Written by | Shassie
In the first year of Tongzhi, Yan Jingming, an envoy to Hubei Province, once passed by Wuchang Avenue on a tour, and suddenly, an old couple "pounced" and knelt in front of his official car, crying loudly and bitterly, and their grief and indignation were abnormal.
Yan Jingming felt a little strange and sent someone to bring them for questioning. It turned out that the old couple was a farmer in Jiangxia County outside Wuchang City and had only one daughter.
One day, a deputy general of Erpin, with a few soldiers, went to the east and west of Jiangxia County, just broke into the old couple's home, saw that their daughter was very beautiful, and tried to rape her.
Who knows, the daughter of the old couple is like a jade, refusing to obey, crying and making trouble, resisting death. The deputy general was furious when he saw this, and even pulled out his waist knife, killed her with a knife, and then led the people away.
When the old couple saw that their daughter had been killed for no reason, they were in pain and ran all the way to Jiangxia County to complain, but the county order heard that a second-class deputy general had committed a crime, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to pick up the complaint paper, and hid in the county court and did not come out.
The old couple had no choice but to run to Wuchang Mansion again to seek revenge.
Li Zongshou, the prefect of Wuchang, took the paper, looked at it carefully, and asked them about the crime of the deputy general, and just when he was about to send someone to get the person, Master Qian quietly pulled him aside.
Li Zongshou hesitated for a moment, followed Master Qian quietly to the back hall, brought a cup of tea, and asked him what was going on. Master Qian said: "The adults do not know that this deputy general is not an ordinary person, he is not only an official residence, but more importantly, his backstage is too tough, it is the governor of Huguang, Guan Wen." ”
Li Zongshou was shocked, and the teacup in his hand almost fell to the ground. In fact, this vice admiral is not a battlefield general, but a young man in his twenties. He was originally a bodyguard in the Governor's Gate, who looked like a jade tree Linfeng, and later was favored by Guan Wen as a child prostitute, and Baoju was made a deputy general of Erpin, running rampant everywhere in the name of the Governor's Palace, flaunting his might, and the officials of Huguang and Guangzhou provinces did not dare to provoke. Because Li Zongshou had just arrived, he did not know the stakes.
After listening to Master Qian's words, Li Zongshou sent the case back to Jiangxia County and asked them to try it. Pushing and shoving like this, the case became unmanaged, causing the two elderly people to cry on the street, and there was no place to sue.
Just this day, when yan Jingming was on a tour, a passerby pointed out to the old couple and said, "Sitting in this official car is Lord Yan of the Domain, he is a clean official who is just and upright, and it may be of some use for you to stop the car and file a complaint." ”
The old couple listened to the instructions, then went to the street, stopped Yan Jingming's official car, and prostrated their heads to complain.
Yan Jingming listened to the cries of the old couple, became furious, and said to them, "This slave really has this reason, lawlessness." If you go back today for the time being, I will definitely avenge your grievances. Immediately, he ordered his men to immediately turn the head of the car, not to return to the gate of the domain, but to go straight to the governor's office.
Arriving at the Governor's Gate, Yan Jingming angrily broke into the Office and asked to meet Wen Yuange University Student and Governor Wen Wen of Huguang. However, Guan Wen had already learned of the cry of the deputy general of the prostitute and protected him, and now when he saw Yan Jingming and came to see him again, he knew that it must be for this case, and simply avoided seeing him on the grounds that he was sick and could not see the wind.
Yan Jingming said stubbornly, "I must meet Lord Zhongtang and present him with an important case." If lord Zhongtang is sick and afraid of the wind and cannot come out to meet him, I will go to his bedroom to meet him. ”
When The official heard the report, he had a headache. He knew very well that although Yan Jingming was not proud of his appearance, his figure was short, and his two eyes were still big and one small, like a countryman, he was notoriously stubborn and fair, and he did not give up until he reached the goal. More importantly, he was protected by Hu Linyi, the inspector of Hubei at that time, and the backstage was not ordinary, and he had to give some face. Therefore, he had to ask people to repeatedly persuade him to go back first, and then wait until his illness was better.
