It stands to reason that Bao Zheng's power is not that great, let alone summoning so many officials to be tried by Bao Zheng.
But it was originally a drama, and it was directed by Zheng Xiong. The procedures were simplified a lot, and there was nothing wrong with it.
And Zheng Xiong bullied these women because they didn't understand.
So a large number of Wuyangyang actors appeared on the stage.
Civilians wearing ordinary clothes were on one side, and officials were on the other side, forming an opposing posture.
Bao Zheng, as the absolute protagonist, sits in the middle.
The actors are in place, the lights are in place, and the drama begins.
As a positive character, Bao Zheng asks questions first and then speaks classic lines.
"Who is in the audience? Please tell me your name."
The protagonist of the villain, Pang Yu, appears. As the eldest son of Master Pang, his sister is a noble concubine, and he has a strong background, he is the perfect choice for the villain.
"My Lord Pang Yu, my father Pang Ji, is now the Grand Master, and my sister Pang Guifei is serving His Majesty in the palace. Bao Heizi, why did you call me here?"
Bao Zheng's face darkened and he spoke calmly.
"I don't care who you are, but I just want to ask you, who is the bookkeeper of Huimin Pharmacy? Are you the one who took away a large amount of medicines to make a profit? Instructing the pharmacy not to sell medicinal materials at a fair price, but to make a large amount of medicinal materials. The potion was made just for your own benefit, but was it all your doing?"
Despite the continuous questioning, Pang Yu showed an indifferent attitude, picked up his little finger and plucked his ears, and replied calmly.
"So what if it is, so what if it is not. Everyone present will get a share of the profits. The worst thing is that they are keeping accounts in the pharmacy and have never paid a penny."
"There are so many people. Even if I tell you clearly that it was me who did it, they are all involved. What can you do and send us all in?"
"I advise you, don't look for trouble. You can't afford to mess with me, nor can you touch me. Do whatever you have to do, and I won't serve you anymore."
After saying that, Pang Yu turned to leave, but Bao Zheng said word for word.
"When I ask you a question, you just answer yes or no?"
Pang Yu, who had just turned around, turned around when he heard this and suddenly laughed, and his laughter became even more crazier.
"Okay, that's right, that's what I did. Why, you still dare to punish me?"
Bao Zheng had no expression on his face and still spoke calmly.
"Whether you are guilty or not, and what the crime should be, there are laws and regulations. This government will act in accordance with the laws. We will not let a bad person go, nor will we wrongly accuse a good person."
"Since you have confessed, someone is here to take the criminal Pang Yu to prison and wait for his punishment."
Seeing that Bao Zheng was serious, Pang Yu also retracted his smile, but he was still confident.
"I urge you to think clearly. My father, Pang Ji, is the Imperial Master, and my sister is a noble concubine. Can you afford to offend me?"
Why Bao Zheng can be sung is that he is not afraid of power and can make things happen for the people.
What ordinary people want is very simple. They just need a fair and just environment so that they can seek justice when they are bullied.
If Bao Zheng meets these conditions, he will naturally be sung.
Faced with Pang Yu's disclosure of his family status, his expression remained unchanged.
"Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and Mahan sent these prisoners to prison for me."
At this point, the curtain falls again.
At this time, the lady in the audience also reacted.
Although this story was adapted by Bao Zheng of the former Song Dynasty, the entire drama tells the story of the pharmacy.
Although accounting is the most common crime in the script, due to the many hints and close-ups given by Zheng Xiong, it is still an issue that cannot be ignored.
Understanding Zheng Xiong's purpose, all the ladies in the audience were also paying attention to the plot, wanting to see how Zheng Xiong would sentence these people.
When the curtain rose, there were many more cages in the stands, holding officials one after another.
Bao Zheng was still sitting on the high platform, but this time, he was announcing his crimes one by one.
"Pang Yu, the Marquis of Anle, relied on his power to do evil. He took advantage of his power to make profits from the pharmacy. Therefore, the words "Huimin" of the Huimin Pharmacy became empty words, and many people were destroyed."
"The case is huge, the impact is extremely bad, and it greatly endangers social and public safety."
"Now this government has sentenced Pang Yu to beheaded. Please use the dragon's guillotine."
I saw a piece of cloth being pulled out from the left and right, revealing the objects under the cloth, and the sparkling dragon head guillotine was officially unveiled.
As a member of the royal family, Bao Zheng was extremely generous and gave Pang Yu the highest honor.
The guillotine filled with cold light appeared, and all the ladies in the audience lost their voices.
Although it is a drama, you can still see that Zheng Xiong is really ruthless. Such a drama is to scare the monkeys. Even Jia was on pins and needles due to the glances he cast at him from time to time.
On the stage, Pang Yu was also put under the guillotine.
At this time, Pang Yu lost his calm expression and was completely panicked. When death is right in front of him, no one can remain calm.
"Bao Zheng, you can't do this, my father will not let you go."
