In the second year of Jianning in the Han Dynasty (169 A.D.), Guo Xi was ordered to be imprisoned by Ting Wei.

There was a rotten and musty smell in the air.From time to time, a series of heart-piercing howls of pain could be heard from the depths of the prison, mixed with groaning qiruoyousi, which made Guo Xi smell the breath of death.

A dozen or so Tai students were imprisoned in the adjacent cells. After all, they were young and energetic, and they were full of anger whether they were cursing or calling for injustice.In contrast, Guo Xi, who sat on the mat and kept silent, looked very different.

When Guo Xi was young, he was a court lieutenant, and he was clear about this place, but he used to be outside the cell, but now he is inside the cell.

He is from Yangdi, Yingchuan. He likes to read military books and dreams of becoming a famous official like Guan Zhong.Respect the king and fight against the barbarians, and conquer the world.However, the Guo family has produced some celebrities who are proficient in the law.

His great-uncle Guo Hong has been adjudicating the case for 30 years, and the law enforcement is impartial and impartial, and he can't find any faults.The prisoners tried by Guo Hong, even if they scolded their mothers in their hearts, they could only endure it, and they dared not refuse to accept it, and they had to refuse to accept it.

His grandfather Guo Gong set up a private school in the countryside, specializing in teaching Xiao Dulu, and accepted hundreds of students. He is an authority in the legal field.Later, when Guo Gong came to Tingwei, he also asked the emperor to amend the law and change many severe punishments into light punishments, which is still a good story.

His father, Guo Xun, is proficient in the law and is good at handling difficult cases, and he is well-known.His second brother, Guo Zhen, was able to recite Xiao Dulu back and forth at the age of seven, and he was an official to Tingwei.His family brother Guo Heguan to Tingwei...

So much so that people in the world mistakenly think that the children of the Guo family in Yangdi are proficient in the law.Therefore, when Guo Xi accepted the call of the imperial court with full enthusiasm and was about to start a career, the emperor threw out an official hat of a court lieutenant, which hit Guo Xi on the forehead.Pity him for being a good young man who forcibly spent most of his life in Tingwei's mansion.

Guo Xi originally thought: from time to time, pretending to be serious and serious to interrogate prisoners, and listening to little songs when there is nothing to do, and then dying of old age in Tingwei Mansion like his grandfather Guo Gong, this life will be over...

Until three years ago, Li Ying was imprisoned.

Li Ying is a fighter among celebrities, and he fights against corrupt officials when he has nothing to do.

Zhang Shuo, the younger brother of great eunuch Zhang Rang, had a habit of robbing other people's houses.It is said that once, when Zhang Shuo forcibly occupied a private house, he met the owner who gave up his life and money. No matter whether he threatened or lured him, the family refused to hand over the house deed.Zhang Shuo got angry and beat them to death. The poor mistress of the house had just been pregnant for six months, so she killed two of them.

This incident aroused public outrage and public resentment.Although the county magistrate was afraid of Zhang Rang, the eunuch, he had to pretend to send someone to arrest Zhang Shuo.

Zhang Shuo absconded in fear of crime and hid in the secret room of Zhang Rang's house.

Others were afraid of Zhang Rang's power and did not dare to search for Zhang Shuo.It was Li Ying who personally led the officials and soldiers into Zhang Rang's mansion, dismantled the wall and pillars to open the secret room, arrested Zhang Shuo, and beheaded him for public display.

This was done with great joy, and Li Ying became famous all over the world because of it.Known as "the model of the world Li Yuanli".His deeds set off a storm of fair law enforcement in the court, and suddenly many officials who were not afraid of power and authority popped up.Today, eunuch Hou Lan's nephew robbed the women of the people and was arrested by Zhang San.The day after tomorrow eunuch Cao Jie's clansmen embezzled and accepted bribes and were arrested by Li Si.

