Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3251 Law

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

After Fei Qian left Chang'an and went to the Western Regions, Pang Tong was thinking about how to stir up the local forces of the Three Assistants in Guanzhong to enter the scene. He would use some chaos to kill some people and eliminate the remaining local forces.

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

Sometimes they don't care about "evidence" at all, and just saying "slander" is to directly kill the nine tribes.

It seems so, but in reality?

If you really want to study those guys who were actually killed for the crime of "defamation", you will see that the key point of why these people were killed was not "defamation" at all, but something else. A "crime" that cannot be said, at least not publicly.

Therefore, those who say that the feudal dynasty does not pay attention to "evidence" at all are mostly fools who have been deceived. Just like when Dou Ying was killed, if Empress Dowager Dou was still alive, let alone her true slander, even if she pointed at her nose and cursed barefoot in front of the emperor, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would have to hold his nose and endure it...

"Evidence" is actually very important. Even if this "evidence" seems ridiculous, it can make other officials understand that the emperor, or the ruler, is not killing people randomly with water in his head.

Order is a very important thing, and the ruler is the representative of order to a certain extent.

No one would support a ruler who killed people at will.

If there is no choice, then that's it. Once there is a choice, people will vote with their feet.

Therefore, Pang Tong and several counselors thought about it and devised such a plan.

Anyway, the hole is dug over there, it just depends on who jumps.

So Webster really jumped in...

The reason is also very simple, the power makes the mind faint.

After getting used to a wealthy and luxurious life, how can I endure the tight life?

As long as the mind is greedy, problems will occur sooner or later.

As for Zheng Xuan's matter, it's just a minor incident.

In short, the main plot is actually very simple, but there are also many small details that pop up.

Plus some people who don’t know the truth are swaying around...

Swinging is inevitable, because some people are destined to be unable to be of the same mind as 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 top-notch, and they work together like a natural fit.

The tiger talisman that Fei Qian left for Huang Yueying was not only a voucher for troop deployment, but also a reassurance similar to that of Tian Yu, Xingyong and others. Having such a tiger talisman can prove that what Xun You asked them to do was approved by Huang Yueying, which is equivalent to Fei Qian's endorsement. Otherwise, under such a situation, it is inevitable to suspect that Xun You has second thoughts and wants to deliberately disrupt Chang'an.

The original plan was to boil frogs in warm water, slowly lure people into the trap, and let as many people with ulterior motives jump out as possible. Unexpectedly, Zheng Xuan's death accelerated the process, making all the food and grass methods prepared by Xun You useless. The situation intensified.

Xun You had actually prepared for the worst. If a turmoil really broke out, he would lead his troops to fight in the official residence...

Or enable bad strategies.

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

The main reason is that the people in Guanzhong now have some spare money, serious surplus money, so only a small number of people can be incited. Most people are relatively stable as long as they have food and clothing, and there will be no mood swings. Too big.

This is important.

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

Pang Tong and Fei Zhen surrounded the city and gained the popularity that Pang Tong wanted Fei Zhen to gain...

The key is this strength, Fei Qian stayed.

Once Feizhen gained popularity, many things would fall into place. The hidden dangers left by Fei's latent presence in Hedong were naturally eliminated. Once this problem is solved, Fei Qian can safely compete with Cao Cao in the Hedong area without any worries.

Cao Cao left no backup in Guanzhong, and even fools would not believe it.

Taking this opportunity to eliminate all unstable factors at once is better than dealing with them intermittently. Even if there are still some fish that slip through the net, it will not hurt. At least in the next few years, Changan Sanfu will be relatively stable.

This is the goal of Pang Tong and others.

At this point, Wei Duan and other fence-sitters could no longer make a comeback unless they flipped the table and started a fight.

But Fei Zhen and Pang Tong were not afraid of fighting after they led their troops around.

Why did Wei Duan, Wei Kang and others remain alive after wiping out the Webster Manor?

It's very simple. Most of Webster's active forces are inside the Webster Manor. After these forces are eliminated, the Websters and his son will be nothing more than a shell, which can be crushed at any time.

As for why Wei Duan...

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

Actually it's the same ending.

