No script time travel, the general helped me rise to the top

Lord Feng, who was about to stand up with his arms under his head, suddenly felt a heavy pressure on his right shoulder. A big hand was holding him tightly, making him unable to move.

Lord Feng was furious. "What a rebellious act! General Tang, you are so bold! How dare you humiliate me like this!"

"Humiliation?" Tang Yuwei increased the strength of his hands and looked at Lord Feng solemnly, "Lord Feng is the right-hand man of His Highness Xuanyi. I just think that since your injury has not healed yet, it seems more appropriate for you to lie down and listen to the lecture like this!"

"Someone come! Carry Lord Feng to the side!"

The officers who received the order were stunned at first, but then they obeyed and carried Lord Feng to the side of Tang Yuwei's seat as if he were carrying a New Year pig.

This action caused the people who came to watch to burst into laughter, and they felt that they had watched such a farce for nothing.

In order to prevent Lord Feng from getting up, Tang Yuwei would give him threatening looks from time to time, and Minister Feng was so frightened that he lay down and dared not move.

But he didn't let Tang Yuwei off at all, "I will repay you double for the humiliation you suffered today!"

It can be seen that Tang Yuwei sat down motionless, ignoring what Lord Feng said.

The gavel in front of Yu Wenjin's case sounded again.

"You have been secretly giving and receiving money, forming cliques, and causing chaos in the transportation and taxation of Xigu Wharf, and the people's lives are in dire straits. This account book in my hand records every detail, and you know your crime!"

Under the gavel, all the officials pleaded guilty without any explanation.

"We, the guilty subjects, know our guilt."

"Convict!"

"I know my crime, and I hope Your Highness will give me a lighter sentence!"

Yuwen Jin restrained his dignity and revealed a hint of sarcasm, "Besides admitting your guilt, do you have anything else to say?"

These officials may have been instructed by someone long ago. After being thrown into prison, they refused to confess anything else and only said that they knew their guilt!

It is truly ridiculous that everyone is thinking about protecting themselves and getting away with it in this way.

Yuwen Jin and Tang Yuwei looked at each other and said sternly, "Although I know my crime, your sins are so serious that the transportation of Tong County and even the entire Dapu is at a standstill."

"From today on, all your property will be confiscated. Officials who embezzle less than 5,000 taels of silver will have their male family members sent into exile, and their female family members enslaved. Officials who embezzle more than 5,000 taels of silver will have their entire families executed!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they were like a bolt from the blue, weighing heavily on every official. They obviously had not expected such a result. They were dumbfounded and turned their eyes to Lord Feng who was lying on the side.

Lord Feng looked as if he was on edge, his eyes rolling, he could neither turn his head nor close his eyes.

"Why are you looking at Lord Feng? Does Lord Feng have the right to let you escape?" Yu Wenjin slammed the gavel again, "Why don't you tell the truth?"

After several rounds of threats, a slightly timid official crawled forward on his knees and said,

"Your Highness, we were also deceived by Jiang Zhiang. He gave us the Xiaoyao Pills and said they were nourishing pills and asked us to take them."

"At first we were all skeptical, but after taking it for a while we became addicted. We got more and more addicted and fell into the trap of Jiang Zhiang's inducement."

"But now we know that the thing is not Xiaoyao Pills at all, but Zangku Grass! This thing causes hallucinations, it is actually a monster!"

After he finished speaking, the others nodded in agreement.

"So, you were all deceived by Jiang Zhiang? But Jiang Zhiang could manipulate all of you by himself?"

Yuwen Jin sneered inwardly, it seemed that this group of people often conspired and made speeches together on a daily basis.

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Among several voices, not one voice is no longer hidden,

There was only one voice, that of the principal, Lord Peng, whose voice was so loud that it was feared that others could not hear it.

Yuwen Jin started with him, "Sir Peng, you are a fourth-rank official who is in charge of supervising and managing water transportation. Why? Even you have to give Jiang Zhiang some face?"

"I am ignorant and was deceived by Jiang Zhiang. I know I am guilty." He said this as if it was impeccable. He clasped his hands together and raised them to his head. "But the law of our country states that officials above the fourth rank must be beheaded with the order of Your Majesty."

The implication is, "I'm afraid the prince doesn't have this right!"

Yu Wenjin's lips curled up slightly, having anticipated what Mr. Peng would say.

"From Lord Peng's house, we have confiscated 130,000 taels of government silver, five boxes of gold, ten boxes of corals, pearls and jadeite, and 123 beautiful concubines! Tsk tsk tsk tsk! Lord Peng really amazes His Majesty!"

As soon as these words came out, the people watching in the hall were in an uproar.

Some even broke through the guards' line of defense and entered the courtyard, only to be stopped again.

I only heard the man crying miserably, "Your Highness, this dog official Peng is simply not a human being. He coveted my wife's beauty, and my wife refused, so he ordered his men to beat our child to death and broke one of my legs."

The man pointed at his disabled leg and continued, "He forced my wife to live in his house. Not only that, a few days later, I heard that my wife died tragically in his house. He even wrapped her body in a straw mat and threw it out!"

The man spoke in such a sorrowful voice that everyone who heard him was moved.

After he said that, someone in the crowd complained, "I have been teaching in a private school for 20 years, and my daughter was just a marriageable girl when he took her away. Poor daughter..."

“My children too…”

As the stories came in one after another, everyone was furious and wanted to tear Lord Peng into pieces on the spot!

"kill him!"

"Killing him would be too easy for him. This bastard official should be hung on the city wall and exposed to the sun!"

"..."

"Silence!" the officer shouted.

Yuwen Jin had only been there for one day, and he only had some knowledge of the confiscated items from each official, as well as their general positions. He had no idea that such an official would do such a cruel thing in Tong County.

As for other officials, I’m afraid there are many who have lost their lives!

For a moment, Yuwen Jin felt that the gavel in his hand was so heavy that he could hardly lift it.

It was a waste that he had been the crown prince for so many years, yet he was completely unaware of the suffering of the people.

"Take him away and behead him immediately!"

Having said that, the officer who received the order dragged Lord Peng into the garden outside the side hall. Lord Peng's self-satisfied face suddenly turned into one of horror, and he was so scared that urine was all over the floor when he was dragged.

After a while, a large pool of blood was seen splashed on the lattice window in the garden.

The sound of heads rolling down was endless. The cheering people contrasted with the terrified officials. It was simply ironic.

Even Lord Feng was dumbfounded. He did not expect the prince to be so decisive.

In this way, the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkey is very effective.

Seeing the situation, those officials changed sides. Those whose cases were serious had given up struggling, while those whose cases were minor dared not hide them anymore and rushed to report them.

"Your Highness, I have never killed anyone, but I did embezzle a lot of money. However, I also know that there is another person besides Jiang Zhiang..."