Crimson Pearl Tears in a Dream of Red Mansions

The so-called Wenguyuan is the place where common people sue imperial courts. People who come here will never come here unless they have a big grievance and want to hear it. If you don't wait to open your mouth, you have to be punished with a stick of [-] sticks, and if the [-] sticks go down, even a strong man will inevitably be bruised, so generally speaking, the common people would rather swallow the suffering In my stomach, I don't want to come here to Wenguyuan to sue, just because I am afraid that I will pay for my life before I have time to express my grievances.Therefore, the big drum at the entrance of the Wenguyuan has never been beaten, but it has become a decoration.

But now the big drum was sounded, which naturally attracted the attention of many ordinary people and the attention of the imperial court.Knowing that the person who rang the big drum in Wenguyuan was not some strong and strong man, but a thin-faced old man over half a century old, everyone was not surprised, but also faintly worried.You know, if this old man wants to sue the imperial court, he must first be reprimanded with twenty sticks. I am afraid that the old man will die before the twenty sticks are finished.

Sitting on the top of the official hall was Li Tianfu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments known as "Bao Zheng's Second". Li Tianfu saw the old man with gray hair and haggard appearance. Said: "Old man, do you know that you have to be punished with twenty sticks first to sue the imperial court. I don't think you are a strong man in old age. If you beat the twenty sticks, you will have to go for half of the stick if you don't die. Fate, why bother? Wouldn’t it be better to go home and enjoy more children’s happiness?”

But the old man shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Your Excellency, I don't know that the Caomin came to sue for the impeachment because of the Caomin's subjugated son." Li Tianfu heard that there must be something hidden in it, because he said: "In that case, I don't dare to bend the law for personal gain and break the rules, so I ask the old man to be punished by the twenty sticks." The old man lay down on the ground after hearing this, and said, "Please punish me, my lord." Seeing this, Li Tianfu knew Unable to stop the old man any longer, he signaled to the yamen servants on both sides, and the two yamen servants came out of the line, and greeted the old man with the sticks in their hands.

One, two, three, four, five... Twenty blows, don't say more, say less, after twenty blows, the old man is already sweating profusely, his face is pale, and he has no blood at all, he can only hold on. He held his breath so as not to faint.Seeing the old man in such a state, Li Tianfu couldn't help admiring himself.So he said: "Old man, now you can speak, who do you want to sue?"

The old man forced himself to hold his breath, and said sharply: "The grass people want to sue Yinti, the king of Zhijun!" You are wrong, the eldest elder brother Zhijun prince lives deep in the palace, how can he have anything to do with you?" The old man said: "To tell you the truth, my lord's surname is Yang, his wife died early, and he only has one son They depended on each other for their lives, but the son of Caomin was also strong. In order not to let Caomin suffer, he learned martial arts since he was a child. The son of the elder brother has been doing errands for the prince of Zhijun, the elder brother, and never dared to slack off, so he was promoted to a second-class bodyguard not long ago. Caomin originally wanted to marry a relative for Caomin's son after the country's filial piety, but who knew This morning, the prince of Zhijun brought the corpse of Caomin’s son to the mansion. He said that he was not doing well, and was ordered to die by the prince of Zhijun. He left Caomin’s funeral expenses and left. There was only one person inside who was with Caomin’s son. Well, in the past, he often came to Cao Min's house, but he told Cao Min quietly that the prince of Zhijun was afraid that it would be revealed that he sent someone to assassinate Si Bei Le Fujin, so he killed Cao Min's son to silence the news!"

When Li Tianfu heard this, he couldn't help being shocked. The assassination of Sibeile's mansion last night was suppressed by Sibeile. Few people knew about it, and he knew it only because Sibeile asked him to investigate secretly this morning. From this point of view, what the old man said is probably true in all likelihood.So he forced himself to be calm and said: "Old man, do you have any evidence?" The old man cried: "If it weren't for the fellowship of Caomin's son, Caomin is still kept in the dark, how can there be evidence? What’s more, a person as noble as the prince of Zhijun, even if he has evidence, can’t reach Caomin’s hands! It’s just that Caomin thinks that Caomin’s son must not die like that for nothing.” Then he was a little bit desperate Zizi said: "Anyway, Caomin is alone in this world now, so I will try my best to make a scene and seek justice for Caomin's son!"

