Cao Ang is Cao Cao's heir, and the official worships the Wuguan Zhonglang General - this position was originally with the left and right Zhonglang generals, all of which were divided into three Lang officials, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no three Lang generals, and the Wuguan Zhonglang General became an empty title. Not long ago, Xi Xi recommended Cao Ang to serve as the second deputy of the prime minister, but to put it bluntly, his grade was suddenly improved and he became the deputy prime minister.

When such an honorable person came to visit, it stands to reason that Xun should go out to greet him personally. However, Cao Ang handed over the name card and went in, only to see that it was the housekeeper Yu who greeted him and came out, and he couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Where is your lord?" Yu replied respectfully: "Xi Gao is guilty of sin." ”

The so-called "Xi Gao treats the crime" is that the official puts on a white coat, dresses up as a prisoner, and kneels on the straw mat waiting for the hair to fall - it is Xun Qian's life that he has seen similar tricks in ancient costume Korean dramas, or a large number of officials, or a large number of concubines, dressed plainly, and running to block the king's gate to ask for guilt. But that's a bit of a coercion, and the real treatment of sin is to treat sin at home, and there is no reason to block the door.

It is recorded in the history books that Tian Jizi once carried a straw mat and went to ask the King of Qi for sin, which means the same as the guilt of Jing Jing, just to show a gesture. Just as few people actually pull out the thorn that the person who asks for the guilt and beat him on the spot, there are few people who let the person who crashes into the door sit down on the spot and wait. Although Shi Xun also wanted to show his posture, he didn't want to make things too big, and he didn't want Cao Cao to step down, so he didn't block the door and sat directly with his family.

Of course, he heard that Cao Ang came to the door, so he remembered to change his clothes. spread out the mat and knelt in the courtyard of his house.

Cao Ang couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Yu He's words, and hurriedly ordered Yu He to take him to see. Yes Hoon acted in a full set. Not only was he dressed in white, but he also pulled out the hairpin, let the hair fall to his shoulders, picked out the straw mat of the lowest quality in the family and spread it in the middle of the yard, and sat with a sad expression. Seeing this, Cao Ang quickly knelt down for Shixun: "Why is my son-in-law like this?" ”

Cao Ang that means. My current identity is not your superior, but your junior, so I can worship you in official uniforms. Let's talk something heart-wrenching among our relatives.

It was Xun who glanced at Cao Ang and replied lightly: "Xun asked for the table of sin, but Zixiu didn't see it?" "Cao Ang said of course I saw it, so I took my father's orders. I'll come to you in person and ask, "Why is this all that?" ”

Yeshun said that it was clearly written on my seal. Wu Zhen was convicted, and I was the recommended master, according to the law - "Anyone who is appointed as a servant is not honest and incompetent, and he is also dismissed." ”

He was referring to the article in the "Law of Placing Officials", which means that if the official recommended or appointed violates the law or is removed from office because he is incompetent for his duties, the recommender should also be co-punished and guilty. This law. It was originally stipulated by the Qin Dynasty, and Qin Prime Minister Fan Ju recommended Zheng Anping as a general. As a result, Zheng Anping led the army to the battle, was surrounded by the Zhao army, and was forced to surrender, so Fan Ju had no choice but to go to "Xi Gao to wait for the crime". According to the law, those who surrender to the enemy should be arrested by the three clans, that is, even their relatives must be arrested and imprisoned, Zheng Anping himself can't be arrested, but the recommended lord Fan Ju and his three clans can be arrested.

Shi Xun also deliberately mentioned this ancient incident, and compared his current situation with Cao Ang, he was actually playing tricks. Because King Qin Zhao did not punish Fan Ju in the end, but "feared that Ying Hou (Fan Ju) would be harmed, so he ordered the country: 'Anyone who dares to speak up about Zheng An's affairs will be punished for his crimes.'" 'And the kingdom of the kingdom should be given more and more food to suit their desires......"

