The case in Mancheng County has long been rumored, and most of the people who donated money for the construction of the four girls' schools under the jurisdiction of Baoding Prefecture were found to be involved in the major case in Taiyuan Prefecture by Zhang Zhengju.
For a time, almost everyone involved in the case became rats crossing the street, and everyone shouted for beatings.
Not to mention helping each other, even if you take a step closer, you have to think carefully about whether you can withstand the spit of the people.
People like Qiao Huaisheng who were obviously guilty of covering up crimes were pointed out by Daiyu. People who were originally close to him all avoided him, and no one even came forward to help him and check the situation.
Daiyu, who was wearing a green robe and official uniform, looked proud and tall, her head raised and she looked around coldly. No one who had a ghost in their heart dared to look at her.
At this time, the whole Fengtian Hall could only hear Daiyu's crisp voice: "The Book of Rites says, after observing things, you will know what you have achieved; if you know what you have, then your intentions will be sincere; if your intentions are sincere, then your heart will be upright; if your heart is upright, then your body will be cultivated, and your body will be cultivated." Then the family is harmonious, the family is harmonious and then the country is governed, and the country is governed and then the world is peaceful."
"The sages said that a gentleman should have the right way of doing things. What does it mean for a gentleman to have the way of doing good things? That is, don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. I dare to ask you, if the woman who was harmed by Liu Kan and others was yours. Girl, will you treat me coldly and ignore me?"
"this……"
Perhaps in the eyes of many officials in the palace, the thousands of women who were mutilated by Liu Kan and others were just cold and boring numbers in the official documents of the Ministry of Punishment.
But in Daiyu's eyes, they were lives that were originally alive but withered due to the inaction or fueling of the court officials.
These people can still stand in the Fengtian Palace with peace of mind and talk about taking care of the overall situation and maintaining the dignity of the country...
shameful! hateful! Killable!
Although Daiyu is a little girl of thirteen or fourteen who seems weak and unable to take care of herself, at this moment she is as stubborn and tall as the green pine trees on the cliff.
She glanced disdainfully at Qiao Huaisheng, who was unconscious on the ground, and then turned her eyes to Lu Cunxu, who was in charge of Li Ke's affairs.
It was this person who, before the case in Mancheng County was investigated, filed a memorial to impeach the Department of Compulsory Education, saying that the implementation of the compulsory education system was disturbing local governments and draining the national treasury. He also said that allowing girls to enroll in school was against etiquette and law...
To put it bluntly, they were worried that the imperial court would break the status quo of local gentry's monopoly on knowledge and erode their power.
Being stared at by Daiyu coldly, Lu Cunxu subconsciously wanted to hide behind the person next to him.
"Lu Gaishi seems to look down on women. The case of impeachment against me for advocating women's enrollment in school was the reason for the Security Bureau case. I would like to ask Lu Gaishi, Mr. Lu, you keep saying that women are virtuous if they are not talented. Are Lu Gaishi's wives and daughters also unfaithful? I know one. Or is it that Lu Guishan just wants to make other people’s daughters illiterate?”
The Lu family in Pingyang is one of the few wealthy and scholarly families in the north. Even women must be familiar with poetry and books in order to make marriage connections and strengthen the family's power.
Lu Cunxu dares to lie to the emperor in front of the emperor, do you mean it?
He was cornered by Daiyu. He looked around in despair, but no one dared to say anything to help him. He could only shake his head repeatedly: "I didn't, I'm not..."
"Of course not the Erlu family. After all, the Lu family's scholarly family is not the same as Niluzi, right? Ha!"
The Lin family in Gusu also came from a scholarly family, and was one of the top officials in the south of the Yangtze River. But Daiyu had heard Lin Ruhai read the words of saints about teaching without distinction since she was a child.
When did disciples of saints start monopolizing knowledge?
Yes, the people can follow it, but they cannot know it.
Mudlegs don't need to know that much, they just need to follow the orders of these masters.
In this way, the master will always be the master, and the mud-legged man will always be driven by the master and his wife.
But she doesn't want to!
The original meaning of the sutra goes like this: "If the people can do it, let them follow it; if they can't do it, let them know it."
If the people's level of civilization is already adequate, then let them be free; if they are not, then first let them develop their wisdom. If you let the people be free without knowing it, you will not be able to do well in the future. The one who makes it known is making it progress from the impossible to the possible.
The original intention of the compulsory education established by her and Jia Cong was to reinterpret the holy words, break down the customs and open up the people's wisdom.
As for touching the interests of some people and triggering a counterattack from some people, whether it was Daiyu or Jia Cong, the two of them had long been mentally prepared.
Today, it was just the first slash, and she could see the fierceness in the opponent's face, which made Daiyu straighten her waist even more.
"The country does not seek profit for profit, but righteousness for profit. All the kings consider themselves disciples of saints, but in my opinion, not many people understand the principle that virtue is the foundation of wealth."
Daiyu glanced around, casting a sarcastic look at every member of the Jin Party, and finally said coldly: "At least you, don't open your mouth and shut up in the future, you are not worthy!"
