Sure enough, Su Wei and Pei Zheng both entered the Prime Minister's Mansion smoothly the next day. Yang Jian was overjoyed. The three of them exchanged a few words and then told everyone directly.
"Once the Holy Book of Punishment was promulgated, it has caused fear inside and outside the court and the public, and people are uneasy. If this situation is not reversed quickly, there will be no peace for both the government and the public. That's why we are so urgent to invite you two experts."
Then Yang Jian said emphatically.
"In order not to irritate my good son-in-law, the starting point of our revision of the code this time is to revise rather than re-edit it. As long as the items that are still reasonable will be kept as unchanged as possible, the basic principle of the revision is to delete the complex and keep it simple and tight."
When Su Wei heard this, he was unwilling and stared.
"What's the point of just re-editing it? We have read the contents of the Book of Punishments last night. The regulations in the book are extremely harsh. If the Supreme Emperor wants to be punished, please do so. We must not look at the Northern Zhou Dynasty's generals It is simply unreasonable for the people to rise up in unreasonable behavior."
As he spoke, Su Wei paused and glanced at Yang Jian before continuing.
"The harshness of Emperor Wu's punishment book has the meaning of using heavy codes in troubled times, but this law takes Confucianism as the first priority to rectify folk customs. It has only one purpose: to make the people of the country wholeheartedly participate in the idea of destroying Chen and Qi, so as to promote China's victory as soon as possible. Unified, the law stipulated that those with a salary of more than 3,000 would be beheaded, and heavy penalties would be imposed on local powers who concealed their population and land, including relatives of the emperor, but the calendar was relatively loose for farmers who opened up wasteland and farmed fields. Emperor Wu's intention was to enhance national strength. To achieve the goal of unifying China, today's punishment scriptures are too cruel and need to be changed. The main staff still remove the cruel laws imposed by Yu Wenyun and various human factors according to the late emperor's calendar. As for the restoration of Buddhism, whether to remove or retain it Please make your decision, Prime Minister."
"This article can be retained. Buddhism and Taoism have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. How can we forcefully erase it from the hearts of the people? It is better to clearly stipulate that the people have freedom of belief in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Sutra."
Yang Jian further said.
"The late emperor destroyed the Buddha. We can understand that many people have used temples as a safe haven during successive battles. As a result, the people have stopped farming, and they are short of soldiers and food for wars. The situation today has greatly changed. It is not the same as before to unify the military resources in the north. It’s an urgent question, because Northern Qi originally advocated Buddhism, and after Emperor Wu destroyed Qi, it was necessary for Qi people to destroy Buddhism, which was not conducive to stabilizing the people of Northern Qi.”
Pei Zheng and Gao Xi are both seasoned and knowledgeable people. When Yang Jian and Su Wei said this, everyone immediately felt at ease, and they were too embarrassed to talk too much.
Next, the three of them, Gao Xi, Su Wei, and Pei Zheng, divided the work a little and started to change everything according to Yang Jian's requirements.
At this time, the Supreme Emperor Yu Wenyun was driving a post carriage on the post road leading to Luoyang. He shouted an order.
"Hurry up and keep up, don't fall behind."
Several queens each drove a carriage closely behind them. The post road leading to Luoyang has been rebuilt and is very flat and spacious. The narrow road cannot accommodate five carriages running in parallel and colliding with each other, causing people to flip over.
Some of the queens' beautiful faces were bruised and swollen after being thrown, and some were frightened. When Yu Wen Yun saw this, he laughed loudly.
"A bunch of useless things."
Sometimes when Yu Wenyun got tired from traveling 300 miles a day, he would stay in a palace built along the way, drink and have fun, and stay at home for several days.
This is not the first time Yuwen Yun has visited Luoyang City for inspection. Currently, only the palace city and the imperial city have been built in Luoyang City. There are still 40,000 slaves working every day to intensify construction in the outer city.
