The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 67

Based on the idea that one thing more is worse than one thing less, Chen Jingke originally wanted to let one go, and he didn't plan to have this kind of dancer who can play and sing.

But hearing Yuchi Xunyu's words turned cold.

Circumstances he accepted class, he accepted slave-like servants.But he cannot accept the torture and killing of others, this is his moral bottom line.

It has nothing to do with justice or not, it is purely out of empathy, and things hurt others.

Cheng Huailiang on the side was in a bad mood, and things might not be so easy to get better.

After contacting these days, he is very clear that this young real person sympathizes with the people below, but has a faint arrogance towards the powerful.

Not talking about the torture and killing might make him retreat and calm down. Now that he knows it, he will definitely not back down.

At this time, he also regretted endlessly, why did he have to talk so much, it would be better to leave without mentioning the purchase of the dancing girl.

Chen Jingke's next words confirmed his guess: "Tang law seems to stipulate that killing slaves is not allowed? He tortured and killed female slaves and no one paid attention?"

Before Qin Yandao guessed his real intention, he said casually: "If everyone is dead, who would offend the Wang family for a lowly female slave."

Chen Jingke said: "This man named Wang Xiuqi holds any position in Beijing?"

Qin Yandao said again: "He hasn't been an official yet, he is just studying in the Imperial College."

Chen Jingke was a little surprised and said: "The Taiyuan Wang family has a long history, how could my children be sent to the Imperial College to study?"

Qin Yandao replied: "The Wang family has many great children, and the Wang Xiuqi family belongs to the branch outside. It is very troublesome to go back to the ancestral land of Taiyuan if you want to study in the Wang family. On the contrary, it is more convenient to study in the Imperial College."

"And Guozijian has many well-known Confucian scholars as teachers, not inferior to Wang's family studies."

Chen Jingke understood it, and asked again: "Then what kind of job does his family take?"

Cheng Huailiang already understood what Chen Jingke meant, and interjected: "Although Wang Xiuqi's lord is only the governor of the state, he has five surnames, seven Wang disciples, old officials, and in-laws all over the world. No one is willing to offend him unless it is absolutely necessary."

For example, Cheng Yaojin married a daughter of the Cui family, and Fang Xuanling married a daughter of the Lu family. It is not uncommon for princes and nobles in the court to marry women with five surnames.

Then there are disciples, old officials and others, who have built a huge network of relationships around the five surnames and seven wangs, and they even laughed at the emperor.

Chen Jingke recalled a historical record that he read in his previous life. Li Shimin asked people to edit the clan chronicles, but the courtiers he relied on ranked Cui Mingan, the servant of Huangmen, first.

Is it ridiculous that a servant of the Huangmen ranks first and is still above the royal family?Not ridiculous, because he was born in the Boling Cui family.

The influence of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes is so huge.

Li Shimin was in a hurry and asked Gao Shilian to rebuild the clan annals and put Cui Mingan in the third place.However, this new version of the clan annals was collectively ignored by the gentry, and it did not cause any waves at all.

Chen Jingke is very clear that for some families, their real strength does not lie in how many people are prime ministers, but in how many resources and strength they can mobilize.

The Five Surnames and Seven Wangs are not something that you can touch porcelain by yourself, at least not easily by yourself now.

But he is not prepared to back down. The bottom line will get lower and lower as he backs down again and again, and eventually people will have no bottom line at all.

Of course, the main reason for not retreating was that he was convinced that Li Shimin would protect him to death, and his master was Sun Simiao, so Sun Zhenren's face was still very useful.

After thinking about these things clearly, he became more confident, and immediately said: "I want all these two girls, and bring them here immediately."

Cheng Huailiang sighed inwardly, as expected.But the matter has come to this point, he doesn't say anything to dissuade him anymore, he is just a branch child of the Wang family in Taiyuan, and they don't pay attention to them in the Duke of Suguo.

Qin Yandao was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that the little real person asked so clearly just now whether he was going to let him go.He wanted to persuade him to settle the matter, but was held back by Cheng Huailiang.

Yuchi Xunyu slapped the table and said, "Yes, give up, why should we give up the woman we like first, if he dares to come over and squeak, I will twist his head off."

Chen Jingke smiled, at least he had heard Yuchi Xunyu say "twist his head" no less than a hundred times, this mantra is indeed unique.

But thinking about what his grandfather Yu Chigong did on the day of the Xuanwumen Incident, he felt normal.Others said that twisting his head might be just a joke, but he couldn't say it.

Chen Jingke likes such people very much - the premise is that both sides stand on the same front.

Hearing this, the tooth man's legs went limp again, and he begged: "My lord, please forgive me this time. After today, I will find you a better one... no, find two, one I don’t want to give you a penny.”

Chen Jingke said very kindly: "Hey, don't be so polite, it's not easy for you to earn money, how can I ask for your money for nothing. Go, bring me those two women."

The man wanted to say something else, but Yuchi Xunyu kicked over again, and said, "You're really afraid of Wang Xiuqi, not us, right? Believe it or not, I'll screw your head off right now?"

Yaren didn't dare to say anything more, and took Chen Jingke and the others to the back courtyard, where all the people who were trafficked were detained.

It is a bit inappropriate to say that it is a detention, but in fact this is a large courtyard with rows of low houses, and many people are working in the courtyard at this time.

These people are all dressed in shabby clothes. Back then, Tian Dachun and his group were miserable, and no matter adults or children, they were all working hard.

Seeing them coming in, some showed hopeful expressions, while others panicked.

Cheng Huailiang knew that he didn't know much about it, so he took the initiative to introduce: "These are people who are waiting to be sold, working for dental shops in exchange for rations."

"Because they are not servants of their own family, the tooth shop doesn't care about their bodies at all, and they just need to keep breathing as long as they are desperately squeezed."

"They get up early and work late into the night, and they can't be idle for a moment, and they only get a bowl of bad rice for a day's work, so they all hope to be bought. Even if they work as cows and horses in the new owner's house, it is much better than dying here."

Chen Jingke's face was extremely ugly, and he really hated these dentists to the extreme.No wonder it is said that the feet and teeth of the car and boat shop should be killed if they are innocent. This sentence is still very reasonable in ancient times.

But he didn't say anything, even if the system is like this, it's useless to kill the Yaman in front of him, and the Yamen will appoint a new Yaman in a long time.

He pointed to another group of people: "Where are those people? It seems that they don't want to be bought?"

Cheng Huailiang shook his head and said, "They have relatives here. If the whole family hadn't been bought together, I'm afraid they would never have the chance to meet again in this life."

While talking, the door of a house opened, and two men in their 30s came out lazily, with some kind of satisfied smile on their faces.

Seeing these two people, Yaren's expression became panicked, and he winked quickly.

It's just that these two people didn't notice this at all, and one of them laughed: "What's wrong with your eyes, did you get retribution for doing too many bad things?"

Another person followed with a smile and said, "However, your business is doing well. These women are better than the prostitutes in the Goulan courtyard. The next time you have a good product, let us know in advance, and your benefits will be indispensable."

As he spoke, he took out a small bag from his pocket and threw it over, "Here, the extra money this time will be counted as a deposit for next time."

After speaking, I found Chen Jingke and the others. Just looking at the clothes, I knew that the other party was a big shot that I couldn't afford, so I quickly lowered my head and ran away in a hurry.

Only the terrified toothmen were left behind.

Chen Jingke was silent for a long time, and then looked up, this is not a yamen shop, it is clearly a purgatory on earth.

(End of this chapter)