"Where is Sumeru?"

Yang Jian, who was still reading the recital in the Daxing Palace in the middle of the night, finished grading another book of recitals, and suddenly raised his head and asked. The eunuch of the inner province who was waiting for His Royal Highness hurriedly whispered: "Back to Your Majesty, the Duke of Changning County has passed the Tiger Prison Pass yesterday, and he has just entered Luoyang today." ”

"Hmm." Yang Jian nodded under the light of the ambergris candles in the hall, with an unpredictable look on his face, and then he didn't speak again, lowered his head and continued to review the recitals that were piled up high. Wang Hai, the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, quietly glanced at the emperor, lowered his head and didn't say anything more. He has served the Son of Heaven for 18 years, and he has long been accustomed to seeing the Son of Heaven working national affairs. Although today's son is getting older and older, Huafa was born early, and even his personality has changed a lot, such as no longer being as frugal as before, and he has begun to like luxury and comfort, and even indulge in women's sex, but for state affairs, this son of heaven, who once snatched the country from his daughter and nephew, has never slackened for a day. However, Wang Hai is a little puzzled that the Son of Heaven is not the kind of faint monarch who is blind and ignores things outside the palace, why is it that rumors are flying all over the Beijing now, and even the imperial history and many officials have flocked to the table to impeach the prince of Changning County, but the Son of Heaven has not expressed his position until now?

Could it be that the emperor has already been hated by the above? Impossible?

A sound of footsteps sounded, and the voices of the chamberlains and palace maids sounded outside the hall: "See the queen mother!" ”

The door of the palace was pushed open, and the queen Dugu Jialuo entered the palace.

The queen didn't wait for Wang Haihai to come forward to salute, "Those people should all die!" She shouted angrily, "They are dividing the royal family and slandering the reputation of the emperor and grandson." This is a heinous crime! ”

The Ten Evils is a Buddhist term that refers to the ten negative karmas that lead to the suffering of the "Three Evil Realms" of hell, hungry ghosts, and animals. Therefore, it is also known as the "Ten Negative Karma Paths". Later, there was a great crime of rebellion and disrespect in the laws of the Western Han Dynasty, and when it came to the Northern Qi Dynasty, in the twelve articles of the Qi law, there were ten serious crimes: one was rebellious, the second was great rebellion, the third was rebellion, and the fourth was surrender. Five are evil and rebellious, six are unmoral, and seven are disrespectful. Eight are said to be unfilial, nine are said to be unrighteous, and ten are said to be civil strife. Those who commit these ten are not within the limit of the eight discussions.

After Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty. Respect Buddhism. Therefore, when the Kaihuang Law was formulated, the name of the Ten Evils in Buddhism was specially introduced into the Law, replacing the Ten Felonies of the Northern Qi Dynasty. The crime of "Ten Evils" then officially appeared, "Sui Shu. The twenty-fifth volume of the Criminal Law Chronicle contains: "In the first year of the Emperor's reign, a new law was established and ten evil articles were placed, one is called rebellion, the second is called rebellion, the third is rebellion, and the fourth is evil rebellion. Five are not moral, and six are disrespectful. Seven are not filial, eight are not harmonious, nine are unrighteous, and ten are civil strife. Those who commit the ten evils and commit murder for the purpose of imprisonment will be pardoned and removed. ”

The Ten Evils are the ten felonies written at the top of the Sui Dynasty's Kaihuang Law, which are quite strict when they are forgiven. As soon as Queen Dugu came up, she shouted out the heinous crimes, which was already quite angry and strict command.

Yang Jian got up from the throne, went up to help Queen Dugu, took the letter from the queen's hand, and after just a glance, he already knew why the queen was so angry. The content of the letter is actually all kinds of rumors about Yi Feng that have been circulating in Beijing in the past few days, and there are also those officials who have impeached Yi Feng on the table, but at the back, a long list has been added, mostly in the names of officials who impeached Yi Feng.

"These are the imperial historians of the Imperial History Observatory in front of them, and it is also the duty of the official to hear about the news." Yang Jian explained to the queen, "But these people in the back are inevitably a little overstepping. ”

Dugu's anger was unabated: "This is a big disrespect!" ”

Great disrespect is one of the ten heinous felonies, which refers to offending the dignity of the imperial family. It was usually for stealing the emperor's sacrificial utensils and the emperor's daily necessities, forging imperial medicines, and mistakenly violating food fasts. Queen Dugu defined these people as disrespectful at the moment, and it can indeed be said, after all, the rumors outside are getting more and more unbearable now, and they have indeed offended the dignity of the royal family.

"I'm going to arrest all these officials and leave no one behind." The Empress was furious, "I have to immediately send the left and right Wuhou and the three guards of the three guards and the five mansions of Qin Yixun to dispatch to arrest those who dare to spread rumors and offend the imperial family!" Sumeru is about to enter Beijing, and now the envoys from all over the country are also gathering in Beijing, how can it be tolerated to spread such rumors. ”

"I guess Sumeru may have heard these rumors by now." Yang Jian said coldly, "Rumors spread like the wind, and they must have already spread outside the customs." As for arresting those officials and those who spread rumors, it will not do much, and many people are just spreading false rumors. In fact, this qiē is under my control, no matter how those who have ill intentions dance now, but it won't be long. ”

Dugu Jialuo looked at Yang Jian, a little angry: "What do you think?" You know that rumors are flying all over the world now, why don't you do it for a long time? Don't you hear that your grandson is a robber, that he kills innocents, rapes women, and even cooks children's food! ”

"Rumors stop at the wise!" Yang Jian chuckled, "What's more, I'm just trying to capture and indulge, in order to lure out those who are behind the scenes." Although Yang Jian is old, he is still sophisticated, and as soon as there are rumors in Beijing, he immediately knows that this matter is not as simple as it seems. Yang Jian did not hold those rumors accountable for the first time, because he knew that the key was actually those instigators behind the scenes. This is Yang Jian's strength, he is never confused by appearances, and points to the essence of things.