Just one sentence angered one-fifth of the people in the palace. These people were either members of the Jin Party or people closely related to the Jin Party.
Today, Daiyu pointed out their unworthiness on the spot, which broke the guard of these sanctimonious people, and they all angrily accused Daiyu.
"presumptuous!"
"Is this how Lin is tutored?"
"Lin Ruhai, is this how you teach your daughter?"
"How do I teach my daughter to allow you to interrupt?"
Lin Ruhai was also angry. Although her daughter's words were a bit excessive, they were basically justified.
He is a gentleman, and he is ashamed to serve as a minister in the same palace as a villain. Now that someone dared to bully Daiyu in front of him, the gentle and gentle Mr. Lin became angry. He forgot the plan he had made with Jia Zheng and Jia Jing last night and started to start a fight.
"I don't have any other skills. I just taught my little girl what it means to be a benevolent person who can love others and hate others. I can't help others to do evil and cover up evil. Those more than a thousand innocent souls are still watching in the sky. I I’m very curious about how thick-skinned you are, and how you can stand calmly in the Fengtian Hall by confusing right and wrong.”
To say why Daiyu dared to criticize people in front of the civil and military officials of the court, it was not because her backstage was big enough.
The biological father has come forward, how can the other father stand by and watch.
The emperor had long been dissatisfied with this party and that party in the court. Seeing Daiyu lift the fig leaf of the Jin party, he no longer gave these people any face.
The noise in the palace made him even more disgusted with the sanctimonious hypocrites in the court. He suddenly slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and shouted angrily: "Shut up!"
"Your Majesty, please calm down. I'm waiting for death!"
With a crash, the noisy officials in the Fengtian Palace suddenly stopped and bowed down one by one to apologize.
"How do I calm down my anger? All the people in the world are my subjects. As my subjects, you serve the people from heaven, but you allow the innocent to suffer, and even help the tyrants to commit crimes and protect the sinners. Ten thousand deaths? One death is enough!"
The emperor's anger was enough to make the officials tremble, not to mention laying down millions of corpses.
The emperor stood up and glanced coldly at His Majesty Dan's ministers.
"Lu Cunxu disregarded the facts, slandered the royal family, and was dismissed from office!"
"Qiao Huaisheng bent the law for personal gain, aided the tyrants in his crimes, covered up evil acts, and was sentenced to prison!"
"Thousands of innocent souls are looking at you, how can you sit back and do nothing with peace of mind? Shameful!"
After scolding the ministers, the emperor walked away without listening to the cries of death in the palace.
Those who had prepared all night and planned to impeach Jia Cong, Dai Yu and the Department of Compulsory Education today did not dare to show their anger. They bowed their heads and clutched the impeachment memorial in their sleeves for fear of falling out and being seen. .
It wasn't until they walked out of the palace that they gathered together in twos and threes and whispered about what happened at the court meeting.
Some of them cannot understand why impeachment, which was always unfavorable in the past, does not work today. Instead, a little girl silenced them with the words of a saint.
Isn't it a common practice in the officialdom for officials to protect each other and hide from each other?
How could your majesty ignore the majesty and reputation of the court and the royal family and let Jia Cong's son and the Lin family's girl play nonsense?
How about a forced resignation? The emperor probably didn’t want most of the officials in the court to be gone...
"I blocked their words today, and the next step should be to resign and force me to do it. It's ridiculous, they really think that I am the father, so I will care about my reputation."
The emperor picked up his pen and wrote a few sentences on the secret edict. After thinking for a while, he raised his head and told the eunuch Xia Shouzhong: "Go to Prince Ji's Mansion and ask the emperor to leave Jia Cong alone after he goes to Taiyuan. He just broke the truth." , and I will make up for it."
Xia Shouzhong took a deep breath: "Your Majesty, if your decree is passed on, will Uncle Yongfeng slaughter all the officials in Shanxi? I'm afraid the Ministry of Personnel will come to trouble the Emperor again."
"It's something that's worse than a beast. Why don't you kill it and keep it?"
The emperor waved his hand and said: "Go ahead, let's just say that. The more ruthlessly Jia Cong kills in Shanxi, the easier it will be for me to do the next thing. Daxia has never been short of officials. Kill a group and then choose one." Just come up in batches."
…
Jia Cong still didn't know what was right and wrong in Beijing. Every day in Taiyuan, he was either interrogating cases or killing people and confiscating their homes. At least one-third of the gentry and wealthy merchants in Taiyuan City had their homes confiscated by him.
Wengcheng has become the most bloody place in Taiyuan that people dare not approach. Within half a month, more than a hundred criminals were pulled out and beheaded.
Not counting the criminals who could not be executed, the prisons in Taiyuan Prefecture were already full of people.
Jia Cong made a few ticks on the verdict with a pen and threw it to Zhang Siwei: "Anyone of high rank who was involved in Liu Kan's case will be executed. The accomplices were exiled to northern Xinjiang to build the Great Wall, and they were not pardoned." The families of those criminal officials were sent to Jiaozhi to open up wasteland..."
