One ingot of official silver

During the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an old man named Zhao in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, who was in his fifties and had a kind heart. My wife and I run a small teahouse in the mountains ten miles outside the city for a living. Provide meal breaks for travelers and businessmen traveling from south to north. Although business is dull, it can still make a living. There is an only son in the family, whose name is Xi Fa Nian 29. The old couple love their son dearly. Although his family was not rich, he was sent to a private school in the village when his son was eight years old. Xifa is talented and studious. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, he passed the "big exam" and became a scholar. /kloc-before going to the provincial urban and rural examination at the age of 0/8, she suddenly got a strange disease and couldn't afford to lie down. My parents have been taking care of me until now.

? In early spring, Zhao Laohan went to work in the fields. He just dug for a while, intending to dig a hard object. When the soil layer is dug out, it looks like an iron box, which contains eight large pieces of silver, each of which is fifty taels. Zhao Laohan was shocked. He looked around and no one thought, "Who buried so much money in my house?" Then I thought, "Because of bandits, there are fewer and fewer businessmen coming and going. The only son in the family has no money to buy soup and medicine every month, since pie falls from the sky. I only take one tablet to relieve my burning anxiety. One day the cashier will come back to get it, and the loss will not be too great. So he took a silver ingot and hid it in his clothes, reburied the iron box and went home. Unexpectedly, Wang Er of the neighboring village is digging bamboo shoots on the hillside at this time. Seeing this scene, I am puzzled. After Zhao Laohan walked away, he came to his house to dig the soil. When I found the silver box and saw no one around, I put all the silver ingots in the box into the basket, covered with weeds and ran away.

Wang Erben is a wandering disciple. He usually idles about and does nothing. I occasionally sell some mountain goods to the county for money gambling.

After the unexpected harvest, he was ecstatic. The next day, he took two pieces of silver to a blacksmith in the city and melted some broken silver for him as gambling money.

Blacksmith Zhang naturally wondered when he saw that Wang Er had brought such a large sum of money. However, because of Wang Er's temptation and the leakage of "consuming fire", he promised to melt silver for him. However, he grew up and saw six big characters under the silver ingot. Cover with inkpad and put it on paper. There are six big characters on the paper: "Daming Xuande Year System". But Zhang Can the blacksmith can't read. The next day, Wang Er took the broken silver and went to the casino. Who knows that his luck was extremely bad that day, and he repeatedly lost gambling. Soon there won't be much money to carry around. But he turned his back on his roots, hurried home and took out two pieces of silver, and went back to the casino to bet heavily. At that time, the casino was in an uproar, and one of the gamblers was literate. When he saw the big characters on the silver background, he immediately reported to the official. This can be won! Actually, someone used the official bank privately, and soon the chief arrested Wang Er, a gambling addict. In the lobby, Wang Er confessed truthfully before the magistrate punished him. After a long time, Zhao Laohan was also brought to the class. Lao Zhao, a law-abiding citizen, has never seen such a battle. When I heard that I was suspected of stealing official silver, I immediately fainted with fear. Then he truthfully confessed the fact that he was digging silver ingots in his own field. On the other hand, Zhao Laohan has no official silver in his family. It turns out that in recent years, banditry in this area is serious and the government is deeply troubled. Many times, soldiers were mobilized to suppress bandits. Two months ago, the official bank in the government was stolen, which even caused shock in the ruling and opposition parties. Local officials were ordered to solve the case within a certain period of time. Even the court sent officials to supervise the case. And suffering from too few clues, there has been no progress. It is estimated that this silver was secretly buried in Zhao Laohan's house when someone inside the bandits wanted to embezzle stolen goods. The accidental arrest of two suspects naturally requires an emergency trial. I tried and tried, but there was no result. Zhao Laohan and Wang Er know nothing except the origin of Guanyin. The magistrate looked at the two suspects kneeling in front of the hall and muttered in his heart. These two people don't look like people who dare to steal the treasury official's silver. This case must have something to do with the bandits in the greenwood. But finally caught some clues, and it was not in vain. He decided to adjourn the court before reporting to the government. Back in Houya, when the magistrate hesitated, Zhang touts came uninvited. He understood the magistrate's doubts and told the magistrate that the case needed a preliminary conclusion before it could be reported. As a result, the government and the public know about this matter, and it is not good for you to report it rashly. Secondly, it can prove that our government has done something, thus taking credit. This master Zhang, 36, is from a neighboring county. He is a cunning man and gained a reputation as a scholar in his early years, but he failed in the exam and decided to be a county official. The magistrate listened to the touts and summoned two princes of Zhao that night. This retrial is very different from the daytime. The county magistrate first threatened and lured, and when he saw that it had no effect, he was punished immediately. How can two people stand punishment and extract confessions? Wang Er took the lead in identifying Zhao Laohan as his accomplice. When the magistrate saw what he had gained, he was not in a hurry to hire two confessions. After much deliberation, he ordered them to be put back in prison and recorded. Retrial after three days, after the two made up, the polished confession was presented in court. The next day, the magistrate reported the matter to the superior, and the two men were escorted to the provincial capital together with the treasurer randomly selected.

