Chapter 1060 Broken leg
The smell in the torture room is weird, and all kinds of torture instruments are either hung on the wall or placed on the case table, which looks very frightening.
Huang Yuanchu was taken to the execution room, and Peng Weiwei came.
"We all know about you. If you explain it clearly earlier, you are good to us. If you resist stubbornly, you have to know that no matter how many men enter the Baiqi, they will become soft in the hands of Ye Ye. You can think about it Weigh!"
Huang Yuanchu shouted: "I am wronged!"
Peng Weiwei sneered, "There is no one who doesn't complain about being wronged when he enters here!"
"Wronged!"
The shouts continued.
Peng Weiwei picked up the knife and said with a sinister smile, "Yeah, can I open a slit for you?"
Huang Yuanchu's eyes were full of fear, but he kept those words in mind, and shouted: "I am wronged! Help! Someone is going to torture you!"
Peng Weiwei went out later.
Ming Jing stood outside with her arms folded, "It's hard?"
Peng Weiwei said in shame: "Yes! No matter how you threaten him, you are calling for injustice. If you can punish him, I promise to make him speak within fifteen minutes."
Ming Jing shook her head, "There is no evidence. This kind of matter should have been taken over by Wannian County or the Ministry of Criminal Justice. It would be a violation of the regulations for Baiqi to take over. If punishment is imposed, there will be no good results, good or bad."
Throwing rats!
Ming Jing folded her hands on her chest, turned upside down, and said, "Your Highness is waiting for good news, but..."
She then entered the palace.
"Your Highness, a hundred horsemen are incompetent."
Li Hong put down the document in his hand, and said with some dissatisfaction: "He refuses to confess?"
Ming Jing said: "Yes, whether it's a threat or something, Huang Yuanchu just shouted that he was wronged and said that he would beat him to death."
Li Hong asked: "Do you think it's possible to do something?"
Ming Jing shook her head, "This servant thinks it's impossible, otherwise the outside world will say it's a trick of torture."
Li Hong nodded, feeling that this person knew how to measure, "It's good that you know, we have to find a way to deal with this matter, within three days, Huang Yuanchu is the only one to speak."
Mingjing cried out inwardly, "Yes."
Zeng Xianglin sent her out and said: "There will be many people making noise in the next three days. Your Highness is the first time to supervise the country, so don't go too far, so Baiqi must hurry up."
Ming Jing agreed.
But it's hard.
She walked slowly in the palace.
"His chest muscles are so strong, it makes my heart beat."
Several court ladies passed by.
Mingjing looked down at her own body, annoyed, "Why did you have this thing?"
Troublesome!
…
Jia Ping'an promised Xincheng to find out that wretched rumor maker within three days, and is now analyzing it.
"The princess has a transcendent status and is deeply loved by His Majesty. Her temperament will not make enemies..."
Jia Ping'an thought carefully about Xincheng.
"Gentle, but a bold person in his bones."
"Do things with propriety, not domineering."
"Looks beautiful, but refuses to do anything with honor."
"It looks weak, but it is actually smart, Bingxue is smart..."
"Such a person... where does she have an enemy?"
Jia Pingan wrote and drew on paper.
"The gentry? They are full to deal with the harmless new city!"
The gentry would not even make a move on Gaoyang, let alone Xincheng.
"I have no enemies!"
Jia Pingan has a headache.
"Lang Jun."
Wang Er Er is back.
"how?"
Jia Ping'an's spirit lifted.
Wang Lao Er was sweating, "I checked around, and it was broken when I found Dongshi."
"Stop chasing the source of the rumor."
Jia Pingan said: "It's hard to find out about such things."
He thought for a while, "The princess doesn't have a real enemy, but the rumors are so vicious, they clearly want to destroy her. I thought of a possibility..."
Jia Ping'an touched his chin, "We must analyze things from the perspective of interests..."
Whoosh!
Wang Bo came in like a flexible mouse.
"Sir, I'm here to attend the class."
Jia Pingan said angrily, "Did you finish your homework?"
Wang Bo nodded, "It's done."
Jia Pingan regained his train of thought, "What does that person want if he can spread such vicious rumors?"
Wang Bo likes to learn the way of thinking from Mr., "Sir, he wants to ruin the reputation of the princess."
Jia Pingan nodded, "What good will ruining the princess' reputation do him?"
Here comes the methodology.
Derivation step by step.
Wang Bo thought for a while, "Mr. said the princess has no enemies, so it can only be for the purpose of accommodating hatred!"
"Who would hate a princess?"
