Chapter 17: Above the Court (Part II)

Hearing Cao Cao's inquiry, Liu Bei lowered his head and walked out of the crowd after a little thought. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"Prime Minister, how can you be prepared, how dare you talk about this."

Being in Xudu, doing things is not meritorious but not wrong, if it is not a last resort, Liu Bei never wants to attract too much attention from others, so as not to make a big move.

"Eh-Xuande is too modest to say this, but you might as well say it."

Cao Cao waved his hand and insisted that Liu Bei speak, and Liu Xie, the originally listless Emperor of Han Xian, saw that his uncle Liu Bei was in the ranks, and he suddenly cheered up.

"Uncle Huang, let's talk about it, I also want to hear Uncle Huang's opinion."

"Obey the order!"

The Son of Heaven had already spoken, Liu Bei could no longer refuse, he kowtowed slightly, and he already had an idea in his head.

"Beicai is shallow in learning, but Bei has also made a few county orders for a few days, and he understands a reason. Those who decide the case, pay attention to ironclad evidence, and confront each other in court, do everyone think so? ”

"Well—that's true."

Cao Cao nodded in agreement, but his eyes were puzzled, and he didn't know what Liu Bei meant by mentioning the case at this time.

"But I don't know what the matter of deciding the case has to do with what is being discussed today?"

Cao Cao was puzzled, and Liu Xie was even more puzzled, so he directly asked the doubts in his heart.

"Back to Your Majesty, today's events are also similar to the principles of the case, the Hun envoys threatened to severely punish the murderer, but who is the murderer? The matter should be interrogated in court, confronted face to face, to distinguish the truth from the false, if the three people in prison are the murderers, they can be handed over to the envoys on the spot, if the murderer is someone else......"

Liu Bei is no longer speechless here, but with Cao Cao's intelligence, it is also a little clear.

"Although this method is wonderful, it is afraid of angering the Hun envoy and causing trouble!"

There is a person who stood up against it, this person's surname is Yuan, and his single name is chaff, and when he welcomes the Son of Heaven, he follows the old ministers around the Son of Heaven, and the official worships the great guest Cao.

"What do you mean?"

Cao Cao glanced at the man and asked displeased, and Liu Xie also turned his gaze to this person, but his eyes were equally dissatisfied.

"In the humble opinion of the ministers, when the oil tripod is placed outside the court, and when the three people in the prison are cooked in front of the ministers, it will be difficult to solve it!"

Yuan Yan saw that everyone's eyes were focused on his body, thinking that this was caused by the subtlety of his words, he couldn't help but be complacent, and knelt on Liu Bei's left, facing the Son of Heaven.

"Ridiculous!"

A broken cry sounded, and everyone's eyes showed different colors, only because of this sound came from the mouth of Liu Xie, the always cowardly Emperor of Han Xian. Yuan Yan didn't know why he angered Long Yan, and hurriedly kowtowed to ask for guilt.

"Your Majesty, the will of the people is like water, and the court is like a boat. If it is not handled properly, and how the people view the court, then the court will lose its majesty, and this disaster will be ten times worse than the military disaster, and they will not hear the principle that 'water can carry a boat and can also overturn a boat'. This person's words are for temporary comfort, but they destroy the foundation of the Han Court, which is not advisable, and his heart can be punished. ”

Cao Cao seemed to tell the Son of Heaven, but in fact, he spoke directly, only to see him wave his big sleeves, and rushed in from outside the door Many armored guards took down the chaff of the big guest who was kneeling on the ground, and dragged it out of the door, and the hundred officials saw this and trembled, even Emperor Han Xian, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was pale like white paper, and the entire court except for Cao Cao's henchmen, only Liu Bei was as stable as Mount Tai's face did not change, and regarded the things in front of him as nothing.

Cao Cao stroked his long beard and smiled, the attitude of the crowd was exactly what he deliberately did, by killing Yuan Bran to give Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty a dismount, this court is not the other court, he Cao Cao is the real master, just now Liu Xie was angry, so that Cao Cao was quite unhappy. At the same time, he also noticed Liu Bei's unwavering eyes, and the suspicion and vigilance against Liu Bei in his heart increased again, and this person's heart was comparable to a stubborn stone that was difficult to shake.

"Secretaries, Secretaries—"

Cao Cao raised his hands and pressed them down, "Although this person's words are not advisable, he has a proposal that is quite interesting. ”

Cao Cao paced two steps and turned sharply to face his ministers.

"I have made up my mind, so according to Xuande's words, I will set up a hall above this court, quickly send people to escort the people who made trouble today, and summon the Hun envoys, and set up an oil tripod outside the court."

