Chapter 1: The Lawsuit in the Current Year

A dream of glory and splendor, half a sheet of paper, a thousand feet of sea of right and wrong. Horses’ hooves trampled the frost on the street, listening to a few times the head of the chicken singing. Dusty clothes, jianghu heart amount. Out of the royal phoenix network, Mu Yiqi Shouyang, sigh Han Peng not centered. Early paper wind magic.

(yuan wang yuan heng, towards the sky, thought the inscription)

The clouds in the sky, like wet cotton wool, always ready to squeeze out water, but also like a big piece of lead ingot, heavy, where is the void can carry, I am afraid that the next moment will be smashed to the earth. There are already raindrops leaking down from the leaden clouds, falling to the ground in dribs and drabs, but I don’t know when it will turn into a torrential downpour.

Song Shiren, this year’s Kyoto first lawyer, nicknamed rich mouth of the character, now sideburns have gray hair, eyebrows and eyes are no longer as frivolous and dashing as back then, much more calm, he calmly looked at the sky, I do not know what is in his heart.

After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and sat down on a chair, feeling a little tired. Someone beside him brought hot tea, he sipped some and rinsed his mouth, and then took the hot towel and pressed his eye sockets, and only then did he feel a little better.

And someone behind him for his back, pinch legs, there are people began to fan him. But in the fall of the ninth year of the Qingli calendar, it was already a bit cold, coupled with the autumn rains will come, Kyoto City, all the coldness of the miserable, where can not be fanning? Song Shiren couldn’t help but shiver, and the person beside him, wearing a black official uniform, glared at his subordinate who was holding the fan.

This Supervisory Yuan official was precisely one of the organizers, Mu Tie, who carefully looked at Song Shiren and said, “Lord Song, is there any certainty.”

Although Song Shiren had been hearing this title for a year and a half, he was still a little uncomfortable, his brows furrowed as he responded stoically, “Don’t worry, Your Honor.”

This litigator’s first official appearance was in the fourth year of the Qingli reign, when he fought for the family of Minister Guo, suing Fan Xian, the son of the then minister, for black boxing in the middle of the night, and that lawsuit was also a rare complete defeat for Song Shiren. He really caused a stir in the Qing Dynasty because of a lawsuit in the sixth year of the Qing calendar about the Ming family’s property in the south of the Yangtze River.

In that lawsuit, with the strong support of the Supervisory Board Fan Xian, Song Shiren in Suzhou House for half a year, will be a lifetime of learning to perform a full, hard to grasp the loopholes of the Qing law and the Ministry of Justice, will be branded in the hearts of the world’s first eldest natural inheritance, beat the hell out of it.

This Ming family property lawsuit, really Jiangnan, the arrow pointing to the palace in Kyoto. I have to say, later, His Majesty the emperor sacrificed to abolish the crown prince, as well as the crown prince was finally forced to rise up and plot rebellion, and this lawsuit has some inexplicable relationship.

In Jiangnan Song Shiren’s scenery is unlimited, but back to Kyoto, when the crown prince is not abolished, the empress dowager is furious, the old woman just whispered a sentence, the world’s first lawyer will be pinched by the palace as a mole cricket, the family property was copied, to see all the human eyes, in the Lotus Pond Square set up a stall hard to get by, almost can not live.

Fortunately, Fan Xian returned to the capital, secretly sent him out of Kyoto, and gifted a large sum of money, as a reward for him. At the beginning of the eighth year of the Qingli period, Fan Xian brought Song Shiren’s family back to the west side of the city and gave him a mansion, and at the same time gave him the status of an official.

Although the world’s first lawyer can earn a lot of money, but the status is not as good as the official, Song Shiren heart grateful, but also know that he must sell this life for the little Fan good. In addition to the baptism of the encounter between these years, Song Shiren has long since ceased to be the arrogant appearance of the year, but appeared to be calm, down-to-earth, but still has a very strong line of law skills.

His identity is now the Supervisory Yuan eight law enforcement officials, specifically responsible for the Supervisory Yuan to fight lawsuits.

The Procuratorate also needs to fight lawsuits? This matter if you want to start from the beginning, then it is a very long story, the core is actually no more than two points: first of all, a few years ago his majesty will be the supervision of the court’s trial rights back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Da Lisi, so the supervision of the court is now more in the role of a public prosecutor.

