When Liu Xin heard Wang Mang's reform proposal, he also thought about it seriously.

After a long time, he thought that Wang Mang's education, pension, and burial system was not advisable. However, the proposal to let the prisoners contribute to the construction of Kyushu has some feasible ways to be considered.

Thinking of this, he was about to open his mouth to express his opinion.

However, when he saw the many courtiers below staring at him with indifferent eyes, he didn't expect it to be good, and immediately stopped what he wanted to say.

Then he pondered slightly, and said with a light smile: "Wang Aiqing, the first thing you said, I said this matter before, saying that the affairs of the Jia family can be handled by you with full authority." Therefore, you don't have to ask me for advice, you can just do it yourself.

As for the second thing you have said, it is of such great importance that it should not be taken lightly, and it will only be decided after the deliberations of the ministers. ”

Emperor Liu Xin of the Han Dynasty walked through the motions, and after he made a speech, the other courtiers spoke one after another and angrily reprimanded Wang Mang.

"Ridiculous, this is simply ridiculous. Wang Mang, these proposals of yours are simply impossible to study and difficult to implement, and I firmly oppose them. ”

"Yes, there is really no merit in this issue, it is pure nonsense!"

A Zhuzhou assassin stood up and said in a fierce voice: "Wang Mang, since ancient times, it has always been to raise children to prevent old age and send them to death, so the pension and burial reform you proposed is completely contrary to the avenue. The rest of the education reform is even more absurd. Now that the treasury is empty, it is difficult to even raise military spending, so where is there any surplus silver to open a school?

As for the introduction of the system of rehabilitation of prisoners, this is nonsense. Do you know how much it costs the court to capture a prisoner? How much hard work does it take for the officials? If a few prisoners escape during this process, can you bear it? Can the people bear it?

These prisoners are all evildoers, they can't change it at all, and they have deep roots, and they are all scum of my Kyushu. Now that the imperial court has abolished the criminal law of cannon branding, this is already an extrajudicial favor to them. All of your proposals are unrealistic. ”

Suddenly, one or two hundred ministers spoke out to accuse Wang Mang, like a shrew scolding the street, vetoing all of Wang Mang's proposals.

In their view, no matter whether Wang Mang's reform proposal is good or bad, they will veto it first. Wang Mang must not be allowed to carry out any of his policies, nor can Wang Mang be allowed to occupy a dominant position in the imperial court. He must be marginalized, preferably excluded.

At that moment, Li Zhong took a step forward and said coldly: "Wang Mang, back then, you were just a dog with a broken spine, running for your life in all directions. Now relying on the spring breeze for a while, he has developed some foundations, and he has come to the court to hegemon the monarchy, and he is talking nonsense, which is really unbeknownst to the sky. ”

"That's a great thing!"

Pi Tong and Li Zhong have a deep relationship, and now that Pi Tong saw Li Zhong talking, he also quickly stood up and said to Liu Xin: "Your Majesty, the minister heard that Jia Feng, the servant of the military department, is known for his merits on weekdays, and the people love him."

Now Wang Mang is taking advantage of the power and forcibly falsely accusing Lord Jia on trumped-up charges, and asks His Majesty to investigate. The ministers asked Your Majesty to quickly issue an order to dismiss Wang Mang and bring it to justice, so as to correct the dynasty. At the same time, His Majesty can issue an edict to restore the reputation of the Jia family, and ask Lord Jia to re-enter the court and contribute to the court. ”

As he spoke, he took out a slip from his arms, handed it to the eunuch, and said slowly: "Your Majesty, this is the petition of Wei Yuanjie, the lord of Wei City, accusing Wang Mang of bullying local officials by using his power.

More than ten days ago, Wang Mang used his power to do mischief, confiscated the Zhao family, and privately embezzled 300,000 taels of silver stored in the Zhao family by the Ji family and the Jia family. At the same time, he also forcibly seized dozens of women from good families overnight, causing those women to wash their faces with tears all day long, and their livers and intestines were broken. At that time, the city lord Wei Yuanjie was under pressure and had to submit to Wang Mang's obscenity and did not dare to review the matter.

Now this matter has caused a storm in the city, and there are many complaints, and the people of Weicheng are angry, and many people have written to investigate Wang Mang. Your Majesty, if you don't give an explanation to the people about this matter, I am afraid that they will make a rebellion and hurt the foundation of our court. Therefore, I implore Your Majesty to send someone to investigate this matter as soon as possible, so as to give justice to the people and justice to the local officials. ”

The eunuch took the case and handed it to Liu Xin.

Liu Xin is not stupid, so he naturally knows what is written on this form, and he also knows how this form came about.

Now he didn't know what was going on, and he only glanced at it.

Then he showed his anger, slapped the armrest of the dragon chair, threw the shape to the ground, and shouted at Wang Mang: "Bold, Wang Mang, I have entrusted you with a heavy responsibility, named you the king of Ning, and I hope that you can find out the taxes of the world for me and wash away the grievances of the people." I don't want you to take advantage of the situation to make things difficult for local officials, peep into the money of rich businessmen, forcibly humiliate people's daughters, and beat the people, what else do you have to say about this? ”

It was not good for him to meddle in the battle between Wang Mang and Li Zhong, so he threw the problem to Wang Mang and asked him to solve it.

When Wang Mang heard this, he was a little surprised, and took a deep look at Pi Tong.

Then he took a step forward, picked up the shape on the ground, folded it, and put it back on the desk in front of Liu Xin.

After doing this, he said lightly to Pi Tong: "Master Pi, you are very capable, you actually took advantage of my mistake to give me this hand." However, it is really difficult for your small planning committee to be elegant, and it is full of loopholes. ”

Pi Tong said coldly: "Wang Mang, you don't have to look left and talk about other things, divert the topic, you can honestly explain the guilt clearly." If you still have a little conscience that has not been extinguished, then quickly confess your sins and be arrested. so as not to insult the ancestors and insult the hundreds of sons and grandchildren. ”

Wang Mang nodded and asked, "Pi Tong, let me ask you, what is your official position now?" Where's the errand? ”

Pi Tong replied: "This official is currently the prefect of Shangqiu County, and he is on an errand in Shangqiu County, Lingzhou. What's the matter, do you want to rely on your high position and power to bully me? The official can tell you plainly that others are afraid of you, but the official has no fear. ”

"Hahaha, even you deserve me to use official authority to oppress you? Who do you think you are? You are not much better in my eyes than the illiterate people. ”

Wang Mang said coldly: "You just said that you are an official in Shangqiu County, Lingzhou, and you are the prefect of Shangqiu County. So do you know how far Shangqiu County in Zhuzhou is from Weicheng in Qingzhou? It's 108,000 miles, isn't it? And in terms of your official position, you should have no intersection with the city lord of Wei City, so how can this state be presented in your hands.

Let's not say that I didn't commit a crime, let's just say that even if I committed a crime, I did something wrong in Weicheng. Then this case should also be submitted to His Majesty by the Imperial Historian who supervises the hundred officials or the Imperial History Inspector. What virtue do you have, how can you dare to transgress your bounds? It can be seen that this matter is purely false.

I think the reason why you made this unworthy mistake is probably because you don't have enough time and preparation, right? Hehe, for the sake of our officials in the same dynasty, I have a word of advice to you. In the future, you must think twice about doing things, don't be reckless and impulsive, and carefully check for loopholes in everything. Back then, you fought with me, and obviously suffered a loss, why didn't you learn the lesson? ”

(End of chapter)