"Sima Ji is greedy for pleasure in the mansion every day and satisfy his desire for food. This is unfilial! The former king Sima Ji has been honest all his life and loves the people. He is known as a wise king. However, his son Sima Ji is so greedy. Please punish the court!" Yang Ying's memorials have been full of accusations against Sima Ji, from large-scale construction, levying bribes, and not hesitating for the people's efforts, and violates filial piety, etc. It seems that all evil deeds have been collected from this northern vassal king since ancient times.

"Yang Ying actually said that I was unfilial. This is purely slander. She was alone and she remembered the teachings of the previous kings and did not dare to slack off for a day. Yang Ying's words were really seriously injured. Such people with bad character were in charge of the court's salt tax. The officials in the court should choose other virtuous people to appoint them!"

Yang Ying's memorial said that Sima Ji was unfilial, which made him angry. Although he decided that he was just to show off and was disgusted with the difficulty of being sluggish in his head, he dared to do this after all, and he was already famous.

"This kid is too much. I will deal with you later!" Sima Ji sulked in the Yan Prince's Mansion, completely forgot that he had an affair with his subordinates and his wife and daughter. Can the frame-up of the vassal king be considered a frame-up? It is true. A tenant saw Yang Ying and his wife and daughter say a few more words, but he just reported it to the truth.

Yang Ying accused Sima Ji of being unfilial because of eating. It was very simple. The Jin Dynasty attached great importance to filial piety and "destroyed the weak for three days without eating". After three days, porridge can be eaten, but the amount of food is also strictly regulated: two meals a day, morning and evening, each meal is only "one overflowing rice". "One overflowing rice" is equivalent to one-quarter of a liter. The filial sons of the Jin Dynasty, such as He Qiao, He Zeng and others, all weigh the weight before eating, for fear that they would become unfilial if they accidentally ate one more grain of rice.

The limit of this diet will be gradually relaxed after a hundred days. After a year, vegetables and fruits are allowed to be eaten one year later. After two years, seasoning with sauce and vinegar is allowed. To completely return to normal diet, you have to wait until the mourning period expires. How long is the mourning period for "cutting down the weak"? Three years.

King Sima Ji of Yan has just died less than a year. Sima Ji has never wronged himself in eating, and he has not allowed him to eat soy sauce and vinegar. He has never even followed it for three days. Yang Ying blamed him in the memorial that Sima Ji actually used soy sauce and vinegar during his meal within a year, so he must not be a filial son.

"Come on, bring me the jealousy! Then bring me a plate of fruit!" Sima Ji shouted at the maid at the door, "Let Yan Yan come over, I have something to tell me!"

"This?" Although Yan Yan has done similar things for Sima Ji countless times over a long time, he has never done this before by slandering a senior official of the court? Isn't it a little too despicable?

"It's just a few remarks that Luoyang wouldn't know about walking among the people. Who has ever really cared about public opinion? For the gentry, what they hope is that the emperor and the gentry share the world, not the common people." Sima Ji said with a smile on his lips, "How do they think of those slaves, tenants, and the people, Luoyang will never know, because in the eyes of those people, these people are not human, but for me, the gentry is all. I hope that the gentry of the gentry is the same as the gentry, and even if it has no effect at all, I have to do this!"

"I understand!" Yan Yan bowed. He could not understand what Sima Ji was thinking at the moment, but the King of Yan asked him to do this, so there must be a reason for this.

Rumors about Yang Ying’s woman were spread quietly in the three counties and nineteen counties of Yan State. Now such remarks are useless, who says they will be useless in the future?

There were crowds of people outside the city gate of Jicheng. The guards of the Yanwang Mansion tied a man to the ground, and there were several strong men holding court sticks behind him. This was because another thing was born in Beiping County. After all, the salt officials brought by Yang Ying were outsiders and had some conflicts with the tenants in Beiping County. After all, they certainly represented the court and gave the tenants in Beiping County a lesson. It was nothing more than a horse whip.

But in Sima Ji's eyes, this was a good opportunity. The person who gave the tenant a horse whip was just a minor official, who was not of high rank but was brought by Yang Ying. First, the first one was very consistent with the xenophobic mentality. Second, it was given Sima Ji a chance to slap in the face, so he immediately ordered the guards of the Yanwang Mansion to arrest people, and then escorted them to Jicheng to publicly beat the board.

"When the fight is good, the King of Yan really loves the people as much as his son. These Luoyang people bullied us, and the King of Yan presided over justice for us."

"Try hard!" The crowd was cheering and cheering from time to time, accompanied by the begging for mercy from the fallen staff, which was even more pleasing to the eyes of the people.

On the top of the city, Sima Ji hid in a corner and watched the scene. Even if there were not a thousand, there were eight hundred people watching. The crowds of people were rushing to point fingers at the court stick, obviously very excited.

"Your Highness punished the salt officials for the tenants who were enfeoffed. Your Highness was so excited that his actions really attracted the hearts of the people!" Yan Yan also hid aside and whispered to Sima Ji.

Sima Ji withdrew his gaze and looked at Yan Yan, sighing in his heart. He seemed to remember that he had never flattered the person in the realm and had no talent in this area at all, so don't force him to shoot him.

"The people are not happy about justice, they love the people as much as their sons. Do they know the beheaded tenant? They don't know them!" Sima Ji said with a sneer, "They are happy about being beaten by an external enemy, and although they are barely considered to be of a rank, they are still an official! Seeing a person with a higher status than their own, this is the reason why they cheered. Today they will cheer because of a minor official, and tomorrow they can cheer because of you. Yang Ying or this king will be beaten in the future, and they can cheer because of you."

“不管你是不是一个好人,你做了多少好事都没关系!百姓就爱看这一幕.”司马季盯着颜严的眼睛悠悠的道,“你呢最好老老实实的办事,确保有一天被护卫按在地上挨揍的人不是你,本王要回府了,估计杨英快来了.”

"Your Highness, please come back!" Yan Yan, who had just corrected his views, hurriedly gave way and bowed to Sima Ji's back.

Sima Ji did not think that he had done something wrong, and flies did not bite seamless eggs. Since it was a salt official who made a mistake, it was nothing wrong to punish him according to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty. This was already very shameful. According to the punishment he re-judged, it should be corvee service.

When Yang Ying came to the Yanwang Mansion, Sima Ji had already set up a banquet, including fruits, vegetables, and soy sauce and seasonings.

"Your Highness has a good appetite!" Yang Ying saw this scene as soon as he came in. He knew that it was a demonstration, so he snorted and said coldly.

"I have always had a good appetite!" Sima Ji nodded slightly, "Is he here to get someone? You can take it back, but you should be disciplined strictly. Youzhou is not a lawless place."
Chapter completed!