Chapter 1930 Thinking too much and doing too little
Ying Jue lowered his head and his scarf was slightly scattered. Among the crowd of people being arrested, he remained silent and tried to reduce his presence as much as possible.
Ying Jun was stopped by the hussars posted outside, but because it was difficult to tell whether he was really fleeing because he was afraid of the riot or for some other reason, all those who were intercepted outside the city were sent to the military camp.
In the middle, they are strictly guarded by soldiers.
Someone made a fuss for a while at first, and then Ying Jue also tried to make a fuss, but then Colonel Zhang came and without saying a word, he caught more than ten people who were making trouble on the spot, and then directly executed them with canings...
It is strange to say that if the head is directly beheaded, it may not be able to suppress the anger of the crowd for a while. It may actually arouse the crowd even more, instead of being flogged directly to death, and being beaten with one whip after another.
, the screams of the tortured people one after another, and the bloody streaks on the naked backs, have suppressed the resistance of these people very well, and no one is willing to jump out to express protest or opposition.
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Ying Jue didn't know the reason for this, but he knew that something was not right about the current situation.
There's trouble.
Shouldn't this hussar be busy dealing with the troublemaking students in the city? He and Liu Zhen could have easily, even easily, escaped from Chang'an. Why did it become like this?
Obviously I came first... Well, no, I obviously evacuated first, but why did I end up in the interception circle of the Hussars? Could it be that the Hussars had already started setting up their defenses as early as yesterday during the day? But also
It doesn't make sense. Since we have time to set up defenses outside the city, why not go into the city and cause riots in Pingzhen?
The city of Chang'an seems to have been completely calm. I wonder if it's because the distance is too far and I can't hear any special sounds coming from it. Why did it recover so quickly?
What is Hussar doing? Why is he detaining me and these people around me? Could it be that he has guessed what Brother Liu and I are doing? So what should I do? Has Brother Liu escaped? By the Weishui River
There should be no defenses? But the problem is that there are barriers on the roads, so how can there be nothing in the waterways?
There were all kinds of questions in Ying Jue's mind, and there was no answer to any of them, which made his brain feel a little raw.
But the more troublesome thing for him was still to come. Then a group of people came from the military camp and sat down on the high platform in the military camp. Then they set up a table and asked people to come forward to ask questions one by one, and then divided...
In order to prevent the recurrence of riots, Zhang Xiu asked people to connect the Ju horses together, leaving only a passage about two people wide in the middle. The soldiers stood outside the Ju horses and used long spears to block the distance. There was no chance for Ying Jun to hide behind others.
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Even though Ying Jue delayed again and again, there were fewer and fewer people in front of him after all, and soon it was his turn to be in front. At this moment, deliberately hiding behind was obviously a kind of exposure, so it could only be
He bravely stepped forward and walked along the passage formed by Juma until he reached the high platform.
On the high platform, Wang Chang and Du Yu worked hard to distinguish everyone who passed by. Their duty was to come for preliminary screening, and at the same time, they also exposed these people, or problematic guys, faster.
.Their purpose is not to immediately tell which one is loyal and which one is traitorous, but to obtain their corresponding confessions, and then match them again from these confessions. If there are any discrepancies, there must be problems.
This is a very simple psychology, because these people either tell the truth, tell lies, or half-truths, but as long as they tell a lie, they need more things to cover up the lie...
Ying Jun gave his guard in the crowd a wink, then slowly walked up and followed the person in front of him. He didn't let the guard follow him directly because he was afraid that the three of them together would attract more attention. So he simply
Let the guard wait until the end. Anyway, if he can escape, guarding or something, well, naturally it doesn't matter.
Ying Jue's guards didn't know exactly what Ying Jue was thinking about. The guards' arms and legs were thicker, so their heads were thicker as well. In addition, they had been with Ying Juen for many years, and they were used to doing whatever Ying Jue said.
What, I don’t have the ability to think independently, so I naturally don’t think there’s anything wrong. Since the master tells me to do this, I just do it.
