Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 640
Seeing the prisoner brought here, Li Jing smiled and said to Kong Yinen: "Kong Zhi County, come, I will accompany you to try the case today."

Xiao Wu heard the words and immediately ordered someone to bring the tables and chairs.

Li Jing stretched out his hand to signal, and Zhu Youjian smiled and sat down side by side with Li Jing.

After receiving the account book from Ma Wu, Li Jing looked at it and said, "Bring Kong Xingxian here first."

The guards received an order to push a man in his thirties to the front.

Li Jing looked at Kong Yinen and said, "Kong Yinen, this man is Kong Xingxian. In the sixth year of Chongzhen, he forcibly bought [-] mu of fertile land from Zhang Wujin at the price of two taels of silver per mu. At that time, Zhang Wujin went to the county government to file a complaint. , was kicked out by you, right?
Later, when Zhang Wujin wanted to go to Yanzhou Mansion to file a complaint, you informed Kong Xingxian to send someone to secretly intercept Zhang Wujin and break Zhang Wujin's leg, making Zhang Wujin crippled.Then Kong Xingxian ordered people to drive Zhang Wujin's family out of Qufu, and Zhang Wujin's parents died soon after.

These years, Zhang Wujin has been silent, and you must have forgotten about it.

But you have forgotten, people are doing it, the sky is watching, and the law of heaven is clear, how can you let you and others get away with it?Kong Yinen, Kong Xingxian, you would never have thought that the people from the Ministry of Security would find Zhang Wujin after learning about this, right? "

After finishing speaking, Li Jing turned to Xiao Wu and said, "Xiao Wu, bring Zhang Wujin in."

Xiao Wu received the order and shouted loudly: "Bring Zhang Wujin."

After a while, a cripple walked into the hall tremblingly with the support of the guards, leaning on a cane.

Seeing that Zhang Wujin was about to kneel and kowtow, Li Jing waved his hands and said, "Zhang Wujin, you have trouble with your legs and feet, so you don't need to salute. This is the emperor. Say hello to the emperor."

"Your Majesty, I didn't expect the grass people to be lucky enough to meet the emperor in this life. Your Majesty, you have to be the master of the grass people!" Zhang Wujin said weeping.

Zhu Youjian heard the words and said: "Zhang Wujin, don't worry, today I and Xingguo Gong will make decisions for you."

"Caomin thank the emperor, thank you Xing Guogong, long live the emperor." Zhang Wujin shouted.

Li Jing waved his hand, Xiao Wu walked over, took a contract from Zhang Wujin, and turned around to hand it to Li Jing.

Li Jing looked at it and threw it on the ground: "Kong Yinen, this is the contract that Kong Xingxian forced Zhang Wujin to sell the land back then. There are witnesses and pledges from the left and right neighbors on it. Look carefully, this is not fake. There are two more One copy is in the hands of Kong Xingxian, and the other is on file in the Qufu County Government.”

Kong Yinen took the contract and looked at it, but was silent for a while.

Li Jing raised his eyes to look at Kong Xingxian, and said with a sneer, "Kong Xingxian, you have nothing to say."

Kong Xingxian hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, it is Zhang Wujin who voluntarily sold the field to Wansheng at that time, and there was no forced buying and selling."

Li Jingwen said with a smile: "The price of one mu of fertile land in Chongzhen was ten taels of silver. Three generations of Zhang Wujin's grandparents worked hard to save [-] mu of land and would sell it to you for two taels of silver? You said Zhang Wujin did it voluntarily, you Do you think Zhang Wujin is stupid, or am I stupid?"

Turning to look at Kong Yinen, Li Jing continued: "Kong Yinen, you protect Kong Xingxian so much because Kong Xingxian is Kong Yinzhi's nephew. However, you will only harm him by doing so."

Suddenly Li Jing's face turned serious, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Come here, break Kong Xingxian's two legs for me. How he broke Zhang Wujin's leg back then, you will break Kong Xingxian's leg today."

"Yes!" Several guards responded loudly.

When Kong Yinzhi heard the words, he said anxiously: "Li Jing, if you dare to use torture here and defile the holy temple, scholars all over the world will surely attack you."

Li Jing smiled and said: "The most holy teacher has a spirit in the sky. Seeing me teach his unworthy descendants for him, I must be relieved." "

At this moment, several guards had pinned Kong Xingxian to the ground, each of them found a wooden stick, and slammed it on Kong Xingxian's leg.

There was only a click, and then Kong Xingxian screamed loudly, it was obvious that the leg bone had been broken.The guard ignored him, punched Kong Xingxian's other leg hard again, Kong Xingxian let out a miserable cry, and fainted from the pain on the side of his head.

Li Jing looked at Zhang Wujin, smiled and said: "Zhang Wujin, how Kong Xingxian broke your leg back then, how I broke his leg today, are you satisfied?"

"Thank you, sir, for avenging the villain." Zhang Wujin said hastily.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Zhang Wujin, although Kong Xingxian ruined your family, I can't sentence him to death according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, but this person will live in prison forever.

In addition, Kong Xingxian took your land forcibly in the six years of Chongzhen. Your losses over the years have been serious, and I will ask him to compensate you for your losses.Look at this, 420 mu of land, with an annual output of five shi grains per mu, is equivalent to six taels of silver, and seventy mu is 11 taels of silver. From the sixth year of Chongzhen to the 520th year of Chongzhen, it took six years, and the total was [-] taels Silver, do you think it is satisfactory to compensate you for the silver and return your seventy acres of land? "

"Ah? Pay the villain so much money?" Zhang Wujin was stunned when he heard this.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Of course, after you have paid the compensation, you have to pay the taxes for the past few years. From the ninth year of Chongzhen, the land tax was one tenth of the tax. In the past three years, you have to pay 120 six taels of silver. In the first three years, you have to pay 42 taels of silver, a total of 160 taels of silver. That is to say, you can only get 350 taels of silver in the end."

