Chapter 10: Assassination Before the War

The greenhouse hall of Changle Palace. Liu Qi sat behind the desk, his brows furrowed. On the desk were four letters and a paper book, as well as an unsealed silk cloth wrapped in red linen. There were three people standing below, Prime Minister Tao Qing, Ting Lieutenant Zhang Ou, and Lieutenant Chen Jia. One of the four letters is a letter written by Yuan Ang ten days ago, one is the impeachment of the three people who just sent it, and one is the impeachment and killing of the villagers who have just been delivered, and one is the impeachment of Hu Hou to encourage the villagers not to farm. On that piece of paper, it was written that Ouyang Xuan's discipleship was trained, and the silk cloth rush was the location where the seventh ** team arrived. Liu Qi just picked up one and put down the other, and looked at it repeatedly for two hours, and now it was close to the end of the day. "The princes have made a good impression," he stumbled and said his final comments, picked up the pen, and made a comment on the slip. "Prime Minister, draft the edict, and punish the mistake according to the words played by the princes and the words of the common people", after speaking, let Huangmen give Yuan An's recital and joint recital to Prime Minister Tao Qing. "Hurry up and handle it, and cut it today." "The minister takes the order, this will be done", after speaking, he turned around and wanted to retreat. "Slow, Chao Wrong is beheaded, his ethnicity is handed over to the court lieutenant to be killed, and the other lieutenant is sent by you to pass the decree to Chao Wrong Jinjian, and the East City is prosperous to show the edict and behead, and the head is handed over to Fengchang, can you understand?" , "Ministers receive orders". Before retreating to the palace gate, Liu Qi's voice sounded again, "The prime minister drafted an edict to reprimand the people for me to abandon the farming, and ordered the villagers to pay enough money and grain according to the twenty taxes and one for the public land of the villagers, and the same is true for other princes and fiefdoms, go and do it."

Liu Qi waved his hand weakly, and the three of them retreated. A political exchange was also a violent confrontation in his heart. After all, Chao Cuo is his own teacher, the founder of the first emperor, and has made great contributions to policies such as people's livelihood and rest, but he is eager for quick success and quick profit, narrow-minded, and the emperor's favor excludes and suppresses people with different opinions, and pushes himself to the brink of danger, while he sits firmly with the rear, and his heart can be punished. Let the Yellow Gate pack up the slips and urgent reports on the table and archive them. took the piece of paper out of the temple gate and set up the immortal hall. Sometimes mother's love may bring some comfort to himself, this is what Liu Qi thinks. Before noon, the light in the fairy hall was bright, in addition to replacing the glass windows, there was also a hemispherical glass mercury mirror behind each oil lamp, reflecting a faint light. Let the originally dim temple now look like an outside. "Queen Mother, well", Liu Qi greeted after entering the palace. "Your Majesty, sit down," the Queen Mother said, sipping tea. "Drink some tea from the waiter to relieve the boredom in your heart." "It's okay too". Cui'er, who was busy making tea and washing tea for the Queen Mother, took out a bag of new tea very interestingly, poured out the old tea leaves, took the tea with a silver spoon, and brewed a set of procedures for washing tea. I drank a cup for myself, and then gave the Queen Mother and Liu Qi a cup each. The brewing effort is clearly the result of a long period of practice, without any panic and no hot hands. "None of those concubines in my palace have such kung fu, tomorrow I will send a palace maid and Aunt Cui to study hard", "None of your concubines are old and eye-catching". "This Hou is very good at making these elegant things, this tea is noble and elegant, and does not lose its charm, I have also heard it play the zither music, several times stronger than the musicians in this palace, and I am also absurd to exchange the job of internal history for a good work." "Haha, the old body has heard a little, it should be this Lingxian order to have this luck, Dou Yingna, the old body has already said, it depends on how Your Majesty does it", the Queen Mother waved away the other personnel in the palace, leaving only Cui'er to serve and drink tea, "Well, this time, if the wrong punishment can not be exchanged for the withdrawal of the Seven Kingdoms, I will appoint Dou Ying as the general to lead Luan Bu, Li Ji and other generals to attack Shandong and other countries on the north road of Zhenbei, and Taiwei Zhenzhong Road to help Liang Guo, hostile to the enemy committed by Wu Chu, but I have not thought about it yet, and I want to use it to wait, I am afraid that there will be many words of impeachment to disrupt the army's heart." He has not yet led the army, and he has been impeached for not farming, and the south of Wu is the land of his ancestors." "Your Majesty must think more, impeachment is the duty of the ministers, if there is a merit, then you can seal the mouth of Youyou, but the tax land (tenant public land) is still to be paid in full, as for the matter of his ancestral land, only His Majesty needs to write to Don'ou, Minyue and other countries to tell their clan to bring troops to kill Wu can be settled", "The queen mother sees high, according to the words of the queen mother, and will go to the Dongou country tomorrow." Liu Qi, who put down his burden, was in a better mood and admired the scenery in this hall. "The queen mother's waiting is also very straight, why is it only so bright in the middle of the mother's palace, why is the light still as dark as the moon there." "It's not that the prostitute is for the old body, no one will impeach the old person, and the purchase for His Majesty will only cause unnecessary troubles, haha, this Nie family is very thoughtful."

