these civil servants They all became more honest, and they didn't dare to be used by His Majesty to participate in being criticized again.

Zhu Youxiao's method is nothing more than letting literati fight each other. Although it is not very new, the effect is obvious. Let the unscrupulous people scold the moral people. Perhaps in this way, It will allow more capable people who can be flexible but stick to principles to emerge.

The news that Li Sutai was scolded to death also spread outside the customs. For those traitors who are still serving the slaves outside the customs, especially those who are still blindly holding that they will be loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, this news is more important than assassination. It made them feel uneasy. They didn't expect that even their own ideal of keeping chastity to preserve Confucian character would be broken. This also means that, in this way, Zhu Youxiao directly deprived them of their dream of being lonely officials.

(End of this chapter)