Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 787

Liu Bo and Han Anguo sat obediently in the Xiuyi Mansion.

Liu Zhang is asking them something.

"So you thought there was something wrong with the guard?"

"exactly."

"Report to the captain of the city gate immediately?"

"Yes Yes Yes."

Looking at the two people in front of them who kept nodding their heads in panic, Liu Zhang said with a smile: "Dai Wang, don't be so panic-stricken, our embroidered clothes are not a scary place, besides, I came to you just to investigate and collect evidence." , nor because you were involved in the case, why are you so?"

Liu Bo nodded again, "Yes, yes."

Liu Bo and Han Anguo looked at Liu Zhang in front of him sincerely, their eyes filled with obedience, and they didn't dare to question it at all.

Liu Zhang picked up the document in his hand again and began to ask questions. Liu Bo and Han Anguo looked at him nervously, and looked behind Liu Zhang from time to time.

Not far away, several people were directly hung in the cell with embroidered clothes, their mouths were all gagged.

All I could hear was a series of muffled noises.

Probably aware that Liu Bo and the others were still a little scared, Liu Zhang persuaded again: "Don't worry, I will let you go soon."

Liu Bo hurriedly said: "No problem, no problem, we will cooperate fully. You can stay as long as you want."

Liu Zhang nodded, asked a few more questions, and then picked up the things and walked to the cell not far away.

"Your Majesty, this is the testimony of the king."

Panting, Liu Chang put down his fist, and looked at Liu Zhang beside him. At this moment, the prisoners hanging in front of him were already bruised, covered in blood, and dying. Liu Chang was a little tired from the beating, so he took the After reading the testimony, he cursed at the traitors in front of him: "You dog, let me let you go for now, let me think about how many people are with you, let me tell you, Naigong is not afraid of killing people, just There are 1, [-], and millions of corrupt people, and I will not acquiesce in your practice! One counts as one, and if you kill one less, the public will not be named Liu!!"

I don't know if those people heard it, but blood dripped from their bodies continuously.

Liu Zhang said helplessly: "Why do you have to do it yourself? Just leave it to us to interrogate things like this."

"No!! The Han law has strict rules!"

"Officials can't humiliate and beat criminals, and can't impose harsh punishments on them to force them! Even if you are the leader of Xiuyi, you must abide by the laws of the big man!!"

Liu Chang said very loudly.

Liu Zhang looked at the officials who were about to be beaten to death again, hesitant to speak, but Liu Chang scolded: "What do you think they are doing? Nai Gong is not a big man's official, so what if he beats him and asks him?!"

"Your Majesty is wise!!!"

Liu Zhang said hurriedly.

Liu Bo and Han Anguo looked at each other in the distance, but neither dared to speak.

The law of the Han Dynasty began to develop greatly in the era of Chao Cuo, and many laws were promulgated successively, perfecting the omissions of Xiao Shi, but it was considered a great achievement in the period of Liu Heng and Liu An, especially Liu An of Huang Lao, who is very respectful to Legalists. He and Liu Heng promulgated many laws together, including the issue of the treatment of criminals. It is not an exaggeration to prohibit beating and scolding, but torture criminals in private, forcing them to speak, using Cruel means to torture them are all regarded as illegal acts by the Han law.

This law was formulated by Liu Heng. Liu Heng and Liu An always walk on different levels when formulating the law. Most of the laws formulated by Liu Heng are protective, such as guaranteeing criminals safety, improving the marriage law, confirming that the women of the Han Dynasty have the right to keep their own private property, etc. However, Liu An’s laws are mostly governing, such as prohibiting officials from serving as officials in their hometowns, prohibiting officials from delivering anything of value to each other, and prohibiting Officials do business.
But the cooperation between the two is still very exciting. The completeness of the Han law today has surpassed that of the past dynasties. Even the Qin State, which is famous for its laws, cannot match it. It has reached almost the integrity of the laws of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Sex, all aspects have been thought of.

But the emperor of the Han Dynasty blatantly took the loopholes in the law. This is not the first time or two times.

