It is said that ximen Qingming returned from the ancestors on this day, and Xia Ti rushed to the door, saying that there were important matters to discuss.
What's the big deal? This has to start from the conclusion of the trial of the Miao Renwai murder case in Yangzhou City, An Tong continued to report upwards.
Ever since Xia Ti and Ximen Qing had received Miao Qing's one thousand taels of silver, each of them had received five hundred taels, had hastily closed the case, and sent the case file to Yin Hu Shiwen of Dongping Province for archiving, An Tong knew that if miao Qing was to be brought to justice, he must find a bigger official, and he must be clean and honest, and support the righteous parent officials!
An Tong, who is bent on avenging his master, is worried about the lack of a way out, when he suddenly thinks of Huang Mei in Tokyo City, that is, Miao Tianxiu's cousin. At the beginning, it was this Huang Meixiu who wrote a letter informing his cousin Miao Tianxiu to enter Beijing in order to seek a good future, and the future here means spending money to buy an official.
Huang Mei was then serving as the general judge of Kaifeng Province, equivalent to the current director of the Grain Bureau or the Water Conservancy Bureau. An Tong hurried through the night, the sun and the stars, and worked hard, and finally came to Kaifeng Province, found Huang Tongjue, and informed him: The master Miao Qing was killed by thieves outside the staff, and now his whereabouts are unknown; the family Miao Qing conspired to rob the master's family wealth, bribed the court, went unpunished, and pleaded with his cousin to hate his cousin Xue and arrest Miao Qing.
When Huang Mei listened, she couldn't help but mourn a little, and said in her heart: They all blame me, it wasn't me who let my cousin come, maybe my cousin wouldn't suffer this disaster! Immediately, he repaired a letter overnight, and gave An Tong a lump sum of money for the journey, asking him to find Yushi Zeng Xiaoxu, who was inspecting Shandong at the time.
Zeng Xiaoxu, in history, did have his own person, an official of the Song Dynasty, this person was just and honest, was one of the officials who were personally named by the emperor and sent to the provinces to inspect, and his official position was equivalent to that of the current Minister of Discipline Inspection; Zeng Xiaoxu's father, Zeng Bu, also the official to the capital Yushi, was equivalent to the secretary of the Central Discipline Inspection Department.
Little An Tong, just like that, carrying Huang Mei's handwritten letters, rushed straight to Jinan Province, Shandong Province. We say that it is rare for An Tong to be such a loyal servant!
After arriving in Jinan, Shandong, it was the spring warm blossoms, through inquiring around, An Tong learned that Zeng Yushi's residence, Anza was in Dongchang Province, dongchang province is also in the present-day Shandong Liaocheng generation, not far from Yanggu. Therefore, An Tong ran to Dongchang Province again.
On this day, An Tong came to Dongchang Mansion early, saw the guards guarded tightly, and An Tong thought to himself: I can't act rashly, I have to sum up the total. If I directly break in and tell the doorman that he has a letter in his hand and comes to complain, the doorman will not let me go when he sees me dressed, so I might as well be patient with snacks, wait in line for the notice board in the house, and when I receive the notice board, I can justifiably enter.
The so-called waiting for the notice board is equivalent to waiting for the notice, and it will notify you when it is your turn. The inspection team went down to visit, and the people interviewed were also divided into grades, first through the relatives of the emperor and the state, then by local officials, and finally by the cloth-clad civilians. An Tong quietly watched from a distance as the one-sided and two-sided cards were issued, and when the three cards were issued, he immediately went over, held the letter written by Huang Tongjue above his head, knelt down and cried: Please ask The Great Master of Qingtian to do justice for the master of the family!
An Tong in the hall, seeing the parents and officials, a stomach full of grievances, at this moment, with tears, poured out.
