Beiyang new warlord

At the other end, Chen Zanzhong had finished his farewell. From the other end of the carriage, he was helped up. The driver raised his whip. Zheng Man also lowered his head silently, but he didn't notice it at all. He watched him off. The stock smiled wryly.

To be honest, maybe Mao Jue killed him, it would be easier for Zhu Yuhui, but it was true that Mao Jue let him go, it had nothing to do with women's benevolence, it was purely a political need.

The enemy wearing the same uniform is the most terrifying, and the exposed opponent is easy to deal with. Mao Jue thinks it is stupid to cut grass and roots like past dynasties.There will always be some oppositionist careerists popping up, so it is better to keep Zheng Man, the leader of the royalist party who is loyal to the Zhu family, he is not dead, and according to his reputation, most of the conservatives will lean over, such a bright face The enemy above, if there is any accident, it is easy to prevent.

And there is an old saying that if a scholar rebels, he will fail in ten years!A large group of sour literati gather together, apart from complaining, they have no real power. Isn't there a ruling party and an opposition party in the United States in later generations, so just treat them as an opposition party.

And most importantly, respect!

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang is a typical example of overkill. He killed all the heroes and wanted to leave a relaxed environment for future generations. In the end, because he was too relaxed and lacked awe, his grandson Emperor Jianwen took drastic cuts as soon as he came to power. However, it turned out that Zhu Di went to Nanjing together, which caused Jing Nan's disaster.

The descendants of Huaxia are too smart, so I don’t know if it’s a gift or a curse. If people who are too smart gather together, it’s easy to intrigue. Now that the Liaodong faction is in power, they still work together because the Kaiming Emperor of the Zhu family is still in power, and the Nanming Wei However, even so, the veteran faction like Zhao Cheng and Song Xiance and the backward faction of traditional literati such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting also showed signs of separation, so Mao Jue had to allow the royalist faction like Zheng Man to continue to exist, and find them a The enemy, staring at them from behind, can't let them live too easily!

With a common enemy, the two factions in Liaodong can continue to work together, and they will not follow the old path of party struggle like Daming.

So Zheng Man didn't know that the fate waiting for him was not bad. Although he was exiled and restricted his entry and exit in Acheng, Mao Jue arranged for him to be the director of the library of Acheng College, where Dongjiang translated the largest number of Western classics. In the Western Renaissance, there are almost all the classics of the Byzantine Empire, which died of translation. According to this old guy's unwillingness to be lonely, it is estimated that he will have to play for more than ten years.

Then he must be the main opponent of Changping, the mouthpiece of the Dongjiang River. Thinking about the old guy's desire to swallow his hatred, Changping is a headache.

But Grandpa Mao said it well, it is endless joy to fight against the sky, endless joy to fight with the earth, and endless joy to fight with people!After all, she was the fighting concubine among the concubines of the palace. She just had a moment of feeling, and soon Zhu Yuhui put away the finished manuscript, waved her hand, and boarded the carriage that had been waiting for a long time. There was still an important piece of news that she needed to report. !

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Compared with the coldness of Jingkou, Caishikou, a murderous place, is completely crowded. After more than a month of interrogation, several families in Zhengcheng County colluded with each other to embezzle state-owned assets and occupy the imperial court's land for poverty alleviation. , organizing evil forces to oppress and abuse the people, robbery, fighting, murder and a series of crimes, these few tyrants in Zhengcheng County confessed to it.

Although they are pawns, they did all these vicious things with their own hands. Even the Meng family, descendants of Mencius, from the six families were not forgiven. A total of 17 people were sentenced to death, and more than 6000 people were sentenced to exile. Execution day!

The execution of corrupt officials has always been popular among the common people, especially compared to the past when the Lord Qingtian served justice, but this time it was exposed by public opinion, and the common people participated in it from beginning to end, making everyone seem to have found a sense of existence and the meaning of self.

The Jingshi police force escorted these dejected prisoners out of Dali Temple Prison. Hundreds of thousands of Jingshi citizens followed on both sides of the road. It has to be said that the commercialization brought about by Mao Jue was thorough enough, and some people saw business opportunities , A batch of rotten eggs, rotten vegetables, leaves, cow dung bags and other garbage were brought in, and they were sold along the street. The business was not bad, and the enthusiasm was aroused by reading the newspaper. In the past, it was hard for the escorting police forces. In order to protect the prisoner from being crushed to death by garbage, the two factions had to carry shields and defend on both sides. All of a sudden it was stuck on the forehead.

