Chapter 381: Exercise

The king raised the gavel and slapped it, and said angrily: "Don't understand? You will understand later!"

Chen Ao smiled slightly and said, "Oh? Is it necessary to be punished?"

The king's minister was stunned for a moment and then said, "Who said he was going to be punished? I'll call the witness later. Let's see how you quibble."

Chen Ao couldn't help but smile even more and said, "If you don't get the punishment, you won't be afraid. What I fear the most is that the adults are punished. Didn't the adults say there are witnesses? Where are the witnesses? Call me to see."

Chen Ao's disapproval made Wang Zhichen a little confused. I wonder if this guy is crazy. The official has already made an order. Once the crime is confirmed, he will never tolerate it. As long as he catches a little, Chen Ao will definitely die, at least he will be exiled. Fortunately, he can still be so calm.

Could it be...

Wang Zhichen has been in the officialdom for many years, and now he feels something is wrong. He is just a difficult time to get on the verge of the tiger. The interrogation needs to continue: "Come on, bring the foreign merchants."

In front of everyone, a foreign merchant was taken in. The man was wearing a deep-eyed and high-necked man, wearing a han shirt and a scarf. He looked quite funny. As a merchant, although he was a foreigner, he understood the rules. When he entered the yamen, he immediately took his head and bowed, and said loudly in Chinese: "I have seen you all..." Then he raised his eyes, looked at Chen Ao, salivating with fear, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "I have seen Mr. Shen."

The minister of Wang Zhi looked at Chen Ao proudly, and when he saw Chen Ao smile at the foreign merchant, he snorted coldly in his heart, and said silently: It depends on how long you can laugh.

He picked up the gavel and patted it again, and the minister of the king shouted loudly: "Who is in the hall?"

"Kash, a merchant from the Black Khanate, was named Zhou Chu in the Han Dynasty."

"Zhou Chu, you are a foreign merchant. Since you have arrived here, you don't have to be afraid. If you have anything, just say it out loud. With this master here, no one can touch you at all. Do you understand?"

Zhou Chu nodded repeatedly: "I understand, understand, the small ones must speak everything, and they will say everything."

Wang Zhichen glanced at Chen Ao and said, "Can you know this lord sitting?"

"know."

"Then I ask you, who is he?"

"If you want to know, he is Lord Chen Aoshen, the minister of the Honglu Temple."

Wang Zhichen He nodded: "As a result, you really recognize him. Lord Shen, I ask you, do you know this business?"

Chen Ao curled his lips and said, "I know more about the merchants, how many can I remember?"

The king's minister said to the clerk: "Record Chen Ao's original words, no words are allowed to be missed." Then he said to Chen Ao: "So, Lord Shen doesn't recognize him?"

Chen Ao said: "I don't know."

The minister of the king said to Zhou Chu angrily: "Zhou Chu, why does Lord Shen not recognize you? Could it be that you are trying to bite Lord Shen?"

Zhou Chu was so scared that his face looked like a mortal look and immediately said, "I really know Lord Shen. That day he was on duty. I went to report to him. At first he said he wouldn't see him. He didn't want to give him a gift. Later, after I asked someone and sent him a thousand guan of money, he was willing to meet me. He also told me to abide by the laws and regulations in Bianjing City. He would take care of him if there was any difficulty. After that, the villain went to see him several times, and each time he brought enough gifts, a golden mask, a Western Regions horse, and a number of pearl agates. These were done by the villain himself, and there would be no mistakes."

Everyone was uproared, and they didn't expect the case to go so smoothly, and they whispered together.

The king's minister couldn't help but be overjoyed. He was born in the name of a criminal name and had rich experience. According to the procedures, as long as he had a witness, he could collect evidence and convict him. However, it was not so easy to confirm Chen Ao's crime. The evidence was not detailed and it was very likely that the demographic was actually caused.

The king's minister cheered up and sternly said to Chen Ao: "Mr. Shen, what else do you have to say?"

Chen Ao said calmly: "There is nothing to say."

The king asked, "Then do you admit your guilt?"

"Don't admit it!"

Wang Zhichen sneered: "It seems that you won't cry after seeing the coffin, hum!"

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "He said he would recognize me if he knew me. He said he would give me money if he said he would give me money. Then can I say that I still recognize Lord Wang? Is that right? I recognize Lord Wang and gave you a beauty. Will Lord Wang recognize it?"

"You are talking nonsense!"

Chen Ao said with a stern face: "I'm talking nonsense, isn't he talking nonsense too? Lord Wang, you are the Minister of Justice, you don't understand the law of punishment. When you call a merchant, you want to bite me. Don't you think it's too absurd?"

The king's minister knew that he was very verbal, so he ignored him and shouted: "Come on, come and get the evidence."

Several clerks immediately presented a brocade box and put it on the desk of Wang Zhichen. Wang Zhichen uncovered the brocade box, and then a book of account was put into Wang Zhichen: "Do you have any impression of this book of account book?"

Chen Ao looked at it: "I don't have any impression!"

Wang Zhichen sneered: "It's obviously your handwriting. There is no other person in the world who can write this running script except you."

