Dahan first prince

Chapter 151 Grain Market?Two thousand dollars for rice stone?

"My lord, this is here."

Spring began in February, and taking advantage of the warm sun finally hanging in the sky, Zhang Bingji couldn't bear to miss such a good opportunity.

At dawn, Zhang Bingji took his son Zhang Pengzu, grandson Zhang Weiyang, daughter-in-law Zhang Zhaoshi, and a few distant juniors in the village, starting from Zhangjiazhai north of the Weishui River and walking towards Chang'an.

As soon as the group arrived in Dongshi, they heard Zhang Pengzu's complexion tense, and he pointed to a large open area not far away, where bloody traces could no longer be seen.

"Oh······"

Following the prestige, Zhang Bingji couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly as he looked outside the market that was no different from the past.

"Didn't everyone say that the crown prince was assassinated in Changling, and the queen beheaded Tian's family outside Dongshi in a rage, more than four hundred mouths?"

"How come it's only been a few days, and outside of Dongshi, there's not a single bit of stump or blood?"

Hearing the old man's question, Zhang Pengzu also shook his head in confusion, expressing that he didn't know.

Speaking of which, it's no wonder that Zhang Bingji was so confused.

Whether in the past hundreds of years or in the Han Dynasty today, as the most serious form of corporal punishment, "cutting" often refers to beheading at the waist.

At the same time, as long as a person's crime is so serious that it needs to be cut in half, the word 'cut' must be followed by the word 'cut' in Ting Wei's conviction letter.

— Abandon the market!
Strictly speaking, cutting and abandoning the market at the waist, or cutting and abandoning the market, is actually a complete punishment, unless in extremely special circumstances, the two are bound together.

However, for any prisoner who was sentenced to beheaded in half, the place of execution must be outside the market, that is, the most prosperous place with the most traffic in a radius of tens of miles.

After the punishment of beheading is finished, the two parts of the victim's body will not be taken away, but will be abandoned outside the market, and will not be thrown into the mass grave until the body rots.

This is 'abandoning the market'.

However, the "Han Law" of the Han Dynasty today is undoubtedly much more relaxed than the "Qin Law" of the pre-Qin Dynasty, which was often used to sit together and wipe out the clan.

Although the "Han Law" is actually the "Qin Law 2.0" obtained by Prime Minister Xiao He's deletions and amendments on the basis of the "Qin Law", there are essential differences between the two in terms of sentencing details.

Except for principled crimes such as treason and disrespect, the "Han Law" is not the same as the "Qin Law", and the sentencing of most other civil crimes in the "Han Law" is more humane and more lenient.

Let's take the "Chen Sheng Wu Guangda Ze Township Uprising" that has been widely heard by later generations as an example.

As soldiers, the team that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang belonged to was "disqualified" because of the heavy rain and destroyed the way. No matter which dynasty or generation they were placed in, they would all be "beheaded".

But it's also a 'missing date'. On the "Qin Law", there is only a cold line: the leader will be beheaded, and the companions will sit together.

On the "Han Law", although it is also "dang beheaded", the specific entries are: failure without reason, the leader dies, and the companions go to the sidelines.

It seems that this is no different, both are dead, but in fact, there are two extremely critical differences.

The first point is that according to the "Qin Law", no matter what the reason is, as long as the garrison fails to meet its deadlines, it is the word "cut"!

According to the "Han Law", only "unreasonable failure" will be punished.

The second point, and the most important point, is that the penalty for failure in the "Qin Law" is: the leader will be "beheaded", and the companions will sit together.

In other words, as long as they miss their promises, everyone will have to cut in half!

But the punishment in the "Han Law" is: the leader is "death", and the companions are exiled to the border.

A 'cut', a 'dead', a 'flow'.

Before these three, there is an extremely important difference.

——Cut, that is, cut at the waist and abandon the city, there is no doubt that you will die!

And 'death' and 'flow' can be paid for by gold and noble...

To put it simply: if you are sentenced to be beheaded, then you don't have to think about anything, just eat a beheaded meal and wait for death.

But if sentenced to 'death' or 'dead', there is another way to escape punishment.

First of all, the knighthood sentenced to 'death' or 'lost' needs to be high enough, that is, above the fifth level of the [-]-level knighthood system, to enjoy the corresponding privileges of the knighthood: paying money for crimes.

After satisfying the conditions for the title of title, as long as you can spend enough money, you don't need to be executed, and you don't even need to go through the back door or run a relationship.

Although at first glance, "a noble title above the fifth level and a large fine" is still a bit far away for the people at the bottom, but in fact, it is not so difficult to achieve.

The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the current system of titles in the Han Dynasty is generally the same as the Qin system of [-]th rank military meritorious honors.

