Chapter 188: Chen Ping
Seven Sharks sent an order, gathered the lake bandits, announced that the Seven Sharks Gang would be disbanded, and those who were willing to join the army General Wei would take care of it, and those who were unwilling to join the army would give silver taels from the treasury of the Seven Sharks Gang, in order to make the wealth of the scattered gang, and some of the lake bandits were in the army, and some returned to their families to farm, Wei Qing packed up the people who joined the army, and counted the number of people, about 300 people. Although the number is not large, but at least it is the first success in the recruitment of troops in Huainan, the seven sharks refused to go with Wei Qing, and drove away, Wei Qing watched their ship go away, sighed for a long time, and secretly swore in his heart that if the matter of Surabaya City was not resolved, he would never give up, and immediately took more than 300 people to the shore by boat.
As soon as he arrived at the shore, he saw thousands of Han soldiers carrying more than a dozen small boats coming, and the captain of the guard saw that Wei Qing had not returned for a long time, and he was frightened, for fear that Wei Qing would have something wrong, so he hurriedly sent someone to report back, and increased his troops, and carried a group of small boats to plan to go into the lake to find, and now seeing that Wei Qing actually rode alone to level the lake bandits, everyone was very happy, and surrounded Wei Qing back to the city.
Halfway through the journey, Bai Buxin came with a thousand people, and saw that Wei Qing was safe and sound, so he was naturally happy, but he was very dissatisfied with Wei Qing's adventure alone, but he was calm by nature, and he didn't blame Wei Qing too much, and only said one sentence to Wei Qing: "General Wei should learn from Chen Ping as a prime minister!" ”
Wei Qing smiled and replied: "There is wine in the army, but it's just a young woman!" ”
Bai Buxin saw that Wei Qing deliberately misinterpreted his meaning, and knew that Wei Qing did not agree with his suggestion, so he laughed and stopped.
It turned out that Bai Buxin meant that he wanted Wei Qing to learn from Chen Ping and give up his hands and not bow down to everything.
According to historical records, Emperor Xiaowen asked the right prime minister Zhou Bo when he was interviewed by the courtiers: "How many cases are there in the whole country in a year!" Zhou Bo thanked him and said, "I don't know! Emperor Xiaowen asked again: "How much is the country's expenditure income for money and grain in a year!" Zhou Bo apologized again and said that he didn't know, so anxious that he sweated, ashamed that he couldn't answer.
So the emperor asked Chen Ping, the prime minister of Zuo, and Chen Ping said: "There is a person in charge!" The emperor said, "Who is the person in charge!" Chen Ping said: "If Your Majesty asks about the circumstances of the judgment of the case, you can ask Tingwei; If you ask about the income and expenditure of money and grain, you can ask about the internal history of Su Zhi! The emperor said, "If each has a person in charge, what are you in charge of?" Chen Ping apologized and said: "For the sake of the minister's sincere fear, Your Majesty does not know that my intelligence is inferior, so that I reluctantly assume the position of prime minister, the post of prime minister, to assist the Son of Heaven to regulate yin and yang, to adapt to the four seasons, to nurture the timely growth of all things, to appease the four Yi and the princes externally, and to love and unite the people internally, so that the ministers and doctors can each be competent for their duties!" Emperor Xiaowen then praised him for answering well.
Zhou Bo, the right prime minister, was ashamed, and complained to Chen Ping after retreating: "Why don't you teach me to answer these words at ordinary times!" Chen Ping smiled and said, "You are in a phase, don't you know the responsibilities of the prime minister?" If Your Majesty asks about the number of thieves in Chang'an City, do you have to reluctantly make up the number to answer? At this time, Zhou Bo knew that his talent was far worse than Chen Ping, and after a while, Zhou Botuo asked to be removed from the position of the right prime minister, and Chen Ping took the position of the entire prime minister alone.
This is the so-called allusion to "Chen Ping doesn't know the amount of money and grain".
Bai Buxin's original intention is this, but Wei Qing did not agree with what Bai Buxin said, so he deliberately misinterpreted it as Chen Ping's disguise to avoid trouble in the period of Lu Hou, it turned out that Lu Hou's sister Lu Xiao, her husband is Fan Xu, Lu Xiao "often used Chen Ping to conspire for Emperor Gao Fan Xu, and several slanders said: 'Chen Ping is not a good minister, drinking alcohol every day, and playing women,' Chen Ping heard it, and became more and more serious, and the Empress Dowager Lu heard it, and she was happy privately, and her face was Lu Xiao Yu Chen Ping said: 'The disdainful language says that the child and woman are not available, Gu Jun and I are like ears, and I am not afraid of Lu Xiao's slander! ”
Chen Ping reassured Empress Lu with the performance of "drinking alcohol and playing women", so as to avoid trouble, Wei Qing misinterpreted Bai Buxin's original intention to let him "drink alcohol and play women", naturally Bai Buxin asked him not to bow down in person to express his disagreement.
In fact, Bai Buxin also understands Wei Qing's thoughts, now that everything is so chaotic, all the generals are busy, but how can Wei Qing bear to really "give up his hands", so he does not insist on his own suggestions.
When they entered the city, they passed by the gate of the yamen, and behold, they saw a crowd of people gathered around them, and they were making a noise, as if something had happened.
