Taiping Inn

How to treat prisoners is a big and small problem. After all, killing prisoners is ominous, and it is spread out, and its reputation is not good. But some people have to stop killing. As for how to choose or how to kill safely, it depends on the idea of ​​the decision-maker.

As for now, Li Xuan has not yet started a big killing, which disappoints many people who are waiting to watch the show, but no one thinks that Li Xuan is soft-hearted and compassionate. If Li Xuan is a compassionate person, then Zhang Jingchen Song Zheng, Tibetan Lao Ren, Wang Tianxiao and others will never die.

Once the party was overthrown, there were many people who were imprisoned. Not only did the number of wives and children separated, family members died, but also the number of joys and sorrows and separations were not discussed. Except for Xie Zhi who was secretly sent to Liaodong by Li Xuandu, the other places where the Later Party was detained can be roughly divided into three places: Yuqingyuan, Qingluan Governor's Office, and Zongren's Office.

Needless to say, Yuqing Garden is not too much. There are not many people who are imprisoned, they are all people who have a connection with the Taoist sect. The Qingluan Guard Governor's Office is where the rear party officials are detained, with the largest number of people. The clan mansion is responsible for detaining the clan, with the smallest number of people, but also the most special.

Earlier, King Jin was the clan of the clan mansion, and the oldest King of Yan served as Zuo Zongzheng, and Princess Xuanzhen lived behind the two and served as You Zongzheng. Now that the King of Jin has become a prisoner, the one who succeeds the clan is not the King of Yan, but the eldest princess of the Right Sect, Xuanzhen, and the new You Zongzheng is even more unexpected. It is not any prince or any princess. Even the prince or the princess is not considered a county lord, Xu Wan, the lord of Qixia County.

A remote clan member actually became the Right Sect Master. Anyone can see that this is the Taoist sect and the Confucian sect wanting to join forces to dismantle the clan member. Who made the clan members all belong to the Later Party? This is a God-given opportunity.

Emperor Tianbao was young after all, and he didn't know the pros and cons, so he was happy to see this happen. Emperor Tianbao only knew that these royal families were from the Later Party, and it would be best to die clean, but he forgot that these royal families were also the foundation for defending the imperial power. If there was no royal family, his emperor would become a real lonely person and would be unable to compete. A huge civil service system. At that time, Zulong did not set up a vassal king and died in the second lifetime. After the Ancestral Dragon, Bai Emperor learned from the Ancestral Dragon's lesson and enfeoffed the kings in large numbers, and won the world for four hundred years. Even the Ancestral Dragon is like this, how can Emperor Tianbao disobey the general trend?

As for Princess Xuanzhen's ability to take charge of the sect's mansion, everyone knows that it is relying on the power of the Taoist sect, but no one dares to do anything to her. After all, the Taoist sect's people are outside the city, and the empress dowager can't resist the Taoist sect's people. Others Can people stop it?

On the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Princess Xuanzhen's car drove towards the Zongren Mansion, and pedestrians on the road, regardless of officials or civilians, avoided them.

When the car drove past the Ministry of Justice, he saw many people kneeling in front of the Ministry of Justice's gate, most of them were elderly, weak, women and children, but they were not wearing shackles and were wearing thick clothes.

The carriage slowly stopped, and Princess Xuanzhen's voice came from the carriage: "Go and ask, what's going on?"

Immediately someone took the order and left.

It is said that the seventh-rank official of the Prime Minister's Gatekeeper, and the officials of the Ministry of Justice who guarded this place did not dare to neglect the servants of Princess Xuanzhen, and they told him everything.

Soon, the servant inquired clearly and came back to report to Princess Xuanzhen.

It turns out that these are all relatives of the criminal officials.

The fate of the criminal official can be roughly divided into four types.

The first one is the most miserable one. The whole family was executed, but this is only the case when it comes to serious crimes of treason. Emperor Tianbao would not say that his mother had rebelled, and no one from the Later Party was executed.

The second type is that one person beheads, confiscates his property, and sells his family into slavery. Many officials' ladies are in trouble, which is because of this.

The third type is to dismiss the job and get rid of it, confiscate the property, and not harm the family, and become a commoner. If you have relatives and friends as officials, you can help me, so it won’t be too miserable.

The fourth type is the least, it is just a dismissal of the job and a crime, and no family search. If the family is rich, it can be cleared with money. After being released from prison, it will be a rich man.

The family members of these criminal officials were the families of an important minister of the Later Party. The important ministers of the Later Party were sentenced to prison, and their family property was confiscated and their families were confiscated as slaves. Logically speaking, the female relatives in the family were either sent to Yeting as slaves or to Jiaofangsi as official prostitutes. However, there have been too many criminal officials who have been confiscated recently. The Jiaofangsi and the Yeting are already overcrowded. They could have placed some in the main palaces, but this time the princes also suffered a catastrophe, so the families of these criminal officials were sentenced to Sold on the spot.

Being an official in the same dynasty is like riding a boat, with wind and waves together. Whoever falls into the water first and who falls into the water later will not be spared. Even if he was a member of the Imperial Party, he would inevitably feel a little sad when he saw this scene. At the same time, he also took into account his reputation and refused to buy it.

As a result, after three days of selling, it still did not sell, and it could only continue to sell in the cold wind until it was sold.

At this time, in addition to the eldest princess Xuanzhen, there were Shangguan Wan and Mu Qingci in the carriage. After listening to it, Shangguan Wan said, "There is one thing in the world that is not as good as the family, but this temple is even more dangerous than the world."

