Chapter 299 298 Will Justice Be Late?

Although he had not seen the Shen family and had not been to Bao'an Prefecture, Wei Guangde had already made his own judgment.

Wei Guangde leaned back in his chair and recalled the complete story outlined in Ma Fang's letter.

Last year, Xuanda discovered and arrested a large number of White Lotus sect members. Wei Guangde guessed that perhaps at this time Yang Shun had thought of a way to deal with Shen Lian, that is, to add Shen Lian's name to the sect members, and torture a few sect members to identify him as a crime.

The subsequent report and execution was simple. According to the letter, the court sent Lu Kai, the inspector of the Censorate, to review the case. I think it was also someone ordered by the Yan family, just a formality, so Lu Bing did not receive the news until Shen Lian was killed, and it was too late to save him.

As for the reason for killing Shen Lian, it might be because of the hatred between him and the Yan family. After all, it is said that Shen Lian's impeachment made Yan Song very embarrassed, and he hated Shen Lian to the bone.

As for killing good people to take credit, it has always happened in border towns, and it may not be the main reason for Shen Lian's death.

At this time, Wei Guangde suddenly felt that Lu Bing was a very deep person. He only mentioned it slightly in the report to Emperor Jiajing and attracted the emperor's attention, making the emperor mistakenly believe that Shen Lian was killed because he had a disagreement and conflict with Yang Shun in order to kill Liang and take credit.

There is no need to investigate this case. As long as it is confirmed that Liang was killed and took credit, Yang Shun's crime will be determined.

And is there any need to investigate the matter of killing Liang and taking credit?

The knife is ready. Just report it. Just send someone who has done some work to review it clearly.

Should I learn from him when I impeach someone in the future?

At this time, Wei Guangde was already thinking about what to do next.

Before, he planned to go to Baoan Prefecture. If possible, he would contact the Shen family to see if they had sufficient evidence. When he returned to the capital, he would find a chance to redress their grievances, but at this time he didn't want to go there anymore.

As for him asking Ma Fang to lead his own servants to secretly enter the vicinity of Baoan Prefecture, he was actually worried that his identity would be discovered and he would be killed here as rumored.

With Ma Fang, a fierce general, nearby, Wei Guangde felt much more at ease. Now it seems unnecessary.

In this matter, the only thing that needs to be confirmed now is the truth of Shen Lian's murder. He has already made excuses for the rest.

Wei Guangde certainly will not refute Lu Bing's opinion. Killing innocent people to take credit is indeed true, so Yang Shun is inseparable from it, and he can't get rid of it.

Yang Shun has a deep relationship with Yan Song and Yan Shifan, and has nothing to do with him, Wei Guangde. Wei Guangde certainly will not choose to publicly impeach Yang Shun. This is too offensive to the prime minister of the dynasty. It is better to find a way to sue him privately.

Wei Guangde is still clear-headed. He knows that if he wants to live a good life in the Ming Dynasty, he still has to be an official. If he wants to be an official steadily, he must not offend his superiors, not to mention that the other party is the prime minister, the one who holds the reins.

Just when Wei Guangde was waiting for the people he sent to Bao'an Prefecture to come back and bring news before making a final decision, a guard who had been sent to Bao'an Prefecture had already returned to Yongning on horseback and rushed to find Wei Guangde, as if something extraordinary had happened.

"Sir, sir."

The guard rushed into Wei Guangde's guest room after entering the courtyard of the inn where Wei Guangde lived, shouting twice.

"What happened? What's the matter? Why are you so anxious?"

Wei Guangde raised his eyebrows and said with some dissatisfaction.

"Sir, the people of the Shen family, from the master to the servants, have long been moved to Yunzhou, but in the next two days, the eldest son of the Shen family will be escorted to Bao'an Prefecture. I heard from the people in the government office that he might die in prison after being sent there for a few days."

The guard immediately told the news he had heard.

Human life is at stake.

In the eyes of these soldiers, it is normal to kill opponents on the battlefield, but the things these officials do in private make them, who are used to killing people, find it unacceptable.

In the past, the soldier didn't know who Shen Lian was, but after arriving in Bao'an Prefecture, he found out that he was a member of the Jinyiwei, and he was demoted to Bao'an Prefecture because he was not afraid of the powerful and impeached the prime minister of the dynasty.

Well, the common people naturally have a good impression of those who are not afraid of the powerful. After all, it is impossible not to have resentment in their hearts after being bullied by the powerful for a long time.

