That Liang Yishou was very spineless. When he saw Li Zhi, he knelt on the ground with a bang, grabbed the ground with his head, and shouted loudly: "Master Taibao, please spare my life. From now on, I will worship Taibao's longevity tablet at home, day and night."
worship!"
Li Zhi smiled and said coldly: "Didn't you say that I am the enemy of everyone in the world?"
Liang Yishou drew his bow from left to right, knelt on the ground, slapped himself in the face one after another, and said: "Liang Yishou is a fool! The general is planning for the world and collecting business taxes. He is supposed to benefit the country and the people. How can it be so?"
Are you an enemy of the world? You are actually the savior of the world!"
After looking at Cha Deng Bei, Liang Yishou suspected that Cha Deng Bei had betrayed him. Liang Yishou didn't know the investigative ability of Li Zhi's emissary, and felt that Li Zhi knew that he had contributed greatly to this anti-tax activity, so it must be Cha Deng Bei who betrayed him. Otherwise,
So many civil servants refused to arrest him, so why did Li Zhi try so hard to arrest him?
Liang Yishou crawled forward two steps and said loudly: "Chief Taibao, Mr. Taibao! I want to expose! I want to expose Chaden Bei! The culprit of this incident is all Chaden Bei! It's all his tricks to deal with Mr. Taibao.
, If it weren’t for him, we would have died down long ago!”
Seeing Liang Yishou pouring dirty water on his head, Chaden was so angry that his face was red. He pointed at Liang Yishou and cursed: "Liang Yishou, you are a beast. You let the scoundrels make trouble, let the scholars go on hunger strike, let the merchants go on strike, and let the soldiers invade the city. These four things
This idea was all yours! Your plan brought me to this situation, and now you are still relying on me?"
Liang Yishou's eyes widened and he said loudly: "The sky is clear! If you hadn't come up with these four ideas, I, Liang Yishou, would have been struck to death by lightning."
Chadenbei was so angry that he could no longer speak. He pointed at Liang Yishou and said: "You, you"
He pointed at Liang Yishou and said "you" for a long time, but he didn't say a word.
Liang Yishou kowtowed to the ground and said to Li Zhi: "Sir, this Zhaden has committed a heinous crime and must not be let go. He relies on his position as governor to boss around other civil and military officials, and is the culprit of this rebellion against the Taibao. Before the villain
It is also because he is afraid of Cha Deng Bei's power that he reluctantly relies on it. If the adults let the villain go, the villain will praise the kindness of the adults everywhere in the future and let the world know the magnanimity of the adults."
Li Zhi looked at Liang Yishou and sighed.
A civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, a state governor, turned out to be such a villain with no integrity, telling lies when he opened his mouth. How could the Ming Dynasty not be full of chaos? Li Zhi only had a rough knowledge of history, but he also knew that the Manchus took over Beijing.
After that, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who claimed to be unparalleled in loyalty and righteousness surrendered one after another, and even went out of the city to welcome him.
The Ming Dynasty's finances were close to bankruptcy, but these civil servants were not worried about the country's demise at all, and were still fighting among themselves for their own interests.
These shameless civil servants were actually one of the important reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Li Zhi looked at Liang Yishou and said: "Liang Yishou, don't make excuses. My emissary has already found out clearly that this tax resistance was all planned and organized by you."
"Not only are you resisting the tax this time, but you also helped the Jin gentry occupy people's fields in Jingzhou, and you have more than a dozen lawsuits on your hands. You will definitely not be able to escape this time, I will kill you!"
Liang Yishou stared at Li Zhi dumbfounded, tears slowly flowing out of his eyes, and he kowtowed to the ground desperately.
"The little one was confused for a moment. Sir, please let me go!"
"Young man, I will send back all the money collected from the Jin gentry, and then I will make the decision to return those fields to the tenant farmers!"
"Sir, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me!"
Li Zhi was too lazy to pay attention to Liang Yishou anymore and turned to look at Yu Tao. Yu Tao was still tough. Although his hands were tied, he still stood there with his neck stiffened and looked at Li Zhi sideways.
"Yu Tao, don't you still know your crime?"
Yu Tao sneered and said: "We are clean and clear, and we were ordered to guard the side of the emperor. We have done nothing wrong, and you, Li Zhi, rebelled against the imperial edict and collected commercial taxes, and now you want me to be convicted? It is really the most ridiculous thing in the world."
Yu Tao bowed his hands in the direction of the capital and said loudly: "Even if you Li Zhi killed me, I am also a court official who died for the emperor!"
Li Zhi snorted coldly and said, "Are you considered an official of the imperial court?"
Li Zhi looked at Han Jinxin, who immediately took out a booklet from his arms. Han Jinxin had already cleared up the dirty things about the Tianjin officials and compiled them into a volume. He flipped through a few pages and found Yu Tao's things, and read aloud:
: "Yu Tao prepared troops for the Lower East Road in Tianjin. In the ninth year of Chongzhen's tenure, he ordered his men to annex 23 households in private villages. Twenty-three households lost their business and their families were destroyed. Four people died of illness or freezing in the winter that year.
One man hanged himself to death."
"In the 10th year of Chongzhen's reign, Yu Tao extorted 5,000 taels of property from the generals of Tianjin's Xiadong Road garrison under the pretext of checking wages."
"In the spring of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Yu Tao sent people to injure Liu Mingui, a common man in Cangzhou, in order to seize his wife. Liu Mingui fell ill and died soon after. Yu Tao forcibly married Liu Mingui's wife as his concubine."
"Autumn of the Eleventh Year of Chongzhen"
After hearing Han Jinxin reveal all his dirty deeds and read them out one by one, Yu Tao's calm face gradually became panicked, losing the previous momentum.
Yu Tao prides himself on being a clean-blooded person who values his reputation above all else, but he is really afraid that these dirty things will be spread out and ruin his reputation. It's okay to annex shops and blackmail military attachés, but if the news about plotting to marry someone else's wife gets out, he will definitely make himself the target of thousands of people.
Li Zhi smiled and said: "I will let my emissaries interrogate you these days. If you cooperate and confess the crime and hand over the evidence, you will have good food and drink. If you insist on not letting go, then my emissaries will torture the scouts."
Got it!"
When Yu Tao heard these words, his face was ashen. Li Zhi wanted to punish himself? This method was not to let him die standing up, but to die with his reputation ruined. All the dirty things he had done over the years could be easily punished.
Even coming out was enough to discredit him. How could he withstand Li Zhi's torture of the scouts?
He no longer dared to confront Li Zhi, and knelt on the ground with a plop, saying with tears in his eyes: "Sir! Master Taibao! Yu knows that he is wrong! Let me go! Save some face for Yu!"
Li Zhi said coldly: "When you beat other people's husbands to death and forced the villagers to death, did you consider the faces of those people? The Ming Dynasty was riddled with holes precisely because of you sanctimonious worms."
Yu Tao thought for a while and became more and more frightened, and his body collapsed on the ground.
Li Zhi looked at the three civil servants on the ground, turned to Han Jinxin and said: "I handed these three people over to you. Now we have the final say in Tianjin. Whoever you want to testify can be summoned! Within five days, you can send these three people to you."
All conclusive evidence of corruption and violation of law has been obtained."
Han Jinxin raised his hand and said: "Don't worry, sir, I have my own means to make them all speak for themselves! Hand over the evidence to us one by one."
