marquis of jingan

Chapter 383 Caught and brought to justice!

The head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the principal of the Dali Temple are both sixth-rank officials.

Both are middle-level officials with their own duties. Both yamen have the power to review cases, and these two officials can also "go on business trips" to review serious and major cases at the local level.

Compared with the last supervisory censor, these two officials can be said to be "professional counterparts".

Because Jiangdu is very close to Jiankang, on the afternoon when Shen Yi returned home with his wife, two imperial envoys arrived in Jiangdu.

This time was different from the supervisory censor last time.

The supervisory censor Zhangfu came to Jiangdu for daily inspections, but this time these two professional counterparts of the judiciary came by order, that is to say, these two people are imperial envoys in a sense.

When the imperial envoy arrived in Jiangdu, officials of all sizes in Jiangdu prefecture naturally greeted them as usual. After the two imperial envoys arrived in Jiangdu, without saying a word, they asked the two levels of the county government to surround the Fan family and forbid anyone from the Fan family to enter or leave.

The efficiency of the two people was extremely high. After arriving at the county government, they retrieved all the files related to the Fan family.

Zhang Jian, the magistrate, specially sent the case of Chen Qing and the case of the seven arrests of the tenant's family to the two imperial envoys.

Whether it is the Ministry of Criminal Justice or Dali Temple, they are both judicial yamen. These two officials do not know how many files they have to review every year. It only took half a day for the two of them to read all the cases about the Fan family. When they saw the case of Chen Qing When the two imperial envoys had a discussion, they turned to look at Zhang Jian at the same time.

"Magistrate Zhang."

Fu Song, the head of the criminal department, said to Zhang Jian who was waiting on the side: "This case is full of loopholes and serious problems. Please ask Magistrate Zhang to take the file and bring the main suspect to justice. The two of us will retry the case in three days."

After Zhang Jian took over the case file, she looked at the head of the criminal department and said with a smile, "Imperial envoy, most of these people are in Jiangdu, so there is no problem getting them back, but one of the suspects at the time was later acquitted by the former county magistrate Feng Lu." He was released, and now he has been selected as a Jinshi and ranks in the Imperial Academy."

Speaking of this, Zhang Jian paused, and said: "He is in Jiangdu now, it is not a problem to invite him to interrogate, but if you want to arrest him, you must first ask the Ministry of Rites to revoke his reputation."

The two imperial envoys looked at each other, and finally Hu Ping, the official of Dali Temple, smiled at Zhang Jian, and said, "Magistrate Zhang is talking about Shen Yi, the official of the Secretary of the Palace?"

Zhang Jian nodded: "It's Shen Yi."

Hu Ping nodded, and said, "Judging from the case file, the possibility of Shen Sizheng committing the crime is extremely low. When the time comes, just ask him to intervene in court to cooperate with the case. Don't ask questions. As for the others..."

Hu Sizheng looked at the case file in his hand, and said in a deep voice, "As long as anyone is in Jiangdu, they must be used for questioning."

Zhang Jian nodded, and asked again: "One of them committed Qian Tong and was convicted and exiled by the former county magistrate. This year, His Majesty married and pardoned the world. He has been pardoned and returned to his original place. Should he still be questioned?"

"This is no longer needed."

Fu Song shook his head, and said: "There is an inscription in my Da Chen Law, and if a criminal is convicted of a case, he will no longer be charged with the case after the crime is completed."

"This Qiantong..."

"Don't ask me for now."

Zhang Jian smiled and cupped her hands and said, "All according to the imperial envoy's orders."

"Magistrate Zhang is polite."

The two imperial envoys unanimously bowed their hands to Zhang Jian and said, "They are all doing business for the imperial court, and the county magistrate Laozhang is assisting."

If it was an ordinary county magistrate, the two imperial envoys would not even glance at it.

But Zhang Jian is different after all...

That afternoon, the two imperial envoys went through all the case files, and gave out the names of the six Fan family members, and asked the Jiangdu county government to take them to the prison for trial.

Among them is Fan Dongcheng.

With the warrants from the two imperial envoys, Zhang Jian no longer had any scruples in handling affairs. In the evening, Zhang Xianzun brought about twenty yamen servants to the gate of the Fan family's mansion, and asked the master of the Fan family, Fan Qian .

The county magistrate arrived in person, the former Fan family might not give face, but the current Fan family no longer has the qualifications to refuse, unless they don't even want the most basic decency.

