In the morning, the sky was still sunny, and in the morning, when the case was being tried, the sky gradually became cloudy, and when it was time to eat at noon, it actually rained lightly.\\

Dali Temple Zhicheng Ling and the imperial envoy Zhao Jiulong and his attachés had lunch in the public kitchen of the Criminal Department, and then went to the second hall with Yang Fan and others to rest and chat.

At this time, the rain was heavier, and under the dripping eaves outside the signing room, several yacha looked up at the sky boringly, and the rain gradually condensed into a rain curtain, gathered from the eaves, flowed to the bottom of the corridor, and splashed rain flowers in a small pool of water, and died with life.

In the second hall, the three chief judges of Yang Fan, Cheng Ling, and Zhao Jiulong sat casually, chatting back and forth. Don't look at their sabre-rattling in the court, as long as it is beneficial to their own position, even if it is a sentence or a word, they must fight back and forth, and never give in, but at this time they are leisurely and comfortable.

Several people talked about a wide range of topics, from the income and expenditure of money, grain, and fields, to the officials of various prefectures and counties, and even the local people's customs and so on. Chatting and chatting, Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong talked about some of the big and important cases they presided over the judiciary and dealt with over the years.

Yang Fan naturally couldn't talk about these topics, so he became a deaf companion.

Yang Fan listened to it for a while, and suddenly commented and praised it casually, and then turned the topic to the military of the Western Regions, the plan of Bixia's expedition to the west, and how he cleverly planned to make a surprise soldier outside the border and abandon the border of the Turkic army of 100,000 people halfway. Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong naturally couldn't intervene in these topics, and they also became accompaniments.

So, Zhao Jiulong coughed, and then turned the topic around to poetry, calligraphy and painting, wind and snow moon, with the joint efforts of the three chief judges, the so-called poetry and calligraphy and painting, wind and snow moon zuihou naturally concentrated on the "wind and snow moon", this proposition is a man likes, so the three men began to talk about women together, chatting harmoniously.

The bell rang in the afternoon, Cheng Ling smiled, and a solemn aura began to fill his eyes: "Yang Langzhong." Let's go up? ”

Yang Fan also smiled, but he felt a little unsmiling: "The facts of the crime are already clear, next, you and I should negotiate on the sentencing and come up with a verdict that is convincing to the emperor, the court, and the people." The official suggested that we discuss it in these two halls. What do you two think? ”

Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong glanced at each other. invariably said: "There is nothing wrong with it, it is so ......, there is no need to sit upright, let's relax, hahahaha......"

The laughter stopped abruptly, and the three of them suddenly fell silent, and the sound of rain seemed to come from outside the hall at this time......

The officials who watched the rain under the corridor seemed to sense the sudden strange atmosphere in the hall, and turned their heads to look into the hall. I saw Yang Langzhong of the Criminal Department leaning on a few cases, holding a glittering silver fish talisman in his hand, with the rhythmic ups and downs of the five fingers, the fish talisman jumped and tumbled flexibly between his fingers, flashed into his palm, and appeared on the back of his fingers.

Dali Temple Zhicheng Ling sits on a couch on the left. Leaning on a round cushion behind his back, he lifted his robe with both hands, and lifted Erlang's legs, and Zhao Jiulong, the imperial envoy on the right, made the same movements with him almost at the same time. Below the side, two officials carried a few cases and quietly put them down, put away the four treasures of the study, and a secretary sat down behind the cases......

It's like a silent movie in the hall. There is only action, no sound.

When the movements were all still, Yang Fan's palm flipped over, and the silverfish talisman jumped from his fingertips to his palm. He put the fish talisman back into the silver fish bag, sat up straight, and said to Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong: "Cheng Sizhi and Zhao Imperial Envoy, which of the two will express it first?" ”

Cheng Zhao and the others were polite, and Cheng Ling, the Dali Temple who tried the case first, made a closing statement.

Cheng Ling coughed and said, "Pan Junyi came to collect debts, and Chang Lin was unable to repay. The two sides had a quarrel, and there was a fight, and during the dispute, Chang Zhiyuan helped his father commit murder and killed Pan Junyi, the facts were clear, and the parties also confessed. Our Great Zhou Law stipulates that if a father is beaten by a person and a son rescues him, causing a person to be disabled, the crime of fighting will be reduced by three degrees according to ordinary times. Whoever dies shall be beheaded according to the usual law! Therefore, this official thinks that Chang Zhiyuan should be sentenced to death! ”

Zhao Jiulong glanced at Yang Fan, saw that Yang Fan was sitting still, and knew that he was waiting for him to speak. If he speaks, he will definitely refute Dali Temple and suggest commutation, although it is still a step away from Yang Fan's acquittal, after all, there are similarities, which is inevitably equivalent to helping Yang Fan.

But now Yang Fan was silent, so he had no choice but to speak. In his mind, the commutation of the sentence can be played a little from a moral point of view, as for the acquittal, but it is inevitable that the punishment is too lenient, for the time being, it is better to refute the common enemy of the Imperial Embassy and the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and then deal with Yang Fan, the idea is certain, so he said:

"The function of the law is to prevent violence. The role of filial piety lies in enlightenment. Chang Zhiyuan saved his father, which was filial piety rather than violence. Chang Zhiyuan is young and can understand the truth of filial piety, isn't this because of the merits of the imperial court's education? "The Royal System" says that the principle of the five punishments must be the relatives of the father and the son; The righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", the original heart is condemned!

Today's long-term life is the emperor's wind, and the young charm is filial piety! We should punish the evil and promote the good! Although Chang Zhiyuan killed people and deserved death, he was still in his childhood and could know the way of father and son. In this way, it not only demonstrates filial piety, but also punishes lawlessness, the best of both worlds! ”

On the side, he wrote down the basis of the officials' punishments one by one.

