After the Thousand-Autumn Festival of the Holy Lord this year, we first made some small internal adjustments and transferred several senior eunuchs back to our side.
The eight eunuchs specially left to the Holy Lord by the late Lord all have the surname Tian. The order is: filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, trust, propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame. Considering that Tian Dashe is too unpleasant to hear, the so-called "knowledge"
"You are shameful and then brave", so the Holy Lord kindly changed it to "Tian Dayong".
Up to now, only three of the eight eunuchs have died due to various reasons. Tian Dazhong and Tian Dayi have been taking turns serving the Holy Lord, while Tian Dayong is hiding in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cultivate a new generation of loyal successors for the next Lord of the World.
The three eunuchs gathered around the Holy Lord. No one suspected anything, except that the Holy Lord was old and nostalgic.
What caused the ministers to talk a lot was that the princes did not return to their respective fiefdoms as before, but stayed in Shangjing and were assigned tasks by the Holy Lord. The six princes, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Husbandry, and the Ministry of Personnel,
In the Ministry of Works, each person is assigned a section to help with management.
What is unexpected is that the Holy Lord actually allocated the richest household to Li Jia, the oldest prince among the princes. It has been a custom since ancient times to establish direct descendants and elders. This is called the establishment of virtuous people. Most of them have many meaningful stories.
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The courtiers did not dare to speculate on anything, and most of them remained silent. The six princes each had their own thoughts and talents. Li Rong, who was assigned to the Criminal Department, was the first to seize the opportunity.
At the end of November, the sky was overcast, and a middle-aged man drove an ox cart into the city. On the simple ox cart, a half-blind old woman was leaning on a man with a broken leg, both of whom were driving the cart.
The middle-aged man jumped off the bullock cart, secretly handed a five-tael gold ingot to a city gate guard, and asked in a low voice: "Sir, I would like to ask, how to get to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice?"
The guard stuffed the ingot back and gave it back to the middle-aged man: "Brother, we don't do this when we go to the capital. In the lobby of the Ministry of Justice, you walk along the ten-mile long street to the most prosperous area and see a six-story restaurant called Xiangrui Tower.
Just ask anyone and you will know."
The middle-aged man kept bowing his hands and bowing, nodding and bowing his head to say thank you. When the guard saw that he had big hands and feet, and a simple and honest face, and that he was an old and disabled person in the car, he couldn't help but ask: "Brother, what are you guys doing?"
What's going on? Why do you think of going to the lobby of the Ministry of Justice? Have you suffered any injustice? Do you want to sue the officials from the people? Or sue the people from the people?"
The middle-aged man rubbed his hands and didn't know how to answer, so he could only drag the kind guard to the bullock cart.
Seeing this, the old woman hurriedly straightened her clothes, and the middle-aged man quickly helped the two of them get out of the car. The old woman bowed to the guard: "Sir, our family is unfortunate. The woman wants to go to the capital's criminal department to sue the eldest son.
Unfilial!"
"Mother-in-law, can you tell me in detail?"
"The eldest son of a common woman falsely accused the second daughter-in-law of promiscuity, but the bookkeeper misunderstood and sentenced the second daughter-in-law to death by hanging. The woman and her second son appealed everywhere but were unable to do anything. That's why they had to do it.
Go to the capital and find the adults from the Ministry of Punishment to seek justice for the women."
The city gate guard who went to the capital saw so many helpless situations that he had no choice but to go to the capital to seek justice from the common people. Upon hearing this, the city gate guard turned around to explain to his colleagues a few times, walked up to the three of them and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there.
!" The three of them thanked them profusely and followed the guards away.
The guard was familiar with the situation and took the three people to the second gate of the Criminal Department. He walked up to an official and said, "Mother-in-law, how did your eldest son falsely accuse your second daughter-in-law? Who accepted this case? You and me
As long as the Lord says so."
The man with missing legs quickly took out a banknote from his body and was about to hand it to the official. The guard had quick eyes and quick hands and stopped him quickly: "Brother, I really don't want to go to the capital like this. If you have any grievances, just tell me.
The adults will definitely help you handle it."
The disabled man sighed with tears in his eyes: "It's different going to the capital. The grassroots family spent two hundred and seventy-four taels of silver over there in Shuoshui, and they made a small splash. The jailer was only willing to give us some things.
