**) During the Northern Anniversary, a businessman went to Chang'an, Beijing, which is today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province to do business.
Referring to the purchasing power of one tael in the early and middle Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to the current RMB 3,000 yuan, then twenty taels ** is equivalent to 60,000 yuan.
Friends, not to mention in ancient times, even in contemporary times, this 60,000 yuan is not a small amount.
And,**Twenty taels, that's very heavy, you have to say that you carry it with you every day, first, you don't have the strength, and secondly, it's not convenient to move, so the businessman simply found a box, put all the twenty taels** in the box, and then deposited it in a friend's house in Chang'an City.
If he doesn't spend money, he keeps it with his friend, and if he spends it, he can go to his friend's house and withdraw it at any time.
The box containing ** is made by the merchant with good fine iron, and the lock on the box is a copper lock cylinder.
However, the twenty taels ** were stored at a friend's house for only a few days, and the businessman once came to the door to withdraw the money, but found that the ** was all gone, even with the box.
In the eyes of the businessman, since the money was lost at a friend's house, it is very likely that the friend saw the wealth and stole it himself.
You are my good friend, I put the money on your place and let you take good care of it for me, you are good, just stole it from me!
My buddy is in the financial business, and I'm most afraid that the capital chain will break, and you stole my money, don't you want my life?
The merchant was quite angry, and without saying a word, he dragged his friend to the government and accused him of stealing a huge amount of money from him without conscience.
Because the case occurred in the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, there was no yamen in Chang'an City, and there were no county officials, and once the case was reported, it fell into the hands of the little Yuzheng sergeant.
Chang'an) Xiao Yuzheng is not a personal name, but an official name, because the Northern Zhou Dynasty admired the ancients, and most of the officials in the court imitated the "Zhou Li", so the official names at that time sounded a little strange.
Sergeant Xiao Yuzheng is mainly responsible for legal work, although this kind of civil dispute is not his full-time specialty, but since the people have come to you, then you can't ignore it.
But the management is in charge, but the management method of Sergeant Xiao Yuzheng is very different.
Grass-roots county officials and county officials, they are liuguan, where they go to a place, the term of office is no more than three years, no longer than five years, in five years, they have to be fully responsible for all the affairs of the county, responsible for it, there are political achievements, you can have the possibility of rising to the top.
So what is a political achievement?Timely payment of taxes, stabilizing public order, actively handling all kinds of cases, and winning the good reputation of the people are called political achievements.
In the era of political clarity, the way of being an official is always changing.
However, if you are an official and achieve the rank of junior sergeant, it will be very different.
This official is a Beijing official, Zheng Sipin, that is an important member of the imperial court, and when an official reaches this level, the way they look at things will change a lot.
The political environment is changing rapidly, and the political struggle is even more brutal, and for bureaucrats like them, the most important thing is not right or wrong, but how to do it to be more beneficial to themselves.
If you don't deal with this case today, you will make trouble in front of yourself, and tomorrow this matter will not be able to protect Otsuka Zai and Da Sima, and the situation will be serious the day after tomorrow
Therefore, a clean and neat conclusion of this case is the most beneficial to Sergeant Xiao Yuzheng.
The history books do not record the name of this little sergeant, but we can see his method of handling this case: the master then falsely convinced himself.
What does it mean, it means that as soon as the merchant came to file a complaint, the little sergeant Yuzheng didn't care about 3721, and he came up and beat him, and this friend couldn't bear the torture, so he confessed to it in court.
Liu Qing) case was closed, but there was another benevolent brother named Liu Qing in the court, who thought that the process of judging the case was a bit hasty, and he was afraid that there was a grievance, so he intervened.
We know that the predecessor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Western Wei Dynasty came from the Northern Wei Dynasty, this Liu Qing, he was an official in the imperial court when he was in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and he was born in the Liu clan in Hedong.
At the peak of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was the time of Emperor Xiaowen's reform, but Emperor Xiaowen could not have imagined that only thirty-five years after his death, he had seven temples in Yangon, and the ideal of helping the common people was completely shattered, and the Northern Wei Dynasty went to **.
Liu Qing held a lot of official positions in the Northern Wei Dynasty throughout his life, but basically he was a Beijing official, and he was a middle and high-level official in the Beijing Dynasty, before the establishment of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the last official position he held in the Western Wei Dynasty was Yongzhou Beijia, and after the establishment of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, his official position was Yizhou Thorn History, and Jing Zhaoyin.
We have the right to believe that when Liu Qing intervened in this case, his identity was still Yongzhou Beijia, which was governed by Xiangyang, Nanyang, Xinye, and Suizhou at that time, and Beijia refers to the adjutant of the highest leader of Yongzhou (Assassin History), who is mainly responsible for criminal law work, which is similar to the general judgment of later generations.
Liu Qing is also in charge of the law, but the problem is that Chang'an is not under his jurisdiction, so if he is just a driver, he has no authority to intervene in other places.
Therefore, the time when Liu Qing intervened in this case was probably at the turn of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, that is, around 556 AD.
During this time period, Liu Qing was about to step down from Yongzhou in the Western Wei Dynasty, and was awarded the official position of Yizhou Assassin by the Northern Zhou Imperial Court.
