On this day, the palace scholar, the engineer Cao Shangshu and the inspector of the Inspectorate Zuo Yushi knelt outside the Taiji Hall for an hour, calculating that if his majesty did not see his majesty, the guard of honor who passed the decree should arrive at the gate of the house, so he simply ignored his face and kowtowed outside the hall and cried.

The fire burns the eyebrows, if you take care of your face again, there will be deaths in the house!

The three of them didn't dare to say a word about the respect and humility of the law, and only explained the reasons for the rebellion, and they didn't care how many people they heard about it. The three of them cried so much outside the Taiji Hall that they went out of the palace without face, so it was better to die.

After half an hour like this, it was estimated that the palace people who were carrying the decree had really arrived outside the gate of the mansion, and the three of them were like ashes, looking up at the scorching sun, and felt that the sky was spinning.

Then the door of the temple suddenly opened!

The inner eunuch went out of the main hall, and the Xuangong Cao Shangshu entered the hall.

Gong Cao Shangshu was overjoyed, and his majesty who fell three times in one step went. The chamberlain closed the door of the palace, and opened it after half a pillar of incense, only to see Huang Shangshu walk out with tears in his eyes, hide his face and go down the palace steps, and when he passed by his colleagues, he didn't even say a word of prompting, and hurriedly went out of the palace.

The chamberlain also announced that the left capital of the Inspectorate entered the palace, and after the person entered the palace, he only came out at about half a pillar of incense, and when he came out, he was also ashamed to see people, and he went out of the palace with his face covered.

The scholar of the palace finally saw His Majesty, and after coming out, he also left in a hurry.

No one knows what the Son of Heaven talked about with the three of them, only that the palace people who delivered the decree on this day did not announce the decree after entering the three mansions, but just waited in the flower hall without saying a word, not sitting or serving tea. The whole of the three mansions, old and young, knelt outside the flower hall with fear, and knelt until the lord returned home.

The palace man who delivered the decree smiled and handed the decree into the hands of the court officials, and then led the people away.

The holy decree was not announced, and the whole of the three mansions did not know what the old man received, and there was no result when he asked, but he saw that the old man had lost his soul, and entered the study with the holy decree.

After that, the three officials said that they were ill, and the three mansions closed their doors.

Ten days later, the case of Lin and Li was concluded.

Soldier Cao Shang Shulin's wife Yu Shi Cao Kan took her life and was sentenced to behead! Lin Youxue swallowed up fertile land during his tenure in Huainan, deceived the people for personal gain, and was sentenced to dismissal from his official position and exiled for 3,000 miles.

The step-chamber of cabinet scholar Li Xi, the Xu family, killed the concubine and forced the maid to death, and was sentenced to beheading! Li Xi used the Xu family's property to launder money, made thousands of profits, and was sentenced to dismissal and exile.

On the day of the execution, because of the female prisoner, the court did not open the court, and the court only allowed the victim's family to be sentenced. The Shangshu Mansion and the Bachelor's Mansion were confiscated, and the sons and nobles in the mansion were not miserable after they became criminals.

When Lin Yue entered the palace a few days ago, she was still wearing a peacock skirt, full of pride, but now she was driven out of the house by taking off her hairpin.

He Chuxin couldn't make up his mind for a while when he heard about this, so he hurriedly went to the study to ask to see his grandfather, but saw that his brother was also there.

He Shaokai served in the Jiangnan Navy Army, and received the post of military candidate, but the army called him the Shaodu Governor. Lin and Li's families were raided, he went to the study early in the morning, and the little guy went to the street to inquire about the news, and frequently returned to the house to report the news.

He Shaokai said: "Why bother with her? Just take it away! ”

He Chuxin said: "I'm afraid that I will bear the name of injustice if I take it away......"

He Shaokai sneered: "My silly sister, she and you are not of the same heart, why do you need to talk about benevolence and righteousness with her?" On the day she entered the palace, she spoke openly in front of the queen, intending to kill people with a knife, but she didn't think about benevolence and righteousness. ”

"But the people outside don't know about the things in the palace, and now she is in trouble, and she comes to ask for funeral money out of filial piety, if she is pushed away, someone will scold me for being unjust. My brother also knows that the person in the middle palace is very powerful, and he didn't intercede for the Wen family that day, and the daughter of our eight mansions was reprimanded. ”

"Then you're not afraid to help people, and the saint will make a fuss about it?"

"That's why I came to ask my grandfather and brother what to do with this matter?"

He Shanqi's face was solemn and shook his head, "This matter is in a dilemma, it only depends on Junxin." But the gentleman's heart is unpredictable, and in the current situation, my grandfather does not dare to guess, after all, in the matter of choosing a concubine, our He family has already guessed once. ”

The eight governments jointly forced the saint to choose a concubine because of the compulsion of the reform, and the saint refused to accept the concubine, and the eight mansions all thought that the saint was worried that the situation of the reappearance of the dictatorship of foreign relatives in the court and the central government, as for the deep affection of the emperor and queen, it was just the emperor's technique to win the hearts of the people. Bafu took advantage of the days when the emperor and queen were not in the court to discuss it, thinking that they should force the saint to choose a concubine as soon as possible, and if it was too late, they would not be able to move.

