Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

The next day, in the Palace of Heavenly Purity, inside the Imperial Hall.

As soon as the morning court session started, without waiting for the officials to report on today's affairs, Emperor Taikang patted the dragon throne and spoke first:

"I already know the reason for what you reported yesterday. There is no need to investigate further. You won't be able to find out anything, but I can tell you directly.

Why did they die?

Those guys all died because of the City God's judgment.

You are all so interesting. You only say half of what you want to say. You hide all the things you don't want to say but are objective facts from me. If the ten city gods hadn't appeared in my dream yesterday and reported the situation to me, I would have been kept in the dark by you!"

All the officials looked at each other, at a loss as to what to do.

They understood every word the emperor said, even every sentence, but understanding was one thing and they simply could not accept it or believe it.

What is this talking about? Are you possessed?

"Your Majesty, what are you talking about?
A man does not speak of strange things. Although the City God does have the power of an underworld official, this is just the expectation of the people. How could they appear to solve cases and directly kill those who are still alive, and in the whole country..."

Upon hearing what Emperor Taikang said, Prime Minister Yang, who had immediately stood up to question it, could not help but hesitate when he said this, because if there is any force whose radiation range spread all over the country and exists everywhere, apart from the imperial court, it seems that there is only the city god system.

The imperial court would definitely not do such a thing.

So if the City Gods are real and can appear to judge, then they do have the ability to do these things.

But the next second, he hurriedly shook his head, muttering that a man should not talk about strange things or gods. How could these things exist? Whether it is the City God or other gods, they are just the hopes of the helpless people.

So soon, Yang Shoufu continued firmly:
"Your Majesty, do you know who the real murderer behind this incident is? Are you protecting him, or are you covering up the evidence for him? This is a serious matter, and it has caused panic among the gentry of the world, and the people are boiling with excitement. There are even rumors that the emperor has no morals and has angered the heavens."

"Prime Minister Yang, it's not good to make random guesses when you don't know anything. Also, when has there ever been a rumor among the people that the emperor was immoral and had angered the heavens?
You didn't just make this up, did you?
Or do you think so? "

When Emperor Taikang heard Prime Minister Yang say that he knew who was the murderer behind the incident, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Fortunately, they were far away from each other, otherwise he would have seen his expression change. He had to admit that he was still young and underestimated the intelligence of his subjects. He was not calm enough and could not remain calm even if Mount Tai collapsed before his eyes. But fortunately, he discussed with his father what he might encounter today last night.

So calm down quickly.

He first reprimanded and then put the blame on Yang Shoufu, thus turning the tables.

When he hurriedly said that he didn't dare, he took back the initiative and continued in a bad tone:
"That's good. I may not be able to know about rumors outside the capital in time, but I am very clear about the rumors in the capital.

We will not allow you to make up stories and represent public opinion.

Moreover, soon, I will be able to quickly know any rumors or major events outside the capital, and I will not tolerate your lies or fabrications. Because last night, I have successfully incorporated the entire City God system, and from now on, the City God system will be fully activated. You are officials in the world of the living, and the many City Gods and the lands under them are officials in the underworld.

They will have the authority to supervise you, and also the right to redress grievances for the people, and even for the dead.

However, I am already very busy during the day. I cannot attend court during the day and then continue to attend court to the city gods at night. Therefore, those city gods and lands are still mainly managed by my father, that is, the late emperor, who is the lord of the underworld.

Previously, the city gods encountered tens of thousands of unjustly killed heroic women and jointly signed a petition to appeal for justice. In anger, they overstepped their boundaries and enforced the law.

I have already scolded them.

If anyone has any objections, I can send you to see them, or ask them to come to you to debate in the evening.

So there is no need to mention the deaths of those gentry.

I will also print out the evidence of the gentry's crimes submitted by the City God and distribute it for free to show that I am listening carefully.

However, the city gods have promised me that similar things will not happen again. When they encounter someone complaining about a grievance, they will first investigate. After confirming that there is no doubt and finding all the evidence, they will inform the local officials in my dreams at night.

They will be arrested by local officials and punished according to the law.

If there is any favoritism, report it immediately.

If there is any illegality, or even if they want to continue committing crimes, then don't blame the City God for overstepping his authority to enforce the law and using thundering means to kill those evildoers on the spot.

This is a privilege I have granted them.

In addition, in the event of a rebellion or other major incidents, they can also enforce the law across borders without notifying local officials. After all, a rebellion must be nipped in the bud, and it must be put out directly as soon as any signs appear, in order to minimize casualties.

Just file a report and let us know afterwards.

