Zhu Yuan was shocked when he heard that Wu Chaocui was beaten to death. He originally wanted to use this person to establish his authority, but he did not expect to kill someone?

Zhu Yuan pulled the executioner Xiaoqi and asked, "What's going on? Why did he beat him to death?"

The little flag was also very aggrieved: "Your Majesty, I don't know either!"

"Don't you often hit boards in the palace? How can you still not control your strength?"

"Prince, my subordinates are responsible for guarding the palace in the palace. The court staff is under the jurisdiction of the Dongchang. My subordinates are really..."

Zhu Yuan sighed after hearing what the little flag said. He originally thought that it was easy to beat the board. In the past, he saw his father punishing those who made mistakes to beat the board for fifty or sixty, but how can he kill people now? In fact, Zhu Yuan didn't know that how to beat the board is also a technical job. If you want to make the board, you have to practice for several years. At the beginning, you have to wrap the bricks with pig skin. In the first year, you have to make the pig skin without breaking the bricks without breaking the bricks. In the second year, you have to make the pig skin without breaking the bricks without breaking the bricks. Then you have to wrap the tofu with rice paper, and finally practice until the rice paper is broken and the tofu is fine. This is what you have to do.

The Jinyiwei in the palace were all military members before. The beating of the boards in the army was a means of punishment, and ten boards could kill people. What's more, Zhu Yuan ordered the beating of twenty boards. In addition, Wu Chaocui was unlucky. He had been preparing accounts for more than ten days and had not returned home for more than ten days. He worked until very late every night. In addition, Wu Chaocui was obese and had high blood pressure and heart disease. He could hold the boards of the Jinyiwei, so he couldn't hold on.

Zhu Yuan stepped forward and looked at Wu Chaocui lying on the ground. Seeing that this guy was bleeding from his mouth and nose, he had lost his breath. Zhu Yuan felt very regretful. He had known that this guy was so unrestrained, so he would not look for him. Zhu Yuan came out this time to obey Zhu Hongsan's imperial edict, but the imperial envoy was divided into many kinds. The highest imperial envoy had the right to make decisions on the spot, which was the kind of sword that later generations said, had the Shangfang sword, so that all officials below the fourth rank in the place could be dealt with at will.

However, this kind of imperial envoy has a great right. Generally speaking, only the emperor's most trusted confidants can have such honors. For example, Ma Jiyuan, who was stationed in Yangzhou back then, was also an imperial envoy who investigated one or several things under the emperor's order. Such an imperial envoy has no right to deal with officials, and only the right to write a letter to the emperor, which is the right to report small things. Unfortunately, Zhu Yuan is such an imperial envoy who makes a small report.

Although Wu Chaocui was only in the eighth rank and was a minor official who was not in the rank, he was also an official recognized by the court and a cadre within the system. Now, if you don’t have the emperor’s imperial edict, you will be punished and beat the imperial official to death. This is a big deal.

Xue Tian, ​​the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, had not come out of the lobby, but suddenly heard the silence outside. Wu Chaocui, who was originally wailing, had no movement. Xue Tian quickly ran out to watch.

When Xue Tian saw that Wu Chaocui was bleeding from his mouth and nose, he couldn't help but feel happy. It was not that Xue Tian and Wu Chaocui had a grudge, but that Wu Chaocui was beaten to death, and the imperial envoy was unable to bear it.

Xue Tian pointed to Wu Chaocui's body and asked, "King Yan, what's going on? Why did I beat my Kaifeng Prefecture to death for no reason?" Now Xue Tian no longer respects Zhu Yuan much, and does not call him the imperial envoy, but calls him the King of Yan directly.

Zhu Yuan looked at the sky with his eyes and said, "There is no way. Who knows that this guy is very cruel, it has nothing to do with me!"

Seeing Zhu Yuan so unreasonable, Xue Tian sneered: "Okay, King Yan, do you know who Wu Chaocui is? Although Wu Chaocui is not of high rank and is only from the eighth rank, Wu Chaocui is the foreman of the factory run by His Majesty the Emperor in Wuchang and is also a relative of the Lord Tiejue Anqing. Now the King of Yan beat Wu Chaocui to death without any charges. Did the King of Yan think about how to explain to the emperor?"

Zhu Yuan was stunned when he heard that this dead ghost Wu Chaocui had such a great power. Zhu Hongsan started his career and had three waves of forces. Needless to mention civil officials, there were also military generals such as Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong. This third wave was the craftsmen who followed Zhu Hongsan back then.

These craftsmen were led by Anqing Bo Tieniu, Huining Bo Duan Hongyi, and Xiongwu Bo Sun Xing. These people were foremen in Zhu Hongsan's factory back then, and now they have become wealthy people.

Especially Tieniu, this guy has been following Zhu Hongsan since he was five or six years old, and has a good relationship with Qian Lide and Zhu Hongyi, who are around Zhu Hongsan. The most important thing is that Tieniu can go to the palace to pay homage to Zhu Hongsan at any time, and this kind of preferential treatment is not even his son Zhu Yuan.

Zhu Yuan heard Xue Tian say this and sweated coldly on his head. He originally wanted to catch a small official and kill a chicken to scare the monkey, but he didn't expect that he could catch such a big fish at will. In fact, Zhu Yuan was thinking a little bit wrong. There were five or six thousand people who followed Zhu Hongsan south back then. Except for more than 2,000 troops, the rest were craftsmen and their families. These people were all about to perform their merits after the founding of the country. After all, they were all the basic foundations of the emperor Zhu Hongsan, so a large number of such meritorious groups were flooded in various provinces.

