On December 12, Ju Wenzhen and his cronies, Wang Hong, Wei Zhen, Xue Cui and others were escorted to Caishikou to be beheaded. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoOn this day, the entire Chang'an City was empty, men, women and children went to watch the execution scene, from the prison to Caishikou The streets were full of people.

Prisoner carts were escorted down the street by soldiers, and people on both sides of the street carried bamboo baskets and smashed rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, and small stones at Ju Wenzhen and his cronies, Wang Hong, Wei Zhen, Xue Cui, and others who were locked up in the prison car, smashing and scolding as they went.

"Kill him, Ju Wenzhen, he was castrated and not honest, how many people have been harmed, what a crime deserves death!"

"Wang Hong, the dog day, how many people in Chang'an have been killed, he should be cut with a thousand knives!"

"Scraped Wei Zhen and Xue Cui's ······"

The roars and insults began when Ju Wenzhen and others were taken out of the prison, and all the way to the execution ground at the entrance of the vegetable market, the roars and scolding of the people along the street never stopped, and the prisoner car passed by, and many people still chased the prisoner car to smash rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves.

When they arrived at the entrance of the vegetable market, all the prisoners were escorted to the execution table, and the soldiers were lined up and pressed to their knees, and a group of executioners with big shoulders and round waists came.

Seeing that noon had come, the prison officer took out an arrow from the bucket and threw it on the ground, and shouted at the same time: "The hour has come, behead!" ”

The executioners took a bowl of wine and poured it into their mouths, smashed the bowl, raised the guillotine and cut it down, and the heads suddenly rolled to the ground together.

"Rush up, eat their heads, drink their blood, hold grievances for those who are wronged, and take revenge for those who have revenge!" The onlookers suddenly shouted.

Seeing this, the executioners gathered their knives and retreated, and the crowd rushed to the execution table like a tide, rushing to the execution table like a tide, rushing to the bodies of these prisoners who had been beheaded.

In a short time, the bodies of the condemned prisoners were dismembered by the crazy people, and some of the people who grabbed a piece of meat ate it on the spot to vent their hatred for them, believing that eating their corpses into their stomachs and digesting them and excreting them into feces would make them immortal and reincarnate, which was the most severe punishment for superstitious people.

Zhao Ziliang was very angry when he heard someone report this incident in the Regent's Palace, and immediately sent someone to find Lu Sigong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, to reprimand: "The people are resentful of them, and it is understandable that they lost their minds at the scene, but the officials of your Criminal Department and other soldiers who maintain order have also lost their minds?" What do you eat? The people are crazy, and you are also crazy? Or is it deliberately for the people to vent their anger? You are law enforcers, you can't lose your mind at any time, people are dead, and hatred is gone, is it interesting to insult the corpse? We can understand the feelings of the people, but if you allow them to destroy the order of the law field, this is a blasphemy against the law of the Tang Dynasty, and if you don't stop it, you still allow them to destroy the order of the law field, which is a serious dereliction of duty! ”

Lu Sigong also felt that something might be wrong after learning about this incident, Zhao Ziliang's eyes couldn't rub the sand, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the Regent Mansion to find trouble, and he was reprimanded by Zhao Ziliang fiercely.

Lu Sigong, who was reprimanded, felt very uncomfortable, but he also knew that Zhao Ziliang was right, no matter what mistakes Ju Wenzhen and others made before their lives, people died like lights going out, letting the people make a big fuss, snatching the corpses and eating them, this is really too barbaric, the Tang Empire is a civilized country, how can this kind of thing happen? But the matter has already happened, someone has to be responsible for it, and the supervisor is the first official in the law field, this responsibility is not borne by him, who will bear it?

Lu Sigong immediately bowed to Zhao Ziliang and said: "What the king reprimanded is that after Weichen went back, he immediately questioned the prison officer!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Is it just a crime?" ”

Lu Sigong was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart, do you still want to do it? This is not your Zhao Dawang's style! He asked suspiciously, "What does the king mean?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Punishment is not an end, just a means of warning!" It is necessary to educate the officials of the Criminal Department not to make such mistakes again in the future! The strictness of the law is not for the purpose of giving favors or favors."

"Wei Chen understands, so go back and summon the officials of the Criminal Department to convey the king's instructions!"

After Lu Sigong left, Zhao Ziliang felt a little bored, although the staff thought that since he took charge of the Tang Dynasty, the progress of transforming the Tang Dynasty had been very fast, but he still felt that it was still too slow.

He walked out of the main hall of the hall, the guards immediately took the cloak and draped it on his body, Zhao Ziliang tightened the cloak and walked out of the gate of the palace, and the guards immediately caught up and asked, "Where is the king going?" Subordinates let people prepare carriages and horses? ”

"No, this king is just walking around, no need to prepare carriages and horses!" Zhao Ziliang said and waved his hand and walked along the street.

