Carrying the wrong sedan chair to marry the wrong wife

Above the Golden Palace, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment knelt on the ground, his forehead was already covered with thin sweat in the cold winter.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged. I have never framed Mr. Lu. The memorial written to His Majesty has already stated the strangeness. In the memorial, I even asked Your Majesty to recall General Qian in order to confront him."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Tianshun picked up a memorial from the dragon case and threw it down: "You still dare to argue, you can see for yourself."

The servant of the Ministry of Punishment picked up the memorial with trembling hands, and opened it tremblingly. Because of the shaking of his hands, it took some effort. After opening it, he read a few sentences, then collapsed on the ground in shock, and then quickly put his forehead on the ground, crying: " Your Majesty, this, this, this memorial was not written by the minister."

"Didn't you write it? I can see that the handwriting is not fake. Moreover, this memorial was submitted by your people from the Ministry of Punishment." Emperor Tianshun didn't believe it, thinking that the minister of the Ministry of Punishment was trying to get rid of the crime.

"Your Majesty, although this handwriting is very similar, if you compare it with the minister's previous memorials, you can still distinguish the differences." The servant of the Ministry of Punishment looked down at the fake memorial. have difference.

Emperor Tianshun glanced at the little eunuch next to him when he heard the words, and the little eunuch hurriedly left the hall with lowered eyebrows and downcast eyes. When he was young, the little eunuch came back with the past memorials of the minister of the punishment department in his hand, walked in front of the servant of the punishment department, and bent down to pick up the memorials on the ground , and then quickly went up from the side steps, kneeling in front of Emperor Shun.

Emperor Tianshun spread out the two memorials and proofread them carefully. Some endings were different. Emperor Tianshun waved his hand, and the little eunuch beside him hurried up.

"Take these two memorials down and show them to all the lovers."

"Promise!" The little eunuch went down the steps holding the memorial in his hand, and showed it to the chief minister on the left first, and the chief minister closed it after reading it, and handed it to the little eunuch, who then continued to pass it down.

Halfway through the transmission, Emperor Tianshun said: "I have seen it, what do you think?"

Minister of the Ministry of Rites heard the words and came out: "Your Majesty, at first glance, they are indeed the same, enough to confuse the real ones, but when you compare them, you can see the difference."

"Your Majesty, it is indeed not the handwriting of the Minister of Criminal Justice himself. It seems that there is something wrong with this matter." Lord Shoufu came out and said.

Emperor Tianshun nodded and asked, "Where is the servant of the Ministry of Justice who submitted the memorial?"

"Your Majesty, when I went to greet Lord Lu, a servant was also tied to the prison cart. According to the servant, this person behaved arrogantly after passing the imperial decree to Nantong. He was eager to execute Lord Lu on the execution ground, but after checking, I found this person. He is not a servant of the Ministry of Punishment, please allow your Majesty to escort him to the palace." Minister of the Ministry of Punishment came out and said.

"allow!!!"

Emperor Tianshun agreed, and the guards escorted the servants of the Ministry of Punishment to the Jinluan Hall. The servants of the Ministry of Punishment were not in the officialdom. Seeing this situation, they were so frightened that they lowered their heads and did not dare to vent their anger.

"Huang Qing, interrogate me for me." Emperor Tianshun said while sitting on the dragon chair.

"Your Majesty obeys the decree." After finishing the sentence, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice turned and looked at the person kneeling on the ground. "Listen up, the kneeling person. I will interrogate on behalf of His Majesty. If you dare to lie in front of the holy driver, you will not be forgiven lightly."

"I'm investigating, you are not from my yamen, why did you impersonate this time? Who instructed you?"

"My lord, my lord, the villain's name is Sui Tang. He was originally living in the capital. He was found by Mr. Zhang not long ago. He said that he was doing great things for the country and the people. He promoted the villain to be a yamen servant and went to Nantong to preach the imperial decree. Then let the villain be a petty official, don't, the other villains won't know about it."

"Come here, take Zhang Shou to the palace." Emperor Tianshun was furious when he heard the words, and his courtiers coaxed him around, he really deserved to be killed.

Not long after, the guards escorted Zhang Shoubei to the Jinluan Palace. At this time, Zhang Shoubei was extremely embarrassed. He was wearing a prison uniform and knelt in the hall. He quietly glanced at Uncle Yang. The words of Uncle Yang yesterday kept ringing in his ears. Response, if he pleads guilty, his son can be kept innocent. If he can't be saved at the end of the festival, he will be responsible for it. If he can save his son and leave his blood, he will die. It's just that he died like this.

