Four hundred and eighty-eight chapters the most authoritative judicial interpretation
Li You Shen Ping Qi's sword came to the west, not only Ding Yun was stunned, but also most of the people in the entire Wenhua Palace were stunned.
Most of the people who can enter this palace are smart people, and they quickly think of all the things that need to be thought of. This is Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, aiming at Pei Gong! He is interrogating the criminal, but his eyes are looking at the empty seat in the cabinet.
No wonder he proposed the two options of either killing him or letting him go lightly at the beginning. It turns out that the back-up plan is here...
However, it is said that Li You's questioning of Ding Qian's envoy had the effect of thundering on the ground. If it was in the atmosphere of the great remonstrance a few days ago, no matter what extraordinary actions the generous Lord Li made, I am afraid that he would not
It would be too shocking.
But he has been very quiet recently, staying in seclusion and only going out behind closed doors to thank guests. He seems to be in a state of evaporation after the prosperity. Everyone in the court thought that he would keep a low profile for a while to cultivate his moral character, and the salt case was probably closed in a hurry.
Therefore, Mr. Li suddenly exerted his strength on Tingju today, which surprised almost everyone. I thought that Tingju was just a formality, and Tingtui University was the highlight, but now it seems that Tingju is in Li You's hands
This is definitely not a formality.
A few angry glances were like lightning, directed at Jiang Xinyue, the censor of Zuodu, who handed over this case to Li You! You know that Li You is best at turning clouds over, but you still give him this stage, just to avoid chaos in the world.
Why?
Jiang Zongxian, who was innocently blamed, was dumbfounded. He finally saw the true meaning of "everyone can change tricks, and each one has his own clever and different tricks".
He abandoned the salt case and threw it to Li You as a big problem. But who would have thought that in Li You's hands, it would suddenly become a powerful weapon. This kind of inspiration and sense of smell are definitely innate talents.
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At the gate of the palace, Ambassador Ding Qianyun was faced with a difficult choice. His face was painful, he was sweating like rain, his head was dizzy, and he felt unable to speak for a while.
This is really the moment of "sacrifice one's life for righteousness and sacrifice one's life to achieve benevolence" as mentioned in the scriptures. After reading it for so many years, it really happened to him! Should he save his own life or protect the household?
Li You was about to continue to say a few words to force Ding Qian's envoy, but he heard the imperial guards beside him shouting, "Send Li You forward!" He had no choice but to turn around and walk to the palace, came to the throne of the emperor, and listened quietly to the Holy Spirit.
edict.
Emperor Jinghe called Li You over because he was confused about the details. The other ministers suddenly understood after talking among themselves, and he could only sit alone on the throne scratching his head and scratching his head.
But the emperor didn't want to listen to others explain the second-hand news afterwards, so he called Li You to him and issued an edict to inquire: "Why are there two methods of judgment? Please tell me carefully."
Regarding the moment of showing off his grace in front of the emperor, Li You would not let it go easily. He gave a very detailed and in-depth explanation: "There are several types of corruption charges. The difficulty of this case is whether it should be punished as a crime of imprisonment, or as a violation of the law for taking money."
punish the crime.
If the Ministry of Revenue is aware of this matter, then the crime in this case is not called smuggling salt. In any case, the Ministry of Revenue represents the imperial court in managing salt matters. Therefore, according to the Ming Dynasty Law, the criminal is guilty of the crime of guarding and stealing during corruption, and will be investigated separately.
Household Department.
The law of the Ming Dynasty also states that among all types of corruption, any crime that does not violate the law will not be punished with death. It is not a violation of the law to imprison oneself for stealing. Therefore, if one commits theft while imprisoning oneself, the penalty is half, and one only has to confiscate the stolen goods.
If the Ministry of Household Affairs is concealed, the crime is similar to that of a salt smuggler who smuggles smuggled salt. According to the Ming Dynasty Law, it is the crime of an official taking money and violating the law. Please bear in mind that there is another provision in the Ming Dynasty Law. Officials smuggling salt are the same crime as smuggled salt dealers.
The amount of illegal salt he trafficked is undoubtedly a capital crime.
Therefore, I said: If you are guilty of stealing stolen goods, as a rule, you will be deprived of your citizenship and your property will be confiscated and will never be used again. Or if you are guilty of stealing salt, you will be killed according to the law.
Fangji.
The key to this is whether the Ministry of Revenue knows about it, which is directly related to the crime for which the criminal is convicted. Human life is of paramount importance. Since the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, we have always been cautious about punishment, so I have to be cautious! The Japanese officials mentioned before are not trying to shirk the blame.
Delay, but it is unclear how much responsibility the Ministry of Accounts has in it!"
Li You's judicial interpretation cannot be more authoritative. It is a Ming law promulgated by Emperor Taizu. In principle, it is enough to overwhelm everything. Unless the Ming Da Gao, a treasure book of judicial interpretations also issued by Emperor Taizu, is brought out.
