Chapter 64: Trial of the Third Division (3)
Dai Zhou sighed and shouted to the yamen officials: "Since the Taoist lord named Zhou Ying the second rank Zhaoyi, and the rank of this official is lower than that of Zhaoyi, it is appropriate...... Zhou Ying is not required to kneel down."
When Huaping heard this, she got up obediently and stood there.
After saying that, he asked the Supreme Emperor for advice: "Daojun, can you try the case now?"
He felt quite uncomfortable. Although the inner palace and the court were incomparable, the second fourth-rank minister of the Ministry of Rites had been promoted for more than ten years before he was promoted. However, this painting screen was only 10 years old, and it was even higher than his own.
But what he didn't expect was that Li Yuan answered no.
Dai Zhou's face was very stiff. It was understandable that the Supreme Emperor protected the female officials around him, but he and Sansi had already made a move. The "nothing" should end now!
"No! Painting... Zhou Ying is a second-rank Zhaoyi, and his status is honorable, and he should not kneel with the civil servants. However, as Zhaoyi's father, how could Zhou Laosan have the truth to let his father kneel down and his daughter stand?" Li Yuan said leisurely.
His purpose was very clear, and the interrogation could not be carried out normally. The cause of this case was nothing more than a property dispute over the dowry. Because it involved him, it was handed over to the Ministry of Justice for handling.
But according to normal procedures, how can three departments review it?
In order to catch doe, hunters on the grassland often catch young deer, tie their limbs tightly and set traps. The shrill cry will attract real prey.
According to the conventional trajectory, the doe will definitely be trapped in the iron clips buried underground.
Dai Zhou was so angry that he stood up that he would immediately give advice, but Feng Deyi, who was sitting in the side seat, shook his head, pressed his hand down, and signaled him to sit down.
"Daojun said this, I should follow it. Since ancient times, there has been no reason for children standing and parents kneeling. Moreover, my Tang Dynasty is a country of etiquette in the vast Celestial Empire. Small matters can be avoided, and the great morals are not abandoned. What the Taoist said is reasonable." Feng Deyi bowed to Li Yuan and talked happily.
Before he finished speaking, he turned his mind and said, "Although the Lin family is intimate with Zhaoyi, they have turned against each other and have no right to be filial and brotherly, so they cannot be avoided."
Feng Deyi has always believed in the principle that "hazard will lead to failure". He is like a skinny old dog. Even though he is hungry and cold, he still has the patience to wait...
The beginning is not important, what matters is the result!
"Since the Minister of Justice has said that, of course, I, an outsider, have no big opinions." Li Yuan said.
Feng Deyi has been in the officialdom for decades, and his cunning mind is not comparable to that of him. It is already good to take the initiative in front of him.
The road is led step by step, and the situation is broken little by little.
"Mingfu, I was so confused a few days ago. Seeing the beautiful life of the Zhou family, I... sued Zhou Laosan, and I wanted to withdraw the lawsuit! Withdraw the lawsuit!" Lin Liusheng was confused and understood the crisis of his situation.
The girl from the Zhou family is different now. The whole family fled to Chang'an City so hungry that she fled to the famine, but now she is Zhaoyi, a third-rank rank. Be good, this is a high-ranking official!
The more he thought about it, the more he regretted it. He was all his children and in-laws, but for the sake of his greed, of course, he was forced by Lin Dalang's marriage. This time he thought of going to the county government to appeal.
When I was marrying my daughter, my family had peeled off a few layers of skin. The matchmakers from the village and neighboring village were unwilling to step on the threshold of his family. Then I felt a fever and went to beat the Dengwengu.
I thought that the Zhou family’s daughter would definitely pay for her to settle the matter privately, but I didn’t expect that she had a big fuss to this point…
In the Tang Dynasty, most people respectfully called the county magistrate Mingfu, and Mingfu was the abbreviation of "Mingfu Jun". Originally, it was a respectful title for the prefect in the Han Dynasty.