The Caishikou side has already been prepared, but compared to the catchy launch of the Caishikou beheading, there have been some changes here. Ten huge gallows replaced the former beheading platform.

To be honest, Mao Jue didn’t know how much more civilized the hanging without blood was compared to the beheading with blood, but beheading was abolished in later generations, but hanging still exists. Hanging was basically used to execute war criminals after World War II. The Iraq War, President Saddam also He was executed by hanging. In order to express his progress towards civilization, he also changed Beiming's death sentence to hanging.

Although it was opposed by some people, after all, in Daming, Ling Chi was the heaviest, and beheading was the most serious. Hanging is the lightest form of death penalty, not only in terms of pain, but also in terms of concept. Death has a whole body according to Confucian philosophy. Look, it's a kind of good death. Which of these guys doesn't have a dozen or twenty lives in their hands, and it's too cheap for them to hang them.

It's just that Mao Jue insisted, and Dali Temple had no choice but to make a final decision. Under the full force of the guarding police force, with great difficulty, a gap was squeezed out at the entrance of the street. Prisoners with rotten egg yolks and rotten vegetable leaves on their heads went to the execution ground.

People have a humble side in their hearts. Under the guidance of public opinion, the citizens of the capital also have the tendency to become deflated. They are eager to see blood.Fortunately, even though the hanging made the citizens very dissatisfied, it was still very satisfying that justice was done.

Amidst the shouts all over the sky, Shen Rui, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, recited the sentence with high spirits.

"Any act that is hostile to the Ming Empire and its people will be destroyed! According to the laws of the empire, we will be executed!"

Amidst the creaking sound of the rope, the first batch of ten prisoners were pushed onto the stools. Immediately, in their fearful expressions, the executioner put ropes around their necks, and then removed the stools on which they were standing.

The once high-ranking landlords and bureaucrats who exploited and tortured the little people as livestock finally realized the pain of the little people they abused. Zhang Baihu, the county policeman, wanted to pretend to be a tough guy, but he didn't. Hanging twice, he was already sticking out his tongue and kicking his legs desperately, his eyeballs protruding out of fear. As for the descendant of the Meng family next to him, Mr. Xie Yuan, who lived in Chongzhen for 17 years, a smear of yellow soup was already running down his pants It flowed down with a splash.

Just next to the execution ground, a gorgeously decorated four-wheeled carriage just ran by, and was paid tribute to the capital as a slave. Hearing the crazy shouts outside the window, the Spanish chick struggled to open it with her little hand wearing a triangle iron shackle. The car curtain that covered the car window, seeing this scene, Selita's face paled, she took a breath, and quickly blocked the curtain again, closed her eyes in fear, and handcuffed her to her chest. The little fist was clenched tightly, and he couldn't help muttering.

"Savage Orientals!"

This scene not only frightened the visitor from the outer domain, he watched the fellow inmates in front of him suffocate in pain for a few minutes amidst the excited shouts of the crowd, with his tongue sticking out and his face livid, like a ghost. The censor Zhao Huade, who was slapped behind him and went to investigate the case as a supervisor, but came back as a prisoner, was so frightened that he trembled like chaff.

It turns out that in the face of death, these guys who claim to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic are not much better than the poor people.

His teeth were trembling violently, and the sweat on his forehead was dripping down. Looking back, he found that Shen Rui's expression was also staring at him. Fear finally defeated the psychological defense of this old man who had read sage books.

Regardless of everything, he suddenly broke free from the guards guarding him, and roared with all his strength to the shouting crowd.

"This official is working for the emperor! Even if you die, you will still be a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty, and you will live forever! You bastards! Bewitched by Mao Ni, cruel Zhongliang, follow the filth, wait for it! When the emperor personally conscripts, you will definitely avenge me , kill you all!"

"Not one! Not one!"

The sudden eruption of this guy caused the cheering of the short nearby citizens to stop abruptly, and the huge silence spread quickly as if it would be contagious...

Chapter 693. Forcing the palace

Kacha~

He walked differently from the other accomplices. Although he still did not escape death, Zhao Huade also received a special treatment. His noose was two-thirds shorter than the others. It was a typical British hanging, and he suddenly pulled the ladder away. , With a click, the neck was directly folded under the action of gravity, and when others were still thumping, he was already wailing.

