Wanli Xinming

Chapter 234 Quarantine Review
Hai Rui's presence here was due to his experience in handling cases.Over the years, he has seen too many bizarre officials in the circuit court trial process, and many of them are bold.

Hong Yingming investigated the murder of Ma Wenying, and the Nanjing Daily office was set on fire; Ma Junxian was almost silenced after leaving the circuit court.Based on these facts, Hai Rui could tell that there was a big problem in Zhejiang.

But without any specific clues, Hai Rui had no idea.Zhang Wenxi checked out the warehouse in Hangzhou Daying these days, but did not find any problems with the account of the warehouse ambassador, Ma Wenying.It was not until the "Martyr Ma Wenying" incident that the issue of the garrison in Zhejiang was exposed from another angle.

At this time, the military reform of the imperial court has not been completely completed, and the local garrison is still under the command of the governor.Hai Rui hesitated again and again, but still used his authority to send a direct message to Zhu Yijun.

To be on the safe side, he also sent a Guangbao letter to Zhang Juzheng at the same time at his own expense. In order to explain the matter clearly, he still spent more than 400 taels despite trying his best to compress it.Fortunately, Hai Rui's salary has been greatly increased after Huo Shao's reform, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get the money if he was killed.

As a matter of fact, the money was spent wrongly. Hai Rui, a poor official, could know the seriousness of the matter by just texting Zhang Juzheng a few words.

After the memorial and the letter arrived in Beijing at the same time, it really attracted the attention of Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng.Zhu Yijun was extremely sensitive to military reforms. The issue of someone pretending to be a martyr and falsely claiming Tian pay as mentioned in Hai Rui's memorial must be thoroughly investigated.

After Hai Rui became the head of the Dali Temple in Nanjing, he was rarely the same as other high-ranking officials.His memorials have something to say, and they can solve policy problems every time.However, due to the tightness of the light report line, Hai Rui never used the light report to play.Now, uncharacteristically, the use of light newspapers shows that the problem in Zhejiang has reached the point of urgency.

But the court, like Hai Rui, didn't know much about Zhejiang's problems, and the Security Bureau had not come up with any intelligence about Zhejiang's changes in recent years.Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng discussed it and thought that no matter what happened in Zhejiang, there must be something wrong with Wu Shanyan, the top executive. Therefore, the best solution is to suspend him immediately and let a decisive officer take over and cooperate with the Supreme Court. Dig out the root cause of Zhejiang's problems.

Zhang Jiayin is Zhang Juzheng's iron core, and his official position has steadily risen to the third rank in recent years.His people were decisive in killing and had the style of cruel officials. In the past, the hero Shao Fang, who had been reinvigorated in the past, was the one who killed him.After Zhang Juzheng recommended him to Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun also felt that this person was suitable, so he had the honorary edict.

At the end of February, when the camps around Hangzhou were moving, Hai Rui also got the news.He didn't know any officials he trusted in Hangzhou, and he couldn't grasp the inside story, so he could only be anxious.

Since the end of February, he has sent several groups of people to the Guangbao Bureau to inquire about whether the imperial court has given him an edict, but the Guangbao was not received.

When Hai Rui asked him where he came from, Zhang Jiayin smiled and said, "The Prime Minister sent me a light letter two days ago, asking me to come to you to receive the decree. The decree is to replace Wu Shanyan. The decree should be coming soon." Hai Rui was overjoyed. Own the situation and tell the truth.

On the [-]nd day of the third month, Hai Rui knew that Wu Shanyan had already started to make a complaint when he heard that the battalion had left the camp to lodge a complaint at the Yizheng Hotel.Like Zhang Jiayin, he couldn't do anything without an edict. In desperation, the two officers went directly to the Guangbao Bureau to wait.

Fortunately, at ten o'clock that day, the edict crossed the fog in Northern Zhili and arrived at the Guangbao Bureau in Hangzhou.Due to the emergency, Hai Rui and Zhang Jiayin were afraid that Zhang Wenxi would encounter an accident, so they immediately rode straight and finally captured Wu Shanyan.

Although Zhang Jiayin was in a hurry, the procedures for accepting the seal of a high-ranking official were complicated. The most important thing was to sort out the yamen accounts, otherwise he would have to deal with the old accounts of his predecessor.

Although Zhang Jiayin led his staff to work overtime, but Wu Shanyan did not cooperate, he had to check the accounts of the governor's yamen and received the letter, and it was already the fifth day of March.

At this time, Hai Rui and the other three had time to sit down and drink tea together, and sort out the ins and outs.

After the exchange of their respective information, Hai Rui said with lingering fears, "I didn't expect Wu Shanyan to really dare to act, and thanks to Nianhua's cleverness, otherwise it would be too late when Governor Zhang and I go."

