Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 428 Yuyang, sorry
This house is the palace in the hunting garden, the palace called Zhongliang Palace.

This palace has a special construction method, which can change its size, and now it has only been expanded to less than one-fifth, so it looks much smaller than when it was in the hunting garden.

Xu Zhiqiong watched with his own eyes that this palace swallowed more than two thousand lives.

Now, Emperor Chang Le found it and placed it in front of the palace gate.

Yu Guangyuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, stood in front of the officials and read out the whole story of the incident.

This Zhongliang Palace not only swallowed more than [-] lives, through interrogation of the owners of the penance workshops, Emperor Changle learned that this palace had killed tens of thousands of lives in total, except for the [-] laborers, there were also There are beggars and refugees who have been cheated.

These [-] people were all planted into blood trees by Emperor Zhaoxing.

Now Emperor Zhaoxing, the leader of the bandits, is dead, and Ye Ansheng is missing, but in the penance workshop, a group of accomplices must be severely punished.

A dozen or so craftsmen headed by Lu Qingming were brought to the gate of Zhongliang Palace. They were all the main members of the Blood Tree.

Emperor Chang Le gritted his teeth and said: "For your crimes, you should be executed Ling Chi, remembering that you are not the mastermind, and execute you here!"

Lu Qingming shouted: "Your Majesty, I have been wronged, and I cannot help myself!"

At the beginning, he promised Emperor Chang Le that he was willing to tell everything, as long as he had a good time.

The deadline is approaching, and this fellow repents.

The prince looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Your Honor, you have personally experienced this, what do you want to say?"

Xu Zhiqiong walked up to Lu Qingming and said in a low voice, "Even if you are willing to let go of the two thousand people in Ponuyuan, I will spare your life today."

Lu Qingming shouted: "If I let one go, Ye Ansheng won't let me go!"

"Well said!" Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "When you recruited fewer laborers in Beiyuan, I will spare your life."

"I, I, I was..."

Not only did he recruit a lot at that time, in order to ensure that the blood tree was safe, he also recruited more than a hundred people.

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "Since the day I saw you, you will surely die. It's already cheap to die like this."

A group of craftsmen begged loudly, and Xu Zhiqiong turned and left.

Yu Shan led the Wuwei army, pushed a group of craftsmen into the Zhongliang Palace, and closed the palace gate.

Looking at this very familiar palace, Lu Qingming urinated on the spot, and more than a dozen craftsmen cried together.

Zhong Shen was operating the mechanism outside, the roof of the palace fell, the wailing stopped abruptly, and the group of craftsmen were immediately crushed into a pulp.

Emperor Chang Le said loudly: "This thing was originally named Zhongliang Palace. This name really insults the word Zhongliang. It will be renamed as Jiying Pavilion from now on. It will bring disaster to the country and the people. The treacherous and sycophants will be killed without mercy!"

All the officials remained silent, and the bloody smell wafting from the palace made them feel a little scared.

Li Shabai showed a smile, silently looking at Emperor Changle.

Emperor Chang Le said again: "Planting a blood tree is a crime committed by the former king and the clan. This crime should not be forgotten."

Liang Jixiong's cheeks trembled, his face was embarrassed, and his heart was not feeling well.

Li Shabai's face was full of respect.

The ministers looked at each other, feeling that they had heard wrong.

The king of a country admits his mistakes to the people?

It's not a crime!

It's a face-to-face confession!
The ministers felt that this was too unruly.

Why did Emperor Changle, who was quite normal before, start messing around again?

Only the common people watching from a distance looked at Emperor Chang Le with full expectation.

These common people were invited by Emperor Chang Le.

They have wounds in their hearts, deep wounds.

They lost their most important person, but no one paid any attention to them except a lantern bearer who desperately avenged them.

At this moment, they seemed to see the hope brought by the new king.

Emperor Changle shouted loudly: "Anyone who is harmed by the blood tree will receive thirty taels of silver as compensation for his family members. Those whose family members are engaged in agriculture or business will be exempted from taxation. Yuyang apologizes to the dead ghosts!"

After finishing speaking, Emperor Changle gave a deep salute to the crowd.

The king of a country salutes the people?
The ministers were at a loss and could only salute along with Emperor Changle.

An old woman howled loudly: "My son, you are wronged, and the officials know that you are wronged!"

Emperor Changle got up and said: "Liang Yuming colluded with the Gu sect to usurp the rebellion, and even attracted the evil star of Yuanyuan, which harmed countless people. In the final analysis, it was also the fault of the clan. The family of the deceased can also receive thirty taels of silver as a pension. , tax free! In Liangfen Garden, the people who died are the same! Yuyang makes an apology to everyone!"

After finishing speaking, Emperor Chang Le saluted again.

The people onlookers were crying.

Li Shabai couldn't help nodding.