"Book of Han·Biography of Gong Sui": "The Ming Mansion is about to stop, I hope you will be clear." In the Tang Dynasty, the county magistrate was also called Ming Mansion, and the county magistrate was called Shaofu.
Lin Liusheng didn't have much knowledge, so he called Dai Zhou not the Minister of the Secretariat, but the Ming Mansion.
Before he finished speaking, Dai Zhou slapped the wood suddenly and shouted: "For the people to slander officials, the false accuser asked for the death of the autumn queen, and the whole family was demoted to a low-ranking family!"
"What?" Lin Liusheng and Lin Youjin said in shock, their bodies almost couldn't hold on to fall.
They didn't know that the seemingly simple conflict of resentment had actually developed to an irreversible level.
Things are no longer something that a little girl can control when she draws a screen.
This is not just a private fight or mutual understanding. It has already involved the situation where the people sue the officials and whether they are falsely accused. Not to mention that this is also a microcosm of a competition between the court forces.
"Do you want to withdraw the lawsuit?" Dai Zhou slapped Jingmu again and shouted in a low voice.
"I dare not, I dare not!" Lin Youjin pushed Lin Yousheng away and answered first, but he didn't want to die so ignorantly.
As for the sister who married in the past, his past marriage and friendship, he must make up his mind when it is implicated in the fate of the whole family.
Next, Dai Zhou followed the process of interrogating the prisoners according to the usual process, which was nothing more than the cause, process and result of the incident.
Li Yuan listened to it and said that Liu Yuan, who had been beaten to death by him, came back and said that the reason why Huaping did not send a letter to ask for advice during this period was also found.
Huaping is not not writing a letter, but the letter he wrote was intercepted by others for some reason. Now Huaping is still silly grateful to Li Yuan for being able to come to make decisions for her after receiving the letter.
However, Li Yuan did not intend to make this clear. He looked at the court officials in the hall and were almost all enemies. What does it matter who did it?
The smart man who could seize the time difference and let him go down the mountain to disturb the water in Chang'an would have the ability not to be discovered by him. Liu Yuan was just one of countless chess pieces, not to mention that Li Yuan had no confidants.
Liu Yuan, who was beaten to death, didn't understand until he died. The Supreme Emperor didn't plan to force him to confess...
But just as the trial was about to end, Feng Deyi smiled and said, "Although Zhou Ying was a maid in the harem, she had made an engagement with Lin Youjin in the third year of Wude. A gentleman did not take away the beauty of others. I heard that there were no useless palace servants in the Da'an Palace and the Yeting Court, and there were tens of thousands of people. The expenses of food and clothing were much greater. The injustice of the claustrophobia was a good feeling. The harm of the yang was caused by this. Although the palace servants were out of the palace in previous years, they did not do the best...
In my opinion, Zhou Ying can be placed in the palace to benefit the family with the beauty of the whole family."
Releasing a palace means that the palace specially ordered the palace maids in the palace to be put back home, and this matter has always been regarded as benevolence.
Li Yuan looked at Feng Deyi with a smile. The old fox finally showed his fangs. He had guessed countless times how Feng Deyi would use to draw a clear line with him, so as to achieve the goal of supporting Li Shimin.
One of them is to put the palace and let the painting screen go home.
If Li Yuan was still an emperor, if he was released from the palace, he would only make people feel that he was a benevolent king, but now he has abdicated and has become a leisurely emperor.
This is no longer a benevolent scholar, but a destruction of his majesty and put the remaining skin of Li Yuan on the ground and rubbed it constantly.
People who are unreasonable will think that this is a beautiful thing, which can make people beautiful. Those who are good at it will also compare the Supreme Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, the miserable Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the happiness of the Painting Screen and Lin Youjin...
But in the court and the aristocratic families, Li Yuan, the Supreme Emperor, is really useless, it is just a mascot placed in Da'an Palace or Cuihua Mountain.
His heart is punishable!
"Be kindness is the manifestation of harm, and the purpose of flattering Li Shimin is achieved." Li Yuan sneered.
Chapter completed!