Yingdu.

Xiong Huai received the information from Chen Zhen from Shou County, unfolded it, and then, his originally expressionless face instantly became gloomy, and it was so gloomy that people felt frightened.

"Yin Ling Jun, cooking and torture, even the widow doesn't dare to do it, how dare he, Yin Ling Jun.

In front of everyone's eyes, he boiled for an hour, boiling people to death and rotting them, or the people under his rule, which is simply tragic and appalling.

Okay, okay very. ”

Xiong Huai gritted his teeth and said, then frowned and fell silent.

At this moment, although he was angry at Yin Ling Jun's ferocity and cruelty, he wanted to immediately tie Yin Ling Jun in front of him and cut him.

However, he also knew that even if Yin Ling Jun cooked and killed his subjects, and even if Yin Ling Jun disobeyed his edict to cultivate and recruit the people to build a palace, he could not put Yin Ling Jun to death.

According to the law of the state of Chu, the feudal monarch has all the authority of the fief, even if the people under his rule are executed, it is their legitimate right, let alone recruit the people.

Therefore, just being brutal, treating the people harshly, and violating the three rules of his own king's statecraft, can only let Yinling Jun take off a layer of skin, but cannot directly execute him.

And this made Xiong Huai extremely dissatisfied.

If this happened to the county magistrate, whether it was the county guard or the county Yin, let alone violated these three crimes, even if it was one of them, he could directly issue an edict to execute the county guard and county Yin.

However, if you are a feudal monarch or a feudal monarch, the situation is completely different.

After all, no matter how brutal the feudal monarch was, it was their own people who treated them harshly, not the king of Chu.

But if it is just a reprimand, and then demote the lord and cut the land, how can this be worthy of the four people who were cooked and killed, and how can it be worthy of the people who are suffering from the evil government of the feudal monarch at the moment. As the king of Chu, how could he watch his people suffer and do nothing.

Thinking about it, Xiong Huai pondered for a long time, and decided that he couldn't let Yin Ling Jun go like this.

"Come on, bring the situation of the Yinling Jun's fiefdom to the widow."

"Yui."

After a short time, the waiter brought over the information of the Yin Tomb and carefully placed it on the king's case.

Waiting for the waiter to retreat, Xiong Huai reached out and picked up a roll of bamboo slips from Wang's case and looked at it carefully.

"The fiefdom of Yinling Jun is thirty miles, and there are 2,200 registered households, and there is a small city, plus four surrounding villages."

Although Yinling is not small, but Yinling is connected to Huaishui in the north, and the north is a swamp, and there are many mountains and forests in it, and Yinling is far away from Shou County, and does not enjoy the blessings of Shaobei, so because of less arable land, Yinling is not rich.

It is precisely because Yinling is not rich that most of the people under the rule of Yinling are poor. It is precisely because of how poor the people of Yinling are, and Yinling Jun is worried that the people will flee on a large scale after knowing the new law, so Yinling Jun responded to the six monarchs as soon as possible. ”

"According to the news from Tingli, two months after the start of the reform, the counties received official documents from Yin Lingjun to arrest the fugitive people, and a total of 58 fugitive households."

"Fifty-eight households!" Xiong Huai's face turned cold.

Fifty-eight families of fleeing people, this is in second place on the side of Jianghuai Fengjun, second only to Ling Yin Zhaoju's fiefdom Sheyang. But what kind of place is Sheyang, it is not only a poor mountain and bad water, but also the border line of Qi and Chu, over the years, Qi and Chu have many contradictions, and many people have fled.

In addition, Zhaoju's main income comes from 10,000 households, so Zhaoju didn't care much about Sheyang at all, but just set the tax and let the local Lizheng take care of it himself.

When the Chu State occupied Sheyang, there were less than 500 households left within a radius of Sheyang. Now Sheyang, it is said that there are no more than 100 households.

As for Yinling, even if the land is barren, but if you work hard, the people can have enough food and clothing. Moreover, Yinling is located in the hinterland of Chu State, there is no suffering from war, and the people do not have to worry about the enemy army killing them.

However, in this way, during the two months when the new law came into effect, more than 2 percent of the people fled under the obstruction of the Yin Tomb King.

So many people fled, which only shows one problem, that is, the people of Yinling are very bitter, either the Yinling monarch is not well governed, or the Yinling monarch asks too much from the people.

Thinking of this, Xiong Huai immediately picked up the next roll of bamboo slips.

After reading two more bamboo slips, Xiong Huai found the reason why the number of people fleeing in Yinling was too large.

It turned out that Yinling Jun liked to eat fish, and the villagers who were close to Yinling Daze and Huaishui had to pay taxes and pay additional fish for Yinling Jun to enjoy every day.

I can do what I want, I want fish, and in this day and age, fish are also rare.

