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    A few days later, when Emperor Wen of Jin said that he would leave the court without incident, Yushi Lu Guang suddenly stood up and said that he had something to do.

    "Yesterday, when I was returning to the mansion, I was stopped by a ragged peasant couple. The couple handed over a blood letter, suing the new champion Jiang Liu for being unfilial to his late father."

    Lu Guang glanced at Jiang Shendao from the corner of his eye, then handed over the blood book and his own memorial to the eunuch beside him, and presented it to Emperor Wen of Jin.

    Jiang Shendao felt bad when he saw Lu Guang stand up, and when he heard what he said, he sighed that it really came.

    Lu Guang was a student of Zuo Xiang, and Zuo Xiang was one of the auxiliary ministers left behind by the late emperor. Following the emperor's personal administration, Zuo Xiang refused to completely delegate power, and Jiang Shendao, who was the new emperor's confidant, naturally became the leader of that faction.  A thorn in the side, a thorn in the flesh.

    Now it seems that the disciple seems to be tired by his master.

    In the Jin Dynasty, the criminal law for unfilial sons and daughters was extremely strict, and the most serious ones could even be sentenced to death.

    The scope of unfilial piety is very broad, such as failing to support the elderly, beating and insulting parents, disobedience and disobeying parents' wishesall are within the scope of unfilial piety and must be punished by law.  According to the degree of unfilial piety, different degrees of punishment such as tattooing, torture, execution, and death are imposed.

    Generally speaking, if a scholar bears a reputation for being unfilial, he will be deprived of his qualifications for imperial examinations, and if an official is disobedient and unfilial, he will be demoted.

    Jiang Shendao had never heard his disciples talk about his uncle and aunt, and he didn't know what was written in the so-called uncle Jiang Liu's blood book that Lu Guang said.

    But he wasn't too nervous right now, because Jiang Liu's father was dead. If he was still alive and he stood up to sue his son, then there was a high probability that Jiang Liu wouldn't be able to keep it, but Jiang Liu  His father is dead, and the living cannot speak for the dead.

    Even if Lu Guang's family wanted to use Jiang Liu to marry the widowed mother, the criticism based on the unfilial father's deceased father would still be untenable to a large extent.

    At most, it is to use public opinion offensive to discredit Jiang Liu's reputation among those pedantic scholars.

    Jiang Shendao settled down a bit, and he was not as panicked as Lu Guang and the others imagined.

    "Come here, pass on Jiang Liu, the champion of the new discipline."

    Emperor Wen of Jin glanced through the two complaints hastily, and gave instructions to the internal servant with a somewhat ugly expression.

    His displeasure was not aimed at Jiang Liu. In the eyes of Emperor Wen of Jin, Jiang Liu was a disciple of Jiang Shendao, that is, a loyal royalist. Besides, Jiang Liu was strictly a student of the first emperor.  Zuo Xiang's faction is targeting Jiang Liu, rather it is knocking mountains and shaking tigers, threatening him, the emperor.

    Emperor Wen of Jin could completely ignore the two complaints at this moment, but he still wanted to see how the new champion he wanted to promote would respond to the attacks from the Zuoxiang faction.

    Therefore, Emperor Wen of Jin ordered the servant to summon Jiang Liu, wanting to try his own skills.

    In about half an hour, Jiang Liu was summoned into the palace. Facing the menacing attack from Zuo Xiang's faction, Jiang Liu seemed to have been prepared for a long time.

    "Your Majesty, please allow me to submit a few investigations on the population growth of the Jin Kingdom and the affiliated Qiang Kingdom in the 24 years after the war."

    Jiang Liu took out a thick stack of memorials, and Lu Guang couldn't help his eyelids twitching wildly when he saw this. From the corner of his eye, he glanced at Jiang Zandao, who was always there, and felt more and more that his actions had been leaked in advance. Jiang Zandao  The old fox notified his disciples in advance and made preparations.

    However, he felt that no matter how eloquent Jiang Liu was, he probably couldn't explain his behavior of marrying off his widowed mother and betraying his late father.

    "The minister is still young and has little experience. If there is anything wrong, please forgive me, Your Majesty and all ministers."

    Jiang Liu made a bow, and Lu Guang snorted coldly when he saw this.

    "The memorial in your Majesty's hand records the population growth of Sanjiang Mansion where I am located in the past 24 years. Twenty-four years ago, the permanent population of Sanjiang Mansion was 13,724.  People, twenty-four years later, the resident population of Sanjiang Mansion is 11,764. In the thirteenth year of Jinyang, the number of newborn babies registered in Sanjiang Mansion was 945.  In 2011, the number of newborn babies registered in Sanjiang Prefecture was 678."

    Jiang Liu stood in the center of the hall, exuding a steady self-confidence that didn't match his age. Judging by the way he talked, he didn't look like a fifteen-year-old boy who had just stepped into the court and hadn't even been appointed as an official.

