After Cao Cao pacified Jingzhou, he was appointed as an official of Jinan's Southern County. At that time, the war had just ended, and the local order was particularly chaotic, especially some nobles were powerful and powerful, often bullying others, violating the law and discipline, and many local officials were afraid of their power and did not dare to come forward to govern, and the people were extremely resentful and complained.
Liu Jie, born in a rich family, later became the chief bookkeeper of the county, he raised more than a thousand guests, they relied on Liu Jie's power, often in the official office to disturb the law and order, but also in the sky and day to rob the people of their belongings, while the local officials all opened one eye, closed one eye, no one dared to take care of.
Soon after he took office, during the conscription season, he ordered Liu Jie's men and others to become soldiers. His subordinates reminded: "No one in Liu Jie's family has ever been labored, and I am afraid that they will not agree to go to the army, and when they go into hiding, you will be short of quota here, and you will not be able to deal with the above, and at the same time offend them, so it is better to send others to go instead."
He was never afraid of power, he resolutely opposed the reassignment of others as soldiers, and also wrote a letter in advance to warn Liu Jie: "You are an official in an important position in the county, the eyes of the people of Li are staring at you, your guests do not obey the hard labor, the people have long complained, and the governor has long known about this situation." Now summon the king and the like to enlist in the army, I hope you will abide by the law and send them to the county on time. Where had Liu Jie heard of such domination by others, and besides, he did not pay attention to Sima Zhi at all, so he still hid Wang and others. The county officials in charge of conscription work had no choice but to ask to replace Wang Tong in serving.
When he learned of this news, he immediately wrote to Taishou Haoguang. He enumerated in detail Liu Jie's various crimes as an official, and then sent someone to ride a fast horse to deliver the letter to Jinan. Hao Guang was his good friend and trusted Sima Zhi very much, so he immediately decided that Liu Jie himself would replace Wang Tong for military service.
When the common people heard that he dared to order Liu Jie, the master of the county who no one dared to provoke, to become a soldier, they all praised him, and finally realized that they had a bad breath, and Sima Zhi's reputation soon spread throughout the streets.
This person is Sima Zhi, a native of Wen County, Hanoi County. He has always been resourceful, good at judging cases, and has always acted according to the law, not learning from private feelings. At the same time, he was a member of Sima Yi's clan. If the people of the Sima family wanted him to do this, the rebellion of the eight kings in the future could not have happened.
Later, Sima Zhi was transferred to Guangping County as a county commander, and there was a general named Liu Shu who had been a vassal of Sima Zhi, who felt that he had merit to the imperial court, so he did not care about words and deeds, and often connived at his guests and children to do wrong. After Sima Zhi took office, Liu Xun's guests still did not change their bad habits, and even became worse and worse.
Once, Liu Xun's men committed a crime, and Liu Xun wrote a letter to Sima Zhi, asking Sima Zhi to look at the original love of working together and not to pursue the sins of his subordinates. Sima Zhi did not even read the letter and punished all of Liu Zhao's subordinates accordingly. Later, Liu Xun himself was also murdered for violating the criminal law, and none of those involved in Liu Xun's case slipped through the net, and all of them were convicted by Sima Zhi according to law.
After Emperor Ming of Wei ascended the throne, he respected Sima Zhi so much that he made him the Marquis of Guannei. Soon, the wet nurse of Cao Cao's cousin of Wei Taizu and the attendants of Princess Linfen secretly sacrificed the god of water without streams, which was an obscene cult forbidden by the imperial court at that time, and Sima Zhi found out and put them in prison. When Empress Bian found out, she hurried to intercede with Sima Zhi and asked him to reduce his punishment. In order not to cause this trouble, Sima Zhi avoided seeing it.
However, Empress Bian was still pressing forward, and she immediately sent the Yellow Gate Official to the official palace to convey her orders in an attempt to force Sima Zhi to obey. Sima Zhi ordered that as long as the empress dowager asked to see him, he was not allowed to report it, and at the same time, he immediately ordered the prison guards of Luoyang Prison to torture the two to death in the name of interrogation.
After the matter was completed, Sima Zhi said to Emperor Ming: "According to the usual practice, all those who are sentenced to death should first go to the table and wait for the approval of the Holy Father before the death penalty can be imposed." The two criminals had just begun to interrogate and produce confessions, and the empress dowager ordered the Yellow Gate Officer to send a message. The subject did not dare to accept the order of the empress dowager, fearing that the order contained the content of protecting the criminals, and the saint would have to protect the prisoners after he knew about it. Therefore, Wei Chen violated the rule of playing first and then beheading, and had tortured the prisoner to death, asking the Saint to punish the minister. ”
Emperor Wei Mingdi understood Sima Zhi's true intentions, and not only did he not blame Sima Zhi, but he also praised his behavior, and he personally replied: "You act expediently in order to enforce the law prohibiting obscenity. This can only show your loyalty to the lian, and when the Yellow Gate Officer goes to you again in the future, you must be careful not to meet them easily!"
Sima Zhi has been an official for many years, he has never sought selfish interests, does not favor selfish feelings, and handles everything impartially. Later, he successively served as sima and yin of Henan, and became the most outstanding Qing official in the wei state of Henan.
