The drum beats the three watches, the moon hangs in the sky, and the night is as cool as water. In addition to those fireworks and willow alleys, which are still drunk with red curtains and endless string songs, the streets of the capital, Xiǎo Lane, are already silent and uninhabited. Occasionally, a dog barks or two, through the jagged roof, far away in the night sky, making it even more tranquil at the moment.

In a narrow courtyard located in the carpenter alley, there stood a thin man in his fifties, who was not tall, he sighed softly and looked up at the sky, the clouds covered the moon and the moon wore the floating clouds, and the dark night sky was uncertain, just like his mood at the moment...... Dilemma and indecision.

He is the Shaoqing Hai Rui Hai Gangfeng of Dali Temple, although he is already a high-ranking official of the fourth grade, but he still lives in the original alley, and he is even more lonely...... People only said that the book made Hai Rui fame and fortune, but they didn't know that the huge damage caused to him by "Public Security Shu" will never be healed...... Psychologically speaking, Jiajing is dead, but he is alive, although there is no necessary connection between this, but the heavy shackles of 'disloyalty, filial piety, no king and no father' make it difficult for him to breathe for a long time, and it is difficult to show his face.

His life has also changed dramatically, his old mother is old, and after returning to her hometown in Qiongzhou, she fell seriously ill, and although she has recovered, it is impossible for her to travel thousands of miles to Beijing to reunite. And his wife, because she was frightened at the beginning, traveled to Bō, and gave birth to an NV baby prematurely as soon as she arrived in Qiongzhou, and she died.

The successive blows made Hai Rui very sad, and several times asked to go home to serve his mother and raise him, but Xu Jiecai regarded him as a positive typical tree, and was counting on him to promote the righteousness of heaven and earth, purify the air in the political arena, and restore the previous scholar's Day in Jiajing, how could he let him go, so he repeatedly issued an order in the name of the emperor to comfort, calling him 'a model of officials in the world' Yunyun, and promoted him to Shaoqing of Dali Temple, completing the leap from an intermediate official to a senior official. This kind of honor and courtesy made Hai Rui unable to resign, so he could only continue to work.

However, this errand did not go well at all......

Dali Temple, together with the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, are collectively known as the 'Three Law Divisions', forming the judicial supervision system of the Ming Dynasty. And the Dali Temple is in charge of the 'decree of trial and rehabilitation of criminal prisons', which is mainly to review the judgment of the criminal department, redress the unjust prison, and correct the injustice. However, the officialdom of Daming, if he could really act according to reason, everything would have been fine a long time ago, what else do you want him to do in Dali Temple?

In fact, after Chenghua, the law enforcement power of Dali Temple has been encroached upon by the higher-level criminal department, and in fact, it can only check the case file. For example, not long after Hai Jui took office, he encountered a homicide case of an official's son, and the criminal department sentenced the two criminals to be guilty, Hai Rui thought that the sentence was obviously too light, and fought according to law and reason, but Huang Guangsheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, upheld the original verdict on the grounds that 'the victim was injured and then fell ill urgently, and the cause of his death was illness rather than injury'. Hai Rui was not satisfied and went to the cabinet, but was also reprimanded and rejected by Xu Jie on the grounds that he was "new to the law department and did not learn the law".

As a result, the criminals who should have been sentenced to death were given a lenient sentence...... When Hai Rui reviewed the file, he found that it was everywhere, he took it to the criminal department to find it, no one paid attention to it, and went to the cabinet to reflect, and the cabinet elders only persuaded him with good words, but they did not accept it, and finally his colleagues in the temple began to avoid him, and Hai Rui was completely marginalized.

In fact, Hai Jui is not unaware that many of the strict torture laws formulated by the imperial court are used to suppress the poor and ordinary people, but for the rich and official, there is always a way to go. As long as you have money and power, you can settle all troubles, and even if you kill someone, you don't have to pay for your life, this is already an unspoken rule in officialdom, and he alone can't change it no matter what.

However, he Hai Rui was a saint mén disciple, and Confucius tasted the clouds: 'Do what you know you can't do!' It means that it is impossible not to ask when doing things, but it is impossible to ask whether you should or not! What should be done, what is impossible to do, must be done! Therefore, although it was thankless to redress the wrongs and uphold justice, and only one or two times out of ten times could succeed, he was still conscientious, hardworking, and resolutely upheld justice and protection for the weak, and never gave up because of setbacks.

