Chapter 286: Rotten wood is the door (please vote for me!)
Lin Tailai took ten people, including the left and right guardians, and followed Wang Xiangmeng, the censor of Jiangxi Province, who was performing official duties, out of the gate of the Wang family.
"Only you were sent to summon me?" Lin Daguan looked around and asked in surprise: "You didn't bring more people?"
Wang Xiangmeng rolled his eyes and replied: "Is there any difference between me coming alone and bringing dozens of jailers?"
Lin Tailai nodded: "That's true."
Wang Xiangmeng felt as if he was being despised, but he still reminded him: "Maybe some people want you to refuse the summons from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and run away."
While walking on the road, Official Lin asked casually: "Is that Gao Yushi who covets the fifteenth-year-old girl in the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Where is his official residence?"
Wang Xiangmeng asked very sensitively: "What do you want to do?"
Officer Lin said kindly: "Don't get me wrong! I was just wondering if I could pay him a visit."
Wang Xiangmeng quickly replied: "He is on a business trip to Tongzhou to inspect Taicang. You can't see him!"
Supervisory censors are a very special group in the Ming Dynasty system, and their scale is not small. If the number is full, there will be 110 people in thirteen groups.
But the supervisory censor was not as many people imagined in later generations. It seemed that he only needed to sit in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, drink tea and write memorials and scold people, without doing any specific things.
Supervisory censors also have many tasks to dispatch, such as being sent to various provinces as patrol censors, sent to salt areas as salt patrol censors, and many other tasks such as Qing army inspections, warehouse inspections, etc.
Of course, these supervisory censors who have taken on assignments will not sit in the Metropolitan Procuratorate drinking tea.
The other is to investigate and deal with something specifically according to the order. For example, a few days ago, an order was sent from the womb, asking the Metropolitan Procuratorate to investigate whether Lin Tailai was illegal and to inspect the martial arts test.
After careful consideration, the Metropolitan Procuratorate handed over this task to the senior censor Fang Wanshan.
Today, a driving notice was issued, summoning Lin Tai to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for questioning. The legal rationale comes from the above-mentioned decree.
No matter how many human factors and tricks exist in this process, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it legally.
The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple are not in the same area as other government agencies. They are located in the westernmost part of the capital, but they are less than two miles away from the Xicheng official community.
So after coming out of Wang's house, not long after heading west, we saw the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Official Lin took a look at it from a distance and commented casually: "It's really a shabby government office with a rotten door! I've been to many government offices and I've never seen anything worse than this."
In the imperial court, apart from the Ci Minister, Ke Dao was one of the highest-ranking official positions.
For those who have just entered the officialdom, the best choice is to enter the Hanlin Academy, and the second is to become a censor.
Anyone familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty knows how annoying the official censor was in the late Ming Dynasty.
But all officials who are censors are a bit proud of their status. So when he heard Lin Tailai's words, Wang Xiangmeng snorted and said:
"What do you know! Our Procuratorate has always prided itself on being honest, so we pride ourselves on not spending too much money on building government offices."
Lin Tailai chuckled and said: "A rotten tree is a door, I don't know if it can withstand my full kick."
Wang Xiangmeng scolded: "Don't make weird puns here. Don't make big talk until you can come out safely today!"
Do you think that a powerful place like the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the same as those prefectural and county yamen you have experienced?"
Official Lin muttered: "You people in the officialdom are really good at thinking. Who said that my sentence was a pun?"
But when they arrived at the gate, the ten men who came with Mr. Lin were all blocked.
No matter how big an official you are, if you go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for trial, you will not be allowed to bring your entourage in!
Lin Tailai asked the clerk on duty: "Where is the interrogation?"
The scribe pointed to Yimen and replied: "After passing Yimen, then turn to the west. Near the southwest corner, there is a judgment hall for the censors!"
Wang Xiangmeng looked at Lin Tailai in surprise. He was leading the way, so he was still worried that he would not be able to find the place? Is there any need to ask the scribe?
Excluding Zuodu Censor, Zuo Fudu Censor, Zuo Qiandu Censor, there are theoretically one hundred and ten supervisory censors in Manchu Dynasty. The number of officials is the largest among ministerial-level government agencies, so the Imperial Supervisory Yuan has
There are also many rooms.
However, Lin Daguan was not interested in visiting in depth. Under the leadership of Wang Xiangmeng, he passed the Yimen and came to the judgment hall in the southwest corner not far away.
Wang Xiangmeng brought Lin Tailai behind and did not leave. He just watched the fun from the side.
Mainly because the smile of the official censor who was presiding today was a little ferocious, which made Wang Xiangmeng uneasy.
