On that day, Song Jiang and the four tyrants all ate and drank heartily.

The Twin Peaks Four Wolves thought that this was the case, and no matter how generous Song Jiang was, he would not come to them again in the future. As a result, the next day, Song Jiang came again, not only with the embarrassment of the four wolves, who had no money to buy a big meal or drink, but also brought money to open a variety of ingredients in the hotel, and the gift was three hundred yuan, at this time, the purchasing power of three hundred yuan was no less than the previous thirty thousand taels of silver, at least not less than three thousand taels of silver. Song Jiang just sent it like this, so that the four wolves would have money to tide over the current difficulties and not be so embarrassed. The vicious four wolves couldn't help but be greatly moved. Song Jiang's open-mindedness and boldness are really generous........ Who in the world can match it? It is worthy of the famous Hubaoyi and timely rain.......

The twin peaks and four wolves really broke their hearts........ Since then, he has become close to Song Jiang, and he has been eager, and even gradually has a feeling that he will not be able to leave for a day.

Dai Zong didn't understand Song Jiang's actions very much. With Mu Chun's move this time, the twin peaks and four wolves will grow ten more guts, and he will never dare to be disrespectful to Song Jiang again, let alone design to frame Song Jiang to find trouble with Song Jiang. In this way, why did Song Jiang treat and make friends with such four things that were really like evil wolves?

Of course, Song Jiang was thinking about how to use the four wolves who were greedy and shrewd but had no great wisdom to sell their lives for him and send him to death, and sooner or later he indirectly avenged yesterday's revenge. Song Jiang is not generous, on the contrary, he is the master who will take revenge, he is black and ruthless, how can he really forgive the enemy who has been so humiliating and difficult to rectify him.

Song Jiang has his own plans for the future, and he also has his own thoughts on how to subdue and control these bullies in Jiangzhou as his thugs and stepping stones to success, but naturally he will not tell Dai Zong these yin calculations in his stomach clearly, and only explained with a smile: "Brother Xian is Song Jiang's iron brother, there is nothing to say." But the four wolves also have the ability to make friends. You see, although they are notorious and unkind, there is true love and righteousness between the four of them, which shows that they are still righteous heroes, but they only speak righteousness to their own brothers, and they are vicious and shameless to outsiders. They are different from Ma Xiong and Zhang Kui. Ma and Zhang and the brothers they worshipped were the real three evil bandits, and the relationship between them was only a pure interest relationship, with no real affection at all, untrustworthy, unreliable, and could only be used for inducement. “

Dai Zong thought about it, and felt the same, so he didn't say anything anymore, but under the influence of Song Jiang, his relationship with Song Jiang became closer.

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In the warm exchange with the four tyrants, the New Year has passed in a blink of an eye, and the amnesty of the world is coming. In the blink of an eye, Song Jiang's excited mood became more and more depressed........ His good luck in Jiangzhou has come to an end.

The opening of the court has been carried out, and the new emperor Zhao Huan made an important speech at the court meeting, and the name of the year was officially changed to Yuan Jingkang....... However, the amnesty that Song Jiang most hoped for did not have the practice of promulgating the world......... It's a strange and abnormal thing, but it just happens.......

Song Jiangyuan is in Jiangzhou, as the most despicable labor prisoner, and the social level of the friends he has made is too low-level, he doesn't know what will happen to the Beijing Imperial Court at the beginning of the year, and he has no way of knowing. He just had a very bad premonition.

Wait, wait, waiting, time flies, like a passing year, two months have passed in a blink of an eye, but still nothing has been waited, not even the news of amnesty, but there is a faint bad rumor to Jiangzhou, Song Jiang is more and more anxious, and the premonition is not good.

Sure enough, the news he least wanted to hear came.

On this day, he was drinking in Dai Zong's hotel to relieve his boredom, but the more he drank, the more irritable and depressed he became, and suddenly Dai Zong, who was at work, came back and ran in in a hurry.

Song Jiang was a little drunk and hazy, seeing that Dai Zong's steps were in a hurry like this, and he was a little hasty, he couldn't help but be shocked, and asked anxiously: "Brother Dai Zongxian, what happened, how can you panic?" ”

Dai Zong picked up the wine jug and poured it directly from mouth to mouth, gasped a few times, eased his nerves, and then put down the wine jug and said, "Brother, the situation doesn't seem good." ”

"Huh?"

Song Jiang became more and more startled, his eyes stared directly at Dai Zong, and his anxious, even frightened look was already covered with his eyes.

