GBP Chapter 959 Old Deng: When it's time to act, act; settle scores on the spot.
Chapter 959 Old Deng: When it's time to act, act; settle scores on the spot.
Hu Weiyong's eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Yes, only the squeaky wheel gets the grease; those who don't eat will starve to death sooner or later.
Liaodong is such a poor and desolate place that even birds don't shit. If I, as the provincial governor, don't cry, how will the officials in the court and above ever care about the lives of the people of Liaodong?
Having made up his mind, Hu Weiyong said in a low voice, "I have another request, and I hope that Your Highness can help me."
Before Yang Shaofeng could ask a question, Hu Weiyong said directly, "As the saying goes, 'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' I've been asking the Prince Consort for people every few days, and I'm sure the Prince Consort is annoyed."
Yang Shaofeng glanced directly at Hu Weiyong.
It's rare to see someone like you, Lao Yu, who still has some self-awareness and knows that I'm annoyed by people like you who try to take advantage of others.
Hu Weiyong chuckled twice and continued, "I was thinking, could we ask the higher-ups for a few of the newly appointed Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) who passed this year's examinations, and bring them to Liaodong, so that Qi-ge'er and Lian-ge'er can mentor them?"
“Once they have learned enough from Qi-ge’er and Lian-ge’er, it will be time for Qi-ge’er and Lian-ge’er to be transferred back to the capital. These newly appointed Jinshi (successful candidates in the highest imperial examinations) will then be able to take over the farm.”
"Besides these, there are the community schools, county schools, prefectural schools, and the Imperial Academy in Liaodong."
"There's not much to say about the community schools, county schools, and prefectural schools. They're just like the other places, so Liaodong is naturally the same."
“However,” Hu Weiyong glanced at Yang Shaofeng’s expression and then tentatively said, “Liaodong is such a large territory, setting up three or four Imperial Colleges shouldn’t be a problem?”
Yang Shaofeng was once again completely bewildered.
Three or four Imperial Colleges?
You, Lao Hu, really dare to dream big and ask for things.
I wonder if Old Deng will go crazy after hearing the demands of three or four Imperial Colleges.
Just finding enough teachers for the Imperial Academy to make Old Deng lose his hair is enough to make him worry sick!
Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be Old Deng losing his hair.
After all, there were also the officials of the Ministry of Rites, who were the main force behind hair loss.
The worst fear is that some official from the Ministry of Rites might have a moment of despair, sneak off to Liaodong, and hang himself at Hu Weiyong's doorstep.
Not right either.
Among the officials Li Shanchang brought from Liaodong, one was the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
Perhaps this Left Vice Minister will hang himself at Hu Weiyong's doorstep in the middle of the night.
While inwardly cursing, Yang Shaofeng nodded with a smile and replied, "Prefect Hu is right. This matter needs to be discussed thoroughly with His Majesty, His Highness, and Prime Minister Li."
Hu Weiyong was overjoyed.
Yang the Madman clearly intended to disgust the one in power, the prince, and also Prime Minister Li.
But what does this have to do with me, Hu Weiyong?
What's disgusting is that Yang the madman. I, Hu, only wanted to fight for three Imperial Colleges for the people of Liaodong. What could I have done wrong?
Besides, if I want three or four Imperial Colleges, can the Emperor and Prime Minister Li really give me three Imperial Colleges?
Even if they provide it, do you think it will arrive this year?
That's definitely not possible; it would take at least two or three years.
Two or three years later, the Imperial College was established, and then it was directly transformed into three or four Liaodong Universities, following the model of Dengzhou University.
Simple and perfect!
The more Hu Weiyong thought about it, the more reliable it seemed, so he immediately pulled Yang Shaofeng to find Zhu Biao and Li Shanchang.
To Hu Weiyong's utter surprise, before he could even explain the situation at the Imperial Academy, Xia Yu arrived with a dark expression.
"The matter that Prime Minister Li asked the Embroidered Uniform Guard to investigate has yielded some results."
Xia Yu took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Li Shanchang. With a dark and sour face, he said, "Liu Kui, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, has acquired nearly a thousand acres of fertile land, but none of it is registered under Liu Kui's or his family's names."
"In addition, Liu Kui's son, Liu Xi, has three lives on his hands. Two of them were the lives of courtesans, and the other was a scholar from Jiangnan. The two fought because of jealousy in a brothel. After the scholar died, Liu Kui paid a thousand taels of silver and promised a place in the imperial examination to suppress the matter."
"And the case of the gentry family being murdered that went viral in Jiangnan some time ago is also inextricably linked to Liu Kui."
"Moreover, the case of the gentry family being exterminated is itself only half true and half false."
"It is true that a gentry family was indeed wiped out, and the gentry family that was wiped out was Liu Kui's wife's cousin, so they were related by marriage."
"As for the person who did it, he was an old soldier who had retired from the army of the Duke of E, and he had a deep-seated hatred for the gentry whose families were wiped out because their parents were forced to their deaths."
"At that time, the old soldier was still young and powerless to take revenge, so he went to a distant place to join the army, and later joined the Duke of E."
"When the Duke of E led his troops to Liaodong this time, the old soldier, who was over forty-five years old and had many old wounds, retired from the army and returned to his hometown."
"Unexpectedly, after returning to his hometown, the old soldier ran into the gentry's son again."
"To make matters worse, just as that gentryman had his eye on the three acres of meager land belonging to the old soldier's parents back then, now that gentryman's son has his eye on the ten acres of preferential land allocated to the old soldier."
"Then, that old soldier committed this crime, settled his wife and children, and fled into the mountains to hide for a while. He was just arrested by the Embroidered Uniform Guard a few days ago."
The fake parts go without saying.
The veterans under Chang Heizi's command would not be equipped with triangular daggers, which are considered unusual weapons, nor would they be equipped with the military boots unique to the Imperial Son-in-Law's Mansion and the Crown Prince's personal guards.
Moreover, the retired soldier probably didn't intend to kill the gentry's entire family, after all, he had a wife and children, and was about to hold his grandson in a few years.
Xia Yu unconsciously reached up and scratched the back of his head, and Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong also frowned.
According to the "Criminal Law" of the Ming Dynasty, "If grandparents or parents are killed by someone and their descendants kill the perpetrators without authorization, they shall be punished with sixty strokes of the cane; if the perpetrators are killed on the spot, no punishment shall be given."
There are also cases like a wife having an affair and killing the adulterer when caught in the act, which are also "not to be judged".
In other words, Lao Deng, Heizhi Tangyuan, Li Shanchang, and the officials in the Ming Dynasty who formulated the laws clearly discouraged everyone from holding grudges overnight and preferred to settle them on the spot.
Simply put, it means that when it's time to act, you must act; you must maintain your fighting spirit.
The trouble with the old soldier's crime was that his parents had died almost thirty years ago, and he had not only killed the local gentry from back then, but had also completely eradicated them.
Not "killed on the spot" means that at the very least, one should be flogged sixty times.
The act of murdering an entire family goes far beyond the scope of "the perpetrator."
Zhu Biao was also frowning, pondering how to break the deadlock. Yang Shaofeng glanced at Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong, then at Zhu Biao and Xia Yu, and said, "This matter is very troublesome?"
Zhu Biao raised his voice and retorted, "Isn't it troublesome? Even if he had killed the person as soon as he returned to his hometown, it would have been easier to cover up the matter. But he didn't commit the crime until almost a month after returning to his hometown."
"Moreover, he wiped out an entire family, which goes beyond the scope of killing a murderer to avenge one's parents."
"But he was just an old soldier and didn't meet the criteria for the Eight Discussions."