Accusation of adultery was common in the Qin State, and if you don't tell the adulterer, you will sit together. According to Qin's law, the husband steals, and the wife knows about it and does not tell it, and is guilty; The wife did not know and was guilty. In the former, the wife is guilty of stealing; The latter, because of the joint sitting, the wife was taken into official slavery.

Jiang's husband was fined a shield armor, and the money from the sale of houses, utensils, and livestock was still not enough to redeem it, so the result was that he lived in the house, and eight or six yuan a day to repay the money. The man worked hard for a few months and then died. The debt of death has not been eliminated, and Jiang, as his wife, will continue to live and repay the money until the Chu army recovers the old Ying.

No matter what kind of subordinates and residences he owes to the government, that is, the official slaves who owe him money, they are all sold, and the money is paid back, so Jiang was sold into slavery. Like other Chu generals, Yang Yu looked down on Jiuying, a common man who had been enslaved by the Qin people for fifty years, and felt that they were Qin people rather than Chu people. He disdained to take advantage of them, and after deducting the debts, the rest of the proceeds from the sale of slaves were received by the slaves themselves.

Jiang is helpless, and his father has not yet reached the war, and he does not know that the world has changed. When she was tidying up her family, she stumbled upon the jade pendant in the baggage, and her first reaction was to report to the official. As for why the report to the official? There is no reason for it, anyway, it is to report to the official.

Xiong Jing brought wine and meat to Lidian's house, and when he drank wine and ate meat with Lidian, the slaves of Lidian's family helped him boil hot water, warm the house, and went home to sleep with Mi Xuan when he was full of wine and food. Shooting a gun is also manual work, and Mi Xuan dozed off after eating at Lidian's house. When he went back, Xiong Jing didn't lead the horse, but only held her in his arms and walked to his home.

After entering the room, Mi Xuan woke up when she put her on the bed, she hurriedly got up and waited for Xiong Jing to freshen up, and the two fell in love in the bathtub, and the bathtub almost fell apart. After finishing sleeping, he didn't get up to go to the toilet in the second half of the night before Xiong Jing remembered that he hadn't fed the horses. In the past, this was what the people did, but now he wants to do it himself. To feed the horses and take out the cooked grass and hay from the barn, when he lifted the hay, he saw the maid sleeping in the haystack.

"Don't go thief! Don't go thief...... "When the day was about to dawn, the thief kicked open the door of Linzeli, and hurriedly rushed to Xiongjing's courtyard, and more than a dozen pavilion guards held soldiers and slammed into the courtyard.

"I don't see male and female thieves, but I see ...... The servant of the wife. The pavilion guards at the head quickly rushed out of the hall to make a report, and at this time Ridian, Rizo, and the prison gate had been escorted by several pavilion guards, and they all knelt in the snow.

"Search again!" Running ten miles in the wind and snow in the middle of the night, begging for thieves and wandering are not willing to such a result. You You, who was in charge of the security of this area, pointed a sword at Lidian and shouted: "Where is the thief? ”

After nearly fifty years under the rule of Great Qin, he was suddenly dragged out of the bed by the pavilion guards in the middle of the night, and was pointed at by You You with a sword, which is a common thing. You didn't sin, but your neighborhood is guilty and you're guilty. For the officials, it is even more routine, and there are thieves in the room, and the people of Ridian, Rizo, and the prison gate are all guilty.

Looking at the long sword in front of him, Lidian, who considered himself unlucky, cried and said, "I know! Person...... The thief said last night that the slave had fled, and he gave up drinking in my house, and asked my slave to boil water and fire for him, and he said goodbye to his wife at dusk. Who expected, who expected......"

The upright Feng man turned out to be a thief, and he had the heart to die. He was still about to speak, but the neighbors were also arrested by the pavilion guards, and these people who didn't know what was going on cried in horror, and the courtyard was noisy. The prison door took the opportunity to break free from the guards who pressed him, and ran to the front of the wanderer and shouted: "The villain sues the adulterer! The villain sues for adultery! Li Dian was bribed by the thief and covered up the thief to leave. ”

"Don't talk nonsense," said Lidian, anxious, "how have I ever been bribed by a thief?" Thieves steal inside and out, how can I ever ......"