Bafu expected that the Holy Lord would not compromise easily, but he did not expect the Holy Lord's attitude to be so tough.

He Shaokai sneered, "Although my grandfather's worries are reasonable, do you know that they are not ambitious for others?" Not long after the Holy Lord's pro-government, it was inevitable to establish authority, but we were the only ones in the eight mansions who did not move us, so don't you know if there is something to fear? ”

He Shanqi saw the disdain on his grandson's face, and couldn't help but reprimand in a deep voice, "Isn't it a good thing to be jealous?!" Woe to you! ”

"What about woe? There may not be a dying day. He Shaokai disagreed, "We are different from those families, the Jiangnan Navy Master can take over the merit, and my grandfather was named the Marquis of Xiangguo because of his merits, just wait for the golden plaque to be given, and the Jiangnan Navy Governor's Mansion will become the Marquis of Xiangguo." The saint is pro-government, recruiting talents, what is the difference between investigating our family and crossing the river and demolishing the bridge? At that time, there will probably be no wise man in the four seas who will dare to recommend himself. ”

There are 200,000 sailors in the south of the Yangtze River, and the He family can hold three generations of military power without being suspicious by the emperor because the sailors are stationed on the south bank of the Dajiang River, 3,000 miles away from the Gyeonggi Strongland. Throughout history, there have been few cases of the Navy Mutiny that led to the change of ownership, so the Navy Division was rarely feared by the emperor.

But now the situation is different, Daxing Jiangshan is divided into two, the south Xingding capital Bianhe City, the Jiangnan Navy Division is stationed at the door of the Shengshang, although the Navy Division is not good at attacking the city, but with 200,000 troops to level a city is still possible. Therefore, the Jiangnan Sailor has become a threat to the Holy Lord, and it is natural for him to be jealous of the He family.

Fear is not a good thing, but it is not necessarily a bad thing. If the scholars have no power, they will definitely die faster, and although they will be afraid of the military power, it just shows that the saint has no way to recover the military power. Then find a way to make the saint unable to recover the military power, so that he has been so jealous, and it is also a way to preserve.

He Shanqi saw what his grandson was thinking, and said in a deep voice: "Although your idea is reasonable, if you do this, you must be proficient in the art of power and scheming." You may be competing with the Holy One on this path? Do you know what the Holy Lord said to the three families in the Taiji Hall that day? ”

He Shaokai was silent for a moment and said: "Sun Er only heard that the three families knelt outside the Taiji Hall to get rid of their ugliness in order to ask the saint to take back their will, as for what they said after entering the hall, it is unknown." Grandfather has found out what is going on? ”

He Shanqi bowed his head and said: "I heard that the Holy Lord has affection for those three families, and knows that they are reasonable, and those three families may have defected." ”

"What?"

He Shanqi smiled mockingly and said: "Gongcao Shangshu Huang Yuan is a filial son, his youngest son can read and write at the age of three, read thousands of texts at the age of four, and write poems at the age of five, and is very loved by Huang Yuan, but the marriage is bumpy." The old lady thought that the attendant of the Hanlin Academy was talking about the revision of literature and history, and her name was high and weak, so she asked the official media to come to the house to discuss the marriage of her grandson. Huang Xiaogongzi lingered on the sickbed, and the official media still came to the door to say goodbye, Huang Yuan did not dare to disobey the old lady, but also felt sorry for his son, so anxious that his temples were white, if the will of the saint to give marriage went down to the mansion, he could really take the lives of the old and young in the mansion at once, how could Huang Yuan not be in a hurry? When he entered the palace, he saw that the saint said: "I love talents, since the establishment of the Hanlin Academy in the Wude period, all the people who have served are skilled people, and I have the intention to reform the rule of officials, and I want to make the Hanlin Academy a place to cultivate talents and store hope in the future. I heard that Aiqing's son has only learned people, and there is an errand suitable for him in the Hanlin Academy, what does Aiqing think? Huang Yuan's son couldn't afford to be sick for a long time, and he delayed his entry, and the saint announced that Huang Yuan was not reprimanded, but instead of scolding him, he pointed his beloved son into the Hanlin Academy, and even told him about the upcoming reform of the Hanlin Academy, as long as he was not stupid, he should know that if he gave this wind to the old lady, the old lady would definitely not obstruct the marriage again. ”

But the saint did not take back the previous will, the saint left a hand, and ordered Huang Yuan to return to the mansion to receive the decree in the name of Chrysostom Yuyan, and told him that although the person who delivered the decree arrived at the Shangshu Mansion, he did not announce the decree. And he took the holy decree, and there was no need to publicize it, and when the chaos subsided, a new decree would be given. The saint also said: 'Filial piety comes first, Aiqing is a filial son, although there is nothing wrong with obeying the mother's will, but the law and human affection are valuable. Qing is the head of the family, the elderly will inevitably be confused, Aiqing should be broken when it should be, don't always cry with a sad face! I ascended the throne at the age of six, and I was in power at the age of twenty-seven, and I can't say enough difficult things. forced me to put down state affairs and ask my courtiers about their family affairs! Aiqing knows that Jiangbei, Lingnan, government management, and floods are so hard that I can't sleep at night? If I cry with a sad face like Aiqing, the Manchu civil and military are only afraid to see my jokes. Things have to be done one by one, and there is nothing to be done in a hurry, so you might as well make a decision and find a way to solve it. 'Listen, what the saint said was heartfelt and profound, Huang Yuan is a literati, how can he not be deeply moved? He couldn't cry bitterly, when the palace repented, hid his face and went out of the palace, and thought about it behind closed doors so far! ”

"......" He Shaokai narrowed his eyes.

