Jinyiwei work report

The so-called court stick means that the emperor ordered Jin Yiwei to pull down the minister who had angered him and beat him with a stick.

Since the founding of the country, it has a history of hundreds of years, and it can be regarded as a tradition.

The place of execution was on Xichi outside the Meridian Gate. There were 30 mid-level officials in the palace and 30 royal guards, standing on both sides as guards of honor.

In addition, there are more than 100 Jinyiwei responsible for specific executions, and these numbers will be adjusted according to the number of officials executed.

Especially this time, when the emperor was furious, dozens of officials were in the court, and the number of people present was quite a lot.

The emperor sent Eunuch Lu, the supervisor of ceremonies, to watch. He put his hands behind his back and looked at Li Zhen with a smile.

Li Zhen patrolled around and found nothing unusual. He nodded to the captains of Jinyiwei who lined up below, indicating that it was time to start.

Liu Yuxing, who was kneeling on the ground like everyone else, tensed up nervously, not daring to breathe.

He has calf cramps now, and he doesn't know how many sticks he can endure.

Suddenly, he saw a few guards in brocade clothes walking towards him vigorously, no nonsense, and before he could react, a captain had already passed a rope through his armpit, and slapped his arm a few times , and then pulled forward, he fell to the ground fiercely.

At this time, another captain immediately tied his legs with a rope and dragged him backwards.

In this way, because there were people pulling his limbs with ropes at the front and back, he gnawed on the ground with his mouth, unable to move, and could only be slaughtered.

It was terrible to beat the court rod, and he finally knew why the officials who had been beaten by the court rod were looked at highly.

Terrible, really terrible.

He looked around again, and the other officials who were fined with the imperial staff were controlled as if they were slaughtering pigs.

Two school lieutenants holding sticks stood around him, pulled his clothes off, and pointed at a stick in the middle of his body.

He only felt that he was going to be beaten in two, and his face was flushed from the pain, but seeing that no one around him screamed, so he didn't dare to scream, bit his lips tightly, and kept silent.

"Fifty court sticks per person, no more, but no less." Li Zhen supervised the execution with his hands behind his back.

He didn't forget Song Yingbai's entrustment, just now he specially ordered Liu Yuxing to save his life, and hoped that this guy would live up to his expectations and not let the water go, and die.

In fact, there is a rule that everyone knows about beating the imperial staff. The toe of the official in charge of Jinyiwei faces inward, which means that he will be beaten to death and will not be given a way out.

A beaten official who approached Li Zhen wanted to see which direction Li Zhen's boots were facing, but found him walking around instead of standing still.

"..." He couldn't help grabbing the ground with his head in grief and indignation, why he was so hard to figure out.

No more or less than [-] blows from each person. After a while, some people couldn't help but screamed in pain. Once someone broke the silence and interacted with each other, the screams continued one after another. Soon, some people lost consciousness. They are silent.

After the fifty sticks were beaten, the tied ropes were removed, and Jin Yiwei took the sticks to collect the team and leave. Whether the people who were beaten were dead or alive had nothing to do with them.

The family members who were stopped to watch from a distance quickly came up to carry them with the door panels.

Some of them brought a doctor to treat them on the spot, and some brought ginseng soup, and immediately fed them into their mouths to hang themselves.

"It's okay, okay, I heard people say that as long as the bruise doesn't reach the knee, it can still be cured." Liu Yuchun glanced at his cousin's injury, and said happily, "Hurry up and carry him back."

Although my cousin has lost consciousness and some of his flesh has been blown away, there should be no danger of his life.

After Li Zhen supervised the imperial staff, he returned to the palace and returned to the palace, and walked into the palace with Lu Gonggong.

Eunuch Lu gave people the impression that he was a kind and fat old man who smiled at everyone, but Li Zhen knew very well in his heart that this old man was not a good man and a faithful woman. He was not just a random eunuch who could serve as a shield for the emperor against ministers. capable.

Eunuch Lu smiled and said: "Li Qianshi, Your Majesty asked us yesterday, saying that you moved out of the Duke's Mansion, why? But our family didn't know, so we told His Majesty that maybe Li Qianshi wanted to change places to get some fresh air. After a while, His Majesty may ask you personally."

"Thank you, Eunuch Lu, for letting me know." Li Zhen thanked with a smile.

Because of the special structure, eunuchs can accompany the emperor at any time, so the relationship with the emperor is incomparable to other courtiers.

