Tang Ning followed a little eunuch into the palace, and before he could approach the imperial study, he heard a burst of terrible screams.

The screams sounded very pervasive, and you could tell from the sound that someone was suffering a great deal of physical pain.

Downing passed through a door and saw in the square in front of him, a man pressed against a bench and being tortured with a cane.

The staff was raised high, and fell heavily.

This time, the two guards played the board, and the attack was obviously very heavy, which could not be compared with the situation of Tang Ning that day.

And the person who was pressed on the stool and tortured looked like King Duan from a distance, and looked like King Duan up close, and when he came to see it, it was indeed King Duan.

King Duan was being beaten in a miserable howl, Emperor Chen stood aside with a black face, Tang Ning walked up to Emperor Chen, and saluted: "Your Majesty." ”

Chen Huang just nodded slightly, his face sank like water, and he didn't speak.

Tang Ning stood to the side with interest, secretly looking at the situation around him.

Emperor Chen was very angry, King Duan was being tortured, obviously he did something that made Emperor Chen unforgivable, King Duan had done a lot of stupid things, but this was the first time Tang Ning had seen it, and he had inflicted such a punishment on King Duan.

In addition to Emperor Chen, Scholar Zhang was also here, with a white gauze wrapped around his head, and under the gauze was bright red, which was the color of blood.

Tang Ning looked at Scholar Zhang, and then at King Duan, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Emperor Chen recently asked Scholar Zhang to discipline Duanwang, could it be that in the process of disciplining, the two had a conflict, and Duanwang did something to Scholar Zhang?

Not to mention the issue of respecting the old and loving the young, Confucianism pays attention to "heaven and earth, the prince and the teacher", heaven and earth do not need to say much, they are high and above all else, and the status of the teacher is only ranked below the king and parents.

Born in this era, there should be the correct values of respecting heaven and law, filial piety and obedience, loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, respect for teachers and education, disrespect for heaven and earth, disloyalty to the king, disfilial piety to parents, deviant from the scriptures, deceive teachers and ......destroy ancestors, such a person will be spurned by all people.

Emperor Chen's status is high enough, in the Chen Kingdom, except for God, it stands to reason that no one has a higher status than him, but when Scholar Zhang knocks him on the head with a cane, he can order the guards to take him down, but he can't fight back in person.

It is natural for a teacher to punish a student, and if a student beats the teacher, he is deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors, which is a great rebellion.

This is the rule of this era.

Sure enough, it was the back waves of the Yangtze River that pushed the front waves, the blue out of the blue was better than the blue, and King Duan did something that even Emperor Chen didn't dare to do, and Tang Ning sincerely admired him from the bottom of his heart.

Scholar Zhang's face was pale and bloodless, he looked at Emperor Chen, bowed to the end, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, the old minister has been entrusted by His Majesty, please forgive the old minister for being incompetent......

"Scholar, this rebel son of my generation will accompany you ......" Emperor Chen kicked the king and said, "Rebel, don't apologize to the scholar soon!" ”

The court staff was still falling, and King Duan said sadly: "Scholar, I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it!" ”

"That's it......" Scholar Zhang glanced at him and sighed: "It's the old minister who is weak, Your Majesty, let them stop, because the old minister let His Royal Highness suffer, and it is tormenting the old minister......"

"He deserves it!" Emperor Chen glanced at King Duan and waved his hand, "Take him down!" ”

Duan Wang was carried away by two guards, and Tang Ning noticed that the living man standing behind Emperor Chen was holding a pen and writing something on the booklet in his hand.

He took a closer look and saw a line written on it.

"In the third year of Dingyuan, on the third day of October, Duanwang Li Ming beat his teacher, and the emperor's scepter was there."

The official position of Julang neither participates in court politics nor interferes in the inner court, and his only duty is to record the words and deeds of the emperor, regardless of major or small affairs, good deeds and bad deeds, all of which are recorded in the case for future generations to revise history.

On the small notebook of the living room, it is recorded who Emperor Chen met every day, what he said, what he did, and perhaps recorded which concubine he favored, what time he was pampered, how many times he was pampered, and how long did it take each time......

Tang Ning hadn't read the living note, so he didn't know what was written on it, and it was possible that Emperor Chen didn't know either, according to the rules, the content on the living note could not be viewed and modified by the emperor.

