Reborn in the last years of Kangxi

Chapter 413

Volume 410 Dragon Dance Chapter [-] Chapter [-] Proclamation
Although Cao Song has enough confidence, he looks really embarrassed.There was a cut on his elbow, there were faint blood stains, and the skirt of his clothes was also full of dirt.

When Chu Yu saw her, she was taken aback, and said in surprise, "What's the matter?"

Cao Yong also stood up, looked Cao Song up and down, and asked: "Is this... fell off the horse?"

Cao Song didn't see Jinghui, so he couldn't say he was disappointed, but he was relieved, and said with a smile, "It's okay, brother and sister-in-law, don't worry, it's just a little scratch!"

Cao Yong looked at it carefully, and saw blood stains the size of a bowl, how could he feel relieved?Stretching out his hand to touch it, Cao Song immediately let out an "ouch" in pain.

Cao Yong lifted his sleeves and looked, his forearm was already bruised and swollen.

"It's all right, are you still young?" Cao Yong couldn't help being a little annoyed, and hurriedly called someone to come over with medicinal wine, wipe it for him, and sent someone to ask the doctor.

Cao Song smiled "hehe", and after a while, he raised his head and said to Chuyu, "Sister-in-law, where is Jing girl?"

Chu Yu replied, "I sent someone to Tao Yuan for resettlement!"

Cao Song still laughed. Seeing his naive appearance, Cao Yong was really angry and funny, and said: "Such a shocking change happened to other people's family. As for you to be so happy, it's not kind!"

Cao Song rubbed his head and said with a smile, "My brother is just happy. Thinking of... thinking of her in this yard now, I am really happy..."

In a word, both Cao Yong and Chu Yu laughed.

Cao Yong asked someone to find a set of his own clothes and asked Cao Song to change them.

After Cao Song changed his clothes, he realized that he was a little hungry. He raised his head and said, "Sister-in-law, my brother is busy rushing into the city, and I haven't had dinner yet. Is there anything to eat? Let my brother make a meal!"

After hearing this, Chu Yu first brought him a plate of dim sum from the cabinet, and then asked someone to pass the meal to the kitchen.

Cao Song took the dim sum plate and cleaned it up in two bites.

Cao Yong saw that his eyes were bright, and he didn't know the pain in the wound, so he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This child really doesn't know any worries.

After a short time, when the food was served, Cao Song also swallowed two bowls of rice like a gulp.

After eating, he couldn't sit still, and he walked back and forth on the ground like turning a grinder without touching his buttocks.

Cao Yong was dizzy from his turning, and said: "Sit down quickly, I don't know how your injury is, don't stretch it anymore!"

Cao Song then sat down on the kang again, grinning and said: "Brother, what... what..."

Squeaky, squeaky, and finally a little twitchy, a little hard to say.

Now that things are up to now, even if some words are not pleasant to listen to, Cao Yong, as an elder brother, has to explain clearly.

"Second brother, you are also in the year of weak crown now, you should not be a child. There are some things, you have to know in your heart!" After thinking for a while, Cao Yong said: "Dong E's family has such a change, although Jinghui temporarily Hiding in our house, you might be able to see one side and two sides, think about it for a while, but what about the future? Speaking of which, our two families are worthy of each other. It's not hopeless. But things are different now. Have you thought about how to talk to your mother?"

Cao Song stopped laughing slowly, his expression became serious, and said: "Don't worry, brother, I have thought about it since years ago. I was also in chaos. I wanted to protect her and not disobey my mother. It was very embarrassing. It was just a few days ago. Days later, Xiao San'er's words made my younger brother feel enlightened. That's right, if the mother wants to be angry, if the mother wants to throw fire, since the younger brother is standing next to her, she will definitely not be wronged."

Seeing that he was decisive, Cao Yong patted him on the shoulder and said: "Life is not as simple as touching your upper lip to your lower lip. No matter what you think in front of your head, you should hurry up and make up your mind now. No matter how the Dong E family's lawsuit ends , Jinghui's situation will only become more difficult in the future."

"Brother, isn't there us?" Cao Song was a little puzzled when he heard what he said.

Cao Yong shook his head and said: "We are not her clan, and our relatives are far away. Although the old lady sent her granddaughter to our house, when the news of Dong E's family spreads tomorrow, Jinghui girl's clan and relatives and elders , there must be someone who speaks."

At that time, the patriarchal clan was parallel to the national law. Even if Jinghui lost her parents, her grandmother and uncles would be squeezed out, and there would be other clan members as elders.

When Cao Song heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and muttered: "It takes us a lot of time to finish this lawsuit? It would be great if her old lady came out earlier!"