It is also the people of Yinling who need to bear the responsibility of fishing, which has led to the people who are not rich in the first place, and have many complaints about Yinlingjun, and even after the implementation of the new law, the people learned that the counties were divided into fields, and they fled one after another.

Seeing this, Xiong Huai suddenly had an idea in his heart.

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As time passed, the nobles from all over the country rushed to Yingdu one after another, and even Zhaoju who went to the Great Liang Alliance also rushed back, and on the eve of the national sacrifice to the Black Emperor, Sun Hao, who went to Jianghuai to investigate, and Sanlu Doctor Qu also hurried back to Yingdu.

In the main hall of the Chu Palace.

Xiong Huai sat on the throne, so that Yin Zhaoju and Zuo Yin Zhaochang sat on the right side, Zuo Tu Qu Yuan sat on the left side, and after the three of them, there sat the eighteen feudal monarchs who were investigated, including the six monarchs.

At this time, Sun Hao bowed and said: "The king, the ministers and others were ordered to go to the fiefdoms of the eighteen feudal lords including the six monarchs to verify, and found that the people were spontaneously gathered because of the fear of the new law, and not as Zuo Tu said, but were recruited by the monarchs. ”

After Sun Hao finished speaking, he immediately bowed his hand and said: "King, what the court said is true, and the minister can testify." ”

"Oh!" Xiong Huai glanced at the two of them expressionlessly, and then asked again, "Really!" ”

When the two heard this, they bowed down in unison: "The king is in front, and the ministers dare not lie." ”

At this time, after the two of them spoke, Zhao Chang glanced at Qu Yuan proudly, and then arched his hand and said: "King, now that it has been verified by Tingli and Doctor Sanlu, it is indeed a leftist slander against the minister, and at the same time, it is also confirmed that the new law is tyrannical. In this case, the minister asked the king to issue an edict to punish the crime of the left and suspend the new law to reassure the people. ”

When the six monarchs and others heard this, they bowed in unison: "King, please punish Qu Yuan and suspend the new law to appease the people." ”

After the ministers bowed down, Zhao Ju, who had nothing to do with himself, and Qu Yuan, who had a bottom in his heart, just glanced at everyone lightly, and then sat calmly on the table motionless.

On the other side, Xiong Huai half-squinted at the nineteen people in the hall who bowed down and asked for their lives, his eyes were cold, and then he instantly returned to normal.

After a pause, after Zhao saw himself and others asking for his life, the King of Chu did not react, and couldn't help but straighten his waist, looked at the King of Chu and said, "Great King..."

At this time, Xiong Huai smiled and waved his hand: "Zhuqing, not long ago, the Assassin Mansion presented a folk song of the land of Huaishui to the widow, and the widow felt a lot after reading it. ”

After that, Xiong Huai reached out and picked up a roll of bamboo slips from the case, and then glanced at the ministers coldly.

At this time, when the ministers heard the king of Chu talk about Huaishui folk songs, they couldn't help but be stunned. Among them, Tingli Sun Hao, Sanlu Dafu and Yin Lingjun were stiff-faced.

When the King of Chu's eyes swept over coldly, some of the ministers in the palace were confused, and some of them were frightened.

And these frightened people obviously already knew what poems the king of Chu was going to read.

"Ahem." Xiong Huai cleared his throat, then slowed down his tone as much as possible, and read word by word:

"Obey the grave of the other, cut down its strips. If you don't see a gentleman, you are like starving. ”

In the palace, the ministers only listened to the first four words read by the king of Chu, and immediately knew that this was the poem, this was the Jianghuai folk song, and it was also a poem in which the people complained about the monarch.

Just when the ministers were inexplicable, Tingli Sun Hao and Doctor Sanlu heard this song again, and their faces were immediately like ashes, and they kowtowed again and again to ask for guilt:

"The king, the minister is guilty, the minister is guilty..."

On the other side, Yin Lingjun, who was still kneeling on the seat, heard Sun Hao and Qu Zhi's plea, and immediately crawled to Sun Hao's side with sweat and tears in horror, and then kept knocking hard while pleading guilty in a trembling voice: "King, the minister is guilty..."

And Zhao Chang and other feudal monarchs, who still didn't know the inside story, suddenly realized when they heard Sun Hao's submission and Yin Lingjun's plea.

At this time, Xiong Huai heard Sun Hao's plea, his face remained unchanged, and he continued to read in a calm tone:

"Obey his grave and cut down its rules. When I see a gentleman, I will not abandon it.

The bream tail is ruined, and the royal family is ruined. Although it is ruined, the parents are empty. ”

When Xiong Huai finished reading the poem, over there, including Ling Yin Zhaoju, all the ministers bowed to the sin and pleaded:

"The king is angry, and the ministers are condemned to death."