Chapter 62: Amnesty for the World
Su Chen quietly listened to Yang Xianrong's heartfelt words, held her hand, and said: "But the eldest lady I know is not such a character, although I have not been in the Yangfu for a long time, but I also know that you are different from others, dare to make a private life, dare to fly away, you are so stubborn that you have never obeyed, neither obey the master's upbringing since childhood, nor obey the world's prejudice against your daughter." Now, you've just changed your room, but you're going to surrender? Are you still young, and you have really seen through your life? ”
Su Chen's words are good, but Yang Xianrong sounds like it's just empty words, if she is outside, she may be able to fight for one or two if she wants, and her father and brother may not be able to help her, but now, she is in the biggest cage in the world, even if she has wings, she can't escape, so how can she talk about surrendering or not surrendering? And Su Chen is different from her, although they are of the same age, Su Chen is hopeful after all, but she has been in the palace for a few years, and she can leave the palace when she meets forgiveness, so she is indeed qualified to talk about the future.
When it was about to get dark, news finally came from the Taiji Palace, King Zhao was relieved and agreed that His Majesty would grant amnesty to the world, but only to be amnesty, and not all prisoners could be released from the prison. Yang Xianrong was anxious when she heard this, if Liu Yao's capital crime could not be forgiven, wouldn't her efforts be in vain? She wanted to go to the Taiji Hall immediately to plead again, but at this time, King Zhao had not left, and if she cared too much about this matter, he would be suspicious, so she had to wait patiently in the Xianyang Palace.
But it didn't take long for Sima Zhen to appear happily in front of Yang Xianrong, and while shouting that he was hungry, he leaned over to Yang Xianrong's side, and said in a general manner: "I have done everything the queen has explained." ”
Yang Xianrong smiled and thanked him, and asked the palace people to quickly put on the meal, and waited for Sima Zhen to eat with his own hands. Sima Zhen was overjoyed to see the queen so enthusiastic, and swallowed the food she had fed into his mouth one bite after another.
"The food fed by the queen is particularly delicious." Sima Zhen's eyes were fixed on the sheep Xianrong, and his mouth was still stuffed with food, so his speech was slurred.
"The food in this palace is exquisite, but it is not as delicious as the coarse tea and light rice outside the palace." Yang Xianrong saw that Sima Zhen was full, so he took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth.
"Really?" Sima Zhen sighed: "I have not been out of the palace at such an age, and I don't know what the situation is outside the palace, let alone what is delicious and fun outside, it turns out that my brothers return to Beijing from the fiefdom, they will talk about the people and things there, I am very curious, but they don't want to say anything more to me." ”
"If Your Majesty wishes, I will always speak to you." Yang Xianrong said softly.
Sima Zhen immediately nodded like garlic: "The queen's voice is good, I love to listen to you." ”
Yang Xianrong's eyes rolled, and he said: "Thanks to Your Majesty's blessing, now that the world is peaceful and prosperous, the people can live and work in peace and contentment." My father often said that when he was young, the country was initially decided, although the first emperor was only strategic, but many of the people who had just experienced the troubled times had no fixed place to live and had nothing to do, so there were often robberies and thefts and other things, for the safety of the people, the first emperor issued a heavy ceremony, where such things happened, regardless of the reason, the offenders were all killed, and after the repeated ceremony, the prisoners were executed, so far, the market was a lot more peaceful. ”
"Oh," Sima Cheng listened carefully to Yang Xianrong's words, and when he heard this, he answered: "That's good, that's good." ”
Yang Xianrong smiled slightly and continued: "In troubled times, we should use heavy codes, but now the people are safe
I have seen people drunk and fighting, and they were arrested by the patrol city and sentenced to death, in fact, it was just a dispute between the two, and the death penalty was reported to the court lieutenant, and it was approved, and last autumn, both of them were killed, and I did not marry the execution ground, but I also heard that both of them were blind to death, and their heads were circled twice around the bones of the execution ground, and their eyes were still blinking and staring at the executioner. ”
Sima Zhen trembled when he heard this, and hurriedly covered Yang Xianrong's mouth and said, "It's dark, what do you say you are doing?" It's uncomfortable to hear. ”
"You are the emperor." Yang Xianrong pushed away Sima Xin's hand, his face was full of worry, and said: "These people are dead and complaining, don't they all sue you when they get to the underworld?" During the days when I entered the palace, your body and bones were often bad, and I was worried that something unclean had hit you. ”
Sima Zhen was really anxious when he heard this, "How is this good?" ”
"That's why I asked you to give amnesty to the world, and to fight off disasters with joy." Yang Xianrong comforted Sima Zhen: "Isn't it customary for those who have committed minor crimes to be released and those who have committed serious crimes to be commuted?" ”
Sima Zhen's face changed, he frowned and didn't speak, he suddenly got up in the middle of the night, stomped his feet, and shouted, "King Zhao almost killed me." Then he said to the sheep, "I won't stay here tonight, so sleep by yourself." He rushed out of the house and left in a huff.
Sima Lun had already had dinner, lying comfortably on the soft couch, watching his most favored concubine dance for him in the dim candlelight, the concubine was originally a girl from the Maiko Workshop, and she had just entered the house, she was beautiful and graceful, and she lost her seven souls and lost six souls, and hid in the concubine's room every day after dinner. But before today's dance was finished, the eunuchs in the palace arrived, saying that the emperor was in a hurry to summon him to the palace for deliberations.
