The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 47

All the common people make a big fuss at the court, Wu Sansi begs the governor

But he said that Ma Rong was about to lift the curtain of the sedan chair. After hearing this, the bearers hurriedly shouted: "You have no guts, relatives of the emperor, you can mess around! Don't do anything, you pretend to be a caregiver!" The messengers from the courtyard will beat you to death first." Ma Rong didn't pay attention to him, but when he saw him coming to stop him, he shouted loudly: "All of you, come here. The inside of this sedan chair is obviously full of righteousness!
"At this time Mrs. Qiao, Tao Gan, and the servants of the academy all surrounded them. Di Gong also stepped forward and shouted: "Who are you two under the orders, and who is in it?You should also know the reputation of this court?And let's be honest! Seeing that Master Di had come in person, the four of them were frightened out of their wits and refused to agree, so they hurriedly turned around and fled. There were guards, Tao Gan and others, each of them stepped forward and grabbed one. Ma Rong lifted the sedan chair curtain for a while. Look, it was Huaiyi who immediately ordered someone to lift up the original sedan chair and turn back to the Yamen. Di Gong immediately came to the Yuanmen to be interrogated. , Xiaomin suffered terribly, if he is not beheaded today, we will die here and see how the Governor will deal with him.Otherwise, I will wait until the Meridian Gate. "

At that time, there was a lot of trouble, and when Di Gong came back, many people grabbed the bearer and carried a sedan chair.Di Gong sat down in the lobby and ordered the bearers to make a proposal first. Tao Gan agreed, and the four of them knelt down before the case.Di Gong shouted: "You four are so brave, you dare to rob the criminals in the yamen of the Ministry of punishment! First, they will be severely punished for a hundred, and then beheaded to show the public." Said: "This matter is not the villain's intention. If the adults beheaded the villains and others to show the public, all of them are old and young, then they would starve to death. These are all relatives of the Emperor Wu of the Ministry of Punishment. Order us to carry Huaiyi out and send him into the prison. in the palace.

If someone asked in the middle of the journey, he would say it was his wife, so the villain dared to do this.Now if the adults put the villains to death, wouldn't it be a shame! Di Gong said: "Nonsense!"Emperor Wu's relative is a minister of the imperial court, and he was ordered to handle the case. Why did he send him to the palace without trial?This is obviously your lawlessness! "The common people, after hearing this, all said in unison: "There are such bad officials in the world who blindly protect people's favor and don't take care of the people!"We are also living in dire straits, so why don't we go to the Ministry of Punishment to find Wu Chengye and beat him to death as a death sentence. "Speaking, they rushed away, and they all went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.

At this time, Wu Chengye was ordering someone to send Huaiyi into the palace, and he was going to cry to Wu Zetian and discuss a good plan to end the matter.I went there for a while, but I didn't see the original person coming back.Suddenly, I heard the sound of countless voices outside the door, swarming in.It was because he was surprised that he ordered people to go out to inquire, and someone outside had already reported: "Now many people have crowded the hall, saying that the Lord will let Huaiyi go, and the people stopped him halfway, and forced Master Di to take him back.

It is said that the adults sell the law for personal gain, and if they don't punish wrongdoing, they will come to the gate of the house and talk to the adults. "Wu Chengye was shocked when he heard this, and said: "I sent Huaiyi to the palace because I wanted him to hide, and I asked Empress Wu to deliver an order to release him. Even if Di Renjie is serious, nothing will happen.

Who would have thought that it would be known to all the common people, now that I am brought to the Yamen of Fuyuan to endure hardships, and tomorrow Lao Di will have some entanglements with me, what should I do? "

While talking, suddenly there was a loud noise, and the warm valve had already been squeezed down.I just heard the people shouting: "He is the Ministry of punishment, and he should avenge the people. Why do you let go of righteousness? Since he is selfish, I will beat him! Anyway, the people are not living, and the disaster is coming. I have killed all my people. , so that the monk can become the emperor." After talking, four or fifty people had come, and when they saw Wu Chengye, they shouted in unison to arrest Zhu Chengye. Seeing that everyone was angry, he didn't dare to go out and stop him, and was about to escape from the side. Man, if you punch him, he kicks him, and Wu Chengye's head is bruised and his face is swollen.Chengye was afraid of losing his life, so he just begged in the ground: "Everyone, I will deal with it with righteousness and justice. What do you think? Don't fight again!" A few benevolent people said: "You have the right to stop and wait for me to talk to him." Everyone said: "What are you talking to him? He doesn't care about our people, what use are the people wanting this dog official!" Wu Chengye hurriedly said: "This person, what do you want to say? How about Mr. Wu Chengye's life?" The man stopped the crowd again and said: "Since you are a minister of the imperial court, yesterday's death in the dark room of the White Horse Temple and Mrs. Li's collision were all witnessed by your brother.

