Chapter 17: The Passing of the Hall

On the third day of printing, at five o'clock in the morning, Yang Mingzhen was lying on the bed tossing and turning over and over with his head covered by the battle, when he suddenly received a report: someone violated the night ban and injured the soap who was patrolling. The prisoner has been captured, please send it down.

Hurriedly washed and ascended to the hall, and the officials pulled over one: the big red sea python robe was torn, revealing the dark purple tunic inside, one foot was bare, and the other foot was wearing a brown silk checkered soap boot, and the soap officer next to him held a Zhongjing crown with gold wire trim (similar to a black gauze hat, square top, and three beams) that was stained with mud and left a mountain (two wings behind the head of the black gauze hat, the scientific name is two mountains), which was obviously dropped during the fight. Although this person has a blue nose and swollen face, he is quite arrogant, standing with a golden knife, and the wine in his mouth is very choking in the morning. Next to him lay the beaten groom, with his nose broken and his face covered in blood moaning half-truthfully.

Yang Mingzhen, who hadn't slept well all night, was still on an empty stomach, choking on the smell of wine early in the morning. The colorful body in front of him is too weird: if you say that he is an ordinary person, he will definitely not dare to "see the official and not worship", that is to find his own death, if he says that he has the identity of an official, although he may not know the realm of Fengyang's palm when he first arrives, but the loyal and respectful crown should be matched with the loyal and respectful official uniform, how can he wear a sea python robe that rubs the edges? The grandfather stipulates that the civil official uniform is embroidered with birds and military attache uniforms, and the sea python flying deer that is not involved in the embroidery is a nouveau riche likes to play, if he is a scholar with a meritorious reputation, where did he have the courage to change the square scarf into an official hat, and it is more than four grades to match the gold edge! Besides, looking at that look, he is definitely not a reader!

Whether it is a scholar or not, it is too easy to tell in ancient times. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, until the Qing Dynasty, as long as they obtained officials through the right path or gained fame, most of them were scholars. At that time, it was all a private school, and with my husband blindly shaking his head and reciting, he hit down the wrong precept ruler, and the habit that he developed over more than ten years was that no one else could learn. Therefore, despite the fact that in ancient times, there were no accurate identification methods such as photographs and instant messaging, and there were only a handful of cases of impersonating officials in the past thousand years. The reason for this is that the cost of education is too high, and more than 95 percent of the people who are completely illiterate will definitely not be able to do such things, and the other reason is that speech and demeanor are easy to be recognized, even if it is a play with good acting skills, if it is not possible to pretend for half a day, colleagues in the officialdom will see the flaws. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were too many officials who donated officials, and as long as anyone paid for it, they could mix up with the official body, and these things gradually increased.

While pondering, the chief bookkeeper Meng Gaodi leaned over and whispered, "Lord Yang, this is the third aunt." ”

Yang Mingzhen said blankly: "What third aunt, is it your third aunt?" ”

Meng Gao stuck out his tongue for the first time: "The adult can kill the villain......" and then lay in Yang Mingzhen's ear and muttered, the latter took a while to figure out that this was the husband of a distant relative of the Zhu family's third cousin.

The third aunt and uncle watched with stunned eyes in the hall, and waited patiently until Meng Gaodi finished speaking of his identity and straightened his waist, and then pointed to the lying husband: "Trouble Yang County to sentence this guy quickly." Then he pointed to the group of strong subordinates one by one*: "And this, this, that!" Give me a hard beating! I can't swallow this breath of bird! ”

When Gu Ayi, the leader of the team, heard the news, he hurried over, saluted, and approached Yang Mingzhen's case and whispered with some grievances: "Master Yang, the little ones can't help it!" The imperial court is clear, and in order to prevent illegal traitors from breaking the dragon vein, the night ban is extremely strict. Don't check it, in case there is a mistake, no one can get rid of the big crime of destroying the door, check it, and the black light blind can't recognize which uncle is where it comes from, please be merciful! As he spoke, he knelt down again.

Seeing that Gu Bantou had no confidence in speaking, the third aunt was even more arrogant: "The dog kills the material and farts!" Wait for the noise! Even this old man dares to stop and fight? If you don't fight and kill alive today, you're a dog like you! You're the leader of the dogs, and you're not a good person, so you can't say it, you have to fight it together! ”

Gu Bantou, who was kneeling on the ground, didn't dare to get up, moved in a different direction, and whispered to the third aunt while kowtowing his head: "Third master, you don't ask someone to take a lantern with a name (the night ban is only for the people, officials go out on official business, and the lantern with an official title can be played all the way unimpeded), and the hook lantern of the "Autumn Moon Pavilion" is reversed, and the barrage is kicked down, and the small ones mistakenly think it is a gangster......"