Liu Chang likes to make trouble for his elder brother and son. When the two promulgated the law, Liu Chang insisted on finding loopholes in their law and forcing them to constantly revise it.

For example, the original law prohibited officials from giving money to each other, so Liu Chang asked his ministers to give expensive gifts to each other, and asked Liu An if this was breaking the law?Liu An made corrections directly.It seems that after Liu Heng returns, the law prohibiting the use of the death penalty will have to be changed.

Liu Chang flipped through the confession written by his son, and swaggered up to the two of them.

Liu Bo and Han Anguo hurriedly got up and looked at him cautiously.

Liu Bo had never seen his father so angry. He seemed to have killed a person just now, with his bare hands. Liu Bo had never seen such a ferocious scene in many places he traveled.

"If it wasn't for Ji Bu, I wouldn't have known that people still have this bad habit of taking rewards for themselves?? I will give them rewards today!!"

"Bo, take a good look at these people!"

Liu Chang said angrily: "What is right is right, and what is wrong is wrong. You will never turn what is wrong into right just because there are too many people who have made mistakes! Since yesterday, dozens of ministers have come to persuade you I said that there are too many officials involved in this bad habit, and they all have a lot of credit on weekdays, such as that Li Cai, who has military merits and understands intelligence, and that Du Zhou, who is said to be one of the three princes. There are thousands of officials involved in this kind of matter, and we cannot deal with them all.”

"What they mean is that I want to let these people go, put the interests of the big man first, and let them not commit another crime."

"But I think they are farting!!"

"I let these people go, those people who died due to insufficient relief supplies, who will let them go?!"

"Just because there are too many people who have made mistakes, it is absurd to pardon them and acquiesce in their mistakes!!"

Liu Chang said loudly: "You must remember that in governing your own country in the future, you must stick to what is right and wrong in your heart. As long as it is wrong, regardless of its status or number, you must govern it! A minister told me to get rid of Thousands of officials are self-destructing the city wall! If there are millions of officials who behave like this, what should they do? If they are all killed, the big man will die, do you know how I answered him?!"

"Father, I don't know"

"I told him, if millions of officials behave like this and bully the common people, then the big man should perish! Even if it is perish in my hands!!"

Liu Bo hastily saluted, "Teach me!"

Han Anguo on the side looked at Liu Chang differently at this moment.

After being baptized by Uncle Fuqiu, Han Anguo was already a little curious about Liu Chang. Hearing his words, Han Anguo seemed to suddenly think of something, but he couldn't figure it out. He widened his eyes and looked at Liu Chang.

Liu Chang glanced at him and scolded: "Why, you have bull's eyes? Whose eyes are bigger than me?"

Han Anguo hurriedly lowered his head, "Don't dare."

"It's not good to tell you two idiots, just go about your own business!"

Liu Chang dismissed the two of them very disdainfully. After driving them away, Liu Chang ate some food and got up again and walked towards the prisoners.

Some of the prisoners were already awake, twisting their bodies frantically, trying to speak.

Liu Chang asked people to remove the stuff that was stuck in their mouths, and they shouted just now: "We are willing to plead guilty! We are willing to plead guilty!!"

"Fucking dog, only now do you know how to plead guilty? Do you know how Kuai Che died?!"

"He was beaten to death by me because he didn't plead guilty in time!"

"Now you want to plead guilty? Let me tell you! No confession is allowed!! The law of the Han Dynasty does not hesitate to torture to extract a confession!! As long as you do not plead guilty, it is not considered torture to extract a confession!! Continue to gag their mouths!!"

Liu Zhang hurriedly accepted the order, and Liu Chang moved his fists, and ordered earnestly: "We must abide by the law, and we must not do anything reckless, especially as embroidered clothes, do you understand?"

Liu Zhang shouted again: "Got it!!!"

Liu Bo and Han Anguo walked out of the dark prison, and Liu Bo breathed a sigh of relief, "It's too scary, Father is going to kill them all, my teacher said that Father is kind. Look at Father's It looks like I'm going to die forever."

