Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, usually did not have a good temper when dealing with officials, stipulating that if an official dared to embezzle 60 taels of silver, he would be sentenced to death, even if in ordinary life, there were officials who suddenly provoked themselves to be unsatisfied, that basically did not have any good fruit to eat, but once he almost miraculously pardoned an official who was originally sentenced to death.
The official's name was Fan Wencong, and he was the overseer of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and this official position was first derived from the imperial history of the Qin Dynasty. Yushi Zhongcheng is one of the "three dukes" alongside the chancellor and the lieutenant, the main duty is to be responsible for supervising hundreds of officials, advising the emperor, helping the emperor deal with political affairs, and later the power was gradually weakened, and when it developed to the Ming Dynasty's supervision of the imperial history, the official rank was already very low, but the duty was still to supervise the hundred officials and advise the emperor.
Fan Wen's personality from this person is particularly straight, but also very true, as long as it is felt that Zhu Yuanzhang has done something wrong, then it must be pointed out on the spot, and it is also necessary to write a recital and keep talking, always staring at Zhu Yuanzhang, and must let him correct his mistakes before giving up. At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy about the existence of Fan Wencong, after all, he could make himself make many fewer mistakes.
But this day has been long, Zhu Yuanzhang really can't stand it, knocked Fan Wen from several times, meaning that Fan Wen from the future to speak politely, but Fan Wen never knows whether he did not understand, or understood but pretended not to understand, anyway, still with Zhu Yuanzhang, from time to time to put forward some criticism.
Zhu Yuanzhang listened too much, really couldn't stand it, and in a fit of anger, he said that he had committed the crime of "deceiving the king" and was directly sentenced to death and put into the prison of the Punishment Department. However, the matter of being sentenced to death at that time was not what the emperor said, but also a legal procedure called "three trials and five repetitions", specifically, the judicial department checked the details of the case many times, and provided materials to the emperor, and the emperor finally approved it, trying not to cause unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
After Fan Wen was put into the prison of the Punishment Department, the officials of the Punishment Department convicted him of the crime of "deceiving the king" after interrogation, and only after the autumn was to sentence him to death, and the case file about this case was once again passed to Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, which was originally just a routine matter, and Fan Wen seemed to be unable to escape death no matter what.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang was inspecting the case file, he inadvertently saw that Fan Wen was born in Wu County, Suzhou, and at that time, he called Fan Wen out of the death row and asked him: "What is your relationship with Fan Wen Zhenggong?" Fan Wencong replied with great humility: "The sinner is the twelfth grandson of Duke Wen Zheng. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly shocked when he heard this, and after looking at his family tree, he immediately announced that he would be exempted from the death penalty and gave him 5 gold medals for avoiding death, saying: "After the loyal and filial piety, it should be long lived in the world." It turned out that the "Fan Wen Zhenggong" they mentioned was a famous military figure and politician of the Song Dynasty, and also Fan Zhongyun who wrote that "the world is worried and worried before the world, and the world is happy and happy after the world", and Fan Wencong himself is Fan Zhongyan's descendant.
Zhu Yuanzhang himself was oppressed by the officials of the Yuan Dynasty since he was a child, and he greatly admired some benevolent people in the Song Dynasty who resisted foreign races, so when he heard Fan Zhongyan's name, he could not help but be shaken in his heart, and he naturally cared for Fan Zhongyan's descendants, hoping that Fan Zhonggong's descendants could be blessed and extended, so he gave 5 gold medals to avoid death, and the Fan family did develop into a family family.