Soon, the door of Fan's house opened wide, and Zhang Jian was welcomed in.

Open the middle door to welcome guests, and put it in the former Fan's house. This is the treatment only given to third-rank Beijing officials when they visit.

But now Zhang Jian enjoys this treatment.

County magistrate Zhang Yiran was not afraid, wearing a green official uniform, strode into the Fan's house, and Fan Qian, the master of the Fan's family, was already waiting at the door.

Mr. Fan is in his 50s this year. He was originally a middle-aged man with a hale and hearty spirit and few gray hairs.

Now, he is already a serious old man.

At this time, Master Fan's hair was half white, and at first glance, it was almost completely white.

After seeing Zhang Jian, Master Fan knelt down tremblingly, kowtowed to Zhang Jian and said, "Fan Qian, a grassroots man, pay my respects to the county master..."

This was the first time in Fan Qian's life that he kowtowed to a county magistrate.

Even when he was young, he never kowtowed to the county magistrate.

Without changing his face, Zhang Jian stretched out his hand to help him up, and said with a smile, "What is Master Fan doing?"

Fan Qian stood up tremblingly, with an extremely humble expression: "Go back to the county lord, the grassroots kowtow to the county lord, it is something that should be done."

"Not really."

After the two exchanged a few words of greeting, Zhang Jian was invited to the main hall of Fan's family to sit down and drink tea, but Mr. Zhang did not drink tea.

With Shen Yi's lesson, he was also afraid that the Fan family dog ​​would jump over the wall in a hurry and do something irrational.

Zhang Jian sat on the chair, looked at Fan Qian with a smirk, and said lightly: "The two imperial envoys from Jiankang came to Jiangdu today, and checked my Jiangdu's criminal records over the past few years, and found something wrong. Because of this, I came to your mansion and asked some of you to go back to the county government office to help with the errands, does Master Fan agree?"

Fan Qian bowed his head deeply: "The county lord ordered, and the grassroots should obey."

Zhang Jian was very satisfied with Fan Qian's attitude, and immediately took out a list from his sleeve and handed it to Master Fan: "These are the people the two imperial envoys want to invite, please Master Fan to invite them out."

Fan Qian took the list, bowed his head and said, "Please wait a moment, the county lord."

After finishing speaking, he stood up and ordered to his family: "Go, tie these people up to the county lord!"

The servants of the Fan family should be, and soon, five people were tied up in the main hall.

Zhang Jian frowned slightly and said, "Master Fan, the county gave you a list of six people."

Among the six people, there was Fan Dongcheng's name, but Fan Dongcheng was not among the kidnapped people.

Master Fan closed his eyes, with a painful expression on his face: "Master Hui County, the dog is dead."

"died?"

Zhang Jian frowned, and said lightly: "If Master Fan is so uncooperative, the county will send people to search, and when the time comes to mess up the Fan family, Master Fan, don't take offense..."

Fan Qian sat on his chair with a gray expression: "Your Majesty, please."

Zhang Jian was expressionless, and waved to his subordinates: "Search!"

More than 20 yamen servants responded with a bang.

The Fan family is very large, and more than 20 people searched for more than an hour before they searched the Fan family. Then a servant stumbled to Zhang Jian, bowed his head and said, "Master... Master, I didn't find Fan Dongcheng. But in the Fan Family Ancestral Hall in the backyard, someone is calling for help!"

Zhang Jian frowned and looked at Fan Qian, who was unmoved.

County magistrate Zhang stood up and said in a deep voice, "Take this county over."

Soon, the group arrived at the Fan Family Ancestral Hall.

The gate of the temple is locked.

There were slightly shrill and weak cries for help inside.

Magistrate Zhang frowned and said, "Break the lock on the door."

"Yes!"

The yamen's servants smashed the door and picked the lock, and they were all familiar with it. They smashed open the gate of the ancestral hall in two or three strokes. The gate of the ancestral hall opened, and there was a young man in a mess with a face like yellow paper lying on the threshold.

It was he who was calling for help.

Zhang Jian recognized it at a glance.

It was Fan Dongcheng.

It looks like I haven't eaten for at least three days...

Magistrate Zhang took a deep breath.

This Fan family is really ruthless, not only ruthless to outsiders, but also ruthless to their own family members.

However, Master Fan did not attack Fan Dongcheng after all, otherwise Fan Dongcheng would have been dead by now.

Thinking of this, Zhang Jian frowned slightly: "Take it away and take it back to the county government."

(End of this chapter)