Cao Ang was an honest man, and sure enough, he fell into his trap, and immediately retorted: "Although Qin's law is harsh, the king of Qin will not sin in the end." Besides, Wu Qian's crime has not been tried, and it is not to surrender to the enemy, so why should the son-in-law bother? My Han ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety, and he never returned to the government of Qin. ”

In the early Han Dynasty, in fact, in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, although it was not deleted from the legal provisions, it was basically useless. In order to invoke friends and expand their own power, the Eastern Han bureaucrats recommended people much more crazy and rash than in the early Han Dynasty. So Cao Ang was strange, saying "Uncle-in-law, why did you remember this article buried deep in the pile of old papers?" You're not the kind of person who can't be a muddy person.

Shi Xun shook his head and said: "I tried to speak to the prime minister, today's recommendation, many are not in line, when the first time to restore the country, the method of even sitting is also." Besides, I am now the prime minister, that is, I am responsible for recommending and supervising, if I can't be self-disciplined, how can I discipline people? "Forget about others, my scope of authority is to recommend talents to the imperial court and the prime minister's office, and to review the officials selected from various places, so in this regard, I must be more strict with myself than others.

When it comes to the argument of the tongue, it is Xun who threw Cao Ang three streets, Cao Ang really can't talk about him, so he has to hold on to a loophole: "Wu Zhen's case has not been tried, and his crime has not been determined, how can my son-in-law blame himself?" "If you want to sit with Wu Zhen, then you have to wait until the case is concluded.

Shi Xun smiled bitterly and asked, "The sinner of the school matter, is it possible to come out of the whole body?" "If this case is tried by the court office, I will not be in a hurry to be punished, but now Wu Zhen has fallen into the hands of the school affairs, the cases arrested by the school affairs, whether they are wronged or not, have you heard of leniency?

Cao Ang was stunned when he heard this. It was Xun who took the opportunity to help Cao Dagongzi analyze it deeply: "Wu Jizhong's crime is rumored to be a secret salt and iron into Hu Zhongye. It is widely transferred from within the country, recommended for a certain person, for its ability to do things, and speaks of its mutual market benefits; With the market change, for the Xianbei Tuoba Department, my fake son is where Wei is. The school affairs are widely colluded to think that they can, and the prison is a merit, and they will torture and plunder Ji Zhong on a different day, so that they will be able to accuse me, so it is difficult for me to defend myself, it is better to ask for guilt first - begging for life, not despised! ”

That spy likes to bend into tricks the most, and take out to climb around, and finally seize such an opportunity, do you think they can let me go? After all, it was I who recommended Wu Zhen to be the magistrate of Guangyan County, and I also wrote to him to give him ideas, relying on the exchange of markets with the Hu people, you can harvest financial resources and build places, plus the goal of his mutual market is the Tuoba Department where my godson is located, if it is said that I instigated him to transport salt and iron to the Hu people, many people must believe it - your father may believe it. Rather than arrest me and bring me to justice at that time, I have to face the school incident. After being humiliated by them, it is better to make an attitude of asking for sin, hoping to be exempted!

It was Hoon who finally said, "Seek to live." I don't despise it", this statement comes from Xiao Wangzhi, a famous minister of the former Han Dynasty. At that time, Xiao Wangzhi was consulted by the eunuch Shi Xian, and Emperor Yuan made Jin Wu surround his mansion, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "I have tasted the position of a general, more than 60 years old, and I am in prison and begging for a living." I don't think I'm sorry! "I simply committed suicide by taking poison.

It's Xun's meaning, my current state of mind is very similar to Xiao Wangzhi, as an important minister of the court and the in-law of your Cao family. is also a descendant of Zheng Men and is known as a virtuous person, if he is imprisoned, the name of that life will be ruined, and I won't do it! So make a confession in advance. I hope Cao Cao can be lightly dismissed. Don't let me face the school affairs, if I can't escape prison, I'll die too!

This really scared Cao Ang a lot, and he said repeatedly: "Why this, why this?!" "It's Xun Xin who said that you are just a little bit out of business, if you change Cao Cao, you will definitely not be as anxious as you - I am afraid of death, Cao Cao knows this very well - even if you change Cao Pi, the official heir of Cao Cao in history. It's certainly not this kind of helpless bear.

