Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

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The people in the hall couldn't help but look at each other in shock when they saw Li Guangming being so arrogant.

I have seen many arrogant people, but to dare to be so arrogant in front of an imperial envoy is something I have never seen or heard of in my life. Today is really an eye-opener.

Wang Yue believed that he had improved his temper after living in exile for many years, but when he looked at Li Guangming's face in the hall, he found that this man was even more disgusting than those Tatars.

Until now, this person not only has no intention of repenting, but also wants to use the atonement system of the Ming Dynasty to escape punishment by relying on his wealth.

"Li Guangming, even if you want to lose millet to atone for your sins, there is no disaster in the world today, so you can't lose millet to atone for your sins!" Wang Yu, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but say.

Li Guangming glanced at Wang Yu gently, and said proudly: "Not to mention the floods in Shandong this autumn, in addition to the atonement for losing millet, doesn't the court also have Nama atonement? I have a close relationship with the horse dealer, so I got it A hundred or dozens of horses are not a problem, this is enough to atone for your sin!"

Wang Yu frowned and realized that he did not understand the law as well as Li Guangming, and he did not even know whether there was a real disaster in Shandong. Just thinking that such a cunning person had nothing to do in the end, I couldn't help but turn to look at my grandfather anxiously.

Wang Yue took a deep breath and said to the arrogant Li Guangming in the hall: "Do you know why your Majesty asked me to entrust the Prime Minister with salt administration?"

"The imperial court just wants to increase tax revenue, and it only cares about money. In fact, it is common sense!" Li Guangming knew that the imperial court was also a greedy mouth, and he immediately said with disdain.

Wang Yue saw Li Guangming's face in his eyes, but he said extremely seriously: "Wrong! Your Majesty sent a message: To manage salt, you should manage officials and businessmen, and to treat salt, you should eliminate disadvantages, that's all!"

Huh?

Huguang Inspector Yang Jizong vaguely felt that these words had profound meaning, so he looked at Wang Yue who was sitting in the court with confusion.

"Manage officials and businessmen? Eliminate corruption? What do you mean by this?" Li Guangming always believed that the imperial court still wanted to make money after all, even though he was very puzzled.

The people in the hall couldn't understand the meaning, but they vaguely felt that the words His Majesty passed to Wang Yue seemed to have a profound meaning, but Wang Yue was able to understand this profound meaning.

Snapped!

It was at this moment that Wang Yue picked up the gavel on the table and slapped it hard on the case.

mighty!

The Zaoban yamen officers on both sides of the court held the long sticks of water, fire and wood in their hands and pounded the green bricks in front of them heavily, making powerful sounds in their mouths.

People in the courtroom were affected by this artificial noise and couldn't help but feel their scalps numb.

"The offenders were Li Guangming, the former prefect of Shunde, and Xiao Zhang, the magistrate of Jingshan. They were protected by the magistrate of Jingshan. Li Guangming opened a store to sell salt, and sold private salt in Jingshan County for profit. The first offense was selling private salt, the second offense was collusion between officials and businessmen, and the third offense was breaking the law knowingly. , the four guilty of monopolizing salt, now two of them are sentenced to death!" Wang Yue announced the sentence loudly.

Make a decision?

The people in the hall were completely stunned when they heard this verdict.

Li Guangming originally thought that Wang Yue was just giving him a larger sentence to force him to pay more property to atone for his crime, but he was dumbfounded when he heard the verdict.

The atonement system is for crimes below the death penalty, but if you are sentenced to death, you are not allowed to lose millet to atone. What's more, Wang Yue's current sentence is still execution.

Li Guangming didn't know why Wang Yue wanted to put himself to death like this, so he said angrily: "Wang Shichang, don't abuse the law, I will not be punished by death!"

"Imperial envoy, please have mercy on me! This county...this county doesn't want to die!" Xiao Zhixian was extremely frightened at this time and immediately begged for mercy.

Huguang Inspector Yang Jizong frowned slightly. Although he felt that Li Guangming wanted to deal with it, he didn't understand why he was sentenced to death.

"If an ordinary merchant sells private salt, he must be punished with a hundred years of rod and three years of imprisonment. He is indeed guilty and deserves to be punished by losing millet to atone for his crime! It's just that you and Xiao Zhixian teamed up to monopolize the salt market in Jingshan County, damaging the salt and infringing on the interests of the people. Why can't I kill you?" Wang Yue naturally knew that the punishment was indeed severe, but he explained without any problem.

Li Guangming was regarded as a slippery man in the officialdom, and he immediately defended himself: "I am not convinced! Not to mention that the law does not stipulate this. You say you should take a lesson on salt damage, but how do you start invading the interests of the people? If If it weren't for Xiaguan to sell Cantonese salt, the price of salt in Jingshan would be the same as that in Anlu. How could the people in Jingshan have cheap salt to eat?"

The people in the hall couldn't help but look at each other, and finally had to accept this fact.

According to the rising trend of Huaiguan salt in recent years, if they did not eat Cantonese salt, they would really have no choice but to eat high-priced salt every day and accept the squeeze from the government and businessmen.

"Don't confuse the public here! If you don't invade the people's interests, how can you, Li Guangming, have a lot of fish and meat every day, and still have money to entertain this imperial envoy? Your purpose of selling Guangdong salt is nothing more than salt profit. As for the high price of food for the people of Jingshan, Salt, this imperial envoy will try to solve this matter!" Wang Yue had already seen through Li Guangming's greedy mouth, and retorted matter-of-factly.