And in these two years, the young master in the Supervisory Yuan, I do not know what stimulus, please His Majesty’s decree, began to clean up the rule of law, the Supervisory Yuan in the various counties ministries, I do not know how many corrupt officials have been arrested. Caught the criminal officials, naturally want to trial, and if so handed over to the Ministry of Justice and the Da Lisi to trial, the Supervisory Yuan side one is not willing, secondly, the little Lord Fan even more will not agree. Everyone knows the four words “officials protect each other”, since the Supervisory Yuan wants to catch the officials, of course, will not give these civil officials the opportunity to embrace.

So Song Shiren, a newly promoted official of the Supervisory Yuan who specializes in lawsuits, played a great role. But wherever he went out, the charges nailed by the Procuratorate basically fell on the ground, no matter how much the civil officials of the court system within the cover up, but also can not let those offenders get away with it.

But what really made the Procuratorate feel cold was the several decrees of His Majesty after the Kyoto matter was finalized. Although these several decrees only continue the original seven gentlemen into the palace when the policy, so that the Academy began to enter the internal procedures for the supervision of the institution, but this time that the left imperial historian He Zongwei, with the holy favor, as well as very clear decree, began to really use the power, on the one hand, weakening the authority of the Supervisory Yuan, on the one hand, began to the Supervisory Yuan internal some of the rules of the law violations to attack.

The heavens and the earth are not as big as His Majesty’s will, nearly two years passed, the power of the Public Prosecutor’s Office gradually grew, like a rope stretched around the neck of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, so that the officials of the Public Prosecutor’s Office are a little hard to breathe.

He Zongwei is like a hound dog in general, guarding the outside of the Supervisory Yuan, as long as the Supervisory Yuan of the bright officials have any prohibited things, he will not be soft and nonchalant to formulate a statute, and directly sent to the Da Lisi, requesting the court to rule on the charges.

Supervisory Yuan is not too good law, because from the beginning of the establishment of the Supervisory Yuan, there will be this rule, the Qinglou Yuan regulations limit them to death can not lay hands on the metropolitan police station. –Only this rule had been forgotten, consciously or unconsciously, because of the strong presence of the two characters, Chen Pingping and Fan Xian, and now that His Majesty had remembers the matter, the Capital Inspection Yuan was in the limelight.

The good thing was that little Lord Fan was still the supervisory authority of the Supervisory Academy, so the Ducha Academy was still relatively gentle in its actions, and He Zongwei was very careful not to touch Fan Xian’s bottom line, but only in the Qing law, and didn’t dare to insult the Supervisory Academy in the slightest.

However, when the Procuratorate acted secretly, it would always touch the Qing law regularly, and the Procuratorate relied on the decree to urge the Da Lisi to review it, even Fan Xian did not have a good way to deal with it, because it was His Majesty’s decree after all. Moreover, he was clear that the Supervisory Yuan’s dominance was not a good thing for the court.

Being clear did not mean acceptance. One day in the eighth year of the Qingli reign, Fan Xian kicked open the door of the Capital Inspection Yuan and pointed at the two dozen or so royal historians below He Zongwei and cursed them angrily before inviting Song Shiren back.

Wasn’t it just a lawsuit? Could it be that the Procuratorate was still afraid of people?

Today Song Shiren in the Da Lisi to fight two lawsuits in a row, one is the Supervisory Yuan to try out the Ministry of Public Works a member of the foreign minister colluded with the Commander of the Governor’s Office of the River Transportation, embezzlement of river workers silver, and this silver is not the public in the middle of the silver, it is Fan Xian hard from the inner treasury in the south of the country’s own small treasury to save out. And then by Mrs. Fan in charge of the charity Hangzhou will, transported to the river governor Yamen.

Greedy money to the head of the ancestors of the Supervisory Yuan, the Supervisory Yuan naturally not polite. Ignoring the relationship of the foreign minister in the dynasty, not to mention the river transport governor’s private letter of mercy, in a dark night, directly arrested the relevant two dozen criminals, in the Supervisory Yuan seven prison for a few days, and then sent to the Da Lisi.

