Pretty Fox: Misunderstood His Royal Highness

Chapter 238 Princess Jianping's Banquet 2
Less than a year after Princess Jianping and Ouyang Chujian got married, something happened.

　Someone reported that Ouyang Chujian was arrogant because he was the son-in-law of the court, and disregarded the imperial court's ban to traffic in private tea for personal gain.

　In Nanyue Kingdom, the government and the upper class like to drink tea, and the price of tea is expensive.As for tea, as the source of heavy taxes for the imperial court, it is stipulated that no private tea can be trafficked, and anyone who violates the law will be executed.

　The emperor sent people to investigate, and it turned out that Ouyang Chujian had conclusive evidence of trafficking private tea.

　The law enforcement of Nanyue Kingdom is very strict. It stipulates that "rebellion" and "conspiracy of great treason" will be punished regardless of the master and accomplices. Grandfather, father, son, grandson, brother, as long as they are 16 years old, they will be executed.

　Corruption of officials is punished particularly severely.Officials who committed corruption crimes, once found out, were sent to the northern desert to serve as soldiers.If an official has serious corruption, he will be punished with the head of an owl for public display, and the punishment of skinning and real grass-cutting off the head, hanging it on a pole to show the public, and then peeling off the human skin and stuffing it with straw as a warning.

　As a result, the emperor killed his relatives righteously, regardless of Ouyang Chujian being his son-in-law, and ignored Princess Jianping's pleadings.Not only does it make people arrest Ouyang Chujian and show it to the public, and the torture of peeling the real grass, but also implicates the nine clans.So the Ouyang family, up and down, hundreds of people, old and young, all suffered disaster in one night, those who were beheaded, those who were exiled, and those who were demoted to slavery for eternity.

　Princess Jianping is of the emperor's blood. Although she did not have to die for her son-in-law, she lost her beloved husband and unfortunately became a widow.A pair of twin sons who had formed were miscarried because of Princess Jianping's grief.

　Half a year later, it was discovered that Ouyang Chujian was setting up a frame for the enemy.

　But it was too late, Ouyang Chujian was dead, and the Ouyang family was killed to the point where there were not many left.In a fit of anger, the emperor punished those who framed Ouyang Chujian, as well as the investigators and law enforcement officials who caused unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, to Ling Chi—that is, "thousands of cuts" to cut off the flesh of the victim, so that he could be killed in prison. Die slowly and painfully.

　Several years have passed, and Princess Jianping is still immersed in grief.

　The emperor felt extremely guilty towards Princess Jianping, so he wanted to give her enough honor in other ways—to compensate her in material terms as much as possible, build her a luxurious and extraordinary house, give her rare treasures, and treat her in every possible way. Accommodate and respond to requests.He also looked for all kinds of excellent men for her, persuaded her to remarry, and found another good man.

　In Nanyue Kingdom, the social atmosphere is relatively open.

　Women do not have their feet bound, they are less restrained, and the concept of chastity such as "one woman does not serve two husbands" is relatively weak, and it is common for women to remarry.Although there are also those so-called scholars who advocate "chastity", their influence is not very great.

　The so-called "chastity" is actually an unequal treaty, generally only for women, men have no share.

　It is estimated that the scholars who advocate "chastity" are perverted men, or women who are self-sufficient.Those people believe that a woman's chastity is not having sex with men all her life, or only having sex with one man—that is, her husband.Fornication, or remarriage, or being raped, that is "lost virginity".

　Even so, the laws of Nanyue Kingdom do not clearly stipulate that women must observe chastity, and the government has never encouraged or praised chastity.

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