Chapter 139: Capturing the Gentlemen
Because Zhu Houzhao was on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, he ordered people to hang up the censor Song Kai for interrogation. As long as Song Kai refused to confess, Zhu Houzhao planned to let him mix with the river water mixed with countless excreta from the east and west of the river. Have a close encounter.
However, as soon as Song Kai was lifted from the boat and before he was put into the water, he shouted:
"Your Majesty! I really have nothing to do with the tax bureau case! I don't know anything about it! If your Majesty really doesn't believe it, you can ask someone to investigate! And please don't drag me into the water. I am afraid of the cold. It has just passed the winter. , when the spring is cold, the water will be very cold! ”
Zhu Houzhao thought that you, Song Kai, and Qian Qianyi were afraid that the water would be too cold, so he ordered:
"Hang him into the water until he confesses truthfully!"
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You can't do this! I am a descendant of Confucius and Mencius! I am a second-ranked Jinshi and should receive preferential treatment from the court!"
Song Kai shouted while watching helplessly as he was getting closer and closer to the river. As soon as his head touched the river, he couldn't help but tremble:
"Your Majesty! I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting them all!"
Zhu Houzhao did not expect that these civil servants were really so afraid of the cold. He thought that maybe Qian Qianyi in history was not really hypocritical. Seeing that Song Kai was willing to recruit, he asked the Jin Yiwei to lift Song Kai up.
Song Kai took a long breath, and then took the initiative to confess to Zhu Houzhao about his affair with the gentry. He even told his experience of how he got caught up in the interest chain of the Jiangnan gentry, and said with a sad face:
"I'm really helpless! Your Majesty! I think back then I was grateful to the imperial court for promoting me, allowing me to patrol the Southern Zhili. I was also very determined to be a good official who made decisions for the people, but those gentry said that they were People, when I say that I make decisions for them, I make decisions for the people. I cannot deny that for the sake of local peace, I can only follow the wishes of the people!”
After hearing Song Kai's words, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but smile and asked: "So you make decisions for the people, and you go to bed to make decisions, or to the villas of these gentry? Unknowingly, you find that you make decisions for the people, not only They can still be promoted, beauties can throw themselves into their arms, and silver can be given to them on their own initiative. You find that they are all obedient and good people, and those who accuse them are unruly people, right? ”
"That's true! Your Majesty! I really just want to make decisions for the people, but the gentry is too cunning, and I am really helpless! I hope that your Majesty will forgive me for my sins. I am willing to resign and return to my hometown without asking about political affairs. I know that I am incompetent. Also! ”
Song Kai knew that now that he was captured by the emperor, it was impossible to keep his official position. Therefore, he only put the responsibility on the Jiangnan gentry.
After all, he could also see that the emperor came to Jiangnan in person to take action against the Jiangnan gentry, and he put the main responsibility on the Jiangnan gentry so that he could escape unscathed. Anyway, he had made enough money, so he could go back Wouldn't it be nice to be a country squire?
"Then, you might as well go back and be a country squire like them, domineering, annexing land, seizing the people's wealth, and letting the government make the decision for you, a common people, if you are even slightly dissatisfied? Do you use both soft and hard tactics? Or do the officials and gentry collude? ”
Zhu Houzhao asked with a smile again.
Seeing this, Song Kai, who had been exposed, guessed that Zhu Houzhao was unwilling to let him go easily, so he hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty! I have no such intention!"
"Behead it! Since you took the initiative to confess, I will consider you to have surrendered. I will punish you leniently! I won't punish you! Why don't you thank me quickly!"
After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, Song Kai was stunned for a moment, and then he cried and begged: "Your Majesty, I don't want to die! I really don't want to die! I am willing to be an eunuch, I can be an eunuch, As long as your Majesty lets me live!”
"Cut it off! The eunuch can do whatever you say!"
Zhu Houzhao shouted loudly.
As a result, Song Kai, the censor of the Southern Zhili Prefecture, was dragged down, and then he was pushed down on the side of the boat. Qiu Yue swung his sword down!
Click!
With one blow, Song Kai's head fell into the cool river water, and the lower half of his body was also thrown into it.
"Quickly give the evidence of Song Kai's confession to Wang Shouren, the governor of South Zhili. Next, Jin Yiwei does not need to come forward for the time being!
Since these Jiangnan gentry are people, I will not interfere and let the government deal with them. This will allow Wang Shouren to take over the enmity with these Jiangnan gentry when he takes office, so as to prevent him from being corrupted by these gentry in the future. Tell Wang Shouren that if This thing is not done ruthlessly enough to catch them all in one go! I will remove him! Use another tough method! ”
Zhu Houzhao gave instructions to Liang Ze, a thousand households in Jinyi Guards.
"Yes!"
After Liang Ze received the order, he quickly rode south and arrived in Nanjing in less than three days and came to Wang Yangming.
And Wang Yangming is now annoyed by being disturbed by various Jiangnan gentry.
"Master Hao comes to pay homage!"
"Master Tong posted a message asking for an audience!"
"Reporting to the master, these two slaves were sent by your uncle to relieve the master's boredom. The slave Xiaohe is good at playing the flute; the slave Yulian is born with a narrow diameter!"
"This is Master Guan's gift list, five jade boys, five jade girls, three thousand yellow rice, ten thousand white rice... Please consider the public opinion and accept them all!"
In the end, Wang Yangming simply went to Zhenjiang quietly to investigate the local water bandits incognito. He actually learned some military information from the local fishermen. He also went to check it out personally, and even went to Chongming County to investigate the pirates. When Wang Yangming returned home, Liang Ze, a member of the Jinyi Guard Qianhu, had been waiting for him for a long time, and conveyed the evidence of Song Kai's confession and Zhu Houzhao's instructions to Wang Yangming: "The governor can start arresting people!"
