female concubine

In late October of the ninth year of Qianyuan, Shangshu Youpu Shezhangde was imprisoned for a crime, dismissed from office, deprived of fame, and exiled to Chaozhou.

——Punishment Prison——

"Benevolence, save me, teacher!" The man who took off his crown and belt was disheveled and slightly desolate, kneeling in the prison cell of the Ministry of Punishment and kowtowing repeatedly, "It's because the officials were confused for a while."

"The old man has warned you more than once not to fight with the officials. Do you know how the officials and the late emperor came to the throne? Do you think that the late emperor is a great man, and the young master can be bullied?" Lu Wei sighed with his hands behind his back and closed his eyes: " He is someone who can't even fight against the late emperor, but you, a petty courtier, are not greedy enough to try to compete with the imperial power."

Zhang De climbed to the prison door and held the prison pillar, "I have been dealing with the court for so many years, my mentor saved me, there are still people in the court who are still available, I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the prison. "

Lu Wei turned his body and put his hands behind his back and said: "Jianguo County Wang Rende, I think you are too old to be sentenced to death, but your official position will be confiscated and you will be exiled."

Zhang De's hand holding the pillar slid down the pillar, and immediately sat on the ground limply, "Deprivation of fame? Exile?"

Zhang Dezhan pointed at himself, "Based on my hard-earned achievements, our Zhang family is the founding hero of Emperor Taizu Gao and deserves to enjoy Taizu temple. My father is the prime minister of Taizong Dynasty. Fame?"

"After you have made great achievements, you have become an official. Now that you are in the position, what dissatisfaction do you have? If you insist on greedy for those fame and fortune, you could have waited until you were successful and retired, but now you are ruined because of your selfish desires."

Zhang De looked at the lofty purple robe in front of him, and suddenly realized: "Enxiang doesn't fight for anything, but in the end he has everything easily. It turns out that Fang Zhiyan worshiped you before you, and you know it won't last long," he said. Seeing him, he laughed tremblingly, "Enxiang is the most cunning person."

Lu Wei took a long breath, "Stop being obsessed with obsession."

Not long after Lu Wei left, Liu Huaijin was taken in and locked in a cell connected to Zhang De.

"Why did Mr. Xiang let us lock up these two prisoners who worked together so closely?"

"Hey, even if you're convicted, I'm afraid they won't be able to collude again."

Several guards put Liu Huaijin into the prison. Zhang De got up from the straw mat, then brushed off his messy white hair, and approached with a bow. After seeing Liu Huaijin clearly, he rushed forward and cursed at the gap between the prison pillars, " You bastard, thanks to this old man, he married his most beloved daughter to you, what have you done to my daughter?"

Liu Huaijin brushed her hair from her forehead behind her ears, sat on the stone bed and flicked the dust off her clothes, and said with a relaxed expression, "Does Mount Tai care about his children?"

"Shut up, you treacherous villain is not worthy to be my son-in-law!"

"Heh, you were the one who begged me to marry your daughter back then. You didn't even trust your own daughter, and you kept saying that it was for her own good. If my father hadn't been valued by the government, would you have listened to the slander?"

"calumny?"

"Your daughter and I have nothing. What happened in the temple is just a rumor. Taishan should know the status of my son-in-law in the tooth shop. As long as you raise your arms, why don't these rumors and tabloids not come?"

"You!" Zhang De angrily pointed at Liu Huaijin, "You shameless person."

After a lot of insults, Zhang was exhausted, and gradually knelt down on the ground, crying and crying: "I regret it... I regret that I married Er Niang to you, a shameless person."

Liu Huaijin leaned against the wall and lowered her head, "With such good children, such a good family background, an official position as a prime minister, one person is under one person and above ten thousand people, why are you not satisfied?"

Zhang De looked up, "What do you mean?"

Liu Huaijin got up from the ground and walked in front of Zhang De, "You have been an official for more than [-] years and worshiped the prime minister for more than ten years, and you can't even see the situation clearly."

Zhang De stared into round angry red eyes, raised his hands tremblingly and said, "Are you the Emperor's man?"

"How could you be the emperor's..." Zhang De suddenly realized, "I forgot that you are the son of Liu Shubo."

"Who am I, has nothing to do with him."

Zhang De grabbed the pillar and asked, "Did Your Majesty want to eradicate me early in the morning?"

"No, you are entirely to blame. His Majesty gave you a chance, but you are so stupid that you don't cherish it."

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In the Chuigong Hall, the young man sat on the top chair on the steps of the hall, frowning in embarrassment.

"I don't want this aspect, I just ask His Majesty the king and queen to be extra merciful and forgive the son of the official, and the official is willing to bear it on his behalf."

"There is a law in the country that expressly stipulates that those who have suffered on behalf of others are equally guilty. Liu Huaijin bribed court officials as a merchant to buy convenience for herself, and even caused factional disputes in the court. It is a heinous crime."

"Without Gouzi, wouldn't there be factionalism in the court?" Liu Shubo knelt and took two steps forward, "His Royal Highness, the fault of Gouzi is that I, the father, didn't discipline him well."

"The Qianyuan Criminal Regulations have just been promulgated. If the imperial court takes the lead in making an exception, how will you make the subjects of the world think?"

The young man looked at his mother beside the curtain, and immediately stood up and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, merchants and ministers from all over the world were summoned to donate money to build the canal because of the lack of money and food in the treasury. There are rewards for these merchants."

"What does Dalang mean?"

"Liu Huaijin's behavior is due to reforms. The businessman has workers under his command. If the businessman loses, the worker will lose his job. The son thinks that the death penalty is extenuating, but the collusion between the government and the businessman is a felony, so he cannot escape the crime."

