Lord Qing Leng bowed down for me

Chapter 23
In short, under the state of Xiao Zian's resistance, he was still carried to the capital camp by Jiang Huaice. After going through horrific experiences, he finally came to a conclusion. ! !
After torturing Xiao Zian for a while, Jiang Huaice felt that the anger in his heart was a little smoother, but when he saw Shen Fu in the morning on the second day, he turned his footsteps and walked towards him, and Shen Fu looked at him. Jiang Huaice, who was coming, stepped back uncontrollably.

"Mr. Shen."

The man's voice was cold, and the lion patch on the scarlet court uniform showed his majesty. In addition, Jiang Huaice had been on the battlefield for a long time, which made people feel a little frightened for a while. Shen Fu bowed his hands to him and saluted: "Marquis Changping."

"I heard that something good is coming to Mr. Shen's family?"

Jiang Huaice lowered his eyes and looked at his hands. Shen Fu frowned slightly, as if he didn't understand what he was talking about: "How do you say that, Lord Hou?"

The doubts on his face did not seem to be fake, Jiang Huaice's remaining suffocation was completely released, and he smiled: "It's the servant of the Marquis."

After all, the man stood back to his place, but Shen Fu and the others were confused. So, this Marquis Chang Ping came here just to say something inexplicable?
Before Shen Fu could continue to think, he heard the ceremonial officer outside singing until His Majesty arrived, and everyone knelt down to salute. Emperor Yong came and sat on the dragon chair, and said in a deep voice: "My dear friends, you don't need to be too polite."

Only then did everyone get up, and then Emperor Yong continued: "Marquis Changping, is there any progress in the corruption case of the Guangping Chief Envoy?"

Jiang Huaice took a step forward and replied, "Returning to His Majesty, there has been no progress yet."

Emperor Yong sneered and said: "Yesterday, when I read Shang Jun's book, there was one article that puzzled me. All my lovers are from famous families and have read great Confucian classics. Why don't you explain this Shang Jun's book to me?"

He stood up, and said in a calm voice: "When a husband abolishes laws and regulations and likes to discuss privately, treacherous officials will be rewarded with power, and high-ranking officials will hide from the fishermen. The proverb says: "The beetles (du) are many Wood analysis, the gap is large and the wall is broken. Therefore, when ministers fight for their own interests and do not care about their people, the subordinates will separate from the superiors. When the subordinates depart from the superiors, there will be a "gap" in the country. Officials of high rank will hide from the lower levels to fish for the common people, and this is also the "gap" of the people. Therefore, there is a "gap" , "Beetle" without dying, the world is rare."

"Everyone, can you explain to me?"

Hearing Emperor Yong's suddenly raised voice, all the officials knelt down one after another. Even if they knew what it meant, they dared not say it, for fear of touching bad luck.

"What? No one answered? Well, let me tell you, Shang Jun said that there are three elements in a country, one is the law, the other is credit, and the third is rights. Since I succeeded to the throne, I have reserved my career and never dared to relax I have never dared to compare myself to Yao, Shun, Huangdi and other sage kings."

"I legislated laws, punished corrupt officials, and wanted to create a prosperous world for Dayong, but how do you repay me now? You want me, abolished laws, and listened to private opinions. Why, you don't want to be loyal ministers, but instead want to be worms and do good things." gap?"

After Emperor Yong finished speaking, he walked down step by step. Looking at the courtiers kneeling all over the ground, he laughed angrily: "Why, aren't they all eloquent? Why don't you say anything now? Do you think Yang Mingwang was pushed to come here?" As a shield, can I take this matter lightly?"

"I'm telling you, don't be wishful thinking, you'd better pray that you don't have too much greed in your hands, otherwise you will be the ones who will be cut at the Meridian Gate tomorrow!"

After these words, it can be seen how angry Emperor Yong was. All the ministers watched Emperor Yong withdraw from the Hall of Supreme Harmony with panic in their mouths. It was caught, but the money disappeared.

