The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2500 Three Resignations in One Day

When it comes to the Chen Sheng family, no one dares to neglect it.

The judicial systems of the Ten Kingdoms are different.

In most countries, the county magistrates try cases at the county level, and the prefects often only review the cases, and the final decision is made by the state-level judicial office. If it is a major case, it needs to be decided by the relevant departments such as the Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice.

In Jingguo, although the Jingzhao Yin is equivalent to the prefect of the capital, he is also the chief officer of a city. Ordinary cases are handed over to the Jingcheng Xunyuan. Once a major case is involved and the Dali Court does not explicitly take over, according to convention, the Jingzhao Yin will conduct the initial trial, and then the Dali Court will review and reject or approve the trial results of the Jingzhao Yin.

Although the defendant is not the entire Chen Sheng family, but only a branch of the Chen Sheng family, since someone has died, the Dali Court will not take over the case actively, and it can only be tried by the Jingzhao Yin.

So far, Fang Yun has not completely reformed the judicial process, because judicial institutions such as the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Court and the Supervisory Court are still slowly adapting to the new changes, and many aspects need to be done step by step.

Jingzhao Yin did not dare to make a decision on his own, and sent the relevant documents to the relevant ministries and the cabinet, one of which was placed in front of Fang Yun.

Fang Yun carefully looked through the documents.

Many years ago, Chen Zigan of the Chen Sheng family fell in love with a beautiful girl from a small family, so they secretly decided to spend their lives together. However, in the eyes of the Chen Sheng family, an ordinary woman was not even qualified to be Chen Zigan's concubine, so Chen Zigan's parents broke up the couple and compensated the woman with 500 taels of silver.

500 taels of silver was a huge sum of money for a small family, but a small family also had dignity. The girl's father refused to accept the money and went to the Chen family to seek justice, asking Chen Zigan to go to his ancestral hall to apologize and admit that he was the one who abandoned her and it was not his daughter's problem.

How could the Chen Sheng family care about such a person, so the manager who handled the matter not only refused to apologize, but also spread rumors everywhere, saying that the woman had sold herself in a brothel and ruined her reputation.

The woman's father was furious and attacked the Chen family. He clashed with the Chen family's servants, was beaten, and died of serious injuries.

Later, the Chen family used their connections in the capital to find a servant to take the blame. They sentenced the servant to three years in prison on the grounds of accidental injury.

Xu Changgeng waited for Fang Yun to finish reading the document and whispered, "Prime Minister, I'm afraid someone is making trouble at this moment. Jingzhao Yin sent a letter to me to ask you what you really think."

Fang Yun threw the document into the trash can and said, "Is the Chen family outside the national law or outside the Jing Kingdom? I give Jingzhao Yin ten days. If he can't deal with it severely and strictly, I will replace him with an official who can deal with it severely and strictly!"

Xu Changgeng did not leave immediately, but stood there, looking at Fang Yun with begging eyes, hoping that Fang Yun would reconsider it.

"You go down." Fang Yun didn't even raise his eyelids.

Xu Changgeng sighed lightly, said goodbye to Fang Yun, and turned to leave.

That afternoon, Jingzhao Yin resigned due to illness.

Fang Yun made a dictatorial decision, admonished Jingzhao Yin for avoiding war in times of danger, gave him a low rating, and issued a document to warn Jingguo that he would never be employed again.

No one in the cabinet opposed Fang Yun, and the Queen Mother quickly stamped the document with the imperial seal, confirming that he would never be employed again.

Then, the Ministry of Personnel appointed a new Jingzhao Yin on the same day according to normal procedures.

Jingzhao Yin was in charge of the capital, but the rank was different in different countries. After Fang Yun's reform, Jingzhao Yin was promoted from the fourth rank to the third rank, on par with the governor of the state and the ministers of various ministries.

For any official who was promoted to the fourth rank, becoming Jingzhao Yin was a cause for celebration, but no one wanted to offend the behemoth of the Chen Sheng family.

