Chapter 622: Dead Horse
Zheng Lang wanted to laugh, it was estimated that Zhao Zhen was similar in psychology to himself, and he was curious about this Wu Yishi, but he was a little worried in his heart, afraid that he would be fascinated by beauty, so he ran to Zhongshu to find it.
Zheng Lang didn't speak, but someone did.
Chen Zhizhong, Pang Ji and Wen Yanbo all had three-zhang high flames floating above their heads, and Pang Ji asked in a deep voice, "Your Majesty, what is the reason for summoning this woman?" ”
If you continue to regard others as the queen of Western Xia, you have to respect them, and you can't summon them. If you don't think of her as a queen, an ordinary woman, why would she be summoned to the palace? Especially this kind of young woman. There is only one possibility, the emperor is ready to accept this woman as a concubine.
Didn't you move the clan as a concubine?
It is estimated that the gate of the palace will be forcibly demolished by Yanchen tomorrow, and it will even affect Zheng Lang.
Chen Zhizhong said: "Your Majesty, recently Yanchen has been very dissatisfied with the palace, thinking that Xiu Yuan is charming Your Majesty, the country has been eventful for most of these years, and it is a sign of danger to the country. ”
Wen Yanbo said: "Your Majesty, when you took in the Wuyi clan, you wanted to use her appeal to make the Western Xia tribes defect to our dynasty and weaken the power of the Western Xia. If His Majesty covets beauty and spreads to the enemy's territory, it will not produce this effect, but will make the Tangut people feel humiliated, and the people of the West will be in danger. Doesn't Your Majesty understand this simple truth? ”
Pang Ji said: "Your Majesty, during the Tianbao period, the territory of the Tang Dynasty was almost more than five times that of our dynasty, invincible in the world, the country's rice warehouse was flooded, the rope of money was eroded, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. My treasury is empty. The people of the world are waiting to be fed, surrounded by strong enemies, and disasters are repeated, less than one-tenth of the prosperity of Tianbao. Please think twice...... Your Majesty"
The trio took turns firing. Zhao Zhen was stunned, and changed his words: "It's okay for me to summon you and not move all the mountains, right?" ”
However, Zhao Zhen's sentence just now made several people vigilant, Chen Zhizhong said: "It is okay to summon the people who have not moved all the mountains, but they are people from outside Tibet, and the ministers are questioning whether to take in the people who have not moved, so Your Majesty must bring the records of the living room to show selflessness." ”
Zhao Zhen looked at Zheng Lang. I looked at the three prime ministers and thought, what am I doing here?
There was no way, so I had to order the living man to go to the vertical arch hall to listen to the supervision, and the recall.
Zhao Zhen left, and the three prime ministers stared at Zheng Lang together.
This red face is what you brought to the Song Dynasty, and if it leads to any bad consequences, you are completely responsible.
Zheng Langxin said. As for it. If you talk about beautiful women, you have seen a lot of them in later generations, at least in pictorials and movies. The top stars, what Fei, Ling, Bing, they are very beautiful, but can they be so beautiful that a head of state is desperate to pursue them regardless of the country? In the eyes of the Song people, the petite Xi Shi may be more popular, but Xi Shi and Wang Zhaojun and Mink Chan, the legendary ingredients are greater than the real ingredients, on the contrary, Yang Yuhuan, who is famous for his plumpness, is a true story. But the real Tang Dynasty corruption was produced by Yang Yuhuan. Or Yuan Hao was produced by the Shifting Clan. Wrong. They played some roles in the middle, but they did not play a big role, and the main body was Li Longji and Yuan Hao's own depravity.
Beauty is a curse and the Yellow River, but if it is used properly, it can also nourish all things. For example, Zhang. Was there a scourge to the Song Dynasty? In addition to muttering a few words for her uncle, it was precisely because of her appearance that she nourished Zhao Zhen's heart, although the country was full of disasters, it created the best period of the Song Dynasty.
Zheng Lang stretched out his hands and said, "Chen Xianggong, Brother Alcohol, Brother Kuanfu, am I Yanchen or Zaizhi?" ”…,
The prime minister can only say about this matter, and it is mainly the responsibility of the ministers.