He Shanqi continued: "Yushi Wang Rui only had one son, but he bullied the market, he was worried that his son would be worried about his life when he went to Guanyang to defend the city, although the saint did not withdraw the holy decree, but he promised him a verbal decree and transferred his son to the Xingluo army for training. Shengshang said: "In the early years, Marshal Xiao led the troops to kill only a small group of rogue bandits, and in recent years, although the sea bandits have a tendency to comeback, but in recent years, it has been difficult to make a big war on the sea. I will send someone to inform Wei Zhuo and ask him to take your kid to experience more! At present, Xingluo is building coastal defense, and there are more opportunities to lead the army, I don't believe it, your kid will not be able to rub off his temperament and practice his son's blood! Maybe when he comes back one day, he can really give you the glory of your ancestors! 'Wang Rui Wangzi became a weapon, how could he not be thrilled when he heard this? He also knocked on his gratitude for a long time, repented when the palace, and thought about it behind closed doors after leaving the palace. ”

"As for the scholar Qiu Rumao, the saint reprimanded him, saying that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, he is lustful, and his son must not be a loyal and upright person, so why bother with father and son sharing concubines? Qiu Rumao shouted that he couldn't help it, and defended his son, and the saint reprimanded: "When you are a member of the court, I am a servant on the left and right, and you are addicted to prostitutes, and the face of the court has made you lose everything!" I tell you, if you can't get rid of this problem, I will decree that you will send concubines to your father's and son's mansions every day, and you will be allowed to sing and have fun with your father and son day and night! I'm waiting for you to empty your body and give you back to your hometown for retirement! The holy decree was still in the Qiu Mansion, and after Qiu Rumao returned to the house, he hurriedly dismissed the concubine, and ordered someone to go to the painting boat to redeem the two courtesans, not only returned the good books of the two of them, but also gave a sum of silver taels, and told the two to go back to their hometowns. ”

"Lin Youxue is in charge of the military power of Huainan Dao, and in the days he was imprisoned in the prison, I don't know how many people want to find out the holy will, but the gate of the three mansions is closed, and he has an attitude of staying out of the matter, so that the court and the middle government are speculating that the three mansions have been used by the saints, which is the intention of the saints not to withdraw their wills - the three wills are knives hanging in front of the door of the three mansions, reminding that the three mansions have a weakness in the hands of the saints, and they can only follow the path pointed out by the saints. Moreover, the power of the saint is not only here, think about it, if the Hanlin Academy really becomes a place to store talents, wouldn't the world's ideological trend be under the nose of the saint? Huang Yuan's son entered the Hanlin Academy, every word and deed can be supervised, he is still young, easy to cultivate, and the saint has fulfilled his marriage, isn't it inevitable that his heart will be sainty? Wang Rui's son is the same, although he doesn't have to go to Guanyang to die, but when he arrives in Xingluo, he doesn't know if he is not going for hostage? Even if he returns to the court in the future, the gentleman really becomes a Zheng Zheng son, and his heart is also towards the holy. ”

He Shanqi smiled bitterly and sighed: "What a good means for the saint! Enwei and resourceful, step by step, can be described as far-sighted. You want to play with the Holy Lord, talk about power, how do you think you are better than the Holy One? ”

He Shaokai was silent, his eyes were turbulent, and he asked after a while: "According to this, the Holy One wants to isolate us?" ”

The alliance of the eight mansions looks like there are still four mansions left, but those three mansions don't dare to make a second, so who is left?

"I can only guess so. In the past few days, my grandfather has been thinking about it and doubting that the situation seen by His Majesty in Sanfu will be easily heard, and this is also a holy will. He Shanqi sighed, "The Holy One is waiting, waiting to see how our He family acts." ”

And how to act should be a matter of life and death.

"It's all my grandfather's fault, I didn't dare to bet back then." He Shanqi looked at He Chuxin and regretted it too late, "Back then, my grandfather was worried that the Yuan Party was powerful, and it would be difficult for the Holy Lord to succeed alone, thinking that even if his great cause was really accomplished, there would be a place for our He family daughter in the harem, who would have thought that he would meet the current queen...... Alas! You also entered the palace that day, and you have seen it these days, the saint is determined not to choose a concubine, and you should also die. Ming'er's grandfather invited the official media to come to the house to discuss your marriage, although the royal gold plaque has not yet been hung, but the He family is already considered to be a marquis, and the son of a famous family in the Manchu Dynasty will choose for you, and you will be able to choose a good family affair. ”

He Chuxin twisted the handkerchief, tears rolled in his eyes, and before he could speak, his grandfather had something to say.