Yizhou is in Guangxi, which is even farther away from Chang'an, but don't forget, Liu Qing still has a part-time job in Northern Zhou, that is Jing Zhaoyin.
Jing Zhaoyin's official position, it is responsible for a lot of things, all aspects are comprehensive, anyway, in short, Jing Zhaoyin is in Chang'an City, where the people's livelihood, economy, culture, law, military, etc., he has the right to intervene in management.
Therefore, as the chief official in Chang'an City, it is reasonable for Liu Qing to participate in this case.
Liu Qing is a person who likes to read poetry and books, and he is smart when he is young, when he was more than ten years old, his father wanted to see what level he was, so he took out an article of thousands of words and asked Liu Qing to read it aloud, Liu Qing took it over and read it three times, and the fourth time he took it off the manuscript directly and memorized it intact.
After growing up, he became an official, and Liu Qing's official style is also very positive, and he has always been a person who enforces the law strictly.
When he first drove in Yongzhou, the Northern Wei royal family had a prince called Yuanxin, the king of Guangling.
This Yuan Xin, he is not small, he is the son of Emperor Tuoba Hong of Wei Xianwen, he was originally a relative of the emperor, and when he arrived in the Western Wei Dynasty, he was the head of the Eight Pillars Kingdom, and his power was overpowered.
Yuan Xin has a nephew, surnamed Meng, this Meng relied on his uncle's name, for the tiger, there are many arrogant and illegal acts among the people, once Meng sneaked into the people's house to steal a ploughing cattle, Liu Qing knew about this, and immediately arrested Meng.
Cow, this is an important productivity tool in ancient times, or take the Tang Dynasty as an example, in the early Tang Dynasty, slaughtering cattle was a serious violation of the law, and the punishment and murder were not too much, so in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was also a felony to want to steal cattle.
After Meng Shi was arrested by Liu Qing, he should have bowed his head on the spot and confessed his guilt, but his words were very arrogant, and he even sneered: If you are shackled now, how can you get rid of it in the future?
It means that today you have arrested me majestically, and tomorrow you will have to release me in a proper manner.
Yes, in Meng's view, Liu Qing is not differentiated, he has no capital to compete with the royal family, and if he arrests himself, it is tantamount to offending the royal family and offending the royal family, that is, ruining his political career.
Don't say that Liu Qing can't do anything about Meng, I'm afraid it's the history of Yongzhou, and I don't dare to do anything with him.
In this troubled era, everyone is to protect themselves, and to be an official can not be too sharp, but also to be with the light, everyone is an official in the same dynasty, everyone is a vested interest, not to mention that it doesn't matter if the people lose their cattle, even if the people die, it has nothing to do with us, take 10,000 steps back and say, you and I have a good future, why bother to compete with noble relatives like Meng?
However, Liu Qing did not hesitate, nor did he give the royal relatives time to come down to get people, but closed the case according to the process and killed Meng's staff in the hall in accordance with the law.
In the eyes of most of his colleagues, Mr. Yoo had indeed made the wrong decision — he couldn't do that.
They can't understand that this troubled world is difficult, so why gamble on their own future?
yes, why?
Quite simply, as Confucius said, don't ask if you can do anything, but ask whether you should or shouldn't.
They don't understand that the people are also people, the people also have wives and children, and parents to support, and a cow is nothing for the royal family and nobles, but for ordinary people, it may be the whole of their lives.
Meng stole cattle just for fun, but he didn't know that what he stole might not be cattle, but the right of poor people to live.
Why?There is no why, because I, Liu Qing, am different from you.
Liu Qing has the means and intuition, so he decided that this **theft case must be unusual, and later he intervened in an investigation and found that ** twenty taels was really not a friend guarding and stealing, but a friend of this businessman and another friend came to visit his home, heard about his wealth, was greedy, and drunk the master's house with a trick, which stole **.
A grievance is clear to Chang'an.
Fifty years old, strict law enforcement, known as the good name of Liu Qing died, the year was the first year of Tianhe, 566 AD, at this time, the Southern Dynasty was under the rule of Chen Wendi Chen Qian, Emperor Wen was virtuous, but Nan Chen from the beginning of the country decided that it did not have the possibility of competing for the world, the Northern Qi Dynasty was under the rule of Gao Wei, Gao Wei and Chen Wendi were just the opposite, wanted to occupy the time and place of the Northern Qi Dynasty, but many kings of the Northern Qi Dynasty were not virtuous, could not be gracious to the people, Gao Wei was even more absurd and unreasonable, so the fate of this dynasty is only the word self-destruction.
The troubled times that lasted for nearly 170 years and the Northern and Southern Dynasties are coming to an end, romantic figures, talented and beautiful women, emperors and generals, civil servants and warriors, history is like a big wave of sand, so that the time is just a hurried passerby, and the falling flowers and flowing water are easy to wash away a dream.
In the face of the huge era, the fate of those who stand on the main stage of history can be ignored, and those like Liu Qing, who has only left a small biography in the history books, seem to be even less worth mentioning.
However, the author still wrote him, as for why he wrote it, the author wants to borrow a sentence from Luo Xin, a professor of history at Peking University, to conclude:
We focus on ordinary people in distant times because they are part of real history, without which history would be incomplete and inauthentic.