The man's fingers were slender and thin, and he could almost see the tendons on them.

This is the hand that is accustomed to holding the bow and the sword, and the hand that is accustomed to putting a seal on the holy decree of murder.

Today, it is still powerful, but it is on the folds of the case written one after another.

Every book counts human life.

It's asking for an explanation for these lives.

"When a man kills a woman, the man may not die, but if a woman kills a man, the woman will die...... Guo Yu, the secretary of Dali Temple, I ask you, why do I look at these files, all of them are women murdering men, and they are all sentenced to Ling Chi, and even the hanging is less, and the men kill women, but most of them are hanged and caned 100."

Guo Yu trembled, and the whole person was prostrate on the ground:

"Returning to Your Majesty, if a woman is weak, if she wants to kill a man, she must be, she must plan for a long time, and most of the means are to poison him or kill him while the Lord is drunk. On the other hand, if a man wants to kill a woman, it is too easy, with a knife and axe, and he can be beaten to death with his hands and feet, most of the time out of a moment of anger, not intentionally."

After he finished speaking, there was silence in the Wuying Palace.

His Majesty didn't speak, and Guo Yu could sense that sweat was already on his head.

He was afraid that His Majesty would immediately drag him out and beat him to vent his anger.

I was even more afraid that His Majesty would not speak like this, as if he was studying his death.

It seemed that after a long time, the sweat on his hand had condensed a wet handprint on the gold brick.

"It wasn't intentional."

His Majesty repeated what he had just said.

Guo Yu could feel the sweat on his body running down his back.

He didn't dare to say anything.

"High Lady."

"The minister is here."

"You take someone to Dali Temple immediately, find out the files of the twenty murder cases and bring them back."

"Yes."

Gao Wanxin hurriedly left with the two female officials.

Shen Shiqing bypassed the imperial case and walked in front of Guo Yu step by step.

"Guo Daqing, stand up."

Leaning up, Guo Yu slowly got up from the ground.

Sensing that His Majesty was looking at him, he easily controlled his body from trembling.

"Guo Daqing, according to your age, you are nearly sixty years old, I have just passed the weak crown, according to the physique, you are less than five feet tall*, narrow shoulders and weak arms, I am more than four inches taller than you, and I am used to riding and shooting. According to you, if you and I have a sword in our hands at the same time, and I kill you out of a moment of anger, and you kill me, is it a plan for you?"

That's a frightening statement.

Guo Yu hurriedly retreated: "Your Majesty, there is no ...... for ministers, ministers."

The emperor had a smile on his face: "Don't panic, you didn't panic when you were careless about people's lives, why did I make an analogy that you panicked?"

With a "plop", Guo Yu knelt on the ground again.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty."

Shen Shiqing didn't look at him again, and his eyes moved to Shaoqing of Dali Temple behind him.

"Dali Temple Shaoqing Du Feiqin."

"The minister is here."

"Do you know what my Dayong Taizu set this "Dayong Law" for?"

Compared with Guo Yu, who has a black beard but more and more mediocre facial features, Du Feiqin's appearance can be called handsome, he doesn't seem to care at all that his Shangguan has been questioned by His Majesty, so he knelt on the ground neatly and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Taizu once said: 'The people are in turmoil, they want to survive the famine, and they are cunning women, and it is difficult to get together. *, so as to establish a heavy ceremony, to ensure the combination of etiquette and law, and to clarify the punishment and teaching." ….

Shen Shiqing nodded: "Ming Punishment and Punishment Sect means to teach the people the truth, what I said is right?"

"What Your Majesty said is exactly what Taizu meant."

"Okay, since it's the truth, what kind of truth does Taizu want to teach the people?"

Du Feiqin pondered for a moment and said, "Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, honesty and bravery, the way of being a man, but that's it."

Listen to him

, Li Congyuan and others looked at him one after another.

