Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

The sky suddenly changed, and a group of dark clouds rolled in from the east.

As if they had a premonition of something, the people walking on the street stopped and looked up to the east. As if they had a premonition that something was about to happen, they hurried back home.

When Song Cheng, Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, heard the drum of grievance rang out in the government office, he immediately chose to summon the sufferer in the third hall.

The victim was a young and thin woman, accompanied by a five or six-year-old girl, who was crying and complaining to Song Cheng.

Boom!

A spring snow exploded in the sky, and a bolt of lightning illuminated half of the sky, which was also a sign that something was about to be discovered.

After Song Cheng understood the whole story, he immediately called the head catcher Zhao Dayan.

After Zhao Dayan learned of the order, he led a group of well-built detectives out of the gate of Shuntian Mansion and drove away on horseback, ignoring the thunder and lightning in the sky.

Wow…

Not long after, the first pattering spring rain of the second year of Hongzhi came, and the rain was a bit chilly.

It’s just that the long-dried fields in the suburbs need such a spring rain. The seeds buried in the soil slowly feel the nourishment of the water and quietly begin to revive.

Good rain knows the season, when spring is here.

The arrival of this spring rain announced the complete end of winter. The remaining snow in the corners had slowly melted, and the thin ice in the lake had magically disappeared.

The banquet at Huichang Marquis Mansion was very lively, with tables full of delicacies accompanied by the aroma of wine, but the sudden spring rain caused the guests to flee one after another.

Sun Ming is drunk!

Drunk on the wine table!

He had a sweet dream at first!

In the dream, he had endless money, lived a life of debauchery every day, and even married the oiran he longed for back home.

It's just that he drank too much, and his whole body seemed to be lying on the waves. Amidst the waves of shaking, his abdomen suddenly turned upside down.

Wow……

Sun Ming vomited out all the food and wine he had eaten, but his brain was buzzing.

Just now it was a lingering dream, especially when he returned home and thought about his concubine with skin as white as snow, but in the blink of an eye it turned into a nightmare.

A gust of cold wind hit him, and a strange smell penetrated his nose. His body landed on the dirty, smelly, and damp ground again.

"water……"

Sun Ming didn't know how long he had been lying there. His throat was dry and difficult to swallow, but he was in urgent need of replenishing the source of life.

Since no one had brought water for a long time, his hands were groping around randomly. Suddenly a small clear lake appeared in his dream, and he turned over and started drinking.

As the clear lake water entered the throat, the physiological hunger was deeply satisfied, but the next moment he couldn't help but spit out all the water in his mouth.

This water is accompanied by a foul and foul smell. It almost looks like urine. No, it is urine.

Pooh! Pooh! Pooh!

Sun Ming felt as if his mouth was full of disgusting things that he couldn't finish vomiting. He vomited immediately, but when he looked around clearly, he was completely stunned.

The rain is gurgling outside the curtain, the spring is fading, and the quilt cannot bear the cold at midnight. In the dream, I didn’t know that I was a guest, and I thought about happiness for a while...

There was dirt left in Sun Ming's mouth, and a deep confusion flashed across his eyes.

It is surrounded by strong wooden bars on all sides, and there is a torch lighting up the place on the east side. The ground is covered with hay and excrement of unknown origin, and the air has a familiar smell.

Dream?

Sun Ming initially suspected that he had a nightmare. After all, he had clearly returned to Huichang Hou Mansion. He just reached out and pinched his thigh, and suddenly felt a familiar pain.

At this moment, he was no longer sure whether it was a dream or reality, or whether he had actually had a sweet dream of being released and returned to the Huichang Marquis Mansion.

His confused thinking made him never want to believe that everything in front of him was true.

Sun Ming suddenly noticed the clothes he was wearing, and immediately reacted and shouted: "Come here, let me out, let me out quickly, is Song Cheng crazy?"

Obviously he was exempted from crime by the emperor's decree because he held the iron coupon of the alchemy book, but now he was captured and returned to this cell by the people of Shuntian Mansion. The only explanation is that Song Cheng went crazy.

What made him even more irritated was that when he came back, he had arranged for his concubine, who had skin as white as snow, to serve him well tonight, but Song Cheng was inexplicably caught here before he could even enjoy it.

"Why are you making so much noise? If you disturb my sleep again, I will slap your mouth crookedly!" The prison head looked like he had just been woken up. He came over with a lantern and cursed angrily.

Sun Ming recognized that this was the prison chief of Shuntian Mansion, and immediately asked anxiously: "Prison Chief Liu, what is going on? Why am I here?"

"Let you go or lock you up? This cell leader is following the orders of Mr. Fu Yin. Now I am only responsible for guarding the prisoners. I don't know anything else! But if you dare to disturb my sleep again, I will give you a bucket of ice water to taste. !” The cell leader yawned, and then threatened with a stern look.

