Chapter 317 Internal reference in the C-character volume, case statement

The capital city in July is when the ground is scorched by the sun. Even though the unitary season has passed, the sky is still frighteningly bright. A black dog is curling up lazily in the shade with its tongue out, looking to the side The carriage passed by.

  Feng Ziying, who came out of the Imperial Academy, was still immersed in the emotions after reading history. Of course, she was not moved by reading history, but touched.

  The slow pace of life, step-by-step going to court, it seems that everything seems so quiet and peaceful, but what is hidden behind it?

   Couldn't help but look at the mighty and towering Meridian Gate through the car window, but Feng Ziying felt a little nervous. The fifth year of Yonglong, maybe 1607 AD, seemed like a big event happened in history.

The British arrived in North America with three ships, settled down, and established their first colony—Virginia. Soon they will begin a history of colonization and conquest that lasted for more than a hundred years. The natives took it away.

   But what about Da Zhou? Feng Ziying felt a little heavy. She was still struggling to deal with the aggressive offensive of the Jurchens and Tatars in the north. The Japanese pirates were still harassing the coastal areas, and the Annan people were also harassing the southwest. The internal worries of the dynasty were even worse.

  Feng Ziying suddenly found that she had been in this time and space for more than two years and almost three years, and she didn't seem to have gained much except for studying in the imperial examination and rushing to a reserve soldier on the official career—a good scholar.

Facing such an old empire that is moving forward with inertia, Feng Ziying realized that gold fingers and time travelers are really of little use. You can change a person, ten or even a hundred people, but you can change ten thousand or even a million people ideas?

   Obviously, no.

  If you can’t do it ideologically, then how can you change the views and ideas of 10,000 or even a million or more people, um, or make them obey their own ideas and ideas, there is no other way to do it except power.

   But this power is not so easy to obtain, it needs to be accumulated from various aspects, which is why Feng Ziying is so anxious.

  However, the cold water poured on him by Master Qi today still made him sober up a lot. Haste makes waste. Some things are thought too well, and the result is to die too quickly.

Feng Ziying did not try to completely change the views of Qi Yongtai or Qiao Yingjia. Well, to a certain extent, some views that are close to their ideas or acceptable to them can be instilled. As a middle-aged man, it would be a bit whimsical.

   But some things can still be done.

  When he came out from Qi Yongtai, he made up his mind.

  I can't do practical things for the time being, so I can only make a fuss about retreat.

  This is an old routine, but Feng Ziying is well aware of the role of promoting public opinion. When you grasp this power, you will find that many things can get twice the result with half the effort.

  Besides, so many students are distributed in the six divisions and nine ministers. If these resources are not used well, it will be too disappointing for the good times in the next two years.

  The carriage rumbled by, and Ruixiang, who was following the carriage, saw Rongning Street in front of him, and wanted to remind him, but he hesitated because he was afraid of disturbing the young master's thinking.

   Until Feng Ziying looked up, Ruixiang finally found a chance, "Master, the Rongguo Mansion is ahead, and there have been several posts over there, sir, look..."

  Feng Ziying couldn't help frowning.

  Xiangling has been here for almost ten days, and her life as a concubine has begun in such an orderly manner. It seems that life in this era is like this, leisurely and full of fun, but it always makes people feel a little bit unwilling.

   Promise to other people's things, you have to go.

  Hearing that Jia Zheng and his wife wanted to give him two maids, Feng Ziying didn't really want to come.

   It's not that she was scared because of the two maids, but that she was too willing to make the relationship with the Jia family too sticky.

  At first, I thought it was just a matter of helping Jia Baoyu, and then using Jia Lian as a tool, which was about the same.

Although I also feel that after the two spring days of Yingchun and Tanchun, if it is really because of the decline of the Jia family, it may be a bit regrettable, but now I have no good way, I can't just go to the door and tell the other party that the Jia family is going to collapse anyway. Well, why don't you just follow me and become a concubine, I'm afraid you will really be whipped.

"Forget it, let's go tomorrow." Feng Ziying shook her head, and finally felt that she might have to face it all the time, no matter whether she accepted it or not, hiding like this was not an option. statement.

  When the carriage returned to the mansion, Feng Ziying got off the carriage and went directly to the hospital. Xiangling was on duty today.

