The study fell into a panicking silence. The light emitted by the whale oil lamp was white and blazing - completely different from the warm and dim light of the kerosene lamp. Shen always felt it was dazzling.
He swallowed his saliva and said, "It seems that what the government and the public have said about Your Majesty, that you will be more capable if you work hard at an early age, is true."
Shen Shixing looked at him as if he were a fool, and coldly uttered one word: "Yes."
Shen Yiguan swallowed again: "As for the unveiling case, does the Prime Minister have any clues?"
Shen Shixing said with a cold face: "I thought it was 'you' who did it before, but now it seems that it is just some people fishing in troubled waters. But when you make such a fuss, Jin Yiwei can be said to be related. If you can't explain why you are doing this, Why did you come into my house late and stay until midnight? It is not impossible to say that we colluded."
Shen Yiguan stood up, then knelt down in front of Shen Shixing with a plop: "Please help me, Prime Minister."
Shen Shixing sneered: "You and Zou Yuanbiao and others are plotting against me, why should I save you?"
Shen Guanguan's face was pale and he knocked his head on the ground with a thud. He whispered: "Because the prime minister, like us, wants to bring order to the chaos."
The corner of Shen Shixing's mouth twitched and he snorted coldly. Shen Yiguan continued in a deep voice: "In today's world, starting from the second year of Wanli, we started to kill nobles, eunuchs, and officials; when it came to the reform, we killed the gentry, and when we measured the land, we killed the civil servants, and we killed all the officials. Landlord, during the foreign conquests, he killed Burmese, Jurchen, and Xiqiang heads. This is not a "benevolent" lord. Since the ancestors of the dragon, has the Prime Minister seen any Taiping emperor kill so many people?!"
After a pause he said: "Master Xiang, would you rather not be afraid?"
Shen Shixing snorted coldly again. As if to argue, he said: "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty." Then he added another sentence: "Any monarch who wants to do something will kill many people. As you said, a dignified political affairs minister, deputy prime minister, I have my own dignity, what should I be afraid of?"
The study room fell into silence again. Shen Shixing did not look at Shen Yiguan who was kneeling on the ground. He used a thermos bottle to refill his teacup with some hot water, picked it up and took a sip.
As if he suddenly remembered something, he sighed and said: "Back then, Prince Enjun's father Zhang Wenming was assassinated, and countless people in Jiangnan were ruined. After the Prince returned to Beijing, I once asked him what he thought about this matter. .Do you know what he said then?"
Shen Yiyi knelt down and asked dumbly: "What did he say?"
"The orchid is in power, but it has to be hoeed."
After Shen Shixing said these eight words, he stood up and walked to the study window, looking at the ink-like night in the courtyard, and whispered: "Now it seems that the emperor is very satisfied with Liang Menglong. Therefore, there are some people blocking the way, Whether it's Ganoderma lucidum or rotten stones, we have to sweep them up for him and settle the old accounts."
Then he turned around and sneered: "Do you really think that your cunning intentions and selfish actions can be hidden from the Jin Yiwei?"
After hearing this, Shen Guanyi seemed to have recovered from his almost completely decadent spirit. He stood up and said with a wry smile: "This is not a benevolent person. We have to go back and wait for the house to be ransacked and beheaded."
Shen Shixing's face was still cold: "If you want to exterminate the clan, don't say unkind words again after you leave the house. This time, I can pretend that I didn't hear you."
Seeing that Shen Shixing had no intention of helping him, Shen Yiguan gritted his teeth and bowed, saying, "Your Majesty, please take care of me. I'm resigning." He turned around and walked out.
Shen Shixing glanced at the self-ringing clock again, nodded and said: "It's almost three o'clock now. If you are caught by the night watchman when you go out, it will be inconvenient. Please stay one night."
Tears welled up in Shen Yiguan's eyes: "Thank you so much, Mr. Xiang!"
After the imperial clan reform, in order to reflect the "kinship" between the royal family and clan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs allocated an open space to the west of the Sheji Altar in the capital and built a square and square town - this was modeled after the "Fengyang High Wall" clan prison.
