Guan Suyi stood quietly under the porch, and behind him was the study, where the laughter of his grandfather and father could be heard from time to time. They were talking with the emperor, and their voices were full of the excitement and joy of being appreciated. Four years after moving to Yanjing, Guan Suyi watched them become more and more soulless and quiet day by day, and felt as uncomfortable as a knife.
It is said that a man cannot be powerless for a day. Although this is a bit crude, it is also a well-known saying. What man doesn't have the ambition to make a name for himself? What man doesn't have the ambitions of a supreme minister? Grandfather and father are willing to sell their property and move their families, isn't it just to realize their ambitions
Now that they have the opportunity to meet the emperor, they can speak freely and show their talents, and it is not a waste of time.
Guan Suyi stood in the warm sunshine and laughed for a while before going to the backyard to help the kitchen. Guan Miao was peeling the beans, Ming Lan was standing by the stove to make a fire, and Mrs. Zhong was cooking with a spatula.
"Mother, I'll show my hands too." She said while rolling up her sleeves and face, but at this moment, an old woman ran and said, "Madam, miss, the patriarch sent someone to pick up the second miss home."
Guan Miao turned pale with fright, hurriedly threw away the beans, and ran behind Mr. Zhong to hide. Guan Suyi was about to go to the front yard to send people away, but she saw her mother took out a piece of paper from her arms and said, "Where are you going to go? The second uncle has written a deed and gave us the adoption of Miao Miao, and all of them have been given to us. Five hundred taels of silver, written in black and white, if he repents, we will go to the yamen to sue him! Miao Miao has no genealogy at all, and he doesn't make sense when he says that he will go to the sky."
"When was the deed written?" Guan Suyi had never heard of this.
"Your father invited him to drink a drink before he was imprisoned. He got him drunk before you got him to sign, seal, and fingerprint. He couldn't deny it." Mrs. Zhong shook the document so much .
"If that's the case, this matter is easy to handle." Guan Suyi smiled, "I know that daddy has always been reliable. Wang Ma, when you went back to them, you said that there were distinguished guests at home and it was inconvenient to entertain them. If Second Miss wants to go back, I'll see you in court."
The old woman nodded and hurried off. The servants sent by the patriarch had already inquired clearly in advance, and learned that Guan Suyi would likely be sent to the palace to serve the emperor by His Royal Highness the eldest princess.
In just half a day, the story that Mr. Mao wanted to starve his concubine to death because of a piece of cake had spread all over Yanjing, and Mrs. Lin's words were also known to everyone. Nowadays, although there are many people with rigid thinking, the famous scholars who are really scholars have expressed extreme disgust towards this matter. Some people criticized Mao for "killing life with reason, but not benevolence", while others sighed that "the way of heaven may not be completely refreshing." Time was criticized.
After the servant brought Guan Suyi's words to him, the patriarch of the Guan clan finally gave up the idea of bringing back his concubine granddaughter, and instead took his son to him and scolded him severely.
At the same time, Emperor Shengyuan ended his earnest talk with the Guan family and his son, and left after dinner. Guan Suyi offered to send them off, and when the carriage ran away, she opened the package she was carrying, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, this is the manuscript that my grandfather and father accumulated on weekdays, and the girl would like to invite you to take a look."
Emperor Shengyuan took over a thick stack of manuscripts, and after just flipping through the first two pages, he became addicted to it, and was fascinated. This is a policy theory written by Mr. Guan. It expounds the shortcomings of the Wei State from various aspects such as population, land, farming, military, political system, and people's livelihood, and gives practical and effective solutions. It is a pity that the article was completed in the first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it has been four years since then. If these suggestions were adopted and implemented from the beginning, the Wei State would not have been so precarious as it is now.
This policy theory is well versed in the way of checks and balances, and it is completely two extremes from the way of checks and balances he is taking now. One is based on winning over the hearts of the people; the other is based on winning over the powerful and noble families, and the foundation of the country is the people.
"Wrong!" He held his forehead and smiled bitterly, "I was wrong from the very beginning." There was nothing wrong with supporting the poor family, but the mistake was in choosing Xu Guangzhi as the representative of the poor family. This person is eager for quick success, and is the best at drilling camps. In a very short period of time, he has won over a large number of partisans, and then excludes dissidents and competes with each other. So the poor families fought against the noble families, the civil officials fought against the military generals, the Han people fought against the Jiuli people, and the whole court was filled with hostility, so he had to sacrifice the Jinyiwei, which could suppress one or two.
However, using violence to control violence is tantamount to drinking poison to quench thirst. He also wants to spread benevolent government and benefit the people, but the wealth and power have been taken up by the nobles. Occupation, the situation is no better than before the founding of the state.
If he had thought about it for a long time and reused Mr. Guan and Mr. Guan, the current state of Wei would definitely be very different.
