At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

I felt in my heart that I would not die, but I was afraid, just afraid, as if I was trembling all over.

out of control.

At this time, who can care about Cao Hong?

I don't know when Guo Peng scolded him.

Suddenly, Guo Peng stopped yelling and asked Guo Jin in a relatively calm tone.

"Prince, why don't you let Cao Hong be killed alone?"

This question suddenly woke up everyone, and made them suddenly remember why they came here.

By the way, it was to save Cao Hong.

"Returning to Your Majesty, Cao Hong has no objection. Those privately stored weapons were originally in the powerful manor annexed by him. After he got them, he never maintained them, so that the weapons were rotten and useless. Your Majesty, Cao Hong will not rebel."

Guo Jin bent down and knelt down on the ground.

"This is not the whole reason, Prince, tell Gu, why did you save Cao Hong, do you have a good relationship with him?"

When Guo Peng asked this question, Lu Yi's heart tightened immediately.

It's broken, this is the emperor's trap.

Cao Hong is the leading general, General Zuo of the Wei Army, you have a good relationship with a prince and a general, what do you want to do?

Why are you trying so hard to save a general?

Want to replace the emperor?

"Father, Uncle Zilian... After all, he is a relative of the Guo family! In the early years when my son was young, Uncle Zilian often gave gifts to him. My son is really...really..."

This answer sounds very vulgar, and the emperor must not be happy.

But Lu Yi felt inexplicably relieved.

Sure enough, the emperor was very angry.

"A relative? For a relative, you have to be so disobedient to your father? You don't even care about the overall situation of the government? What have you learned from your father's hard work? Ah?"

Guo Peng kicked Guo Jin.

Guo Jin was kicked to the ground, not daring to say a word, quickly got up and knelt next to Guo Peng again.

"Father, my son is guilty, but...But Uncle Zilian is indeed not guilty of death, he is guilty, but, it is not necessary to kill him..."

"You...you unprogressive bastard! You bastard! Su Yuan! Prepare the court stick, give me twenty... no, not enough, thirty stick! Thirty!"

Guo Peng was furious.

"His Majesty!"

Su Yuan was very surprised: "Your Majesty! That's the prince! Thirty sticks... the prince can't get out of bed for a month!"

"You want to die?"

Guo Peng glared at Su Yuan.

Su Yuan was frightened out of his wits, and immediately lowered his head to work.

"Old slave obeys!"

Soon, the court rod was ready.

Lu Yi, Cao Zhen and the other seven were shocked.

"Your Majesty! His Royal Highness is also kind!"

"Your Majesty! The prince is just eager!"

"Your Majesty! The court staff is dangerous, the prince is honorable, no!"

"His Majesty……"

They all spoke out to stop them, and Guo Peng became even more angry.

"Do you feel sorry for him? Okay, together! Su Yuan! Seven of them, together with the imperial staff! Twenty!"

"Old slave... obey the order..."

So Lu Yi, Cao Zhen and other seven people were also put on the platform of the imperial staff, and they were charged with twenty sticks.

That was a real rod punishment, a punishment specially created by Guo Peng himself to deal with disobedient ministers, and it was more brutal than the whip and rod of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The early sticks could be used for everything, there were no fixed instruments of torture, and it was not a spanking but a spanking on the back.

Compared with spanking, the back is more dangerous. Although the number of spankings is small, it will not kill you, but the nerves in the back are right. If you spank seriously, you will be disabled and paralyzed. It is really more uncomfortable than death.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty used his majestic stick to punish the officials, beat them up frequently, and beat them on the back. He was beaten into high-level paraplegia in minutes, so within a few years, officials were so frightened that they resigned one after another.

At that time, he still asked in a very incomprehensible way [Is my stick heavy? 】

In the Tang Dynasty, after witnessing countless tragedies, they realized that spanking on the back would really paralyze ministers, and spanking became the mainstream of stick punishment.

A spanking is much milder than a spanking on the back.

If so, even if he is allowed not to take off his clothes, and he is allowed to put on a thick cotton padded jacket and fold his clothes heavily, but the real court stick hitting his buttocks is still a painful pain.

It's just that it's mostly the pain of the flesh. It seems cruel and cruel, but it doesn't hurt the muscles and bones.

If you are in good health, you can recover from bed rest in one month, and if you are not in good health, you will be fine in about two months.

The main purpose of the court staff during this period was to humiliate the courtiers and make him feel ashamed.

The really dangerous court stick is the court stick after Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty.

They don't wear clothes, don't put cotton clothes as a base, and directly hit the body with a solid stick, not only the buttocks, but also the back.

If you do it like this, you don't need dozens of sticks, you can break a person's bones, break the bones, smash the flesh on the buttocks, and the internal organs are not much better.

As long as you beat with a little snack, you can run up with thirty sticks. If you don't lie on the bed for a month, you can't even think about going down to the ground.

If you run up with sixty sticks, you will be beaten to death. If you go up to eighty sticks, you will really beat people to death. In that case, it is called "stick death".

There is a difference between a rod to blame and a rod to die.