    "How come the number of newborns in Sanjiang Mansion has decreased so much, and the resident population has decreased by nearly 2,000 people compared to 24 years ago."

    Emperor Wen of Jin looked at this memorial very puzzled, but he also knew that Jiang Liu did not dare to falsify such numbers, Meng??He is the emperor.

    "Your Majesty, please read the next memorial."

    Jiang Liu signaled the emperor to pick up the following memorial: "Yuchuan Province is adjacent to Tongzhou Province. When the Qiang Kingdom attacked Daxiguan, Tongzhou was in a hurry. Yuchuan Province was second only to Tongzhou.  The North Korean army counterattacked all the way to the capital of the Qiang Kingdom, and the defeated Qiang Kingdom bowed their heads and proclaimed their vassals, but they also left behind hundreds of thousands of dead souls of Jin Dynasty people.  There were nearly a thousand more widows, and among these widows, except for more than 70 women who registered to remarry later, there were more than 900 women who kept festivals for their deceased husbands.  The number of new additions is going from bad to worse."

    Ancient times are not as good as modern times. The number of people in a populous country can easily be one billion or two billion.

    According to Jiang Liu's understanding, the entire Jin Dynasty had more than 10 million people, and Sanjiang Mansion was equivalent to a city in later generations, with more than 10,000 permanent residents, it was already a very prosperous city.

    "Please read the next memorial, Your Majesty."

    Before everyone digested the data, Jiang Liu signaled the emperor to read the next memorial.

    "This is a traveling merchant who was invited by the minister to travel between the Qiang Kingdom and the Jin Dynasty. A piece of data was obtained from Jiangguo Lane. This is Longcheng, which is next to Daxiguan in the Qiang Kingdom. At that time, the number of males in Longcheng was also the number of deaths in the Qiang Kingdom.  One of the towns with the largest number of towns. In recent years, the Qiang Kingdom has surrendered to the Jin Dynasty on the surface. In fact, their ambitions are not dead. They encourage widows to remarry.  In the next twenty-four years, the population of the Qiang Kingdom has already returned to the number before the war, and it is conceivable that when all the newborns grow up, the Qiang Kingdom is bound to wage war again."

    "You are presumptuous!"

    As soon as Jiang Liu finished speaking, Lu Guang pointed at Jiang Liu's nose and cursed regardless of his image.

    Now the Qiang Kingdom is extremely honest, worshiping on time every year, bowing their heads to the Jin Dynasty, Jiang Liu's words are trying to stir up suspicion between the Qiang Kingdom and the Jin Dynasty, and their intentions are sinister.

    "Jiang Aiqing continued."

    Emperor Wen of Jin's expression was solemn, and he waved his hand to signal Lu Guang to return to his original position.

    "Perhaps, as Lord Lu said, it is the heart of a minister and a villain who judges the heart of a gentleman. But the ancients have said that they are guarding against the passing of time, and are prepared for danger in times of peace. Dare to ask Lord Lu, if one day the Qiang Kingdom tears up the peace treaty, our Jin Dynasty has insufficient troops.  In the case of insufficient labor force, what can we use to fight the Qiang country, and what can we use to drive the Qiang country's iron cavalry back to their capital?"

    Jiang Liu's questioning left Lu Guang speechless.

    In fact, as early as the end of that war, the government should have encouraged widows to remarry, but at that time, Emperor Jinyang defeated the Qiang Kingdom.  Over time, the evil consequences of the previous misjudgment gradually began to appear and expand.

    "The ruler of heaven and earth, relatives and teachers, the ruler is the first, and the relatives are the last. In the eyes of the ministers, the so-called widow's chastity is an extremely pedantic behavior that is not conducive to the reproduction of offspring. However, many clans force widowed women to observe chastity for the sake of the so-called upright family style.  The lynching and execution of those women who want to remarry is, at a small scale, a contempt for the laws of the Jin Dynasty, and at a large scale, it is a danger to the Jin Dynasty, which is no different from treason."

    "As for the uncles and aunts of mine in the population of Lu, in the early years, in order to seize the family property left by the late father, they colluded with outsiders and tried to frame my mother with poisonous schemes.  The name of the couple is also missing from the genealogy, and when they colluded with outsiders, they never thought about my late father, but they ran out and said that I was not filial to my late father when my mother remarried, it is really ridiculous."

    Jiang Liu's words are full of guns, presenting the facts and reasoning, and he stands on the righteousness of the country, as if to refute that he just wants the Jin Dynasty to destroy the country.

    After saying these words, Jiang Liu turned sideways and made a bow to Lu Guang.

    "May I ask Lord Lu, minister, what is wrong with you?"

    He said all the good and bad things, Lu Guang's face was ashen, and his heart felt like he had eaten shit.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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