That is: the first-level official, the second-ranking, the third-ranking hairpin, the fourth-not-changing, the fifth-ranking official, the sixth-ranking official, the seventh-ranking official, the eighth-ranking official, the ninth-fifth official, and the tenth left-bearer;
The eleventh is the head of the right, the twelfth is the left, the thirteenth is the middle, the fourteenth is the right, the fifteenth is the young master, the sixteenth is the top (Da Liang), the seventeenth is the chariot, the eighteenth is the elder, Nineteen Guanneihou, twenty Chehou.

And among the [-] ranks of knighthood, starting from the fifth rank of 'doctor', one can enjoy the privilege of paying money to make up for a crime.

So, what does a fifth-level title of 'doctor' mean to an ordinary farmer?

Take Zhang Bingji as an example: in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Bing had already won the first-class duke title by default; later, during the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, Zhang Bing had followed the Han army to go out, beheaded the third-ranker, and captured four people.

With the military exploits of these three heads and four captives, Zhang Bingji's title was promoted five ranks in a row, reaching the rank of official official of the sixth rank.

But now, Zhang, who is an official and doctor, has already been ill, and he has won the privilege of "not accepting punishment when committing crimes, but paying money to avoid crimes" for dozens of his descendants.

Zhang's illness has been like this, and the peasants in Guanzhong are basically in the same situation.

The war at the end of the Qin Dynasty had just ended, and who didn't have a second- and third-level father and grandfather beheaded?
Even if not, the words of the old Liu family are not in line with the pissing nature of "granting the first rank of the public rank". As long as they live to be three or forty years old, they can also be mixed with the fifth rank of the title of "official doctor".

This is also the most fundamental difference between "Qin Law" and "Han Law".

——Compared to the "tyranny of Qin" who killed the whole family, the whole street, and even the whole village, the laws of the Han Dynasty have a little more human touch and a little room for flexibility.

Under such a loose legal background, the number of criminals who have been "beheaded" in the past ten years since the Han Dynasty is probably only a few hundred.

This makes half a month ago, when the explosive news of "killing more than [-] people at one time" was released outside Chang'an East City, the cause and effect of the whole incident spread throughout Guanzhong in an instant.

It's just that Zhang Bingji is still a little confused about the point of "not abandoning the market".

"Hey, junior."

Seeing a young man passing by, Zhang Bingji was not polite at all, he howled loudly, and did not forget to take the dove stick in his hand a little forward.

Seeing the dove stick in Zhang Bingji's hand, the young man was startled, he quickly put on a flattering smile, and bowed to Zhang Bingji.

"What is the order of the boss?"

Seeing the young man's demeanor and conversation, Zhang Bingji's face softened a little, and he pointed to the open space not far away.

"A few days ago, it was said that the Changling Tian family had hundreds of people, and they abandoned the city outside the East City?"

"Why can't I see the stump and the blood?"

Hearing Zhang Bingji's question, the young man laughed and scratched his head.

"Adults don't know."

"In the second ten days of the first lunar month, the Tian clan in Changling conspired to rebel and assassinated the crown prince. The queen was furious when she heard about it, and sent the Southern Army to Changling to destroy the Tian clan's house and capture more than [-] criminals!"

"The next day, Prime Minister Binghou Xiao He and Duke Xiao came to the palace to see him. The queen was so furious that Xiao Xiangguo didn't need to be interrogated. All Tian's people will be killed and abandoned!"

Said with lingering fear in his heart, the young man's expression was faintly pale.

"Tsk tsk tsk..."

"The boy still remembers that day, before noon, the criminal was escorted outside Dongshi."

"However, the execution should be done from noon to around sunset..."

"Beyond Dongshi, there are stumps everywhere, and even this ten-foot-wide street is so congested that I can't walk!"

Hearing the young man's recollection, even though he thought he had seen many storms and waves, Zhang Bing himself could not help but reveal a little astonishment.

"Limbs everywhere..."

With a murmur, Zhang Bingji shook his head with a strange expression, and looked at the young man again.

Seeing that the young man thought for a while, he continued: "There are stumps."

"——The empress personally ordered: Those who dare to collect the corpse of the Tian family will be punished with the same crime; those who say that they are not worthy of death, the Yi clan!"

"However, in just a few days, the East and West cities are a little lonely, and Chang'an is full of discussions. They say that there are more than [-] corpses outside the East City. If there is a disease and plague..."

"That's why a few days ago, another soldier of the court came here, collected all the corpses of Tian's family, and threw them on the mass graves outside the city..."

Hearing these words from the young man, Zhang Bingji finally recovered from the palpitation.

When he raised his head again, Zhang Bingji looked at the young man with a hint of worry in his eyes.

"The prince was assassinated, is there a serious problem?"

But seeing the young man secretly heaved a long sigh of relief when he heard the words: "It's nothing serious."

