Wang Anfu: "..."
I don’t study well, so don’t lie to me. Is that what your Majesty meant?
Besides, regardless of what the court decides, doesn’t it still depend on how the parents decide?
It's fine as long as it's judged. Why do you talk so much?
When Liu Dayou was found, his eyes were dull, and the buttocks of his pants were still bloody. He didn't even have the conditions to change into a new pair of pants.
The man was also wilted, his clothes were in tatters like strips scratched by a cat, and his ankles were still exposed in the cold spring weather.
He opened his eyes when he heard that the person sitting above him was the censor from the capital.
"Censor...Master Censor, you are from the capital. Are you sent by His Majesty?"
Your Majesty, you probably won’t protect bad officials like them.
Lord Censor, can you make the decision for him?
"Yes, if you have any grievances, feel free to tell them."
Gu Chen's eyes turned red. Who wouldn't be at the bottom of the hierarchy if he abandoned his official clothes?
If he didn't have this official uniform, he would have been oppressed and bullied like this person, and the same would be true for his family, making the world miserable.
Thinking of this, he looked at Wang Anfu who was trying to keep calm.
"Wang Zhixian's 20-year-old beating was too harsh, isn't it? It's been two years, and his injuries haven't healed yet?"
Wang Anfu lowered his head with a guilty conscience. Of course, this injury was not caused two years ago.
Rather, it was taken half a month ago.
"What two years ago, it was clearly half a month..."
Liu Dayou raised his head and was about to argue, but saw Wang Zhixian suddenly staring at him, as if he wanted to kill him.
He was startled and quickly lowered his head and did not dare to speak.
Gu Chen frowned, immediately slapped the gavel, and looked at Wang Anfu seriously.
"Wang Zhixian, you'd better tell the truth. When did you handle this case?"
Seeing that he couldn't hide anything today, Wang Anfu shrank his neck and had no choice but to answer honestly.
"Half a month ago." After saying that, he did not forget to find an excuse for himself: "This county has been busy in the past two years, and I am seriously ill, which is why there are so many backlogged cases."
"Because I was afraid of being held accountable by the court due to poor performance appraisal, I came up with such a stupid method. It really shouldn't be done. I know I was wrong."
"But Mr. Gu, I already know my mistakes and can correct them, and I have settled all the backlog of cases."
"In the future, I won't dare to do this anymore. I hope you will be more tolerant."
This unruly man can't speak, and this censor is really annoying.
Aren't they just some troublesome and troublesome people? Just look good on the surface.
So what does Shang Xin do?
"You're talking nonsense." As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Dayou immediately attacked him: "My ex-son, I heard that the old lady of the county magistrate wanted to beat Liu Chengcai's mother to death."
He wiped away his tears, and regardless of the sharp eyes of the magistrate and Liu Chengcai next to him, he mustered up the courage to speak out all the grievances in his heart.
"Master Yushi, you don't know how difficult the lives of the people in our county are. The court does not allow fishing and allows us to farm."
"But we still have to pay fishing tax. Every year, more than half of the land we work hard to cultivate is taxed. My wife and children at home are starving."
"But the county magistrate is not satisfied. He keeps raising taxes and keeps raising taxes, trying every means to get money from our pockets."
"Not only that, the county magistrate is also unruly. Which girl in our county has a good-looking girl? He must...must...sigh..."
At this point, Liu Dayou cried even more sadly. Apparently his wife also...
"What do you want?"
Xu Laosan was not married yet, so he even continued to ask questions stupidly.
"He...he...forced himself to help the bridegroom with flowers and candles in the bridal chamber."
"Hiss~"
Everyone from the capital took a breath of air-conditioning, but the original county government officials were not surprised. Obviously they were all insiders.
"boom!"
"It's unjust, Mr. Censor, I didn't do it when I was a lower-ranking official. I didn't do this when I was a lower-ranking official."
Wang Anfu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shouted that he was wronged.
Gu Chen was furious: "We are on the same level, why are you kneeling to me?"
"You're a worthless thing, your knees are so weak, you really bring shame on the court."
"Where's your character?"
In the Ming Dynasty, there was no need to kneel down to speak between superiors and subordinates, and between civilians and officials.
It is only necessary to kneel when the judgment is being made, because they think the judgment is a big deal.
The rest of the time, you stand during the interrogation. If you have a good reputation, you will be given a chair.
