Eight hundred and twentieth chapters bullying others
The next day, Liu Liang and Li Zichun came to Huafang again. This time, Li Zichun brought a box of gold cakes worth five hundred gold. The madam received the gold and was so pleased that she brought Luo You and the other five girls over.
She said with a smile on her face: "Zhao... Mr. Liu, Mr. Li, and the servants will guarantee with their heads, Luo You, Lan Qing, these five girls have not been through human affairs, and they are very clean."
Liu Liang nodded with satisfaction. Since he is going to be sent to the palace, of course he needs to be a virgin. He warned: "You'd better tell the truth. If something goes wrong, even ten of your heads won't be enough to chop you off!"
The madam shrank her neck in fright, waved her hands and said, "I don't dare! I don't dare!"
Liu Liang looked at the five women again to confirm that they were correct, and then asked Li Zichun to take them back home.
On the way, Li Zichun asked with a smile: "I heard that Yin Guiren is known as the most beautiful woman in the world. King Zhao, I wonder how Yin Guiren compares with Luo You?"
Liu Liang smiled and said: "In terms of appearance, Miss Luo You is really not as good as Yin Guiren!"
Li Zichun was shocked when he heard this. In his opinion, Luo You's appearance was a stunning existence. It was hard to imagine that there was a woman more beautiful than Luo You in the world.
He frowned and murmured: "In this case, I'm afraid Luo You may not be able to fall in His Majesty's eyes..."
Liu Liang smiled calmly, waved his hands and said, "Don't worry about this Zichun." No matter how beautiful a woman is, there will be a day when she gets tired of looking at her every day. But Luo You is different. To His Majesty, she is very fresh.
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While the two were talking, the carriage suddenly swayed and stopped suddenly. Liu Liang and Li Zichun in the carriage leaned forward and almost hit the carriage board. Liu Liang's face darkened and he asked outside: "What's the matter?
What's going on?"
As the car curtain opened, a servant stood outside the car and whispered: "Your Majesty, there is a car blocking the way ahead."
When Liu Liang heard this, he frowned.
He stuck his head out of the car and looked outside. He saw that the car was parked in the city gate opening. Opposite his car, there was also a carriage parked. The two carriages met in the city gate opening and no one could get through.
Already.
Seeing this, Liu Liang's face became ashen as water and asked: "Whose carriage is on the other side?"
"Young man, go over and ask!" The servant put down the curtain, waved his hand and ordered the servants around him, and shouted loudly: "Go over, go over and ask, who is the short-sighted person who dares to become the king?"
As the King of Zhao, the emperor's biological uncle, and the emperor's adoptive father, Liu Liang was definitely one of the top figures in Luoyang. Whether he was a relative of the emperor or a minister of the court, who would not be polite to Liu Liang when they saw him?
Liu Liang's status was noble, and the servants below him were also arrogant and arrogant.
Two burly servants walked to the carriage opposite, looked up, raised their hands and shouted loudly: "Who is sitting in the carriage? Come out and talk!"
"How outrageous!" The entourage beside the carriage glared at the two servants and said, "This is the carriage of General You Zhonglang. What crime should you be guilty of for making such rude remarks?"
The two servants looked at each other, then burst into laughter and said, "Who do I think it is? It turns out to be Zhang Han, the right middle man!"
"How brave! How dare you call the general by his first name!" A soldier in military uniform walked up to two servants and glared at them.
"Call Zhang Han by his first name? Huh!" A servant sneered and said, "Not only do I dare to call Zhang Han by his first name, I also want him to kneel down and admit his mistake!"
When the soldier heard this, his eyebrows stood up in anger, and he reached out to grab the servant's collar. However, before his hand touched the servant's clothes, the latter suddenly raised his hand and clasped the soldier's wrist, and then,
The other hand reached forward and grabbed the soldier's belt. He swung his arms outward and shouted: "Get out of here!"
