At this moment, Li Luo issued an edict to abolish the throne of Holy Gong Zhuyan and demote it to a commoner. He was sentenced to a traitor and was sentenced together with Liu Mengyan, Ye Li, Wang Jiweng and others.

Modu had already submitted the information of the traitors. So the next day, the symbolic trial result came out. He did not give the traitors a chance to defend them. What they did was controlled by the Special Inspection Bureau, and there was no way to defend them.

The four men, Liu Mengyan, Ye Li, Wang Jiweng and Kong Zhu, were sentenced to the first class of traitors, and were divided into half-beheaded sentences, and were executed in Kaifeng Ma City three days later.

The remaining eighty-three people were sentenced to betrayals such as C and sentenced to beheading.

As soon as the trial result came out, the entire Kaifeng City was in a sensation.

The powerful masters and the grand master of Ye, who were now in power, will be sentenced to death. They committed the crime of traitor, which makes people disgusting.

Many people only learned about the crime of traitors in the Tang Dynasty after inquiring.

The crimes of traitors are divided into four grades: A, B, B, and D. Like Zhang Hongfan, who helped the Tartars slaughter the Han people and defeated the Song Dynasty, that is, the traitors of Class A, who would be executed by Lingchi.

Most of the traitors of A were military generals, and very few civil officials were because civil officials rarely directly participated in massacre and destruction of the country.

A high-ranking official who surrendered to the Tartars like Liu Mengyan and Ye Li, who gave advice to the Tartars, made accomplices for the Tiger, and forgot his ancestors was a Class B traitor, and would be beheaded in half.

Traitors such as Ding, who had a slightly less sin, were beheading.

Even the traitors such as Ding, who had the least sin and had the least influence, had to serve hard labor for ten years, and then be demoted to slaves and be slaves forever.

Never be a traitor.

Many people have a deep understanding of the crime of traitors.

For a time, the traitor was inauspicious, and Liu Mengyan and others were criticized by thousands of men and criticized them, which was completely ruined.

"The traitor is guilty of being a traitor! You must be killed! Your Majesty is wise!"

"Just, haven't you heard that if there weren't so many traitors back then, the Central Plains wouldn't have been occupied by the Tartars, and we wouldn't have suffered so many years!"

"Traitors are abominable, damn it!"

On the day the sentence was released, Modu's wife Liu Mingshu asked to see Li Luo and asked to be kind to lower the level of traitor crime of Meng Yan.

Liu Mingshu kowtowed and bleeded in the hall, and gave the third-rank sovereign imperial edict in exchange for the execution of beheading Liu Mengyan, the uncle of the clan.

The Tang Lord said: "The law of the country is the great, the law of the country is the public. Filial piety is the small, and filial piety is the private. You cannot use private to abolish the public. However, the wife of a meritorious official will not forget her kindness, demonstrate filial piety, and plead for mercy for sinners. Their feelings are pitiful, and there is nothing wrong with me. I see that Mo Du has made contributions to the country, and Liu Mengyan is old, so I agree to him as appropriate, and I will ask for it. The official changed Liu Mengyan to behead him."

Beheading and beheading are both death penalty, but the difference is still very big. This is something that all the people in the countryside know.

Liu Mingshu was filled with sorrow and joy, and shouted long live. For the sake of her husband, the emperor agreed to her request and changed her uncle to beheading her, and she also considered her filial piety. Moreover, the emperor had not deprived her of his edict, which was really a great emperor's kindness.

As for resenting the emperor to kill his uncle, Liu Mingshu never had such an idea. As Modu's wife and the imperial edict of the Tang Dynasty, she knew her position very well. As a well-educated lady, she also despised her uncle's actions in her heart for honor and serving the Meng Yuan.

"I am so desperate that I am so grateful to you for your grace..." Liu Mingshu bowed his head and thanked him again, and then Modu was sent out of the hall with a sigh of relief.

He knew very well that if His Majesty had not valued love and nostalgia, for his own sake, he would never have issued an order to re-decree Liu Mengyan.

Why didn’t Li Luo’s selfless quasi-fathering and hunching the quasi-father hall beheaded in half?

Is it okay to be so casual and favoritism?

Because he is the emperor.

Even the West and the Ugly Kingdom, which professed themselves as equals, had the name of pardon, let alone the feudal era?

It can be seen that the law requires a certain degree of flexibility, which is the experience summarized by history.

