Tang Ning rested at home for a few days. After her back injury healed, she returned to the Criminal Department.
Although the three-month period of the Ministry of Punishment is almost over, with less than ten days left, he still has to stand on the last shift.
When I walked into the duty room of the Ministry of Justice, I looked up and saw an unfamiliar official.
Tang Ning looked at where he was sitting, thought for a moment, and asked, "Could this sir be Dr. Yang?"
The official stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Master Tang, I have admired you for a long time."
Tang Ning remembered that before he came to the Punishment Department, Dr. Yang seemed to have taken sick leave for two to three months due to a foot injury. This was the first time he had seen him in the Punishment Department.
He cupped his hands and asked, "Is Mr. Yang's foot injury better?"
Yang Langzhong smiled and said, "Excuse me, Mr. Tang, for your concern. My injury has healed."
Tang Ning exchanged greetings with Langzhong Yang and then sat back in her seat.
It would be great if Mr. Yang is here. He is the top leader of the Xingbu Yamen. He can relax in the days to come.
Doctor Yang sat at the table, raised his head, and looked in the direction of Tang Ning intentionally or unintentionally.
In the past three months, although he was not in the Ministry of Punishment, he paid attention to the news of the Ministry of Punishment all the time.
Before Tang Ning came to the Punishment Department, there were rumors that this man was a scourge of his superiors. In order to avoid disaster, he committed suicide and left the Yamen. But who would have thought that during the three months that this person was in the Punishment Department, he would do anything outrageous?
Although he did not do it, he also presided over the compilation of the "Collection of Clearing Wrongs", which recorded in detail the methods for testing and solving crimes. He was praised by His Majesty and promoted throughout the country. He has made great contributions.
This made Yang Langzhong almost feel regretful. If he was also in the Yamen, part of the credit would fall on his shoulders, and his actions were tantamount to actively pushing him out.
The past three months were uneventful, and he was completely relieved. He had the courage to return to the Yamen, and maybe he could get a little credit for it.
Mr. Yang sat back in his familiar seat and made a pot of tea. As soon as he picked up the teacup, a clerk walked in from the door carrying a pile of files.
He stood at the door and was about to walk to the table where Tang Ning was sitting. When he saw Dr. Yang in the room, he was suddenly startled. After thinking about it, he turned around, walked to his table, and put the file on the table.
Said: "Master Yang, Master Shangshu has ordered the Ministry of Punishment to review and verify these files as soon as possible."
"I know, let's put it down." Yang Langzhong nodded and opened a file at random.
The case in this file is very simple. In order to build a private house, the Marquis of Jingbian occupied people's land and allowed his subordinates to kill people. If the person who committed the crime was an ordinary person, he only had to sign his name, and the criminal would be beheaded even if he was not beheaded.
He ended up with his house confiscated and exiled.
But this was Marquis Jingbian, a powerful figure in the capital, backed by King Kang. How could he be provoked by a small criminal official?
His hand holding the dossier trembled, his eyelids jumped, he put it down and picked up another one.
"The case of arson and murder by the son of Marquis Yanping."
"The case of Yongchuan Bo's son raping a woman."
"Huiyang Bo Zongzi's Murder Case."
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After reading several case files, Doctor Yang's body trembled slightly and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Any one of these cases would be enough for him, a doctor of the Ministry of Justice, to have a headache. It was very difficult for him, a small doctor, to take charge of these cases.
Go to hell!
He stood up, looked at a clerk in the government office, and said, "Is Mr. Xu here? I want to go find him..."
The little official said: "Back to my lord, Mr. Xu has been suspended from his post due to the cover-up case."
"Suspension..." Yang Langzhong stood on the spot and murmured: "I just stopped..."
He fell back into his chair, picked up the last file, and opened it tremblingly.
"The Case of Covering Up by Xu Cheng, the Minister of Criminal Affairs..."
Tangning had already heard Xiao Jue talk about what happened in the morning.
With the secret instruction and support of the Tang family, more than a dozen officials from the court and central government, including a censor, launched a collective attack on Jingbian Marquis Yanpinghou and others. His Majesty ordered the Ministry of Punishment and the Censorship Station to thoroughly investigate these cases.
If it is implemented, these powerful people will have to shed their skins even if they die.
Although the laws of the Chen State also gave some preferential treatment to the powerful, this preferential treatment was limited. If the powerful really valued the lives of the common people as human lives, they would end badly. Shou Anbo is an example.
It is one thing for them to do these things in secret. No matter how the officials below cover up and conceal it, once it is brought up in the Golden Palace in front of all the officials, they will probably not be able to do anything about it.
Fortunately, Dr. Yang came back in time, otherwise he would have been very busy during his last days in the Criminal Department.
Tang Ning was leisurely drinking tea and writing a new volume of the latest public case novel. At a certain moment, she glanced up and saw Doctor Yang standing up and walking out in despair.
He started writing again, and before he had written a few words, the clerk's exclamation came from outside the door.
"No, no, no, Mr. Yang fell into the well!"
"Someone come quickly!"
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In the Xingbu Yamen, an old man looked at Mr. Yang who was lying on the bed, shook his head and said: "Mr. Yang has just recovered from his old injury, but he has received a new one. This time, he will need at least two months to recuperate."
Tang Ning expressed sympathy for Yang Langzhong's misfortune. On the first day after returning to the Yamen, she fell into the abandoned well of the Ministry of Punishment.
The location of the well was very remote, and there were fences around it. The officials of the Ministry of Punishment could not figure out why Mr. Yang fell into that well and was seriously injured. However, the first moment Mr. Yang was rescued, Master Shangshu ordered that the well be rescued.
The mouth of the dry well was sealed.
Xingbu Yamen, Xingbu Shangshu Song Yi looked at Tang Ning and said, "Mr. Yang is seriously injured and needs to recuperate. These days, the affairs of Xingbu Yamen will be left to Mr. Tang."
After that, without waiting for Tang Ning to answer, he pointed to the files on Mr. Yang's table and said, "His Majesty has specially instructed these cases, and there will be people from the Censorship Station to keep an eye on them. Mr. Tang must handle them as soon as possible..."
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Although Tang Ning didn't want to take the blame or cause trouble, he was not as ruthless as Yang Langzhong, and he would not even let himself go if he was so ruthless.
The only well in the Xingbu Yamen has been sealed, so he can't climb to the roof and jump off again. In addition, climbing over the wall has long been a common thing for him, and there is no floor in the entire Xingbu where he can get hurt if he jumps down.
Unexpectedly, after going round and round, killing people with a borrowed knife and saving the country through twists and turns, in the end, I still have to cut the knife myself.
He moved the files to his desk, looked at a clerk, and said, "Go and get all the files from the room where Mr. Xu is on duty."
The shield case of Xu Cheng, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, was the simplest. All the files he had intercepted were piled in the check-in room. All he had to do was report the truth to Chen Huang and he would make his own judgment.
The case at Miss Lian'er's house has all the witnesses and physical evidence, and the case can be closed immediately.
As for other cases, Tang Ning believes that the Tang family has already prepared everything behind the scenes, and no matter who investigates these cases, it won't take too much effort.
Even so, Tang Ning was still a little dissatisfied with the behavior of the Minister of Punishment passing the blame to him. It just so happened that in "My Years as the Minister of Punishment", the unfilial son of Lord Song Ci and Song who killed his relatives in the end did not have a name yet, so the name Song Yi was quite suitable...
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After finishing writing the new chapter in a hurry, Tang Ning picked up a file, looked at a scribe, and said, "Shengtang!"
