What Lu Bai asked was a long story for a child without a mother.
But the "Message to the People of Yongle City" was concocted yesterday and used as evidence today. Gu Qinghuan wanted to set an example and teach Lu Bai well.
"Remember, in the Southern Dynasties, although there were laws, it was never the world where the country was governed by law as you mentioned. In the Southern Dynasties, the key lies in people. Those who hold imperial power, if you make them feel threatened, don't say anything
What was concocted last night was concocted on the spot. As long as what is said is true and it poses a threat to the imperial power, it is no different from a month ago, a year ago, or ten years ago." Gu Qinghuan asked Lu Bai to give up the idea of speaking with evidence.
"And if the powerful accuse you - like Yang Liangting, so what if the evidence is conclusive that you are innocent? If they say you are guilty, you are guilty."
Gu Qinghuan also had examples at his fingertips to prove it.
She told Lu Bai that when the late emperor was in power, a matricide case occurred in the capital.
A fruit vendor named Zhang was accused by Dongchang of killing his neighbor's wife. Although the punishment was repeated and the suspect denied it, Dongchang was eager to solve the case and closed the case without a confession or a bond.
"The cases concluded by the East and West Plants are not from the Criminal Department, so they have to go through the process at the Criminal Department." Gu Qinghuan told Lu Bai that this was just a formality, but he didn't want the officials to be upright and saw the problem with the case at a glance.
They overturned the case and caught the real culprit, who was the son of the deceased.
The deceased's daughter also accused his brother of killing her mother.
Erha said: "This case was settled soon? The murderer was the son of the deceased."
Gu Qing smiled happily and said, "Dongchang doesn't think so."
The Ministry of Punishment dared to overturn their case, which was a provocation to them, so Dongchang preemptively slandered the investigating officials in front of the emperor for accepting bribes from fruit vendors.
The emperor was furious, dismissed the case, and ordered the three courts to hold a trial.
However, the facts of the case are very clear. The murderer is the son of the deceased. There is no doubt or refutation. The result of the three-party trial remains the same.
Lu Bai felt that Dongchang and the emperor would have nothing to say now.
Gu Qinghuan nodded, "Dongchang has nothing to say. They just told the emperor that this fruit seller has provided fruit to the Gu family for a long time-"
Lu Bai didn't understand, "What does this have to do with anything?"
Erha and Hong Tailang also looked at Gu Qinghuan. They felt that the human world was too confusing.
"The relationship was serious. At that time, the Gu family was irritating the emperor, so the emperor let the real culprit go and executed the fruit seller as the murderer." Gu Qinghuan said calmly.
Lu Bai was stunned, "No, this, why is this?"
He doesn't understand anymore.
Lu Bai had never been an emperor, and the fruit seller was closer to him. After he consciously got involved, he felt aggrieved for this brother.
"Because he is the emperor."
Gu Qinghuan said, "If he is happy, he may not be able to bring someone back to life, but if he is unhappy, he can definitely make someone die without a burial place."
Erha and Hong Tailang looked at each other and said, "Grandma, it turns out that the emperor is also a monster."
Isn't this the way they behave as monsters, they kill whenever they want.
Not right either.
Usually those who do this are evil monsters.
Yun Niang brought a cup of tea, and Gu Qinghuan took a sip to moisten his lips and tongue, and said: "I have said all this, just to tell you that for powerful people, evidence is not important, what is important is that they cannot trust them.
Don’t let him like it.”
If the emperor trusts the lord of Yongle City and the lord of Yongle City really rebels, the emperor can turn a blind eye. If the emperor doesn't like it and he doesn't rebel, the emperor will think that he has rebelled.
"The emperor is now on the side of the eight major sects and regards Yiqiu Villa as a thorn in his flesh. Therefore, even if these evidences are fabricated, they are true when they reach the emperor's ears. What's more, what is written in the notice to the people is not false.
Yes." Gu Qinghuan said.
She advised Lu Bai that when walking in this world, sometimes evidence can be created or turned a blind eye, and he must learn to make good use of this.
"Under different rules, you should play according to different rules. Don't stick to Go while others are playing backgammon, and you will lose completely in the end."
Lu Bai nodded.
He felt that what Gu Qinghuan said was good, but the world he hoped for should not be like this.
so--
"I want to be the one who makes the rules of chess." Lu Bai said.
Gu Qinghuan glanced at Lu Bai and didn't say much, but asked the boatman to row the ship back. They were about to go ashore.
A boat traveling on water is like swimming in the sky.
Erha still held the fox demon in his hand and asked Lu Bai: "What will he do now?"
Lu Bai thought for a while, "We will hand him over to Jinyiwei later and replace Yang Liangting. As for how to deal with it, Jinyiwei will probably handle it as a normal monster murder case."
The fox demon struggled fiercely, "Grandpa, I am just a monster. Demon King, sir, we are both born as monsters. Why be so hasty!"
