Chapter 840: Using Public Opinion to Coerce Criminal Law

Zhu Yijun did not want to use Hence Hai Rui's posthumous reputation as bait, even if Wang Chonggu's strategy was truly excellent.

Just as he said to Hence Hai Rui, he was a superior. If he relied entirely on these schemes and tricks, in the end, he would be a person without support, and who would then serve him, the Emperor, with loyalty?

Everyone hopes that the person sitting on the throne is a moral model. In this way, when everyone follows, they will not worry about being used by the Emperor to appease public anger.

Death is the greatest event. Hence Hai Rui worked himself to illness for the Great Ming and passed away. The Great Ming must respect the Chief Censor's contribution to the country.

Even if Zhu Yijun hated these rebels to the bone, he still did not break his own bottom line.

The goal of these monsters and ghosts hiding in the shadows was the Wanli Reform. The Wanli Reform was the entire plan for the Great Ming's resurgence, involving every aspect of the Great Ming. The easiest thing to overthrow here was Hence Hai Rui's achievements.

As long as they started to overturn the cases, overturning some of the ironclad cases that Hence Hai Rui had made, the counterattack against the Wanli Reform would be considered officially started.

Overturning cases was the simplest, most direct, and fastest way to gather opponents of the new policy, because Hence Hai Rui's anti-corruption and anti-graft efforts had offended too many, too many people.

As long as there was someone of weight standing out to carry the flag, people would immediately gather around this person to attack Hence Hai Rui in a group. If Hence Hai Rui was alive, he was a hard bone; if Hence Hai Rui was gone, he could be the trigger for struggle.

Zhang Juzheng was undoubtedly very suitable. It was known to all that Zhang Juzheng did not like Hence Hai Rui.

But Zhang Juzheng had already clearly expressed to the Emperor that he would not be that person, and he highly approved of anti-corruption and anti-graft.

The past was the past. In the past, Zhang Juzheng was also a corrupt official. He needed to bind some people together with interests as a political collective to carry out the Wanli Reform. Now is now; the Wanli Reform is rolling forward, and there is no need to do so.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard began a massive search. Everyone related to Zhang Limin and "The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui" was arrested and interrogated. In the end, it was found that there were still no good gains. Paper, ink, and craftsmen were all interrogated, but there was still nothing.

Zhang Limin was an abandoned pawn, and that miscellaneous report agency was also an abandoned pawn. There were not even many craftsmen. All the miscellaneous reports and demonic books were printed in advance, sent to the capital in batches, and placed in Zhang Limin's home. They could not even trace where the miscellaneous reports were printed.

The miscellaneous report agency where Zhang Limin worked was just an empty shell. When the demonic books were published, the people in the agency did not even know that "The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui" had been published.

Those who distributed the demonic books were some illiterate newsboys. They did not know what was written on the demonic books at all and sold them cheaply or gave them away everywhere.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard's investigation into the case entered a bottleneck period. Zhang Limin had been a dead man from the moment he started smoking opium. He was just waiting for Hai...

... Rui to pass away, and the delivery of the demonic books would be arranged for his death. Being beaten to death by Li Chengliang just happened to be a very valuable death.

Just when the case was at a loss, Shuntian Prefecture Vice Magistrate Wang Xiyuan suddenly received a case that made his scalp tingle: Hai Zhongshi had come to the Shuntian Prefecture yamen to accuse Hai Zhongpeng of stealing family property!

When this case appeared, Wang Xiyuan sent another prepared memorial to the General Transmission Office. Wang Xiyuan wanted to be sent out to be an official. Even if it was a flat transfer or a demotion, he would rather be an ordinary prefect than a vice magistrate in the capital.

Was this something he, Wang Xiyuan, could handle?! Being a vice magistrate in the capital was simply too difficult.

When this case appeared, the Embroidered Uniform Guard yamen reacted immediately: the rebels had jumped out themselves!

After Zhao Mengyou received the Emperor's imperial decree, he immediately went to Wang Chonggu's home to ask if Hai Zhongshi knocking on the grievance drum at the Shuntian Prefecture yamen was instructed by the Second Grand Secretary. After receiving a denial, the foggy problem became clear.

Wang Chonggu had offered the idea in front of the Emperor, and after the Emperor rejected it, Wang Chonggu would not do more, otherwise it would be more mistakes. So, Hai Zhongshi knocking on the grievance drum at the Shuntian Prefecture yamen was indeed something he wanted to do himself.

