Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

Huguang, Wuchang City.

Wang Yue rode his horse into the city with his sword in hand. In front of him was the King of Chu in royal robes, chasing his horse and running away. The drama of the old general chasing and killing the King of Chu was being staged.

Chu King Zhu Junyi's riding skills were very average. Facing the sword-wielding Wang Yue who was following behind him, he was so frightened that he shouted in panic: "The imperial envoys are killing people indiscriminately, protect me quickly!"

"Thieves, please leave! I left the city without mercy today. If I want to assassinate the imperial envoy, who despises the imperial authority, traffics in private salt and ignores the court's laws, I should kill him with Shang Fang Sword!" Wang Yue followed closely behind, listing the crimes of the Chu King who was running in front. said angrily.

this……

Originally some warriors wanted to step forward to save the King of Chu, but Wang Yue listed all the crimes and actually had Shang Fang Sword in his hand, so they all stood there and ate the melon.

Chu King Zhu Junyi originally wanted to escape back to the Chu Palace, but when he saw Wang Yue about to catch up, he fell off his horse in a panic.

There was no sign of this fall, and by chance, he landed on his face, knocking out his two front teeth.

The people who were watching could not help but look at him with sympathy when they saw the high-ranking King of Chu escaping in such a mess and falling so miserably.

Call...

Wang Yue saw that the King of Chu had dismounted in panic, so he reined the horse in the middle of the street and raised the horse's front hooves slightly, so as not to trample the King of Chu.

King Chu touched his mouth which was already full of blood, and immediately asked angrily: "Wang Yue, are you crazy? You dare to chase and kill me in the street. Do you know what the consequences will be?"

Huh?

There happened to be a restaurant and a teahouse on both sides of the street. The customers who were consuming food here heard the words of the King of Chu and immediately realized that the front teeth were indeed missing.

"I am an imperial envoy of the Prime Minister's Salt Administration. You are trafficking in illicit salt. Now that you have failed, you dare to order someone to shoot this imperial envoy with a secret arrow. Do you still have imperial power in your eyes?" Wang Yuehe thought about the thrill just now and was also surprised. He asked angrily.

If he hadn't been practicing in the military for decades and was well prepared for today's action, he might have been plotted against by the King of Chu.

The King of Chu did something illegal, but he dared to ignore the emperor's authority. Now he killed the King of Chu in the street, which can be said to be a great harm to His Majesty.

"Take your life!" The more Wang thought about it, the angrier he became, and he immediately stepped forward with his sword and said angrily.

When the King of Chu saw the murderous intent in Wang Yue's eyes, he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "Spare my life! Spare my imperial envoy! I should not traffic in illegal salt. I am willing to accept the punishment of the court. Please spare my life!"

"beg for mercy?"

"King Chu, beg for mercy?"

"This imperial envoy is so majestic!"

…

When the audience on both sides saw King Chu kneeling down to beg for mercy from the imperial envoy, they looked at each other in disbelief as if they couldn't believe their eyes.

Wang Yue's white beard was blowing in the wind, but he frowned slightly. Looking at the King of Chu who was sweating with runny nose in front of him, it was difficult to kill him.

Although there was a raging fire in his heart just now, especially when the arrow grazed his chest, he really wanted to kill this lawless King of Chu with Shang Fang's sword.

But now that I saw King Chu begging for mercy and admitting his guilt, I couldn't help but feel hesitant.

After all, this King of Chu is just one of the participants who was lured by the profit of salt. If you want to rectify the salt issue, killing a small King of Chu will not help the matter, but will cause unnecessary trouble.

"Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy, no matter how audacious the young king is, he would not dare to order the imperial envoy to be shot. There must be something fishy about it!" It was the first time King Chu felt that death was so close, and he immediately defended himself.

Wang Yue suppressed the urge to kill, but warned him sternly: "Since you are a descendant of Taizu, I will temporarily spare your life for Your Majesty! It's just that you are trafficking in illicit salt, and now you leave the city without authorization. You even tried to murder the imperial envoy, and the imperial court will punish you according to its own laws!"

Lu Song had already arrived with the Jinyi Guards. Seeing that Wang Yue did not impulsively kill the King of Chu to vent his anger, he couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Alive?

When King Chu saw Wang Yue put away Shang Fang's sword, he immediately collapsed to the ground.

He always believed that he was the right one. After all, he was really lucky when the throne of Chu fell on his head. It's just that this seems to be the only luck I have. Now that I do such a reckless thing, I'm afraid I'm going to be plagued by bad luck.

Similar to the situation of the King of Chu, officials such as Huguang Inspector Jiang Hong received a favorable reception.

The inventory of the granary at the wharf has been completed. The King of Chu went to pick up salt with 200 yin, but he brought back a total of 800 yin, most of which was private salt from the salt field that did not go through the transportation department.

Due to serious corruption in Yanguan, not to mention the higher price of official salt, just being able to waive Yanguan's food and drink card can save more than half of the money. Therefore, the profits of private salt provided by Zao households are very generous.

