Chapter 1213: Punishment of Shaving

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Eunuch Wu to announce many of King Lu's crimes on the spot:

The first one was unkind. He killed Huaian Commander Bi and the reserve commander several times. He beat several guards and commanders to death. He used his bow to shoot Ji Shan and Zhang Yong beside Dianzhang Xiangyi, and killed several firemen.

The second one is disrespectful. Before going to Beijing, he failed to clean his body, offered sacrifices to the mountains and rivers he passed, soaked his rice with wine, and got drunk on the boat;

The third injustice was that he allowed his concubine to indulge in extravagant pleasures and forcibly demolished nearly a thousand houses in order to open a garden outside Prince Lu's palace.

The fourth is disrespectful: brothers Yan and Qi pass by the country and do not go out to greet them;

The fifth misdemeanor was to cause folk children to play in the palace, and then release them after three to five days. Some of them were castrated into fire.

Sixth, they are unwise, do not think about protecting themselves, and act in obscene ways. He favored the alchemists and took elixirs indiscriminately, which led to madness and confusion.

Because of his lack of strictness, the palace was mixed with assassins, and almost killed several highnesses...

The eighth is unlucky. As a vassal king, he should have guarded the territory and brought peace to the people, but because of his atrocities, he angered the local people and caused a civil uprising in Shandong. He is indeed an unlucky person.

The ninth act of unfilial piety was a heinous crime, killing his mother and concubine, who was so heartbroken that she was bedridden!

Therefore, King Lu and his wife deserve to be executed for their crimes. King Lu, as a prince, should be given medicinal wine.

However, as the Guo family is full of loyal people, Concubine Guo Ning has served the emperor for thirty years, with great hard work and deep love. Now she committed suicide for her son, so she had to fulfill her last wish. Therefore, King Lu was spared death, but he could not escape the crime of living, and he was demoted to a concubine. People were punished with Kun punishment, made to become a monk, and recited sutras day and night to atone for their sins.

Princess Tang of Lu did not practice womanly virtues and deceived the prince. She should have been executed at Ling Chi, but because of the outstanding achievements of the Duke Zaixin, she was only sentenced to death and her body was left intact...

All the civil and military officials were shocked when they heard this. They never expected that Concubine Guo Ning's death would be so tragic.

What's more, I never expected that Concubine Guo Ning's death would only save King Lu's life. Not only would Concubine Lu be executed, but King Lu himself would also have to suffer a torture that was said to be 'worse than death'.

Kun punishment is one of the five ancient punishments. It is to punish the prisoner in a humiliating way by shaving all his hair and beard.

People at this time generally believed that filial piety was the beginning of filial piety when one's body, hair and skin, were received from one's parents and did not dare to damage them.

Therefore, shaving a person's hair is to completely deprive him of his dignity and identity, and is an extreme devastation and humiliation to his spirit.

When Zhu Yuanzhang ordered King Lu to become a monk, he wanted him to be a hairless 'kun' for the rest of his life. At least in the eyes of people at the time, it was hard to say whether a punishment of this level was more severe, or whether it was more severe to kill him...

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It has been twenty years since Zhu Yuanzhang became King of Wu and started holding court meetings. For twenty years, every time he sat on the throne, his back was straight, as if nothing could bend his waist.

But today, he was hunched over and leaning on the back of his chair, looking like he had no energy at all.

The courtiers all thought that he was hit by the death of Concubine Guo Ning, but they didn't know that what really made the emperor unable to hold his head high was that he finally broke his promise.

When Zhu Yuanzhang looked up, he saw Hu Weiyong standing at the head of the civil service class, pointing at him with contempt and laughing.

"Hahaha, come on, come on, come on, what am I talking about? When it comes to your head, I don't believe you can kill your relatives out of justice! How about, let me say it?"

"Seeing how resolute you were at that time, I thought that your children and grandchildren would break your oath, but I didn't expect that you just said it yourself! Hahaha, look at your face, why is it so long?"