The three prime ministers looked at each other, who dared to leak this matter to Yanchen? Zheng Lang said again: "Actually, there is no need to be nervous, we are courtiers, and the official family is Your Majesty, even if you say that it will not be very effective, only one person can persuade Your Majesty." ”
"Who?"
"Zhang Xiuyuan."
"Know, don't talk nonsense," Chen Zhizhong shouted.
Zheng Lang didn't make a sound, even if Zhao Zhen accepted the girl who didn't move, he wouldn't become Yuan Hao, but it was best not to touch it, after all, her identity was a bit dazzling. Zheng Lang is also very skeptical about the appearance of the country and the city, but Zheng Lang is also afraid of what happens.
Chen Zhizhong was displeased, thinking that he was talking nonsense, in fact, it was not nonsense, Sister Zhang wanted to be on the throne in the palace, and if she wanted to be on the throne, she must have the support of the minister, Pang Ji also wanted to be on the throne, and if she wanted to be on the throne, there must be a competent person in the palace to say good things for him, not only Pang Ji, Wen Yanbo and Sister Zhang also seem to have some unclear relationship, this relationship does not refer to that kind of relationship, but refers to a tacit cooperation. Now I haven't seen any of them, and I'm worried. If you don't move into the palace, what will happen? After all, the emperor is in the prime of life.
At least he didn't move into the palace, and he was most grateful to himself, not Pang Wen and the others. I said the word Zhang Xiuyuan, and it is estimated that in a day or two, the news will reach the inner palace.
Chen Zhizhong didn't know, so he was very displeased.
Zheng Lang didn't say anything more.
The father and daughter came to Tokyo City in the eyes of many people, and the imperial court had already prepared a mansion for him, and gave him a knighthood and official of the Ministry of Public Works of Shuguo. is not a real official, but he has not moved to the mountain, and he does not have many real power official positions in Western Xia. Including his two sons, the imperial court also gave some official positions. This result is much better than what Wuyishan expected.
He kept a low profile, and after moving into a new house with his family and servants rewarded by the imperial court, he rarely went out and did not visit other ministers. He went out less often, only once. In any case, she is just a seventeen-year-old girl, when she came to the capital, she has never seen such prosperity in the world, especially the Jingzhou Bridge Night Market, the most prosperous place is Mahang Street, the world suffers from gnats, and it is not good to bite in summer, but there is no mosquito in Mahang Street. Both sides of the street are eating and drinking, oil and gas rush to the sky, mosquitoes and bad oil, lively and extraordinary, the lights are shining in the sky, until the four more drums are sounding, even if the weather is stormy and snowy in the winter month, the night market is still open as usual, so the gnats avoid this place.
Therefore, accompanied by the maidservant girl at home, Wu Yi came to Mahang Street to visit the night market, but what disappointed everyone was that Wu Yi actually wore a Luo Luo strangely, and Rob was still very thick, only seeing her graceful figure, but not seeing what her face looked like.
Looking at the pink painting, the onlookers were covered in black sweat.
Because science was initiated in the Southern Song Dynasty, later generations often misunderstand the atmosphere of the Song Dynasty. In fact, the atmosphere of the Song Dynasty was the Tang Dynasty. It's still very open, what era is Luo? The concubines in the palace will not wear this old antique when they go out to burn incense and go home to save their relatives.
There are lustful disciples who want to pounce on them and tear off the curtain on the face of the Wu Yi clan.
This incident caused some small sensations in the capital. The ministers of the two provinces, especially those petty officials, were also very gossipy, so they discussed it one after another. Zheng Lang listened, and he was also in black sweat.
If you don't think from the other person's point of view, it's hard to know what the other person thinks.
It's very helpless to do this.
