Emperor Qin looked at Lin Ze who was crying, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and said, "Fusu, tell me."
Fusu immediately replied: "My son, I obey."
Then Fusu pointed at Lin Ze and said, "Lin Ze, how dare you pretend to be stupid in front of my father? Do you dare to say that you didn't arrest my subordinates?"
"I'm so nice to ask you to ask for someone, are you going to refuse it in every possible way?"
Lin Ze did not respond directly to Fusu. Instead, he prostrated himself on the ground and said to Emperor Qin: "I beg your Majesty to allow me to defend myself."
Emperor Qin replied calmly: "Yes."
Lin Ze then stood up and said to Fusu: "First of all, Xianguan needs to correct the young master on two points. First, it is the guards in black who arrest people, not Xianguan. Secondly, it is not that Xianguan refuses in every possible way, but
The lower official really has no right to release him."
Fusu snorted coldly: "The people who arrested the people were all your men, and you didn't give the order? How is this different from arresting them with your own hands?"
Lin Ze shook his head: "Master Fusu, you keep saying that the black-clothed guards arrested the young master's disciples, but why don't you ask why the black-clothed guards arrested the young master's disciples? If the young master's disciples hadn't violated the laws of the Qin Dynasty, the black-clothed guards would have found him.
Come to the door?"
Fusu sneered and said, "If you want to incriminate someone, why bother? You can make up random charges to arrest people, can you fool them? Are my disciples a suspect of rebelling?"
Hu Hai interrupted at the right time: "Confucianism."
Fusu choked and almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
Lin Ze said with an innocent face: "How did the young master know that one of his disciples is a suspected rebel? Could it be that the young master..."
Fusu said hurriedly: "Didn't you tell me this?"
Lin Ze flatly denied it and said: "I have never said that I, the Young Master, must not spit blood on others. Besides, when the black guards handle cases, they follow the laws of the Qin Dynasty and pay attention to evidence. It is not my decision."
A trace of anger appeared on Fusu's face: "Then why do you arrest people?"
Lin Ze said sternly: "As far as I know, there are many. Some of them were sneaking around on the streets during the curfew, and were caught by guards in black and arrested on the spot.
Some of them were reported to the Black Guards for hiding soldiers and armor, and then they all got the stolen goods and were all arrested."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Qin couldn't help but feel slightly moved, and said: "Lin Ze, so you are acting according to the laws of Qin?"
Lin Ze hurriedly saluted and replied: "Your Majesty is aware of this and I don't dare to overstep my bounds."
"Then how do you explain the suspected rebels Fusu mentioned?"
Lin Ze replied seriously: "According to Wei Chen's investigation, some people are indeed suspected of this, so Wei Chen does not dare to let people go easily."
A sneer appeared on Emperor Qin's face: "Oh, as the prince of the Fusu Empire, isn't that enough for you to be lenient?"
Lin Zeyi replied righteously: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude. In my opinion, only your Majesty can be above the Qin Law in this world, and no one else has this qualification."
"If Qin Law is compared to a sword, the handle of the sword can only be held in the hand of His Majesty. Others will die if they touch it."
A smile appeared on Emperor Qin's face and he praised: "That's right, I'm very happy."
Fusu became anxious on the side and said: "Father, these are Lin Ze's one-sided words. Lin Ze is two-faced and cannot be trusted."
The smile on Emperor Qin's face disappeared and he said to Zhao Gao: "Go and check, is it true?"
Zhao Gao immediately took the order and left.
Soon Zhao Gao returned, holding a thick stack of paper in his hand, which was the signed confession that Lin Ze had asked someone to interrogate Fusu's disciples.
Zhao Gao presented it with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, this is what I have just brought from Tingwei's Mansion. It is the confession of a member of Mr. Fusu's family. Please take a look at it."
Fusu's face changed greatly when he heard this: "Father, this confession was clearly obtained by Lin Ze under severe torture. It cannot be trusted."
Emperor Qin turned a deaf ear and took it, opened it and looked at it. It was indeed a serious confession, with the signatures of the prisoners on it, and he confessed to his violation of the laws of Qin.
Upon hearing Fusu's words, Emperor Qin threw away the confession, slowly dropped it in front of Fusu, and said coldly: "Look carefully, is there any sentence in it that says your disciples are rebels? Take a closer look.
, it’s just a trivial matter such as riding a horse in the market. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, paying a hundred gold can satisfy the crime. Do you still need black-clad guards to torture you to extract a confession?"
Fusu was speechless and glared at Lin Ze angrily: "Are you plotting against me? You deliberately made me look embarrassed in front of my father, right?"
Lin Ze looked confused and said: "Why did the young master say this?"
Hu Hai, who had been ordered by Lin Ze earlier and kept silent, couldn't help but said: "Brother Fusu, you are the one who is chasing rumors, and you are the one who came to complain to my father. Now that you failed to frame Lin Ze, you have defeated him again. Could it be that you are relying on yourself?"
With your identity, you can do whatever you want?"
Fusu looked extremely ugly and pointed at Hu Hai and said: "Hu Hai, don't think that I don't know. You instigated everything. It was clearly you who framed me behind my back."
Hu Hai retorted without fear: "I'm not as insidious as you. I spend my whole day either scheming people or trapping others."
Seeing that the two brothers were getting more and more angry, Emperor Qin couldn't help but scolded: "That's enough, shut up. You two brothers are throwing a lot of tantrums, and you don't pay attention to the occasion, for fear that others won't know, right?"
The two of them stopped obediently, saluted Emperor Qin and said, "I know my mistake, please punish me."
Emperor Qin showed an impatient look on his face and said, "Let's let this matter go. If you have nothing else to do, please retreat first."
Fusu remembered the earnest looks from his followers when he came, expecting him to rescue his disciples and tribesmen from the Black Guard Prison. He immediately stepped forward and said: "Father, since my subordinates did not make any big mistakes, my son
I sincerely ask my father to make the decision, how about letting them go?"
"Huh?" Emperor Qin turned to Lin Ze and said, "Lin Ze, what do you think?"
Lin Ze bowed and replied: "Wei Chen thinks that just because he is a disciple of Mr. Fu Su, he should be punished with small punishments and big warnings to prevent those people from ruining the reputation of the palace. However, if His Majesty has a purpose, Wei Chen will not say anything.
Go back and release them immediately."
Emperor Qin nodded and said: "Well, then I'll listen to you. Let's lock him up for a few days first, so that everyone will not dare to act recklessly in Chang'an City because they think they have climbed to Fusu."
Lin Ze saluted and responded: "I obey the order."
"Father..." Fusu wanted to say more.
But he was interrupted by Hu Hai: "Brother Fusu, just because of a few untouchables, you have troubled my father over and over again. Do you have any filial piety at all?"
Fusu said angrily: "You..."
Seeing that the two brothers were about to quarrel again, Emperor Qin immediately waved his hand and said: "Everyone, please step aside."
Lin Ze and Hu Hai were the first to reply: "Weichen (son minister) retires."
Fusu had no choice but to resign.
After leaving the Yangxin Hall, Fusu said angrily to Lin Ze: "I wonder how long you can keep them in prison. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, for these crimes, you will have to release them sooner or later."
Lin Ze just smiled faintly and didn't say anything. You have never seen what it means to put your left foot out and then catch your right foot again.