The case that split the Zhengshitang was extremely simple. There was a wealthy Lin family in the suburbs of Beijing. There was an elegant scholar in the family who often contributed articles to the Yanjing Weekly, and later recognized Lin Hai. Lin Hai praised his literary talent for his world-class literary talent, but did not recognize him as his nephew. Lin Hai's own family
Even Lin Qu was a single descendant of the seventh generation, and he envied the rich family very much. Later, he recognized the old patriarch of the Lin family. This man also served as an official when he was young. He was falsely accused and dismissed from his post because of his uprightness and intolerance in the officialdom. However, he had no temper.
He has not changed, and still hates evil as much as he hates it.
There was a wealthy family in their clan, who was polite and charitable, and the whole family was blessed by him. However, he gave birth to a son who was not up to expectations. He usually either fought and caused trouble or slept with Liu Mianhua. He used different ways to make money, and everyone
Sigh. It's not like others didn't advise the rich man to discipline him. However, the child lost his mother when he was seven or eight years old, and he was incompatible with the rich man's marriage in every possible way. His father took pity on him and was reluctant to take care of him. But his stepmother gave birth to a little son, who was well-behaved.
Sensible, I can't say that I will be successful in the future. At the end of last year, the rich man died of illness, and the whole family was in mourning.
Unexpectedly, one morning half a month ago, the servant went to call his mistress for dinner, and suddenly found her body hanging on the beam! There was a suicide note on the desk. It turned out that she had been raped by her stepson last night, and committed suicide in shame and anger. The old patriarch was furious.
, immediately opened the ancestral hall to put the son on trial. The son did not deny it at all, and confessed everything. The patriarch then beat the man to death in court in accordance with the clan rules.
Although this son was a dandy, he had several good friends. They believed that it was illegal for Patriarch Lin to set up a private court to deal with human lives, so they sued him to the government. Tian Gengzi, the Minister of Punishment, sentenced Patriarch Lin to death according to the law, and Lin Hai was shot after autumn.
How can we just sit back and watch? Everyone in the political hall also took their own side. Zhan Kun suggested that the old patriarch should fake his death, but Lin Haitian Gengzi did not agree. Now there is a big fuss.
After hearing this, Jia Cong rubbed his daughter's head and thought: "There is nothing easy to resolve in this case. The substitution of family power for the law must not be tolerated. Patriarch Lin must die. You can fake his death, but you can hide it from Geng Zi.
But the people will definitely not agree, and Uncle Lin will definitely kill me. I have to find a way to make them accept it. Miaomiao, do you want to go down and play? Your parents need to discuss things."
"No." Miao Miao leaned on her father's arms and said lazily, "Dad, you have been out for so long."
Jia Cong hugged her and said happily: "You are really your dearest daughter. I miss you so much."
Chen Ruijin glanced at Jia Cong: "Why does Patriarch Lin have to die? He is already so old, and you only changed the law in the past two years. It is difficult for the old man to get used to it. It is understandable."
Jia Cong shook his head: "There are no extenuating circumstances. The greatest role of the law is to deter, killing the chicken will scare the monkey."
"Oh, what about Brother Jiang Jing?" Chen Ruijin said leisurely, "Minors can be forgiven, but old people can be forgiven, isn't it?"
Jia Cong blinked: "You already knew?"
"Zhimo just came to tell me specifically." Chen Ruijin said, "When I first received the telegram, I thought you must have some reason to save his life. After listening to Zhimo, it seemed that there was no reason. I know you cherish young people,
It's just that I don't see that this man is worth cherishing. Tell me, is it because he promised his mother to spare his life, or because he is underage."
"Because he is underage." Jia Cong touched his forehead, "The era three hundred years later has left a deep mark on me. Wife, have I ever told you about a foreign movie called The Shawshank Redemption?"
"No."
"It's a prison escape story. I remember one episode very clearly." Jia Congsui talked about the situation in "The Shawshank Redemption" when the black inmate applied for parole. "When he was old and had been punished for a lifetime, he just wanted to travel through time.
Tell your past self that there are many ways to solve problems besides killing. Ruijin, we are adults. We have learned many survival skills while growing up and know how to solve problems without breaking the law. Minors have not had time to learn. So I
I am very tolerant to them and want to give them the opportunity to learn survival skills. If he had a choice, maybe he would not choose this path?"
Chen Ruijin thought for a long time and said: "I agree with this. Ordinary young people... Speaking of young people, even the monk Jian Ru, the notorious thief Lou Jinqiao, and Wu Jin'e who wanted to change their ways because of their marriage, I agree to give them one more chance.
Just because they are what they are now, most of them were taught by their parents and masters when they were young. They have no choice. They actually have good thoughts in their hearts. However, the same rice can feed all kinds of people. Jia Cong, you yourself understand that Brother Jiang Jing is not a kind-hearted person.
.His chance of learning well is much greater than that of Lou Jinqiao and Wu Jin'e. Both his parents taught him to learn well but he didn't learn it. Aunt Wu taught him to learn bad things but he learned smoothly. You think you are giving him a chance to learn survival skills, but in fact it is not.