Just like Dou Ying will inevitably decline and perish after the death of Queen Mother Dou, anyone who competes with the ruler for power must be mentally prepared for this.

Ever since China took the path of no return toward centralization, it will never be able to turn 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.

What Wei Duan did was actually to steal power from the center but not fulfill his obligations.

Qingliu is like a male spider in later generations.

What are the characteristics of Qingliu?

Do nothing. There is no specific purpose for Qingliu. After all, as long as you don't do things, you won't make mistakes. If you don't make mistakes, you can fight against those who do things. Because as long as something is done, there will be mistakes, and the person doing it will never know from which angle Qingliu will find out what mistakes he is making.

Never dissatisfied with the present, words must be called ancient. Most of the history of the Three Generations has been lost. After all, there was no such thing as a historian at that time. The rule of the Three Generations exaggerated by Confucius during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was more like Confucius's own imagination, a perfect political system made up in his head. After all, Confucius raised a problem, and he also wanted to solve it, but due to historical limitations, he could not solve it. He could only think of the Western Paradise of Buddhism, and Taoism also compiled an Eastern Changle Park... ahem , the same as Oriental Changle World.

The same goes for Gongzi, who is inactive, dissatisfied with reality, and selfish. The difference is that Qingliu is compared to the rule of the third generation, while Gongzi is compared to the foreign masters. Because during certain periods of time, there was a wall in China that blocked some flies and mosquitoes, and also blocked the window to see foreigners. Naturally, there was a market for male spiders. As a result, information exploded and the Internet could penetrate the wall. Then...

Oops!

Gongzi, like Qingliu, is not loyal to the government and the people they should be loyal to, but to themselves. What they safeguard is not the interests of the country and the people, but their own private interests.

Qingliu is lucky, because in ancient China, people were blind and illiterate, so most of them thought that what scholars said was right. The misfortune of Gongzi is that people in later generations can see the world with open eyes. In comparison, Gongzi Spider's lies are too easy to expose.

Therefore, the male spider is constantly promoting the strategy of obscuring the people, making the people close their eyes and seal their mouths again. Even the words must be replaced with pornographic materials, using colorful materials to objectify women, and then using the objectified women to twist Waist and hips are swayed to attract men, so that everyone will not think as much as possible, have no time to think, and are too lazy to think, thus forming closed loops and cocoons everywhere.

Fei Qian needs to let the big man go out, so he must break the thorn anklet of Qingliu.

Any grievances or accusations are just appearances. In essence, they are struggles at the political level...

I had endured it before because the break with Shandong had not yet been completely broken, but now I cannot endure it because the war has reached this point and there is no need to endure it anymore.

Perhaps it was also destined that Zheng Xuan, who originally said that public opinion was important and that there were good people in Qingliu, this Han Dynasty scholar who insisted on letting Fei Qian accept supervision and accept people's advice before bringing salt to Qinglong Temple, also swallowed it at this time took his last breath.

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Wei Du was wearing heavy armor and stood in front of the lobby of the Hussar Mansion, standing proudly.

This time, he originally thought he was going to do something, but it turned out to be nothing.

But Pang Tong told him that he was very, very important.

For example, if someone wants to overturn the table, or someone wants to assassinate Fei Zhen, or even someone attempts to attack the Hussar Mansion, he needs to step forward...

But now it seems that there is no need for him to fight in battle.

This made Wei Du very depressed, so he didn't have a good look on the officials and squires who showed their loyalty to the Husband's office.

But strangely, the worse Wei Du's expression became, the more respectful and careful these people became, and they thought this was normal.

Wei Du was somewhat uncomfortable with it, but for some reason, he got used to it quickly. His eyebrows grew colder and colder, and he looked at everyone who entered the lobby of the Husband's Office.

Feizhen sat in the lobby and briefly met with the officials, saying a few words of warmth and encouragement. The officials kowtowed loudly with tears in their eyes.

No one can stop the general trend anymore. After Webster's collapse, no one dared to raise any objections, and no one had any doubts about the previous incident at Baiyi Clinic. Everything seemed to be so smooth and logical. , I’m afraid even if Fei Zhen farts, someone will say yes, yes, yes, the young master is right...

