Lord of the House

Chaotian Station is located at the southwestern foot of Guishan Mountain in Gutang County, Jiangning Prefecture. The North Station Road, Shiliang River Waterway from Dongyang Prefecture, and Tangtu Station Road from Gutang County to Tuzhong County are all gathered here. The southwest of the station is Jiangning City Yiwei. Chaotiandang, also known as Chaotian Lake, is a natural danger. The ferry where Lin Fu and Gu Wuchen stopped when they came to the shore was Kuahu Ancient Ferry, and the south bank was Qixia Ancient Ferry. It is one of the most important river crossing waterways in Jiangning Prefecture. Called the first post in the South. After the Chaotian Station, there was a private residence in Guishantou when Emperor Gaozu was the governor of Jiangning. After Gaozu founded the country in Jiangning, Guishan’s private residence was expanded into a palace. After Taizong moved the capital to Yanjing, the Guishan palace was built as Jingjue Temple. .

Most of the civil officials and military generals who traveled from the south to the north, greeted the west from the east and sent them to the west, as well as the postmen who handed over to the Tang Baodi, had to change boats, horses, cars, or rest at Chaotianyi; The station is good at business, and it allows those business travelers who can't cross the river at night to stay and collect silver money, just like a government-run inn.

Hearing the faint bell tolling from Jingjue Temple in the back of the mountain at night, Lin Fu stood in front of the steps with his hands behind his back.

Chen Enze just came back and said that Du Rong had just invited Gu Siyuan and Yongchang Young Marquis Yuan Jinsheng to visit Jingjue Temple at night, and Yang Shi and Gu Wuchen's two nephews, Gu Siming and Gu Tianqiao, were also invited to accompany him.

What is the relationship between Gu Siyuan and Yuan Jinsheng, Chen Enze found out from the maid's mouth.

When Gu Wuchen was convicted and the couple were exiled to northern Xinjiang, their son Gu Siyuan and daughter Gu Junxun were still young and were adopted by Gu Wuchen's father-in-law Tang Haoxin. Although Tang Haoxin was implicated by his son-in-law and failed to be appointed Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but as the third-ranking minister of the Ministry of Industry, who had only one daughter under his knees, he was still able to send his grandson Gu Siyuan to the National School to follow his door.

In this dynasty, there were Taixue and Guozixue under the Imperial College. Taixue selects scholars in Fuxian County. Honors and talented scholars can be recommended by the local government. In fact, Taixue only admits 500 students, and they are naturally controlled by local nobles; The descendants of the nobles above the hou and the great-grandchildren of the second rank and above are the living members.

There are Guozijian in both the northern and southern capitals. The slight difference is that if the descendants of dukes and above have the title to go to school, they have to choose to go to the capital. Gu Siyuan and Yuan Jinsheng met in the Yanjing Guozijian.

Gu Wuchen got the deputy envoy of the Jiangdong Police Department, and he wanted to take his son Gu Siyuan by his side for strict control, so he took him to Jiangning together, and he could be transferred to Jiangning Guozi School, which would not affect his future.

Yuan Jinsheng wanted to inherit the title of Marquis of Yongchang, and he was forbidden to become an official according to the law. He was also hanging out in the Guozi Academy, and he had other plans in his heart, so he ended his studies early and returned to Jiangning.

In this way, Yuan Jinsheng is not a very important person.

In this dynasty, in order to limit the calamity of the sons and grandsons to the local and even threaten the imperial power of the direct royal family, although the lords have a high status, they can also obtain a rich supply of silver money from the fiefs and enjoy honor, but the actual power is very limited, and it is more limited to the local tyrants. collusion.

Lin Fu thought to himself that Du Rong invited Gu Siyuan and others to visit Jingjue Temple at night, and most of them could know some of his situation in Shanglin and his true relationship with the Gu family from Gu Siyuan and others. Lin Fie didn't worry about this. He swore against Du Rong in front of the inn, mainly to attract the attention of Du Rong's opponent. Du Rong couldn't explain this to his opponent.

A large yard on the east side of the inn was opened for business travelers and tourists who went into the mountains to burn incense. Su Mei was thinking that Lin Fu should come to Jiangning. Today, she crossed the river with her sisters from Dustpan Lane to burn incense at Jingjue Temple. She met Zhou Pu and Chen Enze who came in the afternoon, but she could not stay with Lin Fu. Will attract the attention of others, but let Xiaoman disguise as a boy and follow Zhou Pu.