"Kowtow to Your Majesty."

"Kneeling face outward, I am ashamed to see you." Emperor Tianshun said and looked at the Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, "Huang Qing, ask again."

"Observe the order." The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments stood still in front of Zhang Shoubei, "Master Zhang, do you recognize the servant next to him?"

Hearing this, Zhang Shoubei looked up at Uncle Yang from the corner of his eye, closed his eyes and said, "Yes, I found him as an impostor."

"Then, where is the yamen servant in my yamen now?"

"I killed him, and I silenced his whole family." Zhang Shoubei collapsed on the ground. He knew that he was finished, and only asked him to confess all his crimes so that Uncle Yang could save his son.

"You!! Why did you do this?" The Ministry of Justice's tone was serious, full of anger.

Zhang Shoubei laughed when he heard the words, and said helplessly: "If you don't do this, how can you present the fake memorial to His Majesty? If you don't kill people to silence the truth, once the incident happens, wouldn't it be over?"

"Fake memorial? You killed the person who delivered the papers in my yamen, and found a fake yamen servant to replace the memorial. Is it just to put Master Lu to death?" The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment held back his raging anger, "What are you trying to hide?"

Zhang Shoubei lowered his eyes when he heard the words: "It's nothing more than a personal grievance."

"Personal grievances?" The Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment sneered, turned to look at Emperor Tianshun, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I searched the Zhang family according to the order, and found several boxes of official silver in the Zhang family."

"What?" Emperor Tianshun was shocked, "Didn't it say that the official bank was stolen by some Jiangyang thieves?"

"Your Majesty, there is indeed a big thief who fled to Nantong afterwards and was captured by Master Lu." The minister of the Ministry of Punishment said, pondering for a moment and said: "I suspect that Zhang Shoubei and several big robbers have long colluded with each other, and guarded himself to steal. When he learned that the big thief was arrested, he was afraid that Lord Lu would have already When he was interrogated, he wanted to kill him to silence him."

"Lu Qing, what can you interrogate from those thieves?" Emperor Tianshun looked at Lu Wenzheng.

Lu Wenzheng came out and said: "Your Majesty, the thief has a very strict tone, and I didn't know it, but Mr. Zhang was guilty of being a thief, and wrote a letter to him. Since then, I have learned that Mr. Zhang has abandoned his reputation as a scholar and committed a serious crime. I will not Wishing to join forces with others, he escorted the robbers to Beijing, but he was surrounded by people halfway, and the robbers were all silenced."

Emperor Tianshun stood up upon hearing the words, looked at Zhang Shoubei who was kneeling, and said angrily, "Tell me, are you the mastermind behind the theft of the official bank?"

Zhang Shoubei kowtowed in desperation: "I'm guilty of death!"

When Emperor Tianshun heard the words, he threw all the excerpts on the dragon case at Zhang Shoubei: "Guardian steals himself, you should be guilty of the crime!!! Where is the minister of Dali Temple!"

The Minister of Dali Temple hurriedly came out and knelt down: "The minister is here!"

"I order you to thoroughly investigate this matter, and you must find out the whereabouts of the rest of the official money. After the truth is revealed, you will list the crimes and make it known to the world, and you will be executed immediately." Emperor Tianshun was very angry, and the courtiers cheated under his nose.

"No." Dali Temple Minister bowed his head, "I would like to ask Shangyi, are the members of the Zhang family guilty of the same crime?"

"Aren't you here at the court that morning?" Emperor Tianshun was angry, "I have already said that I would frame others and harm the nine clans!!!"

"No!" Dali Siqing shuddered, and quickly took orders to return.

Zhang Shoubei panicked when he heard the words, and hurriedly went to see Uncle Yang. Uncle Yang signaled him to be calm with his eyes, but in such a situation, how could he hold his breath, and crawled to Lu Wenzheng's side on his knees.

"Brother Lu, I was the one who went astray. I beg Brother Lu to look at the past friendship and ask for grace for Zhuojing and Ziliao. The women in the inner court of Zhuojing don't know anything about it. Ziliao has been studying in Nantong all year round, and she doesn't know Love, it's my fault, I deserve death!!!" Zhang Shoubei knelt at Lu Wenzheng's feet and begged bitterly.

