- In the study of the royal palace of Gyeongneung-gun.

Zhao Zongshi is playing against his staff member Meng Yang. Zhao Zongshi is an extremely intelligent and self-denying person, and playing chess is one of his few pastimes, so he has also made hard work that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

Although Meng Yang has superb chess skills, he still loses more than he wins when he competes with Zhao Zongshi, so he doesn't dare to be careless at all and plays with him with all his attention.

The two of them fought to the middle game, and just as they were engrossed, they suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside.

Zhao Zongshi frowned slightly, he didn't think that there was anything else that could make the people around him panic now.

But the next moment, it was him who panicked.

"What!" After listening to Zhao Zonghui's report, Zhao Zongshi's face changed greatly.

"Zhao Bian sent someone to report that person has been imprisoned by Kaifeng Mansion." Zhao Zonghui said with a gloomy face: "Look, do you want to be him?" ”

"Nope." Meng Yang said categorically: "You can't make an assertion, let's quickly inform Han Xianggong." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zonghui said unhappily: "It's just a few people, let Han Xianggong laugh at our incompetence!" ”

"That's not the reason, this matter can be big or small." Meng Yang shook his head and said, "At this critical juncture, let's be cautious." After a pause, he said: "It's better to let Han Xianggong deal with it comprehensively, it's appropriate." ”

"That's right," Zhao Zongshi nodded and said, "But there is no need to inform it, Han Xianggong must have known about it." As he spoke, he dropped a sunspot and said, "Let's continue to play chess." ”

"The prince is now more and more calm." Meng Yang praised it, and fell into the long exam.

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As expected, Han Qi knew the news earlier than Zhao Zongshi, and at this moment he had already called Han Gang in front of him and asked about the ins and outs.

Han Gang didn't tell the truth at first, but Han Qi said, 'Then I won't care', he was so frightened that he poured beans into the bamboo tube.

"At that time, because of the delay in the construction period and the extremely cold weather, no less than two or three thousand people froze to death." Han Gang looked at Han Qi in fear and told the truth: "The prince is worried that such a large death toll is inconsistent with his usual benevolent image, and he is worried that he will be impeached by the imperial history. Then someone volunteered and said, 'Your Highness, don't worry, there is no such thing as an immortal.' How many times have you died? In fact, there is a method of subsuscitation'. ”

"They say that if you think the dead are on the run, they don't count. The prince and I were worried at the time, and the family was willing to agree. But they swore that there was no problem, saying that the common people were timid, and if this kind of thing happened, the government would be thankful if it didn't make trouble, so how could they dare to make trouble with the government? Han Gang swallowed and foamed: "At that time, we felt justified, so we didn't object again, but who knew that this kind of thing happened!" ”

"Hmm......" Han Qi clasped his hands to his chest and pondered for a long time: "Actually, this method is commonplace. ”

"Yes, yes," Han Gang nodded as if a chicken pecked rice.

"It's a fart!" Han Qi turned his face like a book, and scolded angrily: "Everyone can wipe their butts clean, why do you have to let the old man help wipe your butts!" ”

"It may be that there are ......more people this time," Han Gang cringed, "I heard that Qizhou is used to bandits, and they are not as easy to scare as the people in other places." ”

"Idiot." Han Qi sneered: "Someone must be behind it!" ”

"Huh?" Han Gang's eyes widened and said, "Why do you say this? ”

"The old man said that there is something!" Han Qi said domineeringly: "But Zhao Bian is very slippery, and he won't help us, I'll write a note to the Criminal Department, you go and let your third brother go, and take that Sun Qigong to the prison, he will naturally ask for a suitable confession!" ”

"Yes." Han Gang understood, and nodded in response.

The reason why Han Qi was polite to Han Gang was because he couldn't write two Korean characters in one stroke. The Han family in the Song Dynasty was divided into two branches: the Xiangzhou Han clan and the Zhending Han clan. Han Qi is the Xiangzhou Han family, although now calling for wind and rain, but in terms of the foundation, it is not as good as the real Han family that has been a eunuch for generations, Han Gang's father Han Yi is the prime minister of the three dynasties, and the eight brothers are all officials in the court, with lush branches and leaves, and protégés are all over the world, even Han Qi needs their assistance to firmly control the ......... the court.

Han Gang's third brother, Han Jiang, is a member of the Sentencing Department of Hanlin Bachelor's Authority, and simply put, he is the boss of the Criminal Department. He learned from his brother about Han Xianggong's instructions, so he asked Han Gang to go back first, and then ordered the scribe to move to Kaifeng Mansion to complete the legal procedures for raising people. But he didn't hold on until dark, and then he took the soldiers to the Kaifeng Mansion Prison to pick up people.

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Kaifeng Mansion Prison.

Regardless of the prefecture or county, except for the scale, the regulation of the prison cells is the same. The passage, the iron fence, the stone wall and the floor, the iron gate is guarded by soldiers, there is only one passage in and out of the cell, and there is a duty room at the exit. The one who sat in the Kaifeng Mansion Prison tonight turned out to be Zhao Bian, the Lord of the Mansion Yin.

And in the prison cell, Chen Xiliang, the young man of Kaifeng Mansion, personally accompanied Sun Qigong to prison together, not that Brother Xiaoliang had committed anything, but that Lord Yin was worried that Sun Qigong would die in prison, so he made this decision.

Zhao Bian absentmindedly looked at the file in his hand, glancing at the hourglass on the table from time to time out of the corner of his eye, only to feel that time was unprecedentedly slow.

