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Chapter 905
To be honest, Master Juren was punished with a cane in public, which was quite a shock to the onlookers, no matter whether they were ordinary people or people with fame.The miserable cry hit their fragile hearts one after another.

They all thought, it seems that Mr. Zhongcheng is serious this time. With such an example, others dare not not pay taxes, right?This master Juren is really unlucky, he was caught as a typical example, killing chickens and scaring monkeys!Poor thing, being scolded in public like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold my head up when I go out in the future, right?
However, the thoughts of these people only guessed most of them.As for the one who guessed wrong, I quickly figured it out for myself.

I saw that the scream of the master Juren subsided, and then there was no sound.After the seventy sticks were beaten, the soldiers checked and reported loudly, saying that Liao Juren could not survive the seventy sticks and was beaten to death!
Those onlookers saw all this and heard the voice of the report, and were shocked again!They really didn't expect that it was really "killing" chickens and monkeys. A dignified master was beaten to death in public just because he brought private goods in violation of the prohibition!
At this moment, many people who were still in the mentality of watching a play all turned pale, and they were a little afraid to look at Master Ju Ren who was lying on the ground with blood dripping all over the place.

However, after Sun Chuanting heard the report, his expression did not change, and he still ordered with a blank expression: "Notify his family to come to collect the corpse, and the private belongings brought will be confiscated into the government!"

The sound was also a bit loud, or maybe it was too quiet around, but most people heard it anyway.Many of them had their legs trembling when they looked at Mr. Zhong Cheng in the scarlet robe.

After the soldiers started to chase people away and resumed their original inspection work, all the onlookers dispersed. At the same time, the news of Liao Juren's death spread like flying around the pier. .

After the news reached the upstream inspection gate, the speed of release was significantly accelerated.But those ship owners were all surprised and uncertain, and many of them quietly changed their minds.

As the news spread, Sun Chuanting finally got a nickname, "Cold Face Hades".

After hearing about the wharf incident, many officials did not dare to confront Sun Chuanting, otherwise the cold-faced Hades would not be polite to them.One by one, they started to connect with each other, and then they looked for connections, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the inspector, the censor, and the impeachment of Sun Chuanting.

Even Governor He Qiaoyuan was alarmed, and he went to find Sun Chuanting, and reprimanded him bitterly: "You are a high-ranking official in the imperial court who is in charge of the national policy of opening the sea. It’s fine if you hit him a few times at most, why are you still killing people?”

"The subordinate is just acting according to the law. It's his own fate, and he can't survive the number of seventy!" Sun Chuanting replied with a cold face and seriousness.

He Qiaoyuan was not too ignorant, so he knew that if Sun Chuanting hadn't given special orders, those soldiers would never dare to beat people to death.He stared at Sun Chuanting's cold face for a long time, and then slowly said: "Aren't you afraid that your colleagues will impeach you? Do you know how many people will impeach you?"

"I just act according to the law. I am not afraid of being crooked. Whoever wants to impeach should be impeached!" Sun Chuanting replied solemnly, still with a cold face.

When He Qiaoyuan heard this, he couldn't help pointing at him, and impulsively said, "You...you don't get in, you..."

In fact, if you don't come out, He Qiaoyuan finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you can do whatever you want!"

After finishing speaking, he didn't even bother to bring tea to the guests, so he turned around and left.

Sun Chuanting was expressionless, and when He Qiaoyuan left, he also strode away, as if nothing had happened.

Although Sun Chuanting is the governor of Fujian, his actual job is to manage the opening of the sea between Fujian and Guangdong.Therefore, these actions of his have greatly affected the people in these two places.

If it had changed from the past, maybe there would be more drastic countermeasures, not just impeachment.But not long ago, there was a change in Nanxun Town, and I don't know how many people ransacked their homes and wiped out their families.With this precedent, no one dares to take the lead in using civil uprisings to cause trouble.What's more, Sun Chuanting, as a governor-level feudal official, holds military and political power in his hands, and Liu Guoneng, an army brought from the north, is there. You can use Liu Guoneng's knife to kill people directly!
Therefore, businessmen in Fujian and Guangdong no longer dare to evade taxes, and obediently pay taxes at a rate of one for thirty.But in private, he cursed the cold-faced Hades from the north.It can be said that in Fujian and Guangdong, among the four classes of scholars, farmers, businessmen, scholars and merchants, the interests of scholars and merchants have been severely damaged, and they hate the cold-faced Hades very much.But the two classes of farmers and workers are mostly just watching the fun and gloating.Only soldiers like those in Liu Daneng's army, who were almost starved to death and who were former bandits, strongly supported Lord Zhongcheng.After seeing too much wealth in the South, especially the wealth and greed of these merchants and officials, I wish I could strip them off.

In the cabinet of the capital, the memorials to impeach Sun Chuanting were piled up like a hill, and even the people in the Secretary of General Administration were still carrying similar memorials to the cabinet.Wen Tiren and others knew that the tax collection was actually the emperor's intention.So it was delayed for a few days without processing, and seeing that there were so many, I had to take the memorial to the emperor.

Not long after, a decree was sent to Fujian and spread to all parts of the Ming Dynasty through the Di Bao.The reply to these impeachment memorials was just to reprimand Sun Chuanting and fine him one month's salary, nothing else.In addition, he also clearly informed the world that Sun Chuanting acted in accordance with the law, and he was not at fault, so he should not be entangled in this matter.

This time, the whole country was in an uproar.One month's salary fine, is this a joke?Just kidding!
However, from this, officials from all over the country also saw the meaning of the cabinet and the emperor, and couldn't help but secretly sighed that Sun Chuanting's background was so big.Backed by both the emperor and the cabinet, impeachment does not move him.But there are still some people who are not reconciled and want to impeach Sun Chuanting from other aspects. Anyway, Sun Chuanting cannot be allowed to do whatever he wants!
However, what they didn't expect was that it was more than that.The censor who has the most impeachment memorials is also the censor who dances the most. He is impeached by another censor who is said to be the first and auxiliary party. He has done something illegal.For such a matter, the cabinet responded quickly, and the emperor even sent factory guards to assist. Within a few days, the censor was demoted and resigned, and sent to Hetao to teach.

Anyone with a discerning eye will know this incident at a glance. It was caused by the impeachment of Sun Chuanting.This is really true, at the local level, Sun Chuanting organized a massacre of chickens and monkeys, unexpectedly, there were echoes of killing chickens and terrors of monkeys in the court!
(End of this chapter)