Three Kingdoms: From Yinlin to Great Wei Xiongzhu

Chapter 538 Drive a long car to break through the shortage of Helan Mountain!
The dawn was twilight, and it was not yet the time of the morning court. Dozens of officials were already waiting under the big tree at the entrance of Chongde Hall.

The leaders are Kong Rong and Xun Yu...

The two of them stood dignifiedly, and some officials behind were stamping their feet and rubbing their hands nervously.

"What's the matter? Well done, why did Your Majesty write this article about 'abolishing the poll tax'? People are panicking!"

Kong Rong frowned and complained.

He is the No.20 grandson of Confucius. He was famous for "Rangli" when he was a child. After being defeated by Yuan Tan in the first year of Jian'an, he fled from Qingzhou to Xudu. He was recruited by the court as a general master and moved to Shaofu.

He has always attached great importance to etiquette and law, and likes to criticize current affairs with fierce words.

Naturally, he can be regarded as one of the wealthy families. Whether in Qingzhou or Xudu, he has owned a lot of land, and he has countless tenant farmers.

Faced with Kong Rong's doubts, Xun Yu stroked his beard and looked around, as if... the rest of the courtiers were in the same mood as Kong Rong, each of them frowned and discussed in a low voice, everyone's face was full of thoughts.

call…

Xun Yu breathed out lightly, and was about to speak.

at this time.

A little Huangmen walked quickly to Xun Yu and Kong Rong with his head down.

"Your Majesty has an order. Today's morning court is not at the Chongde Palace, but at the outskirts of Xudu. Please move over there..."

call…

Hearing this, Kong Rong was startled, as were all the courtiers.

On the contrary, Xun Yu looked calm and breezy.

"Your Majesty will obey the Holy Order."

As he spoke, Xun Yu was the first to turn around and walk out of the palace, got into his own carriage, and went to the outskirts of Xudu City under the guidance of the little yellow gate.

The rest of the officials looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking of something in their minds, and followed them out with an "ah".

...

On the banks of the Ying River, it is not far from the land of Taixue Yongqiu.

The officials were taken to a county government office.

Unlike the tranquility of the past, today's place is full of people.

All the officials stepped into it, but they saw the emperor Liu Xie sitting on the main seat of the mansion, and the queen Fushou was also beside him.

Even Xu Duling Manchong was there...

Especially Man Chong's sharp eyes and indifferent eyes are daunting!
"Your Majesty... this..."

Kong Rong immediately stepped forward and saluted quickly. "Your Majesty changed the morning court here, but it is not the same as the 'head' mentioned in the newspaper..."

The word "tax" of poll tax has not yet been spoken.

Emperor Liu Xie waved his hand.

"Young Master Kong's Mansion don't want words first, you might as well listen to what I have to say first."

uh... this...

Before Kong Rong could speak again, Liu Xie stood up suddenly, and he stretched out his hand to signal.

"When I was in the court, I heard a saying, 'The ministers are virtues for the superiors, and the people for the inferiors'. This sentence is Yi Yin's way of serving as ministers. It means that a minister should assist the emperor at the top and help the people at the bottom. !"

Speaking of this, Xun Yu added: "The sentence mentioned by your majesty is the gist and essence of "Xian You De"! Your majesty can understand this, and Xun is very pleased!"

Xun Yu's voice was mellow and warm, without the slightest dryness of showing off his literary talent!

Liu Xie nodded. "That's why I didn't do well in the past. Many times I didn't consider Li Shu, I didn't go down to the bottom, and I felt the suffering of the common people!"

"That's why, today, I will be a county magistrate in this village, and I will solve a few feigned murders, and I will also experience the hardships of Li Shu's life. You may wish to accompany me to make a resolution together!"

Kong Rong and the other ministers don't know, so I feel that today... His Majesty and Xun Lingjun seem to be singing along with each other.

But specifically, what they are going to do, everyone doesn't know.

"Come on, send the defendant!"

The Emperor Liu Xie made a decent copy of the copybook. Suddenly, a young couple was led in by the Imperial Forest Army. Seeing the strange "Master" in the government office, they were a little at a loss.

The eunuch Leng Shouguang said: "If you see His Majesty, you still don't want to see him!"

"Caomin greets His Majesty..."

Immediately, the young couple was terrified and knelt down to salute Liu Xie.

"I am making decisions for the people today, what wrong do you have to do?" Liu Xie waved his hand to signal them to stand up...

