Chapter 200 Complaining to the Imperial Court (Part 2)
Li Zhang came to the Chuigong Hall with a familiarity. As soon as he arrived at the main hall, he saw Wang Qinruo and others, and two other officials of lower rank. One of them glared at him. Needless to ask, he knew that it must be the Shaoyin of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the other looked at him with a smile. It was probably Lu Wu's boss Wang Tixing.
"Li Zhang greets the eldest lady!" After Li Zhang came in, he immediately bowed to Liu E behind the screen.
"Why are you beating the drum in the voice?" Liu E asked straight to the point. The drum in the voice was a rule set by Emperor Taizu. As long as someone beats the drum, the emperor must deal with it. Of course, if there is nothing to do, it is also a serious crime.
"You are the one who reports to the Kaifeng Prefecture to sue Kaifeng Prefecture for corruption and abuse of power!" Li Zhang immediately said loudly without hesitation.
"Nonsense, I'm talking nonsense at such a young age. Do you know that false accusing officials is also a serious crime!" As soon as Li Zhang finished speaking, Wu Shaoyin stood up and accused him angrily. Although they did not dare to say that they were honest in their Kaifeng Prefecture, it was too unfair to say that they were careless about human lives. At least Wu Shaoyin felt that Li Zhang was slandering them.
"I'm talking nonsense?" Li Zhang sneered at this time, and then saluted Liu E again, "Grandma, I have a friend, Jin, who was convicted of being implicated by others. Now he is exiled to Qingzhou. Before he left, he entrusted his old mother and young sister to me, and his other wife, Xu, sent back to his mother's house to live. But unexpectedly, just a while ago, Xu, who was pregnant, had a corpse and two lives, was forced to have an abortion by the Xu father and son..."
Li Zhang immediately told the case between the Jin family and the Xu family, and finally said again: "The evidence of the case is complete, and the crimes of the Xu family father and son are also clear. Kaifeng Prefecture should have been sentenced after the court, but we waited for a long time, but there was no news. After I told Uncle Wu, he went to Kaifeng Prefecture to find out the news for me, but he did not expect that he was detained for no reason by the people from Kaifeng Prefecture. He also asked the aunt to uphold justice for us!"
Wu Shaoyin Yue next to him was shocked when he heard Li Zhang's words. He didn't even care about Li Zhang avoiding the important things and not talking about Lu Wu's beating people, because he really didn't know that Lu Wu went to Kaifeng Mansion because of a murder case. Since Li Zhang said that he had both personal and physical evidence, he must be sure. In other words, it is very likely that Judge Wang took advantage of this matter, so he deliberately delayed the case. After all, he knew the tricks in the mansion.
"Wu Shaoyin, is what Li Zhang said true?" After hearing Li Zhang's words, Liu E immediately asked Wu Shaoyin, and everyone also heard that Liu E's tone was a little wrong at this time, as if she was a bit depressing anger.
In fact, let alone the status of Lu Wu and Li Zhang in Liu E's mind, the case of the Jin family is so clear and it also involves two lives. However, Kaifeng Prefecture delays time in such cases. With Lu Wu's personality of jealous of evil, it is no wonder that he will have conflicts with the people in Kaifeng Prefecture.
"This..." Wu Shaoyin was also sweating coldly at this time. After hesitating for a moment, he finally spoke, "Report to the Empress Dowager, I... I am not strict in the control of the emperor, I really don't know about this matter!"
Wu Shaoyin finally began to retreat and drew a line between himself and Judge Wang, because he no longer had confidence in Judge Wang. After all, he knew that his subordinate had always had poor reputations and he could do such things as accepting bribes, so he didn't want to be implicated as well.
"Hmph! Xuan Dali Temple Minister, investigate this case strictly!" Liu E immediately snorted coldly and spoke again. This case had already involved Kaifeng Prefecture and the Examination Department, so it must not be handed over to them for trial, so it could only be handed over to another trial agency, Dali Temple. Moreover, Liu E's intention was to examine the matter of Judge Wang clearly, which made Wu Shaoyin next to him frightened and sweated.
After a while, the Dali Temple Minister also arrived here. Liu E then ordered him to take over the Jin family's case, and even the judge Wang investigated it. Of course, the Dali Temple Minister did not dare to neglect it. In fact, the temple minister was a little happy because in the past, the Dali Temple and Kaifeng Prefecture and the Execution Department had overlapping powers and were not subordinate to each other. However, this time, the Dali Temple was going to suppress the two yamen.
