Chapter 7: A dilemma
。 Zhao Ta didn't wait long in the Li Mansion, and then he heard the sound of the gong opening the way, and the people from the Kaifeng Mansion arrived, "The Kaifeng Prefect Nie Shan sees Prince Yan!" A thin-faced, but energetic official entered the middle hall and saluted Zhao Ta. "No courtesy, some little things of this king have bothered Lord Nie!" Zhao Ta got up and replied.
"Don't dare, this is an official's business!" Na Nie Shan was not enthusiastic about Zhao Ta, and looked like he was businesslike.
"Okay, the two guards in this palace..."Zhao Ta was about to introduce the situation when he was interrupted.
"Prince Yan, this official will find out about this matter, and please wait in the hall, don't move around at will, and when necessary, the official will ask the prince to answer!" Nie Shan had obviously listened to Gao Shan's report, and didn't want to listen to it twice, so he said lukewarmly.
"Governor Nie, please, this king is waiting here!" Zhao Ta's hot face was naturally unhappy with his cold buttocks, and he sat down again and looked at Gao Shan, who was standing on the side, his eyes were full of doubts, he was familiar with him, how could he have such an attitude!
"Lord Wang, this Nie Shan has a very stubborn temper, he doesn't eat soft and hard, and he has always been like this to people like me!" Gao Shanzhen said with a smile.
"Lord Wang, you have been away from Beijing for a long time, but you don't know about the newly appointed Nie Prefect's Mansion, he doesn't know how to look like this, and the princes and ministers in Beijing are not lightly rectified, and our brothers and sisters have been arrested in Kaifeng Mansion, and they have gone to Kaifeng Mansion more, so they are naturally familiar with it!" Teacher Tong said with a smile.
"Oh!" Zhao Ta suddenly realized, it turned out to be such a familiar method, this is like a little hooligan who used to go to the police station, called to ask questions every once in a while, and he couldn't get acquainted with it. Gao and Tong are both gentlemen, and they are acting as tigers in Beijing by virtue of their father's authority, and they are domineering, this Nie Shan doesn't know what kind of goods they are, and now he is mixed with them, and it seems that he has regarded himself as a goods. In his impression, no official in Beijing dared to offend a few of them, so he brought them in to be a witness, but he didn't expect to meet 'Bao Qingtian' today, it seems that empiricism kills people. I knew that Lu Dao would not have to go through so many twists and turns, but now that the matter has come to this, I can only shake my head and smile bitterly.
"This Nie Mountain. In fact, I have an old relationship with my family, and I was recommended by my father to be promoted to the right division of the foreign lang, and later took the Zhilong Tuge as the Hunan transit envoy. is also a household servant, and he was reappointed as Kaifeng Yin after his term of office expired last year, but this person is sparse and likes Zhou people, but the grievances are too clear. After taking office, he impeached the law and acted violently, because of the punishment of the strong, he offended many powerful people and was jealous! Cai Yu saw that what the other two said was unknown, and re-explained to the prince.
"Oh, he has the demeanor of a king!" Zhao Ta smiled, but the three of them rolled their eyes at him together. Back then, he made a lot of trouble in Beijing. There are so many people who have offended that they don't dare to go in and out of the hook bar.
Is Nie Shan also called Nie Chang? After listening to Cai Zhen's introduction, he suddenly remembered a person in his mind, for no other reason, this person's experience is too similar to the Nie Chang in the commentary, and he is a great loyal minister in the novel. At the time of the first southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom. Qinzong was afraid of strong enemies outside, and was held hostage by Wang, Cai and others inside. Nie Chang and Geng Nanzhong were sent as envoys to Jinying to carry out the task of ceding the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan and Hejian to negotiate peace. When negotiating peace, he always maintained the dignity of the envoy and the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty, and dealt with the Jin State. Jin Guo found out that he was deceived. Nie Chang gouged out his eyes and split his body, and his death was very miserable, this person was renamed Nie Chang because he was praised by Zhao Huan of Qinzong for having the righteousness of 'Zhou Chang's anti-festival', as for what it was called before, he had long forgotten
"Prince Yan, this official has already asked Li Shilang, inspected the dungeon where the nursing home is held, this is not the place to ask about the case, and ask the prince to move to Kaifeng Mansion in order to find out about this matter!" After a while, Nie Shan came back, and said politely without humility or arrogance.
"Good! The servant is missing, and the king is also very anxious, thank you so much Lord Nie! Zhao Ta nodded and said, he thought that the Spring Festival was approaching, and the Kaifeng Mansion was busy, and he had to wait until the New Year, and now it seems that there will be results before the year. …,
Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty was the political, economic, and cultural center of the country, and it was also the most prosperous metropolis in the world at that time, which can be described as 'eight wildernesses contending, all countries are salty', and the Kaifeng Prefecture at that time was an important institution for managing the national capital and the Gyeonggi region, he governed 17 counties and 24 towns, and the status was very prominent, equivalent to today's Beijing Municipal Government, so he was praised as "the first capital of the world".
Among the official mansions, Kaifeng Mansion is the largest in scale, the capital of the world, and its status is prominent. The consul general of the palace Yin, in charge of the civil affairs of the capital division, justice, capture of thieves, enslavement, household registration and other government affairs, Kaifeng Fu Yin, for the highest governor of the capital, located under the Shangshu and the squire, is generally from the first or second rank of the official rank, if it is the 'prince', it is the first rank of the official. There are judges, magistrates, courts, and six Cao. In the five dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, most of the people who served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion were de facto princes.
