Bai Shan and Man Bao looked at each other, kowtowed immediately and said: "Your Majesty, this person is the one who knows the inside story, please Your Majesty, please grant him permission to come in to seek justice."
Feng Shangshu said: "To beat Dengwen drum, you must hit eighty sticks. This is the rule."
Bai Shan thought to himself, he only asked for love when he knew it was a rule.
Bai Shan looked up at the emperor eagerly and said: "Your Majesty, if you go down with eighty sticks, you will be speechless even if you don't die. I beg Your Majesty to show mercy."
Wei Zhi and Mr. Tang helped intercede, but there were also courtiers who objected. Since the rules are set, they are used to abide by them.
How can it be changed by people
Bai Shan and Man Bao know that they are right and wrong, but in their view, this rule itself is wrong, how can they have to suffer 80 punishments first when they come to avenge their grievances
However, the people in the hall quarreled over this matter.
The king of Yizhou couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and Man Bao couldn't help becoming anxious. They didn't mind wasting time now, but the drums in front of them had stopped, and they must have started playing the board.
Although she has never seen them, they are allies after all, aren't they
Man Bao looked at the thoughtful emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the eighty sticks can really kill people."
The emperor came back to his senses, frowned and said: "Okay, let them cut it in half, and carry it up to the main hall after beating."
He glanced at the king of Yizhou with downcast eyes, and said, "I also want to see where the king of Yizhou's private army is kept."
The people in the hall fell silent, and the emperor asked them to sit back in their seats, leaving only King Yizhou and Bai Shan Zhouman still kneeling on the hall.
He was thinking, who is beating the Dengwen drum
How could he know where the king of Yizhou raised his private army
Old Master Tang and Wei Zhi were also thinking, these two children and the Bai family must have something to hide from them, why didn't they know that someone would beat the drum
The people in the main hall waited for a long time before the guards carried a man covered in blood with the door panel.
They dragged the man down the door, with forty sticks, and the first twenty sticks would shake the bones when the decree did not reach the front. The stick is much lighter now.
But after the forty sticks, he was also seriously injured. He collapsed on the ground, stretched his arms and wanted to sit up, but he couldn't sit up. Instead, he pulled the wound, coughed uncontrollably, and spit out several mouthfuls of blood. .
Man Bao turned his head to look, and at a glance he could see that he had suffered internal injuries, and he didn't know if it was serious or not.
He raised his head to meet Shang Manbao and Bai Shan's concerned eyes, and couldn't help grinning. Although they had never met formally, they had heard about each other, and they had a close relationship.
Bai Shan pulled Man Bao, and the two moved a little to the side, so that he could directly see the emperor sitting on it.
The emperor glanced at the wounds on his back and buttocks, and asked, "What's your name? Why are you beating the Dengwen drum?"
Since he couldn't get up, he didn't get up at all, and just lay down on the ground and said, "Return to Your Majesty, Xiaomin Xiangchao is from Qingshi County, Suizhou."
Not only the emperor, but also the king of Yizhou couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows, and couldn't help clenching his hands in his sleeves slightly.
Xiang Chao turned his head slightly to look at King Yizhou, and said with a sneer, "My lord, do you think this place name sounds familiar?"
The king of Yizhou said blankly: "The territory of the Great Jin Dynasty is familiar to this king, not to mention that Suizhou is not far from Yizhou."
"That's right, Suizhou is very close to Yizhou, but it's too close! Your Majesty, the people sue the king of Yizhou to kill Liang and invade his land and raise private soldiers!"
Because of his anger, he raised his whole body, propped up half of his body and looked directly at the emperor, saying: "Dongxi Village, he raises private soldiers in Dongxi Village. And all the tenants in the manor were killed, I beg Your Majesty to be the master of all those who died in vain!"
The emperor opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and stood up abruptly.
Xiang Chao had obviously been waiting for this day for a long time, he took two steps forward, stared at the emperor with tears streaming down his face, and said, "There are two hundred and nine people, they all died, because the bulltail weir burst, their The death was completely covered up, but Your Majesty, they died unjustly, they died unjustly!"
The emperor sat down slowly, stared at the King of Yizhou for a while, and then looked at Xiang Chao, "Say it, I'm listening."
King Yizhou looked up at him, pursed his mouth tightly, and finally lowered his head without saying a word.
Xiang Chao lay down on the ground again, he was a little exhausted because of the roar, but his voice still clearly reached the ears of every minister in the hall and every patriarch of the aristocratic family.
"About six years ago, someone came to the patriarch and wanted to buy our entire Dongxi Manor, but the patriarch refused. Our Xiang clan's roots are here, and the ancestral hall is also here. How can we leave?" Xiang Chao said: " Afterwards, that person came several times, but they did not agree with each other, but because of his elegant speech and generous actions, he became friends with many people in the clan."
Xiang Chaodao: "Five years ago, it rained heavily, and there was a river in our village connected to the main river. The patriarch asked people to prepare for flood protection, but no one thought that the weir would burst. At that time, we were still in our sleep. In the midst of the flood, the flood poured down from above, and many people were crushed by the collapsed earth wall or swept away by the water before they had time to react... "
Xiang Chao said with tears: "I can't react at all. One moment ago, my uncle was standing on the high ground and yelling at everyone to run to the high place. The next moment, he was swept away by a wave. Until the morning, all the people in the village Two hundred people scattered and ran out. The flood receded a little bit. We were not reconciled, so we ran back to check to see if we could rescue some more people... "
"In the end, when we returned to the entrance of the village, some soldiers on tall horses rushed out from nowhere, and immediately hacked and killed..."
Xiang Chao turned his head to stare at the King of Yizhou, and said with red eyes: "That's not bandits. They wear armor, saddles on horses, and the weapons they use are all the best, but they are not sharp enough. I and several brothers fell apart. In the back, I ran away... But we don't know who, who is going to kill my Xiang clan. Although our family also has bastards and prodigal sons, we have never made such a family feud. Let's escape Afterwards, I quietly came back to have a look, but Dongxizhuang has built a house again, and there are many people and horses inside..."
Xiang Chao looked away from King Yizhou, looked up at the emperor again and said, "Let's go to the magistrate of Qingshi County. He served us tea and said he was going to Dongxi Village to ask someone to ask. We went to the back hall, we thought it was wrong, so we ran away quietly."
"Later we became more cautious, and when we went to find the governor of Suizhou, we also kept an eye on it. Sure enough, the governor of Suizhou also wanted to arrest us," Xiang Chao said, "My cousin said that the man not only made a county The parents obeyed the order, and the governor of Yizhou could cover him. I am afraid that his identity is not simple. After that, we didn't dare to look for the officials anymore. We started to investigate by ourselves, and finally found out that the two people who often went in and out of the Zhuangzi lived in Yizhou. From the state palace."