Chapter 1045 Castration
The cell of Dali Temple, also known as Tianlao.
Since Luoyang was promoted to the Eastern Capital, the three provinces and six departments of the city were established one by one, along with various prisons. As the capital city, there are many prisons in Luoyang City.
The Dali Temple Prison, the Criminal Ministry Prison, and the Yushitai Prison, these are the three prisons. There are also Zhenfu Prison, Baiqi Prison, and Dianqian Prison, which are called Zhao Prison.
Then there are Jinwu Prison, Henan Fu Prison, Luoyang County Prison, Henan County Prison, and Dongxi Tufang...
Many prisons have different prisoners. For example, Dali Temple Prison is a place where criminal officials of the central departments and important criminals in the capital area are detained all day. The organ is in charge of the trial, and those detained in the prison are all serious offenders.
Hou Junji was not arrested and imprisoned when he first returned to Luoyang as a former prime minister, but ordered Zaijing to reflect. It's just that as time went by, when the emperor swung a knife and began to make up his mind to fight for the reserve and party, he not only dismissed or demoted a large number of officials such as Du Chuke and Wei Ting, but also severely punished Hou Junji, who was directly imprisoned in Dali Temple prison.
"The prison is unlucky. The lower officials bring the prisoner here. Please sit down here for a while with tea." The Prison Officer of Dali Temple was very surprised to see that the most popular Wei Guogong came to the Dali Temple Prison in person, and he was a little surprised. What to do, he's just a lowly official from the ninth rank.
"Is Hou Chengong okay here?" Qin Lang asked.
Prisoner originally thought that Hou Junji was doomed this time, he even heard the news that Hou Junji would go to Lingnan for a long time. Therefore, after Hou Junji was sent to him, he didn't try to curry favor with him at all, let alone pay attention to him. This kind of person couldn't afford to be involved, and he didn't even dare to accept gifts from the Hou family. Anyway, he just made an offering there as a bodhisattva, facing him. Not going to see one.
Hou Junji has a big temper and a lot of airs. Even in Dali Prison, he kept yelling every day, always calling himself a hero, making meritorious deeds for the Tang Dynasty, and some emperors made meritorious deeds. The whole prison was so noisy that it was not peaceful.
"Hou Chengong started a hunger strike the day before yesterday, and he hasn't had any water or rice for three days."
Qin Lang just nodded when he heard this, and didn't mean to blame the little jailer, "Let's lead the way."
In the innermost part of the dungeon, Qin Lang meets Hou Junji.
Lao Hou looked very embarrassed, with disheveled hair, shackles on his hands, shackles on his feet, and dirty prison clothes.
Qin Lang opened the food box, and took out the wine and vegetables from inside. The seven or eight appetizers were very rich, and the wine was also good wine. Once the mouth of the jar was sealed, the aroma of the wine filled the air, and the dampness in the prison was dispersed a lot.
Hou Junji twitched his throat twice.
"Stopped meal?"
Qin Lang smiled without saying a word.
Hou Junji's complexion became extremely ugly. He stared at Qin Lang first, then finally lowered his head after a while. He stretched out his hands to rub his face, and the chains jingled non-stop.
Looking up again, Hou Junji looked grim.
Eyes are red.
"I'm not convinced!"
"Have a drink." Qin Lang summoned the Prisoner, "Relax, Mr. Chen."
Hou Junji yelled, "I'm not convinced, why, why?" He smashed the shackles on the table with a bang, which made the jailer and others very nervous, for fear that this guy would hurt Wei Gong in the slightest.
Qin Lang poured him a glass of wine.
Hou Junji stared at the wine, "Is it poisonous wine? Even if you die, you should be a model, right? My old Hou has been a soldier all his life, and he has made meritorious deeds for half his life, so he ended up with a glass of poisoned wine? Then he said that he died suddenly in prison or committed suicide by hitting a wall? "
Qin Lang ignored him, poured himself a glass, raised his glass and drank it, picked up his chopsticks and tasted every dish, "This is the best Guo Gong wine. There is one jar less. Do you know how much this wine is now? Three hundred thousand jars, and there is no market. It’s a pity not to drink it. Hou Chengong probably won’t be able to drink it in the future. Come on, lose your head But with a big scar, Hou Chengong can be regarded as a strong general, so is he still afraid of death?"
"Even if you die, you have to be a dead ghost, right?"
Hou Junji glared at Qin Lang with blood-red eyes, wanting to get violent and smash the guy in front of him to death with shackles.
"After drinking, I will take Hou Chengong to the place later."
"I want to face the saint, I want to see His Majesty."
"After the matter is over, I will fulfill your request and ensure that you can see the saint."
"Really?"
"When I, Qin Lang, say something, it's not worth it?"
Hou Junji gritted his teeth and finally sat there.