But he left happily, and the price in exchange for this special treatment was to completely sell the enlightened emperor. If the Didu Daily had just taken sidesteps from Zheng Man and directed the fire to Zhu Cihong, then he, Zhao Huade, would have simply slapped him. He grabbed the prince's hair and stuffed the fire into his neck.

This guy's last last words, probably can carry the annals of history, because he successfully aroused the public's anger and ruined an emperor!

"Although the treacherous officials are dead, the foolish emperor will come again!"

"If the Hunjun is allowed to sit down again, there will be countless Zhengcheng counties coming to harm the people in the future!"

There is a fashionable phrase in later generations called guiding public opinion, and public opinion needs to be guided!In the silence stimulated by Zhao Huade's "crazy" before his death, Liaodong Zao and the buried child cup raised their arms high and shouted.

"That's right! If the emperor is in charge, wouldn't it be over for us!"

"If the emperor is in charge, he can't settle accounts with us ordinary people. Never..., never! Never let him be the emperor again!"

A distressed face first appeared on the face, and the fanatical people seemed to wake up suddenly, they were against the supreme imperial power!In the past, thinking about it made me feel taboo and fear, but now, the sorrow has faded away, and it is replaced by crazy faces.

The emperor blocked everyone's way, and the emperor had to step down too!

Even more impassioned is Hou Fangyu, a die-hard rebel. In history, he once advised the Qing army and wiped out the Yuyuan army for fame. At this time, in exchange for Mao Jue's favor, he rushed to the front line with fanaticism. , roaring like a madman.

"In the past, there were people from the Zhou Dynasty who rioted and drove away the stupid and cruel King Zhou Li. Today it's our turn, citizens of the imperial capital, drive away the stupid king!!!"

Good guy, I have all the battle theories. On this execution ground, the last few local tyrants and evil gentry in Zhengcheng County are still struggling on the gallows. rushed over.

This time it was different from the sudden demonstration last time. Along the way, even the traffic police cleared the three streets in advance. There were still people along the way to maintain order and guide them in front. As for the Liaodong cabinet, they drank tea comfortably in the office , completely lost the anxiety of the last citizen riot.

However, the cabinet is not restless, some people are anxious, and another Chunfang attendant was replaced. In the East Palace, Zhu Cijiong was still reading quietly, but suddenly, a few eunuchs rushed in in panic, their legs were weak Kneeling on the ground suddenly, he kowtowed in panic and said, "Your Majesty, the big thing is not good, and those troublesome people in the capital are all against each other!"

As expected of being a descendant of the royal family, he jumped up and said nothing immediately, but Emperor Kaiming was still reading the book, without even raising his head, he just waved his hand indifferently and said: "Now the regent is King Liao, the people rebelled, go Looking for King Liao, what are you doing looking for me?"

"Hey, Your Majesty, don't you understand? This is obviously the King of Liao's mischief, intending to harm you. Your Majesty should dodge quickly!"

Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead drop by drop, the eunuch kowtowed desperately, finally Zhu Cihong put down the book when he heard it, but immediately his voice became stricter, and he slammed down the eunuch who reported the letter. sleeves.

"I am the Son of Heaven, how can I be greedy for life and fear death and avoid a group of bastards! I am in this palace, if they want to kill me, just come! Get down!"

"Master Yao, continue to lecture!"

Even if the eunuch's brow was covered with sweat, and all the fallen books were taken upside down, and he knelt on the ground, the eunuch still wanted to say something, but he hesitated for a while, watching Zhu Cihong lower his head to read again, he sighed helplessly. After taking a breath, he finally backed out.

However, Zhu Cihong was not as calm as he appeared on the surface. If he looked closely, his hand holding the book was also trembling slightly, but he was trying to control it.

It was time to oust him from the stage, so Donggong Mao Jue naturally no longer protected him. The Central Guard Brigade, which was usually surrounded by three floors inside and outside, no longer knew where to go for vacation, and the crazy crowd easily pushed away. There were only forty or fifty eunuchs viciously holding sticks to block the unguarded palace gate and the front porch of the East Palace. The eunuch who just reported the news was like a wild dog released to bite people, pointing at the crowd and barking viciously.

"Pickled and lowly mud legs, you have eaten your ambitions and dared to trespass in the palace, don't you all want to live? Alarming Your Majesty, that is a crime against the nine clans! Get out of here immediately! Get out!!! "