Chapter 111: Process and Results
What kind of person is Qi Xuansu?
It's hard to say whether he is a wicked man, but he certainly isn't a good man.
Throughout Qi Xuansu's experience, starting from the Dragon and Tiger Society in Vientiane Dao Palace, until the master was killed, he didn't provoke anyone, but he suffered all kinds of injustice, Fengxiantang didn't give him justice, and Beichen Hall didn't give him justice, it was he who got justice.
With such an experience, if he can still recognize the so-called rules, he will be a saint. So he didn't hesitate to kill Wan Xiuwu, instead of thinking about collecting evidence to sue Wan Xiuwu, if it weren't for the fact that it was really difficult to kill people in the Taiping Inn, he wouldn't let Yue Liuli go easily.
How can a person who is accustomed to the law of the jungle believe in the Taoist priesthood of the flower garden? Even if he is forced by the situation, he has to believe it in his mouth, and he will inevitably not believe it in his bones. Qi Xuansu has never been a Xuan Sheng, he is a small person, everything starts from his own position, those who are good to me are good, and those who are evil to me are evil, this may be his limitation, but he also has to admit that experience will determine people's thoughts.
What is the Jungle? That is, after Qi Xuansu encountered injustice, he only hated himself for being too weak, rather than resenting the injustice of the world. After this seed was planted, it was destined that Qi Xuansu was unlikely to be a reasonable person.
However, this world is inherently unfair, and it has always been the law of the jungle. If Qi Xuansu was a real person, then he would not have killed Wan Xiuwu himself. He will only give orders, and immediately there will be a special person to investigate, starting from the many parties involved in the investigation, with a large number of witness evidence, to complete the reversal of the case, in line with the procedures, and finally the criminal will be punished, and all kinds of people who cover up will be held accountable.
But Qi Xuansu is not a real person, when he killed Wan Xiuwu, he was just a seven-rank Taoist priest who faked his death, even if he knelt in front of the door of Fengxian Hall for three days and three nights, no one went to overturn the case for him, he could only use his own methods to seek justice.
To put it bluntly, if you have power, you will pursue the justice of the process, and if you have no power, you will pursue the justice of the result.
If you have no power and no power but have to pursue the justice of the process, it will drag on for about three years and five years, endless bargaining, and every step is within the scope of the rules, but the result is not enough.
Because of this, the people will praise the chivalrous men who come and go in the book. From the perspective of the concept of Legalism, the so-called chivalrous righteousness is actually the use of lynching, the process is wrong, the chivalrous man has no power to judge right and wrong, everyone has their own justice, your justice is not my justice, but why do the people like, recognize and vigorously praise the chivalrous and righteous chivalrous? It's probably because justice is in the hearts of the people, it's about because ordinary people are people who have no power, no power and no money, and they can't afford to hire lawyers.
If Qi Xuansu was born in Yujing, like countless Taoist priests in the flower garden, growing up in a civilized environment, perhaps he would believe in the law of Taoism from the bottom of his heart, regard it as a guide, and regard justice as a golden rule. It's a pity that there is no place for him in the flower garden, he is just a wild weed growing in the wild jungle, all just to live well.
Because of his own experience, Qi Xuansu naturally has a great distrust of the law and rules, so when he encounters problems, he always trusts his sword. As for what my justice is not your justice, it's simple, either let me go to Hades, or you can go to Hades yourself.
Summer insects can't talk about ice, how can people from the two worlds think together? Since Qi Xuansu returned to the Daomen, he had long been fed up with these red tapes. If he had the realm cultivation of Qi Niang, maybe he would choose to be Wei Wugui instead of Qi Xuansu.
As for Zhang Yuelu, except for Qi Xuansu, who is out of Xi Shi in the eyes of his lover, I am afraid that few people think that Zhang Yuelu is a good person in the traditional sense. Many people's evaluation of her is: not easy to get along with, skillful, capable, dare to take responsibility, willing to do things, and even add a radical extreme, but there is no iron-faced selflessness, fairness and strictness.
Zhang Yuelu has said more than once that she is selfish, although she has never been greedy for money, but she knows that her subordinate Sun Yongfeng has a lot of incomprehensible gray income, but she acquiesces to this fact. Because when the water is clear, there are no fish, if she wants to have her own henchmen and followers, it is impossible to be a morally perfect person.
