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(Ancient capital Luoyang)
The Northern Song Dynasty was a four-capital system, that is to say, the Northern Song Dynasty nominally had four capitals, Tokyo Kaifeng, Xijing Luoyang, Nanjing Yingtian (Henan Shangqiu), and Beijing Daimyo (Beijing).
Of course, Beijing was mainly used to defend against the Khitans, and Nanjing was upgraded to the capital because Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, had been a festival envoy in this place before he became the emperor, in fact, the economic, political, and cultural center of the Northern Song Dynasty was still Kaifeng, Tokyo.
The carved cars compete in the heavenly street, and the BMW competes on the royal road.
A book of "Tokyo Menghualu", writing about the ten thousand styles of Tokyo.
Of course, Tokyo is very good, that Xijing Luoyang is also very good, Xijing is prosperous, the population is also a lot, the garden pond, the construction of the pavilion, the planting of plants and trees, the Luoyang garden in the Northern Song Dynasty is particularly prosperous.
Our story today happened in Luoyang, Xijing.
There is a monk in Luoyang, Xijing, you go to a small village outside Luoyang City, it is late, the monk thinks that I can no longer wander around, I have to find a place to spend the night, so I knocked on the door of a family in the village, said Amitabha, disturb and disturb, it is a little dark, I am a little afraid, you see that God has the virtue of a good life, can you make it convenient for me to borrow a night in your house?
This family, a man and a woman, is a young couple, this husband, the vigilance is still very high, because after all, this is outside the city, the village is sparsely populated, this harmful heart can not have, but the heart of prevention is indispensable, I don't know this monk, rashly put him into the house, what should I do if this monk wants to harm people, I am a big man who is not terrible, it is a big deal to fight with him, but behind this beautiful wife is like a beautiful flower, how can I protect it?
Therefore, the man very tactfully expressed his refusal, saying the great monk, if it is daytime, I can still let you into the house, but now the black light is blind, it is very unsafe, but I am not an unreasonable person, you want to spend the night, there is a shed in our yard, which can be regarded as shelter from the wind and rain, I will get you a set of luggage and bedding, you go to the shed for a night, do you think it will work?
This wandering monk, their requirements for life are actually everything simple, so they are often not afraid of hardship, not only are they not afraid of hardship, but they are keen to endure hardship, otherwise there will be no ascetics.
They have to sharpen themselves, and they have to temper their minds.
(Host)
The man said that he could only grieve you and let you get together in the courtyard for the night, and the monk said that it was too good, so he took the luggage and lay down in the shed in the courtyard.
Nothing happened in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night, the monk woke up, because to be honest, there was no better thing in this shed than in the house, there was a stove in the house, and there was charcoal burning in the stove, and there were no heating tools in the shed, so it was still a little cold, so the monk woke up from freezing.
If people are cold, they will involuntarily curl themselves up, and in order to keep warm, the monk shrinks himself into a ball, and then wraps his body tightly with a quilt to minimize the loss of heat.
He was so cold that he couldn't sleep, so he just looked up at the moon and the stars with his eyes open, and recited the scriptures in his heart as he watched.
At about two o'clock in the second half of the night, the monk finally felt a little sleepy, yawned a few times, and barely wanted to fall asleep again, but he heard some strange noises in the courtyard, and the sound of tiptoeing.
The lights in this house are turned off, and the door in this courtyard is also locked, and the monk understands in his heart that this family is a thief.
This thief is very clever, and in a few blinks of an eye, he not only took away several clothes from the master's family, but also kidnapped the man's wife.
The monk wanted to stop him, but he couldn't stop it, because by the time he reacted, the thief was already gone.
At four or five o'clock in the second half of the night, the monk thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more it was not a taste. The more I think about it, the more wrong it becomes.
The thief was skillful, stole the clothes and took away the hostess, and he didn't even alarm the man, but he let himself see it.
This is to stay here, people are not happy to receive, people barely let themselves sleep in the yard, what does this mean, this shows that people are already on guard against themselves, so they are wary of themselves.
(Hostess)
As soon as the day dawns, the man wakes up, the clothes at home are gone, and his wife is gone, then he will definitely doubt himself, suspect himself of stealing things and hiding people, he will suspect and doubt, sooner or later he will go to report to the official, this matter is not clear, what should the government do if he wrongs himself?
Don't sleep at all, take advantage of the fact that the sky is not yet bright, and walk away, won't this matter have nothing to do with you?
Tell me, if you don't leave, this matter may still be explained, but if you leave, you will paint yourself more and more black.
Anyway, the monk was still afraid, he was afraid of getting into trouble, so he packed his luggage and fled in a panic.
When the monk fled, it was not yet dawn, so firstly, he could not see the monk's road clearly, and secondly, he was more flustered and flustered, like a headless fly, he ran out of the wilderness for more than ten miles, and accidentally fell into an ancient well in the wasteland.
As soon as he fell like this, he almost didn't fall half to death, but the monk was shocked, and found a terrifying scene, that is, the wife of the man who was kidnapped by the thieves was also in the well, and she was covered with scars and blood, and she had already died of anger.
After repeated shocks, the monk was heartbroken, and he fainted without taking a breath.
There are two flowers in this flower, and we will each show one branch.
After daylight, the man in the village woke up, and when he woke up, he was also confused, because the clothes at home were gone, his wife was gone, and the monk who came to stay last night was nowhere to be found.
In this situation, the man naturally suspects that this must be the monk's intention to steal his clothes and kidnap his wife, so the man immediately followed the footprints on the ground and walked more than ten miles to the wasteland, and sure enough, he found his wife who was still asleep in the well and had been dead for a long time.
