The answer is clearly presented in black and white on the white paper.
Even so, Zhu Yunxi had begun to wonder if his ears had heard wrongly.
Zhu Gaochi probably hadn't closed his eyes or fallen asleep all night. He had been anxious for a long time and his heart was burning. Now that he heard Tian Mai say such words, he immediately stepped forward and grabbed Gao Guang's chest.
Zhu Gaochi's eyes widened and he asked in a deep voice: "Tell me again! Why did the victims die outside the city?"
People like me are busy, worried about the country and the people, and stay up all day and night, just to clarify the up and down Henan Road, so that the millions of people in Henan Road can have a clean world.
But now these victims actually want to fight for the officials of Henan Province?
Xiaopang felt for a moment that he had become a joke, the biggest joke in the 28th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty.
Higher than Light is actually confused.
When he saw the situation outside the city just now, Gao Guang also couldn't figure out what happened for a long time. After confirming the situation, he hurried over to ask for instructions.
"Your Majesty, it is indeed like this. Those victims arrived very early. If our people had not blocked the city gates, they would have already entered the city. My subordinates and others did not know how to deal with it, so they could only
Come here and give me your blessing."
Zhu Gaochi put down Tian Mai helplessly, sighed and patted Tian Mai's chest to calm him down: "It's really weird. Are these people bewitched or intimidated?"
Xiaopang was very worried, and he also couldn't understand what happened today when the victims of the disaster tried to avenge the officials of Henan Province.
Zhu Yunxi turned his belt to fix it in the correct position, raised his head and looked outside: "Let's go take a look and then make plans."
The few people were not sure what was going on for a while, so they could only pay attention to see the situation clearly before making plans, so they called a group of Jin Yiwei officers and soldiers and left the Zhou Palace.
At this time, outside Kaifeng City, more and more disaster victims were gathering in front of the city gate.
Because the ban on blocking the city of Kaifeng has not yet been lifted, the accompanying officers and soldiers and the troops from the Henan Dusi who entered the city last night have been strictly controlling and blocking the gates of Kaifeng City.
Fearing that more and more victims outside the city would flood into the city if something went wrong and cause greater commotion, after consulting the Henan Dusi for instructions, the city gate was never opened.
"Please ask the military master to open the city gate..."
"The officials in Kaifeng Prefecture are honest officials and are good people."
"We can all testify for the superiors that things are getting better and better these years..."
"Open the city gate! Open the city gate!"
Outside the city gate, no less than two thousand victims had gathered in this one place. Led by the first few people in the team, they kept shouting at the officers and soldiers blocking the closed city gate.
It's just that these people were very measured and never approached the officers and soldiers. They always kept a sufficient distance to shout.
"Shangguan Fuzun was an official with no fault of his own. The house in the old man's house collapsed, so he used his own money and food to build a new house for the old man's family."
"The Lord is not guilty!"
"Please ask the Imperial Court to send you a clear appraisal."
"Please military gentlemen, please open the city gate..."
"Open the city gate..."
Outside this city gate, the people kept shouting loudly, which merged with the shouts in front of other city gates.
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The officers and soldiers guarding the city gate looked at the situation in front of them and felt uneasy, fearing that if these people rushed up, they would cause a big mess.
Although the emperor's grandson has been cold-hearted towards the court officials in recent years, he has always been kind-hearted towards the common people. If a conflict really breaks out at this time, if there is bloodshed, people like him will be
If you are displeased inside and out, you will definitely suffer a loss.
Kaifeng Fucheng.
The lives of ordinary people did not come to a complete halt just because many people from the government were arrested.
The smell of fireworks in the streets and alleys accompanied the sunrise just like yesterday.
Just collapsed in the fire last night
The high-rise government office has become a topic of conversation among the people who got up early in the morning, and speculations spread like wildfire.
Zhu Yunxi and his men, escorted by a group of officers and soldiers, rushed outside the gate of Kaifeng City.
Along the way, people from various city gates kept rushing over to report the latest situation.
Zhu Gaochi kept blinking and summarizing all the data together.
"Right now, no less than 5,000 victims have gathered outside Kaifeng City, all seeking to avenge Henan Province officials."
"There are also many people in the city who want to leave the city. They are waiting for us to decide whether you want to open the city gate."
Ta-ta-ta.