How could Emperor Yong not be annoyed, that Yang Mingwang was like a common people when he was in office, he had done all kinds of evil things, and among the embezzled money was the disaster relief money allocated by the imperial court last year.

Jiang Huaice stood up and stepped out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Guo Lun who was beside him stepped forward and whispered something in his ear.

"It ran pretty fast, let Chen Xing keep an eye on it."

A few days ago, they found out the whereabouts of a sum of Yang Mingwang's stolen money, which was in the hands of his housekeeper. Coincidentally, on the day they received the letter, the housekeeper seemed to have received some letter and ran away very fast.

In this way, what Jiang Huaice didn't understand was that someone from the court sent him a letter. This person really covered the sky with his hands and eyes, so fortunately, Jiang Huaice didn't chase him anymore. He boiled the frog in warm water, and he was naturally able to pick out that person.

"Lord Hou, Your Majesty is waiting for you at the Palace of Qinzheng."

Cao Yongjing, the eunuch in charge next to Emperor Yong, came up to salute Jiang Huaice. Jiang Huaice nodded and signaled to follow him to Qinzheng Hall, where Qi Chengze was playing chess with Emperor Yong when he arrived.

"Ming Huai is here? Sit down."

Eunuch Cao respectfully moved forward to bring him a chair. Jiang Huaice sat down and watched the game between Emperor Yong and Qi Chengze. Qi Chengze's chess skills are naturally exquisite. Hang Sha, stroked his beard and smiled: "Chengguang's chess, I am ashamed of myself."

"Father and emperor accept."

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, Emperor Yong then turned around, leaned to one side and said to the two: "Over the years, I have worked so hard to give you a prosperous and prosperous world, but it's a pity that people are old and don't Zhongyong, let the old brothers do the tricks."

There was a bit of loneliness in his eyes. Emperor Yong came from the fight between the five sons, and this throne was not easy to come by, not to mention the change of imperial power in the middle, how many people died and how much blood was shed.

Everyone in the world knows that Emperor Yong stepped on the blood of his brothers to climb to the top step by step. He has thunderous wrists and is better at emperor's power. Yong's prosperity.

But those brothers who followed him through life and death are now dissatisfied with their rights being emptied a little bit. They are not willing to lose their rights and everything they own, so these old guys started to make trouble for him.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I will definitely find out the truth."

Jiang Huaice said calmly, and Emperor Yong nodded slightly: "Of course I am relieved of you, then please Minghuai, no matter what you find out, don't hide it from me."

After talking about this matter, he changed his subject and said, "I heard from Chengguang, do you have a girl you like?"

As soon as these words came out, Jiang Huaice looked at Qi Chengze, and saw Qi Chengze rubbing his chin in embarrassment: "It's not that you made a lot of noise that day, even the queen mother knew about it."

It's not his fault, he didn't say anything.

Jiang Huaice had no choice but to say, "The girl is timid. When the time is right, I will naturally bring her to see my aunt and His Majesty."

Emperor Yong looked at him with a satisfied smile: "You are not too young, if you like it, work hard, and try to let your aunt arrange the marriage for you this year, so as to save her from nagging in my ears all the time. It’s almost time to hear the cocoon.”

He looked miserable, for Ming Huai's marriage, he, the empress, was heartbroken.

　The excerpts in this article are from "Shang Jun Shu·Xiu Quan", "Shang Jun Shu", also known as "Shang Jun" and "Shang Zi", is a compilation of the works of Shang Yang, a representative of the Legalists in the Warring States Period (and possibly his followers).

　　Translation: The abolition of laws and regulations likes private discussions, then treacherous officials will buy officials to obtain salaries, and ordinary officials will hide the feelings of the people and exploit the people. This is the moth of the people.A proverb says: "When there are many moths, the tree will break; if the gap is large, the wall will be broken." If ministers compete for personal gain and ignore the people, then the people will stay away from the monarch. This is the "gap" of the country.The country's permanent officials conceal their feelings and violate the interests of the people. This is the "worm" of the people.However, it is rare in the world that a country has "worms" and "gaps" and does not perish.

　　
　
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