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To be honest, the people who were watching, whether they were ordinary people or people with high status, were quite shocked when the master of Juren was punished with a cane in public. The miserable screams impacted their fragile hearts one after another.

They are all thinking that it seems that Mr. Zhongcheng is serious this time. With such an example, others will not dare not to pay taxes, right? This master of the people's education industry is really unlucky. He was caught as a typical example, killing the chicken and shocking the monkey! It's pitiful. After being scolded in public like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold your head up when you go out in the future, right?

However, these people only guessed most of their ideas. As for the one who guessed wrong, he soon figured it out.

I saw the screams of the Juren master subsided, and then there was no sound again. After being beaten with seventy sticks, the soldiers looked over and loudly reported that Liao Juren could not survive the punishment of seventy sticks and was beaten to death!

Those who were watching saw all this and heard the voice of the complaint, and were shocked again! They really didn't expect that they were really "killing" chickens and monkeys. A dignified government official was beaten to death in public just for illegally carrying private goods!

At this moment, many people who were still in the mood of watching a show turned pale and were a little afraid to look at the Juren master who was lying on the ground with blood flowing all over the floor.

However, after hearing the report, Sun Chuanting's expression did not change. He still ordered expressionlessly: "Inform his family to come and collect the body, and the personal belongings he brought will be confiscated and brought to the official!"

The sound was a bit loud, or maybe it was because the surroundings were too quiet, but most people heard it anyway. As they looked at Mr. Zhong Cheng who was wearing a scarlet robe, many of them had their legs trembling.

After the soldiers began to chase people away and resumed their original verification work, all the onlookers dispersed. At the same time, the news that Liao Juren had been killed spread like flying around the dock, centering on the dock. .

After the news reached the upstream inspection gate, the release speed was significantly accelerated. The ship owners were all surprised and doubtful, and many quietly changed their minds.

As the news spread, Sun Chuanting finally got a nickname, "The Cold-faced King of Hell."

After hearing about the dock incident, many officials did not dare to confront Sun Chuanting openly, otherwise the cold-faced King of Hell would not be polite to them. If they fell into his hands, even if they could save their lives, they would still suffer physical pain. They started to connect one by one, and then they started looking for connections, looking for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, looking for the patrol press, looking for the Yushi Yanguan, and impeached Sun Chuanting.

Even Governor He Qiaoyuan was alarmed. He went to find Sun Chuanting and scolded him: "You are a high-ranking official of the imperial court who is responsible for the development of national policies. How can you be so reckless? You are a person who has a reputation. The most you can do is hit him a few times, why do you still kill him?"

"This official is just acting in accordance with the law. It's his own fate that cannot survive the seventy!" Sun Chuanting replied seriously with a cold face.

He Qiaoyuan was not an old fool yet, so he naturally knew that those soldiers would never dare to beat anyone to death if Sun Chuanting had not specifically ordered it. He stared at Sun Chuanting's cold face for a long time, and then said slowly: "Aren't you afraid that your colleagues will impeach you? Do you know how many people will come to impeach you?"

"I am just a lowly official acting in accordance with the law. If I am upright, I will not be afraid of being distorted by my shadow. If anyone wants to be impeached, just impeach him!" Sun Chuanting replied solemnly, still with a cold face.

When He Qiaoyuan heard this, he couldn't help but point his finger at him and said impulsively: "You...you don't have enough salt, you..."

If you really don’t want to come out, He Qiaoyuan finally waved his hand and said, “That’s it, just do whatever you want!”

After he finished speaking, he didn't even bother to serve tea to the guests and turned around and left.

Sun Chuanting had no expression on his face. When He Qiaoyuan left, he strode away as if nothing had happened.

Although Sun Chuanting was the governor of Fujian, his actual job was to take charge of the maritime affairs in Fujian and Guangdong. Therefore, his actions greatly affected the people in these two places.

If things had changed in the past, there might have been more intense counterattacks, not just impeachment. But not long ago, the Nanxun Town Incident occurred. I don’t know how many people confiscated their homes and exterminated their clans. With this precedent, no one dares to take the lead in using civil unrest to cause trouble. What's more, Sun Chuanting, as a border official at the governor level, holds military and political power, and Liu Guoneng, the army brought from the north, is there. No one can guarantee that if trouble occurs, there will be no need for the imperial court to issue an order. Sun Chuanting himself You can kill people directly with Liu Guoneng's knife!

Therefore, businessmen in Fujian and Guangdong no longer dare to evade taxes and obediently pay taxes at a ratio of thirty to one. But in private, he cursed this cold-faced King of Hell from the north. It can be said that in Fujian and Guangdong, among the four classes of scholars, peasants, industry and merchants, the interests of scholars and merchants were seriously damaged, and they hated the cold-faced King of Hell in their hearts. But the two classes, farmers and workers, mostly just watch the excitement and take pleasure in others' misfortune. Only soldiers like those in Liu Daneng's army, who were almost starving to death and were outlaws, strongly supported Master Zhongcheng. After seeing too much of the wealth in the south, especially the wealth and greed of these businessmen and officials, I wanted to peel off a layer of their skin.

In the cabinet of the capital, the memorials to impeach Sun Chuanting were piled up like a hill. Even people from the General Affairs Department continued to bring similar memorials to the cabinet. Wen Tiren and others knew that the tax collection was actually the emperor's intention. Therefore, they were delayed for several days without processing. When they saw that there were so many, they had no choice but to go to the emperor with the memorial.

Not long after, a decree was issued to Fujian and spread throughout the Ming Dynasty through Di Bao. In response to these impeachment memorials, he only reprimanded Sun Chuanting and fined him one month's salary, and nothing else. In addition, he also clearly informed the world that Sun Chuanting acted in accordance with the law and was not at fault, and he should not dwell on this matter anymore.

At this time, the whole country was in an uproar. A month's salary fine, is this a joke? Are you kidding!

However, from this, officials from all over the country also saw the intentions of the cabinet and the emperor, and couldn't help but secretly sigh at how big Sun Chuanting's backstage was. With the support of both the emperor and the cabinet, he could not be impeached. But there are still some people who are not willing to give in and want to impeach Sun Chuanting from other aspects. Anyway, we cannot let Sun Chuanting do whatever he wants!

However, what they didn't expect was that there was more to it than that. The censor who had the most impeachment memorials and the one who danced the most happily was impeached by another censor who was said to be the chief assistant and one of the party, and he had done something illegal. Regarding 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 sent to teach in Hetao.

A discerning person would know at a glance that this matter was caused by the impeachment of Sun Chuanting. This is true. In the local area, Sun Chuanting once killed chickens to scare monkeys. Unexpectedly, in the court, there were also people killing chickens and monkeys to respond!