New Shun 1730

After saying such an unclear sentence, the magistrate of Funing County stood up and gestured to ask Liu Yu to step aside to talk.

After walking back two steps, the guards immediately surrounded the two people, so that those people in the depression would not be able to see.

The magistrate of Funing County secretly glanced at Liu Yu. Although Liu Yu looked normal, he knew that this was a military meritorious person who came from the battlefield. If he really wanted to kill someone, his face would not show anything.

Although Liu Yu's reputation in the officialdom was that he was unlearned and did not understand much of the saints' knowledge, the magistrate of Funing County estimated that Liu Yu should still understand what he said just now.

So he said: "Duke, I dare to ask, do you really want to classify this matter according to the disaster relief funds, river engineering funds, and military supplies funds?"

The implication of this is, do you want to kill people? Or do you want to scare people?

As long as this matter is not classified into these three situations, there is still a chance to turn around, at most fined and stripped of honor.

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Why, are you trying to persuade me to do good deeds and not kill people?"

The Funing County Magistrate immediately shook his head like a rattle.

"You misunderstood, Duke. I heard about this before. It was said that a tenant in Funing was bitten by a dog on the road. In a hurry, the tenant killed the dog."

"It turned out that the dog belonged to a local squire. The squire asked the tenant to pay for incense and tin foil, and to wear mourning clothes for the dog for seven days, and kowtowed in front of the grave before he stopped."

Liu Yu had heard a lot of such things, and said indifferently: "It is normal for a dog to bite a person, but it is a strange thing for a person to bite a dog. That's it, in today's world, is this worthy of being called a matter?"

"I am a person who abides by the rules. Which article in the Dashun Law stipulates that tenants cannot wear mourning clothes for dogs? It's not a big deal. The means of production, that is, the land, is in the hands of the squire. If he doesn't wear mourning clothes, he can't rent the land at all. Isn't this normal?"

Funing County Magistrate Dui smiled and said: "Yes, Duke is right, it is indeed normal, but Right, although this matter is normal, although the reason is indeed as the Duke said, this is life... life... Oh, yes, it is a matter of ownership of means of production. "

"Indeed, to cure the root cause, we must equalize the land. Or as the Duke advocates, go to Southeast Asia to find another way out. But, equalizing the land will inevitably be opposed by the world, and it will be terrified, and the country will no longer be a country. Going to Southeast Asia is too brutal, and many people will die. It is normal for him to die locally. In the past few years, how could there not be three to five thousand deaths in this county every year? But dying in Southeast Asia is..."

"However, without talking about the essence, without talking about the root cause, just bring up the dog incident, the public opinion in the world will be angry, and everyone will say that he should be killed. If he is killed for this, the world will applaud and no one will say anything. "

Liu Yu laughed and deliberately asked: "Why, according to the rules, they embezzled grain money to kill people, this is not okay?"

The magistrate of Funing County shook his head and nodded.

"Don't be angry, Duke. It's true. It's okay or not. If the Duke really killed people because of embezzlement of grain money, everyone in the world would think that the Duke was cruel."

"It's true as the Duke said. The squire asked the tenant to wear mourning clothes for the dog. It's true that according to the law, he shouldn't be killed. But if he killed someone and then did something like this, the world would not say that the Duke was cruel."

"Why he was killed is one thing."

"After he was killed, how many crimes he had and how many things that made people angry are another matter."

"Govern the people with politics and punish them with punishment, and the people will be free but shameless. Govern the people with virtue and rites, and they will have shame and standards. I misinterpreted the saint's intention, which is not the saint's original intention."

"However, politics and punishment, virtue and rites, their The Duke, think carefully. "

"The Duke killed people like this, it is by politics and punishment."

"And if those things that the Duke thinks are not illegal are added and spread to the world, then it is by virtue and courtesy."

"Killing people is by politics and punishment; public opinion is by virtue and courtesy. In this way, the gentry in the world will have nothing to say."

"Otherwise... I am afraid that this dynasty will be labeled as tyrannical. At that time, the people will spread it more, saying that they only repaired bridges and roads, but said that the Duke deliberately harmed them. Even if the Duke is upright and not afraid of shadows, but... But this matter has damaged the reputation of the court's benevolence."