In the Imperial City, in the Great Prison. Liu Mingyi and the other three sat silently on the ground, once they entered this room, life and death were involuntary, and several people lost interest in talking for a while.

"Come on, escort the criminals Liu Mingyi, Wang Dazhu, and Li San out."

Suddenly, a person outside the cell door said loudly, and Liu Mingyi and the three of them stood up at once.

Li San hurriedly grabbed the arms of the two of them, and said in a low voice, "After you go to the court, you must say that I have nothing to do with this matter, but I was innocently implicated!" ”

"Haha, don't worry!"

Liu Mingyi patted the back of Li San's hand, he saw it completely, he was caught twice in two days, maybe this is fate, and he can't hide.

"You person, why are you so cowardly, people die and birds are facing the sky, you don't die for thousands of years, and a knife is no more than a scar the size of a bowl, what's so terrible!"

Wang Dazhui snorted coldly, he really didn't look down on Li San's character, and felt that this person was too unrighteous.

"You're not afraid, you're not afraid, you just say that you did all these things, and it has nothing to do with me!"

Li San was directly reprimanded for being cowardly, and he couldn't hold his face, so he said angrily.

"You ......"

Wang Dazhui wanted to say something, but there was a sudden sound of chains on the cell door, and several armored soldiers entered through the small door.

"You three be honest!"

After a word of intimidation, several soldiers tied the three men's hands behind their backs, tied their bodies tightly with ropes, and pushed the three men to the outside of the cell door.

"Why are you tied up so tightly, it won't even be that you won't even have to interrogate, and you will directly execute us!"

Li San shouted, his legs were a little weak.

No one answered his question, and the two soldiers put Li Sanyi in the middle and walked outside, Liu Mingyi and Wang Dazhui followed behind, and the rest of the soldiers walked in the rear.

Out of the prison, there was a road illuminated by dim lights, where a white-faced bearded man was waiting with his hands in his hands.

"Let's go!"

A high-pitched voice came from the man's mouth, and he turned and walked forward without looking at the three of them.

Along the way, Li San kept shouting innocent, and the rest of the people didn't say a word and just hurried away. Liu Mingyi is also moving forward silently, but in his heart he is constantly thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of him, a question comes to his mind, isn't it a fight with a few barbarians, why did it become like this, he has a hunch, this matter is very unusual.

Entering a large gate, a huge oil pot was standing on it in the open space behind the door, the flames were very strong, and some kind of liquid in the oil pot was constantly tumbling. The three of them did not move forward at this point, and the soldiers stood there without saying a word, as if waiting for some order.

"Pass Liu Mingyi, Wang Da Hammer, and Li San will meet you."

A high voice came from the huge building in front of him, and Liu Mingyi looked inside through the gate, only to see that the black oppression inside seemed to be full of people.

"Let's go!"

Pushed heavily in the back, Liu Mingyi walked forward involuntarily, crossing the high threshold, the lights inside were as brilliant as the day, and Liu Mingyi's eyes were painful and couldn't be opened.

"It's coming, Liu Mingyi, Wang Dazhui, Li San!"

A deep voice sounded, and the man with the rooster voice hurriedly said yes.

"When you see today, don't kneel down!"

The deep voice sounded again, and it was only at this time that the sight of the three gradually recovered, only to see that in front of them was a wide hall, on both sides of the hall were kneeling with people dressed in red clothes on a black background and wearing a flat crown, and in front of the hall was an extraordinarily rich middle-aged man standing on the nine steps with a calm demeanor, and behind him sat a young man whose face could not be seen clearly.

"Grass man Liu Mingyi (Wang Da Hammer) (Li San), I have seen the saint, long live the saint, long live the saint!"

As soon as they heard that it was the day, the three of them hurriedly knelt down, Li San kowtowed like pounding garlic, Liu Mingyi and Wang Dazhui bowed and straightened their waists, looking straight ahead, without the slightest fear on their faces.

"Do you know why you three were summoned here?"

The voice came from a plump middle-aged man standing on the top of the nine steps, and this person was Cao Cao, who personally presided over the court trial.

"The grass people don't know!"

Wang sledgehammer stalks his neck like a bull.

"The grass people are innocent, wronged!"

Li San's begging for mercy was still the same.

It was Liu Mingyi's turn to answer, he bowed suddenly, then stood up straight, and the guards on both sides hurriedly rushed forward to hold him down.

"The grass people have something to say!"

Liu Mingyi kept struggling and shouted loudly.

(To be continued)