144 144 Slander
◎ Long time no see! Does this guy have some big cake?◎
Mo Yu had just found a place to eat melons in the corner, lying down, ah, no, posing, when A Shan began to speak generously.
The Governor of Liangjiang came to take over this time, and he was really well prepared.
After a few nice words, he went straight into the topic and began to impeach Chen Pengnian, the prefect of Jiangning.
Mo Yu summoned System 006 to check the relevant information and anecdotes of the two parties, striving to eat melons comprehensively, so that the correct way to open the golden finger is to open. System 006
:? ? EXM? ?
Mo Yu ignored the question marks of System 006 and began to eat melons in an immersed manner.
The feud between Lord Ashan and Chen Pengnian was not formed overnight.
The main reason was that Ashan was a corrupt official, while Chen Pengnian was an honest official. Moreover,
Lord Chen was famous for his integrity and hatred of evil. Therefore, no matter which corrupt official sat on the post of Governor-General of Liangjiang, Chen Pengnian, as his subordinate, would confront him directly.
After all, Lord Chen was famous for his stubbornness.
At least he was very brave to challenge a first-rank official with the rank of a fourth-rank official.
Well, very brave.
After all, there were five levels between the fourth-rank prefect and the first-rank Governor-General of Liangjiang: third-rank, third-rank, second-rank, second-rank, and first-rank.
Lord Chen's killing was a five-level counterattack.
If he was not a skilled and courageous person, then he was simply a big wronged person.
Lord Chen was certainly not a big wronged person, but he was too jealous and hateful, and he would not tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes, so he was so fierce.
As for the consequences of doing so, he really didn't think about it at all.
He did it, what else did he need a reason?
At most, he would be dismissed from office, it's not like he had never been dismissed
before. If that doesn't work, then behead him, anyway, he is doing it for the people, the country, and the people, it's just a life, take it if you want it... Anyway ,
Lord Chen has never been afraid since he passed the imperial examination and entered the officialdom.
So, as soon as he arrived in Jiangning, the first thing he did was to start re-examining unjust, false and wrong cases.
The first case is an unjust case related to Ashan.
The case owner is a monk favored by Ashan. Although this monk has been a monk for many years, his six senses are not pure, and he has done many things to bully men and women - mainly bullying women. It is said that this so-called "high monk" has ruined many good women with the help of the so-called "talking about Zen" and "talking about Buddhism", and has also done evil things such as robbing people's wives.
If this happened in modern society, this kind of gangster scum would have been in prison for many years. Unfortunately, in this era, the status of women is low, and the whole society has an attitude of oppression and harshness towards women.
When encountering such things, ordinary female relatives will choose to swallow their anger due to secular oppression and their own face, so this evil monk still enjoyed a long period of glory.
Because he is good at boasting, used to doing some superficial work, and most importantly, he has currying favor with a patron like Ashan, the Governor-General of Liangjiang, so he is very popular and no one dares to control him.
As his fame grows, his evil claws extend to more and more female believers.
As the saying goes, "If you often walk by the river, you will get your shoes wet." After the evil monk harmed so many women, he finally met someone who was not afraid of trouble.
Although this girl's family is just a well-off family, her parents only have her as an only daughter. She is beautiful and has a hot and straightforward personality.
Speaking of it, she is a bit like Feng Jie'er's character.
It happened that this girl was also a distant relative of the Wang family in Jinling, so her temperament was somewhat similar.
It happened to be Buddha's birthday, and the girl took her wet nurse and maid to the temple to burn incense, and was seen by the evil monk.
It was also the girl's bad luck that day. The wet nurse was old and in poor spirits, and the maid was too young. It was not because of the dangers of the world.
The main reason was that the evil monk was very good at pretending, and he was already in his forties or fifties, which was enough to be the girl's father, or even the grandfather. So when she was not on guard, she fell into the trap.
Afterwards, the girl refused to give in and made a big fuss, shouting that she would report to the police, but the evil monk just laughed and told her not to make trouble for herself.
If she was obedient, he could still find a farm to raise her - he said that he had a high-ranking official behind him, so even if the girl reported it to the officials, no one would care, and it might even ruin his reputation.
People would not say that the monk broke the precepts, but would only say that the girl had no sense of shame and did not even let go of the monks...
You see, this era is so sad, and the lives of women are really insignificant.
The reason why this evil monk dared to do this is because this was not the first time it happened.
There were also fierce women who made trouble before.
As a result, after reporting to the officials, the then prefectural governor made a casual judgment, asked a question that was "unclear in facts" and "spitting blood", and sent the girl away, which also caused the ridicule of the onlookers.
The poor girl was so angry that she not only hurt herself, but also lost face. In desperation and resentment, she hanged herself.
