The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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After reciting a few articles, Su Jin cupped his hands to the ugly-faced Zhifu Zhu and said, "Does the magistrate know where these articles come from?"

Zhu Zhifu snorted and refused to answer, Su Jin smiled slightly and said: "This is the supplementary to the criminal system of the imperial court in the first year of Kangding's punishment department. There are five articles in the full text, totaling 570 characters. Caomin only recited three of them, and I don't think I need to use the rest. Back again."

How could the prefect Zhu not know this article? In the first year of Kangding, the Ministry of Punishment issued the five articles of the Song Xingtong Addendum for the sake of fairness in judicial trials. These are the articles that parents and officials must understand. I was taken advantage of by this dirty boy.

Yan Biyun, who was listening at the side of the hall, showed a smile on his face, secretly praising Su Jin for his cleverness, and for being able to quickly find countermeasures according to the situation in the hall. Not everyone can possess such intelligence; in his heart, he couldn't help but think highly of Su Jin .

Xiao Sui'er pulled the corner of Yan Biyun's clothes and asked softly, "Dong Yan's family, what did you say?"

This sentence is also the question of the people around, several big shopkeepers and a group of observers quickly pricked up their ears to listen.

Yan Biyun explained softly: "Mr. Su memorized the articles in the "Song Xingtong" of the Great Song Dynasty. The main idea is to prevent favoritism and fraud. If the case involves old relatives in the family, the presiding officer must be avoided and replaced. This young master is the magistrate. Your lord's own son, if the son is involved in the case, how can the father participate in the trial?"

Everyone suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the Shaodong family wanted to ask whether the yamen son was the son of the magistrate, so it was for the latter arrangement; the Shaodong family was very careful.

They didn't know that Su Jin himself was sweating a lot. Fortunately, this small official Su has a wide range of knowledge, a collection of classics, and official documents. He is a nerd like a nerd. He was able to call up all the knowledge as a backup; of course he also thought about it, if the situation was not right, he would expose the Scarface Black Seven case in public. There are quite a few, and there will always be someone to take care of it when troubles arise.

The spectators and common people all understood Su Jin's meaning after being pointed out by a sensible person, and there was a buzzing sound at the moment, pointing and poking and discussing.

Zhu Shiyong was very annoyed in his heart. He thought that the grassroots people understood the laws of the court, and such laws were hardly followed in the actual trial, but unexpectedly, such a strange person popped up and insisted on grabbing his pigtails. This was a passive move Terrible, I wanted to immediately express my attitude and let Fu Cheng and others preside over the trial, but the latter matter will be difficult to handle; today's small case of beating people is just a cover, the real highlight is later, these fellow prefects and Cheng lords The book doesn't know the details, and they definitely can't be allowed to preside over it. Now it seems that they can only throw sesame seeds and pick watermelons, and give up the trial of the assault case, lest he talk nonsense.

Having made up his mind, the magistrate raised the gavel high and shot three times in a row of 'crack bang bang' to calm the scene, and shouted: "Quiet, no noise in the hall."

The servants have long been used to cooperating with the magistrate, and they are all glaring at the buzzing crowd outside at this moment. It's a disaster without reason, can you get stabbed while lying down?

"Criminal Su Jin, I think what you said is the truth. I really shouldn't try your case of beating someone in the street as a judge, but this case is not the case of today's presiding trial. Therefore, it cannot be interrogated by others." Zhu Shiyong looked at Su Jin and said quietly.

Su Jin shuddered in his heart and cried out: "No, it's finally here."

Everyone frowned, not knowing what the magistrate meant. The bosses of the chamber of commerce who were sitting on the sidelines had smug smiles on their faces. The show is coming, Su Jin, Su Jin, what are you waiting for?

Su Jin thought for a while, and said in a loud voice: "The grassroots don't understand what your lord said, and all the grassroots care about is this fight. I don't want to say that I am innocent if I ask the chief officer to give the grassroots a verdict, but the yamen son insults people." In the past, the grassroots were outraged and acted angrily. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, what crime should they be?"

Zhu Shiyong thought in his heart: You have a good idea. I have already said that there are other cases to try you. You can pretend to be confused and cling to this small case. You want to ask me to replace you for trial. Here's a jelly bean for you.

Thinking of this, Zhu Shiyong said: "The street fight between Su Jin, a native of Luzhou Prefecture, and Zhu Tianshun, a scholar of Luzhou Prefecture, happened suddenly, and each was at fault; Su Jin, the one who hurt others, apologized, and gave him twenty sticks on his hips as a warning to others, while Zhu Tianshun made inappropriate words and humiliated others first, and received ten blows on his hips as a punishment."

Everyone was uproarious, they didn't expect Zhu Shiyong to have such an attitude, they thought they would punish Su Jin severely, but they didn't expect to let Su Jin go so lightly and skillfully.

Zhu Tianshun opened his mouth, looked at his father in disbelief through the gap in the white gauze, and cursed in his heart: "Old man, are you confused? In the end, even my father was beaten. Could it be that you changed careers and became an upright official? You old man took so many bribes and married so many concubines, is it time to change your career now?"

Of course Zhu Shiyong couldn't allow his son to be beaten, he said in a deep voice, "You can pay a fine for the rattan cane punishment, and the penalty for each cane will go into the official treasury three times. You two can make your own choice."

Idiots are willing to have their pants stripped and spanked in public. Su Jin said without hesitation: "The grassroots are willing to punish."

Now Xiao Sui'er hastily took [-] guan and offered it, Zhu Tianshun naturally had to go through the motions, pretending that his family would give [-] guan, the master accepted the fine and registered them one by one.

Su Jin turned around and bowed to Zhu Tianshun, whose face was covered with gauze, and said, "Young master Zhu, I have offended you a little bit, and I am a little harsher. Here is my apology."

Zhu Tianshun was so angry that he was beaten for nothing by this kid, but his father's sentence had been handed down and he couldn't make a fuss in court, so he had to swallow his anger and grunt in response.

Su Jin smiled slightly, leaned forward and whispered in Zhu Tianshun's ear: "The next time you see me when you walk, you have to walk around, otherwise be careful of your dog teeth..."

Zhu Tianshun's eyes widened and he jumped violently, the wound on his face was painful, and he shouted: "You...you bastard, you wait for me."

Su Jin chuckled and said, "It's fine if Mr. Zhu doesn't want to forgive me, don't shout at the court, or I'm afraid I'll be punished."

Zhu Tianshun was about to go mad with anger, Yuwai retorted, and when his eyes met his father's stern gaze, the eggplants that had been beaten like frost immediately wilted. meat.

Su Jin smiled and cupped his hands in the hall and said: "The magistrate is really the master of Qingtian. He is wise in judging the case and not favoring personal interests. The grassroots obey the five internal organs. From today on, the grassroots must abide by the law, be strict with themselves, and be my house." A first-class good citizen of the prefecture, he will live up to the grace of the magistrate."

Zhu Zhifu smiled and said: "Very good, very good."

Su Jin said: "The grassroots leave!" He turned around and left.

Zhu Zhifu laughed loudly and said, "Where are you going?"

Su Jin turned around and said, "Isn't this case over? Caomin should go home."

Zhu Zhifu burst out laughing again, the laughter gradually turned into a gloomy sneer, and he yelled violently: "Left and right! Give me the immoral and life-threatening prisoner Su Jin!" Take it down."

Several yamen servants rushed up like tigers and wolves, and twisted Su Jin's grasp so that he fell on the cold bluestone floor under the hall, unable to lift his head.