Not to mention, he really looks good as the county magistrate.

"Your Majesty, Caomin... Caomin's name is Zhang San, Caomin's daughter was stolen... just half a month ago, someone stole it, Caomin mobilized the neighbors to look for it, but after searching for half a month, there was no trace at all! "

Zhang San truthfully stated his grievances...

It seems to be a case of stealing young children.

Man Chong narrowed his eyes slightly. As Xu Duling, this kind of case is common, but... almost all the children who steal are boys, and very few girls are stolen. This case is somewhat strange.

Don't wait for Man Chong to speak...

With a "bang", the emperor Liu Xie slammed the table heavily.

"Bold and bold, in the outskirts of the imperial capital, there will be such a villain who stole girls... How unreasonable!" Liu Xie's angry expression...

The courtiers on the side looked at each other, they became more and more confused, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the emperor?

More and more people are watching...

It is so rare for the emperor to come to the county government to try the case in person!

at this time.

"Tap..."

Emperor Liu Xie went to Zhang San.

"Zhang San, let me ask you couple, if you find the villain who stole your daughter? How do you plan to punish him..."

"I...I killed him! I killed him with my own hands!" Zhang San replied immediately.

"Okay!" Liu Xie nodded, and immediately looked at Queen Fushou who was beside him.

Fu Shou understood, and winked at the Yulin Army...

Immediately, the Imperial Forest Army gave way to a path, and two Imperial Forest Army escorted an old man into the room. The old man's mouth was wrapped in a coarse cloth, and he hesitated for a long time but couldn't open his mouth.

Zhang San turned his head, was startled, came back to his senses... subconsciously shouted.

"Dad...Dad..."

That's right, the old man escorted by the Royal Forest Army is Zhang San's own father!

Now, the Manchao Gongqing is even more confused, what is His Majesty doing?His son lost his daughter, why did he arrest his father?

Is it possible... that someone who is a Weng can still steal the baby girl heartlessly?

Without much time to think about it, Liu Xie's words came out one after another, but the words added a bit of coldness.

"Zhang San, let me ask you...do you know this person?"

"He is my father, Zhang Erhe..."

Zhang San immediately replied. "Your Majesty, is it... Is there something wrong?"

"Wrong?" Liu Xie narrowed his eyes, walked up to Zhang Erhe, and pulled away the coarse cloth covering his mouth.

Now... Zhang Erhe can speak.

He immediately cried, "Ah San...Ah San...save daddy, San, save daddy!"

"Father is incompetent. It took half his life to support you and your elder brother. Your elder brother's family gave birth to a daughter, and you gave birth to a daughter. A daughter has to pay hundreds of dollars every year! Our old Zhang family really can't afford it." Already!"

"You say... You say, the three men of our Zhang family have worked hard all their lives, and have never done anything harmful to nature. How could they end up in such an unprecedented end? Dad can't figure it out, dad can't figure it out..."

Zhang Erhe's tone became more and more tragic, and his tone was extremely pitiful.

"Father... Daddy was also confused for a moment. Daddy heard people say that if you put this girl in the tower of Diguipo, someone will pick it up. If not, it can be regarded as a shelter from the wind and rain, so...so I put' "Little Ah San" was let in. Afterwards... Daddy soon regretted seeing you and your husband look ashen ashes all day long, but when he came again, "Little Ah San" was still here and had lost his breath. Da... Daddy planned to go back When I told you the truth, I was tied up here by these officers and soldiers!"

"Ah San, who are they? They want daddy, please save daddy...help daddy..."

This…

Suddenly, Ah San's legs went limp, his pupils widened, and with a "click", he fell to his knees.

"Dad, dad..."

He stammered a few words of "Father", but his chest was heaving up and down.

"Gudong"

The saliva subconsciously swallowed into his stomach, Zhang San wanted to speak, but... but his throat seemed to be choked, and he couldn't speak no matter what.

The one who stole... stole his daughter was... his own father.

And the reason why he stole his daughter was...because the family couldn't afford it!

call…

call…

Heavy panting sounds kept coming out. At this moment, Zhang San collapsed...not only he collapsed, but his wife also collapsed.

Even all the courtiers were frowning, feeling extremely heavy.

On the contrary, it was Liu Xie...he seemed to have made preparations in advance.

"Cough cough..."