If no one was inciting him behind his back, he would definitely not dare to do so. You must know that this eleven-year-old scholar Hai Zhongpeng was called to the capital from Hainan by the Emperor's imperial decree.

Hai Zhongshi dared to knock on the drum, clearly because someone was constantly whispering in his ear, and this person who incited him gave him some definite promises. Added to the fact that Hai Zhongshi was stupid enough, this case appeared.

Hai Zhongshi was an adopted son. Relying on Hence Hai Rui's reputation and the Emperor's favor, he could have lived a life without worries and with great respect from others. But he happened to not serve by the sickbed when Hence Hai Rui was seriously ill. The eunuch who came to announce the decree saw this. Even if it was just for show, Hai Zhongshi refused to even do that, and he liked to say to others: "A clean name is useless; it's better to exchange it for money."

This in itself was a manifestation of stupidity, being sold by others while still helping them count the money.

"So what is the follow-up?" Zhu Yijun wrote down a line: Hence Hai Rui's passing, "The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui," Li Chengliang committing murder, Hai Zhongshi accusing Hai Zhongpeng of embezzling family property—the background of this series of events was all to overturn the cases and destroy the Wanli Reform.

Hai Zhongshi knocked on the drum; Zhu Yijun had to think of the rebels' follow-up to prevent things from going out of his control.

"Is it Wang Yie?" Zhu Yijun stopped his pen, frowned, and said: "Feng Bao, what do you think?"

Feng Bao said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the Provincial Governor Wang is in Shandong. Although it cannot be said he is exhausting his efforts, he is also performing his duties faithfully. The foundation left by Minister Yin has not been wasted by Provincial Governor Wang. Kelp, coal and iron, shipping, and the engineering corps are all flourishing. Recently, the development of the Mizhou Shipping Office in Jiaozhou Bay is also in full swing, even stronger than Yuegang."

"Your servant thinks that Provincial Governor Wang is not that person."

"Your Majesty knows your servant; your servant never speaks good words for scholars, but Provincial Governor Wang is truly doing well."

Feng Bao was a person who could speak bad words about scholars but never spoke good words about them. If he spoke a few good words, it was because he was forced to.

This Wang Yie had brought the Mizhou Shipping Office to the third among the five major shipping offices, second only to Songjiang Prefecture and Guangzhou Prefecture. This was a proud and dazzling achievement.

The vigorous development of the Mizhou Shipping Office and the Jiaozhou Bay area was by no means accidental.

In fact, the natural endowment of Jiaozhou Bay was very poor. It lacked fresh water, lacked rivers, the land was barren and not good for farming, and the terrain was very fragmented, not suitable for building a city. Because of the existence of Mount Lao, Jiaozhou Bay was very suitable for sheltering from the wind. Jiaozhou Bay was more suitable as a military port, not a commercial port.

But the Mizhou Shipping Office still became the third largest shipping office under the painstaking management of Ling Yunyi, Wang Yie, and others, suppressing Ningbo and Yuegang.

All of this was naturally related to the change in the court's direction. The Great Ming was going all out to open the seas, making the port attributes of Jiaozhou Bay, especially the advantage of being the only ice-free port in the north, dazzling. The Great Ming built the Beijing-Mizhou Express Road, which was successfully opened to traffic, reducing the transportation cost of grain by a lot. Indeed, this was the trend of the times.

But Wang Yie built canals, built express roads, and built several official factories to produce cement and steel, which were also the reasons for Jiaozhou Bay's prosperity.

"Wang Yie is Xu Jie's proud student. Xu Jie died in the capital. Wang Yie naturally has a reason to avenge him. Even if it's just to try? What is Wang Yie doing now?" Zhu Yijun asked with a frown.

"Planting kelp, drying salt, building shipyards, building fungus factories to refine iodine and fresh salt, and leading the engineering corps to build official roads, post roads, and express roads everywhere." Feng Bao placed the memorandum in front of the Emperor. What the provincial governors were doing everywhere, he, Feng Bao, had recorded in the memorandum.

Feng Bao still shook his head and said: "Xu Jie's corruption is known to all under heaven. For Provincial Governor Wang to avenge a corrupt official—your servant still feels it is a bit far-fetched. Is Xu Jie even worthy?"

If Xu Jie had been wronged like Hu Zongxian, all of this would be understandable. Wang Yie running around for Xu Jie would be understandable; at least he could convince himself and his relatives and friends. What kind of person Xu Jie was—it had been investigated clearly for so many years. How could Wang Yie convince himself and his relatives and friends?

