October has arrived, and autumn is about to pass. Many people seem to be unprepared to face this severe winter that is silent but can hear the howling. As far as the eye can see, in the south, there are mountains full of red leaves and yellow leaves that last for thirty days.
There was ground dew and white frost. The water in the pool was as clear and bright as a child's eyes. Some children who went to school early in the morning breathed white air while walking, and their hands were playing with water and frost, which inevitably turned red from the cold. So winter really came.
It's quite different in the north. After several days of strong winds, all the leaves were peeled off, leaving only one or two red spots on the branches, hanging persimmons and crab apples, and there was still a hint of autumn.
Immediately, dirty camels carrying coal poured in from Dongping Gate in groups. When passing by Xuanwu Gate, these peaceful creatures may raise their heads and look at the newly painted tall gate with their sad little eyes, which may cause a little emotion.
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If you don't count the Khitans, this is the largest empire in the East. It's not a bad thing to visit.
After the dirty camels carrying the coal were handed over, they would be led by their owners to a mule and horse shop in Haishizi. The owner took the red chips from the shopkeeper wearing a fur hat and
He shook his head proudly, then shouted, and immediately a smiling waiter served him a large bowl of hot wine.
This bowl of wine is unusual. At least there is no water mixed in it, so it tastes extremely mellow. As long as the camel team comes to deliver errands, they will not miss this small enjoyment.
In the cold wind and rain, I drank a cup of hot wine around the stove to dissipate the coldness on my body, and chatted a few random gossips. When the coldness on my body was almost gone, I put on my tattered cotton clothes, picked up my camel, and continued out of the city. It had not yet frozen.
There is still a lot of coal that needs to be transported to the city on the Bian River. This is a new business. In the past, it was transported directly into the city by boat. Unfortunately, the censor who patrolled the city stopped him and said that the coal ash had fallen.
The water entering the river has made the water dirty. Some people still need to use the river water to eat...
Even if the Yun family is wealthy and has a prominent official position, the bad-tempered head of the family has always had the habit of beating the censor. There is no way to fight against the censor on this matter. If he says one more word, he will be drowned in the spit of the people in the city.
. Therefore, the Yun family’s goods can only be transported in by camels from outside the city, not carts.
The camel visitor knew exactly what was going on here. The Yun family sold burnt coal for the same price as white rice. This was the root cause. All fools knew that coal was buried under the soil. As long as the soil was peeled off,
It can be dug out. According to the way the Yun family works, their family is not digging for coal at all, but for gold. If the censor of the city does not take a layer of skin off this business, how can he be willing to do so?
?
They didn't have the guts to reap benefits for themselves. If they dared to do so, the head of the Yun family would beat these people to death with a whip. Therefore, many businesses were spawned around the coking coal of the Yun family, such as the camel transport of coal. Benefits
Dipping everyone is a good idea.
As a Tokyoite, there are always some inexplicable advantages that can be taken advantage of. Tokyoites know one thing very well: officials are afraid of the censors, and the censors are afraid of the real powerful people, but the real powerful people care very much about what the people think of them.
As soon as the camel passengers stepped out of the door of the mule and horse shop, they saw the Kaifeng Prefecture's guards beating gongs to open the way. Behind the guards who opened the way was a long cart, with naked men lying on the carts. The most joyful thing was
What's more, there are actually several bare-butt women who are tied to carts and paraded through the streets. This is very eye-catching, but the only flaw is that the women are a bit older.
Besides, those buttocks were beaten to pieces with boards, and the roots of their thighs were all purple and blue. Needless to say, both of their legs were useless. The wheels of the cart bumped on the gap between the stone slabs, and those people made a sound.
The camel rider carefully counted the number of people screaming, and found that there were as many as a hundred people with bare buttocks.
A young lieutenant-general was riding on a horse. No expression could be seen on his fair and beardless face, but the decree he held in his arms clearly explained the problem. The slaps on these people's butts were ordered by the official himself.
implemented.
Eunuch Zheng Bin was riding on his horse and tried his best to keep his expression calm. It was his first time doing such an errand, and he needed to have a good ending no matter what.
Thinking of this, he looked back at the screaming prisoners. He really didn't think there was anything wrong with his order to slap the chopping block. They had turned a good benevolent policy by the officials into a hell on earth, causing His Majesty to almost vomit blood. The Dowager Empress looked at it.
After the secret performance, he shouted "What a sin!" and fainted. The Queen rushed to attend to her, and before leaving, she asked Concubine Shu to handle the matter with her full authority, and deliberately said that she would not be leniently spared.
These people basically have no chance of survival, and the Kaifeng Mansion has begun to search their homes according to the roster.
After taking over this matter, Zheng Bin heard from his uncle Zou Tong that Zheng Bin knew that the charitable organizations of the Song Dynasty had a wide range of charity activities, covering sales, elderly care, medical treatment, funerals, disaster relief, poverty relief, etc.
The institutions established in Jiangnan to help the poor, sick and orphans include Futian Yuan, Residential Home, Nursing Home and Anjifang. According to "Baoqing Four Ming Chronicles", Mingzhou in Jiangnan has jurisdiction over Yin, Fenghua, Cixi, Dinghai and Changguo.