Li Tianfu saw that this old man was not an ordinary commoner, and he was quite defiant of power. He knew that this matter would cause earth-shattering, but he knew it all along, and now the court is asking for help. The person who was placed under house arrest by the emperor's decree, and no one obstructed him, has already overshadowed the sky in the court, and the power of the elder brother Zhijun king is also at the height of the sky, and it seems that he intends to replace His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.But I also know that with the emperor's actions, he will never tolerate Suoxiang and Zhijun Wang's going on like this, so this imperial certificate is presented to the emperor, but it gives the emperor an excellent excuse!

Forget it, although this can be regarded as a dispute in the court, it can also be regarded as the emperor's housework, and it is only left to the emperor to solve, why should I get involved in it?Just focus on doing your part well.So he asked the old man, "Old man, do you have the paper with you?" The old man said, "Yes, it's in the arms of the grass people." "Take this old man down and find a prison doctor to have a look." The yamen servant standing beside him heard this and led the old man down.Li Tianfu asked again: "What time is it now?"

A young servant said: "My lord, the gate of the palace will be locked in another hour." Li Tianfu heard this, and said: "Change clothes, I have to go to the palace to see the emperor!"

At that time, Kangxi was thinking about the two events that happened suddenly yesterday in the imperial study room, and he felt more and more mysterious and unpredictable, and there seemed to be a lot of conspiracy hidden in it.Kangxi pressed his forehead, and asked Li Dequan with a headache, "Dequan, in your opinion, could the death of the youngest elder brother in the crown prince's uterus be caused by jealousy among the crown prince's wives and concubines?" Li Dequan replied respectfully. "Return to the emperor, this, slaves are not good at talking." Kangxi smiled and said: "You don't have to be too careful, just say it boldly, and I forgive you for not guilty." After hearing this, Li Dequan said: "Report to the emperor, according to the letter From the perspective of a slave, this matter may not be as simple as it appears on the surface." Hearing this, Kangxi asked, "Oh? How should I say it?"

Li Dequan said: "The slave thinks that if it is really just the masters in the crown prince's womb fighting for power and killing the little elder brother, it is not worth choosing the day of the full moon of the little elder brother. After all, the emperor, your highness, and the master Xiaoyu will all be there on that day. Therefore, it is clear that the murderer who killed the little brother in the past must have wanted to use the death of the little brother to make the emperor notice something." Kangxi asked: "Why do you say it is to attract my attention?" Li Dequan said: "Excuse me The servant bluntly said that the emperor has always attached too much importance to the royal heirs, so even if His Royal Highness did not call the imperial physician that day, you, the emperor, would have the imperial physician come to see you."

When Kangxi heard the words, he sighed: "Dequan, you really know me best." Li Dequan hurriedly knelt down and said, "I have made a slip of the tongue, please be punished by the emperor." Kangxi said: "You are just telling the truth, what is the crime? Get up quickly." Li Dequan got up after hearing this.At this moment, Xiao Guizi came in to report: "Back to the emperor, Li Tianfu, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Lord Li are out to see you." Kangxi frowned when he heard the words, and said, "Hurry up!" He ran out like a gust of wind.

Li Tianfu walked into the imperial study room, seeing that Kangxi looked the same as usual, so he was relieved, then knelt down and saluted, "I greet the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live!" After hearing this, Kangxi said "Aiqing, get down quickly!" Then he asked: "What is Aiqing's business here?"