Before the prison door could look at the neighbor, the neighbor, who was kneeling in the snow, cried out, "The villain also accuses of adultery!" The villain also accused the ...... of adultery, and Li Dian was bribed by the thief, and we saw it with our own eyes, and saw it with our own eyes. ”

"There is a lot of money hidden in the Lidian family, which is the income of thieves." The neighbors chased after the wind, but Rizo, who was striving for meritorious service, gave him a fatal blow. "The rope of money is buried under the mulberry tree in the courtyard, and there should be more than a thousand dollars."

stealing two hundred and twenty dollars or less to one penny, exile; Stealing a thousand dollars is a felony. Ridian looked at Rizzo with resentment, he was old and childless, and he was ready to recommend Rizo as Ridian in the future, but he never thought that Rizo would betray him.

"Wandering, the thieves are gone!" After a night of tossing, the sky gradually brightened at this time. The pavilion guard saw that the wall of the backyard had been torn open in the upper half, and it was from here that the thieves escaped.

*

The sun shone on the court in front of King Jiying's palace, and the two sides of the gate stood tall. At this time, it is the time of the last dynasty, a few days ago, the king traveled without looking at the court, today is the wax sacrifice, even if the king does not look at the court, Zhu Ao also has to order the wax sacrifice on behalf of the king. The courtiers who entered the court of the Zhengchao thought that today would be Nao Cunning, Zhao Huang and others to look at the court, but they didn't expect the temple people to say 'The king is coming', and Xiong Jing, who was wearing a leather jacket and dressed in white clothes, walked out.

In the palace, it was rumored that the king and the princess ran amorous, but they didn't expect the king to appear. There was a 'boom' in the court, and 100 people chattered, like a big city.

"How? Today's widows should not look at the court?! Xiong Jing raised his eyebrows and glanced at the ministers below. After confirming that the slave girl had gone to sue the official, he and Mi Xuan hurriedly climbed over the wall and galloped in the direction of Ji Ying. Official roads are closed to traffic at night, and you can only take uninhabited paths. When he arrived outside Ji Yingcheng, he found a counter-brigade to settle Mi Xuan, and then he entered the palace to look at the court.

was embarrassed overnight, but at this time he was the king of Chu. Under his forced gaze, the court quickly fell silent. At this time, he bowed three times to the ministers, and the ministers also respectfully returned the salute to him.

"Today's sacrifice should have been about the sacrifice, however," Xiong Jing looked at the ministers below. Because it was a wax sacrifice, although the Qin army was crossing the undefended Juan City and the Guanguan and striding into Fangcheng, the court was still full of people - the leading soldiers who could not get out would send their cronies and retainers to stand in the court and participate in the wax sacrifice.

Xiong Jing nodded to the ministers, and then continued to speak. "But there is one thing that makes the widow troubled, and if the widow falls, ......"

"The king was crowned at the beginning, and he was young and prosperous, how could he say that he would fall." Nao Cunning sensed something, and hurriedly stepped out of the queue to speak.

"The king's words are wrong, the king's spring and autumn period is prosperous, what is the bad luck." The courtiers didn't expect Xiong Jing to say this kind of thing, and they all shook their heads. Xiong Jing is less than twenty years old, and his body is strong, and it is impossible for him to fall.

"Silence!" According to the law of speech in the court, no courtier's speech can be interrupted, Xiong Jing is the king, and the king's speech cannot be interrupted. The guests on one side shouted silence, and the ministers immediately silenced.

"The worries of the widows, the descendants of the Qin system think that the Qin system is good, change the contract and go to the county, and abolish the Ao system to carry out the three publics; The descendants of Erwu thought that the Zhou system was good, abolished the courage and faith and respected relatives, and changed the Chu custom to the Zhou custom. So what can I do? Xiong Jing said that the fall moved the ministers, and said that worry also moved the ministers.

