Chinese there is an old saying called: "wealth does not show white", the white here refers to silver, which means that when you go out, you must be careful, do not expose the silver for people to see, it is dangerous and will make people jealous. This is the way of doing things that Chinese since ancient times, and this sentence must be an unforgettable and painful experience for Xie Yan, a Ming Dynasty man, until the day of the accident, he did not know the true meaning of this sentence.
In the twenty-second year of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Xie Jian, a wealthy merchant from a certain county in Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and several merchants went to Zhejiang to purchase a batch of goods and sold them in Fuzhou. The problem is that in the Ming Dynasty, anyone who goes out a hundred miles must have a "road guide", the Ming Dynasty and the Tang and Song Dynasties are different, on the one hand, the Ming Dynasty did not re-negotiate, and the other is that the Ming Dynasty had strict requirements for others to leave the local area. The Ming Dynasty law stipulates: Everyone who comes from the peasant is not out of a mile, and enters the twilight, and the way of work and rest knows each other." Luyin was most fashionable in the Ming and Qing dynasties. When you leave the house and go to other places, you must have a "road guide" issued by the yamen. The road guide is like a letter of introduction, and his role is: "All persons who are hundreds of miles away from their place of residence need to be issued by the local county and government officials with an official document such as a pass, and if there is no "road guide" or does not conform to it, it is punishable according to the law." The "road guide" is actually the proof of leaving the hometown.
Xie Jian and several other Fujian businessmen traveled abroad. The journey from the place of departure to the destination is more than 100 miles (the first stop), and before they set off, they apply to the local government for the issuance of travel documents in accordance with the regulations - "Wen Ying", also known as "Road Guide", in this material records their names, places of origin, occupation and work unit, baggage details, destination, what kind of livelihood and other information, for the checkpoints along the way to be verified and passed before being released. There should be a lot of levels on the way. Of course, it is inevitable to dot up and down. The role of "road guidance" here is undoubtedly significant, without it it is simply difficult to move forward, "road guidance" is not only related to whether the journey of Xie Jian and his party can be carried out smoothly. It is also a personal safety guarantee, once an accident occurs, the yamen can immediately identify the body and quickly solve the case.
Xie Jian and others have to walk this road several times a year almost every year, these people have a broad vision and rich experience, they have never made a big mistake in the past few years of business, and they are acquaintances at all levels. In Xie Jian's view, this time doing business will also be a safe and full return, in Xie Jian's heart there is also a thought, that is, after running this trip to do not do, the family's silver has been a lot, after returning home to buy a few acres of land can be raised for a long time. But to the surprise of Xie Jian and his companions, this time there was an accident. One day at dusk during the trip, Xie Jian and others passed by a village, which was relatively remote, and there were not many people in the village. The distance between the various households is very scattered, and the village seems to be empty. Such a village will naturally not have a national chain of express hotels "Yuelai Inn". After the introduction of the local Baozheng, the group chose a family named Jiang Neng to stay at home, and Jiang Neng's house was relatively spacious and more. Jiang can live with his younger brother Jiang Hong and other family members. They accepted Xie Jian and his party.
Jiang can be hospitable, and this time to stay, this group of people also gave a lot of silver, Jiang can naturally arrange guests to stay in the front room, to provide food. For Xie Jian and others, it is also common to stay in a farmhouse without an inn, and similar situations must have been experienced repeatedly and have long been accustomed to. Xie Jian and others can choose to spend the night here, should feel that the safety factor here is high, it can be seen that the people's customs in the area should be relatively simple, although the two sides are meeting for the first time, they are not wary of each other. It was a quiet and quiet night, and I didn't hear a single dog bark, nor did I hear anything else unusual. Xie Jian and the others ate dinner and went to bed very early. After all, I have to rush early tomorrow morning. Who would have thought that a great case would happen that night that shocked the imperial court?
