Chapter 10 Fusang Province (VI)

"Your Majesty, I'm waiting for you to change your clothes and wash?" Zhou Yingning said as if she was about to stand up.

Zhu Yinglong shook his head and pressed it down and said, "You should sleep a little longer. I will come back to accompany you after handling the matter!"

"Well, I'm waiting for you." Zhou Yingning said softly and lay down.

After Zhu Yinglong put on his clothes and washed up, he returned to the bed and kissed Zhou Yingning's pink cheeks in a slight way, and then left the dormitory with his affectionate eyes.

When I entered the Nan Study Room, I saw Chen Xi kneeling on the ground with his back to the door. I saw that he was wearing only a thin single dress and several thorns on his back. Although there was a charcoal fire in the house, it still felt very cold.

"Xu Yingyuan, what's going on? Didn't you?" Zhu Yinglong glared at Xu Yingyuan, who was standing on the side, and asked in a low voice.

"I can't report it. It's not that I don't follow your will, but that Mr. Shen refused to let me go. There is nothing I can do about it." Xu Yingyuan explained aggrievedly, holding a fur that had been prepared in his hand.

"I understand, leave the fur and you go down." Zhu Yinglong nodded and said.

Xu Yingyuan knew that their next conversation would not be heard, so he quickly put down his fur and walked out.

"The criminal Chen Xi bowed to the emperor!" Chen Xi's trembling body almost lay on the ground and said.

"Get up quickly, get up quickly." Zhu Yinglong hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to help Chen Xi up.

"No, the old minister is guilty and cannot get up." Chen Xi insisted on kneeling, and although his voice trembled due to the cold, it revealed a hint of firmness.

"Whether you have sins is not determined by you, but by the law," Zhu Yinglong said, "So before the court and I condemn you, you are still the father-in-law and my loyal minister. Get up quickly, remove these things and put on this, and I have something to say to you."

After Zhu Yinglong said that, he took the fur and handed it over.

"Emperor." Chen Xi took the fur in emotion, and under Zhu Yinglong's gaze, he removed the thorn on his back, put on the fur, and stood up from the ground tremblingly.

"We don't have to go around so many circles between our father-in-law and son-in-law. I know that you are almost all informed. Chen Jian committed a crime and was a beheaded. Although you have been a father and son in the past few years, I know that you still care about him very much. With his personality, he will definitely not come to apologize to me. I am right?" Zhu Yinglong said bluntly.

"The emperor guessed it well at all. This unfilial son is indeed like this. However, after the criminal's persuasion, he had already understood the crime he committed and could not escape the punishment of the law, so he decided to come and apologize to the emperor in person. The criminal's crime also had the crime of not being strict in teaching his children, so he also came to apologize to the emperor!" Chen Xidao.

"Don't defend him, Chen Jian has ambition, I know very well that if a person does not have ambition, he can only be a mediocre person. Only those with ambition can make progress, but it is right to have ambition, but you must not have a bad intention or an evil intention. I use him to see that he is a talent that can be made, but his talents are used in inappropriate places. Do you understand what I said?" Zhu Yinglong asked.

"The criminal understands!" Chen Xi sighed in his heart. He had known this for a long time that he could not hide anything from the emperor's eyes. No wonder so many rebellious military generals bowed their heads to the emperor so much, and when they saw the emperor, they were like a well-behaved kitten.

"Since Chen Jian surrendered himself, it means he was willing to regret it. I will give him a chance, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the life penalty cannot be escaped!" Zhu Yinglong said.

"Thank you for not killing me!" Chen Xi Lao said in tears.

"Don't be busy thanking me for the first time. I have to hand over the years the amount of greed and how much he has used it. I have to hand over to the treasury. Also, let him take the initiative to find Shi Kefa to surrender. I will issue a decree tomorrow to "resist those who resist, and those who confess will be lenient." The court will use this law in the future when handling cases!" Zhu Yinglong continued.

"The criminal minister must supervise the bastard to hand over the treasury of the greedy and smuggling to the state treasury, and voluntarily surrendered to the court, apologized for the law, and asked for lenient decree." Chen Xi said excitedly. He knew that Zhu Yinglong did this to give a reason not to kill Chen Jian. If there was no such reason, the emperor himself would have the intention of being favored. If this matter was spread, how could the emperor rule the world, how could he control all officials, and how could he convince the subjects of the world?

Chen Jian can use the reason of "responsible surrender" to deal with it with leniently without losing his head, but what should Tian Wan do? What reason should he find to not behead him? Take the initiative to confess? It is obviously unreliable, and it is not a fact, and the reasons also seem pale. If the imperial court's group of clear streams and Yang He in charge of the Ministry of Justice would not let Tian Wan go, this is a difficult problem. There are also the two sisters of Tian in the palace who have never been to their place after they come back. It is really troublesome!