Everything cannot be done in one size fits the whole. If everything is done according to regulations, then the problem will be simplified.

A good legal system must not be an inflexible legal system.

If everything is followed by the laws and regulations, how can the power of the emperor and the power of the emperor be revealed? There is no flexibility at all, that is, the law is the supreme, not the emperor.

The emperor's words follow the law, and it is the law. Law... is nothing more than human feelings. The law will not override human emotions and will not exceed the scope of emotions. This is true in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

The key is how to grasp this degree. Take this case as an example. For the sake of the face of the heroes and the filial piety, it is to grasp the degree. But if you avoid the death penalty, it is to lose the degree and beating it.

Li Luo did this, which also provided a basis for later cases.

Liu Mingshu just thanked her for her gratitude and retired. Kaifeng scholar Liu Xianzhong and other 78 scholars jointly wrote a letter, lying outside the palace, kowtowed to the palace, crying blood, and asking the Holy Emperor to pardon Kong Zhu, the deposed King Yan, to punish him for his death.

"The Holy Emperor is above! Kong Zhu's crime of traitors is irrefutable, and his crime should be punished! However, Kong Zhu is the direct lineage of Confucius and the former saint, if the punishment of the axe and halberd is added, it may hurt Your Majesty's name of benevolence and virtue, and it will hurt Your Majesty's way of forgiveness. It will make the scholars of the world swept the floor and make Kong Sheng uneasy in the nine springs, Your Majesty!" Liu Xianzhong cried and kowtowed.

Fu Lizhou, a famous scholar in Kaifeng, also kowtowed and shouted: "Your Majesty! The people are dead! You risk your life to ask Your Majesty to surrender your grace and pardon the traitor Kong Zhu for his death sentence, and use the way of forgiveness to all Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty! Kong Zhu deserves to be killed, but after all, he is the authentic lineage of Confucius. He inherited the title of Yan Shenggong. If he is sentenced to death, his life will be small, but he will be ashamed of China and will wipe out the dignity of the Ming Cult. It may shake the rules. Please ask Your Majesty to observe clearly!"

Seventy-eight scholars cried and burst into tears, coming to Chen like cuckoos and blood. More scholars came and knelt down and did not get up. Many of them were old people born in the Jin Dynasty.

Tang Lord Li Luo received a report and saw the blood letter signed by the scholars, he remained silent for a long time.

Wei Su, Luo Hui and other civil officials all looked at the emperor with nervous expressions. Even the newly-private King of Wei Zhao Xian was also very nervous.

It is obvious that not only civil officials but also some generals hope that the emperor would pardon Kong Zhu for his death sentence.

Why?

Because no matter how many Confucian Confucianism is, after all, it has been the Chinese state religion for more than a thousand years. To a large extent, this thousand is Confucian education.

This thousand years of brilliant cultural governance has indeed been born under the leadership of Confucianism.

In fact, China itself is fundamentally inseparable from Confucianism. The ethical principles advocated by Confucianism have indeed been implemented for thousands of years.

Confucianism has been completely abolished, is China or China?

Although Your Majesty adopted Confucianism as Taoism, he did not abolish Confucianism. That was impossible unless Your Majesty was not the emperor of China.

Li Luo also sighed secretly.

In fact, he understood better than his ministers and saw more clearly.

Killing Kong Zhu means telling the people of the world that Yan Shenggong is not at all detached. If he commits a crime, he will still die like an ordinary person.

Since that's the case, then Confucius is nothing.

Is the Confucian ethics that are fundamental and normal is nothing?

This was a big blow to the long-term ethical belief. Because the people of this era did not understand so many great principles, their logic was still very simple, and they would not be so rational in distinguishing Yan Shenggong from Confucianism. In their opinion, Yan Shenggong represented Confucius and Confucianism.

This is a fact.

Yan Shenggong committed a crime and was killed like the people. This was definitely not just in China in ancient China, but was breaking the rules. Because it was the people themselves, he also believed that Yan Shenggong should be different from them and should be unequal to them.

After all, Kong Zhu's crimes were not as angry as both gods and beasts, and he was worse than those of animals. He was executed by torture, which certainly served as a warning to future generations and warns of future generations, but it shook the traditional understanding of stabilizing the world.

The disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

As an emperor, Li Luo certainly had to weigh the pros and cons. Why do the superiors often accept public opinion? It is not forced, but the result of weighing the pros and cons.

