Chapter 119 Please let me die
Li Mengyang didn't come back to his senses at all. When he came back to his senses, he had already knelt down: "Your Majesty, why are you so partial to Ma Wensheng? He is harming you. He is trying to make you die as a scholar. Lin, I am a loyal minister! I impeach Ma Wensheng not only for myself, but also for your Majesty and the Ming Dynasty!”
"It's true that you are doing it for yourself, but if you say it is for me and Daming, then you really treat me like a three-year-old child! But I also understand what you mean. You just think that you scholars are not to be messed with. If you mess with them, you will only Even if I am the emperor, I want to tell you that I would rather cause fire than be your scholar’s puppet emperor!”
Zhu Houzhao turned around and left as he spoke, and issued another decree: "I am sending a decree to reward Grand Master Ma Wensheng for his bullfighting uniform, ten pieces of antique jade, and a mansion! His son will be given a royal robe to protect thousands of hereditary households!"
Zhu Houzhao now wants to elevate Ma Wensheng very high. This not only gives support and confidence to Ma Wensheng and other reformists, but also expresses his attitude to the world.
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty!"
Ma Wensheng knew Zhu Houzhao's intention, and also knew that His Majesty's treatment of him was just to let his Ma family cook with fire and flowers, so as to give himself confidence, and because of this, he could no longer regret it and could only go his own way. He must resolutely implement the reform. As for whether the Tian family will abandon him and have a cunning rabbit die as a lackey in the future, he doesn't know, but he knows that he can no longer turn back.
A few days later, Li Mengyang was taken to the execution ground, and Zhu Houzhao specifically instructed that signs such as "selfish villain", "treacherous official", "scum of the scholarly world", and "incompetent official" were hung around his neck. , criticized by officials and Li Mengyang's family members.
"Swear or not!"
At this time, an eunuch asked a Qingliu official.
"Don't scold! Mr. Li is a direct minister!"
The Qingliu official replied.
"Cut!"
The Qingliu official was chopped directly to the ground.
The second Qingliu official couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw this.
The eunuch asked again: "Should you scold me or not?"
"I scold! I scold! Li Mengyang is a traitor and a shameless villain!"
The Qingliu official replied hurriedly and tremblingly.
"You can go back, but your scolding is not good enough. According to His Majesty's order, you did not scold for more than half a quarter of an hour, so you will not be rewarded!"
The eunuch replied.
The Qingliu official was as frightened as a mouse and hurried away.
Then, another official came, and he was also a Qingliu official. Without waiting for the eunuchs to ask, he pointed at Li Mengyang and cursed: "Li Mengyang! You despicable person! You are not a scholar in vain!
In the thirteenth year of Hongzhi's reign, you secretly raped a merchant's wife but manipulated the prison sentence to make the merchant guilty of killing his wife!
In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi's reign, you allowed your powerful slaves to beat a villager to death just because the villager failed to pay rent!
In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi's reign, you returned to your hometown to visit your relatives. Because the postman did not entertain you well, you forced the county magistrate to kill the postman! You are a gentleman in vain!
Although you love officials, you don’t love the people! You only dare to impeach your relatives but not your clan members! You are a person who bullies the weak and fears the strong, and has no law. You should be punished for your crime..."
"The scolding is very good. Write it down. When the time comes, it will be compiled into a book by the Hanlin Academy and distributed throughout the world. I will give him twenty dan of food!"
As the eunuch spoke, he gave the grain receipt to the Qingliu official.
When Li Mengyang saw this, he immediately yelled: "Zhou! It's in vain that I interceded for you! How dare you slander me like this! You are the villain!"
The Qingliu official named Zhou had already left, and only Li Mengyang himself was there cursing.
Next, officials came one after another to scold Li Mengyang, and some even spat at him. They couldn't help but punch or kick Li Mengyang, because the angrier they were, the more food they would be given. These days, food is equal to Currency equals money, and more food means more money. "Bah! Li Mengyang, why did our Li family have such a scum like you! It's you, this unfaithful and unfilial person who made our Li family have to change our surname from now on! It's you who ruined our Li family tree!"< br>
After Li Mengyang's tribe arrived, they naturally began to scold Li Mengyang in order to save their lives. Of course, they originally wanted to blame Li Mengyang for ignoring the safety of his family. It would be good if Li Mengyang himself died and earned the reputation of a loyal family for his family, but now he is being implicated. These clansmen are not polite when they come to the clan.
Li Mengyang couldn't help but cry when he saw that his parents and nephews were scolding him for severing ties with him: "Master! I know I was wrong! Patriarch, please stop scolding me! I originally did it for the good of the family, if I can do anything for If the Li family earns a reputation as a loyal and loyal person, you will be more popular among the officials and gentry in the countryside!”
"Bah! Don't think that we can believe what you say. You are a fatherless and motherless person! Where is the Li family? You don't know who you are, and you still want to earn a reputation as a loyal martyr. I, Li My family is ashamed of you. We should not have let you learn to read in the first place. We should have drowned you when you were born! It was you who caused our whole family to be exiled!”
These tribesmen were not polite when they scolded each other.
And even the tenants and slaves of the Li family who followed him to Beijing, as well as the neighbors and the common people of the Li family, also scolded Li Mengyang. These people scolded Li Mengyang even harder and with snot and tears, and the scolding was more real!
Li Mengyang completely collapsed. He felt like he had been abandoned by the whole world. He now wanted to commit suicide! I also regretted why I did that in the first place and what I gained by doing that.
……
After the meeting to criticize Li Mengyang ended, Liu Jin came to ask Li Mengyang in person: "Are you aware of your guilt now?"
"Convinced! I am a traitor, I am a villain, I am shameless, I am despicable! I am wrong, I am really wrong! I have sores on my head, pus on my back, I will go to hell, I will not die a good death!"
Li Mengyang instinctively recited the words scolded by officials and villagers, and immediately broke down and cried: "Please, please, please stop scolding me, let me die, I'll die, let's do it!"
"Then how are you going to die?" Liu Jin said calmly.
"Beat him to death with sticks," Li Mengyang replied.
"Drag him down and beat him to death with sticks!" Liu Jin ordered.
As a result, Li Mengyang was dragged down and pushed to the ground.
Snap!
When the first stick struck, Li Mengyang screamed and struggled: "It hurts! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"
Snap!
Of course, this was not his fault.
In this way, Li Mengyang was beaten to death with random sticks.
……
at this time.
In the courtyard of Yishenzhai, an official clenched his fists and asked: "Is Li Mengyang really beaten to death?"
"Yes!" one of his students replied.
The official couldn't help but sullen: "Zhu Houzhao! You are really poisonous! I never thought you would use this trick to forbid people from all over the world to slander Ma Wensheng, and also let people from all over the world criticize Li Mengyang. By doing this, all literati have violated their own principles. The heart has become a villain! Cruel, really cruel!”
"Teacher, what should we do next?" the student asked.
"Don't do anything, let's talk about it after entering the cabinet!" The official said and gritted his teeth again and said: "Zhu Houzhao!"
(End of chapter)