back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 39
The yamen of the Ministry of Justice is the farthest from the imperial palace. The ancients were afraid of the ominous atmosphere of the Ministry of Justice, which would cause bad feng shui, so they separated the Ministry of Justice far away.This was also a pain for Lu Chengqi, he never relied on animal power or sedan chairs to travel, he always walked on his legs, and after walking for a long time, he barely saw the plaque of the Ministry of Punishment.

Compared with the busy traffic of other yamen, the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment seems much deserted.Lu Chengqi knew the auspicious beast Xiezhi at the door. When he was in middle school history class, he specially found information about Xiezhi, and he had a special liking for this divine beast who could distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, loyal and evil.

Originally, the Ministry of Punishment was also a well-oiled yamen. As the so-called yamen was open, don't come in if you don't have money or reason, that's what you said.But since Zhou Yanhua took office, the wind of integrity has been swept away. Who in the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment dares to stretch out his hand?Coupled with the Supervision Department created by Lu Chengqi, maybe if you collect the money tonight, you will go to jail tomorrow.

Wang Yanchen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.The assassination that night made him very embarrassed, and now he is a little neurotic.After strengthening the strength of the guards, Wang Yanchen calmed down a little.

Lu Chengqi took the lead and walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but saw Zhou Yanhua working on something, he didn't bother him, just observed from the sidelines.Here I want to talk about the Ministry of Punishment of the Dashun Dynasty, which has different functions from the Ministry of Punishment in history.

Historically, the Ministry of Punishments was in charge of the same criminal laws as Dali Temple. The Ministry of Punishments tried ordinary criminal proceedings, and Dali Temple handled major cases.However, Lu Yun, the founding prince of the Dashun Dynasty, believed that the functions of the Ministry of Punishment were too small to reflect the prestige of one department, so he switched the functions.Dali Temple handles general litigation, including civil cases and criminal cases.Dali Temple has the power to propose amendments to the law based on the lack of criminal law, but the Ministry of Punishment has no power.In this way, the judicial power is dispersed, and the legislative power belongs to Dali Temple, which increases the power of Dali Temple; the Supreme Court is the Ministry of Criminal Justice, which examines cases of all sizes. As long as the emperor thinks that the case is inappropriate and needs to be dealt with again, the Ministry of Criminal Justice will review it. up.This is also the limitation of the feudal era, no matter how good the system is, there are constraints.

In the past, the reason why the Ministry of Criminal Affairs was full of oil and water was because the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs could prompt a retrial of a case as long as he played in front of the emperor, and the chief officer of the retrial happened to be the Minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice.As long as the management is enough, where are the cases that cannot be overturned?

When Lu Chengqi was thinking about whether this system was reasonable, Zhou Yanhua finally finished his work, and came to greet him: "I don't know that His Majesty is here in person, and I am far away from welcoming you. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Lu Chengqi said with a smile: "The country's father is serious. The country's father puts his work first, and I am too happy to be happy. How can I blame you. I don't know what the country's father is busy with?"

Zhou Yanhua said solemnly: "Your Majesty, I just went through the old cases and found that there are many wrong and unjust cases. I hope that Your Majesty will restart the trial so that the world's injustices can be cleared."

Lu Chengqi nodded, without expressing his opinion, he just said: "How does the father-in-law know it's a case of injustice?"

Zhou Yanhua was stunned for a moment, picked up a case that had been stamped with the seal of Dali Temple, pointed to the area circled with a Chinese ink pen, and said, "This case is the murder of my own husband. There are many doubts in this case, Chen Li is a petite woman, How did she kill her seven-foot-tall husband? The murder weapon used was a hairpin, which is really puzzling. What's more, there is no personal evidence, only material evidence. The accuser is her uncle. It belonged to her uncle, but Chen Li was imprisoned, and soon died in the big prison unjustly. Leaving a pair of children, being abused by uncle all day long, what is the reason for this day?"

When Lu Chengqi heard this, he was also filled with righteous indignation, and said: "There is such a wicked person in the world, it's too much for heaven! But what you say is unfounded, and you need evidence to reverse the case, otherwise you can't block the mouths of the world. I have a way to let the supervision department visit the people, To collect evidence so that the Ministry of Criminal Justice can reverse the case, what does the head of state think?"

Zhou Yanhua, who is only forty-five years old, is in his prime and wants to make a career. How can he not know what Lu Chengqi means?In fact, it is a trick of separating the three powers. Dali Temple has the legislative power, the Supervision Department has the power to arrest, and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs has the power to review.If there is still someone who can bribe the three departments, then Lu Chengqi has nothing to say, he can only say that this person is too powerful.

Zhou Yanhua doesn't care about the amount of power in his hands, this person has noble integrity, in order to leave a good name behind him.This kind of person actually wants more, but Lu Chengqi is happy to help him shape Bao Qingtian into this different time and space.

The two of them worked together again and plugged up many loopholes, before Lu Chengqi returned to the palace and wrote down the imperial decree overnight.He didn't expect that the supervisory department would become even bigger because of this, vaguely intending to become the second Jinyiwei.

However, Lu Chengqi was still very cautious and limited the supervision department's power of arrest. They had the right to arrest people only if the Ministry of Punishment issued a certificate or Lu Chengqi issued an order.Otherwise, the supervisory department is like a tiger released from its cage, biting people everywhere.

Lu Chengqi knows that power is good, but if it is kept in a cage and spread wantonly, it will only endanger the people.The people are forced to suffer, so they have no choice but to rise up and resist.In fact, Chinese people are the kindest people. As long as they have a bowl of rice, they will not rebel.If you look at all the uprisings in history, which one of the major uprisings was not the background of the imperial court making people feel angry and resentful, and the people were desperate?

In the face of filling one's stomach, all benevolence, righteousness and morality are nothing but a mirror image, vulnerable to a single blow.As the saying goes, "A husband is a boat; a common man is water; water carries a boat; water capsizes a boat." A boat without water can't run faster.

Lu Chengqi knows this truth, what he has to do now is to try to reduce unjust, false and wrongly decided cases and quell public anger.And his bigger plan is to suppress the annexation of land, which is a big event that affects the whole body, and he dare not act rashly.The only way is to deploy power slowly, and plan it slowly, until a certain time, before attacking in one fell swoop.

Most of the dynasties in China perished due to land annexation.The well field system collapsed in the Zhou Dynasty, land was annexed by aristocratic families at the end of the Han Dynasty, and corrupt officials were everywhere in the Song Dynasty.Not to mention in the Ming Dynasty, farmers all over the world were desperate, and bandits were everywhere; in fact, the same was true in the late Qing Dynasty. Even without the intervention of foreign forces, the Qing government could not last long.

Land and food are the foundation of people's livelihood. If you want to keep the dynasty and the country from subjugation, you can only curb mergers and channel money to more reasonable places.After thinking about it, Lu Chengqi realized that only business can have such great energy.

The prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.Marx also said: "If there is a 100% profit, the capitalists will take risks; if there is a 200% profit, the capitalists will flout the law; if there is a 300% profit, then the capitalists will trample on everything in the world." !” This sentence is very naked, but it is also very realistic, it is a portrayal of business.If capitalism is inspired, will the Dashun Dynasty repeat the same mistakes and become one of the many dynasties that perishes?Lu Chengqi thought for a long, long time...

(End of this chapter)