In later generations, when people with special status commit crimes, how many countries will truly judge the same as ordinary people? Even if they are judged like ordinary people, how many people will really treat the same as ordinary prisoners?

If you don’t punish the doctor, you won’t be as polite as a commoner. Is this sentence applicable to the rules of thousands of years of ancient times just for privilege? Is it that simple?

Before, Li Luo thought it was for privilege. But after being a ruler for many years, he realized that it was more for order than for privilege.

As long as the class nature of society still exists, this level will exist. Even if it does not exist in the law, it will exist in reality for a long time. This is the law.

The economic foundation determines the superstructure and the production relations. In ancient times when production was backward, equal relations were not only digging for oneself, but also digging for the people of the world, and digging for this unified empire.

Doing this violates the principle of determining superstructure by the economic base, and the result is unbearable.

Imperial power must be sacred and inviolable, and the ethics of the general principles must restrain people's hearts. The people must be respected, and the superiors and inferiors must be orderly, and there must be differences between inside and outside. Only in this way can we maintain the stability of ten thousand miles of territory and hundreds of millions of people.

"Your Majesty, I think that Kong Zhu is not suitable to behead him... I beg your Majesty to show kindness beyond the law." King Zhao Xian of Wei also knelt down and pleaded for mercy.

The reason why he pleaded for mercy was that, first of all, he was also a scholar, and secondly, he had been an emperor and knew very well what the consequences of killing Kong Zhu were.

As long as he is the Emperor of Central Plains, he cannot kill Yan Shenggong!

Li Luo nodded: "I passed the imperial edict, Kong Zhu will die for his crime. However, I remember that he was the direct lineage of Confucius, the former sage, and the great master, and the great master, who was well-deserved and taught by China, and had a high status. I forgive Kong Zhu for his death. It can be seen that the merits of this predecessor can really protect future generations. I hope that people in the world can cultivate their own merits and make plans for future generations."

When the imperial edict was passed outside the palace, the scholars who asked for their orders suddenly shouted long live to thank them.

"Long live your Majesty!"

"The Holy Emperor is here, I will bow my head a hundred times, thank Your Majesty for your great kindness!"

The people who received the news also talked a lot.

"I just say that although this Yan Shenggong committed a traitor, what kind of court sentenced him torture in half, it was Yan Shenggong after all, and the government would never allow him to die. Otherwise, then wouldn't he be in a mess?"

"Yes, that is, a person like Yan Shenggong cannot be beheaded even if he commits a crime. Otherwise, he will be the saint's legitimate lineage like us. The official family knows very well that he will not kill Yan Shenggong."

"Yan Shenggong is a traitor, not worthy of being a descendant of a saint, not worthy of being Yan Shenggong. But how can I say this? I have always been a grandfather of Yan Shenggong, and it is unlucky to kill him."

The people's discussions actually felt that the Holy Emperor would not kill Kong Zhu.

Things are so weird.

…………

The autumn wind is rustling, and on the ancient Jishui Road with green grass, more than a dozen iron-armored knights carrying swords and bows are surrounded by a low-key and luxurious carriage, walking in the thin frost of the morning, moving forward lonely.

Above the carriage, a flag embroidered with the word "Kong" in seal script fluttered in the autumn wind.

The people along the way, even those who are familiar with writing, know that the owner of this carriage is of great origin and is a noble figure.

That's right, even if you have reached the boundary of Yuzhou, no one doesn't know the Confucius family in Qufu in Lu.

That is a wealthy noble who has been glorious for more than a thousand years.

If you have to find the first family in China, it can only be the Kong family.

Descendants of Saint Confucius!

At this time, there were two old men in the car, both over 60 years old and with a very ancient temperament. Although they were all wearing kudzu clothes and wooden hairpins, their bodies were filled with an unconcealed elegance and luxurious atmosphere, and there was no trace of shabby expression at all.

Of course, the person in the car was not Yansheng Gong Kong Zhu, but Kong Zhi, the "Chief of the Kong Ting clan" and Kong Ze, the "Chief of the Kong Ting clan".

"Captain Kong Ting Clan" and "Captain Kong Ting Clan" (Deputy Clan) are both elected by Yan Shenggong and appointed by the court. Since the establishment of Song Huizong, these two official positions have been inherited for nearly two hundred years. They are subordinate officials of Yan Shenggong, who are responsible for assisting Yan Shenggong in managing the family rules, and are actually the priest of the Confucius Mansion.

