Luo Yangxing sneered, and Shen Si scolded angrily: "We are not thieves who rob houses, we are legitimate businessmen, what kind of system is it to fight and kill." Besides, the current emperor Shengming, naturally he will not wronged me and others, you can wait for me at home with peace of mind, and soon the official will let us back. ”

Luo Yangxing was silent, and watched coldly as the men made a way, he walked out with a brocade guard, and said to Shen Si: "You know each other." ”

Shen Si smiled bitterly: "In fact, we are just eating with a mouthful of food, and we ask the official to have mercy." “

Luo Yangxing smiled: "Pity? It depends on how well you perform. “

Shen Sidao: "The official has needs, and the small ones are all obeyed." “

Back in Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing said to his subordinates: "Ask these people for their confessions, and they can be used tomorrow." “

Cao Huachun waited for them to leave and asked, "Is Commander Luo trying to make a big deal about this?" “

Luo Yangxing sneered: "First I wanted to attack the factory guards, and then I sent people to kill people." It seems that the low-key of the factory guard over the years is very low-key. It's not that we want to make a big fuss, let's see how the court decides. “

Shen Si did what he said, and when he asked for a confession, he truthfully told everything and asked, "Does the official need a small perjury?" Help the official bite over there? “

Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi smiled: "This is not necessary, just this fact is enough for them to be in a hurry." And if you commit perjury, there will be a leak when you ask in the court, which is not beautiful. “

The next morning, the factory guard came to the Nanjing court with the file and sued Wang Tu, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Zhang Wenda, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, and Zheng Sanjun, the secretary of the Nanjing Household Department, and others, conniving at their subordinates to resist the national law by various means, evade taxes, and lead people to attack the factory guards afterwards, bribing the murderer to kill people and kill people.

At the same time, in the newspaper, "Daming Weekly" reported the news at great length, not only describing the case in detail, but also conducting a special questionnaire survey below, as long as you answer the questionnaire, you can get a gift - a pack of Chinese cigarettes, a box of matches. Gifts can be received by questionnaire in agricultural cooperatives or factory health stations in various places.

The questionnaire was divided into three parts, the first of which asked senior officials of various ministries in Nanjing whether they should be removed from their official positions if they were involved in such acts. The second part asks whether these people should be held legally accountable in addition to their removal from office. The third part is to ask whether there is confidence in the Nanjing court's trial of such a case. Why?

The survey was a great success, because of the temptation of a pack of cigarettes and a pack of matches, and because there are more distribution points in agricultural cooperatives, the questionnaire recovery rate reached nearly 60%. The results of the survey were published in the next issue of the newspaper.

Nine out of ten of the respondents to the questionnaire said that they should be removed from official positions and held legally responsible. On the third issue, only three-and-a-half of the population had confidence that the Nanjing court would hear the case on the grounds that it would do its duty to hear the case fairly. However, there are still 60 percent of people who believe that the protection of officials and officials has existed in ancient times, and it is only difficult to get judges to fulfill their duties. And most importantly, many people believe that wanting the court to hear officials will make judges afraid to really try the case according to the facts.

When Wang Chengen reported the results of the investigation to Zhu Youxiao, Fang Congzhe said: "Then remove them from their posts first, and then hand them over to the court for trial." “

Zhu Youxiao asked, "What is the reason?" “

Sun Chuanting said curiously: "They broke the law, isn't this the reason?" “

Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "If they are deprived of their official positions because they have broken the law, then what do you need the court to try for?" It is for the courts to determine whether they were involved in such incidents, and only if the court finds that they have broken the law can I deprive them of their official positions. “

Sun Chuanting's mind turned for a long time before he understood, and he asked uncertainly: "Then if Your Majesty wants to deprive him of his position as an official in the future, will he have to go through the court trial?" “

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "This is different. I can dismiss an official because I don't like his way of governing, I can dismiss him because he is mediocre, I can dismiss him because he married a woman in a green house, or even because he has a bad smile, but if I dismiss him because he has broken the law, the judge must decide that he has indeed broken the law before he can be dismissed. “

Only then did Sun Chuanting understand that His Majesty had to piggyback on the investigation of tax evasion in Jiangnan to erect the authority of the court, or was His Majesty originally preparing to erect the authority of the court?

Xu Guangqi praised beside him: "Your Majesty Shengming, since there is a law, it must be in accordance with the law." This is the way to govern the country. “

The ministers are naturally not sycophants. Zhu Youxiao said: "Okay, okay, I know what Zhongqing means, I am not a faint monarch yet, of course I will not take my position because others are not smiling well." Let's wait for news from the south. “

The court received the evidence handed over by the factory guard, and was anxious, so it hurriedly reported to the Dali Temple in the capital and asked the Dali Temple to send someone to try the case. Wu Rendu, the secretary of Dali Temple, replied: "The case occurred in Nanjing, which was originally within the jurisdiction of the Nanjing court, you can try it yourself, and we will send an observer judge to hear the trial." “

The president of the Nanjing court is the former Dali Temple Shaoqing Wang Yaliang, although there is the word Yaliang in his name, but he is an upright official, so Wu Rendu handed over the second most important court of Dali Temple to him. After receiving Wu Rendu's reply, he smiled bitterly at Chen Yincong, who came to hear the trial: "This can be regarded as catching ducks on the shelves." There is no way back, only dry. “

Chen Yincong and him are fellow scholars, and the two have a good relationship. Hearing Wang Yaliang say this, he smiled and said, "Brother Rong, don't you think this is a good thing?" We have always wanted to revitalize Dali Temple, and now His Majesty has handed over this case to us, just let us show the majesty of the law, so that Dali Temple and courts at all levels have become a force that cannot be ignored in the Ming Dynasty, so that everyone can do things according to the law, and the younger brother feels that this is a great good thing. “

Wang Yaliang gritted his teeth and said: "This is not against Donglin, but just against the law." The old man was ready to resign after the case was heard, so as not to be attacked. “

Chen Yincong said: "Before I came, Your Majesty told me that we law enforcement people are the most afraid of preconceived notions. We are only trying cases of officials and people violating the law, and have nothing to do with political parties. “

Wang Yaliang knew that this was the emperor's words to him, and he had been worried that after he tried the case, the result would be favorable to the Donglin Emperor, and the result would not be conducive to Donglin, but he would be attacked by other Donglin people. As a native of Shandong, he is really in a dilemma. Now that the emperor said this, he asked him not to consider the affairs of the party and to persevere in the public interest, so that even if it did not conform to the emperor's wishes, he would not be blamed.