Chapter 63: The Court on the Tip of the Tongue
"Heirloom Witness Three!"
Hou San was brought to the hall by a soap officer, he trembled and fell to the ground and bowed, his head shrunk in his arm like a turtle and said, "Hou San of the grass people comes to see your lord." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Witness Hou San, bring what you saw yesterday to the truth!"
Hou San had already prepared, and rearranged a set of narratives about what happened yesterday.
He avoided the important and only said that Wei Daiyan just accidentally broke a few dishes in Suiyuan, and then attracted Yang Huairen's subordinates to pickle and splash the skin to beat him, but he didn't mention that Wei Daiyan started beating people first.
Between the words, it seems that the second son of his family, Wei, is a weak gentleman, and Yang Huairen has become a bully who is idle all day long, leading a group of scoundrels to run rampant in the street market, bullying men and women.
Wei Lao'er was quite satisfied with Hou San's testimony, stroked his beard and smiled slightly, and said to Cai Jing: "Lord Fuzun, my servant Hou San has always been honest and loyal, and his words are enough to be believed. ”
Cai Jing listened, picked up the shocking wood and fell again, and shouted at Yang Huairen: "What else do you have to quibble? Someone ...... coming."
"Wait!"
Yang Huairen interrupted Cai Jing's words, and said slowly: "Lord Fuzun, slow down, the student has something to remind the adult, now the case of beating people is small, and the case of bullying the king is big, and please ask the adults to first punish the criminals who bully the king, and then judge the adult's case." ”
Cai Jing's eyes widened in bluff and looked at Yang Huairen suspiciously.
In this era, the emperor had supreme power, and anyone's disrespectful remarks or attitudes towards the imperial power were extremely serious, and dissatisfaction with the imperial power in private would lead to death.
Especially during the Yuanyou period, there were constant party disputes, and the most common offensive method among the civil and official factions was to say that so-and-so's remarks were disrespectful to the emperor, and the goal of striking at opponents with dissenting political views had been achieved.
Su Shi was exiled because of the famous "Wutai Poetry Case" in history.
In this case, Su Shi was just an ordinary verse, and it was taken out far-fetched by people with bad intentions, insisting that he was dissatisfied with the official family, and he was convicted, and he squatted in prison for many days and almost gave up his life in vain.
How could Cai Jing not understand the difference between importance and importance? Wei Cai's complaint against Yang Huairen for injuring Wei Daiyan was just a small dispute, and it was something that could be resolved by an ordinary general judgment in Kaifeng Mansion.
If it weren't for the presence of a colleague who was good friends with Wei Cai, he would not have tried it himself, and from the very beginning of the case, he didn't like Yang Huairen.
Most of the scholars in the Great Song Dynasty read the books of the sages, and their personalities were humble and frugal, young people like Yang Huairen who had read books, but they were frivolous and uninhibited, and they were born with a clever tongue like a spring, in the eyes of Cai Jing, Yang Huairen became a person who did not learn and did not know.
I thought that Wei Cai could come up with evidence so that he could teach Yang Huairen, who misbehaved and insulted Sven, a good lesson, but he didn't expect him to throw such a big bomb in the court and disrupt his plans.
"Yang Huairen, this matter is a big matter, don't talk nonsense, you keep saying that there are criminals in the hall who are bullying the king, who are you referring to?"
Yang Huairen pointed at Hou San, "It's him." ”
Cai Jing looked at him puzzled and asked, "When and what words did he use to deceive the king?" ”
Hou San heard Yang Huairen say that he was a criminal and deceived the king, and his head exploded in a flash, and he was so frightened that his whole body became weak, and his internal organs were mixed together, and he almost urinated out in the hall.
"Adult, the little wronged, the small wronged......"
Yang Huairen smiled contemptuously at Hou San and the Wei family's father and son, turned to Cai Jing and asked, "The student has a question to ask the adults, since the Taizu of this dynasty, there have been several generations of kings, how do you treat the scholars?" ”
Cai Jing was asked by him suddenly, and he was a little confused by the second monk, but he was also a scholar, and he had today's official status through the imperial examination, so he naturally knew that the kings of this dynasty had always treated scholars preferentially.
It's just that he couldn't figure out what Yang Huairen meant by asking, so he bowed first to show his respect for the emperor, and then said cautiously: "In the third year of the Taizu Jianlong of this dynasty, he erected a monument and swore to treat the scholars preferentially, and all the monarchs below the Taizu have obeyed. ”
"Okay," Yang Huairen took his words and said with a solemn attitude: "Since the lord also said so, then Hou San's crime of bullying the king will not be washed away."
Yesterday in Suiyuan, it was Wei Daiyan who first attacked and beat the shopkeeper of my house, and then made disrespectful remarks and humiliated the guests in Suiyuan.
Although the students were angry that Wei Er looked down on scholars, they did not participate in it, and later it was the students who stopped the scholars from all over the country in time to save Wei Ergongzi's life.
As mentioned above, the students are telling the truth, if the Lord Fuzun does not believe it, you can go to the Guozijian and Taixue to ask the scholars who dined in Suiyuan yesterday to verify. ”
Cai Jing listened to what he said, it seemed that it couldn't be faked, and he didn't really need to go to Guozijian and Taixue to invite those scholars to testify, with what so many people in the garden saw, he Yang Huairen didn't dare to lie.
Besides, the saying is not to blame the public, the beaters are all scholars who came to participate in the imperial examination, and there is a reason for the incident, if he really arrests a group of scholars and comes back to ask for the guilt, he Cai Jing is estimated to be drowned by the people who study all over the world.
It's just that even if Yang Huairen can prove that he didn't beat people, where did the thing he said about Hou San's bullying of the king come from?
"Yang Huairen, even if you didn't beat people, you said that Hou San was a criminal who bullied the king, if you can't produce evidence, according to Song Law, you will be subjected to the law of reverse."
"My lord, think about it carefully, but the adult said that the official family also thinks that he is a scholar?"
Cai Jing replied without thinking about it: "Yes, this official did say that not only that, but the county lords of this dynasty were all well-versed in the past and the present, and they were literary and graceful. ”
Yang Huairen secretly laughed in his heart Cai Jing, this kid can shoot the ass so loudly without the horse's ass, and he said it so well, the official family can't hear it in the palace, why are you working so hard?
"Well said!"
Yang Huairen couldn't help but clap his hands and praise, "Do you remember, do you remember that Hou Sankou just said that it was a bunch of pickled people who beat his second son?"
In his Hou San's eyes, the scholars who read the books of the sages are just a bunch of pickled skins? So the official family who claims to be a scholar has not become a scoundrel in his eyes?
Isn't this still a matter of insignificance? ”
When Hou San heard this, he was already frightened that the six gods were without a master, and the seven orifices were smoking, and a large piece of urine was wet under his crotch.
He suddenly remembered that this set of rhetoric was taught by Wei Lao'er, and he couldn't care about the righteousness of the master and servant in a hurry, and the head of the chicken continued to slam on the ground like eating rice, and shouted loudly: "The adult spares his life, and the small one just speaks, all of which my lord forced the little one to say, and the villain is wronged......"