Chapter 105: A River of Blood
Bid according to the age of the child, 100,000 taels of silver who have never seen anyone since birth, 130,000 yuan from three to five years old, 150,000 yuan from five to ten years old, and the price is higher no matter how old you are!
They can be replaced directly by ignorant children, so the charge is the lowest. The bigger ones were too noisy and troublesome, and they wanted to make these people sick in prison and stay in exile for a reasonable death, or behead off so that no one could see that something was wrong, so the price was a little higher. As for teenagers and adults, they can directly get a fake corpse in the prison instead, but this kind of thing can't happen too many times, and this kind of person is the most likely to be found, so the price is the highest.
In short, as long as you have silver, even if you can't run away, you can leave a way for the family to live.
Emperor Jiayuan looked at the 'buy life' excerpt with a clear price presented below, and the whole person was going crazy!
"Check! Examine! Check it out for me! Emperor Jiayuan angrily threw the fold in front of him to the ground.
"All the officials of the Criminal Department are dismissed! Wang Houde, the commander of the forbidden army, Zhou Bingchang, a scholar of Hallym University, was responsible for investigating the matter thoroughly, and Su Chengmao, the commander of the Right Guard, guarded the city gate for me! The whole process is under martial law, don't even think about running away! ”
The courtiers knelt on the ground, and the dismissed criminal department officials trembled and did not dare to shout a grievance, so they dragged down for the guarding forbidden army.
Emperor Jiayuan is an easy-going and generous emperor, of course, he can't be a fool to win the battle for the throne in the previous generation.
Emperor Jiayuan has been tepid since he ascended the throne, giving people the impression that he has always been more than successful and not pioneering. This is the first time that Emperor Jiayuan has been angry in the court, and the rabbit is in a hurry to bite, and no one dares to add fuel to the fire at this time.
The Emperor's anger was beyond anyone's imagination, as an emperor he always thought about the world of his merchants, and was extremely sensitive to anything that threatened their rule.
Who can be ordered by the emperor to be imprisoned?
All of them are corrupt officials, thieves and traitors. These people who were swapped were related to the last Assassin, and it was clearly revealed that they were enemies of the Great Shang and enemies of the royal family.
Being able to exchange so many people under the emperor's nose shows how powerful it is.
Where did those who were swapped go? Do you also regard him, the emperor, as a thorn in the flesh? Has he secretly changed his face and appeared in front of him with a new identity, waiting to be killed with one blow?
The founding of the Great Shang has only been a hundred years, and the greatest mission of each emperor is to protect the country of the Great Shang. The other is to destroy the remnants of the previous dynasty.
In that year, Emperor Taizu won the northern land, built a big business, and held three places. The incompetent and extravagant royal family of the previous dynasty was naturally slaughtered. However, in the later period of Emperor Taizu, a rumor suddenly emerged that the former crown prince had a son who escaped the slaughter, and this child was the real true dragon emperor.
It doesn't matter if that child is really a remnant of the previous dynasty. Anyway, a lot of people believe it.
At least the old Emperor Taizu believed it, and the last five years of Emperor Taizu's life were spent in the pursuit of the remnants of the previous dynasty.
At the beginning, Emperor Taizu's pursuit of the remnants of the previous dynasty was too loud, and most of the people believed that there were still people alive in the imperial family of the previous dynasty, so that the later successor emperors had to continue the practice of their fathers and continue to pursue the so-called remnants.
There are many mountains and rivers in Dashang, and I really want to hide. No one can be found at all. What's more, Taizu was extremely insecure in his later years, and almost all of his last few years were spent in killing. Many of those who were unwilling to die defected to the royal family of the former dynasty.
This also leads to the fact that the power of the remnants of the previous dynasty is getting bigger and bigger, which makes the incumbent more and more afraid.
Emperor Jiayuan thought that those who had extreme hatred for the imperial family were still alive, and even secretly hugged and corrupted his dynasty, it was unbearable at all.
Since you think I am merciful, then all the people involved this time will be punished by the Nine Clans!
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In the harem
Shang Qing stood in front of the main hall of Qingfu Palace and quietly looked at the falling snowflakes, and laughed silently.
Of course, the confession of the so-called high-level light yì is indispensable to his handwriting.
I thought that there was about to be a bright red to render this large expanse of white. Shang Qing's cold heart couldn't help but get hot.
In his previous life, he was an unqualified emperor, who lost the country and the big business.
The remnants of the previous dynasty expanded step by step, and he, the emperor, was finally besieged and killed in Kyoto.
But Shang Qing didn't admit that he was a failure, he just grew up too late and gave him too little time.
In the last generation, the matter of buying and selling human lives in the Criminal Department broke out fifteen years later, when Emperor Jiayuan was dying.
