Chapter Ninety-Six: The Fiancé of the Lord of the County
The people who witnessed all this were a little ashamed, just now they were still insulting Prince Yin and the Yin family's army, but they didn't care about saving people.
The people are actually very drifting, and they will speak whatever the wind is blowing. Because of this episode, the people who had just followed the abuse of Prince Yin changed their words and began to follow the Yin family army to applaud Prince Yin.
The rescued young man looked at Prince Yin, who was riding on horseback and looking down on him, as if he had seen the gods descend to earth.
Prince Yin was still expressionless in this applause for himself, looked at the man, and said to him: "In the Yin family's army, I don't know how many soldiers died under the trampling of horses' hooves. ”
After speaking, without waiting for the man to react, he returned to the ranks of the Yin family's army, and set off to continue to lead the army in the direction of the palace.
The young man was finally ashamed when he heard this, and for a long time, he looked at the back of Prince Yin, who had gradually left, his lips spurted, but he couldn't speak.
The people also heard Prince Yin's words, and they couldn't help but have a better impression of Prince Yin, and the balance in their hearts slowly tilted to believe that Prince Yin's collaboration with the enemy and treason was definitely framed by traitors.
The Yin family's army finally marched to the foot of the imperial city.
Yin Zhu arranged for the soldiers to wait outside the palace, released Yin Mingtai from the prisoner car, and only brought two personal generals, the two generals escorted Yin Mingtai on the left and right, Yin Zhu walked in the front, and the four of them entered the palace in this way.
Only the palace maids and eunuchs who passed by would secretly look up at them, and these four people came to Yin Huan's court all the way unimpeded.
Yin Huan has been sitting and waiting for Yin Zhu's arrival today, it is the time of the early dynasty, and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are all there.
Even though he was prepared, when Yin Huan heard Li Gao report that Yin Zhu had returned victoriously and held Yin Mingtai to ask for a meeting, Yin Huan's heart still tightened, and the fingernails under the dragon robe were tightly embedded in the flesh of his palm.
"Let them in." Yin Huan's voice couldn't hear emotion.
Li Gao received the order and went out to bring Prince Yin and his party in.
Yin Zhu walked straight to the front of the court, and his eyes looked straight at Yin Huan on the dragon chair.
Li Gao couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, and shouted: "Bold! Prince Yin, you saw that the emperor didn't kneel down without luggage! Don't think that you can be without the emperor if you win the battle, the emperor has never believed in the rumors that Prince Yin collaborated with the enemy and treason, don't do something rebellious and hurt the heart of the saint! ”
Li Gao is worthy of being the most handy minion around Yin Huan, this skillful tongue is superb, and the words that turn black and white upside down are eloquent.
Yin Huan sang the red-faced Li Gao, sang with a white face, and said, "You dog slave, shut up!" Is it my royal brother's turn to question you, a dog minion? The character of my royal brother is still unclear? When the imperial brother saw that I didn't do it, he must have been dissatisfied with the rumors in the capital, and he was just wrong to blame me. Yin Huan's tone did not hear the reproach to Li Gao, but it was implied that it was Prince Yin's small-bellied chicken intestines, and he Yin Huan was a benevolent monarch who was misunderstood and loved his siblings.
Li Gao hurriedly took Yin Huan's words, and hurriedly admitted his mistake: "It's a shallow slave, and I ask the emperor to forgive me!" This apology is not an apology to Prince Yin.
Yin Huan saw the play played by the master and servant in his eyes, let out a sneer in his heart, ignored Li Gao, and said to Yin Huan: "Please also ask the emperor to forgive Weichen for being rude, but Weichen led the Yin family army to fight day and night in Nanzhao, and when he finally returned victorious, he heard the rumor that Weichen was collaborating with the enemy and treason in Beijing, and our Yin family army became a rebel!" It really chilled the hearts of the soldiers of the Yin family! Weichen was in a hurry, so he couldn't care about the etiquette between the monarch and the minister. ”
Yin Zhu didn't refute himself or Yin Huan, but only emphasized that he was wronged and his soldiers were wronged.
Yin Huan said hypocritically when he heard this: "Brother Huang, I didn't blame you harshly, you and I don't need to care about the false courtesy between these monarchs and ministers. Between the lines, it is an allusion to Yin Zhu's non-observance of etiquette.
"Of course I know that you have been wronged by the imperial brother, but Yin Mingtai, who collaborated with the enemy and treason, is your right-hand man, and the people will naturally think that Yin Mingtai's rebellion is inseparable from the imperial brother. Yin Huan said again.
When Yin Zhu heard this, he knelt down and made a big salute.
Yin Huan was taken aback by his sudden change, and said, "Brother Huang, what do you mean by this?" ”
Yin Zhu replied: "The emperor said that Yin Mingtai was guilty, and the minister did not dare to refute it. But Yin Mingtai grew up beside Weichen since he was a child, and his retainers couldn't be clearer that Yin Mingtai would not be a person who did treason with the enemy. If Yin Mingtai is guilty, Yin Mingtai will be at the disposal of the emperor, and Weichen will also resign from the title of Prince Yin to his own employer. If Yin Mingtai is proven innocent, please ask the emperor to give Yin Mingtai a statement, a statement to Weichen, and a statement to the soldiers of the Yin family's army, don't make the soldiers feel cold! ”
Yin Zhu's last "Don't make the soldiers chill" resounded throughout the court.