Of course, this is true, "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith" is the "five constants" proposed by Dong Zhongshu, but it is the foundation of human ethics, but since the five constants are said, why not first say the "three outlines", the so-called "the king is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife".

Li Congyuan frowned slightly, he was in the officialdom, and he could naturally detect that Du Feiqin did not have the heart to help him go to the official to relieve the siege.

In order to flatter His Majesty, he actually betrayed Shangguan in front of the emperor, and he didn't like such a villain.

At this time, Zhuang Changxin, who was standing behind him, leaned over and said softly: "Yunshan Gong, Du Feiqin has a sister who married a big family in Guangdong, and suddenly died seven years ago.

There is such a case behind Shaoqing of the dignified Dali Temple?

Li Congyuan retracted his gaze and looked at Zhuang Changxin again.

Then, he shook his head slowly.

Even this kind of thing is clear, how much attention does Zhuang Changxin put into political affairs? I'm afraid it's not just a drop in the bucket, right?

Zhuang Changxin and Du Feiqin have always been good friends, otherwise he would not know the details of this matter in such detail, his original intention was to argue a few words for his friend, saving his friend from being treated as a flattering villain, but Yun Shangong, who wanted to know the news, shook his head at himself, which really made him confused.

Chang Shengning, the secretary of the Criminal Department, sat on the chair and said nothing, watching his two servants eat and hang down, as if he didn't see the side, he naturally heard what Zhuang Changxin said, and saw the two of them fighting, he lowered his head for fear of letting people hear his laughter, and as soon as his throat moved, he coughed one after another.

Hearing Chang Shengning's cough, Shen Shiqing withdrew his gaze that fell on Du Feiqin.

"When I look at these files, I don't even know how to educate the people."

This is a very serious statement.

The ministers knelt down one after another, Chang Shengning didn't cough anymore, and was about to kneel with his old waist straight, but he was supported by a strong arm.

The only one who can support him at this time is the Heavenly Son Supreme.

Chang Shengning didn't dare to look up, and his old face was full of sincere remorse:

"Your Majesty, the ministers, the ministers are terrified!"

The rest of the people also shouted, "Your Majesty, the ministers are guilty."

"Chang Shangshu, you are seventy and three this year, and I want you to retire early."

Chang Shengning heard this, his eyelids drooped and he didn't dare to move.

Although he was assigned to the Criminal Department after the imperial examination, and from a small official to the Shangshu of the Criminal Department step by step, he is actually a left-right character.

For more than 40 years as an official after three dynasties, Mingzong reused Wang Wan Wang Gui two eunuchs, Wang Wan Wang Gui's minions if there is something to ask, he also did it, and later the first emperor succeeded to the throne to arrest the two kings, he was mixed in the ranks of interrogating his henchmen, and so on Zhang Play is big, he has also done it according to the inspector, Zhang Play's subordinates have committed something, he can also loosen his hands, and the person who is against Zhang Play has been imprisoned, he can also take care of it. ….

Later, he was transferred back to Yanjing to be a waiter in the Criminal Department, it was because of the game in Beijing that the people who played Zhang couldn't go up, and the people who played against Zhang were also pressed to the point that they couldn't move, and both sides felt that he would be a man, so they arched him up.

When His Majesty ascended the throne and killed Zhang Wan, the original Shangshu of the Criminal Department was punished together, and His Majesty ordered him to investigate Zhang Wan's henchmen, and everyone felt that His Majesty was young and intended to let his henchmen go.

Chang Shengning knew His Majesty's true intentions.

Because His Majesty has sent him something.

A clay man, who has been following His Majesty all the year round, only knows how to greet the ministers with a gentle smile, holding the clay man, in front of him, put it into the water.

"The emperor wants to know if a clay figure is soaked in water, and what is exposed inside is steel and iron bones, or a puddle of mud that can be trampled on."

Chang Shengning immediately understood what His Majesty meant.

