According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, slaves and maidservants were "insignificant slaves" as they were "shared with livestock". "If any slave or maidservant is guilty and his master kills him without asking for a lawsuit, he will be punished with a hundred sticks; if he is killed without guilt, he will be sentenced to one year in prison."
Lu Qiao is Yu Xuanji's maid, so even if Lu Qiao is innocent and Yu Xuanji secretly kills his maid, he will only have to be imprisoned for one year at most, and he will be released after serving his sentence.
However, she met Wen Zhang, a famous and cruel official in the Tang Dynasty.
Wen Zhang is a distant relative of Wen Tingyun. He relied on his father's influence to become an official. In order to gain fame, he behaved very harshly.
He once served as the military governor of Xu Si, and wanted to lead Xuzhou's silver sword soldiers to guard Shu to prevent trouble between Tubo and Nanzhao. However, the emperor was too strict and the silver sword soldiers were unwilling to obey. They actually rebelled, and the Tang court had to find someone to calm him down.
mess, clean up his mess.
As a result, after this group of silver sword soldiers were suppressed, they were still sent to Guizhou, Lingnan, to guard the border for six years. When the time came, they did not return home in rotation, and directly asked Pang Xun, the grain officer, to lead the uprising. This Pang Xun uprising lasted for more than a year.
It shook the foundation of the entire Tang Dynasty.
In the end, the Tang court contacted tribes such as Shatuo and Tuguhun to send troops to suppress Pang Xun's army. The leader of Shatuo, Zhu Xie, was granted the title of Shanyu Dadu Protector, Zhenwu Jiedushi, and was named Li Guochang. His son
Zhu Xie Ya'er also changed his name to Li Keyong and was named Yunzhong Ya General for his merits.
Even though such a big thing happened, Wen Zhang came from a famous family after all. His father Wen Zao was once the Minister of Rites, and was the sixth grandson of Wen Daya, Duke of Li State. So he was transferred to Jing Zhaoyin, and he still enforced the law like a mountain and used harsh punishments!
Wen Zhang would impose severe punishments on even the smallest crimes. Even the children of high-ranking officials would not be able to escape as long as they fell into his hands. He killed a large number of lawless people without mercy, and everyone was afraid of his cruelty.
, so it actually gained a reputation for good management and outstanding ability.
In order to facilitate the people to complain and redress their grievances, Wen Zhang placed a hanging bell directly at the entrance of Yin Yamen in Jingzhao so that complainants could ring the bell at any time.
But one day, he suddenly heard a loud ringing from the bell hanging outside the hall. He sent someone out to check, but he didn't see anyone nearby. Strangely, the bell rang three times in a row, and he discovered that the person who was ringing the bell turned out to be a crow.
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After Wen Zhang learned about it, he guessed that the crow must have had its nest ripped out, and the mother and son came together to avenge themselves.
So the crow flew in front, and the government officials followed all the way behind. Finally, they found the bastard who dug out the bird's nest and arrested him.
Wen Zhang personally tried the case. It was unusual for the crows to ring bells to avenge people. The criminals dug out bird's nests randomly and behaved badly! Although the "Tang Law" was searched, there was no relevant legal provision for digging out bird's nests. It stands to reason that he should be acquitted. At best, he should be acquitted.
After some ideological education, Wen Zhang still sentenced the bird thief to death and executed it immediately!
Wen Zhang's reason was: "Although there are no relevant legal provisions to punish the crime, it is rare in the world for a crow to file a complaint. It is an auspicious and supernatural thing! If it is not handled well, it will affect the relationship between the emperor and heaven, so the sentence must be severe, severe and speedy!"
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So when he encountered the case of Yu Xuanji's beating and murder of Lu Qiao, one can imagine how he handled it.
Wen Zhang has always disliked Yu Xuanji very much, because Yu Xuanji was able to stir up scholars, and her singing and poetry with Wen Tingjun was a very important reason! It really ruined the Wen family's family tradition! In addition, her status as the concubine of Li Yi's number one scholar also
Very important! Jingzhao Mansion has long wanted to get rid of this immoral woman!
This time, Yu Xuanji really fell into the hands of the King of Hell!
Wen Zhang was deeply disgusted with this kind of fake Taoist nun who was pretending to be a monk and immoral. He wanted to sentence her to death just like the bird thief, but there were too many high-ranking Yu Xuanji patrons who came to intercede.
