Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Zhang Chengzong was used to being arrogant in Yangzhou city, how could he be so obedient?

I saw that although he was restrained by two yamen servants, he couldn't move his left and right shoulders, but he still refused to kneel down, his brows were rebellious, and he grinned: "Guo, don't come here. This is Yangzhou , not Chang’an, not even your hometown in Longxi, central Sichuan, you can’t scare me. Besides, I’m still the Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy. Before the Ministry of Criminal Justice convicted me, I still have official status. Why should I kneel down? "

"Hehe, it's quite horizontal!"

After Guo Ye sneered, he looked meaningfully at Chen Lang standing on the left side of the hall.

Chen Lang immediately understood, strode forward, raised his leg and swept across Zhang Chengzong's knee joint, bang!

Zhang Chengzong fell on his knees and yelled in pain: "You bastard, how dare you treat me..."

"To shut up!"

Guo Ye suddenly yelled loudly, interrupting Zhang Chengzong's wailing and wolf howling, and after casting an appreciative look at Chen Kang, he suddenly took the Shangbu handed over by Xue Hao from the desk and shook it in his hand, and shouted: " Zhang Chengzong, open your dog eyes and see what this is?"

Zhang Chengzong was no stranger to this detailed account book, his expression changed drastically and he exclaimed: "Why is this thing in your place?"

In desperation, he climbed up from the ground, and stepped forward to snatch it with his teeth and claws.

When Guo Ye saw the other party going crazy suddenly, he didn't expect it.

Chen Jitao, who was beside him, was already flustered, and shouted at the servants in the hall: "Hold it down, hold Zhang Chengzong down!"

ba da~

Two yamen servants rushed forward and pinned Zhang Chengzong to the ground again, unable to move.

Guo Ye sneered and said, "What? I didn't expect this official to get this account book, did you? Zhang Chengzong, you've been so stunned that you haven't calculated that your confidant will betray you, right? Your Zhang family and you are here all these years. When the Yanyun Yamen took office, how many tampers were made with Yangzhou's salt tax and how much tax money was withheld. Dare to move. Zhang Chengzong, I don’t want to grind my teeth with you today. I’ll ask you, do you plead guilty?”

"Where's Xue Hao? You tell Xue Hao, a dog who crawls around, to get out of here!"

Zhang Chengzong was pressed to the ground by two yamen servants, his eyes were bloodshot and red, he looked at Guo Ye in the hall, he gritted his teeth and roared almost insanely.

After Guo Ye heard it, he added: "Oh yes, the ledger is physical evidence, and Xue Hao naturally became the official's witness. There are all physical evidence, I don't think you can tolerate sophistry, right?"

As he said that, Guo Ye turned his head and looked behind the curtain on the right side. There was a table inside, and a clerk was sitting on it holding a brush and writing quickly.

Immediately, Guo Ye shouted at the clerk: "Have the confessions been drawn up? Let Zhang Chengzong sign and mark the statement when it is done."

The scribe hurriedly got up and said: "Report to the Inspector, it has been drafted, please have a look!"

Guo Ye hummed, and glanced at Chen Jitao beside him.

Chen Jitao understood, went behind the curtain, took the confession and read it carefully, and then came to the courtroom with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, squatted on the ground and shook the confession in front of Zhang Chunqiao, and said in a low voice: " Zhang Chengzong, you also have today? When you invaded my father-in-law's salt field, did you ever think about today?"

After all, Chen Jitao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, spread the confession in front of Zhang Chengzong, and pretended to shout loudly: "Zhang Chengzong, sign and draw a deposit!"

"No!"

Although Zhang Chengzong was forced to the ground and couldn't move, his head could move freely. He shook his head and shouted: "I won't sign, and I won't sign even if I die. So what if there are all witnesses and evidence? This is Yangzhou, and I am Children of the Zhang family in Yangzhou, what can you do to me?"

Seeing this, Chen Jitao immediately grabbed Zhang Chengzong's hand and dipped it in the ink of the inkstone, intending to force him to press his handprint.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chengzong couldn't live or die, and he didn't know where he got the strength to knock the inkstone over with a violent shake of his hand, spilling ink all over the floor.

Chen Jitao's clothes were also stained with ink splashes.

"It's unreasonable to be so fierce and unruly after going to court." Chen Jitao squatted on the ground, turned his head and shouted at Guo Ye, "My lord! It seems that this dog thief is going to fight to the end, what should I do?"