Sima Lun frowned, quite dissatisfied, "It's dark outside, you go back to Your Majesty, and I'll go to him early tomorrow morning to say goodbye." ”
......The eunuch who announced the decree was quite embarrassed, so he had to continue to persuade: "The servants have been persuaded by it, but Your Majesty has made a fuss, and he has to see you, and he said that if he can't see you today, he will not even die." ”
"What's wrong?" Sima Lun asked.
"The slave doesn't know either," the eunuch spread his hands, "Your Majesty has been to the Xianyang Palace at night, and when you come out, you want to see you." ”
"The Hall of the Manifestation of the Sun?"
Since Yang Xianrong entered the palace, Sima Lun has never dealt with her, and he didn't pay attention to the emperor, how could he look at the queen. At the beginning, he agreed to Yang Xianrong to enter the palace, but because Sun Xiu Baoju, and heard that although this Yang family is a family, it has declined, and there is no male in the family. Isn't this little lady not satisfied, and she wants to seek money for her mother's family?
Sima Lun entered the palace with a stomach full of incomprehension and impatience, and before he even had time to see the ceremony, he was pulled away by Sima Zhen and said: "That amnesty for the world, you can't do this, and the dead must also be pardoned." ”
As soon as he heard that it was another matter of amnesty for the world, Sima Lun was even more strange, this Sima Zhen usually doesn't care about the world, only cares about his own pleasure, why is he suddenly so concerned about this prison matter today.
Sima Lun has always been a direct person, he stopped the nervous Sima Zhen, and said, "What did the queen say to you, why are you scared like this?" ”
Sima Zhen will be sheep
Xianrong's words told Sima Lun honestly, and when he said it, he scared himself a lot, as if the person sentenced to death in this prison would not be released again, and his life would be put into it immediately. Sima Lun frowned, stroking his beard back and forth, even if he was not smart, he knew that this matter was not as simple as Sima Zhen said, what was the reason why the queen was so anxious to grant amnesty to the world?
He suddenly remembered Liu Yao's case, Sun Xiu has been repeatedly persuading him to avoid Liu Yao's capital crime in the past few days, this Sun Xiu is Sun's own family, and Sun is Yang Xianrong's maternal grandfather, and I don't know if what the queen asks for is really related to Liu Yao.
Seeing that Sima Lun didn't say anything for a long time, Sima Zhen jumped up in a hurry, grabbed King Zhao's sleeve and said, "If you don't want me today, I won't let you go." ”
Sima Lun quietly shook off Sima Xin's hand and said lightly: "The condemned prisoners are all traitors, and they are all spared, and letting them out is not a threat to the stability of the world." ”
"Don't let go, don't let go." Sima Zhen hurriedly said: "The queen said, that, that," the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't remember the original words of the sheep sacrifice, but he still knew what it meant, so he said: "Anyway, it is to spare the capital crime, but people can still be locked up." ”
Sima Lun pondered about this matter, and Sun Xiu's invitation to him had already agreed to accept it, and the verdict was changed to Liu Yao's acquittal. Speaking of which, he is not reconciled, Liu Yuan relies on his own power, has not taken him seriously, he has sent people to the army many times to show goodwill, and even when he returned to Beijing, he also posted banquets many times, but this Liu Yuan is quite ignorant, the benefits are returned, the banquet is not attended, and it is clear that he does not give himself face. He wanted to take this opportunity to teach Liu Yuan a lesson, so that he would know who was in charge of the Jin Dynasty now, but Sun Xiu disagreed, and did not want him to have a bad relationship with Liu Yuan. Now think about it, why should I tolerate it like this, even if I promised to spare Liu Yao from the death penalty, I don't have to spare him so easily, if the sentence is changed to exile, it will be Liu Yuan's blame, and I can also say that Liu Yao should have paid for his life for murder, but he mediated it to let him pick up a life, so that Liu Yuan owes himself affection.
Thinking of this, Sima Lun laughed and said to Sima Zhen: "Your Majesty can rest assured, this matter will be handed over to this king, and it will not implicate Your Majesty's life." ”
Sima Zhen breathed a long sigh of relief, nodded and said, "This is very good, this is very good." ”
A few days later, Sima Zhen finally issued a holy decree, the new queen entered the middle palace, the whole world celebrated, amnesty to the world, all those sentenced to less than three years in prison were released, those who were more than three years in prison were commuted, those who were exiled were released or sentenced to change according to the crime they committed, and those sentenced to death were all commuted to exile.
On the same day, Liu Yao came out of prison, but he was also shackled and handcuffed to be escorted to Youzhou, Liu Ling and Yang Ting rushed to see each other off when they heard the news, Liu Ling naturally cried, Yang Ting took out a pot of wine, poured a glass for each of the three, and cherished each other.
"Brother," before leaving, Liu Yao finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Does Rong'er have a letter for me?" ”
Yang Ting shook his head.
Liu Ling hurriedly comforted: "She is in the deep palace now, everything is uncomfortable, don't think about it." ”
"I understand her." Liu Yao smiled: "I just feel sorry." ”
At noon, Liu Yao dragged the heavy shackles, escorted by two officials, left Luoyang City and headed east to Youzhou. 2k reading web