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Jin Dynasty punishment system, autumn punishment review.

The Ministry of Punishment will send officials to various provinces, prefectures, and counties to review the major cases that have occurred in the country in the past year.

When necessary, the three judiciary meetings in the capital will open again.

This day is the fourth day of September, the weather is slightly cool, the frost has just fallen, the ground is full of yellow leaves, and the autumn colors are chilling.

Governor of Yucheng Deng Jialiang opened a court in the Governor's Mansion of Yucheng to hear the case of the murder of the Songjiamen Haktian couple. This case is a murder case and can be regarded as an urgent case.

And four days ago, the Song family submitted a complaint to Yucheng Fantai.

It should be noted that according to the "Criminal Law": the urgent case of local life and robbery should last for about ten days.If the case is not solved within ten days, the chiefs of the same province, state and county will be fined.

Fantai Lu Xin was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Qiankang. He was cowardly and timid by nature. After so many years, he was only a local official from the eighth rank.

The murder case was no small matter, and the Song family was a noble family, so Lu Xin naturally did not dare to neglect.

On the day they received the petition, they dispatched the second team of Kuai and Zhuang to investigate the Song family, but three days later, there was no progress.Not to mention that the murderer was not found, and few decent evidences were found.

Mrs. Song was extremely dissatisfied with Lu Xin, and wanted to use his relationship to exchange for a capable person to come to Yucheng as a vassal to thoroughly investigate the case. Unexpectedly, on the fourth day, Lu Xin acted like a god, claiming to have found evidence, witnesses, and the murderer. Hand over the case to the governor of Yucheng.

The criminal system of the Jin Dynasty was indeed like this. Major cases that the local officials could not solve would be handed over to the superiors.

Although Deng Jialiang, governor of Yucheng, is not a master of Qingtian, in the eyes of Mr. Song, this governor Deng is far more alert than Lu Fantai.So the old man stopped thinking about it and just waited for the truth to be revealed today.

The Governor's Mansion of Yucheng was built on Xiaobi Street. It was originally the General's Mansion of Liang State during the troubled times of the Six Kingdoms.

Among the six kingdoms, Liang Guo was a martial artist, and it was their monarch who sent his troops south to force the 11-year-old Li Shangzong to death in the Mingguang Palace.After the Emperor Tai|Zu of the Jin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, Chen Qingzhi, the first white-robed general, lived here.

The Chen family used white robes and black birds as their family crest. Three generations later, during the Shenzong period, the Chen family established a house in the center of Yucheng, and the General's Mansion became the seat of the governor, governor and chief envoy of Yucheng.

The walls of this house are pitch black, but the railings, eaves, and stone walls are painted plain white. From a distance, it looks like a mourning hall.It is precisely because of this that few people are willing to walk on Xiaobi Street, the largest in the east of Yucheng, on weekdays.

But on the fourth day of September, Xiaobi Street was very lively. Many people in Yucheng gathered outside the Governor's Mansion early in the morning——Wei is a well-known talented woman in Yucheng. People want to see who the murderer is. who.

And the Song family was the original party who handed over the pleadings, so they had to come forward on this occasion.

The penal laws of the Jin Dynasty clearly stated in black and white that the original and the recreated must be complete in order to be promoted.

However, the case of the Tian couple is a homicide case, and most of the dead in the family did not know who was made, but since Lu Fantai dared to hand over the case to Deng Jialiang, it must have been found who was made, that is, the murderer .

As Mr. Song is such a character, he naturally wouldn't show up in person.

Originally, the Song family also wanted to find a housekeeper to come and act on their behalf, but Deng Jialiang invited seven or eight government servants from the strong class to the Song family early in the morning, and made it clear that he would summon Song Siyuan, the third son of the Song family, to be present.

Don't look at Mr. Song's appearance as a Confucian businessman and a high-ranking hermit now, he also struggled in the officialdom in his early years.The Song family is a noble family, but not a powerful family like the eight major families in the capital.