The sound of horse hooves sounded on the streets of Kaifeng Fucheng.
Zhu Yunxi frowned and looked at the city gate that was already in front of him. He didn't see anyone, but he could already hear the shouts of the people outside the city gate asking for the city gate to be opened.
"Let someone open the city gate. I want to see these victims for myself."
As Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth, there were two officers and soldiers in the team galloping towards the closed city gate.
By the time Zhu Yunxi and others arrived at the city gate, the two heavy city gates had been slowly opened by a large number of officers and soldiers.
The gaps in the city gate are getting bigger and bigger.
A burst of noise suddenly poured into the city gate from outside the city gate, and the sound rotated and amplified in this natural amplification area.
When the officers and soldiers outside the city saw that the emperor's grandson had come in person, some immediately turned around and rushed into the city gate, arriving in front of Zhu Yunxi's horse.
"Your Highness, people are gathering outside the city. The situation is unclear. Please take your precious life as a priority and never leave the city to get close."
Zhu Yunxi held the riding whip in his hand and looked blankly outside the city gate. Because the city gate opened, the crowd finally moved forward and got closer.
"They are all my subjects of the Ming Dynasty, so how could they plot against Gu?"
After saying this, Zhu Yunxi, under the worried gaze of the general who captured the city, already rode his horse and led the people out of the city gate.
"Please ask the court officials to carefully examine everything. The official in the government office is not guilty, and the official in the yamen is not guilty."
"Please ask the Imperial Court to send you a clear appraisal."
Zhu Yunxi rode his horse to the outside of the city. Zhu Gaochi behind him had already asked Zhu Shangbing to lead people around Zhu Yunxi and stood in the front.
Yu Ma, who had heard the news early in the morning, had already driven out of the city gate with his troops and horses.
Yu turned over and dismounted, and in front of Zhu Yunxi's eyes, he stretched out his hand to hold the reins of the horse under Zhu Yunxi's seat, raised his head and looked at the horse's back: "Your Highness, I will lead the horse for Your Highness."
Zhu Yunxi lowered his head and looked at Yu Ma, who was holding the horse with one hand and pressing the hilt of the knife at his waist with the other hand, and nodded.
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The governor of Henan Province held the reins in the horse's hand, and Zhu Yunxi sat on the horse's back.
The two of them walked out of the heavy guard of officers and soldiers and arrived in front of the victims.
The noisy shouts gradually subsided at this moment.
Zhu Yunxi sat on the horse and looked towards the back of the crowd.
There is a very thick crowd, and there are many people rushing towards here on the official road and the ridges in the fields in the distance.
It seems that it is really a scene where local people are arrogant for their parents.
Zhu Yunxi dismounted, and Yu Ma stood half a step behind him, with his palm always on the handle of the knife, and his eyes focused on the crowd in front of him, alert to the possibility of an accident happening at any time.
When Zhu Yunxi got off the horse, the crowd in front of him suddenly gathered around.
Several white-haired old men wearing coarse linen clothes, wearing hole-in-the-wall straw sandals, with mud spots on their trousers and arms completely occupied Zhu Yunxi's sight.
The old people wanted to step forward to catch Zhu Yunxi, but Yu Ma snorted coldly, and with quick eyes and hands, he held the scabbard and blocked Zhu Yunxi.
Yu Ma shouted coldly: "This is His Highness the Grandson of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If you have any questions, you can tell them clearly in front of His Highness."
The people who rushed outside the city early in the morning couldn't believe that the person who walked out after opening the city gate was actually His Highness the Emperor Taisun.
After hearing Yu Ma’s explanation
Immediately there was a commotion and whispers in the crowd.
There was a smile on Zhu Yunxi's face, but his brows were slightly furrowed, and he said softly: "I heard that you fellow villagers are trying to convict the Henan Dao officials of committing suicide? I am here alone. What do you want to say, fellow villagers?
, you can say it all today."
As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi's eyes were dark, and he looked at the old people in front of him who seemed to have been elected by the crowd.
An old man raised his hands tremblingly and said: "Your Highness, Your Highness wants to make the decision for Kaifeng Mansion! They are all good people, and they are all good people who serve the country and the people..."
Just as someone here finished speaking, someone next to him knelt down.
"Your Highness, your Majesty and the others have worked hard for our fellow villagers in Henan Province over the years. Even if they make some mistakes in their daily lives, they are still for us."