It was hard to make a decision at the moment, so I handed it over to the Holy One.
However, Emperor Yizong was upset about the condition of his daughter Princess Tongchang at this time. He prayed to God and worshiped Buddha all day long. When he saw that there was such an immoral Taoist temple in Chang'an, the capital city, and that he had affairs with many officials in the capital, he was so angry that he directly sentenced him to death.
I’ll be asking for help next autumn!
In this way, Yu Xuanji went to jail.
Wu Qiudao has not appeared for a whole chapter. When I heard this, I felt a little strange. Why did things turn back to the death of Princess Tongchang?
The cruel official Wen Zhang was expelled, Pang Xun's silver sword army revolted, the consort Wei Baoheng was banned, Prime Minister Lu Yan was demoted, and the birth mother Yu Xuanji was sentenced to death. All of them were linked to the death of Princess Tongchang. It seemed that the death of Princess Tongchang had become a symbol of the whole world.
It was a turning point in the history of the Tang Dynasty.
He asked: "Old man, how did she survive?"
When Yuchang heard that he was still unwilling to call "Mom", he sighed slightly in his heart, but still said: "It was the devils from the Demon Cult who contacted your biological father, Wen Tingjun, and they secretly rescued your mother."
After Wen Tingjun learned that Yu Xuanji had been involved in such a major murder case, he couldn't bear it and did not reject the proposal from the demon sect.
He first approached Wen Zhang in the name of a relative, and then arranged for a demon sect believer to be a jailer in the Jingzhao Mansion Prison.
In July of the 10th year of Xiantong, the demon sect disciple took the opportunity to secretly let Yu Xuanji go and brought him all the way back to Quanzhou Wannianluo General Altar.
In August, Princess Tongchang died of illness at the age of 21. The late Emperor Yizong was so sad that he held a grand funeral for Princess Tongchang. According to historical records, "She was buried with clothes and toys, and everything was covered with hundreds and twenty pieces."
.Splendid pearls and jade, shining for more than thirty miles."
Yizong listened to the words of his consort Wei Baoheng and beheaded all the imperial doctors such as Han Zongshao and Kang Zhongyin. He also imprisoned more than 300 of their relatives and handed them over to Jingzhao Yin Wenzhang for punishment. Prime Minister Liu Zhan and Jingzhao Yin Wenzhang wrote essays to admonish the excessive practice of law.
, was scolded out.
Prime Minister Liu Zhan was sent away to be the Sima of Huanzhou; the late emperor sent people to investigate Wen Zhang's crimes, and found out that Wen Zhang, who had always been a strict housekeeper, had accepted bribes from the family of the imperial physician and demoted him to the position of Sima of Zhenzhou. Wen Zhang could not bear it.
Humiliated, he committed suicide by taking poison.
As a result, no one is clinging to Yu Xuanji's murder of Lu Qiao anymore.
Later, the Demon Cult made waves in Quanzhou, and Yu Xuanji also acted as a demon sect witch among them.
After all, Quanzhou is too close to Pu County. Yuchang once met Yu Xuanji when he was fighting against the Demon Cult. After all, the two were connected by blood, so they recognized each other almost immediately. Yuchang wanted to persuade Yu Xuanji
When he returned home, Yu Xuanji refused.
In the following years, Yu Chang tried many times and finally brought his daughter Yu Xuanji back to Mei Island and locked her up, hoping that one day she would give up her belief in the Demon Cult and return to the Dragon Worship Cult.
But Yu Xuanji was protected by the magic of the Demon Cult, and her appearance was not as ugly as that of ordinary mermaid hybrids. She disliked the appearance of mermaids, and had been stubborn for more than ten years, refusing to join the Dragon Worship Cult, so Yu Changzhang hoped that Wu Qiudao would become her biological child.
A son can persuade his mother.
Wu Qiudao stretched himself and finally investigated the original family background clearly.
My family background is really complicated. My father is the famous poet Wen Tingjun, my mother is a famous demon witch, and my grandfather is the leader of a dehumanizing cult.
And he himself is a mermaid hybrid who is destined to become a fish-headed man when he reaches adulthood.
Wu Qiudao could only write the word "miserable" in capital letters!