Seeing that it had no effect, Pang Yu changed his face again and begged for mercy.
"Don't kill me. I will give you all the money I earned. Just let me go!"
Bao Zheng remained unmoved and spoke calmly?
"Open~~Guillot~~"
The echo sounded, indicating that Pang Yu's death was coming.
The lady in the audience couldn't help but close her eyes.
The imagined bloody scene did not come, but a sentence came out.
"The sword will save you."
"Concubine Pang arrives, everyone kneels to welcome her."
Bao Zheng stood up and brought a group of government officials to greet the imperial concubine.
After twists and turns, the ladies also opened their eyes and looked towards the stage.
Concubine Pang slowly walked to Bao Zheng's seat and sat down, becoming the guest.
The arrival of Concubine Pang also gave Pang Yu a chance to survive and shouted.
"Sister, save me."
Concubine Pang gave Pang Yu a wink, indicating that Pang Yu didn't need to worry, and then spoke.
Here, Zheng Xiong added a fragment of Qin opera to protect the country.
The musical instruments sounded, the temper gradually rose, and a classic quarrel reappeared in front of us.
The reason is that Zheng Xiong found this quarrel scene interesting, so he modified the content and placed it at the end.
Concubine Pang and Bao Zheng asked about the reason and expressed it in singing.
I won’t edit it here. I will post a paragraph of the original text. If you are interested, you can search for it yourself. It is very interesting.
: As I grow older and have gray hair on my temples, it is difficult for me to serve as a king in court.
Although Wei Chen is old, his mind is slightly stronger than others.
No matter what you say, I don't need you as an old minister.
If the State is too accurate for its ministers, the emperor is the king and the ministers are ministers. If the State is not accurate, the Shuntian Mansion will be in chaos.
Generations of loyal generals in the Xu family.
Guotai recognizes greed but not loyalty.
The king is telling you the law, I wonder if you will listen or not.
As long as what Guotai says is true, there is a minister who won't listen.
The earth deceives the sky and brings sorrow to the grass.
The heaven and the earth deceive the seedlings, and the seedlings are not harvested.
The minister who deceived the king should have been killed.
The king deceives the minister and refuses to obey the king.
The people bully the officials to ask questions according to the law.
Officials bully the people and come to the Yamen.
The son deceived the father and came to talk about it.
The father deceives the son to escape from the door.
The brother deceives the brother and the family is at odds.
Brother deceives brother to divide the family. .
Where in the world can a wife deceive her husband?
A good man lives a very honorable life.
The sky is big, the earth is big, the king is big.
In addition to the king, there are several Xu families.
The world is governed by the emperor.
Half by the emperor and half by the ministers.
I want to give my family my kingdom, and I will not discuss it with you, Xu Yang.
Your family is built by my family, and I, Xu Yang, have eighty-nine points.
Could it be that, brother emperor, you want to sit down?
A minister who refuses to sit down cannot tolerate others.
Gotta give, really gotta give.
It can't, it can't.
The late king granted you a high official position, but you didn't care about me.
The high official position is due to the minister's merit, not the empress' gift to the minister.
I will send an order to kill you later.
The former king granted him a title but did not kill his ministers.
If you want to cut it off, you must cut it off.
It can't, it can't.
Instruct the swordsmen and axemen on both sides.
"Open the guillotine."
Amid the quarrel, the curtain slowly fell, leaving a suspense.
He only killed the number one villain, Pang Yu, and did not deal with other officials.
But just thinking about it, I know that the fate of these people will not be good. After all, the number one villain has a deep background and has been guillotined.
Zheng Xiong deleted the scene that was originally too bloody. Otherwise, Zheng Xiong could have arranged a scene of being guillotined, and let the half-cut corpse crawl forward to scare these people.
Due to Queen Ma's intervention, this segment was not aired.
But even if there is no part of it, the suspense left is still making people think.
What is scary is the unknown. The source of terror comes from people's imagination. The richer the imagination, the more serious the consequences.
At the end of the performance, Queen Ma walked away expressionlessly.
Empress Ma knew something about Zheng Xiong, especially since Jia's big mouth revealed the debt collection issue from Huimin Pharmacy.
The current drama can also be seen as a follow-up to the collection.
Queen Ma originally wanted to hold a sorority party a year ago, but it turned out that it was out of place and felt like she was taking the blame.
The scene of Lao Zhu hesitating to speak also came to mind, and he felt a little unhappy, but he did not punish Zheng Xiong and let him go.
After landing safely, Zheng Xiong breathed a sigh of relief backstage, packed his bags, and rushed to Jiaofangsi.
In the evening, no one dared to go home for fear of being taught a lesson by Mr. Jia.
Living up to expectations, after watching director Zheng Xiong's masterpiece, Jia also knew Zheng Xiong's purpose.
Now the shaky relationship between sisters is completely gone, and it will be impossible for them to be good at dancing in the future.
