prosperous age

Chapter 299 298 Will justice be late?
Although he didn't meet the Shen family, even though he didn't go to Bao'an Prefecture, Wei Guangde already had his own judgment.

Wei Guangde leaned back in his chair, recalling the complete story outlined in Ma Fang's letter.

Last year, Xuanda discovered and arrested a large number of Bailian believers. Wei Guangde guessed that Yang Shun might have thought of a way to deal with Shen Lian at this time, that is, to add Shen Lian's name to the believers. charges.

Afterwards, it was easy to report and execute him. According to the letter, the imperial court sent the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the case and inspect the censor Lu Kai. Presumably, he was ordered by the Yan family. It was just a formality. So after Shen Lian was killed, Lu Bing just received the news, and it was too late to take action to protect the person.

As for the reason for Shen Lian's death, it may be because of the enmity between him and the Yan family. After all, it is said that Shen Lian's impeachment made Yan Song very embarrassed, and he hated Shen Lian to the bone.

As for killing good deeds, it happened all the time in border towns, so it might not be the main reason for Shen Lian's death.

At this time, Wei Guangde suddenly felt that Lu Bing was a deep and lonely person, and he just mentioned it in the report to Emperor Jiajing to attract the emperor's attention, making the emperor mistakenly think that Shen Lian had a conflict with Yang Shun in order to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious. was killed.

There is no need to investigate this case at all, as long as the crime is committed, Yang Shun will be convicted of the crime.

And do you still need to investigate the matter of killing good people and taking credit?

The knives are all ready, as long as the report is up, and as long as someone who does a little work is sent down, he can review it clearly.

When impeaching people by yourself in the future, don't you have to learn a little bit?

By this time, Wei Guangde was already thinking about what to do next.

Before that, he planned to go to Baoan Prefecture. If possible, he would contact Xia Shen's family to see if they had sufficient evidence. When he returned to the capital, he would find an opportunity to avenge them. But by this time, he already didn't want to go there. .

As for him asking Ma Fang to bring his servants to secretly station in Bao'an Prefecture, he was actually worried that his identity would be found out, and that he would be murdered here as rumored.

With Ma Fang as a strong general nearby, Wei Guangde felt a lot more at ease, but thinking about it now, it seemed redundant.

In this matter, the only thing that needs to be confirmed now is the truth about Shen Lian's murder, and he has already given his reasons for the rest.

Of course Wei Guangde would not refute Lu Bing's intentions. Killing good men and taking meritorious deeds does exist, so it has something to do with Yang Shun, and he can't get rid of it.

Yang Shun has a deep relationship with Yan Song and Yan Shifan, and he has nothing to do with Wei Guangde. Of course, Wei Guangde would not choose to publicly impeach Yang Shun. up.

Wei Guangde was still clear about it, knowing that if he wanted to live a good life in the Ming Dynasty, he still had to be an official, and if he wanted to be a stable official, then he couldn't offend the superior, not to mention that the other party was the chief assistant, the leader.

Just when Wei Guangde made up his mind to wait for the person sent to Baoanzhou to come back and make a final decision after bringing news, a guard sent to Baoanzhou had already returned to Yongning on horseback, and rushed to find Wei Guangde, as if something happened It's like something amazing.

"My lord, my lord."

When the guard went up to the courtyard where Wei Guangde lived in the inn, he rushed into Wei Guangde's guest room, shouting twice.

"What's the matter? What is it like to be so anxious?"

Wei Guangde raised his eyebrows and said with some dissatisfaction.

"My lord, the members of the Shen family, from the master to the servants, have been relocated to Yunzhou long ago. However, in the last two days, the eldest son of the Shen family will be escorted to Baoan Prefecture. I heard from the people in the yamen that they may be sent to work. He will die in prison in a few days."

The guard immediately told what he had heard.

Life is at stake.

In the eyes of these soldiers, it is normal to slash and kill opponents on the battlefield, but the things these officials do in private make them, who are used to killing people, find it unacceptable.

In the past, this soldier didn't know who Shen Lian was, but after he arrived in Baoan Prefecture, he found out after inquiring that he was a member of the Jinyiwei, and he was demoted to Baoan Prefecture because he was not afraid of being impeached by the powerful.

Well, the common people naturally have a good impression of those who are not afraid of the powerful. After all, it is impossible to have no resentment in their hearts after being bullied by the powerful for a long time.

