Spring and Autumn I Am King

"Bai Gong, what do you plan to do with Yun Gong?"

Sitting on the couch opposite Bai Gongsheng, Zhong Ziqi asked carefully, although he had broken up once before, but today he was ordered by his father to visit Bai Gongsheng again, wanting to know how he would deal with Yun Gongdou pregnant.

Although Douhuai has been disrespectful and disrespectful in recent years, he is after all the head of Jianghan County and has a close relationship with the Zhong family. He is now in prison. It is impossible to ignore it.

However, King Xiong Zhang of Chu was only in his teens and had been educated by a teacher. Ling Yin Zixi didn't know if it was because he was really sick and couldn't come forward to manage the government, or if he let Bai Gongsheng reform the law, he even let Bai Gong deal with the newly promulgated laws. If he doesn't show up, who knows what the unruly wolf son Bai Gong will do?

In the face of Zhong Ziqi's questioning, Duke Bai said indifferently: "According to the decree promulgated in January and sent to the county magistrates for implementation, Duke Yun concealed his household registration and took refuge in the first place, which has violated national law. He also resisted the tax collector’s investigation by force, and even drove into Zuo Yin’s official office, making a shameless statement and humiliating the state. He should deprive him of his position as county magistrate, revoke his territory, and put the Yunxian treasury into the state’s possession!”

"This..." Although Zhong Ziqi felt that it was a little overweight, he did not dare to object. Severely punishing domineering county magistrates like Douhuai can deter the nobles' arrogance against reform, but will never provoke opposition from the people of Chu. Has An Zhibai Gongsheng been deliberately looking for such a person? Douhuai bumped into him hard, who was to blame?

However, before it was over, Duke Bai continued: "As for the soldiers of the Yunxian tribe who beat the tax collectors in Yingdu, they should be executed according to the law; Sui Douhuai ignored the entrance guard and charged the guards and guards of Zuoyin's mansion with swords, and they should be executed according to the law. Douhuai himself will also be flogged in public on the execution ground!"

"Gauntlet!?"

Zhong Ziqi turned pale with fright, and his slender hands who used to play the music were also trembling slightly. The gauntlet was to hit the body with a rough wooden board. It was a common punishment in the state of Chu. Is it a bit…

Excessive? cruel?

He pondered for a long time before saying, "This... There is a saying in the Central Plains that it is not enough to punish a doctor, deprive Douhuai of county magistrate, and then cancel his fief, so why humiliate him? It's not enough... …”

"Three generations are kings with different etiquette, and the five hegemons are different with different laws. Punishment is not a doctor? Ever since Qi's son Yangsheng was beheaded in Yuncheng, it is already a deceased relic, and what's more, Chu has never been punished. According to the doctor!"

Bai Gongsheng stood up, pointed at the fusi behind him, and said, "Ziqi is a learned scholar from the younger generation of Chu, so you should know what this painting is about?"

Fuzhu, that is, a screen made of earth, with a brightly colored mural painted on it with ink and green. The mural is a kind of art that is different from the Central Plains in Chu. Gods, and ancient sages and monsters, this influence went directly to the Han and Tang Dynasties.

On the rubble that Bai Gongsheng was referring to, there was a story of a character.

Zhong Ziqi looked over, but saw on the painting that there was a king wearing a crown on the mat, but his face turned away, while a doctor wearing a high crown was standing beside him, holding a wooden scorpion. Hit him on the body!

There are also two lines of ink written next to the painting: the gentleman is ashamed, the villain is in pain...

"This is a deed of King Wen of Chu."

Duke Bai said to himself: "When King Wen of Chu came to the throne, he got Ruhuang's dog and Wanlu's arrow, and took them to Yunmengze to hunt, and he did not return to the capital for three months. , then indulged in women's lust, and did not go to the court for a whole year. One day, the minister Baoshen came to King Wen of Chu and said: 'The former king made his minister Taibao, and instructed the minister that if the crown prince succeeded to the throne, if he was unvirtuous, he would be punished as much as possible. Now the king ignores the state affairs, and the ministers obey the orders of the previous king, and the king should be flogged!"

"King Wen of Chu was very ashamed at that time. He said that after he left his infancy, he was listed among the princes. What kind of honor? How could he suffer the humiliation of being beaten, and now he knows that he was wrong. I hope Baoshen can spare him."

"However, Baoshen said that the minister respected the order of the previous king and did not dare to abandon it. The minister would rather be punished by the king than by the law of the previous king. So King Wen of Chu had to obey the order, lying on the mat and waiting to be punished, while Baoshen took the punishment. Fifty thin vines were tied together, placed on the back of King Wen of Chu, picked up again, and repeated twice..."

After Bai Gongsheng finished telling the story, Zhong Ziqi was silent for a while, having nothing to say.

"The gentleman is ashamed, and the villain is hurt. Although there is no *pain, but King Wen of Chu has done it, he will still be punished. Dou Huai's qualifications are high, can he be as high as the King of Chu? Today he violated the law of the country, but he does not know his fault. Where can I spare him? You don't think I'm unkind to me, if you want me to circumvent the law to judge, I will kill Dou just like my eldest father (King Chu Ping). Pregnant!"

After saying that, Bai Gongsheng asked the official Gao She to preside over the matter. Seeing Zhong Ziqi's figure walking away in despair, he was a little proud and thought to himself:

"Zhao Wuxi once said something, and I take it for granted that there are people who don't shed their blood in the reforms of all countries, or the blood of those who change the law, or the blood of those who resist. Today, let the blood of Douhuai make the nobles of Jianghan suffer pain. Shame, come and open the way for the new law of Chu!"

