Chapter 76 Tried in the Hall
Lu Guozheng has no choice, and then he will turn around and leave.
didn't get the news she wanted to hear from Liu Chunyan, but she was surprised to know that it was her daughter who came to investigate her case.
Lu Guozheng seems to see it again, no matter how mean he was to Liu Chunyan before, but after all, she is her own daughter, and she will still consider some family affection in the investigation of the case.
This heart that had been hanging for a day began to slowly land, so Lu Guozheng asked the housekeeper to call for foot washing water, and decided to soak his feet and rest for a night, and tomorrow he and Liu Chunyan will work together in the court to explain the case clearly.
The main thing is to clear up their own crimes.
But this Lu Guozheng seems to be a little blindly optimistic, after all, the daughter in front of him at this time, Lu Huaixiang, is no longer his original biological daughter.
Even if Lu Huaixiang was standing in front of Lu Guozheng alive at this time, I believe she would not show mercy to this beast-like father.
Lu Guozheng fell asleep after washing his feet, and this time he slept exceptionally peacefully, sleeping until dawn.
He originally wanted to go to Yin Yamen in Beijing with Liu Chunyan, but when he didn't think that when he got up, Liu Chunyan had already gone out, but he just left a message and asked Lu Guozheng to pack up and go to Yin Yamen in Beijing.
Seeing that Liu Chunyan was gone, there was no way, and he wanted to discuss it with Liu Chunyan on the road, but now it seems that these plans have been ruined, so he left the Lu Mansion after washing.
I didn't have the heart to eat breakfast, after all, there was a case in my body, and it was still a case supervised by the emperor, and Lu Guozheng's heart began to hang again.
Lu Guozheng walked out of the mansion, and a team of imperial guards followed closely behind him, and he didn't know which royal relatives came to observe the people's feelings.
In this way, Lu Guozheng was escorted by a team of Imperial Forest Army to Yin Yamen in Beijing.
When he entered the yamen, Lu Guozheng saw Liu Chunyan sitting in the main hall and wearing an official uniform, so he looked at her and smiled, and then walked to her in small steps.
Lu Guozheng was about to whisper something, but was immediately stopped by Liu Chunyan, "If Lord Lu has anything to say, say it out loud so that everyone in this hall can hear, although you are my father, I have already made a military order in front of the emperor in this case." ”
Glancing at Liu Chunyan, Lu Guozheng swallowed the words he just wanted to say into his stomach, and then turned back to the center of the lobby.
"Ascension!" Liu Chunyan shouted.
Hearing the sound of shock, Lu Guozheng was startled, and his expression became nervous.
"Whoever is in the hall, report your name." Liu Chunyan asked loudly.
Lu Guozheng looked around, the official was standing, and the copywriter was holding a pen and was about to record.
"Isn't it very clear who I am?" Lu Guozheng said sharply, relying on his status in the imperial court, he didn't take this Beijing Mansion Yin Yamen in his eyes at all.
I'm afraid that only when the emperor comes to try Lu Guozheng in person, he will be a little obedient.
"Hugh has to roar in court, who in the hall will report his name quickly." Liu Chunyan asked again.
"If you have any questions, just ask them quickly, I don't have so much time to toss with you." Lu Guozheng said loudly.
"Twenty canes are coming."
The moment he saw the arrow landing, Lu Guozheng knew that this Liu Chunyan was real, but after all, he was a member of the imperial court, and the ancient saying could not punish the doctor, he felt that Liu Chunyan would not dare to really fight.
"I am a member of the court, if you dare to beat me, if you beat me, you will beat the emperor." Lu Guozheng scolded left and right.
The official also hesitated a little when he heard this, after all, there was no case concerning the first rank of the imperial court in the hall of the capital Yin.
Liu Chunyan saw that the left and right officials were a little nervous, so she felt that if Lu Guozheng continued to make trouble like this, she might not be able to try her case today.
"Fetch my sword." Liu Chunyan gave an order, and the entourage took Shang Fang's sword to the hall.
Seeing Shang Fang's sword, everyone hurriedly bowed down and said, "Long live the emperor, long live, long live." ”
After the ceremony, Lu Guozheng still couldn't believe that Liu Chunyan would have the Shang Fang sword given by the emperor in his hand.
"Are these ready for execution?" As soon as Liu Chunyan's voice landed, the officials put Lu Guozheng on the lobby and hit the twenty boards heavily.
During the execution, Lu Guozheng kept wailing, but these were all his own faults.
Liu Chunyan thought about Lu Huaixiang's sake, and originally didn't want to torture Lu Guozheng, but he was too stubborn, so he had to ask for Shang Fang's sword.
After the execution, Lu Guozheng looked at the Shang Fang sword in Liu Chunyan's hand, and a cold sweat broke out in his heart, he knew how serious the matter was.
Now that your Shang Fang sword has come out, the emperor must be very concerned about this matter, so he doesn't dare to be so public, otherwise this should be punished again.
"Who's in the hall?" Liu Chunyan asked loudly.
"The criminal minister Lu Guozheng."
"What have you done, do you know what you have done?" Liu Chunyan scolded sharply.
Where did Lu Guozheng know what he had done, since the emperor ordered him to be placed under house arrest in the palace, he had no contact with outsiders, and he didn't get any news from Liu Chunyan.