Feelings of remorse surged, he hurriedly flipped through the following articles, and was even more amazed. The manuscript was obviously carefully organized by the wife. From the first year to the fourth year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old man's elaboration of the policy of governing the country also changed as time passed. In the last article, only one title made him breathless—Legislation, Decentralization and centralization. The so-called decentralization, the ultimate goal is to centralize power.
The specific details were not handwritten by the old man. When Emperor Shengyuan was greatly disappointed, he turned to Guan Fu's article. If the old man is the one at the helm, then he is a doer. He has written more than 20 pages on how to legislate, how to decentralize, and how to centralize power.
No wonder he was able to produce such strong evidence with nine murder cases on his head.
For the first time, Emperor Shengyuan forgot the existence of his wife, and read the masterpieces of the two gentlemen without distraction. Seeing him like this, Guan Suyi's mouth curled up involuntarily, so she opened the wooden box beside her and carefully checked the evidence her father gave to the emperor. As a magistrate, drafting official documents and entering confessions from the plaintiff or the defendant is the most basic job, and words can save people and kill people. My father knew this very well.
Therefore, in every case he handled, if there were grievances behind him, he would deliberately drop a drop of ink on the official document, and then re-copy it on the grounds that it was dirty, hand it over to Shangfeng for signature and seal, and finally put the original That copy was hidden as a record, and when others asked, they said that it had been burned. When the incident happened, Shangfeng really pushed him out as a scapegoat, and he could have contacted his wife and daughter and asked them to take out evidence and file a lawsuit. Considering Xu Guangzhi's monstrous power, it would be difficult to tell the truth, and in the end he would end up in ruins, so he chose to endure.
What is one word murder? For example, in the first robbery and murder case, there were seven prisoners. According to the law, the first offender should be beheaded and displayed to the public, and the accomplices should be exiled for thousands of miles. The first offender's name is written on the front and the accomplice's name on the back. The officials of the Fa Cao accepted the thousand taels of silver from the principal, wrote his name to the end, and let others put it on the top, which killed one person. In another case, a mountain bandit broke into a wealthy household at night to kill and steal money. Since officials and bandits often exchange money and money, they have to protect one or two, so they changed the "enter through the gate" in the confession to "enter through the dog's gate", with only one more point added. , The more than 20 bandits who were arrested were released after only half a year, and then resumed their old business and slaughtered.
how so? Because the law of Wei Guo stated that the crime of theft and the crime of robbery should not be punished in the same way. Climbing a dog's hole is obviously theft. It's not like breaking someone's door. It's a bandit's act. Therefore, the officials of the court can release these heinous thugs only by convicting them of theft.
All kinds of bizarre and blood-stained cases cannot be described in detail. If my father had not made up his mind, he would carefully review every suspicious official document, leaving a case record. I am afraid that even if he jumped into the Yellow River, he would not be able to clear it. No, what if the evidence is left behind? He was locked up in prison and not allowed to visit, and when his family found this evidence, he may have become a dead soul under the knife. And there is no way to plead, who can seek justice? If the officials who framed him were accidentally informed, the whole family would have to get in.
It is so difficult for ordinary people without power and power to live. It is no wonder that my father always gives money to help the families of prisoners who have been betrayed and executed. It is for this reason. Guan Suyi put down the official document and said nothing for a long time.
On the other side, Emperor Shengyuan also read a few policy comments and sighed, "Madam, sit down."
Guan Suyi was chilling all over. Hearing this, he hesitated for a moment before moving over, and was hugged tightly by him. The two cuddled each other and kept each other warm. After being silent for a long time, they both sighed, as if they had made an appointment.
Emperor Shengyuan's gloomy mood immediately cleared up and asked with a smile, "What are you sighing for?"
"Sigh the world is dazzling, life is hard." Guan Suyi bit the tip of her tongue as soon as she finished speaking, hating herself for being open-mouthed. Saying that the world is not good in front of the emperor is the same as scolding him for being faint? She glanced at each other secretly, but saw a gentle and helpless smile.
"It's my fault that the world is chaotic. I have no way to govern the country, and that's why the people are killed and life is ruined." Emperor Shengyuan whispered in her ear, "Madam, look, in my lifetime, I must give you a peaceful and prosperous world."
"It's not me, it's the people of the world." Guan Suyi corrected her sentence, and finally scolded herself for being unable to keep her mouth shut.
Emperor Sheng Yuan was amused by the painful expression she always wanted to restrain, but she couldn't help but tell the truth. While holding her red lips, she echoed with a smile, "Madam is right, it is to return the people of the world." Only four years after the founding of the country, he still has time to change everything now.
At first, Guan Suyi just sat stiffly on his lap to bear, but in the end she couldn't hold it anymore, and she collapsed in his arms like melting snow. His kiss was tender and domineering, and after a shallow taste, it was a deep demand. She felt that every pore of her was stained with his scent, she was almost suffocated by the kiss, opened her mouth to gasp, but ushered in a more ferocious attack.
She had never encountered such a straightforward plunder, her mind was so confused that she could not think of anything but cling to him like a life-saving rope.