Chapter 235 Judgment (Previous)

"Young Master, do you mean that you need many elders to listen to me?" Everyone around you, including Lu Lu, was slightly stunned. Since ancient times, interrogating prisoners and convicting him was all the affairs of officials at all levels in the yamen. At most, the people can only watch by the sidelines, so how can they be qualified to argue? Why do you always come up with the words of General Zhu?

"It's not an audience, it's them who are here to participate in the case." Zhu Bashiyi glanced at everyone and added solemnly, "After returning, I found thirteen refugees who were 60 years old and respected, and asked them to form a jury. Let's just set the punishment level. As for whether they are guilty or not, they will decide thirteen of them, and the minority will obey the majority."

"Yeah." Everyone became more and more confused. They really doubted whether their chief executive was damaged by rain yesterday. Why were they full of fresh words? The jury, the minority obeyed the majority, and made a yamen like a vegetable market. Maybe they could bargain. How could this case be tried? Where is the majesty of the government in the future, and the majesty of the court will be gone.

"We must have something different from the Mongolian Yuan court." Seeing the confusion in everyone's eyes, Zhu Bashiyi held his mount and looked at the wilderness after the war, and explained patiently, "So many people died and rebuild a country on the ruins, they can't be the same as the Mongolian Yuan side. Whatever the officials say is, the people can only bow their heads and listen to the shouts. Otherwise, why do they have to support us? Besides, we have just expelled the Mongolian Yuan government in this area, and no matter what we do, we will start a new trick. Since that's the case, why don't we try a new method? At worst, we can change it back to the original one in the end. OK or not, but we have to try to know."

This is the real thought in his heart. He has been holding it in his hands before and has not said it because he doesn't know whether his method is suitable or whether the so-called later things in Zhu Dapeng's soul can be suitable for this era. However, after experiencing so many things in recent times, he has become increasingly firm in his belief that those ideas must be taken out and tried. Even if they fail, it is better than now. He just replaced the banner of the Mongol Yuan with the banner of the Huai'an Army, and basically everything else is drawn.

What he built up in this way was not the country he wanted. The troubles he faced when doing things carefully were no less than letting go. And with his prestige in the Huai'an army, no matter how he did it, there would be no resistance. Once everyone formed the habit of following the old rules and wanted to make some changes, it would not be a matter of a day or a night.

Sure enough, after hearing the firmness in his words, everyone was immediately not confused. On the contrary, some people learned a lot of meanings that were not originally intended. "My dear, this is a great move. If the government tried the case like this, it would not be the government's business for the government. Those old men who participated in the trial were the culprits."

"Well, the governor's move is very consistent with the ancient meaning. The ancients had the allusion to ask about politics and the people. The governor's move is even more innovative."

"Well, after this move, the people of Yangzhou will definitely return to the governor, and exchange a trial for the heart of 600,000 people. The governor's plan is far away and the humble position is beyond the reach of the world."

What is this? Zhu Bashiyi was so angry that he couldn't help but laugh and cry. He must have a little idea of ​​this by judging Zhang Mingjian and others, but he was not as absolute as the staff below said. He didn't realize that he had imitated some ancient sages and wise men just now. As for pushing all the mistakes to the jury members, the government always be a good person, that was even more unthinkable.

"But the old people in the local area may not be able to be fair." Lu Lu Zeng was old and acted the most cautiously. He frowned and whispered a reminder.

"Thirteen people cannot be all heartbroken. In front of so many bystanders, they have to pretend to be like people." Zhu Bashiyi thought about it and explained patiently.

"Once someone accepts a bribe."

"Every time I change a different person, and it's not until a day before the trial that I decide who to participate."

"Once there is a relationship or a grudge between a criminal and a certain old man."

"The plaintiff and defendant have the right to request a replacement for the close relatives, but this time it won't work. Zhang Mingjian and others have a grudge against the people in all Yangzhou, and they have no right to ask anyone to avoid it."

With the memory fragments left by Zhu Dapeng, Zhu Bashiyi kept solving the questions raised by everyone. The method may not work, but it is always not bad to try. He is now in the stage of drawing on white paper. No matter how he draws, it is the first stroke of beauty and ugly paintings, and there is still enough room for modification and compensation in the future.

Any new thing must be immature and can always find many loopholes. Therefore, on the way back to Yangzhou, Zhu Bashiyi answered different questions almost every day, and then tried to make up for these loopholes. Sometimes he was annoyed by being asked, and even exhausted, intending to give up. But when he thought that these all came from Zhu Dapeng's memories, he gritted his teeth and persevered, because the things in Zhu Dapeng's memory have brought great help to the Huai'an army so far. The things in Zhu Dapeng's memory are basically things that have been verified by time and practice, and it is unlikely to bring him into the gutter.

Time passed quickly in the busyness. When Zhu Bashiyi brought a large group of troops back to Yangzhou, it was already the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month of the 12th year of Zhizheng. Because the king of the Ming Dynasty, Han Shantong, was unable to find it, the red scarf in the north had not been established, so the reign names of the Great Yuan Dynasty were still adopted in various places. This practice made many people feel uncomfortable, so everyone was not in a hurry to mention the public trial of Zhang Mingjian. Instead, they gathered in the temporary tent to signal Zhu Bashiyi to take advantage of the twelfth lunar month and the new year had not begun, and quickly consider the reign number of the new year.