With a light cough, he squatted down and stared at Zhang Erhe. "It turns out that you were the murderer who killed the girl 'Little Zhang San'. Zhang San, didn't you just say that you wanted to kill the murderer who abducted your daughter with your own hands? Why do you seem so hesitant now?" What about the decision? Could it be that you want to forgive him? "

Speaking of here…

Kong Rong couldn't help but speak. "Hundreds of goodness and filial piety come first, even if your father took your daughter away, you can't...can't..."

As the twentieth descendant of Confucius, he attaches great importance to filial piety and Confucian etiquette.

But this matter... In addition to filial piety, it is also contrary to human relations!
This…

Kong Rong was halfway through his speech and didn't know how to continue.

If this case is resolved according to Confucian etiquette, no matter what, it will not be resolved... No way!

"Master Kong thinks it's time to forgive him?"

Emperor Liu Xie got up slowly, and he walked in front of Kong Rong, seeing Kong Rong was silent, he raised his head and looked around at all the ministers. "You guys also talk about how to judge this case? Should Zhang San forgive his father!"

This this…

Another long silence.

"Forgive me?" Liu Xie waved his hand, and in an instant, each of the countless imperial guards took out a scroll and unfolded it at the same time.

And what's in it...

It was a large number of old people who sent the baby girl to the Eagle Tower.

It was the baby girl who cried in the Eagle Tower until the end, crying to the last ounce of strength...

There are eagles hovering in the sky above the Eagle Tower, as if they are waiting for the baby girl to pass out, and then it is their turn to enjoy a full meal!
Scary, cruel, vulgar...

All the negative emotions are not enough to express the cruelty of these pictures.

Liu Xie's voice came out one after another.

"Should he be forgiven?"

"Little Ah San, just like every baby girl in the Eagle Tower in this picture scroll, they are not yet one year old, some of them have just learned to call mother, you all open your eyes and look at this picture scroll... for real This scene is ten times, a hundred times crueler than this scroll!"

"Hehe, the ones in the Eagle Tower...how could they be girls? They obviously looked like they were bloated, and the only exposed face was swollen and out of shape. The ones are even bigger, and their tongues are sticking out like a hanged female ghost, and the swaddling clothes of various colors wrapped behind them were stitched out by their mothers stitch by stitch!"

Speaking of here…

It seemed to be aware of Liu Xie's anger.

Zhang Erhe knew he was going to die, he slumped on the ground like soft mud.

self-mumbling. "Son, daddy knows...you won't forgive daddy, okay...then let this old bone of mine fend for itself here! It can be regarded as paying for your daughter's life, but daddy...dad didn't mean it, daddy I thought...I thought that there would be kind-hearted people taking 'Xiao Zhangsan' away in this eagle tower, forget it, Ah San...you...you have to remember, in winter, you need to prepare more firewood in the furnace room, you are weak and afraid of the cold! "

Zhang Erhe's words...

It was like the last cry of an old man.

Liu Xie didn't speak, but waited for him to finish speaking... He waved his hand, signaling the Imperial Forest Army to drag Zhang Erhe, Zhang San and his wife down.

Liu Xie stood with his hands behind his back... with his back to the officials.

"Okay, the trial of this case is over! But tell me this tragedy... Is it Zhang Erhe's fault?"

He continued in grief and indignation: "No...it's not Zhang Erhe's fault, but the heavy and unreasonable taxes in this world! It's these human-eating 'poll taxes' that have forced baby girls to death one after another! They don't have time to open their eyes to see In this world, just... you can't be buried in the belly of an eagle!"

"In the early years of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu set the national policy of 'rest and rejuvenation'. At that time, what the people had to pay was only the land tax of 'thirty taxes and one'! But since Emperor Wu's reign, taxes have increased and become less and less Reasonable, land tax! Abolish! Commercial tax! Abolish! Only this poll tax is increasing! Ladies and gentlemen, please tell me why this is? Why?”

Suddenly, Emperor Liu Xie raised his voice.

"It's not easy for you to answer, so I'll tell you, because only poll tax is collected, you gentry and clan can save a lot of land tax money and food, and hire a large number of slaves! No matter how many fields you have, no matter how much money you have The deal is so big, but you only need to pay a poll tax, just like ordinary people!"

"During the first emperor's dynasty, there were constant natural disasters in the Han Dynasty, and foreign races repeatedly invaded the border? But what about you people? It is too difficult to get some coins from your pockets! You will always be the one who is dedicated to the king, Yaoshun, and aloof, as long as your daughter It’s good to live a prosperous life, why bother with these Li Shu’s baby girls? If these untouchables give birth to daughters, they should be buried in the suburbs! You all think so, right?”

