"Has anyone confessed?" Liu De asked Zhang Tang, who came to report.

"Back to Your Highness, they only admit that they have criticized you, but they firmly deny that they were instructed by others...... Zhang Tang replied with his head down: "And...... Many of them insisted that the first emperor had abolished the sins of slander, fallacy, and curse, and therefore they were not guilty! ”

"Not guilty?" Liu De couldn't help but laugh when he heard it.

Those scholars were not wrong at all, Liu De's grandfather did explicitly repeal the law of punishing crimes for words, and even the crime of cursing the emperor, which was about to lose his head in the Qin Dynasty, was abolished.

But they are wrong to think that this will be their talisman!

"It's so naïve!" Liu De sneered.

In ancient and modern times, even the most brutal rulers may be able to maintain a certain amount of warmth and affection when faced with things that have nothing to do with them.

However, once it touches its interests, then even the most gentle ruler can instantly become the most brutal person in the world.

Even if it is the rice emperor who is touted as a beacon of freedom and emphasizes the people's cooking in later generations, the people can scold the president and protest in front of the White House, but once these guys dare to break into Wall Street, the iron fist of the free people will immediately teach them to be human beings.

Not to mention in this pre-century feudal society!

If Liu De's memory is not wrong, then Zhang Tang, who is now standing in front of him and reporting respectfully, will invent the crime of 'belly slander' in the future and put his sworn enemy Yan Yi to death.

What's more, Liu De remembered very clearly that his grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, had a prerequisite in the edict abolishing the criminalization of a word - that is, the person who committed the crime must be a peasant who cannot read a single word.

As for the intellectuals, you are all literate and polite, and you dare to challenge the authority of the government and insult the royal family?

If you are not preparing to rebel, are you just preparing to play a trick on the Son of Heaven?

Well, it seems that playing with the Son of Heaven is a more severe crime than rebellion!

The former has the opportunity to be pardoned except for the first offender, but the latter ...... Destroy the three tribes! And there is no forgiveness!

"Have you shown them the edict of the first emperor?" Liu De asked with a smile, up to now, Liu De has actually been under a lot of pressure, after all, this kind of arrest of scholars, no matter what, is a bit taboo, and it will step on the sore feet of some people, if it is the Song and Ming dynasties, even if Liu De is now the prince, I am afraid that he will be sprayed half to death by the civil and military officials, fortunately, this is the Han family, and the civil and military officials of the imperial court are basically born nobles, and the proportion of poor families is not high.

Most of the courtiers and magnates didn't feel much about Liu De's action to capture the scholars.

In Lu Xun's words, the ministers did not think that the scholar arrested by Liu De was 'surnamed Zhao'.

However, there are still a few ministers who feel that these scholars are 'surnamed Zhao', such as Daxing Wang Hui, who went to the palace today to sue Liu De in front of the cheap father.

One or two ministers' criticism, Liu De still withstood it.

But if this drags on for a long time, then ......

However, no matter how anxious Liu De was, he couldn't show himself in front of Zhang Tang and others.

Those who are in a position of authority must be moody and invisible.

What's more, if even they are anxious about this kind of thing, then Zhang Tang and they will inevitably have other thoughts!

"Back to Your Highness, the minister has already shown them the edict of the first emperor......" Zhang Tang replied.

"How? How many openings are there? Liu De asked slowly.

How soft the bones of literati are, Liu De knows better than anyone else.

Generally speaking, one hard bone out of a hundred intellectuals is already very good.

As for the remaining ninety-nine, you can refer to the Donglin Party and Mass Ugly after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Under Miki, in the punishment, Liu De didn't feel that his luck was so bad, and the people he caught were all hard bones.

"Back to His Royal Highness, I have basically confessed...... Zhang Tang replied indifferently - this kind of torture and interrogation, Zhang Tang had already known it when he was five years old, so he didn't think there was anything to invite credit for, but the next moment, he replied with some excitement: "It can be basically confirmed that the envoy should be from the palace, and a scholar named Lin Jing confessed that the person who instructed him took out the royal family's imperial supplies......

This is a big case!

If it is according to the rules of the Qin Dynasty, it must be necessary to go through the customs and exhaust all means to track down the identity of the instructor.

As long as the black hand behind the scenes is dug out, to put it mildly, he Zhang Tang will enter the sight of the Son of Heaven, just like the previous generation of Chao Cuo, after completing the matter of Fu Sheng, it is logical to transform from a prince to a courtier.

Speaking of this, Zhang Tang couldn't help but be excited, and raised his head to ask: "Your Highness, the minister has brought all the confessions of the prisoners, Your Highness, do you want to turn your majesty?" ”

In his opinion, if these confessions reach the Son of Heaven case, then the revival of the Legalists is just around the corner - such a big and important case will definitely shock the world! It is not impossible for the Legalists to take advantage of the situation and replace the old Huang faction to occupy the mainstream in the imperial court!

But when Liu De heard this, he waved his hand and ordered: "Give me the confession to read it first......

Zhang Tang, after all, he is still too young!

I don't know politics!

Liu De sighed in his heart, if only this matter was as simple as Zhang Tang thought!

The confession is to be shown to the cheap daddy, but not now, not even in full view of the day!

This case can even end there!

The reason is very simple, the word "政zhì".

The cheap dad is now sharpening his knife to the princes, and the Kwantung princes are not a few fools, and they must be tandem and build momentum with each other.

In such a situation, if the Han family broke out a scandal of royal strife, Liu De didn't even have to think about it to know what Wu and Chu would say.

Besides, Cheap Daddy also sent a hint of silk book today.

There are only two short sentences on the silk book: King Jiaoxi feasted King Wu to envoy Gao Yao, Yao said: The lord is prosperous in treachery, decorated in evil ministers, good little good, listens to thieves, changes the law without permission, destroys the ancestral system, invades the land of the princes, punishes the good, and the world suffers for a long time. He said, "Yes."

If Liu De doesn't understand what cheap dad means, he really lived in vain for three lifetimes.

Therefore, the arrested soldiers can only be dealt with with the charges for which they were arrested or other crimes.

However, the person behind the scenes couldn't let it go so lightly, so Liu De felt that it was better to continue to investigate, and then report the evidence to the cheap dad after finding out.

So, Liu De said: "Qing find someone and let some wind out of the matter of someone confessing that someone is involved in the royal family......"

Yesterday, the drama Meng let out a wind, but after waiting for a day, that guy was calm and didn't move, which made Liu De a little helpless.

But Zhang Tang is different if he puts another wind.

has a nose and eyes, Liu De feels that if it is himself, he will decisively kill it!

As long as that man makes a move, he will definitely leave a lot of horses' feet, and when the time comes, he can die!

Liu De knows very well that in this era, the most terrible thing is not to break the law, such as Liu Wu, the king of Liang, who openly assassinated the minister in his previous life, and the evidence is conclusive, but the cheap father can't help him, and he doesn't even dare to treat the crime.

The most terrible thing in this day and age is to make the emperor hate you!

Once the emperor thinks that you are a villain, then even if you don't break any law, it will be a dead end!

For example, the deaths of Zhou Yafu and Dou Ying in their previous lives ......

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