"Fart, fart!" The third aunt didn't even look at Gu Bantou, and continued to shout at Yang Mingzhen, "Yang County, hurry up!" Teach the killers to recognize your third master! ”

The third aunt was going to play in the hook bar, and he wanted to stay in Yusi, but he didn't want to be good and was ordered by others, so he waited until the third watchday girl to get out. One ate alone until he was half drunk and full of chagrin, and the other had been tossed listlessly, and the two sides quarreled, and the third aunt insisted on going back in a rage, but the old bustard couldn't stop it, so he had to prepare a lantern in the courtyard for him to carry it to guide the way. Every night, after the drums sound at 3 o'clock, the barricade fence is erected at the intersection of the main road. The official on duty saw the bright lantern of the Goolan Courtyard and wanted to go forward to investigate, but the drunken third aunt not only kicked the fence without saying a word, but also beat people, so he was taken by everyone......

At this moment, Yang Mingzhen did not make up his mind which choice to make between national law and reason, so he wanted to learn from his predecessor Yan Zhiqing and delay it for a while before making a decision. Master Meng saw that Yang Xianzun was muttering words, so he laughed and said: "Third master, you dissipate your anger first, and you can't blame the brothers for a while when the black light is blind, I don't know that you are a business ......."

Meng Gaodi wanted to find a step for Yang Mingzhen that could be taken down on both sides: on one side, the black light was blind and he didn't see people clearly, and on the other hand, he was out on business, and no one was responsible for it, so the matter was over. But the more the unlucky third aunt thought about it, the more annoyed he felt, and he was even more afraid that the embarrassing incident of being blasted out of the door by a bitch in the middle of the night would make people laugh, and after listening to Meng Gaodi's "business trip", he thought it was intentional ridicule, and said angrily: "Fart, fart!" Yang County, hurry up and kill these dogs with me! And him," pointed at Meng Gaodi, "This guy is also a bastard, and he was beaten together!" ”

Three days after he took office, he beat his subordinates, the head of the team, and the main book? I'm going to the in the future! Yang Mingzhen, who had just taken office, was really a little unbearable on his face: "Shut up!" This official has his own opinions, how can you be allowed to roar in court! ”

The arrogant third aunt didn't take this young new magistrate in his eyes at all, and became more and more annoyed and angry when he heard the words: "What do you say about the surname Yang? Even when the prefect sees me, he has to call the third master! Let's be clear, hurry up and get angry with this master! ”

At this point, the young and vigorous Yang Mingzhen couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped the shocked wood: "Bold fanatics, dare to be so presumptuous!" The official asked you: Do you have an official status? Can you be famous? ”

Although it is a fledgling, the mind of a reader is different. The third aunt is a rough person, of course, he didn't hear that Yang Mingzhen was playing a dead trick on himself that he couldn't get out of, and his neck was stalked: "Bah! Fame? Who is rare to be so Rauschzi! My official body is Captain Zhongxian! The rank is much bigger than yours! ”

Yang Mingzhen suddenly had a bottom in his heart. Lieutenant Zhongxian is a vacant military officer from the sixth grade, and it is only a beginner, and he will be promoted to lieutenant Zhongwu after a certain year, and the rank is the same, or from the sixth grade. The national dynasty controls the military with literature, even if it is a guerrilla from a third-grade official who sees the seven-grade county order, he often does not dare to come out, let alone a false official! Looking at how this handful of people has to be almost forty years old before he is awarded an entry-level honorary title, it is obvious that he is not very well received by the Zongren Mansion. And I don't understand the matter of Wenwu Shutu at all~ This is a guy who relies on the old Zhu family to make eight bends and play treasure with the daughter-in-law of a distant relative.

"Phew! Vulna Maniac! The great grandfather respects Confucius, sacrifices to the prison, ceremonies the scholars, and worships education. How dare you bark and bark full of nonsense! It is clearly a contempt for the laws of the imperial court! In the land of Longxing, how can you roar in the court! Come on, slap your mouth twenty, give me a hard beating! "It stands to reason that in order to show respect for the official position of the imperial court, if a person is guilty of an official position, he must first go to the crown, indicating that he will be deprived of the identity of the official before he is punished~ can't he be punished by a doctor. Since this loyal crown is not on his head, Yang Mingzhen naturally has no scruples.

