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Later Jin Gaozu Shi Jingyao, born in 892 AD, Shanxi Taiyuan Shatuo people, five generations and ten kingdoms after the founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty.
Shi Jingyao had ceded Youyun Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao State, and was criticized by the world for willingly giving Emperor Taizong of Liao, who was ten years younger than himself, yelü Deguang, as a puppet emperor.
With the support of the Khitans, Shi Jingyao destroyed the Later Tang, established the Later Jin Dynasty as emperor, changed his name to Yuan Tianfu, and made Bieliang the capital of the country.
In 942, in his later years, Shi Jingyao, fearing his father Emperor Yelü Guang, did not dare to offend Liu Zhiyuan, a powerful figure who held military power, became angry and died soon after, at the age of fifty-one.
Shi Jingyao is not a useless figure, in the early years he was simple and steady, did not smile, liked to study the art of war, said that the empress advocated frugality, away from the sound of dogs and horses.
When Shi Jingyao was serving as an envoy to Hedong (present-day southwestern Shanxi), he personally handled many things and was good at judging cases, especially some difficult cases.
The History of the Old Five Dynasties records:
"There are shopwives and sergeants, and the clouds are 'exposed to the door and eaten by horses'..."
One day, a woman from a small shop had an argument with a sergeant, and the woman said, "I was drying grain at the entrance of the shop, and I was eaten by his horse. ”
The sergeant looked innocent and shouted that he had been wronged, but he could not find witnesses to prove his innocence.
Shi Jingyao said: You two can't argue, how to judge who is right and who is wrong? In this way, you can kill the horse, cut open the intestines of the horse, and if there is millet, you will behead the soldiers, and if there is no millet, the women will die!
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Shi Jingyao then sent someone to kill the horse, and there was no grain in the horse's intestines, and then he killed the unreasonable women, and after that, the people in the Hedong area were solemn, and no one dared to extort and extort anymore and provoke trouble.
When Shi Jingyao was ordered to guard Changshan (Shijiazhuang, Hebei), he governed the people of the territory, taking filial piety as the first priority, and those who found their parents alive and their brothers separated from the family were sentenced to death according to law.
Shi Jingyao was "diligent in official affairs" and had no backlog of cases during his tenure.
Shi Jingyao's trial of cases is not always so bloody, and there are also times when they are moved to understand the reason, and the thorny problems are resolved, and both sides of the litigation are satisfied and convinced.
There were two brothers in Changshan, and after the separation of the family, the younger brother sold a piece of land to the older brother, and before the price was negotiated, the younger brother changed his mind and sold the land to a buyer with a high bid.
The buyer was afraid of getting into trouble, so he asked the younger brother to find his brother to make a note, and the younger brother found his brother to explain his intentions.
The older brother was let go of the pigeons by the younger brother, of course, he was not satisfied, and resolutely refused to make a written evidence, so several people quarreled and went to the county court.
The county commander thought that both brothers were wrong, so he sent them to Shi Jingyao's mansion, and Shi Jingyao said to the two brothers: "The people here are not benevolent because I, the new chief, have just arrived, and I am very ashamed that I have not educated you well!" ”
The two brothers did not dare to look up, and listened to Shi Jingyao and then said: "It is reasonable to say that the older brother wants to get good land, the younger brother wants to ask for a good price, the older brother should follow the younger brother, and it is wrong to prevent the younger brother from getting a good price, when the older brother is not only unreasonable, but too unkind, he should be severely punished with a whip, and this piece of land should be sold to the buyer who can pay a high price!" ”
Shi Jingyao's verdict left both brothers speechless and convinced, and the local officials and people "obeyed his wisdom from top to bottom" and admired Shi Jingyao's cleverness in judging the case, observing it in detail, and being reasonable.