The twenty-ninth chapter, Kong Sizhen returned to the south by the emperor's order, and the green monkey in the robbery field
The government office escaped "Li Yuliang" and Wu Ciyou, and Grandma Zhang encountered Kong Lingpei, but Zheng Taizun, the prefect of Yanzhou, still decided to go on a red mission to execute all the prisoners in jail who were scheduled to be tried in autumn. The reason was simple. Wu Ciyou had already run away, and
If he cannot get it back, he will not be able to serve as a prefect and must flee to Yunnan and Guizhou. The thirty-two death row prisoners in the prison, except for four thieves and adulterers, are all officials who mutinied in Yunnan and returned to the Central Plains.
It was the rebellion of Zhong Sanlang's congregation. Now that his true identity has been exposed, the Ministry of Justice will definitely have to re-examine, and maybe the Ministry of Punishments will be alerted. It will be a lifelong regret to let these "Han thieves" escape from Zheng Chunyou's hands alive. Besides,
He had fled to Yunnan, so he couldn't go to see King Pingxi empty-handed! Therefore, when Kong Lingpei came back to report that Wu Ciyou could not be captured in Qufu, Zheng Chunyou was frightened at first, remained silent for a long time, and then suddenly burst out laughing like crazy:
"Haha...ha...ha! Unexpectedly, I, Zheng Chunyou, managed the business in a miserable way, exhausted all my resources, and still looked like a flower in the mirror, a flower in the moon, a flower in the mirror...Haha..."
Hearing his sad and weird laugh, Kong Lingpei was stunned by him. After a long while, he asked quietly: "Your Majesty... you, what... is this?"
"Tai Zun?" Zheng Chunyou opened a pair of blood-red eyes, "Tai Zun is gone. Now I am Zheng Chunyou, a righteous citizen of the Ming Dynasty!" He suddenly looked sad and dejected again. He suddenly fell down in the chair, immersed himself in thinking for a while, and raised his head.
With his face glistening with tears, he said: "Ling Pei, three years to clean up the prefecture, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver, I have been here for one and a half years, do you know how much I have shaved off?"
Kong Lingpei did not dare to answer.
"150,000!" Zheng Chunyou said without hesitation, "The 150,000 was divided into three parts, one part was given to King Pingxi; one part was given to Prince Zhu San; and the remaining 50,000 yuan was used by me to take care of the people around me!
Therefore, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, I am considered the most corrupt official, but in the Ming Dynasty, I am the most upright official! If anything happens to me, please spread this word throughout the world."
Kong Lingpei asked in confusion: "How could that happen? Wu Ciyou has not left Yanzhou, but he still has to find a way to capture him!"
"If I have troops in my hands, why should you tell me?" Zheng Chunyou smiled coldly, "It's a pity that the imperial court did not station troops in Yanzhou. You have troops in the Kong Mansion, but you can't control them..."
"then what do I do?"
Zheng Chunyou said nothing. He went to the table and wrote a note in pen. He carefully used his own seal and handed it to Kong Lingpei. He said, "Take this note and pick up 10,000 silver notes from the treasury. Go to Yunnan or Beijing."
If you are looking for a prince, you will be successful and fly far away!"
"What about you?"
"Me?" Zheng Chunyou gritted his teeth and said with a smile, "Don't worry - I'm not stupid! Today all four doors will be opened to kill all the important criminals in the prison. I'm going to wrap up my life and escape!" After saying that, he started to write and write.
He worked extra hard to draft the murder notice himself. After writing it, he read it over again. Seeing that Kong Lingpei was still sitting in a daze, he asked: "Why don't you go?"
Kong Lingpei murmured for a long time and then said: "I'm afraid... I'm afraid Wu Ciyou will raid my home..."
"If there is no country, how can we have a family?" Zheng Chunyou sneered, "Wu Ciyou can't be helped! After my cousin Zhu Fuxiang was dismissed from office in Gu'an, he had already joined the big bandit Liu Dasc in Baodugu, and they gathered seven hundred people.
