"This proves that you have a ghost in your heart. Otherwise, why didn't you dare to open the door? You even used the excuse that I was asleep as an excuse!”Kong Yan said calmly.
Dai Zhou's face twitched violently. "I didn't open the door because I didn't want to get involved in this matter. Why would I have any ulterior motives?"”
"You don't admit it?" Kong Yan narrowed his eyes.
Dai Zhou was completely enraged.”
"In that case," Kong Yan pondered for a moment and said," Then let's start with 20 strokes.”
"Hmm?"
All the officials looked at Kong Yan in disbelief.
"You want to torture me?" Dai Zhou pointed at himself, thinking that he had misheard.
At this time, Zhu Sanlang personally led the team. Including him, there were a total of six people. One of them held a slightly wide bench, and the other five each held a long black staff.
They quickly walked to Dai Zhou's side. Under Dai Zhou's incredulous gaze, two of them used long sticks to clamp Dai Zhou's shoulders and pressed him onto the bench. Another two people used their sticks to stab Dai Zhou's legs!
"What…what are you doing?" Dai Zhou's expression changed completely.
"Fight!" Kong Yan ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Zhu Sanlang held the long staff in his hand and smiled malevolently. He directly swung it below Dai Zhou's waist and above his thigh!
Pa!
Pa!
Pa!
“……”
"F * ck, are you really going to f * cking hit me?"
Screams and curses rang out. Dai Zhou stared at Kong Yan with bloodshot eyes, tears streaming down his face.
It was too f * cking painful!
This was too damn aggrieved!
He didn't even know why!
The officials were stunned.
The same sentence appeared in their minds: Really?
Then, the way they looked at Kong Yan completely changed!
"Brat, Dai Zhou is an official of the Imperial Court. How can you torture him like this?”Cheng Yaojin shouted, his eyes wide open.
The other ministers also glared at him angrily.
Li Shi Min, who was hiding behind the Gate of Heaven Influence, had a shocked expression on his face.
"He actually dared to attack a minister?”Li Shi Min reacted and wanted to stop him.
However, just as he took a step forward, he suddenly stopped.
He noticed the expressions of the ministers around him.
It was a kind of anger. The crowd was agitated and united against a common enemy!
"Did I offend the public?" Li Shi Min stopped and quietly observed the expressions of the ministers.
"His Majesty's imperial edict is still here. Do you want to take a look?”Kong Yan picked up the imperial edict scroll on the table and waved it in the air.
"Even if you have an imperial edict, do you think you can execute him before he is tried?”A certain officer from the Ministry of Justice asked coldly.
Kong Yan narrowed his eyes and raised his eyebrows.”
"Are you trying a case?" The Ministry of Justice officer was dumbfounded, and then he was completely furious.
He felt that his profession had been greatly insulted.
"If this isn't a trial, then what is it?" Kong Yan snorted with a fake smile. How could he confess without torture?"
"Do you still have the law in your eyes? You're trying to force a confession out of me!" A censor couldn't hold it in anymore and shouted angrily.
"Confess under torture?" Kong Yan muttered to himself and suddenly smiled." That's right. This is called forcing a confession out of a beating. I was wondering why I felt that something was wrong.”
" You…you…you…shameless dog thief, lowly merchant…" The Imperial Censorate official cursed repeatedly, causing the people around him to also curse.
The speech officer's eloquence was extraordinary. The generals were secretly learning, thinking that they would definitely be of use in the future.
Kong Yan stared at the Imperial Censorate official and then looked at Dai Zhou.
The twenty hits were very fast. At this moment, Zhu Sanlang had already led the others back to their positions, leaving only Dai Zhou lying on the bench, twitching.
"Ai, yesterday I saw the people of my Falling Goose Pavilion. They were beaten up so badly that they couldn't take care of themselves. I thought that the Great Tang's cases were all interrogation.”Kong Yan sighed and said," You're the official of the Supreme Court. I'm using the Supreme Court's method to interrogate you. Do you have any objections?”
The muscles on Dai Zhou's face twitched. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain from his buttocks as he struggled to stand up from the bench.
"You shameless dog thief! What crime have I committed?" Dai Zhou glared at Kong Yan with a face full of grief and indignation. His voice trembled with anger." I'm not coming out. What's wrong?"
I just don't want to care about this. What's wrong?
What does Hu Yan's torture of the people of the Falling Goose Pavilion have to do with me?”
At the end of his sentence, Dai Zhou's eyes turned red, and there were tears in his eyes.
