"Hurry, the young lady, Zhu's family in Fuyang County, Hangzhou Prefecture."

Fang Jinrui nodded, suddenly stood up and said aloud: "The Zhu family in the hall is my disciple, Luo Zongheng, Zhao Yunhai, Qu Hao, Song Baoshan, Chang Guojun and Gu Niangzi."

When he heard the six people mentioned by Fang Jinrui, he was shocked in the lobby. It was because these people were all well-known. A little woman could learn from seven people, including Fang Jinrui at the same time. What was the origin of them?

Even the emperor behind the screen at the tip couldn't help but say "Oh?" when he heard this, which attracted everyone to look at the screen.

Fang Jinrui continued: "No matter what, Zhu is my disciple. From the evaluations from me and the other six gentlemen, this woman can trust in both knowledge and character. I can guarantee her here, and her words are credible.

"But, he is my disciple after all. In order to avoid suspicion, he asked this woman and handed it over to the four adults."

As Fang Jinrui said that, he bowed to the officials from the Three Laws and the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture around him, and then walked to the side with his hands behind his back, making up his mind to refuse to speak.

Shuntian Prefecture Cao Deqiu curled his lips.

The teacher-student relationship between them had been found out, and they wanted to expose it in class and sue Fang Jinrui for shelter, but he didn't expect that he would tell it himself first.

But it would be better if Fang Jinrui didn’t ask!

Cao Deqiu chuckled: "Mr. Fang is noble and honest. Since that's the case, we must ask carefully."

As he said that, he grabbed the gavel and slapped the table hard.

"Zhu! You said just now, you can prove that what Shen Xiu said was a lie, why are you so sure?"

"Sir. Because when Mr. Yan and Mr. Shen discussed with Mr. Shen, the girl was on the spot."

Yan Sui lowered her head and gradually clenched her hands.

Cao Deqiu snorted, "What was going on that day? Let's talk about it quickly!"

"Yes. It's no secret that Uncle Yan encountered bandits at the market that day. I believe everyone here knows that. After Uncle Yan returned home due to injury, Shen Xiuwen hurried to visit the mansion because he heard that Uncle Yan was in danger at the market. Uncle Yan discussed this matter with Shen Xiuwen at that time."

"oh?"

Cao Deqiu stood up, spread his hands and said to the adults beside him: "Listen, you can hear it clearly. Didn't I hear it wrong? This woman said that it was the day someone committed a random crime in the market."

The other three deputy judges and the few brought by Mr. Jiang nodded.

Cao Deqiu suddenly raised his voice.

"If I remember correctly, the incident happened that day was in the afternoon. People from the Wucheng Military Affairs Office asked Yan Lanqing. After everything was right, it should be the evening when he returned home.

"So, I would like to ask you, you are a woman, what are you doing at Yan Lanqing's house in the middle of the night?

"Why did Yan Lanqing break off the engagement with Miss Jiang? Is the matter of breaking off the engagement related to you?

"As a woman, she still stayed in the man's house after dark. Do you know what shame is?

"You have such a loss of virtue and shameless person, can you still use your words as testimony?

"Come on! Let the Zhu family come out to our official!"

Cao Deqiu's words were like a cannon, and every word of sword was like a sword, wishing she could split Zhu Youning into pieces. She didn't give her any chance to speak at all, so she would keep silent again.

In order to avoid suspicion, Fang Jinrui said that he would not interrogate Zhu Youning himself.

Seeing the officers on both sides obeying the orders towards Zhu Youning, both Yan Sui and the Baye of Fo behind the crowd could not help but feel sweat for her.

Just as the officer walked towards Zhu Youning, Zhu Youning suddenly chuckled, "I was in Bo's Mansion at that time, of course it was because of righteousness! Otherwise, how could I, a woman, besides my reputation in a man's house?"

After Zhu Youning's words, Mr. Yang, Mr. Jiang and the officials who attended the audience burst into laughter.

