Chapter 18: Above and Below the Court
Cao Cao signaled with his eyes, and the guards who held Liu Mingyi retreated one after another. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What do you have to say? If you beg for mercy, don't open your mouth, the court has its own plan to judge. ”
"It's not begging for mercy, I'm just wondering what crime you brought us in?"
Liu Mingyi already had a plan in his heart, so he asked without thinking.
"Your crime is to fight with the Huns in the city of Xudu."
Cao Cao showed his eyes, and the official stood up and said loudly.
"Fighting with the Huns? How to fight with the Huns? Could it be that the road is uneven, and it is wrong to draw a knife to help? ”
Wang Dazhui was short-tempered, and Liu Mingyi was about to speak when he was preemptively said.
At this moment, I only heard the rooster shouting just now, and pushed five or six sturdy figures tied up from outside the door, it was the Hun leader and other people who robbed the people's girls on the street and clashed with Liu Mingyi, these guys were not honest even if they were trapped, and they rushed around when they were pushed into the hall, trying to escape, but they were all stopped by the guards.
"The chicken cooed, and the croaking ......"
The leader of the Huns straightened up and looked at Cao Cao who was standing on the steps ahead, with a fierce face and a fierce look in his eyes, not knowing what he was shouting about.
"They said, 'Let us go, or I want you all to die!'" '。 ”
Li San translated, and Cao Cao looked at these Huns with an unkind face.
"Barbarians are barbarians, and it is difficult to change their ferocious nature at any time."
Cao Cao pointed to the leader of the Huns and said to the hundred officials, and all the officials said yes.
"Okay, since the people are here, let's go and invite the Hun envoy!"
Cao Cao ordered, and after a while, he saw a Hun dressed very similar to the Han people walking into the hall with an arrogant face.
"Fierce baba..."
When the leader of the Huns saw the envoy coming, he hurriedly leaned over to the other side, and shouted back.
"Don't help me yet." (Translated by Li San.) )
"Son of Heaven, since you have already caught the prisoner, why don't you let go of the warriors of our clan?"
The envoy nodded to the leader of the Huns for a moment, and then walked to the bottom of the steps of the main hall and said.
"Hahaha...... Don't worry, you are also a Han expert, you should understand that even if the prisoner is caught, he should always be punished after the trial! ”
Cao Cao laughed loudly and replied instead of Emperor Liu Xie of Han Xian.
"What else is there to judge here? These three men have struck my men, which is disrespectful to the king of my Huns, and I demand that my men be released immediately and that the three perpetrators be executed. ”
The Hun envoys looked directly into Cao Cao's eyes without flinching.
"Bold, dare to ignore the laws of our dynasty, and repeatedly make it difficult for strong people, is it only your king who has dignity, and we Han people have no dignity?"
A person stood up from the rank of 100 officials, this person had handsome eyebrows, a loud voice, and his right hand pointed directly at the envoy to drink.
"Wenyuan, don't be impatient, no matter how you say it, you're a guest!"
Cao Cao waved his hand, and the man sat down and said nothing.
"My Han is a state of etiquette, and I have always treated the people of the Quartet with courtesy, but at this time, it is related to the law of my Han Dynasty, please understand the envoys."
Another person got up to speak, and although his words were not strong, the needle hidden in the cotton made it difficult for the Hun envoy to say anything.
Seeing that the Hun envoys had no objections, Cao Cao beckoned, walked out of several eunuchs from both sides of the hall, and placed several good wooden chairs on the court, these wooden chairs were placed on Cao Cao's side, the side of the envoy, and the center of the nine steps below the court.
"Changwen, Qing has always been fair and upright, and everything in this is left to you to preside, and I will watch from the sidelines."
Cao Cao smiled, took the lead in sitting on the wooden chair, and then said with a finger of his hand.
"No!"
Standing up from among the hundred officials, a person Hao came to the central chair and sat down without refusing, this person's surname is Chen Mingqun, the word is long, and the current Sikong Xi Cao Peng is a subordinate, and the envoy saw that this matter was a foregone conclusion, so he had to sit down in the same way.
"Open!"
The sound of the rooster's voice sounded, and Chen Qun stood up and came to Liu Mingyi, Wang Dazhu, and Li San.
"You are Liu Mingyi, Wang Dazhui, Li San?"
Chen Qun was the first to ask.
"Exactly!"
The three of them replied in unison.
"I was wronged, the grass people were greedy for a while and pretended to walk with these two people, who expected that these two people really caused a monstrous disaster, the grass people were wronged, these two grass people have nothing to do with it, this matter has nothing to do with me, I ask the adults to open the net, and the grass people are willing to correct the crimes of the two."
Chen Qun was about to speak again, but Li Sansan crawled in front of him and said with tears in his eyes.
"This ......"
Chen Qun looked at Li San, and then at the other two, only to see that there was a lot of disdain on their faces but they didn't say a word, and they already had a plan in their hearts. This person should be damned, the reason why the prime minister set this plan is to seek justice in front of the envoys, but in fact, he doesn't want to offend the Huns anymore, he tries to keep a few people in front of him, and he doesn't want to leave behind a notoriety of flattering and barbarians.
