Chapter 31 I am willing to defend my territory and restore my borders (1)(1/2)
"I am humble in the position of Zhen Changrong, welcome the two imperial envoys!"
Zhen Changrong was still one step faster and arrived at the county government office first. When he came in, he saw the flag of the imperial envoy. He hurriedly knelt outside the county government office gate with the chief clerk, County Chief Crown Inspection Commissioner Dianshi and other officials.
At this time, the news of the imperial envoy's arrival spread among the crowd. The streets outside the county government were full of fear and curiosity, watching the fun.
Wow!
The handlebars of the carriage were tied to the reins, and the carriage stopped.
A foot wearing official boots stepped out from inside, and Zhen Changrong felt instantly as if he was shrouded in a huge shadow, fighting all over his body, kneeling even more humbly.
Bao Zhao got off the carriage, and what caught his eyes was a group of officials whose heads were buried in the soil and whose butts were raised higher than their backs, and they suddenly looked disgusted.
"You are Jurong County? Lift your head and talk!" Bao Zhao growled.
Zhen Changrong was so shaking that his arms could hardly hold on. He felt the desire to urinate, and he suppressed the horror in his heart.
"Hehe!" He squeezed out a laugh that was even worse than crying, "I don't know that the two imperial envoys should be here, so long live the humble position."
Upon hearing this, Bao Zhao's disgust became even stronger and he sneered, "Are you also a Jinshi? Haha!"
After saying that, he walked into the county government.
Zheng Ci, the minister of Dali Temple, had no expression, but his tone was cold, "Jurong County got up and came in with my official!"
"Thank you, sir!" Zhen Changrong got up with both hands and feet, "The imperial envoy asked for tea in the backyard!"
"What other tea do you drink? Are you here to drink tea?" The angrily scolded from the county government office, "County government hall lobby, drum hall!"
At this time, the guards and others who followed the two imperial envoys shouted in front of the crowd on the street.
"Your Majesty learned that there was an unjust case in the Wang family in Jurong County. He specially ordered the Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice to come and investigate."
"The two imperial envoys will be in the county hall, and all the people can listen!"
After saying that, a group of soldiers controlled the county government with weapons like wolves and tigers.
After a brief silence, the people watching on the long street suddenly turned into boiling water.
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Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong, the drumsticks at the entrance of the county government office sounded, and the people rushed into the county government office like a tide. After a moment, it was already in a state of circumstance.
If it weren't for the soldiers who tried their best to maintain it, I'm afraid they would all rush under Bao Zhao's nose. And behind them, the crowd was still talking.
Bao Zhao stood in the lobby and glanced at the plaque hanging high on the head of the county magistrate's chair.
Then he bowed to Zheng Ci, "Brother Zheng!"
Zheng Ci also bowed, "Please!"
Then the two imperial envoys, Dama Jindao, sat side by side in the position of the county magistrate on weekdays.
Zhen Changrong and others stood in the hall with their heads down and nervously. He was not the only one who was frightened. Basically, the officials in Jurong County were sweating profusely.
During several breaths, my forehead was covered with sweat.
"quiet!"
A sixth-rank chief of the Ministry of Justice's Qingduan Department shouted loudly, "The imperial envoy is promoted to the hall and no noise can be made!"
In the lobby, it suddenly became quiet.
"I am the Minister of Justice, Censor of the Ministry of Justice, Bao Zhao, came to investigate the case by the saint." As he said that, Bao Zhao looked at Zhen Changrong who was already unstable, "Now, I have something to ask you!"
Thump, Zhen Changrong knelt down again, kowtowed continuously, his lips kept moving, but he couldn't make a sound.
"There is a queen of Jurong County, Si Qiao, who sued Li for rape and taint case, is it true?" Bao Zhao asked loudly.
"Yes...yes!" Zhen Changrong trembled for a long time before speaking.
"Wang sued Li for rape, but Jurong County convicted adultery. Is it true?"
Suddenly, Zhen Changrong fell softly, like a mud, "Yes!"
Seeing that he was so ugly, Bao Zhao was already furious.
But he still suppressed his anger and said, "What are the evidences of your conviction for adultery? Then Mr. Li, have you ever interrogated it in detail?"
Zhen Changrong's heartbeat seemed to reach his throat, and he could no longer speak, and he felt a buzzing in his mind.
"Ha, reply!"
With a bang, Qian Zhao slapped the door to wake up.
"Yeah!" Suddenly, Zhen Changrong felt a mouthful of phlegm blocking his chest, his eyes turned black, his body tilted, and he fainted.