That night, in the middle of the night, the first to get up was Jiang Hong and several other Jiang family members, who began to work according to what had long been cultivated, and the Work of the Jiang family was to weigh the bean valley and sort out the cloth. It should be to go to the market early in the morning. After all, the peasant family also has to eat, and exchange some silver for some silver by rushing to the market. Just when the Jiang family was working, the door panel of the front door suddenly made a strange sound. The Jiang family felt very strange, because there had never been such a thing before, and before the people in the room could react, a group of robbers broke the front door panel and broke into the house! If this group of people were like fierce gods, looking around the room, Leng Sensen's eyes revealed a greedy look, and the Jiang family and Xie Jianjian were not only shocked, but they were frightened and did not dare to move, nor did they dare to shout loudly, lest they stimulate this group of wolf-like bandits. The strangest of these is the Jiang family, because their village has never been "patronized" by bandits. Where did this group of people come from?
The robbers are naturally not polite, their purpose is very clear, that is, for Xie Jian's group of merchants, they quickly swept Through The goods, silver money and road guides of Xie Jian and others, they came faster, walked faster, and the wind ran to the backyard to climb over the back wall and flee the scene. The scene was left with a messy scene and a group of stunned people. At this moment, as if all the people reacted, "Ma-ya" sounded, and suddenly there were crying, screaming, and shouting. At this time, Xie Jian suddenly shouted in the tongue battle Spring Thunder: Don't shout, let's see what the losses are, the crowd turned back and immediately began to check the losses, some people shouted to cry: All the silver is gone, this is good to say, the key is that the "road guide" was taken away by them, we simply can't prove our identity, what can we do? Without "road guidance", Xie Jian and his party are not only facing the problem of not being able to do business, but also the danger of being difficult to move forward and even suffering. And I can't go home. In today's parlance, these people are "blind streams."
According to the provisions of the "Great Ming Law": traveling more than 100 miles without carrying a "road guide" will be treated as "private guanjin". This means leaving the place of household registration without permission and going to other places without permission. This crime is punishable by the law for eighty. And for those who dare to take in and hide these people's inns and relevant personnel must also be punished with the same crime, Yamen stipulates that if someone finds "suspicious" personnel, they must be captured and twisted to be disposed of, And Yamen also encourages the people to report blind streams that have no "road leads" and unknown origins, and the government also has certain rewards, and there is also a point that those who "do not close the door and cross the door without crossing the border, according to the law", that is, if someone deliberately switches around the door and the inspection of the ferry, take the unguarded shortcut to reach the area where they are located. Once the sin is discovered, the penalty is ninety. The Punishment of the "Blind Stream" in the Ming Dynasty can be described as very serious, so the fear and crying of Xie Jian and his party is by no means a fuss. It's a real problem.
It was at this time that Jiang was able to speak. He said something that seemed to comfort Xie Jian and others: "Robbers will only be interested in silver, they will not be interested in "road guides", we should be able to find it when we look around, "Jiang can't say that there is a mistake, it is like some modern thieves who pickpocket other people's wallets, but will leave their IDENTIT cards to the owner is the same meaning, but Xie Jian and his party hardly hold out any hope." It was hard to survive until dawn, and at this time, it was estimated that the robbers had already gone away and flew high. Although there is no hope, but the dead horse is a living doctor, Jiang Neng's family still accompanied Xie Jian and others to search inside and outside the house, hoping to find the property discarded by the robbers, or something else. Including Xie Jian, all the merchants took a look at Jiang Neng, the cropper Han Gao, who could actually have such an accurate control over the people's hearts in the world, it was really an invincible seawater, and people could not be disguised, how could he have such a brilliant insight.