"You are right, but who is doing this?" Zhu Yijun walked to the official position screen. This was a gift from Zhang Juzheng—visualized office work. Zhang Juzheng felt that the Emperor was young and could not remember so many things, so he made this screen to assist His Majesty. By now, almost every Great Ming official had one.

On it hung small plaques with names, positions, parties, teachers, and so on.

Zhu Yijun believed that there must be a person of great weight pushing this matter, because everything came too fast and was prepared in advance. Zhu Yijun must dig this person out, otherwise he would not be able to eat or sleep in peace.

"Your Majesty, among Xu Jie's students, besides Provincial Governor Wang, there is actually one more person who is still serving in the court." Feng Bao took down a plaque. This person was the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, Yang Wei.

Yang Wei and Zhang Juzheng were both successful candidates in the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing. Later, like Zhang Juzheng, they studied in the Hanlin Academy, but their fates diverged here. Yang Wei became a knife in Xu Jie's hands, impeaching Yan Song and Yan Shifan, was demoted from the capital, and had been floating in the official sea for decades since then.

In the second year of Wanli, Yang Wei resigned and returned home on the grounds of providing for his mother. After Xu Jie died, Yang Wei was recalled to the capital as the Junior Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, serving as the assistant to the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, Lu Guangzu.

At the beginning, Zhu Yijun recalled Yang Wei to appease the people's hearts. Xu Jie died, and Xu Jie's disciples were recalled, representing that the Emperor did not intend to continue to expand the scope of the crackdown. Wang Yie being reused also had this consideration, to prevent panic and the failure of government affairs.

In the sixteenth year of Wanli, Hence Hai Rui resigned, Lu Guangzu was promoted to Chief Censor of the Censorate, and Yang Wei went from Junior Vice Minister to Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, becoming a court official.

Yang Wei now had great weight, had a teacher-student relationship with Xu Jie, and was dissatisfied with the Wanli Reform. Yang Wei strongly opposed the Examination of Merit Law. Returning home to provide for his mother in the second year of Wanli was an excuse; the real reason was his opposition to the Examination of Merit Law, which was hated by Zhang Juzheng.

The Examination of Merit Law was effective, and Yang Wei left on his own.

"Is there any evidence?" Zhu Yijun played with the waist plaque in his hand and asked Feng Bao. Feng Bao was in charge of the Eastern Depot. For such a major event, he would not speak nonsense with his eyes open, nor would he speak randomly in front of the Emperor. After all, it involved high-ranking officials of the imperial court and could not be taken lightly.

"Your Majesty is wise. There are indeed some clues pointing to Yang Wei, but the matter is still under investigation, and your servant dare not assert." Feng Bao, with the Eastern Depot agents, had found some ambiguous things, but these ambiguous things happening to a high-ranking official were enough to explain the problem.

"Why?" Zhu Yijun frowned. Like Zhang Limin, was it to avenge Xu Jie?

Feng Bao said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, he wants a promotion. As Xu Jie's disciple, his promotion has always been unsmooth. He is already seventy-two years old. If he doesn't fight for it now, his career as Minister of the Court of Judicial Review will be the end. He could accept this result, but his students and subordinates probably cannot."

"Yang Wei opposes the Examination of Merit Law and opposes the Long-Term Appointment Law even more. According to the old rules, the Senior Grand Secretary has been in power for sixteen years. He has been the Senior Grand Secretary for too long, so long that he suppresses others from being promoted, so long that the Zhang Party suppresses others from being promoted."

Zhu Yijun frowned and said: "Yan Song was the Senior Grand Secretary for twenty years, and Yang Tinghe was the Senior Grand Secretary for seventeen years. Old rules? What old rules were there before?"

The biggest rule for how long a Cabinet minister serves depends entirely on the Emperor's will. Cabinet ministers are indeed recommended by the court, but the Emperor has the power of veto. Gao Gong was entrusted by the late Emperor, but in the end, he was dismissed by an imperial decree.

This is an important part of imperial power. Yang Wei's stance of opposing the new policy was already very clear.

Zhu Yijun flipped through Yang Wei's plaque and hung it back on the official position screen: "Investigate the case starting from the clue of Hai Zhongyuan. As for Yang Wei, let's wait and see."

Since Feng Bao dared to speak in front of the Emperor, he naturally had evidence.

