Chapter 344: People are doing it, God is watching! (1)
Huo Shilang held another breath in his chest, and it took him a long time to slowly let it out.
He didn't believe it. The faster you dance, the faster you die. This has been a truth in the world since ancient times. You, Qin Dewei, can jump out of the three realms and not be in the five elements!
Even novels must adhere to the logic of "it's not that I won't retaliate, but the time has not come yet", let alone reality!
So just wait patiently and wait for him to commit suicide! There will always be flaws!
Huo Tao stood behind the desk with a gloomy expression. After some mental activity, he said: "Prisoner Feng En, come forward and listen!"
Feng En cocked his neck, facing east and west, and stood face to face with the officials who were participating in the court battle.
Huo Tao felt unhappy and shouted: "Everyone is here to judge the case on behalf of Heaven, but the criminal still doesn't kneel down!"
Feng En glanced at the crowd and saw Wang Hong, the official minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and several people he had impeached.
He sneered and said: "There is a traitor among you, how can you kneel in front of you and rape someone!"
Qin Dewei quickly pushed Feng En and asked Master Feng to turn ninety degrees, from facing west to facing north.
Then what Feng En saw before his eyes was the Sanchi Altar where the imperial edict was enshrined and the majestic Chengtian Gate.
Qin Dewei pointed to the Northern Palace and said to Feng En: "Master Feng refuses to kneel down and commit evil. I can understand this.
But as an imperial prisoner, it’s not easy for you to stand and listen to the trial. After all, the ministers are here to interrogate on behalf of the emperor, so it’s okay to have you kneel facing north, right?”
Feng En felt that what he said made sense, so he knelt down facing north. The officials who joined the court could only see Feng En's profile.
Qin Dewei turned around again, clapped his hands and said to Huo Tao: "Okay, okay, this etiquette problem has been solved. He kneels on his side, and we talk about ours."
Everyone: "......"
Children, Feng En is the real protagonist and protagonist, right?
Dai Yong, the eunuch and eunuch in charge of etiquette, was impatient again. These civil servants were doing a lot of nonsense, so he urged: "Can you hurry up?"
Huo Tao, who was holding his pen, spoke up and said: "The Great Ming Code, decreed by Emperor Gao, states that those who write to the ministers to be virtuous will be punished with the crime of traitor to the Party and shall be punished with death!"
In Feng En's memorial, there are praises for many people. The situation is true and he should be executed according to the law!"
After hearing this, Qin Dewei thought deeply. There was indeed this clause in the laws of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the laws of the past dynasties, it was considered to be a very unique clause of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang carried out a massacre of Hu Weiyong and other powerful ministers, and he was still worried that powerful ministers would usurp the throne of the old Zhu family in the future, so he inserted such a nondescript clause in the Ming Dynasty Law.
But Huo Tao's words are not so much for interrogating the criminals as they are for the other ministers to listen to - I have shown my cards, and you other players can take care of it.
Everyone had different thoughts after hearing this. Do you, Huo Tao, really go all out and follow the emperor's wishes and kill people?
It's just that you screamed so loudly when you came up. I really can't figure out your details, so it's a bit hard to open my mouth.
Huo Tao looked at Xia Yan without looking at anyone else, and directly asked by name: "What do you think of Xia Guizhou?"
Because of his position, Master Xia had difficulty opening his mouth and could not answer directly.
Because every statement he makes may reach the ears of the emperor. The emperor may not pay attention to what others say, but he definitely cares about what he says.
"Hahahaha!" A hearty laugh came from the other side of the venue.
Everyone skillfully adjusted their vision and quickly looked towards Qin Dewei. Here it comes again, here it comes again!
The laughter gradually fell silent, and Qin Dewei suddenly got stuck. He didn't know how to continue speaking, and was a little embarrassed.
Feng En, who was kneeling facing north, suddenly turned his head and said, "Why are you laughing?" and then continued to kneel respectfully facing north.