I heard that Shen Lian was demoted here because he offended the powerful, so naturally I admired him very much. Shen Lian has a very good reputation in Bao'an Prefecture.

Obviously, such a reputation also affected Dong Yiyuan's servants, so when he knew that Shen Lian's eldest son was about to be captured and killed in Bao'an Prefecture, he ran back to report the news in such a hurry. The purpose is self-evident, hoping that Wei Guangde can save his life.

Shen Xiang?

Wei Guangde remembered that Ma Fang mentioned this matter in the letter he sent before. Yang Shun, the governor of Xuanda, issued an official document to arrest Shen Xiang in Zhejiang and escort him here.

So although Shen Xiang was already a scholar, the officials who handled this matter were all from the Yan family. Naturally, the Zhejiang Provincial Education Officer stripped him of his last support, the title of scholar, arrested him and sent officials to escort him to Xuanfu for trial.

Can Shen Xiang be saved?

Wei Guangde himself was not sure, because his duties were not in Xuanfu now.

The imperial edict given to him and Tang Shunzhi only involved inspecting Jizhen, understanding the escape of military and civilian households and the impact on the construction of the border wall. The secret investigation of Xuanfu was just a message from Emperor Jiajing to Chen Ju, indicating that the emperor seemed to be interested, but had not yet made up his mind to take down Yang Shun.

If you want to save people, your identity must be exposed. What will happen next?

It's hard to say whether he can be saved or not. Even if he stops him and saves the person, he will completely break up with Yan Shoufu.

Although Wei Guangde never meant to seek refuge there, he did not want to offend this fellow in power by committing suicide.

He was not Wu Shan, and he had offended the Yan family long ago, but he could still sit firmly in the court and was promoted to the high position of Minister of Rites, because he had always been upright and had a good impression on Emperor Jiajing, which was also a way to balance the court.

There is no more suitable candidate than Wu Shan. Even if he is from Jiangxi and is at odds with Yan Song, it is too rare.

Wei Guangde doesn't have Wu Shan's confidence now and dares to directly oppose the Yan family.

If you can't save him, then everything you do will be in vain.

Wei Guangde was unusually calm at this time, with the aura of not changing his face despite the collapse of a mountain. However, in Na Ding's view, this was Wei Guangde's statement that he did not intend to get involved in this matter, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

"Sir, Lord Shen Lian has been killed by a traitor, and his youngest son has been sent to Yunzhou with his mother. That is the border. He has a narrow escape from death.

Mr. Shen is the only one left. If he is killed again, Mr. Shen will be dead.

I heard from my family and fellow villagers that Mr. Shen is a good man. He often stood up for the villagers because of official duties and extortionate taxes. He offended corrupt officials for the villagers' affairs. Those people hated him. Mr. Shen entered Baoan Prefecture. It will definitely not last long.

Please take action to save him and leave a trace of blood for Master Shen. "

After saying this, the servant knelt down and kowtowed to Wei Guangde.

"Get up, why are you kowtowing?"

Wei Guangde felt a little unhappy when he saw the servant's behavior. Do you have any say in these things?

"Sir, I brought the villagers to kowtow to you. I didn't know this Master Shen before, but my parents and neighbors all said that Master Shen is a good man and a very loyal man. Please save Mr. Shen, sir. "

The servant was still kneeling there and talking without caring about himself, looking very excited.

"The imperial court has noticed Master Shen's death, and there are some things that should not be said to you."

Wei Guangde was a little hesitant when he said this, but he continued: "These are all evidence of the traitorous officials, and they will have their retribution sooner or later.

Justice will only be late, but it will never be absent.

Those people will pay the price sooner or later for the evil they did today. Isn’t there a saying among the people, ‘If you don’t retaliate, the time has not yet come’? "

Wei Guangde still didn't want to intervene, because he had no reason to intervene in this matter. If he was in Jizhen, he could still take care of it. After all, it was within the scope of his duties, but this matter happened in Xuan Mansion.

How long did it take for you to recover from your illness?

He also traveled all the way to Xuanfu to intervene in local government affairs. How could Tang Shunzhi interfere with his own affairs?

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde became more determined not to interfere with the Shen family's affairs. He would never touch it. Even if something unexpected happened to Shen Xiang, he would just avenge him in the future.

Justice will only be late, but it will never be absent.

"But everyone is gone. Even if there is retribution, we can't save people. This is directly exterminating Zhongliang. Sir, you can't do this."

