Rule the Ming Dynasty Alone

Chinese people have always loved to watch the excitement, and today is a rare big day.

Normally, the Autumn Judgment of prisoners in West City would attract many people to watch, but the name of the prisoner executed today was really too loud.

Regardless of the identities of these people, one is the most corrupt eunuch Chen Zhun in the Ming Dynasty, the other is the most corrupt eunuch Li Min in the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the dignified Marquis of Qingyun Zhou Shou and the right minister of the Ministry of Rites Ni Yue It can only be classified as accompaniment.

To be able to witness the blood of so many important figures splattered on the execution ground today is to witness history.

Ordinarily, the four well-established figures who are to be executed now should be the head of the Three Laws Division, Jian Jian.

It's just that the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is now in troubled times. The new censor Zuo Du of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has submitted his resignation. Feng Guan, the minister of Dali Temple, was impeached for accepting money from the Li family to rescue Li Min and was imprisoned.

If the palm seal official is missing, he is usually replaced by Zuo Erguan, but Wang Yue, the deputy censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is not in the capital.

The final result was that Du Ming, the Minister of Punishment, and Song Cheng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, supervised the execution. Du Ming, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, rode in front of him in a sedan chair, while Song Cheng, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, rode on horseback to personally escort the prisoner.

Since there were so many people here today, the Five Cities Military and Horse Department and the Shuntian Mansion Office sent people to maintain public order, with more than 500 people dispatched.

I'm coming!

Although Chinese people love to be lively, they are all people who abide by the rules. When they see the queue of prisoners on death row appearing, they all take the initiative to retreat to both sides of the street.

The team walked slowly through the streets, heading towards the execution platform in the West City.

“Who is this gagged?”

Haha... Marquis Qingyun, this Marquis deserves it!

Which one of them deserves it? Look at that eunuch who embezzled hundreds of thousands of taels. Can he spend it all?

I don't even have descendants, but this dead eunuch is still so greedy for money. He really deserves to be cut into pieces!

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The onlookers saw the prison car slowly passing by, and kept pointing at Marquis Qingyun at the front, and then looked at the prison car of eunuch Chen Zhun and made comments.

Here it comes! Someone is coming!

This corrupt official who deserves to be cut into pieces, beheading him will be an advantage!

Isn't that right? The money he is greedy for doesn't come from the pockets of us ordinary people!

One million taels! I really want to eat the most greedy man in the Ming Dynasty!

…

When he saw Li Min being escorted over in the prison van and the old man with a treacherous face in the prison van, he immediately gritted his teeth and said angrily.

This has been the case from ancient times to the present. Even if you commit the major crime of treason, ordinary people may not necessarily hate you much. But if you are a corrupt official, then they will be eager to eat your flesh.

Since the civil service group in the Ming Dynasty was getting stronger and stronger, especially after the Tumubao Incident, the power of the civil service group reached a new height, so major cases of corruption among civil servants soon emerged.

But when everyone thought that these high-ranking officials in the capital were as clean as water, it turned out that the Minister of Household Affairs was the most corrupt in the Ming Dynasty. How could they not hate Li Min to the core?

how so?

Li Min couldn't help but open his mouth slightly as he listened to the dirty words on both sides of the street.

He originally thought that Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou, who was walking in the front, would attract the most attention and hostility from the people, but only after passing through this street did he realize that Zhou Shou was not even one-tenth of his own.

In fact, Li Min still doesn't understand how things are done at home, and how could the imperial envoy find the well-hidden kiln silver?

The Ziyun Academy that he planned to build was well-known. It was surrounded by thousands of acres of dendrobium trees. It could be said to be the most ideal place to hide money. It was much smarter than the officials over there who hid stolen silver in ancestral graves.

But now that he has been found out, he will be infamy for eternity.

But can you really blame me for becoming a corrupt official?

He was a top three scholar in high school when he was less than thirty years old. Since he was not born into an official family, he was lucky enough to be selected by the imperial court as the censor of Huguang.

He was very lucky in his official career. Because he had made great contributions to Guizhou Province under the imperial edict, he was called back to Beijing. Fortunately, he was favored by the powerful teacher Shang Ren and was appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Gyeonggi.

This low-key position can be said to have surpassed most of the people of the same year, and naturally he is more valued by the teacher.