When the civil and military officials saw Prince Yin's sincere questioning, they were all moved by him, and they were all a little moved in their hearts.
When Yin Huan heard Yin Zhu's words, he secretly became ruthless, suppressed the flame of hatred in his eyes, and said: "What the imperial brother said is reasonable, if Yin Mingtai is not guilty, I really want to return his innocence and give you an explanation." ”
"Brother Huang, please get up." Yin Huan made a gesture of raising his hand, showing his generosity as the king of a country.
"Wechen thanked the emperor for his grace."
Hearing this, Yin Zhu got up, pushed Yin Mingtai down in front, and said, "Mingtai, you say." ”
Yin Mingtai stepped forward as he said, but he did not kneel and salute.
Under the court, Yin Mingtai's humble and unarrogant posture pierced Yin Huan's heart.
Li Gao seemed to have a heart in his heart, and said for Yin Huan: "Yin guard, you are so bold!" Prince Yin is the emperor's brother, and because of his private emotions, the emperor can ignore it. You are a little guard, and now you are still a guilty person, how dare you not salute! Do you still have the emperor in your eyes, it seems that you are going to be convicted of treason against the enemy! ”
Li Gao's voice was sharp and thin, and it sounded very harsh, and these words despised Yin Zhu and Yin Mingtai together.
But Yin Huan didn't feel that Li Gao's voice was harsh, but felt very pleasant, after all, Li Gao scolded him and said something that it was inconvenient for him to say in the dragon chair.
"Mingtai is not a son of heaven, it's just that Mingtai escaped from the death of Nanzhao Kingdom, and when he returned to Dazhou, he was accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and he was really wronged in his heart."
"Mingtai knelt down at this time, although it was a proper etiquette to the emperor, but Mingtai was afraid that if he knelt at this moment, he would be thought that Mingtai had confessed his guilt. Therefore, please also ask the emperor to forgive Mingtai for being rude. ”
"Mingtai is not guilty, please ask the emperor Mingjian!"
Yin Mingtai's words made Yin Huan unable to find fault with him.
Naturally, the job of picking thorns was handed over to Li Gao.
Li Gao's shrill and thin voice sounded again: "Bold Yin guard!" How dare a mere sinner make a request to the emperor! ”
"Someone! Will Yin Guards hit a hundred boards first! Cure his spirit! Li Gao raised his voice one level higher.
The civil and military officials were annoyed by this harsh voice, and if it weren't for the emperor's presence, they couldn't wait to cover their ears and scold Li Gao to shut up.
However, a hundred big boards, this is to be bent into a move!
The punishment of beating the board in the Great Zhou was carried out by the strongest strong men in the country, and this board was made of the strongest wood, and one board could be worth the weight of an adult male, not to mention that the strong men who carried out the punishment were not told to beat lightly, and the strength of the hand was that others could not stand it just by letting him punch others. Not to mention hitting it with this person's heavy board.
Generally, people who receive this board can't bear it with only three boards, and they can break their breath when they receive the fifth board. Even if this Yin Mingtai martial arts are world-famous, no matter how strong his body is, if he is strong and sturdy, at most twenty strokes, Yin Mingtai will be killed.
Li Gao's fluttering sentence first hit a hundred big boards to cure the sharp qi, this is not the sharp qi, it is Yin Mingtai's life! A hundred boards down, Yin Mingtai has already been slapped into meat paste, where is there still a mouth to argue for himself?
Isn't this a trick to scare human life?
All the civil and military officials thought so, of course, no one dared to say what they thought in their hearts, so they could only cast sympathetic glances at Yin Mingtai, and even more unbearable people turned their faces away, closed their eyes, and didn't dare to look at it again.
Yin Huan did not refute Li Gao's words, and acquiesced to Yin Mingtai's decision to be beaten with a hundred boards.
Two muscular men, shirtless, walked in with a board, as if they had been waiting outside the temple for a long time, and they came so quickly.
This is the executioner.
Yin Zhu sneered in his heart when he saw this, but he didn't make a sound to beg for mercy for Yin Mingtai.
Yin Mingtai was pressed to the ground by one of the strong men, and Yin Mingtai did not struggle, as if he didn't know that he was going to enter the ghost gate next.
Two strong men stood next to Yin Mingtai on the left and right, one of them first raised the board and prepared to fight, and the other person was ready, and after the other person finished playing the board, he would immediately follow the board and connect it, so that the prisoner could not breathe.
When the board was about to be smashed down, the strong man holding the board had his wrist open, and he couldn't help but let go of the board, covered his wrist and wailed, only to see that a delicate dagger was inserted between the wrists of this strong man.
The board thrown by the strong man was about to hit Yin Mingtai, but Yin Mingtai, who was lying on the ground, seemed to have eyes behind his back, and he turned around lightly and quickly and dodged.
Blood oozed from the fingertips of the injured Hercules clutching his wrists.
Another strong man saw his companion like this, and thought to himself that his hand was afraid that it would be useless, and he didn't dare to lift the board to hit Yin Mingtai.
At this time, Yin Jiuyue's voice came from outside the hall.
"The fiancé of the lord of this county, who dares to move?"