Zhongnan Villa, Ouyang Xuan's daily life after he came back is very simple, the medical hall, the workshop, the drill ground, and the villa are three points and one line. I can't go anywhere today, because Tao Qing is here, and there are two wills, one is a reprimand, which was said by Tao Qing's mouth, it seems that Ouyang Xuan is rebellious, and the final punishment is to order the villagers to pay taxes according to twenty taxes and one tax. The second will is to crown Ouyang Xuan and lead General Yulin and General Zhengnan, Shanyang County Lang swears to be the general of Yulin, and its existing deployment is renamed Yulin, which is under the command of the king, and orders Ouyang Xuan to rectify the deployment and wait for the order. After a cup of tea, this guy took out the two general seals and half a tiger talisman. "I haven't been to Chang'an for more than a few days, I don't know what the situation is now, and I have to use His Majesty's own soldiers?" , "Hu Hou has this elegant immortal land, since I will not go to the place of the high wall and deep courtyard, haha, Chao Cuo cut down with Dongshi five days ago, the soldiers of the Shandong countries have arrived in Handan, trapped in the city, and the Wu Chu coalition army is pointing at the Liang State." "Oh, I see, come to the prime minister, and have another pot of milk tea to nourish the stomach", Ouyang Xuan hurriedly changed the topic, because Nie Ping was already giving himself a look on the side, and it was better not to touch politics himself. borrowed the fire of the firewood stove outside the user to burn a pot of goat milk tea and gave Tao Qing a bowl. Looking at Tao Qing's grinning expression, you can know that this guy doesn't like to drink. "Waiting for this milk tea, it is really unblessed, or this tea is better." Nie Ping poured him a cup in time and poured out the milk tea, he, a perennial merchant in the Western Regions, is not used to this kind of milk tea, it seems that only Ouyang Xuan likes to drink it in the house, every morning it must be a bowl of milk tea, two and a half catties of mutton, and in the evening, it is pasta with mutton, giving Nie Ping the feeling that Ouyang Xuan should be a shepherd in the Western Regions. In fact, who knows, this is also Ouyang Xuan's supplement for physical strength and nutrition.

