Chapter 798: Governing People According to Law

Li Xin went to Yingtianfu Prison to visit Li Shuangcai, but found a scandal of the prison officials and jailers colluding to abuse the prisoner, and the abused prisoner was none other than Li Shuangcai. Although Li Shuangcai is guilty, it does not mean that he can be bullied. In addition, what annoyed Li Xin even more was that these flies did not learn a lesson from the Chen brothers, and regarded their leniency as their own luck.

This can no longer blame Li Xin's unkindness, according to Niu Jinsong's idea, it is to whip these people and drive them out of Ying Tianfu. However, Li Xin had other plans, and instructed the left and right: "Go and call Zhu Langzhong!"

This Zhu Lang's middle finger is naturally Zhu Yuncai, first of all, these jailers and jailers stayed under his plea. Secondly, he also planned to give Zhu Yuncai a chance to prove his innocence, otherwise after arousing the anger within the Three Guards, radical people would inevitably be angry with him, which would have a great negative impact on his future work.

After a while, Zhu Yuncai was panting, sweating profusely, and trotted in fear.

"The restraint of the lower officials is unfavorable, please punish the Hou of Zhen!"

Li Xin's face was expressionless and noncommittal, it stands to reason that there should be repeated problems in the Tianfu Prison, and Chen Wenshan, who is directly responsible for the Fu Yin, cannot escape the blame. Although this person is cautious and quite kind, he is not a big man who can stand alone after all, and he is indeed a bit of a duck on the shelf when he is placed in such a key position as Ying Tianfu Yin. But because there are so few people available in the bag, at least for now, there is no one more suitable for this position than Chen Wenshan.

As for Zhu Yuncai, he is responsible for the evil deeds of these jailers, it is nothing more than that he once played the protector of these people, but now these people have failed his protection and slapped him in the face.

"Now is not the time to hold you accountable, I'll give you a temporary task, and I'll see the results before sunset today!"

Zhu Yuncai was drenched in cold sweat, and the more Li Xin had such a lukewarm attitude, the more bottomless he was in his heart.

"The marquis of the town has an order, and the subordinate is obedient!"

"You have heard all about the evil deeds of those jailers and jailers!"

"The lower officials thought that they, they had committed such evil deeds, and their sins were unforgivable......"

Li Xin didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and then interrupted him: "You don't have to intercede for them, listen to me first." I just want to know if they have concocted the same method before in addition to dealing with Li Shuangcai, you go to interrogate and torture now, no matter what means are used, I want to get the result before sunset. ”

Li Xin's tone was undoubted, which made Zhu Yuncai gasp, he had never seen the attitude of the Marquis of Zhenyu so cold, so he knew that this time he was really angry, and the next words of plea could no longer be said. At the same time, he also knew very well that this was just a euphemistic expression of the Marquis of Zhen's desire to cure these rabbit cubs.

Zhu Yuncai is not a strong person, and there is no need to disobey the marquis for the sake of these mud that can't support the wall, and even offend all the generals of the Three Guards. Then he smiled bitterly again, do you still use yourself to cover up? I have been affected by them, just looking at Niu Jinsong's hostile eyes has already explained everything.

As soon as he thought of this, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, didn't the Marquis of Zhenzhu let himself punish these jailers and jailers, and didn't he use this to eliminate and offset the hostility of these old soldiers of the Three Guards? After these thoughts suddenly popped up, Zhu Yuncai's gaze at Li Xin's back was even more rare mixed with a trace of gratitude.

Since then, Zhu Yuncai has abandoned all distractions and decided not to be soft on these mud that can't support the wall. Therefore, dozens of jailers and jailers from all over the Ying Tianfu were detained separately and ordered to report to each other, and the first ten people who made meritorious reports could be punished lightly, and the rest of the people were all punished severely regardless of the severity of the circumstances.

Almost all the jailers and jailers knew everything about this Zhu Langzhong's methods, how could these people dare to deny it to the death, and they were the first to report and confess, but it was only an hour, and the confessions sorted out by the secretary office were already several feet high.

One after another, the charges were reported, and then after the interrogation, torture, signature, and detention of the parties, they were all completed in just two hours. Among them, Zhu Yuncai exerted the limits of his ability. And when these confessions were placed on the desk, even Li Xin was shocked.

Among them, all kinds of dirty deeds in the prison are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. According to the extent of this kind of crime, it is not too much for some people to be sentenced to a summary sentence or executed after the autumn, but Li Xin is still hesitant to kill someone. In the final analysis, his handling of human life is still not up to the level of contemporaneous people.

However, Li Xin did not point a finger at this, he was waiting, waiting for Zhu Yuncai's verdict. It's just that he has a hunch that Zhu Yuncai will definitely sentence these people again. Sure enough, before dark, Zhu Yuncai's verdict was sent to Li Xin for review, and more than 20 of them were executed, nearly 30 were executed after the autumn, and the rest were all filled into coolie camps and were not pardoned.