Because all the palaces, pavilions, and royal gardens within the palace walls were completed, and the craftsmen who built the buildings were even more gorgeous and spectacular than the imperial capital Chang'an. The craftsmen who brought the Xiping Stone Sutra back from Yedu and placed them properly in the built Luoyang City.
As of now, the north has been formally unified. Yu Wenyun issued an edict in the process of rebuilding Luoyang.
"The Xiping Stone Sutra is regarded as a treasure to suppress Yang and is built on the dragon veins of Luoyang."
The Xiping Stone Sutra returned to Luoyang has been reinstalled piece by piece. The stone tablets are also decorated with glazed tile tops to protect them from wind and sun.
When Yu Wen Yun and the five emperors played together and came to the unfinished Luoyang New City, Yu Wen Yun and the Queen had already inspected the completed harem and held a grand unveiling ceremony of the Xiping Stone Sutra in the imperial city.
Then the emperors and empresses indulged in pleasure in the newly renovated Luoyang Palace for a few days, and then returned to Chang'an by the same route. More than a year has passed since Luoyang and Chang'an went back and forth.
When Yu Wenyun returned to Chang'an, he indulged in wine and beauties all day long. Suddenly one day, he didn't know where he was in the wrong place.
"We want to go to court again and experience the feeling of being among the top ten thousand people again."
On this day, Yu Wenyun was so happy that he didn't sleep all night and woke up early. He unexpectedly came to the court and sat safely on the dragon chair. Several ministers saw Le Sheng sitting on the dragon chair and ignored him for a long time. Yu Wenyun, who was in the court, was so angry that he immediately cursed.
"You, an old man, have not been in charge of politics for a long time. You have been ostracized, killed, and destroyed. Look at how many loyal ministers there are in this dynasty. On the surface, you have made Yu Wenchan the emperor, but you still need to deal with big and small matters. You decide to act arbitrarily, thinking that when you first came to the throne, you had no political achievements and were busy harming the people of the world. You took away the people's fat and the people's anointing. You also implemented some kind of digging system to squeeze money from the people to enrich your harem. Those beauties in pink and white, you still don't listen to the advice in order to save money. Military expenditures actually stipulate that innocent people will be convicted and sent to the army. Look at how many people in the world are exchanging their sons for food. You... Is he still a human being?”
The court filled with civil and military officials was speechless. The pampered Yuwen Yun was so used to being overbearing that he could not accept such harsh words, so he became furious.
"Get this traitor, cut off his tongue, gouge out his eyes, and execute him in the palace."
Several guards stepped forward and grabbed Le Sheng's head. A sharp knife was about to stab his eyes when they suddenly heard him curse again.
"Hunjun, Hunjun, even if you cut out our tongues and dig out our eyes, I will still have a mouth to swallow you and a hand to write to you."
Yu Wenyun said dismissively.
"Then sew his mouth shut and chop off all ten of his fingers and toes."
"Your Majesty, wait a minute."
The chamberlain Yuan Yan stood up and started playing.
"Lesheng, you know that if you say this, you will definitely die. He wants to leave his name forever. If your majesty kills him, it will make him famous forever. Your majesty must not be fooled."
Yu Wen Yun looked around and saw that all the civil and military officials in the court were silent. Then he saw his most trusted confidant Zheng Yi standing among the officials instead of beside him, so Yu Wen Yun said angrily.
"Get out of here, get out of here."
Le Sheng still stiffened his neck and gave Yu Wenyong a hard answer.
"You have harmed Zhongliang. If you don't kill us today, we will kill you. Emperor Wu, please forgive me, Le Sheng, for being disloyal."
Le Sheng pulled out the guard's saber and stabbed Yu Wenyun.
One of the generals had quick eyes and quick hands and hit Le Sheng with a hammer. After only two rounds, Le Sheng was defeated and was captured again. Just when Yu Wenyun was thinking about how to deal with him, Le Sheng broke free and ran towards Chao. Pillars in the hall.
Yu Wenyun walked down and kicked Le Sheng's body.
"Bah, you bitch, you still want to kill us, throw it out to feed the dogs."