Maybe it's giving him a chance to learn all the evil skills. I don't know which day he will use those skills to hurt innocent people. The higher his talent, the more damage he will do to others. I don't think he can keep him."
After hearing this, Jia Cong sighed: "What you said makes sense. In fact, I have been struggling with it. Each era has its own reality. It is impossible for us to have any psychiatrists to help him now. Zhuang'er is still in Qi State, so give him
Let him send a telegram and do it quietly."
Chen Ruijin smiled slightly and pointed at the sapphire lion playing ball paperweight on the table. Jia Cong then noticed that there were two letters under the paperweight. Chen Ruijin said: "They are all letters that just arrived this morning. One is a silent delivery."
Here comes one from soldiers sent by Liu Xiaoqi."
Jia Cong opened it and took a look. The two letters were written to the Queen of England, Liu Mingqiu. The writers were Liu Zhuang and Liu Xiaoqi respectively. Because this was the first time that his brother and uncle wrote to Liu Mingqiu, and there was a lot of nonsense at the beginning.
Zhuang's writing style was obviously much better than his seventh uncle's. When we talked about the business later, it turned out to be the same thing. Liu Zhuang asked his sister to make Brother Jiang Jing fall ill and pass away four years later when he turned eighteen. Liu Xiaoqi
He asked his niece to cause Brother Jiang Jing to die unexpectedly within a year. Jia Cong's mouth twitched: "The two of them are quite clever, and they sent you here."
Chen Ruijin said calmly: "The ferry ticket to England is not cheap, so why not save one."
Jia Cong nodded. Then he called the communications soldier in and asked him to send a telegram to Qi State immediately. The telegram told Liuzhuang to try his best to take care of the acceptance of Jiang Jingge's parents, and he would take care of the details. After finishing his work, he lowered his head and saw that Miao Miao
I don't know when I fell asleep, and the couple looked at each other and smiled.
Just now, Chen Ruijin had something on his mind, and the fetus in his belly was obediently motionless. Now he relaxed, and the baby immediately became active. Jia Cong shouted "ouch", stretched out his hand and gently covered his wife's abdomen and said excitedly: "The baby will move again!"
The fetus really moved again. Jia Cong smiled like a fool, "This good boy will definitely be more worry-free than Miaomiao when he comes out."
"That's hard to say."
That afternoon, Duke Yansheng sent someone to Rongguo Mansion. It turned out that the Cui family had gone to several shops in their house and found that people with Qi accents were wandering around everywhere, looking very suspicious. They were frightened.
He was so powerful that he ran to the post house to look for Zhou Ji but could not find him, so he asked Yan Shenggong to ask the Yan government for help. Jia Cong said: "There is really no way to do this. Since they have not broken the law, we cannot drive them away."
.Besides, no one in the Qi State knows that the Cui family members have arrived in the Yan State. If they are driven away, the failure to protect them will only arouse the suspicion of the Qi State. Just wait and see. After a while, the case will be settled in the Qi State, and these people will naturally
will disperse."
After the man left, Chen Ruijin asked: "Is Qi pursuing them so closely? Are they going to be sent overseas?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "What happened in Qi State was arranged by me. This group of Cui family members are old and young. When they suddenly arrived in a new environment, the old ones adapted slowly and the younger ones adapted quickly. If we mix together, the old ones will take care of it."
I have a small child. I deliberately let them live separately so that they can have less influence on each other. On the way, Zhimo has become familiar with a few young people and said they are quite good. They can be used if they have a ideological reform. Otherwise, I would be so idle for no reason.
Just run and save people."
Chen Ruijin nodded: "That's all." She thought for a while, "Didn't you say there is a widow? Where does she live?"
"Liu Xiaoqi arranged it, I don't know. Is there something wrong?"
Chen Ruijin said with a smile: "Zhimo said that the widow was pleasing to her eyes. The clerks and pastry chefs in my sixth sister's shop are all experienced, so there is nothing for her to take care of, and she has no ambition to become big. My brother-in-law is devoted to studying medicine and does not need to take care of him.
She has no children yet. She is busy all day long. After all, she has been a widow herself. I thought it would be a merit to give her some manpower and resources and let her try to marry off the widow. After all, she robbed a monk.
." Jia Cong laughed: The daughter of the Chen family does not have a low IQ. He hurriedly sent someone to Liu Xiaoqi's place to ask for the Cui family's accommodation list.
During the day, Jia Cong had not gone out since he entered the house. At night, he quietly changed his clothes, slipped out of the west corner door like a thief, and knocked on the west corner door of Feng Ziying's house like a thief.
He didn't even take anyone with him.
The next day, Duke Yan was going to visit Lin Hai, the old minister. Yanjing Weekly sent a reporter to the post house early to wait. The reporter was a new person at this moment. Duke Yan and Duke Yan found it interesting. They chatted with him for a long time, and they clicked.
