Return to the Tang Dynasty to be a villain

Chapter 4 Qin Yi's True Thoughts

The people hiding behind the cracks in the doors were stunned by the twists and turns of today.

After watching Lai Junchen's sedan leave, Qin Zhong hurriedly walked to Qin Yi's side and helped him up.

"Young Master, why are you doing this?"

Lai Junchen's timely appearance in Chongrenfang was not a coincidence.

It was when Qin Yi heard that Wu Chonglie was coming to punish him that he immediately sent Qin Zhong out through the back door and rode to the Jishiyuan on horseback.

Lai Junchen was worrying about how to frame the Wu kings. When he heard that Wu Chonglie had secretly left the military camp with his troops, he immediately followed Qin Zhong and rushed over.

"The Wu kings are arrogant and domineering," Qin Yi got up from the ground with the help of Qin Zhong and patted the dust off his clothes.

"No one but Lai Junchen can make them fear him."

After hearing Qin Yi's words, Qin Zhong fell into silence.

He also knew that Xin'an County Prince Wu Chonglie was someone that their Licheng County Government could not afford to offend.

Qin Yi was able to come up with the idea of ​​inviting Junchen to intimidate them in a flash, which was indeed a helpless move.

After a long pause, Qin Zhong shook his head and said, "But you can't accept him as your master! You don't know his reputation."

Qin Yi looked at the loyal old butler in front of him, wanting to say something but stopping himself, and gave a helpless smile.

Didn't he know that Lai Junchen was notorious?
Qin Yi certainly did not do this to collude with Lai Junchen.

He remembered that he had watched a movie called "Justice, My Foot" starring Stephen Chow in his previous life.

There is a line in it: If you want to be a loyal minister, you have to be more treacherous than a treacherous minister.

After feeling the malice of this era, Qin Yi no longer felt any sense of superiority as a time traveler.

After all, in a feudal society with strict hierarchy, no matter how wise a person is, when he encounters a powerful country, he will still be at the mercy of others.

As a Dongda citizen who uses dialectical materialism as his methodology, Qin Yi does not actually have a strict distinction between loyalty and treachery in his heart.

What's more, the so-called loyal ministers in history were loyal to the emperor and the dynasty, not the real country.

In Mr. Liang Qichao's "On the Youth of China", there is a passage that Qin Yi deeply agrees with.

The court is the private property of one family, while the state is the public property of the people.

A country is not a name, nor a ruler, but the vast beautiful land and the people who live and work on this land.

Since the so-called prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, which dynasty was not a history of blood and tears for the Chinese people?

After the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, only less than ten million of the one hundred million people remained.

The Manchus entered the country and raised their butcher knives everywhere on the Chinese land.

What's more, after the Opium War, the once great Chinese nation suffered great humiliation.

That tiny country in the east actually dared to have the ambition to conquer the big country in the east in three months.

But what is the root of all this?
Isn't it just that there are too many people in this world who are blinded by greed like Wu Zhao, Wu Sansi, and Lai Junchen?

For their own selfish desires, they are obsessed with fighting for power and forming cliques to attack those who are different from them.

Which king should you be loyal to, and which country should you love?

It's just a facade built for himself in order to exploit the common people.

As for the real reason why Qin Yi wanted to curry favor with Lai Junchen, it was because of the government office he controlled.

This was also a place that made Qin Yi feel very uncomfortable when he was studying this period of history, the Jishiyuan.

When it comes to the Yishiyuan, many people who are not majoring in history may not be familiar with this government office.

But when it comes to the famous Dengwen Drum, I'm afraid everyone knows it.

Up to now, all the criminal cases in costume TV dramas and movies have the "beating drums to appeal for justice" plot.

The drum used to appeal for justice is called Dengwen Drum.

The first place where the Dengwen Drum appeared was outside the gate of the Jishiyuan.

After Wu Zhao built the Yishiyuan, she set up four departments in this government office: Recruiting Remonstrances, Extending Grace, Redressing Wrongs, and Tongxuan.

Wu Zetian also ordered people to make four wooden boxes, paint them in blue, red, white and black respectively, and place them outside the gate of the Jishiyuan, and set up a drum for reporting to the emperor next to them.

The purpose of these four wooden boxes is to receive letters from the people.

The Qingji was under the charge of the Zhaojiansi, which accepted the people's discussions on the court's policies and their evaluations of the officials' character.

This prevented officials and the policies they formulated from deceiving the emperor.

The Chigui was under the charge of the Yan'en Division, which accepted letters of recommendation from the people, allowing the court to recruit more talented people without leaving any trace.

The Baigui was under the jurisdiction of the Redress Office. If the people encountered injustice in the criminal justice system or corruption and abuse of power by officials, they could submit a letter here.

The Zaokui was under the charge of the Tongxuansi, and most of the letters submitted were about strange folk stories or military intelligence.

If the people discovered that an enemy country was invading or someone was rebelling, they could also put their letters here.

In order to monitor the world, Wu Zetian also stipulated that if people from outside the capital wrote letters, local governments should receive them according to the treatment of fifth-rank officials, and the post stations along the way should also follow the same rule.