"Uncle, it's not as sinful as my wife and children. Isn't it so unkind to do this?"
Zhang Siwei's words made Jia Cong sneer. He sneered: "Not as guilty as my wife and children? I used to think that implicating others was a bit too much, but now it seems that killing the ten tribes will not necessarily make the beasts fear the law of heaven. Mr. Zhang, you Do you think the family members of those criminal officials really don’t know what their husbands and fathers have done? Since they spent bloody money, they must be prepared to bear the blame."
Zhang Siwei was stunned for a long time, but finally accepted the verdict and bowed to accept the promise.
"Zhang Buzheng, the crime has only been revealed. Liu Kan and those officials and wealthy people are just bait thrown out by some people."
Jia Cong knocked on the table and said categorically: "Uncle, no matter who is behind all this, if he wants to fish, then I will take the initiative to bite the hook and pull him into the water. Since you want to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, you have to Be obedient and don't think about trying to please both sides. Do you understand?"
A wry smile appeared on Zhang Siwei's face, and then he replied in awe after Jia Cong snorted: "I understand, uncle. Please rest assured."
Jia Cong nodded slightly and saw Jia Shiyi coming to the door, waving his hand to let him go.
When only Jia Cong was left in the main hall of the Chief Envoy Si Yamen, Jia Shiyi entered the room and reported: "Little Third Master, there is news from Beijing. Your Majesty has sent Prince Ji to lead 10,000 imperial troops out of Beijing, and he is rushing to Taiyuan. Come."
Jia Cong thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Well, it is expected that the uncle of King Ji will come to investigate the matter of the princess. However, these ten thousand forbidden troops are beyond my expectation."
"The news from the Dragon Guard is that an old man from England is admonishing Your Majesty, saying that we are short of manpower here."
Jia Shiyi paused for a moment, then thought for a while before continuing: "There is also news. After Miss Lin returned to Beijing, she had a quarrel with the Confucian scholars at Fengtian Hall, which directly made Qiao Huaisheng, the young minister of Taipu Temple, angry to death, and provoked He has angered several famous scholars, and now he and Miss Lin are quarreling in the capital. Second Master Bao and several friends, plus Miss Lin debating scriptures with many famous scholars in newspapers... It is said that Miss Lin had a dispute with the Ministry of Rites after the meeting in the imperial court. Your Excellency discussed the saying, 'If the people can do it, let them follow it; if it doesn't work, let them know it.', which annoyed several great scholars."
This is a strange thing, but not unusual.
At this time when Neo-Confucianism is prevalent, the ideas of Daiyu and Baoyu may be an eyesore to many people, even if many of the great Neo-Confucianists are upright people.
However, there is no distinction between good and evil in the disputes between the orthodox factions. It is purely a dispute over ideas.
"I'm not worried about the quarrel. Just let Sister Lin and Brother Bao deal with it on their own. But the death of Qiao Huaisheng..."
Jia Shiyi was also a little puzzled. Miss Lin was so soft and weak, but she could scold people to death?
"According to the news from the Dragon Imperial Guard, Miss Lin refuted Qiao Huaisheng's impeachment in the palace and pointed out his many faults and crimes. She was so angry that the Taipusi Shaoqing fainted in the palace. Later, His Majesty was furious and had him imprisoned. He died in the imperial prison that night before being interrogated by Beizhen Fusi."
Jia Cong held his chin with his hand and roughly pictured in his mind a scene of Lin Daiyu fighting with the Confucian scholars and scolding Wang Lang to death... and stunning Qiao Huaisheng, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Seeing this, Jia Shiyi couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
"Young Master, there is something fishy about this matter. Regardless of whether Miss Lin scolded Qiao Huaisheng to death or not, this matter is not good for Miss Lin's reputation. Why are you still laughing?"
Jia Cong smiled nonchalantly and said, "I didn't know there was something fishy about Qiao Huaisheng's death, but this incident also made those people in Beijing understand one thing. Sister Lin is not to be trifled with."
Of course, he is not easy to mess with. He has two fathers to protect him. Even if he pokes a hole in the sky, there will be big hands to repair it.
You can kill someone by insulting her. I guess those who have grudges against Dai Yu are trembling.
Jia Cong snickered for a while, put the matter aside for the time being, and asked about the case and the confiscation of the house.
"The interrogation at Zhu Jiangming's side went smoothly, but due to lack of manpower, the interrogation speed could not be increased. Fortunately, Mr. Zhang has already set off from Baoding Prefecture and will be able to arrive in Taiyuan in about five days. It will be much easier then."
Jia Shiyi rummaged around on the desk beside him, took out an official document and handed it to Jia Cong: "By the way, this was sent by Zhu Jiangming this morning. According to the clues he has found so far, it is indeed like the mistress. As speculated before, it seems that the Lu family is leading all this, but there is no evidence directly pointing to the Lu family."
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After adjusting my schedule, I will update one chapter first, and then I will type slowly.
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