Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 541
"Department of punishment?"

Cen Mao opened his eyes, looked at Fang Yiai, and murmured: "You want to escort me to the Ministry of Punishment?"

"That's natural." Fang Yiai nodded with his hands behind his back, and said, "If you don't escort the censor to the Ministry of Punishment, wouldn't it be possible to escort the procuratorate to prison?"

Cen Mao lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then slowly got up, leaned in front of Fang Yiai, and said coldly: "Is the son-in-law planning to repeat the old trick?"

"Replay the old trick?" Fang Yiai frowned slightly, glanced at the imperial guards behind Cen Mao, and asked with a frown, "What do you mean by that?"

The corners of Cen Mao's lips turned up, and he made his last attack before being arrested, "Thinking of Xiao Rui's son-in-law's bizarre and tragic death in the Heavenly Prison, did the son-in-law want me to die suddenly from the plague?"

"Xiao Rui died suddenly?!"

A cold light flashed in Fang Yi'ai's starry eyes, he clenched his hands slightly, and said in a cold voice: "Everyone knows that Xiao Rui suffers from the plague, and the work of the Ministry of Punishment and the Procuratorate all use it to prove his integrity, why did Yushi slander Fang Jun? "

Cen Mao snorted softly, and said with emotion: "Could it be that the mouse in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment is surnamed Fang?!"

As soon as this remark came out, Fang Yixin felt unhappy, but before he could refute it, the guard behind him suddenly strode forward and punched Cen Mao in the lower abdomen.

"Officer Cen Mao, if you dare to dirty the royal affairs again, you will be bound to the East Palace immediately and handed over to His Highness the Crown Prince for interrogation!"

Hearing what the imperial army said, Fang Yiai's tense spirit immediately relaxed.

"Phew, fortunately, the imperial army was not misled by Cen Mao."

As for Cen Mao's intentions, Fang Yi'ai knew all about it. What he did was to use the eyes and ears of the imperial army to spread his words to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and then the Imperial Horse Supervisor reported it to Li Shimin, who was personally conscripted by the imperial driver, so that he could perform a "one-off" move. Lost and lost" drama.

But Cen Mao didn't know that the forbidden army kept secret about the royal affairs, not to mention that Fang Yiai was holding the imperial horse supervision ticket and the East Palace transfer order, so the forbidden army would naturally be more or less biased towards this house son-in-law.

Cen Mao squatted on the ground, covering his lower abdomen with his hands, glistening beads of sweat had already covered his forehead, and after a while he said intermittently: "Fang Jun! You are clearly framing me!"

"Whether it is framed or not, the Ministry of Justice has its own opinion!"

Fang Yiai didn't want to spend too much time with Cen Mao, snorted coldly, and then said to the imperial guards: "Send Cen Mao and his party to the hall!"

"Obey!" The imperial guards responded in unison, and then escorted Cen Mao and others quickly down the second floor of the Wufeng Building, and walked straight to the Sixth Department along the downtown area.

"Cen Mao! Traitor!" Fang Yiai looked at the back of Cen Mao and others leaving, and said bitterly: "You dog is greedy, when I was young, I went to the procuratorate to invite Li Fang and Mao Peng to interrogate three times. "

When they came to the Ministry of Justice Hall, Li Fang and Mao Peng had already been notified by Xue Rengui, and they were sitting in the middle of the Ministry Hall, waiting for Fang Yiai to escort Cen Mao for interrogation.

"Cen Mao? The censor of the procuratorate? How could he set fire to Wufeng Tower?" Li Fang said to himself, stroking his long beard under his chin.

Mao Peng took a sip of herbal tea and sighed: "Cen Mao is a student of Prime Minister Changsun. Today coincides with the debate between the son-in-law of the Imperial College and Chang'an Shizi in Wufeng Building. This is clearly a murder with a knife."

"Ah!" A look of worry flashed in Li Fang's eyes, and she glanced at the entrance of the hall, and after confirming that there were no idlers waiting, she said, "If it is really so involved!"

Mao Peng nodded and said, "If His Royal Highness takes the opportunity"

"Nephew, be cautious in your words and deeds." Li Fang raised his hand to interrupt Mao Peng, and then said: "This matter is too involved, why don't you inform Zhongshu Sheng?"

"Zhongshu Sheng? If the three prime ministers find out, it may lead to a contest between the Shandong gentry and the Guanlong clan!" Mao Peng looked at the blue sky and said with emotion.

Li Fang showed a look of embarrassment, nodded and pondered, "This matter is very difficult!"

While the two were talking, Fang Yiai and Xue Rengui walked into the hall with their robes lifted, looked at Li Fang and Mao Peng, cupped their hands and said, "Shang Shu, Shi Lang."

"Fang Shilang." Mao Peng and Li Fang got up and called for Fang Yiai's official position, and then said one after another:

"Nephew, is Cen Mao here?"

"My dear brother, how should we handle this matter?"

Seeing the fluffy words of the two, Fang Yi thought to himself lovingly, "Are you asking for my opinion? Or are you putting the blame on me?"

"Forget it! I am both the sufferer and the arresting officer in this matter, so it's okay to show up once."

Having made up her mind, Fang Yiai clasped her hands and said, "Please be promoted to the third hall for trial!"

"Three trials?" Li Fang and Mao Peng looked at each other, with hesitation on their faces.