Cao Ang is an honest man, as the so-called "gentleman can be bullied". Directly fell into the trap of Hoon's preset.

Cao Ang finally had to say: "Yang Kongqu tried this case, and he was also recommended by his uncle, so he didn't expect to casually ......make false accusations."

Shi Xun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I know Kong Qu, and I ...... Zi Xiu also" What is Yang Pei? That is the first-class cool official in the late Han Dynasty, I don't know if he served as an assassin in the original history, but in this timeline, it must be said that Cao Cao used this person as the head of the spies, and he was quite discerning.

In the history books, there are two names left for the Cao family's assassination order, one is Wen Hui, and the other is Gao Rou. Why did these two leave their names? Because they are different, they still try cases with the mentality of a doctor, and they can't find the mentality of a spy at all. According to records, in order to repay the kindness of saving his mother, Sun Li secretly released his friend Ma Tai, who committed crimes, and then went to assassinate Wen Hui and surrendered. As for Gao Rou, Cao Cao asked him to be an assassin because he wanted him to offend people and find an opportunity to clean him up (because he was Gao Gan's brother), but Gao Rou enforced the law fairly and dealt with it properly, which finally made Cao Cao look up to him.

If Wu Zhen's case was committed in the hands of Wen Hui and Gao Rou, it would definitely not involve him - but in this case, Guan Jing would not have preset this plan - but it would be difficult to say if it was committed in the hands of Yang Pei. The so-called "cool officials" have many meanings, one is not to avoid the powerful, and the other is to enforce the law like a mountain - this is a good side; The third is that the punishment is not strict, the murder is afraid that it will not be invincible, and the fourth is that it likes to turn small cases into big cases -- this is the complete opposite. Yang Pei is this kind of cool official, he can't wait to use a certain case to involve some powerful person, and beat him to death with a stick, so as to show his prestige.

Of course, Yang Pei does not belong to the type that has no lower limit at all, otherwise, Shixun would not have discovered him and recommended him back then, there is a chance that Yang Pei would not have pulled the case to Shixun. And yet—

Shi Xun continued to say to Cao Ang: "That is, Yang Kongqu does not collude with Yu Xun, nor does he refuse to indulge Wu Jizhongye. Then Ji Zhong was offended by a certain recommendation, how could he bear it? If you want to share the sin with him, or if the prime minister looks at a certain face, he can save Ji Chong's life - people die and it is difficult to come back to life, and Ji Chong can be of great use, and he can bear to see his death? ! ”

Yang Pei may not implicate me, but he will not let Wu Zhen go - there is only a small county magistrate, and if he kills him, he will kill him, and there are fewer such officials killed by school affairs? Zhao Da arrested someone, Yang Pei announced his innocence in a blink of an eye and let him go, does he want to mix in the spy group in the future? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Do you dare to guarantee that there will be no grievances in the cases handled by the spies? But how can there be a precedent for overturning the case?!

This is what Xun didn't dare to say to Cao Cao, but he dared to say it to Cao Ang, because Cao Ang was not only honest, but also soft-hearted, which was very different from his father. Cao Ang, in his original intention, was also quite disgusted with the spy government.

So he was led by Shixun's nose and went around in such a big circle, Cao Ang was completely blinded, so he had to say that I would go back and tell my uncle-in-law's words to the adults...... Yes Xun said don't mind, you can't repeat my words as they are, that will make the prime minister unhappy. You just said that I was afraid of being implicated, and I couldn't bear to see Wu Zhen die, so I made an attitude of treating the guilt, hoping that the prime minister could open the net.

Cao Ang agreed, and stood up to leave, but just as he took a step, he stopped again. After all, although Cao Zixiu was honest, he was not stupid, he quickly reacted, turned around and asked Shixun in a low voice: "My sister-in-law has thought it through, and I expect to have a solution-how can my nephew help, but he can be outspoken." "If you want me to help you do something, you know.

Shixun nodded and said that since you have this heart, then you might as well do this and this, and this and that...... (To be continued......)