After the matter was handled, Dali Temple Minister Wu Shaoyin and Wang Tixing left together. They were going to Kaifeng Prefecture to hand over the case. Wang Tixing also wanted to meet Lu Wu so that he would not hurt others again. Li Zhang originally wanted to go to see Lu Wu with him, but at this time Liu E kept him.
"Nothing, who asked you to beat the drum!" After Liu E asked the others to retreat, she immediately walked out from behind the screen and knocked on Li Zhang's forehead and said angrily, because she felt that Li Zhang was too nonsense and made such a big deal. If he hadn't had the exact evidence, it would have been difficult to deal with.
"I can't blame me for this. It's obviously because of their Kaifeng Mansion that bullying people too much, and I'm worried about Uncle Wu's safety. When I entered the palace, I saw Dengwengu, and my mind was hot, I went to beat him." Li Zhang said with a grievance at this time. Of course, he didn't tell the truth, otherwise if Liu E knew that he was deliberately making things worse, there would definitely be no good results.
However, Liu E is not that easy to deceive. She glared at Li Zhang at the moment, as if her thoughts had been seen through by her. However, Liu E didn't say anything else, but said again: "It's cold now, so you don't have to worry about potatoes. There are Hu Yan Shouxin and Liu Shu on the side of the musket. Don't rush back during this period. Come to the palace to accompany Zhen'er more. He seems to have some worries during this period!"
Li Zhang was stunned when he heard this, but he agreed immediately, but he was a little confused at this time. Zhao Zhen stayed in the palace every day, and except for no one to accompany him, what else could he have? And judging from Liu E's appearance, Zhao Zhen was probably not just some of his thoughts.
It took only one day for the Dali Temple to examine the entire case. The Xu father and son forced an abortion, resulting in a corpse and two lives. They were sentenced to eighty rods and exiled for three years. As for the matter of Judge Wang, they were also investigated. He accepted bribes from the Xu family, deliberately delayed the case, and even wanted to help the Xu family's father and son overturn the case. As a result, he was arrested and finally sentenced to demotion to another place, saying that he was demoted, but in fact it was similar to exile. It is said that in the Lingnan area, he probably wouldn't think of going back to the capital.
The reason why Lu Wu beat Judge Wang was not only because the other party accepted bribes, but also wanted Lu Wu to join him, which angered Lu Wu. However, even so, Lu Wu took action first, so he was fined for one year's salary, and this was fair.
However, although the Xu family father and son were punished as they deserved, Xu could not be resurrected, especially the fetus in her womb, which was the blood left by the Jin family after a long time. Unfortunately, it was gone now. This caused a very serious blow to Mrs. Jin and her hair turned white all of a sudden.
Li Zhang was powerless to do anything about Mrs. Jin's situation, so he could only ask Xiaomei Jin to persuade her as much as possible, but Mrs. Jin couldn't listen to it anyway. Instead, she fell seriously ill soon after. If it weren't for Xiaomei Jin's careful care, Mrs. Jin might not be able to get through it.
In addition to the affairs of the Jin family, Li Zhang often entered the palace during this period. At the beginning, Zhao Zhen was also very happy, but gradually Li Zhang also found that Zhao Zhen seemed to have some worries, but he seemed a little worried, and even Li Zhang refused to say it, and Li Zhang did not force him to ask, because he knew that if Zhao Zhen was willing to say it, he would tell him sooner or later.
Time passed quickly, and the first winter after Zhao Heng passed away soon, but before the New Year, there was another very important thing, that is, the first year number used after Zhao Zhen ascended the throne. Because Zhao Heng passed away this year, the last year of Zhao Heng was still used, that is, the first year of Ganxing, and will be changed to Zhao Zhen's year next year.
Since Emperor Wu of Han founded the reign title, each emperor would use his own reign title when ascending the throne, and when encountering major events, he would also change the reign title. Therefore, when an emperor reigns, there are usually multiple reign titles. The last one is Emperor Gaozong of Tang, who used fourteen reign titles during his reign, while Zhao Heng used five reign titles, and the last one was Qianyuan. Unfortunately, Zhao Heng died after only one year of use.
Chapter completed!