The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 57
After Jin Wang finished speaking, Liu Wei immediately ordered people to carry Zheng Juan's body to the inner office, and then asked Zheng and Xiaohong to be witnesses.

After Wen Po came, Liu Wei asked her to cut off the nails of the middle finger, wrap the finger with cotton wool, and then put the finger deep into the vagina of the deceased.

When Wen Po was doing this, Liu Wei explained from the side: "If there is dark blood coming out of the genitals, the deceased is a virgin. If there is no one, then it is not. Let's all come and be a witness."

As soon as Liu Wei finished speaking, both Zheng's and Xiaohong's expressions changed, and Zheng's expression was even more ashamed and angry, as if she was very angry at Liu Wei's thinking of her daughter. Her daughter is from an innocent family, how could she not be a virgin?
After a few words of conversation, Granny Wen had finished following Liu Wei's instructions, and everyone stared at the vagina of the deceased, only to see that there was no dark blood after the woman's middle finger was inserted into the place of the deceased.And just as Wen Po got up to report, the Zheng family suddenly cried like crazy: "Impossible, absolutely impossible, my daughter has always kept herself clean, how could she not be innocent? You... are all you, my daughter is He committed suicide because he was dissatisfied with his marriage..."

Liu Wei seemed to have expected Zheng's reaction, because after Zheng's yelling, Liu Wei could only sigh helplessly. Can that mother bear that her daughter has already had an affair with someone?If the word is spread, how will the Zheng family gain a foothold in the capital?

After a yamen servant took Zheng away, Liu Wei said to King Jin: "Your Majesty, the deceased has long been innocent. The conjecture just now has been confirmed. The deceased committed suicide not because he was dissatisfied with the marriage his parents found for him, but because It's because I already belonged to myself and loved him too much, that's why I..." At this point, Liu Wei suddenly stopped and frowned.

King Jin saw this and said, "Lord Liu, what's wrong?"

Liu Wei nodded: "If the deceased committed suicide because he couldn't stay with the person he loved, how would the lover of the deceased respond? If the two loved each other too deeply, they would either elope or die in love one after another, but neither, In this way, I'm afraid it's..."

"What is it?" Jin Wang also faintly smelled a trace of sadness, because since Zheng Juan's death, they have not received any murder case.

"I'm afraid that the deceased met someone unkind or wishful thinking!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Wei called Xiaohong over, and said coldly: "You are the deceased's personal servant girl, and you must know everything about her very well. The deceased was not a virgin, so you must know it too. If you don't want to be punished, you will be sent Tell what you know."

After Liu Wei finished speaking, Shen Tan on the side also said coldly: "If there is a half-sentence to be concealed, be careful and wait for me to punish you."

Xiao Hong looked slightly startled, and quickly knelt down and said: "I said, I have told everything I know. One day when my lady went to offer incense, she met a young man in the temple. That young man was handsome and fell in love with my young lady at first sight." , The two quickly made a private decision for life. In order to block the mouth of the slave family, under the design of the young lady, they also took the body of the slave family, but they never thought that the young man... turned out to be a beast. After the servant got tired of playing with his body, he suddenly disappeared without a trace. At this time, the master and wife found a marriage for the young lady. The young lady was afraid that after the marriage, the young master would find out that she was not innocent and would humiliate her. The Zheng family, this... just remembered that she hanged herself. Before she died, the lady told the slave family that for the sake of the Zheng family's innocence, it must be said that she was dissatisfied with the marriage sought by her parents, and... and the slave family was also afraid of being known by others. , and this will help the miss to hide it."

After Xiao Hong finished explaining the whole story, everyone was shocked. They never expected that this seemingly simple case of suicide by hanging would involve such anecdotes.

Now that the truth has come to light, the King of Jin immediately ordered Xiao Hong to describe the appearance of the man who had had an affair with Zheng Juan, and then ordered people to chase after him. Since Zheng Juan died because of him, how could the Kaifeng government spare him?
The truth came out, the competition between Liu Wei and Shen Tan was over, and there was no doubt that Liu Wei won, and he won thoroughly, but Shen Tan was not as disappointed as imagined.

He came to Liu Wei and said with a smile: "Lord Liu won three battles and three victories. I am convinced that I lost. Since I have made an agreement before, I will definitely abide by it. In the future, torture will be less used in trials."

Liu Wei smiled lightly: "Master Shen can think this way, I am very pleased. In fact, in these three competitions, Master Shen should be able to see that there are several times if Master Shen did not help with torture, the criminal would not be able to confess so quickly. So Mr. Shen can't be regarded as a loser, as long as torture is used less and used appropriately, the trial will become very simple."

At this time, Shen Tan already admired Liu Wei to the utmost, and now seeing Liu Wei confessing frankly, he admired him even more in his heart, and said: "Mr. In terms of autopsy, I am not as good as Master Liu, so I am convinced, I only have one request, and I ask Master Liu to agree."