It was too aggrieved!
When had he ever suffered such grievances?!
All the officials had a look of sympathy. At the same time, they understood why Kong Yan would directly torture Dai Zhou.
"Isn't this how the Supreme Court always handles cases?”Kong Yan sneered." Why can't you take it?”
"When has our Supreme Court ever forced a confession?”Dai Zhou's voice was hoarse.
"Isn't that so?" Kong Yan looked indifferent.
"Usually, only when the evidence is conclusive but the suspect refuses to admit it will the suspect be tortured.”Fang Xuanling said.
"Oh? Then why did the Court of Judicial Review torture everyone in the Pavilion of Wild Goose Falling the night before?”Kong Yan narrowed his eyes and his expression became dangerous. His voice was cold." Are you targeting me?”
"Hehe, targeting you? What does that have to do with me? You just said that my door is closed, so how can I torture the people of Wild Goose Falling Pavilion?”Dai Zhou asked Kong Yan angrily with a cold smile. In the end, tears flowed out of his eyes. His aggrieved expression made even the stone-hearted Sanlang Zhu feel ashamed.
He knew that Dai Zhou was not guilty. It had nothing to do with Zhangsun Shunde's murder, and it had nothing to do with the disaster relief fund corruption case.
Kong Yan rubbed his nose and revealed an awkward smile.""So I wronged you?"
"What do you think?" Dai Zhou stared.
Kong Yan said lightly," The Supreme Court has wronged the people of the Falling Goose Pavilion and beat them up until they can't take care of themselves. Last night, I also tortured Hu Yan and other officials of the Supreme Court.
Now that I'm torturing you, it seems like I've wronged you…"
"It's not 'seems to be'!" Dai Zhou said angrily.
" Yes." Kong Yan nodded and said," I've never delayed or owed anything. Since I've wronged you, then I…"
Kong Yan hesitated.
Dai Zhou suddenly said with some anticipation,""You want me to fight back?"
Kong Yan glanced at him indifferently." Since you hit me, you'll be the one to try the next case?”
Dai Zhou stopped talking.
The night before, he had shut himself in to avoid this case.
Moreover, he didn't know anything about the case, so how could he try it?
"Then you can't beat Lord Dai for nothing, right?”Cheng Yaojin shouted," Why don't you compensate me with a million taels of gold or something?”
Kong Yan thought about it seriously and said,""That's a good suggestion."
"F * ck, are you really going to pay him a million taels of gold?”Cheng Yaojin cursed. Then, he smiled and said," If you really want to compensate me with a million taels of gold, I, Old Cheng, am willing to let you beat me up.”
Dai Zhou looked at Kong Yan dryly. At this moment, his emotions were extremely complicated.
If he were to be compensated with one million gold taels, it was not as if he could not forgive Kong Yan.
Dai Zhou suddenly realized that he did not hate Kong Yan that much.
Many people present revealed envious, jealous, and hateful gazes.
"Twenty big wooden boards for one million gold taels, why didn't you hit me?”Some people were screaming in their hearts.
" F * ck, I even helped him scold Kong Yan just now…"
"So what if you're rich? Do you think you can beat up the officials just because you have money? He must be severely punished. This old man will definitely teach him a lesson in the morning court later!”
"He's so f * cking rich. Even the national treasury doesn't have a million gold taels, right?”
“……”
The attitude of the officials was rapidly changing, and their sympathy for Dai Zhou disappeared in an instant.
No one had considered whether Kong Yan could afford to fork out a million gold taels.
Because there was no need to consider this!
Kong Yan's wealth was deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Li Shi Min's eyes turned green.
"One million gold taels?" He stared at Dai Zhou's butt, revealing an incomparably greedy gaze.
It was as if it was not a piece of rotten meat, but a piece of gold that emitted a sacred light!
"Sigh, forget it. If I give you money, that would be too insulting to Lord Dai.”Kong Yan sighed and said," Although I have always believed that money can solve all problems.”
Dai Zhou's lips were a little dry as he mumbled,"It's not an insult to pay for the medicine.”
After saying that, his face turned as red as a monkey's butt.
"Lord Dai is a scholar, how can you use money to insult him?”Kong Yan shook his head and said," I've decided. I won't give you a single cent!”
"What?" Dai Zhou was shocked, and then his expression changed.
The anger from before returned, and the hatred for Kong Yan in his heart could not be replaced.
"I'll help you investigate the case!" Kong Yan suddenly said," I'll help you with the disaster relief fund corruption case!”
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