louisehourcade Chapter 201
Chapter 201
Chapter 201
Tai Chi Palace.
"The frontier is bitterly cold, and the soldiers guarding the frontier are very fortunate. I want Mr. Zhao Guogong to visit the border on my behalf, and reward the soldiers by the way." Li Shimin said.
"Minister, obey the order!" Changsun Wuji bowed and said.
Li Shimin nodded and said, "The Ministry of Civil Affairs prepares the supplies as soon as possible, and let Zhao Guogong take them away."
"Yes!" Dai Zhou replied.
Supervisor Zhang Wenlin came out and said: "Your Majesty, I impeached the Marquis of Jingyang County and forcibly robbed the women of the people!"
After Zhang Wenlin finished speaking, another official stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I impeached the Marquis of Jingyang County, openly engaged in business, and competed with the people for profit."
"My minister impeached the Marquis of Jingyang County, intending to rebel!"
"My minister impeached the Marquis of Jingyang County..."
All of a sudden, a group of people came out to impeach Lin Xuan. Ten deaths were not enough for the crimes they mentioned.
"The crime of the Hou of Jingyang County is heinous, please punish him severely!" Wang Ze came out and said.
"The minister reconsider!"
Half of the ministers of the DPRK and China reconsider at the same time.
Cheng Yaojin stood up and said cursingly: "You fart!"
Lu Yuan looked at Cheng Yaojin and said, "Mr. Su, this is the Taiji Palace. Be careful what you say."
"I don't pay attention to what's going on. The government is very particular about handling cases. The plaintiff and the defendant are present at the same time. A group of you impeach others and ask for punishment after the impeachment. How can you be like this?" Cheng Yaojin said.
"You!" Lu Yuan was anxious.
Li Shimin opened his mouth and said: "Zhijie's words are reasonable, come and invite Lin Xuan to have an audience!"
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"I see Your Majesty!" Lin Xuan bowed and saluted.
Li Shimin said: "There are many ministers impeaching you now, what do you have to say?"
Lin Xuan said calmly: "Your Majesty, their impeachment is all nonsense."
"Your Majesty of Jingyang County, the evidence is convincing, how can you deny it?" Zhang Wenlin said.
Lin Xuan looked at Zhang Wenlin and asked, "I wonder who this adult is?"
"The old man supervises the censor!" Zhang Wenlin said proudly.
"I don't know why Mr. Zhang impeached me?" Lin Xuan asked.
Zhang Wenlin said: "I impeach you for robbing the women!"
"Where's the evidence?" Lin Xuan asked lightly.
He'd never done anything like this before, so he had nothing to worry about.
"Marquis of Jingyang County, may I ask if there is a maid named Yuhe by your side?" Zhang Wenlin asked.
Lin Xuan said, "That's right."
"May I ask if she has a contract of sale?" Zhang Wenlin asked.
"No." Lin Xuan shook his head and said.
He had never bought a maid before, and he didn't even think about selling a maid at that time.
Zhang Wenlin said proudly: "Without the contract of selling your body, what is it not for robbery? The sufferer is afraid of your identity, so he dares not speak out."
"Your Majesty, the evidence for this matter is conclusive. Hou De of Jingyang County is not worthy of the title. Your Majesty, please revoke his title!" Zhang Wenlin bowed and said.
Li Shimin looked at Lin Xuan and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
"Your Majesty, I paid five guan at that time, but did not sign the deed of sale. Cheng Chumo, the son of Duke Su, was also present at that time, so he can testify!"
"As for Mr. Zhang saying that the other party dared not report because of his identity, it is even more nonsense. The minister was just a commoner at the time, how could he be afraid of the minister? The whole story of this incident," Lin Xuan said.
Zhang Wenlin thought it was bad, he didn't know that Cheng Chumo was there at the time.
"I will let someone investigate this matter." Li Shimin said.
Lin Xuan looked around and said, "I don't know which minister impeached me?"
"I impeached the Marquis of Jingyang County, openly engaged in business, and competed with the people for profit." An official stood up and said.
Lin Xuan sneered and said: "This lord is really upright. There are several officials in the world whose families do not do business. Why do you impeach me?"
In order to prevent collusion between officials and businessmen, the law does expressly stipulate that officials and their immediate family members are not allowed to engage in business.