Below the Lord Yansheng was the leader of the Kongting clan, and beneath the leader of the Kongting clan, there were six halls under the clan, which was equivalent to six ministries. There were also officials under the six halls.

Moreover, the county magistrate of the Confucius Mansion was also the Confucius Mansion. In addition to the large amount of land and manors rewarded by past dynasties, there are also sacrifice fields, study fields, temple bases, and Confucius forest land, and all of them are tax-free.

Not only that, the Confucius Mansion also has thousands of household registrations and owned household policies and has the power to impose administrative and judicial taxes on the people. It can be said that the Confucius Mansion is actually a small-scale feudal state. Without the name of a feudal state, it can be positioned above the feudal state.

The Ming and Qing dynasties even developed to the phenomenon that Yan Shenggong was honored, honored and wealthy, and was second only to the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. By the Qing dynasty, the Confucius Mansion had 1.3 million mu of land, which was rich in the world. Moreover, Yan Shenggong was the only person who could walk the imperial road in the palace besides the Qing emperor.

Although it is not the Ming and Qing dynasties, the power of the Kong Mansion is already very strong. It can be seen from the fact that Kong Zhi can sway and carry iron-armored warriors to guard the guards. That is not a private soldier, it is the "guard of Qinshi Temples" recognized by the court. It was established in the third year of Yuanjia, Emperor Huan of Han more than a thousand years ago.

As the leader of the Kong Ting clan, Kong Zhi is truly a high position and powerful person. He stomped his feet and trembled three times.

Kong Zhi was a man who reported to the Mongol Yuan that year that he was "not the son of Kong's family", which led to the deposed Kong Zhen in the end, and he himself did not get the title, causing the Duke of Yan Sheng to be interrupted for forty years.

However, although Kong Zhi did not get the title after he overthrew Kong Zhen, he gained the title of "Chief of the Kong Ting Clan". He has been in charge of the Kong Mansion for more than 30 years, without the name of Yan Shenggong, but with the reality of Yan Shenggong.

Although Kong Zhu is a contemporary Yan Shenggong, he is just a nameless person because he is born in Nankong.

In history, six years later, Kong Zhi, who was nearly 70 years old, finally obtained the late Duke of Yansheng.

Inside the carriage, Kong Zhi was rippling with the carriage, while he said worriedly: "Kong Zhu was originally from the Southern Kong, but because he gave him a title, he was happy with Kublai Khan, he inherited the title again. But he was fine, offended Zhao Xian and Li Tang and was imprisoned. I, North Kong, must leave it alone this time."

Kong Ting Clan Ju (Deputy Tribe Chief) said: "It is not enough to clear the relationship. You have to get the Duke of Yansheng back to be successful. But Li Luo has no gentle behavior and is ruthless and ruthless in his behavior. He is not as good as the Hu people. I am afraid it is difficult to get along with him."

Kong Zhi sneered: "He simply believed that the Kong family surrendered to the barbarians and destroyed the defense of the Chinese and foreigners, and even committed the crime of traitors. Humph, if the Kong family could not defeat the hardness with softness, how could it survive until now? If the Confucius family had disappeared back then, Fu Jian and Tuoba Hong would practice Han laws and respect saints? Can the Central Plains clans still exist? Can Yang Jian take the world back from the Xianbei?"

"If you don't say it far, you won't say it far. If the Dajin did not respect the saints back then, would the Han law flourish? If Kublai Khan destroyed my Kong family, what would the end of this scholar in the world? Why couldn't these Tang lords see it, but they just focused on some helpless things to do? They really didn't have the emperor's aura. If he did things randomly, he wouldn't have the blessing to keep the world."

Kong Zhi was not ashamed of these shameless and greedy for the sake of heaven, and he looked as if he was taken for granted.

He didn't think that Tang Lord Li Luo could do anything to the Confucius Mansion.

If Li Luo still recognizes himself as the Emperor of Han, he must succeed the King of Yan and respect the Confucius family of Qufu.

This time he went to see Li Luo, on the one hand, to clear the Confucius Mansion and defend the Confucius Mansion, and also to obtain the title of Duke of Yansheng.

When the carriage arrived outside Caozhou City, there were many carriages with private soldiers guarding at the intersection in front of him, as if they were waiting for the people from the Confucius Mansion.

Each carriage has a flag with a total of nine surnames, but there are ten carriages.

It turns out that it is the sage clan known as the 10 surnames and 12 families!