Cao Yong remembered that Long KeDuo had brought back from the imperial court, asking the Ministry of Punishment to interrogate before Sheng Jia left Beijing for summer vacation.Today is April [-]th, Shengjia plans to leave Beijing on the [-]th, but it only takes three days.

Now, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has started the interrogation!
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Cao Yong's expectation was not bad, here in the hall of the Ministry of Punishment, several hall officials had already gathered.

Now the Man Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment is Laidu, who was originally the deputy capital of Xianglan Banner Mongolia, and was only transferred to the Sixth Ministry as a hall official in the first month of this year.I don't know the names of criminals at all, it's just a display.

The official affairs of the Ministry of Punishment are mainly managed by Han Shangshu Zhang Tingshu.He was a Jinshi in the 22nd year of Kangxi. He was taught editing by Shu Jishi of the Imperial Academy, and was later sent to other places by the Imperial Academy's attendant lecturer, and he was admiral Jiangnan Xuezheng.In the 44th year of Kangxi, he was promoted to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and then to the right servant of the Ministry of Officials. In the 48th year of Kangxi, he was promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

When the crown prince was restored to power, Zhang Tingshu was once a canonized deputy envoy.There are rumors from time to time that it is said that when Zhang Tingshu was studying politics in the south of the Yangtze River, Zeng Dang attached the prince's uncle to ask for the map.

No matter what the truth is, this has become a mouthpiece for other officials to attack him, which is indisputable.

Therefore, his work as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment was very insecure, and within a year he was dismissed from office due to improper handling of a rice theft case.

Kangxi's evaluation for him was: he was paranoid in everything, naturally competitive, and he had the responsibility of a minister.

It wasn't until the 51st year of Kangxi, around the second abolishment of the prince, that a group of officials from the six departments who had the same head and tail with the prince fell off the horse, and Zhang Tingshu regained his post as Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Since Kangxi used him, he believed that he was not a henchman of the prince. If someone made a fuss about the old things in Jiangnan more than ten years ago, it would be useless.

Zhang Tingshu has a lot to do with Gali.After he became Minister of the Ministry of Industry, together with Mu Helun, Minister of the Ministry of Households, he went to the south of the Yangtze River with the Manchu and Han officials, and tried the lawsuit between Gali and Zhang Boxing.

In addition to these two ministers, Dun Duoli, the left servant of the Ministry of punishment, and Li Tao, the right servant of the Ministry of punishment, are in the hall today.Dun Duoli is over eighty years old, he is deaf and blind, but he is just serving as a servant for the elderly.

Li Tao was promoted from Zuo Fudu Yushi to Minister of State last year, and he behaves quite respectfully, always doing more and talking less.He also had no choice. The previous right servant of the Ministry of Punishment was also promoted by the left deputy Du Yushi, but he was dismissed because he got too close to Man Shangshu and was suspected of being attached to the prince's elder brother.

Whether it was the two Man Qings who used to be a display, or the two Han Qings who were human beings with their tails between their legs, they were all extremely indignant about the case of Kali's mother-killing.

Even Dun Duoli, who usually just dozed off and kept quiet, sat in the hall with raised eyebrows tonight, waiting for his confession.

Zhang Tingshu had interrogated Ga Li and Zhang Boxing in his early years, and had seen Ga Li's tricks, so he was afraid that he would refuse to plead guilty to death.After all, he is a meritorious person, and without an imperial decree, he cannot be executed easily.

Unexpectedly, when the trial began in the lobby of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Ga Li readily pleaded guilty.Although he said that it was he who made the decision and ordered people to poison the kitchen, but he tortured the servants in the kitchen, etc., and it was his son Gandu who confessed.

When Gandu was interrogated, Gandu confessed to his crimes and claimed that it was just his "little man's thoughts" and his father didn't know about it.

Afterwards, Gali and his son were Serqi, who admitted that he conspired with his nephew to poison him, but he also refused to admit that he was the instigator of Gali.

Zhang Tingshu was a little confused, he didn't know what the purpose of these people's confession was, could it be that they thought they could run away?
They are all descendants of the Jueluo clan, even if they were not the ones who poisoned them with their own hands, if they wanted to kill, they would be extremely disobedient and unfilial.

Jue Luo was able to sit in the hall because he was appointed by imperial edict and was old.

Listening to his son and grandson telling the details one by one, the old man was speechless with trembling lips, his eyes were red, but he refused to lose his composure in public.

The faces of several ministers were not good-looking. When Dun Duoli was young, he had an old relationship with Gali's father, so he watched him grow up.

