Chapter 330: All the heroes (7)

Hou Dayong led his troops for several years and this was the first time he encountered such a person who blocked horses and shouted for justice. He glanced at Cao Bin and said to the soldiers: "General Cao, the Tiger Power Army, is here. If you have any injustice, please tell him."

The soldier still knelt on the ground stubbornly, with a look of disrespect, saying, "The Huwei Army commander cannot take care of local affairs, please make the decision for me."

Hou Dayong said: "Do you know who I am?"

"I don't know who the Lord is, but General Cao must be the senior official in the court after you."

"I don't care what your grievances are. You are a soldier of the Huwei Army now. You must report this matter to the general of the Huwei Army first. If they can't solve it, they will naturally find someone who can solve it. This is the military camp. The military camp has its own military camp. You cannot stop the horse and complain." After saying that, Hou Dayong no longer paid attention to this person, raised the horse and left the military camp, and Hou Dayong said to Cao Bin: "If this person dares to stop the horse and call for justice, there must be a huge grievance. You should ask about this matter personally and report to me later."

Looking at the senior officials who left the world, the soldier looked disappointed, stared at his eyes and said softly: "Is there any law of protecting each other?"

Cao Bin sent Hou Dayong away, came to the sergeant still kneeling, and said, "I am Cao Bin, the army of Huwei. If you have any injustice, tell me, but the army has military rules, you go and get twenty military sticks and come to my tent."

Shortly after Hou Dayong returned to the mansion, Cao Bin came to the door to defend himself. After a few greetings in the living room, Cao Bin said respectfully: "The last general was not strict in leading the troops, and there was a case of stopping the horse. Please punish the Hou Prime Minister."

Hou Dayong asked, "How to punish this sergeant?"

Seeing that Hou Dayong was speaking straightforwardly, Cao Bin was less restrained and said, "I really didn't expect that there would be such a case of stopping horses in the military camp. He beat him twenty military sticks to avoid these bastards from following the rules." Through these days of contact, Cao Bin could also find Hou Dayong's temper, fearing his feet and shrinking. Hou was not happy on the contrary. He said honestly or even swearing at the right time, but Hou Xiang looked very durable.

Sure enough, Hou Dayong heard Cao Bin's swearing, and smiled on his face, saying, "This person dared to stop the horse and call for justice, but he had some courage. I wonder what kind of injustice he had?"

"Hey, there are so many such things." Although Cao Bin is the leader of the palace guard, he had wandered in the lower class for a long time and saw many dark things.

"This person is from Cizhou. When he was young, he stayed in Cizhou for more than a year and knew the customs of Cizhou. There is a widely circulated rule in this area called "Thieves Blooming". The so-called "Thieves Blooming" means that when a theft case occurred in the countryside, the officials and yamen runners had the opportunity to get rich, and they did not investigate at all. They pointed all the rich households around the stolen houses as stolen households. Of course, these rich households are all rich households without anyone in the court."

Hou Dayong originally had a smile on his face, but when he heard this, the smile on his face disappeared.

"Since there is no one in the court and there are stolen households, it is reasonable to detain them. They are in prison. Why worry about these rich families not spitting out meat and bones together? Every time a case is reported, several families are often involved, and the thief blossoms are also caused by this. Those rich families who were wronged have to take out a lot of money to deal with them everywhere. Only when the officials make up enough will they release them and declare that these rich families have no stolen households."

"The person who complained was called Jiang Si. The family had a little land and a few shops, and their lives were quite prosperous. Unexpectedly, at the end of last year, disaster fell from the sky, and people near his house were patronized by thieves. According to the practice of thieves, Jiang Si's father was imprisoned. Jiang Si was eager to save his father and took care of him in many ways. Seeing the yamen officials agree to release his father, who knew that Cizhou Prefecture had changed the judicial and military service and changed a group of yamen runners. Jiang Si was forced to re-process the property in Jiang Si's family. Here, Jiang Si's property was exhausted, and he only wanted his father to be released from prison successfully."

"Who knew that there was an unexpected situation in the world. The new judicial officers-in-arms had somehow offended the governor. He was removed from his post without sitting on the hot side. Another judicial officers-in-arms came. Jiang Sibian begged for relatives and friends. As soon as he got money, he heard that his father died of illness in prison. Jiang Si was left with both people and money. In desperation, Jiang Si's mother stopped the carriage of the governor of Jinzhou and was about to sue the arrest of his father and was deposed as a bad guy. She was beaten up. That night, his mother couldn't swallow her anger and hanged herself."

"Jiang Si was trapped in the state of destruction of his family, so he was about to go to Beijing to file a lawsuit against the emperor. He had just arrived in Jinzhou and met the Jinzhou soldiers. Seeing that Jiang Si was young and strong, they forced Jiang Si to join the army without saying a word. This time, each town offered two hundred troops to Daliang, and Jiang Si was sent to Daliang City."

Hou Dayong thought for a while and said, "Is Jiang Sizhi's words true?"

"It's true."

Hou Dayong had served as the defensive censor of Zhengzhou and had a lot of understanding of the judicial system. He was silent for a while and said, "Since I encountered Jiang Si's affairs, I cannot let it go. Then I sent someone to Cizhou to investigate the matter thoroughly." However, Hou Dayong did not want to say more about Jiang Si, nor did he want to play a role like Bao Qingtian.