There are very few old ministers in the court, and most of them are new ministers. These people or clan contractors have changed from county officials to contract dukes; Or they became a meritorious person by virtue of their courage and faith, and then were recommended by other honorary people. The Qin system is practiced, and the two are unwilling; Elder Baiyue was even more reluctant, they were bringing capital into shares, and the Qin system was to confiscate their original tribal land, so they would definitely be desperate.

In the Zhou system, the clans are all surnamed Mi, because the power of the county can be inherited, and there is not much opposition. The Yushi is different, if they really want to 'feudal relatives, to screen the Zongchu', they have long been broken noble remnants will never be able to stand in the imperial court; the Baiyue elders are not surnamed Mi, and the results of the Zhou system are no different from the results of the Qin system.

There was another turmoil in the court, and only a few people in Zhaoxiao, Kong Xiao, and Song Yi were panicked. Others don't know why, how can they not know why? As soon as he was excited in his heart, Kong Lu, who didn't care about his identity, stepped forward and said: "If the king wants to change Xia into a barbarian, will the whole country become a barbarian?" ”

Kong Lu is not so much an accusation as an accusation. His voice was so loud that the chaotic court fell silent again.

"Is Qi Guo doing a weekly salute? Does Wei Guoxing have a weekly ceremony? Does Zhao Guoxing have a weekly ceremony? Does the Qin State perform weekly rituals? Xiong Jing looked at him and smiled, he knew someone would jump out. None of the above countries practice the Zhou Rites, are they all barbaric? ”

The political Zhou rites only existed before the Warring States period, and after the Warring States period, all countries practiced Legalism. When King Wu of Chu founded the county system, Chu was regarded as a barbarian by the Central Plains.

"The world has been attacking for hundreds of years, this is not a disaster of Zhou etiquette, and the king does not do Zhou etiquette and does Ao system, this is also a fallacy." Kong Yi went out to speak, and Song Yi had to go out and speak hard.

"Who?!" Xiong Jing glared at Song Yi again. "There are 30 million people in the world for a long time! The heirs of the princes of a small country were sealed three hundred years ago, and this is the root cause of the collapse of the Zhou ceremony. Will the nations not fight against each other and consume the surplus, and sit back and wait for the thieves to rise?

If you do the weekly ceremony, the people should not eat corn? Do not dress the people when they do the weekly rites? People reproduce, a family has no 100 acres of land, and you can become an immortal by performing weekly rituals, without eating, drinking, or clothing? ”

"The Great King is also false." Song Yi was glared at by Xiong Jing and didn't know how to answer, but fortunately, Kong Yi immediately refuted. "This is for the rich and unkind! The rich wear silk and satin, and the poor cover their bodies with rotten linen; The rich eat the abbot, and the poor eat taro; The rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand. If the king reverts to the Zhou ceremony, practices benevolent government, and values the people, the world will be safe. ”

After Kong Jing finished speaking, he bowed to Xiong Jing and asked for the people's life, but Xiong Jing suddenly drew his sword. The sunlight fell on his sword through the Lu Liwa that was heading towards the roof. In the dazzling light, he slashed several cases with a sword, and angrily reprimanded: "

The widow owns it, and it is taken by the ancestor Jun Yongwu. All the honorable, with courage and faith. The clan owns because of their surname, the ancestor of the ancestors. All the hundreds, just like the widows, are all the remnants of their ancestors. The rich search their stomachs and look up to get it, all of which are taken by wisdom.

The common people have no courage and no wisdom, why is it valuable? If you want to be expensive, ask the widow's sword first! ”

"Why can't the common people be precious?" Kong Tou is-for-tat. "The food, use, and clothing of kings, nobles, and rich people are all earned by the hard work of the common people, so why are the common people not expensive?"

"Hard work is valuable?" Xiong Jing was not angry, but felt that his rebuttal was extremely ridiculous. "Slaves also toil, slaves are precious? Cattle and horses also work hard, are cattle and horses expensive? The steam engine is also hard, is the steam engine expensive?

Courage is a noble, hard work is a slave! I am a great country, and I will never value slaves, cattle and horses, nor will I be inferior to my courage and intelligence. If Confucianism wants to practice benevolent government, it can build its own country, and it has nothing to do with my Chu country!