Some were sent to a nunnery by their families to become nuns. As the saying goes, "family disgrace should not be made public." Even if a girl whose innocence was defiled was the victim, so what? They just thought it was your fault.
Why couldn't you be more careful?
Why didn't they abuse others, but you?
It must be your fault...
...
Because of these past experiences, the evil monk was very arrogant, and he was sure that this time would be the same as so many times before.
The girl is now crying and making a fuss, and is determined to report to the police. When her family finds out, they will most likely persuade her to stop making a fuss, find her a familiar nunnery, or send her directly to a family temple to end her life.
Some are even more ruthless and want to let her "die of illness" directly...
Anyway, the evil monk said, you can do whatever you want, I am not afraid of you anyway.
Even if her family members were crazy and wanted to "seek justice" for her at the cost of the reputation of the daughter of the whole family, and really reported to the police, it would not matter.
Just do the same thing and say hello to the prefect of Jiangning and it would be done.
He was very experienced in this kind of thing. What was the big deal about playing with a few women?
It was nothing.
He was the guest of the Governor-General of Liangjiang, Lord Ashan, and Lord Ashan had to call him "Master". What were these people?
They were just ants.
The evil monk had a good plan. In fact, this was indeed the verdict of this case before Chen Pengnian took office as the prefect of Jiangning.
The former prefect of Jiangning had long been a lackey of Ashan. Since he was Ashan's guest of honor, he must give him face. He
must give him face.
So he directly sentenced the victim girl to "slander" and then had her fired.
Poor girl, she was exhausted physically and mentally, and almost couldn't hold on.
It was just that she had a breath in her heart, so she didn't commit suicide or die of depression like her sisters who had the same disease before her. Although she also had a serious illness, she managed to hold on.
In this way, she finally caught up with Chen Pengnian to take office.
This Lord Chen is a rare male official in contemporary times who sympathizes with and respects women.
I heard that he started to make decisions for the people since he was the county magistrate.
Especially women, they have the same rights as men in his place.
When he first became an official, he once redressed a heroic woman who had died unjustly for ten years. The question was that widows were often bullied and slandered, and in the end the victim became the culprit and died unjustly. He
also issued a strict order to drown female babies in the areas under his jurisdiction, and those who violated the order would be severely punished.
Such a person, when encountering a case of a demon monk abusing an innocent girl, must be carefully examined.
Therefore, the demon monk, who thought that this time was also a formality, did not come out after entering the Jiangning prefectural government office and was directly thrown into the death row.
When Ashan learned the news, this "senior monk" and "master" whom he valued most had been sentenced to be executed.
Although Ah Shan thought of many ways afterwards, the verdict of Mr. Chen was well-reasoned, with witnesses and evidence, especially since it had already gone through the process and reached the ears of the gods. Master
Kang was furious when he saw it, and thought that this monk used Buddhism to harm innocent people, which was really abominable.
The main reason was that Mr. Chen was also very good at grasping the key points. He knew that Master Kang followed his grandmother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and his father, Emperor Shunzhi, in believing in Buddhism. Although he might not be as devout as those two elders.
But in his heart, he still had a beautiful yearning for Buddhism.
The pure land of Buddhism should not be desecrated by anyone.
Not to mention that the one who desecrated Buddhism this time was a so-called "senior monk".
It was simply "knowing the law and breaking it, the crime is even more serious."
Master Kang was very angry, and the consequences were very serious, so this "master" was "beheaded immediately".
He didn't even have to wait until the autumn to be executed, which shows how much Master Kang hated this evil monk who blasphemed Buddhism.
Of course, it also shows how capable Lord Chen is - this is probably a big advantage of being born in the imperial examination. In terms of IQ, he is still able to crush a large group of people.
The evil monk was beheaded.
It is said that on the day of the execution of this evil monk, the people of Jiangning City cheered and rejoiced, especially those with female relatives in the family, who even wanted to build a shrine for Lord Chen and burn incense to worship him every day.
This kind of thing was already commonplace for the Qing official Lord Chen, so he didn't care too much about it, and even told everyone not to do it. He was really a capable and low-key person.
However, at this moment when the whole city was celebrating, there was a person who was very unhappy.
This person was the Governor-General of Liangjiang, Ashan.
Because he had greeted Chen Pengnian early in the morning, saying that this eminent monk was under his protection, meaning that you, a small fourth-rank prefect, were not worthy of dealing with my guest of honor of a first-rank official.
However, Chen Pengnian ignored him at all, and even made the matter bigger. In the end, it reached the ears of the emperor, and the person was executed immediately.
This was simply a public slap in the face!
When had Lord Ashan ever suffered such an injustice?