Yang Wei and Wu Shilai, who was farming in Liaodong, had very close contact and had many letters back and forth. Wu Shilai was originally going to become the Chief Censor of the Censorate, but he was found to be corrupt during a re-examination. He did not get promoted and harbored resentment, impeaching ministers. He was exiled to Liaodong to reclaim land by the Emperor for the three crimes of relying on power to destroy the law, forming parties, and deceiving the monarch to harm the country.

Besides Wu Shilai's group, there were also Qiu Shun, Zhao Shiqing, Jiangdong, and others.

In addition, the Quanzhou merchant Li Dan had also visited Yang Wei twice through the introduction of relatives and friends. This Li Dan was the Fujian merchant who deliberately approached Hai Zhongshi. He used to make a living by smuggling white goods. He said he wanted to do business with Hai Zhongshi, but it was just to let Hai Zhongshi use Hence Hai Rui's reputation to clear relationships.

Yang Wei being Xu Jie's student, opposing the Examination of Merit Law and the Long-Term Appointment Law, having letters with Wu Shilai, and meeting the Quanzhou merchant Li Dan twice—these pointers were already very clear. The Eastern Depot agents also found that this Yang Wei might be smoking opium, because some opium-smoking utensils appeared in the trash in Yang Wei's residence, but there was no opium residue on this trash.

Feng Bao did not dare to assert because there was no decisive evidence. The Eastern Depot agents investigated cases with fewer taboos than the Embroidered Uniform Guard. As long as there was suspicion, they would investigate. They would even turn over the trash heap for you to see.

Hai Zhongshi was a little scared, because after reporting the case, all the processes were proceeding normally.

His case was quickly replied to. The clerk of the Receiving Room confirmed receipt of the petition, the clerk of the Criminal Room recorded the statement and asked Hai Zhongshi about his basic situation, registering it in the book. The yamen runners found him and confirmed his name, age, place of origin, and who he was accusing. The three classes of yamen runners began to investigate and collect evidence to determine the truth of Hai Zhongshi's words. All witnesses were also detained at the Shuntian Prefecture yamen for questioning.

Everything was proceeding according to the process. The Shuntian Prefecture yamen notified Hai Zhongshi to attend the trial of the case in seven days, and he must be present, otherwise he would be declared to have lost the case for not showing up and would not be allowed to sue again in the future.

"What should I do? This is completely different from what you said. Li Dan, you tell me, the imperial court seized my family property and definitely won't interrogate me. They will refuse to accept it on the grounds that I am making unreasonable trouble. At that time, various miscellaneous reports will disclose this matter, and after the wind of public opinion is stirred up, I will go to the mourning hall to cry, fulfilling my filial piety as a filial son. This imperial court has already accepted the case and is trying it. This, this, this..." Hai Zhongshi was already panicked.

Hai Zhongshi and Li Dan and others never expected that the Emperor would allow the Shuntian Prefecture yamen to handle this case, instead of what he imagined—not accepting the case, or simply detaining him. The wind of public opinion he had prepared was that he, Hai Zhongshi, was a victim and wanted to fulfill filial piety, but the imperial court would not allow it.

A victim could more easily gain the sympathy of public opinion, which in turn would facilitate the use of public opinion to coerce criminal law and public opinion.

These were all tricks played out by base scholars in the past. Hai Zhongshi felt it was very feasible, so he cooperated with Li Dan to go to the Shuntian Prefecture yamen to sue. As a result, the imperial court did not play according to common sense, accepted the case, detained witnesses for interrogation, and was preparing for the trial!

Li Dan said confidently: "Don't worry, don't worry. What is there to worry about? It's true that the imperial court won't let you go to Qingqin Garden to mourn. It's true that the imperial court won't let you inherit your father's legacy. The imperial court accepts the case, so let them accept it. Can they change the judgment of your father's legacy to you? Let them try the case, so let them try it; it's just a few days late."

"You are still the filial son who is blocked by the imperial court from mourning and observing filial piety."

Li Dan sometimes looked down on Hai Zhongshi very much. For such a small matter, he was panicked.

This Hai Zhongshi was completely lucky to be chosen as an adopted son. His social status was several levels higher than that of a merchant. He wanted the clean reputation, and he also wanted the money. Could all the good things in the world be occupied by Hai Zhongshi alone?

But this Hai Zhongshi was greedy and unsatisfied, insisting on having both, which gave Li Dan the opportunity to approach him.

