Duke Xiu Xiaoming has been dead for many years, but the old lady is still there. Nowadays, the masters in the mansion don't go out much anymore. The one in charge is the eldest son Hou Xiaokang, who is now a first-class son. Because he has real talents in his chest,
He was highly appreciated by Situ Pan, King of Yan.
Third Master Ping of the Xiuguo Mansion is the son of the Third Fang. Because the Third Master died young and he had a son in his later years, the Third Wife loved him like a treasure; his uncles and cousins were too lazy to care about him. He is still less than twenty years old, and he was born handsome and handsome.
, all the dandies in the capital would like to associate with him. Every day they would either drink and watch flowers, fight cocks or play horses, or gather for gambling and prostitution. Prostitution was everywhere. However, his temperament was inevitably luxurious and arrogant.
A few days ago, Hou Xiaoping and some of his best friends were drinking in the husband's house. Because they were fighting over a young husband, he ordered his slaves to beat another client to death. The one who died was just the son of an ordinary family; relying on him
Hou Xiaoping didn't care at all that his eldest cousin had lost face in front of King Yan. Naturally, his family also sued the Wucheng Army and Horses Division. How dare Zhao Cheng take care of it? He just sent them away with a few words.
That morning, Hou Xiaoping's concubine didn't get up when she saw him. Thinking that he might have had some wine last night, she didn't dare to disturb him. She didn't go to call him until noon. When she opened the curtain, she saw that this man's face was livid and he was already angry.
It will take a long time to die.
When Zhao Cheng heard the report, he did not dare to neglect it and hurriedly led people to check. As soon as Hou Zuo took a look, he said that he had been pinched by the throat and strangled to death. The murderer was so powerful that Hou Xiaoping died without even bothering to struggle. He lay it down next to the pillow.
There was a piece of scrap paper on which he wrote about the incident where he killed someone in the Xianggong Hall. Zhao Cheng couldn't help but feel frustrated: These "rangers" were so lawless that they even dared to kill the princes, so they couldn't do it unless they were punished. But he couldn't really investigate.
Come up with clues.
Although there are few crimes committed by such masters who cannot detect traces, they have always happened. Zhao Cheng's predecessor Qiu Liang once said that the murderers were mostly masters raised in the palace or in the palaces of nobles. It is extremely difficult to raise such people, even if they are raised, they are assassins.
The King of Yan was right, so why did he kill useless dandies like Hou Xiaoping? Zhao Cheng couldn’t figure it out. Because he knew that Liu Xiaoqi was very good at martial arts, he also went to Falcon Bookstore to find out. Liu Xiaoqi said: “There are very few masters in the world.
Unless you fight in person, I can't guess the movements of those people." Zhao Cheng has read a lot of Green Forest Pinghua recently, where various masters follow hundreds and thousands of sects, and he unknowingly took the stories seriously.
So I didn't doubt that what Liu Xiaoqi said was prevarication.
Hou Xiaokang and Feng Ziying had known each other since they had urinated, and now they were both working under King Yan. Seeing that Zhao Cheng had searched for several days and found nothing, and knowing that Feng Ziying had another group of people, he asked Feng Ziying to ask him. In fact, these things
Feng Ziying had been alerted for a long time, and after searching for a while, she found no more clues than Zhao Cheng. When Feng Ziying encountered something unexpected, she went to look for Jia Cong. Without him, this kid's mind is broader than ordinary people, and he can jump out of the cage.
He made random guesses. Even if his guesses were outrageous, there was no way Feng Ziying could get any inspiration from them, so he went to the Hanlin Academy to look for him in person.
Jia Cong was quarreling with a group of Hanlin scholars. A few days ago, he had persuaded Situ Pan to agree to build a Yanjing University. When he was working on a university in Shu State last year, the King of Shu thought highly of him, but the officials of Shu thought that he had failed.
The Qiyin Formation was in awe of him, and things went very smoothly. I thought that it would be easy to go to Beijing, but didn't Situ Pan also think highly of him? I never thought that it would be difficult to teach the students a few mathematics, physics and chemistry courses.
Feng Ziying listened for half a day, talking like a chicken to a duck, laughing until her intestines hurt.
