In July, the city of Beijing was hot from the sun, even if it was past Youzheng, the sky was still frighteningly bright, and a black dog stuck out its tongue and curled up lazily in the shade, watching the carriage next to it pass by weakly.

Feng Ziying, who came out of the Hanlin Academy, was still immersed in the emotions after reading history, of course, not moved by reading history, but touched.

The slow pace of life, the step-by-step upward and scattered courts, it seems that everything seems so quiet and peaceful, but what is hidden behind this?

couldn't help but glance at the mighty and towering noon gate through the car window, but Feng Ziying's heart was a little tight, the fifth year of Yonglong, maybe it was 1607 AD, it seemed that a big event had happened in history.

The British arrived in North America in three ships and settled down to establish their first colony, Virginia, and soon they would begin a history of colonial conquest that lasted for more than 100 years, and the vast land of North America was about to be taken away from the indigenous Indians.

But what about Da Zhou? Feng Ziying's mood was a little heavy, facing the aggressive offensive of the Jurchens and Tatars in the north, she was still overstretched, the Japanese were still harassing the maritime frontier, and the Annan people were also harassing in the southwest, and the internal worries of the dynasty were even worse.

Feng Ziying suddenly found that she had been in this time and space for more than two years, almost three years, and she didn't seem to have gained anything except for running to a reserve on a career through the study and imperial examination-Shu Jishi.

In the face of such a big empire that moves forward with inertia, Feng Ziying realized that the golden finger and the traverser really have little effect, you can change ten or even a hundred people, but can you change the ideology of ten or even a million people?

Obviously, no.

If you can't do it ideologically, then how can you change the views and ideas of ten thousand or even a million or even more people, well, or make them obey their own ideas and ideas, there is no other way to do it except power.

But this power is not so easy to obtain, which requires accumulation from all aspects, which is why Feng Ziying is so anxious.

But the cold water poured on him by Qi Shi today still made him sober up a lot, and he couldn't reach it quickly, and some things were thought about too well, and the result was that he died too quickly.

Feng Ziying didn't try to completely change Qi Yongtai or Qiao Yingjia's concepts, well, to a certain extent, it can instill some views that are closer to their ideas or that they can accept, but if you expect to completely change a person in the officialdom who is forty or fifty years old and has three views that have long been stereotyped, it is a bit whimsical.

But there are still things that can be done at once.

When he came out of Qi Yongtai's place, he made up his mind.

Now I can't do practical things for the time being, so I can only make a fuss about retreat.

This is an old routine, but the role of propaganda and public opinion is well known to Feng Ziying, when you grasp this force, you will find that many things are twice the result with half the effort.

Moreover, so many students are distributed in the six departments and nine qing, if these resources are not used well, it will be too much to live up to the good situation in the next two years.

The carriage walked by, and Ruixiang, who was following the carriage, saw Rongning Street in front of him, and wanted to remind him, but he was afraid of disturbing the young master's thinking, so he hesitated.

It wasn't until Feng Ziying raised his gaze that Ruixiang finally found an opportunity, "Master, the front is the Rongguo Mansion, and there have been several posts over there, ...... you look?"

Feng Ziying couldn't help frowning.

Xiangling has been in the house for almost ten days, and her life has begun in such an orderly manner, it seems that life in this era is like this, leisurely, not lacking in fun, but it always makes people a little unwilling.

If you promise someone else's things, you have to go.

Hearing that Na Jia Zheng and his wife wanted to send two maids to themselves, Feng Ziying didn't want to come to the door very much.

It's not that they were frightened because of the two maids, it's not that they are too willing to make the relationship with the Jia family too sticky.

Originally, I thought it was just to help Jia Baoyu, and then get Jia Lian to be used as a tool, and it was almost the same.

Although I also feel that it is a pity that Yingchun and Tanchun may be in a bad situation after the two spring days because of the fall of the Jia family, but now I don't have a good way, I can't go directly to the door and tell the other party that the Jia family is going to collapse anyway, just follow me to be a concubine, then I'm afraid I will really be drawn.

"Forget it, I'll go back tomorrow." Feng Ziying shook her head, and finally felt that she would always have to face it, whether she accepted it or not, it was not a way to hide like this, the key was that since Jia Lian had revealed her tone, I am afraid that Xue Baochai's matter would have to be explained.

When the carriage returned to the house, Feng Ziying got out of the car and went directly to the hospital, and today it was Xiangling on duty.

