A few days later, when Emperor Wen of Jin said he had nothing to do with the court, Lu Guang, the censor, suddenly stood up, saying that he had something to play.
"Yesterday, when the minister returned to the mansion, he was stopped by a ragged farmer couple. The couple handed over a blood letter to sue Jiang Liu, the champion of the new division, for being unfilial to his father."
Lu Guang Yuguang glanced at Jiang Candao, and then handed the blood book and his memorial to the eunuch beside him, and presented it to Emperor Wen of Jin.
Jiang Candao felt bad when he saw Lu Guang stand up, and when he heard his words, there was a sigh that really came.
Lu Guang was a disciple of Zuo Prime Minister, and Zuo Prime Minister was one of the auxiliary ministers left by the late emperor. With the emperor in charge, but Zuo Prime Minister refused to fully delegate power, Jiang Sandao, who was a confidant of the new emperor, naturally became a member of that faction. A thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh.
Now it seems that the disciple is tired of being carried away by his master.
In the Jin Dynasty, the punishment for unfilial sons and daughters was extremely severe, and even the death penalty could be imposed in the most serious cases.
The scope of unfilial piety is very broad, such as failing to support the elderly, beating and scolding parents, disobeying parents' wishes... All are within the scope of unfilial piety and must be punished by the law. According to the degree of unfilial piety, different degrees of punishment such as tattooing, torture, execution, and death were imposed.
Generally speaking, scholars who carry a reputation for being unfilial will be deprived of their imperial examination qualifications, and officials who disobey their filial piety will be demoted.
Jiang Candao had never heard his disciples talk about his uncle and aunt, nor did he know what was written in the blood book of the so-called uncle and aunt Jiang Liu that Lu Guang said.
However, he was not too nervous at the moment, because Jiang Liu's father was already dead. If he was still alive and he stood up to accuse his son, then Jiang Liu would probably not be able to keep it, but Jiang Liu would not be able to keep it. His father is dead, and the living cannot speak for the dead.
Even if Lu Guang's family wanted to use Jiang Liu to send their widowed mother to marry their widowed mother, it would still be largely untenable to criticize their unfilial father.
At most, it is to use public opinion offensive to stink Jiangliu's reputation among those pedantic scholars.
Jiang Canandao was calm, but he was not as panicked as Lu Guang and the others had imagined.
"Come here, pass the new division champion Jiangliu."
Emperor Wen of Jin hastily browsed the two petitions, and instructed the inner courtier beside him with an ugly expression.
His displeasure was not directed at Jiang Liu. In Emperor Wen’s view, Jiang Liu was a disciple of Jiang Candao, a loyal royalist. Besides, Jiang Liu was strictly the first disciple of the emperor. Zuo Xiang's faction is targeting Jiang Liu, it is better to say that they are threatening him as an emperor.
Emperor Wen of Jin can completely ignore these two complaints at this moment, but he still wants to see what kind of response he will have in the face of criticism from the Zuo Xiang faction when he wants to promote and reuse the new champion.
Therefore, Emperor Wen of Jin instructed the inner courtier to summon Jiang Liu, wanting to try his own skills.
In about half an hour, Jiang Liu was summoned into the palace. Facing the aggressive approach of the Zuo Xiang faction, Jiang Liu seemed to have been prepared for a long time.
"Please, Your Majesty, allow Weichen to submit a few transcripts of the investigation on the population growth of Jin and its affiliated Qiang states in the 24 years after the war."
Jiang Liu took out a thick stack of memorials, and Lu Guang couldn't help his eyelids twitching wildly when he saw this. From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at Jiang Candao, who was there, and felt more and more that his actions had been leaked beforehand. Jiang Candao The old fox notified his disciples in advance and made preparations.
However, he felt that no matter how eloquent Jiang Liu was, he should not be able to explain his behavior of marrying a widowed mother and betraying his deceased father.
"The minister is still young and inexperienced. If there is anything wrong, please forgive me, Your Majesty and the ministers."
Jiang Liu bowed, and Lu Guang snorted coldly when he saw it.
"The memorial in His Majesty's hand records the population growth of Sanjiang Prefecture where Wei Chen is located in the past 24 years. Twenty-four years ago, the permanent population of Sanjiang Prefecture was 13,724. People, twenty-four years later, the resident population of Sanjiang Prefecture is 11,764. In the thirteenth year of Jinyang, the number of newborn babies registered in Sanjiang Prefecture is 945. Jinwen San In 2008, the number of newborn babies registered in Sanjiang Prefecture was 678."
Jiang Liu stood in the center of the hall, exuding a steady self-confidence that didn't match his age. Seeing his eloquent appearance, he didn't look like a fifteen-year-old boy who had just entered the court and had not even been appointed an official.