"Small man...Small man...Small man thanks Master Qingtian!" Zhang Wujin said.

Li Jing waved his hand: "You go outside and wait, I'll have someone deliver the money to you in a while."

"Yes!" Zhang Wujin said hurriedly.

Two guards stepped forward and supported Zhang Wujin to walk outside the hall.

Suddenly, Zhang Wujin shouted loudly: "Lord Qingtian, Lord Qingtian!"

Li Jing shook his head and sighed lightly.

Then Li Jing called the names one by one, one case after another, one personal evidence and evidence were all in front of him, leaving the criminals speechless, then Li Jing was punished according to the law, either with a stick or in prison, of course the final fine was inevitable .

The most terrible thing is that after Li Jing sentenced one person, he sent a group of soldiers to the Confucian Mansion to search for the fine money. For more than [-] criminals, he sent more than [-] groups of soldiers. One can imagine what the Confucian Mansion will look like now. Wolves are like tigers, and they don't cherish the treasures of the Confucian Mansion. After this trip, the Confucian Mansion will definitely be ruined by them.

In the end, there were only two people left, one was the steward of the Confucian mansion, and the other was Kong Xinglian, the son of Kong Yinzhi.

Looking at Kong Yinzhi, Li Jing smiled and said, "You don't know what those Confucian children did just now, do you?"

Kong Yinzhi gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know."

Li Jingjing nodded: "Then you must not know what your son did?"

Kong Yinzhi said: "I don't know what the dog has committed."

Li Jing smiled, pointed at Kong Xinglian and said, "Your son robbed women and killed people, you don't know? It seems that you are too incompetent as a father. Well, since you said you didn't know, then I Just pretend you don't know."

Turning his head to look at Kong Xinglian, Li Jing continued: "Kong Xinglian, I don't want to talk nonsense with you. There are all witnesses and evidences for the things you did. Is there anything else you can say?"

"I know my mistake, sir, please forgive me!" Kong Xinglian knelt down and kowtowed.

Li Jing sneered and said: "You want me to be merciful? If I am merciful, will I be worthy of the woman who was raped by you, and the person who died at your hands? Someone, pull Kong Xinglian out of the hall and behead him. His body hangs in the hole Show it to the public outside the gate of the mansion."

After hearing Li Jing's punishment, Kong Xinglian yelled repeatedly, "My lord, please forgive me! My lord, I know my mistake, my lord, please forgive me!"

Li Jing waved his hand, and two guards stepped forward and dragged Kong Xinglian out like a dead dog.

Ignoring Kong Xinglian's crying, Li Jing looked at the butler and smiled and said, "It's your turn. Kong Yinzhi said that you did it privately when the Confucius family embezzled the relief food. He didn't know about it, is that so?"

Seeing that Li Jing was merciless in punishing the children of the Confucian family, and even killed Kong Yinzhi's sons, the housekeeper knew that if he was charged with embezzling disaster supplies, he would surely die. Hearing Li Jing's inquiry, The housekeeper knelt down and shouted anxiously: "My lord, it's none of the villain's business. The villain is just a housekeeper. How could he instruct the county magistrate to do such a big thing? It was all ordered by Kong Yinzhi!"

Li Jing looked at Kong Yinzhi coldly: "What do you say?"

Kong Yinzhi shook his head, and said lightly: "He is just afraid that you will kill him and put the blame on me. You can go to my mansion to check to see if there are these [-] shi of grain in my mansion."

Li Jing smiled, looked at the butler and asked, "Let me ask you, where is the fifty thousand shi of grain now?"

"Store it in the warehouse of Dongsheng Rice Shop." The housekeeper hurriedly said.

Li Jing smiled and said, "Didn't you run Dongsheng Rice Shop? What does it have to do with Kong Yinzhi?"

The butler hurriedly said: "My lord, how can a villain have the money to open a rice shop? It is true that Dongsheng Rice Shop is opened in the name of a villain, but the boss behind the scenes is Kong Yinzhi, and all the money earned by the villain is handed over. I gave it to Kong Yinzhi. If you don’t believe me, you can go to Mipu to check the account. The account book of Mipu records the amount of all the money and money in Mipu. In addition, Kong Yinzhi’s study also has an account, and the adult only needs to put the two accounts. You will know the number as soon as you touch it."

Kong Yinzhi heard the words and said: "I don't have the accounts of Mipu. He's talking nonsense. You can send someone to my study to see if there are such accounts."

Li Jing shook his head lightly: "Kong Yinzhi, until now, you are still arguing, and you don't even think about it, if I don't check everything out, can I call you here?

Hehe, you hid the account book very secretly, but you forgot what the people under me do, not to mention an account book, they can find out even the most secret things. "

Kong Yinzhi said: "Since you have found out, why do you still ask me?"

"Hehe, the purpose is to let everyone see the true face of you, a hypocrite who talks about being a sage and keeps silent about benevolence and morality." Li Jing laughed.

As soon as Li Jing finished speaking, a guard outside the hall stepped in quickly, bowed and said, "Commander, a group of scholars came outside the hall and said they want to discuss with the commander."

Li Jing laughed loudly when he heard the words: "Okay! Well done! We are going to let them see the true face of Yan Shenggong, and bring these people in!"

(End of this chapter)