Chapter 188: Cool Officials Come to Junchen 1
If you want to say that the dynasty with the most cool officials in history, it is none other than the Wu Zhou Dynasty. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in history, and the road to the throne of this strong woman is also full of bloody storms.
It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country, after Wu Zetian stole the Tang Dynasty, the whole society was filled with a mood of resistance, and some people even did not hesitate to raise the banner of restoring the Tang Dynasty to raise troops against the military. In order to keep her throne, she rolled her eyes and came up with a trick to kill people with the knife of a cool official. Therefore, the cool officials of the Wu Zhou Dynasty were also born in response to the disaster, among which Junchen did the best and was promoted the fastest, and he quickly became the leader of the Wu Zhou cool officials, and was known as the first cool official of the Tang Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration at all, the society at that time was shrouded in bloody white terror, and everyone was at risk.
Lai Junchen is a native of Yongzhou Wannian, this person who was born in response to the catastrophe, has an extraordinary background. It is said that in Wannian Township, Yongzhou, there are two friends who are engaged in gambling, one is called Laicao, which is really a well-known name, and the other is called Cai Ben.
The two smell the same, often drink, gamble and play together, and hook up with Cai Ben's rather attractive wife when they come to. Cai Ben, who wore a green hat, was not only frustrated in love, but also moved by Confucius in the casino, and he lost everything. During this period of time, Cai Ben lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to. Cai Ben had no money to repay his gambling debts, so he had to mortgage his wife to handle the account, which also happened to fulfill his wife's intentions.
Cai Ben's wife was pregnant when she was escorted to, and after calculation, I don't know whether the evil seed in the stomach came to or Cai Ben planted. This extraordinary evil seed is the Lai Junchen who was born in response to the catastrophe.
Lao Tzu is a hero, Lao Tzu is a reactionary bastard, Lai Junchen also inherited the rogue gene of Lai Cao, Lai Junchen has been idle since he was a child, unwilling to engage in a legitimate profession, and is vicious and insidious, capricious, and no one can compare. Lai Junchen has a big hobby, that is, he loves to tell, and it is by virtue of this hobby that he has become a popular cool official of Wu Zetian.
On one occasion, he was arrested and imprisoned for theft in the state, where he accused an administrator of a serious crime. Lai Junchen's whistleblowing didn't really know someone's ulterior secret, he was just chasing after the wind, and sometimes there was no shadow at all, so Lai Junchen vividly reported to the jailer that so-and-so had concealed any major crimes.
After coming to Junchen to tell the whistle again this time, the assassin Wang Xu sent someone to investigate, but he couldn't find any fame after checking and checking. Wang Xu was furious, and boldly tricked the people to tease his own officials. So he punished him with a hundred rods for the crime of false informing.
This assassin Wang Xu was also unlucky enough to be killed because of something. After Lai Junchen heard the news, he jumped with joy, the emperor lived up to his heart, and his opportunity finally came. This time, he directly reported to Wu Zetian and was immediately summoned by Wu Zetian. He burst into tears in front of Wu Zetian, fabricating that he was punished and beaten by Wang Xu because he exposed to Wang Xu that Li Chong, the evil king of Lang, had a premeditated rebellion, so as to suppress his whistleblowing and make it impossible for him to get a lawsuit.
Wu Zetian thought that Lai Junchen was a person who was loyal to him, so Lai Junchen went from a nameless market hooligan to a career overnight, and turned into a pillar of the pillar that Wu Zetian relied on to kill people and establish power. This villain has gained power, and he has always been in power, so he will carry out the order, and Lai Junchen really lived up to the empress's high expectations, and in a short period of time, more than 1,000 families were killed by him.
When he tried a case, as long as he did not agree, he would inevitably carry out a conspiracy, and often a small case could kill thousands of people. In the more than ten years he was an official, he slaughtered dozens of imperial relatives such as Prince Li Tang, the prince of the county, and the prince of the country, slaughtered five prime ministers, and slaughtered more than a dozen generals.