When Yu Wenyun returned to the Tiantai Hall, he became more and more angry as he thought about it and muttered in his heart.
"It's rare that I woke up early today. I was originally very interested in talking to the ministers I haven't met yet, but I didn't expect that they hate me so much now."
Soon Liu Pi came to add fuel to the fire.
"Your Majesty, the palace guard Yang Wenyou is so bold as to compose a song to slander His Majesty in public."
Yu Wenyun, who was still angry at this moment, suddenly regained his energy and asked.
"Haha, the world is changing so fast. How can a common general be able to compose music? Aiqing might as well sing the music he composed for everyone to listen to."
Liu Pi was shocked and did not expect that Yu Wenyun would embarrass him because of this matter, so he had no choice but to clear his throat and start imitating Yang Wenyou's voice.
"If a person has a god in his family, regardless of his political affairs, he will see beauty every day, but he will never be born."
Upon hearing this, Yu Wenyun was furious and threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground.
"Pass it to Yang Wenyou."
When Yang Wenyou arrived, he knew that a disaster was coming and bowed before him without saying a word.
"Holy, Holy, Holy...................... Please forgive me."
"Are you afraid now? Are you aware of your sin?"
Yang Wenyou said tremblingly.
"The little ones know their sins, and the little ones are willing to accept the rod of punishment 100 times."
"Can 100 relieve our anger? If you multiply it 20 times, give us 1,000."
Yang Wenyou couldn't bear the beating of the spiked wolf teeth and cried for his father and mother, so he sang loudly.
"There is a god in the house, regardless of his political affairs, and beauty comes to him every day. He will never be born, he will never be born, he will never be born."
As he sang, Yang Wenyou lost his voice and died in a short time.
After hearing the news, Changsun Lan hurried over and it was too late. All he saw was Yang Wenyou's cold body, so he knelt down in tears and said heartbrokenly.
"Your Majesty, I beg you to stop killing innocent people indiscriminately. How many loyal ministers have died at your hands since you came to the throne? I wonder if you know that the Prime Minister's Office has revised the new punishment code, canceling your original habit of killing people at every turn. The regulations will be promulgated to the world immediately after you come back to review them!!!!"
"What did you say?"
Yu Wenyun quickly became alert and looked like Zheng Yi beside him asked.
"Do you know about this? Who actually changed the rules of the court without authorization."
"I don't know, I don't know, but haven't I been accompanying the emperor on tours recently?"
"Changsun Lan will bring what you mentioned and let me take a look at it."
The eldest grandson took the lead.
"The newly revised Criminal Scriptures have been placed on His Majesty's desk for a long time."
Then Changsun Lan explained again.
"Your Majesty, Yang Wenyou doesn't know a few martial arts characters. He doesn't know how to arrange music. He has heard this from the public, but he just likes to talk a lot."
Yu Wenyun sighed.
"We know that Yang Aiqing is a talkative person but not really a bad person. You can give his parents, wife and children some money and a yard."
After that, Yu Wenyun turned around and walked back to the study. When he stepped into the imperial study, he saw at a glance that the newly revised Xing Jing had been placed neatly on the desk.
Yu Wenyun picked up a few pages and immediately yelled furiously.
"Where's Zheng Yi, get over here."
The Supreme Emperor angrily threw the Zhezi at Zheng Yi's face and continued.
"My old father-in-law is really brave."
Zheng Yi picked up the manuscript of the Criminal Code from the ground and read it word for word. The more he read, the more he felt that this revised code was lenient and strict. Zheng Yi concluded after only reading the first half of it.
"If the instructions are implemented according to the script, it will not only stabilize the people's hearts, but also stabilize the current crumbling court."
As soon as Yang Jian took office, he grasped the will of the people and made unauthorized changes so that Yu Wenyun could no longer exploit the people. No wonder Yu Wenyun opposed it so fiercely.
At this moment, Zheng Yi took a peek at Yu Wenyun and saw him pacing back and forth in the room upset.