So those so-called "cheat sticks" in the Ming Dynasty were actually risking their lives to fight for their reputation. Who knows when the emperor got angry and killed his stick.

What a liar wants is his reputation while he is alive, not his reputation after his death.

Every time you cheat, you are risking your life for a possibility and a future.

If you win, you win.

If you can't fight, if you are unlucky, you will die.

This is how Guo Peng used to deal with those disobedient guys in the inner court who stalked inside and out.

At present, none of the foreign ministers of the former court was killed by the stick, and the stick was thirty at most to show deterrence and insult, and Guo Jin enjoyed this treatment.

The eight people were tortured together, and the emperor personally supervised the beating, not daring not to beat them seriously, so he raised the stick and beat them hard.

Lifting, falling, lifting, falling, accompanied by screams like killing a pig.

After twenty blows, the other seven felt that they were about to die, but Guo Jin still had ten blows.

Guo Jin was stubborn, gritted her teeth, and did not cry out to show her dignity.

Then seven people cried and pleaded for Guo Jin.

"Your Majesty! Please forgive His Highness the Crown Prince!"

"Your Majesty! His Royal Highness is your son!"

"Your Majesty! His Highness the Crown Prince can't take it anymore!"

Cao Zhen cried in a mess.

Lu Yi crawled up to Guo Peng and knelt at his feet to beg for mercy.

Lu Yu collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.

The rest of them either crawled to Guo Peng to beg for mercy, or pulled the executioner's legs to prevent them from continuing the execution.

But it was useless, Guo Jin still received thirty sticks.

After thirty sticks, Guo Jin seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

"Do you still want to save Cao Hong?"

Guo Peng kicked Lu Yi away and stood beside Guo Jin with a stern voice.

"Son... son begging father... let go... let go... Uncle Zilian..."

Before finishing speaking, Guo Jin passed out.

"Your Highness! Your Highness! Your Highness!"

The seven people panicked, and they wanted to crawl to Guo Jin's side to check Guo Jin's situation. They felt that they were more concerned about Guo Jin's situation than their own body.

Seeing this scene, Guo Peng let out a long sigh.

"Su Yuan, send them all back and ask the people from the Great Medical Center to treat them."

"Old slave obeys the order."

Su Yuan watched the whole process in horror, his legs trembled, and he was terrified.

Seven people including Guo Jin, Cao Zhen and Lu Yi were sent back to their respective residences by Su Yuan's arrangement, and then the doctors of the Great Medical Center immediately went to consult with good medicinal materials.

Chapter 1328 One Thousand 230 Going Around for 20 Years

It was late at that time, and when the officials went to work in the imperial city one after another in the morning of the next day, a news that shocked them spread.

In order to plead for Cao Hong, the Crown Prince Guo Jin was punished by the emperor for [-] years, and he was beaten bloody, and now he is lying on the bed and cannot get up.

It is estimated that there will be no way to walk safely in the next month.

The ministers were shocked.

From the staff officer Ling Xizhong and the censor Guo Hong, down to a small official serving tea and water in various administrative departments, everyone was shocked by this.

Of course, it doesn't stop there, as this news spread, another news also spread.

The emperor pardoned Cao Hong's death penalty and the exile of Cao Hong's family.

But the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped.

Cao Hong's position will be revoked, his title will be deprived, and his food town will also be deprived. Except for his ancestral property of his hometown in Yuzhou, all property, including gold, silver and land, will be confiscated, leaving nothing left.

Cao Hong changed from the high-ranking General Zuo of the Wei Army and the Marquis of Lecheng to a bare local rich man.

Although the loss was heavy, at least his life was saved.

Everyone did not forget that a few days ago, the officials rushed to rescue Cao Hong one after another, in order to save Cao Hong's life and keep the red line between the emperor and the officials from being crossed.

But the emperor seemed to be determined to become the only husband in the world, and the courtiers who begged were beaten, scolded and grounded, and none of them succeeded.

Because of this, Cao Hong was dealt with specially and was about to be executed in three days.

There was no possibility of rescuing him, and the officials were disheartened and trembling, knelt down facing the imperial power, and dared not speak again.

But who would have thought that at this time, Crown Prince Guo Jin would actually go against the current and personally go to the South Study Room to ask the emperor to forgive Cao Hong.

As long as you are not stupid, everyone knows the danger here.

Cao Hong didn't say anything else, after all, he was also a left general of the guard army. He led the troops in Luoyang and had the right to lead the troops.

And Guo Jin is the crown prince, the prince, and the future emperor.

Since ancient times, the power boundary and the way of getting along between the emperor and the crown prince have been very subtle. The relationship between the emperors and their crown princes has rarely been harmonious, and extreme cases have often led to wars between father and son.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty killed the prince for this.

The bloody reality is recorded in the history books, and no one has ever shy away from it.

According to the officials, the relationship between Guo Peng and Crown Prince Guo Jin was harmonious.

Guo Peng treats Guo Jin very seriously. It is said that Guo Jin's first teacher when he was young was Guo Peng's teacher, former Taiwei Lu Zhi.

After Lu Zhi's death, Guo Jin's education was taken care of by Situ Cai Yong.