The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

"This is Ma Chao's writing, right? Only he can write such fighting passion!"

"Yes, this is the poem of Ma Chao, the leader of the movement who was arrested!" The student shouted, "He is still fighting! He has not bowed to the bureaucratic and landlord class! How can we give up so easily? Everyone follow me Shout together, Huang Youwei! Step down! Dong Wei! Plead guilty!"

30 people shouted together: "Huang Youwei, step down, Dong Wei, plead guilty!"

The atmosphere is suffocating.

Hai Rui and Bao Zheng: "..."

Is this still my Daming country?

They looked around and found various atmospheres around them that made them completely unrecognizable.

Some students in new-style schools are holding reformist newspapers, reading aloud to citizens and peasants, propagating reform ideas, and some are having heated discussions about what taxes should be like in Ming Dynasty, and who will take the official positions in Ming Dynasty sit.

There are also schoolchildren from the countryside who are preaching those trendy ideas to the folks, making the farmers feel that they are really too hard, and the crowd is excited, asking the local government to punish those corrupt officials and return the place to a clean...

In short, in the land of Suzhou, there was an atmosphere everywhere that Bao Zheng Hai Rui couldn't recognize.

Wang Hu, who was on the side, had already gritted his teeth and said, "Take a look, my lords, what are these troublemakers doing? They don't do production, but gather crowds to make trouble here. Hundreds of thousands of people are together. What do you want to do? Rebellion? Just rely on With this one, it is no exaggeration for Ma and Ma Chao, the father and son who incited everyone to rebel, to go to the execution ground and be knifed."

Hai Rui had a strange expression, he hesitated to speak.

Bao Zheng laughed and said, "Why? You, the most daring cannon, turned into a gourd when you arrived in Suzhou? Why don't you talk?"

Hai Rui smiled wryly, "I want to say it too, but I don't know what to say."

He was struggling.

Hai Rui received the most traditional Confucian education, from the poorest place (Hainan), passed the Jinshi examination (although the ranking was very low), and was appreciated by Yan Song step by step, and reached the current position of Ge Lao.

He can be said to be the most upright and loyal stream in the feudal empire.

But now seeing these hundreds of thousands of people and the scene of reforms in full swing, Hai Rui was a little confused.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing is not allowed.

Because the law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that there is a difference between the status of a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, or a businessman. If a person sues an official, even if the lawsuit is won, he must be beaten 50 times and exiled for three thousand miles.

What's more, the appeal of these people is to dismiss the majestic Suzhou prefect and investigate?

According to Hai Rui's strict and serious character, if he judged the case normally, he would judge according to the law of Ming Dynasty.

However, Hai Rui is the most diligent official who loves the people. He himself is not corrupt at all, and only takes a meager salary from the court. He farms the land and vegetables all the year round to support his family and himself...

He deeply understood that if the people hadn't been driven into a hurry and had nowhere to go, the people of Ming Dynasty would not have made such troubles.

There must be something hidden in this.

Hai Rui and Bao Zheng looked at each other, ignored Wang Hu's clamor and request, and walked straight into the crowd.

Wang Hu panicked when he saw it. I mean, these two are going to start private interviews immediately?Shouldn't you enter the government office first and come up with a preconceived idea?

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Chapter 2054 Hai Rui Explodes After Hearing the Truth 【4】

Wang Hu hurried up to stop him, and said with an apologetic smile: "You two elders, you've been exhausted all the way, so let's go to the government first."

"Government? Who hasn't seen it?" Hai Rui was never polite to Wang Hu, and scolded with a stern face, "This cabinet is always an imperial envoy appointed by the imperial court. Where are we going? Do we have to ask you for instructions?"

Wang Hu: "...I dare not"

"Then get out of here." Hai Rui pulled Wang Hu away, walked over, and entered the crowd with a gentle smile on his face: "Old man, what is the matter to gather here?"

The old man who was asked by Hai Rui was an old farmer who happened to have eaten Matong pancakes and heard Ma Chao's speech. Hearing this, he said with emotion: "Oh, we don't want to make trouble either. Covering the sky with one hand, everyone is outraged."

"Oh?" Hai Rui and Bao Zheng winked, "Then what exactly is the evil?"

Wang Hu became impatient, this is different from the script arrangement.

Although he had tipped off the news in advance and told his father that he would arrange Suzhou and wipe his butt clean, who would have thought that these two imperial envoys would not listen to what Huang Youwei and his godfather said, and went directly to the masses. .

Now, can we still have it?

260 The old man sighed and said to Hai Rui: "I think you are a big man. Do you know that the land in Suzhou is barren and scarce? The entire Suzhou is only 3 hectares of land, but there are more than [-] hectares of land. , in the hands of the big landlord Dong Wei!"

"Ah?" Hai Rui already knew some inside information. After all, Yan Song would show his colleagues the results of the investigation, but he was still a little shocked to hear what the old farmer said.

"If the [-] hectares of land were obtained legally by those named Dong, who can pay taxes normally, we have nothing to say." The old man became furious when he thought of this: "But Dong Wei relied on his son Wang Hu to be the leader of the court." Official, all taxes have been exempted, and within decades, not a single piece of money has been handed over to the court!"

Wang Hu is behind him, his face is green...

Paralysis, you old bastard, what nonsense are you talking about?

He was about to interrupt, but Bao Zheng gave Zhan Zhao a wink.

Zhan Zhao smiled, picked up Wang Hu, walked to the side and said, "Master Wang, this matter concerns you and your family, Mr. Ge asked you to avoid it for a while, so as to avoid suspicion."

(bdah)

Zhan Zhao's internal strength is profound, he carried Wang Hu like a chicken, and walked aside, Wang Hu was so angry that he almost lost his breath.

Bao Zheng interjected: "Old man, as far as I know, the son of Dong Wei's family is only exempted from the tax on 300 hectares of land. How come he doesn't pay the tax?"

The old man chuckled: "There are people in this court who are good officials. The local official, Huang Youwei, took bribes from Dong Wei's family. How could he measure his family's land seriously? Dong Wei's family obviously has 30000 hectares of land, but he concealed it and did not report it." , insisting that it is 300 hectares. We are all locals, and we all know this! Are you right?"

The hundreds of farmers nearby all shouted.