female concubine

The emperor bowed his head and read the confessions from beginning to end, then stared at the two kneeling women without saying a word, then turned his head and glanced at Dali Siqing.

The Minister of Dali Temple said to the woman, "If you can't explain this, don't blame me, etiquette is ruthless!"

"How can we explain something that the two of us have never done? Could it be that because His Majesty is a monarch, you can casually refer to anyone as a sinner? Is she a sinner?"

Seeing the tricks of the two women in the hall, the emperor squinted his deep eyes, and couldn't help turning his head to look at King Zhao.

"Presumptuous, above the court, to speak disrespectfully, to despise the king, the crime is aggravated, Your Majesty kisses me, how dare you be so stubborn!" Dali Temple Qingchao Emperor bowed his hands again, "Your Majesty, please use punishment!"

The emperor waved yes.

"Come on, let's serve you!" Dali Siqing looked at the two sisters again, then narrowed his eyes slightly, and pointed at one of them, "Only touch her!"

Two yamen servants came forward with their sticks and dragged out the woman pointed out by Dali Siqing. Two more yamen servants came out to control her body and grabbed her tender hands.

Dali Temple Minister looked down at another woman who was kneeling on the same spot, and asked with her hands behind her back: "Your sister's hand is so beautiful, if you are pinched by this stick, apart from being crippled, the ten fingers even The pain in the heart makes life worse than death!"

The jurors on both sides were discussing something timidly in low voices.

"In terms of methods of extorting confessions, no one is more powerful than Dali Siqing!"

"Otherwise, why is he the Minister of Dali Temple!"

"Be lenient when confessing, and strict when resisting, have you thought about it?" Dali Temple Minister asked repeatedly, but the woman still refused to speak, so he looked at the emperor sitting on the seat, and squinted his eyes after receiving a nod, " Unrepentant!" Immediately he ordered the yamen servant, and loudly said: "Punishment!"

Four yamen servants, two restrained the woman, and the other two held one side of the scorpion. After hearing the order from the minister of Dali Temple, they pulled hard together.

The ten fingers are clamped by the wooden stick, and as the rope is pulled back, the wooden stick gets tighter and tighter.

There was the sound of wood being squeezed in the courtroom, and the officials were terrified to hear it. They all turned their heads and were afraid to look directly at it. Only the emperor lowered his head and stared at it coldly, without even blinking his eyes.

As the strength gradually increased, the woman changed from moaning in agony to heart-piercing screams, even the inconspicuous veins bulged slightly, and sweat flowed down her pale cheeks to her blood-dripping hands .

The deafening screams passed into the heart of the other woman over and over again, deeply hurting her heart, and the woman began to panic and shake.

"sister!"

It was almost a scream of the tortured woman with all her strength, "I will recruit, I will recruit, I will recruit them all, I just beg you, please let me pass my sister!" The woman crawled towards Dali Temple Minister, begging with tears streaming down her face.

Dali Siqing looked at the emperor, but the emperor still looked at him coldly, and did not reply for a long time!

The final answer to the case may be the "truth" that the woman will say in the next moment

"Report to Your Majesty, the prisoner has passed out."

The Minister of Dali Temple bowed his hands to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty!"

The emperor then raised his hand to signal.

The yamen servants stopped and took back the bloody scorpion, and the woman fell to the ground, her ten fingers were already deformed.

The original Dali Temple Master Bo and Sicheng Sizheng are all detained in the Ministry of Punishments. The emperor kissed him.

"Tell me, did you plant it?"

The woman kowtowed and said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, it's me!"

The Minister of Dali Temple asked again, "Why did you do this, you must know what the consequences will be if you frame the court officials!"

The woman knelt up straight, and said coldly and tremblingly: "So what if you framed the imperial court official, shouldn't he die?"

"Because he is an official ordered by the court, he can do evil and force good people into prostitution? We are human beings, not his playthings!" The woman said pitifully, which made the officials on both sides feel pity.

King Zhao looked sideways at the calm prince, then grabbed the armrest and leaned over the chair to his ear and whispered, "Your Highness, do you think this play is good?"

The prince turned his head and looked at him in surprise, "You?"

"As far as I know, the two of you are prostitutes in Tokyo!"

"Yes, but the two of us are prostitutes, not prostitutes. The two of us are dancers in Doctor Yang's family, but they were forcibly occupied by the bully Shen Tu."

The woman knelt straight, staring at the red eyes, and turned to question the minister of Dali Temple: "Dare to ask my husband, if someone puts a knife on your neck to make you obey, do you dare to resist? Dare to ask my husband, if someone uses power They are forcing you to slaughter your whole family, how dare you refuse?"

"Since entering Shen's mansion, he has been a bit unsatisfactory, and he has punched and kicked us, Mr. can see!" The woman swept up her sleeves, and there was a large bruise on her white arm.

"That's why the two of you felt resentful, so you came up with this method to kill him?"

The woman said coldly: "This kind of person, death is not a pity!"

Dali Siqing breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at the emperor, "Your Majesty."

The emperor put his hands on the table, tapped his fingers, and immediately asked in a deep voice: "Since what you did, where did the gunpowder in your hand come from?"

Facing the emperor's own questioning, the woman was not afraid, "Have you forgotten, Your Majesty, Shentu is a military general, and he has military books in his family. Not only the military books, he also privately hid the map of weapon manufacturing. It happened to be seen by the two of us. This hand The upper wound was caused by the two of us discovering the secret cabinet he built privately."

"The two of us wrote down the map and knew that the general's possession of gunpowder was tantamount to treason, so I went to the fireworks dealer in Tokyo City."

"It's a pity that I couldn't kill him with my own hands..."

The emperor was suddenly furious: "Enough!"

