When dealing with the gentry of Huguang, the Donglin Party was all promoting the fire. However, when preparing to deal with Hou Fangyu, Hou Fangyu was a member of the Donglin Party, a large number of Donglin Party members pleaded for him.

The verdict on Hou Fangyu was sentenced by Zhu Cixuan personally. If he surrendered to the Donglin Party and changed the verdict, wouldn't Zhu Cixuan be unable to hold on to the face?

In fact, more than two years after ascending the throne, Zhu Cilang deeply realized the difficulty of his father back then. Civil officials in the court always liked to fight with the emperor. Anyway, they just didn't want the emperor to live too well. As long as the emperor agreed, civil officials would object; as long as the emperor opposed it, civil officials would support it to show their integrity.

Fortunately, practice has proved that it was such a wise decision to keep Ma Shiying! Just when Zhu Ciyang was besieged by a group of Donglin Party, Ma Shiying stood up and expressed his determination to kill Hou Fangyu, not only to kill, but also to lingchi, and at least to be cut in half.

The people on both sides were in stalemate. If Ma Shiying wanted to kill Hou Fangyu, Qian Qianyi wanted to protect Hou Fangyu; if Ma Shiying wanted to increase the sentence of Hou Fangyu, Qian Qianyi wanted to reduce Hou Fangyu's sentence.

The number of people on both sides is equal, and their eloquence is equal to the combat effectiveness of the court. As a result, both sides are equal in size.

Zhu Cilang turned his head helplessly at Shi Kefa, but Shi Kefa, who had always been fair and just, pretended to be deaf and dumb at this time and did not dare to stand up and say a fair word at all.

In fact, Shi Kefa still had different opinions on whether to execute Hou Fangyu. After all, Hou Fangyu is one of the four princes of Fushe. If Hou Fangyu is beheaded, this is equivalent to slapping the Donglin Party in the face. However, Hou Fangyu's crime of treason for surrendering to the enemy is conclusive. No matter who will overturn the case, no matter who will overturn the case, the Donglin Party can only do is hope that His Majesty the Emperor will give mercy on the law and reduce the punishment for Hou Fangyu.

However, Shi Kefa is still an upright official after all, and he also knows that Hou Fangyu's crimes are unforgivable and that execution is the right thing to do. His Majesty the Emperor has given him a favor outside the law. He deserves to kill Hou Fangyu. But the problem is that if he wants to kill Hou Fangyu, he cannot say it from Shi Kefa, a Donglin party member, or how will he be a human being in the Donglin party in the future?

Seeing that Shi Kefa did not speak, Zhu Cilang could only turn his head to look at Zhao Peng.

Zhao Peng knew it was his turn to speak. To be honest, he really wanted to cut Hou Fangyu into pieces, but if he really killed Hou Fangyu, he would offend Qian Qianyi to death. Many things would be difficult to deal with in the future. After all, Qian Qianyi is Zheng Sen's teacher.

"Your Majesty!" Zhao Peng walked forward and knelt under the steps to bow. "I think that Mr. Qian is right. Hou Fangyu came from a scholarly family and was not the main evil in the case of rebellion. He can be exempted from the death penalty!"

As soon as these words were said, Zhu Cilang was stunned. He did not expect that the person he trusted the most would surrender to the Donglin Party. In fact, not only Zhu Cilang was shocked, but also Ma Shiying and others were stunned. They did not expect that the fair and selfless loyal and brave wait would be afraid of the Donglin Party!

However, Zhao Peng immediately changed his subject: "Hou Fangyu's death penalty can be avoided, but he cannot escape the crime of living. If he surrenders to the enemy and treason, he will be unforgivable! Hou Fangyu should be castrated and exiled for another five thousand miles, and escorted Qiongzhou to be exiled to the mines."

As soon as Zhao Peng said this, Ma Shiying, who was still stunned just now, had a smile on her face. You know what castration means to a handsome young man like Hou Fangyu? That is even more cruel than killing him!

Of course, Ma Shiying knew Hou Fangyu's character, and knew that this guy was lingering in the Qinhuai River all day long. It can be said that he spent almost every day in the brothels of the Qinhuai River. Moreover, this guy was a tycoon chicken, and he never spent money to go to the brothels. He was the sisters and singers in the brothels who raised him because he had a delicate face.