"There are many people. I have written to ask him to pay attention. If he knows the reason, how can he let Wu Ciyou go? Now..." He said, feeling a little short of breath. He turned around and took off the long sword hanging on the wall, pulled it out and flicked it.
It was a fine sword, and it immediately made a clanging metal sound, "What I hate most now is Huangfu Baozhu! How could the prince choose such a person to do such a big thing? If he is not indifferent and soft-hearted, how can I, Zheng Chunyou, do it?"
Is there any disaster today?"
While he was thinking deeply, he approached Kong Lingpei. Suddenly and unprepared, he stabbed Kong Lingpei in the chest, and the sword penetrated his back.
"You!" Kong Lingpei stood up and staggered, refusing to fall down. He asked Zheng Chunyou with a ferocious smile, "Why are you? If you tell me, I will die!"
Zheng Chunyou drank a cup of herbal tea and said with a smile: "To love your country means you cannot love your family. To love your family you must cherish your life, and to cherish your life must betray your friends! Didn't I fulfill your wish? Wu Ciyou will confiscate your home if he knows that I have killed you.
What?"
After Kong Lingpei listened with eyes wide open, "Hu Tong" fell to the ground and died silently. Zheng Chunyou pulled out his sword, pulled the tablecloth from the table, wiped it clean carefully, put it on his body, came out and locked the door, looking majestic.
, with a calm look on his face, he walked straight to the signing room, pressed his sword and shouted: "Shengtang!"
The execution ground in Xicai Market was filled with miserable winds and murderous intent. The thirty-two swordsmen and axemen all wore new crimson robes and black belts. They all had their right arms bare and their chests exposed. The hooks of their sharply polished ghost-headed swords were facing outwards, and they were generous.
The back of the knife was pressed against the hairy chest. They stood impatiently and stamped their feet, their fleshy faces glowing with black and red light - this was the effect of Ba Liang Lao's burning knife. The execution ground was surrounded by
There were more than 400 people who had gone to the yamen - even the people in the yamen of Shou County were evacuated. There was a public case table on a high platform facing the south in the middle, and the death signatures were neatly laid out. Zheng Chunyou was wearing a brand new suit.
Standing behind the case, holding the ink pen in his official robe, he did not hesitate to tick off the signs one by one, and handed them over to the secretary. Seeing that the officers of each class had already arrived, Zheng Chunyou ordered: "Get ready, I will
The government personally oversees the execution!"
"Cha - oh -" there was a thunderous response from below, and the criminals who had inserted the death card were pushed out. Immediately, there was a commotion among the people watching the excitement outside, stretching their necks to watch, and the government officials in the circle used
The whips and sticks were beaten randomly, forcing the circle of people to retreat. This was the first time that Kong Sizhen saw a local official killing people. It was no different from the arrangement in the Senluo Palace in Hell, and he felt palpitations. When he looked back, Qing Houer was standing next to Sun Yanling with a handful of melon seeds.
While taking a sip, he searched for Wu Ciyou and Li Yunniang among the prisoners with his two dark eyes, but because the prisoners were all dressed in prison uniforms and their heads were held low by the knife and axe, they could not see clearly. Sun Yanling seemed as if nothing had happened.
He held his hands behind his back and stared at Zheng Chunyou with a cold look on his face, a murderous look on his face.
"Since ancient times, people who conspire against rebellion will never wait until the right time to kill them!" Zheng Chunyou put his hands on the case and said loudly. This was the most murderous and last time in his tenure as prefect, so he was very solemn. He looked back and took a look at the specially made
A vertical flag: sapphire blue satin with blood-red tassels all around, and a line of large characters in the middle also written in his handwriting:
Zheng, the imperial magistrate and the fifth-rank Zhongxian doctor
The fifteen yellow characters on the flag were dazzling against the cold light. Zheng Chunyou turned around, with a murderous look in his eyes and said: "This government is a place of appeasement to appease the people. We have captured the prison robber Li Yuliang and the leader who gathered to rebel.
