Chapter seven hundred and seventy-two is not a kind
Tang Ning followed a young eunuch into the palace. Before she even approached the royal study, she heard bursts of shrill screams.
The screams sounded very personal, and you could tell from the sound that someone was suffering great physical pain.
Tangning walked through a door and saw someone being pinned down on a bench in the square in front of her and being tortured with a cane.
The imperial staff was raised high and then dropped heavily.
This time, the two guards were obviously very heavy-handed in their attack, which was incomparable to Tang Ning's situation that day.
The man who was pressed on the stool and tortured looked like King Duan from a distance, and looked like King Duan from up close. When he walked closer, he saw that it was indeed King Duan.
Prince Duan was howling miserably as he was being beaten. Emperor Chen stood aside with a dark face. Tang Ning walked up to Emperor Chen and saluted, "I see your Majesty."
Chen Huang just nodded slightly, his face was as dark as water, and he said nothing.
Tangning stood aside knowingly, secretly observing the situation around her.
Huang Chen was very angry. King Duan was being tortured. Apparently he had done something that Huang Chen could not forgive. King Duan had done a lot of stupid things before, but this was the first time Tang Ning had seen him do this to King Duan.
punish.
In addition to Chen Huang, Academician Zhang is also here. His head is wrapped with a white gauze, and underneath the gauze is bright red, which is the color of blood.
Tang Ning looked at Academician Zhang and then at Prince Duan, feeling astonished.
Emperor Chen recently asked Academician Zhang to discipline Prince Duan. Could it be that during the discipline process, the two of them had a conflict and Prince Duan took action against Academician Zhang?
Not to mention the issue of respecting the old and loving the young, Confucianism emphasizes that "heaven and earth are kings, relatives and teachers". There is no need to say anything about heaven and earth. They are high above everything else, and the status of teachers is only ranked below the king and parents.
People born in this era should have the correct values of respecting heaven and earth, filial piety and obedience to elders, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, respecting teachers and teachings. People who are disrespectful of heaven and earth, disloyal to the emperor, unfilial to their parents, deviant from the traditional ways, deceive their teachers and destroy their ancestors... Such people,
He will be despised by all people.
Emperor Chen's status is high enough. In the Chen Kingdom, apart from God, there is no one with a higher status than him. But when Academician Zhang hits his head with his cane, he can order the guards to take him down.
But he couldn't fight back in person.
It is natural for a teacher to punish his students. If a student beats his teacher, he is bullying his teacher and destroying his ancestors, which is treason.
This is the rule of this era.
As expected, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, and the young are better than the old. King Duan did something that even Chen Huang did not dare to do. Tang Ning admired him from the bottom of her heart.
Academician Zhang's face was pale and bloodless. He looked at Emperor Chen, bowed to the end, and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, I have failed to fulfill His Majesty's trust. Please forgive me for my incompetence..."
"Grand Master, I'm here to help you with this traitor..." Chen Huang kicked Prince Duan and said, "You traitor, why don't you quickly apologize to the Grand Scholar!"
The imperial staff was still falling, and King Duan said sternly, "Grand Master, I didn't do it on purpose, I really didn't do it on purpose!"
"That's all..." Academician Zhang glanced at him and sighed, "It's because the old minister is weak. Your Majesty, please let them stop, because the old minister made His Highness suffer, which is a shame for the old minister..."
"He deserves it!" Chen Huang glanced at Prince Duan, waved his hand and said, "Take him down!"
Prince Duan was carried away by two imperial guards. Tang Ning noticed that standing behind Emperor Chen, Mr. Li was holding a pen and writing something on the book in his hand.
He took a closer look and saw a line of words written on it.
"In the third year of Dingyuan, on the third day of the tenth month, Duan Wang Li Ming beat his master with the emperor's staff."
With the official position of Julang, he neither participated in the government affairs nor interfered with the inner court. His only duty was to record the words and deeds of the emperor, whether big or small, good deeds or bad deeds, all of them were recorded for future generations to compile history.
The little notebook of the living man records who Chen Huang met every day, what he said, and what he did. It may also record which concubine he favored, when he favored him, how many times he favored him, and each time.
How long does it take...
