Wang Tingxiang couldn't bear it anymore and stopped Qin Dewei, who was still yelling at Zhang Yanling, and said: "Shut up first!"
Qin Dewei looked at Wang Tingxiang in confusion, "It was you who forced us into this retro sect."
Now we are calling out our old enemies for the retro faction, why are you still standing in the way?
How about expelling you from the retro school, then all the retro school predecessors will withdraw from the literary world, and then our new generation Qin Dewei will take up the banner?
Wang Tingxiang felt that it was very difficult for him, so he sighed and said: "You don't even know the situation of Zhang Yanling's case, how dare you jump to conclusions!"
Qin Dewei asked in confusion: "In this case, does the fact matter?"
Wucao! Wang Tingxiang was choked. You, Qin Dewei, have also been a lawyer, and you actually said that the facts of the case are not important!
Qin Dewei casually criticized: "Who knows what the Zhang family has done in the past few decades has made people and gods angry?
Do you commit evil acts and frame up good people? Do you take things by force and take human lives? Do you seize land and embezzle salt and profits?
Even I, a young boy living far away in Nanjing, have heard a lot about it, so there is nothing left to say about the Zhang family!"
Wang Tingxiang was also a minister who had led troops into battle. Without saying anything, he took the stick from the guard next to him.
Then he said to Qin Dewei kindly: "The judgment of a case must be based on evidence. Those of us who judge the case cannot be swayed by emotions, right?
Regardless of whether the facts of the case are important or not, you can just listen to what I have to say first, okay?"
So Qin Dewei could only listen patiently. In fact, it was still the same sentence. Qin Dewei was not interested in the Zhang Yanling case.
To tell the truth about this case, Qin Dewei doesn't think it has much to do with him, and it's not Qin Dewei's turn to benefit from it.
He just had the intention of plucking the goose's hair. Since he met him, he just took advantage of Zhang Yanling's reputation without thinking of getting too involved.
Wang Tingxiang didn't care that Zhang Yanling was in another cell, and directly began to talk about the current circumstances of the case.
A Wanping County citizen named Sun went to the Penal Department Yamen to report Zhang Yanling, saying that Zhang Yanling had embezzled his family's land and detained and beat his father Sun Ming to death.
Then the Ministry of Punishment asked Emperor Jiajing for instructions, and the emperor's imperial approval said that there is no need to stick to the regulations of personal discussion. If there is a serious crime, he will be dealt with severely and will not be forgiven.
Then the Criminal Department tortured the Zhang family's slaves and found out that Sun Ming was indeed beaten to death.
Then he accidentally tortured another murder case from a slave of the Zhang family. A maid of the Zhang family stole gold tools from the house and gave them to outside monks. Zhang Yanling, the maid and the monks were beaten to death and burned together.
Therefore, the current appearance of the Zhang Yanling case is to verify the crime of three lives, so Zhang Yanling was arrested and imprisoned.
As the Minister of Punishment, Wang Tingxiang should submit the memorial.
After Qin Dewei listened boredly, he quickly gave his opinion: "Kill!"
Wang Tingxiang: ""
Can you, Qin Dewei, give you some constructive suggestions? Don’t say you don’t know who Zhang Yanling’s sister is!
Zhang Houye, who was diagonally opposite, was furious and began to yell and curse again.
Wang Tingxiang turned around upset and shouted at Zhang Yanling: "We are discussing your life, please shut up!"
Qin Dewei said with unclear meaning: "When we judge a case, don't we only look at the facts of the case? Do we also need to look at who the criminal's sister is?
There are so many stories about Bao Longtu in folklore. Did Bao Gong consider those when he killed the emperor's relatives?"
Can you be more childish? Bao Longtu even brought it up to talk about it! Wang Tingxiang only felt that Qin Dewei had been acting stupid today.
If it were another young man, he might really not understand politics, but could Qin Dewei not?
Judging from the emperor's imperial approval, combined with the emperor's character, it can be judged that the emperor wanted to kill Zhang Yanling.
