The next morning.
Li Hongbi was still sleeping.
A normal playboy would have to sleep until midnight before getting up.
However, when he was sleeping soundly, the voice of the old housekeeper Li Quan suddenly came from outside the door.
"Young Master, something big has happened!"
"The Duke of Guo was beaten in court and was carried back!"
"Get hit?" Li Hongbi slapped his mouth, without even opening his eyes.
"It turns out I like this style. Next time, sir, I will try it with Hu Ji..."
"Wait a minute!" Li Hongbi suddenly sat up straight, put on his clothes and rushed out of the room.
"Uncle Quan, what's going on?"
After all, how could Li Jinglong suddenly receive a beating?
According to common sense, both parties are in the honeymoon period now, and the Dog Emperor will not attack Li Jinglong!
Li Quan sighed, but did not say anything more, but led Li Hongbi to the front hall.
I saw Li Jinglong lying on the shelf and wailing miserably, his buttocks even more bloody.
Seeing this situation, Li Hongbi's face suddenly turned cold.
As soon as he saw Li Hongbi, Li Jinglong immediately started crying aggrievedly.
"Son, I feel wronged by my father!"
"This is simply an unreasonable disaster, my son!"
Seeing his miserable look, Li Hongbi couldn't help but laugh.
"Okay, tell me slowly, what happened?"
Li Jinglong also stopped crying when he heard this and spoke in a tearful tone.
"This morning, as a father, I will go to court to discuss matters as usual."
"As a result, His Majesty the Emperor suddenly asked my father what he thought of the severe drought in Shandong. My father definitely didn't answer, so he followed the method taught by your son and directly replied, 'Ah, yes, yes...'. Who would have thought of His Majesty the Emperor? He was so furious that he immediately scolded my father for despising the emperor, and without any explanation, he dragged my father out of the palace and slapped him twenty times..."
Hearing this, Li Hongbi was speechless.
Damn it, I taught you that, and you really just answered like that?
Don't you look at who the person is who asked you, brother?
In front of the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, you answered the Dog Emperor like this. It would be strange if the Dog Emperor wasn't angry!
But, it’s not like dragging out the imperial staff directly!
Li Hongbi instinctively felt something was wrong, and there was something strange about this matter.
The Dog Emperor knew that Li Jinglong was a loser, so he usually placed him in the court hall as a mascot. How could he suddenly ask Li Jinglong for his opinions on government affairs?
Or is it that the Dog Emperor intends to hit Li Jinglong, so no matter what Li Jinglong answers, he will take the opportunity to attack?
For a time, Li Hongbi thought a lot and roughly guessed the truth of the matter!
It seems that this is a secret incident!
The old dandy must have suffered a terrible disaster this time, as he blocked the gun for Li Hongbi!
"Ahem, Dad, please take a good rest first."
"Someone, please send my father to Brother Sheng's room so that he can be treated for his injuries!"
After sending Li Jinglong away, Li Hongbi immediately looked at Li Quan.
"Uncle Lao Quan, who sent my father back home?"
"A group of royal guards are still waiting outside the gate of the mansion."
Hearing this, Li Hongbi's eyes narrowed, and then he asked Li Quan for some scraps of silver, and hurried to the door of the house.
I saw more than a dozen Jin Yiwei standing there, and the leader looked like a member of the Jin Yiwei Baihu.
Li Hongbi made a joke and stepped forward to hand out broken silver.
"Thank you all brothers for your hard work!"
All the Jin-clad warriors were a little flattered when they saw this, and they waved their hands and dared not accept it.
They all looked at the leader of the hundred households. Only when the hundred households nodded did they accept it with a smile.
Li Hongbi walked up to Baihu and handed over a silver ingot without leaving any trace. Baihu looked at Li Hongbi in surprise and simply accepted it, with a smile on his face.
"Sir Qianhu is really right, the young master is really a wonderful person."
Hearing this, Li Hongbi also had a smile on his face.
"Brother, is my dad's stick a 'strike with all your heart' or a 'strike with real strength'?"
Hearing his words, the smile on Jinyiwei Baihu's face became even bigger.