Seeing this, Bao Zhao was stunned for a moment.
After a while, he sighed, "What should I say to such an official?" As he said that, he sighed again, "It is as strict as a tiger to the people, as timid as a mouse. Such people are officials, they are officials insects. No, they are officials maggots!"
Zheng Ci also shook his head and looked at the officials in the hall, "Where is the county magistrate?"
"The humble position... is here!"
"Tell me!" Zheng Ci said.
The county magistrate was in his early sixties, with white hair all over his head, and his voice trembled, "If you answer the two imperial envoys, there is such a case."
As he said that, he calmed down, "It was the county magistrate who was personally tried by him that day, and he was just a listener."
"Wang complained, but there was no evidence, he just cried."
"Li said that Wang was voluntarily and could tell the story in detail."
"Li also said that Wang is for money..."
Bao Zhao suddenly interrupted, "Have you ever tortured him?"
"No!" said the county magistrate, "Li is also a royal relative, carrying a sixth-rank Wuqiwei, and the county magistrate said that he could not be punished!"
"Then I asked you why you believed Li and were sentenced to adultery in the end?" Bao Zhao continued to ask.
"This..." the county magistrate hesitated for a moment, looked at it, and said, "It was only afterward that the county magistrate said that there was no evidence to investigate such a case."
"The two sides have different opinions and there is no way to distinguish them. Moreover, Li had the intention of calming down the matter and said he was willing to compensate Wang. The county magistrate probably thought that it was better to have less than more things, so..."
"Sir, Lord, Lord!" At this time, Zhen Changrong suddenly woke up again and shouted, "I am really a fair deal. There is indeed no evidence to prove that Li is raped. Wang is a civilian, Li is an official, and the civilian sues the official..."
"Shut up!" Bao Zhao angrily rebuked, "If there is no evidence, there is no need to investigate it. If there is no evidence, there will be no case. What's the use of the government?"
"How can the people sue the officials? This dynasty has laws, even if there is no need to knock on the verge, the people can sue the officials!"
As he said that, he sneered twice, "Come here, go and bring Wang Sanqiao to the hall, and then go find Wang Siqiao to come over!"
After the words came to the end, Wang Sanqiao, whose eyes were full of hatred, knelt down at the hall and looked at Zhen Changrong and others like a cannibalistic one.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Sanqiao shouted, "My imperial envoy, the little woman wants to sue Li for rape of a civilian girl, and the magistrate of Jurong County is in violation of the law to protect the evil people."
"Are you ready for the people to sue the officials?" Zheng Ci spoke.
"If we can clear our grievances, why don't you care about this? It's a pity that my sister was confused by them." Wang Sanqiao cried.
"Sir, Wang Siqiao is a crazy person himself!" Zhen Changrong shouted, "Because she was crazy, I didn't accept his words!"
At the same time, he thought to himself, "If you can't find Wang Siqiao, you will not have a victim. How can you convict me if you don't have a victim? At most, it will be a dereliction of duty and misjudgment, not a breach of power!"
"The emperor is not like the Supreme Emperor, who always peels off and cramps and kills the whole family!"
But suddenly, he seemed to have seen a ghost.
The crowds outside the county government scattered like a tide, and then a few soldiers wearing iron armor brought two people up.
Who else could the woman in front of me who only knows how to cry and cry heart-wrenchingly?
Isn’t the person behind him with a unkempt and a bruised face? Isn’t the one who is his master?
Zhen Changrong was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall out, and his mind was blank.
Bao Zhao looked at him contemptuously, "I was the official in the first place to enter the official career and worked as a local censor. Can such a method be concealed from me?"
In the hall, behind the soldiers who came up with the two soldiers, a thousand households stood up and bowed, "Report to the imperial envoy, the last general will find Wang at the Wang family on the order of Xietai."
"At dawn today, unknown people came to take Wang's hostage, but they were all taken down by the last general!"
"And this master, who wanted to escape from the West City Gate, was caught by the last general!"
"Hard!"
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"Ah! Ah!"
After Wang Siqiao got into the hall, he jumped and screamed on the spot, like crazy.
After seeing his sister Wang Sanqiao, he hid in his arms and calmed down.
"Sister, sister!"
The sound of helpless crying is really the sad crying of those who hear it.
Wang Sanqiao hugged her sister and cried, "The girl from the folk girl is full of waves. If she is frightened, it will be like this. It is normal for her to be on weekdays!"
Bao Zhao's eyes were calm, "She must be unable to speak like this. I will ask you again if you want to complain for her!"
To be continued...