Jia Pingan deduced again, "The princess has a detached position in the palace and never gets involved in those disputes. Not to mention outside the palace, the princess usually doesn't go out, she is not short of money, and doesn't need to compete with others for any land property..."
Wang Bo was thinking.
This disciple is smart enough, but he likes to pretend too much, which makes Jia Pingan very headache.
Wang Bo said: "Sir, there are many kinds of interests. Apart from the conflict of interests between inside and outside the palace, I think we can also look at other disputes. For example, the relationship between the princess and the outside world."
"That's exactly what I thought of."
Jia Pingan smiled and said: "Recently, the princess has only been with a group of noble ladies like Gao Yang, or they are playing horses, or going out for an outing in the city, and have no other contact."
Wang Bo asked: "Sir, will those noble ladies be jealous of the princess's beauty?"
"That's a good question, no." Jia Pingan shook his head, "The princess is not the kind of person who often goes out to socialize, so she won't steal their limelight."
"Then..." Wang Bo got stuck.
Jia Ping'an said: "In recent years, there have been some crazy bees and butterflies squatting outside the princess mansion, just wanting to win the princess's favor, and from this, they will rise to the sky and become rich and wealthy."
Wang Bo was surprised, "They don't dare?"
"Today I will teach you how to be good." Jia Pingan said: "There are many kinds of men, and it is instinctive to like women. Some people like a woman and will silently look at her, not daring to show their feelings."
Wang Bo said: "This kind of people are deeply affectionate."
Jia Pingan shook his head, "This kind of people can only watch their beloved woman become someone else's wife in the end."
Wang Bo's face turned green.
Jia Pingan continued: "Most men will go after a woman after they like it, but it is not very painful to seek. Some people get out of this kind of pain after suffering for a long time, while others will be brooding... That's right. , this kind of people has a characteristic, they feel that this world owes them.”
Wang Bo thought for a while, "Are you talking about me, sir?"
Jia Pingan thought for a long time, then nodded.
"yes."
…
Xu Xiaoyu walked into Sun's house.
The Sun family is a big family at any rate, with family members and dogs.
When you come in at night, you must first avoid the dogs. As for the guards... Xu Xiaoyu didn't pay attention at all.
He touched all the way to the backyard.
The backyard was brightly lit at the moment, and there were several maids standing outside the largest room.
Xu Xiaoyu was peeping from the front.
There are three men inside, one of them is quite handsome.
This person is Sun Zhen!
The other two are pretty good, but not as good as Sun Zhen.
There is a lady below, smiling.
No way to get close to eavesdrop!
"...no problem!"
"Drink!"
Xu Xiaoyu could only vaguely hear it.
The banquet ended later.
Sun Zhen came out with the lady.
"Sister, don't worry!"
The lady smiled and said, "I am naturally relieved."
The lady and a man went to the guest room.
Xu Xiaoyu approached.
"...Why are you staring at Dalang's concubine today? Do you want to steal something?"
"Nonsense, why have I ever watched it?"
After complaining for a while, the lady seemed to take the initiative.
There was a burst of gasping inside, but it stopped for a while, and then the lady was cursing, and the man pretended to be snoring...
No value.
Xu Xiaoyu touched the other side, and Sun Zhen had just entered the room at this moment.
"Baby!"
There was a blushing sound.
"That dead ghost of your family dares to let you out at night?"
"Living in one workshop is easy, come on, bow your head..."
After a while of tossing.
…
The emperor and empress are all gone, and for many people in Chang'an, it is liberation.
For example, Jia Pingan.
"What time is it? The Duke hasn't come yet?"
Wu Kui did not go to Jiucheng Palace with him. He felt that the emperor knew Zhao Guogong's character well, so he specially left him to preside over the daily affairs of the Ministry of War.
But the sky is bright now!
People? !
People are in the Daming Palace.
After the empress left, the scumbag became the prince's henchman. These two days were very busy.
"A lot of people outside are clamoring, saying that Huang Yuanchu is just the chicken that the prince used to kill chickens and monkeys."
"He is a chicken and others don't like it!"
Li Yuanying froze for a moment, "What chicken?"
"You don't understand chicken."
Jia Pingan sneered and said: "Your Majesty is about to leave, and these people are using this matter to make a fuss. They just want to make the prince burn out and damage the prince's reputation. Interesting."
Li Yuanying smiled wryly, "Sir, I dare not be funny. Many memorials before were speaking for Huang Yuanchu, saying that he was wronged and should be released. It implied that the prince's assistants were incompetent, and that the powerful officials were domineering."
"Power minister? Are you talking about Dai Zhide?"
Jia Pingan said casually.
Li Yuanying: "..."
Jia Pingan thought for a while, "Follow up."