"The man outside the door, you can send someone to give her a funeral silver and give her a good name. Rest assured, when the news of tomorrow's marriage is released, the palace will not condemn you. ”

Only then did He Chuxin know that his grandfather already had the best of both worlds in his heart.

The law of both worlds, and the law of both!

It was like this then, and it's the same today, but it's her who is sacrificed every time.

He Chuxin pursed his lips, resentment and tears welled up, turned his head and ran out of the study.

"Sister!" He Shaokai wanted to chase him out, but he endured it, turned his head and asked, "Grandfather, as soon as the news of my sister's proposal is released, it is equivalent to us and the saint bowing our heads!" ”

"We are already isolated, if we don't bow our heads, do you want to do the opposite?!" He Shanqi slapped the table case angrily, and the palm wind forced He Shaokai's eyes to be empty, "Grandfather took a lot of time, but you still mind the temporary level!" The Holy One is the same age as you, and you are far from you in terms of experience, foresight, strategy, and courage! If you don't bow down, do you want to learn from the Yuanjia? The sailor has been settled in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and our He family can't be the Yuan family, and only when there is a degree of advance and retreat can it last for a long time! ”

He Shaokai's face turned pale for a while, and he sneered: "Grandfather, have you forgotten that there are 50,000 soldiers and horses outside the city who are loyal to Queen Yingrui, and since they crossed the river, they have been stationed in another camp, not only refusing to merge into us, but now they also call themselves Jiangbei Naval Division!" The Holy Master values them and guards us, and the intention has been revealed! If we keep our heads down, we are afraid that we will never recover! ”

"When did my grandfather say that he was going to bow his head? Fight or not, focus on proportion, and take retreat as the truth, you should understand! ”

"Sun Er understands, the soldiers in the army may not understand, if the soldiers feel aggrieved, I am afraid of mutiny in the future."

"The sailor has been living in peace for a long time, and the morale of the army has long been lazy, and there is still the bloody nature of mutiny? Unless someone incites it. He Shanqi's eyes were bright, and his tone was full of warning, "You and those young generals in the army are more peaceful, grandfather's eyelids are jumping so hard these days, and he always feels that the Lin family is all over the old department in the Huainan army, and the saint is too reckless." But the saint has always been far-sighted, how can he act recklessly? Unless...... It's not as simple as we seem. There may be chaos in the near future, you must remember not to act rashly, wait to see the situation clearly, and then plan for the future! Remember? ”

“…… Be. He Shaokai gave a respectful salute, and when he bowed his head, the carved shadow on the armarmor fell between his eyebrows, like a leopard lying in ambush.

He Shanqi really didn't guess wrong.

On July 29 in the early years of Jiakang, the prisoner car of the former soldier Cao Shangshu Lin was hijacked on the way to escort.

On the second day of the first month of August, the old Lin clan in the Huainan Army instigated the army to mutiny on the grounds that the imperial court persecuted Zhongliang, and the emperor turned his back on his ancestors, favored the queen to interfere in politics, and listened to slanderous rumors, and instigated the army to mutiny, intending to capture Huaizhou. The rebels were shocked that the plot had been uncovered, and decided to storm the state city, but was stubbornly defended by the garrison. In the middle of the night, the rebels retreated to the nearby Suixian, Luxian and Wudu counties in three ways.

In the early morning of the third day of the first month of August, the rebels of the three roads retreated to the city of Sanxian, and the torches suddenly raised on the city tower dispersed the fog. There is a decree in the saint that those who descend will not be killed, and you will be captured before you take off your armor? "The rebels were in turmoil, hurriedly retreated, the generals of the three counties pursued by victory, and the deputy envoy of Huainan Province led the army to ambush the rebels on the way, beheaded Lin Youxue and two rebel generals in the formation, captured five people, and the rest surrendered.

On the sixth day of the first month of August, the good news of 800 li was sent to the central government urgently, and Qiu An, the deputy envoy of the Huainan Provincial Soldiers and Horses, was promoted to the chief soldier of Huainan Province, and eight meritorious generals in the army were rewarded for their merits, and the military power of Huainan, which was close to Bianzhou, was returned to the imperial court.

Just when the ministers were shocked by the emperor's scheme, two days later, another incident occurred, and the government and the opposition were shocked.

On the tenth day of the first month of August, Bu Xihuan personally promoted Han Qichu, the military division of the Jiangbei Water Division, entered the court, and the official worshiped Cao Shangshu!

A bachelor from a poor family was promoted from a military advisor to the second rank of the dynasty, and this kind of shocking news has only been heard once - when the current queen disguised herself as a man and entered the court as an official, she was once named the governor of Jiangbei Navy as a lowly person.

However, the court and the central government emphasize literature over military force, and the post of Shangshu, who is in charge of the appointment of military attachés and the power of armament and military orders, is it not a military function comparison?