"Bold Li San, how dare you speak cleverly, abandon your accomplices, and betray others just to survive alone. Someone, let me escort him down and throw him into the oil pod. ”
Chen Qun pointed at Li San, walked in from outside the door, pulled his arms and legs, and held Li San in the air, no matter how Li San begged for mercy and struggled, it was useless.
"Prime Minister, this person has committed a capital crime in order to live alone, framed others, and this crime has nothing to do with this case, but because it will seriously interfere with the progress of the trial of this case, he will be executed immediately outside the main hall."
Chen Qun turned around to state to Cao Cao, and seeing that Cao Cao also nodded in agreement, he turned around and waved his hand, and several guards carried Li San to the oil tripod outside the hall.
"Slow!"
The Hun envoys hurriedly stopped, someone was willing to testify to the crime, it was an extremely important witness, how could he be executed like this, but as soon as the words came out, he heard a scream outside the hall and stopped, and a scorching smell came out of the ding, which was:
Poor West Street storyteller, in order to protect himself as a witness. Who would have thought that this matter would be so unjust, and it would be in vain to offend Changwen and lose his soul.
Liu Mingyi smelled this smell, and then thought that the person who was still alive just now had become a puddle of cooked meat at this moment, and he almost vomited.
No matter what, we have to find a way, if we are convicted here, Li San will be a lesson from the past! Liu Mingyi thought in his heart, he didn't know the true meaning of this court trial, but he felt that the cold sweat had already soaked his clothes.
"Don't panic, the two of you, that person was executed for committing a crime, but it has nothing to do with this case, as long as you answer the questions honestly, you will naturally not be implicated."
Chen Qun looked at Liu Mingyi and Wang Dazhui with panicked expressions, afraid that the two would admit their crimes in a panic, so he comforted them, implying that as long as the other party didn't talk nonsense, they wouldn't die.
Wang Dazhui is a rough man, he naturally can't hear the meaning of the other party's hint, but he is already bold, and he calmed down in just a moment. Cao Cao saw it clearly on the stage, and he was also secretly surprised by Wang Dazhu's guts, and his love for talents rose.
Looking at Liu Mingyi again, although he doesn't have the courage of Wang Dazhui, he has always been witty, and he has faintly guessed the meaning of the other party's hint from Chen Qun's words, although he is still flustered, but he can also calm down.
"Let me ask you two, why did you fight each other with the Huns in the city?"
Seeing that the emotions of the two of them had calmed down, Chen Qun continued to ask.
"It's just that they are bullying the weak in the city, and they are trying to force the three women onto their horses and take away the beasts."
Liu Mingyi replied, since he probably guessed the other party's intentions, he naturally depicted the whole thing even more, and the hundreds of officials in the palace who only listened frowned, and Cao Cao himself snorted coldly, not because of anything else, but because the three humiliated women mentioned in the story were none other than his three daughters of Cao Cao.
The story has been until Liu Mingyi was knocked unconscious to the ground, Chen Qun rubbed his eyes, only felt that the person in front of him was really a sad and crying hero, of course, the reason for this effect was because Liu Mingyi deliberately beautified himself in the story.
"Hun envoy, what else do you have to say!"
After listening to Liu Mingyi's story, Cao Cao said angrily to the Hun envoys sitting in the hall.
"How?"
Who knew that the envoy looked indifferent, "In our tribe, women are used to vent their desires for men, and the warriors of our clan are in a mood for a while, so what if they want one or two big Han women?" This is a matter of course. ”
"your fart!"
Originally, Wang Da Hammer had been stunned by Liu Mingyi's story, and even he didn't know that the Wang Da Hammer in the story turned out to be himself, but at this moment, when he heard the Hun envoys making a big fuss here, he suddenly rushed out of anger, "This is the big man, not your stinky stable!" If you want to vent, go back to your hometown and find a mare to vent! ”
The words were not rough, and everyone except the Huns agreed deeply.
"This official announced that in the case of Liu Mingyi and Wang Dazhui, although the two of them beat the Huns inhumanely (Liu Mingyi added fuel to the vinegar), there was a reason for the incident and extenuating circumstances, so the two were not held responsible. The Huns were suspected of bullying the weak, robbing the people's daughters, and committing the great crime of adultery, adultery, and plunder, which should have been a capital crime, but considering that they were envoys of a foreign country, they were punished lightly, but the death penalty was not escaped from the living crime, and the six Huns were sentenced to palace punishment. ”
Chen Qun babbled a lot, but the last two words almost made Liu Mingyi laugh out loud, and he was actually sentenced to palace punishment, and these barbarians will only have to watch after they go back!
"I protest!"
The Hun envoy stood up with a red face, he turned to look at Cao Cao who was sitting on the stage, "The prime minister is not afraid of attracting the wrath of my king when he behaves like this?" ”
"This matter was originally caused by you, and if something happened, even you would take it down."
Cao Cao frightened, "Okay, this matter will end here, you might as well rest in Xudu for a few more days, and when the matter is over, we will discuss the conditions proposed by your king this time." ”
The end of the matter that Cao Cao was referring to was the end of the palace punishment of the six Huns, but the Hun envoys suddenly became excited.
"Never! The leader of the Huns is ......"
The envoy said this, and he hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand.
"What is it?"
Cao Cao stared at it, and his expression suddenly became serious.
(To be continued)