A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 209

retreat.

Huaiyu saw the brothers Huai'an Wang Li Shentong who was indignant and Xiangyi Wang Li Shenfu who was calm, and many eyes were fixed on these two brothers.

As the cousins ​​of the Supreme Emperor, the Li Shentong brothers are still very close to the emperor. They and Li Yuan are cousins ​​of the same grandfather. , and the seven sons of the eight sons of supernatural powers and runes are all named county kings.

The two brothers' families sealed seventeen county kings.

But now, except for the princes of the two elder brothers who remain unchanged, their sons are all reduced to county princes.

Wu Huaiyu thinks that Li Shimin's operation is normal, just cut down the feudal clan.

All the brothers were killed, and ten nephews of the king of the county were also killed. What are these uncles, cousins, cong brothers, and cong nephews doing so politely? , Li Youliang was also passive in Liangzhou, and Li Xiaochang also complained about Li Shimin's seizure of the throne in Lizhou...
Those heroes and generals who have been born and died with him are only enfeoffed as princes. Many of these offshoot clans are crowned county kings when they are still children, especially those like the Shentong brothers. They are kings, and they are still having children. According to Li Yuan's law, the two brothers' families will be able to seal twenty or thirty kings by then.

This is definitely not good for the imperial power.

Only the emperor's brothers and sons can be crowned kings, which is obviously more appropriate. Of course, at this time and that time, at the beginning of Li Yuan's army, as long as those anti-kings who ruled the roost were willing to join the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan would directly confer kings and give surnames to his family. People are naturally more generous.

"General Wu, Your Majesty has summoned you."

Li Shimin summoned some of his confidants to discuss the matter, Huaiyu was actually on the list, Changsun Wuji beckoned to him, and they went to Lizheng Hall together.

"Your Majesty may ask you about Pei Ji later," Changsun Wuji told Huaiyu.

Huaiyu was wondering, now he is only a general of the imperial guards, he is not qualified to participate in the government of Henan, but the emperor summoned him to go with him, Changsun Wuji's words gave him a clue.

Changsun Wuji said in a low voice: "Some people say that Pei Ji has talent, others say that Li Yi's wife has a noble face, she must become the mother of the world, and they also say that Li Yi's wife Meng's wealth comes from Li Yi... ·”

"Your Majesty also summoned Taishi Ling Fu Yi today,"

Wu Huaiyu was shocked when he heard this. In the era of feudal imperial power, if you said that you can meet and divination, generally no one would pay attention to it. To behead and ransack the house.

And Changsun Wuji said that Pei Ji and Li Yi's wife were said to be talented and would definitely become the mother of the world. This is a proper decapitation.

And Fu Yi was called today, who is Fu Yi?

It was that June, when I told Li Yuan that Taibai met Qin Fen, that the king of Qin should have the Taishiling in the world, who was in charge of stargazing and celestial phenomena. His words almost killed Li Shimin, but after Li Shimin's palace became successful, these words But it also became an important help to Li Shimin's legitimacy.

"Mr. Zhao, I only know how to order elixir. I haven't learned divination, face-to-face and fortune-telling." Wu Huaiyu didn't expect to be involved in these matters.

He knew very well that Li Shimin was going to attack Pei Ji and Li Yi, but he didn't want to be that knife.

"Your Majesty still doesn't know what you are capable of?" Changsun Wuji just chuckled and pulled him forward. "The uncle of the abbot of Louguan today is also the head of the Louguan Longmen sect."

Huaiyu was helplessly dragged away by the fat Changsun Wuji. The guards at the palace gate saw them and didn't come up to check, so they let them in directly.

Inside Lizheng Hall, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Gao Shilian, Xiao Yu, Feng Deyi, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou, Du Yan and others had already arrived.

Changsun Wuji dragged Wu Huaiyu into the hall, the two people's kindness attracted many eyes from the hall.

At this time, Li Shimin also entered the hall.

Wei Zheng stood up and pointed at Changsun Wuji, "Your Majesty, I have impeached Changsun Wuji as Minister of the Ministry of Officials. He was summoned to the palace to discuss matters, but he entered the palace with a sword. This is disrespectful. Your Majesty, please punish him."

"I want to impeach Wu Huaiyu, a guerrilla general. As a general of the imperial guards, he made friends with ministers and entered the palace hand in hand. This violated the system. The eldest grandson Wuji entered the palace with a sword, but he didn't stop him. We should be punished together!"

