Chapter 478.

Chapter 478.

Emperor Yuan Jing knows that courtroom battles are like cooking a small fish, and that it is only through slow stewing over a gentle fire that a satisfying flavor can be stewed.

Pulling a group of people together, suppressing a group of people, the cycle of gradual progress. In the process, you need to give the enemy the opportunity to counterattack and vent, a little bit to wear down the other side of the sharpness and fighting spirit.

If he, the king of a country, forcefully argued against it and forcibly convicted Wei Yuan, what would end up happening would be a repeat of what happened after King Huai’s death when the group of ministers besieged the Noon Gate.

Isn’t the group of ministers besieging the noon gate the reason for his excessive firepower.

The subsequent operation and layout, little by little, to reverse the nature of the Chuzhou case, then perfectly in line with the theory of slow stewing over a gentle fire.

Emperor Yuan Jing strolled through the palace and looked up at the far azure sky, except that was when he had to preserve the balance of his qi and not leak it out. And now, what he was going to do was shake up the qi.

Since the two Yan Kang countries were so ineffective, he would take matters into his own hands.

On that day, despite failing to characterize the battle, there were finally different voices in the court, which was a very important signal for the Beijing officials who had a keen sense of smell and were good at analyzing the situation in the court.

Those who want to take sides will have to make a choice now.

Those who don’t take sides, then just shut up and wait and see what happens.

In the two days that followed, several major and minor dynasties were held, with members of the former Wei Party not giving an inch and uniting with the Wang Party to fiercely argue with Yuan Xiong and Qin Yuandao’s party.

Emperor Yuan Jing, as in the past decades, raised his throne high and watched the tigers fight.

The most surprising thing was Chief Minister Wang, the old chief minister who had fought with Wei Yuan for half of his life, with an incredible attitude, stood steadfastly on the side of the former Wei Party members, and had done his best for the name of Wei Yuan’s behind and for the characterization of this battle.

In front of some small courtyard in the north of the city.

A high-grade and luxurious carriage slowly pulled up to the street, and the middle-aged man in regular clothes got down from the carriage and, surrounded by his escorts, knocked on the door of the small courtyard.

The door was opened by a small, clean-cut daughter-in-law in a cloth skirt, who was startled to see so many men standing in the doorway, and closed the door in a hurry.

The squire reached out to block it and reprimanded, “No insolence, do you know who is standing before you.”

Unable to close the door, the young daughter-in-law stepped back in some panic and shouted toward the house, “Mother, there’s a guest”

The old woman with a head full of silver hair, leaning on her cane, came out of the house and surveyed the uninvited guests warily, “Who are you?”

The old woman is also rich and wealthy, just sweeping a glance, from the middle-aged man’s expensive fabrics, well-made clothes, as well as the jade pendant hanging on the waist, to recognize the identity of the person is unusual.

This made the old woman more and more wary.

The goal of those court lackeys is very clear, is extortion, although hateful, at least in the open. Moreover, now the family has four walls, hard times, that kind of inhuman dogs do not bother to come back.

What was the purpose of this middle-aged man in front of him, whose status must be noble?

Definitely not for silver.

The middle-aged man stood in the courtyard, a few cooing hens in the corner, as well as the faint smell of chicken poop in the air made him frown slightly.

“You are Lu Zhennan’s hairy wife?” He asked.

Lu Zhennan is Master Lu’s real name.

The old woman suddenly burst out loud wailing, crutches thrown a sit on the ground, play the usual tactics of shrews, in short, the first to sell the misery, put themselves on the moral high ground is right.

The old woman hadn’t read or written; these were lessons and truths honed in the city.

But the middle-aged man’s sentence made the old woman’s cry instantly jammed, like an old hen that had been strangled by the neck.

“Do you want to overturn Lu Zhennan’s case?”

Surname Lu abducted and trafficked people, raped a good family, or overturned the case? The old woman neither nodded nor refused, but just stared blankly at the middle aged man.

The middle-aged man smiled, using wording that was as understandable as possible to the city woman:

“The great official who exiled your son is called Wei Yuan, head of the office of the night watchman. He is now dead in the sand. Some people, ah, thought of reversing the case for those innocent people who were framed by Wei Yuan, returning their innocence and the officials’ rule.

“As long as you after lunch, go to the noon gate to beat the Deng Wen drum, accusing Wei Yuan of wealth accumulation and defamation of the good people, I can and guarantee that your son, who is exiled in the borderlands, before the spring festival this year, can come back to be reunited with you.”

The old woman’s eyes snapped into brightness and radiance.

Spinning around a little scared, he muttered in a low voice, “Telling the Royal Court is a punishable offense.”

The law of Ta Dung stipulates that those who go beyond the limits of the lawsuit shall be flogged 50 times.

If you win, you’re free to follow. If you lose, you are condemned to migrate 2,000 miles or even lose your life.

The old woman such an age, flogging fifty, not to mention the lawsuit, on the spot and the dead ghost old man reunion, husband and wife to cast the fetus.

The middle-aged man snorted, “Don’t worry, we’ll keep you safe and sound, if you die, won’t we be working for nothing?”

Said the man, glancing at the squire at his side.

The squire dropped a gold ingot and a pleading.

The middle-aged man said, “The pleadings have been written for you, and when this is done, not only will your son be able to come back, but afterward, there will also be a payment of fifty taels of gold, which will be enough for your family to live a life of fine clothes and food.”

The old woman’s teeth clenched and her heart crossed, “Many thanks to Your Lordship for being the master of the people’s women!”

The middle-aged man nodded his head in satisfaction, “The process and method of suing the royal court, I will teach you now .”