There was goose feather snow in the sky, and pieces of snowflakes fell on Zhao Ziliang's cloak, and a thick layer of snow quickly piled up on his body, and the bodies of several guards who followed him quickly turned white.

There are few pedestrians on the street, and a few people can occasionally be seen hurrying away, this scene was seen by Zhao Ziliang, and he sighed that Chang'an is not as prosperous as before. In the past, even on snowy days, Chang'an Avenue was full of pedestrians, and the massive decline in population on the one hand, and the economic situation on the other hand, was much worse than before, which made Chang'an look much more depressed than it had been in its heyday.

After strolling back, Zhao Ziliang was determined to speed up the reduction of the feudal domain, which had been going on since he began to take charge of the government, and some of the Jiedu envoys who returned to Chang'an to report on their work or who made mistakes were either assigned to other positions after returning to Beijing, or were demoted, or directly dismissed for questioning, after they were transferred or dismissed, the official positions left behind were vacant, and then he issued an edict to separate the military power and political power left by the Jiedu envoy, and then continued to subdivide the military power and political power, There is no longer a combination of military and political power, and this kind of official position is no longer established. Even if a local official and a military general jointly wrote a letter recommending a certain person to take over the post of a certain section envoy, he vetoed all of them, and severely reprimanded them in parallel texts, the appointment of official positions is a matter for the imperial court, and you local officials and generals want to decide for yourself? Isn't it too fat?

"Come on, go and call Gao Shang, Du Fu, Li Mi, Li Muchen and others!"

"Yes!"

Gao Shang and the others quickly rushed over and saluted Zhao Ziliang one by one, Zhao Ziliang said: "You are all exempt, this king called you over for a while and wanted to ask for your thoughts and suggestions." Now that Huaixi and Dengzhou have been recovered by the imperial court, Liang Chongyi and Li Zhongchen have been subjugated, and the prestige of the imperial court is being restored. This king thinks that although the time is not yet ripe for a full-scale reduction of feudal domains, it is already possible to start cutting feudal domains in local areas, and this king is considering that after the New Year, he will choose an area that can be controlled by the imperial court to cut feudal domains, and temporarily choose the Guanzhong region, what do you think? ”

Li Mi arched his hand and said: "My lord, now that the yamen of the imperial court are fighting corruption, inaction, and neglect, and all the armies directly under the imperial court are in the training stage, is it too hasty to cut the feudal domain now?" If a feudal town does not cooperate, the imperial court will be caught off guard! ”

Du Fu and Li Muchen and others also agreed with Li Yu's words, Zhao Ziliang has only been in charge of the imperial court for more than two months, although in these two months, Liang Chongyi and Li Zhongchen have been eradicated, but the territory of the Tang Dynasty is vast, I am afraid that the news that he is presiding over the government Many state and county governments have not yet received the news, the news is not smooth, and the prestige has naturally not covered the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the reorganization and training of the army has not yet been completed, and the combat effectiveness of the army has not yet been fully restored and improved, so if the feudal towns are cut down at this time, if some unsightly and bold feudal towns are unwilling to hand over power and raise troops to rebel, I am afraid that the situation will be difficult to control.

Zhao Ziliang knew that Li Mi's worries were not unreasonable, at this time, stability was the best choice, but he also knew that the matter of cutting the feudal domain could not be postponed again and again, the longer the time, the greater the ambition in the hearts of those feudal towns who already had power, and it would become more and more difficult to control.

Zhao Ziliang saw that Gao Shang was thoughtful, and did not echo Li Mi, Du Fu, Li Muchen and others, so he asked, "Gao Shang, what do you think?" ”

Gao Shang came back to his senses and asked, "I wonder if the king has thought about how to cut the domain?" What specific means are used to carry it out? ”

Zhao Ziliang saw Gao Shang asking, knowing that he must have already had an idea, so he said, "How do you think it will be safer?" ”

Gao Shang pondered for a while, and arched his hand: "Great King, Weichen thinks that it is not impossible to start the matter of cutting the feudal domain in the Guanzhong region, where the execution of the imperial court decree is the strongest, the key is how to operate. If the regent palace directly issued an edict to separate the rights of the chief officials of the prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, so that they could only take charge of political affairs or only the military, and the other part of the rights would be handed over to other officials, Weichen thought that the execution of this decree by the prefecture and county governments would definitely be greatly reduced, and some people would definitely disobey the yang and yin, and on the surface, they kept saying that they would only take care of political affairs or only the military according to the will of the imperial court, but in fact, they secretly still grasped it with both hands. The imperial court still has nothing to do about it, at most it can only send officials to inspect and investigate, after the court officials go, they will definitely arrange everything, and when the court officials leave, they will continue to do business as usual, this is called a policy, there are countermeasures! ”