Chen Ao stopped talking.

Wang Zhichen was even more excited, thinking that Chen Ao had already given up, and raised the account book in his hand and said loudly: "Mr. Shen, do you want me to read it to you?" He opened the first page of the account book and read it: "A Long, a merchant from Guizi, gave him a pair of jade horses, five hundred stags of gold..."

After this thought, it took half an hour to finish. Everyone was stunned. Many officials who had a rift with Chen Ao were immediately overjoyed. With ironclad evidence, Chen Ao had no chance of turning around this time. Unexpectedly, Chen Ao had a bad record after just one month of taking office. He was really a robbery of hair. Several famous tycoons in Bianjing City were not left behind in his account book.

The king's minister was so dry that he left the account book, and smiled at Chen Aoyaowu with a mighty smile: "Does Lord Shen have anything to say?"

Chen Ao was silent for a moment: "No."

"Then do you admit your guilt?"

"recognize!"

Waiting for this sentence, the king's minister was overjoyed and immediately said, "Bold and arrogant. As the minister of the Honglu Temple, you are corrupt and illegal. Your evil deeds are so obvious that the heavens are angry and resentful. When someone comes, he strips his official uniform and wing caps, he immediately takes him to the Ministry of Justice. When I, the chief judge and the deputy judges, you will submit a memorial to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to punish him."

A big stone in his heart finally landed, and Wang Zhichen's heart almost jumped into his throat. He was afraid of something going wrong on the way, but he didn't expect that today was so smooth that he couldn't believe it was true. He stood up and saluted Cai Jing, who was headed behind him, and said, "Tao Shi, can the case be closed?"

Cai Jing opened his eyes, looking like an ancient well was about to nod, and someone next to him suddenly said, "Let's wait!"

The minister of the king looked over and said that the person who spoke was one of the deputy judges. Jiang Min, the minister of Dali Temple, was one level lower than that of the minister of the king, but the two were not subordinate to each other. Jiang Min was the minister of Dali Temple, and was one of the two major criminal institutions in the Song Dynasty. He said that one should be too slow, even Cai Jing could not close the case at will.

Cai Jing smiled and said, "Does Lord Jiang have anything else to say?"

Jiang Min saluted Cai Jing and said, "Tao Shi, although Chen Ao has confessed, the bribes in the account book are shocking. If you don't ask what happened and make a hurried decision, wouldn't it be a shame for the holy grace? The official suggested that you first ask Chen Ao where the bribes were hidden, and then report to Your Majesty. In this way, Chen Ao can be convinced and ended well."

Cai Jing was silent for a moment, but he couldn't guess what Jiang Min was thinking, but it was hard to refute Jiang Min's proposal, so he nodded and said, "Mr. Jiang is right, so let's try again."

The king nodded and said, "It's better."

After saying that, the three of them returned to their original positions. This time the minister of the king was not polite. Since the evidence was conclusive, Chen Ao was the criminal. If you were to be polite to the criminal, you would do whatever you should do. The exclamation made the entire yatang slam and the sound of the lingering sound was lingering, and then shouted loudly: "Chen Ao, have you heard what Lord Jiang said just now?"

Chen Ao said: "I didn't hear clearly."

When dealing with this kind of tricky tricks, Wang Zhichen laughed instead of angry. He only felt that Chen Ao was just like this. He was more than enough to bully those rigid scholars, but in front of Wang Zhichen, who had been famous for his long-standing punishment and knowledge, he was nothing but like this. Back then, they were those rebels who killed people like a lot, and Wang Zhichen was just as careful as Chen Ao, let alone the tricks like Chen Ao.

The minister of the king said sternly: "Okay, I will tell you again. I will ask you, where are the property? You'd better take the real trick, otherwise if someone raids the house, don't blame others for being ruthless."

Chen Ao said seriously: "I don't know, even if I know, I can't say it." This time he became serious, his face looked extremely holy, and he looked like he wouldn't even say it even if he beat him to death.

"Hmph, if you don't say it, there will naturally be a way to let you speak. Don't forget that now you are a conclusive evidence and an official. If you act as a punishment, you are afraid that you will not be able to bear it!"

"Testing torture? I'm most afraid of people who are being punished." Chen Ao looked very scared and his face changed drastically, saying, "But this matter is of great importance. Even if you're punishing, I won't say it."

The gavel hit hard: "Bold, you are despising me, someone is coming..."

Seven or eight open fire officials from the Ministry of Justice shouted: "Here."

Everyone was nervous. Unexpectedly, the result of the matter was like this. Zhou Zheng's face changed slightly. He wanted to stand up and speak. Quarine beside him grabbed him and shook his head at him. Zhou Zheng sighed, unable to bear to watch the next scene.

The King of Jin was still calm and watched with great interest, and from time to time he even told jokes to the princes next to him.

Some people also showed joy and wanted to be punished immediately. They looked at the hall with their eyes blankly, fearing that they would miss this scene.

Cai Jing suddenly opened his eyes and always felt something was wrong, but he couldn't imagine what the problem was, so he had to continue to close his eyes and rest assured and let the ministers of the king try it first.

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Chapter completed!