No one could offend Fang Yun, the current left prime minister.

So, the second Jingzhao Yin resigned a quarter of an hour after receiving the appointment.

Fang Yun issued a similar document to appoint Jingzhao Yin again.

The third Jingzhao Yin also resigned within an hour after receiving the transfer order.

Within one day, three Jingzhao Yin resigned one after another, shocking the entire Jing State.

Fang Yun was furious, and on the pretext that the three were not upright officials, he transferred all the officials who had been promoted to important positions.

These three people happened to be officials who supported the royal family.

Those people originally laughed at Fang Yun, but after finding that Fang Yun had successively dealt with three senior officials of the royal family, some of them could not sit still.

So, an imperial censor came forward to impeach Fang Yun, believing that Fang Yun, as the head of all officials and in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, was to blame for this situation. He even created a phrase "three resignations in one day" to satirize Fang Yun's incompetence.

Fang Yun frankly admitted that he had served as the left prime minister for a short time and failed to discover that the officialdom of Jing State had accumulated a lot of malpractices, and he must strengthen the administration of officials in the future. He also believed that it was inappropriate to select Jingzhao Yin from the officials in the capital, and Jingzhao Yin should be promoted from various states.

Everyone realized that Fang Yun actually wanted his people to occupy such an important position, so they desperately wrote to oppose it.

Fang Yun retreated to advance, and asked the officials to nominate a new Jingzhao Yin the next day.

As a result, no one nominated the next day.

Even a fool knows that nominating someone now is like roasting someone on the fire.

If the Chen Sheng family is dealt with, no one can bear the revenge of the family. This kind of thing has happened many times in history. The family pleaded guilty, but the chief official who tried the case eventually left the scene sadly.

If the Chen Sheng family is not dealt with, Fang Yun and the Criminal Court will never give up.

No one can get away unscathed.

In the end, Fang Yun transferred Dong Wencong from Xiangzhou to the capital to serve as Jingzhao Yin, and Feng Zimo took over as Xiangzhou governor.

If Sai Zhixue, Zhang Poyue and others were just colleagues who shared the same spirit with Fang Yun, then Dong Wencong and others had been the backbone of Fang's party for many years.

Dong Wencong's appointment as Jingzhao Yin means that Fang's party has finally taken root in the capital.

The importance of Jingzhao Yin is far greater than that of other governors, but the officials who oppose Fang Yun do not care and instead gloat over his misfortune.

The position of Jingzhao Yin is very difficult to hold, because the most powerful people in Jing State gather in the capital, and if you are not careful, you will be criticized by all the major forces.

What's more, this time the case is to be tried by Chen Sheng's family.

Everyone thought that after Jingzhao Yin appointed Dong Wencong, he would use his relationship with the Criminal Court and the Legalists to let the Dali Court take over the case, but to everyone's surprise, Dong Wencong announced that he would personally try the case.

In theory, as long as it involves the children of aristocratic families, the Holy Court will intervene. This time, not only did the Holy Court not intervene, but the Criminal Court handed over the first instance of the case to Jing State, and the Dali Temple reviewed it. The Criminal Court only retained the basic right to finalize and close the case.

Because whenever it involves scholars and children of aristocratic families, unless there are special circumstances, only the Criminal Court has the right to finalize the case in the end.

On the first day of his appointment, Dong Wencong borrowed personnel from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice and the Supervisory Council, and mobilized more than half of the manpower of the capital's government offices to investigate this case.

Once the superior attaches importance to a matter, the efficiency of the subordinates will become extremely efficient.

In just three days, the whole matter was investigated clearly, and the height of the file was more than ten times that of the case file that year.

However, Dong Wencong only tried the case and never made a judgment.

On the ninth day after the woman beat the drum for hearing, Fang Yun returned to Quanyuan and someone visited him at night.

Fang Yun was sitting in the study, and the doorman pushed the door open with a purple-robed scholar.