Chapter 95 fourth quarter

I officially took office within a few days, and the decision-making process is complicated. My predecessor must be an ignorant person, and the paperwork on the case is piled up like a mountain.I picked up a piece of wooden tablet casually, read a few lines, and couldn't help being very interested. It was written about two Qiang people complaining to each other. The names of the Qiang people are very strange. The Qiang people who sued are called Guihe, and the Qiang people who are accused are called Donkey's Palm.The reason for their enmity is that Luzhang's son, Mangfeng, and Guihe's younger brother, Fengtang, had a fight. Fengtang couldn't argue, so he stabbed Mangfeng with a jackknife in a rage.Mang Feng is not a kind person either, he cried to his father when he returned home.Donkey's palm was furious, and led his younger brother Jialiang and more than a dozen other family members to beat Gui He's house. Not only did he beat Gui He's family violently, but he also took away Gui He's 20 horses and 400 sheep.Gui He is a Guiyi Qiang who obeyed the rule of the Han Dynasty, so he went to the local county court to sue.The county court recovered twenty horses and fifty-nine sheep for him from the donkey's paw.The other 300-plus sheep have been sold by the donkey's paw, and the number is not yet clear.The county court allowed him to raise compensation within half a year, but two months later the court gave him an amnesty, and the donkey's paw refused to repay the debt on the grounds.There is a letter of amnesty issued by the imperial court, and the county court has nothing to do.Later, the donkey's paw died suddenly one night in the sand outside the Pingwanghou Wannian Pavilion, and was stabbed dozens of times.Lvzhang's younger brother Jialiang and his son Mangfeng went to the county court to sue, suspecting that Gui He had killed Lvzhang.Gui He categorically denied it, and because there was no evidence, the county court had no choice but to report the prison case to the Dunhuang prefect's office.I'm in charge now.

I quickly concluded that Gui He was indeed suspected of murdering Donkey's Paw, but after such a long time, Donkey's Paw's body had already decomposed, and an autopsy was impossible.I'm not interested in breaking the prison itself, but I am very interested in dealing with the Qiang people.The Qiang people themselves may not be able to make any big waves, but the Huns have always wanted to contact the Qiang people in order to cut off the road from Hexi to the Western Regions. This is what I am concerned about.So I ordered Gui He to be arrested immediately. Gui He was dressed like a Qiang, with a linen cloth wrapped around his head and two feathers stuck in it, which were plucked from the body of an unknown bird.He speaks Chinese very well and is quite fluent. He said: "Cao Shijun, although I hate the donkey's paw, I am really happy that he died. I even drank with my family to celebrate. But I don't need to kill him. He is a Poor guy, but I have a lot of money. According to Chinese law, if I kill him, I have to pay for my life. I don’t deserve it. I’ve been in business for so many years, can’t I still settle this account?”

This old man is really eloquent, but the sly gleam in his eyes convinced me that he was lying. I asked: "He still owes you more than three hundred sheep, and he refuses to pay you back. How can you, a rich man with a head and face? Can you bear this breath?" He shook his head in pain, patted his thigh, and said mournfully: "If you can't bear it, you have to bear it. As businessmen, although we make a lot of money, there are a lot of sweat on every gold coin." They robbed my sheep, and the officials couldn't make decisions for me. The court said a pardon, and my money was gone. I am not convinced, but I am a Guiyi Qiang, and I have to obey the emperor's laws. .”

I smiled: "The imperial edict of amnesty, there are often. If you have money, you can hire someone to kill the donkey's paw. When the next court amnesty, you don't have to pay for your life. Don't you just win everything back?" "Cao Shijun made fun of me. I'm not a god. When can I get an amnesty? If the amnesty doesn't come, won't I lose everything?" I put away my smile: "I also believe that you didn't kill Donkey's Paw. But now that Donkey's Paw's younger brother, Jia Liang, is suing you for treason, what do you think?"

His face changed drastically: "Cao Shijun, you can't talk nonsense. I am Qingyi Qiang, and I have surrendered to the imperial court since my grandfather's generation. The imperial court rewarded us as 'returning to righteousness and going to Hu Lai Qiang', and exempted us from corvee labor I am very grateful to the Han Dynasty. Every time I go to the Western Regions to do business, the nobles and people of the Western Regions see me writing a letter with a Han Dynasty certificate, and know that I am from the Han Dynasty. They are in awe of me. I get With so many benefits from the big man, how could you think of rebellion?"

In fact, it was my strategy to say that he rebelled. I wanted to scare him and disrupt his thinking.If he really killed the donkey's paw, he must have thought of many countermeasures and memorized them in his mind.If I follow the rules, even if I turn my hair gray, I'm afraid I won't be able to get anything out of it.However, the minds of people who are frightened and flustered are not clear, and it is easy to open the gap. "You have gained a lot of benefits from my big man. It stands to reason that you should be grateful to my big man. But I heard people say that you often complain about the injustice of the big man's law in front of people, and you lost hundreds of sheep with a random pardon. He also said If it was under the Xiongnu Shanyu, such a thing would never have happened. Do you dare to say that this is not resentment against the Han court? Isn’t it disloyal to the Han?” I said coldly.

