The happy life of the devil and the devil

Yuan Shao walked slowly alone.

The huge apse was empty, and there were five bedrooms with three entrances, only his footsteps sounded from the east to the west, and then from the west to the east.The candle shadows were red, the brocade quilt was fragrant and warm, and all the furnishings were the same as usual, but when they stepped into the bedroom, an inexplicable irritability rose from the bottom of my heart.

Ling Yucheng has only been away for two days - only two days!

It's just more than two months of going in and out together, eating and sleeping together, and getting along with each other with strict etiquette. However, at this moment, the warm breath of one person is missing between the quilts and pillows, which is extremely unaccustomed.Obviously——obviously he used to live in the palace and sing and sing every night, and he also spent a year and a half alone in the military camp, but he never felt that he was missing someone around him!

It's probably because he hasn't been close to women in the past few months... He thought so, and called out to others.

After a while, the four palace servants were ushered in, bowing to the ground with singing voices.Yuan Shao casually sipped half a glass of wine, randomly took one of them and walked into the inner room. When he caught sight of the bed out of the corner of his eyes, he paused for some reason:

"go out."

This night, it finally moved to the Yanchun Pavilion on the east side of the Imperial Garden.The soft and fragrant woman's body in his arms was as beautiful as ever. Yuan Shao embraced her and fell into a deep sleep. As expected, the bed no longer felt empty, and when he got up the next day, he felt very refreshed.However, when he finished grooming and went to practice martial arts as usual, he still gave an order to Yu Ji'en, the head of the inner court serving at the door:

"From now on, the servants will be arranged in Yanchun Pavilion, don't bring them into the bedroom."

In the following seven or eight days, palace officials were continuously sent to Yanchun Pavilion. Although there were internal servants who were ordered to give medicine the next day, no one was seen to be promoted, but there were still many palace officials who tried their best to appear in Yuanshao. every corner of theThe only person who is too busy is the head of the inner court. He has to follow his emperor for an hour, but also has to worry about choosing a palace man who suits the emperor. The work is several times more than last month..."

Fortunately, from the third day after the Empress entered the palace, a group of deaf-mute female slaves were specially assigned to take care of the cleaning of His Majesty's bedroom. up.It is said that the empress will not come back until about two months after her visit. By then, will the palace attendants find a place to raise them or throw them away in the palace?In case His Majesty is happy to confer one or two promotions... Ah, the palace hasn't been renovated after the old concubines were sent away!

Of course, the news of the emperor's summoning of palace officials cannot be concealed from the nobles in the capital.Veteran courtiers still remember that His Majesty is so fresh and loves to be lively. He was once the most favored by Concubine Yun, and he was never summoned for more than seven days in a row.But now this queen...not to mention when she was in Yu Xia before, she has been a pet for two full months since she entered Beiliang!

Life is finally back to normal now... Everyone exchanged subtle glances, feeling relieved at last.

That's right, if the queen isn't around, your majesty won't hug the beauty anyway?It will take a month or two for the empress to go, and when he comes back, the seven or eight beauties in the palace...hehe.As the saying goes, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind...

Before the Queen could return from Qingzhou, the "East Wind" blew back.No. 11 days after Ling Yucheng left Pingluo, a group of black-clad and black-armored cavalry swept into the city gate like a wind, and went straight to the mansion of the Xuanjia Army in the capital.The next day, Xia Bai, who was in charge of intelligence beside Ling Yucheng, forwarded a memorial to Yuan Shao.

"Your Excellency said that these local officials have corrupted the law in Qingzhou, and the people are full of grievances. I ordered the ministers to send them back to Beijing, and submit all the evidence and confessions along with them."

At the back of the booklet is a thick stack of statements, each of which has the bright red fingerprints of the parties involved.Yuan Shao looked through it, and in the fifteen counties of Qingzhou, four county magistrates and one state judge were tied up by Ling Yucheng. Everyone's confession had his own signature. There are not enough brains.

Corruption and perverting the law, reselling official food, smuggling salt and iron, encroaching on fertile land... As for driving the local garrison like slaves, bullying men and women and forcing good people to lose their homes and families, Yuan Shao can't bear to watch these things anymore.

"Where are people? - I will throw them all to the Ministry of Punishment, and ask them carefully!"

Yuan Shao was very angry.The crown prince was very sad.

Among the five local officials who were thrown back by Ling Yucheng, one was his brother-in-law's brother-in-law—Crown Prince Yuanqin dared to swear to God, this was definitely not the reason for his displeasure.Well, that guy was able to fish a little bit, and he was a little more courageous. It is said that he dared to collude with the salt owl to wipe out the disobedient family, but he couldn't stop him from paying more tribute!Every time I come back to report on my work, the concierge in the crown prince's mansion can eat flowers and wine for three days!

