"This scoundrel who is based on talent and acts without scruples, I must punish him according to the law!”
In the tavern, Ling Budo kicked the case over with a forceful kick, and he looked angrily at Lou Ben's graceful departing figure, swearing and swearing.
A residential building located in the east of the river.
The Lou family is a prominent family in the Hedong region, especially Lou Ben's generation, the main building of the Lou family was appointed as the Taifu, so it became the focus for a while.
Lou Jing as the son of Lou Jing's family, his two sons did not perform well enough, although they entered the palace many times, but they failed to win the favor of the emperor.
Lou Ben, the eldest son of the second room of the Lou family, is knowledgeable and quick-thinking, and has traveled with Yuan Shen and learned Xi from Master Ouyang.
Over the years, Lou Ben has traveled all over the world, not only with an outstanding reputation, but also with extensive connections in the rivers and lakes.
Two years ago, Ling Budo recommended Lou Ben to the crown prince, and he thought that Lou Ben was a talented member of the council, and that it would be a waste to abandon him in the Analects for excerpts and excerpts, and that he should be given a chance to show his talents.
The prince summoned Lou Taifu into the palace for questioning, hoping that he could give Lou Ben his true duties.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Lou modestly rejected the prince's kindness, saying that his nephew was still young and needed more experience and experience to become a client.
The prince listened to the advice of Mrs. Lou, so the matter was stopped.
Lou Ben's father died young, leaving only his widowed mother and younger brother Lou Yao.
Lou Yao made a marriage contract with He Zhaojun since he was a child, and at the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, He Zhaojun unexpectedly met Xiao Shizi, and under his influence, he dissolved the marriage contract with the Lou family.
He Zhaojun and Lou Yi originally had incompatible personalities, and after they divorced, they began to pursue Cheng Shaoshang. Just as they were discussing marriage, Xiao Shizi and his son suddenly rebelled, and every member of the He family risked their lives to fight them until the last man.
General He left his last words at the end of his life, entrusting his daughter He Zhaojun and young son to Lou Yao.
Cheng Shaoshang deeply felt the conflict between General He's country and his family, so he decided to support him and offered to withdraw from the marriage, hoping that Lou would marry He Zhaojun.
At the engagement banquet, intrigue begins to emerge.
Cheng Shaoshang decided to withdraw from the marriage, and the most pleasing to him was Ling Budo, who asked the emperor to perform his father's duties instead of him and proposed to the Cheng family.
At the engagement banquet, there was a constant stream of guests. Lou Yao was unable to return in time because he went out of town to visit his sick stepmother, He Zhaojun, so he invited his brother Lou Ben to celebrate in his place.
Lou Ben has been famous for a long time, and many people want to build a deep friendship with him, and Yan Zhong, the county magistrate of Tongniu County, is one of them.
Yan Zhong was born in a poor family, and his character is upright and lonely. A few years ago, at the critical moment when the emperor launched the war, he urgently needed stability in the rear, so he appointed Yan Zhong as the Taishou of a county.
After Yan Zhong came to power, his integrity and strict legal discipline aroused strong resentment among the family. They wrote to the emperor one after another, saying that their son was a senior official in the imperial court, but he was not promoted and reused as he should be. In order to appease the people, the emperor had to demote Yan Zhong to Tongniu County and serve as the county commander.
During his tenure, Yan Zhong actively promoted the development of agriculture and mulberry industry, promoted the establishment of rural schools, and excavated canals and roads, making many beneficial contributions to the local people.
About four or five months ago, Yan Zhong's mother was very ill, and in order to find a famous doctor for her, Yan Zhong, who was struggling financially, decided to replace the carriage with an ox cart, which included a green cow and a yellow cow.
As a noble county magistrate, his travel vehicle does not match a colored old cow, which has become a joke for a while.
The distance between Tongniu County and Shouchun is not far away, Shouchun was once the fiefdom of King Xiaoqian'an, and its guard was named Peng Kun.
When the matter of King Xiao Qian'an's private coinage was **, Lou Ben had already **Peng Kun would rebel.
The appearance of Yan Zhong made Lou Ben, a man who had longed to control the core of the imperial court since his youth, see the dawn of hope in the darkness. Thus, a plan full of selfishness and malice gradually took shape in his thoughts.
In the following months, Lou Ben and Yan Zhong got together many times, and the two went deep into the political situation and ambitions at that time, and found that they fit each other very well.
Yan Zhong's character is very upright, and he doesn't want others to misunderstand the deep friendship between him and Lou Ben, mistakenly thinking that he has surrendered to the Shi clan, and Lou Ben has deliberately concealed his whereabouts because of other purposes.
Therefore, whenever Lou Ben and Yan Zhong met, they chose to travel lightly, while Yan Zhong drove the ox cart along the path, but unexpectedly, they met Wan Songbai.
Peng Kun launched a rebellion.
Wan Songbai and Cheng Shaoshang's father, Cheng Shi, have a deep sworn brotherhood, and the two families have been dating for decades and have a deep friendship of life and death.
