The eunuch calmed down and said: "At the beginning, there was a family member named Wang Chengming who knelt outside the palace gate with a paper to shout grievances, and the palace gate guards quickly dispersed them after discovering it, but I didn't expect that soon after, they came over again, followed by a few students Confucian students, these Confucian students accompanied those family members to sit far away outside the palace gate, and they didn't do anything, and the guards couldn't drive away, who knew that there were more and more people gathered, and now the palace gate was blocked by the people, not to mention thousands of people! ”

Zhao Junsheng said angrily: "What does the palace gate guard do to eat?" Why not dispel sooner? ”

The little eunuch was speechless.

At this time, another little eunuch walked in quickly and reported: "Your Majesty, a large number of people have gathered outside the palace gate, and Jin Wuwei has dispatched 5,000 people and is rushing in the direction of the palace gate!" ”

Minister Li Song stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the matter is still caused by Wang Chengming's family, as the saying goes, the bell must be tied to the bell, this Wang Chengming's family is too bold, if the family of every criminal comes to the palace to shout grievances, then pay it back?" The Great Dry Law doesn't have a bit of a deterrent anymore? The minister suggested that Jin Wuwei be ordered to forcibly disperse the onlookers and send Wang Chengming's family back to his hometown! ”

Minister Lu Xuan stood up and saluted and said, "Your Majesty, the minister seconded the proposal!" ”

Pei Jin stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter cannot be done with such a drastic approach, Wang Chengming's case is different from other homicide cases, it is a relatively special case, Wang Chengming's family does not understand the verdict of the three divisions, and it is understandable that the minister thinks that it should be based on persuasion!"

In addition, the people gathered outside the palace gate, the minister thinks that the ordinary people are still easy to persuade back, the key is those Confucian students who have radical ideas, now that the scientific examination is imminent, there are more and more Confucian students coming to Chang'an, if this matter is not handled well, it may affect the opening of the imperial examination! The minister suggested sending officials to persuade them, and the minister believed that as long as they were moved by emotion and reason, they would listen to the persuasion! ”

Lu Xuan said disdainfully: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Pei Gong's method is too gentle, and treats the people, the court and the government should always maintain majesty and inviolability, as well as a posture of no compromise, otherwise once compromised, they will gain an inch in the future, and the minister asks Your Majesty to issue an order to forcibly disperse those gathered people, so as not to expand the situation!" ”

Zhao Junsheng weighed in his heart what method to choose.

Zhao Ping stood up and saluted and said: "Father, this case is presided over by Erchen, let Erchen solve this matter, Erchen asks to have the command of Jin Wuwei!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and agreed: "Okay, I'll leave this matter to you to deal with!" Zuojin Wuwei General Hua Xiong, from now on, you follow Zhao Ping's instructions and cooperate with him to calm down this situation! ”

Hua Xiong stood up and hugged his fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

The two bowed together again and exited the main hall.

Zhao Ping walked quickly in the direction of the palace gate and asked, "Uncle, how much control do you have over the Jinwuwei soldiers?" It won't drop the chain at a critical moment, right? ”

Hua Xiong said angrily: "I am General Zuojin Wuwei, I have been in office for half a year, and I still have a certain binding force on those officials and generals below, who dares to openly disobey the orders I issued on the surface?" ”

"That's good, I'll listen to my orders later, if you don't have an order, you must control the soldiers and horses, don't mess around, tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, at this time, you must not cause any major incidents, especially not to make trouble!"

Hua Xiong said loudly: "Don't worry about this, without my order, which dog cub I think dares to act without permission?" ”

The two quickly walked to the palace gate, and the guards guarding the palace gate saluted Zhao Ping and Hua Xiong: "See Your Highness, General Hua!" ”

Zhao Ping said: "This king came to deal with the affairs outside the palace gate on the order of his father, open the door!" ”

"No!" The palace gate guard agreed, turned around and waved: "Open the palace gate!" ”

With the sound of creaking, the palace gate opened, and the people who were still making a lot of noise stopped talking and looked in the direction of the palace gate together.

As Zhao Ping and Hua Xiong, who was dressed in armor, walked out of the palace gate with their swords, all the sounds outside the palace gate disappeared.

Zhao Ping stood still on the arched bridge outside the palace gate, this position was relatively high, he swept his eyes, and found two people sitting cross-legged on the ground, an old woman, a middle-aged woman and a teenage boy, the middle-aged woman holding a paper in her hand.