   Once Xiangling came, even if Yunshang was liberated, she no longer had to wait for Feng Ziying to come back anytime and anywhere, so that the two of them could divide the work and cooperate to keep everything in this small courtyard in order.

  For example, the person on duty was in charge of Feng Ziying getting up, dressing and washing, while the other off-duty person was responsible for preparing meals, and other daily affairs were discussed.

   "Master, that uncle Fang has been here long ago and has been waiting for you in the outer courtyard." Xiangling whispered while changing Feng Ziying's clothes.

   "Oh? Uncle Fang is here?" Feng Ziying smiled and shook her head. It's only been a few days, and this guy is here again.

Fang Youdu was in the Ministry of Punishment to watch politics, and temporarily rented a house on Jiufeng Temple Street next to the charcoal factory, not far from Sanfasi. Although it belongs to Jinchengfang, it is actually far away from Fucaifang and Xianyi The squares are not too far away, they are all in the west.

  Fang Youdu asked for leave and returned home after paying homage to the Xianshi Temple, and got married immediately after returning.

   Unexpectedly, the firepower was so fierce that not only the newly married wife was pregnant, but also the belly of a concubine who had just been taken in was also enlarged, making the Fang family rejoice.

   Originally it was the concubine who wanted to accompany Fang Youdu to Beijing, but now he can only stay. Now there are only two maids who came with his wife to go to Beijing with him, so they have to come here from time to time to eat.

"What's the matter, the eyeballs are so bloodshot? Didn't you rest well at night?" Feng Ziying was quite surprised to see Fang Youdu's haggard appearance. Didn't it mean that his wife and concubine didn't come? They all closed the house, and they fought fiercely all night?

  Seeing Feng Ziying's expression, Fang Youdu knew that this guy was thinking badly, and said angrily: "Last night, I was reading the papers at the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I didn't go home until I saw the son. I was almost caught as a thief by the patrolling camp..."

   "Why is the paper so complicated and makes you so interested?" Feng Ziying couldn't help asking, he didn't expect Fang Youdu to enter the state so quickly.

"Don't you know? The **** case of committing suicide at the mouth of the criminal department three years ago?" Fang Youdu smiled softly and said, "It's finally settled. I've been checking the case files for ten days, so I can give this case a try." I figured it out, an uncomplicated case involved countless people, no less than ten people died because of it, black hats were taken off, and three of them were demoted. There are still a few who have been assigned to the five below the rank, I looked at it, and then I feel that this official is not good."

  Feng Ziying became interested.

He seems to have vaguely heard about this case, a suicide case that went to Beijing to prosecute. With the support of the family, this tragic event was finally staged in front of the gate of the Ministry of Justice.

The cause of this case was a murder case in a mountain village. The deceased was surnamed Xu. He was killed at the entrance of the village one night. Because of the disputes over mountains, forests, water sources and land, there are grievances and grievances.

Since the case was in a mountain village, there were basically no external factors, so the case was quickly heard by the Yamen of Jing County. As a result, several people from the original plaintiff were thrown into prison and identified as criminals.

  Finally, it was overturned again during the retrial of the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice, and it was again pointed to the criminals tried by the Jingxian county government.

In this way, the case was repeatedly repeated. It has been dragged on for many years, and the case could not be finalized. In the end, he went to Beijing to accuse himself of committing suicide in front of the criminal department, which caused a sensation. In the end, a head of the criminal department went to Ningguo Mansion to investigate the case in person, and finally found out. finalized.

  While drinking, Fang Youdu also narrated the whole case.

The case was not complicated, but because the county magistrate who first investigated the case was a nerd who was born in Juren, he had no experience in investigating cases, but he was headstrong. The key cause of death was identified, but there was an obvious error in the collection of witnesses, but the error in the cause of death could not be corrected. Therefore, when the case was finalized, it was directly pointed to the Zhang family, another big surname.

In the end, the confession was collectively retracted at the level of Ningguo Mansion, and then Ningguo Mansion went to another extreme when hearing the case, thinking that this was a deliberate trick by the Xu family in order to frame Zhang's family, because although this person's surname is Xu, he is a As a result, more than a dozen members of Xu's family were imprisoned because they were idle people, and the confessions they gave were also full of contradictions. In the end, the case fell into a dead end.