The eunuchs were so angry that their livers and heartaches hurt all day long. Cao Jie, Wang Fu, Hou Lan, Zhang Rang and other eunuchs gathered together to discuss countermeasures. I'm worried about money, and I can't live my life.

Especially Zhang Rang, who harmed a few people a little bit, and had nightmares in the middle of the night, and was hunted around by Li Ying with a sword.

Soon, the opportunity to take revenge on Li Ying came.

Emperor Liu Zhi decreed amnesty for the world.However, at this juncture, Li Ying sentenced the murderer Hanoi Haoqiang Zhang to death.

In fact, there is something else hidden about this matter. Zhang’s father, Zhang Taoist, is a Taoist priest who knows how to make alchemy and divination. Taoist Zhang often goes to and from the court, helps Liu Zhi calculate his luck, and occasionally does alchemy. He has long known that the emperor will amnesty the world. He also said to his son Zhang: "Son, your father and I have counted, and the amnesty will be granted soon. You can do whatever you want, even killing people. will not have."

So Zhang really let himself go and deliberately killed a few people for fun before the amnesty.After he was arrested and imprisoned, he caught up with Liu Zhi to amnesty the world, and he was about to be pardoned and released from prison. He mocked the jailer very arrogantly: "What's the use of arresting me? You serve me with delicious food and drink for a few days , I have to obediently send Lao Tzu out. Isn’t this a waste of work?”

However, Zhang never expected that: Li Ying thought that he killed people intentionally for fun, and the circumstances of the crime were so bad that he should not be pardoned, so he cut him off with a knife.

Those Qingliu officials who took Li Ying as a model also followed suit. No matter what kind of amnesty he is, he first punishes all those who do evil and evil.

This action angered Liu Zhi, hey, hey!I have granted amnesty to the world, but there are still so many officials who openly violate the amnesty order. What do these people want to do, can they even rebel?Do you still take me, the Nine-Five Supreme, in your eyes?

The authority of the Son of Heaven has been challenged, and someone must pay the price.

The eunuchs who are physically and mentally strong look at the right time and add fuel to the flames.They pretended to show weakness to Li Ying, and pretended to be very afraid of Li Ying in front of Liu Zhi, for fear that they would not even dare to leave the palace gate on holidays.

It didn't take long for Liu Zhi to become suspicious. He asked Wang Fu, the great eunuch beside him, "Why are you hiding in the palace and not going home after your vacation?"

Wang Fu showed a bit of grievance and timidity just right, "This old slave dare not leave the palace. Li Ying, Lieutenant of Sili, said that eunuchs are wronging the country, and everyone should be killed. As long as this old slave dares to go out of the palace gate, he will definitely kill him." Old slave!"

Liu Zhi said angrily, "He dares!"

Wang Fu knelt down on the ground, trembling and making no sound.A voice suddenly appeared in Liu Zhi's heart: "If he dares, I will pardon the world. Didn't he just kill Taoist Zhang's son?"

The eunuch's boss, Cao Jie, looked at Liu Zhi's uncertain face, and took the opportunity to add another flame: "Your Majesty, since Li Ying became the captain of Sili, there are many guests every day, talking loudly, and there are many people who slander the government. He claimed that Yi Yin was alive, Huo Guang was reborn, and he raised thousands of scholars from the Imperial Academy. He had thousands of disciples and cliques. Comparing going to Li Ying's residence as a guest is like climbing a dragon's gate!"

These words just hit Liu Zhi's taboo, and it is also a common taboo of ancient and modern emperors: Who are Yi Yin and Huo Guang?Those are all powerful ministers who abolished and established the emperor!

Does Li Ying want to abolish the emperor since he compares himself to Yi Yin and Huo Guang?

Lieutenant Si Su is in charge of supervising and inspecting hundreds of officials, and he can also mobilize 200 elite military forces.Really have the ability to commit chaos.

Liu Zhi immediately ordered that all Li Ying and others be dismissed and imprisoned, and those who form a party should be arrested.

