The so-called Dengwen drum is set up to avenge the people's grievances, but whenever the Dengwen drum sounds, it is to sue the emperor, and the emperor must openly receive the people who beat the drum and voice their grievances.

However, the Dengwen drum is not so easy to beat, but if the Dengwen drum is beaten, before seeing the emperor, you must first accept the punishment, roll the nail bed or take the charcoal fire road.

Either way, it's torture.

If you can survive it, then there is hope for redress, so it is generally not a great grievance, it is not that there is nowhere to redress it, and no one wants to come and suffer all this.

Therefore, the Dengwen drum was set up in many dynasties, but only a handful of times it was sounded.

For example, the Great Xia Kingdom has been founded for more than 50 years now, and now it is the third emperor, but the Dengwen drum has not sounded once, which is the first time since the founding of the country.

Therefore, Emperor Xia Wen did not dare to slack off, and immediately returned to the court.

The civil and military officials hurried to the back of the Jinluan Palace, and watched the man who beat the Dengwen drum being taken to the door of the Jinluan Palace, where there was a nail bed on one side, two meters long, with dense nails on it, as long as you rolled over, you could enter the Jinluan Hall to avenge your grievances.

On the other side is a two-meter-long charcoal fire road, the charcoal fire has burned red, as long as you walk barefoot, you can also enter the Jinluan Hall to avenge your grievances.

Choose between two paths.

The man glanced at the nail bed, and then took off his shoes and socks without hesitation: "Yan Meng, the grass people, used to be a soldier of the Great Xia Kingdom, participated in more than a dozen battles, and survived by luck, but that day was a big grievance, and he had to take risks, but at any time, the soldiers of Great Xia had to stand, even if they died, they had to stand and die." Then he stepped on the coals.

The smell of burnt flesh and skin instantly spread.

There were many ministers in the court who couldn't bear to look at it, and the smell even made people feel sick to their stomachs.

But the man named Yan Meng didn't say a word, walked through the charcoal fire road step by step, and then walked into the Jinluan Hall step by step, and stumbled before he took a few steps, but he still gritted his teeth and walked to the middle position, and then knelt down.

The two soles of the feet behind are already bloody and fleshy, and they are even still steaming with a strange smell of meat.

"Your Majesty, this person has already passed the test, it is better to bandage his wound first." After seeing Jiang Yan's gesture, someone made a proposal, "After all, in such a situation, it is easy to stain the holy eye." ”

"That's right." Emperor Xia Wen nodded.

When the man heard this, he retreated to his train.

Immediately, a doctor came over, gave Yan Meng a simple treatment on the spot, and then bandaged it.

At this time, a eunuch had already cleaned the door, and the hall finally no longer had that weird smell of meat.

Although Yan Meng's face was pale and cold sweat continued on his forehead, he still insisted on kneeling down, and then handed over the pleadings.

After Emperor Xia Wen saw it, his brows furrowed: "Are you suing the late Dingguo General Jiang Changgong?" ”

When the courtiers heard this, they couldn't help but start whispering.

"Yes." Yan Meng kowtowed, "The grass people are suing Jiang Changgong, he is so happy that he abuses his power, and even deducts military salaries ......"

"But he's dead."

"Dead?" Yan Meng frowned, "Why did you die?" ”

"I died last year."

"Can't you sue if you're dead?"

"This ......," Emperor Xia Wen pondered, "I can sue." ”

"The grass people still have to sue him."

"Then you can tell me about the situation specifically, everyone Aiqing also listen carefully, after all, many of you are familiar with Jiang Changgong, see if this person will wronged the other party."

Everyone collectively responded.

Yan Meng said a lot of things, some of which have evidence and some of which don't, but he focused on the Antongguan War ten years ago.

It was the tenth year of Ansheng, and the Northern Yuan went south, and it was Jiang Changgong who was the commander and led the troops to resist the Northern Yuan army, but Jiang Changgong was a straw bag at all, and he didn't dare to go into battle in person.

However, it was later taken back by Sun Dongchuan and others, but Jiang Changgong felt that it was his own credit, and he was complacent, he felt that he was a wise leader, and then at the instigation of a few sycophants, he went out directly to fight with the other party, wanting to capture the leader of the other party, so as to strive for greater military merit, but as a result, he was ambushed, and 15,000 soldiers did not survive.

If Sun Dongchuan hadn't sacrificed his life to save him, I'm afraid he would have died there.

Such a battle is to be held responsible, and as a result, he pushed Sun Dongchuan out, and there is no proof of death anyway.

Emperor Xia Wen couldn't help but glance at Jiang Yan, and then slapped the table: "Yan Meng, do you know the crime of wantonly slandering courtiers?" ”

"Caomin knows, because Caomin was a soldier next to General Dingguo, after the battle, Jiang Changgong once asked his subordinates to send a letter to Jiang's family in the capital, and his subordinates were once saved by Sun Dongchuan, so they peeked at the letter, and sure enough, the letter was Jiang Changgong's confession to the old general, so his subordinates cheated to death and left, and handed the letter to Sun Dongchuan's wife......"

"Your Majesty." At this time, Wu Yizhou, the secretary of Dali Temple, took a step forward, "A few days ago, a woman who claimed to be Sun Dongchuan's wife came over and handed over the paper, and she said the same thing. ”

"Let the woman go to the temple."

Because Jiang Yan had already made arrangements, in less than half an hour, Aunt Sun went to the main hall.

"Tell me all about your grievances."

"Caomin's original name was Song Nansheng, and Sun Dongchuan was a childhood sweetheart, and he got married after the war, and later he joined the army and went to the command of General Dingguo, and later became a deputy general, but one day came the news that he died, and he also violated military regulations, Caomin also wanted to follow at that time, but for the sake of the child did not die, and later General Dingguo took Caomin to the capital and entered Jiang's house...... "Aunt Sun handed over the letter, "After getting this letter, Caomin has been stuffed in the wooden hairpin, thinking that one day he can correct the name of his husband......"

"What do you think about this?" Emperor Xia Wen looked at everyone.

Everyone lowered their heads, and it was easy to become cannon fodder when they opened their mouths at this time.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has something to say." At this moment, Sui Yuan, the general of Enwei, walked out, lifted his robe and knelt on the ground.

"General Sui, please speak." Emperor Xia Wen nodded.

"The last general once had the support of the old general Jiang Guan, but Jiang Changgong was indeed incompetent for the post of general, and the last general did not participate in the battle of that year." Sui Yuan paused, "But last year's Antongguan Battle was purely caused by Jiang Bonian's unauthorized initiative, but this time it was 60,000 soldiers, and one of my son's legs, please ask the emperor to investigate thoroughly." (End of chapter)

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