Lai Junchen slaughtered more than 1,000 officials, large and small, and tens of thousands of relatives, neighbors and friends who were killed. With such a white terror enveloping the earth, the Manchu Dynasty and the Civil and Military Dynasties felt that the day and night were in danger, and they were all silent. Coming to Junchen to try the case, torture was indiscriminate, and the prisoners were either dead or maimed. When a prisoner is imprisoned, he is left to lie in a filthy place, or he is filled with vinegar, and the prisoner cannot come out alive unless he dies.
In addition, Lai Junchen also racked his brains and innovated a variety of new punishments, such as fixing a hundred pulses, being unable to breathe, roaring suddenly, losing his soul and gall, dying pigs, seeking death, and breaking his home, etc., completely taking torturing people as a hobby. These are all flails, but what is flails? It is a kind of corporal punishment in which a wooden flail is put around the neck of a prisoner.
The flail, locks, and shackles play the role of detaining prisoners, but after the transformation of Lai Junchen, the flail no longer only has the function of restraint, but has become a tool for killing, and just hearing the name is also creepy. When the prisoners saw these torture instruments, they were not so frightened that they could only make false accusations to be exempted from the pain of punishment.
Di Renjie, a martial and Zhou minister who was famous as a detective in later generations, was almost falsely accused to death by Lai Junchen, who falsely accused the ministers and local officials Shangshu Di Renjie, Ren Linghui and others, and put them in prison. He first asked Wu Zetian to give an order, and then threatened Di Renjie and others with Wu Zetian's edict, in order to protect his family from the death penalty, they only admitted that they were guilty of rebellion.
Since Di Renjie and the others have admitted that they have committed the crime of rebellion, the competent authorities are just waiting for the date of execution, so they are no longer strictly guarded. Di Renjie borrowed an inkstone from the guard, tore off a piece of clothing, wrote a grievance and put it in a cotton coat, and sent him out of prison. Di Renjie's son took this grievance to complain about the grievance and was summoned by the Empress Wu.
Empress Wu was very surprised when she saw it, and asked Lai Junchen. Lai Junchen replied, "This prisoner has not even stripped off the belt of his robe, how can he be willing to admit his guilt?"
So Wu Zetian sent Zhou Lin, a general secretary, to check in the prison, and Lai Junchen immediately ordered the jailer to put on a robe and belt for Di Renjie and stand in the west chamber. Zhou Linxin knew that Lai Junchen was ruthless, and he didn't dare to look to the west, but he just looked at the east chamber and left, and he didn't dare to report to the emperor.
At this moment, a nine-year-old child said that something had changed dramatically. Who is this child? It turned out that he was the son of Le Sixue, the squire of the Fengge, whose father was framed by Lai Junchen and exterminated, and he was still young, and he was confiscated into the work of Si Nong.
The child knelt in front of Wu Zetian, tears rolled down, and he said: "Lai Junchen is cruel, bullying the emperor, and rampant. If His Majesty were to give him a charge of treason, no matter what official he was, no matter how big or small, he would confess to the crime of treason, just as His Majesty said. Chen's father has been killed, and the minister's family has been shattered, and the minister is not about survival, but it's a pity that His Majesty's wisdom and the country's Dafa have been insulted by Lai Junchen. ā
Listening to this child's words, Wu Zetian was deeply shocked, so he pardoned Di Renjie and the other six people, and they escaped the tiger's mouth, which was the only false accusation case that was not killed by Lai Junchen.
Someone accused Zhou Xing, who was also a cool official, of contacting others to rebel, and Wu Zetian ordered Lai Junchen to be in charge of trying the case. This Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen are the same kind, the same kind of the same kind, they know the roots, and they are also ruthless. Lai Junchen took advantage of Zhou Xing's unknowing, so he pretended to invite Zhou Xing to the mansion to drink and discuss, and Lai Junchen set up a table of banquets at home, which was sea cucumber and abalone, which was abundant. He invited Zhou Xing to his home, and the two of them persuaded me to drink, looking like he was in his heart.