Han Anguo shook his head, "Your Majesty is not someone easy to kill. If you really want to kill them, I am afraid that those people will not live until now. Your Majesty is probably just intimidating them and telling them to confess to other accomplices as soon as possible." , Such a habit. The harm is too great, the food is mixed with sand and grass, I really don’t know what kind of thoughts will those people who received the relief supplies see these things and eat them in their stomachs.”

"Oh, routine, routine, in fact, I have been troubled by a habit for a long time, and I can't change it"

"Queen Mother, you must persuade Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty doesn't listen to anyone now, and the whole person is dazzled by anger!"

"No one can control him anymore!"

"Queen Mother!! The country is in danger!!"

Zuo Cheng Zhaoshezhong, Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, knelt down in front of the Queen Mother at this moment, weeping bitterly. Zhaoshezhong was the son of Pingzhou Hou Zhaoshe Luowei, and Zhaoshe Luowei was once an officer under Lu Ze, and was later named Hou, being relatively close to the Lu family, Zhao Shezhong kept crying to the queen mother with his face full of grief at the moment.

Listening to his words, Empress Lu asked kindly: "I don't know what happened in the temple? Do you need to write a letter to me face to face?"

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty wants to arrest officials who are embezzling in various places. Lu Tazhi sent troops to arrest more than a thousand officials. Once this happens, the localities will definitely suffer a huge impact. The big man will definitely be uneasy. I feel that the bad habits are going to kill you." It has changed, but because of this incident, thousands of officials will be abolished, or even killed. How can this be done? The Han Dynasty has always lacked officials. Officials, what His Majesty is doing now is really inappropriate."

Empress Lu was a little surprised, "Is there such a thing??"

Zhao Shezhong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty does not allow us to meet you, and even threatens us with words, so that we don't seek our own death. This time, I took risks to visit you!"

"Queen Mother, Your Majesty is still torturing the prisoners in the prison, using all kinds of torture to force them to speak."

"Ah? Chang tortures people???"

Empress Lu was startled, and asked in disbelief: "What else is there? Tell me about it."

"We persuaded His Majesty, and His Majesty beat us up without giving us any face. Queen Mother, look at my face, it was all beaten by His Majesty. I am nearly sixty years old this year. How can I suffer such humiliation from Your Majesty?"

"It's not a problem for me, but those officials are really distressing. Among these people, there are many capable people. They have made great contributions."

Zhaoshezhong spoke faster and faster, and his voice became louder and louder.

At the end, he couldn't help crying.

The Empress Dowager said angrily with a straight face: "This Zongzi has done too much! Could it be that there are no strong ministers in the court? What about Sangong? What do they eat?!"

Speaking of this matter, Zhao Shezhong became even more indignant, he said: "The Queen Mother doesn't know something, the officials in the court are all mediocre people now, they are all confidantes promoted by His Majesty, Zhang Buyi Needless to say, Luan Bu, I always thought he was a gentleman in the past, but I didn't expect that this time he would stand on His Majesty's side, reprimanding us people for not distinguishing right from wrong, saying that he wants to make decisions for the suffering people, To practice the laws of the Great Han, Empress Dowager, it is a great blessing for the people affected by the disaster to receive disaster relief from the temple. The food they eat is not good. When the officials are gone, how can we govern the people?"

"And that Yueshi Hugou, what talent does he have? It's just because he flattered His Majesty that he just took the position of Jiubuqing as a Hugou. That's fine, but he actually insulted us, saying that the North Nearly a thousand people in the country died because of the lack of disaster relief, even if this is true, thousands of people have already died, because they are going to execute these useful officials, how can this be done?"

"The most hateful thing is the Taiwei. When we visited his mansion, he actually used a whip to beat our minister's son, who is only in his 20s this year. He was arrested because of embezzlement and was tortured by various tortures."

