Daily Life of Jiang Liuniang

   Chapter 298 Silly or not

   Guo Jingping went to Jiang's house and played two games of chess with Jiang Huai. Jiang Erye rushed back, went into the house and greeted Guo Jingping, and began to shout.

  Jiang Huai stepped forward and pinched his brother's shoulder, "Have your second brother eaten yet?"

   "Two meals before and after." Jiang Erye said bitterly.

  Jiang Huai immediately ordered someone to prepare hawthorn tea for the second brother to digest food, "Qianting came here specially to wait for the second brother to have a meal together. Why don't the second brother have tea and the younger brother accompany Qianting to eat?"

  Qianting is Guo Jingping's name. Guo Jingping had only a name and no words. When he married a bride and returned to Beijing, his daughter-in-law gave him one, meaning that Guo Jingping went through thousands of pavilions from Qingxi to Kang'an.

   Jiang Erye nodded, "Big brother is coming back soon, let's eat together."

   Guo Jingping asked with a smile, "Second brother went out for less than two hours, why did he take two meals?"

   Jiang Erye sighed, "I did a big thing today. You also know that I have always had a beginning and a tail in my work.

   Guo Jingping asked very cooperatively, "Second brother, tell my younger brother, my younger brother is locked up in Qianniuwei camp every day, and he is almost blind and deaf."

   Jiang Erye took the hawthorn tea handed over by his third brother and began to talk about his feat of saving people from the sea of ​​blood and corpses today. It wasn't until the meal was served that he was stopped by his elder brother Jiang Song, "Change to barley tea, let's talk about other things first, and then talk about this after dinner."

Jiang Erye obediently scrolled to the next article, explaining why he went to the Ministry of Punishment, "Li Yanguang said that he killed the son of a wealthy businessman named Liu in Qixian County, and the magistrate of Qixian County also blatantly covered up this surnamed Liu. I was thinking of this family's surname Liu. Yes, it must not be just an ordinary merchant! Who do you think is a relative of his family?"

   "Whose family?" Guo Jingping and Jiang Huai asked in unison.

   Jiang Erye sold the lawsuit, "Think about it, which of our Kang'an officials surnamed Liu is from Qi County, Gyeonggi?"

  Liu is a common surname, and many Kang An surnamed Liu. Seeing the schadenfreude on the second brother's expression, Guo Jingping asked, "Yijiang is waiting for Liu's family?"

   Jiang Erye looked at Guo Jingping in disgust, "How long have you been at Qianniuwei?"

   "Half a month." Guo Jingping said honestly.

Jiang Erye wanted to beat him, "What for half a month! The document you sent to Qianniuwei came down in early June, and it has been three and a half months! Liu Ji was sent from Qianniuwei's home, and you stayed in Qianniuwei for three years. For half a month, I haven't even figured out where Liu Ji's hometown is?!"

Guo Jingping smirked, Jiang Song glared, "You are talking nonsense! Qian Ting returned to his hometown after receiving the transfer order, and it only took a few days to come back? Besides, he went to Qianniuwei as an official, and he was not sent by the Ministry of Household to check the household registration, how would he know these things."

   Jiang Erye was scolded by his elder brother and immediately became honest.

  Jiang Huai immediately smoothed things out, "Since it's not the Marquis of Yijiang, then it's Liu Shoucheng, Shaoqing of Dali Temple?"

"That's right!" Jiang Erye happily took a sip of the fresh barley tea, "I thought about it when I was in the execution ground, Qixian County is in Gyeonggi, under the eyes of the emperor! The case of Li Yanguang passed the Jingzhao Mansion and the Ministry of Punishment smoothly. The three gates of Dali Temple were closed with Li Yanguang’s death sentence. The backer of Li’s family in Qixian must be among these three yamen, and he holds real power. I went to the Ministry of Punishment to inquire later today, and sure enough! Liu Shoucheng’s ancestral home is Qixian!”

   Jiang Song frowned, "Since you have thought of this, why did you go to the torture platform to save Li Yanguang?"

   This is something that can affect the whole body.