Having lived in a corner for many years, Mr. Song also wanted to activate his shin bone to do something.

So he readily agreed to let Song Siyuan go. After all, Song Siyuan had only graduated from Erjia Chuanlu high school, and needed to show his face in the officialdom and make some friends, so that he could have more contacts in the future when he became an official.

The only thing to do is to let Song Siyuan go to be a witness or something. The Tian family is the guest of the Song family, and there is no "neighbors and right neighbors to accompany each other to testify" as mentioned in the "Criminal Law".

So Mr. Song didn't think too much, he just sent his children and grandchildren out to practice.

What's more, Wei Shi is also a poor child. If her family is not defeated, she must be Mr. Song's prospective daughter-in-law at this moment.It would be good for Song Siyuan to come forward in this matter, thank you for the story of love and hate between a gifted man and a beautiful woman, and it will also make it easier for Song Siyuan to become more famous.

Mr. Song thought carefully, but Wen Danqin beside Song Siyuan didn't think so.

After the incident in Yulin, he simply moved into the Song family and stayed by Song Siyuan's side for a moment.Although Mr. Song and Song Siyuan both said that nothing happened, he was still worried and followed Song Siyuan to the scene.

As for meeting Fang Yuke, the young master of Subei, who had been shut out at Cui Heti's place and came to find Wen Danqin to discuss and vent on the way, I'll make another story.

Looking at the huge crowd of people outside the door, Deng Jialiang couldn't help but frowned.

He was silent for a while, stroked his goatee and summoned a beautiful concubine: "Hewan, you go and invite General Chen, just say - there are too many people gathered at the Governor's Mansion, and the Song family is also here , I'm afraid something will go wrong later."

The woman named He Wan looked delicate, but after she nodded, she disappeared into the hall like a ghost.

This room Deng Jialiang had just arranged everything, straightened his official uniform and was about to go to the hall, but he saw the councilor from the governor's mansion rushing in and whispered a few words in his ear.

"What?" Deng Jialiang's complexion changed, and he quickly rolled up his sleeves and greeted him outside the door.

Before leaving the Governor's Mansion, he saw that the people who were crowded on Xiaobi Street were separated by a group of officers and soldiers, and a man in a splendid robe and a big horse came from a distance on the road, and behind him were two or three people planning to come. The horse came.

"Why is he here?"

After saying this in a low voice, Deng Jialiang ran out from the Governor's Mansion and took the lead in "thumping" and fell to his knees: "Chen, Governor of Yuchen Deng Jialiang, pay homage to Prince Gong! May the prince live in good health and enjoy peace forever!"

"Master Deng, why should you be so polite——!" Ling Wu smiled and jumped off the horse, helped Deng Jialiang and made the people around him calm down: "I heard that Sir Wei is going to be tried today... Oh, no, it was Song Jiakeqing who died tragically. case, this king also wants to—”

He looked around, and even lowered his voice and winked at Deng Jialiang: "I also want to join in the fun."

"... Oh!" Deng Jialiang was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled slyly: "Oh, that's how it is."

"You won't cause trouble to the adults, will you?"

"Why? My lord, please—"

Deng Jialiang was laughing, but when Prince Gong was not looking, he gave the group of people brought by Prince Gong a hard look - if this prince really just came to watch the fun, why would he bring the guests from the palace!

Li Yinshang, the number one scholar in the new division, Jiang Jun, the eldest son of the General of the Zhen Kingdom, and...

and many more?

Deng Jialiang narrowed his eyes, glanced at the position next to Jiang Jun with Ling Lie's eyes, and quickly looked away - this old boy is really worried, and he will come to "monitor" himself, is he afraid that they will "take people"? Money, don’t eliminate disasters for others.”

Ignoring Hu Wanwan who came with Prince Gong, Deng Jialiang cheered up and greeted Prince Gong.

