The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 36

Knocking on the gong, parading through the streets to show the public, holding a whip, and ordering to pray
But he said that Zeng Youcai was obsessed with the gong and didn't know how to beat it. He looked at the policeman, and many people's book messengers below looked at it like that. How can their women rob, what is the use of us at this time? Let me teach you again." Then he took the gong and beat it for a while, and said loudly: "Men and civilians, listen, I am Zhang Changzong's domestic slave He was punished for breaking the law and paraded through the streets to show the public. If you want to know the details, listen to what he reads." After finishing speaking, he knocked the gong wildly for a while, then put it down and said, "This is not difficult. If you want to live, take these few Keep this sentence in your heart. There is another thing to explain in the hall, no matter who your lord sends to escort you to the street, you must not deliberately delay it; if you don't knock, you can use a leather whip to beat you. Then don't blame us for doing it." Di Gong heard clearly from above, and said to Zeng Youcai, "Can you hear what he said? Since he has been taught and preached, why didn't he come to watch with this court?" Zeng Youcai said He couldn't help it sometimes, so he had to knock for a while like a patrol, and then he called the soldiers and people to listen. Many people below couldn't help laughing when they saw him in this situation.Zeng Youcai was laughed at by everyone, and then shut up again. At that time, the patrolling in the hall was also funny, and he stepped forward and scolded: "If you are like this in the hall, will you still say it when you go to the street? Or please behead your head and hang it for public display , lest you be in such a difficult situation." Hearing this, Zeng Youcai looked at Di Gong again, fearing that he would be beheaded, so he hurriedly begged, "Please apprehend the master, I will let you go."

At that time, he said in an old-fashioned way: "I am Zhang Changzong's domestic slave." The people below saw that he was arrested by police, and their faces turned red and white. It was really ugly, and they laughed again. Then he dragged and wished the police to see him, took the whip and hit him twice, cursing: "You bastard seed, can you stop them from laughing? There are still few people now, so I will engrave this on the street for a while." As soon as the gong was knocked, people flocked to watch it, and there were even more people laughing at that time, so why didn't you say anything on purpose?" After cursing, he twitched again.

Zeng Youcai was forced to be helpless by him, so he had to lower his head and repeat what he taught him, the laughter in the hall was like a tide turning.

Di Gong was also amused in his heart, and thought to himself: "If this is the case, we can't embarrass that Zhang Changzong." Immediately ordered the police to take Bu Cheng with him and said, "Do you remember the flag you wrote yesterday?" Zhou Bucheng said: "The revolutionary Remember." Di Gong said: "This is wonderful. This court is afraid that you are not interesting by yourself. Even if you read aloud, people in the neighborhood can hear it. Those women in the inner room, young and old, may not know everything. Therefore, this court will invite you to make an appointment with a partner, and order Zeng Youcai to beat the gong. When the people are full, then you will be asked to recite the offering. Wouldn’t everyone inside and outside hear it? Just now he performed in the hall, Let us watch the show again." After speaking, he ordered Zeng Youcai to beat the gong and sing as he did just now, but Zeng Youcai knew that he couldn't make it through, so he had to beat the gong and sing again.Zhou Bucheng couldn't bear to look at it any more, he lowered his head, wishing he hadn't burrowed into the ground, this kind of ugliness was exposed, he was no longer a human being, so how could he want to read it again.Di Gongdao: "He has finished knocking, why don't you continue to read?" Zhou Bucheng didn't speak, and the guards next to him shouted: "Don't put on airs like this! Let me ask you, what did you say in front of the adults just now?" ? Once you don’t say it, the whip is here, so you can look down and beat it. Now that you have saved your life, you still don’t know how to be grateful, and you still don’t want to say the words from your mouth.” Zhou Bucheng kowtowed on the ground when he saw that the police were urging him , Said to the front of the case: "I beg your lord to be merciful to the end, and the rehabilitated members will definitely change their ways from now on. If you do so, the rehabilitated members will be ashamed. I beg your lord to just let the rehabilitated members parade through the streets, and don't read this confession." Di Gong said: "This Why did the court not recite the confession because of your willingness, so why did you escape the death penalty? Now that you have returned to Longwangshu, and deliberately delayed, isn’t it a trick? If you don’t recite the confession again, you will be beheaded.”

When Zhou Bucheng saw this, although he was afraid in his heart, he really couldn't read it out of his mouth, so he inadvertently said to Di Gong: "My lord and Zhang Changzong are also ministers of the same palace. The villain is guilty and has nothing to do with him. Why do you want to find out?" Originally, Qiuyuan was involved in him? Remove the words of asking for his recommendation and his name, so that the villain can go." Hearing these words, Di Gong couldn't bear it, and he was shocked immediately, Gao Gao He scolded: "you are a bold dog, how dare you charge in the hall of this courtyard! Yesterday was your own confession, and you wrote the record yourself. After coming here overnight, you came up with this idea again, and used Zhang Changzong to blackmail this courtyard. To order you to do this is to humiliate him, you dare to withdraw your confession like this, what crime should you deserve! Beat him a hundred times!"

The guards on both sides, seeing that Mr. Di was really angry, didn't dare to be negligent, so they immediately dragged him down, raised their big sticks, and hit his legs.But the sound of crying and shouting could be heard endlessly, after finally beating a hundred sticks, Zhou Bucheng was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't get up.Di Gong ordered someone to help him up and asked, "Are you willing to read it? If you still can't, this court will take advantage of this to beat you to death. Fortunately, there is only one person who went there today." After all, Zhou Bucheng put his life first. He said in a voice: "The leather guards don't dare to disobey again. But they are not allowed to walk, please forgive me."

