The Long River 天下长河 Episode 21

As the news spread to the capital, the three prime ministers discussed countermeasures, considering minimizing trouble and keeping Jin Zhiyu. Suo'etu suggested to Kangxi to submit to the Ministry of Punishment for trial. By the way, let Shi Lang and other ministers come forward. Kangxi reprimanded Suo'etu and others for being assertive. Don't involve him in everything, so as not to make things troublesome.

Seeing that the water of the Yellow River has already reached the fourth line, the most urgent thing is to find a way to get out the stones. If the Xiao family can't hold it, it will inevitably bring disaster to the common people. However, Baihegou Village asked Jin Zhiyu to pay for his life, otherwise no stone would be thrown out. Although Jin Fu felt sorry for his son, he knew that the emperor violated the law and the people were guilty of the same crime, and life and death depended on the decision of the court.

The county magistrate advises Jin Fu, saying that the patriarch's wife is not the original wife, but the concubine he bought with money at the beginning. They have no feelings for each other. If they get more money, maybe she can let the past go. Because of this, Jin Fu took the initiative to apologize to the patriarch's wife, and was willing to give out half of his salary. The patriarch's wife proposed to see Jin Zhiyu. After entering the prison, she became emotional and threatened to make Jin Zhiyu pay for it with her life.

Feeling powerless, Jin Fu informed Uncle Guo He to find Wang Dengxuan, and then returned home to comfort his wife. Because of this incident, the Guerjia family became ill in bed in a hurry, forcing Jin Fu to rescue his son. However, Jin Fu offended many people during the river governance, and there was no minister in the capital who was willing to intercede for him, so now he can only take one step at a time.

Wang Dengxuan rushed to the River Governor's Mansion in a hurry, and firmly denied that he had withheld the work and caused the river workers to make trouble. Jin Fu ordered him to find Chen Huang within half a month, otherwise he would go to Guirendi to investigate the facts. At this time, Chen Huang was rescued by the old man, recuperated for several days to recover from his injuries, and found that notices to hunt him were posted all over the city.

Kangxi asked the Ministry of Criminal Justice to accept Jin Zhiyu's case, but he didn't expect that the Ministry of Criminal Justice took the opportunity to avenge his personal revenge and directly convicted him and executed him. He was furious for this. Originally, Kangxi wanted to give the Ministry of Criminal Justice a step down, but how did the Ministry of Criminal Justice insist on pushing the cart into the wall, and even A Xixi and Wang Dengxuan rushed to report to the capital to sue Chen Huang as a thief who intended to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as this remark came out, Kangxi was really angry and laughed back. He naturally knew that Chen Huang's character was purely malicious slander. Now that the management of the Yellow River has just started to improve, the chaotic officials behind the scenes began to stir up trouble again. Kangxi was full of anger and had nowhere to vent his anger, so he simply beat the drums to vent his anger. When Jin Fu learned of the Ministry of Criminal Justice's verdict, he took a food box to visit in the prison, but Jin Zhiyu couldn't eat it at all, and angrily overturned the entire table of food.

The surrounding counties were plagued by locusts, and there was no food for a long time. The people were sallow and emaciated from hunger. Yu Zhenjia also suffered from weakness in his hands and feet, and his body was weak. Chen Huang took the initiative to come to the county government to find Yu Zhenjia, and happened to see him settling the case. The reason was that the old mother found out that her son had slaughtered the only egg-laying hen left in the house, and in a rage, she grabbed her son and ran to the court for Yu Zhenjia to judge.

The son had no choice but to say that there was no food at home, and his wife needed to supplement nutrition after giving birth, so he had to slaughter the hen. Yu Zhenjia understood the suffering of the mother and son, and pretended to put his son to death, which frightened the old mother to beg for mercy. In the end, Yu Zhenjia changed his sentence to his son to work in the river, and gave the hen to their mother and son by the way.

After the mother and son left together, Chen Huang clapped his hands in praise, and then explained the purpose of coming, saying that he could help the people survive the food disaster. Yu Zhenjia regained his energy when he heard the words, but he didn't expect that Chen Huang wanted to rob the official food. Although Wang Dengxuan deliberately raised the price of food to make the country difficult, Yu Zhenjia felt that even if Wang Dengxuan made a thousand mistakes, there were naturally court decrees. , as a county magistrate, he must never break the law knowingly.

That night, Yu Zhenjia was introspective again, thinking about Chen Huang's problem, and began to question whether he cared about face or the safety of the people. After careful consideration, Yu Zhenjia decided that he would rather be a beast than steal official food. If he can't feed the people, what's the use of being a parent official. In the early morning of the next day, Yu Zhenjia and Chen Huang led the crowd to lurk by the river. Chen Huang selected a few villagers who were well versed in water, and sneaked into the river to intercept the passing grain ship. The water bandits were trembling with fear.