corporal punishment?
Information about corporal punishment that he had read before flashed through Cao Yi's mind.
In the narrow sense, corporal punishment is divided into Mo, Jie, Ji, Gong, and Dapi.
Ink, also known as tattoo punishment, uses a knife to carve the prisoner's forehead, cheeks, etc., and then applies ink to represent the character, tattoo cloth.
哓, cut off the nose, representative figure, Gongzi Qian.
Cut off, cut off the feet or left and right toes.
Palace punishment, also known as corruption punishment, is represented by Tai Shigong, Gao Yao, and Yi Xiaochuan.
Dapi, that is, the death penalty, is divided into beheading, hanging, beheading, beheading, abandoning the market, splitting the chariot, knocking, killing, burning, and lingchi.
Corporal punishment in a broad sense refers to punishments other than death penalty.
What Ying Zheng is talking about should be corporal punishment in a broad sense.
"Your Majesty, corporal punishment has been carried out for eighteen hundred years. If you abolish it rashly, I am afraid that the officials above and below will not know what to do."
Li Si's voice of objection sounded.
Although Prime Minister Li is of Confucian origin, there is no trace of Confucian benevolence in him.
With Li Si taking the lead, ministers from the Legalist family came forward one after another.
Some people say that corporal punishment has gone through the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Some say that without corporal punishment, it is not enough to deter young people.
…
After a while, it stopped.
Ying Zheng's voice came from the seat again: "Did corporal punishment begin with Dayu?"
Li Si responded respectfully: "It is Dayu."
"Then finally I am"
Ying Zheng's voice was majestic, leaving no room for negotiation.
Li Si had never been a firm-minded person, so seeing that Ying Zheng had made up his mind, he accepted the offer with his hand.
The other ministers saw this and stopped talking.
Ying Zheng looked at Cao Yi: "To establish a Taoist religion, all expenses should be paid by the Shaofu?"
Li Si and the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs were surprised. They had never seen His Majesty favoring a person so much.
"Thank you, Your Majesty"
Cao Yi thanked him.
But I had a problem in my heart. Establishing a religion is different from other religions. It requires a group of like-minded disciples, but looking at the whole world, there is no one who is with me.
Taoist, no, I should call him Huang Lao at this time. Although he is close in spirit, it is not the same style at all.
Where to find disciples?
At this moment, a man who looked like a chamberlain appeared outside the big tent, lowered his head, and reported in a male duck's voice: "The alchemist Lu Sheng has returned from the East China Sea with all the alchemists, and asks to see your majesty."
"Xuan"
Taking the seat, Ying Zheng had a hint of solemn expression on his face. Having read history, he knew that Lu Sheng and his gang had actually been taking advantage of his eagerness to seek immortality to fool him.
Alchemist? Lu Sheng?
Cao Yi felt that a door had opened towards him.
The belief in gods created by Lu Sheng and his gang is one of the three major sources of Taoism. As long as you change your mind, you can become the first generation disciple.
Seeing Ying Zheng's cold expression, Cao Yi knew that he was going to be a good guy again. Well, forget it, Lu Sheng!
After a while, an old man with a celestial spirit, who looked down on Cui Wenzi regardless of his temperament or appearance, walked in.
Needless to say, the identity of the old man is Lu Sheng, who is famous for his prophecy that "Hu will destroy Qin".
"Meet Your Majesty"
"Meet Your Majesty"
…
Lu Sheng and all the alchemists handed over their hands.
"Have you ever seen an immortal in the East China Sea?"
Ying Zheng put on a gentle expression.
Lu Sheng, who didn't know that there was an extra Cao Yi, thought that Ying Zheng was as easy to fool as before, so he said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty, when I went to the East China Sea this time, I didn't see the Xianmen. Immortal."
"Oh, what did you gain this time?"
Ying Zheng continued to cooperate with Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng smiled slightly, turned around, and clapped his hands.
