Chapter 250: What is Loyalty (Part 2)(1/2)
"Ji Zai, why did you assassinate the King of Chu? Who is your accomplice?"
"Wang, what did Wang Xiang say?"
This is a bright cell, but looking at the furniture in it, it looks more like a reception room, because there is not even a single torture instrument here.
Zhao Song treated civil servants with preferential treatment. Even if he was punished and imprisoned, he would never throw it directly into the imperial prison of the Jinyiwei or the heavenly prison where the stick was stuck like the Ming and Qing dynasties. He was severely tortured and left with mottled dark brown blood everywhere.
Because the ancestors’ family rules cannot be punished by civil servants, there is no need to release torture instruments in the cell. Officials who have been imprisoned often confess their problems frankly, or simply ask questions without knowing them.
The emperor likes to do whatever he wants, at most he can exile.
Like Wang Qinruo and Kou Yu’s party struggles before, the former was demoted by Zhao Heng and sentenced to Tianxiong’s army. It seems that exile is essentially a kind of protection.
He temporarily kept Wang Qinruo away from the political whirlpool. As expected, after the battle was over, Wang Qinruo immediately regained his post and became the prime minister again.
With such a relaxed political environment, there is no such thing as darkness and gloomy terror in prison for officials who have been imprisoned.
When Wang Dan came here, he sent someone to bring Lu Shiming, a Grand Secretary of Zhiwen Pavilion who was reported by Chen Qu in Xuande Building today. It was both a court hearing and a trial.
Lu Shiming sat opposite Wang Dan. He looked a little panicked, but generally speaking, he was quite calm and pretended to be confused when facing Wang Dan's interrogation.
"When did the official say that he would go to the assassination of the king and the king?"
"It's time now, do you still want to deceive me?"
Wang Dan shook his head: "The Japanese Prime Minister came back from the King of Chu camp and discussed with you the matter of taking over the army. At that time, Zhou Jin said, "The King of Chu is always friendly to the people and has an opportunity to take advantage of the day he enters the city."
After the discussion, Ru returned to the mansion to hold a banquet and secretly met with 17 colleagues including Zhou Jin. That night, Wu Yan signed a hand-in-hand to open the military weapon arsenal and took away ten divine arm bows. These things were clear."
Listening to Wang Dan’s clearness of what he did and said as if he had known him, Lu Shiming laughed instead.
"Since Wang Xiang knew the assassination, why should he ask the officials?
You know, but you hide it and don’t tell Luo Yongsheng, why don’t you tell Luo Yongsheng that you have three points of hope that Luo Yongsheng will die under the arrow? This crime of not reporting on the truth is not clear."
Wang Dan nodded and said, "No need to remind you, I know the importance of it. I not only know who participated in the assassination of the king's killing, but also know who shot the arrow."
"who?"
"The King of Chu's own people!"
This sentence scared Lu Shiming.
Luo Yongsheng sent someone to assassinate himself?
"The King of Chu has known about the assassination for a long time, but he still dared to walk out of the king's car and expose himself to the public. You took away ten divine arm bows in total and sent ten people to hide in the streets and alleys, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate the King of Chu. But it was just that coincidentally that this arrow was blocked by the adopted son of the King of Chu."
Wang Dan said all his guesses: "So, the King of Chu had known your arrangements for a long time. He staggered all the assassins you set up and walked under the assassins he arranged.
His adopted son also knew that, so he reacted so quickly.”
"But, why did Luo Yongsheng do this?"
The so-called sword without eyes, if you lose this matter, wouldn’t Luo Yongsheng even lose his life?
"The arrow does not temper poison, and there is no falling blade. Even if it really breaks the armor and shoots it into the flesh, it will only be skin trauma."
Wang Dan sneered: "I went to see the King of Chu that day, and the King of Chu threw an arrow at my feet. The arrow was indeed the arrow of the Divine Arm Bow, but if it was really the arrow equipped with the original one, and was shot out by the real Divine Arm Bow, the person who blocked the arrow would definitely die on the spot.
So, the arrow thrown to me yesterday was a broken arrow, and he used this arrow to remind me of the past."
"What reminder?"
"Where are the arrows of the Divine Arm Bow?"
"Imperial Guard."
"How could it be in the hands of the King of Chu?"
Lu Shiming suddenly realized.
Is there any question about the reason for this? The result is obvious.
Two hundred thousand imperial guards surrendered to Dachu.
Luo Yongsheng used this arrow to tell Wang Dan that he and his army had achieved complete victory on the battlefield, and the reliance on the power of the Song Dynasty had been wiped out.
"The King of Chu knew everything, but he was still pretending to be confused and asked the minister to be the Tokyo inspector and the prefect of Kaifeng. There is another thing that Ji Zai, you may not know. The King of Chu also wanted King Danyang to be the King of Song and stay in Tokyo to stay in Tokyo, and he himself led his troops back to Nanchang."
Now Lu Shiming became even more confused. He didn't understand what Wang Dan said, what the meaning of inside.
Not to mention Luo Yongsheng's mysterious operation, just say what has something to do with his Wang Dan's interrogation.
"The King of Chu is amazing. He knew that if Chu destroyed Song, it would be impossible to digest if he swallowed an elephant with a snake. The size of the nine provinces is more than ten thousand cities. There are four or five hundred thousand officials in the near future. In addition, there are more than one million clerks. In a moment, how should Luo Chu deal with it?