Princess Xuanzhen lived in the imperial capital since she was a child. I don’t know how much this kind of thing she saw, and said calmly: “Blessing your family will inevitably bring disaster to your family. These people spend money on weekdays, where did the money come from? It’s not something that can be obtained by being an official. Take these officials as an example. You can’t recognize the official father when you are happy, and you don’t recognize the beheaded father when you are in trouble. You don’t say that you are lucky enough when you are in a rich and frugal manner. If a family member is punished and confiscated as a slave, he will say that misfortune is not as good as his family. How can such a reason be? Good and bad are bound to each other, and it is determined by heaven. Since one prospers and one prosper, one will naturally suffer from one loss."

Shangguan Wan comforted her hands and said, "My sister can see through it thoroughly."

Princess Xuanzhen thought for a while and ordered to the outside world: "Go and choose a few good-character people to take them back to watch. You will be a Taoist nun for the rest of your life. It is better than being a slave or a maid."

Someone outside answered.

Only then did Shangguan Wan understand where the young Taoist nuns who were obviously a little arrogant in Yuying Temple came from.

The carriage drove slowly.

Soon, when he arrived at the sect's office, Princess Xuanzhen, Shangguan Wan and Mu Qingci came down from the carriage. The three of them were wearing fox fur cloaks and snow-white hoods. Many officials of the sect's office saluted one after another. .

Princess Xuanzhen ordered, "Go to the King of Jin."

"Yes." An official immediately led the way.

Because the clan mansion wanted to encircle the royal family, it occupied a huge area, so the King of Jin was detained in one of the single-family cross-yards. The gate of the courtyard was locked and the garage was tightly guarded.

When he arrived at the door, Princess Xuanzhen ordered, "Open the door, you can wait outside."

The guards on both sides took out a key and opened the courtyard door.

Princess Xuanzhen walked into it, Shangguan Wan and Mu Qingci, and the courtyard gate closed again.

The cross-yard here is very dilapidated and desolate, and the desolate feeling comes to your face, almost comparable to the so-called cold palace.

Princess Xuanzhen sighed, walked forward, and soon met King Jin in the main hall.

King Jin was not old, but in his forties. He should have been full of energy. After becoming a prisoner at the ranks, he lost all his energy and was in a state of disgrace. At this time, he was even more bearded and dressed. He could not tell that this was the former power. His Highness, the King of Jin who was in power.

When Princess Xuanzhen came in, King Jin was drinking alone. After he noticed someone coming, he slowly put down the wine pot and raised his eyes. His eyes were turbid and covered with blood. He said hoarsely: "Why are the emperor here?"

Princess Xuanzhen didn't say anything, but just sighed heavily.

Shangguan Wan took a step forward and said seriously: "Your Highness, King of Jin."

King Jin turned his gaze to Shangguan Wan: "You are... Uncle Wang's daughter."

"Yes." Shangguan Wan whispered softly, "To be serious, I should call you a cousin."

King Jin lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Shangguan Wan glanced at the wine pot in King Jin's hand and asked, "Cousin likes drinking?"

The King of Jin seemed to have been stabbed by a needle, and his whole body trembled suddenly. He glanced at Shangguan Wan with a look of fear on his face.

Shangguan Wan smiled slightly: "I brought a pot of wine to my cousin to warm up my body, and I hope my cousin will not dislike it."

While speaking, Shangguan Wan took out an exquisite pot from his Sumeru treasure, that is, a wine pot with a handle, and an exquisite wine glass.

King Jin looked straight at the wine pot and wine glass, his throat moved slightly, and his whole body began to tremble slightly.

At some point, Princess Xuanzhen had turned her back and looked at the dark sky outside the door.

Shangguan Wan put the wine glass on the table beside King Jin, held the handle of the wine pot with his right hand, and pressed the lid with his left hand, poured wine for King Jin himself. The wine gushed out of the spout was like a thin white line.

King Jin slowly reached out his hand to hold the wine glass. The moment his fingertips touched the wine glass, it seemed as if he had touched a red-burned soldering iron. He suddenly withdrew his hand and trembled even more violently.

Shangguan Guan said in a gentle tone: "His Majesty the Emperor and the Confucian Sect have agreed."

The expression on King Jin's face seemed to cry and laugh: "Is it a death sentence?"

Shangguan Wan did not speak, so he made a default.

King Jin once again mustered up the courage to pick up the wine glass. Although he had tried his best to restrain himself, his palms still trembled, so much wine in the glass was sprinkled.

Shangguan Wan was not annoyed at all, and then picked up the wine pot and filled it with him. His tone became softer: "Drink it, get rid of thousands of worries when you get drunk, and forget thousands of worries when you have a dream."

King Jin seemed to have used all his strength, and held the wine glass tightly with both hands, and finally stopped trembling.

At this moment, the noble man in heaven burst into tears.

Shangguan Wan was silent.

Princess Xuanzhen had already walked outside the door, still facing away from King Jin.

The King of Jin smiled sadly, stood up, looked towards the imperial city, and drank the wine in his glass in one go.

After a moment, dark blood flowed out of King Jin's nostrils, his tight brows gradually parted, and his face was filled with a sense of relief, and he slowly closed his eyes. Then he lost all his anger, and the wine glass in his hand fell to the ground, his body shook, and he was about to fall backwards.

Mu Qingci reached out and sat back on the chair, then let him lie on the table next to the chair, and the wine pot was placed next to it.

It's like a drunk person who falls asleep halfway through drinking.