Xin Yi was not polite to Fu Jiuqu. She was so cold that her nose was about to freeze, so she took the cloak and wrapped it around her body.

However, Fu Jiuqu is too tall, and this cloak looks cool on him. When it is on her, it is like a child stealing an adult's clothes.

"Ah...ah sneeze!"

The two people talked quietly in a low voice as if nothing had happened, as if they had forgotten all the people on the street. This action directly caused the Royal Street to be silent for a long time.

"It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous. A prisoner wearing a prison uniform actually puts on the clothes of a county king. Isn't this a joke for the people?"

Zhang Yaozhuo couldn't wait to jump up and encourage the emperor, and kept fanning the flames. He must take this opportunity to force Zhao Guan's family to deal with Fu Jiuqu.

"Guan family." Cao Yi walked over from the side and saluted Zhao Zhen, "I have something to say."

Zhao Zhen had a headache, "What do you want to say again?"

Cao Yi glanced across the street with a cold gaze, "Although Prince Guangling did something wrong, the reason was that Mr. Zhang allowed his subordinates to kill people in the street. This aroused Prince Guangling's anger and complained about Zhang Du Yuhou."

Zhao Zhen's brows moved but he said nothing.

Cao Yi continued: "Wei Chen believes that there is a sequence of events, and the severity of the crime. If Master Zhang hadn't killed the person first, the king of Guangling County would not have been angry. Then, in a moment of righteous indignation during the arrest, he chopped down the prison car, which led to this.

It’s a farce. When it comes to the seriousness of the crime, it’s natural that Mr. Zhang is the most serious and the Prince of Guangling County is the least.”

"Really?" Zhao Zhen looked sideways.

Everyone could tell that Cao Yi's statement directly denied Fu Jiuqu's subjective intention to rob the prisoner, and directly changed it into saying that Fu Jiuqu was aroused by Zhang Yaozhuo in the process of upholding justice and arresting the murderer.

Only then did he accidentally chop up the prison car. There was never any mention of robbing prisoners...

Xin Yi suddenly felt that Cao Yi was extremely tall and powerful, and cast a grateful look at him.

Zhang Yaozhuo was so angry that his teeth were burning and he immediately started arguing.

Zhao Zhen's head was pounding when he heard what you said to me.

"You guys are more talkative than the others."

The courtiers criticized each other, and the most difficult thing was for him, the emperor.

Suddenly, Zhao Zhen became angry.

"Look, what do you look like? You, the official who knows the Kaifeng Mansion, is in charge of the capital, and the parent of the people in Bianjing, are rolling on the ground in front of the people, with your hair falling to the ground, and you are as embarrassed as a dog.

You, the Prince of Guangling County, my direct nephew, the palace guard, and the emperor's close minister, are in charge of the defense of my imperial city. You can make the decision on all matters big and small. You are the closest person to me.

The heads have been handed over to you, look at you, what have you done? Outside Xuandemen, on the Royal Street, riding horses in the street to rob people..."

Silence everywhere.

Zhao Guanjia is a kind and gentle emperor. Even people who have been officials for many years rarely see him get so angry.

Not to mention that, after Zhao Zhen scolded Zhang Yaozhuo and Fu Jiuqu, he suddenly turned his head and looked at Cao Yi.

"And you, the deputy commander of the front department, my brother-in-law, a fourth-rank official in the current dynasty, commanding all the squads, infantry, and cavalry commanders in the front department, you have great power and power, and you can shake things up in the Forbidden Army... You tell me

I, what do you want to do when you come with so many forbidden troops today?"

"You guys, which one of you is not someone I trust, which one is not my important minister? I promised you high officials and generous salaries, and entrusted the Song Dynasty to your hands and the welfare of the people. How did you repay me?"

"You are now like the vultures hovering in the sky, fighting for heads, territory, and fame and fortune. You only have your tribe and the people you care about in your mind. You all want to carve out a piece of my heart and chew it into your heart.

In your eyes, do you still have me, the Song Dynasty, and the people of the Song Dynasty?"

"Look at the people on this long street, they are all looking at you!"

Zhao Zhen stood on the imperial chariot, raised his bright yellow sleeves and danced high.

The dark crowd on the imperial street was silent.

"I know that all of you are not satisfied with me, and you all have complaints. This one asks me to do this, and the other asks me to do that. You don't want me to do anything I want to do. I can't satisfy you no matter what. Yes,

I am not the Great Ancestor and Taizong. I have no great achievements and no ability to expand the territory. I cannot control you. In your eyes, I am just a foolish and incompetent emperor."