Two soldiers carrying wooden boxes came in, put the boxes down, and then left.
Lu Sheng opened the wooden box, bowed solemnly first, and then raised his hands towards Ying Zheng and said: "Although we didn't see the two immortals, we found the footprints left by the two immortals on Penglai Immortal Island. , specially dug it up and presented it to His Majesty."
After hearing this, Ying Zheng stood up from behind the case and strode over.
Cao Yi also got up and looked at the so-called immortal's footprints.
Taking a closer look, not to mention, inside the wooden box, there was a footprint several times larger than an ordinary person's, which was very lifelike. Lu Sheng and others must have worked hard.
"What a big footprint!"
"Are they really the footprints of gods?"
Several ministers who gathered around were amazed,
Cao Yi looked at Lu Sheng and suddenly felt a little appreciative when he saw that he was calm and composed. If he hadn't offended Ying Zheng too deeply, he would never have survived, and he would have been accepted as his disciple.
"Since you have landed on the fairy island, have you ever seen the fairy medicine?"
Ying Zheng asked.
Lu Sheng immediately put on an excited look: "To be honest with you, Your Majesty, we did see the elixir tree. There are two of them. One is green all over, more than a foot tall, without any fruit, and the other is covered with flame-like flowers. The leaves are more than three feet high, with nine red fruits on them, and the fragrance can be smelled from miles away."
Some ministers even made the sound of swallowing saliva.
Ying Zheng still didn't have an attack: "Why didn't you pick it back?"
The excitement on Lu Sheng's face turned into pain and helplessness like a magic trick: "Every time I go to pick it, those two fairy medicine trees will disappear. As soon as I leave, they will appear again. Maybe it's Xianmen , Gao Shi and the two immortals cast immortal magic."
Ying Zheng said nothing and turned back to his seat. His eyes swept around and finally stopped on Li Si: "Prime Minister, how many types of death penalty are there?"
Li Si said without thinking: "Behead, hang, chop in half, behead, abandon the market, split the chariot, knock, kill, burn, and Lingchi."
Ying Zheng glanced at Lu Sheng, who was already showing fear, and said, "I want to add one."
"What does Your Majesty want to add?"
Li Si asked.
"pit"
Ying Zheng uttered one word.
With a pop, Lu Sheng sat on the ground in shock. The appearance of the immortal spirit was completely destroyed.
"Are you trying to trick Lu Sheng alone, or are you trying to trick everyone?"
Li Si asked again.
"His Majesty"
Cao Yi spoke first.
Ying Zheng's majestic face became a little gentler: "What do you want, sir?"
"Can I just offend Lu Sheng and give the other alchemists to the poor Taoist?"
Cao Yi said.
Ying Zheng was silent for a while and said, "Yes."
"Thank you, Your Majesty"
Cao Yi handed over.
Ying Zheng signaled Li Si with his eyes.
Li Si shouted sharply: "Here comes someone"
Two soldiers in black clothes and armor strode in.
Li Si pointed at Lu Sheng, who had collapsed into a ball of mud, and said, "Take Lu Sheng out of here, trap!"
Two strong soldiers grabbed Lu Sheng from the left and right and dragged him out.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, let me go again, I will definitely find the elixir..."
Lu Sheng kept shouting.
Until there was no trace.
"It's getting late, please leave later."
Ying Zheng closed his eyes and said.
Everyone got up and walked outside.
"Sir, the Prime Minister is staying."
Ying Zheng opened his eyes again.
Cao Yi and Li Si, who were about to walk out, came back again.
"I got something new"
Ying Zheng stood up, walked behind the screen on one side, and took out an oversized scroll.
The first time he saw the scroll, Cao Yi thought of the legendary Xu Fu's scroll. When he took a closer look, he saw that it was not the scroll and it looked very new.
Ying Zheng placed the large scroll on the long desk and slowly unfolded it, revealing a map of the world.