"There are countless living people in Fu Zun, and the villagers are thinking of Fu Zun. When we heard that Fu Zun was taken down by the court, we thought we could come over and explain clearly to Fu Zun and the court."
Zhu Yunxi's brows tightened.
He was just wondering where these people came from.
The situation in Henan Province has been put on the table since last night, and there have been countless related problems. Under such conditions, will there still be people coming to investigate?
He was just troubled by the reason why these people appeared here, and who was instigated by them to perform such a trick in front of him, where the common people were corrupted by the officials.
Henan Province is trying to coerce public opinion and coerce the court into giving up and bowing its head.
Zhu Yunxi's eyes passed over the old people in front of him and looked at more Japanese people in front.
He took two steps back: "Don't worry, everyone, the imperial court is fair, and the imperial court will never frame anyone for nothing. If you are a good person, the imperial court will treat you leniently, and if you are a bad person, the imperial court will also severely punish you in accordance with the laws of the Ming Dynasty."
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As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi turned around and winked at Zhu Shangbing, who was standing behind him.
Zhu Shangbing immediately waved his hand and pressed the knife, leading groups of officers and soldiers to stand in front of Zhu Yunxi.
The change occurred so suddenly that the crowd gathered outside the gate of Kaifeng Prefecture did not react.
"Did you notice something was wrong?" Zhu Gaochi walked up quickly from behind, squinting at the people who were blocked in front by Zhu Shangbing and his men.
Zhu Yunxi nodded: "There is something wrong with this matter, but I originally thought that someone was coercing these people to come to Kaifeng City to rape, so as to coerce us into sparing the Henan Dao officialdom and giving those people a lighter sentence."
Zhu Gaochi's eyes narrowed. It was obvious that Brother Xi had discovered other problems just now.
"What is it?"
Zhu Yunxi's face was gloomy: "These people are not victims of the disaster in Henan Province at all!"
Not disaster victims.
Zhu Gaochi's brows trembled, and he turned his head in disbelief, looking at the victims outside the city again.
Since they are not disaster victims, who are these people?
At this time, the crowd also became commotion because the imperial court suddenly turned against them, and officers and soldiers gathered in front of them to stop him. Gradually, some people began to shout out words.
"The imperial court is blind and harms good people!"
"Henan Road is wronged!"
"Let them go!"
"Let them go!"
"..."
The crowd roared louder than before.
From under the city gate, more officers and soldiers rushed over and formed human walls in front of Zhu Yunxi and others.
The commotion among the crowd became more and more chaotic.
Just then, the sound of soldiers and armor came from the distance.
A huge flag with the word 'Kin,' appeared in everyone's sight. Then, there were the flags of Kaminao's military guards, the flag of Habayashi's right guard, and the smallest flag with the word 'Chen Liu,' written on it.
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Tang Bi, the commander of the Yulin right guard of the Shangzhi personal army, and Pei Benzhi, the magistrate of Chenliu County in Kaifeng Prefecture, rode hand in hand, riding at the front of the entire team.
Pei Benzhi's black gauze hat on his head was tilted by Ma Dian, but he looked nervously at the chaotic crowd outside the city gate.
Before he even ran to the city gate, Pei Benzhi had already put his hand on his black gauze hat and stood up tremblingly on his horse: "Your Highness! These people are not victims of the disaster!"
"They are not victims of the disaster in Kaifeng Prefecture!"
"Your Highness, please don't be deceived by these people!"
"Your Highness, be careful!"
Pei Benzhi kept shouting and warning at the top of his voice. Yu Ma, who was beside him, had a complex expression on his face. He waved his hand and motioned for the Yulin Guards behind him to follow him and cut off the retreat of the *** crowd outside the city gate from behind.
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In an instant, the entire city gate was in chaos.
The *** crowd, whose identity was torn apart by Pei Benzhi loudly in public, began to want to turn around and run away.
However, the officers and soldiers of the Yulin Guards were one step faster. Groups of cavalry surrounded them from behind, and their horseshoes formed in formation, forcing those who wanted to escape to stop abruptly.
Pei Benzhi finally rode his horse to the front of the crowd.
As soon as the officers and soldiers guarding the front stepped forward and reached out to hold Pei Benzhi's horse, he had already turned over on the horse and stumbled down.
….
