Fang Jingzhai first went to a teahouse outside Guangchumen in the morning, and took the opportunity to inquire about Jiao Yingyuan in the chat. As expected, none of the people said good things about him. They all said that this person was good at gambling, and even had to sell the ancestral house of the Gongzhong to pay off his debts. It was really a waste of life.

In the afternoon, his subordinates who were sent by him to inquire around Jiao’s mother’s residence also came back to report that whether it was the shopkeepers of the surrounding shops or the neighbors selling vegetables, everyone said that Wang was upright and kind, but since her eldest son started to sue and bite, the old lady went to the yamen to testify several times, and her health was worse than before.

At this time, Fang Jingzhai had already determined in his heart that regardless of whether this case was false accusation or not, Jiao Yingyuan's character was too bad. In the eyes of his old Xingming, Jiao Yingyuan's courage to repeatedly false accusations before had a lot to do with the court's handling of the name of punishment.

There was a very prominent feature in litigation cases in the Qing Dynasty, that is, false accusations were very common. The people said that "no lies will not be accused" about litigation. Those who complained were either for the benefit, for revenge, or for victory. They often exaggerate and even make up random things when litigating.

This year, a lawsuit usually takes four steps from beginning to end, namely, refutation, trial and review. Only when these four steps are completed can a lawsuit be considered to be completed. The lawsuits for civil cases will only be accepted on 3, 6, 9 days, and the government will not accept any other days.

The judicial system of the Qing Dynasty followed the "prudential prudential" principle of the Ming Dynasty. In order to prevent the trial officials from abusing the punishment, the Qing court formulated a very strict review system. That is, cases with imprisonment or above need to be reviewed by the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice. Only after the review is passed can the corresponding punishment be executed.

The system of review is carried out simultaneously with the more stringent accountability system for officials. That is, if a higher-level judicial official finds that a lower-level official has committed a wrong judgment during the review process, the lower-level official will be severely punished. At the least, it will be fined for salary and dismissed from office, and at the worst, it will be moved.

In fact, it would be fine if the law is enforced impartially, but the key is that the lower-level officials themselves are not clean. They would rather arrest the big and let the small things go in civil cases and take lighter than take the slightest risk.

For false accusations, in order not to cause unnecessary trouble during trial, prefectures and county officials often do not make judgments according to law. Most of the false accusers are suspicious. This is also the reason why Jiao Yingyuan's previous three false accusations were all admonished.

In this way, in order to make their cases seriously, the people often disguise light cases as serious cases in order to pay attention to them. Because when encountering serious cases such as murder, robbery, and rebellion, local officials must accept them whether they are willing or not.

However, there is another question that puzzled Fang Jingzhai. As a prison student, Jiao Yingyuan should understand what consequences will be caused by false accusations and rebellion. He did not involve serious cases before, but why did he sue his cousin Jiao Xun, other literati and his three younger brothers for rebellion this time?

You should know that the punishment for false accusers in the "Qing Dynasty Laws" is very serious. Basically, if accusing others of any crime, he will be punished twice as much. Rebellion is taken seriously from the court to the local government. Once it is found that it is a false accusation, the false accusers will not escape the consequences of Lingchi.

After he returned to the government office in the evening to report to Ma Huiyu, Ma Ma issued a sign ticket the next morning and wrote another official letter, asking his subordinates to take it to Jiangdu County Office, where the county came forward to detain Jiao Yingyuan.

At this point, both Ma Huiyu and Fang Jingzhai wanted to follow the principle of turning big things into small things. After all, Jiao Xun's wife is the cousin of the new Hanlin Ruan Yuan, so she dare not be careless.

Unexpectedly, after his subordinates brought Jiao Yingyuan back, Fang Jingzhai personally interrogated, the matter had a 180-degree turnover, and Jiao Xun's rebellion was probably true. However, the reason why Jiao Yingyuan reported it made Fang Jingzhai amazed. He had lived for most of his life and had never seen such a shameless person with such a vicious heart!

Speaking of February this year, Jiao Yingyuan was really poor and bored, so he could hardly get over the poor, so he wanted to sell the public housing in the tribe he lived in.

His behavior is so whimsical. The ancestral house is the root of a family. Even if he sells land, he cannot sell houses. Not to mention his mother Wang and his three younger brothers, even Jiao Xun and other relatives who heard about this matter all disagreed, which made Jiao Yingyuan look dirty.

More than ten days ago, Jiao Xun's mother heard about this and asked Jiao Xun to help her cousin with 150 taels of silver. Jiao's mother thought that she would go north with her son, so she might as well help her before leaving, so as not to make it difficult for her sister-in-law Wang to do it.

Jiao Yingyuan was somewhat surprised when he got the money, so he bought some gifts to go to his cousin's house. His purpose was not to thank him, but to see if he could get more money. Although 150 taels of silver is a lot, it was a drop in the bucket for his previous debt.