Sitting in the public seat, Fang Yushi looked at Lin Tailai who was standing in the hall "at a loss" and thought bitterly, the time has come for a general liquidation.
No matter how wild you Lin Tailai is, as long as you get an official document from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you won't come to trial obediently, unless you want to escape or rebel!
In Fang Yushi's view, Lin Tailai's previous beatings and door-breaking were all manifestations of ignorance and legal illiteracy.
And what’s even more ignorant is that because no one cares about it and no one catches it, I superficially think that there is no price to pay for doing so!
As everyone knows, there is a saying that it is not that you will not retaliate, but the time has not yet come! Such brainless villains always do not understand this truth!
Do you think that if you know a chief assistant or minister, you can run rampant in the capital?
In addition to Lin Tailai, there were six or seven other people in the hall.
It's just that some of these six or seven people were lying down and some were sitting, all of them were seriously injured, and they were piled in a mess on the other side.
They were all candidates who participated in this martial arts test, but they stood up to expose the injustice and testified that Zheng Guotai was suppressed.
Therefore, they have suffered retaliation in the past three days, and blood has been spilled on the streets of the capital, which is truly heartbreaking.
Fortunately, Mr. Qingtian Yushi made the decision, so their sacrifices would not be in vain.
Fang Yushi had long wanted to summon Lin Tai, but there was always a lack of concrete evidence.
Things like knocking down doors or tearing down doors couldn't be brought to the table, so Lin Tailai even left the compensation money on the spot.
Even if he is arrested and interrogated, it is still a civil dispute and not politically fatal. This is not what Fang Yushi wants.
However, unfairness in the examination room and retaliation against other candidates are worthy of comparison.
After making up his mind, Fang Yushi took pictures of the jail, officially started the trial, and shouted: "Where is Lin Tailai!"
Lin Daguan took the initiative to answer: "I didn't beat them for no reason, it actually happened for a reason.
They spread rumors to create trouble and framed me. They said everywhere that I manipulated the examination room, created shady stories, and lowered Zheng Guotai's grade.
Faced with such provocations and troubles, I couldn't bear it and had to fight back and teach them a lesson."
As he spoke, he kicked away a seriously injured plaintiff and witness.
Fang Yushi shouted again: "You can do it"
Official Lin quickly replied: "It is indeed necessary to report this to the relevant government offices and please come forward to deal with it.
But that was too inefficient and could not prevent them from spreading rumors in the first place. By the time the relevant government offices came out with the results, the rumors were already flying all over the sky.
So in order to stop them from causing trouble as soon as possible, I had to use my own methods!"
Before he finished speaking, Mr. Lin severely stepped on the other plaintiff and witness who was lying on a stretcher.
Fang Yushi said angrily: "I have been ordered to investigate."
Official Lin said loudly: "Of course I know that Fang Yushi was ordered to inspect the examination room!
Although I met Zhang Dasima of the Ministry of War before the exam and exchanged poems and essays, there was absolutely no collusion regarding the martial arts exam! Nor did they promise me to be the first in the martial arts exam!"
After finishing speaking, he reached out and grabbed a plaintiff and witness who was sitting on the ground, and threw him directly onto the case in front of Fang Yushi.
Wang Xiangmeng, who was watching the excitement, actually sympathized with Senior Fang, whose lines were not as valuable as his second uncle's.
Fang Yushi was furious. He was the first person in his life who dared to be so arrogant after entering the Metropolitan Procuratorate!
He stood up and ordered: "Where are the jailers on the left and right! Put Lin Tailai into the sky prison to await trial!"
Don't think it's useful to argue here. After you're imprisoned in the sky prison, you'll have plenty of time to play slowly!
Next door to the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the Criminal Department, and the Sky Prison is in the Criminal Department. If the Metropolitan Procuratorate has felons awaiting trial, they can also be thrown into the Sky Prison.
This is what we've been waiting for! Lin Tailai suddenly raised his hands and chanted in a very evil way: "The game is over, the supporting role has taken its final bow!"
It’s just that everyone doesn’t understand what this sentence means.
A dozen jailers on duty on the left and right sides of the court hall had already rushed towards Official Lin.
But Officer Lin calmly took out a special bamboo whistle and blew it hard. The harsh whistle echoed in the front half of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Immediately, Lin Daguan rushed to the front of the public case again, and Fang Yushi turned pale with fright.
He thought that Lin Tailai was completely crazy and wanted to kill officials and rebel. He was going to sacrifice for the country today!
Lin Tailai smiled at Fang Yushi, but did not touch Fang Yushi. He only pressed his hands on the edge of the koan.
Then he exerted force with both arms and directly lifted the entire koan. It immediately acted as a heavy weapon and swung it fiercely behind him.
