Everyone was filled with righteous indignation and unanimously dissatisfied with Zhang Tang. They were far from the public's recognition as much as Zhidu back then, and were the needle in the eyes of the powerful.

They felt that Zhang Tang's punishment had deteriorated and began to abolish the public for personal gain and use any means.

Although Gongsun Hong has always been a side in academics, and the so-called promotion of "Confucianism" and suppressing "oldness", it coincides with Ji An on this point and each agrees with him.

He continued Ji An's words and said, "What Master Ji said is very true, and it is not different in the slightest. First, Huang Lao advocates tranquility and inaction, while Confucianism advocates governing with virtue. The two have different paths and the same destination, and although the categories are different, the principles are not contrary to each other.

Compared with the two, Zhang Tang is more serious in the case of taking the light, so why is he now rampant?

Zhang Tang is used harshly and many people hate him. For the sake of the Han Dynasty, we should report to the Emperor Ming, and we should stop the aversion to the wind and procrastination and never tolerate evil spirits."

All of their claims were agreed by Yan Zhu and were echoed and fun.

During the morning court the next day, Ji An couldn't help but stand up and spoke. He asked Liu Che to revise the criminal law. Any innocent people who were implicated should be rehabilitated, restored their reputations, and comforted their descendants to show the emperor's sacred virtues, rather than adding heavy punishments to force good and to correct evil.

"Not only that, Zhang Tang, who took advantage of the case to kill the Chief Censor Li Wen, was not ruthless. Look, isn't this for personal gain?

As far as I know, Li Wen is a classmate of Zhang Tang, a friend but not an enemy, and is also his colleague at the Censorate. Why is he so heartless and attacking the people around him?

When Zhang Tang took over some cases, Lord Li once made false speculations about him, not paying attention to evidence, and torture and forced confessions many times, and was a little dissatisfied. This angered Zhang Tang, which made Zhang Tang hold a grudge and falsely accused the good of being a traitor."

Yan Zhu said immediately after Ji An's words.

The court officials quickly formed two sharp factions around the evaluation of the case handling, and the troubles were endless and disputes continued.

Zhang Tang angrily scolded Ji An and Yan Zhu for their ulterior motives, slandering them wantonly, and slandering them.

To say that the case was an iron case that the emperor appointed, and their support for the fire was tantamount to telling the people that the emperor was wrong.

Tell yourself,

Liu Che said he had a headache...

Zhao Yu, who supported Zhang Tang, even accused Yan Zhuan of succeeding. He was proud of being a censor and was not distinguished by loyalty and treacherous.

Wei Qing, Zhu Maichen, Han Anguo and others who supported Ji An and Yan Zhu did not show weakness, but formed a group of people, and severely criticized Zhang Tang for committing fraud, blinding the holy hearing, and committing the crime of deceiving the emperor and ignoring the emperor.

Zhang Tang knew very well whether there were unjust cases and whether there were any injustice cases or implicated, and he could not be serious about those cases.

Every larger case involves hundreds of suspects and their families, almost half of them are tortured and scolded.

When he got the prison words, he was not unfair about whether the matter would be exposed. He had done everything that the emperor was inconvenient to do or that he was not allowed to do. Once he turned the case over, his ending would be to behead the East City.

Many times, he would discuss countermeasures with Zhao Yu overnight, one was to report to Emperor Ming as soon as possible, and once Liu Che approved it, it would be a bad case. Second, if anyone who recorded the prison words would not be kept, he would be punished for death and would be killed.

Although in his opinion, some major cases were perfect and had no flaws, he expected that he was still caught by Ji An and others, and felt very uncomfortable.

Zhang Tang understood that the longer the debate lasted, the more passive he became, and the more likely it was to affect the emperor's emotions.

In desperation, he decided to take the lead and came up with the idea of ​​retreating.

He knelt down in front of Liu Che with a "thump", and immediately burst into tears and said, "The emperor is clear that I have been taught by my father since I was a child and enforced the law for the country. I am upright and unchanged.

When handling cases, I follow the emperor's will and pay close attention to evidence. All criminals have prison words with imprisonment, which is as strong as a mountain of evidence.

Nowadays, several adults are nitpicking and accuse me, and they are not going to kill me, but to put me to death. This is clearly a jealousy of virtuous people and jealousy. I will not hesitate to my own feathers. I ask the emperor to give me a death, so that some people will not be worried."

At this time, Liu Che was unsure of his mind and always valued the opinions of the two people very much.

"Xue Ze, what do you think?"

Liu Che asked Xue Ze, who was standing in front of the civil servant, but when he heard it, he didn't hear the answer...

It turned out that the old man actually lowered his head and took a nap amid the arguments among the ministers. His heart was so big.

Liu Che was so angry that he didn't even make a fuss and opened his mouth and shouted loudly: "Xue Ze! Get up..."

Xue Ze woke up from his dream and looked around in a daze.

Liu Che said loudly: "Xue Ze! Stop sleeping, what I ask you!!"

Xue Ze woke up completely: "I am here."

"I ask you, what do you think of some of the legal cases chaired by Zhang Tang?"

"Well..." Xue Ze thought for a while and said, "I only have the emperor's right but the emperor's wrong but the emperor's wrong, there is nothing else."

Old slippery!

Liu Che cursed in his heart.

Then he turned to Gongsun Hong again: "Where is the Prime Minister? What else do you think?"

"I think that since the case has been decided, it should not be repeated. If it is a major case, even if there are some mistakes, it is inevitable.

What's more, the case handling in Kyoto is related to the safety of the people of Changle Palace in Weiyang Palace. As a subordinate, we should understand the emperor's intentions deeply and not focus on the details and contradict each other. If we lose it for a long time, it will definitely affect the implementation of the new system."

"Why did you say this by sir?"

Ji An disagreed with Gongsun Hong's answer, and what surprised him even more was that it was the agreement between the three of them beforehand, but why did he go back on his word when he came to the court? If he said he didn't want it, just say no?

Didn’t Confucianism always advocate benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and trustworthiness? Why do you believe in this?

He could not tolerate half a grain of sand in his eyes and sent contemptuous sarcasm to Gongsun Hong's abandonment of his promise, which was extremely sour.

"When I was the prefect of Bohai, I heard that many people in Qi were deceitful but ruthless.

Now Lord Gongsun has done this, haha, it turns out to be so. The emperor, Lord Gongsun, made an agreement with his ministers in advance to make this advice. Yan Zhu and his ministers all agreed as promised, but Lord Gongsun blamed him.

If a person has no faith, he cannot stand.

Can you believe that a fence-maker who speaks right and wronged and who does not violate the law like this, can you believe that he will be loyal to the court?"

However, Gongsun Hong did not defend Ji An's accusation, his eyelids twitched, and then he said to Liu Che with a grievance: "I don't blame Lord Ji."

Those who know the ministers regard their ministers as loyalty, while those who do not know the ministers regard their ministers as unfaithful. The ministers only have the great Han and the country in their hearts, and have always put their personal criticism and criticism aside."
Chapter completed!