sent Tao Qing away, turned back to Nie and said: "Brother Nie, quickly prepare money and food to make up the tax money for the villagers, I forgot about this stubble, and when the servants resume their status, they will be granted according to private land in the future." "Don't be annoyed by the virtuous brother, my brother has prepared money and grain according to the number of feudal households, and only the villagers are exempted from renting grain in the autumn, and there is no tax-exempt grain", "Well, it's okay, in the future, they will all do it according to this, and the rented grain will be purchased at the price of Chang'an. "Haha, the virtuous brother can understand the mystery of this, and he can't make a noise, and the tax levied by the fifteenth tax for the brother is still some surplus grain, which can be used as military funds." (Here is a popular science for you, before the Ming Dynasty, the proportion of taxes paid was different in modern times, and the simplest understanding is how much one.) This statement is also the most common, and it is also described in the books of various gods, I can tell you clearly, that is wrong, that is the algorithm after the Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty because it is a feudal system transformed by slavery, so many traces have the color of slave society, the concept of the upper is the master, the lower is the slave, and the tax is directly collected according to the collection object. Erased the traces of "feudal" in feudal society. Before the Qing Dynasty, the twenty taxes and one referred to the division of income into 20 parts, of which 10 were paid for rent and one was paid for taxes, and the object of rent payment was the owner of the "fiefdom" land in feudal society, and the tax was also paid on behalf of the owner. The land cultivated by the common people is divided into public land and private land, and the tax to be paid mainly refers to the public land, and the private land is not taxed. Public land is uniformly distributed according to the population and youth of a household. In the Han and Tang dynasties, military merit could be fiefdomed with 50 to 100 acres, but these fiefs needed to be paid, that is, to provide food for the army or conscription. Prisoners of war also had fiefdoms, but all of them were public land, not private land, and it was a felony to kill prisoners of war and plunder people without permission. Therefore, Bai Qi made immortal contributions to the Qin State, and the final outcome could only be forced to commit suicide. It is said that Li Guang is difficult to seal, but in fact, the root cause lies in his brutal border policy, and in the end he can only die of hatred. The famous goshawk Zhidu, why did he die, in fact, it has nothing to do with its suppression of the wealthy family, his brutal killing of the Huns and the prohibition of commerce and trade in Yanmen led to the impeachment of the nobles who needed the fiefdom population, and Emperor Jing could only send someone to kill him, otherwise it would be extermination. There are many such people in history, including Ran Min, who saved the Han people in North China, and the most in his history is derogatory. The reason why the feudal society will call this name is based on the "seal", there must be someone to farm, and then see the pre-Qing books when the tax ratio is depicted, the Qing Dynasty and the pre-Qing Dynasty tax objects are different, so the concept is different, as for why the country is not so understood now, I can only tell you that this is the system of the Tian I Dynasty, Guo Imo I if the sycophant. If you have any questions, please refer to the pre-Qing version of the "Jingtian System" and "Rent Yong Modulation", which was implemented in the Western Han Dynasty after Jia Yi's reform. This book tries to restore the real historical and social life of the Han Dynasty. )

In the medical hall, there are a lot of people today, Ouyang Xuan sat at his desk and continued to compile the "Compendium of Materia Medica" according to the information on the tablet, and recited the subjects to be written for a day in the evening. As long as Ouyang Xuan is in the medical hall, the position of the mountain is to stand in front of the table with his back to the sword, and the righteous concubine is next to him to hand over an ink, study a color or something, and ask some questions from time to time, the most of which are the words that he doesn't know, the white wolf brothers and sisters are lying on their stomachs in a sunny place and falling asleep. Today, there are only four people in the north consultation hall, Chun Yuyi and Zheng Wukong went to the east consultation hall, and few people come here, but today suddenly five or six came.

"Apprentice, you go and see what is going on with Grandpa Chunyu, go to Shan, you go too, just stay there, stand here and look like the gate", the two of them reluctantly went to the east clinic from the back door corridor. Send them both away, moving your arms. turned around and played the guzheng, an ancient song, and it was not bad. Before she finished playing, the concubine came back, frowning, "Master, a few people from there said that Grandpa Chunyu said that none of them had any diseases, but they just didn't leave there." "Oh, and this matter, Buick Guli get up", kicked the white wolf brother and sister who were sleeping soundly.

The two guys got up very reluctantly, stuck out their tongues again, stretched their waists, and finally shook their heads, and then squatted next to the concubine left and right, stretching out their big tongues and licking the child's face. Ouyang Xuan motioned for them to follow the righteous concubine to the east hall, with their two sixth senses, those guys would not please anything. After the activity is over, continue to immerse yourself in transcription, and if you continue to do it at this rate, it will be completed in two months. During this time, an orphan came to report that the penicillin experiment had been successful. Before Ouyang Xuan got up to look, there was a miserable scream from the east hall, the scream was so miserable that it made people's scalps tingle, needless to say that this was the masterpiece of Buick and Guli, it seemed that these people had a lot of murderous intentions.