A few months earlier, the emperor had appointed Wan Songbai as the Taishou of Xujun.
After Wan Songbai arrived in Xu County, he saw that the former Taishou managed Xu County in an orderly manner, and he did not dare to be arrogant, and he had always been Xiao Gui Cao, so he happily assumed the role of the shopkeeper.
Four months ago, a charlatan who claimed to be a well-traveled scammer arrived in Xujun and was invited by a son seeker named Wan Songbai to perform divination.
* Haunted by Wan Songbai, in order to get out of the predicament, he deceived Wan Songbai and only had to walk along the southeast direction for seven days and seven nights, no matter what size of ancestral hall or community he encountered on the way, he would bow respectfully, and as long as his heart was sincere, he would be reciprocated.
Wan Songbai gave birth to 13 daughters, and due to the severity of her condition, she searched for medical help. After listening to **'s advice, she prayed along the way, and unexpectedly met Lou Ben and Yan Zhong at a remote Stacked Water Temple.
Wan Songbai always liked to wear gold and silver, and Lou Ben initially only saw him as a passing merchant and didn't take him seriously.
Two months later, Peng Kun launched a rebellion, and the emperor ordered Cui You and Ling Budo to lead an army to suppress it.
When the army arrived, Lou Ben caught a glimpse of Wan Songbai in the crowd of people who greeted him in the middle of the road, and he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. A smile appeared on his face, but it quickly disappeared without a trace. You have to understand that there are some things that will go well if no one mentions them, but once someone starts thinking, there will inevitably be various problems and flaws.
Therefore, Lou Ben spent a huge amount of money to bribe the assassins, so that they secretly attacked Wan Songbai twice under the banner of revenge for the former emperor.
Wan Songbai is ill-fated and always able to turn danger into safety, Lou Ben's first plan failed, so he used the younger brother of Yushi Huang Wen to persuade Huang Wen to ** Wan Songbai.
Huang Wen was full of deep trust in his junior brother, and after seeing the "conclusive evidence", he said that Wan Songbai had broken the law and discipline, occupied Mintian, and forcibly took several young women as concubines.
When Peng Kun's turmoil had not subsided, the emperor did not want to do too much. Coupled with Cheng Shaoshang's plea, the emperor decided not to submit Wan Songbai's case to the Tingwei Mansion, but to send someone to let him go to the capital to report on his work, and at the same time to explain the matter clearly.
Wan Mengming is an impatient person, and when she learned that her father had an urgent matter and could barely stay at home, she pulled Cheng Shaoshang and decided to go to Wan Songbai to find out the truth of the matter.
The tragic events of Wangfeng Pavilion.
Lou Ben noticed that the emperor did not punish Wan Songbai severely, so he decided to divide into two teams to act, one team sent people to hunt down Wan Songbai, and the other team dealt with the aftermath in Tongniu County.
Three months earlier, Peng Kun had launched a rebellion that had resulted in several counties in the eastern part of Chen's county falling into enemy hands.
At a time of instability in Tongniu County, Lou Ben approached Yan Zhong and claimed that he had an effective way to ensure the safety of his mother and children.
After Yan Zhongxin listened to what Lou Ben said, he not only entrusted the lives of a family of five, but also transported two thousand catties of refined copper out of the city and handed it over to Lou Ben in order to prevent the refined copper from being taken away by Peng Kun after the city was broken.
Yan Zhong calculated in his heart that even if his city was destroyed in the future, the emperor would take into account his copper protection merits and treat every member of the Yan family generously.
Yan Zhong had just left the city, and Li Feng, the Cheng of Zuo County, was also bought in advance by Lou Ben and left with him. He left a message for the guards and soldiers, indicating that Yan Zhong had gone out to look for reinforcements.
In front of Wangfeng Pavilion, Yan Zhong and his family, a total of six people, were all killed by the men sent by Lou Ben. Yan Zhong did not know anything after his death, because he had been framed by Lou Ben and accused of colluding with the enemy and treason.
After Yan Zhong's death, Lou Ben ordered his subordinates to hand over all the order talismans and letters of the county order to Peng Kun, so that he could show his prestige.
Ma Rong disguised himself as Yan Zhong's reinforcements who had migrated back from other places, and successfully opened the gate of the county seat, and then carried out a series of imprisonment and appeasement of the officers and soldiers in the city, waiting for Lou Ben to come to recruit him on behalf of the imperial court.
In Tongniu County, where it was easy to defend but difficult to attack, Lou Ben bravely went to this dangerous place. He did not need to use any troops, and with his fluent eloquence alone, he succeeded in convincing Mayon to abandon the darkness and choose the light, and open the gates of the city to surrender. The news spread quickly, and people praised Lou Ben as a national warrior.
After entering the city with a swift hand, Lou Ben quickly eliminated all those involved in the matter (Li Feng was killed by the soldiers guarding him for his indiscretion and repeated speeches before Ma Rong surrendered). Li Feng's family was killed at the foot of a hillside outside Tongniu County, and Ma Rong was also killed by a cold arrow and died on the spot.