However, during the seven years he served in the capital, he knew that if he wanted to continue to climb up and truly return to the capital, ability alone was not enough. He also needed enough warning and warning to open the way.

Even though he seems to be an honest teacher, he is also a disciple, but whoever gives more will be cared for more, while whoever gives less will not even have the chance to meet again.

After all, he is not like Xu Pu and Qiu Jun, the proud disciples who were trained by the teacher. He is valued by the teacher and is nothing more than a knife full of attacks.

But if this knife is no longer needed, it will naturally become worthless.

Li Min was not able to officially return to the capital, but was sent to Zhejiang as a patrol officer.

The bad side is that he left the capital, but the good side is that he has arrived in the prosperous Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and his position is very important.

He knew that if he wanted to return to the capital, he would need to accumulate enough financial resources.

Turns out, he was right.

Although he did not make any achievements during his tenure, he directly skipped the Chief Envoy Office to participate in politics, and soon became the Left Chief Envoy of Sichuan, reaching the highest position of a local official.

By this time, it was a matter of course for him to serve as governor and serve as a temporary official in the capital.

After only two years of transition as governor of Datong, he officially took up the post of Minister of the Ministry of War, then became Governor of Water Transport, and finally became the high-ranking Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

From a newcomer to the officialdom with no background to the aloof Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance, he made a leap that most Jinshi officers could not make in their lifetime.

It's just that it all seemed like a dream. Although there were countless proud moments during his tenure, he ultimately paid a heavy price for his greed.

Snapped!

Suddenly, rotten vegetable leaves, dried cow dung, and rotten eggs flew from the corner of the street. Before he could react, these things had already hit his face, especially the disgusting rotten egg liquid that smeared his face.

Woohoo...

Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou was actually the first to be attacked, but his mouth was still stuffed with rotten cloth. He could not avoid the rotten vegetable leaves, dried cow dung and rotten eggs flying towards his face, and he thought very angrily. He looked like he was going to curse loudly.

Seeing that the execution ground was approaching, he still couldn't understand why the wardrobe prince he had grown up with had such a sudden change of temperament, as if he had become a completely different person.

It's just that all of this seems to have nothing to do with him. The cowardly prince who he once looked down upon is about to chop his neck with a knife.

The weather is quite good today, with a touch of sunshine shining on the city.

West Market, a execution platform has been set up here.

The prison car drove into the execution ground. An officer opened the door of the prison car. Several wolf-like officers stepped forward and escorted the condemned prisoner out of the prison car.

No! No!

Chen Zhun was the first death row inmate to be escorted out. Out of fear of death, his voice suddenly changed. The voice that seemed sharp at first just screamed and then lost its voice.

In the face of death, humans usually instinctively show fear, but Chen Zhun's pants suddenly became wet and he was still screaming hysterically and silently.

No matter how hard they struggled, it was impossible to escape the fate of being beheaded. The four important death row prisoners headed by them were escorted to the execution platform together.

Song Cheng, the young minister of Dali Temple, was a very serious person. When he came to the execution platform in front of the four death row prisoners, each death row prisoner had to look at them carefully.

In addition to the duty of supervising executions, the executioner's other important job is to prevent prisoners from being naughty in the process, so they have to re-verify their identity here.

Wow wow...

Ni Yue, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, had always kept quiet, but when he saw Song Cheng's dark face staring at him seriously, as if he saw a ghost demanding his life, he was so frightened that he immediately started peeing and crying.

Huh?

Du Ming, who was sitting in front of the public case and supervising the beheading, heard Ni Yue's cry and couldn't help but look at Song Cheng in confusion.

Song Cheng didn't mean to scare Ni Yue, but Ni Yue had been imprisoned for the longest time, and now he was unkempt, so he had to brush aside Ni Yue's hair to confirm whether this was the high-ranking right minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Prime Minister. Ni Yue.

After inspection, it was found that there was no subcontracting incident this time, and there is no doubt that the four important death row inmates are all themselves.

There are more and more people watching here, but they have completely surrounded the entire execution ground. Some high-profile figures can clearly see the execution here from the restaurant in front.

Because the identity of the executed prisoner was not simple, it had actually attracted many big shots, and Xu Pu, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and a scholar of the Imperial Academy, came personally.

The shadow of the flagpole standing on the ground is shrinking little by little until it merges with the flagpole.

