Chapter 40: Severe Punishment of the Family (8)

Wu Meiniang nodded slightly, sat down, reached out and patted Li Shen's leg, and said, "Get out of the way." ”

Then he said: "I still know this, but once these things are done, the consequences may be immeasurable." ”

"What can it be?" Li Shen sat up with a smile and said, "The only thing you are worried about is that we will slaughter them, and then all the officials of Datang will dismiss them and do nothing, but don't forget one thing, eleven of the ten officials are greedy, it is a matter of greed and greed, even a person with an upright temper like Wei Zheng, if they follow the law of Datang, do you think they can escape the punishment of the law?" ”

"If you say so, the concubine will have nothing to say."

"So I can't say anything big, when the family members are invited to Chang'an City in a few days, they will be disposed of when the time comes, and they will be announced in the newspaper, and they will naturally know how to choose."

Wu Meiniang nodded and said, "Then follow the method you said." ”

"Another thing is how well you are prepared for the assessment of officials?"

Nowadays, even if the officials can be the prefect, it is already good, and it is even more difficult to go further, Wu Meiniang didn't rely on this method to win over low-level officials and give them the hope of promotion, so she won support and became a woman who really ascended the throne as the emperor in the history of China for 5,000 years.

People don't destroy for themselves, this is not a casual talk, even if it is a father and son, under a certain interest, they will betray each other, not to mention these people who are officials, they rely on the wealthy family, but they just want to find a support for themselves, and when the real reliance cannot be relied on for him, they will immediately choose to abandon it.

Two days later, before dawn, the people of Chang'an City got up early.

The entire Chang'an City was talking in a low voice, and the newsboys waiting to sell newspapers appeared in the streets and alleys.

Today can be said to be related to the happy days of their future children and grandchildren, although Li Shen has already informed the people on the Vermilion Bird Gate, but how many people can there be on the Vermilion Bird Street, there are as many as one million people in Chang'an City, and at most 20,000 people know, and with word of mouth, it has already changed.

With the distribution of the newspaper, the entire Chang'an suddenly became boiling, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces, I really didn't expect that all this turned out to be true, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not deceive them.

The influence of the newspaper is very wide, and it pays attention to the facts, and does not mix any falsehoods.

It has been more than half a year since it was published, and the bored people have also conducted surveys, and they are becoming more and more convinced by what the newspaper says.

After all, the rich and wealthy families account for a very small part, and these things that are done for the people are completely related to the interests of the people themselves.

Today's Chang'an City is really full of cheers, happier than any happy event.

They know that from today onwards, they will say goodbye to forced labor, and they will no longer have to worry about their loved ones when they are in forced labor, they will worry about their bodies, and they will worry about their deaths while they are in forced labor. What makes them even happier is that their children can study for free in the academy, so they have the opportunity to get ahead.

The only thing they couldn't figure out was why they were allowed to study in the academy as well.

On the square of the east city of Chang'an City, there is a sea of people, and the soldiers who rushed back quickly arrived at the homes of the leaders who were in charge of the matter, and directly took them down, but if they resisted, they were all killed, and there was no hindrance at all, and they were all escorted back to Chang'an City on horseback.

More than a dozen pale-faced, disheveled leaders of the wealthy clan, including the participants, all knelt on the ground, waiting for the judgment of fate.

The children of the wealthy families who were onlookers looked at the high platform built in the center with red eyes, but there was no way to do it.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince arrives in !!"

A shout was heard.

All the people fell to their knees and cried out.

Li Shen sat down, stretched out his hand, looked at the more than a dozen people kneeling not far away, and said coldly: "Gu has already made it clear, but you still want to go against Lone, against thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty, and now that it has come to this point, you don't want to blame Gu for being unkind to you." ”

"If you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect, Li Chengqian, people are watching the sky, Li Chengqian, don't be too complacent, you will have retribution sooner or later." The head of the Zheng family shouted angrily.

"Hahaha!! Well said, well said, people are watching the sky, it is because God is watching, that is why there are people who only think about yourself and never care about the life and death of the people, so that the land of the Central Plains has suffered all kinds of hardships again and again. Originally, according to your crimes, you can not even be too much of the nine clans, but Lone can't bear it, after all, those relatives of yours are innocent, so Lone invited you over and punished you in accordance with the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shen said with a smile, and said to the eldest grandson beside him: "Announce their crimes, announce what they have done over the years, including those things that are inferior to beasts, and see if Lone's punishment for them is wrong." ”

Changsun Chong nodded, opened a thick notebook, coughed into the microphone a few times, and said, "The scene is quiet, the official is now here to announce the charges of the criminals at the scene." The first is the head of the Zheng family, Zheng Chengyuan, age 60, the things he committed in the past have not been investigated, let's talk about these years, Zheng Chengyuan took a fancy to a local small family girl in the first year of Zhenguan, and forcibly included it in the house, and finally the girl resisted and was finally reduced to the plaything of the family, the girl couldn't bear to commit suicide, as for the girl's family, they were all desperate and committed suicide under his persecution, this kind of thing he has done a total of 24 times over the years, and the cruel official will not say it, it is too cruel, including co-opting the ministers of the DPRK and China to seek benefits for them......"

One charge after another was read out, with a kind and amiable appearance of the literati, who could know what they had committed, one more cruel than the other, and one more unacceptable than the other.

The faces of the people became a little hideous when they heard this, there are too many of them, they have been persecuted by these people, but they have broken their teeth and swallowed them in their stomachs, there is no way, who makes them ordinary people, in the face of these dignitaries and nobles, all they can do is endure.