Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 805 Farce

After a while, Xu Jin woke up from a coma.He was ashamed.In the moment of life and death just now, he realized how cowardly he was in his bones.He will never be able to be Yang Lian or Hai Rui.Because not everyone has the courage to die boldly.

He silently returned to the crowd of officials and knelt down with his colleagues.He longed for someone among his colleagues to see through life and death and be the first official to die.

pity.Although the officials of the Manchu Dynasty kept saying that they would come to "remonstrate" the emperor, none of them had the courage to face death!The willow veneer coffin was bought for nothing.The only meaning of carrying the coffin into admonition is to make those coffin shop shopkeepers in Fulu Street a windfall.

At this moment, all the officials can do is shout the slogan "Immediately appoint the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince" at the top of their voices.

An hour passed.A short and fat speech officer reminded his colleagues with a hoarse voice: "Uh, let me tell you. Let's stop shouting. Silence is enough to remonstrate. Sometimes, silence is the most powerful cry! The emperor disagrees with the canonization for one day. The eldest son of the emperor is the crown prince, so we will kneel here for one day! If we disagree for ten days, we will kneel for ten days! Until we all kneel here to death!"

Zhang Jing took a sip of tea and moistened his throat.Wei Zhongxian reminded him from the side: "Eunuch Zhang, it's almost time, should we do it?"

Zhang Jing nodded, stood up, and said in a loud voice: "Just now, Vice President Xu asked me why I asked the Dongchang soldiers to stand beside you. Okay, I will tell you the reason now! Dongchang, like Jinyiwei, has supervision. Responsibilities for all officials to deal with lawlessness! Among the officials who came to Yongshou Palace today, many of them practice lawlessness on weekdays! I want to deal with those tortoises who claim to be clean in the open but are lawless in secret in front of the main hall of Yongshou Palace!"

All the officials heard the words and looked at each other in blank dismay.

Wei Zhongxian opened the booklet in his hand and said in a loud voice: "Zhao Yuanming in the official department, from the 22nd year of Wanli to the 24th year of Wanli, spent hundreds of times in Baihualou in Beijing! It's indecent and official!"

Zhang Jing shouted: "The servants of the East Factory listened to the order, dragged Zhao Yuanming out, and punished him twenty times with a stick, as a punishment!"

Four tall Dongchang Fanmen dragged Zhao Yuanming out and knocked him to the ground.

Zhao Yuanming shouted: "It's wrong! Zhang Jing, Wei Zhongxian, you are framing me!"

Wei Zhongxian said coldly: "Our factory guards always pay attention to solid evidence when handling cases! In the past two years, the Baihualou fans you have slept with include Xinghua, Fenger, Cuiyu, Guiyun, Qier... a total of 48 You're a fan. Everyone has their testimonies! Should I send someone to Dongchang to get all their testimonies?"

When Zhao Yuanming heard the words, he was ashamed and kept silent, his face flushed.

Zhang Jing gave an order: "Fight!"

Two Dongchang soldiers swung big sticks and hit Zhao Yuanming.Zhao Yuanming screamed like a pig being killed.

After the [-]-stick beating, Zhang Jing walked up to Zhao Yuanming, and asked with a smile, "Master Zhao, the [-]-stick beating is over. Are you going home to recuperate, or are you staying here and continuing to kneel down?"

Zhao Yuanming breathed weakly and said: "Go back, go home and recuperate."

Zhang Jing was overjoyed: "Okay! Come here, send Lord Zhao back to the mansion!"

Wei Zhongxian opened the booklet and continued to read aloud: "Lu Xingjian, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, indulged his nephew Lu Pan, and annexed [-] acres of good farmland from the people in the suburbs of Beijing! The crime is heinous!"

"Wang Fang, the nephew of Dali Temple Shaoqing Wang Yan, raped women from good families. As an official of the imperial court, Wang Yan did not think about righteousness and killing relatives, but colluded with Shun Tianfu to protect him! The crime is heinous!"