The roar frightened everyone in the courtroom so that they dared not move. The emperor immediately stood up, glanced coldly at the crown prince and King Zhao, then at the woman who confessed, and said to the minister of Dali Temple: "What happens next, The third envoy will do it for you!"

"Yes!"

The emperor took the original team and left from Dali Temple.

"The trial is not over yet, so let's go..." The ministers on the jury looked around.

"Your Majesty is gone, let's go too!"

"This case will be handed over to the three envoys. The officials and others will not be able to help if they stay here. If they don't disturb the three envoys, they will go back first."

There was also an upright minister who looked at the two women with disdain, and cursed angrily: "If you frame the country's loyalty, I think you should be the most damned!"

The old man in purple robe walked towards the prince slowly.

"Weng Weng!" The prince grabbed his hand, frowning slightly, his eyes shattered.

"Your Highness, don't worry, today's case, the ministers of the Political Affairs Hall have come to jury, the truth is clear, it's all right." The old man patted the prince's shoulder lightly, and comforted him earnestly.

Zhao Wang got up from his seat, looked at the poor prince and the kind old man to the left, shook his head and said, "Oh, Tongping Zhangshi is really...deep love!"

After taking a contemptuous look, King Zhao turned around and stepped forward.

The old man looked up and said coldly: "Does the Three Kings really think that they can control everything?"

Zhao Wang looked back and stared blankly at the old man, "Oh? Xiao Wang doesn't know the prime minister, what do you mean by that?"

"If you get the right way, you will get more help if you lose the way, but if you do many unrighteous actions, you will die yourself!"

Zhao Wang turned cold, and immediately smiled, "Prime Minister, you should worry about yourself first!"

In mid-May of the eighth year of Jianping, after more than ten days of joint trial by the three divisions, the case of Shen Tu's treason was cleared up. In late May, the emperor issued an edict to rehabilitate Shen Tu, posthumously awarded the Minister of the Ministry of War, and posthumously titled Zhongyi.

He also dealt with the judicial officials of the original trial of Dali Temple for the crime of intrusion, suspended the presiding judge and deputy judge for investigation, and the rest were replaced as local officials.

"I spent four thousand gold, what's the result? Not only are the soldiers gone, but a broken thing was sealed up, and the prince is still safe and sound in the official office of Kaifeng Mansion!" Zhao Wang smashed the cup down angrily.

"Anyone in the world who defeats himself in impatience and has nowhere to return to in his twilight is still a husband."

King Zhao turned his head to look at Han Bang, raised his eyebrows and said dissatisfiedly: "I'm impatient?" Then he pointed to the Ziwei star facing north in Tokyo City, "If he hadn't intervened, the prince and King Chu would have been safe and sound like they are now? "

Han Bang raised his head and stared at King Zhao, "If it wasn't for His Majesty's kick, would the lord think that he would still be angry with the officials loudly here?"

Zhao Wang calmed down, "Sir... what do you mean by that?"

Han Si got up, put his hands in front of his stomach, and said slowly forward: "I have defeated Duke Wen Mu's Tongping Zhangshi alone, together with Duke Longde." Looking back at Zhao Wang coldly, "The three kings are really good!" Do you think you can eat the two biggest forces in the court at the same time with just one mouth?"

Zhao Wang was stunned suddenly.

"Your Majesty is not showing favoritism to anyone. He just watched a few unsatisfactory sons in the nest and adjusted them!"

King Zhao immediately went limp, took a deep breath, and said in fear, "Is this your Majesty's real method?"

Han Bang turned around, grinned, and walked up to King Zhao, "This is nothing more than the emperor's tricks. Your Majesty's real tricks can't be used by you guys!"

"Then His Majesty has always been like this, no matter how the three of us fight, the prince will still be the prince, after a hundred years of your Majesty, then I..."

"Prince, it's just the current prince. The future will be long, and the first to be timid loses!"

King Zhao didn't understand what he meant, "Sir?"

"The two people who are fighting each other want to kill the other first, thus ignoring that there are not only people watching the battle, but also those who lead the battle."

"The person who watched the battle? The person who led the battle?" King Zhao looked up at Han Bang suspiciously.

"Zhuangzi said: I don't see a raccoon animal alone, so I humble myself and wait for Ao; I jump from east to west, and I don't distinguish between superior and inferior; I am in the middle of the machine, and I die in the indiscriminate."

Zhao Wang lowered his head and thought deeply, "Jumping clown..."

"The three kings can't hold their breath, and the crown prince can't hold back even more. Only King Chu and His Majesty are the most similar in this point." Han Si smiled again, "It's just that this is inevitable. You and the crown prince were born with a king. Chongni, one has the power of the crown prince, and the king of Chu..." Han Si just shook his head lightly.

"My lord must remember that those who achieved great things in ancient times were not only those with extraordinary talents, but also had the will to persevere. Avoid anxiety and impetuosity!"

Even if Han Bang said so, King Zhao could hardly calm down his resentment of losing money and soldiers, "I really don't know what His Majesty thinks, could it be that he deliberately alienated the sixth child, and then asked me to fight to the death with the crown prince, and finally returned to the old man?" Pass the position to him?"

"If your majesty's thoughts can be easily guessed by others, then your majesty is not your majesty!"

Xiao Xianrong was busy with the Ministry of Criminal Justice for several days, until today he finished sorting out all the case files, and he took the time to go home.

As soon as he got home, he was called to the study by the maid before he even had time to change his clothes.

Stepping in with black boots, Xiao Xianrong raised his head in shock, the light on the crimson robe slowly narrowed until it disappeared, and the door was closed tightly.

Xiao Xianrong stepped forward, bowed and said: "Princess!"