The Prisoner cautiously stepped forward to loosen the shackles. As soon as Hou Junji was free, he immediately picked up the wine glass and drank heavily. He drank too fast and coughed repeatedly.
"Eat a la carte, these are very good appetizers, five-spice beef jerky, braised pork ear shreds, roasted horse meat buns, donkey meat, roast duck, roast goose, try them all!"
Hou Junji grabbed a roast goose, held it in his hand, and gnawed it fiercely.
After wolfing down the meal, Hou Junji lay paralyzed and did not move. After three days of hunger strike, he ate a meal like a hungry ghost reincarnated. A table of wine and food was enough for one person. Qin Lang just smiled at this. With no dissuasion.
Anyway, Hou Junji vomited all he ate before stopping. Maybe he really thought he was going to die, so he just wanted to be a ghost.
"I have been here for a long time, and I have completely cut off the news from the outside world. How is the situation in the DPRK and China?"
"There is bad news. The daughter Hou Liangdi suddenly fell ill and died suddenly."
Hou Junji sat there dumbly, no longer had the huge emotional change at the beginning.
"How can there be eggs under the overturned nest? I can understand."
"Where is the prince?"
"The prince is very good. Now he is staying in Luoyang to study government affairs, and he is in charge of the Henan government shepherd, and presides over the affairs of the Henan government. Also, Erlang, the son of Hou Liangdi, is now the king of Dunhuang County, and he has adopted the name of Princess Su."
"What about you? Just now I heard that Prison Chancellor is called Mr. Cheng, have you become a Zhongshu Ling?" Hou Junji asked with a somewhat expressionless face.
"The inspector is the school secretary and knows the affairs of the sect. The Zhongshu order is the eldest grandson, and the servant is still Wei Zhenggong."
Hou Junji heard a lot of useful information from these words, and was surprised, "It seems that the crown prince's position has been stabilized again?"
"Well, the king of Wei has already left Luo and went to Jiannan Xining to become the kingdom of the vassal. The emperor's grandson Li Xiang has also been promoted to the king of Qin, and he has stayed behind in Xijing, Chang'an Xingtai Shangshuling, Zuowuhou General, etc."
Hou Junji laughed, started laughing haha, then laughed loudly, and finally laughed like a ghost crying.
Chengqian, Changsun Wuji, Qin Lang and even Fang Xuanling were all fine, but Hou Junji was out of luck.
"Where did you say you were going to take me, let's go, get it over early, I want to say goodbye to the saint."
"Actually, seeing a saint can't change anything." Qin Lang said.
Qin Lang took Hou Junji out of Dali Prison.
He had the emperor's edict, and the order from Zhongshu's disciples. The Dali Temple Prison released him happily, and the prison **** even heaved a sigh of relief.
"Where to?"
Hou Junji couldn't help asking on the road.
"You'll know when you get there."
Qin Lang took Hou Junji out of Luoyang City in a carriage and came to a slaughterhouse on the outskirts of the city.
There are countless cattle and sheep locked up here, all of which are waiting to be slaughtered for millions of soldiers and civilians in Luoyang.
White-legged bison in the south central region, yaks in Qinghai and Tubo, buffaloes in Lingnan, and yellow cattle outside the Great Wall. There are more than a dozen varieties of cattle alone, most of which are beef cattle.
Hou Junji didn't understand why he brought him here.
Wei Chang from Zhenfu Division came up to greet him, "Duke Wei, everything is ready as you ordered."
"Well, then bring the cow up."
"Hou Chengong, let me show you a show."
Wei Chang, the former bad commander in Chang'an, is now the Fuling of Dongzhen in the Zhenfu Division, in charge of affairs in the Kanto area.
When he was in Chang'an, he also ran a slaughterhouse secretly, and he was the most powerful in Chang'an slaughterhouse. Now that he moved east to Luoyang, the Wei family still controlled the Luoyang slaughterhouse, which was just a slaughterhouse under his family name.
Wei Chang asked someone to bring several big bulls.
There are white-legged wild bulls, buffalo bulls, yellow ox bulls, yak bulls, etc., all of which are huge in size.
"Duke Wei, these are the most vicious bulls in our field. I don't know how many fights they have had since they came here."
Qin Lang smiled and said to Hou Junji, "Wei Chang used to be a bad handsome man in Chang'an. His family ran a slaughterhouse. I heard from him that there is the best way to deal with those ferocious bulls. I came to see it today. By the way, I invite you Chen Gong took a look."
"Actually, the method is very simple. Although these cows are very fierce, you can completely subdue them with just one move, and they will be very docile for the rest of your life."
"Oh, let's see then."
Wei Chang turned his head, "Bring up the most vicious bison."
