He felt like he was being dragged onto a pirate ship. God knows, he had intended to muddle through at first, but he didn't know how he ended up in this state.
Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked up at Fang Dianli.
Fang Dianli immediately looked at him with a smile and said, "Sir, the opportunity is right in front of you. As long as you can handle this case, you will be the second strong commander. What are you afraid of? Your name will be passed down through the ages, right before your eyes!"
The gavel in Lord Zhang's hand fell heavily on the table, making a thunderous sound.
The gavel banged loudly, but Lord Zhang felt very bitter in his heart - if he could still go back, he would never become a famous minister in history!
Who made us so caught in such a difficult situation now
Pursing his lips, Lord Zhang glared as if he wanted to eat someone. He pulled out a card from the bamboo tube beside him and smashed it on the ground, almost gritting his teeth and saying, "Go to the Li family to get someone!"
He said so, but secretly he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Going to the Princess's Mansion to arrest people is probably a rare occurrence since the founding of the Dynasty. If they capture someone this time, they will completely offend the Princess Mingchang's Mansion.
Fang Dianli was in charge of criminal law. Without saying a word, he immediately accepted the order and personally took people to Princess Mingchang's mansion to ask for the person.
Since no prisoners were brought in, the court naturally had to adjourn. Lord Zhang politely welcomed Su Rong and Su Yao to sit in the back hall. While asking the clerk to serve tea, he said with a wry smile: "I don't know what grudges you two have with the Princess's Mansion, but after all, as the saying goes, you have to look at the owner before you beat the dog... Fortunately, the county lady was not injured..."
He still wanted to persuade them to settle the matter privately with the Princess's Mansion, otherwise it would be extremely difficult to judge the case.
Su Rong took a sip of tea and smiled warmly at Lord Zhang: "Your Excellency, what you said is true. We were the ones who almost had our car destroyed and people killed. No matter how we offended them, they shouldn't have been so cruel. Your Excellency is the parent official of the county. This incident happened within your jurisdiction. You must make the decision for us."
This means that you are unwilling to settle the matter privately.
Master Zhang felt bitter in his heart, picked up his teacup and smiled awkwardly: "Yes, yes, yes, this will naturally be handled impartially, just as it should be."
Su Rong hummed, and said with a half-smile: "I feel relieved when you say that. Otherwise, I would have no choice but to file a complaint with the emperor."
Mr. Zhang was so scared that he cursed in his heart. He had a clear attitude towards the Su family in his mind. When Fang Dianli came back, he hurriedly asked, "How is it?"
Fang Dianli still looked as stern as before: "According to my parents, the steward of the Princess's Mansion took advantage of his power and defied arrest and used force against us! I am also an official of the imperial court after all, how can I tolerate his presumption? So I detained him by force, and now he is outside, and can be brought to court at any time!"
His words were simple, but to Lord Zhang's ears, they sounded like thunder.
As a seventh-rank official in the prime minister's office, the butler of the princess's mansion is naturally no ordinary person.
This housekeeper Li is also a capable person. He has a certain reputation in front of many powerful people in the capital. Fang Dianli was able to arrest him, but I am afraid that the process will not be very pleasant.
This hatred is completely established.
But now it's too late to regret. It's better to stick to the path and gain a reputation.
Lord Zhang understood what was going on, so he no longer hesitated. He nodded and asked someone to go back to the court. He also asked Su Rong and Su Yao to leave, and then asked someone to bring in Butler Li.
Being able to be granted the surname Li, this housekeeper Li is naturally a well-known figure in the princess's mansion. His face is full of arrogance and pride. He is not afraid at all when he sees Lord Zhang. Instead, he is arrogant and refuses to kneel. He sneers: "Lord Zhang, summoning me for no reason, this is not in accordance with the rules, right?"
"What's against the rules?!" Lord Zhang looked cold and sneered at the slave: "Do you know this man?"
Fatty Liu had already stopped trying. When he saw Butler Li coming, he was speechless and hung his head, not daring to say a word.
Butler Li denied it coldly and arrogantly: "I don't know him."
"Oh?" Lord Zhang felt that the attitude of the housekeeper Li in front of him was very hateful. Even if he was a dog in the princess's mansion, what was wrong? Why could he treat him like this
These slaves usually rely on their master's reputation to do nothing good, but now that something has happened, they still act so arrogant. Who are they looking down on
After all, he had worked hard to pass the imperial examination, but he didn't expect that after becoming an official of the court, he would have to please the mood of such a slave.
Unable to bear it any longer, Lord Zhang shouted, "How dare you disrespect the court?! I am sitting, how can you stand? Do you have any achievements?!"
How could Steward Li have any achievements? Fang Dianli observed his expression and seized the opportunity to order the yamen runner: "He is disrespecting the court, and you are just tolerating him? Why don't you beat him down!"
The officers didn't care who you were, they only listened to the orders from the hall. When they heard the order, they attacked from both sides, and each of them stabbed the butler Li's knee with a stick accurately, making the butler Li grimace in pain and scream loudly.
Fatty Liu didn't dare to say a word.
Lord Zhang was also fed up with Butler Li's behavior. Butler Li kept making noises, so Lord Zhang simply ordered coldly: "You don't tell the truth, beat him! Beat him with twenty sticks before he speaks again!"
Steward Li had never expected that the Daxing County Court would actually dare to be so bold. He had never been so humiliated since he became the steward of the Princess's Mansion. He was so angry that he felt like two Buddhas had been born and ascended to heaven. However, he was used to a life of luxury and was not used to the pain of being beaten with a stick. As soon as the stick landed on his buttocks, he immediately felt his soul fly away and screamed in pain.
When he was hit for the first few times, he could still curse and threaten, but by the end of the fight, he was sweating profusely from the pain and didn't even have the strength to speak.
Lord Zhang beat him up fiercely, and finally he felt relieved. With a gloomy face, he asked someone to pour water on him to wake him up, and asked him sternly: "Fatty Liu has confessed that you were behind the mad cow incident and pushed him out to take the blame. Why do you still refuse to tell the truth? Why did you deliberately use the mad cow to ram the carriage of the Su family's county lady? You murdered the Su family's county lady, do you know that it is a capital crime?!"
Butler Li was in so much pain that his soul left his body, but he knew that he could not bear this fatal charge, so he immediately denied it: "What mad cow? I don't know anything about it. He framed me. How can you just believe his one-sided words?!"
Fatty Liu immediately became anxious: "How can I frame you? It was you, Butler Li, who asked me to say that this mad cow was the result of the ignorant behavior of my child..."