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Chapter 3 "The Law of the Great Ming" Let me play with it

Shen Shuren calmed down, and knew that there was no rush to think of a plan, so he went back to the house that night to rest first.

He had just recovered from a serious illness, and his body was really tired. He fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed, and woke up the next morning.

After waking up, he will exercise his body first, sweat a little, and then wash and eat.

When Qingzhi was serving vegetables, Shen Shuren saw a bowl of tortoise jelly-like food, but the color was light and transparent, he pointed to it and asked, "What is this?"

Qing Zhi: "This is a cold cake prepared by the back kitchen with Japanese agar and konjac, and the mint leaves of the senior staff are added, which is said to relieve the summer heat-these medicinal materials were given by the guests who came to visit yesterday."

Shen Shuren was noncommittal.

The crafts of agar and konjac in Japan are indeed somewhat unique. They are made by kombu and konjac secret methods.

But in the year of the catastrophe, it is too much to have to import a little food from Japan.

In order to stabilize the situation, the Zheng family really spent money.

Shen Shuren ate it quickly with a critical and non-waste mentality, and it tasted really good.

……

After breakfast, Shen Shuren stayed in his study and began to think about what happened last night again.

He is still quite optimistic.

Isn't it just an excuse to go to Nanjing?With my status as a playboy and a rich young master, if I want to get away with other things, I have a lot of options.

His first reaction was to think that Xue Pan could easily run away after beating someone to death, and asked Jia Yucun to deal with the aftermath for him, and he was not absconding in fear of crime.

After all, this joke in "Dream of Red Mansions" is too well-known, and he has taught Chinese classes, so of course he is very familiar with a top student like him.But his current personality is too similar to that of Xue Pan, who is rich and evil, and he is also going to Nanjing.

Once the thinking is attracted by this crooked path, the follow-up bad water will flow out uncontrollably.

"If I follow Xue Pan's example and beat someone to death in Suzhou, and then 'flee in fear of crime' and go to Nanjing, is it feasible?"

As soon as this idea popped up, Shen Shuren was taken aback by himself.

Fortunately, he calmed down quickly, sorted out carefully, and abandoned this ridiculous idea.

Xue Pan went to Beijing for another purpose, to send Xue Baochai to the draft.And if he, Shen Shuren, committed a crime and wanted to avoid it, why did he run to Nanjing?Zheng Zhilong would definitely suspect that it was intentional.

Secondly, if you really want to get a criminal record for a crime like this, how can you go to the Imperial Prison?Xue Pan was impulsive and thoughtless, he made a plan before making a move, of course he had to do better.

Shen Shuren continued to brainstorm along the train of thought, and soon brewed an improved version.

"Although real crimes are not feasible, if we delve into the "Law of the Ming Dynasty", carefully design the case, and find some illegal and obstructive reasons, similar to "be brave for justice/justifiable self-defense", what will be the effect?

As long as it can be done, it looks like a crime when it comes to wording and writing.But if it is seen from the perspective of "judging the prison in the Spring and Autumn Period, take its original meaning", it is not a crime, so can it be appealed to the higher authorities?By the way, we have to confirm whether to go to Nanjing to appeal. "

Only after investigation can we have the right to speak, and we cannot be reckless.

When Shen Shuren was thinking about problems, he had a small problem of turning his pen.At this moment, with a wave of his hand, he tapped the pen on the jade chime on the desk, making a crisp sound. A few seconds later, his follower Shen Fu appeared at the door, waiting for orders.

"Find a set of "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty", I want it right away."

Shen Fu was also unambiguous: "Young master, wait a moment, do you have any orders?"

Shen Shuren leaned on the mahogany chair and rubbed his temples with a pen: "Then make another set...the kind of document that stipulates the scope of duties of each yamen in the imperial court."

Shen Fu thought for a while, and said with some anxiety: "I've never heard of such a book, but the 'Law of Officials' in the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" seems to contain these contents. "Law" to find, and then ask the master to confirm?"

Shen Shuren was a little embarrassed at once, and quickly changed his words: "Okay, then I'll ask for the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" first, and I'll talk about the rest after I read it."

Shen Fu turned around and left, while Shen Shuren self-criticized: his understanding of the laws of the Ming Dynasty was actually not as good as that of a follower, and he mistakenly thought that the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" was only criminal law.

It seems that the new servants his father chose for him were all carefully trained at home, at least educated.

After a while, Shen Fu found the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" one after another. There were hundreds of volumes at the front and rear.

He first looked through the entries in outline, and roughly confirmed that the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" is actually a comprehensive law that includes criminal law, procedural law, and administrative law equivalent to later generations.The content of civil law is also a little bit, mainly in terms of personal obligations and land property identification.