"You stay in the capital for these few days. The goods we are running are almost here. I will go to Yuegang today to pick up the goods. You stabilize in the capital and don't worry." Li Dan said with a smile: "Everything is up to me; I have arranged everything."

Before the trial, Li Dan must leave. After the trial, the wind of public opinion and the confrontation with imperial power would set off huge waves. A small person like him could not withstand such turbulence at all. Therefore, leaving before the wind started was the best choice.

"Are you going to leave me alone in the capital?" Hai Zhongshi shivered and said: "No, the goods are not important. With you not by my side, I am truly terrified."

Li Dan said with a smile: "You are the Chief Censor's son, and I am not. No matter how big the wind and waves are, His Majesty will not do anything to you for the sake of the Chief Censor. But I am different. I am a merchant; no matter how I survive, I cannot be at peace."

"How about this: I will leave you one thousand taels of silver. You take this silver to bribe the jailers to avoid the suffering of prison. Haven't I told you many times? Nothing will happen."

The reason Hai Zhongshi dared to be so bold was because he was Hence Hai Rui's son. The Emperor would not really do anything to him for the sake of Hence Hai Rui. He was fearless. But Li Dan was completely different. Once the Emperor discovered that he was inciting from the middle, he would probably kill him to vent his anger. Therefore, going out to hide and avoid disaster was the best policy.

Li Dan's reason seemed extremely sufficient and very reasonable.

But in fact, Li Dan knew clearly that he would not return to the capital after this departure, and would not even return to the hinterland of the Great Ming. Today was the last time he and Hai Zhongshi would meet.

Li Dan would change his appearance, change his identity, and continue to be his sea merchant at the Governor's Office until the wind and waves completely subsided. As for whether the Emperor would really be lenient to Hai Zhongshi because of Hence Hai Rui, that was not something Li Dan needed to care about.

From beginning to end, Li Dan knew very clearly what he had to do: light the fire. This was what the big shot behind him required him to do.

What would happen later, Li Dan did not know, but today's work was done. The benefits promised by the big shot had also been given. He had obtained a new identity and could go south to the Nanyang to Hanxiang Town.

"Brother's words make sense. Brother, take care on your long journey." Hai Zhongshi was still persuaded by Li Dan and bid farewell to him reluctantly.

Li Dan looked out the carriage window. The carriage was slowly leaving the Zhaoyang Gate Station. Leaving the Zhaoyang Gate Station meant leaving the capital. He would take a boat south from the Tanggu Port in Tianjin Prefecture, pick up his family in Songjiang Prefecture, go to Ryukyu, to Keelung Tamsui Town, Xinglong Village, go south to Luzon Miyan Port, and finally arrive at Luzon Manila Hanxiang Town, becoming a sea merchant from the hinterland.

He put down the carriage curtain and hummed a little tune, in a very good mood. Even if the big shot's plan failed, he had obtained his identity and could fly far away. Before, he was restricted from leaving the Great Ming because of smuggling white goods. Changing his appearance was not something that could be done just with silver. And once the big shot's plan succeeded, he could become a pig on the wind, rising ninety thousand li with the wind.

The Sun family of Songjiang was rich enough to rival a country, and everyone envied the Sun family for becoming a pig on the wind. The Sun family, blown to the sky, was unprecedentedly glorious. Not only did they earn a lot of silver, but they also had a pioneering title in the Yuanxu Islands.

If the big shot's plan came true, he would also become that pig on the wind.

"Stop the carriage." The sound of horse hooves blocked Li Dan's carriage. Li Dan lifted the carriage curtain, and a cold steel knife was placed on his neck.

"Li Dan, you are arrested. I am Chen Mo, Commander of the Northern Internal Security Bureau." Chen Mo's hand was very steady and did not hurt Li Dan. The Northern Internal Security Bureau had been watching Li Dan all along. Seeing that he intended to leave, they chose to close the net.

You offended the abbot and still want to run?

Li Dan's face turned pale. He knew that everything was over. The Embroidered Uniform Guard had known about him from the beginning and had been treating this matter cautiously from the start.

On this day, Zhu Yijun flipped through the case files in his hand. This was a case he personally inquired about. The Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern Depot agents would all summarize the situation they found and hand it to him.

"The main contradiction between the Second Grand Secretary and Wang Qian is that Wang Qian feels that after the Second Grand Secretary retires, their Wang family will definitely be counterattacked and settled scores with, while the Second Grand Secretary feels that with my protection, he can keep his family safe." Zhu Yijun sighed and said: "The Second Grand Secretary still overestimated the bottom line of these people."

