Chapter 3252 Law

Chapter 3251 Law

Reviewing the entire strategy promoted in Guanzhong, the main thread is actually very simple.

After Fei Qian left Chang'an for the Western Regions, Pang Tong was thinking about how to stir up the local forces in the three auxiliary provinces of Guanzhong to enter the scene, taking advantage of some chaos, killing some people, and clearing out the remaining local forces.

In the feudal dynasty, the thing called "evidence" is actually very subtle.

Sometimes there is no need for "evidence" at all, and saying "slander" means directly killing nine clans.

It seems to be so, but what about the reality?

If those guys who were really killed for the crime of "slandering" really want to study it a little, they will see that the key point of these people's killing is not "slandering" at all, but other "charges" that cannot be said, at least not publicly.

Therefore, those who say that the feudal dynasty does not care about "evidence" at all are mostly fools who have been fooled. Just like when Dou Ying was killed, if Empress Dowager Dou was still alive, let alone secretly criticizing him, even if she pointed at him barefoot and cursed him, Emperor Wu of Han would have to hold his nose and endure it...

"Evidence" is actually very important. Even if this "evidence" looks ridiculous, it can make other officials understand that the emperor, or the ruler, is not just killing people at will.

Order is a very important thing. The ruler is the representative of order to some extent.

No one will support a ruler who kills people at will.

It would be fine if there is no choice, but once there is a choice, the people will vote with their feet.

So, Pang Tong and several counselors thought about it and came up with such a situation.

Anyway, the pit is dug there, just wait and see who jumps in.

So Wei really jumped in...

The reason is also very simple, greed blinds the mind.

After being accustomed to a rich and luxurious life, how can you endure a tight life?

As long as you are greedy, problems will arise sooner or later.

As for Zheng Xuan's affairs, they are just a small branch.

In short, the main thread is actually very simple, but there are also many small branches.

In addition, some people who do not know the truth are wavering...

Wavering is inevitable, because some people are destined not to be on the same page with Fei Qian.

This makes the whole plan complicated and requires a lot of effort to implement. Fortunately, Pang Tong, Xun You and others are all first-class, and when they cooperate with each other, it is like nature and oneness.

The tiger talisman that Fei Qian left for Huang Yueying is not only a certificate for mobilizing troops, but also a reassurance similar to Tian Yu, Xing Yong and others. With such a tiger talisman, it can be proved that what Xun You asked them to do was approved by Huang Yueying, which is equivalent to Fei Qian's endorsement. Otherwise, in such a situation, it is inevitable to suspect that Xun You has two minds and wants to deliberately disrupt Chang'an.

The original plan was to boil the frog in warm water, slowly lure people into the trap, and let as many people with ulterior motives as possible jump out. Unexpectedly, Zheng Xuan's death accelerated this process, and the situation escalated before Xun You's prepared food and grass methods were used.

Xun You had actually made the worst plan. If unrest really broke out, he would lead troops to fight a battle at the official residence...

Or use the worst strategy.

Fortunately, Pang Tong came quickly, and some ordinary people in Guanzhong were not as easily incited as before.

Mainly because the people in Guanzhong now have some extra money in their hands, real extra money, so only a small part of them can be incited. As long as most people have food, clothing and daily necessities, they are relatively stable and their emotions will not fluctuate too much.

This is very important.

As soon as Zheng Xuan died, the situation reached the peak of chaos.

Pang Tong led Fei Zhen to surround the city, and he got the popularity that Pang Tong wanted Fei Zhen to get...

The key is this strength, Fei Qian stayed.

Once Fei Zhen gained popularity, many things would be sorted out naturally. The hidden dangers left by Fei Qian in Hedong would naturally be eliminated. Once this problem is solved, Fei Qian can confidently compete with Cao Cao in the Hedong area without any worries.

Cao Cao did not leave a backup in Guanzhong, which even a fool would not believe.

Taking this opportunity, it is better to eliminate all unstable factors at once than to deal with them intermittently. Even if there are still some fish that slip through the net, it is harmless. At least in the next few years, Chang'an Sanfu will be relatively stable.

This is the goal of Pang Tong and others.

At this point, it is impossible for Wei Duan and other fence-sitters to turn the tables, unless they turn the table over and start fighting.

But Fei Zhen and Pang Tong are not afraid of fighting after returning with their troops.

Why did they keep Wei Duan, Wei Kang and others alive after destroying the Wei family manor?

