Dong Hai was about to have another attack, but Lu Bing gave him a stern look. Dong Hai swallowed his saliva and endured it back.
Lu Bing stretched out his hand and sneered, saying, "Since this official must lock it, let's lock it. It's just that the lock is easy to remove. Don't regret it afterwards."
"Threat?" The head catcher did not move, and sneered: "I can see that you have some background, but this head catcher handles it fairly, and I am not afraid that you will cause trouble!"
Lu Bing was a little surprised and admired when he heard the head catcher say so.
Thinking about it this way, because they preconceived that they were framed, they were disgusted with this head-catcher. But think about it carefully, although this head catcher is cold, but from beginning to end, there is no unfair treatment. If it is not for the people, then it is a crime!
The officials locked up Lu Bing and left for the mansion. The gang of idle men didn't disperse, and carrying clubs, they followed all the way, blocking the gate of the mansion to watch the excitement.
The Huizhou government office was first built in the reign of Song Shaoxi and was destroyed by wartime fires and then rebuilt
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Deng Yu of Wei Guogong changed to the Privy Council after Hongwu was restored to the government for three years, and it was overhauled during the orthodox years.
Lu Bing looked at this magnificent Huizhou government office, but wondered whether the people sitting in it were so upright and upright.
The prefect’s trial was in the main hall. Lu Bing, Zhu Liu, Dong Hai, Yang Sen, Liu Biao, Shitou, Sun Quan, and Wang Zhi were directly brought into the main hall.
As soon as I entered the main hall, I saw the four big characters hanging high in the mirror. Below the plaque is a large mahogany chair, and facing the mahogany chair is a thick mahogany wooden table. On one side of the table are pens, inks, papers and inkstones. The ink is divided into cinnabar red and blue and black. On the other side are lacquered arrows, gavel and other objects.
There are two rows of government officials standing on both sides of the platform, wearing soap-colored public clothes and green shirts, with dark red shirts tied around the waist. It is a wide cloth belt with stitched pockets, also called "red wrapped belly." Wearing a square soap turban on the head, the square horns are forward, the front is high and the back is low, the sides of the hat are decorated with yellow tassels, and a peacock feather is inserted. This hat is also called a "black lacquer helmet." A waistband was hung around his waist, and he was holding a fire and water stick in his hand. This kind of stick is black at one end, red at the other end, square at the other end and round at the other end. It is also called a "line-bar gun".
As the saying goes: "Black lacquered helmet, four pits. Peacock hair, bright and clean. Green shirt, thinly folded. Red wrapped belly, waist intermittent. Bamboo knife, head with blood. Wire rod gun, six pieces of iron." This is the Zaoli of this government office.
When they saw Lu Bing and other eight people come in, they all hit the ground with water and fire sticks, and they shouted: "Mighty..." There was indeed a majesty.
This affair is called "shouting the prestige", in order to deter the prisoners, if it were ordinary people, the souls of the drunk would have been scattered and trembling.
But who are Lu Bing? What big scene have you never seen? In the emperor's dynasty, eight hundred generals lined up from the palace gate to the court hall. The three thousand imperial soldiers had distinctive armors.
Lu Bing and the others led troops to fight, and had carried thousands of armies and horses, and they were in the court, and under his men 30,000 horses! These prestige, can be more compelling than this.
Lu Bing and others stood in the hall frankly, unmoved. Wang Zhi's legs were a little weak, but seeing the arrogance of the big brothers, he seemed to be injected with strength and courage and straightened his waist.
"My prefect!" A book official turned out from the back hall, shouted loudly, and then went to the side table beside the main hall, sat down upright, spread the paper, pressed the paperweight, and rubbed the pen.
At this time, from the back hall, a senior official of the fourth grade, wearing black gauze, blue official robes, with a skylark pattern on his chest and back, walked to the top of the main hall and sat down on the mahogany chair. , A shot of the gavel, just listen to the Zaoli platform standing on both sides of the platform, shouting "Sheng~Tang~Oh~" in unison along with the rising drums!
This fourth-rank official must be the prefect of Huizhou Prefecture.
Yang Sen murmured: "There are many tricks." Lu Bing glared at him, and Yang Sen turned his head hurriedly, pretending to be nothing.
Lu Bing was satisfied with the behavior of the Huizhou government. The manners of the bureaucrats, book officials, and prefects were indeed a bit upright.
Most of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty have this characteristic of good and bad. From top to bottom, whether it is a good official or a bad official, an upright or corrupt official, they all look like a righteous and moral gentleman. Privately, no one can say that a male thief and a female prostitution are wrong.
The prefect, full of air, said in a round tone: "Who is in the hall?"
The arrester who brought Lu Bing and others hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master Qi, this is the suspect in the murder in the woods outside the city."
As soon as the prefect heard it, he slammed the gavel again, and shouted: "Boldly spoil the people, I didn't kneel when I saw the official!"
"My lord, I'm all scholars, so I can't kneel before the officials!" Lu Binglang said.
"Oh? Do you have fame?" The prefect looked at Lu Bing and the others, and said, "Who are you? When did you get your fame?"
"We are all people from Shuntian Prefecture in Beizhili, who were Jinshi in the eight years of Jiajing!" Lu Bing was useless to lie, but didn't say it was Wu Jinshi. Anyway, Huizhou is far away from the capital, so it will be verified for a while. No more.
"Oh? Beizhili? Coming from Beijing? Jinshi!" The prefect was taken aback. He thought he was just a scholar, but unexpectedly, he was a Jinshi, but there is no such thing as a Jinshi who claims to be in Beijing. He came from Beijing... Maybe he was a student. Not much, donated fame, right? The prefect didn't care too much when he thought of this. Thinking that he was a Jinshi in the 16th year of Zhengde, Deng Xinjike, this is justified, with the fame of the sages.
Thinking about it this way, the pride of the literati made the prefect no longer entangled in this, and said loudly, "Since I am a scholar of merit, why didn't I become an official? Instead, I came here to provoke a lawsuit?"
"My father is very sick. He has passed away in recent years and has been in funeral, so he was not an official." Lu Bing said calmly.
"I am a fourth-rank prefect, he is just an unrecovered Jinshi, now committing a murder, what fear do I have?" When the prefect heard this, he had a plan in his heart.
"Since you are really a scholar, and you have a reputation, don't you kneel if you don't kneel!" The prefect expressed magnanimity, and then suddenly shouted: "Can you convict?" The prefect shot the gavel again. Zaoli under the hall shouted in unison: "Wei... Wu..."
Lu Bing didn't intend to hide anything. He told the truth: "The people outside the city were indeed killed by me, but we killed the Japanese pirates who blocked the road. What's the crime?" Lu Bing said calmly.
"Nonsense!" The prefect scolded, "The people who died outside the city have all been verified. They are registered citizens of Ming Dynasty. They have neighbors in the neighborhood, relatives and friends as witnesses. How can they be Japanese pirates!"