Madam, we are not even allowed to see each other."
The guard patted his shoulder sympathetically and said to him: "Mr. Yun is the right hand of Mr. Xiao, the Minister of Punishment. Don't worry. If you have any grievances, it doesn't matter."
The old woman and the man with missing legs nodded repeatedly.
King Li Rong of Qi happened to be assigned to the Ministry of Punishment. In the past few days, he had been taking turns to familiarize himself with several departments under the Ministry of Punishment. When he heard that three countrymen were coming from Shuoshui to redress their grievances, he quickly ran there with his entourage.
The old woman here, Zhao Qishi, started to tell the story of the cause and effect with tears and runny noses.
The Zhao Qi family has two sons, the eldest son Zhao Huan and the younger son Zhao Xi, both of whom are villagers in Zhaojiaji. Zhao Qi's husband died early, so she raised her two older children alone with great hardships. Zhao Huan learned carpentry craftsmanship, and Zhao Xixi learned the art of carpentry.
After some martial arts, farming and hunting, life was going well.
Seven years ago, Zhao Xi and the villagers encountered a hungry wolf while hunting in the mountains. Another villager was killed on the spot. While Zhao Xi was trying to escape, he fell down a cliff. Although he was lucky to survive, his left foot was smashed by a falling rock.
, can only be cut off. Zhao Xi’s daughter-in-law, Zhao Jin, whose maiden name is Qiaoying, did not dislike Zhao Xi’s disability, but took good care of it, and the villagers also praised it.
As time went by, Zhao Huan's wife gave birth to five sons and two daughters. In addition, Zhao Huan's carpentry job was mediocre, and the eldest son and the second son married wives one after another as they got older. The family's life became increasingly difficult.
On the other hand, Zhao Xi's family, although Zhao Xi has a disabled foot, spent a lot of money on medical treatment in the first two or three years. However, Qiaoying is clever and has a skill in tying silk flowers that look like real ones. She is also good at embroidery, which can be used to exchange money, which is enough for food and clothing.
Later, in order to make more money, Qiaoying personally took her silk flowers to the flower shop in Shuoshui City to sell them.
Shuoshui City has a huge wharf on the edge of the canal. In addition, it is only a hundred miles away from Beijing. Merchants are accustomed to using it as a transit point. They stop here to reorganize their goods before going to the capital. Most of the merchants come and go.
With a lot of money on hand, Shuoshui City's restaurants, flower houses and even dormitories became very prosperous.
Qiaoying is an extremely smart woman. At first, she only sold silk flowers to those courtesans who were average or even inferior. Then she hid herself under the "Qunfang Jingyan Building", the largest and most luxurious building in Shuoshui City, and quietly observed those courtesans.
I secretly memorized the courtesan's makeup, flowers, hairstyle, clothing and accessories, etc., and constantly figured out how to improve the style and quality of my silk flowers.
Only when I have accumulated enough capital can I purchase better quality materials such as silk, silk, silk, satin, and gauze. According to the makeup and makeup of those fireworks women, I can make more exquisite, more beautiful and unique silk flowers.
Then she sold them to prostitutes at the "Qunfang Jingyan Building" at a high price and obtained high profits. Later, in order to make more money, she learned how to put on makeup.
Qiaoying earns at least fifty or sixty taels of silver every month by helping these fireworks women put on makeup, design their styles, and match them with exquisite silk flowers.
After two or three years of hard life, Zhao Xi's family became prosperous again. The eldest son of Zhao Xi's family is thirteen this year, and the second son is ten. After the family discussed it, they started construction at the beginning of the year, built a large house with three courtyards, and bought a new one.
One hundred and sixty-three acres of fertile land. Several tenant farmers were hired to help manage the one hundred and sixty acres of fertile land. This year's harvest was so bumper that it made Zhao Huan jealous.
Long before Zhao Xi broke his leg, Zhao Huan basically "married a wife and forgot about her mother", and could only ask for and not contribute anything to his mother, Zhao Qishi.
After Zhao Xi broke her leg, Mrs. Zhao Qi didn't want to drag her younger son down, so she wanted to live with her eldest son Zhao Huan, but Zhao Huan's wife kicked her out. Mrs. Zhao couldn't think about it for a while and almost threw herself into the river. It was Qiaoying and Ji.
