Chapter 637 The Busy Punishment Department
As he approached the Punishment Department Yamen, Zhu Pingan felt a little strange. The front of the Punishment Department Yamen was crowded with people, mostly officials, both civil and military officials, but more of them were military attachés, busy following the court. As if confused, Zhu Pingan almost thought he had gone to the wrong door.
The entrance to the Xingbu Yamen seems to be under martial law. Every three or five steps there is a guard wearing a embroidered spring knife.
In addition to the Jin Yiwei, there are about five small banners of guards in front of the Xingbu Yamen. Each flag has ten people. The soldiers are lined up in bright armor in front of the Xingbu Yamen, making it look like a military parade.
"Liu Qianhu, you are here too." Wang Qianhu greeted Liu Qianhu at the entrance of the Criminal Department Yamen.
"Zhao Qianhu was stabbed in the back. As a leader, I had to come and support him. What about you, Wang Qianhu?" Liu Qianhu replied.
"Like Liu Qianhu, I am here to support Brother Zhao. How can we shed blood and sweat for the Ming Dynasty on the front line, while they are enjoying happiness in the back and stab us in the back? This What's the point!" Wang Qianhu was indignant, feeling angry and resentful of the powerless civil servants.
“That’s right, if we weren’t fighting the Tatars, Walas, and Jurchens on the front line, why would they be drinking tea and dancing in the back, and actually repaying kindness with hatred? I would spit in my face when I saw this kind of person. Drool!" Another military attache came over to greet the two of them.
"Zhang Qianshi"
"Master Wang"
Several military attachés greeted each other, and then chatted together in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of Justice. Immediately after they arrived, several more civil and military officials came and stood together in front of the Yamen of the Ministry of Justice, chatting while waiting for someone.
"It's really lively. I'm afraid I will disappoint you today."
Zhu Ping'an twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled, and then walked towards the entrance of the Criminal Department Yamen.
“Today there is an important case in the Ministry of Punishment, all idlers will avoid it.”
When Zhu Pingan was approaching the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment, the Jin Yiwei guard on duty on the street stopped Zhu Pingan with a waist knife, saying that today The Ministry of Punishment has another important case, so Zhu Ping'an is asked to detour.
The Jin Yiwei on duty received the order to go up to the peak. No idlers were allowed to approach this stretch of road in front of the Yamen under martial law. They did not know Zhu Pingan, but they saw that Zhu Pingan was wearing regular clothes and carrying a cloth bag slung across his body. He looked like a scholar and a businessman. Anyway, he didn't look like an official, so he stopped Zhu Pingan.
"I'm not just waiting around." Zhu Ping'an smiled silently after being stopped.
"Who are you smiling at? Leave quickly and don't dare to pester me again. I, Jin Yiwei, have a lot of space in Fusi, North Town!" Jin Yiwei looked at Zhu Ping'an expressionlessly.
"Today's important case of the Ministry of Punishment cannot be carried out without me. I am Zhu Ping'an, a student of the Hanlin Academy, and I am the person involved in the important case of the Ministry of Punishment today. This is an official document sent to me by the Ministry of Punishment, asking me to come to the Ministry of Punishment today to express my feelings. ." Zhu Pingan shook his head, took out his seal and the official document from the Ministry of Justice from the diagonal bag, and handed it to the Jin Yiwei who stopped him.
It is not their fault for stopping him, it is also their duty. As for the attitude issue, in this feudal society, we cannot ask too much of them. Service with a smile is not in the dictionary of the feudal bureaucratic class.
If he was wearing official uniform, they would definitely not dare to stop him.
"My lord, make atonement. Your Majesty, please." After the Jin Yiwei who blocked the road saw Zhu Pingan's seal and the official document of the Ministry of Punishment, he hurriedly bowed to Zhu Pingan and saluted Zhu Pingan, and returned the seal and the official document of the Ministry of Punishment to Zhu Pingan with both hands.
"You abide by your duties, and you are guilty of nothing." Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly, took the seal and official documents and put them into the cloth bag on his body.
While Zhu Ping'an was collecting things, a man walked up the street across the street, which made the entrance of the Xingbu Yamen boil. The military attachés at the Xingbu Yamen came up together and talked with him one after another. People say hello.
The person who came here, like Zhu Ping'an, is the protagonist of today's important case of the Ministry of Punishment, and both are indispensable.
This person is the target of Zhu Ping'an's impeachment-Zhao Daying.
Zhao Daying today is wearing armor, buckskin boots, a standard long sword hanging on his waist, an iron bow on his back, and a pot of feather arrows hanging on his waist on the other side. He is extraordinarily heroic and possesses the demeanor of a general.
Look at Zhao Daying, and then look at Zhu Pingan.
Compared with him, Zhu Pingan is much more ordinary. Just looking at his clothes and demeanor, Zhao Daying is the standard leading actor, and Zhu Pingan is probably just a bitch.
"Brother Zhao, you are here, don't worry, you have brothers supporting you, and no one will insult us warriors for nothing."
"That's right, Zhao Qianhu shed blood and sweat for our Ming Dynasty. He has both hard work and merit. He actually hurt people with Xiaoxiao's hidden arrows. It is really shameless. Don't worry, I won't just sit idly by."
"Zhao Qianhu, we support you."
"We must make that person named Zhu pay the price today. He just became an official from a mud-legged position and no longer knows who he is. He actually wants to make a name for himself by trapping us. Just go ahead and make him look good today! Let him know that we warriors are not easy to bully!”
“Yes, Zhao Qianhu is strict! Zhu Ping'an is the one who was promoted by the elder!"
The military attachés at the yamen of the Ministry of Justice expressed their support for Zhao Daying and made various verbal attacks on Zhu Ping'an.
These military attachés had quite loud voices, and Zhu Ping'an could hear them from a long way away
"Thank you to all my colleagues, I, Zhao Da Yingxing, sit upright and am not afraid of villains causing trouble behind my back! As the saying goes, if you are upright, you are not afraid of a slanting shadow. , I have nothing to be afraid of, today is just a formality, I believe that the adults who presided over the petition will clear my name, Zhao Daying, and give our generals an explanation, so that we can fight with all our strength on the front line without worrying about being framed behind our backs." Zhao Daying told you. The military attache thanked him, and then said with a meaningless expression.
"Okay, brother Zhao said it well. You must give us an explanation today." Zhao Daying's words resonated with all the military attachés, and they expressed their feelings and all agreed and supported him.
The ancients said: The way of civil and military affairs is a matter of relaxation. Civil and military officials are equally important to a dynasty. But things are different now. Now the status of military attachés is deteriorating, and even civilian officials lower than them are showing off their power in front of them.
There are too many examples like this: a military attache who shed blood and worked hard outside to win a battle returned to the court, only to be tricked to death by a few small civil servants in the court.
These military attachés had long been unbalanced in their hearts. They supported Zhao Daying, not only because they were won over by Zhao Daying's money and favors, but also because of this.
Most of the military attachés in the Ming Dynasty were hereditary, and their ancestors had conquered the Ming Dynasty with their blood and lives. Not only that, protecting the Ming Dynasty and fending off foreign enemies did not rely on their military attachés. Their ancestors have shed blood and sweat until now, so why are their status becoming worse than that of civil servants day by day? Why! ! !
(End of this chapter)