Chapter 36: Serve the Son of Heaven

The government has an official road, and the people have a people's road. Don't think that if you can't listen to it, you won't be able to find out the news. There is a soapy father who is among the onlookers, and there is a secretary's neighbor who is also among the onlookers, and they each have someone to entrust, so they are not slow to know what happened in the torture hall.

When Zhang Daoyun admitted in front of the court that the news of this big case of forcibly entering a private house and gang-raping women was indeed committed by him and others, the crowd in front of the government immediately became silent, and the atmosphere was so depressed that it seemed that a storm was coming, and even a swallow seemed to be affected by this heavy atmosphere.

Immediately afterwards, the news of Ye Xiaotian's "hanging" verdict came out, and the crowd in front of the government office cheered, and people jumped, shouted, and ran to tell each other. Although they didn't believe that Ye Tuiguan sentenced five thugs to hanging, and these five thugs would really be executed, they were still excited.

Some powerful families who gathered in a corner of the yamen of the government and had nothing to do with the case, but were very concerned about the case, looked at their excited and inexplicable appearance, and felt a little incomprehensible: What is the point? Could it be that if Ye Tuiguan sentenced them to death, he could really execute them?

They did not understand that even though the five thugs could have been spared death by virtue of the privileges granted to them by the law, at least at this moment they had been sentenced to death, and they were prisoners, death row inmates! And even if it was such a cutscene, it would never have been before!

At this moment, the lives and dignity of these ordinary people are equated with the lives and dignity of those powerful people, which is a recognition of them. It's unprecedented, and that's the fundamental reason why those small people cheered.

Subsequently, Ye Xiaotian was called away by Yu Junting. The people in front of the government were still excitedly discussing, telling, and happily telling every passerby, so more and more people joined the discussion, until they were ready to disperse one after another, and a new news came out: "Lord Tuiguan is forced by the pressure of Lord Jianzhou, and is ready to compromise with the magnates, and the girl of the Luo family is determined to die." Crashed to death in the torture hall. ”

There was a dead silence in front of the mansion, and the children of the powerful who had been quietly staying in a corner were overjoyed, and they were talking and laughing loudly. looked at the people who were mourning with disdain: "A bunch of mud legs, born sluts!" It is wishful thinking that he deserves the same rights as us! ”

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When Dai Tongzhi arrived in a hurry, Miss Luo had already hit the pillar and died. Although Miss Luo is just a poor peasant girl. But in the face of her corpse, even if she is a figure like Dai Tusi, she doesn't have the courage to stand up and say another word to persuade Luo's father and Luo's mother to withdraw the lawsuit.

Dai Tongzhi was silent for a long time, and quietly turned back to the judgment hall, Yu Junting saw that his face was different, and couldn't help asking, "Is the matter done?" ”

Dai Tongzhi shook his head and sat down on the chair. said astringently: "The father and daughter of the Luo family refuse to accept compensation, and the girl of the Luo family ...... Death is a clear will. hit his head against the pillar on the spot, his brain burst, and he died! ”

Yu Junting was stunned for a moment, and when she lost her mind, the small ivory fan in her hand fell on the public case with a "click", and she muttered to herself: "Hit the pillar and die?" Luojia girl...... What a chaste woman! ”

Dai Tongzhi said dejectedly: "In such a situation, it is impossible to mediate, and it is difficult to be angry." It's better to stand by and do it, Ye Xiaotian wants to sentence them to hanging, let him go, anyway, if the verdict is handed to the capital, it will still be pardoned by the Son of Heaven, so that it will not be out of control. ”

Yu Junting sighed, and knew to Dai Tong with interest: "This official is a little uncomfortable, you go and tell a few of them to know,"

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"Dong Weng?"

Li Qiuchi looked at Ye Xiaotian Tieqing's terrible face and called out worriedly. Ye Xiaotian's clenched fists slowly relaxed, he glanced at Li Qiuchi coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Li, you are the No. 1 case in Guizhou, you sue me, such a case, according to common sense, how should it be judged?" ”

Li Qiuchi said with a bitter face: "If it is according to common sense, they should naturally be hanged, even if they are powerful families." The students remember that during the Hongzhi period, there was a similar case, and it happened at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the root of the imperial city. ”

Li Qiuchi is worthy of being the first case in Guizhou, I am afraid that not only the "Da Ming Law" was memorized by him, but also the classic cases that have been judged countless times since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, he knows them by heart, and immediately told Ye Xiaotian of a similar case that happened during the Hongzhi period and the results of the treatment.

In the ninth year of Hongzhi, there was a wicked young man named Ma Ji in Beijing, who happened to meet the daughter of a squire, and was immediately shocked. That night, he gathered a group of thugs and scoundrels to rush into the squire's house with masked knives and raped the squire's daughter on the spot.

Ma Ji also connived at the scoundrels to plunder the squire's money, coerced the young lady away, and wanted to continue to play with her. When Ma Ji arrived at Tongqu Avenue, it was already dark, and a group of men carried a disheveled girl down the street, which was too eye-catching, so they wanted to avoid an inn for the time being.

But when they called the door, the guys in the store saw through the crack in the door that they were not like good people, and they were holding a disheveled girl who looked like a coma, and they didn't dare to open the door at all. They called the door, and at this time, a team of city patrol guards passed by, and Ma Ji had no choice but to abandon the girl and lead the scoundrels to escape.

As a result, the guards noticed that something was wrong, and immediately chased after them and captured them on the spot. Such a terrible atrocity occurred at the feet of the Son of Heaven, which shook the Nine Cities for a while. The evil young man Ma Ji and his subordinates were also imprisoned and sentenced awaited.

