Out of the dust was silent for a while.

At the end of that year, Li Shimin personally recorded the prisoners, ordered the criminals to return home, and returned to Beijing in the autumn of the following year to be punished.

Nine months later, none of the 390 death row inmates were brought to justice.

Li Shimin was greatly relieved and pardoned them all.

This is the famous arson incident, looking at the thousands of years of Chinese history, such measures are really unique, and it is one of the most talked about events of the "rule of Zhenguan".

More than 100 years later, in Bai Juyi's poem "Dance of Seven Virtues", there is "400 death row prisoners returned to prison...... The saint has the sentence "There is no end" and so on.

There were many people who talked about it, and four hundred years later, Ouyang Xiu even wrote a "Theory of Prisoners".

In modern times, some historians have suggested that this matter may be related to the Zhang Yungu case.

In the four years of Zhenguan, only 29 people were sentenced to death at the end of the year.

In the fifth year of Zhenguan, some people were sentenced for madness and falsehood.

Zhang Yungu of Dali Temple believes that it is not appropriate to punish crimes because of madness and madness.

Yushi played him for favoritism, which made Li Shimin angry and beheaded Zhang Yungu.

However, it was later discovered that the performance of the imperial history may not be true.

In particular, after this incident, officials across the country have convicted and convicted each other more than lightly, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of death row inmates.

Although Li Shimin has ordered that capital crimes must be investigated again and again, the number of people who have been sentenced to death for six years of Zhenguan is still more than ten times that of two years ago.

Therefore, the reason why Li Shimin was imprisoned may be because he hoped to correct the atmosphere of heavy sentences for minor crimes at that time?

The time sequence entered the seventh year of Zhenguan.

At the beginning of this year, Li Chunfeng, who was working in the Secretary Provincial Taishi Bureau at that time, created the "Armillary Zodiac" and dedicated himself to the emperor.

During the Warring States Period, there was an "armillary sphere", the Western Han Dynasty made a "armillary sphere", and Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty had an "armillary sphere".

The ancients believed that "the sky is round and the place is round", and the so-called "mud" is a round celestial phenomenon.

And these "instruments" are equivalent to the modern celestial globe.

In ancient times, the "armillary" and "instrument" were cast in copper, arranged to form the image of the sun, moon and stars moving in the celestial bodies, and the gears were driven by the dripping water of the leaky pot to drive the rotation of the stars on all sides.

At this time, on the basis of the sages of the past dynasties, Li Chunfeng developed and improved the armillary sphere to create a more refined "armillary zodiac".

At the same time, Li Chunfeng submitted seven articles of the "Law Elephant Book".

As early as the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Gan, one of the seven sons of Jian'an, wrote the "Treatise on the Middle Language", which included an article "Law Image", which discussed the subtle relationship between people's external appearance and internal temperament.

Li Chunfeng's "Law Elephant Book" also discusses physiognomy.

At that time, Li Shimin got a secret message, which said: "Tang Zhong is weak, and there is a female martial king." Then he asked Li Chunfeng.

Li Chunfeng replied: "The omen has been completed, and he will be called the king in the future, and the descendants of the clan will be punished." ”

Li Shimin snorted and said: "If I investigate at this time, find this person first, and get rid of him, how can he bear me?" ”

Li Chunfeng shook his head and said: "The order of heaven cannot be violated." A few years ago, His Majesty had banned the Book of Wisdom. Now, if you investigate because of the secret, it will inevitably make the world suspicious. Moreover, even if you try to find it, you may not be the real person. If the innocent are implicated in this, it will be even more detrimental to holiness. Such a grievance is retribution, and the fruit caused by it is far greater than this one. ”

Li Shimin weighed it, adopted Li Chunfeng's words, and did not investigate the secret and other matters.

Only promoted Li Chunfeng to the post of undertaker, and soon awarded him the positions of Dr. Taichang and Taishi Cheng.

