Hearing Yang Fan's words, His Majesty Li Er suddenly felt bitter. Now that the Tang Dynasty is prosperous and the people are safe, there are no so many people who commit crimes.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, there were only a dozen death row prisoners a year.

But he is the dignified master of the Nine Five. He has just said the big talk, but now he can't do it. It's really embarrassing.

You know, Yang Fan rarely speaks.

However, why do this kid want so many death row prisoners? Could this guy want these death row prisoners to fight?

Although death row prisoners are extremely vicious, not all death row prisoners are powerful people.

Besides, if these death row prisoners were allowed to join the army, wouldn’t it be a reversal of the world and a turmoil in the court?

Merit is merit and demerit is fault. Although Yang Fan has made great contributions, it is impossible to exchange for freedom with these functions.

Li Shimin rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "This... this may be a bit difficult!"

Seeing that Li Shimin was a little embarrassed, Li Ji quickly explained: "The Marquis of Zhongyi didn't know that the Tang Dynasty had enough wealth and prosperity, and the country was prosperous and the people were safe. There were very few extremely vicious people. Therefore, so many death row prisoners were needed, and they could not be found in the Tang Dynasty."

Yang Fan slapped his head and stood there in a daze. Only then did he realize that he had taken it for granted, and a story flashed through his mind.

There is a record about Li Shimin in "Zizhi Tongjian":

"Xinwei, the emperor personally registered prisoners. When he saw the person who was dead, he was convinced. Even if he returned home, he would die from autumn. He ordered the dead prisoners in the world to be sent to the capital. Last year, there were 390 dead prisoners in the world, and no one was in charge of the commander. They all went to the court as scheduled, and no one died. The emperor pardoned them."

This passage tells such a story.

After Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin became diligent in governing the country and reviewed memorials every day.

When Li Shimin was looking through the death row cases across the country, he found that the prison life of those death row prisoners was very miserable, and some of them were sentenced to death for crimes before he ascended the throne.

The current people of the Tang Dynasty live and work in peace and prosperity, and look at these death row prisoners who survive in prison.

Li Shimin suddenly felt pity in his heart, so he did something unexpected to everyone.

After repeated consideration, Li Shimin decided to let the 390 death row prisoners in prison go home to reunite with their families for a year and need to come back to be tried the following autumn.

After Li Shimin's decree was issued, 390 death row prisoners returned home happily.

At that time, many ministers were worried that so many people who committed crimes and were sentenced to death were regained their freedom, so how could they still come back for trial as promised?

Besides, these are all outlaws, and you may not be sure to do anything bad if you go out.

Everyone believed that no one of these 390 prisoners would come back unless they were fools.

But no one dared to listen to the emperor's orders, and had to hope that these death row prisoners could fulfill the gentleman's promise.

A year passed quickly, and it was already the date of return that Li Shimin had agreed to have with 390 death row prisoners.

Many officials thought that no one would come back, but the result was unexpected.

But in the autumn of the following year, all the death row prisoners who were released came back one after another.

Later, Li Shimin sent someone to count the number of people, but found that one person was missing, which made Li Shimin a little disappointed.

The ancients at that time were very particular about integrity. When this situation happened, even other death row prisoners were indignant.

They believe that the emperor can give everyone a year of free time to accompany their family, which is already a perfect end to be kind and righteous. Now this person who does not keep the promise of a gentleman is simply a slander for everyone.

However, things changed later. After the prison guards investigated, they found that the death row prisoner who did not return as scheduled was very far away from the capital, which may have been delayed due to the journey.

A few days later, the prisoner really came back. It turned out that he was injured on the way back, so he was a few days later than the agreed date.

At this point, all 390 death row prisoners returned as promised.

When Li Shimin saw these death row prisoners who were about to face beheading, he was still moved by the death row prisoners who returned as agreed with him.

He believes that integrity is the basis of people. Since they can be honest, they can prove that they still have a chance to correct their mistakes.

Therefore, Li Shimin issued another unexpected decree - deciding to pardon these 390 dead prisoners and regain their freedom.

Although many historians were confused by Li Shimin's behavior of pardoning death row prisoners, they even said that he was the broadest emperor because Li Shimin didn't need to be a show at all.

First, Li Shimin was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and he did not need to pardon the world and win over the hearts of the people of the previous dynasty.

Secondly, the Tang Dynasty had stabilized at this time, and there was no need for Li Shimin to win over these useless words.

Why pardon these dead prisoners?

But Yang Fan's opinion, Li Shimin's motives for behavior would not be so simple, and he had ulterior motives.

The agreement between Li Shimin and the death row prisoner is better to say it is a bet. No matter what the outcome is, the winner is Li Shimin.

We know that Li Shimin ascended the throne with the blood of his relatives on his hands. In that era when loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, his approach was contrary to morality.

As the king of a country, how can he convince the public with such history? So he wants to reshape everyone's views on him.

The reason why he chose death row prisoners was that if these people who were bound to die did not return as scheduled, then it would be easy for Li Shimin to search them with all his strength.

After these death row prisoners who did not come back were caught, they would definitely be punished with more crimes, and it is natural to ask for direct execution.

But Li Shimin has given them a chance, and everyone will only think that the emperor Li Shimin is benevolent and righteous, and the death row prisoners deserve to be punished.

Now the death row prisoners are back as scheduled, Li Shimin is named as benevolence and righteousness, and the death row prisoners are also grateful to him.

In addition to the later pardon of the death row prisoner, Li Shimin's benevolence and righteousness were sublimated again.

Therefore, Li Shimin's agreement with the death row prisoner is the beneficiary of any result.

Because of this, the people of the Tang Dynasty felt deeply that His Majesty Li Er's benevolence and righteousness were at least guilty and committed crimes.

It is no surprise that there are few death row prisoners in the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Fan was a little panicked!

Those TV and movies say that in ancient times, thousands of death row prisoners were lying.

What should I do now? Do I really need to recruit a batch of mud legs to train?

But once this happens, the training intensity will definitely not be enough. It is simply a fantasy to defeat Duan Zhixuan in the battle.

Yang Fan is really a little bit wavy.

Li Jing smiled slightly and said, "Marquis Zhongyi wants to conduct strict training for these death row prisoners to gain a glimmer of hope, right?"

Yang Fan nodded with a wry smile.

Li Jing looked mysterious: "I have a way to replace it, but it requires your Majesty's consent."

Li Shimin quickly reacted and asked expectantly: "Duke Wei Guo said Yeyangong?"

"That's right!" Li Jing answered neatly.

These words immediately made Yang Fan's eyes lit up.
Chapter completed!