Dai Zong looked at Song Jiang with some pity in his eyes, "Today, when I went to the Futai Yamen to do business, my junior brother overheard some news. The imperial court will change the yuan, but there will be no amnesty. This matter was extremely controversial in the imperial court. In order to seek auspiciousness for his accession to the throne, the new emperor naturally wanted to be amnesty. However, almost more than ninety percent of the ministers below disagreed, and only a few courtiers of the imperial party insisted on amnesty. Several prime minister-level officials collectively did not squeak. But silence is also an attitude, not to oppose the almost one-sided opinion of the ministers, that is, to agree not to engage in amnesty. The prime ministers were also not in favor of the amnesty, which ....... Xindi, tsk, I can't hold on, it's useless to insist, he said it doesn't count. ”

When Song Jiang heard this, his body shook suddenly, his eyes turned black, and he almost fainted on the spot.

He honestly went to Jiangzhou to serve his sentence, waiting for the opportunity of amnesty, and all his calculations revolved around amnesty. Without amnesty, he would have been a criminal, not only would he have to serve his sentence here until the end of his sentence, but even if he returned to his hometown after his sentence was over, he would still not have the opportunity to enter officialdom..... A person with a criminal record is not qualified to be an official, and this is the minimum rule of officialdom for the recruitment of civil officials. Without an amnesty, all the sins in the case are cleared, Song Jiang is not innocent, how can he be an official........

Under the care and comfort of everyone in a panic, Song Jiang finally suppressed his panicked and pounding heart, and asked urgently: "What is going on?" How can it not be forgiven? Brother Dai Zongxian, tell me about it. What else do you know? What's going on in the court......."

In Song Jiang's gaffe, he urged him to do so. Dai Zong really heard some inside stories in the prefect's yamen, and talked about it again.

It turns out that the exception is not to be amnesty, and in the final analysis, it is still the follow-up cause and effect caused by the thrilling national disaster created by the pirates last year. The disaster has passed, but the great changes and many hidden dangers left to the Great Song Dynasty and society have not disappeared, and it is the various problems that the imperial court needs to face.

The ministers almost collectively unanimously opposed the amnesty, except that they didn't take Zhao Huan, the new emperor, seriously in their hearts, what was the new emperor's auspicious and unlucky accession to the throne? Zhao Huan Xiaoer, you are a puppet, okay? Change the yuan to ascend the throne, you are not the real emperor, everything is actually the old emperor continues to rule, it is still the de facto era of the old emperor continues, changing the yuan or not changing the yuan is a superficial thing, it sounds good, like that, so, what else is amnesty? That's the mentality.

That's not the point.

The key reason is that amnesty would directly harm the vital interests of the bureaucratic collective.

Last year, there was a catastrophe, and all the tenants of the Manchu Song Dynasty were gone....... Not only the officials themselves, but the Song Dynasty had no proletarian coolies in the world. From the bureaucrats down to the rural landlords and gentry, they finally managed to get some criminals to act as coolie tenants last year. Who will open the mine? Buying and selling operations, where is the free manpower that can even be used to the death to take responsibility for my family....... The new emperor, Zhao Huan'er, you ascended the throne and changed the Yuan to amnesty auspicious, but our family is unlucky, it is directly unprofitable....... How can this agree to an amnesty.

Amnesty for........

Of course, this is the case, and the words cannot be said like that. There must be a good reason for the public. This is difficult for the hypocrites and bureaucrats who have been educated by Confucianism.

This is not a matter for hypocrites at all.

What scholars and doctors are best at is to prevaricate and fool the emperor with high-sounding reasons, and there are indeed righteous and bright reasons to say.

I can't be amnesty. After the disaster, no one worked in the state's mines all over the country, and afterwards, the imperial court and local governments finally searched out the miners and coolie criminals who took advantage of the country's inability to escape, and took them back to be held for use, and then used new criminals to fill in them, so they barely recovered part of their production capacity.

The mines could not be operated, and the court owed the pirates gold, silver and copper...... Debt, how to pay it off? Xindi, can you have a way to pay it back?

If you don't pay it back, you still want to sit firmly on the throne? Da Song Jiangshan still wants to continue?

Even those of us who were loyal to the Song Dynasty had to be captured by pirates and taken as coolies....... Also, the armaments of the Great Song Dynasty are now extremely short of iron weapons such as knives and axes, and they can't open mines or smelt iron, so where do these weapons come from? Without a sword, with only a spear, how can you defend against foreign enemies? Jiangshan still wants to be fine?

Someone has to be exploited and oppressed. Someone has to be a coolie to sacrifice and dedicate the dirtiest, hardest, most dangerous work on the top, the most unwilling to do by individuals........ In order to have these manpower at their disposal, what kind of amnesty is there to do? How can you do it if you insist on it?

It is customary for the criminals to share the work of the country and the society differently, who should be pardoned and who should not? You name a division criterion, and I'll listen to it. Is it reasonable to have the same sins, but some have been forgiven, and some are fine, and some have not been restored to freedom? Is this still an amnesty? What else is auspicious and festive......

With such an analysis, let alone Zhao Huan, Zhao Ji is still sitting on the throne of the court, and the only choice he can make is to compromise with the ministers, well, to compromise with the overall situation and give up the amnesty. What the Song dynasty was best at was compromising on all kinds of affairs, both externally and internally. The king must also compromise with his courtiers. Scholars and scholars have long been spoiled...... I (the scholar) rule the world with you, king, do you dare not compromise with me? If I really dare, I will not be loyal to you, and eating your money will harm your country......

