Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

There were so many people involved in the case that Dali Temple could no longer hold them, and some were sent to the Prison Department Prison.

Qin Hui's relatives were arrested one after another.

Three brothers, Qin Bin, Qin Zi, and Qin Di.

Qin Zi was a Jinshi in the former Song Dynasty and has now served as a council member in Hubei Province.

The other two were arranged to be transferred from official to official positions: Qin Bin had limited abilities and could only become a ninth-grade tax officer. Qin Di is much more powerful, and he is already from Cao, a seventh-grade state household.

In addition, Qin Zi's son Qin Changshi, who is also Qin Hui's nephew, was transferred from an official to an official to reach the ninth rank - this is a serious violation, because there are seniority and age restrictions for official transfer, and Qin Changshi did not meet the requirements in any of them. .

Wang Yi (cousin), the son of Qin Hui's uncle, was recommended when the Ming Dynasty was founded.

At that time, there were many officials from the former Song Dynasty, and even non-official scholars from the former Song Dynasty. After being recommended, they could be appointed officials as long as they passed the basic examination. Wang Yi was an official at that time and is now the general magistrate of Nanyang Prefecture.

Huang Dui, the son-in-law of Qin Hui's eldest brother, was a serious Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Chen (cousin), the son of Qin Hui's aunt, was born as a Jinshi in the former Song Dynasty.

Li Qiu, the father-in-law of Qin Hui's brother-in-law, was a Jinshi in the former Song Dynasty.

Zhao Shipeng, the brother-in-law of Qin Hui's wife, was born as a Jinshi in the former Song Dynasty.

Wang Huo, the cousin of Qin Hui's wife, was a Jinshi in the former Song Dynasty.

Zheng Yinian, the cousin of Qin Hui's wife and the son of Zheng Juzhong, the former Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Bing, cousin of Qin Hui’s wife...

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Grab a bunch at a time.

Among them, Zheng Yinian, Qin Zi, Wang Huo, and Wang Xi have the most serious problems.

These four people were all extremely corrupt, and a large number of their subordinate officials were also arrested.

Li Qiu was a bit interesting. The more he investigated, the more he discovered that he was an upright official and had outstanding political achievements in the former Song Dynasty. But Li Qiu's son stayed in Kaifeng, hanging out with Qin Hui's brother-in-law Wang, and a few guys even set up a private casino in Kaifeng.

"Confused!"

Li Qiu burst into tears and sighed as he looked at his son's various crimes.

Li Gang couldn't bear it and asked, "You never knew about your son's misbehavior in Kaifeng?"

Li Qiu explained helplessly: "I have been working as an official in various places for many years. In the past ten years, I only returned home briefly when I returned to Beijing to report on my work, leaving my useless eldest son and second son to look after the family business in Kaifeng. They have shops in the city and property outside the city. , How could I have expected them... Alas!"

During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Li Qiu was demoted for opposing the conquest of Liao. He was demoted again for offending the eunuch Tan Zhen, and was demoted for the third time for complaining about banditry in Shandong and Hebei.

Historically, even the long-abandoned Dujiangyan Irrigation System was repaired by Li Qiu in the early Southern Song Dynasty, and the people of Sichuan built a shrine for him.

In the former Song Dynasty, Li Gang admired Li Qiu for speaking out and daring to remonstrate. He stood up and said: "Your matter has basically been investigated clearly. In the two provinces where you recently served, there were censors investigating locally, and the officials and the people unanimously praised you as a good official. For the time being. Stay at the Ministry of Punishment and arrange a private room for you. You must ask Your Majesty for instructions on how to deal with it."

"Thank you." Li Qiu thanked him, but his tone was extremely low, a bit hopeless.

He was not afraid of power and worked conscientiously for half his life, but he was cheated by his two sons.

The youngest son is still promising, and he has been keeping him by his side to train him. He has been a scholar and an official for several years now. I wonder if he will be implicated this time.

He was taken to a single room in despair. Since he had no problem, the jailer did not strictly monitor him.

