Chapter XVIII: The Case of Chen Gang

Xu Youzhen looked at the tall gate of Beijing City, and countless emotions poured into her heart. Xu Youzhen said a word, but she couldn't say it, and it took a long time before she sighed: "I'm finally back." ”

After Xu Youzhen was placed.

Zhu Qizhen summoned Xu Youzhen as usual.

Generally speaking, after the minister enters Beijing, he can only go home after meeting the emperor.

After Zhu Qizhen summoned Xu Youzhen, he first asked about the situation in North Korea.

Xu Youzhen said: "North Korea must not act rashly, as long as the officials are calm. In ten years, Korea will be owned by the imperial court. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "North Korea has changed the country to a province, how is the heat? ”

Xu Youzhen pondered for a moment and said: "The Korean people are also the children of the imperial court, so they naturally have their hearts set on the imperial court, but there are one or two unscrupulous people among them, and they provoke them. I fear that the people will be uneasy. ”

Zhu Qizhen also heard that although Xu Youzhen was ambiguous, he still tended to stabilize the current situation.

It's just that the idea is not the same as that of the center.

Many people in the center have the idea of maintaining the status quo.

After all, for many scholars, there is no practical benefit to Daming having one more province, but if the emperor's heart to expand the territory is opened from now on, it will not be very good.

Your Majesty's heart is open, there is no end, what should I do?

Of course, these ideas are just undercurrents and don't care about the bigger picture.

But for Zhu Qizhen, it is better to have already settled down, and he is still the king of servants.

King Yu has been in Korea for a long time, and I am afraid that he has no intention of migrating.

Therefore, even if there were some minor problems, Zhu Qizhen decided to do it.

Therefore, the plan to withdraw North Korea as Haedong Province is already being implemented, which is one of the reasons why Zhu Qizhen does not want Xu Youzhen to leave North Korea.

However, it is not impossible for Xu Youzhen to leave now.

Daming's talents are not yet scarce to the point that without Xu Youzhen, there are some things that cannot be done.

Zhu Qizhen transferred to the Criminal Department again, and said: "The affairs of the Criminal Department are complicated, and after the Qing arrives, we must be cautious and cautious, and we would rather indulge than be in vain." ”

Xu Youzhen said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Xu Youzhen has not yet arrived at the Criminal Department to inspect things, and Zhu Qizhen's culture is courteous. Therefore, he was about to ask a few questions, so he asked Xu Youzhen to go back and said, "After Qing arrives at the Criminal Department, where are you going to start?" ”

It's just that Xu Youzhen's answer was greatly unexpected by Zhu Qizhen.

Xu Youzhen said: "After the Jingcha, dozens of prisoners were not sentenced in the imperial prison, and after the minister arrived, the first thing was to sort out the matter. ”

Zhu Qizhen was slightly stunned in his heart and said, "Qing is so bold. ”

The Jingcha funeral official case was an introduction, which led to so many things, and this morning it has become the side eyes of the Manchu Dynasty. It can be said that it is the very center of the storm.

Maybe the matter of the Ming Huidian can be delayed

Go, but this case can't be delayed too much.

After all, it is okay to revise a big book for one or two years, three or four years, or even more than ten years, but you can't always lock people in prison without trial.

Of course, this is from a macro perspective, and specifically, it is actually nothing to drag on for a few months.

Even a major case in modern times has to be handled clearly, from trial to judgment, it takes one or two years.

Therefore, for the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the best way is nothing more than to drag out the limelight, wait for someone to pay no attention, and then sentence the case.

But Xu Youzhen understood what he was doing in Beijing.

You don't need Zhu Qizhen to remind you. To charge into battle is to have a charge into battle.

At this moment, it is really a lot of attention, and the case of this judgment has become the basis for many judgments in the future, and even the disputes in it have directly affected the compilation of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, it was no longer feasible to peel and fill grass during the Taizu period. So now what is the Ming Dynasty's treatment of corruption and perversion of the law? It depends on today.

Xu Youzhen said: "To do things for Your Majesty, the courage of the minister is given by Your Majesty, but for this matter, what does Your Majesty say?" ”

Zhu Qizhen got up and paced, and as soon as he signaled, Huai En immediately spread the rice paper.

Zhu Qizhen's fingers swept over countless large and small brushes, then pinched a large pen, then dipped it in ink, and wrote a couplet.