You have to watch the owner when you beat the dog!I feel that this person is not useful, so I just say hello and transfer away, but what is the matter if I tie it up like this and throw it in front of my father, is it a slap in the face deliberately?

To be honest, Yuan Qin and Ling Yucheng seemed to be born at odds.In terms of age, Ling Yucheng is not a few years older than Yuan Qin; in terms of status, it is hard to say who has more real power between a Northern Xinjiang commander in Dayu and a crown prince in Beiliang; in terms of talent...God knows Yuan Shao has more than one Once, he taught his son with the battle report of Ling Yucheng slaughtering his own general: If you want him to be half capable, I will be at ease.

As a crown prince, a crown prince with high hopes, and an heir whose father left him in prison more than once, Yuan Qin really couldn't say "I'm four years younger than him, and I work several years less than him" kind of words.

It's fine to teach your son a lesson from an outsider... Why did you marry him as your queen, father?

Well, he definitely didn't have a problem with his dad.Who the old man likes is the old man's business, and the son has no say.But every time I kowtow to my father, there is another person sitting next to my father... Especially no matter how often he is in the court, as the crown prince, he must be kowtowed by the foreman. It is really heartwarming to see that face when he looks up. I can't be happy no matter what.

Why would I kowtow to you too!

Turning his head to look again, his younger brother Kang Wang followed cheerfully, kneeling and kowtowing as he should, without any discomfort at all.Well...according to gossip, this younger brother once said to the people around him: "Such a beauty, I wouldn't be reluctant to kowtow to him alone..." Contacted the fourth brother who can't walk when he sees a beauty Temperament, this sentence, maybe he really meant it sincerely.

Silently, I wanted to find someone to team up to beat that guy, but I couldn't find anyone.Yuan Qin's mood worsened.

In all fairness, Yuan Shao treated the prince well.After all, he is the Second Crown Prince of the country, besides often taking him with him to listen to politics—well, except when Yuan Shao went to Dayu to play by himself—he also equipped him with a team from the Prince’s East Palace, both civil and military. A rather famous scholar.God knows how hard it is to become a scholar in a place like Beiliang, even half of the Xia people who have been scholars for generations have switched to copying knives and beheading people.It's just that most of these people are stable-minded, or in Yuan Shao's words, "reading and reading are stupid", and complaining to them about the new queen, they will just say dryly: "The prince should be sincere and filial to the father... "No idea at all.

The crown prince had to find someone else to complain about.Before the Empress Yuan passed away, she had brought him in front of her for a few months, which allowed him to get in touch with the head of the country.In the eyes of the Empress Yuan, once she dies, the descendants without the prince will be water without roots and trees without roots. The eldest son of the emperor seems to be a good-for-nothing among the bunch of children, so he must be him.In the opinion of the eldest son of the emperor, to have a powerful family as a backup—his own mother was just a court lady, and died—ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The enmity between Guozhang and Ling Yucheng is known to all Beiliang.After hooking up like this, even though the crown prince just didn't like the new queen at first, there is a grandfather in name and an uncle in name, oh, you still think that these two people are good to you, and they are in your ears every day While saying, "This guy hates, hates, hates..." After a few months, even if you don't have any ill feelings towards him, you will look like a black-eyed chicken when you meet him.

After finally looking forward to it day and night, I hoped to go to Qingzhou in Lingyu City. Before it was quiet for a few days, he tied up his own people and brought them in front of the emperor. ——The Ministry of Justice is still the site of Zuo Pingzhang and Shen Shiliang, the grandnephew of the late King Tuoba Dechang of Chu.

Wait, it is said that the father invited a newcomer yesterday?huh huh huh huh……

Therefore, King Tuoba Dechang of Chu had four brothers.

The four brothers were all surnamed Shen, and they did not receive the national surname along with Tuoba Dechang, and were carried into the royal clan.

When the King of Chu passed away, Emperor Sejong gave him special favor and adopted his own nephew, King Zhou, the grandson of Emperor Taizong, to the King of Chu as his heir.The king of Chu spent half his life in the army, and the accumulated military power, land fiefs and contacts were cut off and sent back to the royal family.

Life and death.

However, Emperor Sejong did a beautiful job on the bright side. With the respect of the emperor, he was willing to mourn for the king of Chu—even though the queen mother had passed away a few months ago, Emperor Sejong had to keep his filial piety for three years anyway—this sentence When they came out, the Shen family could only respectfully kowtow to thank Tian En.Don't mention the fiefdom of the King of Chu, and the Tiance Guard brought out by the old man himself from now on.