got up and walked towards the back door with square steps, and as soon as she arrived at the door, the righteous concubine hurriedly ran over, "Master, go and see, those people were bitten by Buick and Guli." Let the concubine and the orphan go to see the penicillin test, and he entered the east hall through the back door, bypassing the screen, and guarding the two doctors, the white wolf brothers and sisters were attacking two strong men with swords, and there were still four lying on the ground, it seemed that they were enough to choke, all of them were torn legs, and there were obvious bite marks on the neck, and the bite force of the big mouth could be broken as long as it was a bone. On the desk next to him sat an elegant scholar in a white robe and a silk cloth scarf, who seemed to be very accustomed to this scene and sat like a mountain. Seeing Ouyang Xuan appear, he didn't say anything. Buick had already dodged several sword attacks and was about to jump up to attack, but Guli had already cornered the swordsman* on his side. Whistle to recall Buick and Guli, "I don't know where the divine came to the Hou Mansion to make trouble?" He walked to Shan's side and whispered to him to send the two gentlemen back to the north hall, call the guards, check all over the outside, whether there was an ambush, and surround this place. Shantou obeyed his promise, escorting Chun Yuyi and Zheng Wukong and exiting the back door. Ouyang Xuan sat down on the desk in the middle. Then he asked, "Ben Hou asks you, where is sacred?" Dare to make trouble here? ”。 The two strong men were already standing behind the scholar, and they saw the scholar knocking on the desk with a rhythmic hand, while casually looking at the four corpses in the center of the field, the scene was extremely weird.

After a while, the scholar spoke: "I don't know if Hu Hou ever remembered that the Shi Gong who was killed by Hugh Tu Wangdi"? "There is still a slight impression that it seems to be a yellow door, claiming to be a descendant of Guiguzi." "It's good to remember, I didn't do this today, but since we met, we will be together. You are the head of the old thief, you must take it, there is no other Shandong king's trust, by the way to take the head of its master, I didn't expect you to be the one who killed my uncle, the family teacher has been looking for you for several months, so I can understand it here." I don't know what happened to this Chun Yuyi and the kings of Shandong, but it will be a floating cloud in a few months, so I'll ask later. "Just wait for you to take the head? It's better to ask your master to come out, I don't want to kill the weak." Stroking the hair on the backs of the white wolf brothers and sisters who put their front legs on the desk and looked at the field, he said slowly. "Other people's rumors are all false, in my opinion, they are all false, and the family teacher has fallen into disrepute." As soon as the words fell, the yellow light appeared as soon as his sleeve was raised, if he didn't say that Shi Shuo was okay, as soon as he talked about him, Ouyang Xuan kept an eye on him and put his sleeve arrow. I only brought a short knife with me when I went out today, and nothing else. The two-handed knife was already in his hand at the moment when his sleeve was raised, and the sleeve arrow came straight to the eye, sealing the line of the sleeve arrow with the knife, and the other sleeve arrow also came out of the other sleeve, and the double knife blocked the sleeve arrow in time, and fell on the desk, the arrow was black, and the other parts were bronze yellow. "It's just a small skill of carving insects, and if you have any advanced skills, just use it," said to the scholar who was already standing in the center of the field holding a brown-red bronze sword. didn't get up, just let the white wolf brothers and sisters stay away.

The scholar raised his sword and jumped in the center of the field, and the sword and body were in a straight line, and came straight to Ouyang Xuan's chest. It seems that the kung fu is really not weak, there is a distance of 10 steps. Ouyang Xuan held the short knife in his left hand and his right hand. Using the short knife back of his right hand to block the sword attack route to the outside, his left hand was about to bend his elbow and stab back, but he didn't expect this guy to actually turn around with the force of the sword blade in the air after the sword blade was blocked, and at the same time on his back, there was an extra short sword in his left hand and swung towards the top of Ouyang Xuan's head. There is no way, the short knife changes the attack mode when the posture is not formed, the arm directly supports the arm that has been downward, the wrist is buckled inward, the knife and arm clamp the scholar's forearm, and then outward, with the range of the body, quickly back to the left hand, the blade of the short knife just cut from the top of his head, cut off the bun, and the arm also hit his head, preventing the momentum of progress, and the body fell straight down and lay on the desk. Not to be delayed at all. Before he could withdraw his hand, he stabbed both shoulder joints with two knives, poofed twice, inserted the left knife into the shoulder joint from the front of the chest, stabbed the right hand from the shoulder, slashed back with the left hand, and cut the bone and tendon with the right hand. Yu Guang noticed that the two strong men had already rushed towards him with swords. The two-handed short knife was quickly thrown out one after another, and there were two more poofs, followed by a plop. The knife in his left hand was in the center of the eyebrows, penetrating through the bone, and the other knife was in the eye socket of the other guy, and only the handle of the knife was left outside. "I seem to have just said that if you come to your master, or even worse, you and your uncle like to put poison on weapons, but it's a pity that you ran into me." Ignoring the scholar who kept twitching on the desk, he got up and came to the center of the field, pulled out a short knife, shook off the blood, and put it in the waist sheath.

