日期: 2022-05-13
In this article we will discuss another Chinese old saying, which is “There are always excuses available to condemn somebody as guilty.” In Chinese, it's “欲加之罪，何患無辭”. It is used when someone knows for sure that he is bound to be found guilty by the accuser, one way or the other. This old saying is still being used nowadays when the accused claims innocence in front of false charges.
This is the story is about what Licco had said before being found guilty and killed by the Jean Hui Duke, who we mentioned in our eighth Chinese old saying to have been an ungrateful and merciless ruler. Licco had been Jean Hui Duke’s father’s number one advisor and army commander, while another key person was Shawn Si, and he was the guy who had suggested bribing the Yo State with fine horses and jade artifacts and acting as Licco’s deputy commander in their military expeditionsto take out both the Guo State and Yo State as we have mentioned in the sixth episode.
Licco was a strong supporter of Gi shanshan, as the Jean Shea Duke’s eldest son forced to kill himself after the poison meat incident orchestrated by the Lee Princess for herself and her son Gi shichi both of whom Licco hadplotted to have killed at the father’s funeral. Shawn Si, the first prime minster appointed by the father while he was alive, would not dare getting to the bottom of this knowing that Licco had been behind the coup and assassinations.
Instead, he chose to have the Jean Shea Duke’s youngest son, Gi Geotze, born to the late Lee Princess’s younger sister, as Gi shichi’s successor, who again was killed by Licco’s hitman, but this time Licco did not spare Shawn Si for old time’s sake, so that Shawn Si had to kill himself failing his old master’s wish to have Gi shichi as his successor.
As we have mentioned in the eighth Chinese old saying, after Gi Chonger had turned down Licco’s invitation to go back the Jean State, then came his younger brother Gi Yeewoo who ultimately took the throne through Chin Moo Duke’s full support by the good office of his older sister the Bo Princess. But Gi Yeewoo, who later became the Jean Hwi Duke, had gone back on almost each and every promise made to the people who had helped him along the way. For one thing, he had promised Bo Princess to take care of the rest of the family, so that all family members out on the run could return to their own country again, including Gi Shanshan’s widow. But he had failed to do any of that, to this older sister’s grave disappointment, by keeping everybody out except Gi Shahshan’s widow whom he had made to become one of his mistresses, which could have been the main reason leading to his loss of his older sister’s support and thenof course her husband Chin Moo Duke’s support.
Meanwhile, his relationship with Licco was becoming tense by the days until he finally decided that Licco must go because for one thing he did not want to give him the land as he had promised, and because he simply could not trust the guy as someone who initially had picked his two older brothers for the job.
He first had him relieved of all military commands, then sent his’s top henchman and follower, Pe Tsenfoo, away as his emissary to the Chin State. Then one day he had Licco’s house surrounded, and tried to patronize him by saying: “Although you have helped a lot brining me back home, you remain a slayer of two of Jean’s rulers, Gi shichi and Gi Geotze, not to mention having Shawn Si, the Prime Minister, commit suicide, and for all these bloodsheds happening in the royal court, you would have to bear the consequences.”
Knowing that he had it coming for himself, Licco had first sighed to say this famous quotation before cutting his own throat with a sword: “There are always excuses available to condemn somebody as guilty.” He then pointed his finger at the Jean Hwi Duke to say his last words: “Seeing that you would not have gotten any of what you have now had it not been for me doing all the killings for you in the first place, I have nothing more to say. ”
貼文者：Mariia