Although Qi Xuansu said that Zhang Yuelu's heart is bright, Zhang Yuelu directly denied it, because compared with Qi Xuansu, Zhang Yuelu is indeed bright, but in fact, Zhang Yuelu herself knows that her concept is not Xuansheng's concept, she has always said that she is changing the Daomen, not saving the world. She knew that her ability was almost over, and she couldn't level the world, and she couldn't open peace.
Changing the Dao is to eliminate contradictions and redistribute interests, Situ Xinglan once commented on Zhang Yuelu, saying that she is a young Zhuang figure and advocates change. Change will inevitably touch the interests of others, as the so-called cutting off people's financial routes is like killing parents, this is your life-and-death struggle, how can you follow the rules again?
What Zhang Yuelu wants to do is a power minister with mixed reputations, not a moral saint, which is also the limitation of Zhang Yuelu's background, she has no experience at the bottom, she just sees the evil at the top.
However, her experience made her more determined to her thoughts, the two Jiangnan cases eventually became a situation, which made Zhang Yuelu understand a truth, the procedure is the procedure, just a means, which itself has nothing to do with right or wrong, nor justice, it is just a game process, and there is no need to give it any name of justice.
In the two major Jiangnan cases, there are case files that can be checked, impeccable, and there is no mistake or omission in the procedure, what is the result? As a result, the mastermind behind the scenes is at large, and the accumulation of evils is getting deeper and deeper.
Although many people are against winning is right, we have to admit that it is true.
To put it bluntly, the so-called procedural justice is a debate, Zhang Yuelu believed it in the early years, but later he didn't believe it, why? Because she suddenly discovered, why are these so-called procedural justices the cases of powerful people?
She had never heard of the eight-rank Taoist priests being administered justice through procedural justice, but the second-grade Taoist priests were often acquitted because of procedural justice.
And who is constantly advocating procedural justice and belittleing outcome justice? Seems to be all well-versed in the Codex?
She also read the case files of the Criminal Department, ninety percent of the prisoners are poor, eighty percent of the prisoners cannot afford to hire a lawyer, and the results of the same case are very different.
Because there is no lawyer, it is impossible to find loopholes in the procedure, so where is the so-called justice?
What is the difference between the so-called procedural justice and the consequential justice, no matter which one is chosen, it is the so-called "justice" that the powerful and powerful get?
If you have the power and money, you can pursue procedural justice. If you have no money, no power, no power, then watch it.
There is still no difference in essence.
Or there has been some progress, but it definitely can't afford the word "justice".
Zhang Yuelu did not object to this kind of Legalist thought, but she did not want to take it as a guideline and vigorously defend it, so she just regarded it as a means rather than an idea, and even when she chose to help Qi Xuansu, she also cleverly used the so-called correct procedure, that is, according to the rules, if Shangguan Jing's case needs to be investigated again, he must first ask Jin Que for instructions, and then he can go to Beichen Hall to read the case file, completely cutting off the retreat of Wuxu Palace.
In Zhang Yuelu's view, since all laws must be judged and implemented by people, and they are inseparable from people's will, there is no essential difference between procedural justice and consequential justice, and the two should be parallel.
Zhang Yuelu's idea may not be right, but in the Daomen, it can't be wrong. Because Daomen is not the Daxuan Imperial Court, Daomen does not directly face the people, and the Taoist priests at the bottom are also Taoist priests, as the so-called chivalrous martial arts are forbidden, this is a group where everyone has the ability to violate the ban with martial arts, and it is by no means a group that can be met without worrying about food and clothing, their needs are more, if they can't be convinced, then Qi Xuansu is not a minority of people like this.
If we use the idea of governing the people to govern the Daomen, I am afraid that there will be big problems, and the people will never rebel until they reach the point where they cannot live, and the people have become accustomed to enduring suffering. But the Taoist priests may not be like this, they are full of murderous intentions when they are armed with sharp weapons, and the eight tribes have blatantly betrayed the Taoist just because of the problem of disagreement with the concept. It is conceivable that if the contradictions within the Daomen continue to deepen, the low-level Taoists may not dare to resist the high-level Taoists, even if there are immortals among the high-level Taoists.
Immortals have great power, they can turn Yunjin Mountain upside down, and they can also execute the abolished Heavenly Master Zhang Jingshen, but they can't kill the low-level Taoist priest who is the cornerstone of the Dao Gate.
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