While I was talking, his face changed color, and when I finished asking, he argued sharply and fearfully: "No, no. Mr. Cao Shi, the villain has no complaints against the court. The villain just said that the court's pardon has been issued several times recently. The fall of the year is too frequent, making the wicked arrogant, and the good people have no place to complain when they are wronged, and the villain did not really deny the imperial court's policy of amnesty." I snorted: "You people, once you break the law, you hope that the court will pardon you quickly. When you see others benefiting from the pardon, you will be angry. In the third year of Ganlu, you Tsingyi Qiang and Ding Lingqiang rebelled together. Later, the court Put down your rebellion, and at the same time issued an amnesty to save all of you Qingyi Qiang from death. Why didn't you complain then? You know that rebellion is to exterminate the clan. If the court would have exterminated your clan at that time, are you still there? ?”

He kowtowed and said, "Mr. Cao Shi, we Qiang people in Qingyi don't know the rules of the court, and we did say something wrong, but we definitely don't have the slightest intention of rebelling. Please learn from us, Mr. Cao Shi." I pretended to sigh, and said: "I also believe that you have no intention of rebelling, but after all, your nonsense was caught by the younger brother of the deceased's donkey's paw. As a law enforcement officer, I dare not defend you." He said fearfully: "I hope Cao Shijun will find a way out for the villain. The villain will not be able to hope for Cao Shijun's kindness until he dies." He kowtowed like garlic.

Seeing that the fire was almost ready, I said earnestly, "Actually, in my opinion, they just suspected that you killed the donkey's paw and refused to admit it, so they had to accuse you of treason to revenge you. If I were on your side, they would still Appeal to higher levels. You know, the higher the level of the government, the more attention will be paid to this kind of treason. If you encounter harsh officials, maybe you will be tortured. Are you worthy of torture?" "I can't bear it, I can't stand it, the villain is an old bone, and he will really be tortured by then." His tears came down.

"That's it. I don't think it's better than this. I have an idea, maybe everyone can be happy." I said my true meaning. He seemed to have seen the dawn, and said repeatedly: "Please show me, Mr. Cao Shi. Please show me, Mr. Cao Shi. The villain will definitely do it." I said: "Actually, the younger brother and son of the deceased donkey's paw sued you so persistently, just for a few dollars. You know that although their family has a lot of people, they are relatively poor; and although you are rich, your population is small. You might as well give them a sum of money, such as 100,000 yuan, and they won’t sue again after they get the money. Since then, you’ve turned enemies into friends, and you’ve saved yourself the money of hiring someone to protect you? I heard You spent a lot of money to hire the garrison of the Western Captain's Mansion to protect you, didn't you?"

"Okay." He shouted, "Give them money, just give them money, the villain is afraid of them." He suddenly seemed to remember something, and said, "But, in what name does the villain give them money?" ? When they see that the villain is willing to give money, don’t they think that the villain is a guilty conscience and really killed the donkey’s paw?” I suddenly clapped the case and said sharply, "Didn't you kill him?" He turned pale with shock, trembled violently, blurted out: "How do you know..." Then he changed his words, "How could the villain kill him, the villain really didn't kill him." I smiled, and resumed my kind tone: "If you don't have it, you don't have it. I can tell them that you don't want them to keep pestering you, and you would rather pay a sum of money to ask for a settlement. Then I will give them the money next time." Seal the document and relocate them to other counties in the name of resolving their enmity, and you will be far away from each other in the future, even if you regret it and want to come to you again to seek revenge, it will not be that easy to do." He smiled happily: "It's really so, that's great. These poor ghosts are really like ghosts. Alas, thank you Cao Shijun. If you have time, please invite Cao Shijun to our house. Cao Shijun will solve this matter for the villain, but It is said that he has helped the villain a lot. The only son of the villain is not sensible, and he likes to play the temper of a rich man, which caused a lot of trouble. If something goes wrong, isn't the villain's last generation?" "I didn't expect that you Qiang people also value whether you are unique." I laughed. He said proudly: "The villain is a Guiyi Qiang. I have also read the "Book of Filial Piety." "Very good." I am also very happy in my heart. It is quite a sense of accomplishment that such a difficult case has been dealt with in this way, and I can report to Xin Wuxian that after reading our Confucian classics, the Qiang people are deeply concerned. To be ashamed, and to reconcile with each other at a loss, isn't this the result of breaking the prison with the classics of the Spring and Autumn Period? "The villain will resign first, and tomorrow the villain will send someone to send money. Mr. Cao Shi must come to our house as a guest when you are free." He warned me earnestly.

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