C176 Contested
C176 Contested
"Ugh ?"
Zhang Zhaoyang was stunned by Chang Sheng's question. After a while, he nodded and said, "Yes, yes, you can go back now."
With that, Zhang Zhaoyang raised his head and shouted to the crowd outside, "Because of the special circumstances, both County Prince Zhu and General Xu are unwell. We will adjourn this case and leave the hall now!"
What a joke! Of the three examiners, two of them were already unconscious. He couldn't go on trial himself, so he could only leave the hall!
Just then, after entering the court, Guo Feng, who did not say a word, suddenly walked in front of Zhang Zhaoyang and showed a slight bow, then deliberately said: "Master Zhang, I have troubled you, my master is actually a ordinary man, there is no need for him to go to court, and yet you want Master Zhang to sit here, I have caused so much trouble for you!"
"Hmm?"
Hearing Guo Feng's words, Zhang Zhaoyang suddenly reacted, and looked at Guo Feng with a profound look and nodded: "Yes, ordinary man, but there is no other way, ordinary man also needs to be interrogated."
Although he said that, Zhang Zhaoyang's smiling face made Guo Feng understand that Zhang Zhaoyang understood the meaning behind his words. Young master was the ordinary man, he would be fine after beating someone up.
Chang Sheng followed Guo Feng back to his home, and it was only until dusk did Chang Qianze return home. After all, he was the Prime Minister, and there were too many official matters he needed to take care of, so he happened to be at home yesterday.
The moment Chang Qianze returned home, Chang Sheng came out.
"Daddy, daddy, Chang Sheng went to the yamen today, it's really interesting." When Chang Sheng saw Chang Qianze, he immediately ran in front of Chang Qianze as if he was offering a treasure. He raised his head and said smugly, "Daddy, Chang Sheng is so powerful.
Chang Sheng stretched out his palm and counted with his fingers: "Chang Sheng fought two, three, four... Chang Sheng hit four big bad guys, Chang Sheng is a big hero, Chang Sheng is so strong! The yamen is really fun, Daddy. Chang Sheng will go to the yamen lord's place to play tomorrow! "
Chang Sheng shouted loudly. At the side, the Ling Lao and the Pine both heard his words and their faces turned green, as if they had lost their sense of propriety. Although they did not go out, they had heard about what happened in Shuntian today.
Chang Sheng actually beat up a duke and a general in the court in front of everyone. He was going to stand trial, and actually beat someone up so arrogantly, did he think that he would bring the Prime Minister no end of trouble? It was great that he had beaten someone, but Prime Minister was in trouble again!
Prime Minister was such a patriotic and loyal person. Why did the heavens let him have such a son?
Guo Feng stood at the side and laughed secretly when he saw the undisguised expressions of the two elders. You must be cursing at the young master again, but what do you know clearly that in this entire room, the smartest person is the person standing in front of you, the person you think is a fool!
Smiling secretly, Guo Feng walked in front of Chang Qianze and said in a clear voice, "Don't worry, young master is a ordinary man, no matter what the other party says, it will be useless."
"Yes." Chang Qianze nodded his head, he was still worried, how could he not know that his son is ordinary man. Indeed, according to the laws of Daqi Dynasty, Chang Sheng did not need to pay with his life, but with regards to the matters of the imperial court, who could say for sure! It all depended on the morning assembly tomorrow.
On the morning of the second day, Chang Qianze went to the throne room to participate in the morning assembly just like he usually did. Because he had considered the problems he would encounter this morning, his sleeplessness from last night was much greater than usual. When he arrived at the throne room, all the officials were already present.
"Hmm?" The moment Chang Qianze walked to the throne room, he immediately realized that two gazes full of hatred were firmly locked onto him.
Chang Qianze turned his head to look, and his heart immediately thumped.
In his line of sight, the Martial Officer Department and the Prince's Department, the two General Xu who were in charge of interrogating his son yesterday, were looking at him with hatred, this was nothing much, the reforms that he had implemented had long offended the Martial Officer Department and the Prince, and the most important thing was their faces.
Look at General Xu, his entire face was swollen to the point that it looked like he was on par with County Prince Zhu himself. As for County Prince Zhu, he looked even more miserable, with both of his eyes red and swollen to such a degree that even panda eyes were not as swollen as his own, and his face was covered in numerous bloody scars.
Yesterday, he heard Chang Sheng say that he had beaten the two of them up, but he never expected that he had actually beaten them up so badly!
Being beaten up so badly, the two of them definitely wouldn't let this go easily!
Just as Chang Qianze was thinking, he suddenly heard Eunuch Liu's voice that sounded like a male duck's voice.
"The emperor has arrived, the emperor has ?"
Right after his voice fell, Chang Qianze swiftly turned his head around. In between, the current Emperor Fang Yuanfu walked out from the back of the great hall, and walked towards the Dragon Throne with vigorous strides.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"
When Fang Yuanfu walked to the front of the Dragon Throne, all the generals, including Grand Preceptor Fei, held their hands in front of their bodies and bowed.