In short, the city god and land system will serve as an important supplement to the official system in the world in the future. If something happens anywhere in the country, the city gods in various places can communicate with each other and deliver the news within a day.

In terms of resisting foreign enemies and providing disaster relief.

It will play a significant role.

Ministry of Revenue, please prepare silver and food. Last night, six city gods reported six natural disasters to me. For three of the natural disasters, the local officials should be able to stabilize the situation as long as they work together. For the other three, the scope of the natural disasters is a bit large, and the number of people affected is also a bit large. Disaster relief must be provided by the court. Those three are An..."

Next, it mainly talked about the three disaster-stricken areas, what kind of disaster they suffered, how large the affected area was, how many people were affected, and what kind of relief supplies should be prepared.

He also asked the Ministry of Revenue to make arrangements immediately after the court session.

Deliver supplies to disaster areas.

At this time, the Ministry of Revenue had obviously not received the reports and memorials requesting disaster relief submitted by local governments.

I am not aware of these things and don't even want to do them.

They thought it was nonsense and a waste of the court's food.

However, they were all suppressed by Emperor Taikang, who made a dictatorial statement that if there was no disaster, all losses would be borne by the internal treasury, and if there was a disaster and they delayed, it would be the dereliction of duty of the Ministry of Revenue and they would all be sent to prison.

They must also be punished for deceiving the emperor.

How can it not be considered as deceiving the emperor if I delay the work by not following the emperor's orders?

After the announcement was made and a wave of disasters was predicted, Emperor Taikang specially ordered the chief eunuch beside him to issue a notice to all civil and military officials in the court.

"Notice on Cooperation between Yin and Yang Worlds City God System"

That is to say, the specific situation of the City God system, the duties and powers of the City God, and how the officials in the world need to cooperate, and what punishment they will receive if they fail to cooperate and problems arise, etc.

Then he retired from court.

All the officials were holding the notice, feeling really at a loss. They had never been so confused in all their years of service.

But no matter how you look at it, the possibility of the emperor going crazy was not very high, so some people just accepted their fate and went back to work, such as the officials of the Ministry of Revenue. Others went back to gather in groups of three or five to discuss what had happened and whether the City God system was real or fake.

At the same time, Emperor Taikang was also busy.

With the help of Bai Sheng, he had successfully printed tens of thousands of copies of the evil deeds committed by the more than 10,000 gentry who had died earlier. As soon as he returned to court, he sent people out to distribute them everywhere. Every storyteller had a copy. He also ordered people to activate the post station system to send them to major counties across the country.

Storytellers from all over the country are required to publicize it extensively.

In the following days, many imperial decrees were issued one after another. For example, from now on, no more archways would be issued for heroines and chastity women. All deaths, regardless of what their parents and relatives said, must be treated as homicides and thoroughly investigated.

Only when the cause of death is confirmed to be normal can the household registration be deleted and the burial be carried out.

For example, in order to encourage widows to remarry, Emperor Taikang specially found a son-in-law for his aunt who had been widowed for four years.

In fact, if his father had not resolutely opposed it, he would have listened to Bai Sheng and chosen a few of his father's young concubines for marriage. After all, the remarriage of a widowed princess would not be as shocking as the remarriage of the previous emperor's concubines!

But there was nothing he could do, his father wouldn't agree no matter what.

One cried, two made trouble, and three hung.

He could only settle for the next best thing and arrange a marriage for him with his aunt.

Of course, these two decrees are just appetizers, and the subsequent series of decrees are the most important.

That is to announce the official launch of the City God system.

At the same time, an imperial decree was issued to inform all officials across the country of the relevant situation, asking them to cooperate when encountering the city god and the land god in their dreams. If they fail to cooperate three times, they will be defined as dereliction of duty. At the very least, they will be rated low. If serious consequences are caused, they may even be dismissed or held accountable.

On the one hand, it tells the people of the world that if they encounter any problems and are too timid to report to the authorities, or if reporting to the authorities is useless and they are afraid of being retaliated against, etc., they can go to the land temple recognized by the court or the city god temples in various places.

Burn incense and pray, redress grievances in secret, and inform the underworld.

Bai Sheng cooperated with him and placed at least one and at most ten nanorobots in every land temple and city god temple recognized by the court throughout the country.

At the same time, the controller of the nanorobot is also provided.

It was hidden in the imperial seal.

While helping her son bind the nanorobot controllers, she told him how to use them specifically.

Only then was the City God and Land System formally established.

And it works.

Then, there was a great chaos that spread across the entire country, or, in fact, it could be called a great purge.

Behind a mere archway of a heroine, there are so many people who died unjustly. There are so many filthy places and people who died unjustly in this world!
Those who want to redress their grievances may not trust court officials.