The soldier screamed strangely and hit his head against the wall of the city gate. There was a snapping sound in his ears. The soldier's helmet was deformed by the impact, and blood flowed out. The man lay on the ground and only twitched a few times before he died.
There was movement.
Seeing that he had beaten one of his brothers to death, all the soldiers present stopped and rushed forward with their spears in hand.
When the two servants saw this, not only did they show no fear, they actually laughed. Holding the hilts of their swords, they said proudly: "If you are not afraid of death, just come over!"
"Everyone stop it!" With a loud shout, a general in his thirties walked out of the carriage. This was none other than Zhang Han, the right middle lieutenant.
General You Zhonglang is an official subordinate to Guang Luxun. His main responsibility is to guard the palace gates. When the emperor travels, he is responsible for guarding chariots, etc. General You Zhonglang's salary is the same as that of Sili Xiaowei, which is two thousand dan.
Small official.
Zhang Han got off the carriage, first looked at the dying soldier lying on the ground, then looked at the two servants and asked: "Did you kill him?"
"You blind bitch deserves to die!"
When Zhang Han heard this, he became furious and shouted: "Get these two thieves!"
Before the officers and soldiers present had time to step forward, a voice came from behind the two servants: "Who dares to touch the people in Prince Zhao's Mansion?!"
Zhang Han looked up and his expression suddenly changed. He saw Zhao Wang Liu Liang walking towards him under the protection of several guards in plain clothes.
He frowned secretly. No wonder these two evil slaves were so arrogant and dared to hurt people in broad daylight. They turned out to be King Zhao's people.
He bowed and saluted and said: "I, the right middle man, General Zhang Han, pay my respects to King Zhao!"
Liu Liang walked closer, looked at Zhang Han, then looked at the corpse on the ground, snorted heavily, and said: "General Zhang, you know clearly that I am going to enter the city, but you still fight with me for the road. What do you want?
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Zhang Han was shocked and said quickly: "King Zhao misunderstood. I did not see King Zhao's chariot entering the city."
Liu Liang looked at Zhang Han coldly, nodded, turned his head and asked: "Where is the captain of the city gate?"
After a while, an officer and several soldiers ran over in a panic. He first looked at the situation in the city gate. When he saw the dead people, he grinned secretly, quickly bowed and saluted, and said: "
I am here to see King Zhao!"
"Are you the city gate captain of Xiaoyuanmen?"
"It's Wei Chen!"
"My king's chariot is about to enter the city, why do you let Zhang Han's chariot go out of the city? Do you deliberately want Zhang Han to block my king's road?"
The captain of the city gate trembled, and he quickly bowed and saluted, saying: "I don't dare!"
"Don't you dare? I think you are very brave! You deliberately indulged Zhang Han and clashed with me. I will never let go of what happened today!" At this time, Liu Liang felt that he was greatly offended.
Well, the captain of the city gate and the right lieutenant general teamed up to save their own face.
He asked: "What is your Majesty's intention when you insult me like this?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Han broke out in a cold sweat. The captain of the city gate's head buzzed, and he almost fainted from fright. His legs softened, he knelt down directly, kowtowed forward, and said in a trembling voice: "King Zhao
Spare your life! King Zhao, spare your life!"
The City Gate Colonel, Zhi Jinwu, and the Northern Army Lieutenant were the three locks guarding the capital. Now the dignified City Gate Colonel knelt down in front of Liu Liang, kowtowed, and begged for mercy. This made Liu Liang feel that he had regained his face.
coming.
He looked down at the captain of the city gate, snorted heavily, and said: "This time, I will spare you for now. If there is another time, I will punish you severely!"
After speaking, he waved his sleeves and turned back to the carriage. Before getting on the carriage, he turned back and glanced at Zhang Han coldly, and said pointedly: "Don't think that serving in the palace means you can be arrogant.
In the eyes of this king, you are nothing!"
Zhang Han lowered his head and didn't say a word. As the saying goes, the first level of officialdom kills people. For him, King Zhao is not a matter of one level, but two levels. One is a foreign minister, and the other is the emperor's uncle. He is dignified.