"Follow-up, a group of people spoke for Huang Yuanchu. Baiqi didn't dare to torture Huang Yuanchu. His Highness is very tormented at the moment. He said that it will take three days, and the result will definitely come out within three days."
"He can only carry it for three days."
Jia Pingan was a little bit embarrassed.
Li Yuanying asked: "Sir, do you sigh for His Highness?"
"Yes!" Jia Ping'an felt that the elder nephew was still not interested. "If His Majesty is here, let alone three days, it will be fine to detain this person for three years."
Li Yuanying nodded in agreement with this statement, "Your Majesty has regained power step by step from the powerful ministers, and his prestige is too high."
Later historians liked to belittle Li Zhi, especially the historians of the Song Dynasty. Old Ouyang said that Li Zhi was lewd and poisoned the world. And Sima Guang directly said that Li Zhi was weak and cowardly. In a word, Li Zhi could probably rank in the top three on the list of weak kings.
But in fact, Da Songxiu's history books are very shameless, and his personal bias has the upper hand.
For example, the story of Gao Yang and Bianji was fabricated. Sima Guang didn't like Buddhism, so he made up such nonsense stories to fool people and damage the reputation of Buddhism. As for Gao Yang... isn't history written by people? The old man can just make it up, but can she still come out of the ground to find the old man to settle accounts?
Whether it is Empress Wu's Hen Sichen or the great prosperity of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, they all became historical reflections in the Song Dynasty. And if they want to solve the Song Dynasty's problems, satirizing the present with history has become the sharpest weapon of Ouyang Xiu and Sima Guang.
Everything is for politics, and this is the motivation of Da Song to discredit when compiling Tang history.
But when you ignore the compiled content that is similar to third-rate romance novels and carefully read the events in the history books, you can feel the power of Li Zhi.
A little transparent became the prince, some people said it was luck. But if Li Zhi didn't have the quality to make the late emperor fall in love with him, how could he be the prince?
Faced with oppression by powerful ministers after ascension to the throne, he brought back the situation step by step. During this period, various methods made people praise in retrospect.
Continuously attacked the enemy externally, and internally wiped out the Guanlongmen Clan who had ruled China for hundreds of years. With these two alone, Li Zhi can flaunt his reputation through the ages!
Then he continued to suppress the family members. If it wasn't for the illness, the emperor would be more than that.
Without the continuous efforts of him and Empress Wu, where would the so-called prosperity of Kaiyuan come about?
Jia Ping'an entered the palace.
"This matter is a bit troublesome."
After just one day of absence, Li Hong seemed to have matured a lot.
"how do you want to do it?"
Jia Pingan asked calmly.
Li Hong said: "Uncle, torture is out of the question. They are constantly advising...I'm afraid I won't last for a few days."
Jia Pingan said softly: "You are already very good at withstanding the attacks of those people. You carry it in the palace, and you don't care about it outside."
Dai Zhide frowned, "Who is going to take care of this matter outside the palace?"
Jia Pingan said: "I'll come!"
Leave the palace, and then go to Wannian County.
"Meet the Duke."
A small official just left the county office and was about to go to work. When he saw Jia Pingan, he immediately turned around and led the way, "Is the Duke here to look for Duke Wei?"
"right."
"Fortunately, Wei Gong said he was a little dizzy in the morning."
"Thank you very much."
"you are welcome."
The little official was panicked, and then smiled.
"My father-in-law!"
Weiying was resting in the duty room, and heard the voice: "Is it Xiao Jia?"
Jia Ping'an just went in, "Is my father-in-law unwell?"
Weiying said: "I didn't sleep well last night, your mother-in-law nagged all night, saying that it's time for a promotion..."
He did not deny, "Your mother-in-law said that with your son-in-law here, I should have been promoted a long time ago. But the old man's temperament, the old man knows that it is okay to be in the county. If he really wants to be promoted, the old man is not good at socializing, not good at dealing with things. It's just mediocre, what are you going to do? Suffer? It's better to be free in Wannian County."
Jia Ping'an smiled and said, "My father-in-law is transparent. Someone mentioned this last time, so I said it depends on what my father-in-law means."
This old man is really transparent, and he is quite free and easy to regard fame and wealth as dung.
"My father-in-law, what happened to Huang Yuanchu?"
Weiying looked outside the door, "Did you find this matter?"
Jia Pingan nodded.
Weiying sighed: "I wanted to talk to you a long time ago, you! Everything is fine, but it's too deep."
Jia Pingan smiled dryly.