"But, I want to tell you today, what I pretend to be is the Song Dynasty, and what I want to protect is the foundation of my ancestors. I can't expand the territory, and I can't create peace for all generations. I just want to have a good and good peace.

My ministers and servants will work together to protect this fertile land so that the people of the Song Dynasty can live a good life, with meat to eat and clothing to wear, and three meals a day without worrying about food and clothing for all seasons..."

"I hate it. I hate you for forming cliques, fighting against each other, criticizing each other, excluding dissidents, and participating in this and that in front of me all day long. That's enough! I've heard enough!"

The emperor's anger can bring peace to mountains and rivers.

For a time, dark clouds accumulated, blocking the blazing sunshine.

The howling north wind swept through the Royal Street, hovering above the head, invading the muscles and bones, as if there was a biting murderous aura gathering.

The people held their breath and remained motionless.

The officials tucked their tails between their legs and did not dare to express their anger.

Xin Yi suddenly felt like he was watching a blockbuster movie.

"The official family." The servant stepped forward carefully and supported Zhao Zhen: "It's windy outside, the official family will go back to the chariot..."

Zhao Zhen shook off his sleeves.

He had been holding these words in his heart for too long, and when he shouted them out and cursed them, he felt a little happy despite the heaviness.

It was yelled and scolded happily!

"You guys think about it for me, think about it, how I should punish you today, how I should punish you!"

"The officials, the officials, and the officials are guilty." Zhang Yaozhuo wiped his face with his sleeves and began to kneel on the ground and cry miserably.

Zhao Zhen ignored him and glanced past everyone, finally landing on Fu Jiuqu's face.

"Tell me how I should punish you."

Fu Jiuqu raised his head slightly and met Zhao Zhen's eyes in the air.

Zhao Zhen's impassioned speech just now sounded like he was scolding him, but in fact he was trying to protect him. Zhao Zhen picked out everyone and scolded him, even himself, but invisibly weakened Fu Jiuqu.

The incident of robbing prisoners in the street turned this originally separate crime into a shared responsibility among courtiers.

Fu Jiuqu looked at Zhao Zhen's haggard face and spoke slowly.

"I accept my punishment, fifty canes, twelve butt-sticks... double execution. My sister-in-law's punishment with the cane shall be accepted by me."

There was an uproar everywhere.

Double, equivalent to one hundred sticks and twenty-four sticks.

You must know that unless the crime is extremely heinous, officials and scholars will not be raped.

The so-called butt cane refers to the execution of stripping off the pants and spanking the buttocks. This not only makes the torture stronger and more painful, but also a kind of personal humiliation for the torturer. The more severe ones are like Xin Yi, Han Dong

In the twelfth lunar month, he was taken to the street to be executed, and his butt and buttocks were spanked in full public view.

Most people cannot bear such humiliation.

It is precisely because of this that the king of Guangling County robbed prisoners and people.

Xin Yi didn't fully understand the butt cane and thought it was just a spanking, but she didn't know how. But even so, she was still shocked.

"Fu Jiuqu, you can't stand it..."

She was so confused that she even called him by his first name.

Fu Jiuqu: "Shut up!"

"..."

Zhao Zhen snorted heavily and looked at Fu Jiuqu's stubborn face, knowing that he was determined to protect the woman. But his words had already been spoken and Fu Jiuqu took the punishment on his own, so he stopped talking and turned to

And looked at Zhang Yaozhuo who was lying on the ground begging for mercy.

"What about you? How should I punish you for allowing your subordinates to commit murder on the street?"

Zhang Yaozhuo was so frightened that sweat dripped from his forehead.

He is not a martial artist, and at his age, how can he withstand such a heavy punishment like Fu Jiuqu?

"Official, official, I am an old man, I don't need a beating..."

"Ha." Zhao Zhen smiled lowly, and Zhang Yaozhuo suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, he then heard him say in a lukewarm tone: "Cane punishment without beating? Then you can choose one among apprenticeship, exile, and death penalty."

Die in vain?

He is afraid of any one of them.

If he had known that this disaster would happen to him, why would he be so aggressive?

"The official family, the official family..."

Zhang Yaozhuo made a posture of prostrating himself to the ground, his body hunched over on the ground, his shoulders shaking, and he begged for mercy while sipping his breath.

"Choose." Zhao Zhen's voice was calm, but there was no room for negotiation.

Zhang Yaozhuo knew that the officials would sacrifice him to heaven today, and no one could save him.

"I accept my punishment."

"How to punish?" Zhao Zhen asked.
To be continued...