When the government and the opposition were in an uproar, the ministers recalled the beginning and end of the joint name of the eight governments, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Although the queen has the ability to judge the case, the fact that the matter of the back house of the eight mansions can be ascertained so quickly naturally depends on the complete evidence. As soon as the eight mansions jointly played, the evidence was presented in front of the Feng case, obviously the saint had insight into the opportunity and had already expected it, and the saint also expected that Lin Youxue would be in trouble, and Huaizhou would mutiny. Could it be that the coercion of the eight mansions is in the hands of the saint? The saint not only defended the queen and deterred hundreds of officials, but also showed grace to the three mansions internally, isolated the He family, strictly prevented mutiny externally, and harvested military power. As soon as the military power was collected, the saint immediately promoted his cronies to the court to take on the important position of soldier Cao Shangshu! This foresight of the first opportunity, the step-by-step city government, and the means of moving like thunder, make people think carefully and be frightened, and they have to be convinced by awe.

Han Qichu is a Han soldier, who has been in the army for three years, from a recruit to a strategist under the queen's account, and then worshiped by the queen as a military advisor of the Jiangbei Water Division. He is still a scholar, and there will be many obstructions in the administration, and the saint cannot be unpredictable, so he will also promote Han Qichu to this position, there is only one possibility - the children of the poor family will enter the office, if the official position is low, they will be suppressed by the peak, it is better to be in a high position, how effective the governance is, then it depends on the wisdom and skill.

However, after the joint signing of the eight governments, the ministers were afraid of the emperor's tricks, not only did no one mention the matter of choosing a concubine, but they were much more respectful than in the past.

The political situation in the court is very good, and the queen's mention of punishment and prison has also begun to bear fruit.

Previously, the Huaijiang corpse case was mentioned by the queen, and the criminal Cao ordered people to go to Guanzhou with an official document to supervise and handle it, and sure enough, five pieces of bones were found along the river in Guanzhou, among which there was no head, but there were two pieces of bones that could be spliced together, and the servants carried out a careful examination according to the official document, and agreed that the five pieces of bones newly found and the two pieces of bones found in the Huaizhou River before, the fractures have something in common, and they should be made by the same murder weapon, and it can be basically concluded that the same corpse belongs to the same body, and the murder weapon is a woodcutter.

The woodcutter in Jiangnan is quite distinctive, and in order to avoid damage when the blade is used, there is a beak-like protrusion in front of the blade, and the characteristics of hurting people are relatively special. Therefore, there were only two pieces of bones in the past, and they belonged to two counties, so it was not easy to find out the commonalities, and I knew that the corpse fragmentation case was difficult to solve, so I was too lazy to waste my mind, so I did not examine it carefully.

This time, no one dared to be lazy and slippery, and the officials of the two states of Guanhuai examined the bones several times, and only after no doubt did they seal the examination and submit it to the palace with the residual bones.

Empress Yingrui looked at the examination and the remnants of the bones, and replied: "Strictly inspect the tent boats in the upper reaches of the Huai River, and check the boatmen among the young and strong or those with bad deeds, and inspect the cabin on a sunny day, and if you see flies and insects gathering in the cabin, you can immediately detain the shipowner." Do not torture him, just check the suspect's relatives and neighbors in the township to see if there are any missing men between the ages of 20 and 25, and if there is a retrial, it is not too late! ”

The queen had previously issued an order to inspect the ship, and the Huaizhou Prefecture did not dare to slack off, and when the criminal officials went to Guanzhou, they checked the civilian ships upstream, and all those who could divide the bodies on the boat, such as painting boats, tents, etc., were not spared, and even the simple boats were checked, but the ships had already been cleaned, how could they still identify suspicious ships?

This time, the queen only gave the order to strictly inspect the caravan, although I don't know why, the state officials did not dare to delay, so they had to go to investigate by order.

I didn't expect this check, but I really checked it!

When the government inspected the ship before, the boatmen knew that they were investigating the corpse mutilation case, but the last time they did not find a suspicious ship, this time the government came to investigate again, some did not dare to say anything, some laughed and inquired, and some complained.

"It's hard to see a sunny day, and the officials still have to check the boat, so how can the villains make a living?"

"Ordered to investigate the murder case, who dares to stop it, the state government will speak!" The yacha pulled out his knife, picked the curtain of the boat, and shouted, "Let me tell you, this errand is for the inspection of the tent boat, and the one who picked it is a sunny day!" ”

When the boatmen saw the knife, they didn't dare to say anything more, but they originally thought that the yamen would search and leave as before, but they didn't expect that the yamen would only pick up the curtain of the boat, and then go ashore and wait.

Wait until the sun rises three poles.

In August, the scorching sun was scorching, and the boatmen waited for their mouths to be dry and sweaty, and they wanted to speak several times, and when they saw the knife in the hand of the official, they swallowed their complaints stiffly.

The shore was so quiet that it was restless, and the sound of flies and insects was even more disturbing, and at some point swarms of flies flew from row to row of boats, and soon landed on one of them, buzzing and evil.

A messenger took a knife and pointed at it, "Boss! Look! It's that one! ”

As soon as the words fell, a man in the boatman turned around and ran!

The headcatcher turned around and shouted, "Stop! Chase! ”

The man was very fast, and when the hunters saw him hiding in the mountains, they searched for a while out of breath, and found that they had lost the man, and they were so angry that they stamped their feet in the woods. The head catcher ordered one person to return to the state to ask for help, and he and the rest of the people continued to search in the mountains.