Guo Ye looked at the scene in the hall with a cold expression. He had expected Zhang Chengzong's performance a long time ago, but he had already had countermeasures.

Then, he waved his hand at Chen Jitao and signaled: "Chen Juncheng, step aside first, I have my own way to punish him."

Immediately afterwards, he shouted at Chen Lang in the hall: "Chen Duwei, let you hold the stick and beat him with thirty sticks. If you don't beat him to pieces, and don't break his prestige first, this person won't submit obediently." of."

Chen Lang snorted, took the stick from a yamen servant, and grinned, "Don't worry, my lord. I guarantee that the stick will reach the flesh with moderate force. It won't kill him, but it can beat him to the point where even his parents would recognize him." Not coming out. Hey, you two listen—"

Chen Lang pointed to the two yamen servants who were holding Zhang Chengzong down, and shouted: "You two took off his pants, and then held him down, so that this guy won't go crazy from the pain."

"Guo Ye, you are an outsider, how dare you hit me?"

Seeing that Guo Ye dared to torture him to extract a confession, Zhang Chengzong yelled in horror: "You dare to touch a single hair of my hair, our Zhang family will never let you go. The Zhang family will definitely not let you walk out of Yangzhou alive!"

Guo Ye raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, stared at Zhang Chengzong on the ground with a stern face, and said with a sneer, "Did you not forget to threaten me when you are about to die? I will try it today. I will see how your Zhang family will not let me go." Isn’t the Zhang family so daring that even the governor of a state dared to kill him? Chen Duwei, don’t show mercy, hit me, beat me hard, don’t stop until you hit [-] sticks! "

"Okay, Lord Inspector, look at it, bah bah!"

Chen Lang spat into the palm of his hand twice, rubbed back and forth twice, clenched the stick tightly, raised it high, and was about to swing it down at Zhang Chengzong's white butt...

"stop!"

A sharp shout slowed down Chen Lang's movements, and Chen Lang couldn't help turning his head to look at the source of the sound.

Guo Ye also looked at the crowd of onlookers in the courtroom, and shouted majesticly: "Who doesn't care about life and death, dare to roar in the courtroom?"

"it's me!"

An old man with a gloomy face squeezed out from the crowd, walked into the courtroom and came to Zhang Chengzong, and shouted at Guo Ye: "I am Zhang Chengzong's father, Governor Guo, do you want to extract a confession by torture?"

Guo Ye glanced at Chen Jitao, wanting to get confirmation from him about the identity of the visitor.

Chen Jitao nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "My lord, he is Zhang Chengzong's father, Zhang Yuanzhi, the second master of the Zhang family in Yangzhou."

Seeing this, Guo Ye suddenly had an inexplicable smile on his face, and thought in his heart, as I expected, hitting the young ones will definitely attract the old ones.Zhang Yuanzhi, Zhang Yuanzhi, I have been waiting for you for a long time.

Immediately, he smiled and said to Zhang Yuanzhi: "Who am I? It turns out that it is the second master of the Zhang family who has no way to teach his son? What? Does the second master want to come here today to help me and sing a drama about killing relatives with righteousness?"

"you……"

Zhang Yuanzhi was severely choked by Guo Ye's sarcasm, and he didn't think of a response for a while.

Seeing his father coming in time, Zhang Chengzong on the ground cried bitterly: "Father, you are here, save me, save me!"

The men in their forties, with their white buttocks exposed after their trousers were stripped off, cried so loudly that it really made people sick to watch.

And Zhang Yuanzhi was even more disappointed, and angrily said with a straight face: "You are not a good thing, you make so many mistakes, shut up for me!"

After swearing, Zhang Yuanzhi looked at the confession on the ground, and then at the account book on the case table in the courtroom, and remembered the conversation between Guo Ye and his bastard son just now when he hid in the crowd outside, and felt sad sigh.

There are all the witnesses and material evidence, so how can there be sophistry for this unworthy son?

So, he put down his superior posture, held back the indignation in his heart, and asked Guo Ye in the courtroom: "Guo Inspector, there are many people here, and the old man has a few words from the bottom of his heart. I want to talk to Guo Inspector in private. Is Governor Guo convenient?"

At this time, Guo Ye had already smiled like a summer flower, extremely brilliant, and he was ecstatic in his heart, you old bastard, I have spent a lot of time and effort to arrange so many things, can't I just wait for your words?

Immediately, he nodded to Zhang Yuanzhi and said with a smile: "Convenient, convenient, very convenient. Come on, Master Zhang, how about we move to the back hall to talk?"

Chapter 762