In particular, the eunuchs of this dynasty are more important. They can not only help the emperor to review the memorials, but also help the emperor to seal and exercise power.

But because he has no military power, he is still the emperor's domestic slave after all.

The emperor with a normal mind knew that in the struggle with the ministers, he could not fight shirtless. He usually chose to use eunuchs as marionettes and hide in the dark by himself to fight for power and profit with the gang of poet-educated and treacherous ministers.

When things got out of hand, the eunuchs were blamed and killed.

The current Emperor Yongtai, who has been on the throne for five years, is only 25 years old now, and has already fostered several eunuchs to help him with affairs.

When Li Zhen saw him, he was writing in his study.

After calling Li Zhen and Eunuch Lu in, he continued to concentrate on writing with his head down, "Are you all honest?"

Naturally referring to the officials who were beaten, Li Zhen replied: "In fact, fifty sticks were beaten, and there should be no fewer than five people who died."

"That's good." The emperor stopped writing, raised his head, and asked Li Zhen with a smile: "I heard that the old man chased you with a knife, is it true? How did you provoke him?"

"It's not that you don't know that the old man has a bad temper, and he will shoot with a knife if he disagrees with him." Li Zhen said with difficulty.

The emperor chuckled and said: "That's true, but you should take the time to apologize to him. Yesterday he entered the palace and poured out bitterness on the emperor's grandmother. It looked... quite pitiful..."

"..." What else could Li Zhen say, his grandfather went to the palace to complain to his sister, "...Yes."

Seeing the helplessness on Li Zhen's face, the emperor empathized with him, "I understand, I sometimes treat the emperor's grandmother in the same way. By the way, Yuan Tongzhi has already submitted his resignation, so you can take over for him."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Jin Yiwei is the emperor's pro-army, appointed by the emperor himself, promotion and dispatch are just a matter of words.

The emperor said: "You practice hard, and you will help me do more things in the future."

"Thank you Lord Ron."

The emperor smiled, "Okay, let's go down."

Li Zhen withdrew, and when he was walking out of the palace, he saw the eunuch Pei Gonggong and Pei Huaixuan standing beside the corridor talking.

Pei Huaixuan looked dead again, with a sullen face, looking at people coldly.

Eunuch Pei is his adoptive father. I don't know how to offend him. Li Zhen walked over. When the other party saw him, he interrupted the conversation and greeted him, "It's about Li Qian."

Li Zhen said a few words to Eunuch Pei, and left without paying any attention to Pei Huaixuan.

When he left, Eunuch Pei wondered: "Why does Li Qianshi seem a little hostile to you? Isn't the relationship between you two before good?"

Pei Huaixuan couldn't figure it out either. It stands to reason that a friend of a friend is a friend of mine, but the closer he is to Song Yingbai, it seems that Li Zhen dislikes him, "I don't know."

Eunuch Pei persuaded in a good voice: "You have to calm down no matter what you do, don't be like everyone else." Seeing that the adopted son was still sombre, he said helplessly: "Okay, okay, then you should smile when you face the saint anyway, If you don’t laugh now, why don’t you laugh when your head moves?!”

Pei Huaixuan turned his eyes to look elsewhere.

Eunuch Pei slapped his forehead and stomped his feet, "Sooner or later you will drag me to death. Forget it, it's getting late, let's go."

Mian Sheng, who was hurrying along with his adopted son, arrived outside the Imperial Study Room to report, and the emperor summoned Pei Huaixuan to go in. Soon, Eunuch Lu and other servants came out, and the two eunuchs stood in the corridor, greeting each other. Let's chat about the latest weather.

As soon as Pei Huaixuan entered, the emperor heard footsteps and complained without raising his head: "You have been back to the capital for a few days, and you didn't want to come to see me?"

Pei Huaixuan bent down and pleaded guilty, "I am guilty." But the tone did not mean to apologize, as usual.

"You're really good. You've been there for a year and a half. I asked you to come back several times, but you dared to go to school and delay again and again. You are really too courageous." The emperor raised his eyes and snorted heavily.

Pei Huaixuan just said: "This humble minister is guilty, please punish the emperor."

The emperor stood up straight, raised his head slightly, and thought, "Well...what should I punish you for?" Then he peeked at Pei Huaixuan, seeing that there was no fear on his face, he was a little disappointed, curled his lips, "Forget it."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Pei Huaixuan kept his head down, but he could feel the emperor's eyes on his head.

