After finalizing Wu Yan's matter, Han Gang resigned from Wang Qi's mansion and did not return to the mansion, but went to Kaifeng Mansion without happening

He planned to take the opportunity to meet Su Song, just for him to pick a good house for himself, and Han Gang had to thank him well.

It's just that Su Song is now anxious because of Chen Shiru's mother murder case, and this case is also implicated in Lu Gongzhu's body, and Cai is indeed muddying the waters.

"It's hard." Su Song shook his head and sighed, the whole person seemed to be much older.

The exquisite family banquet was set up in the back garden of Kaifeng Mansion, and Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion poured wine for Han Gang while talking about the case.

"Chen Shiru really killed his mother?" Han Gang still couldn't believe the rumors outside, "It should be the Li family who killed the aunt, right?" ”

Killing one's mother, after a thousand years, is a stable capital crime. And now he has been sued by his parents for unfilial piety, and according to the law, he can put his son on death as a capital crime! Governing the world with filial piety and regarding the three outlines and five constants as an era of iron laws for maintaining social stability. Killing one's mother is a heinous felony, on the same level as rebellion. Relatively speaking, rebellion can win the sympathy of some people, while mother-killing can only despise and disgust. On the contrary, it is better to say that the daughter-in-law killed her mother-in-law.

"I didn't believe it either." Su Song shook his head and introduced the case to Han Gang.

Chen Shiru was the only son of Chen Zhizhong, the prime minister of the Renzong Dynasty, and before the case, he was the official of Dr. Guozi and served as the magistrate of Taihu County in the south of the Yangtze River. His wife, the Li family, who was instigated by the head of the domestic servant to kill Chen Shiru's mother Zhang with an iron nail cone, was the daughter of Li Zhongshi. And Li Zhongshi's wife Lu is the granddaughter of Lu Yijian, the niece of Lu Gongshu, and Li is naturally the grandnephew of Lu Gongshu.

Chen Shiru served as an official in Taihu County, and his wife, Li, like most official eunuchs, stayed at home in the capital to serve her aunt - Chen Zhizhong is long gone, and Li served Chen Shiru's biological mother, Zhang, who was the victim in this case.

The Zhang family, who was killed, was Chen Zhizhong's favorite concubine, with a tyrannical personality, and was very famous in Beijing a few decades ago. She was the thirteen-year-old maidservant Ying'er who made the staff to death, and she was the one who forced the other two maidservants to death. Three people died in a month, and this incident was very big at the beginning, and the Yushitai wrote books one after another, and Chen Zhizhong was also removed from the phase.

After Chen Zhizhong's death, Renzong personally arranged for Zhang to enter the temple to practice until Chen Shiru became an adult, and then welcomed back from the temple. But it didn't take long for her to die, and the Chen family reported that she died of illness, and then Chen Shiru returned to Beijing worriedly. But after the incident, after examination, it was found that Zhang had been murdered. It is poisoned first, and then an iron nail is used to cone it into the heart.

"The servant who came out said that the Li family had ordered that 'the doctor should be mourned one day, and he should be paid a generous salary.' It sounds like an instigation, but there are too many things for slaves to bully their masters, and I didn't believe it at first. Zhang's treatment of servants and maids is mean and unkind, and there are old things in the past, and it is more appropriate to die at the hands of servants and maids. But when he interrogated the Chen family, he found that the whole thing was indeed related to the Li family. The servants and maids of the Chen family all received the rewards and sealed their mouths, and the first person to sue the official only stood up and turned himself in because of the uneven distribution of rewards. ”

"I see. …… This is really unthinkable, how did the Lu family have such a stupid daughter. ”

"She belongs to the Li family." Su Song corrected.

"Li Zhongshi's methods are also very powerful, and he forced the whole family of the Korean Gong [Fubi] to pay the exemption from the bank."

"No matter how powerful it is, there is no way to teach the daughter, and this case is not only the Li family, but Chen Shiru can't get away with the crime."

"Probably impossible, right?" Han Gang didn't believe it, Su Song had already made it clear that he had evidence, but from a reasonable point of view, he always felt a little confusing.

The Li family instigated the maidservant to kill his aunt, there are witnesses, there is physical evidence, although there is no confession, but sooner or later it can be tried. It's just that Chen Shiru is a little strange that he is involved.

"Chen Shiru doesn't need to kill his mother in order to return to Beijing, if he wants to go back to Beijing, he can just report his illness and resign, and some people are waiting for his position. And if Li wants her husband to return to Beijing, there is no other reason, unless she can convince Chen Shiru, otherwise she can only let him worry. ”

Su Song smiled slightly, his smile still couldn't get rid of the bitterness: "Then Yi Yukun, what do you think, what should the truth of this case be?" ”

"Someone should want to muddy the waters, and until now, the name of this case by the outside world is no longer the Li family's aunt murder case, but the Chen Shiru mother murder case. But whether it is the case of Li's aunt murder or Chen Shiru's murder of his mother, now that things are so big, I am afraid that Xiang Zhuang is dancing the sword with the intention of Pei Gong. ”

In Han Gang's mind, this is most likely to pull down Lu Gongshu through this case. And the Lu family did send someone to Su Songguan to say, and the Lu family was very influential in Dali Temple, and interfered with Su Song's trial several times. However, this matter has already been exposed, so that Lu Gong is not embarrassed.