Hearing that Shen Lian was demoted here because he offended the powerful, he naturally admired him very much. Shen Lian's reputation in Baoan Prefecture is very good.

Obviously, this reputation has also affected Dong Yiyuan's servant, so after knowing that Shen Lian's eldest son was about to be arrested and killed in Baoanzhou, he ran back to report so anxiously. his life.

Shen Xiang?

Wei Guangde recalled that Ma Fang had mentioned this matter in the letter before, and Yang Shun, the governor of Xuanda, issued an official document asking Zhejiang to arrest Shen Xiang and escort him here.

Therefore, even though Shen Xiang is already a talented scholar, the people who handled this matter were all officials from the Yan family. Naturally, he was dismissed by the Zhejiang officials as his last support. Come to the case.

Can Shen Xiang be saved?

Wei Guangde himself is not sure, because now his duty is not in the Xuanfu.

The order from the imperial court to him and Tang Shunzhi only involves patrolling Jizhen, learning about the fleeing situation of military households and civilian households, and the impact on the construction of the border wall. The secret investigation of Xuanfu is just a word that Emperor Jiajing asked Chen Julai to bring, which shows that the emperor seems to be interested, but still He didn't make up his mind to take down Yang Shun.

If he wanted to save people, he would have to reveal his identity. What would happen afterwards?
Whether he can be saved or not, he doesn't even talk about it. Even if he stops him and saves the person, he will completely tear his face off with Yan Shoufu.

Although Wei Guangde never intended to seek refuge there, he didn't want to risk his life to offend the fellow in power.

He is not Wu Shan, he has offended the Yan family long ago, but he can still sit firmly in the court, and even rose to the high position of Minister of Rites, because he has always been upright and upright, and he has a good impression on Emperor Jiajing, and it is also a way to balance the court.

There is no more suitable candidate than Wu Shan, even if he is from Jiangxi, and he is not on good terms with Yan Song, it is too rare.

Wei Guangde doesn't have the confidence of Wu Shan now to directly confront the Yan family.

If you can't save them, everything you do will be in vain.

Wei Guangde behaved unusually calm at this time, with the momentum of a mountain collapsed and his color unchanged, but in the view of the servant, this was Wei Guangde's statement that he did not intend to intervene in this matter, so he couldn't help being a little anxious.

"My lord, Lord Shen Lian has been killed by a traitor, and his youngest son was dispatched with his mother to Yunzhou, which is the frontier, and he is close to death.

Only Mr. Shen is left alone, if he is killed again, Mr. Shen will be gone forever.

I have heard from my family and fellow villagers that Mr. Shen is a very good man. He often stands up for the fellow villagers because of excessive levies from officials, and offends corrupt officials for the affairs of the fellow villagers. Those people hate him to death. Mr. Shen entered Baoan Prefecture It will definitely not last long.

Please, my lord, save him and leave a bloodline for Mr. Shen. "

Having said this, the servant had already knelt down and kowtowed to Wei Guangde.

"Get up, why are you kowtowing?"

Wei Guangde felt a little displeased when he saw the servant's behavior, do you have any say in these matters?

"My lord, I brought the folks to kowtow to you. I didn't know about Mr. Shen before, but my parents and neighbors all said that Mr. Shen is a good person. You are very loyal. Please save Mr. Shen, my lord." "

The servant still knelt there and talked without thinking, his emotions seemed very agitated.

"Master Shen's death, the court has already noticed, there are some things that should not have been said to you."

Wei Guangde was a little hesitant when he said this, but he continued: "These are the criminal evidence of treacherous ministers, and they will have retribution sooner or later.

Justice will only be late, but never absent.

Those people, sooner or later, will pay the price for the evil they have done today. Doesn’t the folks also have the saying, “It’s not that the time has not come if we don’t report it”? "

Wei Guangde still didn't want to intervene, because he had absolutely no reason to intervene in this matter. If he could manage it in Ji Town, it was within the scope of his duties after all, but this matter happened in Xuanfu.

How long does it take to recover from your illness?

He even traveled all the way to Xuanfu to intervene in local government affairs, how would Tang Shunzhi get involved in his book?
Thinking of this, Wei Guangde became more determined not to take care of the Shen family's affairs, absolutely not to touch it, even if Shen Xiang really encountered an accident because of this, it would be good to avenge him in the future.

Justice will only be late, but never absent.