"Get flat." The emperor ordered: "Let me see how you are doing outside these days, whether you have gained weight or lost weight."

Pei Huaixuan stood up straight and met the emperor's scrutiny, which made him very uncomfortable, so the expression on his face was already trying to restrain his boredom.

The corner of the emperor's mouth curled up, and he picked up one sleeve, revealing his slender wrist, "By the way, Pei Aiqing, how is your handwriting?"

Pei Huaixuan said flatly: "I can't do it."

"Really?" The emperor smiled and called him to come to the table, "You write a few words for me to see, and let me see if you really can't do it."

Pei Huaixuan had no choice but to step forward, and the emperor handed him the brush in his hand, pointed to a place on the rice paper and said, "Just write a Thai character here."

Pei Huaixuan was homeless in his early years, and when life got better, he picked up the brush again. But at that time, he discovered that he should have read books and knew how to write before the age of 12. He may even have a good education and a solid foundation in calligraphy. With a little practice, he can write beautifully.

When he finished writing, the emperor's eyes lit up, "Isn't this very well written, and he told me that he couldn't do it."

Pei Huaixuan didn't speak, and wanted to hang the pen on the pen screen, but he didn't want the emperor to stop him: "The handwriting of Aiqing is so good, why don't you teach me too."

"The emperor killed his subordinates. You have the emperor's teacher, how dare the humble ministers fight with the axe." Go to the great scholars to teach you.

But the emperor made up his mind, "If I can teach you, I can teach you!" After finishing speaking, he dipped his pen in ink, hovered the pen tip on the paper, and pouted at him, "Hurry up, hold my hand, and correct me at any time. .”

Pei Huaixuan knew that he would not let him go easily if he did not satisfy the other party's request today, so he had to force himself to get close to the emperor, stand behind him, wrap his arms around him, cover the other party's hand with his right hand, and wrote again stroke by stroke. A "Tai" character in the year name of Yongtai.

Pei Huaixuan felt the emperor's back leaning back a little, resisting the goosebumps that came up, and insisted not to avoid it. He never felt that the time was so long. When he finished writing, he said: "Your Majesty, this humble minister can only This character is well written, other characters really dare not show their ugliness."

The emperor glanced at him and said with a smile, "Aren't you willing to teach? You are the only one who dares to treat me with such an attitude."

Pei Huaixuan immediately bowed his head and said, "This humble official deserves death."

"Oh, how can I be willing to let you die. That's enough, step back." The emperor waved his hand.

Pei Huaixuan hurriedly seized the opportunity and hurried out the door, ignoring the adoptive father who was chatting, and strode out.

Eunuch Pei said to Eunuch Lu: "Let's talk later." He hurriedly chased after his godson, but the other party strode away, he was old and couldn't catch up at all, "There is still a while before the palace gate closes, why are you so anxious. "

Pei Huaixuan said with a cold face: "There is nothing urgent, you have something to do in the palace, so wait a bit, I have something to do, I have to go out of the palace directly." When he arrived outside the palace gate, he rode on his horse and went all the way to the Jinyiwei yamen.

When he got to a place where there were fewer people, he took out the handkerchief and wiped it vigorously on his right hand, then threw the handkerchief under the horse's hoof, and stepped on it.

-

"You have been consecrated recently, how can you win?" Others at the gambling table asked while pushing the money towards Zhou Xuan.

Zhou Xuan yawned, "Forget it, stop playing, it's no fun to always win."

It is interesting to win and lose. It is not exciting to win every time, and the fun of gambling is lost all at once.

Ever since he made a wish on the fish bone and wanted to become an invincible gambling king, he has never lost, but within a few days, he felt bored.

Making a wish to become the king of gambling is actually a bit of a nonsense. He was born in a noble family, and after playing for fun, he can't really make a living from gambling.

He walked out of the gate of the gambling house in boredom, and wandered aimlessly in the street with his entourage.

The fishbone in his sleeve shouted secretly, hurry up and make a wish, make a big wrong, such as being a prince or an emperor, why are you so loose, you have no extravagant hopes other than winning every battle in gambling.

Fishbone gathered Zhou Xuan's wishes these days: "I hope my father's health will improve." "I hope my mother will change her temper." "I hope Aunt Wang will stop crying all the time." "I hope my toothache will get better." " I hope that the skin of the maids in the house can become fair and translucent." "I hope that the puppies under the yellow dog outside the second door are all male."