After Cao Bin retreated, Hou Dayong could no longer sit still in the courtyard. He immediately went to the Sect of the Secretariat and invited the Censor Dou Yi to the Sect of the Secretariat.

After telling Jiang Si's story, Hou Dayong said again: "No Qingming society can guarantee that everyone will get absolute fairness. Jiang Si is lucky enough to meet me, and there is still hope of solving this matter. There must be thousands of Jiang Si in the world. They do not have such good luck. After being wronged, they can only swallow their anger. What we should do most now is to establish a complete system as soon as possible so that each state has laws to follow, and laws must follow."

Hearing Hou Dayong's proposal, Dou Yi's face was a little brighter and said, "After the case of Chanzhou, I knew that Hou Prime Minister must reorganize the law and discipline. Zhou Rules all came from Tang Rules. However, after the fall of Tang, wars continued in various places, resulting in the abolition of the Criminal Code and the killing of the Pillar Code. Various places used the law at will. When the late emperor was still alive, he had revised the "Da Zhou Pillary Law" to solve these problems. However, before the Criminal Code was completed, the late emperor passed away."

At this moment, Zhang Zhao, who had just been appointed as the Minister of Personnel, also rushed to the school of the Secretariat, and the "Criminal Law of the Great Zhou" was re-edited by Zhang Zhao.

Hou Dayong and Zhang Zhao sat down and said, "Shangshu Zhang, when the "Law of the Great Zhou" has not been fully completed, I will give you an important task. It is necessary to adjust the profit and loss of the existing laws in the near future based on actual conditions, as a basis for officials to review and punish sentences to prevent officials at all levels from unfairly enforcing the law and improper sentencing."

"I will tell you a principle, which is to limit the judicial rights of local areas. All major security documents must be reviewed by the court. For example, if the crimes in various areas on the border should be executed, they must be sent to the military in the state to be interrogated, especially the military camps are not allowed to make a case and sentence on their own."

"I would like to emphasize again that the state government has no final right to the death penalty. It must be reported to the Ministry of Justice for review before it can be executed. The head is not grass. If the grass is cut, it can grow again. If a person dies, it cannot be resurrected. As the saying goes, human life is at stake, and you must be very cautious."

"The Tang Dynasty's law has made strict requirements on this. It was only from the late Tang Dynasty that the court had been corrupt, and the princes in various places were domineering, and the pillars were killing people as usual. They took human lives and moved the court without asking about it. The Ministry of Justice has almost been decorated. This situation must be improved as soon as possible."

Zhang Zhao didn't know why, so he just nodded constantly and signaled Dou Yi with his eyes.

Dou Yi waited for Hou Dayong to stop and suggested: "There is a suggestion below. After the case of criminalization of each state sentenced to be listed, the relevant case files should be reported to the Ministry of Justice for review. The state government must execute the opinions of the Ministry of Justice."

"Very good, I agree to do this. Doing this is actually a review procedure for the death penalty. There are also the relationship between Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice, the Censor, and the three. You must also handle it carefully and report it to me."

After Zhang Zhao retreated with Dou Yi, he learned the whole story. He hurriedly returned to the Ministry of Personnel and brought out the "Law of the Great Zhou" that he had compiled over the years.

Hou Dayong had just sent away the three ministers and took a sip of hot tea. The minor official came to report again: "The Young Master Yang of Kaifeng Prefecture has arrived."

Yang Zhengzhi was followed by someone, but he was Liujiangqing, a native of Shamen Island.

Compared with the past, Liu Jiangqing was much thinner and quite dusty. Compared to when he was the Chengnanwei, his expression was less open and more calm. When he saw the Hou Prime Minister, he saluted in a proper manner and sat aside without saying a word.

In comparison, Yang Zhengzhi was much more casual. After sitting down, he said: "The nest of Limi Sect outside the city has been wiped out. Unfortunately, he ran away from the leader Gu Yingtian and found a lot of powerful crossbows, poisons, and rosters of the heads of various places from his courtyard. They have now been captured by local governments according to the list." It was discovered that the nest of Limi Sect was purely accidental. Before killing Zhao Kuangyin, Hou Dayong and Shi Ying patrolled along the Wuzhang River and accidentally discovered a mountain that naturally defended the river. He sent more than a dozen navy soldiers to explore the terrain.

This time, the navy was the Yangtze River Navy. However, the Bian River Navy was ready for reinforcements at any time. Shi Ying wanted to build a water camp on Wuzhang River. He remembered the place he had seen some time ago, so he sent his subordinates to buy the small courtyard on the top of the mountain. This time he entered the courtyard, but his subordinates found that many people gathered in the courtyard to recite scriptures. The situation was quite strange. At that time, he only brought three subordinates and did not alarm the people in the courtyard, so he retreated. Shi Ying reported the matter to Hou Dayong, and Hou Dayong handed the matter to Kaifeng Prefecture.

Limi Sect had plotted against Hou Dayong many times, which made Hou Dayong puzzled. He heard that he had grasped many of the minds of the sects and said, "Limi Sect has many secrets, so we need to interrogate them carefully. They have plotted against me many times, so we must ask the reason."

Yang Zhengzhi said with regretful expressions, "I really didn't expect that the Limi sects were so powerful that they attacked the small courtyard, killed and injured more than 40 yamen runners, and even let Gu Yingtian escape. The subordinates were really incompetent."
Chapter completed!