Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 338 Li Ye’s troubles

The princes still didn't believe it, but the results of the interrogation came out quickly. The facts were like this. It is not allowed by nature to cut off the living things.

"Your Majesty, these people abduct boys and girls from various states. The boys are cut into pieces, and the girls are ruined and sold to brothels..."

Chen Zhaoyi's heart was broken. She dreamed of having a child, but now someone was so vicious and cruel to the child, shattering her maternal love to pieces.

Li Ye gently stroked her hand and said, "Don't worry!"

His Majesty the Emperor looked at Wang Shifan and said, "Shifan, would you like to share my worries for me!"

Wang Shifan was stunned. He thought he would be a free prince for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect that in addition to his noble title, His Majesty the Emperor had other arrangements for him.

"The minister is willing to die for His Majesty!"

Li Ye nodded and said: "I appoint you as Yushitai Yushi You Zhongcheng, responsible for investigating the case, from bottom to top. Investigate the principal culprit, accomplices, and those who do not report the knowledge, officials, yamen, and Li Zheng. I I don’t believe they don’t know, anyone involved will be sent to jail!”

"promise!"

The rank of Yushi Youzhongcheng is the fourth rank, while Wang Shifan's title is the county king, from the first rank. In fact, the title grades and position grades of the Tang Dynasty often do not correspond.

For example, Li Zhirou, a relative of the Tang Dynasty, also held the title of county king and served as a sixth-grade official.

The fourth-rank official of Yushi Youzhongcheng is already not low among the officials in the capital. In the Yushitai, he is the only third-ranking official behind Yushi Dafu and Yushi Zuozhongcheng.

This starting point is already not low for 20-year-old Wang Shifan.

This incident has been upgraded to a major case by His Majesty the Emperor. All major cases in the Tang Dynasty are jointly tried by the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Yushitai. The three divisions of the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Yushitai will be jointly tried. The right of the Yushi, the King of Normal University, the Chengyuan Shiling of Dali Temple, and the left of the Punishment Department. The minister, Jin Shuo, and the judiciaries, supervisors, and yamen of various provinces, states, and counties cooperated fully with each other, which can be said to be a huge force.

Wang Shifan was in the Ming Dynasty and Yushan's personal guards were in the dark. His Majesty the Emperor ordered Duan Kun to report the incident to Wang Shifan.

A huge net shrouded the entire country.

Li Ye summoned Wang Pu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, and asked: "What crime should be committed according to the law for mutilating children and abducting girls?"

"Behead him, the kidnapper is two thousand miles away!"

"What about the accessory?"

"Depending on the crime, you may be beheaded or beaten!"

Li Ye shook his head and said: "Too light!"

Wang Pu said: "What do you think, Your Majesty?"

"What is the boy's crime? When faced with a great disaster, his whole life will be ruined and he will experience all the pain. This is what I don't want to see. A thief harms others with profit. I want to use severe methods to eliminate this evil so that the world will not dare to do this. Evil one, what do you think?"

Wang Pu said: "I dare not speak nonsense about our ancestors' decrees."

Li Ye said: "The principal and accomplices were all beheaded, and their assets were confiscated. The men in the family were all castrated, tattooed, and had their thumbs cut off, and were sent to the countryside as slaves. The women were also tattooed and sold, and all the neighbors who ignored them were sentenced to death. , the household officials, county yamen servants, county magistrates, and county magistrates were either demoted or fined, and the brothels and families involved were all convicted..."

His Majesty, the Emperor, wants to buy, sell, and bring in all the officials who are slacking off in one fell swoop.Li Ye then said to Wang Pu: "In order to guide the people to do good, I want you to compile a criminal case and select a hundred evil cases from the founding of the Tang Dynasty. The typical cases must be clear, and the before and after this case must also be recorded in a book..."

His Majesty the Emperor thought that Zhu Yuanzhang's "Da Gao" was compiled so well that it was an extensive process of popularizing the law. Li Ye also wanted to use this matter to promote the emperor's benevolence to the people of the Tang Dynasty.

It took a hundred years for the Tang Dynasty to lose its underpants. Now it is finally possible to put on clothes. To let the people truly feel the benevolence of the Tang Dynasty, it is not just about eating well and wearing good clothes.

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The news about Yushan's personal guard Duan Kun came much faster than that from Wang Shifan. The new news came back, which Li Ye didn't expect.

The three brothels in Bianjing, Yuchunyuan, Xizilou and Shuchunfang, bought no less than [-] girls. The good-looking girls were arranged to be taught piano, chess, calligraphy and painting by their masters, while the bad-looking ones were arranged to be Liuying.

The people behind the three brothels are Li Ye's uncle Wang Gui, Ji Wang Li Bao and Wei Wang Li Ju.

"This is getting more and more useless, and it's even focused on hooking up the fence."

Li Ye did not immediately summon them to reprimand them. The clan affairs were handled more sensitively in every dynasty.

Especially the Tang Dynasty.

In the early and middle periods, there were too many coups in the clan. In the later period, all the kings were uniformly placed in the Sixteenth House. The so-called Sixteenth House was a large building complex built in Xingningfang. All the kings of the clan lived there. Here, the imperial court raised these princes in the Sixteenth House like pigs.

They generally do not have official positions. What they can do every day is eat, drink, sleep, give birth to children, or go to the market to walk chickens and fight dogs. There are a bunch of censors and courtiers watching. So, the princes in the late Tang Dynasty also There is no freedom in life.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Li Zhirou, who came after the clan and finally served as the Lingnan Military Envoy.

According to the original history, Zhaozong also tried to make the kings prepare their troops, but these princes were really not the material!

Li Ye summoned Zhang Chengye and Kong Wei and asked: "The Sixteenth Mansion is idle. I now have five princes. Except for the one who will inherit the throne, the others will also come to the Sixteenth Mansion in the future. They are living like this and waiting to die. This is not what I want to see." , do you have any good ideas?"

Zhang Chengye and Kong Wei looked at each other, and Kong Wei stepped forward and said:
"Your Majesty, the kings are loyal, but there are too many people in the world with ulterior motives. They hope to obtain the power of Conglong and become rich and powerful from now on. This is the cause of the chaos. Before Xuanzong, there were many people in the same room who cheated on each other. In the tenth year of Tianbao, Xuanzong built sixteen mansions and placed all the kings here. Since then, the Tang Dynasty has never been in turmoil because of this!"

Only then did Li Ye know that the Sixteenth House was the work of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and this method was quite effective. After Xuanzong, no kings had ever seized power through coups, so Kong Wei's opinion was very clear, that there was no need to change the Sixteenth House. fine.

His Majesty the Emperor shook his head. He originally wanted to have more sons, but he sighed deeply when he heard this. One more son and one more pig, what's the use of having more. Decades later, he went to the Sixteenth Mansion to take a look and found that I have given birth to a bunch of pigs, and you think I will make people angry or not.

As parents, we hope that our children will live a safe life without any disasters. What is more, they hope that their children will be as strong as their fathers, and that they will be both civil and military. But in the royal family, there is only one throne, and that will involve bloodshed.

"Is it okay to take part in the imperial examinations and military examinations like ordinary people, and appoint talented people as officials?"

Kong Wei and Zhang Chengye shook their heads secretly. Your Majesty's concern would cause chaos.

"It's okay, but the kings..."

Li Ye looked at the expressions of the two men and realized that the kings were uneducated and had no skills. He was afraid that he would have no chance with them in the imperial examinations and military examinations!

How can this be good?
How about conquering Silla, Japan, Khitan, Uighurs, and the Western Regions, and making his sons kings of these countries?
(End of this chapter)