The Crown Princess Pei Wanying gave birth to a son. Seeing that Li Hong's line was about to become the bloodline of the emperor, the Pei family naturally became a descendant.
Li Zhi killed Changsun Wuji, a descendant of his clan, because he hated his ability to cover the sky with one hand.
Li Zhi abolished the Queen Wang family and replaced Wu Mei, who had no foundation, as the queen. This may not have been for the purpose of controlling the descendants.
Everyone says that the current crown prince is wise and has the air of an emperor. This means that Prince Li Hong hates having a powerful descendant.
At the same time, everyone knew that if the famous Yun Na Buddha girl in the Tang Dynasty was not Zhengshuo of the Han family, the position of crown princess would not be filled by Pei Wanying of the Pei family.
The reason why Pei Wanying was able to move into the East Palace was entirely because the prince considered it for his own heirs.
For many reasons, the Li royal family cannot tolerate an overly powerful descendant.
The Pei family has many talents, even Pei Yan of the Pei family in Chang'an, not to mention his foresight and foresight. Since he became an official, he has moved three times a year from an unknown official to a well-known householder.
Under this situation, Pei should have been invisible and hidden his power. Unfortunately, Pei may have been suppressed for too long. Only when he showed some signs of revival, he couldn't wait to jump out and show off his power.
There are many talented people, demonstrating the power and wealth of the Pei family.
Yunchu found an extremely unreliable reason in Jinyang - harassing the purity of Mingda Temple and plotting to make money from Jinyang's capital pool. This kind of powerful reputation that sounded false at first sight killed more than 400 members of Pei Man's family in Jinyang.
, although the officials of the Pei family were jumping up and down all over the world to cry out for injustice and complain to the emperor, they finally got into the hands of the emperor and were thrown into the incinerator specially designed for burning memorials without even looking at them.
At the same time, this is also an important reason why Zhou Xing, a cruel official, chose Pei as his breakthrough point after arriving in Chang'an.
What kind of person is Pei Xingjian?
How could he not see through the cause and consequences of the matter? It was a pity that he was a junior in the Pei family. Although he had a prominent official position, he had little say in the family.
Although she had many good words to say, no one was willing to listen, and she could only watch Pei's suffering.
Out of curiosity, Yun Chu walked into the dungeon of Wannian County with Shen Ru holding a hot teapot.
The dungeon is as clean, bright and airy as ever.
The reason why the dungeon in Wannian County has not been turned into a spooky place is entirely because it is warm in winter and cool in summer. The county magistrate sometimes brings his family here to enjoy the shade and have a good sleep. It is not clean.
Prison head Yanjiu saw the county magistrate coming and knew what the magistrate wanted to see, so he took him and Shen Ru directly to the torture chamber.
It has to be said that the torture chamber in Wannian County is also clean. Except for the strong smell of blood, the floor has been washed with clean water and is spotless.
Yan Jiu saw that the blood flowing from the prisoner's neck had stained the wooden shelf red, so he quickly took out a rag with cold water from the basin and wiped off the blood on the shelf.
Yun Chu said to Zhou Xing, who was lying on the desk writing the file seriously: "Don't work too hard. If you risk your life, you will have no life to fight for in the future."
Zhou Xing, who was selfless in writing the dossier, raised his head and saw Yun Chu and Shen Ru coming in. He stood up and said, "I just got a little clue. A certain family has to do it personally."
Yunchu looked at Pei Lian, whose neck was stretched by a wooden frame, and asked Zhou Xing: "What did you ask?"
Zhou Xingdao: "You know, sir, that since the fifth year of Yonghui, Pei Lian's family has not paid a penny in taxes."
Yun Chu looked at Shen Ru, then at the unconscious Pei Lian and said, "A certain family thinks that the tax collection work in Chang'an is quite complete. How did he evade taxes?"
Zhou Xingdao: "You have a law in Chang'an. In order to take care of small traders and merchants, there is an upper limit on their tax rates. No matter how much money small traders or merchants earn, they must pay according to this upper limit. This is different from the needs of wealthy merchants. The tax rates paid can be quite different.
Pei Lian dispersed his bulk goods before they entered Chang'an. He also found subordinates and servants to open several very small shops, which met Chang'an City's exemption conditions for small traders. In fact, The total value of the goods handled by them every year is no less than 10,000 guan.
This is because Liushui Brand has cheap conditions for its promoters, so if other people’s goods are sold through Liushui Brand’s channels, Chang’an City will only receive a pitiful amount of money.”
Yun Chu looked at the unconscious Pei Lian in surprise, shook his head and said, "A certain family thought that aristocratic families were all shameless people and would not take advantage of small businessmen and hawkers.
Unexpectedly, this bastard would not let go of even this little benefit.
By the way, have you raided his house?"
Zhou Xing smiled and said: "I came to Chang'an just to kill people."
Yun Chu nodded and said to Shen Ru: "You can send the tax collectors to search the house. No matter how much they find, they will be put into the treasury. If it is not enough to pay the tax, then continue to pursue it until the tax amount is paid."
Shen Rudao: "You have to give a number, right?"
Yun Chu said: "There is no amount, and if there is no further recourse, it will be considered as making up for the tax amount."