"Look at this bull, it looks like a black buffalo, but its fur is similar to that of a yellow buffalo, but its body is even bigger. This bull is more than seven feet tall at the shoulder, one foot three in length, and weighs more than four thousand catties. The pair of huge curved horns are very similar to the horns of a buffalo. This bull is very fierce. It is a bison that grows in the Nanzhong area. It is said that this bull used to be the king of a herd of bison. It was captured and sent to Luoyang. It was originally a bison. Those who want to pay tribute to the Imperial Inner Garden, who knows that this beast is very fierce and has hurt many people, so they dare not send it to the Inner Garden, and sent it to me to be slaughtered."
"It's a pity to be slaughtered. It's not bad for the bull king to be a stud."
"Too fierce, often hurting people." Wei Chang said. "This kind of bull king is in the jungle of Nanzhong, but it can kill even tigers."
The lower parts of the limbs of the white-legged bison king are white, which is one of the biggest characteristics of this bison.
He is even bigger than the bull king of the wild yak.
Huge and muscular, just like a bodybuilder.
"Hou Chengong wants to know how Wei Shuai can tame such a bison king?"
Hou Junji didn't say a word, a little absent-minded. "The best way to tame this vicious bull is to gel it."
"Hou Chengong is indeed a master, but to deal with this kind of bull king, it is not enough to just lose the horse."
Wei Chang called a few servants, drove the huge white-legged bison king into a wooden frame, and then easily tied the four white limbs to the wood so that it could not move.
Then Wei Chang personally cut open the egg sac of the bison king in two or three strokes, and took out two huge eggs.
After simply suturing the sac wound, Wei Chang took two eggs and walked up to the bull king. At this time, the bull's eyes were red and he was struggling desperately.
Wei Chang asked someone to take a table and put it in front of the bull, put two eggs on it, and took his own silver hammer.
In front of the Bull King, Wei Chang lifted the silver hammer and hit the two **** fiercely, the **** were smashed to pieces.
White-legged Buffalo King struggled desperately, screaming, but he couldn't get away. In the end, he could only see his eggs being completely smashed.
The bull king yelled and struggled, and finally as the egg shattered, all the strength in his body seemed to disappear. Two lines of tears flowed from his eyes, and finally stopped, staring blankly at the mess, and stopped screaming. struggle.
"Unlock!"
Several members of the Wei family stepped forward and untied the bull's legs that were struggling like crazy just now. Sure enough, although the bull's feet fell off the binding rope and became free again, it lost all energy. , Facing Wei Chang who was standing in front of him, instead of rushing up to a corner to take revenge, he lowered his head instead.
Wei Chang smiled and said to Qin Lang, "To deal with this kind of natural cow, you can't just goose, you have to smash his eggs in front of it. From then on, this cow only knows how to eat grass and work. , I don’t know anything else, let alone be vicious, even if I want to kill it in the future, I don’t need to tie it with ropes anymore.”
In order to verify this sentence, Wei Chang asked people to bring several bull kings, including yak kings, buffalo kings, big yellow bulls, etc., one after another. After the silver hammer hit the ball, one end was more silent than the other.
All became walking dead. After the rope was untied, no cow dared to stand up to anyone.
In the past, a group of people had to surround and drive them away, but now only one person can easily drive them away.
"Wonderful!" Qin Lang gave a two-word evaluation.
Wei Chang said proudly, "Castration is also called castration. It's a good word to use. Get rid of your momentum. The previous man-made characters are so exquisite. When a person watches his baby being smashed to pieces with a hammer, his Desires and visions are all gone, and this kind of impact is the greatest."
"Why are castrated eunuchs used in the palace? Because they are the closest to the emperor, but their status is the most humble. If they are not castrated, they will retain too much desire. This is a hidden danger. I don’t have many desires and ambitions anymore, and I can just be a **** voluntarily from now on..."
Qin Lang concluded with a chuckle, "So, desire and ambition are at work."
"Yeah, just like these big bulls..."
Hou Junji looked at the bull king who had lost all energy, his face became extremely pale, and he even felt a faint pain in the balls.
"Don't worry, Hou Chengong, you don't have to worry about your baby." Qin Lang smiled, "Let's go, I will take Hou Chengong to the palace to meet Sheng Xie En."
"This trip to Xizhou has high mountains, high water, long roads and long roads. Hou Chengong has to work in Xizhou, and he must always be grateful for God's grace. Don't make any mistakes again."
Hou Junji was stunned, "Going to Xizhou?"
"Well, although many officials wrote that you should be punished for your crimes, my eldest grandson and I still strongly remonstrated with you, saying that you have made a lot of contributions to the country and to your majesty. Saints are also people who miss old feelings, so in the end, I am very grateful to you. Your solution is to relegate the Western Regions to be the governor of the Western Regions and envoy of the Tianshan Army, be demoted to the fourth rank and become a loyal general, retain the title, and regain the world title..."
Hou Junji had mixed feelings, and he didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed. After the final disposal, he didn't have to die, but his heart was completely empty, just like the one just now that had his **** cut off and was hammered to pieces in person. Like the bull king.
(end of this chapter)