When Xue Tian saw Zhu Yuan stunned, he knew that the little prince was scared. Xue Tian winked at Tongzhi. When Tongzhi saw the prefect's wink, he quickly knelt down on his knees and cried: "Wu Jingcheng, I didn't expect that you have been working for the emperor's country for decades, but now you are beaten to death by the emperor's son. Brother is so heartbroken!"

The other officials from Kaifeng Prefecture died and foxes were mourning and shouted: "Sir, if you can kill Wu Jingcheng now, why not beat us to death!" After that, these officials surrounded them and asked Zhu Yuan to give an explanation.

There were more than 100 officials in Kaifeng Prefecture, and they started to shout in chaos for a moment. Zhu Yuan was just a child of fifteen or sixteen. He had seen this situation there and stutteredly shouted: "What are you doing? You are so brave, why don't you retreat for me?"

The Jinyiwei poliest Zhang Cheng saw that something was going to happen. If something happened to the imperial envoy, the Jinyiwei who accompanied them could not survive. Zhang Cheng quickly brought a hundred people forward to protect Zhu Yuan, and then Zhang Cheng shouted to Xue Tian: "Mr. Xue, if you don't suppress your subordinates, do you want to commit a serious crime of corruption?"

Xue Tian was reminded by Zhang Cheng that he was the chief of Kaifeng Prefecture. If these guys were really allowed to beat Zhu Yuan, he would have to be held with the main responsibility. Xue Tian, ​​who was reminded by Zhang Cheng, then he reacted and stood in front of his subordinates and shouted: "Okay, everyone calm down. Wu Chaocui has no choice but to die. Now we can only write to His Majesty the Emperor and let His Majesty make the decision for us!"

With Xue Tian’s reminder, the officials shouted: “Yes, the prefect is right. Let’s go find Lord Futai and let Lord Futai make the decision for us!” After that, these guys lifted Wu Chaocui’s body and turned to find Governor Wu Peichang. The chief officials of the four prefectures and thirty counties under Kaifeng Prefecture saw this and followed the crowd out of the yamen.

Zhu Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that these guys had left. In the morning, the officials were fighting themselves. He just wanted to beat him, but Zhu Yuan said he was not afraid.

When Zhu Yuan saw them leaving the government gate, he quickly asked someone to close the gate, and then rushed back to the second hall to ask his teacher Yu Chenglong what to do.

Yu Chenglong was just a scholar at this time, and he was not the governor of Liangjiang who had rich grassroots work experience in later generations. He was also very difficult after hearing what happened in the lobby and didn't know what to do.

Yu Chenglong thought for a long time and said, "Prince, the governor Zhang Jiayu is not in harmony with the governor. He should stand with us. Why not ask him?"

After being reminded by Yu Chenglong, Zhu Yuan remembered that there was an old fried dough stick Zhang Jiayu here and asked him what he should do!

Zhu Yuan came to the Kaifeng Prefecture Prison, where ordinary prisoners were imprisoned, and all serious prisoners were imprisoned in the Censorship Prison. However, the cells in the Ming Dynasty were incomparable to civilized prisons like later generations. Zhu Yuan was confused by the smell as soon as he arrived at the door.

Zhu Yuan quickly took a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, followed the Jinyiwei into the prison. Fortunately, Zhu Yuan also knew Zhang Jiayu's identity and did not imprison him and ordinary prisoners, but detained him alone.

Zhu Yuan came to the door of the prison and saw Zhang Jiayu sitting in the haystack with his eyes closed. Zhu Yuan quickly bowed and said, "Teacher, the students are polite here!"

Of course, Zhang Jiayu was not Zhu Yuan’s teacher, but Zhang Jiayu had served as Zuo Yude of the Zhan Shifu before and was the teacher of the Crown Prince Zhu Hai, so Zhu Yuan could even ask him to go to the teacher.

Zhang Jiayu saw Zhu Yuan coming and said with a smile: "Xiaoguan dare not claim to be the teacher of the imperial envoy. Xiaguan does not have such great knowledge yet!"

Zhu Yuan was a little unhappy when he heard Zhang Jiayu say this. As a third-rank official and provincial governor, Zhang Jiayu was arrested by Zhu Yuan and had some ideas.

Zhu Yuan quickly bowed and apologized: "The teacher said this but it was a disaster for the students. The students had no choice. The teacher was full of dangers here in Henan. The students took this bad approach to protect the safety of the teachers!"

Zhu Yuan said it nicely, but who is Zhang Jiayu? After the turmoil in the Shenwu Dynasty, how could he not know Zhu Yuan’s small tricks? Zhu Yuan wanted to master first-hand materials, and at the same time, he was afraid that he would be suspected by Wu Peichang for too much contact, so he found a reason to arrest him in prison.

But Zhang Jiayu did not say it out loud, but asked, "Is there anything wrong with the imperial envoy who came to see the lower officials today?"

When Zhu Yuan heard Zhang Jiayu's question, he quickly told the story of what happened in the lobby just now. After that, he asked, "Teacher, what should the students do?"

Zhang Jiayu smiled and said, "Sir, if you came to ask the officials earlier, there might be some ways to do it, but it's too late now. Wu Chaocui's backstage is very tough, and there is no way for the officials to do it!"

When Zhu Yuan heard that Zhang Jiayu had no choice but to have his eyes wide open, he quickly asked, "Teacher, there is really nothing he can do?"

"Of course, I can only wait for the emperor's opinion on handling it now, but the official probably thought that the imperial envoy might have to be killed!"
Chapter completed!