It is unwise to kill people because there are still many places in the world that have not returned to Chu. The King of Chu was worried that he would kill people and could no longer issue an edict to decide the world. Then he would have to fight.
With the sword and war, the country was broken. When the Great Chu unified the world, the country's vitality would be exhausted. It took ten or even twenty years to recover. At that time, the King of Chu would be old. Does he still have time to go to the northern expedition and restore the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun?
Therefore, he gave Danyang King Jin as King Song and assassination of the king and killing the emperor, so he also handed over the disposal power to the minister, which was to tell other places that had not yet surrendered to the Great Chu, King Chu, he was benevolent and righteous!
Not only are they benevolent and righteous, but they also treat the imperial family of the previous dynasty very well. Like Sima Jin and Shancai, our dynasty is the same. We strive for a smooth transition of the regime and a stable national replacement. This is great wisdom."
Wang Dan thought about it for a long time along the way. After all, he was a person who could become the prime minister and his mind was inspirational.
Luo Yongsheng's operation was not clear before, and he just thought it was because of the existence of Song Chen's evil intentions. However, after seeing Zhao Shoujie's performance, he realized it.
With the special existence of the Chai family to the Song Dynasty, Luo Yongsheng's operations now gave the descendants of the Zhao family a reassurance, so it was difficult to have any desire to restore the throne.
After all, the Zhao family is indeed extremely good to the Chai family.
After the abdicated Emperor Gong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Zongxun, became an adult, was indulging in alcohol, sex and enjoyment, and all the application was paid by the court.
He gave birth to five sons before he was young.
He gave birth to one of his feet, and Zhao Kuangyin's edict arrived.
The hereditary duke of the country was free from death, and the iron vouchers of alchemy books and countless gold, silver and jewelry.
The iron coupons of the old Zhao family's alchemy books are better than those of the old Zhu family.
That's really a way to avoid death.
Not only that, the first of the ancestral teachings established by Zhao Kuangyin is to talk about the Chai family first.
"The Chai family's children are not allowed to be punished if they are guilty. Even if they commit crimes, they will commit suicide in prison. They will not be killed by the city or the subordinates of the branch."
The additional punishment here does not refer to the means of punishment, but rather means that even if you have a guilty crime, it is necessary to be pardoned, because the following sentence contains a vertical word.
Even if it is, even.
Even if the Chai family rebelled, they could only commit suicide in prison. They were not allowed to kill themselves, such as knives and axes, beheading and dismembering the corpse, and only one person was killed, and the company was not allowed to be killed.
This is the ancestral teaching of the old Zhao family, and the position is still before the civil servants are not killed.
This family law was implemented until the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty.
After the Jingkang shame, the Zhao family moved south and did not forget to take the Chai family to take refuge together. It can be seen that Chai Rong's descendants were really treated well by the emperors of all the Song dynasties, which is quite good.
Only the descendants of Cao Cao can live more comfortably than the Chai family in all dynasties, and only the descendants of Cao Cao have lived a longer life.
After being abdicated by Wei, Sima Jin also treated the descendants of the Cao family well. It was just a little funny. Liu Yu destroyed Jin and slaughtered the Sima family almost completely, but he did not hurt Cao Cao's descendants. The Cao family lived a very comfortable life.
I don’t know if someone in Sima Yi saw Cao Cao in the spring, should cry or laugh.
He survived several generations of the Cao family, but his descendants did not survive the Cao family.
The frequent occurrence of abdication and the aftermath have made China's politics more complex and advanced, that is, it is full of more compromises and game meanings.
It is not as rough as the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods when they often kill their opponents.
Looking at this from the perspective of Zhao Shoujie and Wang Dan, I feel it is easy to accept.
After all, the Song Dynasty has only been many years, and it can only take three generations, but it has been less than fifty years.
And how many years have the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties lasted.
The change of dynasties was like a lantern. After a few years, the later usurpers would not kill all the royal families of the previous dynasty, and would leave a way out for themselves.
Chai Zhou did not kill the Later Han Dynasty, and Zhao Song did not kill the Later Zhou Dynasty.
Now that Luo Chu is here, Luo Yongsheng will not slaughter Song even if he is.
From this perspective, Zhao Shoujie was willing or dared to rebel.
Isn’t he good to be a Prince Anle in a peaceful and prosperous era?
This political truth made Lu Shiming dizzy and dizzy. After finally digesting it, he felt something was wrong.
"What does this have to do with Wang Xiang, you interrogating the lower officials?"
Faced with this problem, Wang Dan was so angry that he vomited blood.
Is this Lu Shiming still a Grand Secretary? Is he so stupid?
"Although the King of Chu is determined to seek national stability, this is a change of regime and dynasty, how could it be that there is no blood flowing at all?
There are tens of thousands of officials in Tokyo. Can the King of Chu feel at ease if he doesn’t identify the loyal and treacherous ones?
Otherwise, why did he act like a play of assassinating the King of the King? The purpose is to alert the enemy and lead a group of Song ministers who were still hostile to the Great Chu to remove them. Now, the knife that was responsible for the removal was handed over to the Lord of Chu to the hands of the King of Chu."
Lu Shiming was shocked. Now he really couldn't keep calm, and his lips were shaking.
"The King wants to kill the lower officials?"
To be continued...