Seeing the frowning and silent expressions of the civil servants, Erhei and others were so happy that they secretly extended their thumbs to Wang Xian and winked and flattered him.
Although Wang Xian had a sullen face, he was a little proud in his heart... I can't cure you, little guy?! I'm just pretending that the law doesn't punish everyone. I asked you to write down all your names and see if you still dare.
Dare you make trouble again?!
Only Lu Chongzhi looked worried, as if he thought Wang Xian's method was an outright bad idea.
"What's wrong?" Wang Xian glanced at Lu Chongzhi and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing..." Lu Chongzhi shook his head hurriedly, his eyes flickering, obviously not telling the truth.
Wang Xian didn't ask any more questions, because the next moment, he saw a scene that stunned him - the civil servants who should have panicked and concealed their names, but instead shouted around and signed up enthusiastically for fear of missing out on the clerk.
Same……
"Mao Sheng, a doctor in the Yunnan Qing Li Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs!" A tall and powerful official used his physical advantage to squeeze to the front and announced his name loudly.
"Chen Shou, the head of Honglu Temple!"
"Censor Chen Hongbin of the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"
The bookkeeper felt like he was in a vegetable market, with red-eyed people signing up in all directions. He only hated his parents for giving him two fewer hands, and he couldn't remember it at all!
"I've borrowed it, I've borrowed it, Master Zhan Shifu, Zhan Shi Ji Benqing, that's me!" Ji Benqing finally squeezed his way to the clerk's desk. After revealing his identity, he saw that the clerk didn't care about him at all... Mr. Ji didn't wait any longer.
, simply took out the brush from his sleeve and wrote his name directly on the paper!
With Mr. Ji as an example, the others immediately followed suit and took out their pens one after another and signed their names on the paper... The scrambling posture reminded Wang Xian clearly of the stars of later generations, who were all under the spotlight.
Sign in front of me as a souvenir.
"How could this happen?" Erhei murmured in disbelief: "Aren't they afraid of settling the score with the Queen?"
"That's right, why are these people so stupid?" Deng Xiaoxian also said he couldn't understand.
"Haha, Confucius said Cheng Ren, Mencius said Qi Yi!" Lu Chongzhi said with a proud look on his face: "This is my scholar in the Ming Dynasty!"
Seeing his expression of wanting to join the other party, Erhei glared: "Where are you from?!"
"Of course..." Lu Chongzhi almost said the right thing. After a big breath, Fang whispered: "It's over here."
"Humph!" Erhei glared at him angrily and asked Wang Xian in a low voice: "Sir, why doesn't your trick work?"
"How do I know!" Wang Xian snorted angrily, his face even darker than Erhei...
In the middle of the meal, all the officials had signed their names. The clerk held up a thick list and presented it to Wang Xian: "Your Majesty, the names have been recorded. There are 317 people in total."
"Uh..." Wang Xian was stunned for a moment, then tilted his head and looked at Deng Xiaoxian, "How many people did you just say came?!"
"Two hundred and three..." Deng Xiaoxian also looked confused. As a once very successful private salt dealer, he was still very confident in his ability to count.
"What happened?" Wang Xian said with a dark face, quite intending to vent his anger on him: "Are those one hundred ghosts?!"
"Of course not!" Before Deng Xiaoxian could answer, Ji Benqing opened his mouth to clear up Wang Xian's doubts. He bowed his hands to Wang Xian with full force and said proudly: "So that my uncle will know that those extra hundred people are me.
I am waiting to make friends with my classmates, fellow villagers, and colleagues." Dundun said: "Although they were not present due to various reasons, everyone is responsible for the important events of the country, so we also wrote down their names!"
"Do you think this is the honor list?!" Wang Xian said angrily: "Did they agree?!"
"I will definitely agree!" More officials said in unison: "If we don't sign for them, they will really be blamed!"
"Bullshit!" Erhei couldn't help but sneer, but he attracted the disdainful looks of all the civil servants.
"A summer insect cannot be said to be an iceberg!" Several civil servants sarcastically mocked Er****.
"Who are you calling a bug?!" Erhei became furious and wanted to punch the person.
"You dare to beat the imperial official?!" an official from the Ministry of Punishment shouted loudly: "The Ming Code clearly states that anyone who beats an official will be punished by death!"
"I just beat him, what can you do to me?!" Erhei said this, but under the gaze of more than 200 officials, he really didn't dare to take action.
Seeing his stern look, Ji Benqing snorted, and then raised his hand to Wang Xianyi: "Uncle, can you let me in?"
"Okay..." Wang Xian nodded, looked at the roster, read the names of five officials, then raised his head, glanced around expressionlessly and said: "Keep these five, and disperse the rest."
"Why?!" Seeing that he was making trouble again, the civil servants were a little rude.
"Why?" Wang Xian lowered his eyelids and said, "It takes two moments for His Royal Highness to receive a minister, and he also needs to rest and process official documents. From now until lunch at noon, it is a lot to meet five people!"
"What about this afternoon?!"
"Your Highness still needs a lunch break, let's talk after the lunch break." Wang Xian said expressionlessly: "Let's all disperse!"