The second lawsuit is a bit of a headache, the metropolitan inspectorate to find out the supervision court four in Nanzhao a certain official, secretly set aside a sum of silver transported over the Honglu Temple – this official is back to the capital to report on his duties, was examined out of the problem. In the words of this four officials, at that time, the funds were insufficient, in order to develop eyes in the Nanzhao domestic, so the compulsion to use public money.

Just how much he actually utilized and whether or not he kept it for himself, no one is clear. Within the Ombudsman’s Office, it was understood that this colleague must have taken advantage of the situation. It’s just that being a spy in a foreign country, even though Fan Tiji raised the monthly salary of the Procuratorate three times in a row, it’s still a little tight, and no one is a saint.

“Are the case files all ready?” Song Shiren glanced at the assistant beside him, this assistant’s name was Chen Bochang, the very same famous actor who fought against Song Shiren in Jiangnan, and could not imagine that in the end, he was also pulled back to Kyoto half invited and half tied up by Fan Xian. The eight newly-established law-enforcement divisions are all famous litigators from all over the world. Every time I think of this point, Song Shiren, who already has a heart like still water, can’t help but laugh bitterly, Little Lord Fan does things, and is still as arrogant as ever, obviously, His Majesty lets the Metropolitan Inspectorate check and balance the Supervisory Yuan, but you have to blatantly go against the other side, and do it so painfully.

Chen Bochang responded and stood up.

Mu Tie, as a Supervisory Yuan official, today in the Da Lisi to listen to, one is to watch that Ministry of Public Works staff to be screwed into what appearance, the second is to ensure that the Supervisory Yuan four officials, do not eat too much loss. All the officials of the Supervisory Yuan, now appreciate the eight law enforcement divisions, because they know that these former litigators are the greatest guarantee of their own interests.

He patted Song Shiren on the shoulder and said sincerely, “Go for it, my lord.”

Below the outer gate of the Da Lisi, the rain gradually fell lightly. Song Shiren drank a mouthful of tea, his face full of confidence, hands behind his back, walking toward the Da Lisi Yamen, walking is so calm and stable, all will not be inside the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, the Metropolitan Police Department in the eyes.

Walking dashingly, the people of Kyoto watching across the street applauded in unison, all looking forward to the Supervisory Yuan can cut down all those corrupt officials.

It must be said that in the past two years, the power of the Supervisory Yuan has been cut down quite a bit, but its reputation has improved a lot. Fan Xian has spent several years, and finally succeeded in pulling the Supervisory Yuan out of the darkness a bit, and with a series of thunderous purges, he has built up a glorious image among the people.

Nowadays, the winds of civil discourse were basically in favor of the Supervisory Yuan, and somewhat disdainful of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Song Shiren walked toward the Da Lisi, his face was calm, but his heart was not calm. Doing things for little Lord Fan, it is indeed painful, not only to win pain, but also to get a lot of people’s support, this point is not easy.

For more than a year, Song Shiren has gone out for the Supervisory Yuan to fight the lawsuit, and has not lost, and this …… time must be the same. But he has already offended the entire Qing civil official system, he knows that he can no longer go down to the Supervisory Yuan this boat, once down, it is the end of being swallowed by the huge waves.

But he was not afraid, because on this boat of the Supervisory Yuan, the one at the helm was Lord Fan Jr. As long as Lord Fan Jr. was there for one day, no one in this world would dare to be unfavorable to himself.

“There are some problems on the Nanzhao side, the Metropolitan Inspectorate and the Ministry of Justice copied out a considerable amount of silver money in that official’s house.” Chen Bochang looked at the face of “Your Excellency” and carefully reminded.

“Return the stolen goods, go to your post, not guilty.” Song Shiren did not turn around, lowered his voice and said, “Lord Titus’ bottom line is here, if the Metropolitan Police Force still wants to go further, it will tear open its face and fight, first from the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, there are not many of those people who are clean.”

Chen Bochang had a chill in his heart, secretly thinking that Little Lord Fan was indeed the same as Chen Lao Dean, an extremely protective and powerful character, looking at this meaning, if the Du Chuan Yuan did not accept Fan Sanjiao, Little Lord Fan was ready to go blind.

