Chapter 660: Overly Smart

In Tianjin Mansion, officials gathered in the main hall, outside were layers of onlookers, and on the façade were two rows of restless officials. Early in the morning, there were chengguan gongs and drums and shouting in the city: "Today, the government is trying the case, and I respectfully ask the fathers and villagers in the city to supervise." ”

No, before the time came, the open space outside the gate of the government was already full of people, and the city management and the officials put up a cordon, and also arranged stools in the line for the old gentlemen to sit and listen to the trial. Considering that too many people will cause accidents, many spectators were stopped, and only six or seven hundred people were allowed to watch.

The inner door called, and a girl came out, with a curtain in her hand, and it was naturally Chen Xie who came out first, with a heroic face, not wearing court clothes, and wearing a new-style military uniform. Because of Chen Xie, there were gradually more people in the Ming Dynasty who wore new strange costumes. Ordinary people like it the most, but there are very few people who read it, and those who insist on long shirts are still the mainstream. Regarding Chen Xie's alternative, now in the mouth of the storyteller of the Ming Dynasty, it must be emphasized. The most common lines: eight feet long, with a face like a crown of jade, wearing a boat hat, wearing a military uniform, stepping on long boots, wearing an armed belt around his waist, and hanging a Tang knife. It is really majestic and murderous, worthy of Chen Sihua Chen Gebu, who calmed the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty.

What came out after Chen Xie were two characters who made the officials look different, one was the dress of the inspector Yushi, and the other was a flying fish suit with an embroidered spring knife on his waist. When did these two come? The officials changed color one after another, knowing that something big might happen now.

Chen Xie stood in front of the people, bowed his hands, and everyone stood up and saluted in return, it was good to have this beginning, everyone felt a lot more at ease, it seems that things are not so strict. Or will I give it to you? And don't look at who it is.

"Everyone has arrived, so I'll start with a few words. The country has national laws, and the family has family rules, and I took two people yesterday, not to destroy the country's laws, but to come out. With the imperial order. The railway is related to the lifeblood of the people of the country, and it is the established national policy of the first emperor. These two, everyone knows them, so I won't introduce them. The next case, they are in charge, and the official came with ears. ”

At this time, a person dressed as a royal historian stepped forward and bowed his hand to Chen Xie first. Then he bowed his hands in turn, and finally bowed his hand to the row of squires sitting at the door, and then said: "There must be a rule for everything, today's case, Lord Chen of the cabinet department showed everyone a good start, where is the good?" Two words: rules. Rules for judging cases! Today is one case, two criminals. The former is the fame of the local squire, how can his case be tried? The factory guard presented evidence. This imperial history determines that it can be arrested, and the evidence is presented in front of the fathers and elders. In the end, whether he is guilty or not, the fathers and elders will give a conclusion in front of the people who are hearing the trial. The latter is an official, the prefect of Tianjin, or tried in front of everyone, but. Whether he is guilty or not, and how to convict him, must be left to His Majesty to decide. Can you hear the difference here? ”

Everyone thinks it's fresh when they hear it, what does this mean? Co-author Li Jin is not guilty. It is not the government that has the final say, the government only needs to present evidence, and in the end, whether to convict or not, it is up to the local fathers and elders to determine whether they are guilty or not under the supervision of the people. How are you sure? Vote, just two bowls, one person and one broad bean in hand, the guilty bowl has more beans, that is guilty, and the innocent bowl has fewer beans, that is, the crime is not established.

"Silence!" When the scene was in an uproar, the head of the factory guard stood up and shouted violently, and everyone shut up. After calming down, Jinyi Wei Baihu turned around and shouted: "Bring someone to commit a crime!" ”

This was a unique trial, and in front of hundreds of onlookers, this trial suddenly made everyone feel that many things were different from before. Especially in Li Jin's case, after Jin Yiwei released all kinds of evidence, the onlookers were excited, and the evidence chain of the whole case was very sufficient, from Li Jin's collusion with the government, to privately sending the clan girl as an outer room, to him inciting the clan to make trouble. What's even more infuriating is that the cowherd baby who was hit by the train was not from the Li family at all, but a baby from another village. In order to make trouble, Li Jin actually colluded with the government and changed to the household registration of Lijiazhuang. The parents of the doll who had the accident were brought to the scene as witnesses because they received him 50 silver yuan.

The credibility of the government is still relatively strong in these years, or in other words, the emperors are all good, and the bad ones are officials. The people's concept of right and wrong is easy to be guided. Today's trial is like this, there are first-class officials of the imperial court in charge, and there is a division to hold a court to try the case in public. The local elders at the scene decided whether Li Jin was convicted. This qiē was unimaginable in the past, but Chen Xie did it, and it was in full view. No one understands the significance of Chen Xie's doing, but everyone agrees with this method, for the simple reason that it is fair enough. Chen Xie doesn't need everyone to understand, he just needs everyone to accept it and do it in the future.