"Do you understand me very well now? Because you have become me. No, you have far surpassed me! Hahaha!"

"You fart!" Zhu Yuanzhang finally couldn't help but slapped the armrest of the dragon chair and shouted angrily: "If you talk nonsense again, we will dig up your grave! Dig you out, crush your bones and spread your ashes!"

"..." Boss Zhu suddenly went crazy and was so shocked that everyone in the court was stunned.

Especially Ling Han, the general envoy who was making the report, was so frightened that he almost peed when he heard this. He knelt down on the ground and kowtowed as if sifting chaff to plead guilty: "I dare not say any more. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"..." Zhu Yuanzhang was also stunned. Looking at the court class, where was the shadow of Hu Weiyong?

"Father, just now Ling Yintai was reporting the latest situation of the civil uprising in Shandong..." The prince beside him quickly reminded him softly:

"According to the report from the Chief Secretary of Shandong, the sixth brother asked Yan Shenggong and the Meng family to come forward and mobilize the gentry to appease the people. The government is also trying its best to suppress it. The situation in various places has improved greatly. Currently, there are only a few prefectures and counties left where rioters are still entrenched. , Order has basically been restored in other places.”

"Oh." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. He was not worried at all about the civil unrest in Shandong. He is the most successful expert on rebellion in history, and no one understands popular uprisings better than him.

"In these years, we have been doing light corvee and paying little tax, and resting with the people. There have been no natural disasters in Shandong, and the people have not been unable to survive. Especially in the chaotic times of the late Yuan Dynasty, Shandong has always been the main battlefield. The land was beaten and desolate for thousands of miles. , How can the people be willing to rebel after they have only lived a peaceful life for a few years?”

"So we judge that the civil uprising in Shandong is not bad in nature. The people were probably instigated by others and just started to cause trouble in a confused way. I believe that with Lao Liu here, this matter will not be unable to be solved..."

Then he waved his hands and said: "We are a little tired, so let's leave the court early today. In addition, I will leave the court for Concubine Guo Ning tomorrow."

Finally, he glanced at Guo Ying and said: "Wu Dinghou, you also express my condolences."

After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up from the dragon chair and walked down the curtain of the golden stage.

"I will respectfully send you off to Your Majesty!" All civil and military officials knelt down to send him off respectfully.

After Boss Zhu left, the officials got up, and the military officers and nobles surrounded Guo Ying, who was crying like a fool.

The civil officials were not qualified to move forward, and they were too lazy to move forward, so they walked out while whispering gossip.

"The Guo family is really unlucky. Last year, his brother, Gongchang Marquis Guo Xinggang, died of illness. Less than a year later, his sister, Concubine Guo Ning, is gone."

"What's more troublesome is that the Guo family's biggest backer, Prince Lu, is also abolished... The original top Xuanhe family in the Ming Dynasty has become a thing of the past in the blink of an eye."

"Xin Guogong is also unlucky enough. He has been prudent all his life. It was obviously Prince Lu who committed the crime, but he killed his daughter..."

"Hush, keep your voice down. Didn't you hear that he should have been executed by slow slicing, but now he has a whole body, which is already a grace."

"What crime is so serious that he has to be slow slicing?" Someone asked puzzledly: "I heard this Lin Lin There is a long list of charges, except for the last one, for a princess, it is not a crime punishable by death, right? Besides, the last one was because the emperor wanted to kill Prince Lu first, so Concubine Ning committed suicide, right? "

"In fact, it is still avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial, avoiding the real and focusing on the false..." At this time, someone who knew the inside story revealed: "Do you know why the people of Shandong made trouble? Because Prince Lu was going to hold a blood sacrifice on August 15th and castrate 36,000 children at the same time! That is what really aroused public outrage. "

"Ah? So many people, how many boys are there in Shandong?"

"No wonder the people made trouble." The officials sighed and walked away.