Not long after, Song Siyuan and Chen Luo, the white-robed general who brought the army, also arrived on Xiaobi Street.The normally gloomy street suddenly seemed to be bustling with activity like a temple fair.

The autumn festival is deep, and the cold is getting worse.

The location Deng Jialiang arranged for Prince Gong and his guests was in the West Wing on the second floor of the Governor's Mansion.Here, you can see the situation in the lobby downstairs through the patio, and on the opposite side of them, sit the chief envoy and the white-robed general Chen Luo.

When Chen Luo saw Prince Gong, he just nodded slightly in greeting.

And Prince Gong didn't care about it, just shook the folding fan in his hand, and licked the corners of his lips at Chen Luo like a playboy.

In the west wing, there is a table of eight immortals and four armchairs. Originally, Prince Gong should sit at the head of the east seat, while Li Yinshang lives in the north and Hu Wanwan lives in the south.

Jiang Jun understood these rules, and was about to sit down to the west, but was pulled by King Gong's hand, and he almost fell onto him.

"Master Jiang, you sit next to me."

Sensing the strange gazes of Li Yinshang and Hu Wanwan, Jiang Jun opened his mouth and was about to refuse, but he saw Prince Gong carelessly lying on the table with his cheeks on his cheeks, and tapped his seat with his right hand to the west, saying:

"If you sit there, you will block me."

His explanation was so fucking far-fetched.

Looking for someone to move the stool, Jiang Jun wrapped himself up in the fox fur and huddled himself into a ball in the armchair. Then he stared at the "good show" that Ling Wu said was going on in the hall.

Ling Wu said that Deng Jialiang would have a good show when he was promoted today, but Jiang Jun knew that Deng Jialiang, the governor of Yucheng, was not a good person.

Although he is not a clean and honest official, he has no major mistakes.

Moreover, the folks in Yucheng rumored his long-term love, saying that since he sent his wife away, the governor has never remarried, and for many years, only the Wei family has been by his side.

Wei's...

Jiang Jun, who has long been spoiled by the plot, said: If the Yin family is scheming and very vicious, then the Wei family and her sister who is Fengluan in the Beijing Jiaofang Division are really good at dancing and scheming deep.

If it weren't for the Wei sisters, the flood in the south of the Yangtze River and the fortifications built by the Ministry of Industry would not be able to stop the flood.

And the generation of Chenhu Lake will not raise a large number of water bandits because of this, and the Jiang family will not be involved and even fall.

Looking at Deng Jialiang one more time, Jiang Jun took his heart into consideration, and only hoped that this time the Jiang family could be preserved, instead of watching the family decline and be destroyed in the hands of the Yin family.

"Witnesses are called to court—"

Just as he was in a trance, Jiang Jun heard the summons from the yamen servant in the lower class. He looked down and found a man with a very ugly appearance and a little girl in a green shirt knelt down tremblingly.

Deng Jialiang asked who they were, but the two said that he was the gardener of Song's garden, and that she was Wei's maid.

"You said you saw the perpetrator that day, why did Lord Li Lu interrogate you that day! You all said you didn't know about it?!" Deng Jialiang's voice was full of anger, gushing out from the hall.

"Knowing the truth and not reporting it is the same as covering up, do you want me to punish you for your crimes?!"

After all, Wei's maidservant is a woman, she is relatively timid, and when Deng Jialiang was frightened, she kowtowed: "My lord! My lord! This servant did not intend to deceive the lord, but the... the murderer, this servant... Did this servant offend you?" Get up! If the servant says his name—he, he will ask someone to kill the servant—your lord, you can learn from him—"

The man also said the same thing, only that they knew the murderer, but they dared not name the murderer.

It was Deng Jialiang's way of ensuring deterrence, they all only cared about fighting for the ground, and made a fuss in the hall.