Tangning had never read the daily notes, so she didn't know what was written on it. Maybe Emperor Chen didn't know either. According to the rules, the emperor could not view or modify the contents of the daily notes.
Because the content of this article must be left to future generations, and it may be infamy for thousands of years, so the emperor is actually very afraid that Qi Julang will write something bad on this article. It is good to meet an enlightened monarch, but if you meet a fatuous and tyrannical monarch, this position
Every now and then, someone has to be replaced.
Seeing someone peeping from the side, Liang hurriedly closed the book and stood aside vigilantly.
Tang Ning pouted. He was just out of curiosity about new things. He had no interest at all in things like Emperor Chen's visit to Concubine Shu last night.
After beating King Kang, Bachelor Zhang was specially allowed to go home to recover from his injuries, which meant that King Run no longer had to attend classes for the time being.
After hearing the news, King Run couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing when he helped Grand Scholar Zhang leave.
After handling this matter, Tang Ningcai and Chen Huang came to the Imperial Study Room.
Emperor Chen summoned him this time to discuss tax reform. Chen State's tax system was complicated and varied, making it extremely difficult to collect, and it was also the easiest for people to manipulate it.
The tax system of Chen State has been revised several times since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but all of them have been repairs in details. In the larger context, there are still huge problems left over from history.
The imperial court has realized that this kind of tax law not only wastes money and wastes money, but also makes the people miserable, and it is also easy for local officials and gentry to tamper with it.
What Tang Ning wants to do is actually to cancel those illegal taxes and merge the remaining ones into one big tax. In this way, the taxes that the people have to pay will be reduced, and it will be much easier for the court to collect taxes.
The amount will also increase, which can be said to be the best of all three, except that it harms the interests of the gentry and powerful people who profit from it.
This was another thing that offended people, but this time Tangning wasn't the only one to be offended.
Emperor Chen asked him and King Huai to jointly take charge of the matter, and they would discuss the details themselves. He only wanted the results.
After Chen Huang finished his instructions, he looked at Tang Ning and asked, "Do you have any ideas about this matter?"
Tangning shook her head and said, "No."
Chen Huang glared at him and said, "If not, why don't you go back and think about what you are dazzling in front of me..."
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Chen Huang is a man who comes and goes when others call him. He can be said to be a model of burning bridges across rivers and killing donkeys.
With her heart acquiescing to his character and always reminding him that her daughter was in her hands, Tangning no longer cared about these things.
When he was about to reach the palace gate, he saw a figure walking slowly in front of him.
The gate of the palace is not open. After entering the palace gate, there are narrow passages on both sides. This was built to prevent rebels from attacking from the outside. If there are rebels who break into the palace, they will immediately become the prey of the imperial army.
target.
Academician Zhang was walking by the wall. In front of him were several palace maids walking hurriedly with their heads down.
In the palace, most of the ordinary maids and eunuchs walked with their heads down. This deep palace is no less than a dragon's pool and a tiger's den. If you see something you shouldn't see or hear something you shouldn't hear, after a few days,
They will be found in a dry well or pond in the palace.
Academician Zhang walked slowly and lightly. A few people seemed not to notice. They lowered their heads and hurried forward. The leader accidentally bumped into Academician Zhang and fell to the ground. His face immediately turned pale. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"I'm sorry, I was careless. Please spare me, please..."
The palace maid was knocked to the ground, but Academician Zhang's body just shook and stood firm. He shook his head and said, "I'm fine, you can get up."
The maid hurriedly got up, bowed a few times to Academician Zhang, and left in a hurry.
Tangning watched this scene from a distance, with a strange look on her face.
Although Bachelor Zhang is old, he obviously exercises regularly and his lower body is extremely stable. The collision just now would have made even an ordinary person take at least two steps back, but his body just swayed. With such a strong body,
Nothing like the "weak body" he claimed to have just now.
The strange thing is that the palace maid didn't knock him down even though she bumped into him in a hurry. However, she was pushed lightly by King Duan with one hand and hit the wall, breaking her head...
"Ginger is still spicy when old..."
Tang Ning sighed softly. He should have known that if he lived to this age and could still be as stable as a mountain in the court, how could he be a kind person even if he was called a clear stream?