Turning around, the scholar had already stood up, blood gushing from his shoulders on both sides, his face was pale, and his eyes were dull. Because of the pneumothorax, he spoke very hard, "The people of my door will not let you go." "You and Tingwei's people will talk about this later, and I advise you not to talk if you want to live a little longer." walked up to the scholar and smashed a heavy fist on the inner thigh from the bottom up, and the scholar straddled, sat on the ground, leaned on the desk and breathed. Ouyang Xuan walked leisurely to the desk, picked up the sleeve arrow, the black arrow, smelled it, there was an astringent smell, it should be snake venom. Holding a sleeve arrow and dangling it in front of the scholar, the scholar dodged again and again, "Don't". "Boy, I know you're playing yin, haha, put the sleeve arrow on the little coagulated blood that flowed out of the placket, and the blood clot quickly dissolved." Tsk, this poison is difficult for you, is it a five-step snake or a bamboo leaf? If the blood doesn't scab over, what do you think will happen? Say it", "Five-step snake", picked up his sword, bronze, 80 cm long, with a diamond-shaped texture engraved on the hilt: Xuanwei Zizhi. "The sword is good, it should be used by your ancestor, right?" As he spoke, he took the sword, and the blade rubbed against the blood, and the uncoagulated blood quickly shrank into a jelly shape, "Isn't this sword the poison of bamboo leaf green?" ”。“ Exactly, if you want to kill, you have to scrape you". "Come in." As soon as the words fell, Shanshan flashed in from outside the door, "Send someone to inform the court lieutenant that someone is trying to assassinate Ben Hou, the assassin has been captured, and the first inquiry was sent by the kings of Shandong." And he bound up the living one, and gave it to the lieutenant with the dead one. Tell Ting Wei that the one who lives may not live for a few days, let him hurry up, and find someone to clean up this place by the way, the people in the medical hall are all literati, and it can be seen that there is no blood." With that, the blade rubbed against the blood from the wound. The scholar had already let out a howl like killing a pig, and waved his hand for Shansu to handle it. "Yu Hu waited, just captured 15 ambushers a mile away, killed more than 20 people, none of them escaped, and seized three sets of nets, 5 horse swords, and two pairs of horse chains." "It's all handed over to Tingwei, and the characters are handed over to Tingwei, damn, this is going to be a dead hand." waved his hand to let Shantou do something, and before leaving, he used a short knife to break the knee ligaments on both sides of the scholar. Throwing down the guy's sword, "Be careful that his weapon is poisonous, don't touch it", and then took the white wolf siblings to the backyard to see the penicillin experiment.

Note: A few people have asked why the titles in your book are different from those of others, and they are always changing, I will explain here that I also looked up a lot of information when writing this book, including clothing, maps, city conditions, living habits, speaking titles, etc. The title is made by referring to the poems and songs of the vernacular of each period, and adding books on Zhou rites. Basically, it can be close to the title at that time, only Liu Qi and the Queen Mother are obviously wrong when they call each other, normally they are all daily "mothers, children" Considering that some young people have seen more palace dramas, they will be uncomfortable. Before the Ming Dynasty, there was no such thing as eunuch, they were all called: Huangmen, Inner Servant, or Eunuch, and the word eunuch referred to the eunuch officials of the Shaofu and the eunuchs who served in the court, the latter mainly in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Because before the Qing Dynasty, people were self-respecting, and the daily words used between the generations were "so" and "sprinkle family", and the word "sprinkled family" appeared later, and five generations ago were the self-proclaimed names of the Yellow Gate. It took five generations before it was widely referred to as a substitute. For self-title, they generally use "under the bottom", "grass people", "under the official", "minister", "under the minister", etc., and there are non-honorific titles such as: you, me, him and the like. Neutral such as: you, we, etc., but before the Five Dynasties, the word "Weichen" would not appear, and before the Qing Dynasty, there would be no self-proclaimed slaves or maids. Some people will take "Dream of Red Mansions" as an example, I want to say that Cao Xueqin is a banner man of the Qing Dynasty. Why don't you take a look at "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and "Journey to the West", which are mainly titles of the Ming Dynasty, and there are some differences from the Han Dynasty. I have sorted it out according to some ancient books, and if there are mistakes, I will point them out in time so that I can correct them.