Zhang Zha was born in the official examination.
The official examination is different from the jinshi. The officials who are selected after the examination are different from the general officials who are paid by the emperor. After being recruited into the public gate, they are "use it when it is urgent, and stop it when it is a matter of time". . There are certain rules in this direction, "officers" cannot be censors, and they can no longer participate in scientific examinations. Therefore, generally speaking, those who will take the official exams are those who have repeatedly failed the exams or have humble backgrounds.
Zhang Zhe belongs to the latter.
He was young and lost his parents, and was raised only by his widowed mother. Although he is talented, he is not very familiar with Bagu, classics, and strategies. After the official examination, he worked under Gu Chunfang, the inspector of Henan Province. There are geniuses when it comes to governing the law.
Gu Chunfang therefore made an exception and recommended him to the court.
Within three years, he had made a judgment on a suspicious case in front of the imperial court, and was favored by the sage.
It's just that in the last life, his career in the future was not very smooth, and it was full of ups and downs.
Jiang Xuening felt astringency in his mouth when he thought about it.
He could have made a name for himself in history, and stayed away from the turbulent battles in the palace with "straightness" and "righteousness", but she was involved in it.
When Zhang Zha was just promoted to the minister of punishment, Jin Yiwei wanted to completely control the power of the prison, but Zhang Zha felt that Jin Yiwei acted arrogantly and abused lynching.
Zhou Yinzhi, who was born unlucky, held the Beizhen Fusi.
He was bent on eradicating Zhang Zhe, while Zhang Zhe tried his best to take back the power of the prison, and repeatedly impeached Zhou Yinzhi for bending the law for his own sake and corrupting the imperial government.
The two were inseparable.
Behind Zhou Yinzhi was Jiang Xuening. She was fighting against the Xiao clan at that time, and she was very useful to Zhou Yinzhi, so at the beginning, looking at Zhang Zhe was like a stumbling block.
In the beginning, it was because of my position to make things difficult;
Later, it was discovered that this person was cold-faced, and it was really fun to tease.
After all, she is the queen, but her words and deeds are too much, and Zhang Zhe can't afford to provoke her, so earlier she mostly tolerated her and let her, but she is not someone who just accepts it when she sees it, but she is more and more aggressive.
Zhang Zhe often advised her with good advice.
Jiang Xuening was also held by everyone at that time, and did not take these good advice to the bottom of his eyes. He only felt that this person was pedantic and stubborn. It was not until later that Xiao Shu and the Xiao clan pressed each other step by step, and one day they held evidence that one of Zhou Yin's gangsters was taking bribes for personal gain. They stabbed them all at once, and deliberately handed it over to the Ministry of Punishment for trial, letting the case fall into the hands of Zhang Zhe. .
The former dynasty is closely related to the harem.
Xiao Shu is arrogant and arrogant, and she is staring at the position of the queen, and she is pregnant now, giving birth to an imperial heir is incredible. If she is allowed to defeat her power in the previous dynasty and succeed in winning the post, then Jiang Xuening will It can be regarded as a place of death without a burial.
After all, she had fought so hard with Xiao before.
She and Xiao Shu, no matter who gets the chance, will not let their enemies be safe.
Overnight, Jiang Xuening suddenly came to a situation where he seemed to be in a dilemma and could only be slaughtered.
People always love the icing on the cake, but rarely give help.
The people who gathered when she was at the height of her momentum suddenly dispersed like the ebb tide.
But Jiang Xuening didn't want to die yet.
So, she chose Zhang Zhe.
On that day, Shen Jie summoned several cabinet ministers including Xie Wei and Zhang Zhe, who was in charge of hearing the case, at the Qianqing Palace. The discussion was not over until the palace gate was released, so he sent a decree to let several adults stay in the palace. middle.
Jiang Xuening stood under the long palace wall and waited.
Her figure was covered by the shadow of the high wall.
The little eunuch who led the way flashed a lantern in front, and approached from a distance according to the figures of the two people in tandem.
The person walking in front was Xie Wei.