"You are the prison country. If you think it is reasonable, reasonable and legal, then you can do it according to your own ideas. You don't need to ask me everything."

The young man walked down the steps of the palace, bowed his waist and helped Liu Shubo up, "The war in the northwest has just been decided, and there are refugees everywhere. It is the time when the country needs money and food. This king hopes that Yuanwai Liu can contribute."

Liu Shubo touched a line of old tears, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Prince Jun, for your kindness."

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In Gen Yue's palace, the emperor hugged the sleeping little princess and gently placed it on the couch, threw out the quilt and walked out.

Xue Jin stood at the door and followed closely the emperor who was walking towards him, "I have ordered Zhang De to be exiled according to the orders of the officials, and Liu Huaijin has also been imprisoned for the crime of collusion between officials and businessmen."

"Which is more serious, collusion or framing?"

"Zhang De is the prime minister, and he slanders the prime minister as equal to the prince, but it depends on the reason."

"Zhang De is quite old, so he should know the meaning of exile, so send someone to pass the message to him, let him and Liu Huaijin change the case with each other, let Zhang De himself bear other charges, if he is sensible, he won't have to suffer from exile. "The emperor stood still with his hands behind his back, "As for how to amend the case, go and ask Liu Quan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, he made the new punishment system."

"Yes."

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Liu Quan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, personally sent the servant to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and then sent someone to lead him to the cell where Zhang De was held. Liu Huaijin had been taken out long before.

"Okay, let's go here. I have something to say to Mr. Zhang alone."

Several jailers bowed their hands and exited, and the servant approached the prison door with clasped hands. Seeing the downfall of the former prime minister, he said politely, "Master, are you all right?"

Zhang De parted his white hair and raised his brows in despair, "You are?" Then he said in disgust: "The inner prisoner of the Imperial City Division?"

The waiter laughed and said, "Master still remembers the villain."

"You are Xue Jin, who is working as an official of the Imperial City Department, and you are waiting in the Forbidden City. How dare I forget this old man."

The servant looked around in the open space, then walked up to him, flicked his sleeves, and asked in a pretentious gesture: "Liu Huaijin has been taken out, and the official document for exile is about to be issued. You must have never experienced the pain of living in a remote place far away from the native land, without a fixed place, without a decree, and not being able to return to Beijing, right?"

Zhang De narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"If the husband is obedient and obedient, Liu Yuanwai will confess again to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. In fact, he gave the bead to his wife. Miss Zhang Er has been smart, filial and diligent since she was a child. Everyone in the neighborhood knows that this bead is a gift from his wife to his aunt's birthday. Why is there a bribe? As for Liu Yuanwai’s false accusation, it is entirely because of your excessive harshness, my husband, your disdain and disdain for your son-in-law’s status as a businessman, and your frequent scolding.”

"Since this is the case, Xianggong only has one crime of forming a party, which can avoid exile and will not harm his descendants. The new law of Qianyuan is not as harsh as the law of Emperor Gao, and the law is tolerant."

"Then, wouldn't Liu Huaijin's punishment be reduced?" Zhang De seemed unwilling.

"Sister-in-law should still care about yourself. You are quite old, and if you go to the desolate place in Chaozhou, I am afraid that you will never come back in this life. Could it be that your husband is willing to die in a foreign land just for the sake of breathing?"

"... "

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At the beginning of November in the ninth year of Qianyuan, just before the imperial court ordered the exile of Zhang De, the right servant of the former Shangshu, the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple suddenly changed the sentence. Sitting down, the Liu family donated funds to appease the refugees, so some people interceded for them, and the minister went to Shujian State and was released.

The plaque of Zhang's mansion was taken down, the curly-haired stone lion in front of the door was also removed, and the order of his wife, Mrs. Guo, was also taken away. In just a few days, the former glory of Zhang's family was lost.

Xue Jin followed behind the emperor, the cold wind blowing from the lake was blowing on his face, "Zhang De felt ashamed after returning home, shut the door at home and refused to see visitors, and soon fell seriously ill, and now even his children I can’t even recognize him, and the villain sent people to watch him day and night, fearing that he would pretend to be crazy.”

The emperor threw a handful of fish food and said with a smile: "Whether Zhang De is really crazy or pretending to be crazy is not important to me."

"Liu Yuanwai's wife, Zhang Erniang, returned to her husband's house after crying at her mother's house and made a fuss. She chased after her from the kitchen with a knife. If he doesn't want to stay in Liu's house, he can make peace with him, and she can take away all the Liu's things."

The emperor lowered his head and stared at a group of colorful koi carp eager to try in the lake, "I have become a villain again."

"Zhang De deserved what he deserved, but it's a pity for his second daughter."

The emperor held his hands behind his back and shouted: "The king must be able to teach those who are able, and he will be defeated. The minister must be able to accept those who are talented, so there is no disaster of exile. This sentence is simple to say, but who knows the truth in doing it?" The difficulty is, the so-called sage’s words, in my opinion, are nothing more than words on paper, everything is different, if you haven’t experienced it, how can you dare to draw conclusions arbitrarily, and define it as a standard before you get it?”

"So...in my eyes, there is no saint."

- Bang! ——The Kaibao Temple at the foot of Genyueyi Mountain resounded with loud bells.

"Counting the time, the escort should be returning to Beijing soon."

"Officials," the emperor said, Qi Liu approached on the gravel road, "Uncle Xiao Guo has returned to Beijing, and the remains of General Cao and all the soldiers have also been transported back."

"Zi Gu."

Xue Jin took a step forward, "The villain is here."

"Send someone to speak to my uncle and wife."

"Yes."