We took several group photos together. The reporter followed him to the Lin Mansion and took many photos of cordial and friendly meetings. In the afternoon, Lin Hai personally accompanied the Kong family and his son to Yanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where Zhang Youshi is a professor. The reporter naturally
Also follow and witness the news happening.
Two days later, the Yanjing Weekly published an urgent supplement. The title was: Duke Yan Sheng went to Beijing for medical treatment. It included a photo of Duke Yan and his son with Zhang You, a scholar-bureaucrat. Next was a photo of them and Lin Hai. The title was, First the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry
Lin Hai met with Yan Shenggong. In the second edition, Yan Shenggong and his son met with Wu Tianyou, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. It is reported that Yan Shenggong will give lectures at the Hanlin Academy, Yenching University and Tsinghua Women's College. The course schedule will be published
In the next issue of this newspaper, as soon as this newspaper came out, Shilin was shocked. Yan Shenggong actually went to Yan?! Someone immediately prepared a horse to go to Beijing to attend lectures, and distributors everywhere ordered the next issue of the newspaper.
Sure enough, the next issue of the Yanjing Weekly published the lecture schedule of Yan Shenggong, and the newspaper was sold out. However, the headline on the front page was not about Yan Shenggong, but another article reported that the head of the Lin clan in the suburbs of Beijing set up a private court to beat his clan to death.
Sun case.
This report caused a bigger wave than Yan Shenggong. Only Confucian scholars cared about Yan Shenggong. The whole country paid close attention to it, and the news spread all over the streets. Everyone said that the bullshit Minister of Punishment of Yan State was stupid and ridiculous, Mr. Lin
What the clan leader did was perfectly justified, but it was unreasonable for the Yan State to randomly change the laws.
The young man from the Shu Kingdom had to get this newspaper. Situ Cenzai read the report carefully dozens of times, his brows knitted into knots. His wife Qiu stood by and said with a smile: "Do you see anything?"
"No." Situ Cen said, "I can't even find a pun."
Qiu said: "This matter is obvious. Jia Cong wants to attack the clan of Yan State, and he wants to ask all the kings in the world to respond to him."
"Huh? I didn't see it!"
Qiu said: "He first coaxed Duke Yan Sheng to go to the capital for treatment, and then persuaded him to give lectures. He even printed such big words in big words so that no one could see them: The curriculum will be published in the next issue. All officials in the world are Confucian scholars.
The next issue of the newspaper will attract the attention of the whole country. And then look, what is the headline on the front page? A case is written in such detail, and at the end there are such big words: 'Details of this case will be published in the next issue'. What other details are there? This is already
Enough details. Therefore, the next issue will definitely not be details, but secrets. Jia Cong dug a hole and waited for the world to jump into it. Power is one thing that disappears and grows. If the clan loses power, the government will have more power.
The same goes for countries."
Situ Cen thought for a while: "The clans in Shu are indeed very powerful."
"Every clan in any country has great power." Qiu said, "Maybe he can really succeed this time."
Situ Cen hummed, "This time? How often has that guy failed?" Then he put down the newspaper and ate some snacks.
Readers across the country cursed and waited for seven days. During these seven days, letters like snow flew into the capital from all over the country. They finally looked forward to the next issue of the newspaper. The headline was still on the front page: The latest developments in the case of Patriarch Lin. The Imperial Court of Yan State attached great importance to it.
This case was personally investigated by Master Zhan Kun, the Grand Master and Pingzhang Governor. Later, the reporter interviewed many insiders to comment on the two parties involved. Lin Hai, the Secretary of the Ministry of Husbandry, commented on Patriarch Lin, and members of the Lin clan commented on Patriarch Lin.
Colleagues commented on Patriarch Lin. Many people also commented on the dead naughty son. He was a friend, a mistress, a relative and an elder. After reading it, everyone felt that the naughty son was a dandy, and the patriarch was a good man who did not rub dirt in his eyes. The most reported report
At the end is another line of large characters: The next issue will report the opinions of Yanshenggong Kong Zhaohuan, Regent Jia Cong, Prime Minister Lin Daiyu and others.
Readers across the country have been cursing and waiting for another seven days, but the snow of letters still flew into the capital for seven days. The next issue of the newspaper arrived, and everyone couldn't wait to see what Yan Shenggong had to say. They never thought that the previous issue was a false advertisement.
The headline on the front page of this issue actually read: A major turning point has occurred in the case of Patriarch Lin.
It turned out that the last issue of the newspaper published a photo of Nizi, and a fan recognized him, and hurriedly took it to Turtle Man, Madam, and others for identification. Everyone said he looked very much like a guest, and the fan stayed with him all night on the night of the incident.
.If he was the guest, he couldn't have raped his stepmother at the same time. People are similar, so no one dared to tell that it was him. This person was dead and his ashes were scattered, and even the body could not be identified. However, the traitor was the same person that day.
He confessed his crime personally, and the whole family testified. The case suddenly became unclear.
At the end of the report, the reporter wrote: "If this case is really the work of the traitor, and the Lin family did not deal with it privately but sent him to the government, how could the government spare him? After all, the Lin family does not have professional detectives and gangsters."