Chapter 185 Report
On April 25th, the sky was clear and the air was fresh.
Since the Jinyiwei had also arrived, Su Zhenzhen came up with a way to allow the people to report openly.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t write, you can dictate to the Jinyiwei and the personal guards. After all, the Jinyiwei are the best at investigating cases.
With the tiger talisman in hand, they are His Majesty's favorite cubs and are not afraid at all.
The people who should be afraid are the officials here, tsk...
Rong Jinchen really didn't expect Su Zhenzhen to come up with such a mean method, but it has to be said that a random punch can kill a master, which is very effective.
In most cases, those who take the step of suing the government have no other options and are not afraid of retaliation afterwards. They just want justice.
Jiangnan has been prosperous since ancient times, so Rong Jinchen was looking forward to finding out something.
He just silently mourned for his father in his heart. Being an emperor must be tiring. No wonder his father wanted to carry out reforms, otherwise there would be chaos everywhere.
Along the way, especially after he and Qingqing witnessed the real life of ordinary people, Rong Jinchen also experienced a different feeling from when he was at the border.
The border area is vast and sparsely populated, and there are frequent wars, so the power of the aristocratic families is not strong. After the Huns were driven away, the people lived a relatively stable life.
However, in the southern region, especially in the Jiangnan region, where there is a large population and limited land, the phenomenon of land annexation is becoming more and more serious.
Su Zhenzhen was almost dying of laughter. She watched Gu Heng take the tiger talisman and go to the Military Command Headquarters to find the Jiangnan Military Commander. The Jiangnan Military Command Headquarters had twenty garrisons under its jurisdiction, with 5,600 people in each garrison, a total of 100,000 troops. They were the emperor's most trusted confidants.
That's why Su Zhenzhen came up with this idea. You have to know that no other imperial envoy has the power to get the tiger talisman, not even the prince.
After all, with the prince and the tiger talisman, it would be unfair to the tiger talisman that can mobilize troops from all over the country if he doesn't do something.
But Rong Jinchen is different. He is the prince most beloved by His Majesty and has no intention of becoming the emperor. It would be a shame for him if he doesn't do something with this status.
Anyway, His Majesty and her father will take care of the aftermath. Su Zhenzhen is not panicked at all. Could it be that His Majesty will punish his beloved son?
At best, he would be forced to reflect on his mistakes in seclusion, or his salary would be fined for a year or two. Isn't this exactly what Rong Jinchen wants?
The officials in Jiangnan were all worried, recalling whether they or their families had committed any evil deeds of oppressing the people. Why didn't His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan play by the rules?
besides!!!
Why would a prince like him have a tiger talisman that can mobilize the entire nation's troops?
His Majesty!!!
This is unreasonable!!!
Su Zhenzhen and Rong Jinchen were currently sitting on a rosewood armchair specially arranged by the Yangzhou prefect next to the government office. There was also a large oil-leather umbrella beside them. Below the stone steps, Jinyiwei wearing flying fish and dragon costumes and the guards wearing the uniforms of the Prince of Yan's palace were writing letters of denunciation from the people.
The prefect of Yangzhou is her second sister-in-law's biological father and is not greedy, so he can be her father's relative.
You should know that the taxes in Jiangnan accounted for half of the taxes in the Qin Dynasty, of which the salt tax accounted for half of the commercial taxes, which means that the salt tax accounted for a quarter of the taxes in the Qin Dynasty.
Any corrupt official could make 100,000 taels a year, but her second sister-in-law's father only made 10,000 taels a year, which was really frugal.
The people were so frightened that they didn't know what to say when they saw the adults, whom they had never dared to look them in the eye, chatting with them warmly and cordially.
Su Zhenzhen set KPIs for the Jinyiwei and the personal guards, encouraging more work and more pay, healthy competition, and making some legal extra money.
Everyone was trying their best to leave a good impression on His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan and His Royal Highness the Princess, not to mention the tangible rewards like silver and money.
The excessive enthusiasm directly frightened these ordinary people, but fortunately, the people dared to take the path of suing the officials, which proved that they were determined and not afraid of retaliation.
Rong Jinchen looked at the officials standing before him and said coldly, "If anything happens to any of these people who reported me, I will only hold them accountable." So the officials' thoughts of secretly seeking revenge were nipped in the bud. They could only tremble and say yes.
Su Zhenzhen stood up from the armchair, walked in front of Rong Jinchen, and said to them with a smile: "Don't be so scared. As long as you don't do anything wrong, Your Highness and I are very gentle. In addition, Your Highness will have the Jinyiwei escort these people to the capital. Don't even think about impersonating others. You don't want to try the Jinyiwei's methods of identifying people and investigating cases, do you?"
Officials: ...
What else can they say!
Your Majesty, you have gone too far this year!
They can't afford to offend these two little ancestors!
Su Zhenzhen walked over to the desk in front of one of the Jinyiwei. She looked at the words written on it, her eyes widening in shock. "Dismembered body?" How could such a beast exist? Was he just a yamen official?
The old woman before her, with her gray hair, wrinkled face, and elegantly dressed, had red eyes as she lost herself in her own thoughts. "The old woman's poor little daughter thought she had married into a good family, but she never expected that bastard not only to hang out with prostitutes but also to have a mistress. God knows the old woman's little daughter was a very virtuous woman, treating the concubine's children as her own. She was a virtuous mistress praised by everyone. But she never expected that bastard, after being caught with a mistress, would team up with the mistress to kill her. The mistress was so ruthless that she chopped the old woman's little daughter into pieces with a kitchen knife. The bastard, who had been completely captivated by her, even lost his mind, thinking that she was infatuated with him..."
"The beast's parents later said the old woman's youngest daughter had died of a sudden illness and was buried without even seeing her body for the last time. It was only later that a kind-hearted person who couldn't bear it said he heard the whole thing that day that the old woman realized he was a beast." She couldn't understand how people could be so vicious!
That was his first wife who had given birth to his children and taken care of the backyard! How could he murder her?
Not even a corpse is left!
It's not impossible to divorce!
The Jinyiwei frowned, "Who is that beast?" How could a normal person conspire with his mistress to murder his wife?
If you can't live together, just get a divorce. It's no big deal. Getting married is not the same as making enemies.
The old woman looked hatefully at the group of officials sitting on the chairs on the side, "He is the second son of a fifth-rank Tongzhi of Yangzhou, and his elder sister is the concubine of a second-rank governor." Her master is just a wealthy salt merchant. If that beast hadn't come to propose marriage, they would not have dared to marry into his family, let alone become his legal wife.
Besides, her husband had always been unkind to his daughter, and he did not dare to offend the governor and the co-magistrate, so he advised her to keep quiet.
But that was a piece of flesh that fell off her body!
She took the beast to court, but there was nothing she could do without evidence.
Su Zhenzhen frowned, "What about the concubine?" She hated all men who favored their concubine over their wife! And this man even killed his wife directly!
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