It's very simple. Most of the Wei family's living forces are inside the Wei family manor. After eliminating these forces, the Wei father and son will only be a shell, and they can be crushed at any time.

As for why it was Wei Duan...

If Wei Duan didn't jump out, would he be fine?

In fact, it would be the same ending.

Just like Dou Ying was doomed to decline and perish after the death of Empress Dowager Dou, anyone who competes with the ruler for power must be mentally prepared.

Since China has embarked on the road of centralization, it will never go back.

This is the choice of the Chinese people.

A unified country, a unified system, and a unified market.

This need engraved in the genes of the Chinese people will drive the rulers to complete the cause of unification.

And what Wei Duan did was actually stealing power from the center without fulfilling his obligations.

Qingliu is like a public spider in later generations.

What are the characteristics of Qingliu?

Do nothing. All Qingliu has no specific things to do. After all, as long as you don't do anything, you won't make mistakes, and you can die against those who do things. Because as long as you do things, there will be mistakes, and people who do things will never know from which angle Qingliu will find what mistakes.

Always dissatisfied with the present, always mention the past. Most of the history of the Three Dynasties has been lost. After all, there was no such thing as a historian at that time. The Three Dynasties that Confucius exaggerated during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was more like Confucius' own imagination, a perfect political system that he had imagined. After all, Confucius raised the problem and wanted to solve it, but he was limited by historical limitations and could not solve it. He could only be like the Western Paradise of Buddhism and Taoism, which also compiled an Oriental Changle Park... ahem, the Oriental Changle World.

The public spider is the same, doing nothing, not satisfied with reality, and selfish. The difference is that the Qingliu is compared with the Three Dynasties, while the public spider is compared with the foreign adults. Because in certain periods of time, China had walls that blocked some flies and mosquitoes, and also blocked the window to see foreigners, so the public spider naturally had a market. As a result, the information exploded later, and the Internet could penetrate the wall, and then look...

Wow!

The public spider is the same as the Qingliu. They are not loyal to the government and the people they should be loyal to, but to themselves. They are not protecting the interests of the country and the people, but their own private interests.

Qingliu is lucky, because in ancient China, the people were blind and illiterate, so most of them thought that what the scholars said was right. Gongzhi's misfortune is that the people in later generations can open their eyes to see the world. In contrast, Gongzhi's lies are too easy to be exposed.

So Gongzhi is constantly promoting the strategy of fooling the people, making the people close their eyes and seal their mouths again, even replacing words with ***, using colorful materials to objectify women, and then using the objectified women to twist their waists and hips to attract men, trying to make everyone not think, have no time to think, and be too lazy to think, and then form a closed loop and a cocoon.

Fei Qian needs to let the Han go out, so he must break the thorny anklet of Qingliu.

What grudges and charges are all superficial, and in essence it is a struggle at the political level...

He endured it before because he had not completely broken with Shandong, but now he can't endure it because the war has pushed it to this situation and there is no need to endure it anymore.

Perhaps it was destined that Zheng Xuan, who had originally said that public opinion was important and that there were good people in the Qingliu, the great Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty who insisted that Fei Qian be supervised and accepted public advice before bringing salt to Qinglong Temple, also breathed his last at this time.

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Wei Du, wearing heavy armor, stood proudly in front of the lobby of the Cavalry Mansion.

This time, he originally thought he would do something, but in the end, nothing happened.

But Pang Tong told him that he was very important.

For example, if someone wanted to overturn the table, or someone wanted to assassinate Fei Zhen, or even someone tried to attack the Cavalry Mansion, he would need to stand up...

But now it seems that he doesn't need to fight in the battle.

This made Wei Du very depressed, so he didn't have a good face for those officials and gentry who came to the Cavalry Mansion to express their loyalty.

But strangely, the worse Wei Du's face was, the more respectful and careful these people were, and they thought it was justified.

Wei Du was somewhat uncomfortable, but for some reason, he got used to it quickly, and became more and more arrogant, looking at everyone who entered the lobby of the Cavalry Mansion.

Fei Zhen sat in the lobby, simply met with the officials, said a few kind words, and then encouraged them a few words, and the officials kowtowed loudly with tears in their eyes.

No one could stop the trend anymore. After Wei fell, no one dared to raise any objections, and no one doubted the previous incident of the Hundred Medical Clinics. It seemed that everything was so smooth and logical. I am afraid that even if Fei Zhen farted, someone would say yes, yes, yes, the young master is right...

