Although Mu Tianen, the county magistrate, was bought from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, what Jia Liu didn't expect was that his professional skills were really good.
Under the torture he spared no effort to extract a confession, Ma Xiucai finally confessed that he reported Lin De'an for treason because he wanted to compete for the quota of recommended students.
The official term for this recommended student is Linsheng, and it is usually only those with excellent academic performance who can be admitted.
After becoming a junior student, a scholar can not only receive a certain monthly subsidy for living expenses from the county school, but also has the priority to become a student of the Imperial College.
To put it bluntly, you can overtake others in a corner and get the qualification to directly enter the highest university in the Qing Dynasty.
Students in the Imperial College are called Gongsheng, and they have many benefits. They can not only take part in the imperial examination, but also be appointed officials through the imperial examination.
It is equivalent to selecting students for future generations.
No matter how bad you are, you can still become an eighth-grade official. If your family has a good background and the background is strong enough, Fengjiang is not impossible.
Didn't Jia Liu become the leader of the Qing Dynasty's feudal territory by relying on his qualifications to select students from the Eight Banners and working hard step by step?
If he hadn't had the qualification to be selected as a student by the Eight Banners, he wouldn't have even had a chance to serve the Qing Dynasty, and he would have struggled so hard!
Either he is pretending to be the Son of Heavenly Father, or he is going somewhere to give evening classes to charcoal burners.
If all fails, he might sneak into Macau and find a way to persuade the great powers to come to the East to do justice for heaven.
As for rebelling against the Qing Dynasty, it doesn't matter if you really become a traitor.
Linyu is a small county, and there are only 10 places for junior students in the county school.
According to the system, there will be no vacancies if a person is born, dies or passes the examination.
Lin De'an, Jia Liu's eldest brother-in-law whom he had never met, was one of these ten junior students.
If Ma Xiucai wants to become a junior student, he has to squeeze out one of the ten junior students. Otherwise, he can only endure it slowly. After all, his academic performance is not too outstanding. In the annual examination, he is either second or third class, which is impossible.
Rely on your own efforts to enter the junior college ranks.
People, as long as they want to make progress, they will definitely rack their brains.
Only one out of ten people will make progress by improving themselves, while the other nine will choose other ways.
Therefore, Lin De'an, who thought the "Kangxi Dictionary" was not easy to use, came into Ma Xiucai's sight.
Everyone knows what happened next.
Ma Xiucai succeeded.
After Lin De'an was imprisoned, the county school held a meeting and reported to the government school to expel Lin De'an from the junior college ranks. If he went down one level according to the procedure, the Ministry of Rites would also expel Lin De'an from his reputation as a scholar soon.
Ma Xiucai was also added to the junior college student team as he wished, and was qualified as a recommended student.
Everything seemed fine, but Ma Xiucai didn't know that he was in trouble. He offended a big boss who even dared to punch the emperor.
It can even be said that this person is the biggest villain in the Qing Dynasty at present.
According to Muzhi County's confession, the scholar Ma also had an accomplice, his uncle Jiang, who was in charge of the eighth grade of the school.
It was Jiang who gave this harmful idea to his aunt and nephew, saying that all scholars are guilty of breaking the rules. As long as the aunt and nephew search carefully, they will surely find one or two.
The facts of the case came to light.
Therefore, behind all major anti-Qing cases, there is an ulterior motive.
The reason why jails happen so frequently is because there are constant whistleblowers.
Could it be that those whistleblowers were as sincere in serving the Qing Dynasty as Jia Liu, and could not see any attempt to slander the Qing Dynasty?
Mu Tianen did not dare to make arbitrary decisions on how to deal with Ma Xiucai, and listened respectfully to the Governor's instructions.
"This matter must be handled impartially and no extraneous matters should be allowed to arise."
Jia Liu gave guidance and emphasized that the law should be enforced impartially and that just because the person involved in this case was his brother-in-law, he should not bend the law for personal gain.
According to the Laws of the Qing Dynasty, even if Ma Xiucai was falsely accused, he would be executed.
However, Mr. Jia was kind-hearted and could not bear to destroy his whole family, so he showed mercy and allowed Ma Xiucai to hang himself because of his conscience.
Mu Tianen personally went to persuade Ma Xiucai to hang himself.
Ma Xiucai struggled for a long time on the mandatory question of whether one person should die or the whole family should die. Finally, shivering, he climbed onto the stool and put his neck into the prepared rope loop.
But just when Mu Tianen was about to step forward and take away the stool, Ma Xiucai retracted his neck and refused to put it back again.
Helpless, Mu Tianen had no choice but to have someone forcefully put Ma Xiucai's neck in. After a lot of tossing, Ma Xiucai finally breathed his last unwillingly.