However, just as Xie Jian and the others were lamenting the "great fortune in misfortune", they gradually felt that something was wrong, thinking why there was no such thing before, we were robbed as soon as we came, which was also too coincidental, and the night when they stayed in the Jiang family would encounter burglary. Whether the Jiang family seduced the thieves and should cooperate with the outside, even if it is an accidental incident, the Jiang family should always bear the relevant responsibility, so in this case, Xie Jian asked the Jiang Neng family to compensate for everyone's losses, and the Jiang Neng family categorically refused to do this, and for the appeal of Xie Yan and others, Jiang Neng said: "You can really do it, our family is not related to you, under your bitter pleading, we will leave you to stay out of kindness." Now that an accident has occurred, have you made a mistake in asking us to cover losses? This kind of accident happened, no one expected, we are still frightened, there are losses, but also victims, who do we look for to reason with, don't forget, just now we are actively assisting you to find the "road guide", and now you are actually holding my family responsible, what is the matter? The world is really hard to do with good people! We have also taken in merchants before, but we don't have you. "
Naturally, the two sides have their own opinions and do not give in to each other. The conflict intensified, and in the end, it was only necessary to go to the yamen to fight a lawsuit. Because of the public court. The Jiang Neng family felt very aggrieved and very resistant to Yamen's investigation and inquiry, in this case, Yamen believed that the Jiang family had certain faults and should compensate for related losses, because this matter was a vicious case of robbery and robbery, and Yamen had to deal with it severely and strictly. The core point of the penalty is that the Jiang Neng family will compensate half of the losses of all merchants. Jiang Neng naturally did not accept it, and he could not afford to lose it himself, and besides, Jiang Neng did not think that he was wrong, so he sued all the way to Dali Temple.
After the whole case was reported to dali temple. After reviewing the case file, Dali Siqing and other relevant personnel felt that the matter was very recurrent, not as simple as a simple robber robbery case, and at the routine case analysis meeting held, a small official named Fang Rui expressed his opinion on the matter. It becomes very different. Fang Rui believes that there are three suspicious points related to Jiang Neng in this case, which are ignored by both the local Yamen and Xie Yan and his party. Fang Ruidao: First, there are usually two kinds of burglary, one is temporary intention. This kind of is to grab what is counted, basically a person to do, the second is to step on the point of peeping in advance, choose the target, who has the money to go to whose house, this kind of basically gang crime. Generally, it is not a temporary idea, just do it, and there is a gang theft can not be just such a time, why there is no theft case before this.
Second, as far as theft itself is concerned, a strategy of "taking advantage of it" should also be adopted. Taking advantage of the lack of defensiveness and resistance of the parties to carry out robbery, but from the perspective of the tactics of these robbers, it seems that they are "novices," the robbers have targeted the merchants who live in the Jiang family, the time should not be long, and they can be detected to live in the front room, which shows that the gang of robbers tracked Xie Yu and his party that day, or had internal responses, and the time of robbery was not when everyone was asleep, but when Jiang Hong and others had gotten up to light the lamp and did not sleep, which did not conform to the general law of burglary.
Third, the principle of burglary is to enter from where you come in, from where you come out, after all, safety comes first, but why do this gang of robbers enter the front door and the back door out, why should they give up the near and seek far. Moreover, when entering the house, the Jiang family's dog did not bark, which also showed that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime, according to which Fang Rui deduced that Jiang Neng and Jiang Hong and others may have colluded with the bandit gang. See the money. Arrange for a manned robbery on the same day. In the end, not moving the "road guide" is conducive to protecting Jiang Neng, Jiang Hong, and others. There is also the fact that once Xie Jian does not pursue the matter, he can let Xie Jian and others leave quickly. After all, after being frightened, for Xie Jian and others, safety comes first.
All the officials of Dali Temple believed that Fang Rui's analysis was in place and immediately asked him to go to the local area to deal with the case, and after Fang Rui arrived in the local area. Let Jiang Neng's dog find the lost silver and goods, and soon investigate the case, the case is indeed a temporary intention, Jiang Neng and Jiang Hong, seeing Xie Jian and others carrying goods and silver, became greedy, so they secretly united with the villagers to pretend to be robbers to rob. However, due to the lack of experience in committing the crime for the first time, many flaws were revealed and fang Rui found out. In the end, all those involved were executed.
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