Speaking of this, the Magistrate of Funing County glanced at Liu Yu again, thinking that people from your army do things simply and roughly, without the standard they should have. It's just that you have a good background and a good father, otherwise you will take the imperial examination and go home in half a year.

Can you kill people like this? This is not a battlefield.

Besides, it's not a big deal. If you kill like this, won't all the scholars in the world sympathize with these gentry and feel that they are wronged?

Killing people for such a small matter is already a serious crime.

Since you insist on charging them with such crimes as military supplies, disaster relief, and Yellow River embankment works, beheading is enough, but the gentry in the world will definitely not accept it.

You are obviously trying to find a pretext to accuse them. Isn't it just deducting some money and reselling some rice for service? If this gets out of hand, won't everyone in the world be in danger?

Besides, even if they are really guilty, it is you who framed them. You know that cats eat fish, but you insist on putting meat next to the cat. You beat the cat for eating meat. This is really unreasonable.

At that time, you can say that you are in a high position and have great power. Anyway, a pile of shit on your body is not a big deal. I can't do that. If I go to another place to be an official in the future, how can I be a local official when people hear that I am the magistrate of Funing County in the first year of Weixin?

By then, people will collect the stories of these gentry repairing bridges and roads, donating to county schools, and providing relief for disasters. Maybe you will be made into a kneeling statue on their graves.

I don't want to kneel with you.

"My lord, didn't the former Hongwu Emperor's bad reputation come from killing people? It's okay to kill people, but after killing them, you still have to punish them."

"Yu Li, there is really a law to follow in killing them."

"Killing them for love is really cruel. Therefore, the key to love is morality."

"Based on the law, the officer just said that the dog should be put in sackcloth as a sign of filial piety. But based on emotion, it is a pleasure to kill it and fight with it."

Liu Yu chuckled and said, "That's not how the term "killing people and punishing the heart" is used. The meaning of "Spring and Autumn" is to determine the past situation, to forgive the crime and to punish the intention. Therefore, although Xu Zhi committed regicide, he was not guilty, and Zhao Dun used indulgence The thief sees the book."

"According to this, I only need to accuse them of deliberately instigating the relationship between the imperial court and the people, wanting to cause the people to revolt, and deliberately ruining the name of the imperial court's benevolence. Even, their intentions are sinister, Want to deliberately sabotage the Huaihe River project and continue to allow hundreds of thousands of people to drown in Anhui every year? "

"Even trying to plan the collapse of the Gaojiayan embankment and drowning millions of people? Is this a serious anti-social behavior that warrants execution?"

The Funing County Magistrate smiled bitterly and said: "This kind of heart-breaking accusation is a bit ridiculous. On the contrary, it makes people think it is a joke and no one believes it. Therefore, the easiest way is to make use of the heart-breaking meaning."

"Since the tenants are forced to put sackcloth on their dogs as a sign of mourning, is there any bullying of men and women? Is there any robbery? To bring these things out is more heart-wrenching than what the Duke understands. Useful.”

"I don't know if the Duke knows that there was such a counter-poem at the beginning of the founding of this dynasty. The six armies were mourned and all were silent, and the crown and anger turned into a beauty... Later, the lower officials did not dare to recite it."

"Xiaguan means... uh..."

The Funing County Magistrate thought about the words for a long time before he came up with a word that Liu Yu had used before. After repeatedly confessing the crime, he said: "Uh... the Duke must never get angry."

"The official thinks that the Duke's... uh... three views, yes, the three views, the Duke's three views are very different from those of the people in the world."

"The three views of the counter-poem I recited before are also very different from the three views of Emperor Taizong of this dynasty at that time. Take the incident of uniting the captives to defeat the rebels of the Holy Dynasty at that time, or the switch of borrowing troops to avenge the emperor's father. Many people thought this was normal at the time, but it was only after Emperor Taizong changed customs that it was generally felt to be abnormal."

"For another example, it has long been said that the previous dynasties were able to rectify the country. But before Emperor Taizong, the rectifier refers to the Red Turban Army who rose up to 'disrupt' the world. Zhu Hongwu was not the first to rebel, because These traitors have brought chaos to the world. He came to bring peace to the world, not because of rebellion, but because he thought he was right."