After hearing that he pleaded guilty to murdering his aunt, the old man was so angry that he leaned on a cane, stepped forward, slapped Kari fiercely, and cursed: "You bastard, I knew your hands were not clean." , This was burnt by money, it is devoid of conscience!"

Gali stood there, not dodging, he was numb, he didn't know what he was thinking.

Although there are two ministers here, it's really not Dundoli's turn to get angry, but he is over 80, and he has always been a veteran minister of Kangxi, who would care about him.

Lai Du coughed, called two servants, and helped the old servant to his seat.

Dundali was out of breath, still cursing in his mouth.

However, Lai Du looked at Zhang Tingshu. Now that the case of murdering his aunt was over, and a large amount of property was seized from Gali's wife's house, the crime of corruption had been settled long ago.

Now, how to judge?

Gali also has the in-law relationship between the Dong'e clan and Prince Yu, Prince Cheng, and Jiubeizi's mansion. If this messes up too badly, who knows who will feel prickly.

Although he doesn't understand the affairs of the Ministry, he has a thorough understanding of the way of the rich and powerful in the capital, otherwise he would not have climbed to this position.

What Zhang Tingshu was worried about was Kangxi's face.This ceremony is the "big filial son" among the officials who have been praised by the imperial decree. It is really shocking to hear about the murder of his mother.

Although he was full of indignation at the murder of Jue Luo Shi by Ga Li and others, but out of various considerations, he turned his head and asked Jue Luo Shi: "Old Madam, the case has been cleared, do you have any other crimes here?" Speech."

Although Gali's murder of his mother was a serious crime, after all, he felt that Luo Shi was fine.

Although legal principles are more important than human feelings, but in line with the principle of "people are not punished, officials are not prosecuted", if Luo Shi changes his words at this time to say a few good words for his children and grandchildren, then the sentence can be given a lighter sentence.

Hearing this, Jue Luo raised his head, looked at Ga Li and the others, and shook his head slowly.

Zhang Tingshu sighed inwardly, and ordered people to take Ga Li and others into custody first.As for Jue Luoshi, he also asked people to go down and resettle him.

In the hall, there are only a few hall officials and two clerks left.

Zhang Tingshu clasped his fists at Lai Du and said: "My lord, the case is clear, it should be beheaded, strangled, and murdered. Should this be a light sentence or a heavy sentence?"

Lai Du thought of mitigating in his heart, but felt that Luo Shi didn't speak, there was no room for mitigating, so he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

At this time, someone said: "As a minister, Gali is greedy and greedy, and murdered his mother. He is extremely disloyal and unfilial, and he should be punished severely!"

But it was the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother who came hand in hand, and several hall officials hurriedly got up to perform the ceremony.

Just before the first trial, the Ministry of Criminal Justice sent people to the eighth elder brother's mansion to invite the principal elder brother to come over.The eighth elder brother only said that he was ill, and asked several court officials to interrogate first.

The eighth elder brother nodded to everyone, and after being let into the case, he took the main seat.He picked up the file that had just been recorded on the case and read it hastily, but he knew it well.

Lai Du cupped his hands and said, "Eight Lord, although Ga Li has confessed, but looking at the confession of his brother and son, it seems that there is something else hidden."

The eighth elder brother shook his head, and said: "Ga Li was originally an unfaithful and unfilial person, and even now, he still speaks eloquently, so what's the secret? This is a case handpicked by Huang Ama, and it's a major case of disobedience. Can you lift it up high and put it down gently?"

"Hey, the servant knows!" Lai Du bowed in response, signaling Zhang Tingshu to close the case.

Since there was a prince in charge, Zhang Tingshu had to obey orders. He called two criminal names, and initially drew up a verdict: Gali's murder of his aunt was a heinous crime, and he should be executed; Gali's younger brothers, Serqi and Zigan, were all accomplices. Gali's wife is also a crime of disobedience, so she hangs the prison marquis; Seerqi's son Gantai was sent to Heilongjiang as a hard worker, and his family property was merged into the official.

The eighth elder brother read it, but he was not satisfied. He changed Gali to Lingchi, Serqi and Tonggan all changed to cut Lijue, and Gali's wife changed to Lunhang to be satisfied.

It was already midnight when he came out of the yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Brother Nine had some doubts and asked, "Myna, is it necessary to do this?"

The eighth elder brother smiled bitterly and said: "Huang Ama wants me to make up my mind. Although a heavy sentence will hurt some people, it is better than a light sentence for violating his taboo... Huang Ama is old, and I am afraid that we will become second A gift..."

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