As soon as Xiangling came, even if Yunshang was liberated, there was no longer any need to wait for Feng Ziying to come back anytime and anywhere, so that the two of them could divide labor and work together to keep everything in this small courtyard in order.

Like the one on duty, he is responsible for Feng Ziying getting up and dressing and washing, while the other one who is not on duty is responsible for preparing meals, and other daily affairs are discussed.

"Master, that Uncle Fang has been here a long time ago, and he has been waiting for you in the outer courtyard." Xiangling whispered while changing Feng Ziying's clothes.

"Oh? Uncle Fang is here? Feng Ziying smiled and shook her head, it's only been a few days, and this guy has come to eat again.

Fang Youdu watched the government in the Criminal Department, and temporarily rented a house on the side of the charcoal factory on the Eagle Fengsi Street, not far from the Three Law Divisions, although it belongs to Jinchengfang, but in fact it is not too far from Fucai Fang and Xianyi Fang, both in the west.

Fang Youdu asked for leave and returned to his hometown after paying homage to the ancestral temple, and immediately got married after returning.

Unexpectedly, the firepower was particularly fierce, not only was the newlywed wife pregnant, but also the belly of a concubine who had just accepted was also enlarged, which made the Fang family jubilant.

Originally, the concubine wanted to accompany Fang Youdu to Beijing, but now she can only stay, and now only two maids who came with his wife to marry follow him to Beijing, so he has to come over from time to time to eat.

"What's the matter, so many bloodshot eyes? Didn't get a good night's rest? Feng Ziying was quite surprised when she saw Fang Youdu's haggard appearance, didn't she say that his wife and concubine didn't come, could it be that this guy really took the two maids into the room, and they fought all night?

Seeing Feng Ziying's expression, Fang Youdu knew that this guy wanted to be bad, and said angrily: "I read the file in the Criminal Department last night, and I didn't go home until I saw the son, and I was almost caught by the people patrolling the camp as a thief,......"

"What is it that is so complicated and makes you so interested?" Feng Ziying couldn't help but ask, he didn't expect Fang Youdu to enter the state so quickly.

"Don't you know? The bloody case of suicide in the criminal department three years ago? Fang Youdu smiled lightly: "It's finally a conclusion on the coffin, I have been consulting the case file for the past ten days, and I have figured out this case, a case that is not complicated, but it has implicated countless people, and there are no less than ten people who have died for this, the black gauze hat has been taken off, and the one who has been demoted, there are three above the fifth grade, five below the fifth grade, and a few have been distributed, I looked at it, and I felt that this official is not easy to be." ”

Feng Ziying became interested.

He seems to have vaguely heard of this case, a case of suicide in Beijing and Beijing, which made a lot of noise at the time, mainly because a murder case many years ago was never conclusive, and it was overturned over and over again, and then dragged down without results, and the victim finally staged this tragic play in front of the gate of the criminal department with the support of his family.

The cause of this case is a murder case in a mountain village, the deceased's surname is Xu, and he was killed at the entrance of the village one day and night, the village is composed of two big surnames and a small number of small surnames, Zhang and Xu are both big surnames, and for decades because of the dispute over mountains, forests, water sources and land.

Since the case was located in a mountain village and there were basically no external factors, the case was quickly tried by the Jing County Yamen, and the prisoner retracted his confession in court during the retrial at Ningguofu, and returned to Ningguofu for re-examination, which completely overturned the original result, resulting in several people on the original plaintiff's side being sent to prison and recognized as criminals.

In the end, during the retrial of the Nanjing Criminal Department, it was overturned again and pointed to the prisoner tried by the Jingxian County Ya again.

In this way, the case has been repeated many times, and it has been dragged on for many years, and the case has never been decided, and finally he went to Beijing to commit suicide in front of the criminal department, causing a sensation, and finally a director of the criminal department personally went to Ningguo Mansion to investigate the case, and finally found out and decided the case.

While drinking, Fang Youdu also told the whole case eloquently.

The case is not complicated, but because the county magistrate who first investigated the case was a nerd from a high background, he had no experience in investigating the case, but he was stubborn and self-serving, and because he was tired when he ran hundreds of miles to inspect the body, there was an omission in the autopsy, ignoring the key cause of death, and there was an obvious error in collecting the witness's confession but it was not corrected because of the error in the cause of death, so when the case was decided, it was directly pointed to the Zhang family, another big surname.

