V4.Chapter 31

The punishment of Potamogeton crispus originated from ancient times.

It is one of the capital punishment, but in the capital punishment, it is also famous - the two monarchs who use it most are the model of the fool and the fool, the model of the tyrant: Xia Jie and Shang Zhou.

Jie Potamogeton Guan Longfeng, Zhou Potamogeton Meibo.

They are all known by those who skim the history books.

* this penalty was once included in the Canon in the Western Han Dynasty, but it was because it was too cruel. Even after the wife of Mrs. Qi became a human figure, she abolished the system.

We can imagine the bad name of this punishment.

Therefore, the punishment was not publicly listed in the court's laws and orders. Even if it was a major crime of Dangyi nationality, it was often only punished by beheading.

In the Wei Dynasty and the previous dynasty, for hundreds of years, that sentence has never been mentioned - but now the holy one not only has to deal with the punishment of loyal ministers, but also is a scholar's son who was so dealt with by him!

Although Wei Yu is a subsidiary of Ruiyu hall, he has a great influence in the family. As the old saying goes, a doctor cannot be punished. Such treatment is not only cruel, but also humiliating.

The literati are in uproar!

They know that the Holy One is unreasonable now, but how can they not think that the Holy One is coming, and they want to add another cruelty to the fatuous life - this is going after Jie Zhou!

However, their pleading was all blocked outside the palace gate!

Gu Xiaode holds the imperial edict in his hand and stops under the palace gate without expression. The xuanjiawei behind him is as silent as a rock and steadfastly blocks the way of all the people.

"I'm going to be poor at the end of the day. Do you still have to be stubborn under Gu Tong?" Among the officials of the Wei family now, except Wei Yu, it is Wei Shengyi - because Wei zhenghongkang's recovery, Wei Shengyi has been very decadent in the past two years, but the Wei family has such a thing, he can't live without appearing.

At the moment, Gu Xiaode stopped the way and shouted angrily.

It's not only him, but also all the officials of the court, including the scholars who have only received the rank of scattered officials but have no real duties, who have gathered together. According to the people's view at that time, Wei Yu was accused of being loyal to the emperor and not guilty. Even if he had committed the crime of immortality, he would have been sentenced to be beheaded in public as a member of his family After the limit is reached, most of them will die? Before the order was made, it was unthinkable to kill them!

This is clearly the fight against the gentry!

How can they tolerate it?

But the God also made up his mind to fight this face!

For this reason, the Holy One even suggests Gu Xiaode - let him prove whether he is loyal to the holy one or whether his heart is in the scholar's side!

Therefore, Gu Xiaode allowed everyone to use all means to explain the truth and always refused to enter the palace gate.

Even Fu Shen Xuan can't contain his anger, and even Gu Xiaode ignores the threat of Gu clan in Hongzhou!

In this case, there is no way for all but to scold Gu Xiaode!

After all, the most powerful army in the capital is Gu Xiaode's. He has to carry out his orders. Who has a way?

However, many of them were furious. Wei Yu, who was ordered by the holy master to take Potamogeton as his last resort, knew that after hundreds of officials gathered in front of the palace to ask for help, he even spread words in prison to persuade them to disperse. He saved his heart to serve the country and the monarch, but where could the family take this?

Wei Yu's old wife, old lady Qian, couldn't get up after the imperial edict came down. Knowing that the hundred officials failed to ask for their orders, I was dragged to the outside of the Meridian Gate three days later to be punished by Potamogeton. I couldn't come at a breath, but I went first!

And the daughter of Wei Yu, Queen run, has been worrying about her daughter, Princess Chengxian, who is childless after marriage for several days. As a result, Princess Chengxian still hasn't solved the problem. Her father suffered such a disaster. Her mother went first, and her condition suddenly worsened. She couldn't even go back to her mother's house to mourn. She was so scared that Princess Chengxian couldn't control her children. She told her mother-in-law about the situation and rushed back to the prince run's house to serve her mother's soup and medicine. She was afraid that queen run would follow Mrs. Qian's footsteps.

