Tang Zheng, the Minister of Punishment, questioned Feng Guan sternly.
During this period, Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, also asked in anger. However, Feng Guan's face was full of horror and he remained silent.
Seeing this, Tang Zheng ordered him to be beaten and tortured with a stick.
This time, Feng Guan did not beg for mercy from Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling. He was picked up by several government officials and beaten with a cane in front of the court.
"Pah, pah, pah -"
After hitting him with ten sticks in a row, Tang Zheng, the Minister of Punishment, asked: "Feng Guan, are you going to hit me or not?"
Feng Guan's head was covered with sweat and he gritted his teeth without saying a word.
Seeing this, Tang Zheng said angrily: "Fight again!"
After a total of forty strokes, Fengguan's buttocks were oozing with bright red blood. At this time, Fengguan was also lying in the hall, with little air in and more air out.
Seeing his appearance, Yuanling Marquis Feng Shu's eyes flashed with unbearable feelings, and he opened his mouth to save Feng Guan from being punished, but when he thought of this servant who he had grown up with and had been with for more than forty years,
He actually dared to collude with outsiders. He was secretly angry and turned his head away with red eyes, not looking at Feng Guan's tragic situation.
On the sidelines, Su Wang Zhao Hongrun watched all this with cold eyes.
It has to be said that even though he had a very bad impression of Yuanlinghou Uncle Feng, the reddish look in Yuanlinghou's eyes at this moment made Zhao Hongrun feel that even such aristocratic scum like commoners still have true feelings in their hearts.
In fact, after more than forty years together, the relationship between Yuanling Marquis Feng Shu and his family leader Feng Guan is no longer an ordinary master-servant relationship, but may have risen to that of friends and siblings.
Zhao Hongrun couldn't imagine what it would feel like when his loyal servant who had been with him for more than forty years betrayed him.
Just like him and his clan guards.
If one day some of his clan guards betrayed him, wouldn't he be as disappointed as Uncle Feng, Marquis of Yuanling at the moment?
Of course, this is just a random speculation on his part, as if he was a dead fox. Zong Wei cannot betray his allegiance.
But no matter what, Zhao Hongrun's mood is inevitably a little heavy at this moment.
Therefore, before Tang Zheng, the Minister of Punishment, was about to order the beating of Feng Guan with a stick, Zhao Hongrun interrupted and said: "Stop beating him. If he is beaten again, he will be beaten to death... Let's take him to prison first."
When Zhao Hongrun, King Su, spoke, how dare the three courtiers Chu Shuli, Tang Zheng, and Xu Rong disobey him?
Therefore, after Tang Zheng glanced at Chu Shuli, he said seriously: "Master Chu, I will keep this person in my prison for the time being..."
He originally wanted to "put him in prison in our Ministry of Punishment", but considering that the backend of his Ministry of Punishment is Yong Wang Hongyu, and current signs indicate that Yong Wang Hongyu and Su Wang Zhao Hongrun have quite the same attitude towards Qing Wang Hongxin, so
In order to avoid suspicion, Tang Zheng changed his words and said: "Let's imprison him in Dali Temple."
After hearing this, Chu Shuli, the Prime Minister of Daliang Mansion, nodded in approval.
After all, his Daliang Mansion is an official office responsible for people's livelihood, public security, anti-theft and other functions in Daliang City. Although the official position is quite high and it is called a mansion, in the final analysis this is only because the capital of the Wei Kingdom is located in Daliang.
Otherwise, the Daliang Prefecture is essentially not much different from the local county magistrate.
Comparatively speaking, the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple are both judicial offices facing the whole country, and their functions are much higher than those of Daliang Mansion. Therefore, in this matter, it is more appropriate for the Ministry of Justice or Dali Temple to take action.
After the three of them reached a tacit agreement, they turned to look at Yuanling Hou Feng Shu. Seeing that the latter had no objection, Dali Temple Qingzheng Xu Rong then said: "Excuse me, please escort this person to my Dali Temple prison. He will wait for two days and then try again."
This case."
After hearing this, the officials on the left and right picked up Feng Guan, who seemed to be unconscious, and escorted him out.