The hussar general Zhang Quanzhong was ordered to enter Beijing after a great defeat, and a shocking case was exposed when the scenery was infinite.
Zhang Qianzhong has been smart since he was a child, and when he was three years old, he was able to recite 100 long poems, and he was a well-known local prodigy. Originally, the little prodigy should have been crowned an official with a literary style. But the little prodigy was snatched away when he was five years old. was arranged to be the grandson of a family of exiles.
Zhang Quanzhong remembers that it was in the dense woods in the afternoon, and the little boy who was traveling with him was strangled to death by the so-called 'father'. The little prodigy knew that he was next.
So the little prodigy directed and acted in a serious illness, and after the high fever, he forgot a lot of things, and his 'father and mother' also thought that he really had amnesia. Since then, the little prodigy has become the real Zhang Duzhong.
Exile in any dynasty is a punishment worse than death. The exiles were the first cannon fodder troops in the army, and when the war began, they were the first cannon fodder troops.
How difficult it is for the military to restore the identity of a civilian, unless a great contribution is made, the children and grandchildren will be cannon fodder. Zhang Qianzhong is the only person who has gotten rid of the military and walked in front of the emperor in decades.
Zhang Qianzhong knew that he could replace the child in the prison at will, in prison. On the way to exile, kill these children at will in the border plug, their power must be extremely strong. So he chose to tell his identity in the court where he was rewarded, the kidnappings of the year, the children who were strangled on the way to exile, and the faintly rebellious military families in the Northland.
It's a pity that the tiger has been raised, and the big merchants at that time have been shaken by the wind and rain of the previous dynasty.
In the end, those military households who had been exiled for generations all pointed their sharp knives at their own people for the sake of the remnants of the previous dynasty, 'Abolish your military household status'.
At the beginning, he was besieged in Kyoto, and Shang Mingrui could not come to save him, so he was besieged in the northern snowfield by these military households that they had never paid attention to.
In this life, he laid out early.
Without those people in the prison of the Criminal Department, without the military households in the Northland, he has to see how the remnants of the previous dynasty are growing and jumping!
Hahaha......
A former dynasty that was hated by the people, are the people still willing to restore you?
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Shang Qing did not guess wrong, and with the deepening of the strict investigation. In order to disgust the people with the previous dynasty, Emperor Jiayuan specially asked people to post a notice and tell the matter as it is.
The people also knew about this shocking case.
It turned out that many of those who were beheaded and exiled were not real criminals, but substitutes that they had captured from all over the country.
Where did those children come from?
It's all the heart and liver of other people's families!
What really pushed the people's anger to ** was the day after the proclamation was issued.
The old lady of the Chai family, who lived in the small alley of Chaimen in Kyoto City, heard that the children who had been beheaded were taken by them from all over the world. She remembered her eldest grandson who had been lost in her hands, and remembered that the people at the vegetable market had told him that there was a child there who looked like her grandson. From the disappearance of the grandson to the beheading of the group, it was only a few days apart. Mrs. Chai was absolutely sure that her eldest grandson was captured by those people and beheaded on behalf of others.
"Your Majesty, the childish is innocent, please avenge the old woman's grandson!"
During the Upper Dynasty. The old lady of the Chai family crashed to death on the palace wall, and begged the emperor to severely punish the person who killed her grandson.
Dead! There is a dead man at the gate of the palace!
Instead of being afraid, the people of Kyoto dragged their families to read and blocked the entrance of the palace and cried.
Who has no children, there are too many traffickers in this world, and many families have lost children. They don't know where their children are suffering, they don't know if they've been beheaded in a daze.
Now that the prison of the Criminal Department is buying and selling people's lives, their years of worry and guilt suddenly burst out, and everyone involved in this matter has become the best object of catharsis.
They would rather believe that their children have died in ignorance than that their children are being tormented inhumanly in corners they don't know. It seems that parents will feel better if they do this.
Thousands of people surrounded the palace gate, and Emperor Jiayuan was a little happy when he was angry, but fortunately, the matter was discovered early. These people have only been guilty for a few years, otherwise he would not have imagined it decades later.
Emperor Jiayuan is not stupid, he will not carry this disaster.
Emperor Jiayuan directly asked people to tell the story in detail in the crowd, which caused the anger of the people and put all the blame on the remnants of the previous dynasty.
For a while, the people hated the remnants of the previous dynasty even more!
The people surrounded the palace gate, but there was silence above the court.
"Good! Good! Emperor Jiayuan roared angrily with a dark face.
"One of the Buddha's factions is dedicated to the people, since Emperor Taizu's fathers, the Buddha's faction has been reused, you are good! Look at it, how do you repay my big business? ”
The paper in Emperor Jiayuan's hand fell to the ground. The confessions of the officials of the Criminal Department were impressively written with the names of several high-ranking officials of the official faction.