Fei Zhen did not need to deal with a specific matter, nor did he need to personally watch Wei's head being chopped off. He only needed to sit in the lobby and maintain the situation stable, which was what he should pay after gaining popularity.

Although there are still some unclear points in the Wei case, most people have tacitly accepted this result. Even some people who had close contacts with Wei before, such as Du Ji, have submitted memorials and seemed to speak freely, but not a single word about Wei.

Why?

Political losers are so narrow-minded.

Again, the whole dispute is essentially a conflict over power. Pang Tong and others want to maintain Fei Qian's centralized power, not allow others to interfere, and not allow the bad habits of Shandong to revive in the land of Guanzhong Sanfu.

At the cavalry office, officials came and went like a revolving lantern to show their loyalty, and at the Qinglong Temple, on the high platform, the direct relatives of the Wei family were tied up and tied together, wailing and crying.

People came from all directions and gathered under the public trial platform.

Soldiers separated the crowd, and the long spears and shields outlined a line that was not allowed to be easily crossed.

The emotions of the people are undoubtedly simple and plain. Good people and bad people, good people should be rewarded, and bad people should be punished, but in fact, even the law itself may not be black and white, let alone people?

Compared with later generations, the laws of the Han Dynasty can be said to be simple.

The most important code of law in the Han Dynasty was the "Nine Chapters of Laws".

The "Nine Chapters of Laws" was written by Xiao He based on the six chapters of the Qin Dynasty's laws by adding three chapters.

The "Nine Chapters of Laws" includes six chapters: "Laws on Thieves", "Laws on Robbers", "Laws on Prisoners", "Laws on Arrests", "Miscellaneous Laws", and "Laws on Equipment", as well as three newly added chapters: "Laws on Households", "Laws on Development", and "Laws on Stables". As the name suggests, we can know that there are actually more laws in the Han Dynasty than in the Qin Dynasty. The main difference is the addition of the last three chapters, namely taxes, labor service, and war horses. In the form of national laws, it was first determined that the state power asked the people to calculate taxes, labor service, and extra expenses imposed on the people, such as horse-raising fees, were "reasonable and legal".

This had a profound impact on the feudal dynasties of later generations.

How to cut leeks became an unshakable law written in the national laws, which was inherited, promoted, developed, and deepened by generations of feudal dynasties.

In most cases, the laws of feudal dynasties are aimed at ordinary people, and noble families like Wei Duan rarely appear in the sight of ordinary people. Even if there are any crimes, they are all colluded internally. Only after the verdict is made, ordinary people will know the final result belatedly.

Even the public trial and public sentencing model that Fei Qian has come up with is almost just a formality at the moment, but just like the "Nine Chapters of Laws" of the Han Dynasty became the legal template for later feudal dynasties, perhaps it can be regarded as opening a small window for ordinary people, so that ordinary people can also know that those high-ranking nobles are actually not sacred like them...

The process of the trial, the monkeys scatter when the tree falls, is not enough to show the current situation of Wei Duan.

It should be called "the monkeys 'kick' the tree when it falls, or the monkeys 'demolished', which may be more appropriate.

At the beginning of the public trial, Wei Duan, Wei Kang and others still had some energy to argue, shouting that they were wronged, but later on, a large number of people came up, each of them weeping and saying how much they had been oppressed and humiliated by the Wei family...

Some people came up to the stage and said that they had been defrauded of money by the Wei family, how much money, when, they said it clearly and clearly.

Wei Duan would argue a few words at first, saying that you cried and shouted, holding on to my thigh and begging me to accept it...

The man said that if he didn't give it, he couldn't do a certain business.

Wei Duan said that the man could have chosen not to do this business, but the man thought that the business was good, so he shamelessly came to ask for help...

The man didn't answer, but just emphasized how he sold everything he had in order to get the money for the Wei family.

At the end, Wei Duan just listened numbly.

This is not all. Some people came to the stage to accuse Wei of falling for his wife and then breaking into his house to have sex. A bunch of people in the audience were saying oh oh oh...

Wei Duan was already numb. Wasn't it this guy who personally sent his wife to him in order to get business? He also cooperated with her outside the door, and she was not his wife, but just a concubine...

And so on.

As the number of people who came to the stage to accuse increased, the people in the audience were also fully mobilized. Almost no one remembered that Wei had done some good things before.

Admittedly, for most ordinary people at the bottom of society, Wei was basically an exploiter, but those who could come to the stage to accuse and describe the cause, development and climax of the matter so clearly were not something that ordinary people in the Han Dynasty could do. In other words, most of these people who came to the stage were "monkeys" on Wei's body before.