The kind-hearted villagers dragged Ms. Zhao Qi home by force and persuasion.
Now that Zhao Xi's family is booming, Zhao Huan, his wife, children and even grandchildren come to the house frequently, asking for everything they can find, including oil, rice, sauce, vinegar, tea, food and drink, old clothes, shoes and socks, and even bits of cloth.
You can take it, but you have to borrow a few copper coins that will never be returned.
Although Mrs. Zhao Qi hated her son for being ineffective, after all, he was the son of her own child, and she had a loving mother's heart, so she could not bear to ignore him no matter what.
Zhao Xi has a good temper and Qiao Ying is a generous person. In order to save more money, the couple deposited the money in a bank in Shuoshui City and compounded it. Thinking that the family did not have much money for Zhao Huan, they did not talk to Zhao Huan.
What did the family care about? Unexpectedly, the good intentions were not rewarded, but Zhao Huan was indulged in more and more desires.
After Qiaoying entered winter, she was found to be pregnant, and Zhao Huan had bad thoughts.
It has been seven years since Zhao Xi broke his leg, and Qiao Ying has never been pregnant. There are also some people in the village who secretly gossip that Zhao Xi has hurt the roots of his descendants, so it is impossible to have another child. There is also such frivolity as to take advantage of others.
Those who shamelessly flirted with Qiaoying were sternly rejected by Qiaoying.
Later, Zhao Xi recovered well, and asked someone to help him build a half-person-high stand. Zhao Xi usually used the stand by himself to check the farming conditions in the fields. Those crazy bees and butterflies took notice of the people in the same village.
For my sake, let go of the flower Qiaoying.
Zhao Huan first secretly incited several villagers who were jealous of Zhao Xi's family and fanned the flames at Li Zheng, saying bad things about Qiao Ying's unruly behavior towards women.
Li Zheng is old-fashioned and old-fashioned, and his ears are soft. Besides, all Qiao Ying earns every day is from the fireworks woman's selling herself. She often walks by the river, how can her shoes not get wet? So Li Zheng opened an ancestral hall and wanted to punish Qiao Ying severely.
, based on Zhengcun Ji.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xi and Zhao Qi's mother and son defended Qiaoying to the death. Unless Li Zheng came up with conclusive evidence, otherwise they would go to the capital to file a complaint, and they would have to seek for their innocence.
Zhao Xi's family has a good reputation in the village. Their life has been good in the past few years. They have helped the villagers wherever they can. No one has testified that Qiao Ying is not a woman. Zhao Huan does not dare to show up.
Come to testify, after all, I still have to live in the village. If I go too far, I will not only lose a good place to enjoy the autumn wind in the future, but I will also be poked in the spine by my fellow villagers, saying that he does not act like a big brother and bullies his younger brother for his disability.
Li Zheng had no choice but to give up.
However, Zhao Xi's brand-new big house with three entrances, one hundred and sixty-three acres of fertile land, and the pile of money Qiaoying earned made Zhao Huan restless day and night. Even in his sleep, his brother and his family were suffering misfortune.
Unexpectedly, he took over all of Zhao Xi's property and enjoyed a good meal every day, including meat for every meal and wine for every meal. When he had nothing to do, he would play counting coins or supervise the work of the tenant farmers.
After careful planning with his wife and eldest son, Zhao Huan refused to do anything and joined forces with three idle men from the Zhao family to stop Qiaoying who was going to deliver silk flowers in Shuoshui City, and tore her clothes to pieces.
She was half-naked and tied together with Zhao Tonghua, a young boy from the same village, and escorted to the government office. They falsely accused Qiaoying of being unruly, having an affair, and even being pregnant.
It was the end of the year, and the government office was very busy. Lord Zhizhou was handling river affairs by the canal, and the boss was trying the case on his behalf. It turned out that the witnesses and material evidence were all in place. In addition, during this period, several incidents happened.
After the peach incident, Qiaoying was sentenced to death at will to rectify the law and discipline.
When Mrs. Zhao Qi said this, she hated her eldest son for being such a wolf-hearted person who would do this to his sister-in-law for money. She was also worried that Qiaoying, a weak girl, had been framed and imprisoned in prison. She didn't know what was going on now, and couldn't help but