And Song Jiang roughly understood the inside story, imagined the scene in the court that day, and a fire of anger in his heart suddenly rushed up to the sky. Good for you, traitors, dog thieves, hypocrites, and really vicious villains who eat the king's fortune but are not loyal to the king........ Did I provoke you when Song Jiang recruited you? Actually opposed the amnesty and threatened the king?

Song Jiang just wants to give amnesty to restore his freedom and revoke the case record, so that he can be qualified to blend into the officialdom and show his ambitions, at this time, who cares about the overall situation. If he does not forgive, he will oppose it, and he will hate it greatly....... He was furious and cursed viciously: the court is full of traitors, dogs, thieves, scum and scholars who are disloyal to the king, unrighteous to the country, and ruthless to the people. I, Song Jiang, am full of talent in governing the country and sincere allegiance to the king, I want to be an official, I want to use my talent to contribute to the precarious country, but you dog officials will not let me........ Cut off my opportunity, ruin my future, I, Song Jiang, will kill you all sooner or later, and return the world to Song Jiangshan to a clean and clear world.......

Song Jiang was so angry and excited that he breathed fire in his eyes...... But I didn't know that the bad news was not over, and I heard Dai Zong say another terrible news in a blink of an eye.

According to the people of the prefect's yamen, not only did the imperial court not give amnesty to the world, but also wanted to make the policy of punishment and exploitation of criminals as coolies quietly and arbitrarily carried out by the officials at all levels below as the official state policy of the state and openly implement it in the world, and the imperial court was discussing changing the previous method of legal punishment, and the criminals were thinking of serving their sentences lying down and sitting in prison, except that it was a scourge to keep them, and they could not be used and had to be killed, and all other criminals were treated as coolies and all were reformed through labor. I want to continue the days I hated the most, being trapped in prison, not seeing the day, eating and sleeping on straw, and not being able to get it. Moreover, in the eyes of the court officials, if the criminals have the so-called relative freedom and comfort in the work of heaven and earth outside, then the sentence must be increased, otherwise how can the sacred majesty of the law be displayed? Why should criminals be afraid and pay enough price, so that people in the world will not dare to break the law easily? If the sentence is doubled, it will have to take more time to contribute to the state to atone for the crime, and the degree of atonement and the degree of reform should be evaluated based on the performance during the evaluation, and if the evaluation is not good, the sentence must be extended again, and it can be extended again and again until the reform is no longer harmful to society........ This is reasonable, and it is good for the country, society, and criminals.

The courtiers actively suggested that the sentence be extended, which was nothing more than to make the criminal coolies who were brought to their homes by their power and officialdom network a longer legal slavery, and it was best to be able to use it until they died. As time goes by, the criminals will naturally become tenant slaves and coolies of each family) In the final analysis, they are all thinking about their own family's selfish interests. It is indeed in the interests of the state, or rather the interests of the entire ruling class.

Obviously, it is inevitable that this rationalization proposal will be officially adopted and implemented by the imperial court.

As for whether the criminals are willing to serve their sentences like this........ Who cares what criminals think?

Serious people, the court will not hesitate when it is necessary to enslave and sacrifice, under the so-called overall righteousness, no matter how miserable life is, no matter how much death there is, it will not care. It is justified and it should be. If you don't sacrifice the people, do you sacrifice the rulers themselves? In this way, let alone at the expense of criminals. Serious people are not human. Convict? Hum.......

This is too bad for Song Jiang, a criminal who has more than a year left in prison.

No matter how long the imperial court's measures to implement these new laws and punishments need to be deliberated over and how long it will be actually promulgated and implemented, Song Jiang will inevitably be immune to them........ His one-and-a-half-year sentence automatically becomes three, and that's nothing. He also had to be sent (sold) as a coolie, from a relatively free and comfortable uncle criminal in the prison camp to the lowliest, most pitiful and insecure coolie who did not know where he would be sent to Jiangzhou to work and suffer, and was bound to be tortured.

What's even more terrifying is that it is very likely that the sentence will be repeatedly extended, and in front of the criminal coolies, there will never be a day to get out, and even the torture will soon be unbearable and die......

Song Jiang only has the power to scheming - when the official supports the ability to make others work or send them to death, he can't do any work, he can't cook so that he won't starve to death, Song Jiang is a short and weak scholar, and the young master can't work hard, no matter how hard he works and performs, he can't do it. When the day really comes for labor reform, it will inevitably be unbearable, and the reform will be the worst, and it is inevitable that the sentence will be repeatedly extended.......

This is simply on Song Jiang's death hole, how can Song Jiang not be frightened........

Please remember that the first domain name of this book is:. Nine Heavenly God Emperors