Why did your Majesty rebel?

The so-called beheading after the autumn is actually a human relationship in the law.

The criminals sentenced to beheading after the autumn will need to go through an autumn trial, which is equivalent to a review of the criminals. If it is found that they are wrongly accused, or there is another mystery in the crime, the sentence may be changed.

Generally, the autumn trial begins in July or August, and the execution begins in September.

September 10th.

The eldest daughter, who was renamed Zhaohui from Zhaodi, wore a red jacket and black skirt.

Red is pink, in order to distinguish between commoners and nobles, giving privileges to nobles. Commoner women are not allowed to wear bright red in daily life.

Zhaohui wore pink, and even her shoes and headscarf were matched with pink.

Because...

that brother who always bullied her and her sisters and had no respect for their mother, had not passed the Autumn Trial and would be beheaded today.

"Today is a really good day!"

She tried her best to act normal and not let the smile on her face grow. But she couldn't help but ask her mother: "After Jiabao is beheaded, should we go and get his body back?"

If you want to get it back, you have to pay to redeem it.

If you don't get it back, the government will transport it to the crematorium for cremation, and the ashes will be scattered in the bone-shaking pool.

After all, it was the flesh that fell from her belly. The lady thought about it for a long time, hesitated for a long time, and then sighed: "No need. We have no place now. If we bring the child back, we will burn it in a fire. Let the family redeem it. Their family has been wanting a male child for so long, and they must bury one in the family cemetery, otherwise wouldn't it be in vain to wait for twelve births?"

Among these twelve births, some were born by her and some were born by the concubine. The concubine was rented and forced to keep it for three consecutive years. After giving birth to one, she would get pregnant with another. Sometimes she would get pregnant before the confinement period was over. When the three-year period was up, she didn't want the child and directly terminated the contract and ran away.

But she was an orphan that this family had specially found, so she was easy to control and couldn't run away. She could only keep giving birth until she gave birth to a son.

To be honest, she felt a little guilty towards her daughters. She couldn't escape from that family. During the continuous births, she hated these daughters uncontrollably. She hated why they took the place of her sons and hated them for making her suffer. She beat and scolded them and had no good face. It was not until Jiabao was born that she came back to her senses and tried to make up for it and protect these girls from that family.

"Besides, mother doesn't want to spend money on him anymore." The lady said in a low voice: "Mother wants to leave all the money to you."

Mother has her own ideas, and daughters have their own ideas.

Perhaps because they had witnessed the pain of their mothers giving birth one after another, the first few daughters who were old enough to remember chose to pay the fine every year when they reached the age of marriage and combed their girlish hairstyle into a bun, indicating that they would never marry.

However, they were also afraid that no one would collect their bodies after death, and they would become lonely ghosts without incense. It happened that the group of weaving girls who had changed from prostitutes to good women also did not want to get married. They lived together in a group and made an agreement with each other to call each other sisters. The survivors would be responsible for the funeral and sacrifice of the deceased sisters.

They did not get married and had no children, so some of them recruited female disciples to take care of them in their old age.

They named this place "Guanyin Hall" in order to seek the protection of the Bodhisattva. In order to better maintain the Guanyin Hall and ensure that the unmarried women in the hall have enough money to pay for their unmarried expenses and have enough money to protect themselves in their old age, they imitated those guilds and collected money in a unified manner. All the labor income of those who entered the Guanyin Hall belonged to the Guanyin Hall for unified distribution, and a part of it was allocated to support the elderly and disabled women in the hall.

Later, more and more Guanyin Halls appeared. At the peak of its prosperity, there were hundreds of people in a Guanyin Hall. A village with only more than 1,500 people could have two Guanyin Halls.

People gave this group a name, calling it "self-combed women".

All of this was based on the development of the silk industry and the improvement of silk weaving tools. Women could earn a considerable income and support themselves independently even if they left their families.

Many silk factories welcomed such self-combed women to work because they had no family or children and did not need to leave their jobs to wait for childbirth. They could work seven days a week and twelve hours a day.

When those silk factories united and issued the "Four Don'ts": Don't be in love, don't be married, don't have children, don't be old and sick. The group of self-combed women reached its highest peak in history.

- But this was a long, long time later. In Daxia, on September 10, the 35th year of Tiantong, the Guanyin Hall had only a prototype, and the first generation of self-combed women were not yet called self-combed women.

They gathered together with trepidation and excitement, and fear of a future without a husband's family, and quietly established an agreement:

those who came first should help those who came later, and the young should support the old.

*

On the same day, the left and right prime ministers wrote to the emperor, asking him to reopen the "prodigy test".

The so-called prodigy test, as the name suggests, is an exam for boys under the age of fifteen. They do not have to go through the process of imperial examinations, provincial examinations, and joint examinations. The prefectures where they are located hold it every three years. Those who pass it will go directly to Beijing, be examined by the Imperial College, and re-examined by the Secretariat (this dynasty is a one-province six-department system).

If you pass the re-examination, the emperor will conduct the palace examination, and after the palace examination, you can enter the officialdom.

In the previous dynasties, the child prodigy test selected many famous child prodigies.