Hai Rui is a very pure person, because he is pure, he is firm, because he is firm, he is indomitable, and he will never be boundless! But this time, when he received the holy decree appointing him as the juror of the 'Hu Zongxian case', Hai Rui fell into a kind of weighing and thinking that he had never had when he first appeared in "Public Security...... Such a shocking case, but the above gave the chief and deputy chief judge jiāo to the two chiefs of Dali Temple, although the criminal department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have to avoid suspicion, and it is reasonable to say that they are not chā, but they can still send a scholar to preside over the trial, and then they will fight with Yang Siqing! It's a common sense choice.

At present, no one in the cabinet has come forward, which means that no one in the cabinet is suitable to be the chief judge. In other words, the outcome of the trial of this case is likely to involve the fate of the cabinet bosses! That's why there is such a situation of 'immortals fighting, but they want xiǎo ghosts to judge the case'.

In fact, since the Metropolitan Procuratorate released the evidence of Hu Zongxian's 'edict', Hai Rui has maintained a high degree of attention to this matter, and has thought a lot about the ups and downs of the case. Although he had no way of knowing the inside affairs of the various central governments, he still guessed that behind this case, there was actually a political struggle between high-level people, relying on his natural keen intuition and understanding of the situation in the DPRK...... As for who wins and who loses, he doesn't care, as long as this dog-eat-dog is over quickly and the situation returns to normal. This is also Hai Jui's consistent attitude towards the so-called 'political struggle'.

However, now, he has been involved in this struggle and has become the official who tried the case, so he can no longer be indifferent, after all, it is one thing not to care who wins and who loses, and it is another thing to be confused and become a weapon for others - Hai Rui is not as straight and sharp as those people think, there is no sand in his eyes, and he only knows how to blindly act according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty. In fact, he will weigh and be flexible. It's just that the premise must be that change is more beneficial to the country and the people than unchanged, and he will do it. Otherwise, there is no mén.

How should we deal with it? He was going to the Cabinet for a lecture tomorrow morning, and he had to come up with an idea at once......

The night was spent in much thought, and when I made up my mind, it was almost dawn. Thanks to Hai Rui's pure yang physique, his firepower is strong, and he is completely fine if he stands outdoors for a night in this winter night, and he will get seriously ill if he doesn't freeze to death.

When I returned to the house, I felt no warmer than outside, and it turned out that no one took care of it all night, and the stove had long been extinguished. Hai Rui moved his stiff hands and feet, took out the ashes of the furnace, rebuilt the stove, and then put two steamed buns like hard stones in the pot, and sat on the stove to distill.

When the work was done and there was some heating in the house, Hai Rui tiptoed into the bedroom to get his official clothes, and there was a young NV in it, sleeping soundly wrapped in a quilt...... This is his mother's order, in order to pass on the lineage, Xinna's concubine is a sixteen or seventeen-year-old peasant nv. NV Zi is young and sleepy, and Hai Rui is not embarrassed to instruct this early in the morning, a Xiǎo concubine who is much longer than himself. And in order to make up enough money for the bride price, he is already a family with four walls, and he can no longer afford to hire people, so he can only do these jobs by himself.

Gently picked up the cold official uniform and hat, bent down to lift the official boots, Hai Rui couldn't help but sigh secretly, if his wife was still there, he would have warmed his clothes a long time ago, held them neatly, and put them on for himself.

What answered him was the dream voice of the concubine: 'ròu, oil ......' Hai Rui hid his face and left.

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Hai Rui finished washing up outside, brought the steamer off the road, took out a steamed bun for breakfast, and left the rest for Xiǎo's concubine Niu.

With a little pickle, I ate a steamed bun, which is considered to have breakfast. Hai Rui put on a black veil, put on an official uniform, fastened his belt, and put on two official boots with one hand on the back of the chair. After getting dressed, sit by the fire, and wait for the hour to go.

When he was about to get up, there was a knock outside, and a voice full of suspicion said, "This is Lord Hai's mansion?" ”

Hai Rui walked out and opened Mén, and saw that it was some sedan chair men dressed as human: "I am, who are you?" ”

Those people didn't believe that a four-grade official could live in such a poor street and alley, but when they saw the four-grade official uniform on his body, they knew that there were really big officials who were mixed up with scum. After being stunned, he quickly squeezed out a smile and said, "We are here to pick you up, if Lord Hai can set off, please get on the sedan chair." ”

Hai Rui had already seen a warm sedan chair parked at the mouth of the alley, so he said in a deep voice: "I don't have a sedan chair, you have found someone." "Then he will drive them out.