The attitude of the Song Dynasty was better than he imagined, regardless of the side reaction in advance. Sending troops to rescue, the valley of the An tribe in Qinzhou, which is rich in water and grass, or the reward arrangement in the capital, are all better than he imagined. However, he has always been in a very low mood, because of his mistakes, Wei Minglang Yu caught up, and nearly four hundred strong men in the clan were killed by Wei Minglangyu's men, for a war. Not much, but for a clan is a huge number, and all that. It could have been avoided. …,
After settling down the clansmen and coming to Beijing with an edict, I heard some rumors along the way. If they didn't move the clan and let the Khitans take them captive, it was a matter for the Tibetan people, and the Song Dynasty didn't pay attention to it, but when they came to the Song Dynasty, they would be Song Dynasty people in the future, and there would be more people who paid attention.
The deeds of the unmoved clan made some good deeds come out, and even the emperor dared to arrange it, not to mention the unmoved clan. In the end, the farther and farther it went, the mountains did not move along the way, and there was a little bit of rumour. It's not a good thing, the daughter is still young, and she has to get married, and the identity of a queen is dazzling, and there are these rumors. Who dares to marry his daughter, will he let his daughter stay a widow for the rest of his life?
He is not as good as the conspiracy and trickery, and his military ability is not as good as that of Wei Minglangyu, but he is not a fool, so he is very low-key after coming to the capital, and he doesn't even let his daughter go out.
Zheng Lang didn't pay much attention to this.
What he wants is the impact of the father and daughter, and as for the future of the Wuyi clan, Zheng Lang has the mind to take care of it.
Many people in the capital are talking about the little queen of Western Xia.
Something happened suddenly.
The cause was a very small matter, but in the end, it was no less troublesome than the Chen Liuqiao case.
Near the capital, including Zhengzhou, there are some pastoral supervisors, one is that the farmland near the capital is not high, but it is suitable for grazing, and the other is that there are a large number of troops stationed in the capital, and there are also some cavalry, which need to be trained on horseback.
These war horses come to all over the world, most of them are not adapted to the climate and soil of the capital, and they are not suitable for raising them illegally, and they will die one after another in ten years. The imperial court also introduced some measures, such as one test a year, more foals born and fewer dead horses, awards, fewer foals born, more dead horses, and punishments. However, the effect is not great, and the number of dead horses is often more than ten times that of foals.
Live horses are worth a lot, and dead horses are worth nothing, which is relative to the imperial court. But for private individuals, the proper use, from horse skin to horse hair, and even the original aristocratic tooth brushing horse tail, to horse meat, is still a lot of wealth, so set up a dead horse to deal with these dead horses, but I am afraid that some ink officials can deliberately kill live horses for profit regardless of the interests of the country, and the management is very strict. I'd rather rot a dead horse than relax the threshold for selling a dead horse.
The trigger was the detonation of these dead horses.
The wife of Yang Yi, the household judge, had a cousin who married Cheng Wenchang, a merchant from Xuzhou, and the two sisters had a good relationship, so Yang Yi and Cheng Wenchang had a close relationship. Cheng Wenchang's uncle Cheng Shouyi has a merchant friend, and the businessman pursues profit, which is very normal, so he hit the idea on these dead horses.
However, he was not qualified to operate, so he came up with a plan to impersonate the dead horse officials in his name to seek the profits of these dead horses. The pastoral supervisor of Zhongmu County is one of the most important pastoral supervisors in Beijing, with 126 horse sheds in 13 counties in Beijing, and 27 in Zhongmu. This happened a long time ago, and the dead horse affairs were under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, and it happened to be Yang Cha who served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion at that time.
There was no accident at that time, but after a long time, Cheng Shouyi's friend was discovered and arrested by the government, this matter is not trivial, Cheng Shouyi is only a businessman, according to the law, the heavy will be beheaded, and the light one will be punished to bankruptcy. So he went around to win the lawsuit for him, even if it was dealt with lightly, it was better than cutting off his head, so he found Cheng Shouyi.