"The last time Wushuang took Dalang home, the old man asked, and Dalang said something about the inherent evil of human nature. This old man thought it made sense. Human nature is inherently evil, so the cycle of prosperity and decline continues. If this is the case, why bother so much?" ?”
The father-in-law would only tell him this, Jia Pingan said with a smile: "We must make Datang stronger."
Weiying shook his head, "I agree with what you said, that human nature is inherently evil. Therefore, no matter how powerful a dynasty is, it will decline, and the reason is that human nature is inherently evil. Can a wise king produce one, but can there be more than a dozen? If you meet an incapable king, the dynasty will naturally decline."
My father-in-law is in good spirits today, and he even expounded a very simple social theory.
"I understand what my father-in-law meant, that is, human nature is inherently evil, so there is no hope for such a person."
Weiying nodded, "So why be so busy."
"But the children and grandchildren are here!"
Weiying was stunned.
"Yes! The children and grandchildren are here! Even if you know that the future will be weak, you still have to work hard at this moment."
Jia Ping'an laughed and said, "Who knows what the future will be like? Maybe the future will become a country that will last forever."
Wei Ying muttered a few words, "The one with the broken leg is called Chen Huang, and he is Wang Fuchou's subordinate. Wang Fuchou was a little annoyed. He just went to visit Chen's house yesterday. Chen Huang swore that it was Huang Yuanchu's slave who committed the crime."
"Did anyone see it at the time?"
Weiying thought for a while, "Huang Yuanchu didn't pay all the taxes this year, and the local government urged him not to pay. Chen Huang was ordered to investigate, but unexpectedly, his leg was broken. At that time! There was no one around at that time."
Jia Pingan said: "How about Chen Huang?"
Weiying stood up, "I will take you...that's all, let Wang Fuchou take you there, it happens that he is very angry, so please persuade me."
The father-in-law really knows how to drive the son-in-law!
Jia Ping'an went to find Wang Fuchou.
Wang Fuchou is having luck.
"Duke of the State."
"Take me to Chen Huang's house."
Wang Fuchou had been thinking about it all the way, and he didn't think of his son until he arrived at Chen Huang's house.
"Sanlang has made the Duke bother."
"It's easy to feed."
Jia Ping'an was calm, but Wang Fuchou was deeply reflecting on himself.
The old man actually forgot about Saburo, how unfeeling this is!
He thought about it, and wanted to buy some gifts to thank Jia Pingan, but this person was from the Moonlight Clan, and he spent as much as he had on hand, so that he was implicated by Wang Bo, and he had no travel expenses when he was demoted.
This father and son duo, they are really weird. One has loose hands and can't save money, and the other likes to pretend to be in the limelight.
Arrived at Chen's house, Chen Huang was lying on the bed, and when he saw Jia Ping'an, he hurriedly cupped his hands.
"Lie down and lie down."
Jia Pingan held him down, "I came here to ask, you have to tell the truth, otherwise..."
Chen Huang smiled wryly, "Duke asked whether Huang Yuanchu did the broken leg?"
Sure enough, petty officials are more transparent than officials.
"yes."
Chen Huang said: "The Huang family is still short of taxes this year, so I went to urge to investigate. Who would have thought that Huang Yuanchu would say that there is no tax this year, and wait for next year. The next official was angry when he heard it... The Duke does not know, Huang Yuanchu is trying to punish neighbors and Where is Fangzheng!"
Jia Ping'an understood.
Datang Fang is responsible for supervising and urging taxation. The terrible thing is that Datang's taxation system is a joint guarantee system.
Wang Fuchou said: "Four families are neighbors, and five families are insurers. If one family does not pay taxes, the neighbors have to pay for them. In many places, there are incidents where neighbors flee because of neighbors' failure to pay taxes."
If the neighbor doesn’t pay taxes, I still have to pay for him? This girl can be called an indiscriminate disaster!
"Can it be verified?"
Chen Huang said: "Because Huang Yuanchu is a powerful man, I dare not offend him, so before I went, I found someone to inquire about the Huang family's news, and said that there was a big fight with the neighbor Zhao's family, and there was a big fight."
Here's a great way to clean up your neighbors... NO TAXES!
Chen Huang gritted his teeth to hold back the pain, "Huang Yuanchu and Fangzheng are friends."
This method is really awesome.
But you can't take this as proof.
"There is no evidence for what you say!"
Wang Fuchou summed it up pretty well.
This is not easy to handle!
Chen Huang burst into tears, "That Hao Nu kicked and broke my leg. Huang Yuanchu said it was a good fight, but when he turned around and closed the door, he didn't care about it."
Jia Ping'an smiled and said, "Actually, I also like to break people's legs. It feels good."
(end of this chapter)