Taking the heads to verify?
This is not good news, Zhao Dajing heart vaguely uneasy, whether those heads are Tartars, or Liu Village women and children, no one better than he knows the truth. After all, those heads were “borrowed” from Liu Village by his own troops.
At that time, he bribed the pallbearers to shave the hair of the heads into the appearance of the Tatars, but the men, women, children and old people can still be distinguished. The Tatars fought in the war, it is impossible to have women and children.
In addition, although those heads were preserved a bit dehydrated, people who knew them well could still recognise them. Not to mention, Liu Dazhou and the others were from the Liu Family Village.
The more Zhao Dajing thought about it, the more uneasy he became in his heart.
“Lord Zhang, you are the Minister of the Ministry of War, my humble servant applies to take the first rank of Zhao Dajing’s last year’s report of merit for verification of his identity.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and applied to Zhang Gu, the right minister of the Ministry of War, who was on the main trial seat in the public hall, “This is the key to this case, please order it.”
“Well, the head offered by Zhao Dajing at that time is indeed sealed in the Ministry of War Treasury …….”In the public hall, Zhang Gu paused in mid-sentence, and then continued, “However, these heads are not under the jurisdiction of this official’s duties.”
Zhang Gu did not agree, nor did he reject, but left Zhu Pingan hanging there. This was a commonly used pushing technique in the officialdom, you push me, I push him, one push, three, two, five, and the matter is yellowed. Zhang Gu obviously knew this well.
“My humble servant applies for the public hall to examine the head, this is the duty of the public hall.”
Zhu Pingan once again arched his hand and insisted, I don’t care if your duty jurisdiction, “Daming Law” says very clearly, the parties apply for the public hall to retrieve the evidence, the public hall should be ex officio retrieval.
“This ……”Zhang Gu is a little difficult.
In the hall when Zhang Gu was in a difficult situation, Yan Shifan in the gallery was a slight smile on his face, lowered his head and whispered a few words with Zhao Qiu beside him, and then saw Zhao Qiu nodded repeatedly, swept Zhu Pingan with his afterglow, and the corner of his mouth hooked up with a sinister smile.
“The Treasury of the Ministry of Justice is under the jurisdiction of this official, since Zhu Pingan you want to inspect the head, then this official will satisfy you. With this seal, you can go to the Ministry of War’s Prefectural Treasury, look through the thin books, and fetch the heads for identification.”
Zhao Qiu got up and took out a seal from his waist, casually handing it over to the officer standing by the side, who would pass it to the main trial seat in the public hall.
Uncle?
Zhao Dajing turned to Zhao Qiu with some urgency at the words, but saw Zhao Qiu give him a look of calmness.
Instantly, Zhao Dajing was enlightened and realised.
Yes, what do I have to worry about? The treasury where the heads are located is under my uncle’s control, so it would be easy to change the prince into a cat and mix up the eyes of a fish. Not to mention fifty-nine heads, even five hundred and ninety-nine heads, that is not just a matter of words.
After thinking about it, Zhao Daiying was also emboldened, and looked at Zhu Pingan recklessly, sneering, “If you want to check the heads, then do it. That’s right, you have to be mentally prepared, that head is not the four books and five sutras, then our scholar boy can’t be scared by the head.”
Err.
Zhu Pingan looked up at Zhao Dajing and was slightly stunned.
“In that case, then I would like to thank Sheriff Zhang for bringing someone to fetch the head.”After receiving the seal, Zhang Gu nodded and took the been order sign and the seal piece and handed it over to Constable Zhang of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, ordering him to go to the Ministry of Military Affairs to fetch the head.
“Sheriff Zhang and the others went to fetch the head, Lords, let’s also take advantage of this time to have some light meals. As the saying goes, food is the only thing that matters to the people, and if I starve you all, the Ministry of Justice can’t afford to take the responsibility. My Ministry of Justice’s meal is not as good as the jade plate delicacies and beautiful colours outside, but it is better than the large amount of food, so please go ahead.”
He Ao, the Minister of Justice, beckoned an officer to go to the main judge’s seat and whispered a few words to Wang Xueyi, then Wang Xueyi got up and said to the crowd with a smile.
“Ta-Jen Wang is joking.”
“Hearing Lord Wang say that, this stomach of mine is also really hungry, so we’ll respectfully follow your order.”
“Hehe, let’s also take this opportunity to try the Ministry of Justice’s meals, the Ministry of Justice’s butchers are famous amongst our six government offices.”
The officials present in the public hall rose in response.
Err.
Zhu Pingan ……
Thus, the crowd came to an agreement that the Ministry of Criminal Affairs’ arresting officer Zhang led the dispatchers to the Ministry of Military Affairs to fetch the heads, while everyone else would take this time to have a lunch, and then continue the hall when they were done with their meal.
The Ministry of Criminal Ministry of Butcher has long been the ingredients dealt with, waiting for the public hall to pass the instructions of the meal it, this side just reached an agreement, that side of the Ministry of Criminal Ministry of catering meals by the people with a plate of presentation, meat and vegetables, four dishes and a soup, steaming hot.
The people are not very important, ah.
Zhu Pingan stood in place, shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Just now, Zhu Pingan noticed that Zhao Qiu, the left minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, summoned the accompanying official and explained a few words, and then that official dared to rush out the door in front of Sheriff Zhang.
Needless to say, the head was definitely going to be tampered with.
There was no way, one could do nothing even if one noticed the matter, one could only watch Zhao Qiuqiu and the others turn their hands over.
Even if he followed Sheriff Zhang to the Ministry of War to get the head, he couldn’t stop Zhao Qiu and the others from tampering with it. They have plenty of ways to do it, and if you go to the Ministry of the Army with Sheriff Zhang, you will definitely have to go through some formalities, and this is enough time for them to do it.
However, this was something that he himself had considered before, so let’s hope that the historical records are not wrong.
“What’s wrong Lord Zhu, why aren’t you eating?”
While Zhu Pingan was frozen in his tracks, Zhao Dajing on the side table waddled over with a chicken leg in his hand, gnawed hard on it in front of Zhu Pingan, and sneered as he chewed.
Laughing so happily, eating so soundly ……But you are too happy too soon.
Zhu Pingan raised his head, swept him a glance, and faintly returned, “Lord Zhao, are you riding a horse backwards?”
Grass!
Again! You wait for Zhu Ping An, there will be time for you to cry after dinner!
Zhao Da Ying’s face instantly darkened, the smile on his face stiffened, and the chicken in his mouth instantly became lacklustre! Glaring hard at Zhu Pingan, his eyes were filled with indignation.
He came here on a happy occasion, but returned home defeated.
This was Zhao Dajing’s mentality at the moment. Zhao Dajing wanted to taunt Zhu Pingan, but he met with a rebuff and returned to his table resentfully.
At lunch, each table had four dishes and one soup, four or five officials shared a table, Yan Party members, Li Party members, neutral members, always shared a table, Zhu Pingan was the exception, other officials out of such and such considerations and concerns, no one came over to share a table with Zhu Pingan.
Thus, Zhu Pingan was all alone, occupying a table by himself, enjoying four dishes and one soup all by himself.
“There’s no one. Just in time, Big Dagger you guys are blessed, come over and eat together. The table is a bit small, you can sit down even if you squeeze.”
Zhu Pingan looked at the table alone and smiled slightly, then beckoned Liu Mu and Liu Dagger to come over and greeted them to sit at the table together and share the meal.
Liu Mu and Liu Dazhou were not officials, and the Ministry of Justice’s mess hall only gave them two steamed buns each. This is good, no need to dry gnaw on the steamed buns.