When the superior officials investigated the case, they saw that the confession was full of loopholes. Although they knew the inside story, they also rushed to hand it over to the inspector for re-verification. I didn't know that the inspector was forced to solve the case by the court, so he was willing to close the case as soon as possible, and privately instructed local officials to polish their confessions and report them.

? The officialdom is dirty and dark. The real robbers couldn't be caught, because two wang xing people were in love for a while, and the government pushed the unjust case with a logical conclusion, which led to many people's embarrassment. In this way, the case-handling officials can cope with the work and make achievements for themselves. Everyone knows that no one will find out. This case is basically solved. Just waiting for the report step by step, Emperor Zhu approved it, and autumn was over.

Because it is very important, criminals have been brought to Beijing. Seeing that everything was settled, I came out halfway. As the saying goes, there are still loyal ministers in the world. This man is called Zhu Guangdi, from Jiangxi. When things punishments. At that time, he went to Beijing to take the exam and accidentally capsized in the Ganjiang River. Fortunately, he was good at swimming and saved his life. But all the books and luggage fell into the river. After spending the night in Zhao Laohan's shop, Zhao Laohan knew that he was taking the exam, so he gave his son the exam book that year and helped him to take the exam in Beijing with a little money. Later, he went to high school in one fell swoop and stayed in Beijing as an official. This time, I participated in the supervision of the official bank theft. When handling the case, I found that the case was full of doubts, and the culprit was the benefactor of that year. So I questioned Shang Feng twice and was rejected. Although Zhu Guangdi is an honest and frank person, he is not rash. He knows it's no use pestering here, and he will go back to Beijing for a turnaround.

When he arrived in Beijing, he first found a group of scholars from the same department and Jiangxi Province to explain the case. Everyone is angry about this matter and willing to help. Running in many ways, the news reached senior minister Yang Ge in Jiangxi Province. An "iron case" has finally turned around. At the same time, the case-handling party did not show weakness, and this matter finally caught the emperor's head. Originally, the emperor only needed to exercise the power of life and death in one fell swoop to end the cases identified by such officials. But he saw an opportunity to suppress the regime of case-handling officials headed by Anhui nationality. So the Royal Wholesale returned to the retrial. The case happened on the night of the Lantern Festival, and the guards of the county bank neglected their duties and drank and had fun. So someone took the opportunity to put antiperspirant on the dining table and stole the silverware. Taking advantage of the excitement of the Lantern Festival, the thief successfully transferred twenty boxes of treasury silver. At dawn the next day, everyone woke up, and it was too late to regret it. Only a small official suspected of being in charge of the bank key absconded. Later, Zhao Laohan and Wang Er received money. According to the file, Zhao Laohan delivered food to the city on the night of the Lantern Festival, and then gave it to the absconding petty officials to invite the guards of the treasury to drink. After Ma defected, he colluded with Wang Er and others to steal silver. Finally, after the news came out, they shipped the stolen goods out of the city in batches. Although the facts in this file have been polished several times, there are still many doubts. 1, if Zhao Laohan is one of the masterminds, why does he get more money than Wang Er? Where are the other stolen silverware? How did Wang Can take out the stolen money in public? 4. antiperspirant can last for three hours. Zhao Laohan's home is about ten miles away from the city, and it is late at dawn in the first month. Although the gate was deliberately delayed until four o'clock on the Lantern Festival, even if it was closed, it was too early for Zhao Laohan to deliver food to the city. There are countless doubts like this! Deng Guangdi and others deliberately spread some relatively obvious doubts to guide the attention of officials in the case-handling department. One month after returning to Beijing, a joint hearing of the three major judicial departments organized by Duchayuan, Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment was held in the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment. The officials of the case-handling department seem to have come prepared in class and made a reasonable explanation for the obvious doubts on the file. I didn't know that there were Jiangxi people among the officials who presided over the meeting. He came prepared and raised some obscure doubts in the document, such as the above. The case was caught off guard and everyone was speechless. Seeing this situation, both criminals and witnesses retracted their confessions in court. Since then, a case of planting and framing has been exposed. Most of the case-handling officials were dismissed for investigation. Zhao Laohan was confiscated for his personal greed for an ingot of official silver. Wang Er was sent into exile because of the huge amount of bribes. Although the other wronged servants cleared their grievances, they were also severely punished for dereliction of duty.

? After returning to Ganzhou, Zhao Laohan's teahouse was confiscated. Fortunately, he managed a teahouse for many years, trained a good cook and found a job in a small restaurant. In addition, his wife helps people sew and mend, and their combined income can also support the family. Lao Zhao's original teahouse was bought by the Zhang family. Since then, a tall flagpole has been erected in front of the door. A huge shop sign with black characters on a red background has been hung on the flagpole, and lanterns are often hung at night. Let the small shop that was originally on the main traffic road look more conspicuous. Strangely, after the silver was stolen, the government stepped up its efforts to suppress bandits, but every time it transferred troops into the mountains, it often failed, and bandits always pulled away ahead of time.