Ma Shiying looked down on such a young man.

Just imagine, if Hou Fangyu was sentenced to castration, then even if he returned to Nanjing in a few years, could he still go to the Qinhuai River? Will those sisters welcome a father-in-law?

At this moment, it was Qian Qianyi and the others' turn to be anxious. You should know why Qian Qianyi chose to jump out and speak for Hou Fangyu today. That's because he knew that Wu Xiaomei and Zuo Xianmei were friends with Chen Yuanyuan and Li Xiangjun, and these girls would definitely persuade Zhao Peng. Zhao Peng was very fond of his women.

In addition to the cooperative business between Zhao Peng and the Donglin Party, and Zheng Sen's relationship, Qian Qianyi feels that Zhao Peng will definitely stand on their side.

Who knew that as soon as Zhao Peng spoke, he castrated Hou Fangyu.

Chen Zhilin and Wu Weiye stood up: "Zhenggong Hou, you castrate a scholar. This is an insult to scholars! If this is the case, it would be better to kill Mr. Hou with one knife. You and our Donglin Party will break up!"

Zhao Peng looked innocent: "Don't you want the life of the Baohou Prince? I just proposed it and begged Your Majesty to pardon Mr. Hou's death penalty. But Mr. Hou's crime is too serious, and the death penalty can be avoided."

"I'm going to discuss it!" Ma Shiying and others agreed one after another.

Zhu Cilang was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "I think Hou Fangyu's death penalty can be avoided from being alive. What Zhongyong Hou said is very true. Then let's do it. Deal with Hou Fangyu according to what Zhongyong Hou said."

"Your Majesty is wise!" Ma Shiying and others knelt on the ground and shouted long live.

"If you have something to report, you will leave the court without anything to do!" Han Zanzhou shouted in a sharp voice.

Zhu Cixuan took the opportunity to get up and retreat.

When Zhao Peng stood up from the ground and was about to enter the harem to find Princess Kunxing, he was stopped by Qian Qianyi: "House of loyalty and courage!"

"Gemaster Qian!" Zhao Peng turned around and bowed to Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi walked up to question and asked, "When you wait for loyalty and courage, why should you humiliate a scholar with castration?"

Zhao Peng pretended to be honest and honest: "Master Qian Ge, I know that you want to save Master Hou's life. I am friends with your Donglin Party and are worried about helping you. But Your Majesty has said that Hou Fangyu's crimes cannot be forgiven, so I can only make this bad decision and reduce Master Hou's crimes by one level before he can save his life."

"But scholars are castrated and will be ruined in this life." Qian Qianyi sighed.

Zhao Peng said: "Old Mr. Qian, Sima Qian is also a scholar, right?"

"Yes." Qian Qianyi nodded.

"He was also castrated?"

Qian Qianyi had nothing to say at this moment.

Zhao Peng continued: "But Sima Qian has left his name in history and has written classic works like Records of the Grand Historian. How can you say that scholars will be abolished after being castrated? First of all, people must survive. It will be easy to deal with after they survive. If their lives are gone, then there will be nothing. Will there be a future?"

Regarding what Zhao Peng said, Qian Qianyi always felt something was wrong, but he couldn't find any reason to refute him.

Zhao Peng took the opportunity to get rid of Qian Qianyi's entanglement and went into the palace to find his Princess Kunxing.

The next day, the Jinyiwei guards raised Hou Fangyu, who was covered in bruises and could not find a piece of good meat on his body, and put it in a cage, and escorted it into a clean room in the palace city.

Seeing the three words "purifying the body", Hou Fangyu struggled desperately, trying to shout, but as soon as he let out a scream, his mouth was stuffed with a piece of rag, and then a thick hemp rope tied him tightly.

Hou Fangyu was sent into the clean room, and then his clothes were stripped naked by the eunuchs, lying naked on a table like a white pig.

The old eunuch who was in charge of the sword was a veteran. He saw him lifting his sword and completing the purgation of Hou Fangyu like lightning.

Hou Fangyu, whose mouth was blocked, wanted to shout loudly, but couldn't scream at all. A severe pain came, and Hou Fangyu was sweating all over and quickly fell into a coma.

Then the old eunuch bandaged Hou Fangyu's wounds quickly and sent them to the rest room of the clean room to lie down.
Chapter completed!