Zhou Shizong and Song Zhenzong both held this position before they ascended the throne, and since then, most of them have been concurrently held by the princes, overseeing the administrative, judicial, and people's livelihood affairs of the capital Bianliang. In fact, the prince who served as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion was only in name and did not care about things, and it was Shao Yin or a temporarily appointed official who was called 'Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion Affairs', and the current Kaifeng Mansion Yin was the crown prince Zhao Huan.
Prince Yan reported Li Qian, the squire of the military department, to Kaifeng Mansion at the first time to the ears of people who should know Lu Dao, but it did not cause too many waves, everyone knew that Lu Dao was a troublemaker, and it was strange not to do something! Now Prince Yan has been urgently recruited back to Beijing from the northwest, the emperor has not been summoned, I don't know whether Lu Dao is a blessing or a curse, so everyone is waiting and watching before the lid is lifted, and this lawsuit may be a touchstone, from which we can see the emperor's attitude, for a while they have sent people to listen to the news, and there are a lot of people who have come to see the excitement
Even if Zhao Ta is a prince, although he has not been treated by the prince here, he does not have to stand in the hall and is given a seat to sit on the side, in fact, this case is also very simple, the focus is that the Li family said, 'Treat the prince's family's nursing home, they must have escaped by themselves', and the palace insisted that 'the Li family killed the nursing home of their own house, Destroying the corpse and destroying the traces', but now the person is gone, and the person is locked in the dungeon, who would believe it if the person ran away; then again, the Yan Wangfu said that the person was killed, there was no murder weapon, no murderer, no witness, no evidence, and only suspicion, so it depends on the meaning of the person who tried the case.
Nie Shan also had a headache about this matter, Prince Yan had also heard of his 'deeds' in the capital, and this year's series of victories in the northwest was more related to him, and he felt that he was still a benevolent and righteous person, but when he saw it in the Li Mansion today, he found that he was with the three notorious gentlemen in the capital, and he felt disgusted in his heart, and he already felt that he was bullying others, and learned that the people in his house were beaten and detained, and went to provoke. But after some investigation, it was found that things were not so simple, one was that they only brought four people, and they were still holding gifts, obviously to compensate for important people, as for the three people who invited peacemakers, it can be said that they are reasonable and modest, and there is nothing wrong with it.
On the other hand, Li Qian's actions are suspicious. The incident was that Li Qian's son-in-law saw the purchase and forced sale of the Yan Palace, and when he saw the injustice, he drew a knife to help him, and beat the family, causing the guardian of the Prince's Mansion to go to 'seek justice'. Which is right or wrong to put aside first, Li Qian is just a squire, compared with Prince Yan, his status is worlds apart, such people generally dare not conflict with the prince's mansion, no matter whether they are reasonable or unreasonable, they are mostly quiet people. And Li Qian's son is just a half-hung scholar, and he has never seen him ask for the people's life on weekdays, and he dares to challenge the palace unless his brain is broken.
Later, people from the palace came to the door, and Li Qian's detainous behavior was also incomprehensible, his son was not sensible, could it be that his father was also confused? He has served in Shangshu Province for many years, and he will not know that Prince Lu Daoyan even dares to beat Wang Huang, and Cai You also dares to blackmail, even the once-prosperous 'Demon Dao' Lin Lingsu has to bow to him. The ruling officials in the court had no choice but to come up with a bad idea to let him govern Hedong, coax him out of Beijing, a small squire resorted to such drastic means, and on the eve of Prince Yan's return to Beijing, when he came to ask for it, he actually had the courage to admit that he was disciplining his subordinates for the prince...,
These have to make people suspect that it is intentional, and all kinds of signs also show that Li Qian wants to take advantage of Prince Yan's temperament and unwilling to suffer losses to lure him to do something out of the ordinary, and then make a fuss about it, but what happened is that Prince Yan changed his style of acting in the past, came to salute first and then soldier, personally came to the door to make amends, and first occupied the word 'Li', and the party who was strictly guarded in the dungeon disappeared at this juncture, which made Li Qian fall into passivity, and the drama behind it turned to himself.
"Neither side is fuel-efficient lamp!" This is a 'political struggle', Nie Shan really can't think of any proper reason to explain this, Li Qian is just a pawn, and the real mastermind is still hidden behind the scenes.
"My lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sent his servants to pass on the message!" While Nie Shan was thinking about it, the official came in to report.
"Oh, please come in!" Nie Shan was shocked and said, the prince is the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, but he has never participated in the affairs of the mansion, but today he came to pass on the message, which further confirmed his judgment.
"The prince of the Great Song Dynasty sent a message to Kaifeng Zhizhou!" Nie Shan didn't expect that the chamberlain did not go to the back hall to preach the message, but entered the lobby and read it out in public, "Prince Yan is in charge of Hedong, benefiting one party, expeditioning to Western Xia, recovering Lingxia, meritorious to the country, but there is a small frame, endangering the family, we must find out the truth and severely punish it, and use the law of the country to comfort his heart!" ”
"My lord, King Jia is here, and he has arrived outside the mansion!" As soon as the word was delivered here, someone from there arrived.
"Welcome!" Nie Shan can only do this at the moment, let's see if it happens.
Zhao Ta looked at Zhao Kai, who was arrogant and his nose was pouting at the door of his head, walked into the lobby, got up and arched his hand and said, "Brother Kai is also here, it really bothers the brothers!" (To be continued......)