Chapter 271 Donglin Party's First Fiasco
Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng were taken back to the yamen by Yang Weiyuan. Although scholars with fame were not punished, Yang Weiyuan learned the tricks Zhang Yong taught him, tied Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng on the interrogation chair, not giving them food, only giving them water, and not allowing them to go to the toilet. It would be great if these two guys couldn't stand the urine.
"We are scholars with fame and fortune. We all have fame and fortune in Juren. You can't punish me!" Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng shouted in anger.
Two yamen runners sneered: "Have we been punished? One did not hit you, the other did not clamp your fingers, but just tied you up. You committed a crime and knocked people out. I don't know whether the victim can survive now. How dare we let you go? If you commit a murder case, let alone fame, you will not be able to save your head!"
Chen Yan regretted it so much that his intestines were green. He was not from the Donglin Party, so why did he come to this muddy water? It's okay now, it hurts people, and the life and death of the victim is uncertain. But he is very strange. He seems to have not hit that woman, why did he fall down? He is just begging in his heart, that shrew must not die.
Wen Zhenmeng is also praying that the shrew will not die. His punch did hit the shrew on the fat face, but he clearly remembered that his punch was caught by the shrew. It seemed that the force was not very strong when it hit. Why did the shrew fall down?
Of course, the two shrews who were knocked down were not dead. After being carried back to the yamen by the archers, they were jumping around.
"The trial will begin tomorrow. Eunuch Zhang said that those two guys are not the chief criminals, so they asked them to confess their crimes. Each one compensates the victim with 100 taels of silver and is detained for ten days." Yang Weiyuan explained to the yamen runners.
Ten days of detention is enough for them to bear it, and three days left is the spring examination of the second year of the Tianqi. These two guys were detained for ten days, and it was obvious that they could not catch up with the exam. Wen Zhenmeng, a student of the Donglin Party of the second year of the Tianqi in time and space, was the top scholar in the second year of the Tianqi! After being fucked by Yang Weiyuan, he still wanted to be the top scholar in high school? Go to dream. Chen Yan, a guy who blocked Chongzhen's southward direction, led to the lack of a communist ruler in the South Ming Dynasty and led to the demise of the Southern Ming Dynasty in disguise, was also a Jinshi in the second year of the Tianqi, and was now over.
The yamen runners persuaded Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng with great sincerity: "The trial will be held tomorrow. Those two women are not dead, but are just injured. If you confess your guilt, it will be a fine of 100 yuan. If you deny it to the end, then we have to find the eldest son (Zhang Ruitu, Minister of Rites), deprive you of your fame and fortune, and torture it again!"
When Wen Zhenmeng and Chen Yan heard about Zhang Ruitu's name, their faces turned pale. This spring exam, Zhang Ruitu is the chief examiner! If the chief examiner finds out about fighting with shrews in the market, let alone entering the examination room, I am afraid that the juren will be deprived of his fame on the spot!
Zhang Ruitu was a Tanhua in the 35th year of Wanli. It was originally a revisionist of the Hanlin Academy. Zhang Yong persuaded Wei Zhongxian to promote Zhang Ruitu to the Minister of Rites, so Zhang Ruitu was grateful to Zhang Yong and Eunuch Wei. Originally, he was suppressed by the Donglin Party, and he thought he could only be a poor Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy for the rest of his life until he died. Unexpectedly, he became the Minister of Rites.
Zhang Ruitu, who was the chief examiner of the spring exam of the second year of Tianqi, vowed that he would have to remove more Donglin Party candidates in this exam.
With Zhang Yong, a time traveler, the eunuch censor and eunuch civil servant system was established two years earlier than in history, and soon there was the capital to compete with the Donglin Party in the court.
The next morning, the trial of the case of scholar Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng beating a civilian woman was opened. The two victims were carried to the lobby by the yamen runners, and the victim's family members also came.
"Madam, you have suffered such a serious injury. How can our family live?" Zhang Lai's head lay on the stretcher and cried, "Our family is all about you getting some money from weaving cloth. You are so seriously injured. What should I do in the future?"
The victim was lying on a stretcher, her whole head was wrapped like a mummy, and her clothes were covered in blood.