Zhao Ping asked, "Are you the family members of the criminal Wang Chengming?" ”

The middle-aged woman hurriedly got up and knelt, and the old woman and the little boy also quickly knelt in the direction of the palace gate, "This nobleman, Wang Chengming is the husband of the little woman, this is the mother-in-law and son of the little woman, our family is here to sue the royal court!" ”

Zhao Ping said: "I am the king of Shu, the third son of today's son, the official residence of the imperial city Si Zheng, and also the secretary of the criminal department, your husband Wang Chengming's murder of Yin Yu is the case of this king is the main trial, this king's sentence to life imprisonment is based on the judgment made by the law of the great cadres combined with the relevant facts of the case, do you have any doubts to risk killing the head to come to the palace gate to sue the emperor?" ”

The middle-aged woman said: "Lord Qiyu, my husband was beaten to death by Yin Yu's villain when he was young, he was young at the time, unable to take revenge, and the government did not give justice, my father-in-law died in vain, Yin Yu was not punished at all, and then Yin Yu became a big official, and our family was even more helpless He can't, you must know that the people sue the official to hit the thirty boards first, how can the thirty boards be killed?" What's more, he is an official, we are the people, even if we are justified, we can't win!

When an official kills the people, and our people don't even have a place to redress their grievances, is there any reason for this? We can only be bullied by others, even if we take revenge, it is a crime, where is the justice in this world? Our family doesn't want to live anyway, if the prince doesn't give us justice, three generations of our ancestors and grandchildren will die outside this palace gate today! ”

Some of the people shouted, "Give me justice!" ”

"Give me justice!"

"Give me justice!"

The people shouted, and the shouts grew louder and more orderly.

Zhao Ping raised his hands and shouted: "Quiet, quiet······"

The crowd was inflamed, the shouts became louder and louder, and Zhao Ping's voice couldn't be suppressed at all.

He shouted a few times but to no avail, and immediately shouted to Hua Xiong, who had already contacted the Jinwu guards and returned: "Approach the Jinwu guards!" ”

Hua Xiong immediately ran up to the city tower, took out a banner to play the flag, the Jinwu guards outside the palace gate saw the flag on the city tower, under the orders of the generals at all levels, they lined up in a neat line with spears to move closer to the gathered people.

As the Jinwu Guards approached, the people finally felt scared, and then all the Jinwu Guards shouted: "Roar, roar, roar!" ”

The people were silenced by the shouts of the armor soldiers, and did not dare to speak again.

Zhao Ping said in a loud voice: "Idle people are not allowed to gather outside the palace gate!" Neighbors, you are offending to gather here on a large scale to make trouble, this king will give you another chance to retreat quickly, no one will pursue you, but if you continue to make trouble here, this king does not dare to guarantee that you can all go home completely, tomorrow is the Shangyuan Festival, this king hopes that you will go home for a good festival, don't let your wives and children wait for you to return at home! There are also those students who came to Chang'an to catch the exam, Confucian students, you will have to participate in the scientific examination in more than a month, this is the biggest thing in your life, related to the future of your life, this king now also gives you a chance to let you leave, if you do not listen to the persuasion, once caught, not only will you be disqualified from the scientific examination, but also imprisoned. Let's all go back, all go, before the knife and axe are added, quickly retreat! Attention to all the Jinwu Guards, if anyone hides in the crowd and stirs up trouble, they will be arrested! ”

"No!" All the armor soldiers let out a loud roar.

Where would the residents who were originally just here to see the excitement risk their lives to participate in the trouble? After Zhao Ping finished speaking, many people began to disperse.

Some people were unwilling and hid in the crowd and shouted: "Don't go, the court hasn't given an explanation yet, they are officials and officials, and they don't give us ordinary people a way to live at all!" ”

The sound came from the crowd and was immediately discovered by several nearby Jinwu Guards, who quickly rushed over and broke away from the crowd and arrested a Confucian student.

"Officers and soldiers beat people, this is tyranny!"

A few more soldiers rushed into the crowd and arrested a Confucian student.

After catching a few Confucian scholars hiding in the crowd and inciting them in a row, the people did not dare to stay any longer, and soon dispersed cleanly.

In less than a cup of tea, there were only three middle-aged women's families left outside the palace gate.

Zhao Ping breathed a sigh of relief, he walked to the three generations of grandparents and squatted down and said: "It's not impossible for the people to sue the officials, the rule of setting up the 30 boards first is to prevent false accusations and prevent the people from deliberately making trouble for the officials.

Yin Yu was not a county official at the beginning, he was just a small official after he retired, and at that time it was the best opportunity for you to sue him, and you didn't have to be punished, but you didn't sue him. As he gets bigger and bigger, it becomes difficult for you to sue him, but you still have a chance, you can go directly to his boss and sue him!

He has already been sentenced to death, and he is about to be beheaded, which is equivalent to the court avenging you for you, why should you insist on revenge with your own hands? The laws of the court are not decorations, anyone who violates them will be punished, even if he is already a death row prisoner, you have no right to take his life, only the law can execute him!

If it is a troubled time, the government cannot avenge you, and the public power cannot play a role, you can go to the enemy to take revenge, and you will not be cared for; But now is the era of great prosperity, the public power can protect the safety of the people's lives and property to the greatest extent, if everyone is like you to return a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood, if everyone has used revenge to resolve hatred, this world is not chaotic?

If your husband kills Yin Yu to avenge the killing of his father, if you don't punish your husband, then Yin Yu's heirs will also seek revenge on your husband in the future, and then your son will seek revenge on his heirs, and so on, what will become of this world? ”