That day, the drums outside the noon gate, an old woman with her daughter-in-law and young grandson, outside the noon gate sounded the Dengwen Drum, suing Wei Yuan for excessive wealth and defilement of the good people.

Emperor Yuan Jing, who had been neglecting his duties for twenty-one years, was furious at the news and ordered the Metropolitan Police to investigate the matter closely.

This news spread rapidly among the officials in the capital, and the officialdom in the capital was in a dark current.

The old woman was immediately taken away by the imperial inspector of the metropolitan police, and she was taken to the interrogation room of the metropolitan police, her head bowed with fear and trembling.    The city woman had a natural fear of the government.

“Is it Lu Li at the bottom?”

Behind the big case came the majestic voice of the presiding judge.

“The civil woman is.” The old woman said in a trembling voice.

“Raise your head.” The majestic voice said again.

The old woman slowly raised her head, saw the appearance of the official master sitting high behind the big case, and almost screamed out in shock, this official master, is the same middle-aged man who visited the door not long ago and taught her to sue the imperial court.

“This officer Yuan Xiong, what grievances do you have, tell us truthfully.”

“What the people, the people’s women have to say is written in the pleadings.”

“Not enough, have to be more detailed. This official asks you, you answer, no hiding, understand.”

“Yes.”

“Did your husband, Lu Zhennan, sell any people and take away good families, children and adult men?”

“There is absolutely no such thing, my wife’s husband is a small merchant in the fabric business, a hardworking and conscientious citizen, how could he sell people slightly.”

“Then why did the Knife Master of the People’s Teeth Organization, bite the bullet and say that Lu Zhennan was the leader in the organization?”

“I don’t know, I’ve never heard of this person at all, besides, at that time, my husband had already died of illness, it’s all because of their one mouth slander, bullying the dead can’t speak.”

“Oh, the crime of desire.” Yuan Xiong nodded and asked, “After the Lu family was copied, what happened to you guys?”

“Those night watchmen, they come to the house for three days to cause trouble and demand money.”

“Oh, extortion and fish. What else?”

“And they molested my daughter-in-law.”

“Oh, defiling your daughter-in-law and raping a good family.”

Soon, Yuan Xiong brought the results of the interrogation and entered the palace to report to Emperor Yuan Jing.

Emperor Yuan Jing immediately summoned all of the princes and held a small court meeting in the imperial study.

“Bang!”

Emperor Yuan Jing slammed the case, and his dragon face shook with anger:

“The night watchman is a man who amasses unlimited wealth and exploits the people, and after he has separated their wives and children, he is still unwilling to let them go, knocking out their bones and sucking out their marrow, and defiling their daughters…. The scourge of Xu official has been accumulated for a long time, I didn’t expect that the watchman who should be monitoring all the officials has been corrupted to such an extent. I am deeply saddened. I am very disappointed in Wei Yuan.

“I treated him as a national scholar, but he became a national thief.”

Liu Hong, the left imperial historian, came out and said urgently, “Your Majesty, the matter is related to Wei Gong, such a big case, should be the three divisions of the trial, can not listen to the words of Yuan Xiong alone.”

He is Wei Yuan’s beloved, this case, he is to avoid suspicion, Wei party members have to avoid suspicion, excluded by Emperor Yuan Jing, not to interfere in this case.

Emperor Yuan Jing laughed coldly and said: ”The three divisions will interrogate, can you interrogate the result? In the case of Concubine Fu, you tried the Crown Prince, what did you find? It’s all about shifting blame up and down.”

The gentlemen were speechless for a moment.

Chief Minister Wang stepped forward and said in a deep voice, “Your Majesty, this is a major case, this is out of order, please ask the three divisions for a trial.”

Qin Yuandao, the minister of war, immediately stood out to retort, saying:

“During the time of the Beijing inspection, the night watchman’s office, from the golden gong down to the copper gong, had been imprisoned for corruption and bribery. The culture of corruption has been around for a long time, and now that Wei Yuan is dead, this group of corrupt scum has no shelter. I think it’s just the perfect time to thoroughly investigate the night watchmen and sweep out the disease.”

Emperor Yuan Jing, however, stopped looking at him and gazed at Yuan Xiong, saying:

“Yuan Aiqing, I will now give the night watchman Yamen to you, you check well, be sure to sweep away the disease, and return me a clean night watchman Yamen.”

Yuan Xiong was ecstatic and didn’t let his emotions flow to the surface, and he shouted to, “Yes!”

As the princes dispersed, the Minister of War sprinted after Wang Shoufu and whispered, “Lord Shoufu, what’s the best thing to do right now?”

Obviously, His Majesty wanted to use this as a way to discredit Wei Gong, and when all the “darkness” of the night watchman’s office surfaced, how clean could Wei Yuan, who was the leader of the night watchmen, be?

At that time, don’t even think about any Chungmu or Duke.

Chief Wang replied, “Have you noticed that there are more and more silent people?”

The Minister of War’s face changed.

Chief Minister Wang faintly said, “Watch your own people, officialdom people go tea cold, thousands of years of unbreakable reasoning.”

This old man turned back and glanced at the palace, his face full of fatigue.

Yuan Xiong left the palace in a carriage, and neither returned to the Imperial Palace nor went straight to the office of the night watchman as a new official.

“The one who knows the night watchman best is surely still the night watchman, and if you want to get things done the fastest, you can’t do it without that man’s help.”

Yuan Xiong narrowed his eyes and tapped his fingers quietly on his knee.

The wheels clattered as he exited the Imperial City and traveled through the inner city for half an hour before arriving at a mansion.

Chu Mansion!

PS: This chapter is a little short on words, so I’ll make up for it in words tomorrow.