The key is evidence, Jin Yiwei presented a large amount of evidence, including the bank's account list, the amount of money the railway company sent to the government, and the specific amount of compensation paid by the government. In the face of many evidences, Li Jin and Hao Jin were powerless to refute and admitted their sins in court.

The crime mainly revolves around the compensation for land requisition by the railway company, some of which belong to the government, and the two joined forces, and after the railway company determined the route, Li Jin bought some official land at a low price, and then took the compensation at a high price, and then the two shared the spoils. But this time, they went too far, and seeing that the railway was about to be built, they planned to make another profit.

Chen Xie didn't care much about the evidence or anything, what he cared about was the procedure of this trial. Make a record, and after sorting it out, go back and hand it over to Zhu Cihong. And I thought of the reason, the biggest advantage of this is to avoid unjust cases to the greatest extent, and it is also a restriction on the abuse of power by local officials.

There were 21 people in total, and the people over 55 years old who were temporarily elected had two bowls in front of them, one with guilty under the bowl and the other with not guilty written under the bowl. The old man threw the broad beans in his hand into the bowl in turn, and those who were unwilling to express their stance could abstain. In the end, there were three abstentions, and eighteen people found Li Jin guilty.

The three people who abstained from voting have something to do with the Li family, which is no longer the point, more than half of them were convicted. The specific conviction, according to the relevant laws of the Ming Dynasty, the local Tongzhi pronounced the sentence, Li Jin was sentenced to death, and the autumn queen was beheaded. As for Hao Jin's crime, it is certain, but he is an official, and the final decision must be handed over to Jingshi and Zhu Cihong to decide. The good reason for doing this is naturally to add a little bit of bargaining chips to Zhu Cihong to check and balance officials.

The matter of Tianjin was handled very smoothly, and the problems of the deceased's family were handed over to Tongzhi to deal with, and according to the relevant laws, the dirty silver was handed over and the labor was fined. These are all later stories, the key is that the process of this trial has caused a sensation in Tianjin and even the entire Beizhili, which is also a later story.

Chen Xie didn't stay long, stayed only a few days, and escorted the prisoners back to Beijing. On the Jingshi side, Zhou Yanru's head is big, and a nephew of Hao Jin found the official family of the Zhou Mansion, and after telling him what happened, the angry Zhou Yanru dropped his favorite cup. This matter is not here, Chen Xie has promised to leave some leeway. Unexpectedly, Hao Jin died and forced Chen Xie to take him down on the spot.

Zhou Yanru asked people to send this Hao Jin's nephew away overnight, and told him very clearly, not that he didn't want to save it, but that he couldn't save it. How things are, it is also very clear, let him go back to prepare for the future, at most he can save Hao Jin's family.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, if Hao Jin breaks the law, his family will be connected, and the exile will be the least. Chen Xie has not yet returned to Beijing, and he knows everything about the news of the trouble, and he also knows Zhu Cihong's handling of the law. Now that everyone has taken it, just wait for Chen Xie to go back and deal with it, Zhu Cihong has no intention of giving these people a good time. Jiang Fengyuan stood outside the gate for an afternoon, but he didn't get a word of preparation from Zhu Cihong, and finally Lao Zhou came out and said: "Your Majesty asked Mr. Jiang to go back, don't stand again." ”

As soon as he entered the Guangqu Gate, Chen Xie brought Lao Zhou into the palace and talked to Zhu Cihong in the imperial study. Chen Xie knew what had happened, and although he was very annoyed, he couldn't say that he was going to kill Jiang Fengyuan. Now Daming is in this atmosphere, and changing customs is not a matter of one or two days. Only when the economy develops, and gradually women play a greater role in social production, and with the progress of the times, this thing will always change.

The matter is actually very simple, Jiang Fengyuan was jealous of Chen Xie's favor, so he instructed the housekeeper to contact the candidates from his hometown and talk about Liu Ru's appearance. According to the current etiquette, these things that Liu Ru does, in a conservative place, are indeed qualified to dip in the pig cage. But if you want to dip the pig cage, it is not the turn of outsiders to intervene, and this family clan is in charge.

This set of things, where will Chen Xie buy it, he is an extremely powerful big man, how can he go out of the side room at home? That is, a group of literati, whose brains are in water, think that they are defending the program and supporting justice. Then he rushed out as soon as his brain was hot, and was cleaned up by the guards. The problem of Shuntianfu, Sheng Yun is Jiang Fengyuan's henchman, so he naturally sits crookedly. originally thought that if Chen Xie was not at home and no one dared to take care of it, he would inevitably lose Chen Xie's face once. I never thought that the little emperor would make a move, but it was a ruthless killing move.

Things got out of hand, and in the end, the unlucky person was himself. These two things, in fact, are essentially the parties who are too smart, thinking that others are easy to fool, and they are the smartest ones. Jiang Fengyuan also overestimated his weight, thinking that his status in the emperor's mind was very high. (To be continued......)