Chapter 118: Military Law and Human Feelings
In the Qinglong Temple of Xinchangfang, the scene of pilgrims rubbing shoulders in the past is gone, replaced by a team of soldiers of Jia Ye Sensen, where a large number of convicted children of powerful people are imprisoned. As a direct result of cracking down on the conspirators and rebels, neither the political affairs hall nor the Shenmu Army wanted to see any accidents happen to these people.
Therefore, the prison that had long been overcrowded was not suitable for imprisoning the children of these guilty families, and in comparison, the Qinglong Temple as a venue provider, and then sent troops by the Shenwu Army to take care of it, became the best result.
Because Katoriji Temple was directly involved in the rebellion, the major Buddhist temples that were supposed to be pure places of Buddhism became silent, either for fear of being implicated and suffering from unjustified disasters, or because they were originally pregnant with ghosts, and they were panicked because of their weak hearts.
Qinglong Temple does not have many temple properties, and it is the most "poor" in a big Buddha temple, so taking advantage of the troubled times, a large number of crazy annexation lands naturally do not have their share. Moreover, as soon as the Qingzhang land began, the Qinglong Temple was extremely cooperative, not only disclosing all the property and land, but even the tenant farmers who were attached to the land also planned to hand over all the land to the imperial court, so that they could set up their own doors.
There are too many initiatives behind this self-supporting portal, and if you want to stand on your own, you must own your own land, in other words, the elders of Qinglong Temple have agreed to give up some of the temple property to support the tenant farmers to become good families again.
At this time, all the landlords were strong, whether it was a Buddhist temple or a family of Xun Qi, they were all trying their best to collect money and annex land, and the practice of Qinglong Temple was like a clear stream, which soon attracted the attention of Qin Jin.
For this reason, Qin Jin also specially told the political affairs hall to commend the actions of Qinglong Temple, and issued an announcement to set up a model in the government and the opposition.
Since then, Qinglong Temple has changed and faintly become the head of the Buddhist temple in Chang'an City. Although it was not a taste for other Buddhist temples to see this, they were ruthless enough to engage in any trick of cutting meat and feeding eagles.
Dugu Yanjing angrily threw away a piece of cold naan assigned to him, in his opinion, the guards filled the basket with cold bags every day, and distributed them piece by piece, this kind of behavior is still different from feeding pigs and dogs? How can a person who has been clothed and fed since childhood be able to endure this kind of humiliation? What's more, the cold bag is so hard that it can almost be used as a stone to smash people.
"Twelve Lang, be obedient, hurry up and eat the naan, otherwise you will be hungry for another day, and it won't take you a few days of hard work, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on......"
There are about three or four thousand people imprisoned in the Qinglong Temple, and each family has a prominent ancestor and dazzling family background, but now they are imprisoned together like pigs and dogs, and they can't bite the food around the pigs and dogs, and even the water is not enough.
Every day, except for a small piece of cold and hard naan, it is a shallow bowl of cold water, if it is not enough, hungry and thirsty can only wait for tomorrow's meal.
The Dugu family was a noble family in the Tang Dynasty, and there were hundreds of men alone, who were originally wrapped in clothes to stretch out their hands for food and open their mouths, but suddenly fell from heaven to hell, and they all became at a loss, even hysterical.
"If I eat, I will only live for a few more days, and I would rather starve to death than suffer from this humiliation!"
Everyone present knew that they were implicated in the Katoriji rebellion, but they were not actually implicated, in fact, their Dugu family was the mastermind behind the scenes. This is also a good "thank" to the new young head of the family, Dugu Yanxi.
Dugu Yanxi used to be a figure in the Shenwu Army, because he repeatedly went against Qin Jin, he almost lost his life, and then finally saved himself from death under the condition of the clan's manpower, and he was not even deprived of his title. If you are an ordinary person, after escaping death, you will inevitably be a man with your tail between your legs and enjoy this rich and noble life. However, he has always pretended to have this hatred in his heart, if he doesn't kill Qin Jin, he won't be blind to death.
It's a pity that the rabble is the rabble, and the Shenwu Army didn't even go out in person, so it was cleaned up by Jin Wuwei, who had been trained for half a year.
Dugu Yanxi, as the first criminal of the mastermind, has been imprisoned by single gambling, his fate can be imagined, even if he does not die, it will never be possible to breathe fresh and free air in the second half of his life.
Dugu Yanjing's words made everyone cry when they heard it, and when they thought that one day they would be pushed to the court, and one by one's head fell to the ground, they all came from it with sorrow and mourning.
The good men of the ancestors of the Dugu family have always died on the battlefield, and today they just want to add a bowl-sized scar to their necks......
"Twelve, shut up!"
The old man who spoke was obviously a person with some status in the Dugu family, and Dugu Yanjing finally closed his mouth angrily, but he couldn't stand scolding again when he looked at the soft eggs of the clansmen.
"Which one is noisy? Aren't you afraid of military justice?"