Deng Jialiang saw that they were about to make a fuss, so he quickly patted the gavel twice, stared fiercely at the two people in the hall, and said something kindly, "You are all servants of the Song family, and the Song family is a prominent family. The old man is highly respected, how could he not be able to protect you two servants, today—the Song family is here, why not invite him out, so that you can confront each other face to face—"

As he said that, he asked Zao Ban to summon Song Siyuan.

Hearing Song Siyuan's name, Jiang Jun frowned and looked at the two kneeling in the hall, but couldn't sit still anymore——

Hu Wanwan desperately wanted to put Song Siyuan to death. This maid and gardener were probably the ones he had bought with money to give false testimony. Seeing Song Siyuan walking step by step, Jiang Jun couldn't help standing up.

"Hush—" Prince Gong held him back, and looked deeply into his eyes: "Young Master Jiang."

Jiang Jun couldn't help frowning.

"You are blocking me again. Could it be that you are in a hurry? Just ask the yamen servant over there, where is the latrine of the Governor's Mansion?"

The dignified King Gong said such vulgar words, not to mention Jiang Jun and Li Yinshang, even the yamen servant who "was shot while standing guard quietly" showed a bit of embarrassment on his face.

Thinking that Ling Wu was telling him to take him to watch Hu Wanwan and Hu Li's good show, Jiang Jun took a deep breath, told himself to hold his breath, and sat down silently: "Thank you, my lord, for your concern, Jiang Jun seems to have just been bitten by something. One bite. Now, it's all right."

Prince Gong smiled, didn't seem to care, just turned his head and continued to look at the hall.

But Jiang Jun's right hand was caught by a warm hand, the palm flicked away, and Ling Wu slowly wrote eight words on his palm: You have no evidence, be safe and don't be impatient.

After writing these eight characters, Song Siyuan had already arrived.

It’s just that for some reason, as soon as he appeared here, the maid seemed to have seen something extremely terrifying, and started looking for a place to hide like crazy, talking nonsense, “I didn’t! I didn’t see anything! I didn’t see anything! No!" Such nonsense.

Deng Jialiang almost shattered a gavel, so he asked people to take the woman down.

"Tell me—what happened that day?!" Deng Jialiang pointed to the gardener: "There is this official here, and there is also the prince of this dynasty and the general in white robe here! You little gardener, what do you see?" , Speak out, and we will make the decision for you!"

Although Song Siyuan got a headache from the noise of these two people, he still calmed down his expression, walked over and patted the gardener on the shoulder and said, "Yes, tell me what you saw, and the Song family will decide for you."

Clinker, his gesture of relief made the gardener turn pale with fright. He took a few steps back and exclaimed: "Third Young Master, don't kill me—Third Young Master, spare me! I, we won't sue, we I don’t know anything—young master, let me go back to my hometown!”

Song Siyuan was stunned for a moment: "Calm down, what am I going to do to kill you..."

But the gardener took a few steps back, hid behind the yamen servant, and said with a pale face and trembling, "Third, third young master, just, that's third young master—"

"What am I? You calm down..."

However, Song Siyuan, who hadn't turned the corner, was knocked to the ground by two yamen servants who came forward suddenly, while Deng Jialiang, who was sitting in the hall, slapped the gavel and shouted:

"The perpetrator Song Siyuan! Don't you plead guilty yet?! Killed your husband and conspired with your wife, and was smashed by his servants, you——do you still want to kill someone in court?!"

"I didn't..." Song Siyuan's eyes widened, how could he be a murderer!

"You still dare to quibble!" Deng Jialiang stood up and said, "Come here—present the evidence to me! Tell this beastly thing to take a good look. Is it me who wronged him, or did he do such a shameful thing himself?" Dare to plead guilty!"

One of the yamen servants went out again, and when he came back, he brought a delicate jade pendant with a round center.

This is when there was a commotion among the crowd outside. Although it was quickly suppressed, Jiang Jun, who was sitting high and looked far away, clearly saw the excited Wen Danqin in the crowd, as well as the barrier. Looking at his Fang Xiaohou Ye.

Wen Danqin?

