Concubine

Chapter 233 Taking office as the first case

The basic procedure of litigation in the Ming Dynasty is that the complainant submits the petition to the court on the stipulated release date, and the magistrate of the county conducts a procedural review to see if the petition is qualified and whether the petitioner is indeed himself. The "criticism" for filing the case was published on the screen wall of the yamen after being reviewed and approved by the master.That's the case.

For civil lawsuits, tickets such as "supervisory bills" and "communication coupons" must first be issued, and the yamen servants are licensed to organize mediation between the two parties. If the mediation fails, preparations for the trial will begin.

At this time, an "investigation ticket" must be issued, ordering the yamen servants to conduct investigations and visits with a license, to find out the real story of the matter, and report it to the magistrate in written form, and sometimes to obtain relevant evidence, seize and seal the property, etc. The defendant and witnesses are called to open the hearing.

After the trial is over, a corresponding judgment is made according to different circumstances. If the county master is more capable, such a judgment can be made in the courtroom. Post it directly on the screen wall for announcement.

After Yang Qiuchi took his seat in the public seat, the prison secretary (which can be understood as "the chief judge of the court filing division") first collected the complaints of the person who filed the complaint today and sent them to Mr. Jin for the first trial, and then gave Yang Qiuchi a procedural review, and then After returning it to Master Jin, write a comment and file a case within three days.

After finishing this matter, Mr. Jin handed over a stack of documents to Yang Qiuchi, and said, "My lord, this is a case that has been closed last time and the two parties and witnesses have arrived in court, waiting for today's trial." .I have seen these cases last night, and the relevant verdicts have been written on the pleadings."

Yang Qiuchi nodded, feeling confident.I picked up the first certificate and looked at it. Although it was in traditional Chinese characters, I got used to it after so long. The certificates of the Ming Dynasty were very simple, and the regulations generally could not exceed two hundred characters. .

This case is a lost property claim dispute.A man picked up a pair of exquisite blue and white teapots with a short mouth from a big rock on the side of the road, and handed them over to the yamen. The yamen issued a notice to recruit them, and as a result, two people came to claim them. One, he pressed no judgment and pushed it to Yang Qiuchi.

Yang Qiuchi ordered: "Jiang Wenming, the plaintiff, and Zhu Jiaohua, the defendant in the lost and found case, will appear in court!"

Zaoli on duty ran to the front of the hall and shouted loudly, and two men in blue and short shirts bent over and knelt down in the hall.Yang Qiuchi verified his identity and let the plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua speak first.

Zhu Jiaohua said: "My lord, the teapot recruited by the yamen is a family heirloom handed down from the villain's ancestors. That day I was sitting on the stone by the roadside to rest my feet, and I put the teapot on the stone casually, and forgot. Please help me Lord!" He kowtowed again and again.

Defendant Jiang Wenming quickly said: "No, he's lying. The blue and white teapot belongs to my family and was left to me by my father. He's lying!"

"Bah~!" The plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua spat, "You're just telling a lie, that blue and white is obviously mine, you're fucking blind!"

"Are you swearing? You're only fucking blind to money!"

"You mother is looking for death! I will hack you to death!"

"Fuck you! Try it!"

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Yang Qiuchi slapped the gavel, and shouted: "Bold! The people in the hall uttered obscene words and roared in the courtroom. They are clearly contemptuous of this official. Come here!" Throwing the lottery off the stage, he shouted: "Drag it for me, everyone will slap twenty!"

"Yes!" Zaoli on both sides came up and grabbed the two of them and dragged them to the platform at the entrance of the lobby.This kind of punishment of slapping the mouth is to use a special "leather palm" made of leather for slapping the mouth. Although it is not a punishment stipulated by the law, it is allowed to be used by default.

With a crackling blow, blood spattered from the corners of the mouths of the two, screaming like killing pigs, and the crowd of onlookers burst into laughter.

The laughter is the end of the laughter, but the onlookers have already had a preliminary understanding of the official authority of the new official. Official authority is necessary to increase prestige. For this, Master Jin has already explained to Yang Qiuchi that he must Find a way to establish this prestige as soon as possible.These two people happened to collide with Yang Qiuchi's muzzle, and became the first targets to establish their authority.

After clapping his hands and dragging those two people to the hall, Yang Qiuchi asked, "Are you convicted?"

The two kowtowed again and again: "The villain is convicted, and I dare not do it again."