Feizhen didn't need to deal with a specific matter, nor did he need to watch the beheading of Webster in person. He only needed to sit in the lobby and maintain the situation smoothly, which is what he should do after gaining popularity. Give and give.

Although there are still some unclear points in the Webster case, most people have already acquiesced in the result. Even some people who had close contacts with Webster before, such as Du Ji and others, have also come forward. Shangshu seems to be talking freely, but there is not a word about Webster.

Why?

Political losers are like this.

Again, the whole dispute is essentially a conflict over power. Pang Tong and others wanted to maintain Fei Qian's centralization of power and not allow others to interfere, nor would they allow the bad habits of Shandong before to still be revived in the land of Guanzhong Sanfu.

At the Huqi Mansion Office, officials came and went like a revolving door to express their loyalty, while at the Qinglong Temple, on the high platform, Wei's immediate family members were tied up with five flowers and tied together, wailing and crying non-stop.

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

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

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

The laws of the Han Dynasty can actually be said to be crude compared to those of later generations.

The most important legal code in the Han Dynasty was the "Nine Chapters".

This "Nine Chapters of Laws" was created by Xiao He by adding three chapters to the six chapters of laws of the Qin Dynasty.

"Nine Chapters" includes six chapters: "Robbery", "Thieves", "Prison", "Capture", "Miscellaneous", "Gu", as well as the newly added "Household" and "Xinglu" ", "Stable Law" three chapters. As the name suggests, we can know that there were actually more laws in the Han Dynasty than in the Qin Dynasty. The main difference is that there are three more laws, that is, taxation, labor, and war horses. In the form of national laws, the state power was determined for the first time. It is "reasonable and legal" to ask for tax calculations from the people, as well as the labor and corvee that the people must obey, and the additional expenses that are apportioned to the people, such as horse breeding fees.

This had a profound impact on later feudal dynasties.

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

Most of the time, the laws of the feudal dynasty were aimed at ordinary people, and high-ranking nobles like Wei Duan rarely appeared in the sight of ordinary people, even if they committed any crimes. It has all been blended internally, and only after the verdict is handed down will ordinary people get the final result belatedly.

Even the public trial and public judgment model developed by Fei Qian is almost a formality at the moment, but just like the Han Dynasty's "Nine Chapters" became the legal template for later feudal dynasties, it may also be regarded as a formality. It opens a small window for ordinary people, so that ordinary people can know that those high-ranking gentry children are actually just like them, not sacred...

The process of the trial, in which the trees fell and the hozens were scattered, was not enough to show the current situation of Wei Duan.

It should be called the hozen "kicking" the tree down, or the hozen "tearing down", perhaps it would be more appropriate.

At the very beginning of the public trial and sentencing, Wei Duan, Wei Kang and others still had some energy to argue, shouting that they were wronged and so on, but when the crowd of people came up from behind, they all shed tears to express how much oppression and humiliation they had received from Wei back then... …

Someone came on stage and said that he had been defrauded of money by Webster. He made it clear how much and when.

Wei Duan would argue a few words at first, saying that you were crying and shouting, hugging my thigh and begging me to take it back...

The man said he couldn't do a certain business without giving it away.

Wei Duan said that the person could have stopped doing this business, but that person either thought a certain business was good, or came to the door with a shy face and asked for help...

The man didn't answer, but emphasized how much he had done to sell Tie Yunyun in order to raise money for Webster.

At the back, Wei Duan listened numbly.

That's not even a big deal. Some people came to the stage to accuse Webster of how he fell in love with his wife and then broke into his home to commit adultery. A bunch of people in the audience were oozing...

Wei Duan was already numb. Didn't this guy personally send his wife here in order to get business, and she even cooperated with what was there outside the door, and she wasn't 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 completely mobilized. Almost no one would remember that Webster had actually done some good things before.

It is true that for most ordinary people at the bottom, Webster is basically an exploiter, but those who can go to the stage to accuse and describe the cause and development of the matter so clearly are not what ordinary people in the Han Dynasty can do. The thing is, in other words, most of these people who came to power were the "hozens" in Webster's body before.