"I will never allow anyone to slander the royal family like this, has the Supreme found out who is the instigator behind the scenes?"

Who is behind the instigation? Queen, how wise you were in the past, if you had been afraid before, you would have already seen the essence behind this matter. Yang Jian sighed secretly in his heart, the matter is actually not complicated, as soon as the rumors were announced, Yang Jian immediately sent someone to investigate secretly, although he was silent on the surface, but in fact, he had already found out the news he wanted to know soon. The first people who spread the rumors were a few ruffian rangers, and behind these people were the stewards of the Han Palace. Yang Jian quickly figured out the cause and effect, and the result was caused by his youngest son, Ake, who sent people to secretly buy those idle ruffians to spread rumors about Sumeru everywhere. Of course, some unexpected results were also discovered by the way, in addition to the people from the Han Palace, there were also some other forces in the Jingshi who were secretly fueling the troubles, and there were even people from the East Palace.

"I have already found out what happened this time, it is mainly because the old five are messing around, and the Yun clan of the old family is also contributing to the trouble."

"How does this have to do with Ark?" Queen Dugu was a little reluctant to believe that Yang Liang was her youngest son, so she stayed in Beijing until last year. And Yang Lin is her eldest grandson, even if the relationship between her youngest son and eldest grandson is not too close, at least it shouldn't be so stiff. What's more, they didn't know each other before, how could there be a conflict? She prefers to believe that this matter is the ghost of the eldest son's concubine Yun, who hooked up with the prince at the beginning, which made the prince and the princess Yuan not get along, and even later the Yun family tricked the prince into murdering and poisoning the Yuan family. Now that the son of the Yuan clan has returned to Jingshi, this Yun clan must be the most difficult to settle. "I think it must have been done by the Yun family's daughter, who murdered the Yuan clan at the beginning, and now wants to murder Sumeru." The more she thought about it, the more so, after all, even if she didn't mention the fact that the Yun family and the crown prince poisoned Sumeru's biological mother, the crown princess, now that Sumeru returns to Beijing, it is possible to become the eldest grandson of the royal family, so that the greatest threat to the Yun family is the greatest, and the eldest son she gave birth to will immediately change from the heir of the prince to a concubine who is nothing, and he can only be a county king.

Yang Jian didn't think so, he thought more deeply and knew better. When the fifth son was in Beijing, Cheng Huan was on his knees, and he really liked it. However, in the past two years, Yang Jian, who has been secretly concerned, has been extremely disappointed. Empty of the huge Northern Qi old land, the fifty-two states of the Kanto region, but until now they have not really controlled the state governor's office, this year's Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, it is even more disappointing. Not to mention the defeat, in the end, he did not have the courage to take responsibility, and only knew how to blindly shirk responsibility. This time he made a fuss, and the reason was almost already known, it was because he sent someone to Huaihuang to forcibly ask Yang Lin for a wine shop, and he used such a trick behind his back, it was really dog meat that couldn't be put on the table, and Adou couldn't help it. No matter how much he knew the queen's liking for this son, he didn't tell her in detail.

"The Yun clan is indeed getting more and more disagreeable." Yang Jian also has a very bad impression of the prince's concubine Yun, this Yun, who was born in the daughter of a lowly craftsman, except for the long fox and charming, there is nothing worthy of praise, from a humble background, scheming and vicious, and even the four sons born did not raise one well. In this regard, compared to the Xiao family of the second family, it is really different. Princess Xiao of Jin was born in the Liang royal family itself is a princess, and she is virtuous and gentle, and her second son is also respectful, and the backyard of the Jin palace is very harmonious, especially for the king of Jin gave birth to two sons, all of them are also very obedient and sensible, whether it is Yang Zhao, the king of Henan, or Yang Jin, the king of Yuzhang, they are very liked by him and the queen.

Dugu said impatiently: "This black-hearted and rotten Yun clan, she dared to poison the Yuan clan at the beginning, and now she dares to create rumors about Sumeru, and she is becoming more and more daring. If she is like this, after Sumeru enters Beijing, she will not be poisoned again. Supreme, let me send someone directly to the East Palace to give her a glass of gold dust wine. ”

"That's not a wise move!" Yang Jian sighed, "Sumeru is about to enter Beijing, and you killed the Yun clan at this time, so how can Sumeru get along with Jiandi in the future, and how can he be brothers with the four sons of the Yun clan?" ”

"Tell me, then, what are we going to do?" Dugu Huang asked.

"Don't do anything, let them talk about it, the rumors will stop at the wise, and it won't be long before they will disappear. As long as Sumeru enters Beijing, let Sumeru recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and confer officials and kings everywhere, who will dare to spread rumors again? Yang Jian said to the queen, but one thing he did not tell the queen was that he had directly sent two people to meet the crown prince and the king of Han respectively, and read his edict to them to rein in. (To be continued......)