Probably because he was close, he recognized her at a glance, but stopped and said, "Suddenly I remembered that Fang Yupei was left in the cabinet's duty room in the morning. I'll go back and pick it up, Master Zhang, let's go first."
Having said that, he turned around and went back.
One of the little eunuchs immediately followed with a lantern.
At this time, Jiang Xuening came out of the shadows, looked at the person who stayed where he was, and said, "Master Zhang, this palace has something to tell you."
Zhang Zhe didn't seem to have thought that she would be bold enough to stop him in the middle of the night in the palace.
Not to mention that Taishi Xie is still with him today.
He lowered his eyes silently, already guessing her intention, and only said: "Please forgive me for Zhang Zhe's order."
The night is deep, and there are only men and women.
One is the queen and the other is a foreign minister.
Although Zhang Zheli was upright, he was afraid of destroying his bones. After saying this, he had to bow down and give way to avoid suspicion, but before he was about to walk away, Jiang Xuening reached out and grabbed his wide sleeved robe of the official uniform.
The steps that were taken, suddenly stopped.
Her slender, snow-white fingers rested on the dark embroidery, and she looked up at him slightly, with a slight trembling in her voice: "Do you want to watch me die?"
Zhang Zhe was speechless.
Jiang Xuening's fingers were slowly clasped, and her transparent and round nails were covered with bright red Kodan. There was a startling splendor in the dark night. She begged him with a soft gesture that she was not used to: "The carriage is from When I went out on the post road, you would rather break my leg and protect me; when I was assassinated by the rebels, I hid in the weeds, but you were willing to take a risk to lure them away. Zhang Zha, you are so good to me, you will Can't you be nice to me all the time?"
At that moment, he lowered his stiff palms beside him, clenched them slowly, and said, "Niangniang is the mother of a country, and Zhang Zha is a minister of a dynasty. Food for the king, loyalty to the king. In death or danger, life is exchanged. It's Zhang Zhe's responsibility to keep her mother safe. But the case of Zhou Yinzhi's henchmen is originally a state affair, and the rise and fall of the mother are all linked to this, so Zhang Zha dare not show favoritism."
"It's a matter of time..."
Jiang Xuening tugged at the corner of his sleeve robe and stubbornly didn't let go. Hearing this, he laughed and looked straight into his eyes.
Just ask: "Really?"
Zhang Zhe finally avoided her gaze and closed his eyes. There seemed to be a struggle hidden in the rolling Adam's apple, and said solemnly: "If Niangniang thinks that this minister's past actions to save her are really arrogant, the minister wishes be punished."
Jiang Xuening then slowly let go of his fingers.
The corner of the sleeve was slightly wrinkled by her grasp and fell down.
She just said in a panic, "I know that Mr. Zhang doesn't rub the sand in his eyes, and these people in the DPRK and China are ganged up for selfishness, and there should be laws to punish them. But do you know what will happen to me if Zhou Yin falls down? I don't want to beg Zhang Your Excellency has spared them all my life, but please Lord Zhang hold your hand high and let me get through this difficult time. I will present the crimes of these people in the future to the Lord’s case, and let them confess their guilt and face the law!”
Zhang Zhe stepped up to go.
Jiang Xuening didn't stop him, just looked at his cold back that was about to hide in the dark, and said the biggest lie he had told in the last life: "Zhang Zha, help me. After this time, I will Be a good person, okay?"
Zhang Zha stood there for a long time.
The sky was too dark, and although there was a hazy moon above her head, it was really difficult for her to judge what Zhang Zhe was thinking at that moment.
All she could hear was her own heart beating like a drum.
That night, Zhang Zha finally left without saying a word and left under the long palace wall.
Xie Wei, who went to fetch the jade pendant, did not return for a long time.
Jiang Xuening stood in the night until the dew was heavy, and after listening to the voice of the palace, she returned to the Kunning Palace.
Every day that followed was a torment for her.