When I got home, I became angrier as I thought about it, waiting for Zheng Xiong to come home.
Zheng Xiong, the chicken thief, just spent the night in Jiaofangsi. Of course, he didn't take advantage of it. After all, he was a married man.
Besides, if I don’t tell you whether there is, who can know.
Queen Ma on the other side was not in a beautiful mood.
After Lao Zhu came to Kunning Palace happily, what he saw was Queen Ma's stern face.
"Sister, what's wrong? Are you in a bad mood?"
"Well, you know in your heart whether you should give me an explanation."
Lao Zhu said cheerfully.
"Hey, I wanted to tell you earlier, but you didn't listen! You insist on seeing something new."
"You can't blame me now."
Angry women cannot reason, including Queen Ma.
"If I didn't ask you to say it, you wouldn't have said it. Why didn't you stop it if you knew it wasn't a good thing? Tell me earlier."
If a woman is unreasonable, there is nothing Lao Zhu can do but coax her.
"It's my fault, it's my fault. I'll tell you next time."
After hearing that Lao Zhu admitted his mistake, Empress Ma did not continue to pursue the case. The king of a country must give him some face, so she turned around and asked.
"You already know why you asked me to ask their family members to come here. What's the deeper meaning? Let me know."
The family members all knew each other's personalities, and Queen Ma was very clear about Lao Zhu's character of being unprofitable and unwilling to be early. Since Lao Zhu didn't say anything, there must be a deeper meaning, so she asked Lao Zhu.
After hearing this, Lao Zhu continued to talk cheerfully.
"I know that you can't hide anything from a girl. It just so happens that Zheng Xiong has such a play and he wants to show it to others, so I will help him."
After rolling her eyes at Lao Zhu, Queen Ma picked up the tea, took a sip, and spoke slowly.
"Tell the important point."
Although Lao Zhu is not afraid of Queen Ma, he still gives her enough respect on weekdays. The husband and wife help each other and work together, and now their relationship is even deeper.
Hearing this, he also restrained his smile.
"Sister, you also know that for such a big country, we are not quite capable of governing it."
"The group of brothers who conquered the world in the past have become somewhat unfamiliar to us now. If we just eat, drink and enjoy ourselves at home all day long, we won't have any other ideas."
"Together we live and die together, and we share wealth and honor. Our promise remains valid."
"But these people have forgotten their original intention. They are just arrogant and extravagant. For the sake of their own selfish interests, they have gone too far now. There are a lot of impeachment memorials."
"They bully the market, bully men and women, they are self-taught."
"Although accounting is not obvious in the pharmacy alone, the drama Zheng Xiong made also made us understand."
"Some things cannot be solved by indulgence. They will become more and more excessive. Huimin Pharmacy will no longer benefit the people, but will become Huiguan Bureau and Heli Bureau."
"The previous punishment of Zheng Xiong could only stop them for a period of time, but it was impossible to eradicate them."
"Learning from the past, being the teacher behind the wheel, knowing the smallest things, can only let them know that some things can be done and some things cannot be touched, so that they can know how powerful it is."
"This play is not so much about Zheng Xiong asking for money, but rather that we gave it to them to watch."
"And this is just the appetizer. Since Zheng Xiong is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, let's see if he can recreate Qingtian's reputation like in the drama."
"We plan to let Zheng Xiong serve as the governor of Yingtian Mansion to clean up the atmosphere of Yingtian Mansion. What do you think, sister?"
After listening to Lao Zhu's words, Queen Ma was secretly planning in her heart.
What Zheng Xiong did was completely in line with Lao Zhu's taste. Empress Ma knew Lao Zhu's character and was not too surprised by this decision.
There is nothing wrong with anything else that Lao Zhu decided. The only flaw is his age.
"Zheng Xiong is a good young talent. If he trains well, he will be a good candidate to be part of Biao'er's team."
"It's just that the capital is a mixed bag, with dignitaries and ordinary people all in the capital. If you don't handle the relationship well, it's easy to die young."
"Zheng Xiong is only in his twenties! Can he handle these affairs well?"
Lao Zhu had the idea of promoting Zheng Xiong. After considering it, he told Queen Ma the reason.
"We have also thought about this. Age is not a problem. Huo Qubing was granted the title of Lang Juxu at the age of twenty-one and was named the Champion Marquis. Gan Luo became the Prime Minister at the age of twelve. This shows that these are all small matters."
"As for being unable to handle Beijing-China affairs, unable to clarify the relationship, it doesn't matter if he is suppressed. He is simply still young. After being polished in the future, he can be better used by Biao'er."
Lao Zhu's analysis was in place, and Empress Ma had no objections.
"Since you have already thought about it, I won't say more. Zheng Xiong is indeed a talent. If he can be trained in the capital, he will definitely become Biao'er's right-hand man in the future. You must also be careful and don't give him any trouble. It’s gone bad.”
(End of chapter)