Jiang Jun curled the corner of his mouth, which is a bit interesting.

This is where the plot in the original book is different from the current scene - when Song Siyuan was framed by Hu Wanwan, whether it was his brother-in-law Wen Danqin or the young master of the Subei Marquis Mansion, they all happened to be Not in the North.

He had a smile on his face, but Prince Gong just turned his face around and gave a smirk: "It's really like singing a big show——"

The voice of this sentence can't be lowered, and the hall is very quiet at the moment, so everyone present can hear Prince Gong's "comment" clearly, Li Yinshang frowned, feeling that the prince made a slip of the tongue.

And Jiang Jun just rolled his eyes, and didn't say much.

"My lord, this is not watching a theater—" Chen Luo, the white-robed general opposite, said with a very gentle tone, "Human life is at stake, my lord, don't really treat this place as a stage."

Prince Gong snorted twice, but it caught Fang Yuke and Wen Danqin's mind.

Wen Danqin, who was unable to stop him and was about to rush out to snatch Song Siyuan and snatch Song Siyuan, unexpectedly calmed down for a moment. He looked at the jade pendant with a bitter expression on his face.

How could he fail to recognize it—it was the jade pendant made by the two of them when he and Song Siyuan became sworn brothers.

When he came to Yucheng this time, he didn't see Song Siyuan wearing it.

I thought it was inconvenient for him to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and the clinker was simply lost.

Seeing his downcast expression, Fang Yuke patted his shoulder, shook his head, and motioned him not to give up easily.

Jiang Jun saw all these interactions between them, and today was really a big show as Ling Wu said.Just now Ling Wu uttered a double entendre, killing two birds with one stone, saying that Deng Jialiang and his like had hired someone to act in the show, and told Wen Danqin to calm down and not cause trouble.

Song Siyuan turned pale when he saw the jade pendant, while Deng Jialiang walked down the hall, pointed to the jade pendant and said, "Mr. Song, do you recognize this jade pendant?"

"I……"

"Looking at Mr. Song's expression, I'm afraid he recognizes it?" Deng Jialiang sneered, then turned to look at the gardener: "Tell me! Why did you tell Lu Xin and Mr. Lu at that time, and now you are in front of everyone Son, tell me and Mr. Song in full detail—make it clear!"

The gardener trembled, but still knelt down and spoke.

He said that he happened to be building flower branches near Tian's house that day, and Xiaocui delivered Tian Guangming soup from the kitchen under Wei's order.But he didn't want to hear screams and fighting on the way, and then saw Song Siyuan coming out of Tian's house.

"Yes, it was Xiaocui who picked up this jade pendant. No, I didn't expect that something happened the next day."

"You are slandering!" Song Siyuan's eyes were also red: "My jade pendant was lost a month ago!"

"Young Master Song," Deng Jialiang picked up the jade pendant and pointed it at the sun: "This jade pendant of yours is not a vulgar thing. If it was lost a month ago, why didn't you come to report it to the official? It is clear and clear under the light. , this is the finest ancient Longtai jade, a piece of which is worth no less than ten thousand gold."

Song Siyuan clenched his lips and opened his mouth: "I..."

What Deng Jialiang said is correct, the ancient jade in Longtai is hard to find.

If it is really lost, it can already be reported to the police to find it.The reason why Song Siyuan didn't look for it was because he understood the two lines of characters engraved on the inside of the jade pendant after the sun went down, and he dared not look for it back.

Unexpectedly, since then, the root of disaster has been planted.

"It's just an excuse!" Deng Jialiang sternly said, "You did something bad and were broken by your own servants, so you made them keep silent, trying to keep your secret! Then you pretended to be nothing, and asked the Song Family Litigation Officer to report the case , Presenting a form! It’s just to deceive people’s eyes and ears!”

"I have no grievances with Tian Guangming - why should I kill him?!"