In addition, Han Gang also heard a saying that Cai Huangshang, the father of Cheng Cai Qu in the imperial history, left the phase in Chen Zhizhong, and when he served as the governor of Chenzhou, he once made a mistake because of a negligence and was forced to resign by Chen Zhizhong. At that time, Cai was not yet an adult, the pillars of the family had no income, and the family had no food and clothing, so they could only live in Chenzhou. Decades of hatred have built up. Now it is Cai who is indeed taking revenge.

"It's a muddy water." Han Gang sighed, Su Song's luck in this case was really bad. As the right to know Kaifeng Mansion, it is difficult to get out, "But no matter how you look at it, Chen Shiru will not have anything to do with this case." ”

Su Song shook his head: "Although it is reasonable to do so, it is wrong. But Yukun, I'm afraid you can't imagine that this case is really related to Chen Shiru, judging from the confession that came out of the trial, at least he knew about it. ”

Han Gang's face changed, and he knew that his wife instigated the servants to kill his mother without stopping it, which was actually killing his mother, and there was no other explanation.

If this big case against humanity is local, the local magistrate will inevitably be forced to resign because of the ineffectiveness of education, and the magistrate will also be punished, and now it is still done by the descendants of the two prime ministers, and whoever touches it will feel that it is tricky, and it is not only limited to the problem of the case itself.

"Then what else is there to hesitate about in this case?" Han Gang asked puzzled.

"Yukun, you don't know how to ......" Su Song sighed for a long time, and then said the reason with the intention of drinking, "The Son of Heaven wants to protect Chen Shiru." ”

Killing the mother is a kind of rebellion, ranking fourth among the heinous felonies, second only to the three articles of rebellion, rebellion, and rebellion, and the crime of disrespect that directly offends the Son of Heaven is ranked sixth.

Han Gang's voice sharpened: "That's it, the Son of Heaven still wants to protect him?!" ”

"'How about one son, and keep it for sacrifice?' Chen Shiru is the only son of Chen Gonggong [Chen Zhizhong's name Gong]. If he dies, Chen Gonggong's room will be cut off from incense. Su Song smiled bitterly, "Although the Son of Heaven didn't say it explicitly, there should still be the dignity of the Chen family and the Lu family." It's just that the Lu family is down, two prime ministers, one of them is still the only son, and the Son of Heaven doesn't want to make too much trouble. ”

At the time of Chen Zhizhong's death, Yingzong was only the thirteenth Lang Zhao Zongshi in the palace of Runan County—his father Zhao Yunrang died of illness a few months later before he was posthumously crowned King Pu—and he didn't even meet him today.

But despite this, Chen Zhizhong's son is a prisoner of mother-killing who has committed the crime of rebellion, and Zhao Ji still wants to save the life of this rebel son - just because Chen Shiru is Chen Zhizhong's only son, and because Chen Zhizhong is the prime minister.

Including Han Gang, high-ranking officials of their rank have always been treated preferentially. The civil ministers who have become bachelors and straight bachelors, and the rulers of the two governments, are the scholars who can really rule the world with the Son of Heaven. As for the officials below, that's two classes entirely.

Even military generals, such as Cao Yu, who became a privy envoy back then, also reprimanded him on the surface, and privately let people make a shady move to make him cut himself. It is almost impossible to kill the canonical punishment of the Ming Dynasty.

"In front, it was only the Li family who killed his aunt, and the Son of Heaven said, 'This person is very evil, and he should be poor.'" But now that Chen Shiru is involved in the case, the Son of Heaven wants to let him go...... I went back to Cai Quding. Su Song complained.

Han Gang asked coldly, "If there is no Yushitai this time, this case can basically be decided, right?" ”

Su Song sighed and remained silent.

Chen Zhizhong forced Cai Huangshang to resign, Cai did have a deep hatred with Chen Zhizhong, he could destroy Chen Zhizhong's son and destroy the bloodline of the Chen family, he would never let go of such a good opportunity.

The imperial historian does not give people, and the imperial history is the chief of a unit in the actual sense, although the imperial historians are rebellious, and many times they do not obey the control. But since Cai Qu is in charge of the Yushi Observatory, it is still very easy to guide the direction of the Qing Dynasty.

The Son of Heaven can't suppress these officials. When the crow crows, it must be dead.

I don't know who asked, why do the officials of the Yushitai always rise so fast? And some of them answered, because they were black and almost purple—they all looked at them like crows.

"Three Platforms and Five Constants, this is Tiantiao, Brother Zirong, this case must be concluded as soon as possible, otherwise Yu Shitai will only be happy to expand the whole matter."

Han Gang's expression was serious, and his tone was solemn. If Su Song's side continues to delay, when the time comes, the target of Yushitai will not only be the scheduled Lu family and the Chen family, but even the Su family will be involved. Maybe when the time comes, Su Song's position will not be able to be kept - although Yu Shitai has borrowed another case to impeach Su Song leniently, but the indirect attack and the direct accusation, the strength of the two is not the same after all.

"Where do you want Yukun to say, Brother Fool has seen a lot over the years?" Su Song laughed self-deprecatingly, yesterday Su Song was on a whim, and he counted a hexagram, but there was no good answer at the end, "It's just that it's hard to make a decision." It's just right now, thank you Yukun for your help. ”

"Don't dare. Inserting a sentence, it's just a matter of tongue, and after drinking Brother Zirong's wine, I have to pay it back. "Where will Han Gang take credit, he won't do his business at all, just say that it's better to end this case as soon as possible.

Su Song laughed twice, drank and chatted with Han Gang again, and put the matter out of his mind for the time being.