When Yang Xuan heard that his eldest brother was imprisoned, he immediately became anxious, but he quickly calmed down and asked the maid to pour him a cup of tea, and then asked: "What's the reason?"
Li Captou drank up the tea in one breath and said: "A few days ago, there was an official matter, which was to escort a prisoner to the Penal Department Yamen. Magistrate Wu ordered your brother, and then the next day, the Penal Department Yamen said that he had not received the prisoner.
, there is no prisoner in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and there is no prisoner in our Jiangning County Yamen. This prisoner just disappeared, because your brother and another Yamen were responsible for escorting him at that time, but your brother was missing a bond. Now
Both of them were jailed."
This statement sounds like there is nothing wrong with it. The Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment are required to sign a bond when handing over a prisoner, which means that they have received the prisoner. If the brother cannot produce the bond, it is naturally a crime of dereliction of duty.
But the problem is that Yang Xiao is just a government servant. What is the status of a government servant? He can almost be regarded as a temporary worker. When escorting people to commit such an important matter, they usually arrest their heads. Why would a government servant like the eldest brother be responsible?
Regarding Yang Xuan's question, Li Captou said: "Wu County Magistrate said that the eldest brother has been working hard and wanted to promote him, so he put him in charge of this matter."
Yang Xuan frowned, and there was nothing wrong with saying that. If a yamen servant wanted to be promoted to chief, this was basically the process.
But the eldest brother has always been honest, and he always strives for stability in his work. How could he make such a basic mistake?
Yang Xuan asked: "Is this serious?"
"It's not particularly serious. It's just a case of two people accidentally killing each other during a fight. The criminal was not a very vicious person. It's just that your eldest brother probably won't be able to escape this prison sentence, and I'm afraid he won't be able to do it again.
This is a government official."
The charge of dereliction of duty can be serious or minor, it mainly depends on what kind of consequences you have caused. If the consequences are not serious, it will be imprisonment and dismissal. If the consequences are serious, it will be hard to say, and it is possible to have your home confiscated and beheaded.
But even if it wasn't serious, Yang Xuan didn't want his eldest brother to be imprisoned. The most important thing was that he felt that his eldest brother would not make such a low-level mistake.
"Captain Li, I wonder if you can let me go in and see my elder brother." Yang Xuan said, and stuffed two ingots and ten taels of silver into the room.
Capt. Li calmly put the money into his sleeve: "I came here to tell you to see your brother, but don't worry, there are all my brothers in the cell. I have already said hello, and I will never embarrass your brother.
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"Thank you very much, Capt. Li." Yang Xuan thanked him with a cupped hand: "Please Capt. Li, please wait for a while. I'm going to prepare some food and bedding."
"It should, it should."
Watching Yang Xuan turn around, Mr. Li scratched his head. Shopkeeper Yang was more mature and steady in his behavior than his elder brother.
In the past, when some prisoners were detained and notified their families, they were usually frightened to the point of confusion. They relied on Capt. Li to remind them of what to do, but this one didn't panic at all. He didn't even say anything, and people knew it.
What to do.
Soon, Yang Xuan carried a food box and a baggage and followed Capt. Li to the prison in Jiangning County.
There was a prison guard when they entered the door. Although Capt. Li greeted them, Yang Xuan still stuffed five taels of silver into them. All the way into the prison, Yang Xuan stuffed money into everyone who was wearing government uniforms.
All the way into the prison, Yang Xuan met his eldest brother Yang Xiao.
With Yinzi's care, the cell leader opened the door and let Yang Xuan in.
Yang Xiao was calm and took out the food from the food box and started eating directly.
"Brother, what's going on?"
After Yang Xiao devoured it, he said: "I was framed. I sent the prisoner over and watched the people from the Criminal Department's Yamen sign the bond with my own eyes. But when I turned around, I found that the signature on the bond ticket had disappeared."
"hiss……"
Yang Xuan said: "Isn't it obvious that this is a frame-up?"
Ink that makes handwriting disappear is actually nothing strange. Although Yang Xuan doesn't know how to do it, he has heard of it.
"Brother, you don't have to worry about me. I'm just a government servant. At worst, I'll be locked up for a few months and then fired."
Yang Xiao said: "Basically, there will be no trouble for our own people in this prison. Besides, you also used money. You just need to bring some food to the elder brother from time to time."
"Brother, I will find someone to find a way to get you out early, but we can't just let it go. At least we have to find out who is framing brother."
"Brother, you are a capable person, but don't investigate this matter. The identity of someone who can control the prison of the Ministry of Punishment is definitely not simple. Brother, this matter is not serious, so you don't need to make it more complicated."
Yang Xuan could see that the eldest brother was not as calm as he seemed on the surface. This matter definitely had an impact on the eldest brother, and the impact was not small.
You must know that the eldest brother's ideal is to be a head catcher, but someone took advantage of this to trick him.
It may be a bit too much to say that faith has collapsed, but it is definitely disheartening.
When Yang Xuan first traveled through time, it was his eldest brother who always took care of him. Even if he was often scolded by his sister-in-law, he would not waver. This kind of brotherly love was something Yang Xuan had never experienced in his previous life, so he cherished this eldest brother very much.
If you dare to frame my elder brother, this matter will never be let go.
The next day, Yang Xuan found His Royal Highness King Chun.
Originally, he wanted him to take him to find Prince Hui, but unexpectedly His Highness Prince Chun laughed and said, "How can I go to the prince to come forward for such a trivial matter? Sir, don't worry, I will help you handle this matter."
Yang Xuan nodded secretly, this guy has the status of a relative of the emperor, so it is appropriate to leave this matter to him.
"Then thank you, Brother Lu."
"Hey, who among us is following whom?"
In fact, it is impossible for His Highness King Chun to investigate this matter openly, otherwise those supervising censors will criticize people in the court again, and they can only send people to investigate secretly.
After the arrangements were made, His Royal Highness Prince Chun took Yang Xuan to the Qingliangshan Racecourse.
I originally made an appointment to go to the racecourse today to see the new technology of horse-drawn carriages.
When I arrived at the racecourse, I saw that unfortunately the steerable four-wheel carriage had not yet been successfully developed, but the shock absorption system had already achieved preliminary results.
The carriages are basically all made of wood, and there is no shock absorption system at all. At most, a few layers of soft cushions are added to the carriage.
The roads in the city are smooth, but walking out of the city is not fast at all. The dirt road becomes muddy after it rains, and becomes bumpy after it dries. If you bump on it, you will be thrown into the air.
With the current steel technology of Dasheng Dynasty, it is simply impossible to make spring steel. There is only one steel-making technology at present, which is to make steel.
This is a joke, that is, it is completely dependent on a hammer to knock out the impurities in the iron ore, and it can be made into steel by hammering it repeatedly for countless times.
In this way, the cost is too high, and this is not spring steel and cannot be used as a shock absorption system.
So Yang Xuan thought of bamboo, which is extremely elastic.