The Ma family is quite powerful, in order to rescue his son, Ma's father went up and down and bribed Chen Yun, the "commander of the guards in charge of the brocade clothes". At that time, the position of commander of Jinyiwei was vacant, and Chen Yun, as the commander, was in charge of Jinyiwei, and he was the de facto boss of Jinyiwei.

Chen Yanshi received the money from the Ma family, so he sent the official school, found a reason at random, took Ma Ji away from the Shuntianfu prison, and put him in the edict of Jinyiwei, and quietly let him go after a few days. Chen Baishi thought that he was doing things secretly, but he ignored the spies in Dongchang.

Dongchang has dispatched a resident of each department and each yamen to supervise the illegal acts in the handling of official affairs by each yamen. The Dongchang fanzi who had been stationed in Jinyiwei for a long time was very alert, and found out the matter clearly, and immediately reported it to the Dongchang, and the Dongchang immediately played the Son of Heaven.

At that time, the emperor Hongzhi was the father of the famous naughty boy Emperor Zhengde, who was a famous benevolent monarch and Ming Jun, Hongzhi was furious when he heard the news, and immediately ordered the case to be tried by the three divisions, and the three legal divisions jointly tried it, and sentenced Ma Ji and his companion Ma Cong and a retinue of scoundrels to be hanged, and Jinyiwei commanded Chen Yun to accept bribes, disregard the law of the country, and sentenced to "cut down the nationality of the people, and take the question to prison".

The results of the treatment were reported to Emperor Hongzhi, and the emperor replied: Ma Ji forcibly broke into private houses and raped women, which was vicious and abnormal, and he was beheaded in defiance of the law; Ma Ji's family bribes, all of them were shackled and sent to the border guards to fill the army, and they will never be forgiven; Ma Cong and others were sentenced to death by hanging as coerced servants, and beheaded after the autumn.

Ye Xiaotian heard Li Qiuchi say that Emperor Hongzhi personally interrogated the case that was being heard, and his eyes immediately released a fierce light, which made Li Qiuchi's heart tremble, and he hurriedly added: "But Dong Weng, you must know that the official eunuchs in the Central Plains, even if they are children of the royal family, do not have the right to amnesty, while the Tusi family has." If the Tusi people have any illegal things against the local people under their rule, they can ransom them for their crimes, which is a rule set by Emperor Hongwu. ”

For a long time, Tusi has taken and demanded from the people under his rule, and the dynasty has never interfered. Zhu Yuanzhang is a strong emperor, but he can't interfere too much with the rules that have been passed down for thousands of years, so when he appeased the Tusi in Guizhou, he promised them many privileges according to the rules of the dynasty, and after many negotiations, he only reluctantly added such a clause, which can be regarded as a constraint on them.

Ye Xiaotian said fiercely: "Rule the local people? The Luo family is Han Chinese, Han people who moved here! ”

Li Qiuchi spread his hands and said, "But who told them to settle on the ground of Tusi?" Sanlizhuang is the jurisdiction of the Zhang family, and according to common sense, living in its place is its people. Just like the outsiders of Fanbang, who live in the land of China, they are the people of China, and they must be bound by the laws of our dynasty, the same reason. Since the Luo family ......"

Ye Xiaotian sneered: "Common sense? At the beginning, Emperor Hongwu agreed with the Tusi that he had the right to ransom the people under his rule, wasn't it? Emperor Hongwu did not indicate that the people from other places moved to his place, and they were the people under his rule, right? The local people under the rule of the Zhang family do not have to pay taxes to the imperial court, but the Luo family has to pay taxes to the imperial court, so the Luo family is not a local citizen of the Zhang family at all, is it? ”

Ye Xiaotian said "isn't it" three times in a row, and Li Qiuchi, who has always been sharp-tongued, opened his mouth and stammered, so he could only defend himself: "Can ...... This is a conventional rule, Dong Weng breaks the rules, that is, he is the enemy of everyone, how should Dong Weng deal with himself? The dead are gone, so why bother yourself. Besides, Dong Weng Fang also asked the students how to judge according to common sense, and the perpetrator in this case is just not in common sense......

Ye Xiaotian interrupted him and said angrily: "Common sense? Lao Tzu and those unreasonable nobles today just don't want to talk about common sense, so what! At this time, Ye Xiaotian's eyes looked like a crazy gambler, but the gambler was for unwilling desire and that glimmer of hope, what was he for?

Ye Xiaotian turned around and left, Li Qiuchi caught up with two steps, and said, "How do you want to stay?" ”

Ye Xiaotian said: "I want to follow the Son of Heaven!" ”

Emulate the Son of Heaven?

Li Qiuchi suddenly remembered that he had just said the three words "that is, cut it", and cold sweat was like rain. He licked his dry lips, chased out of the main hall in a panic, and Ye Xiaotian's figure was already missing when he left the main hall, and when he looked around, he happened to see Mao Wenzhi coming over.

When Li Qiuchi saw his relatives, he hurriedly caught up with Mao Wenzhi's arm and roared: "Old Mao, you hurry back to the house, ask the family to pack up and prepare the horses!" I'll wait for Dong Weng to go back in a while, and we'll run away immediately!" ”

Mao Wenzhi said funny: "Oh, I said Mr. Li, haven't you always boasted that you didn't change color when Old Taishan died in front of you, why are you so panicked, is the sky about to fall." ”

Li Qiuchi said angrily: "It's just that the sky is about to fall!" Dong Weng is about to collapse the sky! ”

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