On the sixth day, after traveling six hundred miles, I urgently asked for instructions from Shang Xian. Today we will deal with the prisoners awaiting death row. Are the surgeons ready?"
"Hey!" Thirty-two executioners agreed in unison, "Please give the order!"
"Slow down!" Seeing Kong Sizhen's wink, her slave Dai Liangchen shouted, raised his hand and stepped into the execution ground. He stared at Zheng Chunyou and asked, "You said that you have been ordered by the constitution to take out the Jiansi bill to call everyone.
Look!"
No one expected that someone would dare to come out and speak at this moment. Thousands of people inside and outside the venue immediately became silent, stretching their necks and staring.
"Bold!" Zheng Chunyou had already been on guard because he had received Wu Yingxiong's letter. When he saw this man jumping out, he thought he was one of the imperial envoy's men. He hit the case with a bang and shouted, "Give me the troublemaker in the execution ground."
Take it!" Several burly men guarding Zheng Chunyou agreed and rushed over fiercely. Kong Sizhen turned around and said sternly to Sun Yanling: "Yanling, come on!" Zheng Chunyou saw him on the stage early.
, pointed to the name of the leader of the Dharma Protector Field and shouted: "Liu Tianyi, who is making the noise over there?"
As soon as Liu Tian thought someone was robbing the execution ground, he was so frightened that he stood aside. Before he could reply, the green monkey suddenly jumped out, pointed at his nose and shouted:
"It's the young master! Do you understand? - I'm sent here by the emperor's order. Who dares to come and get it?"
As he spoke, Qing Hou'er pulled out his sword with a whoosh, grabbed Liu Tianyi who was rushing towards him, twisted his arm, and slashed the sword down diagonally: "Who dares to be rude?"
This young boy had learned a lot of skills from Yun Niang and Hu Gongshan, and his attack was quick and neat. Liu Tianyi's head rolled four to five feet away, and blood spattered everywhere. Even the government officials who came to take Kong Sizhen were stunned.
I was so scared that I froze in place!
"Get it, get it, get it!" Zheng Chunyou roared, "This is the thief who robbed the Yamen last night!"
"You can't take it!" Kong Sizhen just strode in, took out the gold medal arrow given to her by Kangxi, held it high in her hand, shook it, and it was dazzling, "I am the first-class imperial guard, Heshuo
Princess Kong Sizhen! This is the arrow ordered by the Holy Emperor, who ordered me to investigate the folk customs incognito!"
Zheng Chunyou gasped, feeling secretly shocked: This is the "Four Gege" whom he has heard of for a long time but has never met! When his life was at stake, he calmed down and sneered: "You are the imperial envoy? Why?
There is neither court mail nor survey, and there is no bill of lading notice in the constitution? Hum! From ancient times to the present, how can any female generation be an imperial envoy? Is it okay for a cunning woman to pretend to be an imperial envoy?" He raised his eyebrows.
With a loud voice, he shouted, "Don't let anyone go, capture Zhengfa together!"
Kong Sizhen couldn't help but smile up to the sky after hearing this. On the order of Kangxi, she took her husband Sun Yanling to Guangxi as Princess Heshuo to control her father Kong Youde's old tribe. This time when they went to Guangxi, Sun Yanling originally wanted to go by land, but Sizhen was forced to go to Guangxi because of the order.
He secretly paid a secret visit to Wu Ciyou, and insisted on heading south by water. Unexpectedly, he had just stayed at Yanzhou Mansion last night when he encountered the green monkey who had escaped from the government office. They agreed on the boat to rob the execution site and rescue Wu Ciyou today.
When Zheng Chunyou saw the gold medal with the words "I am here in person", he felt a chill in his heart. Seeing that the people watching were already in a commotion, the government officials looked at each other, knowing that if they were timid, everything would be over. Seeing that there were only four of her, they felt relieved.