The knees of ordinary people are not as weak as that of an official.
Wang Anfu stood up, still trembling a little because he felt like he was wearing a black gauze hat.
I'm afraid, I can't keep it!
"I'm not talking about you." Gu Chen said angrily: "You are Han, and you should be an official of the Han family. How can you learn the dross of the Meng Yuan?"
"What kind of life do people live in other places, what kind of life do your people live? I have also been a county magistrate."
"When I left, the people under my rule could eat three large white flour cakes with salt in them every day, and all of them had rosy complexions."
"Look at the people under your rule. They are all sallow and thin, or in ragged clothes. Why do you think the court supports you?"
"You still want to sleep with someone else's wife, and you have to do it during the wedding night. Why do you think you deserve to be so damned? Even if you die, you have to be put in the frying pan."
"Come here, take off his official uniform and his black gauze hat."
"Send him to prison and order him to be well guarded. He is not allowed to die."
If his crime is known to Lao Zhu, he will at least be sentenced to death in Lingchi or skinned and stripped. When the time comes, a public execution will also vent the anger of the people.
Gu Chen was so angry that his head was buzzing. It had already been Hongwu's fifteen years.
There was actually a robbery on someone's wedding night. How did this bully people?
No wonder Lao Zhu was so ruthless, you said that's all.
What if we don't punish him severely?
When Liu Chengcai saw that his backer had been taken to prison, his little heart was already pounding with fear.
"Master Yushi, this matter really has nothing to do with Xiaomin and my wife. She committed suicide herself and has nothing to do with us."
It was just a few words, but others still said that their family was not human.
If words were considered murder, wouldn't their whole family be dead long ago?
"Bah, you are the one who killed my wife." Liu Dayou glared at him and said in a sad tone: "You go around saying that she did shameful things for money and forced people to death."
"What a sin, there is an unborn child in her belly."
"I just want some money to bury my wife."
"If you pay your father-in-law and mother-in-law a sum of money, you can also marry another daughter-in-law and continue the family line."
"But it would be better for you to collude with that corrupt official named Wang and beat me up. Instead, you beat me up and didn't say anything."
"He also threatened to kill me if I dared to cause trouble."
"Master Yushi, Xiaomin has been wronged, Xiaomin's wife has been wronged, and Xiaomin's unborn child has been wronged. Please make the decision for Xiaomin, Mr. Yushi."
Liu Dayou knelt down in tears and kept kowtowing to Gu Chen.
"Get up, I will judge according to the rules."
Gu Chen stood up personally and pulled him up from the ground. Then he thought for a while before slowly announcing.
"Liu Chengcai and his wife Chen spread rumors, causing Liu Da's wife Fan to commit suicide, killing one and two. The county magistrate Wang Anfu's verdict was unfair. Now I will impose a heavy sentence."
"This official has ruled that Liu Chengcai should pay Liu Dayou's funeral expenses, betrothal gift money, and apology money from his wife's parents, totaling 20 yuan."
This money cannot buy the lives of mother and child, but it can give the family some comfort.
"Liu Chengcai peeped at his wife bathing first, and spread rumors later. The staff was sixty, and he only served for one year."
"My wife, Fan, is talkative, jealous, and has a mouthful of sixty words. She thinks that her parents-in-law need to be taken care of, and there are young children below. She only writes sixty words for sins and does not punish others."
"Come here, drag this couple outside and beat them severely in front of the people. Mr. Xu, you personally send someone to carry out the execution."
If we want to figure out local politics, what should we do first?
Very simple.
That is to let the people believe in you and support you. Only if they believe in you and support you can your work be carried out easily.
Gu Chen looked at Liu Dayou in front of him again, and his tone became very gentle: "It is really Wang Zhixian's fault that you have been wronged and given twenty canes."
"I will ask him to pay you ten thousand unjust judgments. You can go back and wait for the news."
Of course he couldn't spend his own money. Wang Anfu hadn't been convicted yet, so his money wasn't considered stolen money for the time being.
In this case, of course, the Wang family must pay the money to others.
Gu Chen picked up a pen and wrote on the rice paper: A kind word warms the winter for three months, but a bad word hurts the winter.
"Someone, please hang these words at the gate of the county government office and the county seat, and let everyone who enters and leaves the city read it again before leaving."
"From now on, if anyone follows suit and spreads rumors, this will be the fate."