Cheng Ling retorted: "Chang Lin owes debts first, and it is unjust. Pan Junyi asked for debts, Chang Lin refused, and there was a quarrel, it was just an ordinary fight. Chang Lin's son helps his father to commit murder, if filial piety is used to cover it up and reduce his punishment, in this way, if there are evildoers in the world, won't his son be able to help his father to abuse? ”

Zhao Jiulong raised his eyebrows and said, "Cheng Si said bluntly that Chang Lin was in debt first, and it was unjust. Could it be that he forgot that on the night of Qixi Festival, Pan Junyi saw that he deliberately set up a gamble to lure Chang Lin? If you say injustice, Pan Junyi is unrighteous first, why is he solely responsible for Chang Lin's fault? ”

A smile flashed across the corners of Yang Fan's mouth, and he knew that when these two people competed, they would definitely talk about who was at fault first. The Imperial Envoy originally set up a trap for him, as long as he sympathized with the Chang family and wanted to atone the crime of the Chang family's father and son, he could only be used by the Imperial Envoy. Now, he is even more radical than the Imperial Envoy, and the Imperial Envoy's set has become for themselves, as long as they still insist on their own opinions, they will inevitably stand with Yang Fan on this point.

The rain continued to fall outside the hall, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The debate between Cheng Ling, who represented Dali Temple, and Zhao Jiulong, who represented the imperial envoy's platform, also became more and more intense, and the two of them said all the reasons they could say. Later, there was no new idea, so I could only raise the bar again and again.

At this time, Yang Fan, who had been sitting silent, suddenly interjected: "This official thinks that what the imperial envoy said is reasonable!" The law is determined by love, Pan Junyi is interested in seeing the color, and plotting against him. The death of Cheng's mother. Pan Junyi is to blame. After that, he set up gambling to deceive people, deceived each other in front of the spirit, and such evil deeds were hated by God and hated by ghosts, and he had his own way of death! ”

Zhao Jiulong said: "So, Yang Langzhong agrees with my Dali Temple's opinion?" ”

Yang Fan immediately shook his head and said: "Yang agrees with Dali Temple's view that Pan Junyi is unrighteous first and has his own way to die, but in sentencing. It is different from Dali Temple! ”

He looked at Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong, and said loudly: "The law is nothing more than reasonable. Love and law are important to each other, so who is lighter and who is heavier? When is it light and when is it heavy? When will ethics and morality not be hurt because of serious law enforcement, and when will national criminal law not be ignored because of the importance of ethics and morality? ”

He looked left and right, and said, "That's the responsibility of our judges." Distinguish between different situations. Either the law is in the feelings, or the feelings are in the law, or the love and the law are each one step in order to seek harmony. ”

Zhao Jiulong immediately interjected: "My Dali Temple suggests commutation of sentence, which is exactly such an idea!" ”

Yang Fan immediately responded: "The Imperial Envoy can consider commuting the sentence based on this, Yang Fan agrees!" However, the reason why Yang insisted that Chang Zhiyuan should be acquitted is because of Yang's reasoning! ”

He slowly stood up. said: "The law of the imperial court has always been renamed. Therefore, when the elder and the inferior are scolded, beaten, injured, killed, etc., the inferior party bears more responsibility! If a parent beats a child. If you are a child, you can't sue your parents! If a parent kills someone, the child cannot sue him.

But if the mother kills the father, what should be done according to the law of our court? The two of them, who were well versed in the law, should know that at that time, whether they were grandmothers, stepmothers, or loving mothers, as children, they were no longer bound by the prohibition of children and grandchildren from suing their grandparents, nor were they bound by the prohibition of their children and grandparents, nor did they fulfill their obligations to speak for His Holiness, and they could and had to report them to the government!

My father is also an elder, and my mother is also an elder, so why is that? Because it is the same family affection, the father is more important than the mother, so in the filial piety, the consideration of respect and humility is added, the father's relatives are respected by the mother's relatives, so the mother should be sued if she kills her father. Cheng Sizhi and Imperial Envoy Zhao, is this official right? ”

Cheng Ling and Zhao Jiulong hesitated for a moment, and nodded reluctantly, the law of this dynasty is like this, and they can't argue with it.

Yang Fan said again: "My Great Zhou Law stipulates that grandparents and parents are beaten, and their children and grandchildren immediately beat each other, and if they injure the other party, they will be punished by one degree reduced by the crime of ordinary assault. Yang wanted to ask the two of them, others beat their fathers and ancestors, and their own government yamen can punish them, don't you just sue the government, why does the law stipulate that the descendants should immediately fight back to rescue the elder? ”

Zhao Jiulong said: "This is because as a descendant, there is an obligation to be filial to the elder. Seeing that the elder was beaten, but he didn't save him, he just waited for the incident to be reported to the government, what is the filial piety of a child? If the ethics of filial piety are abandoned because of the protection of the government, is the purpose of the legislation to corrupt morality? But ......"

Zhao Jiulong frowned and said, "But what does this have to do with what you and I are discussing?" Chang Zhiyuan saved his father, and my imperial envoy Tai took it for granted. It's just that saving his father was done out of filial piety, but at that time, he had to kill people to save his father. Killing people is breaking the law, and saving the father is filial piety, so the imperial envoy took a compromise strategy and suggested commutation, what's wrong? ”

Speaking of which, the two of them unknowingly had already left Dali Temple aside. Originally, the three topics of capital crime, commutation, and innocence were cleverly induced, and under Yang Fan's skillful inducement, the death penalty had been put aside, and it had become a battle between commutation and innocence. (To be continued)

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