Seeing that the servant was getting more and more outrageous, the captain of the servant sent by Dong Yiyuan felt that something was wrong, especially when he saw that Wei Guangde's face was getting worse and worse. He quickly waved his hand, and the two servants who came up from behind took care of the servant. The person set it up and took it out of the house.

The servant struggled and begged: "Please save Mr. Shen. His family will be killed by traitors. Please help me."

Dong Yiyuan's servants are naturally strong, but they couldn't struggle to get away under the force of two companions.

After all, I went from Yongning to Security Guards and rushed back after only two days. My body was a little overwhelmed. Even veterans who are accustomed to long-term battles will be slightly affected physically. Naturally, they can't resist two companions who have been recuperating for many days. .

The servant was forcibly carried to the next room. The captain of the servant just hugged Wei Guangde in embarrassment and followed him out.

Wei Guangde got up and walked back and forth in the room.

Although he had made up his mind not to interfere in this matter, Wei Guangde felt panicked as the person was being dragged away.

"Justice will be late, but it will never be absent."

This sentence was also very popular in later generations. After all, there will be injustices in any era.

Now in the Ming Dynasty, information transmission is not smooth, so some things that happen will only spread in small places, but it is difficult to spread on a large scale.

Unless an official heard about it and complained about it and wrote a memorial to participate in the incident, and it was published in the imperial newspaper after the emperor approved it, it would quickly spread throughout the country. However, this time is far from the time when the incident happened.

That passage seems quite appropriate to say in this era.

After all, times have their own characteristics, and some things cannot be forced.

But in later generations, Wei Guangde vaguely remembered seeing a view on the Internet, that is, delayed justice is not justice.

Justice is the basic requirement of social morality; justice is not the basic requirement of social morality that is late.

This is the core of that article. When an unjust, false or wrongful case is corrected, many people will celebrate it and say this paragraph.

However, the article explains that the original intention of "justice will not be late" is not to correct afterwards, but a purely literal meaning. Justice that is late is not justice, because justice will not be late.

For example, when a person is declared innocent 20 years after being wrongfully imprisoned, it is not that justice 20 years ago came late, but that justice 20 years later came on time.

This is the correct understanding of this passage, because the person who said this seems to be an American Supreme Court judge, so when translating, it seems to be misled by the packaging.

In fact, the original intention of this sentence, which seems to be full of positive energy, is not to praise late justice, but to criticize late justice, condemning the people who made wrongful imprisonment 20 years ago for trampling on human justice.

Just like in some movies and TV shows, the police are unable to bring arrogant criminals to justice due to insufficient evidence, and can only use "justice will never be absent" to advise criminals and comfort themselves.

Or like in some movies and TV shows, hypocritical bad guys whitewash the peace, do bad things but enjoy all the glory and wealth, and finally because of a mistake, they are caught, and the righteous people will also shout "Justice may be late, but it will never be absent" to relieve their happiness.

Misreaders took the words out of context and completely overturned the original thoughts. Instead, they praised the belated justice. Was it intentional or unintentional?

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but be shocked. When he said this sentence casually before, what kind of mentality was he in at that time?

The capital didn't know what happened in Xuanfu. Wei Guangde was sure that maybe after Shen Lian's death, Lu Bing didn't care much about Shen Lian's family. Maybe in his opinion, people were dead, and the grudges in life should be turned over. Maybe he was indifferent.

If Shen Lian was alive, he might attract Lu Bing's attention with his talent, but it would be meaningless if he was gone.

But now that I know, what should I do?

Should we let justice be delayed, just like the sayings such as "good is rewarded with good, evil is rewarded with evil" or "cause and effect cycle, retribution is not wrong" that people believe in, or should avoid such things from happening.

Just like the soldier said, "But the person is gone, even if there is retribution, it can't save people."

For no reason, Wei Guangde felt dissatisfied with the servant. It would be great if he could report it later. He would clear the injustice for the Shen family.

Now, he knew it in advance, but he didn't know how to deal with it.

In his previous life, he was an ordinary person. After seeing such things, he could do nothing except talk about it on the Internet.

That was not about protecting himself, but about being powerless.

It's different now. He is now a Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty and an official. Should he still deal with such "life-threatening" things in the same way as before?

Wei Guangde's heart was in chaos at this moment, and his already unsteady heart had a crack.

Footsteps sounded outside the door, and the captain of the servants also came back