"Emperor Taizong said that the righteousness of the country in the previous dynasty came from driving away the Tartars and starting from the common people. This is true. After all, speaking of the previous dynasty, this dynasty is the most upright."

"That is to say, before Emperor Taizong of this dynasty, those who started the army first were not righteous, and the world was already in chaos before they succeeded. After Emperor Taizong of this dynasty, uh, yes, the three views, the three views are that the earlier the more righteous, who Whoever raises the flag first will be upright. After all, Han Lin'er was not named Zhu Hongwu, but Emperor Taizu was named Chenggao Yingxiang... Well, after the Holy Dynasty was established, why was it called an uprising? 'There is another saying, early return and early return must also have meaning, and we cannot just talk about early..."

"However, in short, the meaning of "Xiaguan" is that what the Duke thinks is a big thing, the people of the world think is actually a trivial matter; what the Duke thinks is a big mistake, the people of the world think is not a big matter; what the Duke thinks is a trivial matter, the people of the world think It’s a big deal... even sometimes the king thinks it’s right, but others think it’s wrong.”

"If you want to do something, you either have to change the customs to make the world think you are doing the right thing; or, you still have to do it in accordance with the three views of the world."

"So, the Duke of the country thinks they should be killed, and the subordinates also think it makes sense, but from the perspective of the world, they shouldn't be killed. Killing them would be cruelty."

"But if we take the matter of covering dogs with linen and mourning, the Duke feels that this matter is of no use. He must either equalize the land or go to Nanyang to solve the ownership problem of the means of production. Otherwise, don't say that treating the symptoms will not cure the root cause. I am afraid that the symptoms will also be treated. No."

"However, scholars feel that going to Southeast Asia to do violence and equalize land is contrary to natural principles. It would be better to kill a few people and make everyone angry."

"Although it may seem to the Duke that this is of no use and can't solve anything. However, people in the world don't think it needs to be solved fundamentally. They only want to see these superficial solutions."

"This is what you should do."

The Funing County Magistrate thought quickly and quickly came up with an idea.

You should kill, you have murderous intentions anyway, so it’s useless if I say not to kill.

Collecting notoriety before killing is the kind of thing that cannot be done legally, but makes people want to kill it in terms of morality and etiquette.

After the case is solved, the facts of the case are collected and published.

The reason and purpose of publishing a book is to promote morality and etiquette, so that people in the world know what is wrong and what is right. No one can object to this reason. It is a moral imperative.

And if this step can be achieved, then no one will dare to overturn this case.

Because, even if you want to find out the strangeness in this case, there is something fishy no matter how you look at it.

However, due to these evil deeds, no one dared to risk the disapproval of the world to overturn this case.

In other words, I originally thought that there was something wrong with the corruption and expropriation in the case, and it seemed that someone had set up a trap. However, after those notoriety was attached, the case became a dead case. To overturn the verdict of these evil deeds, the world will be furious.

But it must be made clear that these people were not killed for these evil deeds, but for corruption and withholding of grain money.

In this way, the law is upheld and moral public opinion is borrowed.

More importantly... the magistrate of Funing County thought, there must be something wrong here. No matter how you look at it, it seems that you are deliberately condoning, then luring them to commit crimes, and then killing them. If this matter gets out, it's really too ugly, and you are doing a rough job, and I will be implicated.

You have too many lice and don't feel itchy, but I can't.

I can't avoid it anyway, this pool of mud is destined to stick to me.

In this case, let's do it directly, make it a death case, a death case that no one in the world dares to turn over or touch.

It's just like the case of the gentry burying the people alive that shocked Lianghuai before.

Either don't bury them alive.

Since it's buried alive, just kill them directly.

Not only bury them alive, but also accuse them of gathering people to rebel and trying to do big things.

Thinking of this, the Magistrate of Funing County quietly glanced at the hundreds of gentry gathered in the depression, and then looked at the depression itself. He suddenly woke up in his heart and said, "This...this depression, isn't it just the graves that haven't been filled? Mother, when they were on the battlefields in the Western Regions, the East Sea, and the South Seas, did they also deal with the corpses in this way? It's really unlucky, Amitabha, good, good..."