Hence Hai Rui had no sons. Two adopted sons fighting to the point of going to court—for Hence Hai Rui, who was incorruptible all his life, this was the greatest irony. These base scholars were simply pervasive and would stop at nothing.

"Close the net." Zhu Yijun made the decision. Yang Wei as the head, a total of seventeen officials of various sizes, three miscellaneous report agencies, twenty-three writers, etc., their names appeared before the Emperor's imperial desk. The number of suspects involved exceeded one hundred and seventy-two.

"Actually, if they didn't incite Hai Zhongshi to go to the Shuntian Prefecture yamen to file a complaint, I wouldn't be able to catch their tails. With just 'The Three Great Faults of Hence Hai Rui' testing the court's atmosphere, the Embroidered Uniform Guard yamen is not covering the sky with one hand and can't investigate everything clearly."

Zhu Yijun approved the memorial with a frown and said: "Since the test has failed, the Senior Grand Secretary does not intend to counterattack and settle scores against Hence Hai Rui, and the matter cannot be done, why does Yang Wei still want to continue to incite Hai Zhongshi to file a complaint?"

"Unwilling." Feng Bao said very definitely: "Your Majesty, Yang Wei is unwilling. He was in the same class as the Senior Grand Secretary. The Senior Grand Secretary has been the Senior Grand Secretary for sixteen years, and Yang Wei has just taken office as Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. He will retire at most this year. How could he be willing?"

Being unwilling is not letting go. Being unwilling is like having a ghost living in the heart, constantly gnawing at the heart. As long as he opens his eyes, he is unwilling. He hates it. In the end, this ghost completely blinds his mind and replaces him. This is the process of power alienation.

"You are right." Zhu Yijun handed the memorial in his hand to Feng Bao and said: "Arrest them."

The Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern Depot agents moved out together. The formation was not small and attracted the attention of everyone in the capital, but few people could explain the reason clearly. There were many different opinions. At dusk, all the suspects were arrested and taken to the Embroidered Uniform Guard yamen, and the subsequent investigation began.

Especially Wu Shilai and others who were still restless while reclaiming land in Liaodong.

Hai Zhongshi waited for the day of the trial in anxiety. Without any surprise, Hai Zhongshi lost the case, because Hence Hai Rui left a will, clearly stating that Hai Zhongpeng should inherit the legacy. Hence Hai Rui's legacy was not much—just an imperial-bestowed Qingqin Garden, a fifth-rank official position, and three places in the Imperial Academy.

And Hai Zhongshi had actually been kicked out of the house long ago, but Hai Zhongshi had never served by the sickbed, so he did not know. If Hai Zhongshi had not gone to the Shuntian Prefecture yamen to file a complaint, Hai Zhongshi could actually have continued to walk the world under the name of Hence Hai Rui's son. But now that he had gone to court, everyone in the world knew that he was no longer Hence Hai Rui's son.

The case only took half an hour. After Shuntian Prefecture Vice Magistrate Wang Xiyuan summoned all the witnesses, he announced the judgment directly.

After Hai Zhongshi walked out of the Shuntian Prefecture yamen, he was gnashing his teeth in hatred, waiting for the writers of the miscellaneous reports to come to his door, waiting for the miscellaneous reports to uphold justice for him. This was what Li Dan had agreed with him. After losing the case, the wind of public opinion would be stirred up, and as a victim, he would definitely get some benefits.

But Hai Zhongshi waited and waited, and no writer came to his door. He ran to find these writers and found that everyone was avoiding him. Hai Zhongshi could not contact Li Dan either. He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

After a month, Hai Zhongshi saw Li Dan again, on the execution ground. ===== CHAPTER 841 =====

After Hai Zhongshi walked out of the Shuntian Prefecture yamen, he was gnashing his teeth in hatred, waiting for the gazette writer to come to his door, waiting for the gazette to uphold justice for him. This was what Li Dan had agreed with him. After losing the lawsuit, he would stir up public opinion, and as the victim, he should be able to get some benefits no matter what.

But Hai Zhongshi waited and waited, and no gazette writer came to his door. He ran to look for these writers and found that everyone was avoiding him. Hai Zhongshi could not contact Li Dan either, and he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

After a

month, Hai Zhongshi saw Li Dan again—on the execution ground.