Cheng Shouyi didn't have the ability to rescue his friend, and found his nephew Cheng Wenchang, Cheng Wenchang also didn't have the ability to rescue, so he thought of his half-related relative Yang Yi, how far is this narrative. It's not his uncle, but his uncle's friend, Cheng Wenchang is not very interested, and he doesn't pay much attention to it, he didn't go to Yang Yi in person, he just wrote a letter to Yang Yi, you can save it, you can't save it, of course, it's better to save it. Because Yang Yi's words are on the day, the name of the recipient of Cheng Wenchang's payment is Yang Ri. But the messenger was a confused worm, who took the word as his name, and directly sent the letter to another person named Yang Riqiao in Kaifeng. …,
Yang Ri received this letter inexplicably, but when he saw that someone was pretending to be a dead horse official, he was afraid and sent a letter to denounce it. The imperial court sent Qian Mingyi, a scholar of Hanlin, and Lu Gongju, a scholar of the intellectual system, to investigate the matter. Qian Mingyi and Lu Gongxuan arrested Cheng Wenchang for interrogation, and as a result, another case was tried.
Xu Huaide has a cousin who has an estate in Yangzhai County, Xuzhou, because she has no children, her husband is dead, and some of the properties are registered as officials according to the law. Xu Huaide's cousin found his brother to help, Xu Huaide felt embarrassed, it was not good to come forward, it was some land, and his sister couldn't explain it if he didn't come forward. happened to hear the relationship between Cheng Wenchang and Yang Yi, and Yang Yi was a good friend with Han Zong, the governor of Xuzhou at that time, Cheng Wenchang had some connections with Xu Huaide's cousin's industry in Xuzhou, so he instructed his cousin to find Cheng Wenchang and asked Cheng Wenchang to ask Yang Yi to intercede with Han Zong and classify his industry as an industry with the same surname, so that it would be difficult for the court to confiscate his status as an official.
After going around for most of the day and delaying the time, the case has been transferred to another state, Han Zong sighed, but after receiving this letter, he did not make a sound.
Qian Mingyi and Lu Gongyi glanced at each other, vaguely feeling that the case was getting bigger and bigger, and they didn't dare to arrest Xu Huaide and Yang Yi, but they arrested Cheng Shouyi, interrogated Cheng Shouyi, and found out another thing, Cheng Shouyi had insulted others, scolded very viciously, and the scolded person was angry and sued Cheng Shouyi. The presiding judge is Chong Shiheng's younger brother Chong Shicai, who was invited by Yang Yi to leniency Cheng Shouyi.
At this point, Yang Yi must have made many mistakes, Qian Mingyi and Lu Gongxuan also arrested Yang Yi, and prying another case out of Yang Yi's mouth. Among the officials, Zhang Fangping, Sima Guang, Zheng Lang and others are all in good condition, and Zhang Fangping has lived a life of fine clothes and food since he was a child. The scale of his mansion in Beijing is much larger than that of Zheng Lang's family, there is a lack of servants, there are servants, most of them are mercenary, and it is inconvenient and intimate to use, so he wants to buy a few women, that is, some female slaves who were captured in the war, Zhao Kuangyin implemented "humanitarianism", and the law prohibits officials and the people from selling women, and no one takes the law seriously, as long as it is not excessive, it is not a mistake in the Song Dynasty. It's okay for Xia Zhu to beat the servants to death at home, besides, how many women to buy?
Yang Yi is a courtesan, has a good relationship with many officials, and has a close relationship with Zhang Fangping, in a banquet, Zhang Fangping thought that the household department happened to be in charge of women's affairs, so he asked Yang Yi to buy a few women to go home as maids. Zhang Fangping is now deeply trusted by the emperor, and has a close relationship with Zheng Lang, so Yang Yi naturally readily agreed.
Pulled out Zhang Fangping again!
It was recorded in the case and the trial continued, but it turned out that there was another incident, Cheng Wenchang's mother did not like a servant girl in the family, and framed her maid for putting medicine in porridge to harm her, and used this reason to beat her handmaid half to death. This servant girl was not convinced, and started a lawsuit, and the presiding judge was Zhang Sheng. In the Song Dynasty, these handmaidens became more and more "human rights", but the Song Dynasty evolved from the Tang Dynasty, and in Zhang Sheng's heart, the status of these handmaidens was still very low, and they did not blame the handmaidens for suing their masters with servants, but they did not track down whether Cheng's mother framed their maids. The servant girl was so angry that she committed suicide by hanging the beam.
Check here, it is already destined that these dead horses are extremely expensive! (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )