Chapter 418: Repaying private affairs with public affairs
Li Chen gave the order and Sanbao, who wanted to crush Ge Pingyi to death, let go without hesitation.
After regaining the freedom to breathe again, Ge Pingyi covered his throat with both hands and lay on the ground, gasping for air.
He suddenly discovered that breathing is such a beautiful thing.
Until Li Chen's voice came.
"Keep your head up."
After Ge Pingyi regained his composure, he raised his head and looked at Li Chen.
"It's true that you are a chess piece. These things are indeed caused by the cabinet. These are all good, but I want to ask you, do you think that I am reorganizing the Ministry of Punishment and clearing out weak officials like you just to vent my anger?
A power struggle?”
Li Chen's question made Ge Pingyi sneer and said, "Isn't it?"
"of course not."
Li Chen's eyes became colder and colder, and he said indifferently: "You underestimate me too much."
"The Ministry of Punishment, which enforces the laws of the empire, represents the face of the royal laws of the empire. What is the royal laws?"
"All the lands of the Great Qin are all subjects of the Great Qin, and all the subjects of the Great Qin are governed by the law. The law allows the people of the Great Qin Empire to act with evidence and laws, and their mistakes must be punished."
"The law is the cornerstone for the rectification of sin. If this cornerstone is messed up and the subjects no longer have any respect for the law, great chaos will come and an era of lawlessness will begin!"
"And you, Ge Pingyi, Mr. Ge, the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment! You are the third person in charge of laws and punishments in the Qin Empire. What you have done is to have no scruples in treating a fourth-rank official of the imperial court with a higher rank than you.
If you want to arrest the half-level left minister of household affairs, you can arrest him, and if you want to beat him, you can beat him?"
"What's more, you took the so-called box of incriminating evidence to Xu Changqing's house and took it out intact. Do you think you have found incriminating evidence?"
"If you handle the case like this, how can there still be a blue sky in Da Qin? How are the laws of Da Qin so different from child's play!?"
Li Chen's tone became more and more severe, and by the end, every word was like thunder, reverberating in the dark and cramped prison of the Criminal Department.
Ge Pingyi opened his mouth, he still wanted to quibble, but when the words came to his lips, not a word came out.
He knew that whatever he said was useless.
"Have you nothing to say?"
Li Chen snorted coldly, and was about to give the order to remove Ge Pingyi's official hat completely, dismiss him from office and then punish him, when hurried footsteps came from outside. It was Qian Shiyan who had received the news.
Along the way, Qian Shiyan only knew that the prince suddenly arrived at the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, but he did not know what happened specifically.
And Li Chen's words happened to be heard by him.
Qian Shiyan walked over and glanced at Xu Changqing and Ge Pingyi, who had changed their positions inside and outside. Then he came to Li Chen and knelt down and said: "I, Qian Shiyan, I am here to see His Highness the Crown Prince. I am unable to welcome you from far away. Please give me some thanks."
His Royal Highness Prince Haihan."
Li Chen looked at Qian Shiyan coldly and said flatly: "Qian Shiyan, you have only taken over the post of Minister of the Ministry of Justice for a few months. Logically speaking, the shortcomings of the Ministry of Justice are not caused by your appointment, and you cannot be blamed too much.
,but......"
Having said this, before Qian Shiyan, who was lying on the ground, could breathe a sigh of relief, Li Chen turned to Ge Pingyi and said: "Ge Pingyi, you said before that you were acting under orders, now tell me whose order you are following."
"Who asked you to frame Xu Changqing, and who asked you to violate the procedures, treat the regulations as if they were nothing, and use the public to retaliate against private interests!?"
Hearing this, Qian Shiyan broke into a cold sweat.
Ge Pingyi, who was in the cell, looked frightened and subconsciously looked at Qian Shiyan.
