9-13 Petitioning at a higher level

In ancient times, there was a bad custom called a nail board, which was specially prepared for the Diao people who liked to go to the higher levels to petition, and a wooden board full of iron nails was about five feet wide and about one zhang long.

Regardless of whether the official is at fault or not, it is a crime for the little people to sue their parents, and the official itself is a crime, if everyone has nothing to do, and if they go to the higher level to petition and stop the sedan chair and shout injustice, then the yamen is still out of office? Therefore, in order to dissuade those who sincerely make trouble, all those who appeal through abnormal channels must be severely tested, such as those who stop the sedan chair and shout grievances, often before they reach the adult's sedan chair, they will be beaten to death by the sticks, and those who go to Beijing to file a complaint must roll the nail board to receive the complaint, if you even have the determination to roll the nail board, it can only mean that you have no grievances at all.

It stands to reason that the nail board may not necessarily die, the nail board is particular, don't look at the dense row, in fact, it is distributed on the human body and can not form enough pressure, so although the poke of a bloody hole, but it will not be fatal, but there are also mysterious machines, the criminal department and the gatehouse of Dali Temple have prepared two specifications of nail plates, one is the conventional system, 380 steel nails, and the other is a simplified version, only 81 steel nails, this steel nail is a little, but it will kill people, the nail nails into the flesh, not to mention rolling over, is to lie on the top, that is a death. This kind of nail board is specially designed to deal with the kind of Diao people who look malicious and petition, whoever gets out will die, and if they don't get out, they will get out.

The father of the girl who sold himself to bury his father must have died after rolling this simplified version of the nail board, which shows that people's lives have been given up, and there is indeed a great grievance, but according to the girl, as long as the father is buried, he will never dare to sue again, indicating that although the person is dead, the complaint is still not handed in.

After listening to Peng Jingrong's questioning, the girl replied: "My father died on the nail board, so I had no choice but to sell my father to send my father, and I hope that my wife and young ladies will have mercy and buy me." ”

"The dog officer of the Criminal Department is too arrogant, he is so careless that he has to take a life to sue for his life, is this Criminal Department a yamen to avenge the people!" Zhao Wen said angrily, the judicial organs in the Song Kingdom had already abolished similar cool laws, and the civil prosecution officials had their own corresponding channels, so they were extremely angry about the matter of the criminal department's nail board. And the Peng Jingrong sisters have lived in this social reality for a long time, and they don't have much opinion on the civil prosecutor rolling the nail board, but the criminal department deliberately used a sparse simplified nail board to kill people, which is a bit excessive.

"You don't have to worry about your father's delivery fee, we have a grievance, you might as well tell us, let's see if we can help you." Peng Jingrong said.

Seeing that these nobles in front of her really wanted to help her, the woman shook her head weakly and said: "It's useless, the world is as black as a crow, from Honghu County to Yueyang Mansion to the provincial capital, until today, which official in the lobby of this criminal department is not colluding with each other, and we won't fight this lawsuit..."

"Don't be afraid, we have our own way to help you, no matter what level of official is involved, it's not a problem, just say it." Peng Jingwei is an emotional person, seeing that this girl is so aggrieved and desperate, she naturally comes out as a stand-in to fight for injustice.

"I really didn't beat my mother, my sister-in-law and my unborn nephew also died, my brother was sentenced to be executed, and now my father is also dead, and I am the only one left, so I really didn't move this lawsuit. Who are you who can shake those high-ranking officials and dignitaries? The woman still shook her head slowly, her face pale, and her mind was in a trance, as if she had lost faith in the whole world.

"Even princesses." Liu Xiaomei, who has never been on the stubble, suddenly came up with such a sentence, which shocked the spark in the woman's eyes, and the onlookers were also shocked, but the people did not know how many sisters and aunts the emperor had, and the four women in front of them had extraordinary appearances and extraordinary temperament, and the guards were all big shoulders and round waists, wearing official boots and carrying official knives, maybe they were really princesses with golden branches and jade leaves.

Liu Xiaomei couldn't tell the difference between the empress, the princess, and the county lord at all, and it was purely casually said, you must know that although several of them all bear the title given by Zhao Wen, but it is just a child's play, whether the title can be recognized by the Song Dynasty court is a matter, and how can it be taken out to bluff people, but Liu Xiaomei's nonsense made the girl see a glimmer of light in despair, and she suddenly fell to the ground and said: "Her Royal Highness the princess, the people and the daughter are wronged." As he spoke, he felt a bloody figure and held it on his head with a trembling note.

Peng Jingrong took the form, and the four girls came over to watch it together, of course, Liu Xiaomei was just joining in the fun, she didn't know the words at all, this bloody form was obviously a ghostwritten narrative, concise and to the point, the brush words were also written beautifully, and the anger of the person who wrote the form could be vaguely seen between the lines.

