The young man who took off his official clothes and only wore a homely white cloth robe walked calmly among a group of armored guards. As a member of the imperial court, she was escorted to the court.
Everyone put on a dumb face, all admiring this kid's uncompromising bearing in their hearts, only Ning Yi looked up and down with his eyes, ranging from the expression on his face to the nails of his fingers, all of which had been reviewed in detail in an instant, and he did not give up. Basically satisfactory results were obtained.
Peng Pei endured his anxiety, and waited for Feng Zhiwei to come up to the hall, the gavel slapped, and he said in a deep voice: "Hey! The servant committed a crime, and it's not..."
Without waiting for him to finish speaking, and without waiting for the surrounding officials to stop Peng Pei, who was a bit out of control, Feng Zhiwei gave a "snap" and knelt very smoothly.
Peng Pei was stunned for a moment, he wanted to give Feng Zhiwei a bad start, and took the opportunity to humiliate him, but he didn't want him to kneel so proactively and self-consciously that he had no integrity at all, it seemed that his fist had been smashed into the cotton.
"Where is the person..."
"Wei Zhi, a native of Luoma Village, Changting County, Liuzhou Prefecture, Shannan Road, was born in the 13th year of Jialong, his father Wei Jing, and mother Yin Furong." Received the special letter from His Majesty, successively served as Bachelor of Chaohuadian, Youchunfang Youzhongyun, Secretary of Qingming Academy, Compiler of "Tianshengzhi", Minister of Rites..."
Eunuch Jia, the chief eunuch of Jiuyi Palace, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "Master Wei, how many officials has he been in two years?"
Everyone immediately looked at him with smiles—Eunuch Jia is an eunuch, but he is an old man who has served by His Majesty's side since His Majesty ascended the throne. He would not be a simple person. Today he was sent to hear the trial, but he was actually the Emperor himself, and no one dared to ignore it.
Lao Jia is a person close to Emperor Tiansheng. He has always been cautious and never expresses his opinion on anything easily. Peng Pei and others' eyes flickered when they heard this sentence today - Eunuch Jia meant that this kid was too promoted. Quick, isn't it appropriate
What Eunuch Jia means may be what His Majesty means.
Some people were excited, while others frowned. Eunuch Jia waved his hands with a chuckle, and said, "This old slave is being impolite, I shouldn't have interrupted indiscriminately, this old slave doesn't understand anything, so just go through the interrogation, my lords."
Peng Pei sneered, and when Fengzhi's Weibo report was over, he said sharply: "Wei Zhi, if you still don't guard me and steal yourself, you will be guilty of stealing Chunwei's test questions, one by one..."
"Wei Zhi, the criminal minister, received five thousand gold bribes from Jianghuai Daoren, Li Changyong, a student of Qingming Academy, and others. On the second night of March in the fifteenth year of Changxi, he first took advantage of the banquet at the Yanchun Restaurant to steal You, Zhang, and Er. A servant of the Ministry of Rites carried the key with him, and immediately instructed Sipin to walk in front of the court with a knife, Gu Nanyi, and entered the Ministry of Rites at night, abducting an official on duty at night, Ji Jiang, a member of the Ministry of Rites, and tied him to the cellar under the south wall of the back kitchen of the Ministry of Rites, and then sneaked into the secret cabinet of the dark storehouse. Stealing the examination papers of Changxi’s 15th year Chunwei, Gu Nanyi handed them over to Li Changyong, who later brought the examination papers to the vicinity of Beisi Hutong with the intention of selling them, but was seized by the night patrol soldiers of the Imperial Palace...”
Feng Zhiwei spoke faster and faster among the stunned members of the audience, her tone was flat without any ups and downs, like memorizing, at the end she suddenly stopped, raised her head, and smiled.
"The above is the full text of the 'criminal charges' that Wei Zhi recognized as written by Peng Pei, Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, who instructed his sixth-rank prison officer Gui Jianzhou to draw up in advance last night with the intention of using severe torture!"
"you!"
Peng Pei, who was full of excitement in the room, jumped up against the table, "It's a bunch of nonsense!"
"Why are you talking nonsense?" Feng Zhiwei raised his eyes and squinted at him, "You tortured me, and your subordinate Gui Jian Zhou punished me with a thousand snake bites..."
"nonsense!"
"Shameless!"
"Framing in court, you are looking for death!" Peng Pei sneered, anyway, the sentence was not completed yesterday, and there is no proof of death.
"Repudiation in public, you're stupid!" Feng Zhiwei also sneered, do you think the girl who hasn't been tortured can do nothing to you? idiot.
"Master Peng." Seeing the two men standing there like cockfighting cocks, Mr. Wu in the cabinet couldn't help reminding, "Where is Prison Officer Gui Jianzhou now? What do you say? Just pass it up and ask for a confrontation."
This is obviously to help Peng Pei, if you don't ask Feng Zhiwei if there is a criminal injury, but ask Gui Jianzhou, Gui Jianzhou is Peng Pei's subordinate and a prison officer, even if you ask directly, you will definitely not admittedly.
Peng Pei opened his mouth and stood there in a daze. Gui saw that Zhou was dead, but he couldn't explain the cause of death clearly. Yesterday he was afraid of being blamed, so he didn't dare to tell the public about this matter, so he directly reported to the Imperial Palace that he fell into the water. If you want to find out the cause of Gui Jianzhou's death, you will inevitably have to find out Hua Qiong, and if you find out Hua Qiong, you will find out the reason for the murder. At that time, who knows what that terrible mouth will say
"Guijian Zhou fell into the water last night." He considered for a while, but finally ignored someone's eyes, and said coldly, "The body has been buried by the family today."
"What a coincidence to die..." the tenth prince muttered, resting his head on his hands, his voice was not high, but everyone could hear him.
"boom!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of a drum in the distance, the sound was loud and loud, and there was only one sound, which was clearly heard by everyone, and then a yamen servant rushed over and said: "My lords, someone is beating the drum to express their grievances..."
"When is this, what are you complaining about!" Peng Pei was furious, "Leave it to the secretary office to record it first!"
But the yamen servant did not leave, and murmured, "It is said that the test questions were leaked and the case was complained..."
Peng Pei's heart tightened, and just as he was thinking of reasons to refuse, Ning Yi spoke first, "Xuan!"
He just said one word, there is no doubt about it, some people wanted to stop him, but Ning Yi was the highest status among the people present, if he really wanted to put on airs, no one could say anything.
Immediately after I heard someone striding forward, I laughed loudly as I walked: "Where is this Ministry of Punishment? This is a dragon's pool and a tiger's lair! From the dark prison to the main entrance, ten groups of people stopped me!"
Hearing this voice, Feng Zhiwei felt a surge of warmth in his heart.
Peng Pei's expression changed.
There was a flash of light in front of the door, and a heroic Hua Qiong appeared, tossing a drumstick up and down for fun, seeing Peng Pei, raised his hand and threw the drumstick over, and said with a smile: "You Dengwen!" The drum is too flimsy! It will break with a single hammer! You Ministry of Punishment cannot withstand scrutiny!"