Liang Shicheng smiled respectfully and said: "In the case of Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu, in the end, we asked the official to write and comment on it."
When Zhao Ji nodded, Liang Shicheng, who was good at flattering and serving, was already in the Yutang inkstone, preparing cinnabar and ink for Zhao Guan's family.
As soon as Zhao Ji stretched out his hand, Liang Shicheng handed the imperial brush into the official's hand.
Zhao Ji thought for a while and asked: "Liang Daguan, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu were sentenced to beheading. Do you think it is too severe?"
"Eh?!" Liang Shicheng smiled bitterly, but complained in his heart: Guan Jia, it's hard to answer this question for you? Our family didn't understand Guan Jia's intentions. Do we want these three people to be sentenced to a harsher sentence? Or should they be given a lighter sentence?
What?
Tsk tsk, today's Zhao Guan family has always been able to see the hidden side of the official's thoughts by observing their words and expressions. Liang Shicheng is also in trouble now.
Liang Shicheng groaned and replied: "The official is wise, but the old slave is stupid. Since the official asked the old slave, in the old slave's opinion, the three traitorous officials Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and Wang Fu deserve to receive this punishment."
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Zhao Ji nodded.
Liang Shicheng was granted amnesty.
Zhao Ji dipped his pen in his hand and wrote on the judgment document: "The traitors Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu should be executed. However, I have always governed the world with kindness, benevolence, and kindness, so I changed the sentence to the traitors Cai Jing, Gao Qi, and Wang Fu."
The three of them, Qiu and Wang Fu, changed from beheading to hanging..."
Liang Shicheng, who was standing aside, immediately knelt down and kowtowed when he saw Zhu Pi from Zhao Guan's house, flattering him and saying:
"The official is truly a benevolent king.
For Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu, who were the most evil, they changed the original execution from beheading to hanging, and gave these three criminals their whole bodies. Such benevolent behavior by officials will surely be praised by future generations as 'the benevolent monarch of the ages'
!"
"Haha..." Zhao Ji sneered.
He knew Liang Shicheng, one of the Six Thieves of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was trying to flatter him, the official Zhao family.
In the criminal law of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were three major levels of death penalty, namely Lingchi, beheading and hanging.
Lingchi, commonly known as death by a thousand cuts. Those who are treasonous and unforgivable will be punished by Lingchi!
Beheading generally refers to beheading. The beheadings of the dynasties before and after the Song Dynasty also included beheading (which is even more cruel. The person who was beheaded could not die immediately, and the intestines and blood would be poured out.
He died after his hands were dipped in blood and he wrote the unjust numbers on the ground.).
Hanging, in execution, is divided into two types: hanging and strangulation.
When the death penalty prisoners of the Song Dynasty were suitable for hanging or beheading, they had to be strictly tried and reviewed, and then submitted to the emperor for approval before they could take effect...
Zhao Ji saw the bloody scene of beheading from the last time he watched the beheading of the demon Dao Lin Lingsu. It was really a bit inhumane and quite scary.
Therefore, in order to show his benevolence and to appease the fearful little minds of the scholar-bureaucrats all over the world, Zhao Ji changed the punishment from beheading to hanging when he was writing and writing. This allowed Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu to avoid being beheaded with their heads in different places.
punishment.
Liang Shicheng's flattering praise made Zhao Ji feel disgusted.
Zhao Ji's face darkened, and Liang Shicheng immediately shut up.
"Eh?!" Zhao Ji wanted to scold Liang Shicheng, but he didn't expect that this thief was actually quite sensible.
Zhao Ji did not reprimand Liang Shicheng. After all, the people around the emperor must maintain a good relationship with each other if they are used; if they do not want to be used, they should be terminated happily.
Otherwise, a small part of the abnormal deaths of many important figures in history were caused by the murders of people around them.
Zhao Ji picked up his pen and continued Zhu's comments:
"Tomorrow at noon, at the Xishuimen execution ground, the criminals Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu will be hanged..."
Zhao Ji handed the trial documents approved by Zhu to Liang Shicheng.
Liang Shicheng took the emperor's written document and accepted the decree happily on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely panicked.
After all, he knew that he, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu were basically the same person.
Liang Shicheng took Zhu's documents and prayed countless times to heaven, bless him. Whenever his name, Liang Shicheng, never appeared in such a convicting Zhu's document...
Zhao Ji continued to issue an order: "At noon tomorrow, Senior Officer Liang will serve as the supervisor. From tomorrow on, he must be responsible and conscientious..."
Liang Shicheng left the Chuigong Hall to go on errands...
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Zhao Ji thought that the execution of two high-ranking officials and Cai Jing, who had just taken office this time, would inevitably cause shock and concern to officials in Beijing and officials from all walks of life.