From Yangzhou to Wuchang, it is transported by water all the way along the Yangtze River. The freight cost is not high, so this is a good business where one tree can yield hundreds of benefits.

It's just that in this business, which originally benefited everyone, as the imperial envoy Wang Yue lifted the lid, they all sitting around the dining table had nothing to hide.

Wuchang City, Huguang Governor's Yamen.

Wang Yue led the Imperial Guards to settle here. Facing the officials who were summoned, he directly made a cleanup and said: "You are all helping the emperor to commit evil, and you have betrayed the emperor's grace!"

"Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy, this is inappropriate. None of us knew anything about it!" Jiang Hong, the patrol commander of Huguang, knew that Wang Yue wanted to accuse them, so he retorted proudly.

"That's right, we didn't know anything about it!"

"If I know that King Chu has done something illegal, I will definitely investigate and deal with him!"

"It is said that the King of Chu is wise and does not want to seek salt profits secretly. He should be punished!"

…

Huguang Zuo Chief Envoy Li Qing and other officials exchanged glances and immediately agreed with Jiang Hong's words, while stating their stance righteously.

this……

When Wang Yu and Hu Jun saw this, although they had always heard that officials were slippery, these officials were not fools!

"What an uninformed person! Come, bring them here!" Wang Yue had already figured out the faces of these local officials and immediately issued the order.

As the words fell, Lu Song led the Jin Yiwei to escort a person into the hall.

ah?

Jiang Hong, the governor of Huguang, and other officials were originally sitting on the Diaoyutai. After all, they had no solid evidence, but they were dumbfounded when they saw that the person being escorted turned out to be Ye Fugui.

Ye Fugui faced Wang Yue and the officials, looking downcast and lowering his head.

After being taken away last night, although he refused to confess for a while, these people are not good men and women at all.

As for the backstage he moved out, it was completely useless in the eyes of these people, and if he didn't recruit it, he might really be drowned by them.

Wang Yue saw the shock of the officials on both sides and asked with a straight face: "Everyone, what else do you have to say? If you really didn't know anything, I don't have to pursue the case, but you all took someone else's money. Souvenirs!”

When he was in the north earlier, he always thought that officials who had read the books of sages could serve the people wholeheartedly.

However, as we slowly dug deeper, we found that these local officials were really hypocrites who could not withstand further investigation. They were simply replicas of Li Guangming in Jingshan County.

When officials stand in a row and behead someone, there must be someone who is wronged, and if every other person is killed, there will definitely be some mistakes.

"Imperial Envoy, I don't know what you are referring to? We really don't know anything about it!" Jiang Hong, the Huguang patrol officer, glared at Ye Fugui, who had failed to achieve anything but failed, and then pretended to be innocent.

"Yes, we really didn't know anything about it!" Huguang Left Chief Li Qing and other officials knew very well that they could not admit it, but they still cried out innocently.

The people sent by Wang Yue saw Ye Fugui visiting Jiang Hong with their own eyes. They snorted coldly and said: "I don't care whether you admit it or not, but now that Ye Fugui has testified against you, you will all be sent to the prison cell for me." Come on!"

"Come here, lock these adults away!" Lu Song, a hundred households in Jinyi, was already prepared and immediately ordered.

"How dare you!" Jiang Hong, the patrol officer in Huguang, said in anger when he saw that Wang Yue wanted them to be locked up.

Not to mention that he was the dignified Huguang Inspector, behind him was the imperial master Xu Pu, but from the bottom of his heart he did not take Wang Yue, who was relegated to Anlu, seriously.

When Wang Yue saw Jiang Hong standing up, he immediately asked with a stern face: "Jiang Xun, are you going to disobey orders?"

"Wang Shichang, you are innocent and want to put officials like us in jail. Are you really not afraid that history is like iron?" Jiang Hong didn't understand why this old stubborn still didn't understand the way of being an official, so he asked sternly.

Wang Yue no longer cared about Qing Shi's reputation, so he said tit for tat: "My king, Yue, is worthy of the king and worthy of the people. You can write whatever you want! But you, Jiang Hong, took bribes to protect profiteers. What do I want you to know?" It’s outrageous to state the law!”

"Wang Shichang, even if you are in prison, I will go to court to impeach you for your illegal activities. I will see if your majesty believes in me or you, a rat that everyone shouts about!" Jiang Hong knew that he could not compete with Wang Yue's status as an imperial envoy. But he still threatened angrily.

"Yes, we will go to the Shu together to impeach this barbarian Wang!" Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, knew that Wang Yue and Xinjun had nothing to do with each other, so he immediately stood up and agreed.

Wang Yue knew that he was against the entire civil service group, but he just thought of the dead Hu Daniu and the thousands of compatriots who were bullied, but he fearlessly faced the resentful eyes of these people.

Lu Song saw that Wang Yue was as firm as a rock, and immediately waved his hand and said: "Take him away!"