Guo Xi glanced at the imperial edict roughly. The so-called clique-forming people were actually honest and upright people who had some issues with the eunuchs. Among them were high officials of the imperial court, small officials of counties and counties, and famous civilians.There are at least two hundred people, because people are constantly being involved, and the list is still increasing.

With so many people wanted at once, the cells in Ting Wei's Mansion are simply not enough.

Besides, Li Ying really has nothing to judge. Three sticks can't beat a fart, and after turning over and over again, he will only say: "The traitor is in power, and the eunuch is wronging the country!"

Guo Xi yawned and the interrogation lasted until midnight, when a yellow door order came from the palace, implying that he would charge Li Ying and others with an irreversible charge. As long as this matter is done, the future is boundless.

Guo Xi received Huang Menling warmly, "Don't worry, it is Xi's duty to interrogate suspects, and none of those who commit crimes without good eyesight can escape."

Huang Menling wanted to say a few more words, but Guo Xi looked up at the sky and gave him the back of his head.

In the night sky, a crescent moon hangs coldly on the willow branches, with a corner covered by clouds, like a cold eye, looking at the world mockingly.

This public case was jointly tried by Tingwei Mansion and Shang Shutai, and the trial dragged on for a month.Wang Fu, the second head of the eunuch, came to the door in person, with a gloomy look on his face that you owed me a hundred thousand dollars and didn't plan to pay it back, and said to Guo Xi in an indifferent tone: "Your step is a smart man, you have to be serious when you take a boat." The wind is blowing, don't get on the wrong boat and fall into the ditch with Li Ying."

Guo Xi looked innocent and harmless to humans and animals, took a document from the case, lowered his eyes and said: "The trial was over yesterday, but the confession may not be good for Wang Changshi."

When Wang Fu took the document and looked at it, his face turned blue. The confessions of Li Ying and others involved many relatives of the eunuchs, and the evidence was convincing.He almost took it seriously... If he insisted on killing Li Ying, his godsons Wang Ji and Wang Meng would have to pay for it.

Continue to fight, kill one thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred.Many eunuchs retreated, and no eunuch was willing to finish playing with the scholar-bureaucrats and become prisoners together.

What a Guo Xi!Previously, the perfunctory Huangmen order was just to delay time and collect evidence against the eunuch.

Wang Fu wished he could slap Guo Xi to death.But things have come to this point, he is holding a golden rice bowl, and there is no need to knock hard with stinky stones.

The eunuchs couldn't sit still, they brought Li Ying, Du Mi and others to Beisi Prison for interrogation in person, but Li Ying's bones were quite hard, his head could be broken, his blood could bleed, and his reputation could not be stink.After repeated tortures, he refused to change his confession.

Thousands of Tai students blocked the gate of the Beigong every day to protest, arguing for Li Ying.The leader of this group of Tai students is He Yong, a famous scholar in Nanyang.A very charismatic young man.

The matter was very troublesome and involved a lot. As usual, Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong were required to jointly verify the case.Taiwei Chen Fan refused to convict Li Ying, and ran to Liu Zhi to intercede for the party members.He blah blah blah, blah blah. The country is in deep trouble.

There was also a alchemist named Xiangkai. Shangshu said to Liu Zhi: "I heard that Yin Zhou was lustful, and Daji was born; Ye Gong loves dragons, and real dragons roam the court. Your Majesty loves those eunuchs who have no descendants. I am afraid this is the reason." The reason why you have no children so far."

Liu Zhi was almost angered and hurt internally, what kind of nonsense is this?Because King Zhou of Shang was lustful, he sought out Daji, a beauty who can overwhelm the country and the city.Because I favor eunuchs who don't have penises, I can't have sons with penises, how many daughters have I had in a row? !Also, even if a generation of wise and powerful emperors like me have not surpassed Yao and Shun, they cannot be compared with a tyrant like King Zhou of Shang!

His grandma's Xiangkai, can you speak?Your face is swollen!You are rubbing my dignity as a man on the ground.

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