Emperor Chang Le ordered the household department to issue pensions immediately.

Emperor Changle returned to the palace, Liang Yuyao and Xu Zhiqiong followed.

After she screened away others, Liang Yuyao complained: "It was hard to save some money, and you scattered it out again."

Emperor Chang Le sighed: "This blood debt will eventually be paid."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled. He has been troubled by a problem recently. What should he do if the news that the treasury is empty spreads out?
Arrest the person who spread the news?
That's what stupid people do.

The emperor issued an edict to clarify the rumors?

The more clarified, the easier it is to believe it is true.

Do everything you can to accumulate silver taels?

Daxuan founded the country for [-] years, and saved [-] million silver and [-] million gold. How can it be saved overnight?

Xu Zhiqiong couldn't find a solution, but he didn't expect Emperor Chang Le to solve it.

The solution that saving money can't solve, I didn't expect to solve it by spending money.

Although his mind was not on this matter, he just wanted to pay off the debt, but he really solved the problem!
Xu Zhiqiong said with a smile: "It's okay, the money will eventually come. With an emperor like you, Da Xuan can't lack money."

"Money is short after all," Emperor Chang Le looked at Xu Zhiqiong, "so the [-] silver..."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Don't look at me, Liao Shuming, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, said that he only has [-] properties, do you believe it?"

Emperor Chang Le said: "Let's wait until the next day, I tricked that bastard Liao Shuming into the Anti-traitor Pavilion, first tricked him out of his money, and then killed him, what do you think?"

Liang Yuyao said: "This is a way, this bird guy really deserves to die."

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "Exile has already been set, the king of a country, is there any joke? Leave this matter to me to deal with."

The three of them were talking in the secret pavilion, and after a while, a servant came to report: "Li Shabai, the doctor of Zishan, donated one hundred thousand taels of silver."

Emperor Chang Le burst into joy: "Painter Li has sent money, should this money be accepted?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "It should be accepted. With this one hundred thousand taels, the other courtiers have to show something."

……

In Beiyuan Broken Fragrance Tea House, an old man entered the house and ordered two plates of tea fruit and a pot of tea.

The tea is not top-grade, and there is no top-grade tea here. The pot is full of tea foam, so it is named Broken Fragrance Flower.

The old man drank two cups of tea, ate a mouthful of fruit, and suddenly choked up.

The man hurried over to pat the old man on the back, thinking that the old man was choking.

The shopkeeper also rushed over: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

The old man said with tears in his eyes: "My daughter and son... the government gave the money, and the government said they were wronged!"

The shopkeeper poured another cup of tea for the old man: "Brother, it wasn't the government that said it, it was the big officials who said it. The newly enthroned big officials, the big officials admitted their mistakes to us and gave us money."

"Shopkeeper, even if I'm poor, even if I'm hungry, I've never lost a cup of tea or a meal when I come to you." The old man took out a bag of broken silver, "They gave me Sixty taels, this is half, I'll give you,
With the rest of the money, I will repair the grave of the child, buy myself a grave, buy a good coffin, buy some delicious food, I, I will go with them, please bury me beside them... "

The shopkeeper hurriedly stuffed the silver taels into the old man's arms: "Isn't this nonsense, why am I short of your few silver coins? From now on, my shop won't have to pay taxes, so the business won't be easy!"

The old man cried: "I'm about to die, what's the use of keeping this money!"

"Alive, brother, live well, people like us earn money by living one more day! We have to earn back for them the days they didn't live enough!"

The old man was sobbing repeatedly, and in the tea house, sobbing continued.

A guest wearing a bamboo hat put down his tea money and left quietly.

He walked into a house, and the owner of the house greeted him, and invited the guests into the main hall.

After closing the door, the guest took off the bamboo hat and asked, "Are you sure there is no tael in the treasury?"

This guest is Sui Zhi.

"I built the silver treasury by myself, and the treasury silver does not exceed [-] yuan." The owner of this yard is Ye Ansheng.

Sui Zhi shook his head and said, "That's unreasonable. If you can't even get half a million silver out of the treasury, how can you distribute silver to the people?"

"Distribute silver to the people?" Ye Ansheng was very shocked, "I said that the streets are so lively today, why does he want to distribute silver taels to the people?"

Sui Zhi told what happened.

Ye Ansheng roughly calculated the accounts: "When the evil star descended to earth, more than [-] people were lost. Liang Xianhong planted a blood tree, and another [-] people were lost. In addition, when the true god descended to earth... the total is Thirty-four to five thousand people, thirty taels per person, but a million dollars, how can the emperor get so much money?"

Sui Zhi looked at Ye Ansheng and said, "Are you sure this little emperor only has one bank?"

Ye Ansheng was at a loss for words.