He found a moment to call Jia Cong out and told him about the case of "Youxia Er". Jia Cong thought for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Brother Feng, I can't calm down right now. All I can think about is those gangsters."
Stubborn old Confucian scholar, my brain hurts. Just wait for me to calm down for a while."
Feng Ziying became even more amused and said: "Brother, let me invite you to have a drink. You are naturally preoccupied with school matters when you are here."
"That's right."
The two of them left the Hanlin Academy to find a restaurant to sit and have wine. After half a day of food, wine, and snacks, Jia Cong folded his chopsticks with both hands and said, "Have you sent someone to check what the murderer left? But it's true.
?”
Feng Ziying said: "It's all true."
Jia Cong bit his lip: "If I just look at the incident in Xiu Guo Mansion, I would guess that someone was taking revenge. But with all these things added together, not every sufferer can afford to hire a killer. If it is a hug,
Who is so free to use the fight against injustice as a messenger? If someone has evil intentions and wants the hearts of the people, why not leave his name? If it is said to be a person left by the great grandfather, why didn't he take action now?
?”
Feng Ziying said hurriedly: "Wait a minute! I'll just pay it forward. What does it have to do with my great-grandfather?"
Jia Cong said: "In some cases, the public is right and the mother-in-law is right, and in some cases the right and wrong are clearly defined and there is no discussion. What you just mentioned are all the latter - those who died are guilty. Could it be that the men who repaired the country's government
If you beat someone to death, you don’t have to pay for it with your life? Is there such a provision in the law?”
Feng Ziying said: "The law can only restrain ordinary people who have no ability. You said this yourself."
Jia Cong said: "What I said is the truth. Ordinary people are deceived by the government and don't know this fact. Brother Feng, according to the thoughts of ordinary people - according to the thoughts of good people, those 'errants' are doing what the government
It is good for the prince to do things that have not yet been done. The law is the cornerstone of the country. Before the world is in chaos, the law will be chaotic. Naturally, our government has been chaotic about the law for many years. A tall and strong tree has grown from rotten roots to rotten roots.
It takes a long time for a big root to die completely. Most of the dynasties in the past dynasties started to mess with the laws two or three generations after the founding of the country. In the middle, if they met a wise king, they would clean it up and then die. If they didn't meet, they would continue to rot slowly, and finally rot.
There are also those who are unlucky when the country is overthrown by a faint king. When it was supposed to be revived, it not only encountered a faint king, but also encountered foreign enemies. Song Huizong was wronged. The country Zhezong left behind was enough to defeat him for a while. At worst, his descendants will revive him again in the future.
But he was so unlucky that he encountered the Jin soldiers marching south." After saying this, he spread his hands and pretended to be sighing on his face.
Feng Ziying thought: "Are you suspicious that these rangers are the people left behind by the Taizu secretly to prevent the rotten little roots from turning into rotten big roots?"
Jia Cong said: "Didn't I have thoughts flying all over the place just now? I thought about it for a while. Then I felt something was wrong. If it was Tai. Grandpa's people, why did he wait until now to take action? He should have taken action many years ago. I thought he was not an old man.
What's left behind." He thought for a long time and shook his head, "I really can't guess. People who are willing to put in a lot of effort to do something will always get something. If there are only one or two people, maybe the family is not short of money.
A hero wants to act chivalrously and righteously, but many people can't. They can't get fame, fortune, power, or sex. What do they want?"
Feng Ziying said: "Didn't they also rob the property?"
Jia Cong showed a fake smile: "You are so capable of only robbing money? Wouldn't it be more convenient to rob Brother Xue's warehouse?"
The two of them racked their brains and thought for a long time, but still couldn't come up with any results even after their stomachs were full.
Soon after Feng Ziying returned to the Yamen, she asked Situ Pan to call him. It turned out that Situ Pan had just been discussing matters with the staff. Seeing that Hou Xiaokang was restless, he asked. Hou Xiaokang sadly apologized and said: "Wei Chen's house was attacked by robbers last night.
My brother-in-law was killed, and I feel sad in my heart."