Of course, Yang Weiyuan knew that Zhang Laitou was just a scoundrel, he was idle all day long and relied on weaving cloth for him. Such a man was naturally despised and just a person who was just a soft-hearted person. Moreover, Zhang Laitou was particularly afraid of his wife and had to ask his wife for the money he had for wine every day. What is the status of such a man at home?
In that era, there was no such thing as a hard meal. The incompetent men who could not make money and had no status at home. Unlike later generations, some shameless scumbags and handsome guys relied on their mouth to coax women to them willingly. But today in order to convict Chen Yan, Yang Weiyuan could only bear the disgust and asked: "Zhang Laitou, are you a family member of Chen's (victim)?"
"That's right!" Zhang Lai replied.
The prisoner was taken out. When Zhang Laitou saw Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng, he immediately rushed up like crazy: "You two! You dare to beat my wife like this! My family relies on the wife's weaving of cloth! Lose money!"
The case was concluded. Several Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi who were involved in the scholars yesterday also came to testify, proving that Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng beat two women, causing the two women to seriously injured.
Yang Weiyuan slapped the awkward: "The criminal Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng beat innocent civilian women, and the evidence is conclusive! The penalty is 100 taels of silver and detained for ten days!"
Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng were stunned when they heard this, and quickly knelt on the ground and begged: "Master Yang, please be kind. We are students who are going to Beijing to take the exam. There are three days left for the spring exam. If you are imprisoned for ten days, you will miss it."
"The national law is like a mountain, how can you change it if you say it!" Yang Weiyuan shouted loudly, pointed at Zhang Laitou and Zhao Lu'er and asked, "Are you two victims' families willing to forgive the criminals and let these two criminals participate in the spring examination?"
Zhao Lu'er said: "Since they are scholars, they are the Wenqu Star in the sky who descended to earth, which delayed their future in the scientific examination. I'm afraid we will be punished. The grass-roots people are willing to forgive criminals and let them take the imperial examination. However, they still need to pay more money so that we can forgive them, right?"
"Yes!" Zhang Laitou also kowtowed repeatedly, "Master Qingtian, Miss Cao Min was seriously injured. We also accepted the cost of 100 taels of silver for the medicine. However, if you want to let the criminals who injured the wife, you still need to pay more money."
In the end, after the agreement between the victim's family and the criminals, Chen Yan and Wen Zhenmeng each paid 500 taels of silver. In addition, the 100 taels of silver sentenced by the government before, the two of them each paid 600 miles of silver to calm the matter, and Yang Weiyuan released them out of the yamen.
But these two guys never dreamed that after three days they entered the examination room, they were ordered by the examiner Zhang Ruitu to strip the Confucian scholars of their clothes, deprived of their fame, and were shot out of the examination room!
As for Sun Zongze, Wei Zaode, who was transferred to the Jinyiwei by Yang Weiyuan, after joining the Jinyiwei, Zhang Yong's light words in front of Tianqi, he was stripped of his Confucian uniform, deprived of his fame and fame, and abandoned himself to white.
"The eunuch party is too bullying!"
"Old Wei eunuchshots win over those unconventional civil officials and frame me, Donglin Scholar!"
"Wen Wenqi (Wen Zhenmeng) is very talented, and the third-year high school student is no problem. He was even deprived of fame by the eunuch party because of a shrew in the market!"
"Mr. Wenru (Yang Lian) you want to make the decision for our Donglin scholar!"
The scholars of Donglin gathered at Yang Lian's mansion and cried to Yang Lian. Zuo Guangdou also came, feeling unfair about the experience of Li Sancai and Li Sancai's students, which was infuriating.
Wen Zhenmeng was once a talented man in Jiangnan. As early as the 22nd year of Wanli, Wen Zhenmeng, who was only 20 years old, had already won the title of Juren, but he failed to take the exam in Beijing. He entered the Ministry of Rites exam room nine times, and he failed every time. This time he went to Beijing to take the exam, Wen Zhenmeng was very prepared and stared at the third grade. Who knew that he had just stepped into the exam room but was stripped of his fame!
Yang Lian said angrily: "Start the censor to impeach the eunuch party!"
Chapter completed!