According to legend, Song Taizu set down three ancestral precepts.
The first is to preserve the descendants of the Chai family.
The second is not to kill scholar-bureaucrats.
The third is not to add the endowment of farmland.
He also erected a stone tablet and placed it in the Ancestral Temple. It was stipulated that only the emperor after he ascended the throne could see it, and no one else, including the crown prince, was qualified to see it.
If you think about it carefully, it is obviously unreasonable. How could a monument be shown to only one person? Could it be that it was usually buried and the emperor dug it out himself when he wanted to see it?
Let’s not talk about whether there is this monument. Anyway, after crossing south, Tokyo belongs to others and the Ancestral Temple was destroyed.
Let's just say this, the descendants of the Chai family did not end well. They died and dispersed. In the end, when Renzong met, they could only find someone with the Chai surname who could not win the title of the Chai family.
There is also the third article, which is even more nonsense. A farmer pays taxes on more than half of the fruits of his labor every year.
As for the second point that is talked about by the scholar-officials every day, it has been maintained well. After all, they are the beneficiaries.
But to be more serious, official history records that Song Taizu himself killed more than 80 people, ranging from privy councilors, Yuhou in front of the palace, state governors, to commanders, supervisory censors, county magistrates, etc. The slain.
Song Taizong's hand was not soft either. There were more than ten in this book alone, but Zhenzong only killed one. In the later years, there were indeed fewer and fewer, and there were basically none.
Therefore, this article was mostly taught by the ancestors, but was forcibly instilled in the emperor by the civil servant group out of their own interests.
The first person to do this should be Fan Zhongyan, the most perfect man in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a military commander committed a capital crime. The prime minister said he should be executed, but Fan Fuzi wrote a letter against it. This is what he said.
"Since our ancestors, I have never killed my subordinates lightly. How can I want to undermine this great virtue? Now that I and you are here, how many of my colleagues are of the same mind? Even though the superior's intention is unknown, it is easy to lead the master to do so. Killing my subordinates, their hands are slippery every day, even though I don’t dare to protect myself.”
The core reason is that he is afraid that the emperor's hands will be slippery. The purpose is to completely change from killing less to no killing. To this end, he does not hesitate to ignore the laws and regulations. From this point of view, no matter how great a scholar is, he will have a selfish stance.
From then on, I really didn’t kill much. At least, I didn’t kill with a knife. Those who died in exile or died of fear don’t count...
After crossing south, Emperor Gaozong raised his butcher knife again and started killing indiscriminately.
Now, this loyal king was planning to start a big fight even before he was crowned prince, which had to frighten the ministers.
But I saw Zhao Mengqi pondering for a while, looking like he was thinking deeply, "From now on, Lin'an will implement a curfew, strengthen the city gate security, and immediately hunt for spies. However, if court officials are involved, they must consult the Political Affairs Hall. Also, the captured prisoners will be temporarily detained." No trial yet."
After saying that, Zhao Mengqi turned around and smiled at Zhao Yun, "Father, is this treatment of my son appropriate?"
You've already decided, why are you still asking?
Zhao Yun waved his hand angrily, "Yes!"
"Here!" Gu Qing received the order, "In addition, a group of criminals from Baoen Temple and evidence of their crimes will be arriving shortly. I will go ahead and arrange my official duties."
Seeing Gu Qing leave, the ministers breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the loyal king did not go crazy and the orders he gave were very restrained.
Unexpectedly, they saw Zhao Mengqi grinning at them, showing his big white teeth, and said, "Are you surprised? Are you surprised?"
"I know what many of you are thinking. Most of you think that I concocted this case. Hehe, it's not the case. So I don't have to arrest people in a hurry. Later, we will interrogate and handle the case on the spot. It will be absolutely open. To be honest, no one involved in the case can escape, most of them are here anyway."
hiss!
The ministers were shocked, it turned out that this was what King Zhong had in mind!
He was right. Most of the court officials in Beijing were already on the spot. How could they run away?