Sun Ming knew that this cell leader was indeed a ruthless person, and he suddenly felt shuddering.

Although he didn't know what was going on, he felt like he had fallen into a trap when he was suddenly caught by Song Cheng. Perhaps releasing himself was a conspiracy in itself, and the emperor had already planned to betray his promise.

It just made him very puzzled. If the emperor was so treacherous, everyone in the world would definitely be humiliated.

The next morning, in the Shuntian government office.

"Ascending to the Hall!"

Song Cheng, who was wearing a third-grade official uniform, was stunned and said in a deep voice.

"mighty!"

Two rows of cadres holding water and fire sticks pounded the green bricks in front of them and shouted in unison.

There were more than a hundred people who came to watch. Due to the spring rain yesterday, the courtyard of the government office looked particularly clean.

Sun Ming once again put on a plain white prison uniform and was being escorted to the court by two police officers. This time his eyes were filled with confusion. As a result of being teased, the whole person seemed to be in a trance.

"Sun Ming, do you know your guilt?" Song Cheng asked seriously without any expression on his face.

Sun Ming seemed to have suddenly come to his senses, and questioned Song Cheng: "Song Cheng, are you having a trance? I... my crime has been offset by the iron book of alchemy, you arrest me What am I going to do when I come back?"

Although he still wants to call himself a marquis, his marquis was eliminated by the emperor yesterday, so he is actually a commoner now.

Huh?

After hearing Sun Ming's question, the people in the hall also looked at Song Cheng in confusion.

Since they were all paying attention to this case, they also knew that the emperor had recognized the privilege of the Huichang Marquis Mansion's Alchemy and Iron Coupon yesterday and had agreed to exempt Sun Ming from death.

Now that Sun Ming was suddenly captured, things were indeed strange.

To the east of the city, Dongsheng Inn.

Zhang Sui and others couldn't help but become more and more nervous when they saw that the day was getting closer to the palace examination.

Hai Kuan and Chen Shou looked away. They were bestowed with honors by the emperor. Not to mention whether they could be among the best, even if they won the top prize, they would be ridiculed by their colleagues.

That's why they planned to take the exam with a normal mind. It would be great if they could rank at the top, but it wouldn't be too bad if they still ranked at the bottom. After all, they could at least get the appointment of a county magistrate.

"The crime of Marquis Huichang was forgiven because of a dishonest alchemy book. To indulge such villains in this way, the Ming Dynasty...the Ming Dynasty is in danger!"

As soon as Zhang Sui and others arrived at the front hall, they heard a voice criticizing the emperor. The five people couldn't help but turned their heads and looked over. It turned out to be Huang Zhongwen, the Guangdong Jieyuan who had failed.

After Ma Wensheng encouraged students from the four major academies to accuse the emperor of shielding the Marquis of Huichang, it finally affected the frustrated emperor, and the self-esteemed Jie Yuanlang also exaggerated his dissatisfaction.

In fact, there is no second question about the Huichang Hou case. With Huang Zhongwen's talent, he thinks that it is no problem to get into the top thirty. But now that he failed, he was also filled with anger.

"Mr. Jie Yuan, don't you know that the Shuntian government office took Sun Ming back to prison yesterday?" Zhang Sui, who knew Huang Zhongwen, couldn't help but say.

Huang Zhongwen glanced at Haikuan and others who were lucky enough to be rewarded, and responded with disdain: "So what if I heard? So what if I didn't hear? Now that Sun Ming's crime has been absolved, what's the use of arresting him again?"

"No wonder you failed, then I will give you two words!" Zhang Sui no longer sympathized with Huang Zhongwen, exchanged glances with Hai Kuan and others, and immediately uttered two words in unison: You deserve it.

After experiencing so much, they have become more and more loyal to the current Saint.

Although others did not know the deeper meaning, they knew that the emperor did not really want to forgive Huichang Hou Sun Ming, but adopted the solution they proposed.

"How dare you humiliate me like this? I will remember this grudge!" Huang Zhongwen said, facing such humiliation from Zhang Sui and others, his face turned as red as pig liver.

It's just that similar situations have happened elsewhere. Scholars have brains after all. Nowadays, there are obviously more and more people supporting Emperor Hongzhi, and there are even little fans of Emperor Hongzhi.

In fact, it is no wonder that for the case of Huichang Hou, they can only say: The emperor did a good job.

Shuntian government office has an upright and bright plaque hanging high.

"Your massacre of Qian's family on New Year's Eve has indeed wiped out one death, but you later assigned the Northern Gang leader One-Eyed Tiger to assassinate Miss Qian. The Northern Gang killed three people in total at Dongsheng Inn. Now the families of the three deceased We have already submitted a lawsuit to our governor, demanding severe punishment on you!" Faced with Sun Ming's questioning, Song Cheng told the cause of the matter.