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty!"
Wang Yangming received the memorial from Liang Ze, the Imperial Guard, and immediately ordered: "Change the official uniform! Take me to see Yang Mao, the Juesheng Guard! Now that everything is complete, start taking people!"
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Yuan Zhong'an and Gu Xian were among the Jiangnan gentry who had not returned to Suzhou at this time, and were also gathering by the Qinhuai River.
Gu Xiantong couldn't help but said: "Yuan Xiaolian, tell me, Song Kai, the patrol censor, is now captured by the Jin Yiwei. Will he betray us once the Jin Yiwei launches a strict investigation?"
"Gu Hanlin doesn't need to worry. If Song Kai really betrays us, will his court really dare to take action? How about not obeying the law and not blaming everyone? Besides, if the court wants to punish the crime, it can only make a fuss about the recent massacre of the Tax Bureau. He Song Kai can only confess Yuan, so you don’t have to worry!”
Yuan Zhongan said.
"Gu is just worried about you!" Gu Xiantong replied.
"I am going to go to Japan to live temporarily after leaving Nanjing tomorrow! I will move my family there and come back when the weather calms down!"
As Yuan Zhongan was talking, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from outside. Soon, the officers and soldiers of Juesheng Guard surrounded the place, and Wang Yangming also appeared in front of these gentry.
Gu Xiantong, Yuan Zhongan and other Jiangnan gentry were shocked when they saw this.
Yuan Zhongan asked directly: "Why did Mr. Futai suddenly bring so many officers and soldiers?"
"Yuan Zhongan, you colluded with bandits to seize tax money! The evidence is conclusive! I have decided to detain you for interrogation!"
Wang Yangming shouted directly.
Yuan Zhongan couldn't help being shocked: "Master Governor, why do you want to take this away from me? I'm just here to drink! Students are for filial piety and integrity. Even if you are a government official, you can't take away students casually!"
"You know why I want to take you!"
When Wang Yangming was talking, Yang Mao, the Juesheng guard who had received Wang Yangming's gesture, arrested Yuan Zhongan.
When Gu Xiantong saw this, he hurriedly advised: "My nephew! Although you are the governor, you can't break the court rules! It's not that uncle Shi is telling you! Yuan Zhong'an is a judge and an official, how can you do it casually?" Take him and forget it If you want to take him, you have to get the academic officer first! Well, Mr. Song Kai, the academic officer, has been arrested by the Jinyi Guards. You can't arrest him without the academic officer's permission!"
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"Yes, Governor, you can't just arrest students!"
Yuan Zhongan also shouted when he saw this. He did not expect that the people who came to take him would come so quickly and they were also from the governor. However, he had clearly tested the attitude of the governor Wang Yangming before, and he clearly had a very negative attitude towards the gentry. Okay, but he didn't expect that Wang Yangming would turn his back in a blink of an eye. Yuan Zhongan and the gentry present were a little resentful and angry at being fooled.
"I have been voted by the cabinet and approved by the Supervisor of Ceremonies. I not only supervise the military and civil affairs of Nanzhili, but also supervise the academic affairs! Yuan Zhongan's honorary title has been revoked by me, and he has been appointed to the Ministry of Culture and Rites. You don't have to Worry about me;
I am acting according to the rules. In addition, several of you have also been dismissed from your official positions and must be detained. Otherwise, it will not be enough to clear up the suspicion that you and Yuan Zhongan are accomplices! ”
As early as when these gentry were flattering him, Wang Yangming secretly sent people to follow these people, and he also deliberately treated these gentry with courtesy at the beginning in order to paralyze these Jiangnan gentry, and the purpose was to get the evidence of their crimes so that they could be punished. He would catch everyone in one fell swoop, and now he would not let go of people like Gu Xiantong.
Yuan Zhongan did not expect this situation, and neither did other Jiangnan gentry. However, Gu Xiantong took advantage of his status as a former Hanlin official and Wang Yangming's uncle, and shouted arrogantly:
"Wang Yun! (Wang Yangming's childhood name), don't be so arrogant! Don't think that you can be so arrogant now that you are the governor! I just want to ask you, if you dare to do this to us, how will you face your father in the future! How? Facing your Wang family! What you do will make it impossible for your Wang family to gain a foothold in Shilin!”
"Uncle Gu Shi, do you think I, Wang Shouren, will be afraid of my father? Of course, my nephew thinks that my father will not blame him for this. Even if he blames him, so what. My nephew is a member of the court first, and then a member of the Wang family. What's more, now, if you don't take I’ll kill you! It will do no good to our Wang family if we don’t bring you people who have absorbed the foundation of Ming Dynasty to justice!”
Wang Yangming said and asked Yang Mao to arrest Gu Xiandong and others.
For a time, the news that Wang Yangming, the governor of Southern Zhili, imprisoned more than a dozen gentry at once spread like wildfire in the south of the Yangtze River. Even the news of how Wang Yangming strictly interrogated these people every day spread to the ears of these gentry.
Even Yin Qian, the prince of the Hongzhi Dynasty and Shaobao Hubu Shangshu, who had become an official, also knew about this.
"Yin Gong! You can make the decision for our master! The new Mr. Futai arrested my father indiscriminately. My father was once an official in the court, but now he just drank with Yuan Zhongan. After being imprisoned, Mr. Futai also said that he would kill his relatives out of justice, regardless of his family friendship. If you don't help, my father will really be in trouble, wuwu! "
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