"That's good!" Yang Qiuchi nodded and asked, "When you threw the teapot that day, was there anyone beside you?"

"No." Both of them answered, and the plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua said, "I had something to do that day. I was in a hurry, so I forgot the teapot on the big stone by the roadside. There was no one else around at that time."

Jiang Wenming also said: "You are talking nonsense. It is my teapot. I forgot it on the rock. You read the recruitment revelation and came here to fish in troubled waters!"

"You're just fishing in troubled waters!"

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Seeing that the two of them were going to quarrel again, Yang Qiuchi slapped the gavel and stopped drinking, thinking that everything was clearly stated in the revelation, and of course others would want to see money.Turning to look at Master Jin at the side, he said, "What treasure are they fighting for? Show me."

Master Jin handed over the blue and white short-spout teapot respectfully.Yang Qiuchi took it. He didn't have much research on these gadgets, so he asked Mr. Jin: "Is this thing worth money? Look at the two of them fighting with red faces."

Master Jin laughed and said, "My lord, I have seen this blue and white teapot with a short mouth. It is from the Song Dynasty. The market price is about 20 taels of silver."

20 taels?Isn't that RMB 2?Well, it's not bad, no wonder the two boys are fighting.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "This teapot is only as big as a fist, and it can pour a cup of tea. What do you use it for?" Yang Qiuchi didn't like tea very much, so he didn't have much research on tea sets.

Master Jin said: "My lord, this teapot is for drinking directly from the teapot spout, not pouring it into a cup."

Just drink it with your mouth?Yang Qiuchi's head flashed, and he turned to the plaintiff and asked, "Have you ever used this teapot to drink tea?"

"Drink." The two replied in unison, and then glared at each other.

That would be easy, Yang Qiuchi thought, if you drink tea with the spout of the teapot in your mouth, there should be residual saliva and even oral mucosal epithelial cells on the spout of the teapot. After extraction, test the blood types, and then test the blood types of the two people for comparison. Possibly determine whose teapot really is.However, his own reagents are very precious and cannot be used in these small cases.

Then what to do, Yang Qiuchi put down the teapot, picked up the certificate to read, and saw the verdict written by Master Jin on it: "The estimated value is 20 taels of silver, the plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua pays the defendant Jiang Wenming eight taels, and the teapot belongs to the plaintiff."

What the hell is this verdict? It's just messing with each other!Yang Qiuchi cursed inwardly.

Yang Qiuchi doesn't understand this. Master Jin's trick is famous in ancient times, which is called the "four-six points" referee method. The party who suffered the loss would sue again angrily, entangled in endless litigation, and it was often used to judge such muddled cases.It is also commonly known as "playing fifty big boards each".

However, Yang Qiuchi didn't want to be judged like this, and decided to look for clues to find out who the teapot belonged to.

He put down the testimonial and carefully observed the teapot again. Suddenly, he thought of an idea and said, "You both say it's yours, so do you dare to swear?"

"Dare!" said the two.

"Okay! You two write your oath on paper and put your fingerprints on it. I will put your oath on the Earth Temple in front of the yamen, and let the Lord of the Land judge. Are you willing?"

The two looked at each other, nodded and said, "Okay, let the land master judge!"

Yang Qiuchi asked Master Jin to write oaths for them with paper and pen, and then turned out of the back hall with the blue and white teapot with short mouth.

He was walking towards the back hall with his head down, and almost bumped into a group of people. When he looked up, he was startled. Several girls behind the screen in the Nuan Pavilion were watching him, giggling, but it was Song Yuner, Qin Zhihui, and Song Qing. , Bai Sumei, the four of them, and three little maids, including Hong Ling.

Yang Qiuchi asked in a low voice: "What are you guys doing here?"

Song Yun'er also whispered: "Listen to your trial!"

Clay doll Song Qing also said: "Husband, can the Lord of the Land really figure it out?"

Qin Zhihui and Bai Sumei were quieter than Song Yuner and Song Qing. They just looked at Yang Qiuchi with concern. After all, this was the first case he tried after he took office, so they were a little nervous for him.

"Of course!" Yang Qiuchi glared, "Can you still lie as a husband? You wait here, and I will come whenever I go!" He took a step and walked towards the inner office.

"Where are you going?" Song Qing whispered.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand to tell them to leave it alone, and trotted back to the inner office.

After a while, he came back in a hurry.Song Yuner asked first: "What are you doing running around?"

