Slow.”
Zhu Pingan’s cry of the word slow was not very loud, but that crowing tone was exceptionally striking, easily catching the ears of the crowd.
The corners of Zhao Dajing’s mouth that had curled up withered in an instant.
Wang Xueyi in the public hall heard the word slow and subconsciously looked to Yan Shifan in the gallery, lest it was this master who shouted again. After the discovery of this master’s mouth corner no traces of curling up, Wang Xueyi only breathed a sigh of relief, not you shouted on the good.
Next, Wang Xueyi realised that the source of the voice was Zhu Pingan who was standing under the public hall.
“Zhu Pingan, what do you mean? Are you displeased with your lordship?”
Seeing that Zhu Pingan had called off the errand boy, Zhao Dajing couldn’t help but loudly question Zhu Pingan, and in the process, he gave Zhu Pingan the hat of being dissatisfied with the ruling of the public hall.
“No.”
Zhu Pingan was as careful with his words as gold, and said the word no with a slight smile on the corner of his lips.
Another smile!
Zhu Pingan’s smile was incomparably harsh in Zhao Dajing’s eyes, and his heart was inexplicably annoyed, wanting to kick him in the face a few times!
“No? Then why did you stop your lord’s order from being signed?”Zhao Dajing sneered, clinging to the fact that Zhu Pingan had prevented Wang Xueyi from signing the order, using the situation to press people.
Zhu Pingan looked at Zhao Dajing and smiled faintly, ignoring him, then turned towards the main trial seat of the public hall and bowed longingly, rising to explain, “Lord Wang please calm your anger, my humble servant asked your lordship to pass on Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, Liu Dahammer, and the six of them are here to testify, and if they were to be put in a prison, how would they be able to testify. Also please think twice, my lord.”
“Testify?”Wang Xueyi shook his head and laughed, “What qualifications do they have to testify, just now this hall has already said, they were not there, they did not witness it, and they did not hear about it, so what qualifications do they have to testify. Such a tease this hall, not detained in the prison as a warning to others, is not a laughing stock.”
“That’s right, not even present at the scene, what qualifications do they have to testify. If they can all testify, then I’ll apply to testify as well. I’ll testify that Ta-Jen Zhao was meritorious in killing the enemy and didn’t kill Liang and risk his life at all.”
“That’s right, Zhu Pingan is so young, but he’s a master at telling lies with his eyes open.”
“Perjury, teasing the public court, if we don’t escort them to the prison, we are not convinced.”
“That’s right, we’re not convinced.”
Under the public hall, Zhao Dajing’s group of officials, led by the military officials, began to rise up to denounce Zhu Pingan and pressurise the public hall, prompting the public hall to escort all of the witnesses that Zhu Pingan had called into the prison. If they succeeded, then Zhu Pingan would be a complete failure this time, even the witnesses were gone, what waves could he make.
In their opinion, their claims couldn’t be more reasonable.
Think about it, the public hall on the Lord Wang said how clear ah, Liu Dazhou them a few mud legs, and not on the scene, do what witnesses? Listen to you guys talking in your sleep? This is not funny, this is clearly ignoring the seriousness of the public court, should be escorted to the jail, to perjury, false accusations.
“Oh, Your Honour is joking. Not being there, not having ears to hear and see, you can’t testify?”
Zhu Pingan sniffed, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned as he smiled and shook his head.
Ah.
What?
Zhu Pingan you’re stupid, how can they testify if they are not present, when we are stupid ah!
The crowd in the public hall looked at Zhu Pingan and shook their heads, thinking that Zhu Pingan’s words were too childish.
“Zhu Pingan, do you know what you are saying? Do you have any common sense? How can you testify without being there?”
A military official under the public hall got up and looked at Zhu Pingan questioningly with contempt as if he was looking at a fool.
“Zhu Pingan, how can they testify if they weren’t there?”The presiding judge, Wang Xueyi, shook his head and gave a cold smile as he asked rhetorically.
Let’s see how you can explain?
Lord Zhao and the others stared at Zhu Pingan with burning eyes, waiting to see Zhu Pingan’s jokes, a clever woman can’t cook without rice, even if Zhu Pingan his tongue is brilliant, can he still turn black and white upside down.
“Just now the adults have already checked the identity, Liu Mu, Liu Dazhou, Liu Dahammer and their six people are the people of Liu Family Village at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain, that is, the village that was victimised in the impeachment of Zhao Dajing for killing Liang and risking his life. Admittedly, they were not present at the scene, nor did they witness or hear of Zhao Dajing’s killing of Liang and taking advantage of his merits, but the chiefs that Zhao Dajing claimed credit for on that day were villagers of Liu Jia Village, that is, Liu Dajing’s family members as well as the townspeople and elders. This official invited Liu Mu, Liu Dagger and the six of them to come here in order to distinguish whether the heads that Zhao Dae Eung offered on that day were the villagers of Liu Jia Village, that is, Liu Dagger and their families and townspeople.”
“So whether or not Liu Mu and Liu Da Dao were present at the scene, whether or not they heard and witnessed it, it doesn’t affect their testimony.”
Zhu Pingan stood at the bottom of the hall and explained in a deep voice, his eyes were sharp and not overbearing, the blazing midday sun shone on him, reflecting a righteousness, he was not tall in stature, but he gave a kind of strong force that looked down on heaven and earth.
No wonder!
The original is to check the head!
Wan Gong and Wang Guan, the presiding judge in the public hall, looked at each other, exchanged silent words, and slowly nodded their heads.
Indeed, regardless of whether Liu Mu and the others were present at the scene or not, their identity as Liu Jia Village people would not change, and this had already been verified from their road guides as well as the yellow book of household registers when they had just been identified. A village is just that many people, since they are Liu Family Village people, then naturally they can recognise the Liu Family Village people’s head.
“Heh heh heh, identify the heads? It has been more than half a year since this official seized the heads and surrendered them, what kind of heads can be put away for half a year?”
Zhao Da Ying sniffed and scoffed at this.
“That’s right, half a year has passed, it has long since rotted.”
“The human head is not a valuable thing, either buried, or burned, who still give you as a treasure to put ah.”
“Can you still recognise bones?”
The group of military officials under the hall followed suit and scoffed.
Facing the ridicule of Zhao Dajing and the military officials, Zhu Pingan’s face remained unchanged, with his hands behind his back, he slowly said word by word: “Chapter 3 of the Armament Regulations, Section 117: The military honours must be based on the decapitation of the head, the cover decapitation of the head has a factual basis, and is not allowed to be used indiscriminately. When the first and other strange achievements are not real, easy to fraudulent, therefore, whenever the beheading of the enemy to report the merit, must be the head of the merit. Into the offering of the head, when the grass ash, lime pickle storage, sealed by the Ministry of war for more than a year, the following year to the temple in the autumn and then burned and buried.”
“The Reward Regulations issued by His Majesty also stipulate that the reward shall be based on the first rank.”
“In addition, this official has also checked Lord Zhao’s reward document from last year, and there is a record on it that the fifty-nine heads that Lord Zhao presented last year are sealed and stored in the Arsenal Division of the Ministry of Military Affairs. The Ministry of War is only a hundred paces away from the Ministry of Justice, so you can walk back and forth in a matter of tea time. It wouldn’t take much time to retrieve the heads.”
Zhu Pingan quoted from the scriptures, said with evidence, according to the rules and documents, Zhao Dajing last year’s head is still sealed in the Ministry of War’s arsenal division.
What?
Upon hearing this, Zhao Dajing was stunned, his heart was vaguely uneasy, and his two eyebrows were twisted into a lump and locked together.
