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Chapter 265 26. Gate Valve
Henry Zhang rejected Queen Xiao's service as a matter of course.

He also didn't intend to have too much contact with this woman, so he ignored Empress Xiao's gloomy expression and let her back down.Henry Zhang called two court ladies to put on the cumbersome dragon robe for himself.

Not long after, an eunuch came outside and reminded Henry Zhang that it was time for the morning court.

In ancient times, when going to the morning court, it was basically around five o'clock.

So Henry Zhang had to get up at four o'clock, get dressed, get his bearings right, and then go to the morning court.Of course, Henry Zhang can also be lazy and wait until five o’clock to get up.

This is because he is the emperor and has the right to do so.

But officials are different, because they want to enter the palace, so they have to get up early, and then wait at the outer gate of the palace, and then they can enter the palace when the gate of the palace is opened.

Then, they had to enter the palace early and wait for the emperor.

If anyone dares to come later than the emperor, it is basically over.

Henry Zhang woke up earlier today, so when the eunuch came to remind himself, he was ready to go out of Renshou Palace to participate in the morning court.

When Henry Zhang entered the hall, he found that all the civil and military officials had arrived, and no one dared to be late.

It seems that this group of people is quite lucky.

When Henry Zhang sat down, the morning court even started, which was similar to what was played in the movies on TV, but there were subtle differences.

For example, there are not as many officials standing here as there were yesterday.

This is a matter of course. In fact, on the 15th day of every Lunar New Year, it is the great dynasty. People with grades [-] or above can go to court to see the emperor and discuss important matters with the emperor.

Or when something important happens, officials of rank nine or above can also participate in the morning court.

In ordinary times, only civil and military officials of the fifth rank or above, supervisory censors, Yuanwailang, and Dr. Taichang attended the court every day.

In other words, officials below the fifth rank could not see the emperor during ordinary morning dynasties.

Yesterday was Henry Zhang's accession to the throne, so all the civil and military officials in Beijing came to bow down to Henry Zhang.

Today, officials below the fifth rank are not qualified.

Of course, Henry Zhang didn’t care.

As the newly enthroned emperor, Henry Zhang is relatively busy, and there are many things that need to be discussed in the early court, most of which are rules or customs.

For example, today, the topic of discussion is the amnesty of the world.

Generally speaking, when a new emperor ascends the throne, he will do this to show his majesty and kindness, and discuss things like amnesty or tax reductions.

Of course, there is a limit to the amnesty of the world, and it is not generalized, such as political prisoners who rebelled, deceived the emperor, and resisted the imperial power.In short, the national criminals of the country are not included in the pardon.

Likewise, Heinous is among them.

The so-called ten evils: refers to the ten major crimes that cannot be pardoned, namely: treason, great treason, conspiracy, evil treason, immorality, great disrespect, unfilial piety, disharmony, injustice, and civil strife.Refers to the great crime, unforgivable.

By the way, the so-called ten evils were developed on the basis of the crime of "great treason, immorality and disrespect" in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the third year of Heqing in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Shang Shuling and King Zhao Jun wrote twelve chapters of "Qi Law", "Ten serious crimes are listed: one is rebellion, the second is great rebellion, the third is rebellion, the fourth is surrender, the fifth is evil rebellion, and the sixth is rebellion. Illegal, the seventh is disrespect, the eighth is unfilial, the ninth is unrighteous, and the tenth is civil strife. Anyone who commits these ten offenses is not limited to the eighth discussion of redemption."

In the early years of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, with the rise of Buddhism, the feudal rulers introduced the name of the "Ten Evils" in Buddhism into the law, replacing the "Ten Serious Crimes" in the "Qi Lu" and the "Ten Evils". Then the crime of "evil" officially appeared,
So Henry Zhang amnesty the world this time, naturally he will not forgive the ten evils.

However, in addition to the ten evils, there are also some crimes that must be listed to see if they can be included in the amnesty world, such as petty theft, fraud and abduction.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs wrote a memorial, which listed some crimes for Henry Zhang to look at, to see if the people who committed these crimes could be pardoned, and used to swear the kindness of the new emperor.

Henry Zhang looked at some and found that most of them were not serious crimes.

However, there are several crimes in it that Henry Zhang cannot tolerate, such as abducting children, this crime is also on the list of pardons, Henry Zhang saw it and wanted to beat someone.

As a modern person, Henry Zhang understands better than anyone the pain that families of abducted children will bear.

There are not a few people whose parents go crazy overnight.

There are actually people who pardoned this child abductor, it must be a benefit.

Henry Zhang asked with a dark face: "Who put this crime on the pardon list."

A minister came out tremblingly and knelt in front of Henry Zhang. Before he could speak, Henry Zhang said: "Take off his hat, drag him out and slap him with thirty boards."

The minister was suddenly dumbfounded.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

He has been an official for so many years, and he has never seen such a rude emperor. Without giving people a chance to explain, he was directly dismissed from office, and then he was beaten up.

No one else could bear to watch this scene.

Many people stood up and pleaded for mercy.

Henry Zhang said without changing his face: "The pleading fellow is guilty, dragged out to beat twenty big boards."

But even so, some people were still happy and fearless, and stood up to accuse Henry Zhang. Many people were excited and even threatened Henry Zhang with dismissal.

Many people even chanted slogans like a tyrant, thinking that Henry Zhang's reckless dismissal was a sign of national subjugation.

These people really dare to speak out.

But this also made Henry Zhang understand the truth that even the emperor cannot do whatever he wants.

Especially the emperors of the Sui Dynasty.

Because the emperor of the Sui Dynasty was not the only one, but actually had a powerful family.

The struggle between clans and imperial power began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was especially prosperous in the Jin Dynasty, including the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was still the main opponent of the royal family.Generally speaking, during the Sui Dynasty, the power of powerful families could affect the power of the imperial power.

Henry Zhang saw this exactly today.

He wanted to train a few officials, but many powerful officials stood on his opposite side, constantly blaming himself and saying that he had gone too far.

Henry Zhang had always heard that a large part of the reason why the Sui Dynasty perished was because of the infighting between the imperial power and the clans, which ultimately took advantage of the Taiyuan Li clan.

Now it seems that this sentence is not unreasonable.

The emperor didn't even have the right to dismiss an official position, and would be stopped by others. It can be seen how powerful this group of powerful people is, it is simply unimaginable.

No wonder people say that there are only a thousand-year-old family, but no thousand-year dynasty.

It's no wonder that Yang Guang would go crazy and make drastic changes to reform the bad and embrace the new, and attack the powerful family. It turns out that this group of people is really rampant to this extent.

What a great family, what a noble family.

(End of this chapter)