For major events in the imperial dynasty, the imperial court will report to the palace, the case of the Northern Hu traitor, and the case of the Zhao family framed by the Mendi.

The current Great Qi, although it is a feudal dynasty, has not yet reached the peak of imperial power, and there are checks and balances of the family, and the emperor cannot do whatever he wants. Therefore, the emperor's words and deeds will be accurately recorded by the historian in the "Living Note".

Even the emperor can't interfere with the historian's errands, let alone read the "Living Note" by himself, how the historian records the emperor is completely the historian's own business.

Therefore, the historical records written by Sima Qian can make an emperor like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty half angry, and with the unparalleled personal prestige of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he can't tamper with anything.

If there is no family in the world to check and balance the imperial power, officials have become slaves who can only rely on the emperor, and historians have become the echo worms of the emperor, and the emperor can do whatever he wants, and the history books will lose their credibility.

All in all, in the current Daqi, any major events in the court cannot be covered, and the national politics are very transparent.

After the case of the Zhao family was concluded, the situation quickly spread in the market.

All of a sudden, not only the Zheng clan and the Lu clan walked on the street, but the people in the market who recognized them would throw rotten vegetable leaves, and other prominent clans such as the Xu clan were always pointed at and poked at the backbone.

Not only that, but the storyteller of the teahouse in the market also spontaneously compiled many legendary stories, telling how the prime minister Xu Minglang, the secretary of the military department, Pang Qingde, the imperial historian Zheng Zexian and others, acted in an embarrassed manner and brutalized Zhongliang.

As a result, for a long time, the officials were reluctant to show up in the market unless they had essential official duties, and the young gentlemen were even ordered not to go out.

The business of the various green buildings in Pingkangfang has been greatly affected, which can make those Qingqi children who like the romance of scholars the most resentful all day long.

The generals headed by the Zhao family were praised by the storytellers, saying that they were loyal and unyielding, and they were not afraid of treachery.

In the face of all kinds of injustices and criticisms, how he fulfilled his duties, overcame many hardships, arrested Beihu Xizuo, and finally made Xu Minglang and other civil officials lose face.

In the end, His Majesty the Emperor of Daqi must be a god and a martial artist, he had insight into the world, and finally found out the truth about Zhao's wrongdoing, returned Zhao's Qingbai, and punished the guilty officials.

It is Prime Minister Xu Minglang who is still the Prime Minister, which makes everyone angry and unacceptable. Therefore, all kinds of grievances and crusades were finally aimed at Xu Minglang, which can be called boiling public resentment.

Among them, the loudest voice, the most angry attitude, and the most active are undoubtedly those who accused the Zhao family of being rich and unkind and the same as the Liu family in front of the Jingzhao Mansion after the Zhao murder broke out that day.

Now, they only care about insulting the family, cursing Xu Minglang, and praising the Zhao family's loyalty and righteousness, and have completely forgotten how they listened to the wind and rain that day, and threatened to go to the Zhao family's house.

In such a situation, Xu Minglang was forced to close his door, saying that he was sick and on leave, and stayed at home for dozens of days without going out, nor did he go to the court, so he could only let the generals and officials of the cold door act in the court.

The authority of the first minister of the Great Qi has plummeted so far, and it will never return to the scenery of the past.

Zhao Xuanji, the governor of the capital, as the first person in the military and the leader of the gate, has become a Taishan-like existence in the court, overwhelming the ministers, and has the meaning of replacing Xu Minglang's status.

The officials of the poor family were half reverent and half afraid of him, and the officials of the door were all shy away in front of him.

A group of generals, except for the Sun family and a few other members of the Zhao family, are all looking forward to Zhao Xuanji.

For many years, Jiangmen has been suppressed by the door, and Zhao Xuanji has not been able to raise his head, and after this battle, this situation has been fundamentally reversed.

With the fall of the Liu family and the Pang family, the Zheng family and the Lu family fell into the middle of the road, and in this peaceful season, the gate miraculously overwhelmed the door in terms of momentum.

Except for the Sun family and other families, the other generals are now walking on the street, all with their heads held up. When he arrived at the court, he was also proud of himself in front of the officials, snorting coldly from time to time, pressing people with his power, and forcing the other party to bow his head and retreat.

At this time of year, what everyone is waiting for is when the guilty clan officials of the Pang clan, the Zheng clan, and the Lu clan will be beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market.

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Zhao Ning entered the prison of Dali Temple again.

This time, what he wanted to see was not Xiao Yan, but some of the criminals in the Zhao family's turmoil, the dock murder case and the Shimen County dam fight.

Zhao Ning first met Chen Yi, the steward of the dock shipping company.

Chen Yi, who was sitting cross-legged, was in good spirits, his clothes were neat, and his cell was also cleaned up by him. It could be seen that several other prisoners who were being held with him were quite in awe of him and gave him half of the space.

Even when he arrived in the prison cell, Chen Yi, a person who has been working hard and constantly striving to climb up, has not relaxed his requirements for himself, let alone how to get along with the people around him.

After being reminded by a prisoner, Chen Yi opened his eyes and saw Zhao Ning, there was obviously a strong look of surprise in his eyes, he quickly got up and stepped forward to salute, his movements were meticulous, "I've seen Zhao Gongzi." ”

Zhao Ning did not enter the cell, waved his hand, and motioned for Chen Yi to go with him.