You are not a wolf-hearted dog, why are you so perverting the law because of a monk?If you want to live today, unless you invite Mr. Di to interrogate him here and condemn him to death, all the darkrooms in the White Horse Temple will be demolished, and all of us will disperse at any time.If this is not the case, I will not be able to escape the death penalty of insulting the minister, and you will not be able to survive! Seeing the fury of the crowd, Wu Chengye didn't dare to agree, so he hurriedly said, "I will follow what you said and immediately invite Master Di to go." "

Then he ordered someone to take the post and go to the governor's yamen.On the one hand, he ordered people to send letters to each yamen so that he could lead troops to expel these people, and punish the leader to death.Those family members came out with orders and left separately.

Let me first say that when Di Gong saw all the people arrive at the Ministry of Punishment, he withdrew from the court at that time, and still handed over Huaiyi to the police. The four bearers recorded their statements, handed them over to the servants, and waited quietly in the study.

After a while, I saw that the police brought in a person, went to the study, took out a post, and said to Di Gong: "Lord Wu of the Ministry of Punishment, I have specially ordered the messenger, please go there quickly. Now the people are making trouble in the hall, it is a terrible thing, if you don't Go, there will be great disaster!" Di Gong said deliberately: "This is Emperor Wu's own carelessness and offended the public, and I have suffered for him now. Ever since the Holy Admiral Huai Yi was handed over to him for interrogation, this matter is no longer my business, suddenly The people made a fuss at the Yuanmen, saying that Emperor Wu personally violated the law and released Huaiyi, forcing me to arrest him, so they had to go with him. I thought it was nothing, but halfway through, the people had already opened the sedan chair and put Huaiyi hugged him out. At that time, looking at each other in blank dismay, he had no choice but to bring him back and ask him in vain. Who knew that the bearer explained the truth, but it was Emperor Wu who released him, so he was enraged and went to the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment. At this time, please This court, how can this court go? There is no joint trial according to the order. If the royal family can't rule the people, they say that this court intends to control and hinder them from doing things. How can this crime of deceiving the emperor be punished?" The messenger saw Di The Duke refused to go, and hurriedly said, "Master Wu came to invite you personally. Now that you have a famous post here, how can you make your lord tired? I beg you to go there, otherwise the people will make trouble and be killed in Kyoto." It's tiring." Di Gong said: "This court has not received an order, so you must not go. Why don't you report to Wu Sansi and ask him to resolve it, or I will invite you to take Huaiyi to see what the people say." How dare the officer promise to bring Huaiyi back? Wouldn't he be beaten to death for everyone, so he had to retreat and rush back to the Yamen.I saw the officials of Hecheng early, with many officers and soldiers, crowding at the door, and then separated the crowd and squeezed inside.I saw the people shouting loudly: "Wu Chengye, you doghead, you even dispatched troops to threaten us!" Many people stepped forward, lifted Wu Chengye up, and said to the outside: "If you wait to enter this gate, you will be sent to the gate to kill us!" He invites you to perform the operation!" When the officials saw this, which one dared to do it, quickly said: "You wait for the power and put it down, and order the soldiers to retreat.

"Wu Chengye was so frightened that he pissed and feces, and shouted: "Ministers don't need to come in, and wait for Master Di to come and apologise. "

It was just disturbing a bunch of people, so the official had to say: "Master Di refused to come, saying that this matter has nothing to do with him, and he has not followed the order, so he can't be more obstructive. Now he has suffered for the adults. There is a quarrel at the gate, and they intend to send Huaiyi here, and they will still be interrogated by the adults." Before Wu Chengye could speak, many people said: "The governor is so partial? If he is sent here, we will punish him together." There was a lot of quarreling again.Wu Chengye hurriedly shouted: "It's because he doesn't want to come, it's not a matter of shutting down the officials. People, it's no good to put the officials to death. Why don't you still go to the Governor's Yamen and argue with Huaiyi.

"The people scolded: "You traitor often shirks the blame. Master Di didn't come because he was afraid that you would lie about the court. At this time, many officials are here. Why don't you let them go to invite them together? What's the matter with scaring me with these soldiers?If you don't go, I will simply defy the king's law. "The two of them lifted Wu Chengye upside down, with his head upside down and his feet upside down, like falling meteors, falling back and forth, throwing Wu Chengye dizzy, like a pig shouting, screaming all the time.

Seeing this, all the officials were really in a dilemma. If they wanted to step forward to stop them, they were afraid they would die; if they refused to go, Wu Chengye would scream again.Shiwu Sansi had come at this time, so he had to shout loudly: "I will go with all the adults. Don't do anything." They said: "You are limited for three moments, or you will fall if you don't come." , fell to the ground.