Hong Tailang gave him a kick and said, "Who the hell is having sex with you? Please speak politely."
"Yes, yes, the little demon's words are wrong, but Li'er is Li'er, some adults -" The fox demon looked at the two monsters pleadingly.
Erha sneered, "Humph, it's too late! Grandma is such a bear. I thought that because you were a monster, grandpa might have let you go, but you dared to hide Lian'er's personal belongings. Fuck you."
Grandma!"
"What! Did he hide Lian'er's things close to his body?" Hong Tailang was also angry.
They started working together and in an instant, they beat a jade-faced white fox into a jade-faced black fox.
Erha relaxed his muscles and bones, felt refreshed, and had more to worry about. He pointed at Yun Niang, "What should she do?"
Lu Bai glanced at Yun Niang.
Yun Niang stood behind Gu Qinghuan, not squinting, and respectful.
Although Yu Shuang is in charge of Lu Bai's house, Yu Shuang has to be in charge of all the affairs of the house and cannot always be by Gu Qinghuan's side. Lu Qinghuan still lacks someone who can serve him smartly. Yun Niang may be a good choice.
"Give her the clothes in your hand and let her put them on," Lu Bai said.
The clothes in Erha's hand were brought back in order to retrieve the sachet when catching the fox demon, so there was no use keeping them.
He handed it to Yun Niang.
In front of everyone, Yun Niang took off Gu Qinghuan's cloak and became naked. She then put on the clothes Erha handed over to cover up her curvy figure.
From the beginning to the end, she regarded the few people around her as nothing.
Of course, from the beginning to the end, Lu Bai and others did not pay much attention to her. Erha and Hong Tailang only cared about Lian'er in their hearts, and Lu Bai at most regarded her as a good drum kit.
After arranging her hair, Yun Niang took Gu Qinghuan's cloak and stood respectfully behind him.
After falling into the world of prostitution, Yun Niang thought her life had reached rock bottom.
However, she is still tenacious and eager to get out of the whirlpool with her talent, art, and appearance, even if she becomes a concubine. However, a eunuch bought her back and added a monster to sleep with her, which made her know the past.
Shame is nothing.
This is the real shame and humiliation!
So the moment she was thrown out of the cabin and fluttered her body in the air, Yun Niang wanted to die. Her world fell into an abyss of extreme shame and darkness.
No more hope, no more light, no more meaning in life.
However, the moment Gu Qinghuan asked her to drink tea, she seemed to see a god.
She was pulled out of the darkness by Lu Qinghuan.
She saw another kind of life - her expression remained unchanged amidst the rain of arrows, and she talked eloquently in front of thousands of households, admirals, and city lords; she manipulated people vertically and horizontally, and played with people in the palm of her hand; she acted with ease, and averted dangers while talking and laughing.
If Yun Niang wants to become such a person, even if she can't, she still has to stand by her side and enjoy a woman's life that is different from the ones she has seen.
The ship docked.
Lu Bai and Gu Qinghuan landed ashore, and they escorted the fox demon through the market and rushed towards Jin Yiwei.
On the way, since Gu Qinghuan mentioned the case just now, he simply extended it and talked to Lu Bai about the grand ceremony and other matters she just mentioned.
"The emperor insisted on going his own way and wanted to kill the fruit seller, which caused shock in the government and the public. Many ministers spoke out and remonstrated, which offended Long Yan. The emperor punished a group of ministers. Among them, my grandfather, the head of the Gu family at the time, was directly banned from the court due to his old age.
Beaten to death." Gu Qinghuan said.
Lu Bai was surprised.
As the head of the four families, the Gu family is equivalent to one leg of the table in the Southern Dynasty. Will his head be beaten to death by the emperor?
There are eight major factions behind the promised family.
"Unlike the Lu family and Yiqiu Villa, the aristocratic family is just the secular agent of the eight major sects, representing their power, making money for them, and collecting worldly treasures and medicinal materials for them." Gu Qing smiled happily.
To use a metaphor, it is equivalent to the White Wolf Gang's private salt business. They hand over the private salt to one or a group of hawkers in a workshop, let them sell it, and then get the money back.
The White Wolf Gang allows them to earn a small amount of money in the middle. Although it is a lot compared to ordinary people, the money they earn for the White Wolf Gang is a drop in the bucket. Moreover, the White Wolf Gang has the right to change vendors at any time.
, as long as Lu Bai has a thought, the glory and wealth of this hawker will become a thing of the past.
"This is the relationship between the aristocratic family and the eight sects." Gu Qinghuan said.
Suppose these hawkers go too far because of selling smuggled salt, for example, kill someone, or break out of the yamen cell to save someone, and then are caught by the yamen police and sentenced to execution——
The White Wolf Gang and the Yamen have a tacit understanding for a long time. The White Wolf Gang can sell private salt, but the White Wolf Gang must support the Yamen.