So Ashan has hated Chen Pengnian since then.
But this one incident alone was not enough for Ashan to deal with him specifically - after all, although this evil monk was Ashan's guest of honor, if one of them died, he could still find another replacement. After
all, Jiangnan has many temples if there is nothing else. There
were 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and many towers were in the mist and rain※.
It was not an exaggeration.
There are really many temples and monks in Jiangnan. With such a large base and so many choices, it is easier to find the right candidate.
Because a replacement was found quickly, Ashan just made a mental note for Chen Pengnian. He
was prepared to give him a couple of small shoes as a punishment and that was it.
After all, an obedient prefect of Jiangning is more valuable than a former trusted monk who has died.
Therefore, Ashan found an opportunity to "teach Chen Pengnian a lesson".
The cause of the incident, in the final analysis, was that Master Kang was going to tour the south.
Because Ashan served as the Governor-General of Liangjiang, although he was not like the Governor-General of the River, who had to be responsible for river engineering and water conservancy all the time, some of his duties required him to be responsible for river engineering and water conservancy in the Jiangnan and Jiangxi regions. Even if
he was just an assistant, he had to achieve some results.
After all, everyone knew that their long-lived master was most concerned about water conservancy projects.
River management is the top priority of the whole country.
It can be said that Master Kang has made so many inspections to the south over the years just to manage the river.
This was also the standard he used to evaluate officials in the Jiangnan area - river management, river management, and river management.
Under such circumstances, as a bannerman who is used to changing his attitude according to the situation, Ah Shan would not be himself if he did not do some river work to gain some fashion value.
Of course, more importantly, as long as he was involved in river work, he could make money.
Repairing river embankments cost money, widening the river channel costs money, and digging the riverbed deeper costs even more money.
Even moving the graves on both sides of the river channel would cost money - you are going to dig up people's ancestral graves, so you have to pay some compensation?
Anyway, no one can say anything wrong, but after the money is allocated from the imperial treasury, whether it is really used in these places, no one can say for sure.
At least 90% of the money went into Ashan's pocket, and of the remaining 10%, at least half went into the pockets of Ashan's lackeys.
In this way, shoddy construction is a very normal thing.
So it happens that every year a lot of money is spent on river construction, but every year there are floods and dam breaches.
Master Kang was very angry about this, but those people just fooled him with objective reasons such as "the river situation is complicated" and "it is beyond human power". Some people
even said that this was "God's power" - well, even superstition and metaphysics came out, which shows how perfunctory it is.
But Master Kang is really stubborn about river management, and he is definitely determined.
The river situation is complicated?
It doesn't matter, I will continue to find capable people to figure it out for me.
If one fails, another will continue. Until someone who can solve the flood problem is found.
Although everyone is helpless, they can only bite the bullet and do it.
Under this situation, Ashan easily found an excuse to let Chen Pengnian take charge of the most difficult, tiring and impossible job.
It is said that he asked Chen Pengnian to reinforce the river channel and only gave him one night - it was raining heavily at the time. If there was no skilled team of 1,800 people, it would be difficult to even climb the dam mountain, let alone reinforce it.
Ashan saw this point and deliberately made things difficult for Chen Pengnian.
He wanted to take this opportunity to make Chen Pengnian embarrassed, and then impeach Chen Pengnian on the grounds that he was "not doing his job well" as the prefect of Jiangning, and try to deal with this disobedient old man...
However, man proposes, God disposes.
First, the heavy rain that had been falling for several days stopped on this day, and then, the people of Jiangning spontaneously went to the embankment to help Chen Pengnian and his subordinates reinforce the embankment...
Oh my god, this is the treatment of the great master of heaven, not to mention Ashan, even ordinary officials would be jealous.
So after one night, the embankment to be reinforced was miraculously completed on schedule. When Ashan rushed over with a group of lackeys, he almost fainted on the spot.
Imagine that he originally wanted to "raise an army to punish the culprits", and even prepared the speech - even which lackey would be sent to push Chen Pengnian and his gang to the ground, who would be responsible for tying them up, and who would be responsible for sending them to jail.
In the end, he did it!
Unbelievable!
And very uncomfortable!
Even more uncomfortable than being praised by the emperor for repairing the dam!
Similar things happened several times afterwards.
But every calculation ended with his failure and Chen Pengnian's victory - there was no way, he was the great ruler of the sky, the people's support, and he had many supporters, and he was loved and supported by the people.
People like him, Ashan, are unjust and have few supporters. Although he is a high-ranking official and looks glamorous, the people are afraid of his power, but they don't know how to curse him behind his back and curse him to die soon.
As a result, Ashan hates Chen Pengnian even more, and he simply doesn't know when to find an opportunity to completely get rid of this person.