But they really believe in the City God.

The most important thing is that one does not need to speak out loud when appealing to the City God and the Land God. One only needs to light a stick of incense, kneel on the ground, close one's eyes and speak silently. No one can tell whether he is complaining or praying.

At the beginning, there may be only some people who try it with a skeptical attitude, but as their enemies are really brought to justice, or even if there are still corrupt officials who collude and are not brought to justice and sentenced, they are killed by the City God who enforces the law beyond the time limit, and those who collude and shelter corrupt officials are arrested, no one will disbelieve it anymore.

The result is that the City God and Land God Temples are very popular.

Countless people went to the temple to seek redress.

Officials, gentry, royal families, etc. who had not done anything bad were fine, but those who had not done anything good were basically scared to death, and they kept signing joint letters.

Some were even so anxious that they wanted to rebel and destroy the temple.

I thought maybe destroying the temple would solve the problem.

Of course, there were also those who wanted to bribe the City God by burning paper ingots, paper houses, and even paper people. They even wanted to burn the housekeeper to help them bribe him.

Unfortunately, all these efforts are in vain.

All nanorobots are upright.

As for destroying the temple and rebelling, no one dared to do so. Before, when the City God Temple was not so miraculous, few people dared to destroy it at will. Not to mention that now the City God Temple appears miraculously every day to help ordinary people redress grievances and handle cases.

Naturally, no one would dare to disrespect the City God.

But because there were too many criminals and too many powerful people who did not treat human beings as human beings, and if the evildoers were not caught and punished within the specified time, the City God would enforce the law beyond his boundaries and without control, so naturally there was a bloody storm in the following period of time.

It's useless no matter who comes, more than a hundred members of the royal family have died.

Among the forty-two princes, only eleven did not commit crimes punishable by death. Among the more than one hundred dukes, only twenty did not commit crimes punishable by death. Please note that crimes not punishable by death do not mean that they did not commit any crimes. There were only two of them who really did not commit any crimes. In fact, there were only two dukes who made contributions.

One is King Zhou, who compiled a herbal book for famine relief.

There was also Prince Ping, who was a professional academic talent. He translated many foreign books, created the twelve-tone equal temperament, and established some mathematical standards.

I have devoted my whole life to academic research and have no time to break the law.

Later, those powerful people found that if they surrendered themselves and then let the court, or the government, try them strictly according to the law, they would have a glimmer of hope. If they were given a light sentence, they might be killed directly.

So they had no choice but to surrender themselves and demand heavy sentences.

Of course, this refers to those powerful people whose crimes do not deserve the death penalty. If their crimes are punishable by death, then this will be useless because according to the law, they deserve to die and cannot escape.

It would be better to try to commit suicide and suffer less.

If the imperial court were to directly launch a comprehensive purge, it might really cause quite a stir, and it would not be outrageous for some people to even rebel in order to avoid death.

But the entire City God system is involved in this matter.

At the same time, the belief in City God is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

So although it still caused bloodshed, the actual impact was not enough to shake the rule. After just one year, the purge was basically over, and almost all those who deserved to die were dead. The entire powerful class and the official system were reduced by nearly half, and many local gentry and local tyrants also died, which greatly promoted class mobility.

It can be said that the universe is pure.

At this point, the entire underworld city god system became the most important part of this dynasty, laying the foundation for the successful creation of an extremely clean and honest government system in the future.

At this time, not only had the original body's last wish been basically fulfilled, but Bai Sheng also felt that he had nothing else to do.

So of course I did some finishing work.

He placed his soulless body into the coffin that his son had custom-made for him and left.

There are actually two points in the finishing work.

First, he left some pretty good and profitable technologies to his other two sons, the second and third sons who were still young. If they wanted to be a free and easy prince, these technologies were enough for them not to worry about money at all. If they did not want to be a free and easy prince and wanted to be an emperor, these technologies were also enough to support them in obtaining enough money to expand outward and become kings.

The second is to tell the matter to the eldest son, Emperor Taikang, and ask him to help keep an eye on it. At the same time, he should ask the eldest son to take good care of his two younger brothers and not let them go astray.

If they had done anything evil.

The City God system will not show favoritism.

Even if Emperor Taikang possessed the imperial seal that contained the nanorobot controller, he would not be able to grant amnesty.

Because the controller was made by Bai Sheng.

The rules inside were also written by Bai Sheng.

After all, a good law is one that does not involve partiality. Once there is partiality, there will be selfishness. If one can pardon one person, two can be pardoned. Over time, or if there is a foolish emperor or something like that, the entire system may collapse.

So it is better to cut off this possibility from the beginning. (End of this chapter)