The weight of the koan and the arm strength of Lin Daguan directly knocked down five or six jailers.
Then Official Lin waved his koan and strode towards the entrance of the court hall.
In a law-enforcement area like the Metropolitan Procuratorate, of course there are guards patrolling back and forth.
But on the narrow front yard corridor, even if there were dozens of guards, they could not get past the huge and heavy koans dancing back and forth.
No matter how thorough the precautions are, we can't imagine that someone like this could come out of the house wielding a koan.
Damn it! He is indeed a ruthless person who can play with a five hundred kilogram stone pier in the martial arts test! Just when the patrol guard was helpless, suddenly there was restlessness behind him.
A dozen strong men appeared out of nowhere and formed a two-sided attack with Lin Daguan, who was wielding a koan.
It turned out that after the bamboo whistle sounded just now, Lin Tailai's men who were waiting at the gate suddenly took action and directly seized the stick of the jailer at the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Then ten men rushed directly into the gate, then into the Yimen, and then headed west to meet Lin Tailai.
Although there are only a few people on Lin Tailai's side, they are all stronger than ordinary people, and they are also elites who have experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, and they form a two-sided attack on the patrolling guards.
So in just a few breaths, the guards patrolling the front yard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were completely defeated, and the combat effectiveness of the city's old soldiers who had been in peace for a long time was just like this.
In the blink of an eye, Officer Lin led his men back to the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
But at this time, the gatekeeper had already closed the door and locked the bolt, possibly trying to catch a turtle in a jar.
After being awakened, the censors standing in the distance saw this scene and cursed one after another!
What a bunch of rough guys, they don’t even understand the art of siege! Wouldn’t it be better to open the door and let these murderous people escape?
If the murderers are not allowed to escape, they will go in and kill them!
However, Officer Lin still rushed towards the gate without hesitation, scattering the conscientious guards guarding the gate with three strokes.
Facing the locked door, Lin Daguan took more than ten steps back, accelerated his sprint again, and used his inertia to kick hard towards the door!
Under the watchful eyes of the public, the long-disrepaired gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which symbolized integrity, fell to the ground, and the lintel collapsed in half.
The visual shock was immediately overwhelming! The other guards who were about to rush towards him all stopped in unison, and the entire Imperial Court fell silent for an instant.
Wang Xiangmeng, who was not afraid of being beaten, was the closest and saw this scene with his own eyes and couldn't help but be stunned.
He also remembered what Lin Tailai said when he entered the door, "I don't know if the door can withstand my full kick even if it is a rotten tree."
He originally thought that Lin Tailai meant to use rotten wood to mock the Metropolitan Procuratorate.
Unexpectedly, Lin Tailai didn't mean to make a pun or play a rhetorical game, but literally wanted to break down the door.
Xin Zixiu, the censor of Zuodu, also came out of the courtroom at the back under heavy guard, just in time to watch Lin Daguan escape from the doorway that had no door panel.
Xin Zongxian's face was ashen, and his eyes seemed to be spitting fire.
It has been exactly two hundred years since Emperor Taizu Gao established the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Such an unprecedented shame and humiliation happened during his tenure!
After running to the corner of the street, Lin Daguan got on the patrol camp's lost horse and galloped north.
When he rushed to the Wanping County government office, he happened to meet Zhou Zhixian returning from outside.
Lin Tailai directly stopped the magistrate's sedan in the street and shouted concisely: "Lin Tailai, Wu Jieyuan of South Zhili, sued the censor Fang Wanshan for colluding with the emperor's relatives, manipulating examinations and bending the law, and he still wants to beat me!"
Zhouzhi County: "."
Is it me who is getting angry, or are you? Is it because I am not awake, or are you?
You should ask yourself, can the matter you are suing be handled by a county government?
"No!" Zhou Zhixian rejected the complaint very domineeringly. Even if the king of heaven is here, I can't approve this complaint! I love you so and so!
After being rejected, Lin Daguan didn't waste any time, got on his horse again, and galloped south again.
A moment later, Lin Tailai appeared outside the right gate of Chang'an, the imperial city. The other guys were already waiting here.
Pedestrians passing by saw a dozen big men rushing towards the Denwen Drum set up on the roadside outside the right gate of Chang'an.
Yes, this is the final bottom line of the Ming Dynasty's judiciary. You can go to the Dengwen Drum to listen to it. According to folklore, this is where the petitions for impeachment are filed.
Standing under the drum stand, Lin Daguan waved his thick arms and shouted loudly: "I have a huge grievance and the county government will not accept it. I want to beat the Dengwen drum!"
The imperial guards on duty looked at Lin Tailai in astonishment, "You guys are like this, how do you feel that you have been wronged? You are just creating injustice for others!"
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