The emperor, who had a trick in the matter of Dang Renhong, went to Lishan for two days a few days later, ran to the hot springs, and hunted before returning to the palace.

As soon as he returned to the palace, the criminal department asked the emperor for trouble, and the criminal department said in an excerpt: "Rebellion and other major crimes are subject to the decree of joint sitting, and the punishment for a brother who is not an official slave is too light, so he requests that he be executed together."

The emperor saw that this matter was quite big, and it was not good for him to say anything, after all, the relationship should not be connected, and if it was not good, it would be said that it was cruel, so it was better to leave it to his subordinates to discuss and then make a decision, so that even if it was criticized, he could find the blame.

So the emperor decreed that the provincial servants of Shangshu and the six Shangshu jointly agreed, and then whether it was Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, or Wei Zheng and others all thought: "The laws of Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin must destroy the three clans for the crime of rebellion, and now the request of the Criminal Department should be used instead." ”

When the emperor heard this, he felt that he was right, since all his subordinates said so, then let's restore the original law.

As a result, before the emperor's edict was issued, Cui Renshi objected to the matter when he got the news, saying: "In ancient times, fathers and sons and brothers committed crimes that were not related to each other, so why use the harsh punishment law of the dead Qin to change the Chinese code that made the Zhou Dynasty prosperous?" Moreover, the killing of their father and son is enough to affect their hearts, and they do not care about this, so how can they talk about cherishing their brothers? ”

As soon as this fold was put on, the emperor heard it, hey, this is quite right, if I restore the harsh laws of the Qin Dynasty, wouldn't I have a fight with the brutality of the first emperor? No, it doesn't seem like you can do that.

When the emperor took Cui Renshi's excerpt and let Fang Xuanling and them see it, Fang Xuanling was silent for a while, and said: "Ancestors have the obligation to protect their descendants, so it is important for ancestors and grandchildren to be close, while brothers are estranged. In this way, it is the death penalty of close exile and estrangement, not the original intention of torture. ”

The reason why Fang Xuanling said this is because in the past, only father and son were counted, which means that if someone commits a crime, and only his father and his son are killed, if he is a little higher, his grandfather will not be killed, but will be sentenced to exile.

Fang Xuanling's meaning is that he is beginning to agree with Cui Renshi's words a little, after all, if you want to be close, it must be the grandfather and grandson, and the brothers will not be seen between them, otherwise there will be no brothers outside the wall to resist their insults.

Brothers will split up after their parents die, but not many grandfathers will split up with their grandchildren.

Since after the grandson committed the crime, the grandfather was only sentenced to exile, how can brothers who are more estranged from each other be killed by Zhu Lian, this does not make sense if they are sentenced according to the distance of the relationship.

As the head of the hundred officials, Fang Xuanling said so, and the others didn't have anything to say, anyway, everyone's opinion was given, it depends on how the emperor decides.

Then the emperor was a little embarrassed, and accepted Cui Renshi's suggestion, but it was worth it and he agreed with the opinions of all the Zaifu and was ready to issue an edict, but he didn't accept it, and then if people criticized it, the brutal hat would be buckled on his head. Because of the opposition of some courtiers, Fang Xuanling changed his mind, and that was his fault for insisting on going his own way.

No, Li Shimin, who was worried, thought about it, and felt that he couldn't carry the brutal pot that might appear, since he couldn't be it, he agreed with Cui Renshi's opinion, and sent the opinion of the criminal department back without changing it.

After it was over, Li Shimin also praised Cui Renshi.

And then, there is no then.

If this is placed in other ministers, Li Shimin will have to be promoted to one and a half levels, after all, it is his own golden mouth that has been boasted, and only when he is promoted can he show that the emperor has clear rewards and punishments.

But this person is Cui Renshi, and the emperor doesn't plan to do this.

The rewards and punishments are clear, and it also depends on the person, others can, Cui Renshi can't, who made him the Boling Cui family with five surnames and seven hopes, and the eleventh grandson of Cui Jun, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The emperor's suppression of the gate valve is well known, and it is normal not to promote Cui Renshi.