"No!" The civil servants were not three-year-olds, so how could they do this to him? They all remained motionless and said, "I will wait here!"
"That's right!" An excited voice came from the crowd: "If His Highness doesn't agree for a while, we will never leave!"
"Yes!" Everyone agreed.
"That's right!" Wang Xian shouted loudly, making all the civil servants tremble. "You said you weren't here to cause trouble?! You've exposed your secret!"
The civil servants carefully looked at Wang Xian and saw that he did not fire again, so they plucked up the courage to say: "How can I be considered making trouble when I come to petition His Highness the Crown Prince?!"
"In the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, is there such a thing as gathering a crowd to petition?!" Wang Xian asked with raised eyebrows.
"This... has never happened..." The civil servants were honest.
"Then get out of here!" Wang Xian waved his hands murderously, and the soldiers behind him pulled the chains together, making a frightening "click" sound!
"Today, uncle will beat us to death." Unexpectedly, this suited the taste of the civil servants. They all put on a righteous and awe-inspiring posture and said impassionedly: "We will never retreat!"
"Okay!" Wang Xian laughed strangely and said with a fierce look in his eyes: "We are going to force him into the palace, right?" Then he glanced at Lu Chongzhi who looked like he was constipated and said: "Master Lu, do you understand?! They are
Didn't you just ignore the dissuasion and insist on blocking the gate of the East Palace?!"
"This..." Under the gaze of hundreds of officials, Lu Chongzhi felt as if thousands of sharp swords were thrust into him. He was stunned and speechless, sweating profusely.
"Say!" Wang Xian was furious, with the sword on his waist half drawn out!
"Yes..." Lu Chongzhi finally gave in.
"Then Ying Tianfu and Jin Yiwei should perform their duties and expel them immediately?!" Wang Xian looked at Lu Chongzhi and said in a voice that sounded like a roar.
Naturally, this was said to all the officials. The civil servants stared at Lu Chongzhi in silence with sad and angry expressions on their faces.
Lu Chongzhi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and knelt down in front of Wang Xian, crying loudly: "Although this is true, uncle, we cannot make decisions for His Highness the Crown Prince!"
"That's right!" Baiguan screamed as if he had been beaten with chicken blood: "Wang Xian, you have overstepped your bounds!"
"Fuck you!" Seeing that Lu Chongzhi was trying to undermine him, Wang Xian was furious and kicked him to the ground. Then he raised his musket, pointed it at the crowd and roared: "I count to ten, who will fight?"
If you don’t eat the toast, you’ll have to drink the fine wine as a penalty!”
"one two three……"
Wang Xian's counting voice, with deep anger, echoed above the heads of the officials, but none of the nerds who usually seemed timid and cautious moved.
"Uncle, don't waste your time, just let them go!" Ji Benqing puffed up his chest and shouted at Wang Xian: "Let's see if it's our bones that are stronger! Or it's Jin Yiwei's stick that is stronger!"
"Uncle, please think clearly!" Some civil servants actually threatened Wang Xian in turn. "With this order, you will be infamy for thousands of years!"
"What the fuck!" Erhei and others were so angry that they rolled up their sleeves and raised their sticks. Just waiting for Wang Xian's order, they would beat these brave guys until they couldn't take care of themselves! "I'll kill you."
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"..." Wang Xian was really hesitant. He was not worried about threats such as being 'infamous for eternity'... because he didn't care at all about how people would judge him in the future. He was... moved by the bad temper of these officials.
Already...
This is indeed the case. It is true that many of these officials have impure motives and are motivated by self-interest. But most of them are idiots who accept death... Of course, according to the parlance of this era, this is called integrity... Even if faced with
Even the powerful will not yield!
Although he hated these indiscriminate, smelly and hard guys, Wang Xian was afraid that his beating would break a few real bones, which would be a loss to the Ming Dynasty and even the entire China!
But he can't hesitate anymore. His subordinates are looking at him, and the civil servants are also watching him. As long as he hesitates more, his subordinates will become more cowardly! The civil servants will become more arrogant! The situation will become more and more helpless.
tidy!
‘I can’t control that much anymore!’ Wang Xian gritted his teeth, waved his hand violently, and said the word from between his teeth:
"superior!"
"Up!" The gate opened, and a group of guards in imperial robes, tigers and wolves from Yingtian Mansion, grasped the wooden sticks and iron chains in their hands, and rushed towards the civil servants like wolves and tigers!
Seeing that a tragedy was inevitable, Lu Chongzhi's legs went weak and he sat down on the ground.
Wang Xian also closed his eyes in pain. To be honest, he really didn't want to do this kind of thing, but in life, there is no way to judge whether things are right or wrong, he can only go with the flow...
The soldiers rushed in front of the civil servants. The civil servant at the front was already frightened to the ground. At the critical moment, a deep voice suddenly sounded: "Stop it!"
This sound froze the whole scene. The next moment, the imperial guards and the soldiers of Yingtian Mansion were stunned and at a loss... But the civil servants, as if they had seen the savior Bodhisattva, fell to their knees and shouted loudly at the voice.
Weeping: "I will pay my respects to His Highness the Crown Prince!"