"Don't worry, young master, it's a 'resolute fight'. Mr. Guo only suffered some superficial injuries. He can be cured after applying ointment and resting for ten and a half months."
Li Hongbi's heart dropped into his stomach when he heard this, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The imperial staff system of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be very famous. The staff system began with Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, Comrade Chongba has always disliked those sarcastic and rotten scholars, so when he was angered, he liked to torment them in various ways.
This imperial rod is undoubtedly the most shameful punishment.
He was doing well, but suddenly he was dragged out by a handsome guard. He took off his official uniform and trousers, exposing his white buttocks, and was slapped in front of everyone!
This is simply a great humiliation for those officials and gentry who are obsessed with saving face!
This kind of humiliation is not only physical, but also mental. It is almost the same as breaking into the Jiaofang Division.
Moreover, the imperial staff is generally made of chestnut wood. The striking end is cut into a mallet shape and is covered with an iron sheet. There are also undercuts on the iron sheet. Once the stick is struck, the executioner will pull it along, and the sharp undercuts will hit the person. A large piece of flesh and leather was torn off the victim's body.
If the executioners were not merciful, not to mention sixty but thirty blows, the victim's skin and flesh would be torn to pieces with repeated blows and scratches.
Many officials who were sentenced to death in the Ming Dynasty died directly under the imperial staff.
And even if they don't die, nine out of ten people will be disabled for life.
The highest number of imperial staffs is one hundred, but this has no practical significance. After seventy or eighty blows, the person is dead. Those hard bones with one hundred imperial staffs rarely have survival records.
The imperial staff is eighty, which means that both feet have entered the threshold of the Lord of Hell.
Because of this, court stick has become a science.
Some useful information can be inferred from the number of imperial staffs and whether the imperial staffs are "hit with heart" or "struck with real strength".
The imperial staff is divided into "hard hitting" and "hard hitting". As for the method of hitting, the prison officer decides according to the emperor's secret order. If the prison officer's toes are spread out, then it is a "hard hitting", which may lead to disability. If the prison officer's toes are closed, it means "beating with all his heart", and the minister who is being punished will definitely die.
As the saying goes, good intentions don't count unless they are killed.
And Li Jinglong received twenty canes this time, which was neither more nor less.
If it’s too much, it will hurt your muscles and bones; if it’s too little, you won’t be able to achieve the effect that the Dog Emperor wants!
And just now Jinyiwei Baihu also said that the emperor's secret order was to "fight hard", which means that the fight was not actually hard.
As for why Li Jinglong's butt is a bloody mess, it's not because this old dude is spoiled and pampered. A slap can swell his face, let alone a stick.
After deducing this information, Li Hongbi felt confident.
But he still needs to confirm one thing, and that is which turtle grandson was the one who stabbed the Tie family sisters to the Dog Emperor!
Ji Gang is a smart man, and he naturally understands what Li Hongbi means.
The previous conflict at the gate of the palace was just a good show performed by the two of them with tacit cooperation. The purpose was to remove Ji Gang from this matter, and Ji Gang would reciprocate and temporarily cover up the matter for Li Hongbi.
But Li Hongbi didn't expect that just how long had passed before the Dog Emperor already knew about it, and he even used Li Jinglong as a court staff, with the intention of beating him!
The person the Dog Emperor wants to beat is not Li Jinglong, but him, Li Hongbi.
As for the reason, it is the Tie family sisters!
Although the old dandy is a loser who has little success but only failure, he is Li Hongbi's biological father after all!
He was beaten for no reason at all. With Li Hongbi's temperament, he naturally couldn't bear the bad breath!
If I can't take revenge on the Dog Emperor, can I still take revenge on the snitch?
"Brother, I wonder if Master Qianhu has anything to say to me?"
Baihu glanced deeply at Li Hongbi, then walked up to him, said only three words, and left Cao Guogong's mansion on his own.
After Li Hongbi heard this, his expression changed wildly, and then his whole face darkened.
"Third Prince?"
"Zhu Gaosui?"
"Are you really full?"
"Did my father and son sleep with your wife or dig up your ancestral graves?"