In the end, the confession was collectively retracted at the level of Ning Guofu, and then Ning Guofu went to the other extreme when trying the case, thinking that this was the Xu family's deliberate bitter trick in order to frame the Zhang family, because although this person's surname was Xu, he was an idle man, so more than ten members of the Xu family were put in prison, and the confessions they came to were full of contradictions, and finally the case fell into a dead end.

The Nanjing Criminal Department also used the original testimony and evidence for many trials, and basically did not re-investigate, but the evidence could not be corroborated, and finally it dragged on until the tragic suicide of the deceased's son in front of the Beijing Criminal Department.

Fang Youdu said it very vividly, and even Xiangling and Yunsheng, who came to pour wine, were attracted.

"Ziying, do you know what the problem is with this case?" Fang Youdu was quite proud.

"Where is it, there are no more than two aspects, one is the surname of the village, and the other is a witness." Feng Ziying said very casually.

"Huh? You got it? Fang Youdu was surprised.

"What do I know? Guess. Feng Ziying spread her hands.

"Impossible, how can you guess?" Fang Youdu couldn't believe it, although he knew the outcome of this case from the beginning, he only figured it out after reading the paper repeatedly, and he didn't leak anything before, how could Feng Ziying guess it all at once?

"It's very short, it's not that I have much ability, it's actually you who leaked it yourself." Feng Ziying said with a smile.

Not to mention Fang Youdu, even Yunshang and Xiangling, the two observers, didn't understand what Fang Youdu had leaked in his words at all.

"First, I don't know if you paid attention to it, you said two big surnames, and then added that there are some small surnames, if the killer is one of these two big surnames, your department specially emphasizes that there are small surnames, well, this is a human habit,......"

Fang Youdu had to admit that what the other party said was reasonable.

"Second, you have said several times that there are mistakes in the testimony of witnesses, but you have not mentioned why there are mistakes in the testimony of witnesses,......

Such a simple reasoning made Fang Youdu very frustrated, "Ziying, what you said made me think that if you handled this case, I am afraid that it would not have dragged on like this at all, and it would have been repeated for five or six years!" ”

"Not necessarily." Feng Ziying shook her head, "I just used some of your habits when introducing the case to push back, if you really want me to try the case, I'm afraid it's not much better than that magistrate, but Uncle Fang, do you think this case has dragged on for five or six years, and it has been so repeatedly tossed, from the county to the government, to the Nanjing Criminal Department, all the way to the ministry, such a big movement, two people died directly, this is not counting the sentence, and it seems that several of them died of illness in prison, so what is the problem here?" ”

Fang Youdu felt that Feng Ziying had some ideas, but he didn't know what the other party wanted to do, so he pondered for a while before saying: "This case is not complicated, but to say that from the county to the government, and then to Nanjing, there are many problems, for example, after the county is promoted to the official, it is basically a blank, and there is no experience in investigating the case, and because it has only been to the county for a short time, the staff is mainly the master of money and grain, but he has not invited the master of the criminal name, so the investigation of the case is basically based on his own feelings, and for example, the number of works is insufficient, lack of experience, The county is old and frail, and it is a temporary replacement, and the original work is no longer done due to illness, so it directly leads to the key evidence in addition to the problem,......"

"......, another example, when the Nanjing Criminal Department tried the case, there was no real review at all, and the original case file and evidence were basically used, knowing that after repeated confessions, this kind of case definitely needs to be seriously reviewed ,...... evidence, but the officials who handled the case did it hastily, but in the end, because they could not convince the public, they simply put it on hold, and seriously neglected their duties, which would lead to the victim committing suicide in the Beijing Division Criminal Department."

Seeing Feng Ziying's fingers on the table and seemed to be scribbling something with wine, Fang Youdu finally stopped talking, "Ziying, are you going to do something again?" ”

"Well, indeed, I'm thinking about it again, anyway, it's okay to be idle in the Hanlin Academy, and it's better to use this leisure time to do something useful, well, for example, I plan to use the skills of these classmates and colleagues in the Hanlin Academy to write articles, but more importantly, some of the insights I have gained from observing politics in various ministries like you,......"

Fang Youdu blinked his eyes, and Feng Ziying laughed, "So I'm going to make a copy that embodies the duties of the secret adviser of the Hanlin Academy, similar to the Di Bao, to publish the article, and then ask the elders and the officials of the Six Ministries to read it, of course, they can also write articles ,......, this name, our Hanlin Academy produces, 'Inner Heaven and Earth, Consult the Enlightenment of Qiankun', it's called internal reference, you get one out, I will also name this column, it's called the case to explain!" ”