Chapter 161: The Greater the Power, the More Careful
As a high-ranking official, Yun Chu naturally knew about the fact that Li Chunfeng was appointed as the Water Order.
When Wu Sansi denied several possibilities of the spring water in Chang'an County, Yun Chu felt that Wu Sansi was right. If the natural factors were removed, the remaining factors would be simple and clear, and there would only be human factors.
If the Water Order was someone else, Yun Chu might not have thought of Li Chunfeng. Since the person in charge of the water veins of the Tang Dynasty became Li Chunfeng, Yun Chu's first suspect was him.
He even thought that if there were some incomprehensible mysterious events in the Tang Dynasty, it would be right to go directly to Li Chunfeng. There could not be a second person. Even if it was not him who did it, it must have a great relationship with him.
Therefore, Yun Chu was already angry when he talked to Li Chunfeng.
Facing Yun Chu's oppression, Li Chunfeng said calmly: "The Water Commander will make his own decision."
Yun Chu nodded and said: "Very good, since the officer thinks this is the Water Commander's business, then I also recognize that it is the Water Commander's business and will not ask any more questions. However, there is a premise, don't hurt the people of Chang'an."
Li Chunfeng frowned and said: "Under the way of heaven..."
Before Li Chunfeng finished speaking, Yun Chu interrupted and said: "What do you want to say, under the way of heaven, all things are ants, or do you want to say that the great river chooses its own place, and the grass, trees, beasts and insects can become fish and turtles?
You listen to me clearly, if you damage the people's houses, you must remember to compensate, and if you damage the people's livestock, you must also Remember to pay. If you harm the people's health, I will pursue your criminal responsibility. If you harm the people's lives, I will kill you. "
Li Chunfeng said expressionlessly: "This matter is serious, and you can't take it lightly."
Yun Chu said: "Don't tell me what kind of big thing you are doing. I have already told you clearly about my Chang'an affairs. Don't think that this is me scaring you. You should know what kind of person I am over the years.
More than 8,200 people have died in this imperial city. Because it is not under my jurisdiction, I can pretend not to see it. If... Humph, even if you have supernatural powers, I will definitely kill you and uproot you and expose you in broad daylight. ”
“Lord, you are blaming me for something I haven’t done yet.”
“I don’t care. If you don’t like your opponent, just take your knife and chop him. If you win, it’s your ability. If you lose, it’s your fault. Don’t sacrifice the common people to achieve your ulterior motives. I am a sheepdog sent by His Majesty to herd sheep in Chang’an. There must be no sheep missing from my sheepfold.”
Li Chunfeng frowned and said, “How can you be sure that the spring water in Chang’an County is related to me?”
Yun Chu said, “Du Shui Ling, all rivers, lakes, and streams in the world are under your control, and spring water is no exception.”
Li Chunfeng smiled and said, “I’m afraid it’s more than that?”
Yun Chu looked at him meaningfully. He said to Li Chunfeng, "I don't believe in such ridiculous things as filial piety moving heaven, crying to bamboo to make bamboo shoots grow, lying on ice to beg for carp, strangling tiger to save father, letting mosquitoes suck blood, and carp jumping out of springs. I believe your official won't believe it either.
Since the Sui Dynasty began to recruit officials through imperial examinations, the selection of filial and honest officials has gradually been abandoned, and such stories have gradually become less and less. I don't want these stories to appear again in the Tang Dynasty, especially in Chang'an.
If they must appear, I hope it will be things like tasting feces to worry and nursing aunts. Although it is a bit perverted, I can accept it.
Lastly, if the prince doesn't want to do this, you'd better give up."
Li Chunfeng remained silent, and it seemed that he didn't intend to listen to Yun Chu's advice.
Yun Chu said again: "Since you are no longer a Taoist priest and are preparing to be an official, then don't use your old Taoist profession to get involved in the officialdom. Such things can only deceive ignorant people. Which smart person will be fooled?
In addition, can you tell me how you made the spring water? If it is not a trick, tell me. Now the drought in Guanzhong has not completely stopped. This thing may save a lot of seedlings."
Li Chunfeng shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Yun Chu nodded and said, "That is a trick. Go back and ask the people to dig up all the springs. If you dare to destroy the water circulation system in Chang'an, I will not let you go."
Li Chunfeng said, "Why bother?"
Yun Chu sneered and said, "I don't want the people to think that all the officials are liars who talk nonsense."