Ying Jue seemed to have scratched his head intentionally or unintentionally. It seemed that he used a little more force, and his original bun was a little scattered, and many hair strands hung down. In addition, Ying Jue's face was specially stained with dirt.
I feel that I should be able to get through it, even my rhetoric has been drafted...
Unexpectedly, when Ying Jue came to the high platform, Zhang Xiu took a look and frowned. Before Ying Jue could speak, he said, "Where are your guards?"
"Huh?" Zhang Xiu's question immediately disrupted Ying Jue's plan, causing him to get stuck, "Guard... guard?"
Zhang Xiu looked Ying Jue up and down and said, "You originally had three guards. When you tried to pass the checkpoint last night, one died. There should be two more... Is your memory correct?"
"This..." Ying Jue shook her eyes from side to side and said with an embarrassed smile, "Reporting to the general, I am afraid... of making the general unhappy, so I ordered him to stay behind..."
Zhang Xiu snorted and did not respond to Ying Jian's words. Instead, he said loudly: "This person is the guard, come forward!"
After a while, two people came out from the remaining crowd, and then silently came behind Ying Jue.
Zhang Xiu waved his hand, indicating that this was all he had to do and let Wang Chang ask the rest.
Wang Chang has been observing from the side, and the more he looks at Ying Jue, the more strange he feels. Normally, it is normal to have a gray-haired face and an unkempt face when encountering such a thing. After all, it is difficult to take care of one's own appearance when he is uneasy.
Yes, it is understandable that the hair is scattered and contaminated with dust.
But this was not the case with the person in front of me.
Since you can think calmly and ask the guards not to follow you, why do you ignore your own mess? This is the first one. The second one is that since you have a guard with you and you rush through the checkpoints, it can be said that you are temporarily unclear or domineering.
, but at the moment, he looks submissive and cautious...
Thirdly, I always feel a little familiar...
"Come here! Wipe his face!" Wang Chang did not ask questions according to the original question and answer order, but waved his hand and asked the soldiers on the side to come forward and wipe Ying Jian's face clean before speaking.
Ying Jue had the intention to refuse, but he couldn't resist at first. Secondly, he was worried that his refusal would be a cover-up, so he had to close his eyes and resign himself to his fate and let the soldiers rough his face...
"Huh?" Du Yu, who was behind Wang Chang, looked at Ying Jue and frowned slightly.
Du Yu passed the exam and had the credit for reporting the incident, so he was directly assigned to Wang Chang as his assistant, and they came to the military camp to screen personnel together. The dirt on his face was wiped off when he saw it.
After the dust, Ying Jue seems to have evoked some memories.
When Wang Chang heard Du Yu's voice, he turned around and asked, "Do you recognize this person?"
"I don't recognize..." Du Yu slowly shook his head, and then when Ying Jun took a breath, he said slowly, "However, I saw this person at Brother Wang's literary conference... This person
I asked a certain person how he was taking the exam, and also asked a certain person where he would settle down..."
Wang Chang was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Ying Jue, and smiled coldly, "In that case, so-and-so has also remembered... so-and-so held three cultural gatherings, and his friends also came to attend every event..."
Ying Jue's face changed drastically in the end, and he couldn't find any words to explain it for a moment. It can't be said that you all have made a mistake. I actually have a twin brother...
Zhang Xiu squeaked coldly, then shouted loudly: "Take it down!"
The hussar soldiers immediately responded, raising their swords and guns, slapping their backs and knocking their legs. Before Ying Jian and his guards could react, they were knocked to the ground and immediately rushed forward to overwhelm them.
Tied up.
These days, there is no such thing as individual rights, nor is there a standard that requires a mosaic of criminal suspects to protect their rights, and then exposes the brave whistleblowers. If there is a problem, just take it down first.
Ask again!
