Everyone's eyes widened when they heard Qu Ji say this word.
"That's right, it's tomb robbing."
Quji explained: "It was the day before the twelfth lunar month, the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month. I went to visit my uncle's house in Daqingli. When I came back, it was raining lightly. There was a small room in the wilderness between Daqingli and Chaoyangli.
The hut is a shelter from the rain. The hut was originally used to look after the fields. After the fields were abandoned, no one used them."
"After waiting for a long time, I fell asleep unknowingly. When I woke up, it was almost dark and the rain was still falling outside. Several people came outside the house and were arguing. I saw them carrying swords and fearing
He was a thief, so he hid under the couch without letting them see him, so he overheard what they were discussing..."
Qu Ji said that he heard at least four people talking in the house. They complained about the bad weather. Otherwise, the tombs of the nobles of the Chu Dynasty could be dug up smoothly and all the gold, silver and bronze items inside could be transported out and sold.
Lose……
He was frightened when he heard that. After the rain stopped, those people left. He bravely followed their tracks up the mountain, but found that they were digging under a hidden mountain. They were really robbing tombs.
Before anyone discovered the illness, he hurriedly ran away and crawled to the ground. When he returned home that night, he fell ill.
"It's really unethical to rob a tomb."
Pu Zhang muttered and said that he was already half-buried and had asked his children and grandchildren to help him find a place to be buried, so he attached great importance to it. When he heard that someone was robbing a tomb nearby, he suddenly felt sad and sad. He didn't want to
After his death, he was dug up again and his bones were thrown into the wild, leaving his soul with no fixed place.
Several other young people did not share his feelings and were discussing the reliability of this matter.
Dongmen Leopard said: "Between Daqingli and Chaoyangli is a wilderness. There are no tombs for nobles."
Ji Ying also didn't believe it: "I'm also from the same hometown, why haven't I heard of it?"
"Indeed there is."
Li Xian spoke with a gloomy expression: "There is also a legend in my family that although there have been no large tombs in recent decades, there were quite a few hundreds of years ago."
"Hundreds of years ago?" Everyone was a little surprised, it was a little far away from them.
Li Xian said: "Of course, they are some county officials from the Chu Kingdom, and the cemeteries of the feudal lords. My uncle said that there are not many others in the Chu Kingdom, but these nobles are the most numerous. There are many lords and large fiefdoms, and they are all miscellaneous.
, there are several within a hundred miles. After these noble people died, they looked for places to be buried near mountains and rivers. There are quite a few of them in our Anlu County alone."
Li Xian was born in the Li family, and Li Shi was a small official when the Chu Kingdom ruled Jianghan. His understanding of the nobles' past was much better than that of Heifu and others who came from a miserable background.
Heifu also heard about the luxury of noble burials in this era: the coffin must have multiple layers, the burial must be deep, the deceased must have many pieces of clothing, the burial embroidery must be rich, and the tomb must be tall.
Especially when a prince dies, the wealth stored in the treasury must be emptied, and then the body of the deceased must be decorated with gold, jade and jewels, tied up with silk and cotton belts, and the chariots and horses must be buried in holes. There must be a lot of money.
Make curtains and curtains, bells and cauldrons, drums, banquets, flagons, mirrors, spears, swords, feathers, ivory, leather, place them in the deceased's palace and bury them, and then you are satisfied.
Although this situation was strongly discouraged by the Mohists, it still did not help. Compared with the Central Plains, Chu land was particularly popular in elaborate burials. The Chu people were influenced by various myths and ghosts, and they attached great importance to the afterlife, and even imagined the big world.
Siming, Shao Siming and a series of gods in charge of life and death came to worship, and they are still popular today.
As the hometown of the Chu State, Nan County has many tombs of Chu nobles hidden in the mountains. Because of the heavy burials, they have attracted the greedy eyes of tomb robbers. Most of the descendants of these Chu noble tombs were robbed by Bai Qi more than fifty years ago.
When the capital of Ying was moved eastward with the king of Chu, it could no longer take care of the blood food of its ancestors, which intensified the rampant tomb robbing, and Nanjun became a paradise for tomb robbers.
However, the Qin government did not acquiesce to this behavior just because the tombs of Chu nobles were stolen. On the contrary, Qin also believed that tomb robbers digging up the tombs of ancestors was an act that was harmful to nature and inferior to animals, so it "strictly
"Three crimes prohibit it", legislation will severely punish tomb robbers!
Tomb robbing, especially a tomb robbing involving multiple people, if it happened in their small Huyang Pavilion, it would definitely be a big case!
Heifu stood up and said: "There is a saying in "The Law of Robbery" that robbing a tomb is the same crime as murdering or injuring others. The lighter ones will be tattooed as Cheng Dan, and the more severe ones will be punished with zhé... The reporter
, there will also be rewards for those who arrest you!"