Your Majesty doesn't want mud, he is friendly with Zhang Wan's people, and those people think they can escape with him, so they are naturally willing to tell him more secrets.

What Your Majesty wants is to make those people think that they are themselves

can live, but at the last moment was knocked down to the infernal hell.

His Majesty is young and vigorous, and he not only wants to kill, but also to punish his heart.

In just seven months, Chang Shengning has been delaying and refusing to make a decision, and when he found out the details of everyone, in just four days, he signed three hundred and seventy excerpts of the invitation, each of which is a request for His Majesty to behead the person, behind each one is not a person, but that person, and the three clans and nine clans behind him.

Four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine heads rolled down.

He Chang Shengning, and since then he has changed from a "clay man to a man" to a Yama in the world.

Since Zhang Wan's case was understood, he wrote a beggar excerpt every month, hoping to be able to leave his official position and go home, and his age had already arrived, but His Majesty refused, and even called back his excerpt without even looking at it.

After a year like this, Chang Shengning understood, His Majesty did not allow him to retreat, he Chang Shengning lived to be the steel knife in His Majesty's hands to eradicate dissidents, and if he died, he had to be a statue of Shura welded by Dayong on the iron seat, and he was not allowed to be reborn.

Now listening to His Majesty's words that he doesn't want him to retire early, how can Chang Shengning not be afraid?

Could it be that there are all kinds of things in the Wuying Palace today, and he Chang Shengning is still going to bear this name?

"I always remember that when you were in office, you tried a case, the murder of four women. A wife, a concubine, a mother-in-law, and a maid were beaten by their husbands all year round because of their wives and concubines, and they were bruised all over their bodies. At that time, the chief officer in charge of the case strongly advocated that they were murdered, and when all of them were delayed, only you wrote several times to argue that the four of them were not murders, and they had been abused and beaten for a long time, which is pitiful."

Hearing that His Majesty was talking about such a long-ago case, Chang Shengning's eyes closed slightly, and after a while, he said with a smile:

"Your Majesty actually remembered the case more than 30 years ago, and the minister was terrified. When the minister was not thoughtful and wrote books indiscriminately, I still feel that I was stupid and ridiculous when I think about it."

"I don't think Chang Shangshu was ridiculous back then."

Seeing that Chang Shengning had already stood firm, Shen Shiqing let go of the hand that was holding him.

Yiji hurriedly gave the two little eunuchs a look, asking them to get closer and serve the boss, don't let His Majesty bother anymore.

"Zhang Zhong is violent, acting for no reason, taking pleasure in abusing his wife, letting her cry and beg and abandon it to everyone, it is Weichen's own eyes, Zhao's order for the court, but he was abused to this point, and he was dealt with in a different place, and the minister also had the heart to die together, this is not a deliberate plan, but human nature. Cattle and horses are also unbearable to abuse, let alone people? If the four daughters are sentenced to the punishment of Ling Chi, the minister is afraid that the wives who will be abused and killed in a year in the next place will be doubled, and this person's sins and mistakes in the law will also be great."

Chang Shengning stood in place stunned.

His Majesty casually said what he had done thirty-seven years ago.

For a while, there were suddenly four women in plain clothes covered in bruises.

The woman who took the lead smiled: "My lord, you don't have to run around for us anymore, since we have done it, we know that there is no way to survive, we just hate that we didn't do it earlier, so that Zhang Zhong died earlier."

He's just a little pusher, and in the end, he can't do anything. Of the four women, two were Ling Chi and two were beheaded.

Shen Shiqing stood beside him and raised his hand to the imperial case:

"Chang Shangshu, look at those excerpts, are they the sins of people and the faults of the law?"

Chang Shengning raised his head slightly, and with a flower in front of him, he actually felt that blood was flowing from those folds.

It looked like the blood of the four women that day.

He had killed 4,999 people in a matter of days.

I still remember the blood of thirty-seven years ago.

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