, smiled evilly, and said: "This thing is true or false, it's hard to believe it!"
Kong Sizhen didn't bother to answer Zheng Chunyou, and just sneered and waved her hand. Sun Yanling hurriedly came over, cupped her hand and said: "Princess, what are your orders?"
"Princess!" Now everyone heard it clearly, and more than a thousand pairs of eyes were directed at Kong Sizhen. Their eyes were wide open and they could hardly breathe.
"Yanling," Kong Sizhen calmly waved his hand, "take him down!"
"Cha!" Sun Yanling agreed, and stood up to go to the execution platform. A clerk came to stop him with his hands spread out. He hit him in the chest, then slapped him in the face, and he fell to the sky. Sun Yanling then laughed and said: "I
He is also an imperial envoy, a general of the Shangzhu Kingdom, and Sun Yanling, the consort of Heshuo who controls the Guangxi military and horse capital! Do you understand?" Then he turned to the crowd and shouted: "Whoever comes out to obey the order will be rewarded!"
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen strong men jumped in. Two of them were still in the uniform of the school captain. They were the servants he brought. There were also a few whom he didn't know. They had been harmed by Zheng Chunyou.
They all came to help Taipingquan, and they all bowed to Sun Yanling and said, "I must obey your orders!" At this time, the prisoners who were waiting to be sentenced also woke up, knelt down and shouted "Unjust", and the whole crowd
The people who were watching the excitement were in a state of excitement, squeezing forward and shouting, "Take this dog official! Take this dog official!"
Zheng Chunyou felt discouraged and slumped down on his seat, then jumped up like a spring. He slapped the table and sneered: "There are more imperial envoys than rabbits nowadays, two of them popped out at once! It's so ridiculous - who else is there?
Imperial envoy? Stand up and speak!" As he spoke, he glanced at the whole place calmly.
"No more? Okay!" Zheng Chunyou stepped down from the execution platform, pointed at a death row prisoner and asked Kong Sizhen, "Let me call you the Imperial Envoy - tell me what crimes this person, and those thirty-one, have committed.
?" He chuckled, and turned to ask Sun Yanling, "Why do you, 'Sir', interfere with 'Xiaguan's' official duties?"
This question was reasonable and appropriate. Sun Yanling had no words and originally said that he wanted to save Wu Ciyou, but neither he nor Kong Sizhen knew each other, so he turned to look at the green monkey. At this time, the green monkey had already looked at each child one by one.
After passing the prisoner, he just shook his head in frustration. Kong Sizhen knew that there was a change in his feelings. He pondered for a moment and said loudly: "I paid a private visit here and found out that you are full of misdeeds and you are a corrupt official! In the first month of the Spring Festival, you did not ask for the imperial edict from the emperor, and seduce you without permission.
The execution of so many criminals is even more ulterior! And if a criminal complains about his injustice before being executed, the sentence should be suspended immediately and then investigated. You have committed all the articles in the state-owned law, and you still dare to be so presumptuous in front of me and claim to be innocent?"
"Who knows you are imperial envoys? Who knows who Kong Sizhen is?" Zheng Chunyou's expression suddenly changed, he drew his sword in his hand and sneered, "Yamen servants!"
"Yes!" The subordinates had already been dizzy and confused by this formation. At this time, they heard the Lord Fu Zun shouting and agreed unevenly.
"If something goes wrong, everything will be blocked by me. You can take the person yourself, and take a reward of three hundred taels of silver!" Zheng Chunyou's eyes turned red with fury, and he slashed off a corner of the table with his sword. "If you don't shrink back, I will cut off
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Before he finished speaking, Sun Yanling was already furious. He stepped forward, twisted Zheng Chunyou's arm back, removed the sword from his hand, cut off a piece of flesh from his arm, and asked, "How dare you?