Unexpectedly, when he went to Jiao Xun's house, Jiao Xun happened to be not at home. Jiao's mother asked the servant to call her son back, and at the same time said that Jiao Yingyuan would go back after dinner.

After March, there were only three servants left in Jiao Xun's family, and the others were all dismissed before the New Year. The book boy followed Jiao Xun out, with a doorman in front and a maid in the backyard, which gave Jiao Yingyuan the opportunity to take advantage of it. The guy actually sneaked into his cousin's study room and searched up and down, intending to find some valuable ones to go.

Unexpectedly, he didn't find the valuable toys and asked him to find a booklet on the bookshelf. Not to mention that the contents of it all record the history of the anti-Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty. There was also a paper mark in the middle, which was written by Jiao Xun, saying, "Once you hold the scissors, cut my half-head; if you want to be safe, you will die than die."

This scared Jiao Yingyuan. He hurriedly put the book back, took the paper sign and put it in his arms, and then quietly left the study. In the evening, Jiao Yingyuan mentioned the matter of borrowing money. Jiao Xun was angry when he heard this, scolded his cousin and bombed him out.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Jiao Yingyuan became more and more angry after returning home, and he felt that he had no way out. So the "new hatred and old hatred" were superimposed together, and the evil of human nature was completely stimulated in despair.

He decided to use Jiao Xun's handwritten anti-poems as a breakthrough point to create a major case, use the government's hands to "kill the nine clans", and drag all those who have celebrating their tributes, including his mother, brothers, and clansmen, into hell and buried him with him!

As for the fact that Zhong Huai and Huang Chengji were also involved in the rebellion in the anonymous letter, there was no evidence. Instead, he thought that his cousin had always had a good relationship with the two, so he thought that he could drag one into the water and was the same, but he was really confused.

It was of great importance. Fang Jingzhai first took people to Jiao Yingyuan's house to take out the hidden paper, and then reported it directly to the prefect Ma Huiyu. Ma Huiyu was extremely shocked after hearing this, but he was also a Jinshi and a Hanlin person. He was so angry that he trembled all over at Jiao Yingyuan's shameless behavior.

The case has developed to this point, and it is no longer a simple false accusation. Moreover, the two did not know the relationship between Jiao Xun and Beihai Town, so Ma Huiyu first sent someone to issue a submission to Jiangsu Governor Changlin, and at the same time sent a large number of soldiers and yamen runners to lock all the relevant people in the false accusation letter and other people were imprisoned.

The Jiangsu Governor's Yamen is in Suzhou, only more than 200 miles away from Yangzhou. Governor Changlin was also very surprised when he received the report from Yangzhou. Now the court has repeatedly defeated the north. Although he has tried every means to cover up, he cannot escape the world's hearts. Seeing that Qianlong's Wanbao Festival is coming soon, such a thing happened under his rule. So Changlin reported to the Governor General of Liangjiang, Shulin, and at the same time decided to go to Yangzhou to handle the case in person.

The reason why he dared to make such a decision was that he already knew that the National Taiwan Master was in a lawsuit and that his official position would be lost. Moreover, due to the power structure of the governor and the governor in the Qing Dynasty, the governor was not the governor's subordinate, but the parallel relationship.

Not to mention how Nanjing will make arrangements, Jiao Xun, Zhong Huai and Huang Chengji were detained in the government office, and Yangzhou City was immediately infuriated.

After Jiang Fan asked someone to learn about the case, he suddenly felt like a frightened bird. After thinking for a while, he first wrote two letters and asked his family members to go to Baoying and Changzhou respectively to report to Liu Taigong, Duan Yukai and Hong Liangji. Then, he left Yangzhou by boat overnight, intending to go to Qingjiangpu to seek help.

Unlike Jiao Xun, who likes to stay at home in his young family, Jiang Fan practices medicine for generations, and Tianruitang Pharmacy in Duozi Street belongs to the Jiang family. Once Jiao Xun and the other two couldn't stand it, they would not know how many people would be involved.

When they returned from Beihai Town last year and passed by Xuzhuang, Wang Changsheng informed Jiang Fan, Hong Liangji and others about the contact points and contact methods of Qingjiangpu.

On the second day after Jiang Fan set out, Yangzhou prefect Ma Huiyu received a reply from Governor Changlin, asking him to interrogate the criminals first, and then open a trial after the Censorate and Governor arrived.

Because Jiao Xun, Zhong Huai and Huang Chengji were both fame and fortune, Ma Huiyu wrote the copy himself, while others, such as Jiao Yingyuan's mother, Wang, three brothers and several creditors, were handed over to Jiangdu County and Ganquan County for trial respectively. Such a big thing happened under the rule, Jiangdu County and Ganquan County were to blame, so they ignored everything at this time and just wanted to investigate it thoroughly.