"Check it out!" Wei Qing decisively ordered.
A group of guards lined up the crowd and let Wei Qing enter the yamen, and some of the people knew Wei Qing and said: "General Dingyuan has come to judge the case in person!" ”
Wei Qing entered the yamen, only to see Zu Ti was sitting in the hall, his face was full of sweat, he was worrying, there was a man and a woman kneeling in the hall, looking at the age of about fifty, it should be a couple, the two were kowtowing to Zu Ti again, seeing that there was something to say, but the strange thing was that the two of them just didn't make a sound.
"What's going on!" Wei Qing asked.
Zu Ti was worried about himself and didn't know what to do, and suddenly saw Wei Qing coming, as if he had been in a long drought and had nectar in a long time, he hurriedly came down from the hall, grabbed Wei Qing, and said in a hoarse voice: "Alas, General Wei, it's really good that you're here, I really don't understand the case in front of me, please help!" ”
Wei Qing was actually a little tired, after all, he had just walked a big circle, first to Fengtai, to defeat the fleeing Jin army, and then to Huashen Lake, and then to the Seven Sharks, and on the way back, he also asked Bai Buxin to send someone to survey the lake to see if there was the legendary entrance to Surabaya City, but he was now the supreme leader of the entire Huainan, where could he let go of these things, so he had to nod and agree.
Wei Qing nodded, and the couple both threw themselves at Wei Qing's feet, kowtowing to Wei Qing again and again, and making a monotonous sound of "wow, wow" in their mouths.
Wei Qing gasped.
Only then did he know why Zu Ti couldn't understand this case, it turned out that these two people were dumb.
He sat down in the hall and said, "Come, put pen and paper on these two and let them write things out!" ”
The woman heard Wei Qing let her write, and waved her hand to indicate that she couldn't write, but the man didn't indicate that she couldn't write, but just stretched out his hands to Wei Qing.
When Wei Qing looked at it, he sighed in his heart.
The man had three fingers on each of his hands amputated, and he could no longer hold a pen.
This kind of situation usually only occurs when the thief is caught and lynched, and I think this man is not a good person, but whether he is a good person or not, now they have not committed a crime, but have come to the yamen for help, so they must be treated equally, but now the question is how to know what they are going to do?
Wei Qing frowned, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
The man didn't say anything when he saw Wei Qing, and his anxious tears flowed out, he pulled out a little rabbit from his arms, buttoned the broken hat on his head to the rabbit's head, and raised it high.
"What is this?" Wei Qing looked dizzy, this person planned to ask him to help feed the rabbits.
Zu Ti sighed on the side: "This is how they came, they lifted the rabbit again and again, I want to take it and they won't let it, I really can't guess what is going on!" ”
Wei Qing looked at the two people in front of him, listening to the noise outside the hall in his ears, knowing that although this matter was just a family matter, all the people were watching, waiting to see if they could manage the city well after the Han army they had been looking forward to arrived.
His mind was thinking quickly, and suddenly his eyes lit up, he reached out and grabbed the pen and paper, wrote a word with a brush, and held it up.
Everyone looked at the paper, and there was a big word "injustice" written on it.
The mute man let out a loud "wow", put down the rabbit and nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of joy.
Zu Ti slapped his head fiercely and scolded in a low voice: "I'm really a pig's head!" ”
Add a hat to the word "rabbit", isn't it the word "wronged", this dumb man said that he was wronged and came to ask for help.
However, it is not enough to know that they are here to redress their grievances, and if they do not resolve the matter, it will be useless.
Wei Qing and the two couples kneeling in the hall stared wide-eyed.
They can't speak, the women's hands are intact but they can't write, and the men can write but can't hold a pen in their hands.
"Spread sand under the hall and let him write with his feet!" Zu Ti came up with an idea.
Wei Qing chuckled: "How long does it take, it takes half an hour to write three or five words!" He said to the mute, "You live in the city!" The mute couple both nodded, Wei Qing reached out and grabbed a water and fire stick in the lottery holder and threw it under the hall: "Come on, follow this dumb man to find their residence, and then, arrest their neighbors for me, they can't speak, their neighbors will, let their neighbors come and tell them what they are wronged!" ”
With a snap, Zu Ti slapped his head again.
If you do this three or five times, it is estimated that Zu Ti's head will be swollen like a pig's head.
There was a sound of admiration outside the hall.
The onlookers recited Wei Qing's clever decision, not only did not disperse, but gathered more and more, and everyone wanted to see how General Wei would decide the case next.
A woman in the crowd suddenly shouted, "Master Qingtian, I have a case to report!" ”
Wei Qing's face suddenly turned bitter melon-like.
He is in big trouble now, he has actually become the master of Qingtian, not only can he not go back to rest, but he has to judge the case here, but Zu Ti can have a good rest.
However, since someone wants to report the case, how can he not take it, anyway, it will take time to wait for the errand and the mute couple to catch the neighbors, so use this time to solve the case again!
"Whoever reports the case, come to court!"
A woman in the crowd squeezed up, and as soon as the woman came to the class, several people in the hall coaxed: "Hehe, Hehe, the little widow wants the general to arrest her husband!" ”
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