Among the four categories of scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen, officials have the highest status and are the highest among the four peoples, while businessmen are the lowest among the four peoples.Scholar-bureaucrats generally disdain to associate with businessmen and look down on businessmen, so they will not condescend to engage in business that everyone looks down on.
But is this the case?
In fact, none of those dukes and lords, thousand-year-old families are not in business.
But this kind of thing is something that everyone knows, but no one wants to expose it.
Lin Xuan was like piercing through the window paper, and all court civil and military officials looked at Lin Xuan in surprise.
Wang Ze questioned: "So, it makes sense for the Marquis of Jingyang County to do business?"
Lin Xuan smiled and said, "So it's Mr. Wang. Taiyuan Wang's business is not small. I don't know what Mr. Wang has to say?"
This is what Lin Xuan dislikes the most about aristocratic families. Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen were not used to classify classes at all.
However, in order to make themselves superior to others, the aristocratic family classified scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen into class categories.
They are full of businessmen while doing business on their own.
"The law stipulates that immediate family members are not allowed to engage in business. What does the rest of the Wang family have to do with this old man?" Wang Ze said with a livid face.
Lin Xuan sneered and said, "It has nothing to do with Mr. Wang? Then I would like to ask, with Mr. Wang's current salary, I am afraid that he will not be able to afford the house he lives in in his whole life. Is Mr. Wang filled his own pocket?"
"Don't spout blood!" Wang Ze shouted angrily.
"I spit on people? Since you don't do business and don't fill your pockets, where did you get the money to buy the house?" Lin Xuan asked.
Wang Ze said in a panic, "This is a gift from the family to the old man."
"Hehe, Mr. Wang just said that other members of the Wang family's business has nothing to do with you, but I live in a house given by the Wang family. I don't know if this counts as collusion between the government and the business?" Lin Xuan sneered.
Seeing Lin Xuan's few words, Zheng Kai made Wang Ze speechless, and quickly said: "Jingyang County Bo, no matter what, the status of a businessman is low, and you, as Lord Datang, should not do business yourself."
"The lord is right, so my father is in charge of my family's business. It shouldn't matter if he doesn't have a title." Lin Xuan said with a smile.
Zheng Kai was stunned. He originally wanted to help Wang Ze out of the siege, but unexpectedly, he let Lin Xuan borrow a donkey to go downhill instead.
"Is anyone still impeaching me?" Lin Xuan looked around, looking like he was fighting with other Confucians.
The group of people who said they wanted to impeach Lin Xuan just now stopped talking.
Although they are attached to the aristocratic family, but now that the members of the aristocratic family are silent, they will not foolishly be the first birds.
Seeing that no one was talking, Lin Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, I want to impeach those who impeached me. They have no evidence and framed me. Your Majesty, please make the decision for me!"
"Your Majesty of Jingyang County, you're over now. If the officials heard about it, how can you punish them because there is no evidence." Wei Zheng said with a frown.
Lin Xuan said: "I don't agree with Zheng Guogong's words. The rumors and reports are for the officials to hear some things among the people, and to let the majesty know the sufferings of the people. But what about them? Impeach this one today, impeach that one tomorrow Well, they don't need evidence anyway. It's just a rumor. But what if they use that to impeach someone maliciously?"
It would be fine if the officials were all upright people. Like now, they have completely become a tool for others to attack others.
"It has been a long time since the officials have heard about things. This means that His Majesty is open to speak out, so you are not allowed to question it." Wang Ze said hastily.
He was worried that Li Shimin would weaken the power of the officials after listening to Lin Xuan's words. In this way, they would lose their wives and soldiers.
Lin Xuan said: "The existence of the speaker has its own reasons. I didn't say that the speaker should not exist. But if the speaker hears any news, he should report it to His Majesty first, and His Majesty will arrange for someone to investigate, instead of random impeachment."
"Today they impeached ministers, and now it turns out to be nothing but nonsense, but what will the common people think when news of today's incident spreads to the common people? The common people don't understand what happened, so they only come to scold me, but the official has no punishment. Is this fair? ?”
"What the Marquis of Jingyang County said is reasonable, I will reconsider!" Cheng Yaojin said.
"The minister reconsider!"
The military officials in the court, as long as they were not involved with the aristocratic family, they all reconsidered.
Don't say that Lin Xuan is a military officer, just say that they are often impeached by the officials, and they have long been displeased with those officials.
(End of this chapter)