Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 1121 Zhuhou

The yamen of Baoding magistrate, because of the "seal", the yamen is a little deserted.

Cao Yong and his party went outside the yamen and were directly welcomed to the living room of the inner yamen for tea.

The furnishings in this living room are very simple, looking around, there are no gold, stone and jade objects, and what hangs on the wall are only calligraphy and paintings given by friends.

Seeing Cao Yong, he nodded secretly.Zhu Zhilian has served as the magistrate of Baoding for five years. He has a good reputation among the people and is a clean official.Looking at the surrounding furnishings and the tea for guests, it can be seen that he is not arrogant and extravagant.

It is the previous "birthday gift" and "annual gift" of the Governor's Mansion, and what he gave here is also the lowest among the Zhili prefects.

You know, Zhu Zhilian was a 31-year Jinshi in Kangxi, and in the same year he was specially appointed as the magistrate of Haozhou and entered his official career.But because of the popularity of the people, and because he is a descendant of the former emperor, he is still serving as the magistrate.

Three years of Qing Dynasty prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver.

If Zhu Zhilian had the slightest intention to make money, he would have already amassed tens of thousands of wealth.

But as far as Cao Yong knows, Zhu's life is mediocre.Their family has a simple population, two wives and concubines, two sons and one daughter. The eldest son is married and has a grandson;

There are no more than ten slaves and servants, and they are not as good as the wealthy households of the country gentry.There was a local gentry who wanted to send Zhu Zhilian a beautiful maidservant, but Zhu Zhilian just said that he couldn't afford it, and politely declined the other party's kindness several times.

In addition to maintaining his family's livelihood, he used all the money left in his hands to buy books.Whether it is an old book or a new book, as long as you see it, you will miss it.In Zhili official circles, everyone called him a "bookworm".

However, he loves books because he loves books, but he is only willing to buy them himself, and never accepts books from others.

Perhaps it was precisely because of his extensive reading of poetry and books that Zhu Zhilian did not have any bureaucratic swindlers, but was a bit refined, and his boss looked as usual in front of him.

On the contrary, the staff next to him was about the same age as Zhu Zhilian, named Liu Chuan, but his eyes were shrewd, and his words were cautious and tentative.

Although Cao Yong was curious about Dai Wang's case, he didn't speak first.

On the contrary, Zhu Zhilian, without waiting for Cao Yong to ask questions, took the initiative to mention Dai Wang's murder case, and Liu Chuan, who was familiar with the case, added details.

Dai Wang's family lives in Nancheng. She is the daughter of refugees and entered Dai's family as a child bride when she was young.The Dai family was originally a handicraft house, and the owner, Dai Fu, made a living by making furniture for others.Because of his son Dai Xingguo's cleverness, the whole family did their best to provide for him to study.

Before Dai Xingguo grew up, Dai Fu died.

The whole family's livelihood is maintained by Wang's and mother-in-law Qin's spinning, weaving and doing odd jobs.When Dai Xingguo went out of the service, he took part in the boy's test, won the scholar, was selected as a granary student, and studied in the county school.

After a few days of good times, Qin Shi suffered a stroke and became paralyzed. It is all thanks to Wang Shi's daily service that he is still alive.

I didn't want to, but disaster fell from the sky.

Wang went to the street to grab medicine, but was seen by Mao Renxing, causing trouble.

Mao Renxing calculated, bribed the students in the county school, coaxed Dai Xingguo to drink, and signed a sales contract.Afterwards, Mao Renxing took his men to Dai's house to pick him up.

Mrs. Wang recognized him as someone who was molesting her, and refused to follow him, so she took a kitchen knife and came out to chase him away.

I don't know if the other party became angry from embarrassment, or if he made a mistake while tearing the handle, Wang's blade was added to his body, and his life was lost as a result.

The murder case was reported to the Qingyuan County Government, and the county magistrate filed the case as "caused death by accident".Because the injurer had Wang's body deed, "from accidental injury to death" became "the theory of accidentally injuring a slave and maidservant", and the punishment was reduced.In the end, he was fined 200 taels of silver and imprisoned for three years.