Although Da Zhou used severe punishment to deter the people in legislation, and there were more than 500 crimes involving the death penalty, the emperor of Zhou ruled the country with "benevolence", respected the Confucian benevolent government, and regarded human life and prudent punishment as a virtue. When sentencing, "the legislation should be strictly enforced, and the usage should be forgiven." Rebellion against the death penalty is an extremely prudent thing.

  According to the law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the cases sentenced to death must be reviewed and reviewed, and only the most heinous crimes will be executed. Therefore, only twenty-eight people were sentenced to death in Jingzhao District, Kang'an City and the surrounding twelve counties in the fourth year of Jinglong.

Li Yanguang's father and wife both died at the hands of Liu Can. Afterwards, Liu Can aggressively smashed Li's house. Li Yanguang couldn't bear to kill him. Was pushed to the torture platform.

If Li Yanguang's confession is successful, the three yamen of Jingzhao House, Xingbu, and Dali Temple will all be charged with negligence and dereliction of duty. Among them, Dali Temple is the most responsible. Not to mention the wrath of the emperor, even the saliva of the censor will have to drown them. .

Jiang Erye, as a subordinate official of Jingzhao Prefecture, was sent to the prison to be executed, but he took the stage to save people. of.

  So after the news that Jiang Erye was on the execution platform to save people reached the Liubu Yamen, the officials of the Ministry of Rites verbally praised Jiang Erye that Jiang Erye cared about the people, but Jiang Song was not happy at all. In his opinion, the extremely shrewd second brother should not do such a stupid thing.

   Big brother can understand the truth, how could Erye Jiang not know? He smiled bitterly and told the truth, "eldest brother, third brother, Qianting, I didn't want to worry about it at the time. But when I heard the sound of people's heads falling, I thought of Li Qing kneeling on the torture platform to wash his father's face without a single tear falling to the ground. In the scene, my legs didn't obey my commands and jumped up on my own."

  The three were silent, Jiang Song patted the second brother on the shoulder, "You are just too soft-hearted." The most important thing for an official is to be soft-hearted.

   "Second brother is a Bodhisattva's heart, a truly good person." Guo Jingping said sincerely.

   Jiang Huai refilled the tea for the second brother with a worried expression on his face.

   Jiang Erye sighed, "Good people don't live long, I never wanted to be a good person."

   "What nonsense!" Jiang Song stared.

   Jiang Erye immediately changed his words, "I am blessed by God for being good to others, and I will definitely live a long life with my eldest brother and third brother!"

   Guo Jingping…

   "Qianting is also a hundred years old!"

   Guo Jingping smiled, "The younger brother is far worse than the second brother, and I am satisfied if I can live for 80 years."

  Everyone…

   After this interruption, the atmosphere in the room eased again. Jiang Erye continued, "The Ministry of Punishment does not want Li Yanguang to revise his confession. He will not benefit anyone, so his suffering is indispensable. I thought that if the officials of the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple would vent their anger, Li Yanguang would eat it. It’s a bit hard, but it’s not a loss to save a life. But I heard Liu’er say that the jar Li Qing brought today is the one I used when I went to Li’s house for a drink five years ago. Not shallow, I want to help Li Yanguang and let him get out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment."

   "Which adult did the second brother go to the Ministry of Punishment?" Guo Jingping asked curiously.

Jiang Erye shook his head, "It's better for county officials to take care of them now. You can't go to officials for this kind of thing, you have to go to the executioner. You second brother, I will put down my worth and ask the criminal department's arrest Kuai, Zhang Gu, yamen, cell bosses, and jailers. I ate the wine and gave me money. These people are the key, because it is in the hands of these people whether the skin will open and the flesh will be broken or the bones will be broken."

   Guo Jingping asked again, "If the adults of Dali Temple and the Department of Punishment have to use severe punishment to abolish Li Yangguang, these people will have to obey, right?"

Jiang Erye was delighted, "Now that this case has attracted a lot of attention, who would dare to give such an order blatantly? If someone really made the order to kill himself, the police officer of the Ministry of Justice would also send a letter to him, asking him to find a way to deal with it. Ye is here in Kang'an. Thirty years is not for nothing!"

   (end of this chapter)