As soon as Wei Zheng's words came out, Changsun Wuji's chubby bear-like body shook.

Wu Huaiyu also looked at his waist.

He actually went to the hall wearing a sword, a horizontal knife with a ring head hanging on his nine-ring gold and jade belt, and the scabbard of the horizontal knife was also inlaid with gold and jade, which was very gorgeous.

At this time, it was so conspicuous in the hall.

Changsun Wuji also panicked.

Going up to the palace with sword shoes is not the behavior that a minister should have.

"Slash according to the law!" Wei Zheng was still making up his sword.

Changsun Wuji hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, I was in a hurry to enter the palace just now, and I forgot to take off my saber for a while, I will die!"

In Wu Huaiyu's heart, ten thousand mud horses galloped past.

Wei Zheng, I've been good enough to you, but you've been trying to kill me for so long.

"Your Majesty, I deserve death for my crimes." Although she was a little wronged, Wu Huaiyu didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly pleaded guilty together.

Li Shimin who just came in was also stunned there.

Changsun Wuji is not only the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but also his uncle, the queen's brother, and his confidant, but Changsun Wuji's unintentional mistake is a very serious crime.

If the guards of the palace guards saw Changsun Wuji walking in the palace with a knife just now, it wouldn't make sense for him to be chopped off.

"Let's talk about how to deal with this matter!"

Wei Zheng clearly stated that he should be beheaded according to the law, but the emperor still gave in. Obviously, this matter was impossible as Wei Zheng said.

The right servant Feng Deyi is very satisfied with Li Shimin's recent affairs. Even the two prime ministers Fang Xuanling and Gao Shilian get along well with him. He likes to discuss things with Feng Deyi instead of Zuo servant She Xiaoyu .

Feng Deyi is very good at observing facial expressions. He usually discusses matters with Xiao Yu in Shangshu Province. Every time he discusses the results, when he actually reports to the emperor, Xiao Yu reports the results of everyone's discussions to the emperor. When Li Shimin asked everyone for their opinions, Feng Deyi always came up with another plan.

This plan is better than Shang Shuxing's agreement every time, which makes Li Shimin praise Feng Deyi every time, but is a little dissatisfied with Zuo Pushe Xiao Yu.

Feng Deyi often did this kind of backstabbing, and even got along well with Fang Xuanling, Zhongshu Ling, and Gao Shilian, the servant, and deliberately wanted to shoot this left servant.

Today, looking at the emperor's expression, he immediately guessed the meaning of the emperor's unwillingness to strictly govern his brother-in-law, and immediately played, "Your Majesty, Wuji brought a knife in by mistake. He should be sentenced to three years in prison and fined twenty catties of copper." Redemption, the school captain on duty unknowingly Wuji brought a knife into the palace, serious dereliction of duty, the crime deserves death.

Huaiyu walked with him, but he failed to realize that as an officer of the imperial guards, he was also dereliction of duty. He could also be sentenced to three years in prison, and he could also be fined twenty catties of copper for atonement. "

Li Shimin was very satisfied with this treatment, and Changsun Wuji could be spared death, and only punished with copper for the crime.

Wei Zheng disagreed with Feng Deyi's proposal.

"If your Majesty thinks of Wuji and Huaiyu's merits, then he will not hand it over to the judiciary to judge according to the law. If he forgives the grandson Wuji like that, although the whole monarch and his ministers are relatives, what can we do with the laws of the country?
What's more, in Feng Pushe's treatment, the grandson Wuji was only fined with copper, but the gatekeeper captain was sentenced to death for Wuji's crime. In terms of negligence, the two are the same, but one lives and the other dies, which is completely unreasonable. "

"I request that the law be strictly enforced and dealt with according to law."

"Everyone should be cut!"

Feng Deyi immediately said, "Your Majesty can pardon the death penalty of the captain of the prison gate, and he can also be fined with copper."

"Is it child's play to set the country's laws?"

Feng Deyi just smiled, and asked Wei Zheng directly, "Excuse me, Wei Zuocheng, you said that according to the law, you should be beheaded. Which law is this according to? I am one of the revisioners of Wude Law, and I am very familiar with it. It matches what you said."

Wei Zheng was right, "This case applies to the sixth of the ten heinous crimes, the crime of disrespect."