Li Chunfeng stopped talking.
Since he came out of the Du Shui Ling, Yun Chu has already determined that the spring water in Chang'an County was made up by the Du Shui Ling's people. This time, I don't know who they want to help.
If Li Chunfeng didn't really have the power to change the underground water veins, the springs should be man-made. Since it was man-made, Wu Sansi could find clues if he carefully investigated.
More than 8,000 people died in the imperial city, and the people of Chang'an were in a panic. At this time, a miracle suddenly appeared under everyone's eyes... It would bring great trouble to the management of Chang'an and Wannian County. This was a fight with the government for the right to speak, and Yun Chu naturally couldn't allow it.
Back then, Zhang Daoling's Five Pecks of Rice Sect did this. At the beginning, they created some miracles, saying that the gods had descended, and spread the doctrine by curing diseases. When the people believed in it without a doubt, they had to pay five pecks of rice to join the sect... There were countless five pecks of rice in the Five Pecks of Rice Sect...
Thinking of this, Yun Chu turned back to the Du Shui Ling and said to Li Chunfeng, who was as still as a mountain: "I think you left Taoism and wanted to create another sect. You don't want to use Chang'an as the starting point for your sect, right?"
Li Chunfeng said: "Why not?"
Yun Chu saw that Li Chunfeng seemed to no longer conceal his intentions, so he smiled and said, "If I didn't know, you might have succeeded. Now I know. If you dare to do anything wrong again, be careful. I will let you know what a county magistrate who ruins a family is and what a prefect who destroys a family is."
Li Chunfeng said, "The young buds that break through the soil cannot be suppressed by huge rocks, and the rivers that overflow cannot be blocked by high mountains. Your Excellency thinks too highly of yourself."
Yun Chu felt that he had made his words very clear, so he left Du Shui Ling.
Coming to the Tianjie of the Imperial City, Yun Chu looked at the desolate streets, breathed a sigh of relief, rode a horse for a while, and found a eunuch lying on a garbage dump to check things. When he got closer, he found that one of the eunuch's legs was so ulcerated that he needed amputation surgery to save his life.
The eunuch looked up at the majestic Yun Chu, with no respect for the noble in his eyes. The tattered eunuch clothes were dirty, and his hands were like chicken claws. There was a half bone of unknown things in the corner of his mouth, which he licked from time to time.
People who have nothing to lose are usually very courageous.
Yun Chu grabbed the eunuch's belt and lifted him up. In order to avoid him from dirtying his new clothes, he deliberately opened his arms and kept away from him.
The eunuch was being lifted by Yun Chu, and he kept chewing the bones in his mouth, as if the things in front of him had nothing to do with him.
When he arrived at the Imperial Medical Bureau, Yun Chu threw the eunuch to the medicine boy and said, "Wash, prepare the skin, disinfect, and prepare for surgery."
Hearing Yun Chu say this, the eunuch who was thrown on the steps stopped chewing the bones in his mouth and looked at Yun Chu for a while.
Yun Chu is now the medical judge of the Imperial Medical Bureau. His position is only below the Imperial Medical Order and the Imperial Medical Deputy. He is a doctor of a very high level in the Tang Dynasty. As soon as he gave an order, someone immediately prepared an operating room for him.
When Yun Chu finished disinfecting, wearing a thick mask and holding his hands up, he walked into the operating room with a strong smell of alcohol. The eunuch had been stripped naked by the medicine boys and his body hair was removed.
Taking a look at this guy's body, he looked very miserable, with frostbite all over his body, and the lower half of his left leg had turned black. However, looking at this guy's body, his bones were thick and his muscles were very strong. He should have been a military eunuch in the past.
Yun Chu didn't bother to ask him why a military eunuch would end up like this. He just said to the eunuch condescendingly: "Frostbite may seem serious, but it's not fatal. Your left calf is completely necrotic. If it is not amputated as soon as possible, you will not live for more than ten days."
After that, without waiting for the eunuch to speak, a medicine boy stuffed a funnel into the eunuch's mouth and poured a large bowl of light yellow medicine into it. Then, it was a long wait.
The effect of the anesthetic was obviously not good. Yun Chu waited for an incense stick of time, but the eunuch still stared with a pair of big eyes and refused to faint. Yun Chu had to chop his neck with a palm.
Yun Chu was not unfamiliar with leg sawing. He had sawed off countless legs in the Western Regions. Now he was very familiar with sawing bones with a creaking sound.