"But people are gone, even if there is retribution, they can't save people. This is directly exterminating Zhongliang, my lord, you can't do this."

Seeing that servant was getting worse and worse, the captain of the servant sent by Dong Yiyuan felt that something was wrong, especially when he saw that Wei Guangde's face was getting worse and worse. People picked up and took them out of the house.

The servant struggled and begged: "My lord, please save Mr. Shen, his family will be killed by traitors, please."

Dong Yiyuan's servants are naturally strong and strong, but at the moment they are struggling under the forceful drag of two companions.

After all, from Yongning to Bao'an, after staying for only two days, he rushed back actively, and his body was a bit too much. Even veterans who are used to long-term battles would be affected a little bit physically. Naturally, they couldn't resist the two companions who had been recharging their energy for many days. up.

The servant was forcibly carried to the next room, and the captain of the servant just hugged Wei Guangde in embarrassment and followed him out.

Wei Guangde got up and took a few steps back and forth in the room.

Although he made up his mind not to interfere in this matter, Wei Guangde felt panicked when he was being dragged away.

"Justice will only come late, but never absent."

This sentence is also very popular in later generations, after all, there will be injustices in any era.

Now it is the Ming Dynasty, and the transmission of information is not smooth, so some things that happened will only be spread in small places, but it is difficult to spread them widely.

Unless it was heard by the officials and Ming Buping participated in the memorial, and it was published in the residence newspaper after the emperor's approval, it would quickly spread throughout the country, but this time is also far from the time when the incident happened.

That passage, said in this era, seems to be appropriate.

After all, the times have their own characteristics, and some things cannot be forced.

But in later generations, Wei Guangde vaguely remembered seeing a point of view on the Internet, that is, justice that is delayed is not justice.

Justice is the basic requirement of social morality; justice is not the basic requirement of late social morality.

This is the core of that article. When an unjust, false and wrongly decided case is corrected, many people will celebrate it and say something like that.

However, the article explained that the original meaning of "justice will never be late" is not to correct after the fact, but purely literal. Justice that is late is not justice, because justice is never late.

For example, when a person is declared innocent after being imprisoned for 20 years, it is not that the justice 20 years ago came late, but the justice 20 years later came on time.

This is the correct understanding of this passage, because the person who said it seemed to be an American justice, so when translating it, it seemed to be misled by the packaging.

In fact, the original intention of this sentence, which seems to be full of positive energy, is not to praise the late justice, but to criticize the late justice, condemning the people who created the unjust prison 20 years ago for trampling on the justice of the world.

Just like in some movies and TV shows, when faced with arrogant criminals, the police cannot bring them to justice because of insufficient evidence, so they can only use "justice will never be absent" to persuade criminals and comfort themselves.

Or like some film and television dramas, the hypocritical bad guys whitewash the peace, do bad things but enjoy the glory and wealth, and finally get caught because of a mistake, the righteous people will shout "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent "Lai Yishu feels happy in his heart.

Misunderstood readers took the meaning out of context, completely overturned the original thinking, and instead praised the late justice. Is it intentional or unintentional?

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help being terrified. When he said this sentence casually before, what kind of mentality was he at that time?
The capital didn't know what happened here in the Xuan Mansion. Wei Guangde was sure that maybe after Shen Lian's death, Lu Bing didn't care much about Shen Lian's family anymore. Maybe everyone was dead in his opinion. It's time to turn over the grievances and grievances during his lifetime, maybe he was just indifferent.

The living Shen Lian might attract Lu Bing's attention by virtue of his talent, but when he was gone, it would be meaningless.

But now that I know it, what should I do?

Whether it is to delay justice, like folk beliefs such as "good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil" or "causal cycle, retribution is not good", or such things should be avoided.

Just like the little soldier said, "But people are gone, even if there is retribution, they can't save people."

For no reason, Wei Guangde felt dissatisfied with that servant in his heart, and it would be nice to report it afterwards, and he would clear up the grievances for the Shen family.

Well now, I knew it beforehand, but I didn't know how to deal with it.

I was an ordinary person in my previous life, and after seeing such things, I couldn't do anything except beep on the Internet.

That's not self-defense, it's powerlessness.

It is different now, he is now a Jinshi and an official of the Ming Dynasty, should he still handle such "life-threatening" matters in the previous way?
Wei Guangde's heart was confused at this moment, and there was a crack in his already unsteady heart.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, Captain Ding also came back
(End of this chapter)