The reason why Xingbu Lang was feeling extremely depressed was that Li Mu had said so much, and every word he said was well-founded.
According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, as long as a fight does not cause serious injury or death, the maximum sentence is twenty sticks and seven days of imprisonment. Wei Peng only suffered a black eye, which is considered a minor injury.
The punishment for serious crimes of assault may not convince the public.
He is not afraid of not being able to convince the public, but he is afraid of not being able to convince the internal guards.
This is an obvious abuse of power, a misdemeanor with a heavy punishment. The inner guard is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of Shendu officials. If this sharp sword falls, his head can be saved, but the position below his buttocks will definitely not be saved.
But if the matter was revealed in an understatement, he would not be able to swallow the feeling in his heart.
You said that he is a head catcher and his job is to catch talents. Why should he study the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty?
The doctor from the Ministry of Punishment took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "I won't imprison you anymore. I'll give you ten sticks. Isn't it an abuse of punishment?"
Li Mu nodded: "Of course not."
After all, the law is only a reference. It cannot be precise enough to determine how someone should be sentenced if someone has a black eye. The specific sentencing method must be flexibly handled by the officials who are investigating the case according to the actual situation. This is the authority of the officials who are investigating the case.
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment waved his hand and said: "Come here, drag him out and execute him!"
You can choose not to close it, but you can't stop it.
If Li Mu is not allowed to lose half his life today, it will be difficult to calm down the hatred in his heart for being humiliated twice.
Although this person is a head catcher, his qualifications are still relatively low. He may not know it yet, but he is a yamen servant in the Criminal Department who has already developed his skills.
They can hit a person with a hundred sticks, only hurting the flesh, or they can kill a person with just ten sticks.
Whether it is ten sticks, twenty sticks, one hundred sticks, or two hundred sticks, they can all produce the same effect.
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment gave the two government officials who were executing the execution a look. After the two understood each other, there was a hint of fierceness in their eyes.
"Wait a minute."
Li Mu stretched out his hand again.
The doctor of the Ministry of Justice said angrily: "What else do you want!"
Li Mu said slowly: "According to the addition of Article 13 of the second volume of the Dazhou Code, the crime of fighting can be replaced by silver, and according to the explanation of the substitution of silver in the fiftieth volume of the Dazhou Code,
, one punishment rod can be worth one penny of silver, and ten rods can be worth one tael of silver."
Li Mu took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, walked to the table where the doctor of the Ministry of Justice was sitting, put the broken silver on the table, and said: "There is more than one or two pieces of silver, there is no need to look for the rest..."
The doctor from the Criminal Department opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to refute.
The penalty silver was a rule set by the late emperor and is still in use today. In today's morning court, he also stood up to oppose the proposal to cancel the penalty silver.
In other words, Li Mu's behavior was in compliance with the law.
But this law has always been used by the Ministry of Punishment to protect its comrades. When has it ever been used against oneself?
Li Mu looked at the doctor from the Ministry of Justice and asked, "Is there any problem?"
The doctor from the Criminal Department did not speak.
He cannot deny Li Mu, because to deny Li Mu is to deny himself.
A few hours ago, he was still in the court, emphatically proving that the scapegoat was beneficial to the country and was not a tool for some parties to seek personal gain. If he did not allow Li Mu to use the scapegoat at this moment, I am afraid that the internal guards would immediately accuse him of using power for personal gain.
, then he would be finished.
The doctor from the Criminal Department shook his head and said, "No problem."
Li Mudao: "If there's no problem, I'll go back first. See you next time..."
Wei Peng had been standing by and watching. At this moment, he couldn't bear it any longer. He pointed at Li Mu and asked the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment, "Are we just going to let him go like this?"
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment said with a dark face: "According to the law, if he pays the money, he can pay off the crime."
Wei Peng cursed angrily: "This is a bullshit law made by some fool. Where is the law of heaven and where is the justice!"
Li Mu, who had already walked out of the criminal department's lobby with one foot, took back the foot he took out.
He turned around and walked back, looked at the doctor from the Criminal Department, and asked, "Did you hear that?"
The doctor from the Criminal Department held his forehead, shook his head and said, "I didn't hear anything."
"I heard it." Li Mu pointed at Wei Peng and said, "He just said that some idiot made the bullshit law and the sin-substitution law. It was made by the late emperor. Insulting the late emperor is a crime of great disrespect. You should follow the law."
Blame a hundred sticks..."
Disrespect refers to disrespect for the monarch. Disrespect for the monarchs of the Zhou dynasties is considered disrespectful.
This crime is not punished at the lower level and is not capped at the upper level. It is very small when you are young, but very serious when you are big.
If the monarch is wise, he may laugh it off, but if he is a petty emperor, he can be sentenced to death just for this crime.
Great disrespect is punishable by a hundred sticks according to the laws of the Zhou Dynasty.
If these one hundred sticks are used, some people will be able to get out of bed the next day, and some people will be killed on the spot. The specific situation depends on the intention of the sentencing official. Whether it is death or alive is within the permission of the law.
Wei Peng's expression changed greatly when he heard this, and he said: "I didn't know that this was made by the late emperor. I am willing to use silver as a substitute for the crime..."
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment looked at him as if he were a fool and said: "Murder and arson are crimes of disobedience. The crime of gross disrespect is not among the crimes of substitution."
When the money in lieu came out, the national treasury was abundant in a short period of time. However, chaos broke out in the country and public resentment boiled. Later, the late emperor asked the Ministry of Punishment to amend the law. Many serious crimes were excluded from the crime of substitution, and most of the crimes were excluded.