In fact, according to Zhao Mengqi's original plan, he was indeed striking while the iron was hot, taking advantage of Juezhen's suspicion of treason and killing him as quickly as possible, because the charge of treason was fictitious, but as long as the conspirators were caught, Naturally, the crime can be found out.
But he heard from Gu Qing that it was not a trap according to the original plan, but Bing Jia was actually found. What was even more surprising was that he was actually a spy from the Northern Kingdom.
Since the goal can be achieved in a high-sounding way, why not follow the procedures? Then no one will have anything to say.
Zhao Yun, who was sitting on the throne, sighed secretly in his heart. This boy is indeed very arrogant. I don't know if this trouble is a blessing or a curse. Just wait and see. If it is too much, just hold on.
But he didn't notice that Dong Songchen was standing on the edge of the stage, his legs shaking violently.
Not long after, amidst the noise of the people, Yu Hou Shihuai arrived in front of the palace with people escorting him. Because they were members of the front group, they went directly into the court area, just to keep a distance from the throne.
At this time, many people recognized Juezhen. Although he no longer had the demeanor of a monk like before, his iconic black face was unmistakable.
The leather armor worn by Juezhen and a dozen monks made the people begin to believe the fact of the conspiracy, and they all remembered that the source of the evil dragon rumors was this black monk, and they couldn't help but become more suspicious of the theory that the loyal king was the evil dragon, but in their hearts What I am more concerned about is how to solve sleeping sickness.
After seeing Juezhen in armor with his own eyes, many officials, especially the Yushitai group, had darkened eyes and began to think about the aftermath.
After the prisoners were ready, the people from the Imperial City Department began to show evidence.
First there was a pile of weapons, which was nothing to say, everyone had heard of it, and then there were big boxes one after another, taken off the bullock cart and placed on the imperial street.
Hou Tao, the Secretary General of the Imperial City, stepped forward and opened one, shining with silver light, and then opened another, shining with golden light.
"This is the valuable property that was seized. It contains more than 47,000 taels of silver, more than 7,000 taels of gold, and thirty-two buckets of pearls. The remaining gems and jades of various colors cannot be counted. Jiaozi is about 300,000 to 500,000 taels. There is a blank There are fifty-six ultimatums, and there are more than 133,000 copper coins that have not been moved... Many of the above are not counted in detail, and are rough estimates, which may contain errors."
The people were shocked. It was the first time in their lives for many of them to see so much money with their own eyes.
If all this was converted into copper coins, it would be much more than one million yuan.
Are all monks so rich?
To be honest, for a temple with a history of four to five hundred years, this amount of money is really not much.
Do you think monks only rely on money from incense?
Obviously not. Temples generally have a large amount of land, which is donated by believers and purchased one after another, but it is all tax-free.
They also had other unknown properties and stores, and the most important business was lending money. In this era, they were equivalent to banks. In the past, the Daishoguno Temple in Tokyo even issued banknotes such as treasury bills.
In fact, many of these temple properties have nothing to do with the rebellion, but who knows that Juezhen is already the actual controller of Baoen Temple.
When Zhao Yun saw the money, he had mixed feelings in his heart. He wanted to build a Blessing Saint Temple, but he had to piece it all together, but these bald donkeys were so rich.
It's not that the emperor was really poorer than these monks, but that his expenses were huge, and the money that came in went out soon after. Moreover, at this time, the Song Dynasty's finances really began to be scarce.
At this moment, Zhao Yun came up with the idea of raiding all the temples in Lin'an, which would probably be enough to pay the tax of the entire Song Dynasty for several years.
But just thinking about it, if we do this, countless people will rebel immediately.
It wouldn't be bad if I could use this money to replenish the inner treasury. I could always be a little more generous.
Not only Zhao Yun was thinking about the money, but even the officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs had their eyes shining brightly when they stared at the money.
The monarchs and ministers were so dazzled by this large amount of money that they almost forgot about the business until Hou Tao said, "The reason why these money and objects are used as evidence is because the Juezhen Party used money to bribe many officials to facilitate their evil intentions." , this matter is evidenced by the account books, which are secretly recorded and will take time to sort out and verify."
"Next, is the next batch of evidence."
