"Your Majesty, your uncle already knows that he was wrong. Ask the Emperor to spare him once. After all, your nephew died unexpectedly, and he is in a desperate situation..."
After hearing her brother Li Gao's plea, the Empress Dowager Cisheng felt as if there was frost on her face. She suddenly sighed and said, "I've suffered enough from you!"
"Since entering Prince Yu's Mansion, our family has stopped working as masons. Today we are rich and noble. In the third year of Wanli, I no longer took care of much - the emperor also gave your family 200,000 taels for the cotton-padded clothes business."
"How do you do it? Take 150,000 taels from me! I, the Queen Mother Bingzheng, have been completely disgraced! How could I ever reward you with less? Or your family can't take the blame and do such a thing! It's a pity that the cotton clothes were not sent to Jizhen
, otherwise it triggers a mutiny, is there any room for recovery?"
After hearing this, his brother groaned and sweated all over his head. He stuttered and said, "Uncle, the Queen Mother, you don't know how many times we two brothers have persuaded you..."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li sneered and said: "Stop! Don't say that, it won't offend my ears. Who handled that business? You have the nerve to say it! You have so much money, you wish you could sleep in a brothel.
Here, it’s okay to raise a young one...Forget it, tell me to slander me, I have never heard of such an uncle since ancient times!"
"The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. Li Changgui is young, has a lot of wine, sex, wealth, and all kinds of tricks. The wind will blow him down. How about letting Qiu Xizi slap him to death?"
"It stands to reason that I am the child's aunt. But since I entered this place, the child has never called me in front of me or asked me to take a look. To be honest, I am not close to him!"
"Qiu Xizi was sentenced to death by hanging, don't you know what's going on? This is a heavy sentence for the sake of the royal family's dignity! If they refuse to let you go and send Changgui to the medical school for examination, and if an hidden disease is found, Qiu Xizi will be sentenced to death."
By being exiled with a spine stick, is it your face or the face of me, the Queen Mother, that is being humiliated?"
"The emperor looked at my face and increased the punishment to beheading - why did you come to me and the emperor to say thank you! We two mothers owe you Uncle Wu Qing's family?"
This nonsense has nothing to do with Wu Qingbo's mischief in the execution ground and beating up court officials, but Li Gao could only bow his head and listen honestly. Not to mention that this was the nagging of his own wife, not to mention the Queen Mother who once held power.
When the child is not the focus, the man can only listen.
The Queen Mother vented her anger and felt better. Then she asked, "What did Uncle Wu Qing do at the execution ground that provoked the foreign court to attack?" This was asking for details.
Li Gaodao told the story of how Qiu Xizi complained about Hu Yong and how Shao Boti couldn't persuade the prisoner to kill him. He went on to say: "When my father saw that Shao Boti surrounded Qiu Xizi and refused to kill him, he got up in anger and wanted to beat the county magistrate.
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"The county magistrate said: 'Uncle Li is favored by the country, how dare he come to attack the imperial official?' Dad said: 'I will kill you, a stupid official, so what?'"
Empress Dowager Li frowned after hearing this. When Li Gao saw this, he said with a black heart: "The county magistrate said, 'Don't say you are just a mason, just have a daughter. What good will it do to the country? Come and beat me, I don't dare.
Can't I kill you?' - Dad beat him a few times because he saw him insulting the Queen Mother."
Empress Dowager Li's face changed slightly after hearing this, and she said in a cold voice: "The emperor is pure filial piety. If that official had really said that, he would have been killed by the emperor long ago. Don't make up lies, tell the truth." She said in her heart, she can't even make up lies.
It's really mud that can't support the wall.
The lie that Li Gao made up with courage was suddenly exposed, so he had to say honestly: "Dad chased and beat Shao Boti, but Shao Boti was narrow-minded and circled around Qiu Xizi. Seeing that his father could not catch up, Li Kuan rushed to the execution ground.
You and dad blocked the county magistrate from both sides."