Disrespect has never been included in the crime of using silver as a substitute.
Li Mu glanced at Wei Peng and asked the doctor of the Ministry of Punishment: "This man insulted the late emperor and committed a crime of great disrespect. He should be punished with a rod of 100. Should he be beaten here by you, or should I take him back to the capital to be beaten?"
The doctor of the Punishment Department gritted his teeth and said: "I don't need to worry about the matter of the Punishment Department."
A hundred sticks can beat Wei Peng to death. How will he explain to Wei Yuanwai Lang when the time comes? Wei Yuanwai Lang has a son in middle age, and only Wei Peng has a son. If he is abandoned in the government office, he will probably go crazy.
Li Mu nodded and said, "Let's get started. I'll leave after reading."
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment glanced at the two officers and said: "Wei Peng disrespected the late emperor. According to the law, he will be punished with a hundred sticks and will be executed immediately."
Outside the lobby of the Criminal Department, Wei Peng's screams were soon heard.
He was lying on a flat bench, and every time the stick landed on his butt, there would be a burst of pain. Although it was not severe, when combined, it made him unbearable.
However, at this moment, compared to the physical pain, he felt more wronged in his heart.
From beginning to end, he was a complete victim. Just because he looked at that man one more time, he was punched by him. When he arrived at the Ministry of Punishments, not only did he not get justice, but he was beaten with hundreds of canes.
Where is the law of heaven, where is the justice? Does this god still have royal laws?
Wei Peng felt that he had been wronged as much as Dou E.
In the Xingbu hall, the Xingbu doctor looked at Li Mu and asked, "Are you really going to be an enemy of the Xingbu?"
Li Mu shook his head and said: "I only acted in accordance with the law. When did I become an enemy of the Ministry of Punishment? The doctor sent someone to bring me from Du Yamen. I was beaten with a stick and imprisoned. Now, instead, I am said to be an enemy of the Ministry of Punishment."
If you become an enemy, wouldn't it be like beating him up?"
The doctor from the Criminal Department opened his mouth and thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was what he said.
But it was obviously the Ministry of Punishment that brought him here, so why did he still feel like he was being bullied?
Li Mu waved to the doctor of the Criminal Department and said: "Let's go, see you next time."
After suffering two hidden losses, watching Li Mu walk out of the gate of the Criminal Department again, the doctor of the Criminal Department took a breath, gritted his teeth and said to his left and right: "Don't interfere with his affairs anymore!"
Two incidents show how difficult a policeman who knows the law can be.
The doctor of the Ministry of Justice has understood that it is easier to ask God than to send him away, so he simply turns a blind eye and does not interfere with other people's affairs. If the outside doctor of the Ministry of Households is not angry for his son, he can go to the government office to make a fuss, and save himself.
Take this anger.
Outside the Criminal Department, Wang Wu and several detectives were waiting anxiously. Only Xiaobai smiled and glanced inside the Criminal Department from time to time.
Some guests of Piaoxiang Tower ran out of Piaoxiang Tower without even finishing their meals, wanting to see the excitement.
Wei Peng is a frequent visitor to Piaoxiang Tower. He has an extremely arrogant and domineering personality. He has had several conflicts with people in Piaoxiang Tower. The final result is that he is obviously on the right side, but instead has to kowtow to apologize to him. Everyone can't stand it.
He has been there for a long time.
The scene at Piaoxianglou today was simply heart-wrenching.
It's a pity that the Hubu and Xingbu are basically wearing the same pair of trousers. When the police officer enters the Xingbu, he will probably be carried out.
Everyone was thinking this, and sure enough they saw a person being carried out from the Punishment Department.
Taking a closer look, if it's not Wei Peng, who is it?
The crowd couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the policeman striding out of the punishment department. He looked like he had not been tortured at all.
Although what happened today made them happy, it was obvious that Wei Peng had done a lot of bad things in the past, and today he suffered an unreasonable disaster.
Why was it that when we arrived at the Ministry of Punishment, the attacker was not injured at all, but was actually beaten, and it seemed that he was severely punished?
Although it is not uncommon for this kind of thing to happen in the Ministry of Justice, in the past, those who beat people were Wei Peng and his ilk...
Could it be that the background of the police officer was even deeper than that of Wei Peng?
Wang Wu and others were dumbfounded and ran forward and asked: "Boss, are you okay?"
Li Mu glanced at him and asked, "What can I do?"
Wang Wu and others looked Li Mu up and down, and then began to look at him with reverence. After beating the people from the Punishment Department, they could let the Punishment Department beat their own people again. In the end, the people who walked out of the Punishment Department safely were all except
Him, who else?
Everything that happened in the Criminal Department was not hidden from Xiaobai's ears. She raised her head, looked at Li Mu with little stars shining in her eyes, and said: "If my benefactor is a fox, he must be the smartest fox..."
Inside the Punishment Department, the doctor of the Punishment Department paced the hall and murmured: "No, there must be something wrong!"
A figure stood at the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment raised his head and immediately said respectfully: "Your Majesty the Minister."
The Minister of Justice asked: "What's wrong?"
The doctor of the Ministry of Punishment scratched his hair and said: "It's okay to hit people, but the ones who were beaten were beaten with sticks. What was wrong became right, and what was right became wrong..."
The Minister of Punishment glanced at him and said calmly: "If according to the law, no one is wrong, but if right and wrong are reversed and black and white are confused, then what is wrong is the law..."
