The tone was very slow and the voice was very low, but Liu Jiyu subconsciously sat up straight, calmed down, and said as naturally as possible: "My lord, please interrogate, the lower officials know everything." ”

"Ten days ago, but you instigated hundreds of people to go with you?"

"Yes."

"Why do you incite these people to go with you, and what do you think?"

Hearing this, Liu Jiyu said with a righteous face: "The lower officials don't have any thoughts, but they are admonishing the country and soothing the monarch's father." ”

Xia Yuan continued: "This official asks again, why are these hundreds of people willing to go with you?" ”

"I am the same as the thoughts of the lower officials, admonishing the country, impeaching the traitors to the monarch's father, and listing the evils of my Ming Dynasty."

"Do you know what you're doing? What is the sin? ”

Liu Jiyu's face became more righteous and awe-inspiring, "I don't know what crime the official is, but I don't hesitate to speak for the country!" ”

Hearing this, Xia Yuan asked abruptly: "After making a big fuss about Fengyingku, were you very scared, were you very dazed, and were you very overwhelmed?" ”

“.”

Hearing this, Liu Jiyu just wanted to reply, but Xia Yuan didn't give him a chance, but pressed step by step, "You are afraid, you are at a loss, you don't know what is wrong, and the same is true for those hundreds of people." Beating Shangguan, which also includes a household secretary, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, how should it be handled? ”

"Xiaguan."

"Do you want to say that you don't know? Do you think that those who don't know are not guilty, or do you think that not knowing can reduce your guilt?

Beating an official, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, is the lightest is to remove the official from office, and if the circumstances are as serious as you, you will be exiled and distributed, and your wife and daughter will also be implicated. ”

"You actually thought of that, didn't you? I thought of your family, and thought of your wife and children, who would also be affected by you. ”

"Me"

"Calling the lower officials, have you forgotten your humility!"

Xia Yuan's tone increased suddenly, Liu Jiyu's body trembled, and he subconsciously shouted, "Xiaguan." ”

"You think of your wife and children, you are afraid, you are afraid, you are only thinking about one thing"

Xia Yuan's tone softened, and he asked gently, "Tell this official, what were you thinking at the time?" ”

"What the lower official thinks about is to be with" Speaking of this, Liu Jiyu suddenly reacted, "What the lower official wants is to give the monarch's father a sigh, to impeach these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, to admonish me and the world." ”

"And what?"

"Without it, the officials are not articulate and can't speak clearly."

"Can't make a slurred speech?" Xia Yuan smiled and patted the armrest of the chair with his hand, "Okay, since you can't speak clearly, then I'll help you say that this official is quite articulate."

Instead of sitting and waiting, it is better to go to the top. The incident of beating Shangguan and making a big fuss about Fengyingku was characterized as punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials on behalf of the country, and was characterized as punishing the Qing monarch and punishing the ministers. ”

"Maybe the monarch's father thinks that you are loyal to the country, and it is not impossible to be light, and even pardon you.

After all, there was an incident in the dynasty where Wang Zhen was beaten up with anger, and this happened in the court, and people were killed, but in the end, those ministers were all innocent.

You, the assistant teacher of Guozijian who is familiar with the history of the scriptures, thought of this, so you thought of Shangshu.

But you can't go alone, you go by yourself and people are soft-spoken, it's better to call more people to go, the more people who go, the better, the bigger the momentum, the better, so you raise your arms and shout, inciting hundreds of people to go with you, but like this? ”

Liu Jiyu didn't expect this young Shangguan to guess his psychology clearly, but he still said: "If you go back to adulthood, it's not." Xia Guan didn't think so much at the beginning, he just wanted to give his father a sparse situation, and bitterly show all kinds of shortcomings, not for himself, but for the community, only for the world. ”

"Then why do you want to make a big fuss in the Fengying Library and beat up the officials?"

Liu Jiyu squirmed her lips a few times and replied, "Time is also lucky." ”

"The rest of the people are the same?"

"Yes."

Seeing him like this, Xia Yuan couldn't help but cheer up a little, and put away the trace of looseness in his heart, "Do you know who hates you the most now?" ”

"It's the corrupt officials who have been impeached by us."

"They hate you, so do you think the people you instigated to go to the top hate you?"

"Why do they hate their subordinates?"

"You don't know?"

"I don't know."

"Is it nice to live in prison?"

Liu Jiyu was stunned for a moment, and then seemed to come to his senses, and said stiffly: "It's okay." ”

Hearing this, Xia Yuan actually laughed, turned his head and said to the brocade guards: "Did you hear it, he said that your edict is acceptable." ”

The brocade guards also laughed together, "My lord, I have been on an errand in this prison for many years, and no one has ever said such a thing, but it is very fresh." ”

"Since this edict is still alive, and now there are only four days left to celebrate the New Year, why don't you bring your wife and children to reunite with you and spend Chinese New Year's Eve together?"

Hearing this, Liu Jiyu stopped being stubborn and whispered: "The lower official said the wrong thing, and it is not comfortable to live in the edict prison." ”

"You don't feel good, and the rest of the people don't feel good, compared to the edict, the prison is like heaven.

Originally, you could have been locked up in the prison of the Criminal Department, and you could have been imprisoned for the crime of assaulting the officials. Even the emperor will remember that you and others are in arrears, out of no salary, and your wife and children have no silver, no grain and rice for the New Year, and only then will you start beating people in a hurry, and it is understandable that he will give you a light sentence, and at most you will be dismissed from office. ”

"But now"

Xia Yuan rubbed the handrail, looking at the dark cell, there was no window, and he couldn't receive sunlight from the outside world, as if he was in the netherworld.

"But now he is imprisoned in this edict for the crime of forcing the palace."

Hearing the word forced palace, Liu Jiyu's face appeared obvious panic for the first time.

And Xia Yuan also turned his gaze back at this time, staring directly at him, his voice seemed to come out of his abdomen, with a deep feeling, "Do you think those people hate you?" ”

As soon as the words fell, Xia Yuan leaned forward, his eyes stared straighter, Liu Jiyu only felt that those eyes were like an abyss, as if they were going to suck him in, and at this time, the fluttering words also came,

"Actually, you know that they hate you, after all, you instigated them to go up. At the beginning, each of you was at a loss, scared, panicked, and in this mood, people are not sober.

So you raise your arms and shout, so they respond one after another, and they will go up and down together.

But when you are imprisoned in this edict prison dungeon, for so many days, of course you have figured it out, in fact, if you didn't go to the top at the beginning, you might have been punished lightly, but now, you are charged with forcing the palace. ”

"Do you regret it?"

Liu Jiyu seemed to have lost his strength, although he was still sitting there, his body completely collapsed, "What's the use of regretting"

He whispered in his mouth, and only after a long time did he raise his head, and asked in a dry voice: "My lord, what will happen to my wife and children for this crime?" ”

"What do you think?"

Clan punishment

Liu Jiyu's head flashed two words like this, after all, this is a forced palace, even if he is not punished, he will raid his family and destroy his family.

Thinking of this, his heart fell to the bottom of the valley, which was very deep, and there was a pool of ice below, which made him stiff and froze his heart to death.

He sat there silently, and didn't say a word for a long time, and after a long time, he asked hoarsely, "My lord. Dare to ask what official position you live in now? ”

"Like you, you are an official in the court and serve in the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing this, Liu Jiyu smiled, it was an incomparably miserable laugh, "I am in such a situation now, where can I still be an official." ”

"Then do you still want to be an official?"

(End of chapter)