But there has never been a suitable opportunity - at this stage, the two are still in a normal state of hostility.
Chen Pengnian can't stand Ashan's bullying of the people, corruption, deceiving his superiors and deceiving his subordinates, and doing whatever he wants. Ashan hates Chen Pengnian for being stubborn. Not to mention making money with them, he has to stand on the side of the people.
It's simply not knowing how to behave.
If this matter had continued, Ashan would at most wait for a suitable opportunity to kick Chen Pengnian out and replace the prefect Jiangning with someone else.
Anyway, he had done similar things before. What
really intensified the conflict was that Jiangning was responsible for the construction of the imperial palace during Master Kang's southern tour.
The palace was built in Longtan, which happened to be under the jurisdiction of Chen Pengnian.
Ashan saw that this opportunity had come, so he would let this old man quickly increase taxes and corvée labor, and take this opportunity to make a fortune.
He originally thought that this was for a legitimate reason. Even if Chen Pengnian was always disobedient, there should be no objection since it involved the matter of the Emperor Wansui.
Unexpectedly, Old Chen was so stubborn that he didn't even give the emperor face and directly rejected Ashan. He
even brought out Master Kang's own words, "Don't waste it." Well, this is already a counterattack - this skill of adapting to circumstances and using the opponent's force to defeat the opponent is not something that ordinary people can use skillfully.
But Lord Chen can.
And he succeeded.
Anyway, because of the insistence of the prefect Chen Pengnian, the land of Jiangning really did not increase taxes, and the corvée tasks were also as usual - Lord Chen had already calculated the construction period and arranged the personnel and materials reasonably. As long as it was done according to the plan, it would definitely be completed on schedule.
In the end, as Chen Pengnian expected, the Longtan Palace was completed before Master Kang's southern tour.
Of course, Ashan was about to go crazy again.
How come this old guy is so capable that he can even do such a thing?
So, so angry!
As the saying goes, "Destroying someone's wealth is like killing their parents." This old guy is disobedient in other areas, but he is unwilling to even extort some money from the people. This
is intolerable! He must be dealt with! To the death! If he doesn't kill him, he will kill himself!
With this idea in mind, Ashan ran directly to Shanxi to pick up the car - running from Jiangning to Shanxi, he was really determined.
And his whole state looked like he was going to do something big, which made Mo Yu, a spectator, couldn't help but sigh - "He is so energetic!"
Of course, he was quietly complaining in his heart.
And Ashan did as Mo Yu expected, and began to focus on Chen Pengnian.
The points he made were also very strange. In addition to the usual reasons such as "not doing things well" and "disrespecting the emperor", he also cited a very difficult case to comment on.
He said that Chen Pengnian publicly explained the meaning of a certain decree of Master Kang at the old site of a brothel...
ah this...
the old site of a brothel?
No, the old site of a brothel, what does it have to do with it?
Since it is an old site, it means that it has been closed down, right?
Why is this place not worthy of listening to the imperial edict?
Seeing this, Mo Yu really couldn't help it, and began to complain crazily in his heart.
[If you ask me, Lord Ashan, you are still a little too narrow-minded. Buddha said that all beings are equal. We are just a brothel, not a prostitute. Even if we are prostitutes, we are still members of the public. How can we have polluting attributes? 】
【Besides, this brothel has been abandoned. It is estimated that Mr. Chen can't find a better place for a while. Why make such a fuss? Are you really afraid that others don't know that you are holding back and want to kill Mr. Chen? 】
【Take a step back and say that Buddha has the spirit of sacrifice to feed the eagle. Why can't Mr. Chen sacrifice himself and educate the marginalized people in such a place? 】
【It is said that saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. If those prostitutes hear the imperial edict and suddenly realize it, and then return to the right path, wouldn't that be a good thing? ]
[You said that Lord Chen delivering the imperial edict at the site of a former brothel was an insult to His Majesty. Doesn't that mean you don't believe in the influence and educational effect of His Majesty's words? I think it's you, not Lord Chen, who should be punished? ]
[What they did was obviously a great thing to publicize the grace of His Majesty, but you had to label it as "disrespectful". What's your intention? It's simply outrageous. I think you are the one who is committing the crime of deceiving the emperor, right? ]
[That's right, you also said that it was shameful for them to deliver the imperial edict at the site of a former brothel. Why don't you say that you bully men and women every day and tolerate your concubine's father's wrongdoings? 】
【Not to mention that you have also learned to form a clique and pursue personal interests, and you are determined to become the "King of Jiangnan"... All your little things are serious crimes of deceiving the emperor, and you are still tying others up here. I think you are the real sinner for all eternity! 】
【Author's words】
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