Jin Tang

Chapter 52
"Heh, your nose is sharper than mine." The fox cheerfully took out a bottle of dirty wine from his bosom and handed it to Mo Yang, "Look at my brother, I'm so happy, I didn't forget to bring it for you."

Mo Yang took the wine bottle, uncorked it, took a sip, and hissed, "Have fun!"

"Wanniang asked me to tell you that we need to go to her to prepare for the banquet the day after tomorrow because we have to leave in the early morning, and the Loufang and theatrical troupe participating in the performance cannot hang around in front of those noble people. "The fox took the earthenware bowl that Rong'er handed over, and drank a mouthful of hot soup.

"In the early morning, isn't that the curfew?" Mo Yang asked with a frown.

"Look whose territory this is, Prince Qi's Mansion issued them a temporary pass." The fox leaned against the wall indifferently, "If the prince's privilege allows, those Marquis Wu will not make things difficult."

"Privilege, what a big show. Even in Kyoto, people are only allowed to go out on the streets during the Lantern Festival." Mo Yang tapped his fingers on the food table.

"When the King of Qi was still the crown prince, the two sides fought fiercely for the throne." The fox put down the soup bowl, "Fortunately, God bless the Tang Dynasty, the Holy One will finally ascend the throne. At least judging from the situation here, at least in the In terms of governance, the current Holy Majesty is far superior to this King of Qi."

"Speaking of these, the day the princess of Wutong Temple helped the disaster, I saw the private soldiers recruited by the prince, all of them were very energetic." Mo Yang leaned forward and lowered his voice.

"You mean..." The fox was terrified, "Does the King of Qi have a heart of disobedience?"

"I don't dare to make rash conclusions, but it is quite dangerous for a vassal king to store up troops." Mo Yang pointed to the sky, "If the imperial envoy can report the situation here to the court truthfully, I believe that the Holy Majesty will There is a decision."

"Your Majesty is wise, the disaster in the capital is not too bad, but the Holy Majesty himself took the lead in saving food and clothing..." the fox said angrily, "If King Qi, who can't even manage this area of ​​Qi, is allowed to ascend the throne, what will happen in the world?" There is still peace.”

Mo Yang narrowed his eyes suddenly, he pondered for a while, and asked straightforwardly: "Qingyu, tell me the truth, since you are so disgusted with Qi Wang, why are you so keen on entering the Qi Palace? This is related to the boy's disappearance." Is it related to the case?"

"I want to go into Prince Qi's Mansion..." The fox looked around, moved closer to Mo Yang, and pointed to the sky with his fingers just like Mo Yang did just now. Keep it secret, I can’t tell it, please forgive me.”

It was only then that Mo Yang finally understood why the fox was so keen on entering Prince Qi's mansion.

I just don't know how much true love and how much lies between him and Wan Niang because he approached Wan Niang.

As the banquet approached, the whole city was mobilized for this, cleaning the streets, sweeping the streets, and expelling refugees...

Regarding the banquet, Mo Yang didn't feel nervous at all, but the shops in the city seemed to be full of vitality because of this, each one was decorated with lights, and the officials were trying to find a way to get a place to enter the banquet.

Serving in King Qi's fief, facing this powerful prince with military power, no official would not open his eyes and maintain a clean and proud personality at this juncture.

If he could attend such an occasion, at least he would have a relationship with King Qi, and he would have more confidence to walk in the officialdom of Qidi.

For this reason, it is natural to carefully select the gifts to be prepared for the banquet, which also creates a lively scene in the shops.

Even God seems to want to show respect, the weather is unbelievably sunny these days, the sky is blue and blue, and there is hardly a cloud to be seen.

It's just that the more this happened, the colder the weather became.

In the neighborhood near Prince Qi's Mansion, colorful silk ribbons were hung on the dead trees all over the street, which was very beautiful under the blue sky.

This beauty needs to be protected. These days, the Marquis of Wu have been patrolling the streets almost non-stop, on the one hand to drive away the refugees in these neighborhoods, and on the other hand to prevent these beautiful silk ribbons from being taken home. .

As a result, more and more victims gathered near the root of the city wall and Wutong Temple.

In Pingkangfang, even the hungry people rioted.

The reason is that when buying off-chestnut rice, the owner of the grain store did not give enough weight.

And here also involves a person Mo Yang is familiar with - Lei An.

This guy lost Wang Ba's business, and he still had a group of people to support him. The copper coins he had accumulated before would not last long with the soaring food prices.

For this reason, Lei An, who was already very hostile that day, saw the shameless face of the grain shop owner, so he beat the grain shop owner with a pole carrying grain so that his feet were thrown into the air.

And his subordinates took the opportunity to rob food, burn down the shop, and even the shops next to them were also affected.

People who weren't hungry were also involved, smashing the doors of big households, robbing food, murdering and raping women...

It took a lot of hostility for the yamen to suppress them.

According to the relevant provisions of the Tang law on the old, the young, women, and children, the Yamen quickly dealt with these refugees who participated in the smashing, looting, and killing, and punished them one by one.

In fact, in Mo Yang's view, the types of punishments in this era are not complicated. If there are too many, there are five types, and if there are fewer, there are only three types: spanking, exile plus hard labor, and beheading.

Spanking, at least ten times, at most one hundred times, divided into ten times in the middle.Ten, twenty... to fifty blows are called "flogging", and sixty to one hundred blows are called "stick punishment".

The cane punishment can be doubled up to 37 times, and no more beatings are allowed. Any more beatings are called "caning corpses", and non-integer beatings are not allowed.

Relegation to slavery to do hard labor is called "imprisonment", which is often used together with "exile" (exile).

Imprisonment is also divided into five grades, that is, hard labor for one year, one and a half years, two years, two and a half years, and three years.

"Exile punishment" is divided into three classes, that is, exile for two thousand miles, two thousand five hundred miles, and three thousand miles.

There are only two types of "death punishment": hanging, which means strangling people to death with a rope, because a whole body can be left behind, which is a lighter death penalty; beheading, which means beheading, is a heavier death penalty.

The only legal punishments in the Tang Dynasty were the above.In addition, pinching fingers, cutting off ears, beheading hands and feet, skinning and breaking into pieces, being tied to a platform and burned to death, drowning in water, being killed by three guns... all belong to extrajudicial "" Lynching", these are not found in the official court documents.

However, in order to deter these victims, those involved in the riots this time, as long as they are caught, they will only be sentenced severely, and there will be no light forgiveness.

In this case, no one suspected that Lei An had disappeared.

In fact, when the government arrested people, the fox took the lead in transferring Leian to his superiors, and put him in custody as a certification.

I just feel sorry for the dozen or so refugees in the Wutong Temple. They were all killed by each other.

This has indeed played a deterrent role. Petty theft by hungry people is not uncommon, but no one dares to make trouble and resist blatantly.

The patrol forces of Renhe Automobile Co., Ltd. were also assigned to be on duty during the day, but the drivers felt much more relaxed.

For the sake of the safety of the car dealership and property, they basically stopped picking up customers once they finished their lunch, but their food standard also dropped a lot because of this.

Even the place where Mo Yang lived has reduced his diet, basically no meat.

But this is a good thing for Mo Yang. He no longer has to try to hide his non-eating meat, and he doesn't have to feel sick from the faint sour smell in the kitchen.

　Sincere thanks to Miss Amaterasu Bianhua's leader, she is kind-hearted, encouraged Tongtang many times, and also put forward very good suggestions, I love you nya~
　　
　
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