Pei Benzhi kicked a Japanese man kneeling in front of him with his feet. Pei Benzhi shouted angrily and walked through the crowd to reach Zhu Yunxi.
"Your Highness, these people are not victims of the disaster in my Kaifeng Mansion!"
"Your Majesty, please be careful and don't be deceived by these thieves!"
With a smile on his face, Zhu Yunxi looked at Pei Benzhi, who was bending down in front of him to remonstrate. He couldn't help but turn around and look at the fat man next to him, and both of them laughed silently.
Pei Benzhi was stunned for a moment, frowned, and carefully raised his head to look at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Crown Prince Yan, who were standing in front of him and laughing out loud.
Pei Benzhi opened his mouth and said hesitantly: "Do you both know?"
Seeing the reactions of Zhu Yunxi and the other two, Pei Benyi was a little suspicious for a moment. He hurried and hurried slowly to prevent the emperor's grandson from being deceived, but it seemed that he did not need to warn him. His Highness had clearly seen that something was wrong with these people. p>
Zhu Yunxi shook his head: "Since it is Pei County who revealed the truth, please ask Pei County to confirm this for us."
As he spoke, Zhu Yunxi waved his hand and pointed at the so-called *** crowd who were already in chaos under the siege of heavy troops.
Pei Benzhi has not yet reacted.
Why do you still say that you revealed something that the emperor's grandson already knew, and why do you still have to confirm it yourself?
Zhu Gaochi looked at the stunned Pei Benzhi with a smile and couldn't help but laugh: "His Highness has said so, what are County Pei waiting for? If it weren't for Magistrate Pei, His Highness and I would have been deceived."<
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Pei Benzhi finally reacted, his eyes lit up, and he turned around and walked in front of many people who had been captured by the officers and soldiers.
Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi also led people out again.
At this time, the accompanying officials who were originally planned to gradually accept the two departments of Henan Province and the yamen of Kaifeng Prefecture had already heard the news and rushed over one after another.
The crowd crossed the heavy crowd of officers and soldiers under the city gate.
"Your Highness, these people are the people who came to Kaifeng to fight for the officials of Henan Province?"
The accompanying officials who arrived looked nervously at the crowds surrounded by the army, and were really worried that there would be a civil commotion in Henan Province.
Zhu Yunxi looked back and said: "They are all here, take your time and watch. Pei Benzhi just said that these people are not victims of the disaster in Henan Road. Now let him reveal to us who these people are."
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The accompanying officials who had just arrived were still unclear about the situation outside the city gate. They could only nod their heads and turn their attention to Pei Benzhi, who had already walked up to a person who was arrested by the officers and soldiers.
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Pei Benzhi's face was gloomy, he turned back to look at everyone, then grabbed the man and took off his clothes in front of everyone.
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"Your Majesty, your Majesty, you can see clearly, how could I, the people of Henan Province, have such fair skin?"
As he spoke, Pei Benzhi took off the coat of the man who had a panic expression on his face, revealing the inner clothes.
Pei Benzhi pointed angrily and said: "The people have no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies. How rich must our Ming Dynasty be so that all the people can wear such white and delicate satin?"
Then, he inserted his fingers into the man's hair and slid all five fingers down.
"The people work hard day and night and don't wash their hands for three months. Now we are in a disaster situation. Who can put their fingers in their hair?"
The angry Pei Benzhi infected Gao Guang and others.
Gao Guang and others stepped forward one after another and grabbed the people who were held by the officers and soldiers.
"There are no calluses on the palms of my hands!"
"Why do these holes in the coarse cloth look like they were scraped out with a knife?"
"The teeth are so white!"
There were many officials leaving the city, grabbing people one by one and looking them up and down.
More and more people are getting angry.
Pei Benzhi knew the details of these people in his heart, but he was still furious when he exposed their heel and legs with his own eyes, and even his voice trembled with anger.
"Your Highness, everyone! What kind of world is this that even disaster victims can look so good-looking? Fair skin, thick clothes, no black teeth, no calluses on hands and feet!"
Pei Benzhi's questions and roars echoed in everyone's ears.
In the distance, there were also loud shouts.
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
"The victims outside the gates of Kaifeng City began to retreat..."
Zhu Yunxi snorted coldly and waved it away.
With a sullen face, he questioned Pei Benzhi.
"Where are the real victims of the disaster in Henan Province!"