No one can guess why the emperor wanted to kill Zhang Yanling. It was because he wanted to take revenge on Zhang Yanling's sister, the Queen Mother Zhang.
Who is Empress Dowager Zhang? The empress of Emperor Xiaozong, it was Empress Dowager Zhang, Yang Tinghe and other ministers who selected Emperor Jiajing to inherit the throne.
The so-called great etiquette discussion refers to the dead person. The minister hopes that Emperor Jiajing will abide by etiquette and law. Since he has inherited the throne, the family property should be passed on to Xiaozong, so that Xiaozong will not die;
As far as the living person is concerned, it is the hope that Emperor Jiajing will recognize Empress Dowager Zhang as his stepmother.
However, Emperor Jiajing was strongly unwilling and insisted on respecting his biological parents and only recognized Empress Dowager Zhang as his aunt.
So after the great ceremony, the emperor and Queen Mother Zhang became opposites.
Although Empress Dowager Zhang had nothing to do with Emperor Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing could not do anything to his aunt, the Empress Dowager, who chose her to inherit the throne.
At the same time, Empress Dowager Zhang was spoiled and even bullied Emperor Jiajing's biological mother, Empress Dowager Jiang, in the palace.
All in all, in the minds of the ministers, the emperor's motive for killing Zhang Yanling was very bad, and could even be called an ungrateful act.
After all, it was Empress Dowager Zhang who took Emperor Jiajing from Prince Xing's Mansion and welcomed him into the palace to become emperor.
Moreover, Empress Dowager Zhang was supposed to be the stepmother of Emperor Jiajing! How can there be any moral principles for a son to retaliate against his mother!
We can’t let the emperor behave like this! We can’t just sit back and watch the emperor break through the bottom line!
From this perspective, the ministers strongly disagreed with killing Zhang Yanling, even if Zhang Yanling was a bastard. This is politics and justice.
Qin Dewei sighed deeply and said to Wang Tingxiang: "Sometimes, I don't want to know so much. I don't know what you want to ask when you come to me.
Sir, maybe you should ask, what do the people whose families were ruined by Zhang Yanling think about it?
What do the people who were robbed by Zhang Yanling think about it? What do the underground ghosts who were killed by Zhang Yanling think about it?
Do you dare to ask them if they want to be political? Do they want to take care of justice?"
Wang Tingxiang remained silent, trapped in the dilemma of the conflict between heaven and man.
If Zhang Yanling was killed, he would probably be criticized by public opinion as being flattering, helping Zhou to abuse him and committing perverse acts.
If Zhang Yanling is not killed in the memorial, he will most likely be angered by the emperor, and the consequences will be very unpredictable, and he will be dismissed from office if he fails to do so.
Qin Dewei sympathized with this. Among the six ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty, the most difficult one was actually the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and later the minister of the Ministry of War.
Emperor Jiajing, who had an awkward personality, always came up with some cases that made things difficult for others. Whoever became the Minister of Punishment would be unlucky.
Take the original 12th year of Jiajing's history as an example. The Feng En case and the Zhang Yanling case broke out consecutively. In Qin Dewei's impression, two or three Ministers of the Ministry of Justice were changed because of these two cases.
Zhang Yanling, who was in the cell diagonally opposite, suddenly laughed wildly, "You still want to kill me? Give me the iron coupon of the alchemy book given by the feudal lord, which can be used to pay for your life! If one piece is not enough, my brother has another one!"
Qin Dewei didn't like Zhang Yanling, so he said to Wang Tingxiang impatiently: "Can we just kill Zhang Yanling in prison and then die of a swine?"
Wouldn’t everyone be happy with this? This is an ancestral craft of your Da Ming Ming Prison, and the jailers should all know it.”
Zhang Yanling's laughter suddenly stopped and she fell into inexplicable panic.
Wang Tingxiang rolled up his sleeves and said, "I don't do such things!"
Qin Dewei pointed at Zhang Yanling: "Be honest, don't bother me! It's too easy for me to kill you, it just depends on whether you want to or not!"