Lin Fu thought about his soul in this world, and experienced all kinds of things with Su Mei and Xiaoman on Changshan Island. Naturally, he was the closest to him. He felt that only Su Mei and Xiaoman were his relatives in this world. , thinking that Su Mei had also stopped at this inn before noon, I also miss it a bit.

Hearing the soft cat-like footsteps, Lin Fie turned his head, and Xiaoman tiptoed over in cold clothes to scare him.

"Your ears are so sharp..." Xiaoman cried out in surprise when he saw Lin Bie turning his head, his expression exaggerated and cute, and his voice was soft.

"At the ferry... I should apologize to you." Lin Fu said.

In front of the ferry, Gu Wuchen eagerly said that he hoped Xiaoman could be a companion for his daughter Gu Junxun in Jiangning. Lin Fu had no choice but to hint Xiaoman's identity to Gu Wuchen in order to avoid hating the Gu family in the future. Xiaoman was very sensitive to the hints Lin Fu gave to Gu Wuchen. She looked sad at the time, and Lin Fu would never forget it. It would be difficult for future generations to imagine that a fourteen-year-old innocent girl would bear such a heavy burden. He knew that Xiaoman was hurt, and even if he wanted to apologize and comfort her at this time, he didn't know where to start.

"What's the matter? I forgot about it long ago. I forgot when I stepped on your knees and sat on the back of a horse." Xiaoman shook his head naively and said with a clear and pure smile. She was only in her teenage years, and her eyebrows and eyes were a bit charming. Lin Fu thought that when she grew up, she might be a beauty like Su Mei who brought disaster to the country and the people.

"What are you looking at?" Xiaoman stood beside Lin Bie's shoulder and looked out on tiptoe. She was a head shorter than Lin Bie, and her eyes were just blocked by the front courtyard wall, so she supported Lin Bie's shoulder and jumped I got up and looked out, but I couldn't see it.

"I step on you again, and you will forget the unpleasantness in front of the ferry; you just need to know that in my eyes, don't talk about those officials and ladies, you are more noble than those princesses and princesses." Lin Bie bowed his knees Half squatting, let Xiaoman stand on his lap. Afraid that Du Rong or Du Rong would find out, Lin Bie couldn't take Xiaoman out of the yard casually.

Xiaoman happily supported Lin Bie's shoulder on his lap with one hand, and supported Lin Bie's raised palm with the other, and asked, "Does it hurt? I'm not heavy."

Only then did Lin Bie know that the little girl's body was unusually light, but she didn't look thin, and her hands were soft, and said, "It's okay, just don't watch it all night."

The post house was built on a slope. Lin Fu stood in front of the steps and looked at the sky in the southwest. The sparkling water waves spread out in the field of vision. There was only a faint shadow in the majestic Jiangning City, and there were very faint lines of ridges on the east side of the city. , Lin Fu estimated the position, thinking that it was the Jinjin Mountain, the head of the mountains in Jiangning. To the east of Zijin Mountain is Sheshan in Moling County, a subordinate of Jiangning Prefecture. The famous Xixi Academy is located on the bank of Xixi at the west foot of Sheshan, and it is only thirty miles away from Taipingmen, the east gate of Jiangning City.

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The Gu family will stay in the inn for a few days, and wait until the selected auspicious day before entering Jiangning to take office.

In the early morning of the next day, there were carriages available for hire in the post house, and Zhao Hu went to rent a carriage. There was no need to hire another coachman, Lin Fu and the others simply pulled the carriage away, and after entering the city, they could return the carriage to the designated Jiangji mule and horse shop in the city. This is very convenient, but the cost is quite high. It takes two hundred copper coins to rent such a carriage a day.

Lin Fu was afraid that Du Rong would bump into Xiaoman, so he asked Xiaoman to accompany Liu Yueer in the yard to sit in the carriage early and wait. He went to say goodbye to Gu Wuchen and made an appointment to meet again in Jiangning City, so he took the horse and drove the carriage straight. Ben Kuah ancient ferry, hired a big boat to cross the river.

Chaotiandang is connected with the Yangtze River north of Jiangning City. In winter, the river is shallow and narrow. There are more than 20 miles of water from Kuabudu to Qixiadu at the northern foot of Sheshan on the other side, with sandbars dotted on the water. Considering that even if you go ashore from Qixia Ferry, it is only within the territory of Moling County, and you have to walk nearly thirty miles to the west to enter Jiangning City. Lin Fu asked the boatman to directly control the boat and slant it into the sky, towards the mouth of Jinchuan River in the northeast of Jiangning City. drive away.