From then on, the four brothers of the Shen family lived together in a clan, and their sons gave birth to grandsons, and grandsons gave birth to sons. They wore summer clothes, learned Xiawen, and practiced Xiali.Now among the nephews and grandchildren of the king of Chu, Shen Shiliang, the most senior official, worships Zuo Pingzhang, and Shen Shide, who is young and strong with the highest martial arts skills, is in charge of Xingwuwei.Half of the Shen family's children who are promising are in the court, and half of them are in Xingwuwei.Shen Shiguang, the left servant of the criminal department who received the case file at this moment, is the only surviving old man, the eldest grandson of the younger brother of King Chu.

"What are you afraid of?" The old man slammed the pure steel cane that he had just hit last year, his face full of hatred for iron and steel: "Isn't it the prince's grandpa's brother-in-law? This little battle is like a hot potato. No future? Back then, our Shen family was afraid of who would come..."

Seeing his speech pause, Shen Shiguang immediately served a cup of tea respectfully, wishing to gag the old man's mouth with this cup of tea.Yes, yes, when the King of Chu was here, our Shen family never feared anyone, but it has been almost 30 years since the King of Chu passed away!Once the emperor and the courtiers, now caught between the queen and the prince, what's wrong with being cautious?The prince sent someone over to say hello...

"I shouldn't have sent you to study literature at that time. You learned to look forward and backward, and you were afraid of pettiness." The old man poured down a cup of tea, calmed down a little, and began to teach: "Your Majesty has nothing to say." What are you in a hurry for? The crown prince sent someone, yes, did Xuanjiawei send someone? They just throw things at His Majesty and it's over. These corrupt officials don't even say a word whether they want to deal with it! Every five days No one will stop anyone from listening to the Art of War class; if you send your son to be a bodyguard, you will decline it without hesitation—that is a sensible person.”

"Then let's..." Just favor the prince?I couldn't swallow my breath.

"A brother-in-law's brother-in-law, it's a matter. He doesn't feel ashamed, and I feel ashamed for him!" The old man continued to sneer, "Anyone who is smarter should be silenced as soon as possible. I am begging, I am afraid that the emperor will not know that this guy has the crown prince behind him? The whole world will belong to him in the future, a dignified prince, what do you want so much money for?"

The next day, under the leadership of Zuo Shilang Shen Shiguang, the criminal department vigorously launched the investigation process.

In all fairness, there's really nothing to check.Ling Yucheng's subordinates made the case file very detailed.The judgment records of several officials who were tied up in office; the income and expenditure account books of the county government; the account books of the official warehouse and the private accounts of the family; The piles fit perfectly one by one, especially those account books accumulated over the years, one can tell at a glance that they were not concocted in a few months.Shen Shiguang really wanted to scream: You have done this, what do you want our Ministry of Criminal Justice to do?Do you take the time to review the case files one by one and re-confirm the confessions?

Ten days later, the Ministry of Punishments repeated: All five of them were guilty of the crime and planned to be executed.The family property was confiscated, and the wives and concubines entered the government.

No mention was made of the backers behind these corrupt officials and where the money they got from corruption was paid as tribute.

The next day, the memorial was sent back. At the end, there was a big cinnabar character written in bright red, penetrating the back of the paper, like the edge of a blade:

quasi.

The next day, Ling Yucheng played: Since ancient times, Ming emperors have ruled the country, especially severe prisons.In Qingzhou, unjust cases have accumulated so much; by extension, there are countless people who have fallen into unjust prisons everywhere.I beg Your Majesty to send personnel to record the prisoners in person, to clean up the unjust prisons, so that the people of the world will share the emperor's grace.

Yuan Shao smiled slightly, picked up a pen and wrote the word "Zhun", and forwarded the memorial to the Ministry of Punishment, ordering Shen Shiguang to select capable personnel and go to Hebei, Shanxi, and Shanxi states to raise prisons.The prisoner of the capital was recorded by the prince in conjunction with King Kang.As a welfare, the Ministry of Punishment went up and down, so that the chief officials of the prefectures and counties each distributed a copy of the "Winning Injustice Record" that Qingzhou had just printed as a tribute.

"Small and large prisons, although they cannot be detected, must be based on feelings. Only when the laws of the government are unified and the punishments and prisons are clear, the people will feel that they have something to rely on, and they will cherish the virtues of the emperor instead of the local feudal lords. Therefore, the superiors have always won the hearts of the people. , start with wealth and prisons, and especially prisons are the most effective - Your Majesty must grasp the local real power, implement laws and clear the accumulated cases, which is the safest way."

When he was in the capital, Ling Yucheng's private suggestions are now being fulfilled one by one.

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