They are descendants of Yan Hui (Ziyuan), Mencius, Duanmu Ci (Zigong), Ran Yong (Zhonggong), Ran Geng (Boniu), Ran Qiu (Ziyou), Zeng Shen, Zhong You (Zilu), Zhuan Sun Shi (Zizhang), Yan Yan (Ziyou), Bu Shang (Zixia), and Min Lun (Ziqian).

"Meet the teacher!" The twelve people saw the Confucius Mansion carriage and got off the car to salute.

What is done is...the kneeling ceremony!

They are all heads of the family, and their families are also large families of the Qi and Lu generation.

The direct descendants of the Ten Sages of Confucius, except for the descendants of Zaiyu, who was the queen, came!

We also need to add descendants of Mencius and Zengzi.

There are twelve families in total! They all became hereditary Hanlin in the Ming and Qing dynasties and all had ancestral positions. Even if there were no hereditary official positions at this time, they would definitely be first-class aristocratic families.

These families have one common feature: low-key and rich.

Each family is a big landlord. They have been in office for thousands of years, but they are all unknown. They are intentionally invisible and maintain a transcendent attitude. They are connected with each other, and they are united around the Confucius Mansion, forming a low-key super force on the ground of Qilu.

Anyone who is an official in Qilu depends on the face of the Confucius Mansion. On the ground of Qilu, no one dares to offend the twelve families, and no one can offend the Confucius Mansion behind the twelve families!

Of course, this is all the past. Since the fall of the Jin Dynasty, the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty did not take the Confucius family too seriously, and their lives were not as free as the Jin and Song dynasties. However, after all, Confucius' status was there, and Kublai Khan had to pretend to be a hypocritical. Their situation was still good, but they were more low-key.

Now, when they learned that the Tang Lord Li Luo was about to come to Kaifeng, they were all anxious.

The Kong family and the twelve families have long studied Li Luoqi. In their opinion, Li Luo's various major policies were all rebellious and were the genius of Jie, Zhou and the jackal.

But the problem is that Li Tang is getting stronger and stronger, and now he has defeated the Yuan army and recovered the land of Henan. What else can they do besides rushing over and surrendering?

They were all ordered to come after being written by Confucius. According to the system of all dynasties, they received the restraints of the Confucius Mansion and always held the etiquette of teachers and students. All major matters such as sacrifices, rituals and laws were reported to the Confucius Mansion for ruling. People from the twelve major families were not allowed to interfere with the crimes, but they would hand them over to the Confucius Mansion's Office for trial.

Although the Confucius Mansion and the twelve major families are powerful and wealthy, they all know the way to protect themselves in troubled times. In their eyes, no matter what integrity or debate between China and the barbarians, it is not important. What is important is the inheritance and continuation of the family.

Now, they know that Li Luo doesn't like Confucius's mansion, and they know that they don't like Confucianism, so how can they sit still? Especially since even Yansheng Gong Kong was imprisoned, they could no longer calm down. Kong sent an emergency message, and they immediately met in Caozhou, the only way to Kaifeng.

This is the agreed date. Let's go to Kaifeng to meet Lord Tang together. Of course, the more people you bring, the better.

With this lineup, Kong Zhi was confident that Li Luo would never dare to neglect it.

Kong Zhi looked at the heads of the twelve families kneeling down to worship the apprenticeship together, and said with both hands:

"Get up. Back then, the saints traveled around the countries to restrain themselves and restore rituals and make peace in the world. Now, the troubled times have not stopped, the people are living in poverty, the world is getting worse, and the Ming Cult is not clear. It is really a risk that the rituals will collapse and the music will be ruined."

"How can we stay out of the matter and travel under the forest in such a dangerous situation? We should follow the example of the saints and ask for the people, and restore the world to the bright world and orderly. We will not let this righteous spirit, be elegant and gentle, be lost in the world!"

The twelve heads bowed and bowed together, "Good! I am willing to follow my teacher to the west and ask for the Ming Dynasty."

As for how to plead for the people, only they themselves know.

If these cultural aristocrats really have no moral integrity, it must be nonsense. But it is obvious that the first thing they care about is inheritance.

"Good! My way is not lonely, and thousands of people are here every year, we will go." Kong Zhi said.

A group of carriages surrounded the Kong family carriage and went eastward to meet Li Luo and asked for his orders for the people.

They are still very confident!
Chapter completed!