Southern Song Dynasty officials encountered a homicide case, looking for clues in the midst of many

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-03-07

The Southern Song Dynasty **encountered** case, looking for clues in the midst of many doubts.

Chao Kuangjin with Chen Qiao's yellow robe"Forced"Called the emperor, established the Great Song Dynasty, known as Song Taizu in history.

In history, it is not uncommon for military generals to open the country, but there are also examples of literati in power, such as Zhao Kuangyin, who is also quite imperial in power, but it is not excessive.

Zhao Kuangyin's background determined that he also had a deep fear of military generals, so in the Northern Song Dynasty after Dezong of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a state of emphasizing literature over military force above the imperial court.

Many people believe that this was the main reason for the poverty and weakness of the Song Dynasty. In fact, what I want to say is that the Song Dynasty may not be as poor and weak as we think, it is a feudal dynasty that can be juxtaposed with the Tang Dynasty, and it is a glorious dynasty.

As for the period from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the lowland dynasties of the Central Plains were overwhelmed by the nomads, not because of the weakness of the Song Dynasty, but because of the limitations of the development of feudal society, and the continuation of the feudal dynasty may be extinguished after a certain period.

It seems that no matter how healthy a person is, sooner or later he will die.

No matter what historians say about the Song Dynasty over the centuries, it is undeniable that the happiness index of civil officials in the two Song dynasties was very high, and they were very elite in all fields.

Sima Guang's world of glasses, Su Dongpo's world of food, Wang Anshi's world of change, Song Ci's world of forensics...

We won't mention the first three brothers, after all, they are also literary giants, but in the field of forensic science, Song Ci can be called the first person in the world, he combined his real experience, bored, wrote the world's first forensic science monograph "Records of Clearing Grievances", also known as"The originator of forensic science in the world"。

In the Song Ci Dynasty, a series of cautious and serious ** emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty, including Song Ruilong, a master of solving the case, who found clues in the suspicious points in a ** case, and the suspect had already pleaded guilty at that time.

When the case is retried, the child appears, and the truth is finally revealed in him.

Carpenter.

The incident occurred in Xinfeng District, Ganzhou City, when Song Ruilong was the prefect of Ganzhou Prefecture and was mainly responsible for local judicial affairs.

Xinfeng County has beautiful mountains and rivers, and the locals build houses in the mountains and live a carefree and comfortable life, and the imperial wars and nomadic invasions have little to do with it.

At the foot of the hill lives a skilled local carpenter, and behind their house is a post road that many pedestrians pass by every day.

Sometimes, passers-by would stop at the carpenter's house, and the carpenter would be happy to entertain them; After all, it's also an income**, and it's much easier than carpentry.

One day, a carpenter got up before dawn to go to work, but when he went outside, he heard a man lying next to the mail truck.

The carpenter thought that the pedestrian had fallen and tried to wake him up, but saw that the man was bleeding profusely and had turned into a cold corpse.

The carpenter recognized him and realized that he had seen him the day before, so he hurried away for fear of trouble.

After dawn, the body was found and immediately reported to the district office, where an investigator immediately examined the scene and the condition of the body, and finally concluded that the person had been hacked to death with an axe.

All signs pointed to the carpenter, so ** ordered his arrest, and after interrogation, the carpenter firmly denied killing anyone, only admitting to having seen the victim.

When the district office searched the carpenter's house, it did not find the carpenter's axe, so the district office ** speculated that because the carpenter's family was very rich, the carpenter beat the victim to death with an axe, and then hid the tools of the crime.

Investigation and reconsideration of decisions.

The carpenter, of course, disagreed with this conclusion of the district court, but it was so trivial that no one listened to his cry for justice.

In order to conclude the case as soon as possible, the district court tortured him to extract a confession. The carpenter could not stand the torture and had to plead guilty, so he was sentenced to death.

According to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, death penalty cases must be sent to the provincial capital for retrial, so the carpenter's murder case was sent to Song Ruilong for retrial.

Song Ruilong saw it, and immediately became suspicious, if it was really the carpenter's intention to see the wealth, then he would definitely confess that the tool of the crime was in **, but from the beginning, the carpenter did not explain the matter, and the axe could not be found in **.

Finally, an appeal must be filed.

Song Ruilong therefore decided to review the case when the carpenter went to court, and after Song Ruilong was brought to court, he saw that the carpenter confessed all the details of the crime, but insisted that he did not kill anyone, and as for the confession, he confessed only after being beaten.

Although Song Yilong realized that the carpenter was not **, he couldn't find any evidence to repay his innocence, and how to solve the case gave him a headache.

Song Yilong, who had been to the scene of the crime many times, thought that the carpenter should be asked to recall the details of the crime, so he returned to the prison to question the carpenter.

When Song Rilong approached the prison, he accidentally bumped into a little boy.

The fact is. Song Ruilong thought this was very strange, prison is a place where young children generally do not go, could it be that the parents of young children were bullied by prison guards?

Song Yilong felt pity and ordered someone to call the little guy and the guard, and after the guy and the guard asked about the situation, they thought they had committed a crime, and they didn't know what to say for a while, so they got stuck.

Song Ruilong asked the boy what he was doing here, and after some persuasion, the boy explained his intention.

While playing in the street, he met an unknown man who gave the boy 50 cents and told him to ask the carpenter if he pleaded guilty and come back to tell him when he heard the news.

The boy looked at the 50 cents in his hand, thought it was an easy task, and agreed. When he came to the outside of the prison, he met a guard who asked him about the carpenter.

Song Yilong saw this scene.

After the boy's explanation, Song ordered the immediate arrest of the man who was still waiting for the boy's return.

After the trial, the man finally pleaded guilty to the crime of **.

This man is a local robber who, when short of money, will keep an eye on people coming and going on the way to make deliveries, and sometimes rob.

At the material time, he saw a pedestrian coming out of the carpenter's house, and after a short rest, thinking that it was the dead of night and the pedestrian had money, he took the carpenter's axe and followed him to commit the robbery.

When the pedestrians resisted, they beat them to death and immediately fled.

A few days later, when he learned that the carpenter had been arrested, he returned calmly, but in order to find out if the carpenter confessed, he looked for the boy on the street and promised to give him money if he helped him inquire.

Unexpectedly, Song Ruilong accidentally discovered that this investigation was not only a trivial matter, but also allowed the little boy to discover the truth inside, and then asked the carpenter to clean up his crimes.

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