The beautiful wife died tragically in the well, and the man was heartbroken, and he immediately thought that what he thought was right, it was the thief monk who stole things and harmed his wife, so he immediately tied up the monk and sent it to the government.
In the eyes of the government, the facts are clear and the evidence is sufficient, and anyone will think that this monk not only did not thank the master's family for taking him in, but instead stole money and harmed people, and threw his body into a barren well.
(Furui Arano)
The only thing that doesn't make sense is why the monk didn't flee after the murder, but stayed at the scene of the crime.
Of course, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't affect the government's judgment, because they have taken it for granted that the monk is the murderer, so they immediately served the monk with a big punishment, it was a good torture and a beating, the monk was timid, the second was afraid of pain, and the third was really unbearable, so he was beaten into a confession, and he also made up his own motive for committing the crime: Yunyou had no money, so he stayed at the host's house to steal clothes, the hostess was beautiful, and he was cowardly, so he fornicated with the hostess and fled, and then he was afraid of the east window incident, so he killed the hostess in the well。
You see, this unjust case has also completed the closed loop.
This case occurred in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.
We must know that in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the country was in ruins, and the northern Khitan threat was greater, and the social and people's livelihood at that time was not very good, the social policy, and the legal system were not very perfect, so in the county order responsible for hearing the case, it did not matter whether a case was right or wrong, whether the monk was the real murderer or not, in fact, it was not important, what really mattered was to quickly solve this bloody and terrible and unbelievable case, because only in this way can the panic among the people be calmed.
Originally, this case was basically like this, but for some reasons that have not yet been recorded in the historical books, it was known to Xiang Minzhong, who was left behind in Xijing at that time.
Xijing stayed, this is equivalent to the highest leader at the Luoyang level at that time, military, political, people's livelihood, and law He can manage it, and this Xiang Minzhong, he is old and serious, diligent in political affairs, and belongs to the famous ministers in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, in the eyes of officials of his level, they have nothing to pursue in their political achievements, because they know that this kind of thing is among the people, between the officials, and it is by no means easy to control by themselves in a high position.
(Xiang Minzhong's image)
The Son of Heaven lives far away from the temple, and the feudal dynasty relies on only tens of millions of bureaucrats to manage tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of people.
The same is true for Xiang Minzhong to stay in Xijing, if the matter is put in front of him, then no matter how big or small this matter is, it will become a concrete embodiment of the social livelihood of the entire Luoyang area, so after Xiang Minzhong knows about this matter, he will be much more serious than others, and he will be more careful.
Moreover, he belongs to the bystander Qing, he will not take things for granted, in the eyes of the male host, there is no doubt that the monk is the murderer, but in the eyes of Xiang Minzhong, there are still many doubts about this matter.
For example, since it was a murder, what kind of murder weapon did the monk use, and how could he not find it? I didn't see any of the clothes he stolen, so where did he go? If he wanted to kill someone, why didn't he leave the scene of the crime after killing him, but waited for others to find out?
Xiang Minzhong also interrogated the monk, the monk was beaten several times, he had already confessed, he felt unlucky, and he didn't have any illusions about returning his innocence, so no matter how Xiang Minzhong asked, the monk only said:
In the previous life, he had borne this life, and there was nothing to say.
I probably owe someone a life in my last life and should pay it back, so I don't have anything to say.
The mystical Eastern Buddhism is his belief, and this belief will give him some kind of spiritual enlightenment, making him think that the suffering, the torture of life, and the misfortune of life that he has endured at this moment are not because he has done something wrong and should be punished by God, but have a deeper reason beyond the present time and space.
(Monk)
The monk has accepted his fate, but Xiang Minzhong thinks that human life is at stake and cannot be sloppy, so he continues to investigate this matter.
A few days later, he changed his clothes, took a few servants dressed as ordinary people to visit the people, walked to a teahouse near the man's house, ordered a pot of tea, ate some food, and deliberately talked about the murder while eating.
There were more and more people in the teahouse, and several officials saw that they were lively, and their voices were louder, saying that the real murderer had been caught in the murder a few days ago, and he would be cut down in the morning, and the law would be rectified on the spot.
The reason why they say this is to send a wrong message to the people, or the real murderer, to make the murderer think that the matter has passed and the environment is safe.
To put it bluntly, this is also a type of fishing law enforcement.
Sure enough, as soon as several officials spread the news, an old woman in the teahouse immediately sighed quietly, saying Oh, it's a pity, the government should not have arrested the real murderer, the real murderer was actually Liu Da, an idle man in the village.
The speaker was unintentionally the listener's intention, Xiang Minzhong immediately gathered people, followed this clue to investigate, and captured Liu Da who was still hiding at home in one fell swoop, and he was also stolen, with blood on the sharp knife at home, and a lot of clothes on the bed, which were stolen that night.
Under the interrogation, Liu Da finally admitted the fact that he had committed the crime of stealing and killing.
This matter was recorded by the historian Sima Guang in his historical notes "Records of Lianshui", so the paper is far away, and the history books only record that the monk was acquitted, but there is no whereabouts thereafter, and Xiang Minzhong made remarkable political achievements, and then he became a Beijing official, and lived until the time of Song Zhenzong before he died.
For the monk, this is a painful episode of life, for the male host, this is a painful memory, and for Xiang Minzhong, this may be just an insignificant fragment of his long life.
Because, whether it is a meeting person, or a separation, whether it is a long song and crying, or a clear sky and a bright moon, they are both the cause and the effect, people walk and stop in the world, will not finish any road, but will only become a halfway traveler.
We only hope that every step we take will be praised by future generations, and in the pen of the iron history, there will be no fear.