"Since the censor cannot bear to recite the crime of slandering the adult, let the grass people recite it on their behalf."

Seeing Zhang Yuan sitting in the presiding seat without saying a word, Hu Ye knew that he must have been frightened by his own lawsuit, so he had to speak by himself.

"Hu Ye, a grass-roots person, sued the Yongpingwei Fushi Department and the Pacification of Zhou Jie for five crimes."

"First, corruption and abuse of power."

"Second, occupy fertile land."

"Third, it's a careless person."

"Fourth, collusion between officials and businessmen."

"Fifth, knowing that the law breaks the law."

As soon as Hu Ye finished speaking, the people outside the yamen couldn't stand it. They didn't understand the Ming Dynasty law, but they remembered that Zhou Jie did everything Hu Ye said. Now that he remembered that Zhou Jie had committed so many crimes, he pointed at Zhou Jie and cursed.

Zhou Jie's expression at this moment can only be described as bad. He never thought that one day someone would sue him in his yamen, and there would be so many crimes.

Zhu Di also looked at Hu Ye in surprise. He did not find these crimes of Zhou Jie. Hu Ye had only been to Peking for less than a month, so why did he find out so many of them?

"Silent! Silent!" Zhang Yuan deserves to be a censor. He must have seen the big scene, so the people outside coaxed him together, so he patted the gavel hard, and then said to Hu Ye, "Do you know that falsely accusing the imperial court officials is a serious crime? If you can't provide evidence, I can convict you of your death today?"

"Hehe, are you accusing the imperial court of appointing officials?" Hu Ye sneered, and then said loudly to Zhang Yuan: "This matter is of great importance, so Caomin naturally dare not speak nonsense. Caomin has real evidence for every article written in the letter, so let me tell you one by one."

"The first article is to be corrupt and abuse the law. How much salary can a fifth-rank official have in a year?" Hu Ye asked.

"Monthly salary is 17 s. " Zhang Yuan answered without hesitation.

"Very good, the monthly salary is 17 shi, less than 200 shi a year, which is less than 100 taels of silver." Hu Ye calculated roughly, and then said, "Even if it is 100 taels of silver a year, Zhou Jie was an official in Peking for thirty years, it is less than 3,000 taels in total. But the adults can go and see his house, which is so luxurious. Compared with the fourth-rank official, Lord Jin Zhong's house, I don't know how luxurious it is. Where does the adults think that Zhou Jie's money comes from?"

"Nonsense, my house was left by my ancestors. How could it be that it was corrupt? Don't swear by ignorant children." Before Zhang Yuan could answer, Zhou Jie pointed at Hu Ye's nose and said.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou, don't be excited. Even if the house is left by your ancestors, your money is not left by your ancestors, right?" Hu Ye smiled slightly, and then suddenly raised his voice, "Just a dozen days ago, your son Zhou Kai offered a reward of 1,000 taels to ask Lord Zhou, do you really have so much spare money in your family?"

"Creating something out of nothing!"

Zhou Jie argued.

"It's made of nothing? Everyone in Yongpingwei was present at that time, and Zhang Qianhu from Yanshan Beiwei was present. Did they hear it wrong?" Hu Ye asked back.

When Zhou Jie heard this, he was silent.

Seeing that Zhou Jie was silent, Hu Ye turned around and said to Zhang Yuan: "Do you dare to ask Lord Zhang, you can just take out a thousand taels to reward a son with a civilian head. Will there be a law-abiding father? Zhou Jie is not greedy for Zhang and abuse the law. Can he have so many property in his family for his son to spend? Zhou Jie is not greedy for Zhang and abuse the law. How dare his son be so arrogant? Zhou Jie is not greedy for Zhang and abuse the law. How dare his son collect protection fees on the street?"

"This is all your own words, how can it be used as evidence?" Zhang Yuan said to Hu Ye.

"Of course, one's words are not allowed to be evidence, but if Lord Zhang wants evidence, the people outside the door can serve as evidence. You can ask, how many of them have been persecuted by the Fourth Young Master of Pingcheng, how many girls have been ruined by the Fourth Young Master of Pingcheng, and how much money and grain have been entered into the fourth Young Master of Pingcheng." Hu Ye pointed to the people watching outside. At this time, you need evidence? Everything outside is.

"Yes, the fourth young master in Pingcheng did many evil deeds. My daughter just let them ruin it. She had no shame to jump into the river and commit suicide when she saw people." A woman immediately cried when she heard Hu Ye's words.

"It is not easy for an old man to set up a stall. He earns more than ten cents a day. Nearly half of it will be plundered by the Fourth Young Master of Pingcheng. Isn't this considered corruption and abuse of power?" An old man shouted loudly. In fact, he didn't know what corruption and abuse of power is, but at this time he would definitely not be wrong to tell the evil deeds of the Fourth Young Master of Pingcheng.

So the yamen became a vegetable market, with complaints one after another.

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes and looked at all this, feeling a little chill in his heart. He didn't expect that the people in his fiefdom would live so hard. In the past, Hu Ye told him that he didn't believe it very much. Now that the people complained in front of him, he realized how serious the situation was.

"Silent! Silent!" Zhang Yuan patted the gavel again, otherwise the scene would be out of control.

"I dare to ask, how is this evidence?" Hu Ye looked at Zhang Yuan with a smile.

"Hmph, how can you take the words of unruly people seriously?" Zhou Jie said disdainfully.

"Haha, I didn't expect that these suffering people would become a group of unruly people in the eyes of Lord Zhou. I just don't know if Lord Zhang had ever thought about how these unruly people lived when he used these unruly people's fertile fields?" Hu Ye asked Zhou Jie with a sneer.