Is it a courtesy?"
"Take it! Just take it!" Zheng Chunyou was worried, twisted his neck and shouted wildly.
But the government officials had long been frightened out of their wits by Sun Yanling, who was as brave as a god. No one dared to move anymore. Seeing that the time had come, Kong Sizhen held the command arrow in both hands, and Dai Liangchen and Qing Houer protected him and walked straight to the prison to be executed.
On the stage, he threw the prefect's seal on the case to a dumbfounded scribe, offered the imperial letter and ordered the arrows, and performed the grand ceremony of kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times. Then he sat down solemnly and shouted: "Sun Yanling, drag Zheng Chunyou down and kill him!"
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Sun Yanling answered "Yes" and dragged Zheng Chunyou, who was semi-conscious from the pain and covered in blood, down. He threw it to the ground and was about to cut him. Qinghou'er stopped him and said, "Sir, you don't know this guy."
How sinister - it's not that killing method, I'll do it!" As he said that, he stabbed Zheng Chunyou seventeen or eighty times with a left sword, a right sword, a horizontal sword, and a vertical sword, and finally stabbed him in the heart.
Go in. His attack was so vicious that even Kong Sizhen, the tiger girl at the door, was secretly frightened.
"Take the prisoner back to the prison for supervision first," Kong Sizhen came to his senses and ordered loudly, "Send a notice to the Shandong Commission, and the commission officials will re-examine the sentence, report the details to the Ministry of Punishment, and ask the emperor to make a decision before executing him!"
This handling was very straightforward, both in terms of legal principles and procedures. The government officials who were originally suspicious of "robbing the court" immediately felt relieved and agreed loudly below: "Cha——"
That day Kong Sizhen and his party stayed at the Futai Yamen, and it was only when they had dinner that everyone felt at peace. Sun Yanling laughed while eating: "We really sang a play today, and the whole Yanzhou Mansion was shocked! It's hard for the princess to suppress it.
Stay on your toes - as far as I'm concerned, this matter needs to be reported to the court as soon as possible."
"Of course. After dinner, you can make a note for me, and I'll pay my respects after seeing it." Kong Sizhen saw that the green monkey was eating deliciously, so he pushed a plate of fat goose in front of him and said with a smile: "Green Monkey
My son, you are quite dissatisfied with my temperament, so come with me to the side court to perform meritorious service, okay?"
"I don't!" Green Monkey puffed up his cheeks and said, "I'm still looking for my aunt!" As he spoke, he tore the goose in half with both hands, taking a bite from the left and a bite from the right, and the soup dripped all over the table.
Kong Sizhen sighed: "This child only misses his aunt. Alas... I don't know where Mr. Wu is now - we don't have time to check carefully this time." Sun Yanling ate casually while saying: "Let's
I have been staying in Shandong, Zhili for many days, and I dare not miss a serious mission. Although I did not see Mr. Wu this time, fortunately, the officials said that they were out of danger."
Kong Sizhen's closest friend was La Aunt Suma. After hearing what Sun Yanling said was reasonable, she felt a little sorry for La Aunt Suma. She thought for a long time and sighed happily: "This is what we have to do. Well, women's hearts are the only ones in the world.
Damn it, how do men know this? Thinking like this makes me feel discouraged..."
Setting off on the second day, Green Monkey was still unwilling to go south with Kong Sizhen, and kept asking for Li Yunniang. Seeing that the baby was smart and cute, Kong Sizhen became more and more reluctant to let go, so he advised: "Good boy, as you get older, you also want to go."
Those who have made a name for themselves and made a career, follow me south and find a red hat to meet your aunt! - Didn't you say that your mother was sold to Guangdong? That place is not far from our place. I will take a closer look.
I'm asking, maybe you mother and son can be reunited!"
Speaking of mother, Qinghouer hesitated again, looking at this and that with his big tear-filled eyes, grinning a few times, and burst into tears. (To be continued)