At this time, the iron gate rang, and Zhao Bian Huoran raised his head and said, "Are you here?" ”

The cell boss next to him knew it wasn't when he heard the voice, and whispered, "It should be the prison meal." ”

Sure enough, before the words were finished, several jailers came in carrying two buckets and a basket of chopsticks.

"Dinner will be held later today." Zhao Bian shook his head and said, "You guys go out first." ”

"This ......" The jailers all looked at the cell head, and the cell head hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Didn't you hear the words of Fu Zun, get out of here!" ”

When the jailers carried the bucket down, Zhao Bian laughed self-deprecatingly: "Boss Wang, are you secretly laughing at the official for being too timid?" ”

"Where is the house?" The cell boss laughed and said, "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship." ”

"Not bad." Zhao Bian put down the file as he spoke, picked up a copy of the Criminal Department's document transfer, and sighed: "Tonight, master, I have to sit on wax." ”

"Since the Criminal Department wants that Sun Qigong, we can't ask for it." The cell boss smiled: "Anyway, they are reasonable and legal to mention people, and as soon as the mansion hands over people, the cause and effect will not be touched, and they will be clear and quiet, so what are you worried about?" ”

"It's a pity......" Zhao Bian smiled bitterly: "I don't have two Sun Qigong, and I can't divide him in half." ”

"Huh?" The cell boss said strangely: "Isn't the Fuzun still reluctant to give him up?" ”

Zhao Bian shook his head, not wanting to speak anymore, so he closed his eyes and recuperated.

The cell boss also quieted down, and waited carefully.

After a long while, Zhao Bian opened his eyes and said, "It's here." ”

The cell boss also heard the sound of broken footsteps, and in the blink of an eye, he saw Zhou Tuiguan from Kaifeng Mansion come in and reported: "Fuzun, Lord Han of the Criminal Department has personally brought people here." ”

"Oh?" Zhao Bian and Han Jiang are at the same level, they are both in a certain position as a bachelor of Hanlin, and they should have gone out to greet them, so they got up habitually, walked a few steps outside, and then he stopped and said: "Let Lord Han sit down for a while, just say the old man, the old man is congratulating......"

"Poof......" Zhou Tuiguan didn't hold back, and hurriedly remedied: "It's okay to change the reason for a little more elegant, right?" ”

"He knows that the old man is constipated," Zhao Bian shook his head and said, "There are other reasons that it can't be delayed for that long." ”

Zhou Tuiguan was sweating, so he had to go out to perfunctory Han Jiang.

In the prison, after Zhao Bian sat back on the table, he still picked up the file and read it, but his expression became more and more anxious.

The cell boss said in his heart, Fuzun looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the people, but it was delayed, it was really tangled.

After waiting for the tea, Zhou Tuiguan came in again, and reported with a sympathetic face: "Zhao Siqing of Dali Temple is here, and he is still holding the signature of Zhongshu Province, and he also wants to mention that Sun Qigong!" ”

"Oh......" Zhao Bian responded, but calmly said: "I'll just have a Sun Qigong, let them fight." ”

Only then did the cell boss understand what Lord Fuzun meant when he said, 'I can't have two Sun Qigong', it turned out that he had expected that there would be this kind of 'two daughters fighting for a husband' tonight. High, really high! …,

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The lights in the guest hall in the front yard are bright, and the two groups of people from the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are clearly distinguished.

As the two highest judicial organs of the Great Song Dynasty, the division of labor between the Criminal Department and Dali Temple is just the opposite of that of later generations. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Criminal Department was the first instance institution, and Dali Temple was responsible for the review. In the Song Dynasty, it was the Dali Temple that was responsible for deciding the cases reported from all over the country, and the Criminal Department was responsible for reviewing major and important cases. Of course, the relationship between the two yamen is still one of mutual supervision and mutual correction.

The relationship between the two sides has never been very good, and now that they meet on a narrow road, it is natural that there will be tension......

The first to arrive was the people from the Criminal Department, and Han Jiang was waiting leisurely eating tea in the guest hall. The children of the family are very good at cultivating their qi, even if there is grass in their hearts, they can pretend to be peaceful. It's just that when he saw Zhao Yi of Dali Temple coming in, he couldn't help but stare at him so round.

Zhao Yi was wearing a purple robe and a jade belt around his waist, he came in slowly, and when he saw Han Jiang, he said in surprise: "Why is Brother Zihua here?" ”

"The foolish brother has a business trip with him." Han Jianghu looked at Zhao Yi suspiciously: "Why is Brother Ren here?" ”

"Of course, I also have business trips." Zhao Yi said with a smile.

"What a coincidence." Han Jiang said: "Zhao Fuyin should come out soon, let's wait together." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Yi nodded and said with a smile: "Brother, please take a seat." ”

"Brother Ren, please be seated."

The two of them sat down in plain sight, chatting with each other, and it seemed to be more fake and more fake.

Fortunately, Zhao Bian did not feel constipated anymore and came out to meet soon. walked out with a smile all the way, hugged his fists and said: "I'm sorry for the two, it's too late to come down!" ”

The two got up and returned the salute, and Han Jiangxin said, good guy, this has been soaking for more than half an hour......

After the guests of honor were seated, Zhao Bian asked, "I don't know if the two of you came late at night, what business do you have?" ”

Zhao Xuan and Han Jiang glanced at each other, and the former smiled: "Zihua came first, let him speak first." ”――

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