He couldn’t help but shiver. Like Little Fan, no wonder that the court of law with his own family always can not win, after all, that He Zongwei adult again how to have the holy favor, again how to use the heart of the force, but also can not withstand the Little Fan adults are always ready to turn the face ah……

If Lord Fan really flipped his face, where is He Zongwei to carry, with his temperament, only afraid of His Majesty’s words do not matter, who all know how much His Majesty is valued or favored him.

“Why didn’t Lord Titus come to see the fun today?” Chen Bochang swallowed and asked as he walked along.

In this year, Fan Xian’s greatest interest seemed to be acting as a backer for his subordinates, listening to the trials on the Da Lisi, and watching the iron faces of the imperial historians of the Du Cha Yuan. According to reason, this kind of thing to send Mu Tie this level of officials to listen to just, even if the word Bingyun are too lazy to come over, but in his favor, but every time not to fall.

The little lord in the Da Lisi Yamen Hall above the stilted legs sit, all the trial officials are beginning to fear, no one dares to Supervisory Yuan officials. And this was the effect he wanted.

“His Majesty sent him out.” Song Shiren, who only vaguely knew some of the inner workings of the situation, didn’t say anything else, rubbed his wrist, glanced at the imperial inspectors of the Duzhaoyuan Academy and the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs in the hall, sunk his face down, coldly grunted, and began to fight.

From Kyoto to the west, around the verdant Cangshan Mountains, traveling through several clear rivers, after another ten days, will enter the military reclamation that stretches for hundreds of miles, this is one of the seven major roads of the State of Qing, Xiliang Road. This is one of the seven major roads in Qing, the Xiliang Road. This road is the poorest place in Qing, but also the place with the most peculiar scenery.

This way of land, most of the hundreds of years, the Central Plains regime and the Hu people war repeatedly fought for the place. Until Wei weakened, Qing Guo and the predecessor of Qing Guo, that vassal state began to rise secretly, this country at that time has not yet to the continental hinterland, they began to demand a thousand years of blood debt and land from the Hu people.

After many years of fighting and many deaths, this piece of land was finally firmly controlled by the Kingdom of Qing, and at the same time, many new cities were built on it, and many people were moved in. However, after all, it is the land of Xin Sheng, except for cantonment, commerce is not developed, and there is no valuable production, the people who moved to flee until the last few years is a little better.

There are only flat and little tended fields, with endless lines of the sky, and the edge of the line raised mounds, the distant desert, looks bleak.

The sunset here is a little later than any other place on the continent, and the blood-red twilight covers the vast land, reflecting a majestic city. A majestic city made entirely of earth and stone, appeared abruptly on the edge of the earth, showing off the strong national strength and military power of Qing, and shocking the people on the grassland further west of the majestic city.

This is the city of Dingzhou, a major town in the western frontier.

The official road leading from Kyoto to Dingzhou was so well maintained that it could accommodate eight horses driving side by side. I don’t know how much manpower and financial resources were consumed back then, but this was a way to keep the western part of the country safe for eternity, and firmly control this large area of land, which was extremely cost-effective in any case.

A train is on the official road toward Dingzhou City, seems to want to rush before the sun sets, into Dingzhou City. It seems that they want to rush into Dingzhou City before the sun sets. However, especially on this piece of flat field, Dingzhou City seems to be in front of their eyes but far away from the sky, so it seems that they can’t rush into the city before closing the city gates.

About twenty miles away from Dingzhou City is a post station. This post is not a military post, not under the jurisdiction of the Dingzhou army, but a postal route post under the Ministry of Public Works, so it looks a bit run down and old. Seven or eight hans were yawning under the light of the setting sun, they had already eaten their dinner and were starting to prepare for the gambling that would take place later.

As the sky grew dark, these men suddenly had odd smiles on their faces and leaned towards the backyard, listening to the sounds coming from inside, hiding their mouths and laughing, thinking that the guy inside was also too monkeyish.

Inside a stone room in the backyard, the only official official of the post station, the stage minister is holding a woman’s two snow-white thighs, hands pressed on her soft breasts, whimpering and grunting, his body is full of sweat, and the room is full of lewd smell.