"This, let's wait for Marshal Liu." Zhu Bashiyi himself was indifferent to this. Shortly after conquering Huai'an, he determined through the Nestorians in the city that it was 1352 AD, which was nearly seven hundred years apart from the world in Zhu Dapeng's memory. As for the twelve years of "Zhizheng" or the two years of "Zhiping", it was actually just a matter of recording methods, and there was no big difference. He could only add chaos to the chaos (Note 1)

"Shishuai sent another wave of messengers to come, hoping that the governor could release Fan Shutong for his sake." Hearing that Zhu Bashiyi did not want to break up completely with Liu Futong, the old general Shi Lu Lu hesitated for a moment and advised him again, "He is just a charlatan who cheated him. It makes no sense to kill him. Keep him, but it will be of some use."

"Whether to kill him or not depends on the trial result." Zhu Bashiyi was very stubborn in his reaction to this matter and responded without hesitation, "Have you discussed the level of punishment and the result? After the discussion, it will be put on paper. In the future, it will be sentenced according to this sentence, and until the next time I feel that there is a need for major changes, I will use this as the standard."

"Lu is lucky to be unfair to his fate." Lu Lu immediately straightened his body and bowed his hands gently. Compared to pleading for Fan Shutong, the latter thing is obviously more meaningful. He formulated sentencing standards for different crimes and used as a reference for future trials. This is equivalent to formulating a criminal law for the entire Huai'an military jurisdiction. In the past, it is the work of the founding prime minister, so he cannot be neglected in any case.

"How to decide on it, let me take it." Zhu Bashiyi glanced at the old Jinshi in surprise, not understanding why the latter suddenly became so excited.

"Please wait a moment." Lu Lu immediately ran out with an action that was extremely disproportionate to his age. After a moment, he returned to the tent with a thick stack of papers and presented his efforts to Zhu Bashiyi with both hands. "Please take a look. He has drawn up five types of extreme punishments, including cutting, cracking, cutting, slashing, and poisoning, nine types of major punishments, including treasures, palaces, sticks, flowing, and prisons, as well as other twenty-one types of minor punishments and six types of punishments."

"Why do it make it so complicated?" Before Lu Lu finished speaking, Zhu Bashiyi interrupted. In Zhu Dapeng's memory fragments, it seemed that later generations punished criminals, only death penalty and imprisonment, supervision and labor. Even many countries even gave up the death penalty. Although he would not be so soft-hearted that he would avoid death by killing the murderer, there were too many ways to create five kinds of punishments for one death.

However, this time, Lu Luzeng did not intend to give in anymore, and responded angrily, "If this is not the case, how can we deter those criminals? Besides, killing one person and killing ten people can be the same as robbing and killing people, and fighting in the street to kill people to death, how can we gather people to rebel, and"

"Then are you still going to implicate the rebels in the nine clans?" Zhu Bashiyi really couldn't understand the other party's thoughts and interrupted again hesitantly.

"That's natural. It has been like this since ancient times. Even if there are amnesty in the world, the rebels and their families are not among the amnesty." Lu Lu Zeng nodded solemnly and responded loudly.

"The heavy punishment should be used in troubled times." Chen Ji, who was reluctant to speak, also came forward and loudly gave Lu Lu Zeng a speech, "The lord is compassionate, but he cannot be soft-hearted at this moment. If he thinks this method is too strict, after the world is in great order, another one will be formulated. But at present, either the law is not formulated. To formulate it, it must be punished severely and intimidated by the criminals in the world."

"In the past, Prime Minister Zhuge was in charge of Shu. There was a saying that water was soft, but there were countless people in the world who died of water every year, but the fire was strong, and few people went to the fire to burn themselves to death." Another army member, Luo Ben, also came forward and quoted the classics.

"There is no need to be so strict." Zhu Bashiyi waved his hand and interrupted in a low voice, "Just kill me, why do you have to kill so many tricks? In addition, castration and punishment are nothing? Do you think there are few disabled people in the world? It's better to kill him directly! Avoid his resentment day and night."

"Well." Most of the people agreed with Zhu Bashiyi's last sentence. The punishment of castration and punishment that directly cause disability will indeed make the punished resentful for the rest of their lives, but it is obviously too much to change these two punishments to hanging. After all, some of the guilt is not yet at the point where the prisoner must die.

While hesitating, Zhu Bashiyi said in a controversial tone, "It would be better to do this. The death penalty will be cut off until the death penalty is cut off. The castration and the punishment will be changed to imprisonment and fines, so that he will always become a pauper. It is no better to keep him in custody than to make him become a eunuch. You think that Zhu heard that there were no these two punishments in the Song Dynasty. We can't be more cruel than the Mongolian and Yuan court." (Note 2)

Note 1: Zhiping is the year name of Xu Shouhui. His country name is Tianwan, and the year name is Zhiping.
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