Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"Back to your lord, it's Wan Fengye, the writing officer of our division's size case. Wan has been writing in the Ministry of Criminal Justice for more than ten years. He always speaks straightforwardly and has a bad temper. He doesn't communicate much with people on weekdays. After Chai Shangshu took office , I personally investigated the five cases of our department one by one. Because the size of the case is in charge of interrogation, investigation, and investigation of the facts of the criminals' crimes, Chai Shangshu attached great importance to it. After asking more questions, who knows that Wan has been in office for a long time and is familiar with criminal laws. , did not put Chai Shangshu in his eyes at all, the answer was unclear, and he was arrogant and rude. Chai Shangshu was very unhappy, but for the time being, he forbears it. After a few days, Chai Shangshu assigned Wan Zhibi to do something, but Wan Zhibi procrastinated and neglected. Annoyed, he ordered someone to flog Wan Zhibi. Wan Zhibi didn't get out of bed for three whole days. The day before yesterday, he suddenly wrote a complaint, beat Dengwen drum to complain, and sued the emperor for lynching by Chai Shangshu. gone."

"So that's the case, why did Chai Shangshu enter the palace?"

"This matter has alarmed His Majesty. His Majesty went to Dali Temple for interrogation. Chai Shangshu felt quite humiliated and refused to go to court, and wrote a letter to become an official. Just now someone from the palace summoned him. Presumably His Majesty personally comforted him."

Defang nodded, "Master Chai is a good minister and capable official. It would be a loss to the court if he ceased to be an official. Lord Wei, the lonely king will enter the palace right now. You should go get busy too."

"Yes." Wei Min cupped his hands, "I will send off the prince respectfully."

"Well, Jiajun, Baili, enter the palace."

"Yes!" Jiajun led the sedan chair team to the palace, and when he came to the gate of the palace, there was indeed an official sedan chair, and Baili opened the curtain of the sedan chair, "My lord, do you want to carry the sedan chair into the palace?"

"No need, let's go." Defang took Baili to the Changchun Palace where the daily affairs are discussed. Before he went up the stone steps, he saw Chai Chengwu coming out of the palace, and Defang greeted "Chai Shangshu"

Seeing that it was Defang, Chai Chengwu cupped his hands and saluted, "The old minister sees the Eight Sage Kings."

"Chai Shangshu doesn't need to be polite." Defang held Chai Chengwu's arm, "The lonely king already knows about the old Shangshu. It's really inappropriate for a petty official to be arrogant and rude, but it's really inappropriate for the old Shangshu to write a letter for this."

"My lord, the old minister has served the emperor for four dynasties, and he has never done a single thing to be ashamed of." Chai Chengwu coughed a few times and sighed. yeah?"

"Little official, why should the old Shangshu have the same knowledge as him, you are an important minister of the four dynasties, your Majesty is very dependent on it, why the old Shangshu has the heart to abandon the temple?"

"The old official has been in office for nearly forty years. He can endure disputes in the officialdom and heavy government affairs, but he can't bear to be bullied by the subordinates. The old official is already seventy-one years old, and he still has to be sued by the small officials at the age of seventy. Going to the Dali Temple to be interrogated, what is the face of the old minister?" Chai Chengwu said here with tears in his eyes, "My lord, I have known you for more than [-] years, and I know that the reason why the lord entered the palace today is to persuade the old minister. Give up the idea of ​​becoming an official, but the old minister has made up his mind, just now His Majesty is here, the old minister also replied in the same way, please let the old minister go."

"Why are you bothering? Gu Wang remembers that more than 30 years ago, when the old Shangshu was the number one scholar in the palace examination of the Emperor Taizu, he once said that he worshiped the emperor every thirty or five times, but he only wanted to serve the Song Dynasty in this life. Now the old Shangshu official worships The Shangshu of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs is in charge of the world's criminal law and government orders, investigating serious cases, redressing injustice and correcting mistakes. Think twice."

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