Jiao Xun came up and said he was wronged. He was a "otaku". He was falsely accused of his cousin Jiao Yingyuan for no reason because he lent money to his cousin Jiao Yingyuan. It is ridiculous that he actually bit himself to rebel. His friends Zhong Huai and Huang Chengji have nothing to do with this matter.

Ma Huiyu had already understood the past and after, and at this time he had nothing nonsense, so he took out the booklet copied from Jiao Xun's home and the bookmarks with Gu Yanwu's poems and essays written by Gu Yanwu.

"Look! This is the bookmark written with anti-poems found by your cousin Jiao Yingyuan in your study room, and the anti-poems found by the officers in your study room!" Ma Huiyu slapped awakening and shouted: "Jiaolitang, our mansion can immediately ask the government to change your fame and fortune, and serve you with great punishment! I have always had a talented reputation, so this talent is polite to others."

Jiao Xun was stunned when he saw this book. He brought it back from Beihai Town. Because he saw the content of the book about the "Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shadow-Shad

"Jiao Litang, come quickly!" Ma Huiyu narrowed his eyes and stroked his beard and said, "Have you heard of the 'Powering County Magistrate and Destroying the Family Prefecture'? The lives and safety of hundreds of members of the Jiao family are all in your mind."

Seeing Jiao Xun's forehead sweating, Ma Huiyu knew that his words had worked and continued: "Since I took office, I have heard that you have been filial to your mother. Even so, wouldn't you think about your mother and your wife? You have fame, but they don't have an imperial decree. What can you ask for under the Three Woods? Even the stubborn people can't stand it."

The so-called "three woods" are actually punishment, also called clamping sticks. Some clamp fingers are clamped, and some clamp ankles are clamped. They clamp fingers for female prisoners.

Although the five small logs are far more powerful than sticks. As the saying goes, "ten fingers connect to the heart", the pain created by the fingers is unbearable. As long as it is used, the person being punished will be exhausted.

Ji Xiaolan once recorded in his notes "Luanyang Xialu" that a daughter-in-law who was framed by her mother-in-law committed suicide in class because she could not bear the torture of her fingers.

It is precisely because this punishment is too cruel that the "Qing Dynasty Laws" clearly stipulate that those who are responsible for major cases who are investigated repeatedly and do not reveal the truth, or who have different testimony before and after, are allowed to use clamp sticks; ordinary criminals are not allowed to use clamp sticks. In addition, clamp sticks are not allowed to be used repeatedly, and are only allowed to be used once on the same prisoner.

As soon as this said, Jiao Xun was sweating profusely and his whole body was trembling. Ma Taifu picked up the teacup and started drinking it slowly.

In fact, Ma Huiyu felt very sorry for the so-called harm to his kind. If such a thing happened, Ruan Yuan, who was an official in the capital, would definitely be implicated. Although he might not be involved in a rebellion case, his career will be difficult in the future.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! A quarter of an hour later, Jiao Xun, who was soaked in sweat, knew that he could not escape this disaster. Although he had planned to join his family to join Beihai Town, he was not a tenacious "revolutionary fighter" after all. Moreover, Jiao Xun has been devoted to studying for many years and has not much experience in human thoughts and accidents.

"Okay! I just ask the adults not to force confessions to their mother and weak wife, they don't know anything."

Ma Huiyu looked gloomy and raised his hand to hold the book and asked, "Where does this book come from?"

Jiao Xun said sorry to Jiang Fan and others in his heart, and then said sadly: "It was obtained by the student from Beihai Town."

"Puff!" As soon as this said, Magistrate Ma did not hold a mouthful of tea in his mouth and sprayed it all on the face of the scholar-official beside him.

"You, you..." Ma Huiyu stood up tremblingly, and said with a slight glaring at him: "You mean the North Pirate?!"

"yes......"

I'm going to be a mother! Prefect Ma's heart suddenly stumbled. He had been an official in the Ministry of Personnel for many years and had been in exchange for letters with his colleagues and relatives in the capital, so he knew clearly about the incident in Tianjin last year. At this time, he hated Jiao Yingyuan to death. A false accusation case actually brought out Beihai Town.

If you write an anti-poem or a reverse book, Ma Huiyu would not be polite at all. He would directly ask Xuezheng to come and remove Jiao Xun's fame and fortune, and then take him to the death row to arrest him.

But the North Pirates had a big iron ship. If they threatened the coast again for this matter, shocked the Shengjia and affected Qianlong's birthday, Ma Huiyu had a hundred heads that were not enough to cut.

If I had known this... It would have been useless if I had known it would have been! He would not dare to ask about this anymore. When Nietai and the governor arrived, they would decide what to do.

Thinking of this, Ma Huiyu said to the yamen runners in the signing room: "Come on! Send the criminal Jiao Litang to the prison for custody. Um... Don't be disrespectful to his mother and wife. Please try your best to provide food and food, but you are not allowed to visit them."
Chapter completed!