This verdict made Li Da's heart tremble, and he said that Zhu Yuncai was really ruthless, but he also knew that it was inconvenient for him to pay more attention to it, so he just waited quietly for Li Xin's decision. Li Xin only frowned, and then made instructions below, changing whether to be pardoned or not to being filled with coolies for ten years, which can be pardoned!

Li Da saw Li Xin write these words with his own eyes, but he was only surprised but indescribable, before this he thought that he knew enough about Li Xin, although this person was a general who had killed countless enemies before the battle, but he had a Confucian benevolent heart. Therefore, killing one or two people at most is the end of the day. Who would have thought that Li Xin waved his pen, but only made small changes, and the rest of the death sentences were not changed.

Li Xin put down his pen, saw Li Da stunned, and asked, "Do you think I have become indiscriminate now?" ”

Li Da didn't want to hide it, so he nodded solemnly, "I really feel that some killings are too much!" ”

Suddenly, Li Xin sneered, and then pushed the confession full of cases over.

"You can see from yourself, these crimes are too numerous to mention, not to mention a summary sentence and a prison sentence, even if it is a thousand cuts!" He didn't give Li Da time to speak, and then continued: "Killing people is naturally not the goal, I just want everyone to know that the law is not unaccountable!" ”

Li Da was silent.

At noon the next day, more than 20 jailers and jailers were sentenced to punishment in the midst of the trouble, and the people cheered and hundreds of officials looked sideways. These public prison officials do not have a good thing, if someone in the family is in Yingtianfu Prison, if they are not squeezed clean, they will not want to fish people out again. These who kill a thousand knives, even if they kill them a thousand times, ten thousand times is not too much.

The prison officials regretted that they were not at the beginning, and regretted that they should not have taken the opportunity to vent their anger on Li Shuangcai, but it was too late to say anything, and in the spitting of tens of thousands of people, more than 20 bloody heads rolled to the ground one by one.

This vigorous show seemed to stir all the surging undercurrents in Nanjing to the surface, and the stimulation of the blood of the wicked not only made the people run excited, but also made the officials in the city smack their tongues. In their eyes, this is a natural example to the monkeys.

After Wei Guogong, who was under house arrest, learned about this large-scale execution from the newspaper, he couldn't help but sneer again and again: "Li Xin favors one over the other, and sooner or later he will lose the hearts of the people!" ”

The old butler was puzzled and asked, "Why did the master say this?" ”

Xu Hongji now has nothing to do every day, so he often chatters with the old housekeeper, just like an ordinary old man.

"Can't you see it when it's so simple? Why did Li Xin kill these jailers and jailers? Although it is not explicitly stated in this newspaper, there must be a reason for it. Let's look at the relevant criminals in the Shangyuanmen Wharf fire case, most of them are people from the Three Guards, and let's see how Li Xin exonerates them! ”

The old housekeeper suddenly understood the meaning of Xu Hongji's words, and immediately said happily: "This, this is a good thing!" Isn't Li Xin's doing this a favor to the master? ”

Xu Hongji sneered again, but stopped answering.

Xu Hongji is not the only one who holds this view, Jiang Yueguang, who is in charge of the affairs of the Hanlin Academy, is writing hard in the study, and next to it is a letterhead that has just been opened not long ago, and the signature is impressively written Di Kefa respectfully!

At this time, Jiang Yueguang was writing a reply, Shi Kefa and Jiang Yueguang have always had a good relationship, this time he wrote to Jiang Yueguang to inquire about the situation in Nanjing, and at the same time expressed his determination to suppress thieves and be loyal to the imperial court, and hoped that Jiang Yueguang could lobby in the political hall instead for the matter of food and salary.

In this regard, Jiang Yueguang could only smile helplessly. He is just a pension officer of the Hanlin Academy, he has no real power in his hands, and he has repeatedly offended the marquis before, and now it is too late to convince this person, where is the extra energy to lobby for Shi Kefa's military salary?

Moreover, Jiang Yueguang still remembered that Shi Kefa had designed to deal with Li Xin, which led to the tragedy of the killing of the great monk of Linggu Temple. He would never do such a thing that seriously endangered his own safety.

It's just that in the reply letter, Jiang Yueguang will never refuse. After thinking about it, Jiang Yueguang had a plan. He first expressed his concern to Shi Kefa, and then told Li Xin about the killing of people in Nanjing, and the reason for this was that the rumors in the city were only for Li Shuangcai, the confidant of Li Xin, the chief of the Three Guards who had been tortured by these prison officials.

And according to his judgment of Li Shuangcai's crime, if he is investigated according to law, he will definitely not be able to run away from a decisive decision. However, Jiang Yueguang made another judgment, as Li Xin's cronies, the Three Guards would be fooled into a small matter, and if they didn't leave any face like dealing with those prison guards, it would be impossible.

Therefore, Jiang Yueguang suggested that Shi Kefa could preemptively strike from Li Shuangcai, as long as Li Xin could be driven away and Wei Guogong could be restored to freedom, the food and salary would naturally be solved.