These so-called high-minded, dedicated to the people, and believing in saving people's lives are better than creating seventh-level floating slaughter, and the monks actually colluded with the remnants of the previous dynasty to buy and sell human lives.
In all dynasties, the court was divided into three. Civil and military attachés and official monks, the three families jointly hold the power of the world.
At this moment, everyone knelt, and the senior monks who occupied a third of the positions all bowed their heads in repentance. Waiting for the emperor's final punishment.
"All the officials of the Criminal Department will be dismissed and will never be used, and all those involved will be punished by the Nine Clans!"
"If there is any truth in the exiled military households in the Northland, report it immediately!"
"The official monks disregard human ethics and sins. Since then, the monks of the Great Merchants are not allowed to be officials, and they have been given titles to take back immediately! ”
“……”
One after another, the holy decrees came down and stunned the world.
Caishikou has been bleeding for a month, and all those who have anything to do with this matter are all punished, and the nine clans are punished!
While the people were relieved, their attention immediately turned to the fact that the official monks were forbidden to be officials.
Dashang and neighboring countries all have the practice of high-ranking monks entering the court as officials.
The monks have no worries, they are all people who are dedicated to the people, and they are deeply loved by the people. Among the officials of the three factions, the popular will is the strongest. Coupled with the unparalleled status of Buddhism as the state religion, the strength of the Buddhist sect has always been an unspeakable worry in the hearts of the emperors of all dynasties, for fear that Buddhism will seize the power of the Great Merchants in the future.
Buddhist temples do not pay taxes, and many people sell their land to temples in order not to pay taxes, and usually work for monks. As a result, there is more and more land for temples, but less and less tax revenue from the state. The temple economy is gradually forming, but the country is crazy with poverty! In the event of a natural disaster**, the major temples donated money and food, but the emperor could only borrow silver from the temple for disaster relief.
In this contrast, the wealth and fame of the temple grew, but the control of the royal family over the people went downhill again.
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What really pushed the people's anger to ** was the day after the proclamation was issued.
When the old lady of the Chai family, who lived in the small alley of Chaimen in Kyoto City, heard that the beheaded children were taken from all over the world, she remembered the eldest grandson who had been lost in her hands, and remembered that many years ago, the people at the entrance of the vegetable market told him that there was a child there who looked like her grandson. From the disappearance of the grandson to the beheading of the group, it was only a few days apart. Mrs. Chai was absolutely sure that her eldest grandson was captured by those people and beheaded on behalf of others.
"Your Majesty, the childish is innocent, please avenge the old woman's grandson!"
During the last dynasty, the old lady of the Chai family crashed to death on the palace wall, and begged the emperor to severely punish the murderer of her grandson.
Dead! There is a dead man at the gate of the palace!
Instead of being afraid, the people of Kyoto dragged their families to read and blocked the entrance of the palace and cried.
Who has no children, there are too many traffickers in this world, and many families have lost children. They don't know where their children are suffering, they don't know if they've been beheaded in a daze.
Now that the prison of the Criminal Department is buying and selling people's lives, their years of worry and guilt suddenly burst out, and everyone involved in this matter has become the best object of catharsis.
They would rather believe that their children have died in ignorance than that their children are being tormented inhumanly in corners they don't know. It seems that parents will feel better if they do this.
Thousands of people surrounded the palace gate, and Emperor Jiayuan was a little happy when he was angry, but fortunately, the matter was discovered early, and these people committed crimes for only a few years, otherwise he would not have imagined it decades later.
Emperor Jiayuan is not stupid, he will not carry this disaster.
Emperor Jiayuan directly asked people to tell the story in detail in the crowd, which caused the anger of the people and put all the blame on the remnants of the previous dynasty.
For a while, the people hated the remnants of the previous dynasty even more!
The people surrounded the palace gate, but there was silence above the court.
"Good! Good! Emperor Jiayuan roared angrily with a dark face.
"One of the Buddha's factions is dedicated to the people, since Emperor Taizu's fathers, the Buddha's faction has been reused, you are good! Look at it, how do you repay my big business? ”
The paper in Emperor Jiayuan's hand fell to the ground, and the confessions of the officials of the Criminal Department were impressively written with the names of several high-ranking monks of the official faction.
These so-called high-minded, dedicated to the people, and believing in saving people's lives are better than creating seventh-level floating slaughter, and the monks actually colluded with the remnants of the previous dynasty to buy and sell human lives.
In all dynasties, the court was divided into three, civil and military officials and official monks, and the three families jointly held the power of the world.
(To be continued.) )