The original intention of building a "clan prison" in Beijing was not to scare the clan, but to truly reflect the emperor's "kinship" with the clan. This is not irony.
The Ancestor Instructions of the Ming Dynasty left by Taizu of the Ming Dynasty stipulates: "Even if the successors of future generations commit serious crimes against the princes and clan members of the vassals, they will not be punished. In the most serious cases, they will be demoted to common people, and in the lightest cases, they will be punished by coming to court to punish them." , or send officials to bring good fortune and misfortune, so that they can rehabilitate themselves.'"
Because the grandsons and grandsons were of high status and could not be locked up with ordinary prisoners, the "high walls" and "idle houses" built in various provinces really reflected the concern of successive emperors for the clan - before the clan reform, there were very few clans in the imperial city. , after the reform, there were extremely many, so it was necessary to build a special prison to house the clan.
But judging from the practical results, the clan members were all frightened when they heard about this "high wall". Because since the beginning of the Republic of China, all those imprisoned were life sentences, that is, imprisoned until death. The only exception was that of Prince Zheng of the Jiajing Dynasty. An obvious injustice - even so, Zhu Zaiyu, now the dean of Gewu, stayed outside the high wall for nineteen years before his father was rehabilitated.
Because of the obvious intimidation effect, after the high wall of the capital was built, no clan members moved in for a period of time. In line with the principle of no waste, this place became a place to imprison illegal high-ranking officials and nobles, and the arrested Xining Hou Song Shien was imprisoned. in it. fat
Song Shien's ancestor was Song Sheng, a famous general in the Red Turban Army. He was already eleven generations old when the title was passed on to him. The Xining Marquis Mansion was also considered one of the top wealthy families in the capital. Song Shien ascended the title in the third year of Longqing's reign and served in the Nanjing Army as an adult. The Dudu Mansion was in charge of military affairs, but he was later impeached and returned to Beijing for occupying land and keeping slaves. After the reform, countless nobles were impeached for this crime.
Although he had served as a high-ranking military official, Song Shien had no heroic spirit and was nothing more than a playboy. It is said that when he is addicted to the beauty of silk, his muscles will become slow and his intelligence will be slow. This is what he is talking about.
After the wolf-like and tiger-like Guoan Jinyi guards broke in and arrested him, Song Shien's soul had been separated from his body and was floating in the air, watching helplessly as his family fell into ruin.
His soul saw his mother put on a first-class robe and wanted to enter the harem to plead for mercy but was blocked outside the palace wall. He saw his wife crying in prison all day long and being humiliated by the "accompanying mother-in-law" in prison; he saw himself His body was tortured a lot inside the high wall - his body rolled and begged for mercy, telling him everything that he and his wife had done against human ethics.
However, the Jin Yiwei did not want this. They tortured him repeatedly and asked who else had eaten at Taste of Life that day - and who had leaked the treacherous words on the wall.
"I'm just a loser, really." Facing the cold eyes of Xun Yue, a security officer, Song Shien burst into tears, "Really, Mr. Xun! I really drank too much that day, for that unlucky guy
Song Jiu'er, my family is ruined - if you know anything about it, can I not tell you?" After saying this, he burst into tears again in grievance.
The coldness on Xun Yue's face did not diminish by half. He looked at the Marquis of Xining crawling at his feet, and suddenly kicked him in the stomach, making him curl up and scream miserably.
"Master Marquis, our commander will bring your two boys to see you soon. His old man is not as easy to talk to as I am."
Song Shien opened his mouth wide and looked desperately at the demon-like Xun Querk. His head, which was rusted by the lustful dogs and horses, finally started to move, and the bloodline inherited from Song Sheng also awakened a little bit.
"Master Xun! Who do you want me to bite?"
"Master Marquis, what are you talking about? But now that the Xun family, who has retired from the country, has fallen into this situation, Xiao Xi, I can't bear it - can I help you think about it together?"