Situ Pan was shocked and said: "The Xiuguo Mansion has so few servants to guard it, but it was actually attacked by bandits?"
Hou Xiaokang sighed: "That matter was originally his fault... it was Wei Chen's fault. It was because Wei Chen was too lazy to control him, which led to the disaster." He shook his head and sighed, "But... but...
My younger brother also deserves what he deserves. But..."
He was so hesitant, could Situ Pan not ask for details? After hearing this, he was shocked: "Zhao Cheng and Feng Ziying have no clues? There have been many such cases in Beijing recently?" He ordered someone to call Feng Ziying.
Feng Ziying didn't dare to hide it, so she replied honestly, "I and Cong'er have been guessing for most of the day just now, but we really can't guess what these people want to do."
Situ Pan frowned: "Can't Jia Cong guess it?"
Although it was Xiaokang who told Situ Pan when he asked about it, this move was somewhat intended to complain about Feng Ziying's unfavorable performance. Feng Ziying then elaborated on what Jia Cong said, which is that the small roots rot the big roots. I don't know how many people winked at him,
He just did not see it. Finally he said: "We can't figure out what they want, so we don't know how to deal with it in the next step." After saying this, Situ Pan's face turned pale and he bowed and clasped his fists again, "This subordinate has neglected his duty. This is
I’ll go to the Xiuguo Mansion again and see if there are any other clues.”
Situ Pan thought for a moment and said, "Where is Cong'er?"
"Back to the Hanlin Academy."
Situ Pan then ordered: "Call him over." Everyone was silent and did not dare to speak nonsense; Hou Xiaokang even wished he could find an excuse to escape.
Not long after, Jia Cong came over. After bowing, he asked blankly: "Your Majesty, what's the matter?"
Situ Pan said: "Since you are here, let's discuss how to deal with this 'rotten little root'."
Jia Cong asked Feng Ziying quietly: "What's the 'rotten little root'?"
Feng Ziying said: "Isn't this your metaphor? Using a tree to represent a country, or a law to represent its roots?"
Jia Cong wrinkled his nose: "What's there to argue about? There's absolutely no way. If there was a way, it would have been solved over thousands of years and tens of thousands of years ago. It's human nature and the natural laws of society." After hearing this, Situ Pan twisted his head.
brow.
Then Roman stood up and said, "Your Majesty, whether it's a small root or a big root, if it's a rotten root, just cut it off." Jia Cong rolled his eyes, and Feng Ziying kicked him.
Situ Pan said: "Cong'er thinks you can't cut it?"
Jia Cong said: "May I ask my lord, which emperor is born to be a mediocre emperor? Which emperor is born to not want to be a wise emperor? Many things are like snow, snow and thunder in the summer, which cannot be done at all."
Roman cupped his hands and said, "May I ask Mr. Jia, what can't be done according to the strict laws?"
Jia Cong said: "I only asked Mr. Luo if I was a late student: Are people divided into three, six or nine grades?"
Roman said: "Of course. Since the beginning of the world, people have been divided into saints, mediocrities, nobles and bitches."
Jia Cong shrugged and said: "However, these divisions are not eternal and are always changing. Therefore, it is often difficult to define who is superior to whom, or who is of higher status than whom and can kill at will without committing a crime.
For example, the third master of Xiuguo Mansion and the people he beat to death...well..." He looked at Hou Xiaokang, "For example...for example...by the way, Brother Xue also beat people to death because of jealousy when he was a boy.
." Feng Ziying couldn't help but cover her face.
Situ Pan raised his eyebrows: "Really?"
"That's right! It was his uncle from the Wang family who wiped his butt." Jia Cong stabbed, "At that time, there was no official in his family, he was just an ordinary businessman. Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, businessmen were at the bottom.
. If the law is to be strictly enforced, wouldn’t he be able to pay with his life? But if he pays with his life, the dead person will not be able to come back to life!”
Roman immediately bowed to Situ Pan and said, "I beg you, Your Majesty, to send someone to investigate this case and not let the murderer go unpunished."