"Wei Shixiu..." At the end of the public trial, Tian Yu, the assistant minister of Dali Temple, looked at Wei Duan and said, "Do you have any more words?" 』

"Hmph, haha, hahaha..." Wei Duan bulged his eyes and glared at the guys who came to the stage to accuse, then he laughed miserably and shouted, "Tian Wenfu summons the soul, and there is no reason to destroy the emperor!" Little did you know that a thousand beautiful words are no match for a slanderous word! Hahaha, destiny has been established, from ancient times to the present! ! I will go ahead and wait for you all under the Nine Springs..."

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

"In accordance with the imperial edict of Xijing, I would like to write with stupidity and sincerity to judge the crime of conspiracy and rebellion. Wei Shi said:

Ping Yangfei, the great Han hussar general, acted like the Three Dukes, opened offices and built mansions, recovered rivers and mountains, protected our territory, and cared for our people. This was an unparalleled contribution! Today, there are evil villains who have hidden ambitions and evil plans. They want to overthrow Guanzhong and harm the people. They are corrupt, pervert the law, and make money. They even slander and slander, causing the death of Duke Zheng! Gather lawless people and besiege the official house, intending to harm the hussar! 』

"The crime is so heinous that there is no forgiveness!" 』

"The criminal, Webster, is a scholar. He should know the way of the sages and the importance of loyalty. However, he received great favor from the country and did not want to repay the favor. Instead, he harbored ruthless intentions, formed a clique for personal gain, and conspired to tamper with us. This is a heinous crime!" After checking his whereabouts, it is clear that the evidence is conclusive and the evidence is as solid as a mountain! His heart is vicious, his behavior is erratic, he disregards loyalty and justice, and he despises the law. His sins are so blatant that heaven and earth will not tolerate him! 』

"According to the law, several crimes will be punished at the same time, property and registration will be confiscated, and the nine clans will be punished!" 』

"However, the hussar general is kind and inherits the benevolence of heaven and earth. He is exempted from the execution of the nine clans. Only those who are directly under the Wei family are within the five realms. Anyone who agrees with the rebellion will be executed!" He also pardoned the family members of his five servants, and those who did not participate in the rebellion can be spared from death and put into the public camp to atone for their sins through hard work. 』

"Alas! Webster's behavior is truly a sinner for all generations! Yu's decision to break it now is not only for legal reasons, but also for future generations! 』

"Let future generations know that acting against nature is a grave sin!" Disobedience will bring disaster upon you! 』

"In all our duties as officials, we should be loyal and filial, abide by moral integrity, live up to the high expectations of the cavalry, never Don't forget the teachings of sages, never do unjust things, and never speak untruths!" Exactly! 』

"After the case has been decided, I will write it down to inform the world, so that they will know that the laws of the country are strict and that the laws cannot be violated." 』

"This sentence! 』

After a moment of pause, Tian Yu shouted loudly, "Come here!" Execution! 』

Wei Kang, who was on the guillotine, suddenly cried out, feces and urine flowing out, "No!" no no! I don't want to die! I don’t want it! 』

Seeing the executioner getting closer and closer with a big knife in his hand, Wei Duan looked back at the crying Wei Kang, then turned to Tian Yu and shouted: "Yilu!" The first person can have his crime reduced! I want to be the first! Reduce my child’s death penalty! 』

Tian Yu extended his hand to indicate that the executioner stopped and said, "Wei Xiufu, are you willing to take the lead?" 』

Wei Duan had gritted his teeth before, neither admitting his guilt nor biting others.

And now, if he doesn't make a debut, Webster will be dead. In exchange for Webster's reputation as a good person, he will probably be forgotten in just a hundred days.

If he makes his debut, he will definitely be hated by other people, but at least the child has a high chance of surviving...

Wei Duan looked back at Wei Kang again, lowered his head, and touched his forehead to the ground, "The sinner...is willing to show his face...is willing to show his face...I am willing to accuse the accomplices!" 』

"oh? Tian Yu looked at Wei Duan, "For example...who is it?" 』

"..." Wei Duan gritted his teeth.

Tian Yu said in a deep voice: "Think about it clearly. If you want to do something perfunctory, it will be a living crime." 』

"I..." Wei Duan closed his eyes, "I, I will give evidence...Fan, Fan family..."