It's all trivial things, and it's a little impatient with him. When it heard that he was driven to the northwest by his father, it thought it was some kind of great dude, and Ganqing was completely out of tune.

At this time, Yubone heard the new wish in his heart: the bridge of his nose seems to be a little short, it would be nice if it was a little higher.

"..." Can't you gather some energy and make a more vigorous wish? !

I heard Zhou Xuan think again in his heart, Li Zhen's attitude is too bad, if only he could apologize to himself.

"..." This kind of trivial wish again!What do you take me for!Fishbone roared silently.

This guy is dead, let's change to someone else.

However, Xu's wish should be realized for him.

Zhou Xuan was walking leisurely on the street, when he was turning a corner, a little beggar ran past him like a rat, he dodged to the side to avoid it, but he didn't stop and staggered onto the road , The moment he fell, his nose hit the pedal of the rider on the road.

The bridge of his nose hurt, and the pain made him burst into tears, and he yelled at the other party with a sour face, "How do you ride a horse?" After seeing that the rider was Li Zhen, he became even more resentful, "It hurts me to death. "

Li Zhen was walking well, and Zhou Xuan bumped out suddenly, but seeing Zhou Xuan's tears were full, it might be really painful, considering that he was not injured, but the other party was injured, so he said flatly: "I'm sorry, I bumped into you. you, are you alright?"

Zhou Xuan rubbed his nose, "I..." As soon as I touched it, I found that the bridge of the nose protruded a lot, and it was really a lot higher. At the same time, listening to Li Zhen's apology, I suddenly realized that this is how the fish bone fulfilled his wish. .

Sure enough, it was the magic weapon left by the monster, that is, the evil nature. He touched it in his sleeve and planned to throw it away.

When I touched it, it didn't matter, and found that the bag containing the fish bones was gone.

"Did you see a little red bag?" He hurriedly asked the long follower next to him.

"Did it be stolen by that little beggar just now? I'll go after it!"

"... Forget it! Anyway, I plan to throw it away."

At this time, he saw that Li Zhen had already walked a few steps, and hurriedly chased after him and said, "My cousin has regained her sanity, thank you so much. If you didn't give that talisman, she might not be able to wake up."

Li Zhen said: "It's good that she recovers. Let's take care of her illness. What she did before is not her. Our family knows it, so I won't reveal half a word to the outside world. Don't worry about that."

Zhou Xuan said: "I'll go back and tell my mother and the others, they can also breathe a sigh of relief."

"Then go." After Li Zhen finished speaking, she continued to walk forward.

Zhou Xuan rubbed his nose, thinking depressedly, this wish is too unworthy, an apology, but the nose is swollen, and that broken fish bone can hardly understand human words.

He looked at the direction where the little beggar disappeared, and thought, forget it, whoever wants to take it.

The little beggar ran to a secluded alley with a small bag containing fish bones, and untied the bag excitedly.

This fell from the brocade-clothed young man just now, so there should be a lot of silver.

But the moment he opened the bag, he was completely stunned as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him. It turned out to be just a few broken fish bones.

He hugged his knees, his nose was sore, Xiao Wuzi was doing so well, and looking at himself, he didn't even pick up a money bag with any money in it, only broken fish bones.

Anyway, pick up a few copper coins and have a full meal.

After crying, I found that the bag containing the fish bones was exquisite in workmanship, and wondered if I could sell it at a good price to fill my stomach.

He wiped his nose, stooped to pick up the fishbone bag, only to find a few copper plates lying under it, just enough for a full meal.

"Is this... such a coincidence? Or..." He blinked, and his eyes fell on the fishbone.

-

Li Zhen stepped into the Song Mansion with light steps. Hearing that Song Yingbai was in the living room, he went straight to find him.

As soon as he opened the door, the smile froze on his face, and he found that both Xie Zhongyu and Pei Huaixuan were there.

He only went out for a while, and apologized to the grandfather in return for the duke's mansion, when the wolves outside got through the fence.

Song Yingbai saw that he was back, and asked with a smile, "How is it? Did the old man forgive you?"

"It's not speculative." Li Zhenhun didn't seem to see Xie Zhongyu and Pei Huaixuan, and went directly to Song Yingbai and sat down, "I told him that the young lady of the Yang family was possessed by a monster, so she pestered me endlessly." Yes. As a result, my grandfather said that even if Ms. Yang was possessed by a monster, but through this incident, I can see my stubborn character. I said, sorry, my grandson got it wrong. But he was not satisfied, saying that I The apology was not sincere, and he wanted to hit me again, so I had to leave quickly. It seems that he will not forgive me in a short time."