Cao Deqiu laughed even more and pointed at Zhu Youning and cursed: "You are a businessman and a shameless woman. Do you know what righteousness is? It's really a big deal! You are just talking nonsense in the court and are so embarrassed to insult the word "righteousness"? It's so damn! People like you, it's a bargain for you to throw you out of the court. You really deserve to reward you with a stick of water and fire, which can be considered as a purge of the world!"

Such insults are really not a way out for people to survive. Outside the lobby, Zaoli passed the words inside to the onlookers. The people all laughed and pointed at Zhu Youning, who was kneeling in the hall.

Mr. Jiang, Mr. Yang and others seemed to have heard some big jokes and couldn't stop laughing.

Fang Jinrui's face was calm, but his palms were sweating.

The Eighth Master of Buddha frowned even more, constantly placing Buddhist beads.

At this time, I heard a very hard-working cough coming from behind the screen at the end.

"What a great righteousness. I also want to hear what great righteousness you are doing when you are alone and widowed and young at night."

The emperor said lightly, and the ridicule in the hall weakened.

Zhu Youning sniffed, tears filled his eyelids, and said righteously: "When the emperor returned to the emperor, the village girl came to the capital, and was invited by Yan Bo Ye to have a wedding banquet. As a business partner, when he received the wedding invitation, the village girl was also very hesitant about the matter going to the capital.

"Although the young woman is a businessman, she must have to travel outside, but the young woman has never done anything that is insulting. Even if she is a good business partner, it is different from the young woman. It is really not suitable for a long journey from Hangzhou Prefecture to get here.

"But another reason is that the people have to abandon these principles and even come to the capital at the risk of being slandered."

When Zhu Youning said this, he tried the tears at the corners of his eyes with his cuffs and said sadly: "The Yellow River is flooded and the people are displaced. Ye Yan Boye has been committed to repairing river embankments, building bridges and paving roads, and rebuilding his home for the people.

"Whether it is the repair of the river embankment, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the local people, the prevention and control of the epidemic, the future life of the people, etc., the money consumption is too great after doing this series of things. Although Uncle Yan is a businessman, no matter how rich he is, his economic ability is limited."

When the emperor mentioned the matter of repairing the river bank, he could not help but sigh heavily. On this aspect, he really empathized with it.

The project in the lower reaches of the Yellow River is still continuing, and he can imagine that silver is like filling a bottomless pit. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have decided to repay Yan Sui's local taxes in his lifetime.

The tax revenue is too little, and it is actually not enough to fill the money Yansui used.

This is also the reason why the emperor valued Yan Sui.

Zhu Youning sighed: "The family of the young lady has several generations of businessmen, and the family is well-off. Uncle Yan ordered to go there in person. He mentioned this matter with the young lady, and wanted to discuss and cooperate with our Zhu family, so that the Zhu family would also build river embankments and rebuild the town.

"The young ladies and their families think that this is imperative. This is a great thing to benefit the people, benefit the people, and share the worries of the court. In the face of this matter, the reputation issues that the young ladies have considered before are not worth mentioning.

"After entering Beijing, I and Bo Ye Yan had almost worked hard to discuss this matter and couldn't sleep all night. It was really difficult for the great cause of building a dam. It lacked both manpower and material resources. The difficulties were really not worthy of being told by outsiders.

"But what the folk girl thought of at that time was the deeds of the Saint-Grand of the Great Zhou Dynasty."

When Zhu Youning said this, he raised his head and bowed to the top.

All the officials here, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Yang, and even the emperors in the back, stood up according to the rules and bowed to the top.

Zhu Youning said: "The Holy Ancestor is far-sighted. In order to conquer the country, he sacrificed his reputation and even pretended to be a beggar. The Holy Ancestor's deeds really moved the people's women. Compared with the benefit of the people and the righteousness of the world, the little reputation of the people had never considered it at that time!"

