Chapter 27 This is the plan of His Royal Highness King Liao
In Fengyang County, before dawn, news about the fact that the Marquis of Pingyang forced a good man to become a prostitute, causing someone to commit suicide, was arrested on the spot by His Highness the King of Liao and imprisoned in prison, began to spread.
Some people applauded, but more people still had a pessimistic attitude. First, in their opinion, this Marquis of Pingyang is the righteous brother of His Highness of the King of Liao. It is a huge matter. Can His Highness of Liao really cure his righteous brother's crime?
Not to mention, this Marquis of Pingyang also has an iron coupon for exemption from death!
This iron voucher for exemption from death was rewarded by Zhu Yuanzhang to meritorious ministers. Later emperors would also give away the iron voucher for exemption from death, which can be said to be a major feature of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the ministers who received the iron certificate of death exemption from Zhu Yuanzhang were later killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, these people were all killed by the emperor himself. If others wanted to touch them, they would probably have to consider it seriously, otherwise they would despise the imperial power.
But since the Marquis of Pingyang has been imprisoned, it is naturally impossible to let it go. The first thing to do is to collect evidence of Pingyang's crimes.
Early in the morning, an announcement was posted at the gate of the government and the entrance and exit of Fengyang City. The people surrounded them, but it didn't matter if they couldn't understand them. There was a special officer explaining the situation next to them, and they said to the people surrounding them:
"His Highness of the King of Liao has an order that from now on, the people will enthusiastically report the evidence of the crime of the Marquis of Pingyang. As long as the evidence is valid, there will be rewards!"
When the people heard this, the atmosphere immediately became boiling, but it was just the atmosphere. On the government office, no news was received.
After this incident, Zhu Qi and Zhu Di naturally did not have to go to the military camp to train, but exercised the inspection function given by Zhu Yuanzhang seriously.
As for Xu Da, after hearing the whole story, he no longer asked about it. He left the power to Zhu Qi and Zhu Di to deal with it.
Zhu Qi was also very clear about what Xu Da was thinking. He was just Duke of Wei and had no right to be administrative and investigated and investigated. If he was involved in the case of Pingyang Hou, he would be interfering with the affairs.
Xu Da is a very cautious and low-key person. Although he is careless in front of Zhu Qi and Zhu Di, as long as it involves court affairs, Xu Da is often like a transparent person. Only when he needs to lead his troops to fight can the Ming Dynasty war god be reactivated.
Zhu Di thought he could follow his third brother Zhu Qi and be a young man Bao Qingtian, but he didn't expect that from morning to night, no one came to the government office to report to the Marquis of Pingyang from the old man last night.
In fact, the people did not dare to report the crimes of Pingyang Hou. The most important thing is that the iron voucher for exemption from death in the hand of Pingyang Hou. The people think that even if it is reported, it is useless. If Pingyang Hou cannot die, he will not be able to take revenge on himself after he comes back? Of course, no one dared to report the crimes of Pingyang Hou.
It was not until the evening that Zhu Di couldn't sit still and said to Zhu Qi:
"Three brother, what should we do? There is no other crime. With only one thing, he has the iron voucher for exemption from death, and he really can't cure him."
Zhu Qi said calmly:
"What's the hurry? If you don't have it today, just wait tomorrow. People must have some time to recover, right? If it really doesn't work, you third brother, I have other ways. I will never let this Pingyang Hou run away."
When Zhu Di heard Zhu Qi say this, he felt relieved.
The two brothers sat down until the first update, and it became dark outside. Then they left the government and returned to the palace to rest for a while. Zhu Qi was calm and gave new instructions to his subordinates.
So early the next morning, the personnel arranged by Zhu Qi went to the gate of the government and the entrance of the city gate again, and Zhang brought a new notice.
This notice did not urge the people to expose Pingyang Hou, but instead listed the number of people who exposed Pingyang Hou yesterday, with the words "black" written in black and white: There are 115 people who exposed it!
What a guy, the people were all stunned all of a sudden. Some people really dared to report it. There are still 115 people who are so many?!
Many ordinary people have this idea in their hearts, but those who really dare to act are still a little bit short of it.
But what the people did not expect was that for the next four consecutive days, such notices would be announced every day, and hundreds of people would report them every day!
Good guy, this Pingyang Hou is so bad that he has pus? Do you do so many bad things?
Then, let’s report it too? What if Pingyang Hou is really pulled down?
At this time, Xu Da, who was in the military camp of Fengyang Prefecture, also received information from his subordinates. Xu Da just didn't interfere with the case of Pingyang Hou and didn't ask about it, but it didn't mean that he had blocked both ears.
This time, Zhu Yuanzhang brought Zhu Qi and Zhu Di to Fengyang Mansion. Zhu Yuanzhang specifically instructed Xu Da that he would report everything when he went back. In addition to military affairs, government affairs governance is also a very important thing for the prince, and this is naturally a great opportunity to observe the two princes.
So when he saw Zhu Qi making a name for himself and posting fake notices for several days, Xu Da was stunned at first, then smiled knowingly and said to himself:
"This kid usually says that he can only recite the military strategy and can't use it. Isn't it good to use it when you bluff your hand?"
Xu Da put the information aside and then began to write the notes delivered to Yingtian Mansion...
On the other hand, Zhu Qi and Zhu Di waited in the government for a whole day, but no one came to report and expose the Marquis of Pingyang. However, there were many more people at the door, and Zhu Di wanted to go over and ask them if there was any injustice. Fortunately, in the evening, an old lady finally came into the government with a hunched over and said that she wanted to report the Marquis of Pingyang's evil deeds of indulging the slaves and occupying other people's land!
Good guy, I waited for several days, but someone came to report it. Zhu Di was so excited.
In front of the common people, Zhu Qi invited the old lady into the government office, asked carefully about the ins and outs of the matter, and arranged for someone to visit on the spot.
Let’s not talk about the size of the crime, but at least the process is extremely serious and the purpose is only one, that is, to announce to the people:
I, King Zhu Qi of Liao, are serious!
This suddenly took the lead, and the people began to report it in court.
I won’t mention the serious crimes of seizing land, occupying women, beating civilians, and lent usury. I’ll do anything like urinating and defecating everywhere on the road, insulting others, reaching out to take things without paying money, paying adults on credit in hotels, etc., I can’t remember even big and small crimes!
Just looking at the evidence of the crime, he has died several times! The iron voucher for exemption from death can only die once. So many evidence of the crime are dead!
The people also think so, but some scholars who have read the "Da Ming Law" shook their heads and said:
"You don't even look at the laws of the Ming Dynasty. If you have any sins or more, you will be considered serious!"
What does it mean? That is to say, if you commit many crimes, the Ming Dynasty will not punish you with multiple crimes, and will only punish you with the worst crime!
The people were panicked when they heard this. Then I just reported it, wouldn’t I be retaliated against!
However, before the common people could panic, new news came out of the government.
His Highness the King of Liao said that at noon tomorrow, I will go to the Marquis of Pingyang and search the house!
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