For example, in the middle and late Liang Dynasty, Wang Jinming, a famous official and financial expert, passed the child prodigy test at the age of seven and was awarded the title of Secretary Zhengzi (Ninth Rank). During

the Chu (Tai) (Zu) period, a child prodigy passed the child prodigy test at the age of six. Because his writing was too outstanding, he was suspected of having used a backdoor.

During the Chu Taizong period, a child prodigy entered the Hanlin Academy at the age of ten. In the Hanlin Academy examination, he directly won the first place in the "Book of Songs" among all the Hanlin. During

the Zhou Wendi period, a child prodigy passed the child prodigy test at the age of eight and was awarded the title of Jinshi. The greatest achievement in history books was to solve the problem of tax grain transportation in the Zhou Dynasty in one fell swoop, so that the tax grain could only be transported 500,000 shi per year, and it became 2.3 million shi per year. It greatly improved the mobility of the court.

In addition, there are many child prodigies who have passed the child prodigy test and have made a name for themselves in the long river of history.

But Daxia does not have its own child prodigy yet.

The emperor's decision on this matter is: "Find the prince, and he will supervise the country."

Of course, the prince approved this decision with a stroke of his pen.

It will take some time for the policy to be issued to various prefectures, and the reopening of the child prodigy test has not caused any commotion.

Someone said to Minister Bing: "I heard that the young master of the minister's family is twelve years old this year, and he has already mastered the classics and history. I think he will shine in this child prodigy test. Congratulations, congratulations."

Minister Bing sighed: "I don't have the heart to care about this matter now."

The person who was asking the question immediately responded, following the gaze of Minister Bing, and looked at Xu Yanmiao with a strange expression, who was near... not far... far away... the distance was getting farther and farther, and the person was walking faster and faster.

[Yaozu is not a good person, but Minister Bing is also terrible. ]

[He took advantage of the fact that the family was in decline to lure the uncle and nephew to give themselves to him for money, and then used fake goods to deceive people. ]

[When he did all this, he didn't know that Yaozu was a bad guy. Isn't this relying on the fact that ordinary people can't do anything to him, and spending (fake) (money) to buy ditch goods? He even cheated the money of selling ditch goods...]

[He ran away. 】

Xu Yanmiao muttered to himself as he moved to the side, pretending that he was thinking about something. He did not walk in a straight line, but walked at an angle to the right.

He almost made those old ministers laugh.

- Xu Lang, don't you think it's too obvious?

And a certain new Minister of Works had a droopy face.

Guess why I can't laugh?

"Ahem." The person asking the question tried to comfort: "Although... although Xiao Bai Ze seems to dislike you

a little..." Minister Bing firmly believed: "Don't talk nonsense! Xiao Bai Ze doesn't dislike me, he just wants to stay away from me!"

Others: "..."

Even if there is a difference, the difference is not big, right?

The person asking the question choked: "Okay, he just wants to keep a distance from you. However, Shangshu, don't worry too much. What Xiao Bai Ze cares about is that you use your power to play with the people. As long as Xiao Bai Ze finds out, you already knew that Yao Zu was a bad guy..."

Bing Hui was surprised: "Then he won't keep a distance from me?"

"Not really." The person asking the question coughed: "Then his impression of this matter will change from 'oppressing the people' to 'evil will be punished by evil', and maybe in comparison, the hatred will be less."

Bing Hui: "...Thank you."

"Well, actually there is another way."

"What way!"

"You should do more justice during this time, then Xiao Bai Ze may believe that your previous attack on Yao Zu was because you saw injustice and came to his aid."

Bing Hui's eyes lit up.

So, the question is, where can he seek justice?

Bing

Hui inquired for more than a month and found out about a strange house.

He heard from people in the market that this house is very strange. A year ago, a neighbor saw two men go in at night and never came out again.

What's even stranger is that there is a strong man guarding the door day and night. When others ask, he says it is the doorman of this house.

But which doorman looks so fierce? He looks like he has been on the battlefield or killed people.

Moreover, not only did the two men never leave the house, but the clothes and food were all brought in by the strong man.

And today, a carriage stopped at the door of the house, and the person who got off was neither the strong man nor the two men. It was a newcomer, and the strong man was very respectful to him.

Bing Hui was overjoyed, and took out a real silver ingot and handed it to the person who brought him the news. Although he felt a little distressed, it was a necessary expense!

"There must be something strange in this house!"

Bing Hui's mind turned quickly: "Either someone is going to do something big in there! Or, the owner of the house has been imprisoned."

Minister Bing told the patrol officer about this, and through formal procedures, he asked the Five Cities Military Department to send patrol officers to follow him to ambush outside the house.

The door of the house opened, and a group of guards came out first to clear the way. Then a man came out holding his waist and cursing: "There is no change at all! It's been a year in vain! We all know that people are different from chickens! Two men locked together will not become one man and one woman."

Given the distance from Minister Bing, he could not hear what he was muttering.

Minister Bing made a gesture, shouted and jumped out, and a group of patrolmen came out from behind him and surrounded the other party and the guards.

"The Wucheng Military Department is investigating the case! Someone suspects that you have evil intentions and have imprisoned the owner of the house. You are acting recklessly under the feet of the emperor. Why don't you surrender quickly!"

The old emperor held his waist, blinked in confusion, and then flew into a rage: "Under the feet of the emperor? Acting recklessly? Who!!!"