As for why there are so many pages, the main reason is that the books Shen Fu found not only included the laws of the Hongwu period, but also the regulations that were added later——

Zhu Yuanzhang particularly disliked his heir's "chaos into law", so the terms of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" were not allowed to be modified for more than 200 years.But the early laws were too rudimentary, and many new things were not stipulated at all, so the emperor had to add exceptions to the law.

There were only 20 volumes in Hongwu's law, and more than 30 volumes were added to the "Regulations on Inquiry and Punishment" during the Hongzhi period, and more than 120 volumes were added each in the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, making a total of [-] volumes.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren studied deliberately with specific questions. When reading, he hit the key points directly like using a search engine, and flipped through the useless parts.

This efficiency is obviously many times higher than that of those scholars who are flooded with water.

In less than half an hour, he sorted out the outline, and by the way, figured out a few key issues that could be used.

For example, he first confirmed that the Ming Dynasty no longer had the form of "judicial interpretation" such as "Da Gao", which was relatively common in the early Ming Dynasty, especially Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite.

However, when encountering difficult cases, after the local trial, they feel that they are representative, and theoretically they should still be reported.After the review by the procuratorate at the provincial level and even the Ministry of Punishment at the central level, if they think there is value for promotion, they will issue "model cases for learning" to other places to improve their understanding of the legal provisions.

In some places where grassroots organizations have done well, they will even post the issued cases in the affirmation kiosk to explain to the people.

It's just that, now that the Ming Dynasty has become so corrupted, this kind of matter that can be "selective and discretionary" is generally regarded as more than one thing, and those who can report it or not should try not to report it.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, the Shen family is rich and powerful.When the time comes, Shen Shuren will naturally find a way to let the Suzhou government "voluntarily work overtime to report and request a review."

After determining the system, the next problem is to determine the unit to implement the system.

And Shen Shuren is in Suzhou, which is very advantageous - in other provinces, according to the severity of reported difficult cases, some are under the supervision of the procuratorate, and some are under the supervision of the Ministry of Punishment, which cannot be absolutely controlled.

But Suzhou belongs to Nanzhili.

In the southern Zhili area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, there were no three envoys, such as the chief envoy and the inspector, and the relevant work was directly under the control of the corresponding yamen of the Six Ministries of Nanjing.

Therefore, no matter how complicated the case is, it will be in the hands of the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice in the end.

That's it.

Shen Shuren heaved a sigh of relief.

Although the final solution has not been found yet, the idea has taken another step forward:
He needs to design a case that seems to be a crime, but is not actually a crime, but is guaranteed to be brought to the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice.At that time, the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice will take him away for face-to-face interrogation and review.

And once it is finally determined that he is innocent, such as "justifiable self-defense/brave action", then no stains will be left, and he will be found out "So you recovered from your illness, so go to the Imperial College" and cook directly Ripe rice.

Even if the task assigned by Mr. Yang Ge is guaranteed to be completed, the Zheng family can't stop it.

The remaining question is how to design the specific case.

……

Shen Shuren nestled in his study with the "Law of the Great Ming Dynasty" suffocating the water, seeing the lunch time, he had no intention of resting.

He is still recovering from his illness, and his father doesn't want him to greet him in the morning and evening, but he will let the maid come over to visit him at meal time, and if he hasn't eaten yet, he can call him by the way.

Shen Shuren had no choice but to put a bookmark in the book, got up and followed the maid through the third courtyard, around a pond garden with Taihu stones, and came to the place to eat.

Shen Shusheng's mother is dead, and his father is only accompanied by his second stepmother and a group of aunts.

In line with the rule of "don't talk when you eat", everyone didn't say a word during the meal.

After eating, the maid brought tea, and Shen Tingyang waved his hand to signal his wives and concubines to leave.Only then did he ask about his son's physical condition and what he did today.

Shen Shuren also reported his thoughts by the way.

Hearing that his son wanted to take advantage of the "Law of the Ming Dynasty" and set up a trap, Shen Tingyang's first reaction was rather disgusting.

But right now there seemed to be no better way, so he told his son to make a plan before acting, and not to be reckless.

Afterwards, Shen Tingyang assigned another task:
"A while ago, Zheng Hongkui came to spy on him, but he gave so many presents after all. Everyone didn't make a fool of themselves, and they still have to return the presents. Someday you feel that it's easy, go to the place where he is staying and pay your respects."

These words reminded Shen Shuren, and he immediately had a thought: "Father, since I have planned to find another way to go to Nanjing, I should also make some preparations for the Zheng family to reassure myself.