Ying Jue's whole body went limp, and he collapsed on the ground like mud. He was so arrogant before, only when he was not in danger. Now he was facing the tip of a knife, axe, and spear. How could he die so cheaply?
Feeling at home?
Wang Chang and Du Yu looked at each other and felt that this time, they seemed to have caught a big fish...
……(??·????·??)????(·????·????)……
Feeling like a fish, Wei Duan was already jumping on the knife.
After finally escaping from the meeting hall of the General's Mansion, I returned home with unspeakable nausea. The first thing I did was to kill all the slaves who were responsible for cleaning up the filthy waste in the house.
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"Here comes someone! Let's go..."
Before Wei Duan finished speaking, a butler came to the front of the hall tremblingly and reported, "Your Majesty, Du Lingjun and Li Duwei are here..."
"Please, please!" Wei Duan stood up and said, "Wait a minute, wait for me to come and greet you in person!" Wei Duan rushed out in a hurry, not even caring that the wooden clogs on his feet were a little crooked.
When he saw Du Ji and Li Yuan, Wei Duan first bowed deeply to Li Yuan and bowed his head to the ground. "At some point, I was negligent and ran the family laxly! The fault lies with someone! I apologize to Li Xiandi! Someone has killed me with a stick."
Servant of things, there will definitely not be a similar situation again in the future..."
Li Yuan took a breath and stepped forward to help Wei Duan up, "It's such a small matter...well, this is not the place to talk..."
"Yes, exactly, please, please!"
Wei Duan hurriedly led the two of them to the main hall, and then the guests and hosts took their seats.
Although everyone wrote a self-report form after leaving the general meeting hall, it does not mean that this incident has just passed. There are many follow-up things.
For these people arrested in the city, Qiaoqi meant that they would be tried openly and then punished according to the law.
Yes, everyone must be punished. There is no distinction between primacy and subordination, but the emphasis is on punishing crimes "according to the law", and this "law" naturally falls on Wei Duan's head.
If you don’t come up with this standard of “law”, who can you be?
When Wei Duan took over this position, he was still very proud, throwing a big banquet and feeling full of joy, but now he wants to give himself a few slaps! But the problem is that now he is standing in the coffee shop, well, carrot
In the pit, facing the suppressed rules, even if your face is swollen, what's the use?
"Come here! Serve tea!" Wei Duan called loudly.
"Uh..." When Li Yuan heard that tea was being served, he immediately burped, looking like he couldn't suppress his nausea, and waved his hands repeatedly, "Don't serve tea yet... When I heard this word at this moment, I just... uh
……Well……"
Wei Duan was instantly embarrassed to death. He felt that his face was red, hot, spicy, and numb. It really felt like he had been slapped hard, both front and back.
"Everyone, stand down! Stand back!" After Wei Duan apologized to Li Yuan again, he let out a long sigh, "What should I do about this matter...?!"
Speaking of personal feelings, Wei Duan wished he could count every one of the troublemakers in the city, break their arms alive, and then chop off their heads one by one, as compensation for the harm his son had suffered.
But the problem is that among the people arrested in the city, they are also other people's sons. If Wei Duan can identify those who really committed crimes against his son Wei Dan, and then report them directly and exchange blood for blood, it is impossible.
No one else could tell what the problem was, but there was so much confusion last night. It was impossible to tell who did it, and who was the one who hurt Wei Dan, and how to deal with it?
And even if punishment is to be carried out according to the law, where does this "law" come from?
Convicted of "rebellion"? Would that be too harsh?
Is it too light to convict someone based on “prohibition”?
What's more, there are also regulations such as "please beg the guilty first", "protect relatives", etc. How to measure these? If your own laws are unreasonable, and then all these children are punished, although on the surface the parents of these children
You may not dare to say anything, and you may not dare to show your teeth to Qiao Qi, but you will definitely bear the grudge for several years, ten years, or decades!
This kind of grudge will fall on Qiaoqi, himself, and the Wei family...
Because if it were Wei Duan himself, he would be like this too.