"What do you mean?" Jay Chou was furious.

"Hmph, Lord Zhang, this is the second thing I want to sue Zhou Jie, to occupy the fertile land." Hu Ye glared at Zhou Jie, then took a step forward, took out a complaint from his arms, and asked the yamen runners to hand it to Zhang Yuan.

"Mr. Zhang, the Ming Dynasty Law stipulates that the land of fifth-rank officials shall not exceed 50,000 mu, which is equivalent to the land of a thousand military households. However, the fertile land under Zhou Jie's name reached 500,000 mu. Where did this more than ten times more come from? Could it be that they appeared in Zhou Jie's name on their own initiative? Or did their owner give it to Lord Zhou?"

"You..." Zhou Jie was very surprised. He didn't even know how much land he had. He didn't expect Hu Ye to know so clearly.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou doesn't need to refute. Do you have these land products? You can find someone to check them out. As for the source of your land products, I won't tell you, and everyone must know it." Hu Ye looked at the furious Zhou Jie, without any fear.

"Some of them are people who have some relationship with Jay Chou, who are specifically affiliated with Jay Chou's name, but most of them are captured by Jay Chou through various despicable means. You may ask, if you pay three liters of tax per mu of land, five liters of tax per mu of land, three combinations of tax per mu, why do some people like to attach the land to Jay Chou's name to become an official land?"

Hu Ye smiled mysteriously and continued, "Don't forget that the taxes of the Mintian field are paid to the treasury, and the taxes of the official field are paid to the land owner. That is to say, the Mintian field is handed over to the court, and if it is affiliated to Zhou Jie, the taxes are handed over to Zhou Jie, which becomes Zhou Jie's seemingly wealthy. Then Zhou Jie will divide the accounts by 55% in this way, so those who affix the official field only need to pay two liters of Liuhe's grain, which is less than the non-affiliated grain. Naturally, many people want to do such a win-win situation."

"You are talking nonsense, not 50 points, but 300 points. They only need to hand over two liters to me." Zhou Jie retorted solemnly.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou finally showed his footsteps." Hu Ye's treacherous smile finally made the meticulous Zhou Jie feel panic.

Jay Chou knew he had made a mistake and hurriedly kept silent.

But Hu Ye's attack had just begun, and there were continuous attacks next.

"But the people of Peking are loyal to the court. They would rather pay one liter of tax to the court than pay two liters to corrupt officials like Zhou Jie. So Zhou Jie used all kinds of despicable means and did everything he could to impose all kinds of crimes on people who were unwilling to incorporate land into his name, so that they could forcibly occupy their land."

"This is about the third article I sued Zhou Jie, which is to take human life!" Hu Ye said loudly.

"I sent someone to check. Five thousand mu of fertile land under Zhou Jie's name is his due land, and four hundred thousand mu are those voluntarily or forced to incorporate into Zhou Jie's name. There are still fifty thousand mu of land obtained by Zhou Jie's persecutors!" Hu Ye pointed at Zhou Jie and started a storm-like attack.

"Nonsense." Zhou Jie cursed, and then said to Zhang Yuan, "The Censor, this unruly man roared repeatedly in court and insulted the imperial court's official official. He should be sent to the prison and punished him."

"Hmph, Lord Zhou, do you dare to say that I roar the court? Your voice is louder than me, and you swear more than me. Why aren't you roar the court? Are you an idiot when you are a censor?" Hu Ye looked at Zhou Jie, provoking their only relationship.

Sure enough, when Zhang Yuan heard this, he felt that Hu Ye was saying something. Zhou Jie's attitude was indeed worse than Hu Ye, so he signaled Hu Ye to continue talking.

"Fifty thousand acres of fertile land! How many households have lost their capital to survive! The Ming Dynasty law stipulates that a household farms for 50 acres, and 50,000 acres are the land of a thousand households. When Zhou Jie snatched it, a thousand households were displaced, some were starved to death, and some became lonely ghosts. Some fled, becoming hungry refugees. Some fled outside the border and became prisoners of the Mongols. How dare you ask the Censor, what is this not to be careless about human life?" Hu Ye asked loudly.

Hearing this, the people outside the yamen were scolding endlessly. They finally knew why some people had committed crimes inexplicably. It turned out that it was Zhou Jie's secret instruction, with the purpose of the field in their hands.

So the people who had something in their hands began to throw things at Zhou Jie, including the fried dough sticks I just bought in the morning, the hot buns, and some even took off their shoes and threw them at Zhou Jie. However, the accurate head was not very good, and Hu Ye next to him almost suffered from the seedlings.

Compared with the people's rage, Zhu Di became much more restrained, but the blue veins in his hand showed the rage in his heart at this moment.

It turned out that his people had become the target of Zhou Jie's profit. It turned out that so many refugees were not caused by natural disasters. When Zhu Di thought of many officials like Zhou Jie in Peking, his murderous aura suddenly increased. Zheng Er next to him was scared. He had never seen Zhu Di be so angry.

"What? Lord Zhou can't say anything. If Lord Zhou is not convinced, you can find someone to measure your land now. I will take care of the differences if there are any problems." Hu Ye looked at Zhou Jie coldly.

Zhou Jie was silent and knew that it was useless to refute at this moment. Since Hu Ye dared to be so sure, it means that Hu Ye was prepared and it seemed that he was going to fall into Hu Ye's hands today.

"Very good. Since Lord Zhou doesn't object, then we will enter the next article, collusion between officials and businessmen!"

Hu Ye said that, and took out another confession from his arms and asked the yamen runners to bring it to Zhang Yuan.
Chapter completed!