Zhang Wenxi also felt that he was performing exceptionally these days. Hearing that, he laughed and said, "Wu Shanyan can't think of anything. Now that the Son of Heaven is in power, he just used a mutiny to kill me, so how can he hide it from the sky? Xunzhuo died in the mutiny. At least go to jail - if you can save the leader, too."

Hai Rui and Zhang Jiayin looked at each other, Zhang Jiayin gritted his teeth and said, "In this way, if Wu Shanyan's crimes are revealed, the consequences will be much more serious than the mutiny! I don't know what he is hiding. Unfortunately, the edict did not grant me The right to interrogate Wu Shanyan"

After hearing this, Hai Rui smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Yesterday, the imperial court issued a new decree, and officials have new regulations."

Zhang Jiayin wondered, "Why didn't I receive it?"

Hai Rui said with a smile, "It was Zhang Jiangling who sent me a letter first, and wanted me to interpret this edict. The official edict has too many words to be able to report it. It will take another five or six days to arrive."

"The letter from the Prime Minister was also brief, but I understood it right away. This decree is referred to as 'Shuanggui', which requires the officials to explain the issues involved in the case at the specified time and place' - in other words, it is called quarantine examination! "

The "Edict on the Implementation of Quarantine and Examination for Treating Deserving Officials" was brewing for a long time in the imperial court, and was finally triggered by the case of Martyr Ma Wenying in Zhejiang. After it was released in Beijing, it was sent to Hangzhou urgently.

The system of "do not punish the doctor" comes from the "Book of Rites". It is a ruling idea of ​​​​the feudal dynasty to govern the country by virtue. , then it is not human." At the same time, this system also maintains the system of the superstructure and helps to fool the people.

For the etiquette system of "do not punish the doctor", all dynasties and dynasties have specific measures to protect it.For example, when Emperor Wei Ming formulated the "New Law", for the first time, "the worthy of the ancestors, the meritorious and the diligent" were formally written into the code, so that the judicial privileges of the feudal aristocratic bureaucrats were openly, clearly and strictly protected.From this time to the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "Eight Discussions" became an important system in the code of later generations, and it has remained unchanged for more than [-] years.

After the establishment of the Great Ming Dynasty, Taizu also tried to talk with his courtiers about the etiquette of dealing with ministers. Taishi ordered Liu Ji to say to him: "In ancient times, ministers were guilty and usually asked to punish themselves, and never humiliated them easily. The purpose is to save ministers. Zhan Tong also said: "In ancient times, the principle of not punishing the doctor was applied to encourage the formation of integrity and integrity. If it can be done, then the kindness and courtesy between the ruler and the minister can be achieved." Zhu Yuanzhang took this seriously.

Although later emperors of the Ming Dynasty often punished ministers with a cane, there was no such thing as "respecting ministers with courtesy".However, in judicial practice, there is a clear preference for officials.One of the most impediments to judicial investigation is that officials cannot be easily interrogated when the crime is unknown—except when the emperor decrees prison.

However, as a special system beyond the official legal system of the country, the premise of its rational functioning is not based on a certain system, but the will of the power holders and exercisers, so it has a strong Man rule attributes.

Precisely because of this, the possible rationality of the "chao-prison" system itself will also be greatly reduced or even vanished due to the selfishness of the rulers, and may even be transformed into a tool for self-fulfillment; When they were in power, those in power often used the name of "chao jail" to vent their personal anger, show their lustful power, and attack dissidents, causing endless harm.

Daming's "Edict Prison", also known as "Jinyi Prison", has caused countless cases of injustice.Although from the emperor's point of view, Zhu Yijun felt that the system was very easy to use, but after having children, he often considered the problem of stunned emperors in future generations. Therefore, after Zhang Wenming's assassination, he did not continue to use the imperial prison.

Last year, after years of tempering in circuit courts, Hai Rui, the first legal expert of the Ming Dynasty, made a memorial, complaining about the disadvantages of the imperial prison, and hoping that Zhu Yijun would permanently abolish the imperial prison system at the legislative level. His sincere words moved Zhu Yijun:
"The method of covering one percent of the total can be stored in three feet. But a person who dances and slanders well, and an official who compliments his songs, is still superior to his hand. Zhang Wanglu, an edict was opened next to him. The judges could not discuss, and the courtiers did not listen to their arguments. When things were done in the hands of close ministers, the law had two or three doors! The reason is born.” [Note]
In Hai Rui's memorial, Zhu Yijun replied that he knew, but he did not give a positive answer at that time, but the idea of ​​abolishing the imperial prison was firm: only after the establishment of a system that could partially replace the functions of the imperial prison, the imperial prison system would be abolished. Otherwise, it will be difficult to break through the obstacles brought by the ritual system of "no punishment to the doctor" to judicial practice.