Speaking of here…

Liu Xie raised his head and looked around at everyone.

Every minister bowed his head...silent!
Shame, Chi Guoguo's shame!
Liu Xie's tone became lower.

"Everyone, you all know the tower in this painting, right? The Eagle Tower, to be precise, should be called the 'Baby Tower'. Maybe you have just heard of it. When you talk about these vulgarities, you just laugh it off, maybe you just say 'That's a bad habit, and it will pass sooner or later', because... the deaths of these baby girls have nothing to do with you officials and lords who have thousands of hectares of fertile land!"

"Think about it carefully, isn't what you've done a little too much? Isn't it true that there are thousands of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of thousands of servants, but at the same time, you should also bear some of this empire? Ah..."

"Could it be that there must be another Yellow Turban rebellion? Can you improve your memory?"

Liu Xie's eyes widened...he turned around.

"Queen... Xun Lingjun!"

"The concubine is here!"

"Chen is here!"

Both Fu Shou and Xun Yu took a step forward, the stern atmosphere here made them feel inexplicably depressed.

"It is my decree that the head tax will be abolished from now on, and the commercial tax and agricultural tax will be restored. The specific tax regulations, tax ratios and amounts will be drafted by Shang Shutai. In addition... from now on, all Eagle Towers will be demolished! If someone Abandon the baby girl again, and you will be punished severely!"

"Yes"

"Well..."

Empress Fushou and Xun Yu agreed.

And, Manchu Gongqing!

These... the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty who originally complained about the abolition of the "poll tax" were silent at this moment.

Especially Kong Rong...

He lowered his head, and he even felt that if he refuted His Majesty's proposal at this time, he... and his family would be nailed to the pillar of shame and never stand up again!
This is the eternal infamy!

Can…

Obviously this morning, Kong Rong joined forces with officials to oppose this matter, but now...

Alas... what's the matter!

Before Kong Rong could think about it...

"Long live!"

Suddenly, outside the government office, some people shouted.

Immediately after.

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

"Long live…"

The voices of countless people shook the heavens and the earth, each sound was louder and louder than the sound!

In the end, the sound shook the rubble and resounded through the sky!

...

...

In the Baimahou's mansion, the sound of the school affairs report, together with the imperial decree promulgated by His Majesty, resounded here from afar, but a few birds that were nesting on the branches were startled.

Outside the gate of Hou Mansion, the carriage has already been prepared...

Early this morning, Lu Yu planned to go north to Yecheng to deal with matters concerning Wuhuan and the four states in the north.

After the leader of the school teacher told everything that happened outside the city, he retreated slowly.

Wannian Princess Liu Xue sent Lu Yu to the direction of the carriage.

"Husband... thank you!"

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Xue just uttered a sentence.

"Thank me for what?" Lu Yu deliberately smiled and asked back...

"Naturally for the countless baby girls of Dahan, thank you..." Liu Xue pursed her lips.

"You should thank your brother, today is the right time." Lu Yu said with a slight smile, "Of course I planned this matter, but as the vanguard, his performance is the most important thing!"

heard...

Liu Xue nodded. "My brother hasn't been so tough in many years."

Speaking of here…

What Liu Xue thought of was that after the "clothes belt edict", his younger brother couldn't even save Concubine Dong Gui and his flesh and blood...

At that time, Liu Xie could only cry and cry outside the palace, and said hoarsely, "Cao Mengde, you want Jiangshanzhen to send you off, why don't you, why don't you!"

Compared to then...

Today's emperor Liu Xie, when facing the public officials and officials, did not know how many times he was tough.

"Ah…"

Lu Yu grinned and smiled slightly. "Human, it's important to be able to find your own position!"

"Your Majesty is also a human being. Perhaps...through this incident, he has realized what he can do in this world!"

call…

Hearing this, Liu Xue nodded.

Lu Yu has already boarded the carriage.

Liu Xue suddenly thought of something again.

"My husband, will you drive a chariot during this trip?"

"Heh..." Lu Yu smiled slightly, but his eyes were looking towards the northern border, towards the desert outside the Great Wall, the most unfriendly territory of the 'Wuhuan people'.

——"Driving a long car to break through the gap in Helan Mountain!"

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(End of this chapter)