Everyone who knows the truth has lost their lives, Lou Ben originally thought that from then on he would be able to officially go to the court to become the prime minister, but he didn't expect an accident to happen to Wan Songbai.
Ling Budo and Yuan Shen worked hand in hand.
After Wan Songbai joined Wan Mingming and Cheng Shao Chamber of Commerce, they were eager to meet the saint and cry out for grievances, so they suggested taking a shortcut back to the capital.
The assassins sent by Lou Ben went to kill Wan Songbai, and they fought briefly on the official road, and when they found out that the other party was Banjia, they immediately turned around and headed for the trail, intending to intercept Wan Songbai and his team.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, although Wan Songbai's men temporarily repelled the bandits, the situation was still very tense.
Seeing this situation, Cheng Shaoshang quickly ordered his subordinates to take out pens, ink, paper and silk from the car, and wrote four distress letters by hand. The letter was signed with a personal seal that Ling Budo had left for her, and instructed four of his men to break through the siege and ask for assistance.
Fortunately, when Banjia was attacked, he had already sent men to find the nearest army to ask for assistance. When the guards of Banfu rode away, the first person they encountered was Ling Budo, who was leading the army to inspect the four fields.
Ling Budo had just finished dealing with his injuries and deaths, but he unexpectedly ran into his own guards who came to ask for help.
Therefore, Ling Budo led the army to successfully rescue the besieged Wanfu members and Cheng Shaoshang.
The 100 Families Assistance Plan involves the life safety of Cheng Shaoshang, and in order to completely solve this problem, Ling Budo traced it to Tongniu County along the clues, and deduced that Lou Ben may be the mastermind behind it. After Ling Budo returned to the capital, he immediately reported the truth of the matter to the emperor, and cooperated with Yuan Shen, the chamberlain of the Imperial Palace, to work together to determine Lou Ben's crime. Cheng Shaoshang informed He Zhaojun in advance, hoping that she could bring the relatives and old friends of the He family to the capital and intercede with the emperor as soon as possible.
After unremitting efforts, Ling Budo and Yuan Shen discovered that Ma Rong had been wandering around the city since he entered Tongniu County.
Due to Ma Rong's unusual behavior, Ling Budo and Yuan Shen began to suspect that he was looking for a suitable place to hide evidence of Lou Ben's crimes.
In fact, the relationship between Ma Rong and Lou Ben is based solely on interests. When Ma Rong saw the plight of the Yan and Li families with his own eyes, he became alert and did not destroy any evidence as Lou Ben had instructed. On the contrary, he left a visible mark in a tavern called "Oyster" in Niutoufang.
The oyster wine shop in Niutoufang actually refers to three cows, and Lou Ben's name "Ben" is actually composed of these three "cow" characters.
Ling Budo and Yuan Shen found some traces of drilling and chiseling on the wall of the hotel's private room. When I looked closely, I found that there were a lot of books piled up inside, all of which were letters from Lou Ben and Yan Zhong - everything from acquaintance, appointment to meet, to persuading Yan Zhong to relocate his mother and young children.
Yuan Shen's unintentional behavior led to the "demise" of the Lou family.
Lou Ben acted cunningly, he did not write his name on the letter, but drew a small diamond mirror on the signature part of the letter, and his handwriting was different from the usual one.
Fortunately, Yuan Shen was keen to collect poems and essays from Master Ouyang and his classmates in his daily life. After several days of searching, he finally found a letter written by his junior brother Lou Ben to Ouyang Fuzi before he was twenty years old, and the handwriting in the letter was almost identical to Yan Zhong's letter.
The evidence was conclusive, Lou Ben did not refute it again, turned around and smiled lightly at his wife Wang Yanji, and then chose to end his life.
Ling Budo and Yuan Shen returned to the palace to report the situation, and the emperor immediately issued an order to remove Lou Taifu from his post and order him to immediately return to his hometown with his family for in-depth reflection.
The exception was Lou Yao, who, as the emperor knew nothing about Lou Ben's crimes, was not only not exiled, but was appointed as a county magistrate in a small place, and allowed the rest of the He clan to follow.
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In order to break the family's inheritance and improve the ability of the children of the Han family, the emperor formulated a rule after the opening of the dynasty, that is, all the people from the same family could not hold official positions.
Mrs. Lou hopes that her children can enter the officialdom, so she has prevented Lou Ben from stepping into the officialdom many times.
Lou Ben had no chance to stand out in both civil and military affairs, so he was malicious and conspired with Ma Rong to deceive Yan Zhong and kill innocents indiscriminately for an official position. Fortunately, Ling Budo and Yuan Shen joined forces and finally found out the truth.
After Lou Ben's death, Wang Yanji brutally killed Lou Taifu and his wife in order to avenge Lou Ben, and finally died in a conspiracy carefully planned by him.
Lou Yao's family was in danger of extinction, but he eventually lived a peaceful life, he looked at fame and fortune very lightly, and never had the idea of hurting others.