"Your Majesty, your uncle already knows that he was wrong. Ask the Emperor to spare him once. After all, your nephew died unexpectedly, and he is in a desperate situation..."
The Empress Dowager Cisheng felt as if there was frost on her face after hearing her brother Li Gao's plea. She suddenly sighed and said, "I've suffered enough from you!"
"Since entering Prince Yu's Mansion, our family has stopped working as masons. Today we are rich and noble. In the third year of Wanli, I no longer care about much - the emperor also gave your family 200,000 taels for the cotton-padded clothes business."
"How do you do it? Give me 150,000 taels! I, the Empress Dowager Bingzheng, have been completely disgraced! How could I ever reward you so little? It's still because your family can't expose the blame and do such a thing! It's a pity that the cotton clothes were not sent to Jizhen , otherwise it triggers a mutiny, is there any room for recovery?"
His brother groaned and sweated after hearing this. He chewed and said: "Uncle, you don't know how many times the Queen Mother has persuaded us two brothers..."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li sneered and said: "Stop! Don't say that, it won't offend my ears. Who handled that business? You have the nerve to say it! You have so many filthy rich people that you wish you could sleep in a brothel. Here, it’s okay to raise a child... Forget it, say it and slander my mouth, I have never heard of such an uncle since ancient times!"
"The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Li Changgui is young, has a lot of wine, sex, wealth, and all kinds of tricks. The wind will blow him down. How about letting Qiu Xizi slap him to death?"
"It stands to reason that I am the child's aunt. But since I entered this place, the child has never called me in front of me, requiring me to take a look. To be honest, I am not close to him!"
"Qiu Xizi was sentenced to death by hanging, don't you know what's going on? This is a heavy sentence for the sake of the royal family's dignity! If they refuse to let go and send Changgui to the medical school for examination, and if an hidden disease is found, Qiu Xizi will be sentenced to death." By being exiled with a spine stick, is it your face or the face of me, the Queen Mother, that is being humiliated?"
"The emperor looked at my face and increased the punishment to beheading - why did you come to me and the emperor to say thank you! We two mothers owe you Uncle Wu Qing's family?"
This rambling has nothing to do with Wu Qingbo's mischief in the execution ground and beating up court officials, but Li Gao could only bow his head and listen. Not to mention that this was the Queen Mother who once ruled the country, but she was also her own wife. When the nagging things were not the focus, the man could only listen.
The Queen Mother vented her anger and felt better. Then he asked: "What did Wu Qingbo do in the execution ground to provoke the foreign dynasties to attack?" This was asking for details.
Li Gaodao told Qiu Xizi about Hu Yong's injustice and Shao Boti's failure to dissuade him from imprisoning and beheading officials. Then he said: "Dad saw that Shao Boti surrounded Qiu Xizi and refused to kill him. He got up in anger and wanted to beat the county magistrate."
"The county magistrate said: 'Uncle Li is favored by the country, how dare he come to attack the imperial official?' Dad said: 'I will kill you, a stupid official, so what?'"
Queen Mother Li frowned after hearing this. When Li Gao saw this, he was afraid that the Queen Mother would say something fair. Immediately, the black heart arranged: "The county magistrate said, 'Don't say that you are a mason, just have a daughter. What good will it do to the country? Come and beat me, why don't I dare to kill you?' - Daddy saw him because He insulted the Queen Mother, so I beat him a few times."
Empress Dowager Li's face changed slightly after hearing this, and she said in a cold voice: "The emperor is pure filial piety. If that officer really said that, he would have been killed by the emperor long ago. Don't make up lies, tell the truth." At the same time, she thought to herself, she will not make up lies. , It’s really mud that can’t hold up the wall.
The lie that Li Gao made up with courage was immediately exposed, so he had to say honestly: "Dad chased and beat Shao Boti. Shao Boti was narrow-minded, but he circled around Qiu Xizi. Seeing that his father could not catch up, Li Kuan rushed to the execution ground. You and dad block the county magistrate from both sides."
