For a moment, I felt the injury on my leg was particularly painful.
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At the beginning of the first lunar month, when every household was celebrating the New Year, the Ministry of Justice was involved in several cases.
One was the second son of the Xue family, Duke Su’s mansion, who had occupied the people’s fertile land and was ordered to return it and fined a heavy sum of money.
Second, the illegitimate son of the Cen family, Duke of Xin, raped a woman and was thrown into the prison of the Ministry of Justice.
Both of them were playboys, holding no official position or job, and had no influence on the layout of the two major families in the court.
If we really want to talk about the impact, there is one point:
Having just been reprimanded for being incompetent in household management, it was naturally impossible for the two major families to offer concubines to the palace for the time being.
At least wait until the storm has passed.
Compared with these two cases, the case of the Shi family of Nanyang Hou was more talked about by the people.
The second son of the Shi family was having an affair with a beautiful woman, but was caught by his original wife's husband, who chased him for eight streets and beat him, and he ran away naked.
If the Ministry of Justice had not received the report and rescued him, he would have walked around a lot more.
The emperor also reprimanded the Shi family.
Ning Wanyin had already sent people to keep an eye on the Shi family. As soon as something happened at the Shi family, Pengqi immediately came to report:
"Master, our spies are keeping a close eye on this. Prince Yihe has never met any court officials, including the presiding judge Song Chengyi..."
The three cases of the Shi family, the Xue family, and the Cen family were all presided over by Song Chengyi, a deputy minister of the Ministry of Justice.
His public statement was that these three cases were all reported by enthusiastic citizens.
But how could it be such a coincidence?
Many people suspected that he was deliberately picking trouble with the two major forces at the emperor's instruction.
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