"Wei Shi Shufu..." Tian Yu, an assistant to the Dali Temple, looked at Wei Duan at the end of the public trial, "Are there any more words? '

'Humph, haha, hahaha...' Wei Duan bulged his eyes, staring at those guys who came up to the stage to accuse, and then laughed bitterly and shouted, 'Heaven asked again to summon the soul, but there is no reason to go through the emperor's gate! Who knew that a thousand beautiful words could not defeat a slanderous word! Hahaha, the destiny is determined, from ancient times to the present, it has always been the same! ! I will go ahead and wait for you in the underworld...'

Tian Yu ignored Wei Duan's impotent rage and said loudly on the stage:

'Now, in accordance with the imperial edict of Xijing, I, a certain minister, with my humble sincerity, write a verdict on the crime of treason. Wei said:

The Great General of the Han Dynasty, Pingyang Fei, was the same as the Three Dukes. He opened a government office, recovered the mountains and rivers, protected our territory, and comforted our people. He had an unprecedented contribution! Now there are evildoers who are harboring different intentions and plotting against the law. They want to overthrow Guanzhong and harm the people. They are corrupt and pervert the law, and they are greedy and want to make money. They also slander and defame, and they caused the death of Duke Zheng! They gathered lawless people and besieged the official residence, wanting to harm the cavalry! '

'The crime is heinous and unforgivable! '

'The criminal Wei is a scholar. He should understand the way of saints and know the importance of loyalty and righteousness. However, he has received great favors from the country, but he does not think about repaying his kindness. Instead, he has a wolfish heart, forms a party for personal gain, and plots to usurp the throne. His crime is extremely heinous! Checking his deeds, it has been very clear, the evidence is conclusive, and the evidence is as strong as a mountain! His heart is cruel, his behavior is eccentric, he disregards loyalty and righteousness, and despises the law. His crimes are notorious and cannot be tolerated by heaven and earth! '

'According to the law, multiple crimes should be punished together, property should be confiscated, and nine clans should be executed! '

'However, the general of the cavalry is merciful, and he has received the benevolence of heaven and earth, so he has exempted the nine clans from execution, and only limited them to the five generations of Wei's direct relatives. Those who participated in the rebellion will be executed immediately! In addition, his family members within the five generations of Wei will be pardoned. Those who did not participate in the rebellion can be spared from death and sent to the public camp to redeem their crimes. '

'Alas! Wei's actions are indeed sinners for all ages! I will judge them now, not only for the sake of the law, but also as a warning to future generations! '

'Let future generations know that there is no greater crime than to act against heaven! Disobedience and immorality will surely bring disaster to oneself! '

'All of us officials should be loyal and filial, abide by virtue, live up to the high expectations of the cavalry, remember the teachings of the saints, do not do unjust things, and do not say untrue things! Please! '

'This case has been decided, and it will be written to inform the world, so that everyone knows the strictness of the state's laws and regulations and that the law cannot be violated. '

'This is the verdict! '

After a pause, Tian Yu shouted, 'Come on! Execute! '

And Wei Kang on the guillotine suddenly cried out, and his urine and feces flowed all over the place, 'No! No no! I don't want to die! I don't want it! '

Seeing the executioner holding a big knife, getting closer and closer, Wei Duan looked back at the crying Wei Kang, and then turned his head and shouted at Tian Yu: 'According to the law! Those who turn themselves in can be reduced in sentence! I am willing to turn myself in! Reduce my child's death sentence! '

Tian Yu stretched out his hand to signal, and the executioner paused, 'Wei Xiufu, are you willing to turn yourself in? '

Before, Wei Duan gritted his teeth, neither admitting the guilt nor accusing others.

And now, if he doesn't turn himself in, the Wei family will die, and the reputation of the Wei family being good people will probably be forgotten in a hundred days.

If he turns himself in, he will definitely be hated by others, but at least the child has a great chance of survival...

Wei Duan looked back at Wei Kang, lowered his head, and touched his forehead to the ground, "The sinner... is willing to turn himself in... Turn himself in... I am willing to accuse the accomplice of the thief! '

'Oh? ' Tian Yu looked at Wei Duan, 'For example... who? '

'...' Wei Duan gritted his teeth.

Tian Yu said in a deep voice: 'Think it through, trying to make excuses will only add to your guilt. '

'I...' Wei Duan closed his eyes, 'I, I will provide evidence... Fan, Fan...'