Chen Yi stayed in an ordinary cell, the dung bucket was placed inside, and the smell of urine and urine mixed together was not very good, of course Zhao Ning would not go in to find guilt, he came to this cell in person, and he just wanted to see Chen Yi's state in the cell.

For Chen Yi, Zhao Ning still needs it, and he needs to be observed.

Continue on and enter the area where the death row inmates are being held.

Zhao Ning planned to go to Feng San, Feng Niu'er and others to have a look, and when he passed by a cell, he heard an unusual movement inside, turned his head to look, and found that several prisoners were beating a companion.

"What are you doing? Stop me! I don't want to live anymore?!"

When the jailer who led the way saw Zhao Ning stop, he stepped forward and beat the fence with a stick in his hand to reprimand. In this way, he should often say it, and now he blurts it out, and it is almost slipping away.

Several prisoners parted, revealing a man with his head in his arms, curled up on the ground motionless. can always hold his head and not let go, naturally he is not dead, but he has not reacted, which makes people suspect that he is a dead man.

"Wang Shu, get out of here, pretend to be dead!" The jailer saw that Zhao Ning was looking at the other party, so he took the initiative to shout inside, his attitude was very flattering, "Zhao Gongzi is here, you dare to delay?!"

Hearing the words "Zhao Gongzi", Wang Shu's hand was put down suddenly, and he looked out with a frightened face, as if his fear had been dissipated.

But in the next moment, he ran to the fence with a rolling belt, knelt on the ground and kept begging Zhao Ning: "Zhao Gongzi, please, let my wife go, I will repay you as a cow and a horse in the next life, please!"

After saying that, he was already beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, kowtowed, and his forehead soon became bloody.

Although he confessed to slandering the Zhao clan and killing people on his ship, he offended the Zhao clan after all

, plus there is a life in his hands, and he never thought that he would still be alive.

"At this time, you still think about your wife?" Zhao Ning laughed.

Chen Yi and Wang Shu participated in the dock murder case for the same reason for their wives and children, but at this time they had completely different results.

Chen Yi is about to be released, and he will be used by Zhao Ning, Wang Shu has been abolished and cultivated, and he will be on the ground tomorrow at the entrance of the vegetable market. In the cell, the performance of these two people is also very different.

A large part of the reason why Zhao Ning didn't kill Chen Yi was because he saw his wife's virtuous performance in his hiding place, and he didn't want the other party's wife and children to end up in the rest of their lives.

Zhao Ning has no feelings for Chen Yi, whether Chen Yi dies or not, whether he uses it or not, is between the two, but Zhao Ning has a great sympathy for his wife.

In the ten years of fire in his previous life, Zhao Ning had seen too many tragedies in the world, and in this life, he instinctively didn't want to see beautiful things being torn apart, and he didn't want to see kind people with affection and righteousness suffering.

And Wang Shu's selfishness, who only has wealth and wealth in his heart, and in order to get these vanities, he does not hesitate to persecute his husband's wife, Zhao Ning saw it, and just wanted the other party to die quickly.

Wang Shu would marry a woman with such unbearable virtue and only a beautiful face, and would obey her, which made Zhao Ning extremely disdainful and disgusted with Wang Shu.

So even if Wang Shu didn't hurt the Zhao clan, Zhao Ning didn't want the other party to live.

Everyone has likes and dislikes.

Zhao Ning never considered himself a saint.

He can control the fate of Chen Yi and Wang Shu, and he will make a choice according to his three views.

Wang Shu was still kowtowing, but Zhao Ning had already left.

When he arrived at the place where Feng San and Feng Niu'er were being held, Zhao Ning waved his hand and asked the jailer to take out a few people who were sitting in front of the wall waiting to die, and followed him back to the torture room.

"Tomorrow is the time for you to go to the execution ground, is there anything else you want to say?" Zhao Ning sat down on the bench in front of the table, signaling that Feng San and the others did not have to kneel down and salute.

He will come specifically to ask such a sentence, which shows that in addition to the original promise to take care of their families, there is still the possibility of doing something for them.

is also a murderer, but for Feng San and Feng Niu'er, Zhao Ning did not have the disgust in his heart when he faced Wang Shu.

On the one hand, Zhao Ning sympathized with what happened to them before coming to Zhao's Zhuangzi;

On the other hand, when Zhao Ning faces the completely and completely disadvantaged group of the people at the bottom, he will always have more compassion in his heart than he does for the wealthy and wealthy people with big families and status.

There is no one in this world whose life is more difficult than theirs. And they have worked hard all their lives, and there are almost no opportunities to enjoy life, and it is difficult to even eat meat. As human beings, they have not had an easy life.

Feng San and the others killed innocent villagers in Hekou Village, so naturally they wanted to die, which was not negotiable. Zhao Ning's promise to take care of Feng San and the others' families was actually not entirely a conditional exchange, a large part of the reason was mercy.

"We're all dying people, there's nothing more to say. As long as Zhao Gongzi can fulfill his promise, even if he is a ghost, we will also read Zhao Gongzi's good. ”

The middle-aged man who had been tortured before hugged his fists, and when he said this, there was a relieved smile on his face that the value of life had been realized, and there were no regrets in this life.

These words attracted the nods of others in agreement.

Feng San was silent for a moment, then suddenly knelt down in front of Zhao Ning, opened his mouth, and before he could say anything, his eyes were already red.