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Chapter 33 The Princess Takes the Blame and is Granted Death (33)

When they were working so hard that they almost dug up the entire Prince Lu's Mansion to look for clues and evidence.

Ding Shui's soul has recovered from its previous consumption.

The sky gradually darkened. Although the sun had not completely set, the remaining sunlight had little effect. So she naturally took off to visit other palaces across the country and see the disparity in the world.

Look at the difference between a prince and a prince!

However, it was definitely impossible to stay in a palace and observe carefully for ten days, half a month, or even a year or two. To save time, and out of laziness, Ding Shui mainly chose to look through the memories of some of the palace's stewards and the prince's confidants.

They are not new arrivals like Dong Huaide.

He has a pretty good understanding of his master's situation.

You know what, it's quite exciting and interesting. It has its annoying parts, but it also has its good parts. The life of the rich and powerful is simply more exciting than that of ordinary people.

In just three days, excluding the hours at noon when the sun was at its strongest, Ding Shui successfully visited all the royal palaces in the country and came to a conclusion that the difference between people and the difference between princes is really greater than the difference between humans and pigs.

Although some princes in different places are not human.

But it is true that King Lu is the worst kind of person.

There are many princes with good character. They are all born to the same father. If there is any difference, is it the mothers who are different?
The ones who were not good enough were the King of Jin, the King of Han and the King of Qi. The King of Jin guarded the northwestern border and had a bad temper. He often beat and scolded his subordinates and slaves. More than one person was whipped to death by him. He also did many things such as raping women, favoring concubines and killing his wife. In addition, he was bloodthirsty.

He especially enjoys killing people for fun.

Fortunately, there were often wars on the border, so he could go out and kill some barbarians whenever he had nothing to do. Most of the people who died under his sword were foreign enemies, so the local people could still tolerate it.

Just think of it as raising a guardian deity that requires blood sacrifice.

At least people did guard the border and prevented the barbarians from entering. If the barbarians had entered, more people would have died.

King Han guarded the southwestern border and liked to raise small animals in the past. After he became a vassal, he obtained many secret techniques of making poisons by killing the rebellious indigenous clans in the local area, and he became obsessed with this thing. It was better in the past few years, and at most he just caught wild animals to raise poisonous insects.

Or occasionally capture some prisoners of war to raise.

In the past few years, I felt that humans were the essence of heaven and earth, and it was most effective to use humans to refine Gu. If there were enough humans, I could also try to refine Gu people and other things.

But the local chieftains and natives had been frightened by the attacks and dared not rebel at all, or simply stayed away. So in recent years, he began to actively pick fights with those chieftains and native tribes. No fewer than ten thousand people died at his hands, or were killed by his Gu-refining.

It’s just because those who died were from indigenous tribes, and these people were not registered, so they were considered savages or illegal residents.

Local officials basically turned a blind eye.

Quan pretended not to see it.

But recently he seemed to be even more crazy, because he had always failed to refine the legendary Gu man, and the IQ of the Gu worms he refined was not very high. Anyway, he did not achieve his ideal goal, so he thought that the IQ of the natives in those places might be too low, and he had to use smart people to refine the Gu, preferably scholars, so that it would be effective.

Otherwise it will be difficult to make any breakthroughs.

Therefore, they have begun to take action against the local gentry.

There were not many scholars there to begin with, and even fewer with official titles. In the past six months, more than a dozen juren and more than thirty xiucai had disappeared. However, because King Han acted very covertly, no outsiders knew about it yet.

At least I don't know it was him who did it.

They thought it was a revenge by the local indigenous tribes and were discussing whether to ask him, the King of Han, to wipe out the rebellion!

The King of Qi's fiefdom was not far from the King of Lu's, and within it were two salt ponds. He was certainly not short of money, but he had a particular fondness for rare marine treasures, such as pearls and corals. He demanded that all officials and noble families within his fiefdom pay tribute to him, and he even organized his own forces, purchased ships, and went out to sea in search of rare finds like mermaids.