Empress Lu listened very seriously, "You have really suffered. For the sake of the great man's society, I didn't expect that there are so many traitors in the great man. But fortunately, there are still you righteous people, and I will deal with them , You call all these ministers who have been wronged so much, let them come to visit me together, if the emperor sends someone to dissuade you, you can say that you have obeyed my order, and let the emperor's people not interfere!!"

Zhaoshezhong was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked the Queen Mother.

Zhaoshezhong raised his head, walked out of Changle Palace arrogantly, and met Zhang Buyi who was on his way, but Zhaoshezhong was not afraid at all, and he was about to walk in front of him without saluting.

Zhang Buyi was really furious, so the soldiers stopped him.

"You old dog, why don't you be polite when you see the Prime Minister?!"

Zhao Shezhong sneered and said: "I just came out from the Queen Mother, who has already said that she will make decisions for us and punish you traitors! What can you do? Now I am under the order of the Queen Mother, how dare you do it?!"

Zhang Buyi looked at them in amazement, and shook his head, "Your son's problem is not serious, he is not guilty of death, at most he is exiled, and you have made contributions in the past, His Majesty advises you not to see the Queen Mother. Tell you not to kill yourself, why are you doing this?"

Zhao Shezhong was furious, "I am a direct minister, and I will not be intimidated by Your Majesty. Today I am going to visit the Empress Dowager. Can Your Majesty kill me?!"

Zhang Buyi glanced at him for the last time, waved his hand, and led the people away from here.

Seeing that Zhang Buyi flinched, Zhao Shezhong was even more overjoyed, and rushed to find his colleagues.

When Zhang Buyi came to Houde Hall, Liu Chang was already impatient.

"Why are you only here now?"

"Blocked by dead bodies."

"Oh?"

Liu Chang didn't ask any more questions, and let Zhang Buyi sit next to him, "Lu Tazhi has already started to attack, so far no one has resisted, and the arrest has been relatively smooth, but there are so many vacancies, we must arrange someone to replace them as soon as possible." On. In addition, I decided not to hide this matter anymore, I want to make a big statement!"

Zhang Buyi was taken aback for a moment, then nodded, "Your Majesty is right! We just want to write something special!"

"The most important thing for these people today is reputation. His Majesty set up the Loyalty Pavilion at the beginning to worship those loyal ministers who made contributions. Now, His Majesty can also set up a treacherous pavilion to hang those who have committed the most heinous crimes in this dynasty, like These corrupt people and those who have done evil things engrave their names in it, so that they will be reviled and humiliated by future generations. In this way, those traitors in the world have to think twice about what they want to do, and see if it is worth it. Not worth it!"

Liu Chang was a little surprised, and murmured: "Good idea."

Zhang Buyi hurriedly said: "This is His Majesty's idea, of course it is very good, His Majesty just said that he wants to write a special book, isn't that what he meant?"

"Oh, yes, of course. In addition, I have to report this matter through newspapers to let the world know their evil deeds! Some people persuade me that family scandals should not be publicized, but I don't think so. I know. The more people there are, the more effective it will be, and I will absolutely not allow this habit to continue in my big man!!!”

The monarch and his ministers began to add up to this matter.

In the end, Liu Chang decided to let Zhang Buyi handle this matter, but Zhang Buyi had a guilty face, "Your Majesty, I am also responsible for this matter. I personally arranged for Du Zhou, and I dare not handle it again." This kind of thing, when I deal with these things, I will apologize to you face to face and resign from the official position of the country's prime minister."

"According to what you said, I let you take charge of this matter, so I am also responsible?"

"If you want me to say, this incident is all due to that Qu Niwenwenhou! I don't believe that he didn't discover this incident at the beginning, and he discovered this habit but didn't play it. This bad habit has been passed down to the present, causing In view of such harm, I can't wait to hang him on the Treacherous Pavilion!"

ps: There was an epidemic in Chang'an at that time, and the Marquis of Pingzhou and others died of illness. When people asked about the disease, they said in no doubt: "This is a stupid disease."

—————Historical Records The Family of Prime Minister Zhang
(End of this chapter)