Chapter 402: An Unexpected Turnaround
Fan Ronghua, the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, also came up step by step. He is a civil official, although he is a little clever but his literary talent is not outstanding, and he is not valued by the emperor when he enters the official career, and he barely gets a county official from an unknown county in Longcheng.
Fan Ronghua is not a high-minded person, and he took office when he got the edict.
There is nothing to covet in a poor place, Fan Ronghua is also An'an, and he started his prefect in An'an, and he doesn't want to get a good reputation and has the opportunity to go to Beijing, although he is only the lowest level from Jiupin Qin Tianjian Si Chen.
It is precisely because of this Qin Tianjian Si Chen that Fan Ronghua got acquainted with his wife Hu, and it is also because of the support of his wife's uncle, Hu Dezi, the Shangshu of the Second Rank Criminal Department, who has come to today's Sipin Jingzhao Mansion Yin step by step.
Fan Ronghua has tried countless cases, but it is the first time he has encountered this difficult situation, and it is also the first time that such a quiet situation has appeared in the court.
The previous defendant must have been unjustly injustice at this time, how could there be such a person who did not defend himself and waited for his verdict like today.
If it was in the past, he would follow Pei Shaowei and Lu Bantou's intentions and detain the charges on a few unknown people. But it is precisely because of the mysterious identities of several people that Fan Ronghua is jealous. He always felt that he had seen these people somewhere, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them. It stands to reason that there is no way that he can't remember where he saw someone with such a look, but Fan Ronghua just can't remember where he has seen a few people.
"My lord, the merchants in this capital are all people who keep to themselves under the control of the adults and pay taxes to the court on time every year. Now that Dragon City is in a time of many disasters, how can a person with so many silver tickets on his body be a good citizen. These people didn't know how to hide their past government from before. Now they deserve it in the hands of the adults who are asking for their lives. Lu Bantou looked at Fan Ronghua and said hesitantly.
As their superior, how could Fan Ronghua not understand Lu Bantou's potential meaning. Workers, peasants, and merchants, this merchant is the lowest level of people, how can he exist safely without a shop that relies on him behind the capital?
If such a person has seen it, he will not be impressed, it may be that such a rare person in the world is unforgettable at first sight, so he will have the idea of seeing it.
Fan Ronghua is a four-grade Beijing official, of course, he has to participate in the palace banquet, every palace banquet can be said to be Zhang Mengjie's reputation, it stands to reason that Fan Ronghua should know Zhang Mengjie.
But he didn't know Zhang Mengjie, in fact, it was no wonder that Fan Ronghua was not known. Because who dares to look at the emperor's woman openly in the palace banquet? Of course, this is not the biggest reason why Fan Ronghua doesn't know Zhang Mengjie. The biggest reason is that Fan Ronghua is not a tall person. In addition, the position of the four-grade official is not so high.
Also, why did he bother to offend a woman who did not know whose it was, who was useful to him and to the court. And as long as he hands over some of this silver ticket to the court, of course, how much to hand over is his business. Perhaps the court will give him a good name and other rewards. Thinking like this, Fan Ronghua paid attention to it in his heart. Pick up the startling wood and just about to fall. I saw someone outside enter the court without notice.
Fan Ronghua was not angry because someone broke into the court for no reason, because not everyone dared to break into the court so blatantly, and sure enough, that person walked towards Fan Ronghua with a purpose. Whispered in his ear.
Soon, Fan Ronghua's face changed and changed, and he almost let go of the shocking wood in his hand when the person left his ear.
With a "snap", the shocking wood in Fan Ronghua's hand fell on the table with unprecedented sound. Even so, Zhang Mengjie, as the party concerned, Pei Shaowei and Lu Bantou were not frightened at all, and Pei Shaowei and Lu Bantou even had schadenfreude. Xu Dongjia, Luo Dongjia, Pei Yuanfu and Zhou Li all secretly said in their hearts: It's miserable!
However, I heard Fan Ronghua say: "Bold profiteer Pei Shaowei, this official obviously heard you say that if the number of silver tickets they carry does not match what you said, then this matter is another matter." But now, what is your intention to provoke trouble again and again? ”
Fan Ronghua's sudden change made the group a little confused, but they knew very well that it must have something to do with what the person said to Fan Ronghua just now.
"Grass people, grass people have no heart to provoke trouble." Pei Shaowei's mind was in a mess now, he didn't know how things came to be like this, but he still subconsciously knelt down and said words to evade responsibility.
"I really don't cry when I don't see the coffin," Fan Ronghua said to the officials on both sides: "Come on!"
"Yes!" The two fronts of the officials on both sides immediately came out to respond.
"Pull him down and hit him with a cane and fifty boards, see if he recognizes it?"
"Yes!"
As soon as he heard the fifty boards, Pei Shaowei didn't wait for the two officials to pull him down and immediately said, "Wait! Adults, grass people recognize. It was the grass people who saw that the uncle's shop sold so much cloth at once, so they made this decision to ruin the uncle's business and plunder the silver tickets in their hands. ”
"What a scheming profiteer! Thinking that this matter has not yet resulted in a good attitude of admitting guilt, and several shops of 'Pei Ji' have earned a lot of tax profits for the imperial court, the official can not be blamed for this matter. The joy in Pei Shaowei's heart just rose, but he heard Fan Ronghua say again: "But you almost wronged a good person by harming this official, don't you want to escape the crime of slander and the crime of disturbing the public security of the capital, these fifty boards will be changed to twenty boards."
Pei Shaowei, who had never suffered in his life, was stunned and forgot to beg for mercy.
Fan Ronghua said to Lu Bantou again: "And you, without verification, you will bring someone to arrest innocent people to be tried, and you will not be able to escape the crime of negligence, in order to prevent you from making such a mistake again in the future, you will also be subject to ten boards as a warning!"
Lu Bantou knew that he couldn't escape from these ten boards, so he simply confessed: "Thank you for your grace!"
"Yes!" Only then did Fan Ronghua say to the officials on both sides again with satisfaction: "Take them down to be tortured."
Two more officials came out and the two people in front of them, and the four of them took the people outside the hall, and soon there was a sound of "crackling" cane punishment outside.
And Fan Ronghua in the public court picked up the silver ticket on the table at this time and walked to Zhang Mengjie and said: "I hope that Mrs. will not hold a grudge if you are offended, if Mrs. has any dissatisfaction, just say it."
"If you don't offend something, Master Fan will also handle it impartially." Zhang Mengjie handed over the silver ticket from Fan Ronghua and let Lu Deshun take it over.
Zhang Mengjie has no intention of thinking about the issue of whether the criminal law is too heavy or too light, she just wants to finish the matter here as soon as possible. She knew it wasn't too early.
I don't know if the officials have released the water, so they just said a few words to Fan Ronghua, and the four officials dragged Pei Shaowei and Lu Bantou, who had their buttocks blooming, back.
After feeling the sound of the cane beating outside, Fan Ronghua had already arrived in the court. (To be continued.) )