When Wei Changying learns the news, he is naturally shocked and angry!

Although she and Wei Yu are far from each other in blood, they come from the same family. What's more, since she married to the imperial capital, Wei Yu's team has been not bad with her. After hearing the news, Huang was told to put down all the things in his hands and go back to the backyard to look after the two children. He hurriedly changed his clothes and went to Weiyu's house to mourn with Mrs. su.

At this time, Wei Yu's mansion has been in a mess.

Weiyu's people are mediocre. Otherwise, Weihuan and Weiqi would have fought to death to get rid of weiqi from the position of situ. However, no one close to Weihuan could take the position, and they would not choose Weiyu from the remote people. It is nothing more than to plan that even if Wei Yu will have ambition in the next life, his own heirs are not so good, so it's better to deal with them.

Now, in the face of great changes, these people are so flustered that they don't know what to do.

It's said that Deng Shi, the second wife, couldn't see it. She wiped her tears and stood up to make the decision. She built the hall before most of the hangers arrived.In this case, the whole mansion is naturally desolate and dilapidated.

All the people who went to mourn, no matter what they usually think of the Wei Yu family, are sad at this time. Wei Changying is very sad, but she has to support her mother-in-law, Mrs. Su - because Mrs. Su's legs are soft when she cries.

Among them, there are those who try to prevent the achievement of this insane and disgraceful thing, as well as those who rush to attend home, or intimidate or persuade Gu Xiaode's wife and children to persuade Gu Xiaode. And in the imperial clan, especially Princess Linchuan and others, also received a batch of lobbyists.

However, Gu's wife and children made it clear that they could not control Gu Xiaode at all, and could only leave it to fate. And Princess Linchuan said with tears: "you are the pillars of the country, the mainstay of my great Wei Dynasty, and you can't change the meaning of my father and emperor, let alone my daughter who has been married? I'm just a little girl. How can I compare with you? Can I do what you can't do? "

When the lobbyist tried to persuade her of her father's and daughter's feelings, she said: "the father and the emperor are tired of listening to the advice for a long time. It's not a secret for a long time. As a daughter, I serve my father with filial piety. How can I tell my father what he doesn't like to hear? After all, you know, my father is old, how can I bear to make him listen to the words that he does not like? What's more, it's only in vain that the thunder and fury are aroused! "

Anyway The princess just doesn't go - Linchuan is not stupid. In this case, is the saint still able to recognize the feelings of father and daughter? Even Qingxin, the most beloved daughter, was demoted to county Lord. If Linchuan were to go, it would be light to be cut into ordinary people.

As for the Lingxian Princess and others, because they were not allowed to be spoiled before, in the face of some lobbyists who were ill and went to hospital in disorder, they downplayed the saying "sister Linchuan is helpless, I am not as stupid as I thought for a long time, how dare I approach", but I also got out of my body.

In a word, three days later, under the suppression of Gu Xiaode's dispatch of xuanjiawei, Wei Yu was taken outside the Meridian Gate and executed.

Because of its fierce name and Wei Yuguan's good voice, this punishment has great prestige. It is because no one can bear to wait and see. No one around to say, but there are many people at home for it secretly weeping.

But although I didn't go to the noon gate to see it, one scene was also seen at home - snow.

This is the beginning of May. Although it's not in the dog days, it's already full of chirping, and the order is midsummer. But in the sky, a large group of snowflakes fluttered, just like the willow catkins in the spring evening, and the whole city was filled with flying and flying!

Someone who couldn't believe reached out to pick up one, felt the coolness turning into water stains in the palm, and then pinched himself heavily to confirm that the water stains and coolness are still in the palm The hairs of the people in the city almost stand up!