Even the county order that colluded with him, the farmers who had been persecuted were already in Yin Houtang in the capital mansion, and Lu Guozheng didn't know anything about it.
"The guilty minister doesn't know, the emperor put the guilty minister under house arrest at home, is the minister necessarily guilty, I hope the adult will tell me." Lu Guozheng said loudly.
"Okay, then I'll tell you, bring the prisoner to the court."
Liu Chunyan gave an order, and the county magistrate who colluded with Lu Guozheng was brought to the front of the hall.
As soon as he was brought up, the county commander saw Lu Guozheng at a glance, and he was very happy when he saw Lu Guozheng, thinking that someone was coming to save him, but the next second he saw that Lu Guozheng was also so down, and his face instantly turned pale with fright.
Lu Guozheng also recognized it at a glance when he saw the county order, and then buried his head in his arms, trying to avoid the sight of the man.
"Lord Lu. Don't you even look up to see if you recognize this person? Liu Chunyan asked in a low voice.
Lu Guozheng didn't look up at all, so he shook his head straight, "I don't know, Xia Guan hasn't seen this person." ”
The county order on the side was already scared out of his soul, when Liu Chunyan interrogated him before, he was still counting on Lu Guozheng to save himself, but now that Lu Guozheng is being tried in front of the court like himself, he has died of this heart.
Self-preservation is human nature, if this case is not pulled on Lu Guozheng, the final responsibility will be borne by himself, and the county commander is very clear in his heart.
But this is a big case where human life is at stake, and it is tried in the yamen of Yin, the capital of the capital, presumably the emperor will also pay attention to this case, and if he doesn't get it, he will punish the nine clans, and these thoughts appeared in the mind of the county magistrate for a while.
"I know him, he is Lord Lu Guozheng Lu in the capital." The county magistrate hurriedly said.
"As an official of the imperial court, I go to different places across the country every year to observe the people's feelings, so it is not surprising that this person knows me." Lu Guozheng hurriedly explained.
"Lord Lu, you can't say that, we ......" The county commander looked puzzled, but this time Lu Guozheng didn't wait for the county commander to finish speaking, so he interrupted him loudly.
"What are we, the adults in the hall are trying the case at this time, and Hugh wants to say something that has nothing to do with the facts of the case." Lu Guozheng looked at the county order and said loudly.
Hearing Lu Guozheng say this, the county order was speechless, after all, no matter how Lu Guozheng was, he was still a first-class member of the imperial court, and a small county order was reprimanded by a first-class official of the dynasty, so he naturally didn't dare to say anything anymore.
"How did Lord Lu know that these have nothing to do with the facts of the case, this is the key to this case, bring the plaintiff up." Liu Chunyan knew that the relationship between the two in the hall would be clarified sooner or later, and she didn't want to waste time because of this problem at this time, so she asked the official to bring the victim directly to the court.
The prefectural order felt different from the previous one when he saw the victim this time, and this time he also saw the sword of Shang Fang in front of the hall.
Shang Fang's sword can be cut first and then played for him, since it is already a murder case, it is a natural principle to kill people since ancient times, and he can't help but feel that this county makes him not nervous.
"All the things of the Lord Lu were asked by Lord Lu to be done by the lower officials, it has nothing to do with me, originally this was a family matter of the Lu family, and I didn't want to ask, but I didn't think that this Lord Lu's housekeeper found the lower official and said that I should suppress this matter." This time, the county order did not wait for Liu Chunyan to ask, and directly told the truth of the matter.
"You Diao people, don't talk nonsense in this public court and frame the court officials." Lu Guozheng was in a hurry and loudly scolded the county order.
"Hugh will roar at the court again." Liu Chunyan slapped the shocking wood on the case with all her might.
Hearing that Lu Guozheng was a little more restrained at this time, Liu Chunyan saw something strange in Lu Guozheng's eyes, something she had never seen in Lu Mansion before.
"Hu County Order, this official asks you again, do you know this woman in the hall?" Liu Chunyan pointed to the peasant woman in the hall and said.
"Know, this is the people in the jurisdiction of the lower officials, a few days ago she went to the county government to sue some local bullies, and then ......" the county order said that the place suddenly stopped, and it seemed a little difficult to speak about the crimes she had committed.
"You tell me how these people forcibly occupied your family's fertile land and how these bullies brutalized you, you tell me one by one, and this official will make the decision for you." Liu Chunyan looked at the peasant woman and whispered.
The woman glanced at the county order in the hall and Lu Guozheng, she didn't know Lu Guozheng, but she heard that the bully who forcibly occupied her family's fertile land had relatives who were big officials in the capital.
So the peasant woman told the whole story of her husband's murder from beginning to end, and wept endlessly when she talked about the depths of her love.
Liu Chunyan in the hall and all the officials in the hall heard the peasant woman's complaint, and they all hated what the county order had done, and they gritted their teeth.
The county magistrate listened to everything that the peasant woman said, and he kept a cold sweat on his face, holding his breath, and did not dare to say anything.
"The world has such a hurtful thing to heaven and reason, ignoring the king's law, today this official will give you and your dead husband justice, sit down on the side, and listen to this official to try this case clearly." Liu Chunyan asked the official to show the peasant woman a seat.