"You can't say this!" Jia Cong rushed to say without waiting for others to speak, "If Xue Pan dies, how much less will the prince receive in taxes every day? He has the ability to make a lot of money, and he never pays too much tax. Others
Do you have this ability? There is only one Xue Pan among thousands of people."
Someone below said: "My lord, using money to pay off sins has been around since ancient times!"
Jia Cong said again: "No! He will be unhappy. Brother Xue has a straightforward temper, so it's better to tell him directly that the prince is a little tight now. Please support him and just do a favor to the country of Yan." Then he said again, "No.
No, don't say that. He and the prince are not close. Just say that Brother Feng is a little tight on money? I am a little tight on money? It doesn't matter if he gives money for ideas. But asking him to use money to pay for his crimes seems like we are blackmailing him.
It makes people feel unhappy. It would not be difficult for Xue Pan to evade taxes. Since he did not do it, he just exchanged enough tax money for peace so that no one would covet him and seize his property. After all, others would take advantage of him.
If he goes to his property, can he pay so much tax money?"
Situ Pan shouted: "What nonsense! Are there any rules anymore?"
Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "Aren't the rules set by people? Besides, there are too many cases like this. Unless all countries investigate clearly, we can't just focus on Brother Xue." Then he glanced at Situ Pan. Situ
Pan understood that if other countries did not investigate Yan Guo, Xue Pan would just turn around and move to Jinling, and all the tax money would be handed over to King Wu's treasury. How could King Wu be so strict about laws! I wish I had more money.
The better.
Roman coughed: "Mr. Jia, are you going off topic?"
Jia Cong high-fived: "How can I digress? Strict laws are simply impossible. Xue Pan is an example, and the third master of the Xiuguo Mansion is another example. If there weren't those knights, would it really be possible for the young master of the Duke's Mansion to pay for the lives of the common people?
Huh? Don’t just shout empty slogans, it’s simply impossible.”
Hou Xiaokang couldn't sit still anymore and stood up to plead guilty: "It's all because of the lax discipline of the humble ministers."
Jia Cong whispered: "This is beside the point. You are not the only one with dandies in your house, nor are you the only brother who has killed someone."
Roman said: "Even if we go by what Mr. Jia said, Xue Pan has enough tax money and has contributed to the country. I dare to ask the man who built the country, what achievements can he make to offset his sin?"
Jia Cong said: "He has an elder brother who is useful to the country. He is brother and sister, and his brother's merits can offset his sins." He clapped his hands and said, "What did I say? The strict calendar is impossible." Everyone looked at each other. Jia Cong said
It's clearly reasonable, but it's also clearly wrong! Jia Cong shook his head, spread his hands and said, "We are all adults, can you stop pretending to be innocent?"
Feng Ziying coughed and said, "It's just that there must be a limit."
Jia Cong said: "There is a limit to the merits and crimes! If Xue Pan is of no use to the country, I support you to investigate his old cases now."
Feng Ziying said: "Since it's like this, it can't be considered a rotten little root."
Jia Cong said: "But most people can't see clearly about themselves. Others don't have Xue Pan's wealth. Hou Xiaoping's brother saw that they killed people without incident, and felt that he could also be fine after committing a crime. For example, bribery
A service official or something. When those service officials saw that they were fine with accepting money to do things, they dared to do other things in the future. When other officials saw this, they dared to do such things again. Gradually, the law
If you don’t have faith in the law, won’t your roots be rotten?”
Situ Pan glanced at him: "You are so cheerful and talkative like spitting beans. Do you think you have a solution?"
"No." Jia Cong waved his hands repeatedly, "No one in ancient or modern times has been able to solve this matter." Situ Pan frowned slightly.
After a while, Roman hummed: "According to what Mr. Jia said, those rangers did the right thing?"
Jia Cong said: "Of course it's not right. They are neither police officers nor officials, and have no right to kill. But what they do can shock people's hearts and is beneficial to the prince. Just like Xue Pan, it is wrong for Hou Xiaoping to kill people because of jealousy, but Xue Pan
The wealth, Hou Xiaoping's brother will be beneficial to the prince." After saying this, he suddenly closed his mouth and leaned back on the chair: meaning, Wan Sheng has finished talking. (. Just Love Network)