When Sun Ming heard this accusation, he immediately opened his eyes and asked, "Isn't this all the same case?"

"On the evening of New Year's Eve, you ordered your brother to lead people to massacre Qian Fu's family. You wanted to get back the pawn tickets from Changsheng Pawnshop, so this was a major case of annihilation. It's just that you later hunted down Miss Qian's family to solve future troubles, but The leader of the Northern Gang, One-Eyed Tiger, and others killed three people at Dongsheng Inn. These were three living lives, enough to kill you three times!" Song Cheng's eyes flashed with anger as he stared at Sun Ming and told Sun Ming the crime.

He had no intention of letting Sun Ming go from the beginning, but because of the iron certificate of alchemy given to Huichang Hou Mansion by Emperor Yingzong, Emperor Hongzhi also had to face difficulties.

Fortunately, this matter was not unsolvable. Although he initially hoped that Emperor Hongzhi would not recognize the effectiveness of the alchemy iron coupons, he also understood that this approach was inappropriate, so he thought of another way.

The biggest problem with Sun Ming, the Marquis of Huichang, was that he committed many evil deeds. What he committed was not only the massacre of the entire Qian family, but also the subsequent three cases in which he sent people to hunt down the Qian family ladies. He also deliberately wanted to frame the case on the dignified Minister of Punishment.

That's why, instead of always worrying about whether the iron certificate of the Alchemy Book of the Huichang Hou Mansion can be effective, it is better to let the Iron Book of the Alchemy Book of the Huichang Hou Mansion take effect once, and then execute him on subsequent charges.

Sun Ming learned that Song Cheng had this idea, but he had no intention of arguing with Song Cheng, so he said coldly: "I want to see the emperor, and the emperor will make the decision for me!"

this……

When the people in the hall saw that this case was actually related to the emperor, they couldn't help but wonder whether the man in the Forbidden City supported Song Cheng or chose to punish Sun Ming severely.

"You, a commoner, told me that you want to see the emperor. Can you see the emperor just because you said so?" Song Cheng knew that there were some things that he could only handle, so he pretended to be in the way.

Sun Ming suddenly realized that he was indeed not qualified to face it, so he defended himself and said: "I don't accept the verdict of this case. I am not guilty. I have been completely exempted from all crimes!"

"You dare to roar in court! Come here, let's fight for fifty!" Song Cheng knew it was time for Sun Ming to recognize the reality, and immediately threw down a sign.

The four yamen officers immediately walked towards Sun Ming and knocked Sun Ming to the ground with long sticks. Two yamen officers held Sun Ming's head while the other two yamen officers took off Sun Ming's pants and started beating him.

Snapped! Snapped! Snapped!

Sun Ming's butt was quickly beaten to a bloody pulp, and the dignified Marquis turned into a dead dog.

Sun Ming had a strong desire to survive. Although he was beaten and screamed repeatedly, he still shouted loudly: "I refuse to accept this. My life is spared. You are trying to make the emperor break his promise!"

"Your Majesty has exempted you from the serious crime of massacring the entire Qian family. This is a death. But what I am discussing now is the case where you assigned the Northern Gang leader One-Eyed Tiger to kill three people at Dongsheng Inn. Now the evidence is conclusive and he is behind bars. In the death row, please allow me to report to the Ministry of Punishment and ask for execution!" Song Cheng slapped the door in shock and carried out a quick sentence.

The leader of the Northern Gang, One-Eyed Tiger, has already confessed, and Sun Ming has also admitted earlier. Therefore, this case does not need to be retried and can be directly tried.

However, according to the normal procedure, the case of execution must be reported to the Ministry of Punishment and approved by the emperor, so that the Shuntian Mansion Office can execute Sun Ming.

"No, I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor!" Sun Ming felt the fear of death. Although his butt had been beaten to a bloody pulp, he still complained continuously.

Zhao Dayan led the officials forward. Judging from various signs, it was impossible for the emperor to see this villain, and there was no reason to see this villain, so he was escorted back to the Shuntian Mansion Prison to wait for execution.

As Song Cheng formally sentenced Sun Ming, the news here quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital.

I have always thought that the most important thing is whether the iron book of the Alchemy Book of Huichang Hou can avoid death, but they have ignored that the crime committed by Huichang Hou this time is not just a death.

Since Sun Ming is always going to die, then if he avoids death first and then punishes him with death for another crime, the matter can be solved perfectly. The Huichang Hou question in the second session of the examination seems to be a dilemma, but it actually has a solution.

As for the public opinion in the capital initiated by Ma Wensheng and others, they were hit hard again. They originally wanted to take the opportunity to discredit Zhu Youtang, but they were slapped in the face again.

However, things did not completely develop in a good direction. While eating lunch, Jinyiwei Baihu Ma Shu suddenly pinched his neck and fell to the ground in great pain.