The case was sent to the magistrate's yamen, but Zhu Zhilian saw something was wrong.

Dai Xingguo has already achieved fame, even if his family is poor and his mother is filial, there is no reason to sell his wife.If you get the name of "unrighteousness" in this way, you will be criticized in your official career in the future.

He has been in the officialdom for more than 30 years, and he has sentenced many cases, and he can't see the tricks in them.

The deceased was a married man, and the place of murder was Wang's husband's house, most of which were "rape and murder".In addition, it was a daytime murder case, so there must be suspicion of intimidation.It is really strange that the case was closed so hastily, and the woman became a slave again.

After he searched and found out that she was a filial woman, he respected her when he heard about her filial deeds, so he searched more carefully.

Mao Renxing's family is rich and public, and he takes people to Dai's house in broad daylight, and his whereabouts naturally fall into the eyes of the neighbors.

After Wang's death, even though the yamen closed the case, they couldn't stop the people talking, so rumors spread.

Zhu Zhilian followed the clues and found Mao Renxing's head, so he asked Liu Chuan to investigate carefully, and only then did he know that it was probably all right.

Cao Yong listened, his face sank.

There are many injustices in the world, if you don't know it, let it go, even if you hear about it, you can't ignore it indifferently.

Hundreds of good and filial piety are the first, and all evil and adultery are the first.

Now, it is a filial woman who hurts her body, and a prostitute who is free and unrestrained, losing the justice of heaven.

However, there is no physical evidence for certification at the moment, and Cao Yong can't just listen to Zhu Zhilian's one-sided words.

He thought for a while and said, "Master Zhu, since he feels that the case is in doubt, should he bring it up to the government office for retrial or send it back to the county government office for retrial? If members of the Dai family have no objection to the case, and there is no victimizer, how will Master Zhu file the case?" ?”

If Mrs. Wang died of injustice and the case was moved to the government office for trial, there would be a big trouble.

If the truth can be found out, that's fine, and the real culprit will be brought to justice; if the investigation fails, Zhu Zhilian will not only be responsible, but also easily arouse public resentment.

Zhu Zhilian heard the words, but with a look of resentment, he said: "The shameless Dai Xingguo, who traded his conscience for fame, has been selected as a 'Gongsheng', and he will enter Beijing in the next year. How can he stand up for the Wang family? ?”

Leapfrogging cases is a taboo in official circles.If there is a pleading for the victim, it is still a famous teacher; otherwise, even if there are doubts about the case, many of them will be sent back for retrial.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhilian became more depressed, and frowned, "Then send it back for retrial. I want to see what Qingyuan County will say next time? Dai Sheng is unscrupulous, and there is a paralyzed Qin family. If she is willing to come forward, she is also the sufferer."

Having said that, the son's fame is at stake, so what about the parents?

Cao Yong's knowledge was limited, so he didn't say more, and took Song Hou and Jiang Jian away from the magistrate's office.

After leaving the magistrate's yamen, Song Hou said: "My lord is being reckless. Although your lord has something to rely on, you have left the capital after all, and you must guard against attacks from villains. Since you know that Mao Renxing has a palace behind him, you shouldn't go through this with Zhu Zhilian. Although Zhu Zhilian It is for the sake of the people, but inviting the adults over is suspected of taking advantage of the situation."

Cao Yong said: "Sir, don't worry, I have a sense of propriety. Mao Renxing relies on Xie Tianlai, and Xie Tianlai walks through the door of Zhuang Wang's mansion, and the [-]% behind him is Zhuang Wang's mansion. But when I went out of Beijing, Master Shiliu never mentioned it. I have mentioned this person, but this person has become popular in Qingyuan, something is wrong. It is good to use this case to investigate him carefully. If it is the real murderer, we can’t let the Wang family die in vain..."

Just as he was talking, Zhang Yi brought someone over to greet him, saying: "Master, the imperial envoy has come from Beijing and is waiting for the master in the mansion."

"Imperial envoy?" Everyone was surprised and uncertain when they heard this.

