Poor Family Chapter 456

  Chapter 456 Initial investigation of Heavenly Hell

  Time passed quickly, Li Yanqing had already been in office at Yushitai for ten days, and Yushitai was far from being as busy as he imagined, in fact, it was relatively free.

This is also one of the reasons why the imperial court's division of powers is relatively chaotic. For example, the impeachment power originally reserved for Yushitai, many high-ranking officials and ministers will often exercise it, directly bypassing Yushitai, and many official cases that should be tried by Yushitai will also Because of property and criminal matters, he was hired by the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Kaifeng Mansion.

  Of course, this kind of ultra vires behavior generally does not have any serious consequences. As long as the emperor acquiesces, it will naturally become the norm.

In the past ten days, Li Yanqing has disposed of two of the three cases left by his predecessor. He has not yet started to deal with the tricky Lin Lingsu assassination case. This case itself is very simple, but it involves the overthrow of Xiangguo. According to Wang Fu's conclusion, things are more complicated. At least when Li Yanqing first took office, he didn't want to act recklessly.

  The most complicated thing in this world is the human heart, the relationship between people.

The same is true in Yushitai. In the Taiyuan where Li Yanqing worked, after ten days of observation and understanding, Li Yanqing gradually discovered that Yushitai was not controlled by him like Liang Shicheng claimed. The control is in the hands of Xiang Wangfu, and only four of the six censors in the Taiyuan are Wang Fu's people, and the same is true for other palaces and supervisors.

Of course, Wang Fu was originally Liang Shicheng's confidant, a rising star he single-handedly cultivated, but Liang Shicheng obviously overestimated his own influence. Single-handedly promoted Liang Shicheng, which gradually made Yushitai out of Liang Shicheng's control.

For example, the old and cunning Wang Anzhong also saw through this point. Although he was transferred by Liang Shicheng to concurrently serve as Yushi Zhongcheng, he didn't care about Yushitai and basically ignored it. Li Yanqing only saw this on his first day in office. An immediate superior, he never saw Wang Anzhong again in the next ten days.

This morning, Li Yanqing came to Dali Temple Prison with Tao Ye and two followers. He wanted to meet Pan Yue, the protagonist of the Lin Lingsu assassination case. Will be shelved, he began to investigate and understand, began to prepare in advance.

  Dali Temple Heavenly Prison is located underground. Contrary to its name, the place is dimly lit, damp and dark, and the air is very dirty, full of a smell of rotting corpses.

Accompanying Li Yanqing into the Heavenly Prison was the Prisoner of Dali Temple, named Sun Ji, who was nearly fifty years old, and worked for nearly twenty years in this small official from the ninth rank, and cultivated him to be slick and good at making sense of the wind. The character of the rudder.

Seeing that Li Yanqing was frowning at the environment here, he sighed and said, "This Heavenly Prison in Dali Temple was built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty to deter corrupt officials. Circulation, once the epidemic spreads, all the prisoners here will die, how many people have died here for more than a hundred years?"

   "In this case, why not build a new prison?" Li Yanqing asked.

   "There is a new prison, but minor criminals and female criminals are detained here, and serious criminals have to be detained here."

Li Yanqing followed the jailer into one gate after another. The iron gates opened one after another, and finally came to the prison deep in the ground. The prisons are distributed in a straight line, a passage about a hundred steps long, and twenty cells are built on the right. , and on the left is a wall, a total of five prisons A, B, C, D, and E were built side by side, and Pan Yue was in the T-shaped prison.

Before the last gate, Sun Ji smiled at Li Yanqing and said: "The prison has strict regulations, and paper and pens, gold knives, money and pestles are strictly prohibited from entering. If Li Yushi wants to record, he can bring the prisoner to interrogation." room, where there are pens and paper."

  Li Yanqing glanced at several followers, "You wait here for now, I will be back soon!"

The last iron door opened, and Li Yanqing endured the stench and followed the two guards into the lowest prison. He came to cell No. 17, only to see a person lying on a pile of rotten mattresses, and ignored Li Yanqing. .

   "Pan Yue! Pan Yue!" The jailer hit the iron railing with a small hammer, and the prisoner on the ground groaned and tried to get up with difficulty.

   "How could this be? Are you sick?" Li Yanqing asked with a frown.

  Sun Ji smiled wryly, "If you are imprisoned in this environment for a year, even a healthy person will collapse."

  Sun Ji was clearly aware of the crux of the case, so he said loudly, "It's the new Li Yushi who came to see you."