But Ming Da Gao is something that all the ministers want to throw into the old paper pile and never see the light of day. If officials still want to experience being skinned, cramped, stabbed, hands and feet chopped off, Ming Da Gao has it all.
It is said that Mr. Li served as an official in Suzhou and Yangzhou for a total of two years. During this period, he was either a recommendation official or a people-friendly official. There was almost no time when he did not deal with criminal cases. After practice makes perfect, he has a subconscious intuition about the severity of the case. This
This is something that most of the Gonggun princes who live in temples do not possess.
When he accepted the Lianghuai Salt Case, Mr. Li felt that Ding Qianyun's crime could be light or serious. If he was charged with corruption, he would not be executed. As long as he did not embezzle and store grain, he had not heard of any official being executed for corruption in recent years.
Yes, this is a common understanding among everyone.
But in addition, the case can also be closed as a case of trafficking in illicit salt. In that case, Ding Yunshi will definitely die. He has trafficked hundreds of millions of jins of illicit salt in the past ten years. No matter how he is sentenced, it will still be death. The only difference is the method of death.
With this vague inspiration, he went to look up the Ming Dynasty Law, and became more confident.
As the incarnation of Ming law, the supreme arbiter of Ming justice, the only person who could stop Li You from using the Ming law to build his momentum, Jing He, the emperor who had just taken over the throne, digested the twists and turns, and could only be speechless for a while.
He waved his hand for Li You to continue asking questions.
The neutral person, who had nothing to do with the case and had little relationship with the Grand Master Tingtui, listened to Mr. Li's explanation to the emperor. After careful consideration, he felt more and more that there were two advantages of Li You's move today.
First of all, Li You's judicial explanation is very ingenious. Whether it is killing or releasing, every word is covered by the Ming Dynasty law, which makes it impossible to argue, but it is all in the thought of him, the chief judge. The so-called magic of operation is there
One mind.
Secondly, the strategy is extremely clever. When it is brewing, it is like an antelope hanging its horns without a trace, but when it appears, it is as powerful as a landslide, as quiet as a virgin, and as active as a rabbit that has escaped.
Under normal circumstances, regardless of whether the Household Department is involved in the case, Ding Qianyun will never try to get out of the Household Department. This is an unspoken and unspoken rule.
But now, Li You has almost made something out of nothing, creating an abnormal situation. If Ding Yunshi does not get involved in the household department, he will die. Moreover, the male members of the family will be sent to the army to guard the border, and the female family members will be submerged in the Jiaofang Division.
I couldn't help but sigh, everyone has read the Ming Dynasty Code, and it's the same version, how come Li Qianxian can see so many variations.
If someone else had taken over the case, they might have made a fuss, but they would not have been as clever as Mr. Li. He was not acting against the client, but acting against the client, leaving the choice to Ding Yunshi, or rather to Ding Yun.
Relatives and friends of the envoy.
While admiring him, he couldn't help but feel worried for Ding Qianyunshi. The options Mr. Li gave him were too deceptive, so he might as well give him a good time...
With Li You explaining to the emperor as a buffer time, Wenhua Palace gradually changed from sensational to silent, and all attention gradually focused on the four people.
The knowledgeable ones paid attention to Xu Shoufu, the semi-informed ones paid attention to Peng Ge Lao, the laymen paid close attention to Ding Qianyunshi, and the even more laymen watched Yan Shangshu.
Xu Shoufu and Peng Ge both looked ugly. Only the two parties involved could understand most deeply that Li You's move was very vicious! This was not a choice for Ding Yunshi, but a choice between the two of them!
Xu Shoufu naturally wanted to save Ding Yunshi's life, and the reason did not need to be explained. And Elder Peng Ge's idea was, of course, to push Yan Situ, his direct successor, the Minister of Hubu, to join the cabinet, so there could be no scandal in the Hubu at this moment.
In the past, these two things were not contradictory and were beneficial to each other. They could work together to promote both things, and many things have been done this way.
But now, Li You has changed the double choice into a single choice, creating conflicts and confrontations, and posing a huge problem for them.
If you want to keep Yan Shangshu in the cabinet, you must sacrifice Ding Yunshi. If you want to save Ding Yunshi's life, you must let Yan Shangshu share the responsibility for the salt case. There is also the cruelest possibility. Ding Yunshi will bear all the crimes and face the law.
, but Yan Shangshu still has not entered the cabinet...
Everyone has partiality and selfishness, and this matter can be resolved only by reaching the realm of a saint who regards all things as a rotten dog. But are Xu and Peng saints? Obviously not.
So the two of them could only remain silent for the time being. Not only did they have to ask themselves, but they also had to guess each other's thoughts, or start to suspect each other's thoughts.
In the silent, oppressive, almost suffocating atmosphere, everyone in the hall gradually understood another layer of truth.