On this day, the chickens and dogs in the nearby villages were barking, and the people in the village did not dare to close their eyes at night, only to see the torches on the mountain like a sea, illuminating half of the Zhuangzi. The army dispatched 3,000 soldiers and horses to search for the mountain, and the torches surrounded the mountain, like a mountain fire at the foot of the mountain, burning layer by layer, and finally captured the boatman who was trapped on the top of the mountain and had nowhere to escape when the sky was dark.

The boatman had been hiding in the mountains all night, and when he was caught, he still had strength, and on closer inspection, he was not very tall, but he was quite strong, and he was really a strong man.

When the man was tied to the state office, the details of the boatman had been checked overnight. It turned out that this person really had bad deeds, he was a water bandit of the Jiuqu Gang, because the current saint ordered the local bandits to be suppressed three years ago, the bandit leader was executed, and the water bandits fled in all directions, this person was caught by the government and sentenced to two years of prison service, and he just returned to his hometown not long after. His brother knew that he was good at water, so he gave him the family's old schooner and asked him to ferry on the Huai River to make a living.

About three or four months ago, a man from the same village went out to collect his bills and never returned. When this man went out, it was almost the rainy season, and his family had told him to be careful when crossing the river, but when they saw that he had not returned for a long time, they thought that it was the rising water in the rainy season, and he was trapped on the other side, because there had been one time before, and his family did not pay much attention to it. But when the weather was fine and no one came back, his wife begged a clan relative to cross the river to look for someone, and the clan relatives came back and said that they had left after collecting the accounts, and that it was time to get home before the water rose in the rainy season, and his wife panicked.

Every year in the rainy season, there are not a few people who are washed away along the two rivers, and the man's wife is not sure whether her husband has fallen into the river or has been murdered on the road.

But the age of the missing person is similar to that expected by Empress Yingrui, and the situation of the boatman is not bad, Huaizhou Assassin Shi Shengtang asked the case, put the torture instrument on the court, and patted the wood, asking the boatman why he wanted to run, can you know the missing person in the same village?

The boatman knew that he could not escape from the situation, so he did not wait for the punishment to be taken.

Indeed, he killed the man, and the motive was to make money.

On that day, his fellow villagers traveled on his boat, and during the chat, he learned that his fellow villagers had crossed the river to collect their accounts, so he said that the rainy season was coming, and if there was a definite day for the return trip, he could hold the boat across the river and take his fellow villagers back. The townsman thought he was a good intention, and the two made an appointment, and on the day of the appointment, the townsman took more than 50 taels of silver on his boat, and when the boat went to the center of the river, it was late, he smashed the townsman with the oars, and after taking the silver, he wanted to throw the person into the river, and was worried that if the body was found and recognized, the government might come to the village to visit, so he dragged the villager under the tent, stripped off his robe, hacked the person to death with the firewood knife brought from home, and then disfigured his appearance, and threw the body into the river. Then he washed the boat, went ashore, burned and buried the clothes of his fellow villagers, and buried the silver taels under the masonry of his thatched house.

He has been a bandit for several years, and after returning to his hometown, he still can't change his habit of eating and being lazy, and his livelihood is only enough to make a living. He had dealt with the government when he was a bandit, and knew how to escape the government's inspection, so he disposed of the body so that it was unrecognizable before throwing it into the river. He was afraid that if the corpse was fished out by the fishermen, the wind on the river would be very tight for a while, so he didn't dare to spend those silver taels immediately, but buried it first, planning to take it out after half a year, and then take it out after the wind has passed. He was not at ease when the silver was buried elsewhere, and he was afraid that the government would come to check when he buried it at home, because he knew that the official government had always been dirty and afraid of smell, so he hid the silver in the thatched house.

He thought he had done a thorough job, but he didn't expect to be arrested, but he couldn't figure out where he was exposed.

The people who crowded outside the state government for the trial did not know how the government found out the suspect, but only knew that the suspect had been recruited, and this case that caused panic in the people was finally solved.

It is rare for the government to investigate the case so quickly, and the people can't help but applaud.

"I thought that someone might suffer again one day, but I didn't expect the government to catch this crazy murderer!"

"I heard that yesterday at noon, the caravan stopped by the river, and the flies and insects landed on the murderer's boat in swarms. Do you think this is evil? ”

"What's evil or not, the officials and masters are naturally smarter than you when they decide the case."

"That's, I heard that in order to catch the murderer last night, the three thousand military masters surrounded the entire mountain, and Lord Assassin Shi is really in charge of the people this time!"

Huaizhou Assassin Shi listened to the praise in the public court, his face was full of red light, and the corners of his mouth just burst into laughter, and he remembered that this praise was not acceptable, so he hurriedly stroked his beard and coughed, pretended to arch his hand in the direction of Biandu, and said loudly: "This all depends on the queen's mother's discernment, if there is no mother's guidance, the truth of this case cannot be revealed so quickly." ”

"Huh?" The people at the gate of the yamen were stunned, "Isn't the queen in the palace?" How do you know who committed the corpse shredding case in our Huaijiang River? ”

"This ......" Thorn Shi didn't know, so he could only say perfunctorily, "The queen mother is known as the judge of the Yin Division, so she naturally has some magical powers. ”

Empress Yingrui was in the palace, but she could judge a murder case hundreds of miles away with just a paper test, and the people were amazed and really believed in the supernatural theory. After that, Empress Yingrui was the reincarnation of the judge, and the saying that there was a great power spread among the people, and the case of the broken corpse on the Huaijiang River even became a book, and it was said by Mr. Storyteller that it was amazing.