He looked at Quji and said with some regret: "Master Quji, you are neither making false accusations nor slandering. What is there to be ashamed of? Why don't you come to the pavilion to report the case in person, or tell Li Zheng and ask Li Zheng to inform the villagers?
Officer? In that case, not only will there be no punishment, but there will also be rewards. Why bother to resort to such a trick and submit an anonymous letter?"
Qu Ji also heard Hei Fu's regret, and said with a wry smile: "The master of the Haojiao Pavilion knew that I was confused when I came. Because the bride at home was pregnant, I didn't want to take risks. But I couldn't turn a blind eye. I
Then I came up with the idea of sending an anonymous letter to inform the government. No matter whether it was successful or not, at least it would make me have a clear conscience. At first, I was lucky, thinking that no one would guess it was me. Who knows, the director of the pavilion is very good at knowing things. Secondly,
God found my home..."
This is also human nature. Qu Ji is just a young official with no background, but there are countless tomb robbers. If after he reports the crime, the government does not catch the robbers, but those thieves know that Qu Ji has reported the crime and become angry.
What should I do to take revenge on his family?
"There is a second reason..." Quji stopped talking, looked at the people in the room, stared at Heifu and said, "I only want to listen to the pavilion chief alone!"
…
After Hei Fu sent everyone out, he turned around and asked Ji Ji, "Everyone has left. Just say what you want to say."
"I would like to thank the pavilion chief first."
Qu Ji bowed to the ground on the straw mat and said, "Ting Zhang Xie did not tie me up with ropes today in front of my wife. He also said that he only wanted to ask me for questions. Otherwise, with her weak temperament, she would definitely be frightened."
Already..."
Hei Fu asked him to get up: "Although I am the chief of the pavilion and enforce the law in accordance with the law, who doesn't have parents, wives and children? Where there is no need to make things difficult, I will not deliberately make things difficult."
Qu Ji smiled bitterly and said: "I have also heard some laws in the countryside, and I know that I have committed a crime this time. I just don't know what kind of punishment I will be punished. I hope the pavilion chief can tell me."
"If you submit a letter anonymously, you will be fined three persons, which is equivalent to more than 4,000 yuan. If you cannot pay it off, you will have to do labor for the government."
Heifu said, "With your family's financial resources, it's not difficult to pay it all, right?"
"The pavilion chief thinks highly of me. These four thousand dollars are enough to bankrupt me." Qu Ji looked bitter.
A wealthy family in this era would probably have a fortune of about 100,000 yuan, with cattle, horses, and servants. A middle-class family could afford to raise cattle with about 20,000 yuan. The Heihu family can barely afford it now.
After touching the ten thousand yuan standard, I thought that the family situation of the deceased would be better, but it is worse?
Quji began to complain, saying that he had spent thousands of dollars on his marriage last year, and now that he did not have much money left, he might have to sell off everything in the house, including his little wife's dowry, in order to collect the fine.
"My wife's dowry must never be sold. It is emergency money. When the children are born, they will be raised and raised."
Quji gritted his teeth and said, "If it doesn't work out, I'll go work for the government."
He sighed every word and said it was very desolate. With his sickly body, he might not be able to do any heavy work.
Although Heifu felt sorry and sympathized with him, and even felt a little apologetic, he couldn't just let him go.
In the Qin State, as an official, he would be severely punished for being a "prisoner". Hei Fu did not want to shave his hair and go to keep company with the former head of the Huyang Pavilion.
It is also impossible for him to conceal the truth and report the crime of curing the disease in a reduced manner, otherwise he would commit the crime of "missing the sentence". If the punishment is unintentional, he may only be fined. If it is intentional, then he has committed the crime of "not straight".
Haha, by then, he may be sent to the even more desolate Qianzhong County to expand the border. The Huyang Pavilion who framed him for stealing seems to be in Qianzhong County.
Heifu could only say sorry to Quji in his heart: I'm sorry, I'm a policeman.
Then he comforted Qu Ji and said, if he goes to the county tomorrow and can explain clearly what happened, maybe the jailer will be given a lighter sentence?
Even Heifu himself was not sure about this. Thinking about the selfless nature of Jie Fengxi, he knew that he would never let go of any violation of the law.
But Qu Ji was encouraged and bowed again: "Thank you very much, Mr. Pavilion. Then I will tell the truth!"
He raised his head and made up his mind: "Pavilion Chief, the reason why I would rather submit a letter than come to report in person is because that day, the thieves who robbed the tomb mentioned a person's name during their discussion!
"
"Who?" Heifu asked.
Qu Ji lowered his voice and said word by word: "Chaoyangli, Lijianmen!"