As a middle-level cadre in his previous life, Zhu Yijun had a good understanding of the measures of isolation and censorship, and he had also seen many documentaries of heroes who changed their minds in the Shuanggui location and changed from ghosts to people again.At that time, he would have wondered, why did these people repent from their hearts without the punishment?
With this question in mind, he had communicated with the personnel of the supervision department at that time, and thus learned some methods, which were used in the new edicts issued by the imperial court.After the edict was finalized, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other ministries put forward two more rounds of revision opinions.

Coinciding with the Wu Shanyan case, the imperial court promulgated it, and Wu Shanyan was fortunate to be the first high-ranking official in this time and space to be "shuanggui".

On March [-], an imperial edict was issued to Hangzhou.At the same time, the document for the appointment of Zhang Wenxi as the team leader of Wu Shanyan's review project by the Metropolitan Procuratorate also arrived.

On March [-]th, in a villa by the West Lake in Hangzhou, Wu Shanyan faced a table and the four treasures of the study, sneered and said to Zhang Wenxi, "Don't talk nonsense, what do you want me to write?"

Zhang Wenxi smiled warmly: "Master Wu, don't misunderstand. What is the policy of the Supreme Court. Just four words, cure the disease and save people. As the saying goes, you can change it, if you don't have it, you can write about the years when you were an official and those things. It's a mistake—it's a self-report. Well, that, let's review and understand, it's about the same as that. No matter what you write, we'll verify it, and if it's correct, you might as well be reinstated, right?"

"Think about Governor Zhang Jiayin and Chief Minister Cai Guoxi. They were all suspended for investigation, but they are still a good official! Isn't the official fortune prosperous now?"

Wu Shanyan sneered and picked up the writing brush, and the pen followed the dragon and snake: "The breeze goes up to the sky, so that Lu Yan's words will not be short and long."

Zhang Wenxi read it and said, "Well, I'm also new to this review process. Let's take a look at the details together with my brother-Dr. Wu's writing is good, continue, continue."

On the second day, Wu Shanyan, who had not slept all night, continued to write "Song of Lime" and "Song of Righteousness" countless times.

On the third day, Wu Shanyan, who had not slept for two nights, began to write an autobiography under the inspiration of Zhang Wenxi.I started writing when I was a child, and I wrote about my elderly mother, smart son, daughter, and the happy time with them.

On the fourth day, Wu Shanyan, who slept for two new times in three days, wrote that she married a concubine last year. She described her as a flower-like jade, understanding and understanding. She even made up a small order with her head. Zhang Wenxi added chicken legs.

On the sixth day, Zhang Wenxi brought over a copy of Gong Mou's private complaint, a member of the Nanjing Military Department, and showed Wu Shanyan's autograph.Rubbing his hands, he said, "Hey, brother, your situation is not good. This Gong Zhiqiang is pouring beans into the bamboo tube.

On the seventh day, the private complaint of the concubine who was praised by Wu Shanyan was also brought in.Zhang Wenxi rubbed his hands together and said, "Brother, we've verified it. Of course, your wife Ru is specially taken care of by a mother-in-law. I didn't even look at my brother. This is not good, she said that there are many in your house. Fucai, you have all been swept away by your third lady. This is not good, I have already sent someone to arrest that third lady, and it should not be out of Zhejiang. Look, you can see this is a mess."

On March 25th, Zhang Wenxi: "Wu Shanyan, you don't dig deep into your mistakes! You still have a chance! Weng Dali Weng Shangshu can't protect you! He was quarantined yesterday, I advise you to recognize the situation—— It should be noted that your statement of self-indictment and attitude of admitting your mistakes will be used as the basis for your future sentencing! You should think about it, and don’t make mistakes!”

Wu Shanyan: "."

At the end of March, Zhang Wenxi took the final draft of Wu Shanyan's private complaint, and said with a frown: "Brother, look at what you have explained, this is enough to kill seven or eight times. If you don't want to break into the house and raid the house, you have to make a contribution! Think! Thinking about it, according to the list I gave you, are there any accomplices that have not been explained yet? I promise, from today onwards, if you explain one, I will give you a record of meritorious performance - if you do it well, you don't have to die. Big brother , listen to my brother's advice, I'm all for your own good, after all, I'm an official in Zhejiang, let's be a half-bred fellow."

Wu Shanyan said with tears: "It's all explained, if I write again, it's a false accusation, and the sin is even greater. I was wrong, I was wrong, I'm sorry for the emperor, I'm sorry for the people's fat and people's cream I've eaten all these years. Brother, I want to die - yes Brother, give me a treat."

　[Note]: This article quotes a passage from Song Dynasty artist Zhang Fangping in the "Complete Works of Music" about the decline of the Han and Tang dynasties, and that the evil of "chaosing the prison" was the first of the chaotic politics. It was not original by Hai Rui.

　　
　
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