"Li Jinglong is not good at this. His temperament is too exaggerated. How can you do things with your words? You have to be steady as a person. Even though he is so comfortable now, sooner or later, he will be in trouble!"
Hu Guan was thinking as he walked on the horse, "You still have to walk the right path when doing things, be down-to-earth and steady, don't let others take advantage of you, but don't be afraid of trouble. If you stand upright, it doesn't matter whether others look down on you or not! You look down on me.
, I still fucking look down upon you!"
Thinking in his mind, he was approaching the gate of Zhenfu Division. He inadvertently raised his head on horseback, but was suddenly stunned.
A man opposite him was also looking at him blankly on horseback.
"Prince-in-law, aren't you out for a horse ride in the city?" Li Jinglong said with a hint of teasing.
Hu Guan's face turned red, "Um...that..." He said, looking at the gate of Zhenfusi, "Cao Guogong came to Zhenfusi?"
"I have the job of co-organizing the minister's errand! That's it..." Li Jinglong said, making a five sign and smiling, "Prince-in-law, isn't it the same for you to come here...?"
As they were talking, He Guangyi, commander of the Jinyi Guards, strode out with his men.
"Lao He!" Li Jinglong laughed.
He Guangyi nodded to him and walked towards Hu Guan under Li Jinglong's surprised gaze.
"He Guangyi, a humble official, has met the Prince Consort!"
"Don't!" Hu Guan quickly jumped off the horse and helped the other party up, "What's wrong with a humble position? Your official is older than me!"
"The Prince Consort is joking!" He Guangyi smiled, raised his hands and said seriously, "The decree from the palace has been sent over, and Xin Yushi and others were still interfering just now. It just so happened that there were criminals escorted from the Central Plains today, and they were about to
Open trial!"
"What should you do? I'm just a spectator!" Hu Guan said with a smile.
"Prince-in-law, please come inside!" He Guangyi slightly turned sideways and asked someone to lead him in.
Li Jinglong was stunned when he saw this scene. After waiting for others to enter, he pulled He Guangyi and said, "What's going on?"
"The emperor appointed the consort as the supervisor!" He Guangyi looked at him, "Don't you know?"
"I...I didn't enter the palace today!" Li Jinglong fell into deep thought.
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"First it was the commander of the capital guards, then Guanglu Temple, and now the supervisor!"
Li Jinglong began to wonder in his mind, "Just like a thirty-year-old prince-in-law who is still hanging around as a guard, suddenly the Holy Family is prosperous?"
"His elm head, what is the emperor using it for?"
"Well, no matter why, he has caught the emperor's eye now, and there is no harm in establishing a good relationship with him in the future! It will be a hundred days after his son is full moon, and we will prepare a generous gift then!"
Thinking in his mind, he sighed again, "Hey, they say I love money, what can I do? There are gods in this capital, and all the people who take out favors and gifts all year round are gone to hell!"
With my mind racing with thoughts, I entered the room where the prisoners were being interrogated.
In the room, Bao Zhao acted like someone owed him two hundred dollars. He sat at the top without squinting. He Guangyi sat at the bottom of him and nodded slightly at Li Jinglong.
Xin Yande seemed to have a grudge against someone and was competing with himself with a straight face.
Hu Guan sat at the back, in an inconspicuous corner.
Li Jinglong looked at them and took the initiative to walk to the corner and sit down next to Hu Guan.
"It's so cold today, Prince Consort!" Li Jinglong rubbed his hands and whispered.
"There is a warm charcoal pot in front, let's go and grill it!" Hu Guan said with a smile.
"After listening for a while, are you looking for a place to have a drink?" Li Jinglong said again, "The food at Hongfu Restaurant is good, serious Shandong cuisine."
Hu Guan blinked, "The food in your house is so good, why do you still go out to eat?"
"Look what you said, no matter how good the food at home is, you will always get tired of it!" Li Jinglong laughed evilly.
For a long time, Hu Guan didn't say anything, just one word, "Oh!"
"Damn you..." Li Jinglong cursed in his heart. Hu Guan's words in reply to him could make people choke to death. He is now treating Hu Guan like a dog biting a bastard, and he can't find the answer.
The other party seemed not to give him a chance to get close at all.
Just as he was about to say something else, he suddenly saw Bao Zhao and Xin Yande in front of him turning back at the same time and looking at him seriously.
That means, what are you muttering about over there?
Later, Zhang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, came in, looked at everyone, and said, "Everyone, I won't go into details about the rules. After interrogating the criminal and confirming that the confession is correct, we will sign and stamp it. Then we will make two copies, and they will be sealed by Cao Guogong and Hu Huma.
!”
After saying that, he also sat down, and then said, "Bring someone to commit the crime!"
