As long as there is a contrast in everything, there will always be a tragedy.

There is no Jia Yu to set off his own good, but there is a Lin Ruhai to set off his own reading, which makes Jia Zheng, who has always been favored by the whole family and added good words, all wrong.

If there is no contrast, there is no harm!

To some extent, this is also a celestial cycle.

It's not a thing to stand at the door all the time, and soon Jia Daishan invited Master Lin's father and son in, but when discussing government affairs in the court with the Lin family, the next generation is different, Jia Daishan directly sent Jia Zheng Lin Ruhai away, Jia Daishan, who was born in the army, is very sensitive when facing certain things, and he will subconsciously keep many things secret.

Master Lin didn't say much about this, he trusted his son, but he didn't trust Jia Zheng, this period of time was enough for Master Lin to find out what kind of character Jia Zheng was, whether Master Lin regretted giving Lin Ruhai this family affair No one knows, but Master Lin is not very optimistic about Jia Zheng's future.

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Lin Liu, who was far away in the capital, naturally didn't know Master Lin's ambitious thoughts, even if he knew, he was powerless to stop it, of course he was unwilling to stop it, if it wasn't for the danger of his life, who would want to think of the calculation of the explosion in his mind every day, how good it would be for Ge You to be paralyzed and wait for death all day long!

"Second master, Steward Zhang asks to see you."

Lin Liu said while changing his clothes: "Invite him to the study." ”

After changing his clothes, Lin Liu entered the study, and the maids who were waiting in the room retreated very consciously.

"What's the matter?" Lin Liu asked, he has to go out today, the time is a little tight, after all, with Lin Liu's identity, it is impossible to let Qin Liu wait for him.

"Second master, there's a letter from Jinling." Saying that, Zhang Cai took out the letter in his arms and handed it to Lin Liu.

Lin Liu was shocked when he heard this, and now the biggest news in the capital is that Yu Jinxiu killed someone and Lord Yu Yu of Zuodu shielded him, because of this matter, Princess Anping's death was always abnormal, and it was also suppressed. Lin Liu hurriedly took it, glanced at it, and opened it after seeing that the envelope was correct.

After reading Xin Linliu's eyes, a trace of solemnity flashed, he didn't expect that things were a little beyond his imagination, no one in Jinling City knew about Yu Jinxiu's killing of people, and in the case handled by Ying Tianfu, there was only the case record of the crime who was exiled for thousands of miles.

Is this someone covering the sky with one hand, or is there something else hidden in this matter?

There is nothing wrong with a person who has been sentenced to exile for thousands of miles to sue in the capital.

People who have this problem are actually ignorant of the ancient criminal law system, and use the social common sense of modern people to imagine that the ancients caused it.

You must know two things, first, in ancient times, there was no real kind of prison where prisoners were held for decades, only detention centers. Second, most of the time, the so-called exile is not a real exile, and it will not be actually carried out, and of course it is not that the crime of exile will not be punished, but will be converted into other forms of punishment.

With the improvement of the level of modern productivity and the increase of material wealth, "free life" has become the most precious thing for a person, and in ancient times, "survival" was the first place, and the loss of freedom was not important, so from the perspective of punishing "bad people", making bad people afraid and not daring to commit crimes again, or letting potential bad people be afraid of seeing other bad people being punished and no longer committing crimes, the punishment of "losing freedom" in prison has no deterrent effect.

Moreover, under the conditions of social productivity in ancient society, the imperial court could not afford to support a large group of prisoners, nor could it afford to build many cells to hold prisoners. In fact, the ancient "prison cell" is not the modern kind of prison that serves fixed-term imprisonment, but is equivalent to the current "detention center" of the public/security/bureau or procuratorate/procuratorate/court, which is the place where the suspect is temporarily detained during the arraignment, and the prison is only used to wait for the trial, it is not the result of the trial.

At the time of sentencing, the vast majority of the exiles pronounced will not really be executed, but will be "converted" into "beating the board" according to the distance of exile, which is known as the "cane breaking method" in history.

For example, in the actual execution of the sentence of "exile of 2,000 li", he was beaten 17 times with a board 3 to 5 inches long and no more than 2 inches wide, and then worked as a coolie for the imperial court for a year, not really to exile him to a place 2,000 miles away. And this kind of coolie thing, because the prefect's yamen has limited manpower, the guards are actually very relaxed, and many times it depends on the consciousness of the criminals, so it is not uncommon for escapes to occur.

Of course, it is not that there are no real exiles, but they are generally used for officials who have failed in court battles, such as Su Shi, rather than ordinary Li people.

It's not strange that someone entered the capital to complain, but it's strange that no one in Jinling knows about Yu Jinxiu's beating of people, so is this matter covered by the Yu family, or is it slandered?

Referring to the incident of Xue Pan beating someone to death in "Dream of Red Mansions", Lin Liu didn't believe that the Yu family could cover the sky with one hand, of course, he said that the Yu family could press this matter in Jinling City to prevent this matter from being stabbed to the Duzhong Criminal Department, which Lin Liu believed, but he didn't believe that there was no news of this kind of thing. The most important thing is that even Jia Daishan doesn't know, now Jia Daishan can weave in Jiangning, he belongs to the emperor's secret agent, and the power in his hands is not comparable to ordinary people, so Lin Liu will flash the idea of "slander" in his mind.

But this kind of life-threatening thing, if it is really "slander", Lin Liu is a little unconvinced.

Ancient times are not as good as modern times, ancient human lives are not valuable, human lives are very cheap, think about the Jin Chuan and Bao families written in "Dream of Red Mansions", and then think about Feng Yuan, who was killed by Xue Pan, gave up the life of a subordinate slave in exchange for the bad luck of the whole family of political enemies, it is also a hundred times stronger than slander, at least you can get ironclad evidence.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the person is really dead, but the killing of the person was not done by Yu Jinxiu, Yu Jinxiu was framed, this kind of thing is not impossible.

Lin Liu thought for a while: "Are you ready for the New Year's gifts for the Yang family and the Zhang family?" ”

Zhang Cai was slightly stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know why Lin Liu suddenly asked about this, what does this have to do with Master Lin's letter, but after reacting, he hurriedly responded: "It's ready." ”

"I sent someone to send it to the Yang family and the Zhang family, saying that I was injured and afraid that I would not be able to go in person after I was sick, and I would visit me after the New Year." Lin Liu ignored Zhang Cai, and said to himself: "Forget it, I'll fix a book." ”

If Zhang Cai didn't know what Lin Liu meant, he wouldn't have to be this housekeeper, knowing that the matter was not small, he didn't dare to answer.