Zhang Xuan naturally refused Empress Xiao's service.

This woman, he also didn't plan to have too much contact, so regardless of Queen Xiao's gloomy expression, he asked her to retreat. Zhang Xuan called two palace maids and put on the cumbersome dragon robe for himself.

Not long after, a eunuch came outside to remind Zhang Xuan that the time for the early dynasty had come.

In ancient times, when the early dynasty was in the early dynasty, it was basically around five o'clock.

So Zhang Xuan must get up at four o'clock, get dressed, get dressed up, and then go to the morning court. Of course, Zhang Xuan can also be lazy and wait until five o'clock to get up.

This is because he is the emperor and has the right to do so.

But the officials are different, because they have to get up early to enter the palace, and then wait at the outer gate of the palace, and wait for the palace gate to open before they can enter the palace.

After that, they had to enter the palace early and wait for the emperor.

If anyone dares to come later than the emperor, it will basically be finished.

Zhang Xuan woke up relatively early today, so when the eunuch came to remind him, he was already ready to go, left Renshou Palace, and participated in the early dynasty.

When Zhang Xuan entered the main hall, he found that all the civil and military officials had arrived, and no one dared to be late.

It seems that this group of people is quite lucky.

When Zhang Xuan sat down, the early dynasty began, which was similar to what was played in the TV movie, but there were subtle differences.

For example, there are not as many officials standing here as there were yesterday.

This is a matter of course, in fact, on the fifteenth day of the first month, this is the great dynasty, and you can go to the court to see the emperor and discuss major matters with the emperor above the nine grades of Beijing's civil and military affairs.

Or when encountering any major events, officials above the ninth rank can also participate in the early dynasty.

In ordinary times, only civil and military officials with more than five grades and supervising the imperial history, the staff wailang, and Dr. Taichang visited the court every day.

In other words, officials below the fifth rank could not see the emperor in ordinary early dynasties.

Yesterday was Zhang Xuan's accession to the throne, so all the civil and military officials in Beijing came to kneel and worship Zhang Xuan.

Today, officials below the fifth grade are no longer qualified.

Of course, Zhang Xuan didn't care.

As the emperor who has just ascended the throne, Zhang Xuan is relatively busy, and there are many things that have to be discussed in the early dynasty, most of which are rules or customs.

Today, for example, the thing being discussed is amnesty.

Generally speaking, the new emperor will come to the throne to show his majesty and benevolence, amnesty to the world, or tax reduction or other things will be discussed.

Of course, there are limits to the amnesty of the world, and it is not a generalization, such as political prisoners who rebelled, bullied the monarch, and opposed the imperial power. In short, the state's offenses and state offenders are not within the scope of pardon.

Again, heinousness is among them.

The so-called ten evils refer to the ten major crimes that cannot be pardoned, namely: rebellion, great rebellion, rebellion, evil rebellion, unrighteousness, great disrespect, unfilial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife. It means that the sin is so great that it cannot be forgiven.

By the way, the so-called ten evils developed on the basis of the crime of "great rebellion and disrespect" in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the third year of the Heqing Dynasty of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Shang Shuling, Zhao Junwang and others played the twelve articles of "Qi Law", "listing ten serious crimes: one is rebellion, two is great rebellion, three is rebellion, four is surrender, five is evil rebellion, six is not moral, seven is disrespectful, eight is unfilial piety, nine is unrighteousness, and ten is civil strife." Those who commit these ten are not within the limit of the eight discussions. ”

In the early years of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, with the prosperity of Buddhism, the feudal rulers introduced the name of the "Ten Evils" in Buddhism into the law, replacing the "Ten Serious Crimes" in the "Qi Law", and the "Ten Evils" crimes officially appeared.

Therefore, Zhang Xuan's amnesty to the world this time will naturally not pardon the ten evils.

However, in addition to the ten evils, there are also some crimes that need to be listed, to see if they can be placed in the amnesty world, such as petty theft, abduction and so on.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs wrote a book of confessions, which listed some crimes for Zhang Xuan to look at, to see if he could pardon the people who committed these crimes, and use them to swear the mercy of the new emperor.

Zhang Xuan looked at some and found that most of them were not felonies.

However, there are several crimes that Zhang Xuan cannot tolerate, such as abducting children, this crime is also on the list of pardons, Zhang Xuan wants to beat people.

As a modern person, Zhang Xuan knows better than anyone what kind of pain the families of abducted children will bear.

There are not a few people whose parents go crazy overnight.

Someone even pardoned this child abductor, and it was a good thing.

Zhang Xuan asked with a gloomy face: "Who put this crime on the pardon list?" ”

A minister walked out tremblingly, knelt in front of Zhang Xuan, and before he could speak, Zhang Xuan said: "Take off his hat and drag it out to hit the thirty boards." ”

The minister was stunned.

"Your Majesty, spare your life, Your Majesty spare your life!"

He has been an official for so many years, and he has never seen such a rude emperor, so he didn't give people a chance to explain at all, so he directly dismissed him from office, and then beat him up.

This scene, other people can't stand it.

Many people stood up and pleaded for it.

Zhang Xuan's face did not change and said: "The same crime of intercession will be dragged out to play 20 boards." ”

But even so, there are still people who are not afraid and stand up to accuse Zhang Xuan, and many people are excited, and even threaten Zhang Xuan with dismissal.

Even many people shouted slogans like tyrants, believing that Zhang Xuan's indiscriminate dismissal was a sign of the country's demise.

This group of people really dare to say it.

However, this also made Zhang Xuan understand a truth, even if he is an emperor, he can't do whatever he wants.

Especially the emperors of the Sui Dynasty.

Because the emperor of the Sui Dynasty was not a monopoly, in fact, there were gate valves.

The struggle between the gate lords and the imperial power began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was especially prosperous in the two Jin dynasties, including the Sui and Tang dynasties, and remained the main opponents of the imperial family. In general, during the Sui Dynasty, the power of the gate lords could affect the strength of the imperial power.

Zhang Xuan saw this exactly today.

He wanted to train a few officials, but many gate officials stood on the opposite side of him, constantly accusing himself, saying that he had done too much.

Zhang Xuan had always heard that a large part of the reason why the Sui Dynasty would fall was because of the infighting between the imperial power and the gate valve, and finally cheapened the Taiyuan Li valve.

Now it seems that this statement is not without reason.

The emperor doesn't even have the right to remove an official position, and he will be prevented by others, which shows how powerful this group of gate lords has become, and it is unimaginable.

No wonder people say that there are only thousand-year-old families, and there are no thousand-year-old dynasties.

No wonder Yang Guang will go crazy and drastically reform the malpractices and recruit the new, and attack the gate valve family, it turns out that this group of people is really rampant to this point.

What a gate valve, what a family.