Zeng Xiaoxu busily ordered the people to take the letter over, open it, and see that it read: Brother Zeng Nian, it has been good lately! Time flies, unconsciously a year has passed, the foolish brother is very worried, think of you and me to take the same soldier, like-minded, confidant is rare, and now I know that you have been appointed by the emperor to tour the south, it is gratifying. In the year of doing something, when we live up to the expectations of the people, expose the evil of officials, and correct discipline and discipline. Nowadays, in Dongping Province, there is a Miao Qing who violated discipline, Miao Tianxiu died and was wronged, and he did not expect that in such a holy world, there were such evil people, and he hoped that the younger brother would take advantage of the tour to visit this place to wash away the wrongs of the people, bring the evil people to justice, correct the audio-visual, and return the place to a pure land. Friend Xiao AnTong, holding the paper, hopes that the young brother will condescend to interrogation, and will not say much here. On the fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the foolish brother Huang Meijing went up!
The content of the handwritten letter is roughly the same as the above meaning. Huang Mei and Zeng Xiaoxu were admitted to the jinshi in the same year, and it is said that they are undergraduates of the same class, and with our current vision, they can be understood as college classmates. College classmates, after going to society, can indeed greet each other and help each other.
Zeng Yushi read it and asked: Did you write the paper?
An Tong hurriedly took out the form he had written long ago from his arms and handed it to him.
Zeng Xiaoxu glanced at it, immediately took the pen, waved it with a splash, and wrote down the approval: Yang Dongping Prefecture official, from the public to find out, examine the corpse, and report in detail. After writing, he ordered An Tong to go to Dongping Mansion to wait for the news, An Tong prostrated his head and thanked him, then got up, came out of the side door, and went to Dongping Mansion.
As soon as An Tong left the Dongchang Prefecture Inspection Yuan, Zeng Yushi put the approval document and the paper into an envelope and sent someone to Dongping Province.
When Yin Hu Shiwen of Dongping Province saw this red-headed document, he was panicked. Hu Shiwen took out the file of the case of the assassination of Miao Renwai that had been archived, looked at it carefully, and realized that the biggest evidence in the whole case, the deceased Miao Tianxiu himself, was still missing, and this life wanted to see people, and death wanted to see corpses! Because it was originally a case tried by the Qinghe County Criminal Court, he turned a blind eye and thought that he could confuse the past, and now, the Discipline Inspection Commission has ordered a thorough investigation, where do you dare not overturn the case and re-examine it?
Thinking of this, Hu Shiwen asked Ya Gong to invite Di Sibin, who managed the river, to ask whether any unidentified suspicious bodies had been found or salvaged on the river during this time.
This question, good fellow, is related to the previous confused official Di Sibin, the confused case! Think about it, the abbot of the Cihui Temple and all the monks were still locked up in the big prison, and the monks were kind enough to dig a pit and bury it because they found a dead body in the river, so that the deceased could rest in peace. More than a month had passed, and now, Di Sibin remembered, could this be the deceased in Hu Shiwen's case?
Hu Shiwen reported this situation to Zeng Yushi. Zeng Yushi pondered: If the monks in the temple were killed, they should be thrown into the river after killing, how could they be buried on the shore, is this not three hundred and two silver here? It is clear that it is a straw man's life! Therefore, Zeng Yushi ordered Hu Shiwen to take An Tong to the river bank to identify the body. I didn't think that when An Tong looked at it, it was really miao Tianxiu, the owner of his own house, and An Tong looked at the master's corpse and wept: My Lord, this is the old man of the family, this is the master of the family, the knife marks are still here!
Since then, the monks in the temple have been acquitted, and it is really unjust to think.
Zeng Yushi immediately approved the document again, retried the case, and repeated the mention of Chen SanwengBA. After the two confessed that Miao Qing had conspired to divide the booty and escape, zeng Xiaoxu sent someone with an arrest token to Yangzhou in the night of the stars to arrest Miao Qing, and in addition, wrote a situation note, and participated in the Qinghe County Punishment Court for favoritism and fraud, bending the law and embezzling!
Then, as the imperial historian, Zeng Xiaoxu, what kind of twists and turns did he have in the process of joining the two officials of the Qinghe County Punishment Court? In the next article, we will return to the beginning of this article, how Xia Ti and Ximen Qing coped with such impeachment!