However, the so-called guards of the Prince of Qin's Palace who appeared looked very familiar. They looked like the people who made trouble in the palace yesterday. It turned out that all this was planned. From the day he was transferred to the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, there were
You're counting on yourself.
Wen Yan was unwilling to give in, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I want to see the King of Qin, I want to go to the capital to see the emperor, and I want to redress my grievances!" Now that they had left the governor's office, everyone had nothing to care about. Zhao Ding'an stepped forward and slapped Wen Yan.
He was beaten on the face until his mouth and nose were bleeding, and his gauze hat flew off. Zhao Ding'an said viciously: "You can't see anyone, take it away!" Two soldiers rushed up and took Wen Yan's arms and stuffed him into a carriage.
, Wen Junwei was also tied up and thrown into another car, and everyone drove away, leaving only a group of pacesetters outside the governor's office looking at each other like bereft dogs.
Yushitai Shaanxi Xingtai is a very small yamen, so small that no one pays attention to it. This is because the system of Yushitai in the Zhou Dynasty is not perfect. The provincial governors support their own troops, and it is useless to send out supervisory censors. So although
There is a system in place, but the seat of the Shaanxi Inspection and Supervision Censor has always been vacant. Meng Yeluo was the first censor to take office, and he handled a big case as soon as he took office, including the local official Xi.
Although the yamen is small, it is well-equipped. There is a sign of "Shaanxi Yushi Xingtai" hanging on the door, and a black and red stick hangs inside the door. The signs of "Silence and Retreat" are on both sides. There are not many yamen servants, and they are all capable people. It is small
The Yamen is alive with dragons and tigers, and the momentum is strong.
Wen Yan was taken out of the carriage, carried to the hall and beaten directly to the ground. These people did not respect his identity at all and only treated him as an ordinary criminal. This merciless approach also made Wen Yan desperate.
I came here with the intention of killing myself.
"Governor Wen's coat has not been picked yet. We can't lose etiquette and let him sit down." Meng Yushi said with a stern face. Despite his young age, his official authority is even greater than that of Governor Wen. The yamen officer took a bench and placed it in the main hall.
In the center, there was a coffee table next to it. He pressed Wen Yan on the bench, sprinkled some tea leaves into a cup of warm water, and slapped it heavily on the coffee table: "Governor, drink tea!"
This tea was the saddest cup of tea that Wen Yan had ever drunk in his life. He was sitting in the middle of the main hall of the Royal Palace. He was being judged. However, he was careful and soon discovered a strange thing. The young Royal Palace
Shi and the so-called generals of Prince Qin's Mansion with their legs crossed next to them have very familiar accents, they seem to be Gansu accents!
"Who are you? I want to see the King of Qin for a thousand years! You have no right to detain me!" Wen Yan protested sternly, but the person opposite him was unmoved and only said: "Master Wen, you ordered the evil slave to lynch Wu Li
His matter has been found out, the evidence of the crime is conclusive, and the accomplice confessed, so you might as well take the confession." After saying that, Wen Yan threw a confession in front of him, and when he picked it up, he saw that it was indeed the oral statement of his servant, which was not consistent with the facts.
Sorry, he also drew and fingerprinted the confession at the end. He tore the confession into pieces of paper with disdain and said: "It's all false. Wu Ma died by drowning herself. It has nothing to do with anyone else. The testimony you obtained through torture
It’s useless. I saw this trick many times when I was in Gansu.”
"Roar in court, tear up the confession, write it down." Meng Yeluo said calmly to the clerk next to him. In the hall, a seventh-grade official in blue official robes was interrogating a first-grade governor in purple official robes. Such an unbelievable thing
It can only be born in the Zhou Dynasty. Wen Yan asked to see the King of Qin, the governor of Shaanxi, the Marquis of Fenyang, and his family. After all these requests were rejected, Wen Yan said: "Without these people present, and without the emperor's decree, I would
I won’t say another word.” After that, he fell silent.
Meng Yeluo had long expected that an old fox like Wen Yan would be difficult to interrogate, but it didn't matter. He would be punished with death whether he was tried or not, and lynching and killing were just excuses. What really killed Wen Yan was his identity.
"It's up to you, but I can tell you one thing. The heinous crimes you committed in Gansu have been written in tens of thousands of words and sent to the capital. The emperor's imperial edict will arrive soon. By then, the old and new accounts will be settled together.
, By the way, I almost forgot, I have a complaint on hand right now, saying that you raped civilian girls and persecuted Wen Wen. There are both witnesses and physical evidence, what can you say?"
After that, Meng Yeluo asked someone to bring Ma Jingtao out. When Ma Jingtao saw Wen Yan, he immediately became hysterical. He was still doing the same thing, returning my Xing'er, returning my child, etc., but Wen Yan just looked down upon him.
She glanced at him and said proudly: "Don't do this, that child is indeed my blood, Wen Yan, so don't waste your efforts."
Ma Jingtao looked back at Yuan Feng, his eyes full of surprise. Yuan Feng stepped forward in time and said: "Wen Yan, you are indeed cunning, but you didn't expect one thing."
Wen Yan looked puzzled, but remained silent. Yuan Feng clapped his hands and called a father and son in from outside. He said they were father and son because they were so similar that they could tell they were related by blood at a glance. Yuan Feng asked this man to come in.
The father and son pricked their fingers and dripped blood to identify themselves, but the two drops of blood couldn't melt together. But if you randomly find an outsider, the blood can melt together.
"Mr. Wen, blood-splitting is a quackery and pseudo-science. You can't take it seriously. The child's biological father is indeed Mr. Ma. Not only did you take over his childhood sweetheart's wife, you also took over his wife.
It would be too unkind to be your own flesh and blood."
Yuan Feng's understatement completely broke Wen Yan's psychological defense. At the same time, he also saw that the tethering posts on Ma Jingtao's ears were exactly the same as the tethering posts on the baby's ears. In the end, the child was really
What a bastard. Wen Yan was so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of blood. He tilted his head and stopped moving.
…
At the Governor's Yamen, Shaanxi Governor Zhou Zhonglong was signing and reviewing official documents in the custody room. A servant came to report: "Someone from the Governor's Yamen said that Governor Wen was kidnapped by people from Yushi Xingtai. Please come forward and seek justice for them."
Zhou Zhonglong put down his pen and thought for a while, then said: "Yushi Xingtai is not under the jurisdiction of our Shaanxi Province. How can I give them justice? I advise them to go on their own."
After a while, the servant turned around and said, "Sir, they don't want to leave."
Zhou Zhonglong didn't even raise his head: "Blast out."
…
Fenyang Marquis Mansion, Fenyang Marquis Lu Zhen was reading the Spring and Autumn Period in the study, when his second son Lu Zhongda gently knocked on the door.
"What's the matter?"
"Father, it is said that Governor Wen was taken away by people from Yushi Xingtai."
"Oh, as expected, my father has guessed it a long time ago. Diao Wenyan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, is just to sway the tiger away from the mountain. Sooner or later, he will be punished. By the way, what did he commit?" Lu Zhen asked without taking her eyes off the book.
Wen Yan was not surprised when he was arrested.
"Going back to my father, I heard that a lynching was used to kill a servant girl in the family."
"Humph, it's just a pretext. Just wait and see, other charges will follow. Wen Yan, who had soldiers and generals in his hands, was like a king of Gansu. It's over this time. He doesn't understand the Holy Lord.
, he should have resolutely resigned when he was first appointed as governor, and he would not have ended up in this situation today."
Lu Zhongda still had a worried look on his face: "Father, I heard that people from Prince Qin's palace were involved in the arrest of Wen Yan this time."
"That's natural. The emperor wants to train his son. Let him catch a toothless tiger so that he can practice his courage."
"Father, what the child is afraid of is...our Lu family...seems..." Lu Zhongda's words were vague, but Lu Zhen fully understood what he meant: "Humph, Wen Yan is a toothless tiger, and I am a tiger in his prime.
That guy who looks like a little white rabbit, King Qin, wants to touch me? Even if his father comes, he may not be able to touch me."
"Father, you must be on guard." Lu Zhongda advised.
"Okay, I know better. You can go down. Once your third brother's injury is healed, don't let him roam the streets and cause trouble for me." Lu Zhen waved her hand and asked her son to leave. She continued to watch Spring and Autumn, but she was upset.
Chaos can no longer be seen.
…
At Chang'an Pavilion, Liu Songpo was still thinking about his conversation with the King of Qin. His entourage came in and reported: "Sir, something happened. Governor Wen was captured by the imperial censor."
Liu Songpo was shocked. Although Wen Yan's resignation was expected, he did not expect that the court would take action so quickly and not care about the appearance. At least he would have to wait for the imperial edict to take away Wen Yan's official position and then take someone else. The King of Qin and this
The young censor was a little too impatient. According to the rules, the censor could only deal with officials below the fourth rank on the spot. No matter how senior the official was, he had to report it to the court and wait for approval before handling it. Such an unscrupulous arrest of a feudal official would be a warning.
, making some people wary.
…
In short, the arrest of Wen Yan did not cause an uproar in Chang'an. This empty-handed governor did not often appear in public and had little status in people's hearts. On the contrary, it was only after he stepped down that people mentioned it. Governor Wen's concubine was in the big city
The incident of stealing people from the Zen room in Baoen Temple is widely known throughout the city.
Two days later, the decree from the capital suddenly arrived. Wen Yan was demoted to civilian status and handed over to a responsible official. His family property was confiscated and his family members were made into military companions. The charges were of course not lynching and murder, but much more serious conspiracy and rebellion, corruption, perversion of the law, and fraud in scientific examinations.
Indiscriminate killing of innocent people... On the notice at the city gate, there were dozens of charges against Wen Yan, but no one deliberately paid attention to this one - In the twelfth year of God's blessing, Wen Yan sent troops to massacre 110 innocent people in Shibalibao, Luyang County.
Eighteen households dug three feet into the ground to dig up graves, which is shocking...