Who knows, as soon as Yan Jingming heard this, he knew that Guan Wen wanted to protect his child prostitute, and said loudly: "Well, when Lord Zhongtang's illness is always good, I will make a floor here and wait for him to be well and see him again." "They also asked people to go to the Fantai Yamen to bring their own covers, and the official documents were also sent here to deal with."
Guan Wen cried and laughed, seeing that Yan Jingming had lived in the governor's gate for three days and three nights, but he was blocked from going out, and hurriedly sent someone to invite Yan Jingming's Shaanxi compatriots, Yan Shusen, the governor of Hubei, and Li Zongshou, the prefect of Wuchang, to persuade him.
Yan Shusen and Li Zongshou hurried to the governor Yamen and tried their best to persuade Yan Jingming, but he just wouldn't buy it in the slightest, and resolutely said: "If Lord Zhongtang does not agree to execute the murderer, the subordinate officials will not return to ya!" ”
Guan Wen hid behind the screen and listened for half a day, and seeing that Yan Jingming was so resolute, he had no choice but to come out and make amends and intercede with him.
But Yan Jingming was still unmoved. Guan Wen's heart was like a knife, he really liked this prostitute too much, for him, not only let him become the captain of the guard of the Governor's Palace, but also made him a deputy general of the Second Pin, and even the beautiful women around him were snubbed, how could he be cruel to execute him? Thinking of this, Guan Wen walked up to Yan Jingming, "pounced", and actually knelt down towards him.
Yan Jingming was taken aback and stood there motionless. A governor of Huguang, a university student of Wenyuange, and one of the three Manchu governors, GuanWen, actually knelt in front of him, which suddenly made him feel helpless.
At this time, Yan Shusen, the governor of Hubei, and Li Zongshou, the prefect of Wuchang, could not look at it anymore. Li Zongshou quickly lifted up Guan Wen, and Yan Shusen said to Yan Jingming with a straight face: "Danchu (Yan Jingming character Danchu), you are also too excessive and stubborn, and Lord Zhongtang is condescending to this point, can't you be accommodating?" ”
Yan Jingming did not expect such a situation to occur, so he had to go forward to make reparations, sighed and said: "Since ancient times, killing people to pay for their lives, debts to repay money." Why did Lord Zhongtang have to be so aggrieved for the sake of a slave, didn't he hear the cries of the murdered people outside? ”
Guan Wen knew that he was wrong, accompanied by a smiling face, still blindly pleading bitterly: "Brother Danchu really doesn't know, this slave has been following me for many years, really can't do it, and I hope you can spare his dog's life." After saying that, he looked at Yan Jingming with his eyes.
Yan Jingming had no choice but to say to Guan Wen with a straight face: "Looking at the face of Lord Zhongtang, I can spare him the death penalty, but I must make sure that he generously and generously compensates the parents of the murdered woman, publicly beat him for forty big boards, dismissed him from his official position on the same day, and sent him back to his original hometown." The official agreed.
Therefore, the official Wen ordered the deputy general to take out the prostitute, first asked him to thank Yan Jingming for his grace of not killing, and then invited the parents of the murdered woman, took off his clothes and pants in public, beat him forty times, and ordered his henchmen to send him back to his hometown.
Only then did Yan Jingming walk unhurriedly to the official Wen and apologize to him for his sins and ask for forgiveness for his abrupt crimes.
At this point, this strange case, which was not called a strange case, finally came to an end. The officials of Wuchang Prefecture knew that the evidence in this case was conclusive, but they did not dare to come forward to handle it, and even Yan Jingming could not get a fair trial due to heavy resistance when dealing with it, and in the end, the vice-general of the child prostitute not only escaped the death penalty, but soon returned to the arms of the official again.
In history, Yan Jingming was not only fair and honest, but also a famous financial master, and later served as a Hubu Shangshu and was appointed as a scholar of Dongge University. However, because he was just and righteous, he eventually offended Empress Dowager Cixi and the Manchu magnates, and after his death, he only gave a false title of prince Shaobao.
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