However, Wei Zheng was very smart and did not accuse the emperor directly. Instead, he told the emperor a story.

"Your Majesty, during the Northern Qi Dynasty, Emperor Wenxuan Gao Yang ordered Wei Kai, the governor of Qing Dynasty, to go to Guangzhou to take office. Wei Kai refused to accept the order. Emperor Wenxuan then scolded him. However, Wei Kai said, I came back from the Liang Dynasty as an envoy with no merits or demerits.

, His Majesty instead asked me to serve as an official in a small state like Guangzhou. Naturally, I was unwilling to take up the post.

After hearing what he said, Emperor Wenxuan stopped blaming Wei Kai and agreed not to let him go to Guangzhou to take up his post.

Although Lu Zushang had previously received the order to go to Jiaozhou to serve as the governor, he was later afraid of the remoteness and hardship of Jiaozhi and regretted not going. Although this was wrong, it was only a small mistake and not a serious crime of beheading.

But just because he refused to go to Jiaozhou to be the governor, His Majesty directly pushed him out of the palace and beheaded him, and also ordered to deprive him of all his official titles, remove his citizenship and become a commoner, and even deprive him of the favor of his wife and children. This is wrong."

In front of so many courtiers, the emperor was told this by Prime Minister Wei Zheng, but Li Shimin did not get angry.

Maybe he regretted it after yesterday.

Or maybe the emperor had heard the news and knew that this incident had caused dissatisfaction among many people, especially the Kanto gentry, so he did not take any firm stance today.

He stood up.

To soften the rigidity.

Use retreat to advance.

"The words of Prime Minister Wei are very reasonable. Although Lu Zushang did not keep his promise and repeatedly resisted the decree, I killed him because of this. It was indeed too rough. In this regard, I am not as good as Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty Gao Yang."

"Zhongshu ordered Wen Yanbo to draw up a decree to restore Lu Zushang's official titles during his lifetime, posthumously conferring him the title of Governor of Youzhou and Duke of Guangguo. He ordered his eldest son to still attack the Duke of Yiyang County and confer the imperial title on Lu Zushang's widow, Mrs. Guangguo."

The emperor also decreed that Lu Zushang would be buried with money from his internal funds, and his other sons would study in the museum.

The emperor admitted his mistake and restored his official status, and the matter was over.

Of course, the one who suffers the most is Lu Zushang. People cannot be resurrected after death.

"Your Majesty, I want to impeach Wu Huaiyu. As a minister of the imperial court, he also serves as the censor of the censor, but he failed to fulfill his duties as a minister in the palace yesterday. He allowed this wrong thing to happen, and he should be punished.

The crime of dereliction of duty.”

The person who stood up to impeach Wu Huaiyu was Wei Ting, the minister of Huangmen, who was also the clan uncle of Wei Guifei's sisters. This guy was Jiancheng's confidant back then, but he was also a good friend of Du Yan. There were even rumors that Du Yan was almost killed when Wang Shichong was defeated in Luoyang.

Later, he ran away and became a hermit for the second time.

Of course, he was still hiding. He even contacted Wei Ting on the mountain and wanted to enter the Jiancheng East Palace. When Fang Xuanling found out about this, he ignored the grievances between Du Ruhui and Du Yan and asked Li Shimin to quickly bring Du Yan to the Prince of Qin's Mansion.

, that guy is too good at conspiracy and tricks. If he goes to the East Palace, the Prince of Qin's Palace will be in trouble.

Later, Du Yan arrived at the Prince of Qin's Mansion, but it is said that he kept in contact with Wei Ting secretly and used Wei Ting to set up two boats.

At that time, the Wei family was also treading water. Wei Ting was a confidant in Jiancheng East Palace, but the Wei family sent the eldest son Wei Gui and Wei Nizi, the two widows, to the Qin Palace to be Li Shimin's concubines. The Jiancheng Shimin brothers would not care about them in the future.

Whoever wins the world will always have wealth and honor in the Wei family.

Nowadays, Wei Ting is doing well as an official. Not to mention the newly promoted Huangmen Minister, his daughter was also chosen by Li Shimin to be his concubine to the fifth son of King Yan, Li You.

It is said that they are all relatives of the emperor. Huaiyu even has a son who is engaged to Wei Guifei. Wei Ting is also a relative of him, but this guy still attacks Huaiyu.

It seems that Webster has a better relationship with King Cui Lu Zheng and other wealthy families.

The emperor glanced at Wei Ting.

Then he returned to the throne and sat down.

"Yesterday in the palace, Duke Yiguo gave his loyal advice and advised me not to kill him, but to let him be handed over to the officials. Unfortunately, I was so angry that I didn't listen. Now I regret not listening to Duke Yi's advice."

"Gong Yiguo gave me a pair of silver vases, a hundred pieces of silk, and two pieces of mink fur."

Wei Ting stood in the hall, a little dazed.

He impeached Wu Huaiyu for dereliction of duty, but the emperor said that Wu Huaiyu was loyal and dared to remonstrate, and he directly rewarded him.

"Shilang Wei, why don't you go back to work? Next time we impeach you, let's make it clear first. You are not the imperial censor, so why do you want to catch the wind and start something?"

Wei Ting retreated angrily.

"Your Majesty, the people in the library of your Majesty are here to please report."

"Accurate performance."

Ma Zhou did not come out to help his brother-in-law Wu Huaiyu fight against Wei Ting. He just believed that the court should learn a lesson from this incident involving Lu Zushang.

"The dead cannot be resurrected, and repentance is useless. I request that if the death penalty is imposed, even if the execution is ordered at that time, three echoes should be made. That is, three petitions must be made to the emperor's consent before the execution can be executed. And the three echoes should preferably be two days before the execution and one day

One repeat for each, and a third repeat on the day of execution."

Wei Zheng also stood up to support him, believing that governing the country with harsh punishments was unkind and that the country should be governed with mercy and benevolent government implemented.

"I support the proposal of Ma Zhongshusheren. The national criminal law should be lenient, simple, careful in punishment and careful in killing, and abolish some cruel corporal punishments. Ritual punishments should be supplemented, and clear punishments should assist rituals. Ritual and law should be unified, and laws should be made according to rituals.

.”

Li Shimin's attitude is particularly good today.

He also said loudly, "In ancient times, to break a prison sentence, one must interrogate the officials of three locust trees and nine thorns. Today, three officials and nine ministers are their duties."

From now on, all capital crimes shall be decided by Zhongshu, the fifth rank or above of the sect, and the Shangshu."

"Furthermore, after the death sentence is pronounced and before execution, the execution must be repeated three times."

"Those who commit public crimes or private crimes above the third rank will not be pursued."

Originally, many officials were preparing to engage in a verbal battle with the emperor today, but unexpectedly, the emperor's attitude turned out to be such that they had nothing to say.

Many people even prepared drafts and prepared to impeach Wu Huaiyu today, but who knew that Wu Huaiyu was actually rewarded.

A dog bites a hedgehog and cannot bite it.
Chapter completed!