"After being caught by the county magistrate, the second brother broke into the court without permission and asked the supervisor to deal with it. The supervisor was frozen by him and did not want to send someone to expel Li Kuan, so he made a noise there."
"After a quarrel for a while, the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall actually issued a warrant, saying that the execution was suspended. The prison officer walked away with a wave of his sleeves - all the prisoners were escorted back. Only Qiu Xizi was forcibly taken away by Shao Boti."
"Dad was so furious that he hit the county magistrate behind a bench and broke his head. He was unconscious on the spot and sent to medical school."
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li sighed and said angrily: "No one can worry! Now that the emperor is vigorously promoting and appointing nobles, the civil servants have long been angry. If you are like this, aren't you just stirring up a hornet's nest? What should I do? "
Li Gaodao: "What the Queen Mother said is true. Now the front and back doors of the house have been blocked by civil servants - I am not making up a lie. I climbed over the wall to Uncle Chengyi's house, and then got on the carriage from the west corner door of his house to come to see him. If not In this case, you are not allowed to come out."
Empress Dowager Li sighed: "If the emperor wants to deal with it, he has to tell me - what do you want me to do? Can't you tell me then?"
Li Gao smiled bitterly and said: "My uncle and his grandpa have no face in front of the emperor..." Empress Dowager Li scolded: "I'm so frustrated! Who are I to be my grandpa or uncle?"
Li Gao was startled and said: "I mean that Wu Qingbo's family is not as good as that county magistrate in the emperor's heart. I heard that the emperor praised Shao Boti very well, saying that he was an example of an official who truly took the 'people's hearts and minds' into his heart." .”
"If the county magistrate cannot be saved, my father's life will be at risk. Even if the emperor does not embarrass that...Wu Qingbo out of filial piety, he might take away the title, and the Queen Mother's sister will not look good on her face."
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li said: "It would be best to take the title away and let your family drink from the northwest wind. Previously, I bullied others and took shares everywhere. Every time I come here, I don't do anything serious."
Although he said this, it was already the twelfth year of Wanli. If the emperor really wanted to deal with Uncle Wu Qing, the Queen Mother had nothing to do. Uncle Wu Qing had invited him to visit him many times before, but the emperor declined them all - indicating that the emperor had no intention of being close to his natal family.
Empress Dowager Li could only send Li Gao away, and when she waited for the emperor to come to pay his respects, she asked the emperor what punishment he had for Wu Qingbo.
Seeing that Empress Dowager Li was worried, Zhu Yijun hurriedly comforted her and said: "The county magistrate woke up in the medical school - let Uncle Wu Qing bring some gold and silver to see him. After all, the people will not take action and the officials will not investigate. If he refuses to give up, he will not be spared." Earl Wu Qingbo will be demoted."
Empress Dowager Li was a little displeased when she heard this, but she didn't dare to use her family's personal relationship to harm state affairs - Wu Qingbo's behavior was really bad. He had no choice but to change the subject: "Then what did Qiu Xizi say? If he really made meritorious deeds, his punishment would also be reduced?"
Zhu Yijun shook his head and thought for a while before saying: "Qiu Xizi doesn't know much. The National Security Bureau is analyzing the authenticity of what he said. If he really has done meritorious service, he will be given some reward money, but the punishment may not be reduced. I think, If everyone in the world has the idea of equalizing merits and demerits, severe punishments and laws will inevitably be abolished." Because the content of Qiu Xizi's confession needs further evidence and verification, and there are many people in the palace talking about it, Zhu Yijun just said it straight.
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li couldn't help but recite a Buddhist sentence. Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Queen Mother does not need to worry about this. For the sake of royal dignity, this Qiu Xizi will not survive. Moreover, after the Miyun excavation case was discovered, next year we will launch a nationwide crackdown on crime and evil - we must kill a lot of them." Even those who support and embolden them behind their backs must be dealt with."
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