"Aren't you the Shaoqing Hai master of Dali Temple?" The palanquin man asked.

"I'm Hai Rui." Hai Rui nodded.

"That's right." The palanquin man smiled: "It's also strange that the Xiǎo people didn't make it clear, we were sent by Zhang Ge to pick you up to the cabinet." As the only red-robed officer who walked to work, Hai Rui's poverty was notoriously, so it was not unusual for Zhang Juzheng to know.

"I appreciate the kindness of the elder Ge." Hai Rui thanked him and said, "But my feet are dexterous, and I don't need to be carried by anyone." As he spoke, he said, "Please go back." ”

"Then we can't do it," the palanquin bearers said with a bitter face, "You should do it well and take a ride." "The heart said that it was really strange, the first time I met it, begging to sit in a sedan chair.

Hai Rui resolutely refused to sit down, so they relied on it and did not leave. Hai Rui turned around and locked Mén, and said expressionlessly: "If you don't go, I'll go." ”

So the people who got up in the morning saw a strange scene, only to see a big official walking on the street, behind the sedan chair man snorting, carrying the sedan chair to follow behind, can't help but discuss, and finally came to a conclusion, this big official is exercising......

Walking in front of Dong'an Mén, Hai Rui had already thrown the sedan chair man out of sight, he dressed up, took out his official photo, and walked to the soldiers guarding Mén.

For this Hai Da Hai, who often complained to the cabinet, the soldiers actually admired it very tightly in their hearts, and while doing routine business, they greeted each other: "What kind of case does Hai Daren have this time." ”

"Big case." Hai Rui put away the official photo, left two words, and was about to walk towards Chang'an Avenue, but he heard someone behind him call him: "Brother Gangfeng, wait for me." Looking back, it was Yang Yushu, his own court official and the chief judge of this Qin case.

Yang Yushu is a middle-aged man who is white and neat, five or six years older than Hai Rui, with a neat short beard, good facial features, and clear eyes...... Without Yang Yushu's protection, Hai Rui's days in Dali Temple would definitely be worse than now, and he wouldn't be able to turn over a single case...... It's just that in these years, it is difficult to be a good person, and it is even more difficult to be a good official, and he has long been worn out of his edges and corners, looking like a gentle and good gentleman.

Although Hai Rui said coldly, it was his means to protect himself, and in the face of a superior like Yang Yushu, he naturally would not hold a shelf, and stood aside solemnly, waiting for Lord Siqing to enter the mén.

Yang Yushu came over quickly, and after the two saluted, he pulled Hai Rui and said, "Talk while walking." "Obviously, it's to avoid the eyes and ears and whisper something.

But if you really want to speak, you don't know where to start. He didn't speak, Hai Rui wouldn't speak, he walked out with his head stuffy, Yang Yushu had to greet first: "How did you sleep last night?" "The sound is gentle and magnetic, which is quite pleasant.

"I haven't slept all night." Hai Rui said softly.

"I also tossed and turned, and I didn't close my eyes all night." Yang Yushu pointed to his eyes and said, "Look, there are dark circles under your eyes." ”

Hai Rui looked at it, and sure enough, there was a pair of dark circles under his eyes, which were particularly obvious on his white face. sighed lightly and said: "In such a big case, those who are tried can't sleep, and of course those who are trying the case can't sleep." ”

"This case is very important, even far beyond your imagination......" Yang Yushu thought that Hai Rui didn't know much about the affairs of the upper echelons, so he inspired him: "Have you thought about it, why did you let you and I try this case?" The thin body of Dali Temple can hold up such a big hat, so don't be pressed down. ”

"What do you mean, sir?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice.

"I'm wondering, for such a big case, why would the above only send people from Dali Temple to handle it, there may only be one intention." Yang Yushu said softly: "Because we are soft-spoken, and we are out of the same temple, we are inevitably suspected of being in the same breath, and we are born to be honest." It can be said that the status of our two interrogators is really shallow, and it is too ugly to say that they are puppets, but in short, it is difficult to go against the will of the above, otherwise they will be hanging......"

"What's hanging?" Hai Rui asked coldly-

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This time it's really force majeure.,After writing a little more.,Damn can't go to the net.,Call the wire.,Just say that the maintenance was notified.,Then urge or that statement.,Wait until three o'clock and don't go up.,You can only sleep first.。 I couldn't sleep well at all, but when I got up just now, I saw that I was finally better...... It does not affect today's two watches.