Only then did Qin Dewei continue, "I laugh at how Huo Shilang, a dignified official, is so unfamiliar with the law!"
Huo Tao responded in a non-yin and yang manner: "I am an official of the Ministry of Personnel, not a criminal officer of the Department of Justice. So what if I am not proficient in the law? What's so funny about it?"
Qin Dewei: "..."
Everyone was surprised, Huo Tao, you adapted very quickly? Now you can pick up the conversation back and forth?
Qin Dewei was also surprised. He felt that Huo Tao's opponent seemed to be very different and tolerant. If it had been anyone else, he would have lifted the table and started to attack, right?
Forget it, stop talking nonsense and show your professionalism!
Thinking of this, Qin Dewei put away the cross talk stall and entered professional sage mode.
He replied seriously with a straight face: "As a respondent on my behalf, Wan Sheng has two opinions to say about Mr. Huo's remarks.
The first point is that Master Feng's memorial was not specifically designed to praise ministers, but was intended to bring praise and disgrace.
According to Wan Sheng's statistics, this memorial mentioned that the ministers included four bachelors and eighteen officials of the six departments, a total of twenty-two.
Among them, seven people were demoted, six people were praised, and the remaining evaluations were neutral. Generally speaking, it was almost evenly divided between praise and blame."
Every time he thinks of Master Feng's memorial, Qin Dewei can't help but complain. In his opinion, this memorial can be called an unprecedented piece of writing.
The key point is that Mr. Feng himself wrote it very well, which shocked the courtiers. I have never seen such a refreshing memorial.
I don’t know if there will be others in the future, but it is certainly unprecedented, and this is not how criticism and self-criticism are done...
Of course, Qin Dewei, as a lawyer, still has to defend himself, “So the nature of the memorial is not to write a letter to the minister for his good governance.
The second point is to talk about the crime of traitor to the party. In Mr. Feng’s memorial, there are almost ten people who were praised or slightly praised.
Is it possible that nearly half of the cabinet ministers are Feng En's traitors? I dare to ask Mr. Huo, if you want to use this to convict the traitors, is it possible to create a trap to implicate him? "
Hearing this, everyone looked at Huo Tao a little strangely.
People who live in temples would rather think more than less when something happens. They would rather believe what they have than what they don't.
Could it be that Minister Huo really hides his secrets and wants to use Feng En's case to join forces and fight against differences?
Qin Dewei finally made a concluding speech: "In short, it is not a letter to praise the minister's moral governance, nor can it be called a crime of traitor to the party. It is not suitable to cite the Ming Law.
If Mr. Huo forcefully accuses me of this crime, it will be an unjust case, so please think twice when writing this."
So professional! Many people suddenly had inexplicable thoughts, should they place a deposit on Qin Dewei first?
The court was in turmoil, and Emperor Jiajing liked to live a busy life, so everyone did not feel safe.
If one day I become a prisoner, wouldn't I be able to use it?
Ting Tao felt a deep pain in Huo Tao's balls. He just proposed a capital crime, not really to execute Feng En, but to let himself escape.
His idea is this: first come up with a capital crime and discuss it, which is equivalent to raising prices in the sky.
Then others spoke, bargained, and finally decided on a sentence that was second only to the death penalty, such as being beaten with a stick and then exiled to the army for three thousand miles.
In this way, on the one hand, he could fool the emperor and say that he wanted to kill Feng En, but other ministers would not allow it. In the end, he could come up with a torture that was second only to the death penalty.
On the other hand, it can fool public opinion. The emperor insisted on killing Feng En, but he saved Feng En's life.
Unexpectedly, in Qin Dewei's words, his "all-encompassing price offer" was just like paper, and the accusation was eliminated in a few words.
If possible, Minister Huo really wanted to strangle Qin Dewei to death and throw him into the Jinshui River nearby.
Hold it back! Your real opponent is not Qin Dewei, but Xia Yan and Wang Tingxiang!
People who seek death like this will definitely have flaws! People are doing it, but God is watching!