"Caught by the county magistrate, the second brother broke into the court without permission and asked the supervisor to deal with it. The supervisor was stunned by him and did not want to send someone to expel Li Kuan, so he made a noise there."
"After a while of commotion, the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall actually issued a warrant, saying that the execution was suspended. The prison officer walked away with a wave of his sleeves - all the prisoners were escorted back. Only Qiu Xizi was forcibly taken away by Shao Boti."
"Dad was so furious that he hit the county magistrate behind a bench and broke his head. He was unconscious on the spot and sent to medical school."
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li sighed and said angrily: "No one can worry! Now that the emperor is vigorously promoting and appointing nobles, the civil servants have long been angry. If you are like this, aren't you just stirring up a hornet's nest? What should I do?
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Li Gaodao: "What the Queen Mother said is that now the front and back doors of the house have been blocked by civil servants - I am not making up a lie. I climbed over the wall to Uncle Chengyi's house, and then got on the carriage from the west corner door of his house to come to see me. If not
If that’s the case, you can’t come out yet.”
Empress Dowager Li sighed: "If the emperor wants to deal with it, he has to tell me - what do you want me to do? Can't you tell me then?"
Li Gao smiled bitterly and said: "My uncle and his grandpa have no face at all in front of the emperor..." Empress Dowager Li scolded: "I'm so frustrated! Who am I, grandpa or uncle?"
Li Gao was startled and said: "I mean that Wu Qingbo's family is not as good as that county magistrate in the emperor's heart. I heard that the emperor praised Shao Boti very well, saying that he was an example of an official who truly took the 'people's hearts and minds' into his heart."
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"If the county magistrate cannot be saved, my father's life will not be saved. Even if the emperor does not embarrass that... Wu Qingbo out of filial piety, he might take the title away, and the Queen Mother's sister's face will not look good."
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li said: "It would be best to take the title away and let your family drink from the northwest wind. Previously, I bullied others and took shares everywhere. Every time I come here, I don't do anything serious."
Even so, it was already the twelfth year of Wanli. If the emperor really wanted to deal with Uncle Wu Qing, the Queen Mother had nothing to do. Previously, Uncle Wu Qing had invited him many times, but the emperor declined them all - indicating that the emperor had nothing to do with his natal family.
The meaning of closeness.
Empress Dowager Li could only send Li Gao away, and when she waited for the emperor to come to pay his respects, she asked the emperor what punishment he had for Wu Qingbo.
Seeing that Empress Dowager Li was worried, Zhu Yijun hurriedly comforted him and said: "The county magistrate woke up in the medical school - let Uncle Wu Qing bring some gold and silver to see him. After all, if the people don't help, the officials won't investigate. If he doesn't comply, he won't be spared."
Earl Wu Qingbo will be demoted."
Empress Dowager Li was a little displeased when she heard this, but she didn't dare to use her family's personal relationship to harm state affairs - Wu Qingbo's behavior was really bad. She had to change the subject and said: "Then what did Qiu Xizi say? If he really made a contribution,
Is his punishment also downgraded?"
Zhu Yijun shook his head and thought for a while before saying: "Qiu Xizi doesn't know much. The National Security Bureau is analyzing the truth of what he said. If he really has done meritorious service, he will be given some reward money, but the punishment may not be reduced. I think,
If everyone in the world has the idea of equalizing merits and demerits, severe punishments and laws will inevitably be abolished." Because the content of Qiu Xizi's confession needs further evidence and verification, and there are many people in the palace talking about it, Zhu Yijun just spoke straight to the point.
After hearing this, Empress Dowager Li couldn't help but recite a Buddhist sentence. Zhu Yijun smiled and said: "The Empress Dowager does not have to worry about this. For the sake of royal dignity, Qiu Xizi will not survive. Moreover, after the Miyun excavation case was discovered, a crackdown on crime will be carried out in the country next year."
Evil - we must kill a group of them ruthlessly. Even those who support and embolden them behind their backs must be dealt with together."