Zhu Youning's words were once again transmitted from Zaoli to the lobby. When the people heard this, their contempt just now disappeared. They couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praise him, "What a great woman!"

The elder Yang Ge, Jiang Ge and the deputy judges in the hall stood upright with the deeds of the "Saint Ancestor". At this time, they could no longer attack Zhu Youning with "a lonely man and a widow" and "a loss of virtue".

If you continue to seize the principle that "Zhu Youning's behavior is not good, and you can't take what you say seriously", wouldn't it mean that the Holy Ancestor was also ruined and he was not worthy of being the emperor?

At this moment, the hall was silent.

After a moment, the emperor's voice full of concern came from behind the screen: "You have discussed this period of time and what result has come?"

"It is actually too difficult for us merchants to return to the emperor to build embankments, rebuild towns, and support so many people."

"Yes." A little disappointment and regret appeared in the emperor's voice, "It's still the case for a country, let alone a few businessmen?"

Zhu Youning said again: "Although this matter is too difficult for one or two of us, if everyone participates, it may be easier. So the private girl wrote a letter to the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce also gave the private girl an echo. As of the day before yesterday, the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce had raised a total of 400,000 taels of silver."

"What?"

After screaming, a bright yellow figure turned out from behind the screen.

Four hundred thousand taels of silver are really a huge sum of money for the court where the treasury is empty.

The emperor walked closer with a shocked look on his face, looked at Zhu Youning who was kneeling properly, and said three good things in a row.

"Okay, okay! I didn't expect that you would be so concerned about the country and the people so much! You really can bear the word "righteousness"!"

The emperor was so happy and praised the businessman's righteousness in person, like a heavy slap on the face of the conservative civil servants on the scene.

After careful calculation, these adults may have 400,000 taels of silver.

But the money belongs to them, so how could they donate it to Xiudi Dam?

They kept saying that merchants were treacherous and unrighteous, and belittled the status of merchants. Even because Yan Sui and Zhu Youning were businessmen, they directly accused them of being low-minded and their words were unreliable.

But those of them with "noble character" cannot do anything to donate to the court!

The emperor was happy and paced with excitement, nodded and said, "Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce is really a group of charitable merchants! Such benevolent and righteous acts should be rewarded. I will personally write the plaque, and you will come to Hangzhou later."

Zhu Youning's face was full of joy, and her almond eyes were wide open, like a kitten with more joy.

"Thank you, Master!"

The emperor waved his hand. Now looking at this young girl, there was a little unconcealed praise and love in her eyes.

At this point, the case has been completely deformed by Zhu Youning.

But every word of her touched the most itchy part of the emperor's heart. Even if the adults present were dissatisfied, no one could tell the truth about the current situation and refute it.

Can they say that the merchants donated money wrongly? Can they say that Yan Sui and Zhu Youning, who were in charge of the donation, were businessmen, so they were not trustworthy in their words?

Seeing that his goal was achieved, Zhu Youning quietly breathed a sigh of relief and took the initiative to pull the case back.

"So that day, I saw Master Chen talking to Master Yan, because when Master Chen came to Bo Mansion, it was the time when I discussed the Xiu Dam with Bo Mansion. As for Master Yan being assassinated by a madman in the market that day, I think someone might not want us to Xiu Dam."

The hall was quiet, and I could only hear the soap clerks outside the lobby retelling Zhu Youning's confession just now and the good conversations of the people.

Cao Deqiu, Jiang Ge Lao, Yang Ge Lao and others didn't say a word at this time.

They racked their brains to refute Zhu Youning's words. But what can they catch now?

We cannot criticize Zhu Youning and Yan Sui's character, nor can we say that they donated money correctly, nor dare to show that they were opposed to the construction of the Da Dam, which was to go against the emperor. For a moment, these people were stumped.

The four deputy judges looked at me, and I looked at you, but I didn’t know how to continue asking.
To be continued...