King Zhao, their identities are completely incomparable, they are thousands of miles apart!
The captain of the city gate got up from the ground and quickly ordered Zhang Han's carriage to exit the city gate to make way for King Zhao's carriage.
Liu Liang sat in the carriage, lifted up the curtains of the carriage, glanced at Zhang Han and the city gate captain standing against the wall with the corner of his eye, and laughed out loud.
Li Zichun, who was in the car, said with a smile: "King Zhao, why should you be so angry and angry with a mere right middle lieutenant and a city gate captain?"
Liu Liang snorted coldly and said: "These foreign ministers think that because of Your Majesty's favor, they can do whatever they want. Even I dare not look down on them. They are lawless!"
"Oh, what King Zhao said is wrong! Who in the world dares not to take King Zhao seriously? Even His Majesty respects King Zhao very much!" Li Zichun said with a smile.
After hearing this, Liu Liang's gloomy expression finally relaxed a little. He was about to speak when he suddenly heard a shout from outside the carriage: "Stop!" Then, the carriage swayed and the carriage stopped again.
"This is another person who has no eyesight!" Liu Liang was almost furious. He lifted up the curtains on the carriage window and looked forward, only to see two people wearing linen clothes and linen trousers blocking the carriage.
way out.
Without Liu Liang saying anything, the servants of Prince Zhao's Mansion stepped forward one after another and shouted angrily: "Damn it, are you blind? If you dare to block Prince Zhao's driving, you don't want to live, right?"
The two young men in linen clothes and linen trousers looked at each other, and the taller one said: "Of course we don't dare to block King Zhao's drive, but King Zhao can pass by. As for them, they both have to stay with me!"
At this time, the tall young man pointed at the two servants who had just hurt someone.
"Fuck you! Who the hell do you think you are?!" the servants shouted angrily.
The two young men lifted up their clothes, each took out a sign from their waists, raised it forward, and asked, "Look, can we keep them both!"
The servants took a closer look and saw the four characters Zhongdu Official Office written on the sign.
Seeing the Zhongdu Government Office, the expressions of all the servants changed and they couldn't help but take two steps back. The highest official of the Zhongdu Government Office was none other than Sili Xiaowei. The Zhongdu Prison under the Zhongdu Government Office was even more commanding.
A terrifying existence.
It was originally the Zhongdu Government Office established by Emperor Wu. At its peak, the Zhongdu Government Office had thirty-six prisons. It was easy to get in, but if you wanted to get out, you would have to be skinned even if you didn't die. The reputation of the Zhongdu Prison was,
It's shocking to hear.
After Liu Xiu came to power, he first abolished the Zhongdu Prison, because the Zhongdu Prison was ultimately a bureaucratic system. In Liu Xiu's view, there was really no need to have so many prisons at the same time, which would cost the court a lot of money.
Later, Liu Xiu re-employed Sili Xiaowei, and the Zhongdu government under Sili Xiaowei was quite effective. He reported lawlessness, punished corrupt officials, and arrested more people. Prisons were naturally needed, so Liu Xiu re-established
Zhongdu Official Prison, but Zhongdu Official Prison also changed from the previous thirty-six to one.
In short, in the early days of Liu Xiu's administration, it was all about how to save money. Try not to set up institutions if you can, and try not to use more officials if you can. It was Liu Xiu's responsibility to save as much money as possible for the court.
main idea.
In a sense, the Imperial Guard established in the Ming Dynasty was imitating the Zhongdu government, but its scale was much larger than that of the Zhongdu government.
For an emperor who lacks self-confidence, every minister seems to have double-minded intentions and wants to rebel against himself. Therefore, a huge secret service agency is needed to monitor all officials and the people of the world. Only in this way can he feel at ease.
For a confident emperor like Liu Xiu, there was no need for these spy organizations. In Liu Xiu's hands, the Zhongdu government was just an agency used to report officials for illegal behavior.