Chapter 944 944 Vomiting blood, the blame has been laid
Beichen is a tough nation. In order to survive, most of the people in Beichen are brave and ruthless people. Even the women are very tough and will take action if they disagree.
The folk customs in Beichen are strong and fierce. Although the imperial court exploits the people, the government does not dare to oppress the people too much, let alone judge cases indiscriminately, for fear that these aggressive and ruthless people will get jealous and directly kill people.
In Beichen, it often happened that people who were severely oppressed rushed into the government offices and killed officials and county magistrates.
In order to reduce the occurrence of such things as much as possible, after Emperor Beichen ascended the throne, he set up a "Tianxia Drum" despite the objections of his courtiers.
Any common people who have been wronged and want to complain to the officials can go up to the sky and go downstairs, beat the drum of the world, and tell the court and the world about their grievances.
After the complainant beats the drum, the government will accept it as soon as possible. After checking that what the complainant said is true, the complainant is not guilty; on the contrary, if it is found that the complainant is a slanderous accusation, not only the complainant will be executed, but also the complainant will be executed.
Family members will also be expelled from the army.
Therefore, those who would sound the drum of Beichen's world are all the people who have been wronged, and almost every complaint will be successful.
With this encouragement, not only the officials of Beichen did not dare to mess around, but the people of Beichen were also very convinced of the imperial court. Even if they were exploited by the imperial court, most of the people of Beichen could accept it.
Compared to places like Tianwu, Tianqi and Southern Xinjiang, they have already made good arrangements. At least their officials in Beichen do not dare to mess around or insult ordinary people like them at will, right?
For ordinary people, they are satisfied as long as they have a tile to hide in and have enough to eat, and other than that... they dare not ask for more.
Beichen's Tianxia Drum is a symbol of the Qingming government and a manifestation of His Majesty's Shengming. Every time the Tianxiagu is mentioned, Beichen people will proudly puff up their chests, but today, right in front of the Tianxia Drum, is in front of the symbol of Beichen's Emperor's Shengming.
, Mo Qixi tore apart the biggest scandal in the Beichen royal family...
"Dong dong dong..." An old eunuch stood on the Tianxia Tower and beat the Tianxia drum.
"Come on, come on, look, someone is playing the drum."
"It came from Tianxia Tower. Someone beat the Tianxia drum."
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As soon as the Tianxia drum sounded, the people of Beichen heard it, informed the people around them, and then rushed to Tianxia Tower one by one to watch the excitement.
"Look...the person complaining looks like he's wearing the clothes of the palace."
"He's a eunuch. I've seen these clothes before."
"Who is this eunuch suing? Could he be suing a nobleman in the palace? That would be fun."
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"Give way, give way." Not far from Tianxia Tower is the Dali Temple in Beichen. There are no officers and soldiers guarding Tianxia Tower, but when the Tianxia drum sounds, Dali Temple will send officials.
When the old eunuch playing the drum heard the voices of the officers and soldiers, he immediately stopped playing the drum, unfolded a roll of white cloth hidden on his chest, and hung it on the Tianxia Tower.
"Wow..." The white cloth unfolded, and the words on the cloth were revealed in front of everyone.
"Look, what's written on it?"
"I'm telling you, your majesty, you killed your father to seize the throne, and you insulted your concubine... It's said above, it's said above..."
The literate person recited a few sentences, but did not dare to read any more.
What was written on it was simply unbelievable. Let alone the writing, they didn't even dare to read it.
The third prince and the prince's mother and concubine are the former emperor's concubines. Now His Majesty has taken a fancy to her and killed her father by force.
It also said that the third prince and the fifth prince were the sons of the late emperor, and they were the brothers of the current emperor. Before his death, the late emperor passed the throne to the third prince, and the edict was in the hands of the two twin concubines.
"This, this is simply impossible!"
"This can't be true, can it?"
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The people who crowded outside the Tianxia Tower to watch the excitement all wanted to open their eyes wide and clearly read the words on it.
The officer who rushed upstairs to pick up someone heard the discussion outside, screamed secretly, and rushed up quickly, but he was still a step too late.
The old eunuch who was playing the drum hung up the white cloth and shouted: "Now His Majesty has killed his father, insulted his concubine, and usurped the throne of his half-brother. I will sue him, I will sue him."
After the old eunuch finished speaking, he crashed into a beam and his head was bruised and bleeding, and he fell straight down from the Tianxia Tower.
"Ah..." The people watching screamed and backed away. They saw the eunuch fell to the ground with a thud, his limbs twitched and then stopped moving.
"He's dead, he's dead!" the people watching shouted, and the alert people knew that this was a big deal, so they turned around and ran away.
When someone saw this, they shouted: "Run, run... it would be terrible if the officials took us away."
"Run, run..." For a moment, the people watching the excitement dispersed one after another. Countless people regretted in their hearts that if they had known this, they would not have come downstairs to watch the excitement today.
Unfortunately, it's too late to regret now...
"Quickly, put away the white cloth!" At this time, the official did not care whether anyone was dead or not. Whether the onlookers ran away or not, he hurriedly put away the white cloth and ran down, leaving one person downstairs and the other holding him.
Wearing a white cloth, he went to Dali Temple to bring in reinforcements.
Dali Temple is very close to Tianxia Tower, so the incident was quickly brought under control, but the news leaked out.
There was no way, it happened too suddenly, there were too many people watching, and the government couldn't control it at all.
"Report, report..."
The eunuch who delivered the order rushed to the emperor in a desperate manner: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Qing of Dali Temple, I have something important to report!"
Emperor Beichen was discussing the border war with his ministers. When he saw the eunuch running in and interrupting his discussion, he couldn't help but sink his face: "What's going on?"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Something happened in Tianxialou. Someone accused Your Majesty of killing his father to seize the throne and insulting his concubine. They also said that the third and fifth princes are not your Majesty's sons, but the sons of the late emperor. It's your Majesty..."
"Shut up!" Emperor Beichen's face turned black as ink.
The eunuch who ordered him paused and spat out blood. Before he finished speaking, he opened his mouth and spat out blood. He looked at Emperor Beichen in shock: "Your Majesty, slave, I am wronged..."
The eunuch who ordered him rolled his eyes, fell stiffly to the ground, and died just like that.
Emperor Beichen's eyes suddenly widened...
After glancing at his ministers in shock, Emperor Beichen gritted his teeth in anger: "I didn't kill him."
"Yes, yes, yes, I understand." The ministers came to their senses and quickly lowered their heads, pretending that they had not seen anything.
"I..." Emperor Beichen knew at a glance that these ministers did not believe his words at all, they were just applying medicine to him.
But he really didn’t kill the person!
"Your Majesty, I understand. Don't worry, Your Majesty, I haven't seen anything." The ministers gathered in the meeting hall were very considerate. They buried their heads in their chests one by one and did not dare to look at Emperor Beichen at all.
God knows, they don't want to see any scandal in the royal family, let alone see the emperor murder someone.
Generally this kind of thing is not a good thing.
"You..." Emperor Beichen was so angry that he vomited blood. However, as an emperor, he could not explain over and over again that for the death of a slave, this scapegoat...