The three-court joint trial is a special way to try important cases. Like the previous "Xiao Rui's sudden death case", Li Shimin ordered Wei Zheng, Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou, and Cai Shaobing to try the case together, and also ordered Gao Shilian, Li Xiaogong, Monk Bianji and others watched the trial from the sidelines for the sake of fairness and fairness. Of course, the three-room joint trial in the Ministry of Punishment Hall cannot compare with the scale of the original Procuratorate.

"Nephew, is it a bit of a fuss in the third trial?" Li Fang thought for a while and said.

Mao Peng nodded in response, "Yes, Cen Mao will be interrogated in the third court."

Seeing the flickering of the two people's words, Fang Yiai gave a wry smile, cupped his hands and said, "In that case, I invite the two of you to watch the trial from the sidelines, Fang Jun alone will be the presiding judge!"

"Okay, my nephew is the right servant of the criminal department, so it's appropriate to try this case." Seeing that she was able to get out of the matter, Li Fang hurriedly nodded in agreement.

A look of shame flashed in Mao Peng's eyes, and he muttered: "My dear brother, this matter"

Seeing the change in Mao Peng's expression, Fang Yiai shook his head and said, "Dear brother, don't worry."

The three of them made a decision, and then Li Fang came forward to open the case hall of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and called a dozen people to stand on the hatchback holding water and fire sticks, while Fang Yiai sat on top of the case in the lobby, and Mao Peng and Li Fang sat next to each other. Xue Rengui sat next to Li Fang, exercising his right to be the head of the Ministry of Punishment.

When the case hall was ready, Fang Yiai slapped the gavel and said in a loud voice, "Lead someone to commit crimes!"

After practicing in Meiwu County and Caozhou, Fang Yiai has a preliminary understanding of Shengtang's questioning, coupled with Cai Shaobing's "favor", Fang's son-in-law's questioning and bluffing skills have improved to a higher level .

The four guards escorted Cen Mao into the case hall, and saw that Cen Mao had already been dressed in a criminal garment, with elbows in his hands and shackles on his feet, looking very embarrassed.

"Who's standing next?" Because Cen Mao had an official position, Fang Yiai didn't force him to kneel in the hall, but just asked in a condescending voice.

"Supervisor Censor of the Procuratorate, Cen Mao, Cen Junran!" Cen Mao's words were sonorous, looking at Fang Yiai without the slightest bit of timidity.

Fang Yiai nodded slightly, and then patted the gavel, "Since you are a fourth-rank censor, let's stand for trial!"

"Fang Jun!" Cen Mao heard Fang Yi'ai's words, and said coldly, "You have no approval ticket and no arrest card, how can you judge me?"

"Capturing cards? Approving tickets?" Fang Yiai looked sideways at Xue Rengui and asked, "Master Si Xue, did you ever get the cards capturing and approving tickets?"

Xue Rengui took out the arrest card and approval ticket from his sleeve, held it up for Cen Mao to take a look, and said loudly: "The arrest card and approval ticket are all ready!"

Upon seeing this, Li Fang testified: "The approving ticket was issued by the official himself, so there must be no fake!"

Seeing that the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment said so, Cen Mao lost his temper, so he could only stand under the hall, looking at Fang Yiai proudly, thinking in his heart that Feng Chengdong and Changsun Wuji had got the news earlier and came to rescue him as soon as possible.

"Cen Mao, now that you are committing a crime, I won't address you by your official title. I hope you will forgive me if you call him by his first name!" Fang Yiai said softly.

Hearing this, Cen Mao snorted coldly, "It's a hypocrisy!"

Fang Yiai was noncommittal, and went straight to the point: "Cen Mao, was someone instigated to set the Wufeng Tower on fire this time?"

Cen Mao closed his eyes, raised his head to face Fang Yiai, and had already made up his mind not to confess.

Seeing that Cen Mao refused to answer, Fang Yiai asked again: "Since you don't want to confess, then I will ask you another question. Did you write the nursery rhyme in Chang'an City earlier?"

As soon as this remark came out, Li Fang and Mao Peng were shocked, and even Cen Mao was stunned. The three of them never expected that Fang Yiai knew who wrote the nursery rhyme.

"The nursery rhyme was written by Cen Mao?" Li Fang nodded and pondered.

Mao Peng looked annoyed, pointed at Cen Mao and asked: "Officer Cen Mao! I think you are also a second-class Jinshi and a student of the emperor. Besides, you are an official censor of the procuratorate. How can you write such a poem that framed the royal family?"

Cen Mao opened his eyes, looked at Mao Peng and sneered, "Poetry? Are nursery rhymes poetry?"

"I'm a scholar from the top two ranks, how can I write such a vulgar nursery rhyme? If the minister wants to make friends with each other, please choose a clever method!"

As soon as this remark came out, Fang Yiai frowned, Mao Peng became sullen, pointed at Cen Mao and said in unison: "Why do friends compare to traitors?"

"Mao Shilang's younger sister is married to Fang Yize, who is Fang Yize? Your brother-in-law's younger brother!"

After finishing speaking, Cen Maolang said in a loud voice: "Fang Jun! Kill someone with a knife! Why bother so much? I don't accept it! I'm going to beat Dengwen Drum!"

(End of this chapter)