I don't want to die! I don't want to die!

The cloth ball in Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou's mouth was removed, but at this moment he no longer had the arrogance he had always had, but he begged for mercy in a panic.

Woohoo...

Ni Yue originally only wanted fame and fortune, but he couldn't control his bad mouth. Now he paid a bloody price for his arrogance, and he cried heartbrokenly.

Li Min, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, did not cry, but he clenched his teeth tightly and his palms were sweating with fear. He really hoped that everything in front of him was a nightmare.

I only know how to regret it now, it's too late!

Good deeds will be rewarded with good deeds, and evil deeds will be rewarded with evil deeds. They are all responsible for themselves!

Now you have to be beheaded to know how to repent. It's obviously a cat crying and a mouse pretending to be compassionate!

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The tens of thousands of people who were watching saw the reactions of the four important death row inmates on the execution platform, but no one felt sympathy, but instead criticized them one after another.

When he saw the shadow blending into the flagpole, the timekeeper shouted: It's three quarters to noon!

As soon as these words came out, the people in the audience fell silent for an instant, staring straight at the execution platform.

Du Ming, the Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, who was wearing a second-grade official uniform, picked up a fire stick from a bamboo tube, threw it heavily into the open space in front of him and said: Behead!.

A prison officer came forward with a red pen, crossed out the name on the prison card inserted in the back of the death row prisoner, then took out the prison card and threw it on the ground.

Snapped!

When the guilty card landed on the execution platform made of wooden boards, a clear sound was made.

The executioner with bare arms raised the ghost-headed sword high and shouted to the death row prisoner in front of him, Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou: Master, please get on your way!

When they saw the Ghost Head Sword being swung down heavily, more than half of the people in the audience who were watching the execution had already opened their eyes.

Although they like to watch the fun, they are just joining in the fun, and the vast majority of the people are not willing to witness such bloody scenes.

Onlookers, especially those who came with children, immediately covered their children's eyes.

Of course, there are also many people who like to show off their courage. They eat broad beans and show their yellow teeth while watching the execution process with great interest.

puff!

A line of blood splashed high, and Qingyunhou Zhou Shou's head rolled to the ground. Qingyunhou, the highest-status living relative of the Ming Dynasty, became a dead soul under the knife.

puff!

Just when Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou's head was chopped off, Li Min's head next to him rolled to the ground, and Li Min's eyes looked like they were dead.

puff! puff!

The heads of Ni Yue and Chen Zhun were then chopped off cleanly by the executioner, but both of them had their eyes closed, as if they had already accepted their fate.

No matter how unwilling they were, they could not escape this execution from the emperor.

In their original history, they did continue to enjoy glory and wealth. Just as a soul traveled back from more than four hundred years later, or maybe Zhu Youtang had a dream, everything has quietly changed.

It's really...killing!

Xu Pu, who was watching from a distance in a restaurant not far away, saw the heads of Zhou Shou and others being chopped off, and saw that Marquis Qingyuan did not escape this disaster, and finally realized that times have changed.

At this moment, his memory of the former prince became blurred, and a new concept became clearer and clearer.

Their emperor was not an indecisive person, but a decisive and decisive emperor, a non-Confucian emperor who was not successfully brainwashed by him at all.

If he and Zhu Youtang continue to fight like this, he will probably be sent to the guillotine as well.

Qianqing Palace, Dongnuan Pavilion.

Zhu Youtang, who was dealing with the memorial, heard the report that Qingyun Hou Zhou Shou and others had been executed, and he looked as calm as usual and said: I know!

Seeing Zhu Youtang's calm reaction, Liu Jin couldn't help but swallow secretly, and found that it was becoming increasingly difficult to capture the emperor's thoughts.

Your Majesty, these are the memorials just sent from Nanzhili. The top one is from Lu Song! Guo Yong came in with the memorials in his arms and pointed out emphatically at the same time.

Liu Jin knew that Lu Song was a member of the Jinyi Baihu sent by His Majesty to Wang Yue. This Jinyibaihu usually did not come forward unless there was something urgent.

Zhu Youtang knew that if everything went well, Wang Yue would have arrived in Yangzhou by now, but he didn't understand why Lu Song had submitted the report, so he opened Lu Song's report and said in surprise: The official ship was attacked? Wang Yue ...Falled into the water and disappeared?”