Lu Wenzheng sighed. How could he hope that innocent people would die in vain? He had fantasized about killing him alone in prison, and it would be okay to change his family, but who ever pleaded for him?He didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but his heart softened for some reason. The anger in his heart couldn't overcome his conscience. It was really tragic for innocent people to die.

"Your Majesty!" Lu Wenzheng came out.

"Does the Qing family want to intercede for the criminals and thieves?" Emperor Tianshun continued to be angry.

Lu Wenzheng heard the words and knelt down: "Your Majesty, I am very disturbed at this moment. I have been friends with the Zhang family for many years. Zhang Ziliao was raised by me. He has been studying in Nantong for many years. He really does not know his father's sins. Death, I always feel unbearable when I think about his appearance when he was a child."

"Lu Qing is very affectionate." Emperor Tianshun nodded, "But, why didn't this thief watch the daughter of your family grow up? He didn't ask for a word of love that day."

Lu Wenzheng kowtowed: "Return to Your Majesty, a gentleman is open-minded, discusses the matter as it stands, and does not involve personal enmity."

"Lu Qing, repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue!" Emperor Tianshun wanted to use this to frighten the courtiers, and did not intend to pardon him.

At this time, Yang Guojiu winked at the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials came out and said, "Your Majesty, Zhang Ziliao is the Duke of Xie Yuan, who is the leader of Qiu Wei this time, and a disciple of the emperor. It is a pity that he died like this." , please Your Majesty extrajudicially show mercy and spare his life!"

"Xie Yuan?" Emperor Tianshun thought about it, "It's unexpected that a cunning person can give birth to a son of Jie Yuan."

"Your Majesty, the fault lies with this humble minister. I would like to apologise with death. I beg Your Majesty to forgive the dog. He really doesn't know anything." Zhang Shoubei cried and begged.

"The law has been fixed and cannot be changed. If we are merciful today, the courtiers will be lucky in the future. I don't want my courtiers to frame each other." Emperor Tianshun frowned, but he wanted to recruit talents for the court. What a pity, Xie Yuan Is the son of the guilty minister.

Uncle Yang Guo came out after hearing the words: "Your Majesty, this law was originally decided after this incident. There was no such law before. I think it should be broken according to the previous law."

"Oh?" Emperor Tianshun narrowed his eyes, "What does Uncle Guo think?"

"For Your Majesty, for our dynasty, I beg Your Majesty to pardon Zhang Ziliao, let him take his father as a warning, concentrate on studying books, and be an upright official in the future."

Emperor Tianshun intuitively thought that this matter was not simple, and Yang Guoshu would not easily intercede for others, so it is better to make the line longer.

"Since you are all begging for mercy, I will agree. The innocent people will not die this time, but the family property must be returned to the national treasury." Emperor Tianshun stood up after speaking, "Detain this criminal and traitor. The one who pretends to be a government servant The people who are here are also chopped off by me."

With a wave of Emperor Tianshun's sleeve, the guards carried Zhang Shoubei and Sui Tang out of the main hall. Sui Tang struggled to cry for grievances and left the main hall. Danger.

"Servant, get up." Emperor Tianshun looked down at the servant of the Ministry of Punishment.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The servant of the Ministry of Justice stood up, raised his wide sleeves and wiped the sweat from his brow after returning to the ranks.

"Lu Qing." Emperor Tianshun looked at Lu Wenzheng, "This time the Qing family was shocked, I will give you a thousand taels of gold, a hundred pieces of silk and satin, and you will be restored to your original position."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty is wise." Lu Wenzheng kowtowed.

Emperor Tianshun took a painting, walked down the dragon case, and helped Lu Wenzheng up: "Qianzhu matches Lu Qing, and the style of a gentleman through the ages. Lu Qing has integrity in being an official, and I am very relieved. After three years in Nantong, I am waiting for a promotion." .”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!!!"

"Excuse me, Lu Qing will stay in Beijing for a few more days, and I will prepare a banquet to wash away the dust with you." After finishing speaking, Emperor Tianshun looked at the Minister of Criminal Justice, "Huang Qing drafted an order on my behalf that the family members of the Lu Mansion in Nantong will be pardoned and released from prison immediately, and will be distributed by the local government treasury. There must be no shortage of property in the Lu family."

"Sir, obey the order."