"Ah, you, how dare you hit me?" As soon as the third aunt's exclamation started, he heard a "offense" in his ears, and he felt a sharp pain in his knee, and he couldn't help but kneel down - of course the officials who had long hated him would not let go of this opportunity, anyway, if there was something in the future, Lord Yang would carry it! Habitually and routinely, he kicked down skillfully with his flying feet. The two grabbed his left and right hands respectively, the third pulled the hair on the back of the third aunt's head, and the fourth took out a bamboo board half an inch and a half wide from the back waist and walked to the front, rounded his arms and pumped down, and shouted the number while fighting.

Yang Mingzhen, who is not familiar with the unspoken rules of officialdom, made a slip of the tongue - the punishment of the palm mouth, in fact, there is a code for execution in the yamen. "Give me a beat" ~ This is a hand beat, you can put water, at most the cheeks are swollen, raise it for a few days, there will be no big problem, "give me a hard beat" ~ This is pumped with bamboo slices, the result is bound to be the gums are rotten, the back molars are all falling off, even if you pick up a life, you can only rely on liquid food in the future. Before the newly appointed Lord Yang had time to comprehend such a profound mystery, he blurted out in a hurry.

After more than ten boards, the third aunt's molars have all been honorably laid off, some splashed in front of the hall, and some were washed down by blood. After the twenty boards were played, the third aunt who was shining on the disaster star was already unrecognizable.

The third aunt, who had been rampant in the place for many years, didn't expect to be treated like this, and lay down in the hall and hummed, aiming at everyone fiercely from the corner of his eye. Unfortunately, he didn't know that his bad luck had just begun. Yang Mingzhen recited the sage teaching of "eliminating evil": Anyway, it has been done, so do it to the end!

"When did you get this guy?"

"Back to my lord, it's time for the fourth watch."

"According to the "Da Ming Law", those who violate the ban from the second to the fourth will be punished with forty lashes! Taizu ancestral system, loyal and respectful crown uniforms, in the foreign Xu officials and palaces, state and county halls, Confucian instructors uniform, military attachés and above. The rest are not allowed to be overused! Gold wire must be used above the fourth grade! The disgraced ones have their limbs cut off! Gu Nian is a first-time offender, punished for both crimes, and caned sixty ...... "The third aunt, whose ears were buzzing and almost deaf, couldn't hear the verdict of the court at all, only knowing that he was being set up again, his pants were removed, one of the servants sat on his back and pressed it, the other pressed his ankles with both hands, and the other two on one side, picked up the board and greeted Bai Huahua fiercely, singing while beating......

The flogging and the cane are two of the five punishments - flogging, cane, imprisonment (hard labor), liu (confiscation), and death (various fancy clicks), and the main difference is in the degree of severity. Flogging is a form of whipping, with a thorn strip whip in some places, and a small wooden board or bamboo blade in some places, starting from 10 strokes to 50 strokes. The cane punishment is pumped with a large wooden board, and the detailed places should also be subdivided into specifications, called big staffs, magic staffs, and small staffs. Sixty strokes start, 100 strokes (except Ultraman, no one can carry a staff of 100 - as long as the body is made of meat, Schwarzenegger can't do it).

There are poems that praise and say: The miserable number and sticks fly together, and the feces and urine are the same color as blood and water......

After dragging away the third aunt who had lost most of his life due to blood mold, Yang Mingzhen, who had completely let go, still hated himself, and personally wrote an official report that sealed the original and added oil and vinegar, in addition to the one sent to the prefect, two copies were copied, and directly sent a stagecoach to Jiangning, the capital of Jingshi and Nanzhili.

This is also Yang Mingzhen's cleverness: since he has done it, he will stab the matter into the sky, even if he causes a big disaster, he can also get a good reputation - at the same time, no matter which one comes out to clean up, he must also take advantage of his own reputation.

However, Yang Mingzhen is still young, he doesn't know, these are actually not of much use: the memory of the people of the Ming Dynasty will not be kept for long, and the officials - there are many people who exchange their reputation for wealth, who cares about Na Laoshizi......

Not to mention that the prefect was shocked when he received the official letter, like a toad that had been struck by lightning, he opened his mouth and was dumbfounded, and ran to Bozhou to deal with "urgent business" and hid at any other time, whether it was Yang Zhi County or Li Zhi County, Zhang Zhi County, Wang Zhi County, anyone who did this would end up miserable - however, this time he was really lucky: the adults of the Imperial Court Household Department and the Ministry of Rites were in a hurry.

*Three shifts of officers.

Soap Class: Responsible for guarding the prison.

Zhuang Ban: Standing in the lobby and shouting "mighty", he is responsible for the interrogation.

Fast Shift: Responsible for arresting thieves and arresting people.