When Li Qiu got up in the middle of the night, he untied his belt and wanted to hang himself.

Mainly to find a future for my younger son!

He bit his finger and wrote on the wall. The blood solidified and he continued to bite: "My youngest son is not guilty. Please have mercy, Your Majesty."

Early the next morning, the jailer came to deliver breakfast, and Li Gang specially took care of the food.

Seeing the hanged Li Qiu, the jailer was stunned on the spot. His scalp was numb and he shouted: "Someone hanged, someone hanged!"

Not long after, Li Gang came over after hearing the news. He looked at Li Xuan's body and the bloody words on the wall, and said with an extremely ugly face: "No matter who they are, they must be strictly guarded. Don't give them another chance to commit suicide!"

After arranging things, Li Gang quickly entered the palace.

After hearing this, Zhu Ming was quite sentimental and sighed: "Let Li Qiu's three sons separate their families. If his youngest son is not corrupt, he will be reinstated immediately after verification. Let the Ministry of Rites give Li Qiu a posthumous title and give it to the middle one." Just a posthumous title."

"I obey." Li Gang resigned, feeling very uncomfortable.

Some people commit suicide, and some people talk harshly.

Qin Hui's wife, Wang, was bitten to death without knowing it.

She is a female family member. Even if she is implicated by her husband, as long as she does not commit a crime, she will be exiled at most.

Pan Lianggui took out a bunch of confessions: "Your brother Wang has already confessed. Before you and Qin Hui separated, you were the one who helped connect many of Qin Hui's affairs. After you separated from Qin Hui, you also used his name to let your brother Wang For personal gain..."

"You dare not act recklessly in Luoyang, but you let Wang stay in Kaifeng to do evil. In the casino opened by Wang and others, many officials sent their cronies to lose money. These officials didn't know that your husband and wife had fallen out. But they lost money to you. If they don’t help, they don’t dare to tell the public, but no one has ever come forward to report it.”

"I'm afraid you don't know that your brother is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He also collaborated with other officials' sons to bully men and women in Kaifeng, and brought down the officials of the Five Cities Military and Horse Department in Kaifeng. Li Qiu because his two sons were with him Wang Sihun has committed suicide in the Penal Department Prison."

Mrs. Wang took a few glances at Wang and others' confessions, and was so frightened that she couldn't help but tremble, but she still managed to say, "I really don't know, Wang is using my name to break the law!"

Pan Lianggui threw out another confession: "This is from your brother-in-law Zhao Shipeng. He doesn't know that you and your wife are separated. He sends his confidant to Beijing every year to give you a valuable gift. Among them is a red coral purchased from a sea merchant. It is your birthday gift, worth tens of thousands of strings of cash!"

"I didn't receive any gifts." Wang denied it flatly.

Pan Lianggui said: "Where are all the gifts and money you received, as well as the casino profits sent by your brother Wang, hidden?"

Wang cried and said: "I really didn't receive any gifts, it's unfair!"

Pan Lianggui saw that the woman was stubborn, so he packed up the confessions and turned away, and ordered: "Send people to watch in turns for twelve hours a day. Interrogate her repeatedly, and don't let her sleep!"

Wang's willpower was very strong, and she actually held on for two and a half days.

After being woken up again, Wang was already in a trance, extremely tired but unable to sleep: "I will tell you... I will tell you..."

If she still doesn't tell you, she should rest. This thing can kill people.

The old official of the Ministry of Justice asked: "Where are the stolen money and dirty things hidden?"

"Tianwang Temple... Jian Temple..." Wang closed her eyes after she finished speaking.

Pan Lianggui personally led several officials to go out, and also borrowed some officials from the Luoyang government office, and rushed to Tianwang Temple.

Tianwang Temple in Luoyang and Xiangguo Temple in Kaifeng are the two most influential temples in the Ming Dynasty, and each of them enshrines a tooth of Buddha.

It was a cloudy day, and the temperature was cool and pleasant.

Countless good men and women came to worship Buddha, and many people also came here to stroll.

Just like shopping in a shopping mall, the area around Tianwang Temple belongs to the central business district of Luoyang, with a wide variety of goods.