Dingzhou was remote, there was little entertainment, and the night came too late, so whenever the sun set, he would seize the time for this only entertainment. The woman underneath him was a prostitute brought from the city of Dingzhou, and although the prostitutes willing to go out of the city were all average looking, he loved the woman’s winks and the soft flesh on her body.

Hands catching slippery breast meat of the stage minister incomparable pleasure, only feel underneath the woman seems to be made of cotton candy, especially that the eyes are more than the Dingzhou city well water is more sweet and greasy, this month three silver, really worth back to the original.

Is happy when, suddenly the door of the room was pushed open. This stagecoach is also generous, still moving the waist, to the soul of the piercing, also do not turn around, broken mouth cursed: “to listen to listen, to see to see, mother, also do not say careful, actually crashed into the door, beware of the old man into the wind on the horse ……”.

The prostitute who was pressed under him also ate and laughed, not at all afraid of being seen anything.

Suddenly the stage minister felt a little strange, because the back half a day no sound, he subconsciously looked back, only to see a stranger, bluffed, hurriedly bounced up from the kang, fastened his pants, but also did not forget to pull over the black quilt to the kang prostitute’s white blossom of the lower part of the cover.

The stage manager wanted to swear, but seeing that this stranger was dressed in a very expensive way, I was afraid that he was some kind of person who could not afford to be messed with, or an official, so his mouth went a little dry and he got scared.

He said in a trembling voice, “What are you?”

Fan Xian sat on the only tai shi chair in the post station, looked at the large number of people kneeling in front of him, frowned, and said, “If I tell you to get up, get up quickly.”

He had come to Dingzhou to labor on the decree of His Majesty on this trip, and while he said he was laboring, the secret decree he received in the imperial study was something else. During these two years, the western Hu people did not know what kind of stimulant they had taken, and it was as if they had taken a sedative, and they had changed the romanticism of their previous years’ battle method of going back in the spring and returning in the fall, and they had started to encroach on the side of Dingzhou in an extremely organized manner, and their battle method had become extremely cunning.

Although the Ye family is still in charge of the Dingzhou military affairs, but Ye Chong main Privy Council, to be in charge of the world’s military, it is impossible to personally sit here, coupled with the Hu people attack too fierce too Yin, the first year of the Dingzhou side of the situation is very critical. In the end, his majesty personally transferred all the border soldiers to take turns to support, and only then was the situation stabilized.

The Emperor and Fan Xian had long since seen that there were some problems, but without first-hand information, no one knew what was happening within the Hu people. Things can’t go on like this, if the West Hu really develops like this, it will become a great danger to Qing, that’s why Fan Xian came to this trip, he must listen to the Dingzhou side of the general’s personal report, to understand the state of affairs.

Moreover, Fan Xian knew that his majesty had deployed five armies to the west road, and had the intention of sharpening Qing’s sword with the sword of the Hu people, and the attack of the Hu people had given Qing a chance to refine its military strength and prepare for the unification of the world in the future.

Today can’t catch Dingzhou, then have to rest in this deserted and broken post war for one night, how to know into the door is no one to welcome, seven or eight men like children in listening to the corner. Fan Xian was curious for a moment and pushed the door directly into the house, not realizing that he was actually watching a live spring palace.

The post minister and the seven or eight men knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while the officials who came with Fan Xian knew his temperament and had long since ignored him, each going to prepare for the night’s rest.

Fan Xian looked at the post minister and laughed and scolded, “Damn, the sun hasn’t even set yet and you’re starting to screw, don’t be afraid if you have the guts to do it.”

The post master cried and mourned, thinking that he was about to be killed. The master in front of him was the second most important person in the Heavenly Characters, the chief inspector of the Supervisory Yuan, a person of high rank, a person he had no right to see even if he did not have the qualification to see him.

Fan Xian asked suspiciously, “What are you afraid of?”

“Your Excellency is as cynical as he is vengeful, and hates official corruption the most …… ” The postman was already so afraid that he was about to cry, and paralyzed on the ground, telling the impression that the people of the world had of Fan Xian.

Fan Xian touched the back of his head in some uncertainty, thinking that he was already the father of two children, so how was he becoming more and more like an unearthly saint or devil in the hearts of the people of the world?

(Opening)