, the establishment of residential homes in six counties of Xiangshan was a nationwide initiative. The residential homes mainly provided relief to "the widows, widows, lonely, poor and unable to live on their own", and were later replaced by nursing homes. The burial aid institution, Luzeyuan, has been widely distributed in the Jiangnan area.
In the sixth year of Qingli, the official issued an edict: "Order all counties to adopt old, sick and poor people, restore them to Luze Garden, and bury those who died without returning."
After that, Luze Gardens were widely established in the Jiangnan area. "Twelve Luze Gardens were set up in Qiantang, Lin'an Prefecture, and Renhe County. Those who left casks in temples and nunneries without owners, or whose remains were exposed, were all destroyed."
In addition, Futian Yuan, residential care homes and almshouses all have the function of providing children relief, and specialized Salesian institutions first appeared in the late emperor's period, among which the Infants' Bureau and the Salesian Bureau had the most significant influence.
Zheng Bin himself also came from a miserable background, and of course he knew how miserable the homeless people lived. But when he led the royal guards into various Futian courtyards and nurseries in Tokyo, he still couldn't believe his
Eyes, a tough iron-blooded man, the deputy leader of the imperial guard, rushed in and took a look. His face was more terrifying than a ghost, and there were still tears on his cheeks. The director of the nursery had already been beaten to the head with his fists.
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Zheng Bin was originally worried that something would happen if he did this, but when he saw the mutilated body of the child on the chopping board, he no longer felt that there was anything wrong with what the deputy commander of the guards did.
Collaborating with demons to combine the blood of a boy with a boy's heart was enough to get him killed...
Zheng Bin sealed off the scene and reported the facts he witnessed to Concubine Shu. After reporting to His Majesty, the Empress issued a series of decrees: "The matter of Futian Yuan and the Infant Care Center is a grand event held by the royal family in line with the will of heaven, so here
All matters are private matters of the royal family, and all offenders should be handled according to the royal family rules. If they do not follow the three divisions or follow the rules, they will be handled by the inner government with full authority."
So the people of Tokyo saw this thrilling scene. After being paraded through the streets, these people would face even more terrifying punishments. The royal family rules were far more cruel than the laws of the Song Dynasty. Once they entered the inner palace, there would be nothing but death and confinement.
There is no third way except death.
It is said that the ministers and the emperor had different views on this matter, but in the end the matter was still carried out strictly in accordance with the emperor's will. Not only that, the royal guards were divided into fifteen groups starting from Tokyo and radiating to the Song Dynasty.
The spread of state capitals in various places made the official circles of the Song Dynasty panic.
Yun Zheng took off his official uniform and sat on a chair to drink tea. Lu Qingqing still said angrily: "These people should be beheaded..."
Yun Zheng spat out the tea leaves in his mouth and said: "Behead? The emperor was as furious as a male lion in heat. He claimed to be a benevolent emperor, but in the end such a shocking tragedy happened in the realm where he was most proud. King Pu
He called him into the palace and gave him ten lashes himself. He had already been demoted to Puyang County Prince. Now he lost his title and became Shanyang Duke. He was fined for ten years. His family's shop.
All the land was confiscated, and it seemed that the red-eyed emperor was planning to starve King Pu to death.
To be honest, King Pu was involved in this matter. His position as Zongzheng in the Zongzheng Mansion has been handed over long ago. Now, the emperor's brothers have all ended up like this. Do you think those who did evil things just lost their heads?
So easy?
"Dapi! Does Dapi know? It's too bloody, so I won't talk about it, so as not to make you lose your appetite for food. We were called over today just to watch the execution. Di Qing and I and those who have been on the battlefield don't care. Pang Ji,
It doesn't matter to Han Qi. Do you know what Li Shu, a drunk Hanlin scholar who came to our house a few days ago, looked like when he vomited? One of the people who was cut with a guillotine was said to be his clan brother, and his body was cut into two pieces.
Please beg your clan brother to save him."
Lu Qingqing was startled, but she immediately reacted and punched her husband and said: "You bully me because you don't know the punishment of Dapi? The most you can do is chop off your head, how can you use a guillotine? Cutting someone in half means cutting them in half. I have read history books.
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Yun Zheng laughed and didn't defend himself. He wanted to catch Lu Qingqing, but he turned and pushed him away. He laughed and walked away. It was said that the shopkeeper of the Yun family was about to go to Beijing to report the accounts, so Yun Zheng had to sit in the hall and drink alone.
Tea, looking at the picture of a tiger descending from the mountain at home, thinking wildly.
It's really good. An emperor who was famous for his kindness started killing people on a large scale. An emperor who never touched his hands with blood now started killing people in his palace and temple. There seems to be no such description in history, but Yun Zheng saw it vividly today.
At the most cruel scene, okay, as long as the emperor starts to be bloodthirsty, it is a good sign. As long as he starts to be bloodthirsty, he will value force. It is precisely because he has a reliable force in his hand that the emperor will be bloodthirsty. These two
Each complements the other and is indispensable.
Thinking of today's execution, the guards and executioners deliberately avoided the person's neck and moved the guillotine downwards, Yun Zheng smiled happily. (To be continued)