Di Gongdao: "It's not difficult." He ordered him to take out a big basket, ordered him to sit in it, put the flag on the basket, passed two teams, and lifted him up.Many court servants escorted Zeng Youcai, and two police officers rode behind to suppress him.Immediately, the people came out of the patrolling yamen and went to the front of the street in great numbers.

At the intersection of the street, he ordered Zeng Youcai to knock the gong for a while, said those few words, and then ordered Zhou Bucheng to read it on the flag.All the people in the neighborhood, without exception, said they were happy and laughed.This one said: "Now that Zhang Changzong is in power, there are no domestic slaves under him. They are like tigers and wolves. There is no wind and three feet of waves, bullying the people like chickens and dogs." Some said: "This Lord Di, although he can do it well. Happy, I'm afraid he's going too far. This is not to do Zhou Bucheng, but it is to humiliate Zhang Changzong. If he cried and played a book in the palace, Empress Wu loved him as much as his life. It’s also a matter of intention to dismiss the adults and question them.” This group of people is just discussing in the sidelines, only the unemployed hooligans, and young children, don’t know the severity, seeing these two people like this, I’m really overjoyed , stood in front of him and said with a smile: "Zhou Bucheng, why don't you read high, are you still afraid of being ugly? You don't read, I will read for you." Many children scrambled to read for a while.Looking back, seeing Zeng Youcai clinging to the small gong, he knocked it again, in Zhou Bucheng's ear, banged it for a while, laughed for a while, cursed for a while, and repeated it twice.The old and young people all over the street couldn't help being amused seeing so many children making trouble for no reason.Those patrols were trying to humiliate Zhang Changzong, so they went nowhere to stop them.Zhou Bu intentionally felt ashamed and annoyed, and wanted to get up to stop him, but he couldn't move his legs.Along the way, I walked through many neighborhoods, but happened to be not far from the alley of Zhang Changzong's house.Originally, the police were ordered by Di Gong to deliberately take a detour, but when they saw the entrance of the alley, they immediately ordered Zeng Youcai to beat the gong.Zeng Youcai said: "All of you, please be sympathetic. Now that I have walked a lot of roads, and this group of children are constantly laughing, I can't lift my hands. I can walk through this alley and knock again." Let's go!" The police scolded: "You bastard seed, cover up in the regular meeting, who's the head of the family? Other neighbors can forgive you, if you don't knock on this place, please use the whip." As he said, he beat him down. .

Those children, hearing what the police said, knew that they had arrived at Zhang Changzong's house, and the door of his house was already crowded with an invitation.

The family members inside didn't know what was going on, and they were about to come out to wait and see. Everyone looked inside and shouted: "Come quickly, your partner is here, help him read quickly!" Zeng Youcai!I saw him being escorted by the governor's yamen to walk, and forced him to beat the small gong.Zeng Youcai saw all the people coming out, and wanted to ask for favors on his behalf. Who would have thought that the powerful servants of the Zhang family, because they heard that Di Gong was in court the day before yesterday, sent the officials of the Huangmen to attend, including Wu Sansi and Zhang Changzong.Although he wanted to plead for him, but Di Gong was not good at talking, and he was afraid that he would be implicated.Looking at Zhou Bucheng who was sitting in the bamboo basket, he knew that it was a matter of Qinghe County, but a case of Zuo Shen, who would dare to intervene.

I saw the inspector sticking to the whip and beating Zeng Youcai randomly, saying in his mouth: "You delay on purpose, you can't blame us for being indifferent. Your Excellency has very good ears. If you don't knock and read, the responsibility is on us. If you are shy, you shouldn’t break the law, who do you think will save you at this time?”

Zeng Youcai was in pain from his beating, seeing the people inside, but looking at himself, all of them said nothing, at this moment, forced to knock twice, those children have already shouted: " The soldiers and civilians are waiting to hear this sentence." After saying this, they laughed loudly and made a noise in front of the door.Zeng Youcai couldn't take care of his face at this time, so he bit the bullet and finished reading those few sentences.Zhou Bucheng should read it, but Zhou Bucheng just bowed his head and said nothing.

When the inspector saw him like this, he became angry for a moment and raised his whip again to beat him.Unexpectedly, all the children were making noise outside the door, those family members looked carefully at the paper banner, those confessions were obviously humiliating to the master, they felt ashamed and went inside, in an instant, there was no one left.Seeing that everyone had left, Zhou Bucheng was even more disappointed, so he had to read it according to the flag.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Changzong came back from the palace at this time and was talking in front of the hall. Hearing the noise outside the door, he hurriedly asked people to come out to ask.You know who this person is, but Zhou Buxing, Zhou Bucheng's younger brother, came out and saw his elder brother like this.Regardless of whether it was Di Gong's punishment order, relying on Zhang Changzong's influence, he scolded forward: "You bastards, who ordered you to do this? He doesn't have Wuzhu, and he manipulated my brother like this, so why don't you hurry up and replace him?" I'll put it down!" Those servants, seeing a young man coming out with such rude words, said at the time: "Where did you come from? Who is your elder brother? We are sent by the governor, who are you scolding? "As a result, Zhou Buxing caused another catastrophe.

I don't know what will happen next, please see the next chapter for decomposition.

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