Of course, this is also good. As long as public opinion is guided correctly, it will definitely serve the purpose of warning officials of all sizes in the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Ji drafted another imperial edict, to the effect of:
Summon officials of the fifth rank and above in the capital to go to the execution ground on the West Water River in the west of the city at three o'clock at noon to watch the execution of the rebellious ministers Cai Jing, Gao Qiu and Wang Fu. They should also prepare pens, inks, paper and inkstones so that they can write on the spot what they saw and thought.
You can write poems and write them down, or you can write them down...
Zhao Ji also learned that the last time he watched the beheading of the demon Dao Lin Lingsu, the execution ground was tightly surrounded and there were potential safety hazards. He asked several commanders of the Imperial City Division in advance to lead the personal officers and relatives to make simple arrangements.
Go to the scene and arrange the viewing area and the aisle area where space must be left.
Of course, Zhao Ji doesn't have to do these little things himself. He only needs to give instructions and someone will take care of them for you.
Zhao Ji suddenly had a whim: There were no entertainment activities in the Song Dynasty. When watching beheadings or hangings on the execution ground, the people were very enthusiastic about watching!
For a moment, Zhao Ji even thought about it, should he take another wave of wool from the officials like they did before entering Gen Yue?
However, Zhao Ji only thought about it and did not actually implement it.
Don’t exploit the common people too harshly!
When Cai Jing was prime minister, he had already exploited the people of the Song Dynasty enough.
When Cai Jing was in power, he implemented various economic "accumulation" harsh policies.
Cai Jing presided over the economic reform of tea, salt, wine and other monopoly areas in the Song Dynasty, implemented a monopoly system, and merchants competed for profits.
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When Cai Jing came to power, he also reformed the currency. Due to the huge border defense expenses during the Zhezong Dynasty, the national treasury savings since Yuanfeng had been exhausted. Because of this, Cai Jing wanted to solve the financial crisis after taking office.
Cai Jing adopted the policy of "taking people's wealth invisibly", that is, issuing large amounts of fictitious coins - [as ten big coins], using one copper coin as the original ten normal copper coins;
Zhao Ji thought, this damn, infrequent [ten big money] that comes and goes is not big enough to be put into society. When Cai Jing was in power, a large amount of [ten big money] was minted and put into society. Such a big amount will last for a long time.
It will inevitably cause inflation.
The inflation of inflation during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the original owner of Zhao Ji, was even more obvious among the people. "History of the Song Dynasty: Food and Huo Zhi" quoted the official organization of the Song Dynasty that managed trade and taxation during the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty - [Qinghuo]
Documents for the service:
"In ancient times, there was a saying that a pound of salt is worth a pound of salt.
In Xi, before Feng, rice and stone were no more than six or seven hundred; at that time, the price of salt was sixty or seventy per kilogram;
Today, the price of rice is two thousand five hundred to three thousand, while salt is still sixty."
That is to say, before Xining, the average price of millet in the Song Dynasty was about 600 to 700 wen per stone, and the price of salt per jin of Song Dynasty was sixty or seventy wen.
During the Xuanhe reign of Song Huizong, the original owner of Zhao Ji, the average price of millet throughout the Song Dynasty actually rose to 2, 500 to 3 guan per stone (i.e., 2,500 to 3,000 wen). The price of rice was actually
[Xining] Four or five times the previous price, but the price of salt sold by the government has not increased at all.
(One stone in the Song Dynasty was equal to 10 dou, or 92.5 Song Jin; 1 Song Jin was equal to 640 grams in modern society. According to the conversion, one stone in the Song Dynasty was equal to 59.2 kilograms in modern society before Zhao Ji traveled through time.)
The price of food rose so high during the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. This was precisely because Cai Jing adopted the policy of "taking people's wealth invisible" and issued large amounts of fictitious coins - "Ten coins" (one copper coin is equivalent to ten coins).
Normal copper coins), over time, people will naturally experience 'inflation'...
It was precisely because of Cai Jing, an expert in amassing money, that Song Huizong, the original owner of Zhao Ji, had the opportunity to spend lavishly: casting Jiuding, building Yanfu Palace, repairing Genyue and other huge projects that wasted people and money.
Before Zhao Ji traveled through time, Cai Jing had been appointed as prime minister three times by the original owner Song Huizong, and dismissed three times.
Not long after he was dismissed as prime minister, Cai Jing was reinstated. In addition to the fact that Cai Jing would "kneel down and cry and beg" for loyalty in front of the emperor, the most important thing was that Zhao Ji's original owner, Song Huizong, could not do without Cai Jing, an expert in making money.
Cai Jinglai made money for the official family.
Although Cai Jing's ability to collect money was strong, it also intensified social conflicts in the Song Dynasty, causing businessmen to go bankrupt and the people to suffer...