On top of the matter, he naturally said, yes, Qiao Qi was right, and yes, Wei Duan was right. He had no objections, not at all. But when he turned around, he remembered that his son and nephew were killed by Qiao Qi.
Wei Duan was sentenced and persecuted. As for whether his children had done anything to hurt others...
How could my own child be so well-behaved, so smart, and so sensible? Those who did it must be children from other families, and my own family was just implicated!
Just thinking about it for a moment, Wei Duan felt that his head was as big as a dozen. He was thinking about his son, thinking about the future of the entire family, and thinking about which law to follow, and he didn't want to take a breath.
Offending so many people, after all, it has been difficult to maintain the reputation of the Webster family over the years...
Du Ji said softly: "I heard that the lord has sent someone to appoint the Zhong family to participate in the law..."
"Zhong?" Wei Duan's eyes widened.
After Zhong Shao died that year, Zhong Jie basically stayed behind closed doors. Later, he and Qiao Bing set up some kind of prophecy palace, which was considered as a preliminary re-entering the court, but now...
Du Ji nodded and continued, "Appointed as assistant editor of the Legal Academy..."
Wei Duan took a breath of cold air and couldn't help but tremble. Zhong Shao was famous when he was young. In the last years of Zhongping, he was already an admonishment official. He was naturally very familiar with court laws and the like. Zhong Shao was very famous.
Naturally, he had to learn from his family, and he was not necessarily any worse than Wei Duan in matters of law.
Fei Qian's intention seemed to have come out through this appointment. If Wei Duan did not dare to do it, or was unwilling to do it, someone would naturally do it in his place!
Wei Duan couldn't help but laugh bitterly, with some tears in his eyes, "What's wrong with you? What did you do wrong? To end up in this situation?"
Li Yuan made a sound, and then said politely: "Brother Wei, it's not that you did something wrong, it's that you didn't do it!"
Wei Duan immediately put away the tears in his eyes, "What do you mean..."
Du Ji frowned and said, "Brother Wei, don't tempt me anymore... Now that things have come to a point, you should do something..."
Wei Duan was immediately speechless. After a long time, he cupped his hands and said, "I'm wrong for you. My lord, by doing this, you want to divide us. I'm really wrong for you..."
Wei Duan actually understood the intention of General Fei of the Hussars in this incident. It was like a common strategy of the Hussars. It seemed to be obvious, but it was extremely tricky!
In fact, the sentence "No favoritism and no party, the king's way is slutty, no party and no partiality, the king's way is mediocre" is already very straightforward. Fei Qian clearly knew that someone would make trouble, but he just waited for it to happen, and then
Just to catch them all, even risking the destruction of Chang'an, just to let more people fall into the trap, and these people in the trap are forced to start killing each other...
Even what method should be used was actually told to Wei Duan and others through Pang Tong's behavior.
It's just that Wei Duan had some expectations before, hoping that he could still win over the wealthy noble families in Guanzhong Sanfu and act as a so-called "spokesperson" for the Guanzhong noble family, so as to have more chips and obtain more benefits.
But now, basically everything has come to nothing.
Because of hurt and hatred, even if there may be benefits in the future, I will put it aside temporarily, but it is only temporary, just like a broken mirror is difficult to mend, and a broken mirror is difficult to recover.
Does Wei Duan have hatred in his heart?
Yes, one's own son has become disabled. Even if he temporarily forgets it, how can he not think about it or hate it as soon as he comes home? Then other people's children are severely punished. Even if they are punished "according to the law", they will accept it rationally and willingly.
What?
The fire that burned up the Zuixian Tower not only burned down the Zuixian Tower, but also burned down the foundation of the "clique" of many gentry children in Sanfu, Hedong, Shanxi, Guanzhong!
From now on...
"If I had known..."
Wei Duan let out a long sigh and shook his head.
"That's it..." Wei Duan gritted his teeth, like a beast roaring in the shadows, "If you have to do it, you have to do it beautifully!"