Until half a month later—
In the case of Zhou Yinzhi's party members taking bribes for personal gain, after the tribunal's joint trial, news came out that half of the people involved in the case had solid evidence and were exiled or executed after the fall, while the other half survived due to vague evidence and inconsistent confessions. Some officials were downgraded by one rank, and some were reinstated.
In the process of hearing the case, the Xiao family's party formation in the DPRK was also found out, which caused Shen Jie's fear.
Xiao's plan fell through.
Jiang Xuening's back position was kept.
On that day, she was really happy from the bottom of her heart, and she sent people to inquire about when the court was in front of her. Even Zhou Yinzhi didn't want to see him. She just wanted to stop Zhang Zha for a while, and what to say to him.
But she never expected that the person who came back to report even said that Master Zhang was in prison.
The earring she was picking up to hang by her ear suddenly fell and smashed to pieces.
Thousands of calculations can't be counted, people's hearts are changeable.
Or, Zhou Yinzhi was an unfamiliar wolf.
In this crisis, she tried her best to keep her power and Zhou Yinzhi. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yinzhi had weighed the pros and cons as early as when the matter was first revealed, and did not know when to switch to the Xiao family and serve Xiao Shu.
Jiang Xuening didn't know whether the half of them were really innocent.
All she knew was that it was Zhou Yinzhi who presented conclusive evidence of these people taking bribes for personal gain after the tribunal ended, and instantly put Zhang Zhe, who had previously ruled their innocence, in danger, and then joined the court to impeach Zhang Zhe for favoritism. Bend the law and falsely accuse him of having an affair with the queen.
Half a lifetime of innocence, eventually tainted.
In the past, he was Jin Yiwei's mortal enemy, and once he fell into the imperial prison, under Zhou Yinzhi's hands, how could he get a good deal? Not to mention that there is a tit-for-tat against him, Chen Ying, the right servant of the Ministry of Punishment, who is good at all kinds of torture.
Jiang Xuening didn't dare to think about what kind of life he lived in prison.
I didn't dare to think whether he would think that she was plotting against him, after all, to get rid of him.
All she knew was that within half a month of Zhang Zha's imprisonment, her house was raided, and her mother, who was unattended, was worried about the safety of her only son day and night, and she died of depression and illness, and passed away.
Zhang Zhe is a well-known dutiful son.
But in prison, he didn't even see her for the last time.
According to legend, the cold-faced and affectionate Zhang Shilang burst into tears in prison on the night he learned of his mother's death.
He is upright, and he has solved countless cases without any mistakes or omissions.
There are many famous people among the people.
At that time, all the judges who tried Zhang Zhe's case were afraid or unwilling to write a pen to convict him, and there were many petitioners in the DPRK and China. But in the end, on the third day after his mother's death, he asked the prison guard to lay down his pen and ink, and then he picked up the pen, described his crime word by word, wrote the sentence of conviction for himself, sentenced himself to capital punishment, and sentenced him to death. Beheaded in the late autumn.
There were three divisions in the verdict, and half of the court was sighing.
Looking back now, I think that the plea under the palace wall that night was the last time Jiang Xuening saw him.
I don't know, Xie Wei in the last life, did he do what he said
People were walking away under the long street covered by the rain curtain. The wind poured in from the window and blew into the cracks of the bones. Jiang Xuening slowly retracted his gaze, and finally felt a bit cold.
When he raised his hand to support his face, his eyes were filled with tears.
Zhang Zhe, in the last life, I was the queen, and I was a bad person. I owed you a lot.
In this life, I will not be a queen, but a good man—
Is it suitable for you
"Girl, what did you see, why are you crying?"
Seeing her standing by the window, motionless for a long time, Lian'er Tang'er came to check, but was stunned by the tears on her face.
Jiang Xuening smiled, took the embroidered handkerchief and wiped the red circles under his eyes, and said, "It's alright, the wind is too strong, and I just lost my eyes."
She told the two girls to close the window, and when Yan Lin got tired of waiting, she rested on the couch of the imperial concubine in the house.
Only softly said: "Wait for Yan Lin to call me."
Both girls replied in a low voice, "Okay."
But it's so late, will Yan Shizi still come