Song Yingbai smiled and said, "I'll find you a few thorns, and you can plead guilty with the thorns."

Without waiting for Li Zhen to speak, Xie Zhongyu snorted angrily: "But your tone is not in a hurry, what's the matter with you sounding happy. I think you just want to move here for a while!"

He still heard from his senior brother that Li Zhen asked his uncle for a talisman.

Out of curiosity, I inquired about it, only to find out that Li Zhen lived in Song Yingbai's house, afraid that he would encounter evil spirits and hurt Song Yingbai, so he hurried over.

Before he sat down and said a few words, Pei Huaixuan, a Jinyi guard whom he had never seen before, came. Judging by Song Yingbai's attitude towards him, the relationship was very good.

There were two accidents, one accident was that Li Zhen lived in Song's house, and the other belonged to Pei Huaixuan. It was already annoying enough, but another one came.

Li Zhen sized Xie Zhongyu up, "What are you doing here?"

"What am I here for? Hmph, knowing that you guys are taking a rest today, I came here specially to exorcise Song Yingbai from evil spirits! You have provoked an evil thing, and I am afraid that he will be hurt." Xie Zhongyu said proudly: "This is the most serious and most important thing. You can't deny it."

Pei Huaixuan, who had been silent all this time, heard this and immediately asked his younger brother with concern, "What happened, why didn't you tell me?"

Who are you, tell you? !Li Zhen and Xie Zhongyu thought at the same time.

Song Yingbai suddenly noticed that the atmosphere was a bit weird, but he couldn't tell, so he smiled gently: "Don't worry about me, I'm fine."

Li Zhen glanced at Xie Zhongyu, then at Pei Huaixuan, and snorted pretending to be angry: "Because of this, we two big men kissed each other, can this be all right?!"

Xie Zhongyu screamed like thunder, "What?"

Pei Huaixuan's face was clouded instantly, "What happened?"

Song Yingbai sighed helplessly, "It's just a monster who likes Li Zhen, fails to marry him, and attaches himself to me to mess around..."

Li Zhen completed the details, "Afterwards he kissed me, and I couldn't be more angry. When he woke up, I made amends and kissed him back. I think this punishment is reasonable, what do you think? Everyone It's not outsiders, let's judge together."

He looked at Xie Zhongyu and Pei Huaixuan with "innocent" eyes.

Pei Huaixuan had a gloomy face, Li Zhen's demeanor and tone were too unusual, this was not condemnation, this was clearly showing off!

Originally thought that he lived in Song Yingbai's house, but his good friend had no place to live, so he was temporarily staying overnight, but now it seems that this is not the case.

He didn't think in a certain direction before, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but now he became suspicious, and when he looked again, everything became extremely clear.

When he was only facing Li Zhen before, he still couldn't see clearly, but now he joins a Taoist priest, the conversation between the two is almost jealousy around Song Yingbai.

He understood everything at once, including why Li Zhen was full of hostility towards him, and dared to love Li Zhen, a broken sleeve, who fell in love with his younger brother and regarded him as a potential rival in love.

At this time, Xie Zhongyu said angrily: "What is reasonable? Reasonable?! It is reasonable for you to go to that monster to settle accounts! You are simply taking advantage of the fire!"

Pei Huaixuan looked coldly at this little Taoist priest who was filled with righteous indignation, and hated in his heart, "There is you alone, how dare you covet my brother!"

Song Yingbai grinned, "Li Zhen, I'm going to tell the truth, you are really narrow-minded, are you going to finish this shit?"

Of course it’s not over, it’s just for some people to hear.Li Zhen pouted his chin and hummed, "Since no one wants to judge, then forget it." Look at the other two guys with your eyes, did you hear that?Do you hear me clearly?

Xie Zhongyu looked like he wanted to jump over the wall, he was very satisfied, but he couldn't understand Pei Huaixuan's expression, shouldn't he be equally angry, why did he still laugh.

Pei Huaixuan raised the corners of his lips, and sneered twice, his silly brother really didn't notice the tigers and wolves looking around.

It's okay for me to encounter such a disgusting thing as a man's fancy, but my brother will never do it!

Li Zhen, Xie Zhongyu, one of you counts as the other, if you dare to hit my younger brother's attention, I will let you succeed, what a hell!