After dealing with Chen Xi's incident, Zhu Yinglong kept thinking about Tian Wan in his mind. Although he decided not to have his head, he always found a suitable reason, otherwise he would not be able to block the world's long mouth!

Back in the warm quilt, Zhou Yingning's warm body pressed over, hugged the man's firm chest and said, "Have the Shen family left?"

"Let's go, Chen Jian surrenders himself. I promised to save Chen Jian's life with this reason!" Zhu Yinglong said.

"Where is Tian Wan?" Zhou Yingning heard the key question and asked.

"I am also worried. There must be many officials who have lost their heads this time. If these two masterminds do not behead them, how can I convince the public?" Zhu Yinglong said with a headache.

"Emperor, the things that Chen Jian and Tian Wan committed were smuggling and corruption, but they did not bear any major life cases after all. Those officials were different. As long as they carried murder cases, or bullying the people, rampant villages, commit crimes, etc., as long as they had such bad records, they would be killed. Those who were just smuggling and had no bad records for a little money, the emperor could deprive them of their official positions, recover their income, and never use them. In this way, the officials below had nothing to say, and there would be no criticism from the court and the country!" Zhou Yingning thought for a moment and said.

Zhu Yinglong's eyes lit up, hugged Zhou Yingning and kissed her fiercely, and praised, "Ning'er, you are really my female Zhuge. This method is good. Although it is not perfect, it also makes it cheaper for those corrupt and smuggling officials. But isn't this showing my kindness?"

"But I am worried that this move will make some officials take chances and will be more courageous from now on, because as long as you embezzle some corruption and as long as you are not wrong, you will be found by the court at most, which means you will lose your official position and lose your corruption income, and you will not be in danger of your life. Will my kindness encourage these people's aura of corruption?" Zhu Yinglong thought about it and said worriedly.

"If the emperor doesn't kill them, can't they be sentenced to jail? As long as the minimum penalty for embezzlement is set higher, for example, once corruption is accepted, you have to be imprisoned for at least five years. The more you are corruption, the longer the time you are in prison, it is impossible for a person to just embezzle and accept bribes. Then as long as he commits other things and is serious, he will be punished for multiple crimes and sentenced to death is also in accordance with the law!" Zhou Yingning smiled.

"Yes, if an official wants to accept bribes, someone must beg him to do things. It is definitely not a good thing to use money to buy what the official does. If this is connected, it will not be just a charge of accepting bribes. Ning'er, you are so smart, why didn't I expect it!" Zhu Yinglong exclaimed.

"As far as I know, Tian Wan is a timid and cautious person. Although he has been in Yangzhou for many years, he has not done too much special things. He is just a little fond of women. These emperors know that although Tian Wan has a lot of social engagements and frequent contacts with many officials in Jiangnan, at most it is a polite visit. Although the pomp is a little bigger, who is the national uncle? If the officials below don't flatter him, who will they go?" Zhou Yingning said.

"Ning'er, are you talking for Tian Wan?" Zhu Yinglong said.

"I don't dare. I just said that there are some things that Tian Wan doesn't have the courage to do." Zhou Yingning said.

"You mean Shen Jian?" Zhu Yinglong understood.

"I don't know. Whoever the emperor said was, then who would be!" Zhou Yingning smiled.

"I know that Shen Jian is a double-edged sword. If you use it well, it will hurt yourself if you use it poorly." Zhu Yinglong said with a bright look.

"The emperor understands, I won't say much." Zhou Ying smiled softly.

"Maybe Tian Wan is just a chess piece, but Shen Jian is not a good chess player." Zhu Yinglong said.

The sensational case of smuggling, fraud and corruption among collective officials in Jiangnan finally came to an end. The main culprit Shen Jian was lenient for surrendering and handing over all the gains, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Although the main culprit Tian Wan did not surrender voluntarily, he took the initiative to confess everything after the incident and handed over all the gains. He was also sentenced to ten years in prison. The two uncles went to prison together and said that they were brothers. The main culprit Qian Longxi smuggled, embezzled and accepted bribes. During the two governors, he accepted bribes and made a fortune. A total of 1.346,000 silver dragon yuan was 1.346,000 yuan, and used his power to embezzle 300 hectares of fertile land in the people... and sentenced to deprive the fame of Jinshi and the position of governor, and life imprisonment...

I thought it would cause another bloody storm this time, but in the end, they were more than a dozen officials who were extremely guilty. These people were all carrying bloody cases of life and wrong cases. They were already at the point where they were not killed, and the court sentenced them to beheading them by law, but no one expressed dissatisfaction.

People at that time thought that so many officials did not use their heads to lose their heads this time, because they were all affected by the two uncles. If these officials were to beheaded, the two uncles would not survive because the emperor could not slap themselves in the face. The two uncles were the masterminds, and the masterminds did not need to behead them. Instead, the accomplices lost their heads. What prestige can the court's law survive? So if they don't die, everyone will die together.
Chapter completed!