This sentence really worked. Pan Yue sat up immediately as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, crawled over on hands and feet, grabbed the iron railing and begged Li Yanqing: "I didn't premeditate to kill Taoist Lin, it was the soldiers who did it without permission. I have nothing to do!"

  Li Yanqing saw that he was covered in filth and stench, and there were several ulcers on his body, like a ghost crawling out of hell.

  He then turned around and asked Sun Ji, "His body is festering, why didn't you give him medicine?"

   "I have given him medicine, but he won't get better here. His family members have also visited him, and we will try our best to give him preferential treatment."

In the past ten days, Li Yanqing has basically studied this case thoroughly. This Pan Yue has never met Lin Lingsu before, and he has no personal grievances with him. The technique of disgusting victory angered a few soldiers defending the city, so they took the risk to assassinate. The soldiers also admitted this reason, but they later insisted that it was Pan Yue who instigated them to kill.

This is the loophole of this case. When Lin Lingsu practiced in Dongcheng, Pan Yue was not in Dongcheng, but patrolling in Xicheng. The soldiers came to report him, and then ran back to kill people. It took at least two hours. Lin Lingsu cast the spell early. It's over, Pan Yue can't know that the other party has used the technique of disgusting victory and decided to kill, there is no time at all.

The case turned out to be that Pan Yue had planned for a long time to murder someone, but Lin Lingsu decided to use the law to retreat in the east of the city without prior notice. It was just decided in the morning and implemented in the afternoon, without notifying the guarding army. How did Pan Yue plan? ?

The only possibility is that Pan Yue had murderous intentions in his heart. When he heard that Lin Lingsu was coming to practice in the afternoon at noon, he arranged for a few soldiers to assassinate him in advance, and then Pan Yue deliberately hid in the west city and left the scene. This makes sense , Wang Fu also came to the conclusion because of this possibility.

  Although Li Yanqing has never handled a case, he also knows some common sense. He cannot infer that the case was committed by someone just because of a certain possibility. There must be a motive for murder. Where is Pan Yue's motive?

However, it is easy to see the benefits of the few soldiers insisting on Pan Yue. They have changed from the main culprit to the accomplice. The case was resisted by the Pan family and was delayed indefinitely. They will not die, so these soldiers are still alive. Alright, that's the point.

"Your case is under my control. Before the conclusion of the final investigation, I will not admit that you were wronged, nor will I believe that you did it. You just need to cooperate with the investigation and tell the truth. I will definitely pay you back." Right and wrong."

After finishing speaking, Li Yanqing turned around and left. Pan Yue slumped on the ground in despair. A year ago, that Liu Yushi also said the same thing to him, and then there was no result. Could it be that he was really going to be imprisoned to death? Is it here?

   After coming out of the lowest prison, Sun Ji asked, "Does Li Yushi want to visit those murderous soldiers?"

   "Are they held here too?"

  Sun Ji shook his head, "They are in the prison camp of Kaifeng Prefecture."

   "Then what's the point of your question?"

   "The humble job is just... I just want to know if Li Yushi has started to investigate this case?"

  Li Yanqing felt that there was something in his words, so he asked, "Does Priest Sun have any suggestions?"

   "The humble official suggested that Pan Yue be imprisoned in another place. The conditions here are too bad. His health has collapsed, and he can only last for another two months at most."

   "You are the Prisoner, isn't it your decision to put him in another place?"

Sun Ji shook his head like a rattle drum, "The lowly position is only to implement the decision, and has no right to change the place of detention. The judge can decide. He is a joint trial of the three divisions, and he needs to serve the censor, the prime minister of Dali Temple, and the doctor of the Ministry of punishment. Only by signing can he be transferred to another place for detention.”

   "Then just my signature on this matter is not enough!"

  Sun Ji hesitated for a moment and said: "Dissatisfied with Li Yushi, the Criminal Ministry and Dali Temple have already signed the agreement, but the former Liu Yushi refused to sign, so he can only be imprisoned here."

   "Why is Liu Yushi unwilling to sign?"

   "This humble job is not clear."

  Li Yanqing also understood in his heart that Yushitai had been fighting against the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple in this case, and refused to compromise in all aspects, including such trivial matters as transferring cells.

But he, Li Yanqing, is not Liu Lin, nor is he a confidant of Wang Fu, and he has nothing to do with the confrontation with the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple, and he will not take the blame for offending the Pan family. Thinking of this, he said to Sun Ji: "I can sign and seal now. I hope to change him to a better cell today."

  (end of this chapter)

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