Feng Deyi refused to give an inch, "The text of the crime of disrespect is very clear. Those who are disrespectful refer to stealing objects worshiped by the gods, taking imperial clothes, stealing or forging imperial treasures, and mixing imperial medicines. Fang and the title of the seal are wrong. If you make an imperial meal, you will be prohibited from committing a crime by mistake. If you are lucky, you will not be firm by mistake. Criticism of Chengyu, the reason and harm and the envoy of the seal and defense, without the courtesy of the minister.

In the crime of disrespect, there is no law related to bringing a knife into the palace. "

Wei Zhengdao: "This case is applicable by analogy. Although there is no provision in the Wude law that specifically stipulates the prohibition of bringing weapons into the palace by mistake, we can use the closest facts in the law to determine the conviction and sentencing.

There is no right rule in the judgment of crimes, and those who should be punished should lift the weight to clarify the scriptures, and those who should be convicted should lift the light to clarify the weight. "

Feng Deyi could directly convict Changsun Wuji for ignoring the law, but Wei Zheng insisted that it would be disrespectful to presume by analogy.

The two sides were at each other's lips and refused to give in to each other.

Feng Deyi's eloquence is very good. This person was born in the Bohai Feng family. His father is the Northern Qi prince Taibao, his mother is Fan Yang Lu from five surnames and seven families, and his wife is Yang Su's niece, Hongnong Yang.

When Feng Deyi was in the Sui Dynasty, he was able to make Yang Su fancy, marry his niece to him, and even promote him along the way, that was a real skill.

Wei Zheng talked for a long time, but he didn't gain the upper hand at all.

At this time, Xiao Yu suggested that since it is not possible to directly determine disrespect, then Changsun Wuji can be exempted from the death penalty according to the law of the Eight Discussions.

There are eight types of people who commit crimes, and general officials have no right to deal with them. They must first petition to discuss their crimes, and the emperor decides how to deal with them. Each identity is strictly regulated.

For example, Changsun Wuji is the elder brother of the empress and belongs to relatives. He is also the confidant of the emperor, so naturally he also belongs to the family. ,

Except for those who were state guests after the previous generation, seven of the eight meetings can be discussed.

But the Eight Discussions are not all crimes that can be negotiated and avoided, and the ten heinous crimes cannot be discussed.

So now as long as you insist that it is not disrespectful, you can naturally discuss it. As long as you discuss it, you can reduce your sentence, or even fine you a copper instead.

Wei Zheng couldn't say anything about Feng Deyi. After all, Wu Delu followed the Kaihuang law, and Feng Deyi was more familiar with both Kaihuang law and Wude law than Wei Zheng.

"Your Majesty, I invite the Dali Temple Minister and Shaoqing to discuss the crime." Seeing this, Wei Zheng asked for professionals to participate.

Li Shimin immediately sent an edict to call the Minister of Dali Temple, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Doctor Yushi to participate.

Du Yan, the official censor, Li Daozong, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, and Dai Zhou, the minister of Dali Temple, discussed, but they did not convict Changsun Wuji of death as Wei Zheng thought.

After all, not everyone is as stupid as Wei Zheng. The emperor couldn't kill his eldest grandson Wuji just because he brought a knife into the palace by mistake, unless the emperor wanted to kill Wuji.

So after some discussion at the end, they believed that what Wei Zheng said by analogy, this case does not apply to the crime of gross disrespect.

Changsun Wuji was just a general mistake, but the crime can be reduced according to the law of the Eight Discussions. In the end, Wuji, Jianmen Xiaowei, and Wu Huaiyu were all spared from death.

Ever since, before talking about Pei Ji and Li Yi, Wu Huaiyu had already been dismissed from the posts of Commander of the Suburb City Mansion and Envoy of the Left Battalion, and retained the Guerrilla General and the Marquis of Shouyang County, as well as him from Liuzhou. The product of the loose order of the product, was dismissed and went home.

After exiting the East Palace, Wu Huaiyu actually broke out in sweat.

He was almost beheaded for being involved in a crime of disrespect for no reason, no wonder the companion is like a tiger.

The eldest grandson Wuji, who was also invited out of the East Palace, threw the magnificent knife on the ground, crossed his hands at Wu Huaiyu, and apologized, "Erlang has been implicated."

Huaiyu waved his hand, "It's all a moment of negligence, and the eldest grandson didn't mean it. I'll go home and reflect on it first, so I'll leave!"

Wu Huaiyu didn't blame Changsun Wuji very much, and he didn't do it on purpose, but he really hated Wei Zheng, and he didn't care about Gou Ri's sympathy. If you want to bite Changsun Wuji, you bite him. What do you do with me? ?
(End of this chapter)