As for the purpose of the Dengwen drum, if the people's letters were urgent or needed to be kept confidential, they could beat the Dengwen drum. The Jishiyuan would then send an official above the level of Changshi to personally receive the letters and assign them to the corresponding departments according to the content.

The custom of beating drums to appeal for justice was cultivated among the people by the Yishiyuan during this era.

When Qin Yi learned about the real Yishiyuan from history books, he developed a strong interest in this government office.

Isn't the Zhaojiansi the equivalent of the later parliament? It gave the people the power to participate in politics.

Yan'ensi is very similar to the Human Resources Department of later generations. Through it, people can find channels for advancement other than protection and imperial examinations.

The Office of Redress is actually a disciplinary inspection agency. If the people suffer any unfair treatment or see officials committing corruption and abuse of power, they can report it here in their real name.

Tongxuansi is an intelligence agency, just like the Chaoyang Aunt in later generations, which traps spies and traitors in the ocean of people's war.

However, the actual role played by the Yishiyuan was contrary to expectations.

The Registrar's Office became the place where opportunists wrote petitions to persuade Wu Zetian to ascend the throne.

Yan'ensi was used by the children of aristocratic families as a means to circumvent the imperial examinations.

As for the Department of Redress and the Department of Mysterious Affairs, they became tools for Lai Junchen to make groundless accusations and fabricate charges.

Why did Qin Yi beg Lai Junchen to be his teacher?
Isn't it because he hopes that in the last moments of Lai Junchen's life, he can make use of his remaining energy and incorporate himself into the system of the Imperial Household Department?

Qin Yi had thought about this when he was studying.

If the Imperial House of Representatives could fulfill its due responsibilities, then during the Tang Dynasty, it would have been possible to change the social structure and break the curse of the dynasty lasting no more than 300 years.

After waiting for a long time without hearing Qin Yi's reply, Qin Zhong knew that Qin Yi did not want to tell him his true thoughts.

Qin Zhong was originally a scout in the army of the old Duke Qin Qiong. Because of his cleverness, courage, loyalty and reliability, Qin Qiong took him in as his personal guard.

When Qin Huaidao was fourteen years old, after going through layers of selection, he was promoted to Qianniu Beishen, and was sent by Qin Qiong to assist Qin Huaidao.

Qin Zhong has always been loyal to Qin Huaidao, and more than 20 years have passed in a flash.

But Qin Zhong, who knew how to advance and retreat and distinguish between high and low, didn't dare to continue asking Qin Yi about his thoughts.

After pondering for a moment, Qin Zhong had another question in his mind.

"Young Master, how did you determine that Master Lai would definitely accept you as his disciple?"

Qin Yi actually knew the answer to this question.

Lai Junchen was a man with many faults, but he had one characteristic, which was that he liked to teach others.

Perhaps Lai Junchen was afraid that his ability to frame others would be lost.

He personally wrote a book about the torture and online crimes he had learned throughout his life.

"The Art of Fabricating Charges", yes, this is the book, which is full of content about fabricating charges and competing with wits.

It details how to fabricate charges, arrange plots, and describe details in order to frame others.

In later history, "The Book of Evidence" was called a book of tricks that embodied all the evil wisdom.

The reason why Qin Yi was confident that Lai Junchen would accept him as his disciple was because he understood two of the other party's psychological characteristics.

Apart from Lai Junchen's love of teaching others, or wanting to turn everyone else into a shameless, cruel official like himself with no bottom line.

The second reason is Lai Junchen’s inner inferiority complex.

In fact, Lai Junchen once had a favorite disciple, Zhou Xing, another cruel official under Wu Zhao.

Zhou Xing was originally a student of law at the Imperial Academy. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, he served as the magistrate of Heyang County (now Jiaozuo City, Henan Province).

After meeting Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen became very interested in him and took the initiative to invite him to become his disciple.

The reason was that Lai Junchen was born a rogue, and he rose to a high position at the right time when Wu Zetian was in urgent need of henchmen.

But after all, his knowledge was limited, so his strong inferiority complex made him want to conquer those who originally came from good backgrounds.

It’s just like those illiterate bosses in later generations who became rich by relying on policy dividends in the early days of reform and opening up.

The thing they say most often is that although I don’t have much education, all the people under me are college graduates from prestigious universities.

Qin Yi knew that his identity as a young master would definitely arouse Lai Junchen's vanity.

Being able to have a descendant of the twenty-four heroes in the Lingyan Pavilion as his student must have made him feel very proud.

Qin Yi could not answer any of the above questions from Qin Zhong.

After all, his identity as a time traveler is Qin Yi's biggest trump card.

Since he has traveled to this era, he has done so to ensure that the Chinese nation no longer suffers a century of humiliation and that all the lands illuminated by the sun and the moon belong to the Han people.

Qin Yi decided that he would do everything he could to benefit the Chinese nation.

If it can make his ideal come true, he is willing to be a villain, even if it means being Junchen's lackey, Qin Yi will not hesitate.

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