In addition, we should find out the details of how the Zheng family intends to operate Zheng Sen's Ci Xue, so that we can be targeted at that time-could they dare to refuse the invitation of the Imperial College after we agreed to take the lead in pretending to be sick? "

After hearing this question, Shen Tingyang was not worried at all, but rarely showed a bit of complacency:

"It's rare for you to think of this question. In fact, my father has already inquired about it. When Zheng's family first came to the door, I tried to ask back: 'If everyone chooses to pretend to be sick, it will be too coincidental. I'm afraid it won't help'.

In order to get me to cooperate, Zheng Hongkui had to reveal the details of their plan.It was said that Zheng Jiaming would write back to the Imperial College and promised to let Zheng Sen go to Nanjing, so I don't have to worry about coincidences.

It's just that after they sent Zheng Sen to Suzhou, they would let Zheng Sen hang around in Suzhou to rest and show up a few times, and then pretended to be sick on the spot in Suzhou with the claim that "Southern people have never gone north, and the climate is not acclimatized."

The forces of the Zheng family are all at sea, and Suzhou is still at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Here they still have the ability to ensure that Zheng Sen is safe, and they can go to sea to escape immediately if there is any trouble.But if they went deep inland to Nanjing, they would not be so sure. "

Shen Shuren nodded: "Since that's the case, we should let the Zheng family feel that we have one heart with them as soon as possible, so that they can get Zheng Sen to Suzhou as soon as possible, so that the follow-up will have a chance to cut the mess quickly."

Shen Shuren knew in his heart that even if he got to Nanjing without provoking Zheng's family in the end, he would only guarantee to complete Yang Sichang's task and put in a lot of hard work.

If he really wanted to overfulfill the task, Yang Sichang had to realize that "even if the members of the Shen family are gone, the Zheng family may still shirk".Then, through the operation of the Shen family, Zheng Sen was also tricked into going to Nanjing. This was considered a complete success and gave Yang Sichang a pleasant surprise.

Now that everything has been done, it must be thoroughly done beautifully.

After listening to his son's words, Shen Tingyang felt a little worried.

Before the previous step is completed, other preparations have to be performed in parallel. Wouldn't it be too rash?
But Shen Shuren analyzed with trembling tongue: "Father, time is very urgent, we can't take our time anymore. You think, Mr. Yang Ge asked Nanjing Guozijian to invite me to wait, although it was just a temporary idea.

But this year is the year of the provincial examination every three years, Nanzhi Xiucai will go to Nanjing in August to prepare for the Qiuwei examination.I just checked the official regulations. The first few categories of Guozijian students can be treated like juren and participate in the general examination, but they all require registration to be closed one month before the autumn.

In other words, only by completing the naturalization of the Guozijian in July this year can we compare the treatment of current imperial examination candidates and participate in next year's general examination.The imperial court wanted Zheng Sen to go to Nanjing as soon as possible, and an important bait was to ask him to complete his registration in July.

Although Zheng Sen's knowledge is impossible to take part in the examination.But once this window period is missed, the Zheng family can complain about the illness for a long time, saying to the outside world, "Anyway, the opportunity of the three-year round has been missed, so there is no need to rush for a while."

It's the end of May now, and we have to get things done in July, and we have to leave time spent on the road, so we don't have much time left. "

This key point is what Shen Shuren just figured out when he was reading the Daming Law in the morning:
In history, Zheng Sen was able to delay his trip to Nanjing until the 15th year of Chongzhen. Perhaps an important reason was "Anyway, he missed the opportunity of 'compare the treatment of passing the provincial examination' in the 12th year of Chongzhen, so he simply waited for three more years."

Of course, this is just speculation, there is no evidence.

When Shen Tingyang heard the words, his eyes lit up again, and he murmured approvingly:

"It's true... time doesn't wait. Sigh, if I knew you were so good at reasoning about human relationships, I should have trained you to deal with these official arrivals and departures a few years ago. Let's do this matter as you said."

Shen Shuren was relieved to get the support, and quickly discussed the specific operation with his father, and then immediately started to arrange.

As long as Zheng Sen can be promoted to come to Suzhou as soon as possible, this matter will be one step closer to the final success.

After all, in history, Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhilong's father and son had completely different attitudes towards the Ming court.Zheng Zhilong only wants his own family interests, and Zheng Sen is sincerely fighting against the Qing Dynasty.

Maybe Zheng Sen is not aware of the secret tricks of the Zheng family to plot against the court, but his father is doing it.

The potential conflicts that may exist within the Zheng family and his son are also part of Shen Shuren's operating space in the future.It is easier to lure a rebellious teenager into rebelling against his father than to directly deal with the old and cunning warlord.

(End of this chapter)