Because the content on this should be left to future generations, and if it is not good, it will be left for 10,000 years, so the emperor is actually very afraid that the living lang will write something bad on it, and it is good to meet an enlightened monarch, but if he encounters a mediocre and tyrannical person, this position will have to be changed every three or five times.

Seeing that someone was peeping on the side, the living room hurriedly closed the booklet and stood aside vigilantly.

Tang Ning pursed his lips, he was just out of curiosity about new things, and he was not at all interested in this kind of thing when Emperor Chen came to Concubine Xingshu last night.

After beating King Kang, Scholar Zhang was specially approved to go home to recuperate, that is to say, King Run does not have to attend classes for the time being.

King Run, who learned the news, couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh when he helped Scholar Zhang leave.

After dealing with this matter, Tang Ning and Emperor Chen came to the imperial study.

Emperor Chen summoned him this time for the sake of tax reform, Chen Guo's tax system is cumbersome and varied, it is extremely difficult to collect, and it is also the easiest to be manipulated by others.

Since the founding of the country, the Chen tax system has been revised several times, but they are all repaired in detail, and there are still huge problems left over from history in the overall context.

The imperial court has realized that this kind of tax law is not only laborious and costly, but also miserable for the people, and the local officials and gentry are also easy to manipulate.

What Tang Ning had to do was actually to abolish those unruly taxes and merge the remaining part into one big tax, so that the people would have to pay fewer taxes, and the court would be much easier to collect taxes, and the amount would be more, which could be described as the best of all worlds, but to the detriment of the interests of the squires and magnates who profited from it.

This is another offending thing, but this time it is not Tang Ning who is offended.

Emperor Chen asked him and King Huai to be jointly responsible for this matter, and the two of them discussed it by themselves, and he only wanted the result.

After Emperor Chen finished his order, he looked at Tang Ning and asked, "Do you have any ideas about this matter?" ”

Tang Ning shook his head and said, "No." ”

Emperor Chen glared at him and said, "No, don't go back and think about it, what are you shaking in front ......of me?"

……

Chen Huang is a person who comes and goes when he is called by others, and he can be described as a model of crossing the river and demolishing bridges, unloading and killing donkeys.

acquiesced in his character, and always reminded him that his daughter was in his hands, and Tang Ning didn't care about these things.

When he was about to reach the gate of the palace, he saw a figure walking slowly in front of him.

The gate of the palace is not open, after entering the palace gate, there are narrow passages on both sides, which is built to prevent the rebels from attacking from the outside, if there are thieves entering the palace, it will become a live target for the forbidden army at the first time.

Scholar Zhang walked by the wall, and several palace maids walked hurriedly with their heads bowed in front of them.

In the palace, most of the ordinary palace maids and eunuchs walk with their heads down, in this deep palace, no less than the Longtan Tiger's Den, in case they see something that should not be seen, hear something that should not be heard, in a few days, they will be found in a dry well or pond in the palace.

Scholar Zhang walked slowly, his steps were very light, several people didn't seem to notice, bowed their heads and hurried forward, the leader of the one bumped into Scholar Zhang unexpectedly, fell to the ground, his face immediately turned pale, knelt on the ground, kowtowed: "I'm sorry, it's the slave who is careless, please spare the slave and the maid......"

The palace maid was knocked to the ground, but Scholar Zhang's body just shook and stood firm, he shook his head and said, "The old man is fine, you can get up." ”

The palace maid hurriedly got up, bowed a few times to Scholar Zhang, and left in a hurry.

Tang Ning watched this scene from a distance, and a hint of discoloration appeared on his face.

Although Zhang Daxue is old, he obviously exercises regularly, and his lower plate is unusually stable, which hit just now, even if it is an ordinary person, at least he has to take two steps back, but he just shook his body, such a tough body, not at all like the "weak body" he just called.

The strange thing is that the palace maid hurriedly bumped into him, but was nudged by King Duan with one hand, and hit the wall and broke his head......

"Ginger is still old and spicy......"

Tang Ning sighed lightly, he should have known that at this age, he could still be as stable as Mount Tai in the court, even if he was called a clear stream, how could he be a good person?