Sui Zhi said again: "If the national treasury is so empty that the people are panicked, then the church members in the capital will have a good chance to raise an incident. If the situation is like today, if they rashly start an incident, I'm afraid there will be little chance of winning."

Ye Ansheng thought for a long time and said: "I heard that Emperor Changle sold two palaces, and seized some silver taels from the Jiaofang Secretary, and Xu Zhiqiong stole a lot of silver in Fuzhou. If all the silver is counted, maybe There are also millions."

Sui Zhi shook his head and said: "Da Sikong, although Sui is a warrior, he knows a little about resources and resources.
If there were only a million taels of silver in the treasury, how could the emperor be willing to distribute all the taels of silver to the people?And if there is a long drought, you and I only have a ladle of water in our hands, how can we water the weeds on the ground?
The common people are more humble than the weeds on the ground. Emperor Changle gave them a hundred taels of silver. It's nothing more than a new king ascending the throne. He wants to make a fortune with red flowers and green grass.

Just like Wan Guan's family spent a few taels of silver to buy a few flowers, Emperor Chang Le was so generous, he had at least tens of millions of silver in his hands. "

Ye Ansheng looked solemn: "Could it be that he had something private when he was the crown prince?"

Sui Zhi sighed: "Let's not talk about how much money he hid, let's talk about the current situation, do you know how many people went to the household department to get the money? Do you know how many people are thinking about the little emperor?
If there was an incident at this time, the congregation would be surrounded by civilians as soon as they took to the streets, and it would be very difficult to escape unscathed. "

Ye Ansheng quickly clasped his fists and said, "If it wasn't for Da Sima's reminder, Ye would have almost caused a catastrophe!"

Sui Zhi hurriedly replied: "Sikong, why should you be polite, you and I are both guilty, so we should take care of each other."

……

Liao Shuming, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, after leaving the capital, took off the shackles, took off the shackles, took off the prison clothes, put on civilian clothes, and headed all the way to the north.

This is the so-called exile for three thousand miles. You don't need to suffer on this journey, and you don't need to suffer when you reach the northern border. Just go to the barracks, and someone has already prepared a house over there. few.

At night, the escort officer booked a room at the inn, respectfully asked Liao Shangshu to get off the car, and asked Liao Shangshu to go back to his room to rest.

Along with them were more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Industry, including one Zuo Shilang, two Dushuiqing Lisi Langzhong, three Yuanwailang, three principals, one director, one promotion, and several Dian Shi and deputy envoys. .

These officials are stationed separately according to their ranks. Zuo Shilang is a senior official of the third rank, so the treatment can't be bad, and he has to live in the upper room like a minister.

But Zuo Shilang was not in a hurry to move in, so he took all the officials, big and small, to the Minister of Industry's study room to salute.

Liao Shuming quickly returned the courtesy and said: "Everyone, Liao is already a criminal prisoner and has long since lost his official position. Don't call me Shangshu anymore."

Zuo Shilang clasped his fists and said: "One day is Shangshu, and one life is Shangshu. We are still willing to follow Shangshu in the future and do the work of dogs and horses!"

If they don't follow Liao Shuming, they will really become prisoners.

Following Liao Shuming, they were still masters when they reached the northern border.

Liao Shuming burst into tears: "Liao is so down and out, and there are still princes accompanying him, this life is enough!"

The scene was very moving, and everyone shed tears. It was not until late at night that everyone fell asleep.

Not long after falling asleep, Liao Shuming felt a stabbing pain on his face and woke up suddenly.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a handsome woman stabbing his face with a long needle.

"Who are you?" Liao Shuming was startled, and was about to get up, but tried several times, but couldn't sit up.

Xia Hu sewed him together with the bedding and underwear on the bed: "Shangshu Liao, don't panic, I just want to test how thick your skin is, half of the needles really can't pierce through."

"You dare to harm me?" Liao Shuming yelled loudly, and Xia Hu immediately sewed his mouth shut: "Liao Shangshu, I have a friend who wants to ask you something, and he wants you to explain it, what is general?" ,

Don't worry, speak slowly, if you don't want to say it when you are alive, it will be too late to say it after I kill you! "

Liao Shuming kept blinking, indicating that he had something to say.

Xia Hu cut the needle and thread off his mouth, Liao Shuming panted for a moment and said, "I don't know what kind of strongman you are, save my life, I'll just give you some silver taels."

Xia Hu smiled and said, "Your house has been raided, how much money do you have? I don't need that little change."

Liao Shuming murmured, "Three..."

"Thirty thousand taels?" Xia Hu was startled.

"Three hundred thousand taels! I'll give you three hundred thousand taels, and you spare my life!"

"Three hundred thousand taels?" Xia Hu's face turned pale, "You people who know the general idea are too good at making money. How many oranges do you have to sell?"

(End of this chapter)