The Silent Reforms of Eldridge Chapter 37

The deceased Jiang's uncle and aunt lived in the backyard. When they heard Hu's voice, they lit an oil lamp and came to check. The uncle and aunt walked into Hu's room and saw Jiang's body lying on the ground. There was a hole at the base of the wall. The quilt on the bed was gone, and so were Hu's clothes. When I opened the door to take a look, there was no one around. There were footprints on the soil at the entrance of the cave, and there were faint sounds of chasing robbers from nearby villages.

The next day, the leader of the township security group went to the county to report the crime. At that time, the order to arrest theft was very strict. Xu Jun, the county magistrate, was worried about being punished, so he ordered the arrester to say that this was not a robbery, and to cover up the matter by claiming that Hu's aunt murdered Jiang. After the autopsy in Xuzhi County, they saw that there were no wounds on the body, so they randomly pointed at the old claw marks on the deceased's back and said that they were the fatal wounds. Since there was no murder weapon, he found a bent needle used by a bamboo craftsman on the wall of the house and said that this was the murder weapon.

Xu Jun then locked Mrs. Hu's sister-in-law to Guanyin Cliff and punished her dozens of times. He also used a wooden pole to press the pole once. Hu's aunt couldn't bear it, so the guards taught Hu's aunt how to confess, and they confessed.

I transferred Xu Jun to the province to issue orders, but Xu Jun still refused to accept it. I also ordered Yichang, the prefect of Chengdu, and Li Xiangbing, the committee member, to collect all the witnesses in the case and review the case with Xu Jun at the prosecutor's office. Xu Jun had nothing to say when he saw that the criminal documents, the prisoner's work and the servants all confessed. That night, Xu Jun came to Li Xiangbing's apartment and asked him to take care of him. Li Xiangbing told him: "If there are scars on the body, then we will open the coffin for inspection; if there are no scars, then I dare not sentence an innocent person to death just to preserve our relationship with you." Xu Jun said: "There are indeed There are no scars. The so-called scrotal injury is all caused by Master Zhang You. "

Xu Jun knew that after the case was vindicated, he would definitely be impeached and removed from office, so he asked Peng Xue'e, an academician, to write me a letter. Peng Xue'e said that Xu Jun was his closest relative, and he could take care of him if he could. If he couldn't, he could just ask him to resign due to illness. Qixiang also received a letter from Chen Qingkai, the governor of Shandong, asking him to release Xu Jun. Prime Minister Qi stopped pursuing the matter, and Xu Jun subsequently resigned due to illness.