After three glasses of wine, Lai Junchen said with a sad face: "I encountered a technical problem, so I had to ask your brother to help come up with an idea." It's just that I just took over the case, and the emperor personally gave instructions, asking me to definitely get to the bottom of the matter, but that kid just won't admit it, I don't know what tricks you will have when you encounter such a situation?"
Seeing that his boss actually asked him for advice, Zhou Xing couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said proudly: "It's easy to do, you first find a big urn and set up charcoal around it, so that the big urn is like a furnace, and then you put the prisoner in the urn, no matter what material the prisoner is made of, he will honestly confess all the crimes." ā
Lai Junchen said that he was clever, and then ordered someone to bring a big urn, according to what Zhou Xing said, lit charcoal fires around him, and then turned back to Zhou Xing and said: "Someone in the palace has secretly accused you of rebellion, and the emperor ordered me to investigate strictly." I'm sorry, but now please get into the urn and experience it yourself. ā
When Zhou Xing heard this, he was frightened to death, and quickly kowtowed and confessed. This should be a capital crime according to the criminal law, but Wu Zetian is still a little kind after all, and he did a lot of unsightly things for himself, so he exiled him to Lingnan. But Zhou Xing did a lot of evil, and was killed by the enemy on the way, which is the famous invitation to enter the urn.
In addition, this cool official is not only a ruthless cool official, but also a wolf in human skin. Lai Junchen relied on his power and forcibly occupied the people's daughters, his taste was a little heavy, he didn't like the yellow flower girl, but he admired the young woman who was a little beautiful, and when he saw whose wife and concubine were good-looking, he tried every means to get it. In order to occupy the wife of his colleague, he not only falsely accused his colleague, but also took the opportunity to insult the colleague's mother, which is simply intolerable.
Once, when Lai Junchen went out to play, he saw that the merchant Wang Qingxu had a very beautiful daughter who was married to a man named Duan Jian. In order to forcibly take the princess's daughter, Lai Junchen falsely passed on the edict and relied on the power to marry the princess as his wife.
One day Wei Suizhong came to Junchen to drink, just when Junchen came to the banquet for his wife's clansmen, Taiyuan Wang is a famous family, everyone is gathered together, toast and drink. Wei Suizhong suddenly came uninvited, and Lai Junchen felt that his status was too low to raise his face, so he instructed the housekeeper: "Just say I'm not there, don't let him in." ā
Wei Suizhong is also a person who sticks to the hair more fine than a monkey, and he can see the reason at a glance, which hurts his self-esteem too much. He went straight in, pointed at Wang's nose and scolded wildly, saying, "What's so great about you, can't I come in if your family is here? Be careful that I fix your family to death!"
Wang was originally a famous lady, but she was humiliated by Lai Junchen's little minion in front of everyone, and she returned to the house and cried bitterly. Lai Junchen was also very angry, and ordered someone to tie up Wei Suizhong and beat him severely, Wei Suizhong was sober up now, and quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and Lai Junchen really spared him. Why? Because there is a saying that brothers are like siblings, and wives are like clothes, and brothers are good helpers in their careers, and as long as they sit in this position, are they afraid that they will not be able to get a wife? So he taught Wei Suizhong a few words and let him go.
Mrs. Wang was humiliated in vain, and her position in her husband's mind was nothing more than that, so she was so ashamed and angry that within a few days, she committed suicide. Even so, Lai Junchen didn't take it seriously, because he had found a new target again. Last time he fell in love with Duan Jian's wife, this time he took a fancy to Duan Jian's concubine again, and the unlucky Duan Jian had to obediently give it away again, originally hugging left and right, and suddenly became a loner.
Therefore, ordinary people often say that the ugly wife is close to the treasure of the family, the wife is ugly, and the land is closer to themselves, which is easy to take care of, and it is not easy to be targeted by others. Duan Jian is good, his wife and concubine are all someone else's now.