"In the autumn of the 23rd year of Wanli, the autumn grain tax account of Shandong's chief envoy was in shortfall. Sun Xiaochuan noticed it during the Huke incident. Liu Xu, Shandong's chief envoy, privately sent Sun Xiaochuan 3000 taels of silver! Sun Xiaochuan accepted it and concealed the deficit. The crime is heinous. !"

Wei Zhongxian revealed more than 70 illegal affairs of the officials like a cannonball.Among them, some are the truth, and some are framed.And the truth is more than framed.

The officials of the Wanli Dynasty wanted to be whores and set up memorial archways.They stand on the moral high ground and scold this and that.All of them are like sub-sages who don't eat fireworks.In fact, few of these people are clean under their own buttocks!
More than 70 speech officials were beaten to death on the spot by Dongchang Fan.After each person's butt was spanked, Zhang Jing would ask the person who was beaten: "Are you going home to recover from your injuries, or are you staying here and continuing to kneel and admonish?"

Almost everyone will answer: "Go home to recuperate."

Not long after, there were only 100 of the more than 30 speakers outside the main hall of Yongshou Palace.

Zhang Jing walked up to Xu Jin and said provocatively: "Vice President Xu, look. I didn't use force to drive away the officials who advised the emperor. Heh, how dare I violate the ancestral system? I just Fulfill the duties of the governor of the East Factory and punish the lawless officials!"

Xu Jin was angry and annoyed, he gritted his teeth and said, "Zhang Jing, you are so clever!"

Zhang Jing smiled without saying a word, turned to the other 29 officials and said, "Let me tell you! On the booklet in Wei Zhongxian's hand, there is still the name of the last person! Guess who it is?"

These 29 officials are not saints.Who dares to say that he hasn't done anything taboo since he entered the official career?They are guilty of all.

Zhang Jing said: "Everyone, if you all retreat outside the palace, I will not let Wei Zhongxian read the last name. If you still kneel here. Oh, don't blame the law of the country for being ruthless! I will deal with what I have to deal with today Last person!"

29 When the officials heard the words, they looked at each other in blank dismay again.Finally, a censor from the Metropolitan Procuratorate got up first and walked towards the palace gate.Next, two people, three people, ten people. . .

After a stick of incense, only Xu Jin was left kneeling outside the main hall of Yongshou Palace.

Zhang Jing chuckled, and asked Wei Zhongxian to take the roster and unfold it in front of Xu Jin.

Zhang Jing said: "Vice President Xu, did you see that? In fact, Wei Zhongxian has already finished reading the names on the brochure. There is no last name at all! Just now, those 29 colleagues of yours still didn't stand upright enough and walked upright enough. .If they are honest, what are they afraid of? Why are they going? I don’t understand. Some people, even though there are piles of shit under their butts, insist on forcing other people to wash their faces. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous? Is it?"

Xu Jin almost roared and answered Zhang Jing: "It's ridiculous! It's extremely ridiculous!"

After speaking, the desperate Xu Jin got up, covered the wound on his forehead, and strode out of the palace gate.

Wei Zhongxian stared at the back of Xu Jin's leaving, and said to Zhang Jing: "Eunuch Zhang, it is said that the officials are difficult to deal with. But you will kill them without leaving a piece of them."

Zhang Jing said meaningfully: "Actually, the emperor originally planned to use He Liu to deal with these officials. But He Liu's heart is still not cruel enough, and his hands are not black enough! He doesn't want to be the emperor's knife to kill people! I, Zhang Jing, have no roots, and I don’t care as much as He Liu. If people don’t care, they can accomplish the most difficult things in the world and defeat the most difficult enemies in the world!”

Wei Zhongxian asked: "Eunuch Zhang, I don't understand why there isn't a clean person among the officials of the Wanli Dynasty?"

Zhang Jing’s answer is eloquent: “Why? Because Zhang Juzheng’s ‘examination law’ exists in name only! The examination law is a cage to restrain officials. Sometimes, power is like a tiger. Without a cage, a tiger is a To eat people."

(End of this chapter)