That's for later.

As soon as the boatman confessed, the assassin ordered the yacha to search the stolen money and murder weapon from the boatman's house, and submit them to Cao for execution along with the confession.

After Fu Laoshangshu received it, he hurriedly presented the confession into the palace and asked: "The old minister has everything to understand, and he still hopes that the mother will teach him." ”

Empress Yingrui was reading the file, and she expected what Fu Laoshangshu was going to ask early in the morning, so she said: "There are painting boats, tent boats and simple boats on the river boats, and the painting boats are mostly owned by brothels or official merchants. ”

"The purpose of dismembering the body is to cover up the crime and the identity of the deceased.

"There is nothing to shelter on the boat, and if the murderer dismemberes the body on the boat, there needs to be a shelter. If the corpse is disposed of elsewhere, it will require a box or sack to transport the body parts to the ship, and even if the corpse is divided into several pieces, it is by no means an ordinary size of the object, whether it is a box or a sack, too large or too many, it is extremely eye-catching on the boat. ”

"The murderer is most likely to transport the body in a caravan, and the caravan boat is mostly a ferry, and there is less fish on the boat, so the murderer can be detected by flies and insects. As the saying goes, 'flies see blood', flies have a keen sense of smell, especially bloodthirsty and smelly, if there is a murder, they will arrive within a quarter of an hour, they are the first witnesses to the scene of death, can be described as a criminal detective guide. Whether the murderer dismembered the body on the ship or disposed of it elsewhere, when the body was dumped, the ship would definitely be stained with blood, and even if it was cleaned afterwards, it could not escape the flies' keen sense of smell. ”

"Five bones were previously found in the river in Guanzhou, and together with the previously salvaged ones, there are a total of seven. Among them is an upper arm bone, a sternum body, and the rest are remnants, but even if they were remnants, judging from their length, weight, stoutness, and diameter, the deceased must have been a man, between twenty and twenty-five years of age. The judgment of age 0 is more complicated, and it is inferred after checking according to different bones and various identification methods, which can be explained in a few words, and the detailed discussion is in the codex of this palace, and after a while, each division will be able to see. ”

"Speaking of this case, the severed ends of the seven bones are all ladder surfaces, indicating that the murderer's chopping force is very great, and he is calm and decisive when exerting force. The deceased is in the prime of life, and the murderer can kill him and destroy the body, which is by no means a good kind. He is likely to have a bad track record, either because he has martial arts or is strong. Throwing the body is a troublesome matter, and in most cases, sinking, cremating, and burying the body is the first choice of the murderer, and no one will choose to divide the body unless there is a special reason. Dismembering the corpse is a hard work, and the scene is bloody, which is a test of the psychological quality of the murderer, and after that, it is necessary to clean up the scene and throw the body, which is long, troublesome, and risky. The murderer would rather trouble than dismember, either because of psychological problems, or because he knew the victim. The murderer was afraid that once the body was found and recognized, the government would find him when they inspected the deceased's relatives, friends and neighbors, so they used the method of dismemberment to cover up the identity of the deceased. After all, there are few perverted murderers, and there are no traces of the murderer's perverted tendencies on the bones of this case, so the murderer in this case is very likely to know the deceased. ”

"As for why the place where the murderer threw the body was not the upper reaches of the Huai River or the lower reaches of the Bianhe River as expected, because the urgent document sent a while ago said that the place where the body was first salvaged was not far from the center of the river, then according to the force of the current, the place where the body was first recovered should not be far from the place where the body was dumped. In other words, the place where the body was dumped was in the upper reaches of the Huai River. ”

The queen explained in one breath, Lao Shangshu didn't even insert a sentence, and only asked an irrelevant question after a while, "Uh...... Listen to the mother's will, do you have to print your codex? ”

"Well, the Holy Lord has ordered the national eunuch to copy and rub the engravings by hand, and they can be published in the autumn to all prefectures and counties for the local officials to use when they decide cases."

"Guozijian!" Fu Laoshangshu's eyes lit up, he turned around and left, walked to the door of the main hall and hurriedly retreated, and saluted with an embarrassed face, "Old minister...... Retire! ”

Fu Laoshangshu went directly to the Guozijian after leaving the palace, and asked for the queen's codex from the scribe, at first he only said that he wanted to take a look, but after reading it, he relied on the Guozijian from then on, and cheekily begged for a school, and went to the Lizheng Palace after the morning, and after noon he was in the criminal Cao office, he relied on the lamp in the Guozijian at night to pick up the lamp and read it, and he did not return to the house when he was tired, so he rested directly in the school. And a few days later, the two convicts also came to the Guozi Prison, and since then they have often come and gone, and the Guozi Prison is overwhelmed, provoking the impeachment of the sacrificial wine, Bu Xihuan reprimanded a few words, and Fu Lao Shangshu was reined in.