"Is it the servant, or the official of the Ministry of Rites?" Cao Yong asked.

"The ones who came were the seventh-rank internal officials, the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the guards from the palace." Zhang Yi replied.

Cao Yong was surprised when he heard this.

So solemn, what purpose is preached?
It has been less than ten days since he came back from the capital, and he really can't figure out what unknown changes will happen in these ten days.

Although he was puzzled, he didn't want to delay, so he got on his horse and led everyone back to the mansion.

Because he wanted to see the imperial envoy, he went back to the inner house to change his official uniform, and then went to the living room to meet the two imperial envoys.Before that, Zhang Yi was ordered to open the lobby and set up an incense table.

When receiving imperial edicts in the official office, one must show respect in the lobby.

I don't want to, when I saw Cao Yong, the young servant did not open the imperial decree, but passed on the Yongzheng oral decree, ordering Cao Yong to be an imperial envoy to issue the decree, and went to the official office of the prefect of Baoding to issue the decree. Ancestral sacrifice.

When Cao Yong heard about the content of the imperial decree, he felt it was absurd.

Among Zhu Taizu's sons, there were 12 feudal vassals, and Zhu's descendants spread all over the country. It was not good to take the support of the sacrificial offerings, so they took the side branch of the king who was wrapped in a white flag.

Fortunately, the second half of this decree is to lift the descendants of Dai Wang from the inlaid white flag coat to the Zhengbai Banner Han army, which can be regarded as letting this branch out of the status of the emperor's slaves.

It wasn't until he walked into the magistrate's Yamen again that Cao Yong was relieved.

Fortunately, the emperor was still sober and knew that Zhu Zhilian was a good official, so he didn't let him go back to Beijing to observe the sacrifice, but ordered him to choose one of his descendants to send back to the capital for the Spring and Autumn Festival .

I don't know Cao Yong's accident, but when Zhu Zhilian led people to open the middle door to meet the imperial envoy, his expression was a little dazed.

After Cao Yong announced the decree, Zhu Zhilian was relieved.

Liu Chuan is smart. He prepared two silver seals after listening to Cao Yong's introduction of the accompanying officials and the head of the Ministry of Rites.I don't know if the two of them are satisfied or not, but in short, they are passable on the surface.

The internal official didn't have much to say, only the principal made an explanation after Cao Yong finished speaking.That is to let Zhu Zhilian quickly choose a son to return to Beijing, so as not to delay the spring festival.

The Marquis Mansion has been granted in the middle of the capital, and the Ministry of Rites will entrust people to take care of it. They will be able to move in only after Zhu Hou's children return to Beijing.

Looking at that posture, I can't wait to take someone away from Zhu's house immediately.

Zhu Zhilian was not a man of prostitution, his heavy face had faded away, only the joy of being a Marquis remained, without a trace of strangeness, he said: "It's getting late today, it's not easy for the two adults to leave and return to Beijing. I don't know the two When will your lords plan to leave? The next official plans to let the eldest son go with the two lords, and ask the two lords to take care of them."

The head officer looked at the internal official, saw that he was silent, and said: "I'm afraid I will bother Mr. Cao tonight, so I will return to Beijing tomorrow morning."

The accompanying guards stayed in the Governor's Mansion, and the two followed Cao Yong and returned to the Governor's Mansion for resettlement.

Early the next morning, at the beginning of the morning, Zhu Zhilian brought his eldest son Zhu Zhen to the Governor's Mansion.

Zhu Zhen was 25 or six years old, with delicate features and delicate features, and he seemed gentle and respectful when he answered.

Due to the rush of time, Zhu Zhen first returned to Beijing with everyone, and his wife and children returned to Beijing after a year.

The internal servants and ceremony officials are ordered to bring the person who will accept the sacrifice back to the capital, so they don't care about the family members.

Although the prefect's yamen's red seals were a bit thin, the Governor's Mansion also prepared a "tea money" for them, and everyone returned to Beijing very satisfied...

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Hiding in the corner and drawing circles, begging for a monthly pass in a low voice...

(End of this chapter)