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand: "Just wait and watch the show!"

Back in the lobby, Yang Qiuchi asked, "Is it finished?"

The two kowtowed: "It's finished."

"Is it fingerprinted?"

"Covered!"

"Submit it!" Yang Qiuchi said

Master Jin took the two vows to Yang Qiuchi's case.Yang Qiuchi lay down on it and looked carefully for a while, then said: "Take the two of them to kneel in front of the Earth Temple next to the yamen, and let them swear verbally in front of the Lord of the Land! I will come later."

The slaves agreed, and led the plaintiff out of the lobby to kneel down in front of the Earth Temple next to the screen wall.The two swore an oath.

The onlookers had never heard of the Land Lord's decision on the case, and there was a lot of discussion. They all felt that it was exciting to watch, and they all stood on tiptoes and looked up at their necks.

After a while, before seeing Yang Qiuchi come out, a Zaoli boldly ran in and reported: "My lord, everything is ready, and they have made an oath."

"Yeah." Yang Qiuchi got up unhurriedly, took the two blank papers with the oath written on them, walked out of the lobby with three steps, and squinted, Song Yuner and the others also came to the crowd Looking from behind, not far away is Xia Ping and the female guards who are guarding carefully.

This earth temple is not really a temple, but a statue of the earth god, with a shrine built to protect it from the wind and rain, and a long table in front for offering incense burners.

The plaintiff and the defendant were kneeling in front of the land master, glaring at each other.

When Yang Qiuchi walked to the table, some Zaoli had already prepared paper money for joss sticks.Yang Qiuchi put the two oaths on the table, respectfully lit three sticks of incense, and burned some paper money in an incense burner on the table.

Put your hands together and pray aloud: "The Lord of the Land, I have heard the case of Zhu Jiaohua, the plaintiff, and Jiang Wenming, the defendant, for the blue and white teapot with a short mouth. Lies, please show instructions on their oath! I will present the oath now, and ask the land master to look at it."

After finishing speaking, he first picked up the defendant Jiang Wenming's oath, held it up high for the audience to see, then bowed and grabbed the oath on both sides, and sent it flat to the land master.

After a while, I retracted my oath, glanced at it, and then showed it to everyone, there was no change in it.

Yang Qiuchi picked up the plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua's oath, and also showed it to everyone first, and then stretched it out in front of the land master.After a while, he took a look back, sneered, turned around and held up the oath to display.

Wow~!Everyone exclaimed and took a few steps back, and the timid ones even turned around and ran away screaming in fright.

It turned out that the plaintiff Zhu Jiaohua's oath showed a brown-red grimace!
The plaintiff, Zhu Jiaohua, turned pale, his body went limp, and he fell to the ground. The defendant, Jiang Wenming, was overjoyed and kowtowed to the Land Lord repeatedly.

Yang Qiuchi sneered: "Zhu Jiaohua, what else do you have to say?"

Zhu Jiaohua first peeked at the Land Lord in horror, got up trembling all over, and kowtowed to the Land Lord a few times: "The villain is guilty, the villain sees the money, and wants to fish in troubled waters, the villain is convicted, please forgive the Land Lord !" Then he turned around and kowtowed to Yang Qiuchi again: "My lord, the villain is convicted, please forgive me."

Yang Qiuchi peeked at Song Yuner and the others, only to see surprise and surprise on their faces, and their eyes were full of admiration.Yang Qiuchi was proud of this, and ordered: "Bring them in!" Mai Fang stepped into the lobby.

Only then did the onlookers burst into thunderous applause. The onlookers all knew that the Jiangzhi County had failed to clear the case before, but now the new magistrate invited the Lord of the Land to settle the case himself. talk:
"It turns out that the land master of the county government is so clever!"

"That's right, it's really amazing!"

"Why haven't I heard of spirits before? It must be that the new elder has something to do with the land master, and he took special care of him, so the spirit appeared!"

"It must be!"

"I don't know if the Lord of the Land can appear to help my wife give birth to a son."

"It would be great if you could show me a way to make money!"

"I'll come tomorrow to ask the Lord of the Land to bless me to be the champion!"

……

Yang Qiuchi shook his head amidst applause and praise, walked into the lobby, went back to sit down behind the public case, looked at Mr. Jin and all the yamen servants, and saw that they all showed awe, as if it was not the county magistrate in front of them, but a god.

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