"I don't admit it, I absolutely don't admit it!"

"Yes, powerful and unyielding!"

"Wang Shichang has no proof and no evidence. What can he do to us?"

…

Jiang Hong, Li Qing and other officials quickly reached a consensus that even if they faced Ye Fugui's accusation, they pretended not to know, so Wang Yue had nothing to do with them.

"I'll do it! I'll do it! Wang Shichang, if you don't follow martial ethics, I will ￥!"

In just one day, these officials who had sworn not to confess before going in, after a little physical torture, Huguang Zuo Chief Minister Li Qing and other officials signed and stamped themselves to admit their crimes.

"Brother Song, which yamen in the capital did you work for before?"

"Stayed in West Factory for a while!"

"Brother Song, cow!"

After Wang Yu saw Lu Song's interrogation methods, he couldn't help but feel admiration and silently gave a thumbs up.

The corners of Lu Song's mouth raised slightly, remembering those glorious days.

Naturally, we already know the virtues of this group of officials. Even though they all talk about worrying about the country and the people and looking forward to death, they are actually hypocrites without courage.

Why was the West Factory so disgusted by the civil service group that it was eventually forced to close down?

It was Xichang who didn't talk to the civil officials about evidence or reasoning at all.

The methods used by this group of civil servants to accept bribes can be described as bizarre. They can use antique calligraphy and paintings, or they can use clever names to collect benefits. They can even use ice warning and charcoal warning as reasonable income. It is difficult to explain clearly at all.

It's just that Xichang didn't listen to the civil servants and would beat you until you confessed. If you don't give some color, who will confess his crime stupidly will have to use some criminal law to pry open the mouths of these officials.

Of course, there are also skills in using torture. Some officials will torture them if they have problems. If you can see at a glance that there is nothing wrong with the other party, there is no need to kill him!

The case this time was actually very simple. Ye Fugui had already established a good relationship with Yangzhou, and the king of Chu transported the private salt back. Then these local officials turned a blind eye and allowed this batch of private salt to be stolen. Marketed in Wuchang Prefecture and surrounding areas.

Three days later, all the cases were settled.

A execution platform was built in the East Market of Wuchang City, and Wang Yue, the left deputy censor of the Imperial Procuratorate, personally supervised the execution.

Facing the onlookers, Hu Song also announced the crimes of the three people: "Li Qing, the envoy to the left of Huguang, Jiang Hong, the patrol commander of Huguang, and Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, connived at the king of Chu and the profiteer Ye Fugui to transport illicit salt to Wuchang. Marketing, the imperial envoy has now verified it, so the three criminal officials have been executed as a warning to all officials in the world! From now on, when salt is sold everywhere, official salt should be sold at official prices...!"

"This is not Wang beheading, it is clearly Wang Qingtian!"

“Our salt price is so high, it’s because of these people!”

"Isn't it right? If they are not greedy, according to the official price of the court, we can all eat and live a good life!"

…

When the people of Wuchang City saw that Wang Yue wanted to kill Li Qing and other officials, they came from all directions and praised him one after another.

Li Qing, the chief envoy to the left of Huguang, Jiang Hong, the inspector of Huguang, and Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, were put on the execution platform in prison uniforms. Li Qing, the chief envoy of Huguang and Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, had peed their pants, but Jiang Hong, the inspector of Huguang, did not seem to be interested. Understand where things went wrong.

He was the proud disciple of Xu Pu, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, and now he held an important position as the governor of Huguang. However, when he was at his most prosperous, he was resolutely pushed to the guillotine by a relegated person.

The auspicious time has come!

Wang Yue, who was sitting in front of the case, looked at the three criminals on the stage, immediately picked up a warrant and threw it forward.

This place has already been surrounded by three levels of siege inside and three levels outside. It can be said that there is no way to escape. After all, someone has come to save us with a decree, so I am afraid that we will not be able to get out of here.

An auxiliary officer supervising the beheading saw the arrow falling to the ground and shouted: "Behead!"

puff!

puff!

puff!

…

As the light of Xi Zi's sword flashed, streams of blood spattered from left to right, and the heads of Li Qing, the envoy to the left of Huguang, Jiang Hong, the patrol commander of Huguang, and Sun Hong, the prefect of Wuchang, fell to the ground.

Whether Li Qing or Sun Hong had been here for many years, it was impossible not to know about King Chu's dealings. Although Jiang Hong had just arrived, he was the one who had the deepest connections with the profiteer Ye Fugui.

It can be said that the three criminals deserved their death, and their beheading was not unjust at all.

"Wang Qingtian!"

"Wang Qingtian!"

"Wang Qingtian!"

…

The people who were watching saw the three prisoners being beheaded. I don't know who shouted first, and then the people around them responded.

For a moment, the momentum hit the sky. The King of Chu, who was recovering from his injuries in the Chu Palace, was trembling with fear. His missing front teeth were pointing in the direction of Dongshi City incomprehensibly.