Li Guangming felt the murderous intention on Wang Yue's body, and warned him very seriously: "Master Imperial Envoy, we are officials in the same dynasty, so we have to be merciful and merciful! To tell you the truth, Xu Xueshi and I are the same We are old friends from the same year. Officialdom is not about fighting, but about worldliness. Do you really want to offend all the officials in the court like you did before? "

Yang Jizong knew that the Xu scholar that Li Guangming had heard about was the imperial master Xu Pu, and now he might have joined the cabinet to worship the prime minister, or even become the second minister of the dynasty, so he couldn't help but turn his head and look at Wang Yue.

This officialdom is indeed not about fighting and killing, but about human relations and sophistication. If Wang Yue is still the same as before, I am afraid that people will write poems and articles again, and there will still be no one in the whole court to say a fair word for him.

"We don't agree with each other! I don't care who your backer is, but your Majesty is the wise one behind me. Even if Xu Xueshi commits a crime, I will kill you without fail. Why don't I dare to kill you today!" Wang Yue naturally knew that he was still acting alone, but he still had firm belief and integrity.

Li Guangming realized that the person in front of him was simply an official lunatic, but he still had a trump card after all. He said with a smile but not a smile: "Your Majesty, you seem to have forgotten one thing!"

"What's the matter?" Wang Yue frowned slightly.

Huh?

Huguang Inspector Yang Jizong noticed that Li Guangming looked confident and could not help but turn his head to look at Li Guangming in confusion.

Li Guangming met the confused gazes of the people around him and said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth: "Although I am a fourth-grade official serving as the prefect of Shunde, I have been promoted to an official position after completing the nine-year examination without any mistakes. If I remember correctly, I , even if you want to behead an official, your king’s order and flag will still have to be reported, but you can’t execute the decision immediately!”

When the matter has reached this point, the only option is to wait for a while and then be executed, and then use the connections in the capital to exonerate himself.

Huh?

The people in the hall did not expect that the king's flag was so particular, and they couldn't help but look at each other.

When Huguang Inspector Yang Jizong noticed Wang Yue looking at him, he immediately nodded gently and said: "Your Majesty, it is indeed true. Li Guangming is a third-grade official and has become an official!"

"In that case! Come here, escort the two of them to the execution ground, and I will personally supervise the execution!" Wang Yue took out the order, threw it on the ground, and gave the order.

"Wang Shichang, you are messing with your life. I am a third-rank official of the imperial court!" Li Guangming roared in horror when he saw the order slip falling in front of him.

"Ah? Still beheading me? Please spare my life, imperial envoy!" Xiao Zhixian was so frightened that he couldn't control his urine and immediately begged for mercy.

Four guards in golden uniforms immediately stepped forward and escorted the two prisoners in the hall together, while someone had already gone to prepare the prison car.

Huguang Inspector Yang Jizong frowned and finally couldn't help but said: "Master Imperial Envoy, you immediately beheaded a third-grade official without reporting to the court. Isn't this inappropriate?"

"Master Yang, in that case, please follow this imperial envoy to request the king's order!" Wang Yue naturally knew that it was inappropriate for him to kill a retired third-grade official without asking, but he still stood firm and authentic.

"The Imperial Envoy wants to question Zhan Li Heixin!"

"Let's go and take a look. We finally have hope in Jingshan!"

"Chen Laoliu died strangely, and Li Guangming also took possession of his wife. It is unforgivable for such a person to die!"

…

Jingshan County is not a big town. After learning that the imperial envoy wanted to kill Li Guangming, the people immediately rushed to the execution ground from all directions, wanting to witness the execution of Li Guangming.

Beheading turned out to be a big deal, not to mention the famous dog officials Xiao Zhixian and Li Guangming, so people from the entire county were attracted to the execution ground to watch.

Dongshi, the execution platform has been set up here.

Li Guangming and Xiao Zhixian stood in the prison car and were escorted over, resolutely reduced from glorious officials to death row prisoners.

"God finally opened his eyes!"

"If it weren't for you, a dog officer, my father would not have died. Retribution is coming!"

"Li Heixin, you have done so many evil things, I really don't know how many evil things you have done!"

…

The people in Jingshan County used to be angry and dare not speak out, but now when they saw these two Jingshan pests, they immediately threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at them and cursed.

Li Guangming had been cursing and complaining about himself, but a rotten egg happened to hit his face and smeared his face. The unpleasant smell and disgusting fluid finally made him stop.

Lu Song led a sedan and lined up the crowd of onlookers to the center of the execution ground. He sang with great dignity: "When the king's order comes, the officials and the people kneel!"

Now he wants to kill a retired third-rank official without asking. Even Wang Yue, an imperial envoy, cannot kill him directly, so the king needs to be invited.

The flag symbolizes the emperor's order, and there is a certain ceremony when using it, so it is called respectfully requesting the emperor's order.

"I respectfully request the king's order!" Wang Yue led Yang Jizong and other officials to the front of the sedan chair and knelt down respectfully to greet him.

"Wang Shichang, since you invited the king's flag and you have no right to kill me directly, you are in chaos..." Li Guangming was still shouting when he was led to the execution platform, but he glanced into the sedan and suddenly froze.

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