There was a mourning in the courtyard where Dugu's house was located, and the chaotic sound finally alarmed the guards, and the three full-width armor Shenwu soldiers asked questions, and everyone invariably stopped crying, and even Dugu Yanjing, who had been indignant, shut up.
The children of the Dugu family have long been dissatisfied with Dugu Yanjing, so they sneered in a mocking voice:
"What he said sounded better than anyone else, but what was the result, didn't he be as well-behaved as a when he saw someone wearing armor?"
This was said ruthlessly, Dugu Yanjing shut up and just didn't want to suffer the loss in front of him, but after being put on the shelf by these vicious words, it was extremely difficult to jump down. Under the hot head, Dugu Yanjing immediately roared:
"A certain Dugu Yanjing, although we are prisoners, we also have the right to eat and drink enough......, right?
Where would the soldiers of the Shenwu Army have a verbal dispute with him, I saw a leader-like armored soldier stretch out his hand and pointed at Dugu Yanjing, and immediately two burly and strong soldiers pounced on him like wolves, grabbed Dugu Yanjing's collar like a chicken and walked out.
Dugu Yanjing was inexplicably ashamed and indignant, and while struggling hard, he shouted:
"You let go of me, let go of my ......"
The guards left, leaving behind with sighs and ridicule, many people think that Dugu Yanjing is just asking for hardship, and now everyone is unable to protect themselves, who cares about his life or death.
Dugu Yanjing was carried to another courtyard, and the expected punches and kicks did not appear, and he was surprised to find that there was a purple-robed official standing in this courtyard. He really wanted to shout that he was wronged, he didn't know anything about Dugu Yanxi's conspiracy, why was he implicated, and he would die soon?
However, out of the pride and dignity of the children of the family, this injustice could not be shouted no matter what, and in the end he could only stare at the purple-robed official angrily.
"The twelve langs of the Dugu family are really not afraid of death!"
Dugu Yanjing suddenly found that he actually knew the purple-robed official in front of him, who was the son of Wei Jiansu, the prime minister of the dynasty, Wei Qi!
Wei Wei is one round older than Dugu Yanjing, almost a generation behind, but he is the same in generation. Moreover, because Wei Qi has a weak father, he has always been ridiculed in the circle of the children of the family, who would have imagined today that the gap in their status is beyond reach.
"Twelve Lang, Wei is entrusted by the government hall to deal with the children of the family involved in the chaos, in the spirit of God's virtue of a good life, or you can be spared the death penalty!"
"When, really?"
Since ancient times, there is only one death, even if Dugu Yanjing keeps saying that he is not afraid of death, but when he heard that he can be spared the death penalty, he still can't believe his ears, thinking that he just heard it wrong.
Wei Wei said:
"You heard it right, the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable!"
Dugu Yanjing immediately felt that he should be more backbone, so he raised his head and responded:
"If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse? Kill and kill, why bother to behave!"
Wei Wei smiled.
"You will know whether Wei is acting in a coy manner, the imperial court will soon issue an edict of the Son of Heaven, ordering the guilty to be filled with the army of Anxi, and you may be able to earn back the former wealth and glory with military merits!"
"When, really?"
Dugu Yanjing once again stuttered unhappily, dying on the battlefield is something that every hot-blooded man has fantasized, but because of his background, his elders don't want him to go to the battlefield and pin his head in his belt to do a battle. Now, it was a blessing in disguise, and he was able to kill the enemy, although he was confiscated in a dishonorable way, but this was the brilliance and hope that he saw when he thought he was going to die, and his body trembled uncontrollably with joy, excitement, and disbelief.
"Why are you still stunned, go back and think about it, someone will provide you with the necessary things soon, and if you don't want to die insignificant, seize this opportunity!"
At this point, Dugu Yanjing finally failed to continue shouting, but lowered his already somewhat bluffing head.
Wei Qi sighed, and said indifferently:
"Qinglong Temple is now under the jurisdiction of military law, gather a crowd to make a commotion, twenty whips are inevitable, endure it, it will hurt for a while!"
Twenty whips were whipped on Dugu Yanjing's body, the whip saw the flesh, the crumbs of the flesh and blood crackled horizontally, Dugu Yanjing almost gritted his teeth, but he couldn't help but scream, and even the soldiers who executed couldn't help but secretly add hello.
This kind of tough guy who can endure the pain is rare.
Twenty lashes don't sound like much, and they won't break their muscles and bones, but when they are drawn on a person, they can almost make the entire flesh and skin of the back unrecognizable. Dugu Yanjing's back is like this, at first glance there is almost no good place, if it is not disposed of properly, it will fester, bleed pus, and sores, and finally die in pain.
Wei Wei obviously cared about the old feelings, and ordered someone to simply clean his wound, apply medicine, and then wrap it tightly in clean linen strips.
"Military law belongs to military law, human favor belongs to human favor, go back to recuperate well, and only after recuperation can you have the opportunity to go into battle and make meritorious contributions, and come back with glory again......"