From the beginning to the end, Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, said nothing and looked very ugly.
He originally thought that King Su Zhao Hongrun was behind this incident, but unexpectedly, it turned out to be the result of his family order colluding with foreign thieves.
At this time, the expressions of the great nobles in the country such as Sun Mou, the Marquis of Xihu, Zhao Jian, the Marquis of Wanlong, and Jiang Dan, the Marquis of Gaoyang, were also very exciting.
It is not difficult to guess that they originally wanted to use this incident to attack Prince Su Zhao Hongrun. Unexpectedly, various signs currently indicate that Prince Su Zhao Hongrun has nothing to do with the case. If they are accused of "framing the prince", what will happen to them?
Most of the time you won’t be able to eat and have to walk around.
Therefore, under the gaze of Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, these people dragged Uncle Feng, Marquis of Yuanling, and fled away.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun also said goodbye to the three officials Chu Shuli, Tang Zheng, and Xu Rong, and left Daliang Mansion together with Zhao Shen, King of Chengling, and Zhao Tan, Marquis of Anping.
Outside the official gate of Daliang Mansion, Zhao Hongrun, Chengling King Zhao Shen and Anping Marquis Zhao Tan got on the carriage of Prince Su's Mansion. Zhao Hongrun said to Zhao Tan: "Unfortunately, I was favored by Anping Marquis."
Anping Hou Zhao Tan nodded and said solemnly: "Before entering Daliang Mansion, I looked at Uncle Feng's face and guessed that this matter was probably not his order. I just verified my judgment in the hall...
That is to say, there is a third party among them who is stirring up dissension and fanning the flames, hoping to provoke a fight between His Highness Prince Su and Marquis Yuanling."
Zhao Hongrun also nodded when he heard this, and then he frowned and said: "Everything Marquis Anping said is reasonable, but there is something that I can't figure out. The so-called third party force is sowing discord in this matter.
Does fanning the flames have any benefit to them?...Those people are not so naive as to think that a Marquis of Yuanling can make me stumble, right?"
"This..." Anping Hou Zhao Tan and Chengling King Zhao Shen looked at each other, with many doubts in their eyes.
In the end, Zhao Hongrun, Anping Hou Zhao Tan, and Chengling King Zhao Shen decided to wait and see what happened to see what the secret "third party force" wanted to do.
At the same time, several big nobles in the country, such as Sun Mou, the Marquis of Huyou, Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, Zhao Jian, the Marquis of Wanlong, Jiang Dan, the Marquis of Gaoyang, Li Yang, the Marquis of Pingcheng, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, and Ji Yan, the Marquis of Kuangcheng, have returned to the city from Daliang Mansion.
The inn.
After returning to the post house, Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, called the soldiers in the post house and asked them to bring them drinks. Then he sat at the table and drank one cup after another.
Just as Zhao Hongrun guessed, the old servant who had been with him for more than 40 years colluded with foreign thieves. This incident hit Yuanling Marquis Feng Shu very hard, so heavy that the latter could no longer think about anything else and just wanted to get drunk.
Seeing Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, pouring wine one cup at a time, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, sighed quietly, frowned and said, "What happened today was really unexpected... I didn't expect that this would be the result."
After hearing this, several nobles in the room also lamented.
The princes sitting in the room knew very well that King Su Zhao Hongrun did not hesitate to give up the "Pi Shi Order" among the "Four Orders of Hedong" to win over Zhao Shen, King of Chengling, in order to divide the camp of the great nobles in their country.
And it is undeniable that King Su's weirdness succeeded. The "stupid" Chengling King Zhao Shen deserted these nobles and went to King Su's camp, and also took away people such as "Anping Hou Zhao Tan" and "Gao Xian"
"Hou Lu Xin", "Lü Tan Hou Gongsun Che", "Liu Guang Hou Zhao Kang" and others caused the camp of the nobles who originally had the same interests to split into two groups and turned against each other.
In this case, the next step for His Royal Highness Prince Su is to win over Chengling Prince Zhao Shen, Anping Marquis Zhao Tan and others, and suppress Huyao Marquis Sun Mou, Yuanling Marquis Feng Shu, Wanlong Marquis Zhao Jian, Gaoyang Marquis Jiang Dan, and Pingcheng Marquis Li Yang.
