Reborn Tang Emperor Li Chengqian

Chapter 246 Candidate for Minister of Punishment

Li Er opened a memorial, which was presented to him by the minister, requesting to be enshrined in Zen again.

There are many memorials like this, even the influential Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others in the court have also made such memorials.

Li Er also felt that with his current achievements, as well as the peace of the country and the people living and working in peace and contentment, he was indeed suitable for Fengchan.

So he approved in the memorial the memorial of Fengchan requested by all the ministers.

He also issued an edict to manufacture feather guards and send them to the East Palace, and let the prince personally preside over the preparations for Fengchan.

Li Er's ability to entrust such an important event to Li Chengqian is enough to prove the importance he attaches to the prince.

"Now that there is a shortage of servants in the Ministry of Punishment, I ordered the prime ministers to handle this matter. I don't know if they have suitable candidates?" Li Er said.

The Ministry of Punishment is in charge of punishment. The scope of power of the Ministry of Punishment in the Tang Dynasty was the smallest. It was basically limited to civilians and officials below the seventh rank, but generally did not have the right to punish. The right to punish basically belonged to Dali Temple, and it basically belonged to middle and senior officials The "menxia province" supervision among the three provinces.

In layman's terms, what sentence should a criminal be sentenced to and how should he be punished? The Ministry of Punishment has no right to do so, but it can execute punishment on convicted prisoners.

The Ministry of Punishment in the Tang and Song dynasties was more of an executive agency.

It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that the Ministry of Punishments, as the institution in charge of the country's criminal orders and the review of criminal names, formed the three judicial systems with Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The major cases jointly tried by these three departments are the origin of the so-called joint trial of the three divisions.

The head of the six ministries is Shangshu, and the second in command is Shilang. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he was the deputy minister of various government ministries, second only to Shangshu, which is equivalent to the rank of deputy minister in later generations.

"Shang Shu Zuo Pu She Fang Xuanling, Zhong Shu Ling Ma Zhou and others have all sent memorials and have selected suitable candidates for His Majesty. This is the candidate proposed by several prime ministers. Please have a look."

After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he found out from the memorial the list of servants of the Ministry of Punishment sent by Fang Xuanling and others.

Li Er looked through the list of candidates sent by Fang Xuanling and others, and the more he looked at it, the more dissatisfied he became. In Li Er's opinion, none of the candidates they recommended was qualified to be the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment.

After Li Er only looked at the candidates of Fang Xuanling and Ma Zhou, he threw the list of candidates aside. He didn't want to read it at all now.

The people recommended to him are all people, and there is no one who suits him at all.

Although the Ministry of Punishment is not as high as Dali Temple, it is also one of the six departments, how can it be sloppy.

This was extremely irresponsible, and Li Er was very dissatisfied. Fortunately, he now had a suitable candidate in his mind, who was qualified for the post of Minister of Punishment.

"By the way! Is there any recommendation from the East Palace?" Li Er asked.

This time there was a vacancy in the position of minister of punishment, Li Er not only asked Fang Xuanling and other prime ministers to select suitable talents, but also sent people to the East Palace to let Li Chengqian select talents.

Li Er just wanted to know if his son knew people well.

"Eastern Palace has already sent someone to send the candidates for Mr. Lang's nomination, this is it, everyone, please have a look." Wang Yuan said, and found the list sent by the East Palace from the side.

"Hahahaha!" Li Er took a look, his eyes lit up immediately, and then he laughed.

"Everyone! What's wrong with you?" Wang Yuan asked because he didn't know.

"The prince is worthy of being my son, like me, really like me, even the person recommended by me coincides with my favorite!" Li Er said.

Li Er never expected that Li Chengqian would go with him!
Because the list sent by Donggong only has three words Li Daoyu.

This Li Daoyu is also the most suitable candidate for Li Erzhong's Minister of Punishment, not one of them.

"Lang Jun and everyone are close relatives of father and son, so naturally they think about everyone's thoughts and worry about everyone's concerns."

"Father and son are of the same heart, so naturally we want to go with everyone!" Wang Yuan laughed. As for whose name was written on the list handed in by the crown prince, he, Wang Yuan, didn't care.

"You're right. Chengqian and Zhen are close relatives of father and son after all. How can outsiders compare them? As the saying goes: father and son fight in battle, brothers fight tigers, that's what they say." Li Er laughed.

"Since everyone has made a decision, should we notify Zhong Shuling immediately?" Wang Yuan asked.

"Go and tell Fang Xuanling and the others that the missing servant of the Ministry of Punishment is Li Daoyu, a young craftsman, and ask them to draft an imperial edict to appoint Li Daoyu as the servant of the Ministry of Punishment." Li Er said.

The imperial decree of the Tang Dynasty, no matter what format it is in, must be signed by the three provinces before it can take effect.

Of course, if the emperor insisted on going his own way, they would not dare not sign and stamp the imperial decree.

"Li Daoyu?" Wang Yuan was a little surprised!
He remembered Li Daoyu clearly. When Zhang Liang was accused of treason, Zhang Liang refused to admit it.

However, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty urged His Majesty Li Er to kill Zhang Liang to prove the model and maintain the fairness of the law.

Among all the ministers, only this young craftsman Li Daoyu dared to stand up and refute Li Er on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to convict him.

At that time Li Er was furious, and said that he would deal with this guy who dared to offend Long Wei.

Wang Yuan remembered these things clearly, why did everyone change their minds?

"What? Why don't you go quickly? What are you doing in a daze? Could it be that you are dissatisfied with my arrangement?" Seeing that Wang Yuan was standing still and not following his orders, Li Er couldn't help urging him.

"I don't dare to have any opinion on everyone! It's just that I don't know if I should say something or not!" Wang Yuan said.

"You want to talk about Li Daoyu pleading for Zhang Liang, why didn't I punish Li Daoyu, but let him be the servant of the Ministry of Punishment?" Li Er said.

"Yes!" Wang Yuan said, that means he, Wang Yuan, was Li Er's confidant, otherwise he, a eunuch, could ask.

"When Zhang Liang was convicted of treason, Li Daoyu was the only one who stood up and said that there were many doubts in the case, and the evidence was insufficient, so he could not be convicted at will. He was right."

"At that time, I didn't listen to him. Now that I think about it, I feel regretful. So, there are not many people who dare to speak out and commit crimes like this!"

"Above the court, the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty are all flattery. Since Wei Zheng's death, no one dares to stand up like this and tell the truth."

"Li Daoyu is most suitable for the position of Minister of Criminal Justice." Li Er said.

"Promise!" Wang Yuan took the order and left, conveying Li Er's order to the officials of the three provinces.

The Ministry of Punishment is the judicial department in charge of punishment, and sometimes it is inevitable to offend. At this time, an upright person like Li Daoyu is needed to uphold justice.

The officials of the three provinces immediately drafted the edict according to the procedure, and after stamping the jade seal, they sent someone to pass the edict to Li Daoyu.

After Li Daoyu received the edict, he immediately took up his post and went to the Ministry of Punishment to take up the post of Minister of Punishment.

(End of this chapter)