Many people in later generations said that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the gate valve was strong, and Li Shimin had to throw a rat taboo, and he didn't dare to suppress it too much, and the door valve was hit hard when Wu Zetian arrived, and then until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the door valve gradually declined and did not return to the past.

But that's not true.

The gate valve power was indeed in the last years of the Tang Dynasty towards the end of the twilight, but that does not mean that the gate valve power was not strong at that time, nor does it mean that the gate valve power was stronger in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

To be precise, the most ruthless time when the gate valve power was suppressed was during the reign of Li Shimin during the Zhenguan period, that is, the current period and the later Gaozong and Wu Zetian periods.

That is, when the Tang Dynasty was in its heyday, the five surnames and seven wangmen valves were suppressed the most ruthlessly.

Because he is strong, the emperor is strong. The emperor is strong in order to suppress the gate valve in the court.

Just like now, among the top ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there is no one with five surnames and seven wangs, and Wang Qi, who was the highest level of the Taiyuan royal family before, is one of the giants in the court.

This is because the meritorious service of the Tang Dynasty in the early years of the Tang Dynasty - the "Guanlong Military Group" still has great power; the second is that the emperor deliberately suppressed; Third, the vigorous implementation of the imperial examination system led to the emergence of many Shu courtiers, and at that time, the "five surnames" were mostly in the shadow of the door, and they did not adapt to and did not accept the new way of leaving the imperial examination; Fourth, the jealousy of the courtiers from a poor family, just like the current pattern of the DPRK and China.

And the original time and space later, the family gate valve with five surnames and seven wangs rose, and it rose from the emperor's suppression, and this time began with the Anshi Rebellion.

After the "Anshi Rebellion", the political center of the Tang Dynasty was rebuilt, and the "five surnames" re-emerged with the help of the imperial examination system, such as the Zheng family in Xingyang, who was the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty and was difficult to find, and since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, more than ten prime ministers and important ministers have appeared in a row, so there is the saying of "Zheng Banchao".

Another example is the Qinghe Cui family, there is the Tang generation, and a total of 10 people served as prime ministers in the south ancestral house, Qinghe big house, Qinghe small house, and Qingzhou house, and only 2 people were the former prime ministers of the "Anshi Rebellion", and after the incident, they entered the Tang Dynasty, and there were 8 people as prime ministers.

The reason for the resurgence of the family is closely related to the mastery of the imperial examination power, and the second is that after adapting to the imperial examination system, the profound family style and intellectual tradition of the family give them a special advantage in the examination.

For example, Fan Yang Lu's family, there are Tang generation, especially since the Middle Tang Dynasty, there are more than 100 Jinshi, which is amazing. You must know that in the Tang Dynasty of the original time and space, the Jinshi examination in the imperial examination was the most difficult, and the number of admissions was small.

However, there are also those in the Gaomen clan who have always despised the scientific examination system and adhered to the concept of medieval aristocracy, such as Li Deyu of Zhaojun, the prime minister of Zhaojun, and Zheng Qin of Xingyang, who "are ashamed of all living in the countryside and do not like the scientific examination", "especially evil Jinshi", and Zheng Qin of Xingyang even suggested abolishing the Jinshi system.

Of course, the real main reason for the rise of these family gate valves is that the imperial power is not strong, the emperor is not powerful enough, there is not enough prestige, and the power presses the gate valve to bow his head.

If it is placed now, even if there are more people with five surnames and seven wang clansmen staying in the court, the emperor has a way to subdue them, at least to keep the cold family, and it is not a problem at all for the new nobles to maintain balance.

Of course, the emperor is not giving the five surnames and the seven wang family gate valves a chance to raise their heads at all, and all the gate valve clansmen are basically suppressed at the bottom. Like Cui Renshi, he is already a high-ranking official in the five-surnamed Qiwang family, but it is only for the middle of the matter. Although the power is quite heavy, it is just an official position on the five grades.

Things at home are over, the old man's condition is a little more stable, and the update is beginning to resume.