, Quliang Hou Sima Song, Kuangcheng Hou Jiyan and others.
Because of this, when something happened in the house of Yuanling Marquis Feng Shu, all the princes in the house felt that this might be an opportunity to reverse the situation, so they jointly appealed to King Su. Unexpectedly, all the current signs showed that King Su actually
It has nothing to do with this matter.
This is troublesome - not only did they fail to cause trouble for King Su, but they also took the initiative to hand a handle into the hands of the other party.
Framing the prince is a serious crime. Even if they just take advantage of the situation and are not the mastermind, they still cannot escape the "faint" reputation of "not defending loyalty and traitor".
What's even worse is that if they can't delay King Su this time, King Su will definitely take the butcher's knife and attack them.
Thinking of this, the princes in the room became worried.
During this period, Gaoyang Hou Jiang Dan said hesitantly: "Gentlemen, if we go to Prince Su's Mansion in person at this time to plead guilty, can we escape the disaster?"
Hearing this, Pingcheng Marquis Li Yang frowned and said: "Su Wang Zhao Run has now received the support of Chengling Wang Zhao Shen, Anping Marquis Zhao Tan and others. Whether we defect to him or not is of little concern to him... He always
is to
He wants to win over a group of people and suppress a group of people, and at present, we have become the first targets he is preparing to suppress... In my opinion, even if we submit to weakness, cater to and please, I'm afraid... I'm afraid there won't be any
What a big change.”
"I don't believe that Zhao Run dares to kill everyone." Jiang Dan, Marquis of Gaoyang, said: "If we go to the thorns to plead guilty, and he still shuts us out, who else will join him in the future?"
After hearing this, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, said calmly: "The problem is not here, the problem is... If we give in this time, then only Zhao Run will follow suit in the future. When the time comes, Zhao Run will ask to take it back.
Those...well, the fields under our name that we acquired at a low price are taken back to the imperial court. Will you, Marquis Gaoyang, give it to you? If he still wants the imperial court to take back those mines in your name, will Marquis Gaoyang give it to you?
"
"..." Gaoyang Hou Jiang Dan was speechless and asked after a while: "What should we do? Does Qu Liang Hou have any ideas?"
After hearing this, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, looked around at the princes in the room and said calmly: "For the current plan, we have the only way out to resist... Fortunately, there are not many princes who defect to Su Wang Zhao Run.
There are five people: Zhao Shen, the king of Chengling, Zhao Tan, the Marquis of Anping, Lu Xin, the Marquis of Gaoxian (Xiao family), Gongsun Che, the Marquis of Lutan, and Zhao Kang, the Marquis of Liuguang.
Hou Liumao
", "Li Yuanhou Wang Xi", "Shangliang Hou Zhao Anding" are still waiting and watching, and have not been convinced by Chengling King Zhao Shen. If we can persuade these neutral princes, we will stand firmly on the side of His Highness King Qing, and
If you contact the other nobles in the country, you may not lose to King Su Zhao Run... Everyone, King Su Zhao Run supports the small nobles, not us. Only when King Qing is in power can you and I have a good life."
The princes in the room nodded their heads after hearing this.
During this period, Gaoyang Marquis Jiang Dan asked: "So, does Quliang Marquis have any specific plans?"
After hearing this, Sima Song, the Marquis of Quliang, pondered for a moment and said: "We have been passive in today's matter. If we want to reverse the victory or defeat, we might as well..." After that, he lowered his voice and said something.
After hearing these words, the expressions of the princes in the room suddenly changed, and even Uncle Feng, the Marquis of Yuanling, who was drinking at the side, moved his lips slightly.
But in the end, Yuanling Hou Feng Shu said nothing.
It turned out that Quliang Hou Sima Song's plan was to try to get rid of Yuanling Hou's family commander Feng Guan, falsely accuse King Su, and create public opinion to completely muddy the waters.
Two days later, Feng Guan, the family leader of Marquis Yuanling, died in the prison of Dali Temple.