They all thought that Li You delayed deliberately before to see which direction the wind was blowing, or because he didn't want to offend the criminals. Only today did they find out that he had been delaying the case and was waiting for today. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
Its purpose is not only to dampen the momentum of Yan Shangshu's entry into the cabinet, but also to deal a heavy blow to the alliance of Xu and Peng by creating distrust and rifts! The benefits to him are also obvious. The two bachelors have gone their separate ways.
, it is better than the pressure brought by two great bachelors joining forces.
Due to various reasons, the boss could not come forward for a long time, so he had someone come forward to speak for him. The right minister of Hubu stood up and said to Li You: "The two Huaihe Rivers are thousands of miles apart, and I, the Hubu, really don't know anything about Yu Yan."
Li You showed his true nature as a spokesman and refuted: "The amount of salt produced by the two Huaihe Transportation Departments must be reported to the Ministry of Revenue, and the output is reported to be 500 million catties every year, which has not changed. Why does the Ministry of Revenue approve it if it is not clear after inspection? More output
All the salt was turned into surplus salt and sold as private salt. Even if the Ministry of Revenue really didn’t know about it, it was still derelict in its duties!”
In fact, when it comes to approving the output of 500 million kilograms from the Lianghuai Salt Farm every year, Mr. Li is a bit unfair to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
As a result, the official salt of 500 million jins remained unchanged, while the remaining salt gradually increased to hundreds of millions of jins. This gave Nanjing and Yunsi Yamen an opportunity to take advantage of.
The right minister of the Household Department could not explain clearly at the moment. He could not admit that the Household Department was negligent and had lost control of the remaining salt. He could only say: "Salt people breed and production increases day by day. This is a natural principle and cannot be stopped by human power!"
Li You sneered a few times and asked, "Does that mean your Ministry of Revenue is neglecting political affairs and not doing anything?"
Mr. Li's words were like a knife, and one person neglected his duties and the other did not do anything. Yan Jun, the Minister of Household Affairs, frowned when he heard this.
This is Tingju, and the main purpose is to hear the Lianghuai surplus salt case, but now the topic is getting more and more biased by Li You, and he actually starts to talk about the responsibilities of the Ministry of Accounts and whether there are any mistakes.
Which yamen has not made mistakes? If we discuss it seriously, everyone will make a lot of mistakes, but Li You talks about the household department with great interest, which is very heartbreaking!
Yan Shangshu studied the situation of joining the cabinet more carefully than anyone else, and of course he knew Li You's purpose very clearly. Li You's purpose today was to use any means necessary to dispel his popularity as a popular candidate, thereby indirectly promoting the second election.
Popular Lu Shangshu enters the cabinet.
He also realized that no matter whether he came forward to comment on the case today or not, Li You would target him. Li You must have been preparing the layout from the very beginning when he received the case.
Thinking of this, Yan Shangshu couldn't help but glance at Lu Bingbu beside him.
Lu Shang's face was expressionless, and he had smiled bitterly in his heart countless times. He had been hit and tempered since he was young, and he had always been very particular about being steady as an official. He taught Li You the same lesson several times, but Li You was too flexible.
Yes, it is simply the legendary Exquisite Heart with Seven Apertures.
This time he had the opportunity to join the cabinet. He knew that he could not compete with Yan Shangshu, and Yan Shangshu was indeed a bit higher than him. Therefore, he planned to run the position of Hubu Shangshu. As long as he could become Hubu Shangshu, he would be progressing.
I didn't expect that Li You could actually create something out of nothing, and just created an opportunity for him to rise to the top. It really felt like there was no way out.
Li You and the household security officer were talking slowly and slowly, which made Mr. Yuan Ge, the scholar of Wenhua Palace, very anxious. He also discovered the grudge and opportunity between Xu Shoufu and Mr. Peng Ge.
When it comes to the order of the cabinet, Chief Assistant Xu is above him, and the powerful Peng Ge is below him. He is the most uncomfortable being caught in the middle. Now, seeing that there is a chance for the two to split, but they have not yet detonated it, can we not be anxious?
Then he stood up and shouted to Li You: "Li Qianxian! The Ministry of Household Affairs has another public opinion! I'm calling you to the palace today to ask questions. Don't bother with it!"
Li You left the household officials behind and went back to Ding Qianyun envoy and asked, "Are you willing to confess?"
After the buffering period just now, Mr. Ding recovered from the panic and had some ideas. Seeing Li You coming to ask again, he replied: "I can be sure that the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Revenue knows..."
Salt administration in the world is always under the exclusive responsibility of the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but is the Shandong Division of the Ministry of Household Affairs considered the Ministry of Household Affairs? Can it further represent the imperial court? This requires another judicial explanation.
At this time, everyone raised their ears and waited for Master Ding's answer. After hearing this sentence, they all thought that this Master Ding is not a person without quick wits, and his answer is not bad.
First, Mr. Ding got himself a superior who shared the blame, so as to avoid the charge of trafficking in smuggled salt. Second, he would not offend Yan Shangshu to death. As for the relationship between Yan Shangshu and Shandong Si, he could completely let him