If you are tired of shopping, you can also go to the temple.

But an official led the officials and ran over. Tourists and believers gave way and watched them enter the temple in great surprise. Then, the people were not afraid, but the gossip spirit burned, and they followed in to watch the excitement.

The monk in charge of reception came forward to greet him, smiling and clasping his hands together: "I wonder what business you gentlemen have?"

Pan Lianggui was afraid of alerting the enemy, so he did not point out anyone, but said: "Call out the abbot, the chief monk, the supervisor, the Vinaya, the deputy monk... all!"

"Yes, everyone, please wait." The monk in charge of reception knew that something big had happened, and hurried in to report the news.

Soon, the abbot of Tianwang Temple, Dahui Zonggao, came to greet him with a group of senior monks.

Dahui Zonggao was about to chant the Buddha's name, but Pan Lianggui had already spoken first: "Where is Jinghai, the supervisor of Tianwang Temple?"

A monk in his fifties stood up: "I don't know if I am Jinghai..."

"Catch him and search the warehouse of Tianwang Temple!" Pan Lianggui ordered.

The head of the temple is of course the abbot, but the monks rarely ask about worldly affairs.

The second in command is the temple master, equivalent to the general manager.

The third in command is the temple supervisor, who manages the temple's warehouse and property.

Wang entrusted the illegally obtained stolen money and stolen goods to the third in command of Tianwang Temple to hide.

She could bring small items and banknotes into the temple by herself under the opportunity of burning incense. As for large items like red coral, she wrapped them in cloth and sent people to carry them into the temple, claiming to the outside world that they were donated to the temple.

Dahui Zonggao, the monk, looked at the officials rushing to the warehouse with a confused face, and had no idea what his subordinates had done.

He only needed to study Buddhism, receive a few distinguished guests, and preach to believers regularly. He didn't need to care about the rest of the temple's worldly affairs.

Jinghai, the monk supervisor, was also dragged to the warehouse, and refused to admit that he had any connection with Wang.

After searching for more than an hour, the red coral was finally found. It was wrapped in velvet inside, linen outside, and oilcloth outside, and carefully packed in a big box.

This red coral was more than half a meter high, colorful, and red as if dripping blood.

Pan Lianggui pointed at the coral and said, "What is this?"

Jinghai replied, "Donated by believers."

"Such a treasure, why is it hidden so tightly if you don't take it out for viewing?" Pan Lianggui questioned.

Jinghai argued, "I'm afraid it will be damaged if it's left outside."

Pan Lianggui said, "The Monk Registration Office has a rule that all the donated items by believers in all the ten-direction monasteries in the country must be registered. Take out the donation book!"

There were more than a dozen donation books, all of which were written after the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

I carefully flipped through all the donation books, but still couldn't find any records of red coral.

Pan Lianggui questioned: "Why isn't it in the book?"

Jinghai answered with a stiff face: "Maybe...maybe it was omitted."

Pan Lianggui sneered: "You can also omit the red coral worth a fortune? Can you hide it well if you omit it?"

It's over!

Jingchun, the second-in-command of Tianwang Temple, suddenly felt his legs weak and he couldn't stand steadily.

He was in charge of all the affairs of the temple, but the warehouse was so big and there were so many items, how could he check the warehouse in person?

His subordinates helped others hide the stolen goods. Although he didn't participate in it, he was also responsible for not being strict with his subordinates and failing to supervise them.

This position of the temple is definitely not going to work.

Pan Lianggui looked at Jingchun and said, "You should also come back to the Ministry of Justice with me." After that, he ordered, "Seal off this place, leave a few people to guard and search slowly!"

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(First, don't talk about the Industrial Revolution anymore. The prerequisite for that thing is the Agricultural Revolution. Especially for grain and cotton, they must reach a certain level and scale. Second, it is said that the Imperial College is for the sake of rolling. It has been made clear that if the graduates of the Imperial College cannot be directly awarded the title of Jinshi, they can still take the imperial examination as Juren.)