Love Affairs in Chang’an Chapter 109: The tree has big roots and deep roots
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In the next few days, Qin Mubai inspected several dykes and inspected the rice bags used to build the dams, further confirming that his inference was correct.
Jiangzhou floods are a natural disaster, but some people used this natural disaster to make a fortune in the country and attempt to cover up the previous charges of polluting the flood control funds. Some people were murdered.
This Zhenguan Datang in the prosperous and prosperous age of the universe can already be regarded as a shocking case!
A few years ago, Zhenguan Datang created a rule of law record in Chinese history-only 29 people were sentenced to death during the entire year!
Three years ago, on September 4, the eighth year of Zhenguan, there was a sensational anecdote that happened—that day, the three hundred excess prisoners who had been released home by Li Shimin for the Chinese New Year and participated in the spring and autumn harvest, No one was absent, all returned to death row, ready to go to the execution ground to die!
The cause of the incident used to be this: There was a custom in the Tang Dynasty that all death sentences must be personally approved by the emperor and can only be executed after autumn. And before the death penalty was issued, Li Shimin had to patrol prisoners. As long as there is a prisoner calling for injustice, no matter how conclusive the evidence in the case is, Dali Temple must be pushed back for retrial to avoid accidentally killing good people.
On that day, Li Shimin patrolled the prisoners, and none of the more than three hundred death row prisoners called out wrongs. Li Shimin was surprised at the time. Why is there so many death row prisoners this year than the 29 in the previous two years? Are these people not afraid of death? Seeing that most of these prisoners were young and middle-aged, Li Shimin had a whim and decided to let these prisoners go home to reunite with their families for the New Year, and participate in the spring ploughing in the coming year, and agreed with them that they would return to their prison cells to be sentenced in the autumn of the coming year. .
This sounds like a fantasy. But a year later, all of these more than 300 death row prisoners returned to their cells again. After enjoying the last year of their lives with their families, these death row inmates were grateful and willing to die, and moved everyone including Li Shimin on the spot. Li Shimin immediately pardoned all these people and put them back home
Zhenguan Datang has always been politically clear and has good public security, and has always advocated "cautious punishment". The crime rate is also quite low. However, such a bad incident happened in Jiangzhou. I really don't know how Li Shimin and the more than 300 death row prisoners would feel when they learned about it.
After several days of secret investigation and evidence collection, Qin Mubai has already figured out the case. So he found Li Ke and the two had a secret conversation.
Qin Mubai first explained the various evidences and inferences he found to Li Ke, and asked Li Ke’s opinion: "His Royal Highness, is it time to grab these $ official and evil officials?"
"It's not busy." Li Ke waved his hand and said, "Recently, we have been busy resettling the victims, rebuilding their homes and restoring the farming mulberry. All the officials in the Jiangzhou government are doing their best. If you suddenly start arresting people at this time, you will inevitably make a lot of noise. This is not conducive to the overall situation."
"His Royal Highness said it is very true." Qin Mubai said, "The officials of the local prefectures and counties are no better than the officials of the capital. They have a close collaboration and relationship with each other and they are very strong. More or less implicated. I always feel that Jiangzhou is not a small case here. The officials here seem to be firmly hugged, like a big tree with deep roots. Once we start to uproot a certain Roots, roots, I am afraid that you have to pull the whole body. A tree has little strength and can be lifted easily. But if its roots are twisted and twisted in the soil, it is not so easy."
"Well said." Li Ke's eyes shone brightly, and he said softly, "In the past few days, I have specially sent Quan Wanji to visit Jiangzhou Prefecture in the name of Mrs. Zhengminmin. Actually, it is. In order to find out the details of Cheng Songnian, Ma Kun and others. As a result, I found a lot!"
"Is there anything special?" Qin Mubai asked.
"Yes. And it's not just ordinary and special." Li Ke said, "It turns out that Cheng Songnian and Ma Kun are not ordinary vulgar officials. Cheng Songnian, a small five-rank state thorn&