Shen Ru agreed, and left the dungeon to find the tax collector and Zhang Jia, planning to let them jointly handle the matter. He must make clear arrangements with them. Pei has armor, a crossbow, and even gunpowder. When he goes to raid his home, he must careful.
After watching Shen Ru leave, Yun Chu said to Zhou Xing: "It is a natural thing to confiscate the property for tax arrears. The problem is that this little mistake is not enough to make you kill people, right?"
Zhou Xing shook the file he had just completed and pointed to a few items and read them to Yun Chu.
"On July 6, the third year of Yonghui, Pei Lian and his guest Zhou Qian said: Your Majesty endures the scorching heat in Taiji Palace, how can a certain family enjoy the breeze here..."
"On August 27, the fourth year of Yonghui, Pei Lian went to Xiansheng Temple in Zhongnan Mountain to offer incense. While cooking chicken and drinking wine with monk Hong Jin, he said: The emperor, I am not as good as me."
"On November 3rd, the fourth year of Yonghui, Pei Lian and his retainer Peng Tong were watching a dance in the mansion and said: The emperor has never seen such a good time and such a beautiful woman."
"In the second year of Xianqing, Pei Lian..."
The more Yun Chu listened, the more frightened he became, because when he was chatting with Di Renjie and Wen Wen, what he said was much more explosive than what Pei Lian said. They had studied everything from the emperor's ecstatic posture to the intensity and direction. Said, and also said whether the emperor was sleeping with the mother and daughter when he came to visit the Korean lady and the Guo Guo lady...
If Pei Lian was hung on a shelf and stretched taller just because he said these words, wouldn't the words he said to Wen Wen and Di Renjie be enough to quarter them into pieces?
Zhou Xing chuckled and said, "Does the Lord think this is all a trivial matter?"
Yun Chu nodded and said: "When a certain family is in charge of governance, if they hear some disrespectful remarks about a certain family, they usually laugh it off."
Zhou Xing shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, you are wrong. When a certain family asks a case, you don't care what they said. It is enough if you have resentment in your heart, and then you go to the people who said such nonsense to Pei Lian to pursue the case. Do you believe it?"
Don’t you believe that you will be able to get Pei Lian’s true guilt from these people?
Moreover, it must be a real accusation, and I will never make up some nonsense to accuse them. There must be witnesses and physical evidence that mutually confirm the guilt."
Yun Chu thought about Zhou Xing's fierceness during the Wu Zhou period, swallowed his saliva and said, "You must believe this."
Zhou Xing pointed to the dossier he had just finished writing and said: "The most urgent task is to bring in Weishi and Dushi. The more people there are, the better I can take advantage of the chaos and defeat them one by one."
Yun Chu couldn't help but nodded, looked at Yan Jiu, then looked at Zhou Xing, and sighed in his heart. After all, it was Zhou Xing who seemed more professional in handling things.
Yan Jiu's method, which only knows how to use torture to force the other party to extract the confession he wants, is really amateurish compared to Zhou Xing.
Just when Yun Chu was about to leave, Pei Lian suddenly woke up and slowly opened his eyes. After seeing Yun Chu, he spit out a mouthful of black blood and said with difficulty: "Jun Hou, please save me..."
Yunchu came to Pei Lian and said: "I just realized that since the fourth year of Yonghui, you have not paid a penny in taxes to Wannian County.
You also know that the government relies on these taxes to make a living. If you don't pay a penny, there will be no friendship between us. You are not a subject under my rule. What position do you ask me to use to save you?
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Pei Lian's eyes widened and he said, "I'll hand it over."
Yun Chu said: "It's already too late. Because you have evaded taxes for many years, I have ordered your house to be raided. If you don't get anything from the raid, I don't know if it will be enough to pay the taxes."
Pei Lian's eyes grew bigger and bigger as he waited. Seeing that there was only outgoing air and no incoming air, Zhou Xing raised his foot and kicked Pei Lian hard in the crotch. Pei Lian's originally dull expression
He twisted quickly, and because of the pain, he twisted his body hard on the shelf, and began to gasp for air.
Zhou Xing smiled and said to Yun Chu: "Jun Hou, you see, no matter how strong this person's desire to die is, how desperate his heart is, as long as his body feels pain, he will definitely work hard to survive. It's really strange.
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Yun Chu hurriedly returned to his mansion and asked Gentle who was sitting by the stove drinking pots of tea: "How many levels are there in the human hell?"
Gentle took a sip of tea, exhaled and said: "Zhong Kui said there are only eighteen levels. I think there can only be eighteen levels. If the eighteen levels of hell are not enough to punish evil and promote good, then what else is there in the world?
Where are the nostalgic ones?"
Yun Chu wanted to put down the teapot in his hand, but found that the pot of hot tea he had brought was already cold, and he had not even taken a sip of it.
Yun Chu took a sip of cold tea and said, "I don't think Zhou Xing is an evil ghost from the eighteenth level of hell, but more like an evil ghost from the nineteenth level or a deeper hell."
Wen Wen looked at Yun Chu as calm as a Buddha, and after a long time he announced the Buddha's name and said: "Amitabha, what the hell do you have to do to watch Zhou Xing torture people?"
Yun Chu nodded.
Gentle said: "If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, just pretend it doesn't exist. I remember you said this to me before."