Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

As soon as Yinshi arrived the next day, Defang entered the palace, explained the matter to Baili, Jiajun, Hua Tiangang, Gao Kuo and Zhang Si, who were about to go to the Chongzheng Palace where Emperor Taizong took a rest before going to court. Defang stopped suddenly at the door, and Baili asked, "My lord, what's the matter with you?"

Defang turned around, "Go back first."

The few people were stunned, not knowing what was going on, so they had to go out of Xuanyou Gate again, Defang said, "General Hua, you should go and inform His Majesty that someone has filed an imperial petition, and then present the petition."

"My lord, why is this?"

"This is an imperial complaint. Naturally, His Majesty needs to know about it first. The lonely king went directly with his people. This is forcing the emperor to avenge his grievances. Although there is nothing wrong with it, His Majesty must have something in his heart. You go and talk about it first, and then look at it." How will His Majesty handle this matter?"

"The general understands." Hua Tiangang asked Zhang Si to kneel in front of Xuanyou's gate, and then he took the pleadings to the Chongzheng Hall. At this time, Taizong had just entered the hall and was about to drink tea. Hua Tiangang told the servant that someone had sued him. The servant did not dare to delay, and ran into the hall to report. Taizong was surprised when he heard that someone had filed an imperial petition, so he quickly took the paper to read, but he couldn't see what it was after looking at it for a long time. Especially the big character horoscope in the middle is even more confusing, so the servant scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, could it be that a madman scribbled on paper and came to make trouble?"

Taizong thought for a while, "Go out and see that person, and ask him what's going on."

The servant ran to Xuanyou Gate to look at Zhang Si from a distance, but he didn't approach him, thinking that a poor country bumpkin would sue for impeachment, probably a madman, and then ran back to the hall to report, "Your Majesty, what a madman!"

"Oh? Crazy?"

"Yes, Your Majesty! That man was dressed in tatters, and his hair was not combed. He knelt there and looked left and right, and he was talking and giggling to himself. When the younger one went to ask him something, he was still cursing, what a madman. .”

"Huh!" Taizong threw the pleading paper away, "What is this Hua Tiangang doing! The madman sued him and brought him into the palace! Throw this pleading paper out! Give the madman twenty big boards to blow him out of the palace!"

"Yes" the servant walked out of the hall with the pleading paper, Hua Tiangang asked, "Elder-in-law, what does your Majesty say?"

"General Hua, you are so serious, bring a lunatic here!"

"Madman?" Hua Tiangang didn't understand

"Come with us." The servant brought Hua Tiangang to Xuanyoumen, and Defang was on the side at this time, and said to the imperial guards of Xuanyoumen, "Your Majesty has an order! Let this madman be held accountable." Ten bombs out of the palace!"

"Yes!" The imperial guard stepped forward and pressed Zhang Si to the ground, and was about to beat him with a stick. Defang saw it and shouted, "Stop!"

"See Your Majesty!"

"General Hua, what's going on?"

"The last general doesn't know either." Hua Tiangang looked at the servant, "Elder-in-law, what's going on?"

"Your Majesty said he was a lunatic who wanted to sue him for taking a broken painting, so he asked the little one to beat him twenty slaps and send him out of the palace."

"What! Broken painting! This..." De Fang slowed down, "How does His Majesty know if he is a madman?"

The servant was embarrassed to hear this, Hua Tiangang said, "My lord, he came out to see Zhang Si just now, he must have lied to His Majesty that Zhang Si is a madman!"

"What! How dare you deceive the king!" Defang glared at the servant holding the golden mace, and the servant hurriedly kowtowed, "Damn it, my lord! Please spare me!"

"You bastard! Jiajun! Tie him up!"

Jiajun stepped forward to tie up the servant, Defang said, "This matter is for the lonely king, General Hua, you call the jailer, and General Song will wait here, and the court may call later."

"Yes, my lord."