  Nanjing Criminal Department also used the original testimony and evidence for many trials, and basically did not re-investigate, but the evidence could not be corroborated. In the end, it dragged on like this, until the tragic suicide of the deceased's son in the former capital criminal department.

  Fang Youdu spoke so vividly that even Xiangling and Yunshang, who came to pour the wine, were attracted.

   "Ziying, do you know what's wrong with this case?" Fang Youdu said quite proudly.

   "Where did it come from? There are two aspects. One is the village surname, and the other is the witness." Feng Ziying said casually.

   "Huh? You know?" Fang Youdu was greatly surprised.

   "What do I know? Guess." Feng Ziying spread her hands.

"Impossible, how could you guess it?" Fang Youdu couldn't believe it. Although he knew the result of this case from the beginning, he only figured it out after reading the papers repeatedly. He didn't reveal anything before. How could Feng Ziying guess it all at once?

   "It's a short answer. It's not that I'm capable. In fact, you leaked it yourself." Feng Ziying said with a smile.

  Not to mention Fang Youdu, even the two observers, Yunshang and Xiangling, couldn't understand what Fang Youdu revealed in his words.

"First, I don't know if you noticed. You mentioned two major surnames, and then added some minor surnames. If the murderer is one of the two major surnames, you wouldn't specifically emphasize the minor surnames, um, It's a human habit..."

  Fang Youdu had to admit that what the other party said was reasonable.

   "Second, you said several times that the witness's testimony was wrong, but you didn't mention why the witness's testimony was wrong. It is obvious that such a key issue is wrong and you don't mention it. Naturally, there is something wrong with the witness..."

  Such a simple reasoning made Fang Youdu very frustrated, "Ziying, what you said makes me feel that if you handle this case, I am afraid that it will not be dragged on like this at all, and it will go on and on for five or six years!"

"That's not necessarily true." Feng Ziying shook her head, "I'm just using some of your own habits when introducing the case to deduce it. If you really want me to try the case, I'm afraid it's not much better than that county magistrate, but Uncle Fang, you I feel that this case dragged on for five or six years, with so many twists and turns, from the county to the mansion, and then to the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice, and then to the Ministry. Such a big commotion resulted in the death of two people, which is not considered a sentence of beheading , In addition, it seems that several of them died of illness in prison, so what is the problem here?"

Fang Youdu felt that Feng Ziying had some ideas, but he didn't know what the other party wanted to do, so he pondered for a while and said: "This case is not complicated, but if you talk about going from the county to the government, and then to Nanjing, there are many problems, such as After the county magistrate was elected, it was basically a blank, with no experience in investigating cases, and because he only went to the county not long ago, the staff was mainly a master of money and food, but he did not invite a famous master of punishment, so the investigation was basically a case. Relying on my own feelings, and for example, the number of assistants is insufficient, lack of experience, the county assistants are old and frail, and they are temporarily replaced.

"...For another example, when the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice tried the case, there was no real review at all, and the original case files and evidence were basically used. Knowing that there had been repeated confessions, this kind of case would definitely need to carefully review the evidence, but the officials who handled the case were careless. Because he couldn't convince the public, he simply shelved it, seriously dereliction of government and dereliction of duty, which led to the victim committing suicide in the capital's Ministry of Punishment,..."

   Seeing Feng Ziying seeming to be scribbling something with wine on the table, Fang Youdu finally stopped talking, "Ziying, are you going to do something again?"

"Well, indeed, I was thinking, anyway, I have nothing to do in the Hanlin Academy. I study history and study all day long. Why not use this spare time to do something useful. Well, for example, I plan to use these classmates and colleagues in the Imperial Academy. The ability to revise books and make edicts, and write articles, but more importantly, some insights gained from observing politics in various ministries like you,..."

Fang Youdu blinked his eyes, Feng Ziying laughed, "So I'm going to make a job as a consultant for the Imperial Academy's secret preparation, similar to the Di Bao, to publish articles, and then ask the elders and the officials of the Six Department Hall to read it , of course they can also write articles,..., what is the name, produced by our Hanlin Academy, 'Inner Heaven and Earth, Understanding the Universe', it is called internal reference, you come up with an article, I will give this column a name , It’s called raising a case to explain!”

   Dazhang asks for a monthly pass!

  

  

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