Here's the thing: the river embankment project was repaired to Honghu County, the contractor expropriated Wangjiadun's field out of normal needs, and did not give any compensation, Wang Laohan's family relied on those few acres of thin land to live, if it was collected, they could only drink the northwest wind, so they resolutely refused to give in, and guarded the field day and night, and the contractor set fire to the old lady and pregnant daughter-in-law of the Wang family in the middle of the night, and the people were indignant, surrounded the contractor's station, and demanded an explanation, but the contractor's dog legs rushed out, and several women and children were killed with a burst of sticks. That's not all, the county seat and the provincial capital sent people down to arrest seventy-two young and strong men in the village overnight, and thirteen of them were sentenced to death, and the son of the Wang family was among them. Seeing that their relatives were about to be executed, and the fertile land they had worked so hard to save was occupied by contractors, the villagers gathered some entanglements and asked Wang Laohan and his daughter to go to Beijing to complain.

Poor Wang Laohan has never been out of this county in his life, out of the familiar area, where to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, fortunately there are many kind-hearted people outside, who helped them buy the cheapest ferry tickets, all the way to the city of Nanjing, the huge and prosperous capital dazzled this pair of father and daughter from Honghu downward, where do they know what to go to the Yamen, begging and asking for directions, and finally came to the gate of the criminal department.

There are three judicial organs in the capital: the Criminal Department, the Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the former is equivalent to the Ministry of Public Security, the latter two are equivalent to the Supreme Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the ordinary people can't tell the difference.

This criminal department is not a good place to beat the drums of grievances, who has ever seen the criminal department try cases all day long? The drum at the door is just a symbolic ornament, seeing someone want to beat the drum, the soap official at the door immediately came to stop the Wang family's father and daughter, and when they saw the person in official uniform, they immediately knelt down and shouted injustice, and presented the form, of course the soap official would not take the case, and wanted to use a stick to blast them out, Wang Laohan finally found the door of the complaint, how could he easily give up, holding the leg of the soap officer, begging, the soap officer casually asked a few words, and after learning the reason for the complaint, he didn't say a word, dragged out a nail board to let Wang Lao Han roll, saying that this is the rule of the criminal department, the civil prosecutor must roll the nail board, and the government will receive the form, seeing the gloomy nail board, Wang Lao Han remembered the tragic death of his wife and pregnant daughter-in-law, as well as the villagers, desperate and helpless eyes, and handed over the form to his daughter to take offThe padded jacket said that this dress can still be used as a few copper plates, and Daddy went, so he pounced on the nail board, gritted his teeth and rolled around, and before the second one turned over, he was nailed to the board alive, bleeding all over the ground, shocking! The soap officials of the criminal department said that the nail board was still not able to be picked up if it was not rolled! If you still insist on suering, just keep going, or you'll get the corpse out of here.

The poor daughter of the Wang family knew that this nail board was absolutely unstoppable, otherwise both of them died at the entrance of the criminal department, and the corpses were not sent, so she held back her tears and carried the body of her father, who had dried up blood, and came to this bustling street step by step, selling herself on the street to bury her father.

After listening to this story, Zhao Wen was the first to soar: "These corrupt officials are simply lawless!" Do you really think that there is no justice in the world? I've got that in mind. Let's go to the Criminal Department! ”

The Peng sisters also exploded the corrupt officials in Luhuguang, not to mention that this criminal department is really deceitful too much, and it is simply not taking people's lives seriously!

"Let's go! Miss Ben wants to see how difficult it is to get through the door of this criminal department! Peng Jingwei said indignantly.

Peng Jingrong is a calm woman, but she is also a temperamental person, and she also said: "Okay, let's help the sister of the Wang family hand it in today." ”

When the daughter of the Wang family recounted the grievances, at first there were still people chattering around the people, but later, there was a lot of silence, many people secretly wept, it was really the listener who heard the heart, the listener cried, I heard that these women were going to the criminal department to help deliver the complaint, and the people made a fuss again, and they all said that they wanted to go together.

Peng Jingrong asked the guards to carry Wang Laohan's body, and took the daughter of the Wang family and a group of people towards the criminal department.

At this time, it was already afternoon, the vehicles and personnel coming and going at the gate of the yamen of the criminal department were extremely scarce, the gate of the criminal department was closed tightly, and there was not even a single official who carried the door, and after a group came, he jumped out of the carriage and saw the drum outside the gate of the criminal department, so he didn't care about it, and grabbed it, knocked it randomly, and the drum sounded, alarming the official inside the gate, opening the side door, a black high hat came out, frowned, and asked: "Who is beating the drum?" ”

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Today, I want to open googLe, Baidu, take a look at the information of the nail board, and the results are top-notch, and the top one is actually the latest chapter of the Iron Age, which is depressed, it can be seen that the god of Baidu is not omnipotent.