The huge treasury wealth accumulated by Song Huizong during his reign stimulated the emperor to want to enjoy corruption but was reluctant to do so, because his brother Zhezong, his father Shenzong and even the previous Northern Song emperors were quite frugal. At this time, Cai Jing
So I looked up "The Book of Changes" and excerpted and misinterpreted "Fengheng Yuda" from it. The peaceful and prosperous age of peace and prosperity must be enjoyed! From this, Song Huizong began to be extravagant and corrupt, which also accelerated the decline of the Song Dynasty... Thinking about this, Zhao Ji felt that sentencing Cai Jing to death so quickly would be better than letting Cai Jing be appointed prime minister for the fourth time in history, letting Cai Jing die six or seven years later, and letting Cai Jing, an old thief, live to be eighty years old.
It would be much more beneficial to my country to die again.
So, how to deal with Cai Jing’s party members in the court?
We really shouldn’t clean up Cai Jing’s party members too hastily. After all, this old thief has been around for nearly 20 years and has too many party members. Of course, most of his party members are just grassroots.
As for Cai Jing's biological sons, except for his eldest son Cai You, who "comes to marry him out of righteousness", Cai Jing's other five sons obviously cannot hang around in high positions in the court.
Zhao Ji issued an order that, except for Cai You, all the other five sons of Cai Jing would have their official positions demoted to common people and return to their places of origin. They would immediately leave the capital and never be allowed to enter the capital.
Zhao Ji also issued an order to take a small amount of one hundred thousand guan from Cai Jing's confiscated property and give it to the fifth daughter of the original owner of his body, Princess Maode, Zhao Fujin.
Since Zhao Fujin, the princess who gave birth to Cai Yu, is unwilling to divorce Cai Jing's fifth son, Cai Ji, let the family of three return to Cai Jing's hometown of Fujian Road and enjoy a relatively wealthy life without official positions!
This can be regarded as the best arrangement for me, a time traveler, to the original owner’s favorite daughter.
Cai Jing's home was confiscated, and his five sons were dismissed from office. They were immediately expelled from Beijing and returned to their ancestral home in Fujian Road...
In the past, the extremely glorious Taishi Mansion was now in a state of chaos, with dozens of concubines, thousands of servants and maids all in disarray...
Cai Jing's five sons had to leave the capital that day. After all, they had no chance to see their father Cai Jing being hanged at the execution ground.
As for collecting Cai Jing's body, Zhao Ji left it to Cai You, the eldest son of Cai Jing who "justly killed his relatives" to fulfill his last filial duty as a loyal minister and filial son who reported his father's crimes out of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism".
That night, Cai Jing's five sons and their families were driven away from the prosperous Bianjing City by the army and wept to the sky, and rushed to the distant Fujian Road...
Princess Maode Zhao Fujin sat in the carriage and cried. She held one-year-old Cai Yu and murmured to herself:
"Woo woo woo...
The father no longer wants a daughter...
Alas! Yu'er, your maternal grandfather actually attacked your grandfather, and he did so quickly...
I'm afraid the Cai family will never be able to turn over..."
Princess Maode Zhao Fujin, who had to leave the capital that day, accompanied her husband Cai Ji to Cai Jing's original box, Fujian Road.
Zhao Ji was still worried that Princess Maode was on the way. If he met a bandit and suffered an accident along the way, wouldn't it be a disgrace to the royal family? He then transferred 500 elites from the capital's imperial army to escort Princess Maode and the Cai family.
Traveling far away...
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After the decree was issued that Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu would be executed tomorrow, the government and the public were shocked...
There are those who are secretly worried about the fate of their exes, while there are also those who are applauding.
The people in the capital rushed to tell each other. Early the next morning, tens of thousands of people in the capital flocked to the Xishuimen execution ground, preparing to watch the former imperial officials Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu being executed.
A great scene that has never happened before.
After hearing the news, the traffickers and lackeys felt that there must be many people watching the excitement at the West Water Execution Ground. After all, the last time the demon Dao Lin Lingsu was killed at the West Water Execution Ground, there were more than ten thousand people watching, and they did not arrest them.
There are many people and money, and this time they all want to take the opportunity to sell more of their goods.
The peddlers and lackeys arrived early at the West Water Execution Ground in the west of the city, set up stalls, and shouted to sell various commodities that they carried on their shoulders or pushed in small carts...
"Here are the cooking cakes. Here are the hot cooking cakes that have just come out of the pot. Sir, please buy two to satisfy your hunger..."
"Here are the snow pears. They are crunchy and crisp when you bite them. They are sweet and juicy. Senior officials, please buy a few and take them with you to avoid being thirsty when watching the execution..."
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The people in the capital rushed to tell each other that Zhao Guan's family wanted to kill Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, and Wang Fu. People continued to flock to the Xishui Execution Ground in the west of the city, waiting until 3:00 noon to see this once glorious place.
A great show in which three important officials were executed in public.
Those in the court who were notified by the eunuchs sent by Zhao Ji to come to the West Water Execution Ground to watch the execution, although they did not want to come, did not dare to violate the orders of the Zhao family, who were now so powerful that they could not match heaven.
"Dang buzz"! After the gong rang,
The prison officer Liang Shicheng announced: "Escort the prisoner to the execution platform!"