The Jinchuan River is a waterway with a length of only three or four miles. Moling Lake is also the Xuanwu Lake after a thousand years. Since there was no land reclamation for the lake, the Xuanwu Lake in this era was much larger than what Lin Bie remembered in later generations. There are more than 40 miles around the lakeshore. The city is even bigger, the size of the entire Zijin Mountain.

Before entering Jinchuan River Chazikou, Lin Fu saw that there was a Jiangxin Island standing in the river nearly two miles away from Hechazikou. There was a blue brick and gray tile building on Jiangxin Island. Surrounded by high walls, there are many rivers in the Yangtze River in this section of Chaotian Lake. Although there are refugees who go to the island to cultivate remote fields, and some build a thatched hut on the island, he came to Jiangning before, but he did not pay attention to the Jinchuan River. This Jiangxin Island outside Chazikou.

"What's there?" Lin Fu asked Xiaoman, who was born and raised in Jiangning.

"Oh, that's the Jinchuan Island prison of the Jiangdong Inspector Si Yamen!" Xiaoman said.

Lin Fu's mind was a little knotted. Whether it was Lin Fu's memory before or his impression of an ancient prison a thousand years later, it seemed rare to build such a large-scale prison on Jiangdao outside the city in inland areas. Generally speaking, whether it is the county jail or the prefectural prison, or the police officer's prison, the prison of the Ministry of Justice, or the Dali temple prison, in fact, it has the dual nature of a detention center and a prison, because detained suspects must be arraigned and brought to court at any time. The yamen and the prison to which it belongs are generally not too far apart, not to mention that they are built far away on the Jiangdao outside the city, which is somewhat like a professional prison after a thousand years.

Although Jiangxin Island deviates from the main waterway of the river, Lin Fu and their boat are obliquely inserted from Kuabudu. Jiangxin Island happens to lie on the channel where they enter the Jinchuan Estuary. Seeing that the boatman intends to go farther, Lin Fu shouts loudly. Ask the boatman who is swaying the stern: "Why don't you go past the island?"

"There is a prison city, get close to it carefully and bring the boat down with people." Said the boatman.

"Prison City!" Hearing the boatman say this word, Lin Fu remembered one thing, and understood why the police officer wanted to build the prison into a Jiangdao. This fact was an unresolved koan case between Jiangning and Yanjing in the southern capital.

According to the "Criminal Law" of this dynasty, the punishment is divided into five categories: fencing, stick, imprisonment, exile, and death~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Among them, imprisonment is hard labor in prison, similar to the so-called fixed-term imprisonment after a thousand years; Hard labor in remote and barren places; in general, exile is heavier than imprisonment and lighter than death. In recent years, the frontiers where the heavy prisoners have been placed, such as the Great Wall, Jibei, Hexi, and the deserted islands in the East China Sea, have often been invaded by aliens or occupied by pirates. In fact, when prisoners are dispatched to these frontier areas, the actual punishment for prisoners exceeds that provided by the Criminal Code. In addition, it is also worried that these stray prisoners will be taken by aliens or pirates to increase the strength of each other. In view of this situation, the Jiangning Criminal Department, Jiangning Dali Temple, and the Third Division of the Jiangning Police Department determined to reform the prison system and redefine the punishment. , and no longer send these prisoners to more dangerous remote places of exile.

According to Lin Fu's understanding, this should be a pretty good reform, but the authorities in Yanjing and Jiangning Shouling are two opposing bureaucratic groups who have always been at odds. The people in Yanjing had the right power and the right, so they felt that Jiangning officials should be more honest, not to be a scumbag, and resolutely replace the so-called prison city with the punishment of exile. There was a lot of controversy about the prison city four or five years ago, and there has been no sound in the past two years; especially after this year, it is said that the luxury family will surrender, and they can re-use those overseas deserted islands as places of exile. Naturally No one mentioned the prison city again.

Lin Fu thought that the prison city proposal had long since vanished, but he did not expect that the fallen officials in Jiangning would not be lonely. Even if the powerful bureaucracy in Yanjing strongly opposed it, they first encouraged Jiangdong to build a new prison in the name of the inspector. The prison city was built outside the city of Jiangning, and it was built on the island in the middle of the Yangtze River. My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter