Chapter 637: The Emperor's Face
In later generations, there was an idiom called "not passing on six ears", which means that important things should not be known to a third party. Because there are many people, the more people know, the more secrets cannot be hidden.
Liu Lancheng is cautious enough, and he lives in fear every day, but as a result, the secrets are still spreading more and more.
You Wenzhi who accused him of rebellion is one, You Wenzhi and a lieutenant under Liu Lancheng are friends from childhood to adulthood, once his friend passed by Yan County because of official business, and when he arrived in Yan County, he naturally met with Fa Xiao, drank and reminisced. Then the grandson drank too much, and his lips were slurred, and he talked nonsense and divulged the secret.
You Wenzhi didn't take it seriously at first, because his friend had already drunk too much wine and couldn't speak clearly, he just guessed what was going on between the lines.
But when You Wenzhi was imprisoned for rebellion and was about to be beheaded after the autumn, You Wenzhi remembered this stubble in order to survive.
So a county lieutenant sued a governor of a state he didn't know.
After Qiu Xinggong got the news, he quickly arrested Xu Xuan and all the other people involved in the case.
It turned out that he also wanted to rebel, except for Liu Lancheng, the biggest rank was a Zhichong lieutenant, and there were three captains below and a few Guoyi lieutenants and brigade commanders below, and then there were Liu Lancheng's son Liu Zhao's fox friends and dog friends.
As long as these people are full of calculations, they can pull up thousands of people, and if they rebel, they can be extinguished today and tomorrow.
When Xu Xuan and the others were arrested, Liu Lancheng confessed with a dead heart, but he resolutely refused to admit that he had rebelled, and only admitted that the warlocks of the rivers and lakes were misleading the public, and he was afraid of being implicated, so he put him under house arrest and concealed it without reporting.
In fact, Liu Lancheng really didn't want to rebel, and he didn't have any preparations to rebel, what he said was true, but Qiu Xinggong didn't believe it.
Quickly report to Chang'an that Liu Lancheng conspiracy is conclusive, and ask the emperor to show it, that is, to ask the emperor what to do here, whether to kill him on the spot or take him back to Chang'an to kill.
Since the evidence is conclusive, Li Shimin thinks that there is no need to bring it back, and it is troublesome, so it will be decided on the spot.
The emperor's will is still on the road, but Liu Lancheng on the Daizhou side learned that Qiu Xinggong did not truthfully report the details of the matter and his own rebuttal to the emperor after scolding Qiu Xinggong, from the eighteenth generation of ancestors to the eighteenth generation of descendants, and Qiu Xinggong's family died, alive and unborn female dependents have an indescribable relationship.
How could Qiu Xinggong's temperament be scolded without any retaliation, especially when he knew that he would definitely die if he was sent back to Liu Lancheng.
Therefore, Qiu Xinggong ordered Liu Lancheng, who was already beaten to death by torture, to be tortured again.
When the emperor's will was delivered, Liu Lancheng was already angry. But Qiu Xinggong still didn't give up, didn't the emperor let him be beheaded on the spot?
Okay, let's cut it in half. After the executioners were ready, Qiu Xinggong asked Liu Lancheng to be dragged over, and then asked the executioners to wait, he made a bonfire on the side and sharpened the knife.
Then he personally cut Liu Lancheng's abdomen and dug out his heart, he dug it here and then took it to the bonfire to roast it, and Liu Lancheng, who was staring at him with eyes over there, was cut in two by the executioner, well, he was cut in half.
This news can't be hidden, of course, Qiu Xinggong doesn't want to hide it, anyway, he is notorious and doesn't care about another case.
As a result, after the news was transmitted back to Chang'an, the Manchu civil and military forces were in an uproar. The head of the criminal department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai three judicial institutions and the supervisory agency wrote a letter of impeachment at the same time.
Criminal Department, Dali Temple impeached Qiu Xinggong for abusing lynching, disobeying the decree, bullying the monarch, the emperor adjusted some legal provisions last year because some laws were too strict, how could you Qiu Xinggong He De abuse lynching of a member of the third grade.
It doesn't matter if you rebel or not, the important thing is that after the emperor made a decree to behead Liu Lancheng, you actually cut Liu Lancheng's heart out and roasted it for personal revenge, what kind of behavior is this, beast?
Besides, the emperor ordered the beheading, and it was Liu Lancheng who was the living rebel Qin criminal, not Liu Lancheng who died after cutting out his abdomen.
Your Qiu Xinggong's move is tantamount to resisting the decree and disobeying the emperor's order, which is the crime of deceiving the king.
The Criminal Department, the impeachment of Dali Temple is excited, although the boss Wei Zheng of Yushitai has long been out of business, but Yushitai is to supervise hundreds of officials, and he has to find something to impeach if he has nothing to do, let alone something.
Compared with the Criminal Department, Dali Temple only impeached the current Liu Lancheng matter, Yushitai has a momentum to completely head the matter, they not only impeached this matter, but also turned over the old accounts and impeached all the cruel things that Qiu Xinggong had done before.
Looking at the posture, this time I won't stop if I don't kill Qiu Xinggong.
As a result, all the impeachments were lost after they reached the emperor, and they did not stir up a single wave at all.
The thunder and rain are not enough to describe this impeachment incident, and all the impeached people are confused, and they don't know what the emperor is going to do.
The boss of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Imperial Historian Chu Suiliang, quit and entered the palace angrily to ask the emperor to understand, theoretical theory.
As a result, there was no time to enter the palace for a stick of incense, and Chu Suiliang wilted like a frosted eggplant and came out again.
Dali Temple, the head of the criminal department came to ask him for news, but Chu Suiliang kept silent. However, although Chu Suiliang didn't say it, there was gossip in the palace in the afternoon.
Everyone knew why the emperor suppressed all the impeachment twists and turns this time, and even the imperial historian Chu Suiliang shut up.
It turned out that the emperor had pitted himself himself. Who let him give Qiu Xinggong an order to act cheaply before, although this order is a verbal order, it has not been formed into a written document, let alone any backup.
But if you go down, you have been, how can you not recognize what the emperor Chrysostom said, the emperor also wants to be faced. You can't let your subordinates get into trouble and push 246 and don't admit it.
Of course, the emperor's face is on the one hand, and on the other hand, Qiu Xinggong is very cool to his subordinates and colleagues, but he is very good at pleasing the emperor.
After he dug up Liu Lancheng's heart and liver and roasted it, he immediately went to the guilty fold, saying that Liu Lancheng insulted his family, he couldn't help but punish Liu Lancheng for a while, and also ate Liu Lancheng's heart and liver, he said that he knew that this would definitely lead to the impeachment of his colleagues, in order to avoid embarrassment for the emperor, he asked for a condemnation and punishment.
There is no trace of justification, there is no saying that the emperor asked me to act cheaply at the beginning, so I did something, he directly confessed, saying that he was wrong, he should not do anything, and asked the emperor to punish him.
The emperor saw that he had such a good attitude of admitting his mistakes, and he didn't take the chicken feathers as an arrow, and used my original order to justify himself, how could the courtiers who were willing to consider the emperor bear to be punished, besides, after all, he had given such an order at the beginning, and Qiu Xinggong couldn't be considered wrong even if he didn't obey the later holy decree.
Again, the courtiers will definitely know about the things they ordered at the beginning, and if they blame Qiu Xinggong, the courtiers will definitely have a chilling feeling of being a cunning rabbit and a lackey, which will make the monarch and ministers deviate from morality.
The final result of all these considerations is that no one will be impeached in the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and Yushitai anymore, because they want to give the emperor face. After returning to Chang'an, Qiu Xinggong was called to the palace by the emperor and reprimanded.
"Lan Cheng rebelled, and the court has prescribed punishments, why is it so! If this is used to show loyalty and filial piety, then it should be the crown prince and the princes who eat first, how can it be your turn? ”
reprimanded lightly, but Qiu Xinggong also knew that he had committed public anger this time, so after coming out of the palace, he went back to the house and became a turtle.