"So, will the White Wolf Gang take care of the life and death of these vendors now?" Gu Qinghuan asked and answered, "No."
This is the relationship between the aristocratic family, the imperial power and the eight major sects.
In such a relationship, the imperial power cannot be moved, and the eight major sects dare not move, so only the aristocratic families can change.
"The aristocratic family cannot offend the eight major sects behind them, but as long as the interests of the eight major sects are safeguarded, the eight major sects are too lazy to replace the 'private salt dealers', so the final result is that the aristocratic families unite to fight against the imperial power."
Gu Qinghuan told Lu Bai that this was a party struggle.
Originally, at the beginning, there was no party struggle, because the imperial power was tougher than the eight major factions.
"According to legend, the emperor of this dynasty was the son of the Emperor of Heaven, and he practiced in the human world. After he established meritorious deeds and established a huge empire, he soared in front of hundreds of officials. Since then, excluding the emperors who died young or died of illness, almost all emperors who practiced spiritual practice have
Soared."
Therefore, the emperor always called himself the emperor.
"As the emperor, the imperial power could even be superior to the eight major sects at that time, because the practitioners of the eight major sects knew that even if they ascended to immortality, they would still be under the emperor in heaven, so it was better to be respectful from beginning to end." Gu Qinghuan.
explain.
During this period, the imperial power was at its strongest. When the emperor was angry, he laid down millions of corpses and no one dared to stop him.
Until a Buddha came out in the north who said "all living beings are equal".
He preached in the wilderness, held flowers and smiled, achieving nirvana.
Within two hundred years, his teachings sprouted, grew, blossomed, and bore fruit in the northern wilderness, eventually becoming Buddhism with millions of followers.
These believers established the Buddhist kingdom.
A large number of Arhats, Vajras, practitioners, Bodhisattvas and other practitioners also emerged among them.
From that time on, the national destiny of this dynasty, which had been prosperous for more than two hundred years, began to decline.
"Fortunately, this dynasty has a Three Treasures eunuch." Gu Qinghuan said.
When the dynasty was retreating steadily and was forced to cross south in clothes, the practitioners of the inner study hall left behind by the Sanbao eunuchs came out in full force and defeated the forty-eight Arhats who crossed the river on the roaring river.
The reign of the dynasty continues to this day.
They walked in Yongle City, crossing the streets and alleys, and listened to Gu Qinghuan's words: "Problems also arise -"
When the imperial court was defeated, the emperor died in battle, and his heirs were missing in the panic and fled south. However, the sky cannot live without sun, and the country cannot live without a king. Faced with the situation of the broken mountains and rivers at that time, we must choose
An emperor comes.
The officials finally selected the son of the emperor's uncle who died in battle to succeed him to the throne.
"From now on, it will be difficult for the emperor to ascend. There are only two emperors who are willing to work hard because they are not sick or suffering from disasters, and they still have talents——"
When Gu Qinghuan said this, he was very pleased and said to Lu Bai: "Their talents are far inferior to yours. Their only advantage is that they are powerful and can collect rare treasures from all over the world. Moreover, they have people in the sky.
So it’s easy to ascend.”
Lu Bai was happy, he liked hearing these words, even though he knew he was a big wall hanging.
Gu Qinghuan said: "These two finally ascended."
Among the two ascended emperors, the most recent one is the Dade Emperor.
He was not the most talented among the previous emperors, but he was the most diligent and good at employing people. He was not disturbed by worldly affairs and worked hard enough, so he was finally promoted.
His successor was Emperor Dawu.
Compared to his father, Emperor Dawu was more talented, but this emperor was really ridiculous, a good wife, and liked to catch monsters. He did many outrageous things, which caused a mess in the Southern Dynasty.
"At that time, his father left a group of loyal and good officials for him, but they could not see his behavior and repeatedly advised him. The emperor simply did not go to court and did not see the officials. Instead, he reused eunuchs in two factories and let the eunuchs deal with the officials.
." Gu Qinghuan told Lu Bai that it was about that time that all the officials united to resist the imperial power, showing signs of party struggle.
Emperor Dawu didn't reign long, and he killed himself when he went into the water to kill a dragon.
"He died when he died, but the problem is that he left no heirs, and because Emperor Dade was too diligent, he only had this son. The consequence was that Emperor Dade had no successors."
Gu Qinghuan said.
In the end, under the joint discussion of hundreds of officials and the inner study hall, they settled on the grandson of Emperor Dade's younger brother, who was also Emperor Dawu's cousin and successor to the throne. "This emperor is the current emperor," Gu Qinghuan said.
In the eyes of the officials, Emperor Dawu's cousin was young and promising, had no inferiority complex, was talented in cultivation, and was extremely intelligent. He was a good candidate to become emperor.
However, as soon as the emperor came to the throne, he gave a powerful blow to all officials.