"Everyone, please rise."
Fang Yuanfu waved his hand and went up the Dragon Throne. Without waiting for more people to arrive, he immediately asked: "Where are County Prince Zhu, Great Master Zhang, and the General Xu? Yesterday, has the trial of the Prime Minister's son's murder been concluded? "
Hearing the Emperor call his name, the three of them immediately walked out of their respective camps, especially County Prince Zhu. When he walked out, he immediately bent his legs and knelt on the ground, shouting loudly, "Your Majesty, you have to seek justice for Old Official!"
County Prince Zhu had always been Chang Sheng, and spoke while brimming with grief and indignation: "Yesterday, Chang Sheng was simply lawless. He didn't even have enough time to try yesterday's case, and he already beat Old Official up ?"
County Prince Zhu told him in detail about how Chang Sheng caused a huge ruckus in the court yesterday, except that he was beaten up by Chang Sheng, especially the matter of him taking a mouthful of sh * t. Even now, when he spoke, he still felt as if he had just opened his mouth to spit out the stench of shit. Even after soaking in the bathhouse for almost an entire night, he still felt as if his entire body was reeking of the stench.
"County Prince Zhu is right."
The moment County Prince Zhu finished speaking, the General Xu walked out from the crowd and knelt beside him. He said: "Your Majesty, for a person like Chang Sheng who is undisciplined and dares to cause trouble in court, what can't he do? From yesterday's situation, it could be seen that with his personality, he was definitely the one who had taken the initiative to beat someone to death before, and not someone who had provoked him! Please adjudicate and punish Chang Sheng! "
"Please adjudicate and punish Chang Sheng!"
As the General Xu's voice fell, many of the generals walked to the front and knelt down as well.
Your Majesty, people like Chang Sheng will not be convinced until they are dealt with!
Following closely behind, the group of princes also knelt down.
"Please adjudicate and punish Chang Sheng!"
Fang Yuanfu looked at the black mass of kneeling officials below the stage, and slowly shifted his gaze to the Wen Chen's side: "Zhang Aimin, what do you say? You were the presiding judge yesterday. "
After being called out by the Emperor, Zhang Zhaoyang immediately walked out from the crowd and cupped his luggage towards the Emperor, then spoke out, "What County Prince Zhu and General Xu said is the truth. Yesterday, Chang Sheng was indeed messing with the court, and he even injured two yamen runners and two lords."
Hearing Zhang Zhaoyang's words, most of the Wen Chen turned around and glared at him. Even if what he said was true, and the Prime Minister's son did what he said, you still could not say it out loud!
If he agreed to this, then the Prime Minister would definitely be attacked. His line was led by the Prime Minister; he must not let anything happen to the Prime Minister! What did Zhang Zhaoyang think? Could it be that he had turned against him in the face of battle?
Just as the crowd of Wen Chen s thought of this, Zhang Zhaoyang spoke out again, "However, this humble subject has discovered that Chang Sheng is a ordinary man!"
Zhang Zhaoyang said in a clear voice, "Your Majesty, according to the laws of the Daqi Dynasty, if ordinary man kills someone or violates the law, we cannot treat them like ordinary people. Our Daqi Dynasty has never executed the ordinary man, and we will not imprison the ordinary man."
"Of course, there is still a need for punishment. Generally speaking, we would choose to exile the ordinary man to the frontier based on the crimes committed by the ordinary man. However, in this kind of exile, ordinary man's family could spend money to bail him out. Naturally, the ordinary man's family also had responsibilities. Because they did not take good care of their own ordinary man and had let their ordinary man cause trouble outside. The responsibility of watching them not being strict with their teaching cannot be escaped. "
"You aren't strict with your teaching! What kind of punishment is this!? " When the military officials heard Zhang Zhaoyang's words, they were all infuriated. However, before they could say anything, the Wen Chen s appeared one by one.
"Your Majesty, this cannot be said that Prime Minister is not strict with teaching. Prime Minister does not have the time to look after his son. "
"That's right, your majesty. The Prime Minister spends all his time and effort every day just for the sake of our Daqi Dynasty. This is why we don't have time to see the son of the ordinary man that we taught him."
"Prime Minister, this is for the sake of my Daqi Dynasty's thousands of families being able to live a better life, which is why they abandoned their own families and abandoned the discipline of their own sons. How can I blame him?!"
One after another, civil servants stood out to plead for Chang Qianze.
"May Your Majesty be the referee!"
Hearing Wen Chen's words, all the generals could not kneel anymore. They all turned their heads and shouted at Wen Chen, "According to what you people have said, ordinary man is allowed to go against the rules? ordinary man can kill people as he pleases? "
"That's right, according to what you have said, the ordinary man can do whatever he wants and ignore all the laws and regulations of the country. How can that be possible!"