Flying snow in May! Although it's not as extreme as June, the elder grand master, though excited, can't get up for a while. If Shen Xuan was still in his prime, he almost didn't wear shoes, so he rushed out of the gate with others, threw down several bodyguards in front of the noon gate to prevent execution, and rushed into the palace without turning back!

…… However, people all thought that with such an unusual sky, the Holy One should forgive Wei Yu on this step. If it is not enough, it will be a light sentence. But Shen Xuan broke his forehead downstairs, and the holy word was still cold: "no pardon!"

Until the end, the grand master and other ministers arrived, and the preferential treatment they won was only to let Wei Yu not be tortured alive, and to allow him to be executed first, and then to put the body of Potamogeton crispus.

Later, rou Huang was sent back to Wei Yu's mansion. Some of his sons and grandchildren were frightened and grieved. They either fainted, or were dull. The mansion was in chaos, and even Diao Nu stole property and fled at night.

When Shen Xuan and others knew about it, they sent people to help preside over the overall situation, and sent people to hunt down the runaway slaves. These runaway slaves happened to be the place where the gentry let off. No matter how much money they took, they were all punished by Potamogeton!

However, the climax of Wei Yu's being wronged by the emperor is not in these places.

It was at his funeral - because old lady Qian died three days before him, the couple were buried together. In addition to the funeral of his descendants, there are several disciples of Wei Yu who serve filial piety like his son.

Among them, Huo Chenyuan, the closed disciple, was the most silent, but the color of mourning between the eyebrows was also the heaviest.

…… Because Wei Yu was originally the son of Ruiyu hall. According to common sense, after his death with old lady Qian, he should be buried in Fengzhou by his grandson Fuling. But now Huo county is occupied by the exiles, and the battle of Donghu is tight. The imperial court is unable to receive and review the troops according to the Imperial Army's refusal to send them. Then the north and the south are cut off.

Even Wei Changfeng, the future Lord of Ruiyu hall, can't receive his relatives. It's obviously impossible for Fuling to return home at this time.

So after a discussion, the Wei family asked for the advice of several other elders and decided to bury their parents in the farmlands outside the city. When the chance comes, we will move to Fengzhou.

Go out of the city, but see shepherd's purse and green wheat along the way. You can go far and near the farm, but you seldom see cooking smoke. Occasionally, there are passers-by who avoid the road, mostly yellow, hungry and thin, with dull eyes. It's still the capital city. Many of the people in the manor are slaves or related to the gentry. They are sheltered by their master's family and can eat more or less. It's said that a little farther away, there are starving people everywhere - so the county will gather many refugees.This scene makes the mourners feel more and more heavy.

It's so easy to get to the selected field. Because it's only for temporary burial and later to move the grave, and Wei Yu has been deprived of all official bodies at this time, only one born scholar identity; it's so miserable to die, it's really not suitable for big business, so the burial instrument here is relatively simple.

However, after the coffins of Wei Yu and his wife were buried together, the memorial ceremony was over, and when the people were sighing and waiting to leave, Huo Chenyuan, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly came out and bowed to all the people, saying: "unfortunately, my master is in trouble. These days, I have a mourning article for you to listen to."

As soon as people's steps slowed down, anger appeared on many people's faces - not that they were in a hurry to leave, but that Huo Chenyuan was also the son of Huo family of Yunxia and the disciple of Wei Yu. How could he be so superficial and shameless?

My mentor's body is not cold, so I took this opportunity Want to be famous?!

After all, he didn't say anything when reading other people's eulogies!

At this moment, I stand out unexpectedly. I don't want to borrow Wei Yu's talent to enter the earth. What kind of splendid articles can I bring out to make a surprise and earn literary names? What is it?

But now everyone has the thoughts of grief and indignation and death of a rabbit and sorrow of a fox. No matter how good the article is, who can not hate such conduct?

The head of the Huo's family was full of shame and indignation, and then he shouted, "you give me back!"