Chapter 70 Father’s Stubbornness
Early the next morning, several families came to the palace early and entered the palace to admit their mistakes to the officials.
The reason why they didn’t go to Zhao Xing was because in their eyes, Zhao Xing was still a child.
Zhao Xing’s insistence not to let him go was childish.
If you ask Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing may not agree.
The official didn't know what happened at all. Faced with a group of people who came to him to admit his mistake, after roughly knowing the whole story, they comforted him a few words and said that they would reprimand the prince and let them go and let them go back and wait for the news.
After the people left, the official said: "Go and find out what happened. The prince has always acted in a measured manner. How could he tell the Kaifeng government office not to release him just because of a trivial matter?"
< br>"Your Majesty, this matter has been reported to the Imperial City Department. I am preparing to tell you, and those adults are here."
Eunuch Liu said that he told Fan yesterday Lou’s matter was briefly explained.
“Asshole!”
The official heard this and said angrily: "How old is he that he dares to lead the dancing girl from Fan Tower to the East Palace?"
Those who can be sent to Fan Tower are all criminals and family members of criminal officials.
These people were originally rich and powerful, but they were fined and confiscated to a place like Jiaofangsi. How could they not feel resentful in their hearts?
Zhao Xing actually led such a woman to the East Palace. What if the woman went crazy and wanted revenge and attacked Zhao Xing?
"Your Majesty, please calm down. Your Majesty took the woman back not because she was addicted to women, but..." Eunuch Liu told the inside story.
Although Liu Sanshi had told the musicians and dancers not to talk nonsense, Fan Tower was the property of the Imperial City Division, so how could they dare to hide such a thing.
"So, there was an injustice in that incident?" The official frowned.
“Later, His Highness sent away all the musicians and dancers, and I don’t know the specific details.” Eunuch Liu said.
"Send someone to summon the prince." The official said.
Li Daoquan's case was a punishment that he personally decided, and the reason why he did not go through the three-division review was because the official sent to conduct a thorough investigation wrote a letter saying that the people of Shezhou were furious and Li Daoquan should be dealt with as soon as possible. Calm down public anger.
At that time, the officials were already very angry at Li Daoquan's dereliction of duty. In order to appease the public's anger, they imposed severe punishments and even omitted the joint trial of the three departments.
Now it seems that he may have been tricked, which makes the officials not angry.
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Zhao Xing was having breakfast when he learned that his father had summoned him to the palace. He thought it was because of those dudes, so he changed his clothes and went to the palace. .
"My son has met my father!" Zhao Xing saluted.
The official waved his hand and said: "I heard that you brought back a woman from Fanlou, who is Li Daoquan's daughter. She said that there was a grievance about Li Daoquan?"
"It is true that she returned to my father. It’s just that this matter has not been confirmed, and it is just her side of the story. I originally planned to have someone find out and then report it to my father.” Zhao Xing said.
"Does she have evidence?" the official asked.
"She didn't, but she said her father did. According to her, when her family was in jail, her father once said that there was evidence and that he would be able to clear his name when the three courts were tried." Zhao Xing said.
The official was silent for a while and said: "I will have someone go back with you later and take the person away. I will arrange for someone to come and check, so you don't have to worry about it."
"Yes."
Zhao Xing responded and asked: "Father, if there are really grievances in this, how do you plan to deal with those officials who deceived the emperor?"
"The crime of deceiving the emperor. , The crime cannot be forgiven, I will make them just like Li Daoquan back then," the official said angrily.
"Father, I think this is too light. The crime of deceiving the emperor should be punished!" Zhao Xing said.
It’s the same as Li Daoquan. Isn’t it because he was exiled himself and his family was not in the Jiaofangsi? In Zhao Xing's opinion, this is still too light.
The so-called exile means being sent to remote and barbaric places to overpopulate them.
The conditions in this kind of place are difficult. For the officials who are pampered, there is no difference between going to that place and death.
But things are not that simple at all. Which of these officials doesn’t have a few old friends?
As long as someone gives them money to help them, life is not difficult.
The official frowned and said: "The punishment is not good enough for the officials. Since our ancestors, we have never killed our ministers lightly. Why should we underestimate this great virtue?"
"My father also said that he has never killed lightly, not not." "Kill. I read the Annals of Taizu Taizong. Taizu Taizong hated officials for corruption and perversion of the law, but he killed many corrupt officials, so why not kill the scholar-bureaucrats?" Zhao Xing retorted.
Influenced by later history, Zhao Xing always believed that the Song Dynasty did not kill scholar-bureaucrats.
However, as he learned more about it and read the annals of the previous three emperors, he found that the first three emperors of the Song Dynasty all had examples of killing scholar-bureaucrats.
On the contrary, his father has been in the throne for ten years, and he has never killed a single civil servant since he succeeded to the throne.
This gave Zhao Xing the idea of whether the unspoken rule of the Song Dynasty not to kill civil servants was formed from his father.
After all, his father’s future temple name will be Renzong.
The emperor's temple names were all drawn up by civil servants. Obviously, this benevolence was for the civil servants, not the common people.
No matter how good you are to the people and bad to the civil servants, you will never get the title of Renzong.
Not killing scholar-officials, from a good point of view, this is a kind of benevolent government, giving more respect to scholars and scholar-officials, after all, they are needed to govern the country.
But looking at the bad aspects, firstly, the imperial power lost one of the most effective means of restricting ministers, and secondly, the civil servant group, mainly composed of scholar-bureaucrats, would ignore the law.
Because for civil servants, the cost of breaking the law is too low.
Zhao Xing did not have to ask his father to kill civil servants, but he was just deceiving the emperor and not killing anyone who framed the officials. How could he deter officials all over the world?
"It was the beginning of the founding of the country. In troubled times, heavy codes should be used. It is natural for Taizu and Taizong to do so. But now that the world is peaceful, benevolent government should be implemented and the world should be ruled with benevolence." The official said.
"Father, there is nothing wrong with governing the world with benevolence. But we should also use kindness and power, right? We should naturally treat officials who are conscientious and devoted to the public affairs with kindness. But officials who are corrupt, bend the law, and form cliques for personal gain must naturally be severely punished." Zhao Xing retorted.
"Only those who are virtuous and virtuous can convince others. Since ancient times, there have been many emperors who treated officials harshly. Aren't there corrupt officials? Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said that we can learn from history and learn from gains and losses. I highly agree with this sentence, History tells me that blind killing is useless." Guan Jia shook his head.
Zhao Xing was speechless. His father was too deeply poisoned by Confucianism.
It is true that blind killing alone is definitely useless, but it can also scare some people.
At least let it have a certain degree of convergence.
"Governing the country is not as simple as you think. How many times have I told you that you are still young and should focus on studying. You will naturally understand this when you are older." The official said .
"Yes."
Zhao Xing knew that it was too difficult to change his father's mind, so he didn't waste much time, bowed and prepared to leave.
“Wait.”
The official stopped Zhao Xing and said, “It’s enough to teach those dandy boys a lesson, let them go.”
< br>"Father, the son-in-law originally just wanted to give them a small punishment but a big warning to teach them a lesson. After all, with their family background, they will all be in the official position in the future. However, when the son-in-law asked Cao Qin to get the person, they not only They didn't just surrender and beat Cao Qin. What they did was like slapping Erchen in the face. If he let him go so easily, how dignified would he be as a prince?" Zhao Xing said.
"In that case, let's lock them up for a few more days," the official said.
Of course he wanted to protect his son's dignity, so he didn't ask Zhao Xing to release him immediately.
(End of this chapter)