In the Luoyang Palace, in the West Mansion, at this time, the sheng song is long, and it is a glamorous color.

Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, was in the beautiful imperial garden, watching the beautiful orchids who had just been selected from the Western Regions performing the Hu dance, listening to the exotic Hu music in his ears, and then the beautiful and lovely palace maids serving on the side, and a group of eunuchs accompanying him to laugh and retinue, which was very pleasant.

"Your Majesty, Xiao Ying and the others want to be ransomed as concubines, but can they be allowed?" At this time, Zhang Rang asked respectfully on the side.

"Huh?" Liu Hong's face is not good, these guys who ignore their trust and calm the chaos are still trying to atone for their sins? I just wanted to refuse, but thinking that I had a lot of money this year, my face softened slightly, and I turned to Zhang Rang and said, "Let him add an extra million dollars, yes!" ”

Zhang Rang's face was stunned, and his original expression was slightly uneasy, he thought that the emperor saw that he had added another layer of hands and feet to the price of atonement allowed by the emperor, and hated him for being greedy for money and wanted him to spit out some. Hurriedly glanced up at Liu Hong, but found that the emperor looked as usual, this was reassured, it seemed that he thought too much, the emperor just asked for money, this is fine, it's a big deal to increase the price again, anyway, unless those people are not afraid of being offended, otherwise they will definitely give it to themselves, I saw Zhang Rang smiled and said: "No!" ”

Before Fuquan, he was sent by the imperial court to Yizhou to pacify the barbaric rebellion in the imperial history of Cheng Xiao Ming, and the Yizhou assassin Shi and others he supervised, because the pacification was fruitless, and they were punished by the court lieutenant of the chariot, and the results had come out a few days ago, and they were sentenced to exile in Liaodong, and now they are imprisoned in prison, and they will be exiled as soon as the day comes.

However, in the Han Dynasty, there have always been political rules for atonement, and in the early Han Dynasty, the penal system at that time was stipulated according to the officials' fortunes: there were two ways to reduce the death penalty: one was to pay 500,000 yuan to atone for the crime, and the other was to be "corrupted", which was equivalent to a legal means of protecting the lives and political interests of officials. Of course, there is a premise for all this, you have to ask the emperor to allow it, the emperor does not allow it, you just want to atone for your sins and no one cares about you, in the feudal dynasty, the emperor is in charge of the central government, he wants a person to die, and it will be difficult for that person to survive.

The famous Sima Qian was accused by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for supporting Li Ling, and the crime of slander was a crime of great disrespect and should be beheaded according to the law. At that time, with the permission of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Sima Qian could use money to atone for his sins, but Sima Gong did not have so much money to atone for his sins, and finally he faced the punishment of Da Pi, Mu Yi died, although the name can be guaranteed, but the book "Historical Records" was not completed, and the name was not established. Then, in the Han Dynasty, an era when "Zang won a concubine can still be decided", Sima Qian resolutely chose to redeem himself with rotten punishment, so as to endure the humiliation and complete the swan song that has been passed down through the ages.

The so-called "corrupt punishment" is also called palace punishment. In fact, both men and women are punished by palace punishment, and women are not mentioned for the time being. Of course, if Sima Qian had money at that time, he could have atoned for his sins with money, and he didn't have to suffer this kind of shame at all, but he had no money, so he could only "live" like this.

As for others, like Zhang Qian, who led the troops to rescue Li Guang at that time, he was beheaded according to his crime because he missed the deadline, and he relied on money and titles to atone for his crimes, and he was demoted to a concubine to avoid death. Later, when Li Guang did not want to be humiliated by the sword and pen officials and took the knife to kill himself, Zhao Shiqi, the right general who was convicted with him, was also sentenced to death by the imperial court, and finally relied on money to atone for his crime and was reduced to a concubine to save his life.

Now, hundreds of years have passed, since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the atonement system of the Han Dynasty has not changed, but because it is not as good as the early Han Dynasty, the amount of money to atone for sins in the imperial court has increased repeatedly, and even the way to atone for capital crimes has increased a lot. The famous is that during the reign of Emperor Han He, Dou Xian attacked the Northern Xiongnu in order to redeem his death, and Yan Ran took stone to atone for his sins. And Xiao Ying and the others who were punished this time obviously only chose to atone for their crimes with money, after all, except for Xiao Ming, the people who were punished were all feudal officials in Yizhou, to say that they did not conspire with the local officials in Yizhou, harsh government barbarians, and seek personal gain, can it cause chaos?

Even Xiao Ming, he is also the imperial history of the Han Dynasty, and he also has a certain amount of money in his hands, now in order to save his life, who cares how much money it costs, it is important to save his life first, and then find other ways to make up for it after becoming an official. Therefore, there is a saying that Zhao Zhong avengered to the emperor to atone for his sins.

Outside the imperial garden, there was a sudden movement, only to see a hurried small temple man running to ask for a meeting, and the messy footsteps suddenly broke the west mansion where the melodious music was fluttering, making Liu Hong, who looked up at the temple people, frown.

Of course, the emperor's expression could not escape the observation of the eunuchs beside him, and Zhang Rang was still thinking about how to increase the price with those few atonement officials, Guo Sheng on the side jumped out and shouted to the small templeman: "Shaft, how can you disturb Your Majesty!" ”

Guo Sheng has been worried since the queen Song suddenly gave birth to a prince, in his original plan, he wanted to rely on his relationship with the He family to help "Shi Hou" to the throne, but he didn't expect this mess to happen at this moment. Their group of eunuchs' goal of supporting "Shi Hou" to ascend to the throne has not changed, and now the queen wants to cut off the beard, how can she succeed, so these days, they have been pleasing the emperor, just like the orchids performed in the west mansion today, that is, after they learned that the emperor liked the Hu people's dance and music, they specially sent people from the Western Regions to buy orchids and musicians, in order to please the emperor.

When the people of the small temple saw Guo Sheng scolding themselves, they were suddenly shocked, how could they compare with a great eunuch like Guo Sheng, and hurriedly said: "Yizhou good news!" Yizhou good news! ”

Guo Sheng was about to scold the people of this temple again at this time, but he swallowed his words hard, and hurriedly looked back at the emperor, he knew that the emperor had been thinking about the chaos in Yizhou for the past few days. Sure enough, I saw that the emperor, who was originally thinking about Hu Ren Wuji, looked at the little eunuch with burning eyes and said, "Quick! Fast! Hurry up and take a look! After saying that, he didn't want anyone else to pass it on, and walked straight over, he couldn't wait.

The people of the small temple did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly and respectfully sent the good news in their hands to the approaching emperor Liu Hong, and then quietly retreated to the side.

Liu Hong hurriedly browsed the good news with a happy face, and then read the letter of alliance that Fuquan swore on behalf of the Han Dynasty and the barbarians, and shouted with his hands: "Good! Good! Jia'er should be a marquis! ”