...

A few days later, on the 20th day of the third month, still in the west city of Yingdu, where Bai Gongsheng moved to Mu Lixin, a unique sentence was held here. The guards who collided with Zuo Yin's official office were escorted up, and Bai Gongsheng's soldiers were behind, each holding axe and tomahawk high, and a bright light flashed in the sun.

Then, hundreds of swords drew a shining arc, radiant rays of light, blood splashing, and a hundred heads rolled down the filthy ground of the West City almost at the same moment, surrounded by nobles, scholars, merchants, hundreds of The workers and peasants all let out a sigh. Through two things, they were able to see the letter of Duke Bai and the power of Duke Bai.

However, the main event of the day had just begun, and Duke Yun Douhuai, who had a hemp rope in his mouth, was pushed up.

Stepping on the greasy blood on the soles of his feet, he walked under the stone workshop. Dou Huai watched as all his cronies were killed on the ground. His eyes were about to split, but the upper and lower rows of teeth were tightly restrained by hemp ropes, and he was speechless. , This is to prevent him from continuing to speak indiscriminately and swearing.

Seeing that the mighty Duke Yun had also become a prisoner, and being escorted up so uselessly, everyone in Yingdu couldn't help but be shocked. It turned out that Duke Bai not only dared to stab at Duke Yun's entourage, but even he himself dared to humiliate him. There is a lot of discussion, some people feel pity, some people gloat in misfortune, and some people feel sad, thinking about themselves...

After a burst of drums, the noise stopped, and silence slowly enveloped the entire West Market Square. Bai Gongsheng, who was sitting high above, began to read out the sins of Duke Yun, one by one, one by one. The county magistrate has become a despicable villain who steals state taxes and hides criminals who escaped.

Finally, Duke Bai announced: "Guilty should be punished, slap him!"

"No!" Bai Gong's Zuo Yin subordinate officials took the order, and asked Yun Gong's upper garment to be stripped off.

After the clothes that covered his shame were taken off, under the attention of all the people, this old county magistrate has long lived up to his bravery. unbearable.

"It turns out that the dignified county magistrate is so ugly without the satin outside..." Many Chu people had this idea for the first time, and the nobles were no different from ordinary people without their high-sounding queens.

After the order was given, the rough thorns were pinched in the hands of the warriors, and they were beaten down at Duke Yun's back. It stopped in ten strokes, leaving at most a little bloodstain on Duke Yun's back.

However, in this short period of time, the humiliation to Duke Yun was immeasurable, and the shock to the nobles in Chu who resisted the new law was immeasurable. Every slap was a slap in the face of the nobles. Many people couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and planned to go back to their carriages and tell their family, Kun's father and brothers, about this. Baigong was very unreasonable.

The matter should have ended smoothly, Duke Yun was discredited and deprived of everything; the royal family of Chu lost a thorn that gave him a headache and took back Yunxian; and Duke Bai also killed chickens to warn the monkeys, so that the Dukes of Jianghan did not dare to disobey the new law.

However, when he was lifted up and was about to be escorted down, Duke Yun, who had just been whipped, had blood-red eyes, and said nothing, Duke Yun Douhuai didn't know where his strength came from, but he broke free from the guard's hand, turned his head and threw at Duke Bai. Come!

There are layers of guards in front of Duke Bai, of course he can't break through, and the purpose of Douhuai is not that, he is like an angry rhino, just slammed into the stone pier at Duke Bai's feet!

"Boom!"

Only a dull sound was heard, Dou Huai used all his strength for the collision, blood was pouring from his forehead, he fell to the ground and began to roll his eyes...

The sudden upheaval caused an uproar in the surrounding Chu country, but Duke Bai was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly sent someone to rescue him!

A group of people surrounded Douhuai, but when the wounded doctor tried to take the hemp rope out of his mouth, he was bitten by Douhuai! The wounded doctor's index finger suddenly disappeared from his mouth!

Under the gaze of the public, Dou Huai stood up staggeringly, blood on his forehead covering his face, chewing the wounded doctor's finger in his mouth, swaying, and said to the stunned audience: "Xiong wins wolf, They came to harm Chu for the abolition of Crown Prince Jian and Wu Zixu, the humiliation of old age will fall on you, you, and you tomorrow!"

Then he shook twice and fell heavily to the ground, dead...

Suicide~www.readwn.com~ This is Duke Yun Douhuai's direct response to the humiliation, but his death has disrupted all of Bai Gongsheng's plans, and the noise has grown louder. …

At the end of March, Douhuai died of humiliation, and his corpse was in the city. This incident caused an uproar in Yingdu. The Dou clan in Yunxian County erupted in violent resistance, and the officials and soldiers who sent Baigong to inspect their property were chased away. They came out and defended according to the city, claiming that they would not give up if they didn't fight back with a fair word!

Bai Gongsheng thought that this was a blatant rebellion, and violence should be suppressed by violence. However, this request has not been approved by Ling Yin's house for a long time.

Because this incident has spread to the entire Jianghan, hundreds of nobles and county magistrates from all over the country who went to the Chu Palace, crying about the inconvenience of the new law and Bai Gong's murder of the elders...

The power of the Chu nobles was much greater than Bai Gongsheng had expected. When they formed a group, there was a lot of opposition, and the reformed boat was teetering in the ocean surrounded by nobles!

At the same time, Zhong Jian, who believed that Bai Gongsheng was "conspiracy against morality and easy to use weapons", also took the opportunity to enter the palace and asked the King of Chu and Ling Yin to cancel the reform!

ps: There is another chapter in the afternoon