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Not long after he finished speaking, a shivering official with disheveled hair and single clothes was dragged in from the outside by a guard in uniform.
This man had frostbite on his face and hands. He must have suffered a lot from being escorted all the way.
"Kneel down..." Jin Yiwei kicked the prisoner's leg and fell to the ground with a plop.
After lying down, the marks of whipping on his back were clearly visible, and his clothes had even stuck to his flesh in some places, which was shocking.
"The men of Jinyiwei used lynching on the way to escort the prisoner!" Hu Guan secretly noted in his mind.
After the prisoner fell down, he couldn't help but tremble on the ground. He struggled several times and didn't stand up.
No one spoke in the room, Hu Guan observed the expressions of the people around him.
He Guangyi was indifferent, Zhang Ming was intolerant, Bao Zhao was angry and refused to argue, and Li Jinglong had nothing to do with him. Xin Yande wanted to speak but did not speak, because he had the lowest rank among these people.
"The interrogation is not like this. Before I came, the emperor asked me to supervise and see if any good people were wronged. It is inappropriate to use torture without waiting for the trial. The emperor asked me to supervise, so I will do it.
Responsibilities of Supervision.”
Thinking of this, Hu Guan said in the surprised eyes of everyone, "Um...can you get him a stool and let him sit and talk!"
He Guangyi turned his head slightly and smiled at Hu Guan, then nodded towards the Jin Yiwei at the door.
A stool was brought over, the prison officer sat down weakly, and said hoarsely, "Thank you..."
"Give him some hot water!" Hu Guan continued, "He's like this now. It's hard to speak and it's hard to ask!"
"Why do you care about this?" Li Jinglong hurriedly said into his ear.
"Since the Emperor has asked me to supervise him, that is my duty!" Hu looked at the crowd, "He was escorted from the Central Plains. Whether he has been convicted of a crime or not, there is no need for us to retry him if he is."
"Besides, the trial should look like a trial. It's a bit inappropriate to directly punish these and this and this." Hu Guan continued, "Even if he has to be tortured, it's because he is quibbling or his words are not practical.
"
After saying that, he paused and said, "I am not a good person. If I am an imperial offender, the emperor will definitely ask about it in the future. When the emperor asks about it, he will change his story and say that he was beaten into submission. I and you all are responsible!"
"There is also something wrong. He is now a prisoner being escorted, but there is no imperial decree to deprive him of his official status. Like me and all of you, he is a minister of the Ming Dynasty. How can we let him kneel before us? He
You can only kneel to the Lord Long Live!"
These words are quite surprising.
He Guangyi showed no expression. In his opinion, the prisoner just wanted to be beaten.
As for Zhang Yan and Xin Yande, they all showed approval even when Bao Zhao was in trouble, and it was rare for them to nod in good faith towards him, the consort of a foreign relative.
"What the Prince Consort said is true!" Li Jinglong also said, "The criminal must be convicted whether he is killed or beheaded." After saying that, he smiled at Hu Guan and said, "The Prince Consort is a generous man!"
~
The prisoner drank some hot water and seemed to feel much better, and his eyes gradually became more alive.
"Are you Zhang Xu, the prefect of Xuchang?" He Guangyi asked.
"That's the official!" Zhang Xu said and coughed a few times.
"The rice, grains, wheat and beans collected from grain dealers in seven large warehouses in Xuchang's official warehouses are either moldy or mixed with sand and gravel, and the account expenditures are seriously inconsistent with the actual grain storage. What do you say?" Bao Zhao also asked.
.
Zhang Xu's lips moved, and his nervousness was palpable.
"I advise you to say whatever you have to say. There will be no innocent people if you enter this place!" He Guangyi said, "Now I give you a chance to speak up. If you don't speak up, you will be punished when you are punished."
You know what life is worse than death!"
"Xiaguan..." Zhang Xu said with a bit of cry, "It was people from the Zhou Palace who found Xiaguan and asked him to take care of the grain merchant they designated."
"Who would have thought that those businessmen were so bold that they united with the petty officials in the official warehouses to pass off the inferior grain as good and the bad grain as first-class goods, and then the carts went in through the east gate and out through the west gate. A cart was weighed three times."
"Xiaoguan didn't know at all at the time. He only found out after inspecting the official warehouse..."
"Who from Prince Zhou's Mansion is looking for you? Who is the grain merchant he introduced?" He Guangyi asked.
"He is King Zhou's nanny... I am just a magistrate, how dare I offend..."
Bao Zhao said, "Why don't we bring up Brother Zhou Wang and confront them face to face!"
"This..." He Guangyi paused, looked at Li Jinglong, and then said in a low voice, "That man was tortured too hard and he couldn't bear it anymore and died!"
"Dead?" Bao Zhao was furious, "How could such an important criminal die?"