Li Tianfu said: "Exactly! Just now, my minister took over a case, but the sufferer wanted to sue the court. After reading the court paper, I felt that the matter was not trivial, so I brought it to ask the emperor to judge." The paper?" Kangxi frowned, since he came to the throne, no one in his memory had ever sued the imperial court, "Bring me the paper for my review." Li Tianfu then took out the paper from his bosom and handed it to Li Dequan, who in turn The pleadings were handed over to Kangxi.

Kangxi only glanced at it briefly, and was so angry that he almost burst into flames, and said angrily: "This scoundrel!" After walking back and forth in the imperial study room, he finally calmed down, and said, "I know, you just want to see me!" Go down." Seeing that Kangxi didn't give any answers, Li Tianfu felt a little stunned, but he knew that the king's heart was unpredictable, so he just bowed and retreated.

Kangxi said to Li Dequan: "Give me the elder brother Zhijun King!" After hearing this, Li Dequan hurried to the Zhijun King's Mansion to announce the decree.When Yinti saw that Kangxi suddenly sent him to the palace for an audience, but he didn't say the reason, he couldn't help muttering in his heart. When he wanted to ask Li Dequan, Li Dequan also said that he didn't know, so he had no choice but to go to see Kangxi anxiously.

After entering the imperial study room, Yinti greeted Kangxi and said: "I have seen Huang Ama, long live Huang Ama!" Kangxi snorted coldly, and said: "There are such evil sons as you, I will Sooner or later, I will be pissed off by you, long live long live, long live long live?" Yinti knew that something was wrong when he heard this, and he didn't know where he was wronged by someone and angered Huang Ama, so he hurriedly said : "I don't know where I made Huang Ama angry, but Huang Ama only cares about the dragon body!"

Kangxi gave Yinti a cold look, and said, "You don't know?" Then, he threw the pleading paper in front of Yinti, and said, "Let's see what this is!" Yinti picked up the pleading paper and looked at it. Unconsciously, the more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, and I hurriedly said: "Huang Ama is clearly aware, my son really doesn't know about this?" Kangxi said angrily: "You still dare to quibble, what is written on this pleading paper is false, could it be that Is it fake too?" Then, he threw the silver medal that Yinzhen presented to him into Yinti's arms, and Yinti picked it up to look at it, his face turned pale with surprise, and he quickly kowtowed: "My lord." Ma is wronged, I have no quarrel with the fourth brother, and I have never met the fourth brother and sister face to face, only met at family banquets in previous years, how could he send someone to kill her?"

Kangxi snorted coldly, and said: "Since you keep complaining about being wronged, then you bring Yang Shaoqiu here and ask him to testify." Yinti turned pale when he heard the words, Yang Shaoqiu disappeared inexplicably last night, I am also sending people to look for it, but how can I say it in front of Huang Ama, isn't this trying to cover up?So I had to stay silent.

Kangxi said: "Since you can't speak, how dare you say that you have been wronged?" After speaking, he said: "However, fortunately, the fourth daughter-in-law is not injured, otherwise I will not forgive you lightly, you just stay at home and think about your mistakes One month." After hearing this, Yinti had no choice but to kowtow to thank him.Unexpectedly, that night, the old man who sued the imperial court was found dead in the Wenguyuan. Now, Kangxi was more and more convinced of Yinti's crime of killing people, because he changed the closed-door thinking for one month to closed-door thinking for three months. , and fined a salary of one year.

Then, many people in the court impeached Nalan Mingzhu, and the impeachment memorials were filled with several cases in Kangxi's imperial study, alleging that he practiced favoritism, cheated, and formed a party for personal gain, so Kangxi dismissed Nalan Mingzhu as an official on the charge of "clique".In this way, the once-prominent Nalan family gradually came to an end.At the same time, Yinsi's power began to gradually emerge. All civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty called Yinsi "gentle and refined, courteous, courteous and corporal, with both ability and political integrity", known as "Eight Wise Kings".And Kangxi also seemed to want to improve Yinsi's status, so he promoted Yinsi's biological mother, Wei, the concubine Liang, to one of the four concubines, named "Liangfei", and gave him a residence in Jingren Palace.