Looking at Ma Xiucai's body dangling on the beam, Mu Tianen couldn't help but shudder.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized the eight thousand taels was worth it, otherwise it would be him who hanged himself at this moment.
Jia Liu originally wanted to take Mu Tianen's position, but Shuan Zhu's words made him change his mind, that is, he could make Mu Tianen bite.
The reason is that Lin Xiucai's case has been reported to the province. According to the case settlement procedures, neither Linyu County nor Yongping Prefecture is actually at fault.
Even if the young master is the governor of Zhili, it is difficult to directly take over Yongping Prefecture, a fourth-grade official, let alone directly use Lin Xiucai's case as an issue.
Because you are my elder brother-in-law.
So we had to use Mu Tianen to bite Gui Tu, the prefect of Yongping who came from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and take the opportunity to replace the prefect of Yongping with one of his own.
There is no need to elaborate on the crime, just accepting bribes is enough.
As a subordinate magistrate, Mu Tianen must have given gifts to his immediate superiors.
In this way, not only can he win the Guitu, but he can also gain a reputation for punishing corrupt officials, so why not do it.
Jia Liu thought for a while and agreed with Shuan Zhu's opinion and asked him to immediately capture Gui Tu in the name of investigating the case, while Mu Tianen turned into a tainted witness.
Shuan Zhu set off immediately and entered Yongping City. Instead of taking the official document given by the young master to the government office to arrest the person, he first went to the home of Jiang, who was taught by the eighth grade officer.
An official of the eighth rank, Shuan Zhu, a military officer of the fourth rank, can certainly be treated well.
A large number of soldiers rushed into Jiang's house like wolves and tigers, startling Jiang Xundao who was studying in the study, and then nothing happened.
The person was captured directly.
"Are you Jiang Ah Shui?"
Shuan Zhu raised Director Jiang's chin and looked at him, and found that the director of training looked quite loyal, even more loyal than the young master.
"I don't know what the officer has done. Do you want to take me down?"
The incident happened so suddenly that Jiang Xun was confused.
"You know exactly what you committed, why bother asking me?"
Shuan Zhu snorted slightly and did not want to be verbose with the same surname as Jiang, because this matter could not be brought to the table.
I casually looked around the study room, but my eyes were attracted by a picture hanging on the wall.
The font is imitated by Dong Qichang. Everyone from the emperor to the petty officials in this dynasty loved Dong Qichang's calligraphy.
The content is a poem.
There was bright moonlight in front of the bed, which was probably due to frost on the ground.
Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown.
No matter the font or the content of the poem, it doesn't matter. It should be the poet's feeling of missing his hometown when he is away from home.
It's also catchy to read, much better than those spanking poems written by the young master.
The problem is, Shuan Zhu's political sense tells him that there is a problem with this poem, and it is not a small problem, but a big problem.
"Bold, what are you trying to insinuate by writing this anti-poem?"
Shuan Zhu was furious and stared at Jiang Ashui fiercely.
He will treat others the same way as others.
"Ah? Anti-anti-poetry?"
Jiang Ashui's reaction was probably similar to that of the Linyu magistrate who wrote two lines of poetry and hymns, that is, he was dumbfounded and confused.
"This is not anti-poetry! You are so brave. You dare to say that there is only moonlight in the morning. Why, are you saying that our Qing Dynasty is dark and dark!"
"Missing my hometown, what hometown? I think you are just remembering the past, and you are unwilling to be a citizen of the Qing Dynasty!"
"Take him out!"
Shuan Zhu waved his hand, and Sauron's soldiers immediately tried to drag Jiang Ah Shui outside.
"It's unfair, my lord, it's unfair. That poem was not written by a humble official, but by Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty."
Jiang Ah Shui's voice floated far away like a pig's braying.
"Who is Li Bai?"
Shuan Zhu in the study asked Baozhu who came with his troops to support him.
"I don't know, maybe he is a relative."
Baozhu made a guess.
"Relatives? Forget it, we won't get involved."
While Shuan Zhu was talking, he picked up a collection of essays on Jiang Xundao's desk. It was a collection of essays by outstanding scholars over the years, as well as selected answer sheets from outstanding scholars over the years.
It's equivalent to tutorial materials.
Looking through it, Shuan Zhu discovered that the preface to this anthology was actually written by Gui Tu, the prefect.
After a few glances, I found that the writing was pretty good, like a cultural person.
Just looking at it, the expression on Shuan Zhu's face was wrong. He suddenly put down the collection of poems and said in a panic to Baozhu: "Send someone to tell the Lord and ask him to mobilize troops quickly. There is an anti-Qing and Fuming group in Yongping Mansion!