"Fortunately, Your Majesty has blessed you. The arrow shot by the thief was actually blocked by the prince's ribs, and it didn't hurt the heart."

"It is rumored that the prince said to the left and right: After ten months of cultivation, you should go to Sanyuan in person to see the repair of the canal..."

Hearing this, Zhang Bing couldn't help but let out another long sigh leisurely, and looked at his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson beside him with a sigh.

"Worthy of being a nobleman of the Tian Family, Your Majesty's own son~"

The fellow relatives and juniors who were traveling with each other nodded in agreement, then smiled at the young man again, pointed to the grain bags carried by those fellow juniors behind Bingji Zhang, and gave Zhang Bingji a little hand.

"Come to Chang'an, sir, do you want to buy rice?"

Hearing this question, Zhang Bingji subconsciously became vigilant!
After thinking for a moment, he finally nodded with a little guard.

"Spring begins in February, and the winter grain is exhausted. Seeing that it is getting warmer today, this old man, my younger nephew, wants to buy rice grain in Chang'an."

"Young Master thinks, what's wrong?"

Sensing Zhang Bingji's vigilance towards him, the young man couldn't help shaking his head and smiling.

"There's nothing wrong with it, there's nothing wrong with it..."

"only······"

As he said that, the young man showed a hesitant expression for a while, then looked around mysteriously, and then stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "My lord, do you know why the Tian family wants to assassinate the crown prince?"

When Zhang Bingji slightly shook his head in surprise, he saw that the young man lowered his voice a bit.

"It's winter at the beginning of the year, and the crown prince built the Zhengguo Canal. This year, there will be a bumper harvest in Weibei!"

"The Tian family of Changling, since they moved to Chang'an, they have been selling grain for a living; Guanzhong's autumn harvest, grain prices plummeted, Tian's An can stand by and watch?"

"What's more, the crown prince wants to go back to Sanyuan in the beginning of spring to thoroughly repair the Zhengguo Canal and keep the Zhengguo Canal unblocked for 20 years!"

"That's why the Changling Tian family took the risk and tried to assassinate the prince in order to destroy the canal repair..."

When the young man said these words with determination, Zhang Bingji's face that was not angry and prestige was even more faintly tinged with resentment.

"Not only to assassinate the prince and the prince, but also want to destroy the prince's canal building?"

"His heart can be punished!!"

"Changling Tian's family, it can be said that his heart is to be punished!!!"

Seeing that Zhang Bingji's anger was instantly ignited, the young man stomped his feet with an expression of resentment.

"Who says it's not..."

"If you ask me, it's too light for the empress to kill Tian's more than four hundred people!"

"If it were His Majesty, a lowly merchant from the Zhitian clan dared to harm the crown prince, fearing that the entire Changling Mausoleum would be destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of corpses would be laid down immediately, bleeding for hundreds of miles..."

Hearing the young man's words, Zhang Bing himself nodded with lingering anger, saying that killing only four hundred people from the Tian family was indeed too light!
Seeing that young man grinning again, he quietly changed the subject.

"Seeing that my lord has come to Chang'an and prepared a bag of food, I am afraid that my lord may have found the wrong place, so I asked him..."

But when Zhang Bingji heard this, he turned his head full of confusion, looked at his son and daughter-in-law, and then at Dongshi not far away.

"Buying grain..."

"In addition to the East Market, Chang'an has a radius of a hundred miles, and there is a second market for rice?"

Unexpectedly, when the young man heard the words, he showed an expression of "you really don't know", smiled and gave Zhang Bingji another hand.

"My lord doesn't know something."

"After the crown prince was assassinated by the Tian family, he knew that the matter of grain prices was an urgent matter, so he discussed with Xiao Xiangguo to establish a new grain market in the south of Chang'an."

"In today's grain market, there is only one rice shop, and the rice stone is only [-] yuan!"

As he said that, the young man pointed to the East Market not far away with contempt on his face: "However, if my lord enters this East Market, the price of rice will be nearly four thousand yuan a stone?"

Hearing the young man's words, Zhang Bing couldn't help but subconsciously widen his eyes.

"Grain market?"

"The only rice shop?"

"Mishi... two thousand dollars?"

After several exclamations in succession, Zhang Bing couldn't help but hurried forward and grabbed the young man's arm.

"Who opened this rice shop?"

"There are such benevolent merchants, and the old man has never heard of them?"

But when the young man heard the words, he smiled heartily again, and straightened his waist even more.

"Hi~"

"Except for the prince, who in Guanzhong has such a benevolent act?"

"You might as well tell your lord that the rice shop in Liangshi was opened by the Prince's order, and was opened by the Shaofu~"

　Sao Rui... I don't live up to expectations, I didn't type out the words yesterday, and I got up late again today...
　　Make some adjustments today, and start updating normally tomorrow

　　
　
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