"Since ancient times, only officials have governed the country, and the coss should think deeply."

This joint can be said to be level, but it is also mediocre, but it undoubtedly shows Zhu Qizhen's political attitude.

Although this assertion is only available in later generations, it has a profound idea of national studies, which is in the same vein as the art of pipes.

And the Ming Dynasty had a habit of using ancient names for officials at all levels.

And the title of the book of the criminal department is Si Kou.

Xu Youzhen naturally knew Zhu Qizhen's thoughts, that is, to be strict.

Xu Youzhen took the couplet with both hands, stepped back and saluted, and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty." The minister knew what to do. ”

After Xu Youzhen went back, he immediately went to the Criminal Department, not to mention anything else, and went through the files of various criminal officials in detail, and finally he selected a target.

It is the case of Cheng Chen Gang in Wuyang County, Henan.

Xu Youzhen chose this case, not because he was big, but because he was small.

This is where Xu Youzhen is clever.

Xu Youzhen understands very well that it doesn't matter how these cases are decided, the important thing is that the emperor sets the rules, but the bigger the official, the more complicated the relationship network. The more off-the-counter factors there are, the more difficult it is to do.

Only Chen Gang's case is very small. Almost the smallest of all cases.

But it's also typical.

As long as this case is decided, then the rules that Zhu Qizhen wants will be decided.

In this way, it is easy to say how the following cases will be judged.

Chen Gang

What kind of case is it?

Zhang Xian, a citizen of Wuyang County, He Bin is a big silk collector, Zhang Xian promised to give Chen Gang ten taels of silver, so that Chen Gang could help in the matter of silk collection. Chen Gang agreed. And give help.

After He Bin heard about it, he denounced Chen Gang at the Henan Governor's Office.

When Chen Gang heard the news, he didn't dare to accept Zhang Xian's money.

This case is small, but typical.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chen Gang is a fool with eyes who does not know gold and jade.

The big silk collectors, the Zhang family, and the He family all have backgrounds, and Chen Gang participated in the fight between the two of them without finding it out, and was cleaned up.

It can only be said that he does not have long eyes.

I don't know how many taels I have, a seven-grade sesame official.

But in this case, there are several problems.

First of all, Chen Gang completely denied that he had taken bribes, and he didn't get ten taels of silver anyway. Does Chen Gang belong to the stolen goods?

In fact, this kind of collusion between officials and businessmen did not come to the late Ming Dynasty, but at any time, and in many cases, the level of official corruption is much higher than that of Chen Gang, an unlucky man.

Chen Gang can't completely get rid of the involvement in this case, but the methods of many officials can be completely cleared up.

What should I do in such a situation?

Secondly, how should the embezzlement amount of ten taels of silver be judged?

Although this number is small, it determines how the corrupt should be sentenced in the future.

Moreover, Xu Youzhen is very good at using new tools, he personally wrote the causes and consequences of Chen Gang's case into words, and then sent it to Ming Pao.

As a result, as soon as Ming Pao was published, Chen Gang's case became the focus of the world.

Moreover, the enthusiasm of officials to discuss this matter is extremely high. After all, this is likely to be about their future, and it is difficult to be absolutely clean in the officialdom, and people like Hai Jui are also respected because of their rarity.

Many officials are still in official positions, not because they are much cleaner than Chen Gang, but because they are not as unlucky as Chen Gang.

As a result, such enthusiasm forced the business to add a magazine, which quickly became a semi-monthly, ten-monthly, and even five-day, three-day, and so on.

Of course, this has not yet been decided, and it is entirely determined by the number of manuscripts.

Since the hundred officials in the capital are so enthusiastic, the General Administration Department can only work overtime.

Of course, some of them have seen Xu Youzhen's ascension, and want to make a splash in Ming Pao, so that the world knows his name, so that he can rise step by step.

So the argument is very hot.

But one thing is certain. Everyone tacitly acknowledged that Chen Gang's crime would not lead to death. I don't want Chen Gang to fall into the same fate as those predecessors in his Hongwu years.

If you look closely at the cases in the Hongwu period, with a small amount of embezzlement, such as a dozen pieces of cloth and hundreds of banknotes, there are many people who have lost their lives, and now hundreds of officials are not willing to experience such horrors.