"No injustice, no enmity?!" Deng Jialiang smiled angrily. He pointed to the people of Yucheng outside and said, "You had a marriage contract with the Wei family back then. Guangming's child bride-in-law. Later, Tian Guangming joined your Song family as a guest, and the two of you have never broken the relationship, so naturally you think this is a godsend!"

"Nonsense!" Song Siyuan said bitterly: "Xiao Xia and I are innocent! It's not that you are so picky and nasty as you think!"

Misunderstandings in the chaos, Song Siyuan said indiscriminately, Wei's small character Xiaoxia, how could this be a title that can be called out at this time.

Sure enough, Deng Jialiang laughed wildly, pointed at Song Siyuan and said, "Mr. Song—you still dare to quibble?! Xiao Xia is such an intimate name, how dare you say that you have no affair with Wei?! How dare you say that you have no affair?" Want to have a crush on Wei Shi?! How dare you say that you didn't kill their husband and wife?!"

After asking three times in a row, Song Siyuan was sweating profusely.

He still has a bright future, how could he be wronged and humiliated for no reason!

However, the people in Yucheng have already believed such rhetoric, and looked at Song Siyuan shaking his head and pointing, making Song Siyuan at a loss what to do. He lowered his head and said in disbelief: "No, it's not me...it can't be me... "

Seeing that everyone believed so, Deng Jialiang smiled with satisfaction, looked up at King Gong, and then at Chen Luo, before saying, "Now there are all witnesses, Song Siyuan—Song Sangong, you can't argue Already!"

"According to the Criminal Law of the Jin Dynasty, murder is punishable by beheading, but you, Senior High School Chuanlu, still need to be imprisoned in the prison until after the autumn trial!" Deng Jialiang approached Song Siyuan with a sinister smile. : "I'm going to wrong Mrs. and Mrs. Tian, ​​I'll wait for you for a while—"

"I didn't! I didn't kill—!"

Song Siyuan finally collapsed, but was pinned to the ground by the yamen servant.Deng Jialiang even mercilessly dropped the red card of the closed case: "Come here, detain the murderer for me."

Wen Danqin couldn't help it, and when he was about to attack, Prince Gong suddenly stood up:

"Master Deng, Lord Governor Deng, please take a moment—"

Deng Jialiang was taken aback for a moment, and he looked up at Prince Gong.

However, Chen Luo, the white-robed general, seemed to have known about this for a long time. He stood up and said, "What? Your lord's verdict on Mr. Deng, do you have any objections?"

"Heh——" Prince Gong laughed wildly: "How dare this king? I don't know about the case, but I am very interested in the matter of Tian Guangming and Wei Shi, and find it interesting."

Deng Jialiang raised his eyebrows and moved forward, and the white-robed army followed suit.

"I don't know if you have ever heard of the method of judging death?" Prince Gong pretended not to see their small movements, and smiled slightly, but he pointed at the crowd: "I heard that someone was able to go to the underworld to break the prison and find the wronged soul Confrontation, use this to solve the case and find the murderer."

"Oh——" Chen Luo smiled disdainfully: "My lord, you still don't believe these rumors in the world and Taoist priests to confuse people!"

Prince Gong gave a strange smile: "Confused by demonic words?"

Chen Luo still wanted to argue, but as soon as King Gong's words fell, there was a commotion in the crowd, and then a man screamed mournfully, and then, he hurriedly ran from the lobby behind Deng Jialiang The work of the Governor's Mansion came out.

And after the person behind Zuo Zuo appeared, a man in the crowd yelled "Ghost—! Help—" and quickly pushed away the crowd and ran out.

Jiang Jun raised his eyebrows, but found that the person who ran out was Hu Wanwan's son——

Hu Li.

The author has something to say: light a candle for my lost reputation, and send a talisman paper money_(:зゝ∠)_

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Tian's couple: They were very irritable, but they still couldn't make a serious appearance.

Prince Gong: I will not let any of you off.smile.jpg

Jiang Jun: Smile.jpg

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