But after that, when the queen in the Lizheng Palace was conferred, there was no confrontation between the upper and lower punishments. The government is the most troublesome case of corpse mutilation, and new cases are difficult to solve, let alone cases that have passed for several months. At first, I don't know whether it was a case in Bianzhou or Huaizhou, and finally crossed the river to Guanzhou, and the queen was far away in the palace to break this difficult case, and the torture Cao was regarded as serving the queen since then.

The queen's mention of the prison was supported by the torture Cao, and there was a momentum of praise from the people, so the Son of Heaven took advantage of the situation and ordered the hand-copied and engraved case-handling codex to be published throughout the country on September 15.

At the beginning of the official, most of the civil cases were judged because of lack of experience and felt at a loss, and the codex of Empress Yingrui from the autopsy to the corpse examination to the human flesh and intestines have detailed explanations, where hanging, burning, suffocation, poisoning, rod killing, slashing, stabbing death, falling death, drowning, tiger wolf dog bite, insect bite and rat devouring, lightning smashing stones, chariots and horses and other causes of death, common and uncommon, even sexual death, drunken death, etc. are listed in detail. The Codex not only details the characteristics of the cause of death, but also the types of murder weapons and the form of wounding are clearly listed, what are the effects of the four seasons, the cold and warm water, and the discarded corpse outside the soil and buried in the soil on the speed of the corpse's decomposition, what is the difference between the injury before and after death, how to distinguish homicide from suicide, how to examine the highly decomposed corpse, how to examine the corpse turned into white bones, especially the white ossified corpse, the classification of the bones in the Codex to the name, and then to the performance of the different injuries suffered by each bone are given in detail, supplemented by the case of this dynasty, It's breathtaking.

The codex takes the will of Queen Yingrui to have no injustice in the world, and the royal name is called "No Injustice Record".

After that, the DPRK and the Central Committee issued three prison reform orders in succession: first, abolishing the old law of slaughtering and gangsters to examine the dead and wounded, and removing them from the lowly status, adding them to the official register, and adding them to the ranks; Second, the state government is equipped with three people, two people in large counties, and one person in small counties, and the government needs to recruit one or two apprentices to distribute food and silver; The third is that the government has set up scribes to explain the "No Grievance Record" to the writers and apprentices, and the artificial books of the lectures are recorded, and the exams are taken on an annual basis, and those who work hard are rewarded, and those who are lazy are removed from the official status and are expelled from the government.

As soon as these three court orders came out, no one in the court had a different voice, and after the incident of the Eight Mansions, he was intimidated by the power of the emperor, and the wind and waves in the court were calm.

In Biandu City, in addition to the current queen, there is also one person - the head of the Later Seven Sages, Bai Qing.

This person must go to the teahouse every three days to discuss current affairs with the students, and the excellent vision and the essence of the opinions are not as good as the students, and they are sincerely convinced. Every time Bai Qing goes to the teahouse to discuss politics, the teahouse is always crowded inside and outside, with students inside and people outside. The people do not understand the government and politics, and what they admire is only the grace of the wise men.

On September 25, the autumn rain fell, Bai Qing still arrived as scheduled, and only came out of the teahouse in the evening.

The rain is getting lighter, a simple carriage stopped outside the teahouse, Bai Qing came in with an umbrella, and when he handed out the oil umbrella with a curtain, half of the face was graceful, and a clear wrist was clear, which made people feel longing, but he could only be full of sorrow, who called Gongzi Ruyu, and extraordinary people can be contaminated.

The students saluted each other, and saw half of the river with rain marks, and the carriage chased the autumn rain all the way to the south of the city.

Bai Qing gave the number "bamboo", there is a bamboo forest in the southern suburbs of the city, no one took care of it in the past, I don't know when the forest got up in the house, the carriage entered the bamboo forest, and drove towards the house.

The sun is sinking and the sky is dark, the autumn rain is back, the horse's hooves invade the grass road, the white electricity is flickering, the shadow of the bamboo forest is like a random arrow, and the ground suddenly appears a fine cold light!

The coachman's eyes lit up, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the sword light in the sky above the bamboo forest counting, and the sword qi was killing at the carriage!

------Off topic------

Many people will think that the fly solving case was initiated by Song Ci, but in fact, it was first seen in the "Art and Literature Gathering" compiled by the Tang Dynasty.

When Yangzhou assassin Shi Yan Zun went out on patrol, he saw a woman crying and mourning, and she was not sad when she cried, so she felt strange. When the woman said that her husband had died in the fire, Yan Zun ordered the body to be transported to the government and said to the officials, "Keep watch over the body and see if anything unusual has happened." ”

The next day the official reported that there were no visions of the corpses, just flies flying around, and strangely enough, they were all gathered on the head of the deceased.

Strictly obeying the orders of the people to inspect it, an iron nail was found on the top of the deceased's head.

Later, there was a similar case in the Qing dynasty Hu Wenbing's "Prison Turtle Supplement".

In addition, regarding the "Records of No Injustice", Wang He, a forensic scientist in the Yuan Dynasty, compiled an examination reference book suitable for the Yuan Dynasty based on Song Ci's "Collection of Records of Clearing Grievances", called "Records of No Injustice".

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