However, in the emperor's heart, he was really worried about this matter.

Twelve years ago, Pharmacist Li once "called for wind and rain" in the water battle of Huping and Xiao Milling; Three years ago, he "divined the clouds and fog" in the night attack on Yinshan Mountain.

The impression that he is good at "wind horns, bird occupation, clouds, and loneliness" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for many years.

What's more, recently, he even invented the method of "waving his fingers to the sky" to teach his subordinate generals!

Although Li Shimin has listened to Pharmacist Li explain many times, the autumn of the great river and the morning fog of the spring mountain are all natural phenomena of the four seasons of the weather, and the ability to predict their experience is obtained by studying the knowledge accumulated by the sages and then studying and pondering.

The purpose of showing people the images of "calling for wind and rain" and "divining clouds and fog" is to boost the morale of the army.

As for "waving the sky", it is just to accidentally discover the natural properties of the spar and try to use it.

However, however, how many emperors and generals in ancient and modern times are saints and heroes, but how many people are like my Tang Dynasty military gods, who can not only "call for wind and rain", but also "occupy clouds and fog", and "wave the sky"? Such a character is not only knowledgeable from the past and the present, but also can learn from the past and know the future! Li Shimin, a thousand-year-old master in the minds of later generations, encountered a secret prophecy like "Tang Zhong is weak, there is a female martial king", and he still hopes to listen to the views of this "my brother" in his mind.

Two hundred years later, Li Shangyin had a rhyme of "Jia Sheng":

The Xuan Room seeks talents to visit the ministers

Jia Shengcai is even more incoherent

Poor night in the middle of the empty front seat

Don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods

At this time, the thousand-year-old man extended the military god into the palace, and asked not about the strategic national policy, but about the Wei Wei Xiang, I don't know if Li Yaoshi thought of Jia Yi who faced Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty in the Xuan Room eight hundred years ago? However, when he heard Li Shimin mention the proverbs of "there is a female martial king" and "the descendants of the Tang family will be punished", his left foot immediately throbbed, penetrating his heart and lungs.

Fortunately, at that time, the emperor and Zai Fu discussed the country, and they both "sat and discussed", otherwise I really don't know if he could bear this heartache that penetrated his heart.

However, at this time, this "my brother" can only agree with Li Chunfeng's statement.

Li Shimin asked again: "I don't know what my brother thinks about the 'Fa Xiang'?" ”

Pharmacist Li hadn't read Li Chunfeng's Book of Fa Xiang, but he had read the Zhonglun, so he replied: "Your Majesty, Zhonglun. As mentioned in the Faxiang, we extract more of the words of the sages, such as "the gentleman is mighty but not fierce, Tai is not arrogant", and "the rules of respecting the majesty and the people", and then "only the saint is crazy with his thoughts, and he is holy with his thoughts", so as to know that "the eyes are not separated from the knots, and the words are not beyond the position of the expression".

And this conclusion is nothing more than what Mencius said: "Those who exist in people are better than their eyes...... Look at his eyes, how can he be?" ”

"'Look at his eyes, how can he be?' Li Shimin repeated it once, and then asked: "What does my brother mean, but if this person who 'has a female martial king' comes to me, I can 'look at his eyes' and thus perceive the subtlety of his person?" ”

"Yes!" Pharmacist Li bowed down and replied: "The minister thinks that the form is seen by the eyes, and the omen is seen by the perception and the subtle.

The subtlety of human beings is all in the light of the eyes. ”

"'The form is seen by the eye, and the sign is seen by the eye.'" Li Shimin muttered and repeated: "'The form is seen by the eyes, and the subtle is seen by the eye, and the trillion is seen by the perception." ”

Seeing this, Pharmacist Li said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a foolish opinion on this way, all because he has a copy of the "Heavenly Old Divine Light Sutra" and a frame of the attached "Xuan Xuantu". The ministers want to enter it, but they are afraid of insulting the Holy Hearing. ”