The amputation surgery in the Imperial Medical Bureau of the Tang Dynasty was not much different from that twenty years ago. The main difference was that the doctors of the Tang Dynasty finally understood how to use clamps to seal the large blood vessels in the intervals between sawing legs, so that the amount of bleeding was relatively small when sawing legs, and the doctors would not be treated like butchers with poor skills.
Another difference was that they knew to leave a circle of extra skin when sawing legs, and then wrap the broken ends with the extra skin after the legs were sawed off.
Even if a person who was knocked unconscious was a man of steel, he would wake up when his legs were sawed off. This eunuch seemed to be particularly patient. Even though he was sweating profusely and crushed the bamboo tubes on both sides of the operating table with his hands, he still did not say a word.
After the operation was completed, Yun Chu helped him to treat the frostbite again, and finally took the sawed-off calf of this guy and smiled at him maliciously: "Look, you are missing something again. For a little bit of wealth and glory, you first made yourself half-human and half-ghost, and now you have lost half a leg. Do you regret it?"
The eunuch stared at his half-leg for a long time, gritted his teeth and said to Yun Chu: "No regrets!"
This answer made Yun Chu have the urge to throw him out, but he still ordered the medicine boys: "Three days of liquid food, more minced meat, and after twenty days, the wound will be healed, and he will be kicked out of the Imperial Medical Bureau."
What was done today was originally a spontaneous thing. This guy was obviously one of the people who followed Ruichun and others into the imperial city to kill. I don’t know why he was abandoned by Ruichun and others. Logically, those who were abandoned will be killed. This guy should have a good story to tell if he survived.
Things are done, and Yun Chu has nothing to regret.
After sawing off one of his legs, Yun Chu's thoughts became clearer, so he came to the Du Shui Ling Yamen again.
"Your Excellency visits Du Shui Ling three times a day, I believe it is beneficial to my Du Shui Ling?"
Li Chunfeng swept away his previous gloomy look, and was free and indifferent like a hermit.
"I thought about it for a long time just now, and found that it is better for me not to participate in your affairs. If I don't participate, it means that Chang'an will not participate either, which means that you can do your things, but not in Chang'an.
Look, I put it this way, can you understand it?"
Li Chunfeng laughed and said, "Of course."
Yun Chu smiled and saluted Li Chunfeng, and then left Du Shui Ling again.
There must be a limit to meddling in other people's affairs!
The Tang Dynasty today is different from the Tang Dynasty ten years ago. The era when everyone planned for the Tang Dynasty is gone forever. Now, not only is it gloomy from top to bottom, but everyone is seeking self-preservation and has no extra energy to consider issues from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty ten years ago was a good time when everyone was vying to be a prime minister or a general. The Tang Dynasty now is a good time when everyone wants to retire from the army, read and pass on the family tradition and return to the countryside.
Of course, it is also a bad time when demons are rampant.
Ten years ago, Yun Chu dared to kill Chen Zheng, the insatiable Huangmen Minister, in court, and then held his head to question him in the court. Ten years ago, Yun Chu dared to immediately kill Li Chunfeng, who had evil intentions, and warned Emperor Li Zhi.
Now, he can only vent his depression with the injured leg of a poor abandoned eunuch.
When leaving the imperial city, Yun Chu met Chen Zheng, the Yellow Gate Minister. He was sitting in a warm shed, holding a high-end teapot made by Yun's family and sipping tea. When he saw Yun Chu coming, he did not take the initiative to greet him.
"Lord Yun, His Majesty has issued an edict praising this humble official."
Yun Chu scratched his head and said, "Congratulations."
Chen Zheng said, "His Majesty has issued an edict to reprimand Zhou Xing, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice."
Yun Chu scratched his head and said, "Congratulations."
Chen Zheng said, "Did His Majesty issue an edict to Lord Yun to kill me?"
Yun Chu scratched his head and said, "No!"
Chen Zheng came to Yun Chu's horse and said, "So, Lord Yun is not favored by His Majesty."
Yun Chu scratched his head and said, "That's the case."
Chen Zheng saw Yun Chu scratching his head and asked, "Why, did this humble official give Lord Yun...a...difficult...question?"
Yun Chu looked at Chen Zheng's fat head flying across the sky and answered seriously, "Do you know that a certain family has the right to act at their own will in Chang'an?"