Wu Sansi had no choice but to lead the crowd and run away.When I arrived at the governor's yamen, I couldn't wait for the police to report, until I came to the study.When Di Gong saw all the people coming here, he knew that it was an incident of righteousness. Before Wu Sansi could speak, he hurriedly said, "What do you call this matter? Public anger is hard to offend. Many people come to the gate to make a scene. If there is a big change How can a lower official be able to take on the role? My younger brother is the minister of trial, why did he release Huaiyi? The four porters all said in unison that the Lord of the Ministry of Punishment ordered it. It is not a bluff of the lower official, Huaiyi was put to death for the common people. Now Your royal relatives came, and the lower officials happened to be freed, and the good thing is that the Holy Majesty ordered my younger brother to stand trial and bring the criminals to your noble relatives, so that the common people will not come here to make trouble again." Wu Sansi saw that Di Gong used the words of this closed door , hurriedly said: "My lord is an old minister of the former emperor, and I have been convinced by the common people for a long time. Now that my younger brother is about to die, please go ahead and convict him of the crime of righteousness first, so that everyone can disperse. Then if Let's make a living, and then discuss it.

At this time, let's look at the sympathy of the officials in the palace, so as not to cause a catastrophe. " Di Gong said quickly: "Didn't your royal relatives kill the old man!The interrogation of my younger brother was done according to the order, and it was too much for the old man to go.If the Holy Majesty said that I was troublesome, it would be a crime of deceiving the emperor and domineering?Your royal family still needs to forgive, this matter must not be overstepped. "Wu Sansi said: "my lord, go here and save my brother's life. Your sage knows that when you are about to think about it, is there any reason to question your sin?" " Di Gong said: "I don't dare to obey the orders of the princes regardless of what they say.It can be seen that people's hearts are always difficult to ask. Now that I have suffered a lot because of this matter, I pretended that the treacherous officials played a book afterwards, saying that I instigated the people to make a big disturbance in the court and snatch Huaiyi back. At that time, under the holy anger, if you can distinguish ?Wouldn't it cost you your life?If you want to go down from the official position, please write a voucher here, explaining how Wu Chengye has put his righteousness on his hands, and made a fuss for the common people, so that if you come to invite him, please write a voucher and sign it on it, the old man may go.Otherwise, it's none of your business, so why bother. "Wu Sansi knew that Di Gong wanted to refuse, so he had to follow him and finished writing in a hurry. Many officials were traitors of Wu's family, and all of them were imprisoned in the above.

The people were saying there: "Wu Sansi didn't go to invite him, and he probably went to avoid it, otherwise he should have come at this time. He regards us as traitors, and he will throw him to death when he uses soldiers to coerce us." Shouting together, like a tide rushing in, Wu Chengye was turned head down and feet up in an instant, like a meteor falling.Di Gong rushed forward, snatched it inside, and said loudly, "you are waiting here, and you still want to avenge Wang Li, or take advantage of this to make trouble?" When they saw Di Gong coming, they all said in unison: "Lead the land. Is it Wang Ju? Who has no wealth and life, how dare to cause chaos? Just because of such a treacherous party, abuse of living people, rape women, the people are already in dire straits. Yesterday Wang Yushu's daughter-in-law committed suicide at the White Horse Temple. Think twice about the search. It is obvious that there is no escape from the crime. Why don't you question him and hand him over to the Ministry of Punishment, and let him be released privately by this dog official! Didn't I come here after hearing the news? Wouldn't he slip through the net again? Such a shame How can the common people live in peace? At this time, since the adults have come here, they only want to avenge Wang’s injustice and punish him with righteousness. We are willing to admit the crime of making a scene in court. If not, it will be difficult to disperse.” Di Gong said: "Now that our court is here, what do you have to worry about! Immediately, you will mention Huaiyi, and you will put down the Emperor Wu, so that it will be in order. It seems that there is such a mess in one place, what is there to go up and down?" The common people said: "This place must not be interrogated! When Huaiyi is here, I can't wait to keep watch all the time. If he is still released at night, where can I ask him for someone? If you want to interrogate, you still go to the governor's office. It's safe." Di Gong listened This remark deliberately said: "Why are you so violent? Master Wu is an imperial envoy under the order, how can he go to the governor's yamen for interrogation? If you release him privately again this time, you will all ask for someone from this court." Then Xiang Wu Chengye Said: "Your Royal Family, I'm coming here today. I know that the crime of Huaiyi must be drafted. Otherwise, I won't be able to bear the responsibility." Make decisions for the lower officials, no matter what, it will be enough to play Zhishang together." At that time, the people heard what he said, so they let him go.

Di Gong ordered people to mention Huaiyi, but he didn't know what happened next. Let's see the next chapter.

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