Liu Wei smiled lightly: "Master Shen has something to say, but it doesn't matter."

"Master Liu is good at autopsy. I want to learn autopsy from Master Liu. Is it possible?"

Liu Wei thought for a while, and said: "Since the competition with Mr. Shen, I have recorded all the methods of autopsy I know. I thought that after the competition, I would dedicate it to the imperial court and spread it all over the world. Read it carefully, Master Shen wants to learn, why not?"

After saying this, everyone present was shocked. From ancient times to the present, there is a very good saying that teaches apprentices to starve their masters to death. Therefore, regardless of all walks of life, everyone has to hide their unique skills. Liu Wei actually wants to spread the autopsy method he knows to the world, this kind of spirit is really rare.

"If Mr. Liu can do this, there will be fewer injustice cases in the Song Dynasty in the future." Su Tong looked at him with a faint smile, he felt that he didn't understand Liu Wei more and more.

"This official has exactly this intention. If the officials of the world can carefully investigate the cases, there must be a lot of unjust cases in the world. Therefore, this official has named this book "Collected Records of Washing Injustices"."

""Xin Yuan Ji Lu", good, good name."
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Liu Wei competed with Shen Tan, and all the officials in the world have seen that torture is not always necessary in trial cases.

For this reason, after Liu Wei dedicates "Washing Injustice Collection" to the imperial court and after several verifications, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Pu, Jin Wang and others began the largest scale of punishment and prison renovation for the first time in the ten years since the founding of the Song Dynasty.

There are three main aspects of prison governance.

The first aspect is mainly to rectify the bad habit of some local officials who use punishment before trial. For this reason, the imperial court specially sent people who were appointed to the criminal department to supervise and investigate in various states and counties across the country. If you make a demerit, you will be dismissed immediately and investigated.

The second aspect is mainly to rectify the problem that some officials know little about the methods of handling cases. The most important thing to solve this problem is to publish the "Winning Injustice Collection" into a booklet, and let the officials of all states and counties do it. The time should be sampled and checked. If it is not up to standard, the job can no longer be a job, and the officials must also be punished.

The third aspect is mainly the re-regulation of various penalties. In the ten years since the founding of the Song Dynasty, many laws were inherited from the laws of the later Zhou Dynasty, especially the laws related to punishment and prison. For this reason, the imperial court set up a special department to deal with All kinds of laws are reviewed and deliberated, and those that are too strict must be improved, and those that are unreasonable must be corrected. You cannot kill a person just by stealing something. The punishment must be compared according to the crime committed.

After such a set of rectification direction was set, the whole country rejoiced, and the people were all overjoyed. If these rectifications can be implemented, it will be easier for them to avenge their grievances, and the reform of the law will make the country have laws to follow. .

When these rectifications were being carried out one after another, Liu Wei was the most talked about by the people in the capital. If it wasn't for Liu Wei, how could the imperial court make reforms in these areas, and how could the people get benefits?
Ruyi Princess Mansion.

When the people in the capital were discussing Liu Wei, Princess Ruyi was reading "Winning Injustice Collection" written by Liu Wei in front of the window. The autumn wind outside the window was slightly bleak, and the leaves were flying.

"Written by the son-in-law, "The Collection of Removing Injustices" involves pathology, anatomy, pharmacology, examination, and bones. It is really magnificent. With this book, there will be fewer unjust cases in the Song Dynasty."

Liu Wei was practicing calligraphy in the house, and after listening to Princess Ruyi's words, she said with a slight smile, "I haven't verified many of them, but I just heard what Song Ci said back then."

"Because of this, the son-in-law decided to write Song Ci's name when publishing?"

Liu Wei smiled: "He taught me these things. Whose name should I write if I don't write his name? If you want to be a princess, you don't want your son-in-law to be a plagiarist, right?"

Princess Ruyi couldn't help being stunned for a moment when Liu Wei said this, and then said with a smile: "The son-in-law is right, everything in this world, if it is not your own, is plagiarism, and if a person dares to plagiarize without shame, want to come here People can't be bothered."

Hearing Princess Ruyi say this, Liu Wei couldn't help but mutter to herself, her poems are all plagiarized, but time and fate, those poets have not yet been born at this time, and there is nothing they can do to use it by themselves. let him.

When the two were chatting here, Princess Ruyi suddenly gave a start, and said: "If these things are thoroughly researched, wouldn't it be easy to murder? If the "Winning Injustice Collection" is spread, there may be hidden dangers." Let's go." Saying that, Ruyi tensed up with a worried look on her face.

At this time, Liu Wei had stopped writing, and after hearing Princess Ruyi's words, she said with a slight smile: "The princess is worrying too much, there are so many people in the world who want to murder people? Besides, no matter how subtle a person's method of murder is." It will also reveal flaws, as long as the officials stick to the first instance and retrial, and decide the case after no fault, then there will be fewer unjust cases in the world, and the schemes of those who have evil intentions will also be defeated."

(End of this chapter)