"How come the number of newborns in Sanjiang Prefecture has decreased so much, and the permanent population is nearly 2,000 less than that of 24 years ago."
Emperor Wen of Jin was very puzzled when he saw this memorial, but he also knew that Jiang Liu would not dare to falsify such numbers and deceive him as an emperor.
"Your Majesty, please read the next memorial."
Jiang Liu motioned the emperor to pick up the following memorial: "Yuchuan Province is close to Tongzhou Province. When the Qiang State attacked Daxiguan, Tongzhou was in an emergency. Yuchuan Province was the province with the most urgent military service recruitment after Tongzhou. The North Korean army has been fighting back to the capital of the Qiang state, and the Qiang state has been defeated, but it has also left behind hundreds of thousands of the dead souls of the people of the Jin Dynasty. There are nearly 1,000 more widows, and among these widows, in addition to the more than 70 women who later registered for remarriage, there are more than 900 women who observe the festival for their deceased husbands. The number of new children is getting worse and worse."
Ancient times are not as good as modern times. The number of people in a country with a large population can easily be one billion or two billion.
According to Jiang Liu's understanding, the entire Jin Dynasty had more than 10 million people, and Sanjiang Prefecture was equivalent to a city in later generations, with more than 10,000 permanent residents. It was already a very prosperous and developed city.
"Please, Your Majesty, read the next memorial."
Before everyone could digest the data, Jiang Liu motioned the emperor to read the next memorial.
"This is a traveler specially invited by Wei Chen to travel between the Qiang State and the Jin Dynasty, and obtained a data from Jiang State. This is Longcheng, which is adjacent to the Great Western Pass in the Qiang State. At that time, the males in Longcheng were also the number of deaths in the Qiang State. One of the most numerous towns. In these years, the Qiang state has been subservient to the Jin Dynasty on the surface. In fact, the wolf’s ambition is immortal. They encourage widows to remarry. In the last twenty-four years, the population of the Qiang country has already recovered to the number before the war, and it is conceivable that when all the newborns have grown up, the Qiang country is bound to start a war again.”
"You are presumptuous!"
As soon as Jiang Liu's words fell, Lu Guang, regardless of his image, pointed at Jiang Liu's nose and cursed.
Now the Qiang state is extremely honest. Every year, they serve the court on time, and they bow their heads to the Jin Dynasty. Jiang Liu's words are meant to provoke the quarrel between the Qiang state and the Jin Dynasty.
"Jiang Aiqing continues."
Emperor Wen of Jin's expression was solemn, and he waved to Lu Guang to return to his original position.
"Perhaps, as Lord Lu said, it is the heart of the humble minister and the belly of a gentleman, but the ancients have a saying, to guard against the small and prevent the gradual, and be prepared for danger in times of safety, dare to ask Lord Lu, if one day the Qiang Kingdom breaks up the peace treaty, in my Jin Dynasty, there are insufficient troops. In the case of insufficient labor, what can we use to fight against the Qiang state, and what can we use to drive the Qiang state iron cavalry back to their capital again?"
Jiang Liu's question made Lu Guang speechless.
In fact, as early as the end of the war, the government should encourage widows to remarry, but the Jinyang Emperor defeated the Qiang Kingdom at that time, and it was when he was complacent. He felt that the Jin Dynasty was prosperous under his own management. After a long time, the evil consequences of the wrong judgment in the past gradually began to show and expand.
"The ruler of heaven and earth is a teacher, the ruler is in the front, and the pro is in the back. The so-called widow's observance of the festival is an extremely pedantic behavior that is not conducive to the reproduction of the children. However, many clans force widows to observe the festival for the so-called clean and upright customs, and even use The lynching and execution of women who want to remarry, this behavior, in the small, flouted the laws of the Jin Dynasty, and in the big case, it was endangering the society of the Jin Dynasty, and it was no different from treason."
"As for the pair of uncles and aunts in the mouth of Mr. Lu, in order to seize the family property left by his deceased father in his early years, he used a poisonous scheme to collude with outsiders to frame my mother. The name of the couple is also missing in the family tree. When they colluded with outsiders, they didn't think about my deceased father's thoughts, but when my mother remarried, they came out and said that I was unfilial to my deceased father. It's really ridiculous."
Jiang Liu's remarks were relentless, laying out the facts and reasoning, and he stood on the righteousness of the country, as if refuting that he was deliberately wanting the Jin Dynasty to destroy the country.
After saying these words, Jiang Liu turned sideways and bowed to Lu Guang.
"Dare to ask Mr. Lu, minister, what is wrong?"
He had said all the good and bad things, and Lu Guang's face was ashen, as if he had eaten shit.