Apart from that, he didn't do anything evil.

It can be said that few people died directly at his hands, but too many died indirectly at his hands.

Those officials and their families who were required to pay tribute could not go to the sea to fish for pearls, corals and other rare marine items themselves, so they naturally began to force their hired farmers and fishermen to go into the sea to salvage them.

If they don't go, their rented land will be taken back, etc. Anyway, there are many ways to deal with them, and they don't even need to spend any money, and they are not willing to spend any money.

The result is that in recent years, the death rate of local female pearl divers has increased by more than five times, and the death rate of young and middle-aged fishermen has increased by more than three times. Many fishermen have lost their breadwinners, and some have been forced to sell themselves, while others have simply committed suicide as a whole family to put an end to it.

This is only one aspect. On the other hand, the King of Qi forcibly designated all nearby waters as his own private territory and no longer allowed nearby fishermen to go out to sea to fish, even if they were willing to pay fishing taxes.

For fishermen who make their living from the sea.

This is no different from killing them.

The local officials were dissatisfied, but they had no way to impeach him. If the King of Qi had seized the people's land, it would be natural for them to impeach him, but there was no precedent for seizing the ocean, and the Xuhu were originally low-class people.

The current dynasty stipulated that the official prostitutes in the Ministry of Education, local musicians, criminals of the previous dynasty who had fallen into poverty, beggars, fishermen without land, and servants of the time were all classified as lowly people.

Compared to the hired farmers and self-employed farmers of wealthy families.

Far inferior.

No one was willing to offend the King of Qi for the sake of some untouchables.

So although the King of Qi did not kill anyone directly, many people died indirectly at his hands, and many families were destroyed.

It may even be the most among the princes.

These are the three who are not very good. The rest of the princes are actually okay, and some are even excellent.

Fortunately, it mainly means that they don't do anything stupid or have any hobbies that would harm people's lives. Some of them may like men, some may like women, and some may like married women, but they are basically polite and don't harm people's lives. Many of them can be dealt with by spending money, or spending money and power.

The more outstanding ones were King Zhou, King Ping and King Ji.

King Zhou was fond of medicine. When he had nothing to do, he would discuss medicine with local famous doctors. Sometimes he would even change his name and go to the clinic to see patients. He had revised several ancient medical books and wrote a book called "Compendium of Materia Medica for Relief".

It includes hundreds of poisonous and non-toxic wild vegetables.

There are pictures and words, as well as instructions on how to deal with poisonous wild vegetables, which can make them non-toxic or slightly toxic.

King Ping, fond of music and food, not only reproduced several lost ancient musical instruments and pieces of music but also attempted to sort out musical theory from ancient times to the present day. While no results have been seen yet, Ding Shui believes that the prototype of the twelve-tone equal temperament is already there, and that perseverance will surely yield results.

The food is not bad either.

I came up with several new recipes.

I'm just a little overweight, almost 200 pounds.

As for Prince Ji, he was a vassal king guarding the northern frontier. How can one describe him? He was perfectly normal, incredibly normal. He diligently served as a vassal king guarding the frontier, doing well in politics and military affairs. He loved his wife and son, and had two concubines, but they were all well-behaved, and no one dared to act rashly. He was also very kind to his subordinates, fair and dignified, and he loved his people like his own children.

At least as of now, Ding Shui hasn't found any shortcomings or problems with him. Overall, he's pretty good.

I have seen many abnormal princes.

I was a little surprised to see something so normal suddenly.

Or it cannot be said to be normal, he can even be called a model vassal king. If vassal kings in various places were like this, there would be no need to worry about instability in the world and the well-being of the people.

From this we can see that the difference between people and the difference between princes are really huge.

The upper limit is very high and the lower limit is extremely low.

Due to insufficient preparations in advance and the great impact on the lives of some princes stationed in the border areas, Ding Shui only conducted an investigation in the past three days and did not take any sanctions.

Besides, she wanted to take a look first.

How will Emperor Tianwu deal with the matter of Prince Lu?

(End of this chapter)