No one dared to be negligent when it came to the Chen Sheng family.
The judicial system of the Ten Nations was different.
In most countries, the county magistrate tried the cases, while the prefectural magistrate only reviewed the cases and the final decision was made by the state judicial office. If it was a major case, it would be decided by the Supreme Court or Ministry of Justice.
In Jingguo, although the capital governor was equivalent to the prefectural magistrate of the capital, he was also the chief official of the city. Ordinary cases were handled by the capital patrol. Once it involved a major case and the Supreme Court did not explicitly say that they would take it over, the capital governor would conduct the preliminary review, and then the Supreme Court would review and reject the judgment of the capital governor.
Although the defendant was not the entire Chen Sheng family, but only a branch of the Chen Sheng family, since the Supreme Court did not take the initiative to take over the case, it could only be handled by the capital governor.
So far, Fang Yun had not completely changed the judicial process, because the Ministry of Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Overwatch Council were still slowly adapting to the new changes, and many aspects had to be done step by step.
The capital governor did not dare to make a decision on his own, and sent the relevant documents to the relevant departments and the cabinet. One of the documents was placed in front of Fang Yun.
Fang Yun carefully read the document.
Many years ago, Chen Ziqian of the Chen Sheng family fell in love with a girl from a small family, so he privately promised to marry her. However, in the eyes of the Chen Sheng family, an ordinary girl was not even qualified to be Chen Ziqian's concubine, so Chen Ziqian's parents broke up the couple and compensated the girl with 500 taels of silver.
500 taels of silver was a huge sum of money for a small family, but they also had dignity. The girl's father refused to accept the money and went to the Chen family to seek justice. He wanted Chen Ziqian to apologize to the ancestral hall of the family and admit that it was not his daughter's fault that he abandoned her.
The Chen Sheng family did not care about such a person, so the steward not only refused to apologize, but also spread rumors that the girl had sold herself in a brothel and ruined her reputation.
The girl's father was so angry that he rushed to the Chen family and got into a conflict with the servants of the Chen family. He was beaten up and died of serious injuries.
Later, the Chen family used their connections in the capital and only found the servant to take the blame. They sentenced the servant to three years in prison on the grounds of accidental injury.
Xu Changgeng waited for Fang Yun to finish reading the document and said in a low voice, "Prime Minister, at this moment, I'm afraid that someone is stirring up trouble. The capital governor has sent a letter to this lowly official, asking for Prime Minister's true opinion. "
Fang Yun threw the document into the wastebasket and said, "Is the Chen family outside the law or outside Jingguo? I'll give the governor ten days. If he can't deal with this matter severely, then I'll find another official who can! "
Xu Changgeng didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stood there and looked at Fang Yun with pleading eyes, hoping that Fang Yun would reconsider.
"You may leave." Fang Yun did not even lift his eyelids.
Xu Changgeng sighed softly. He bid farewell to Fang Yun and turned to leave.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Capital Governor announced that he was sick and resigned.
Fang Yun acted arbitrarily and ordered the Jingguo Governor to avoid battle in the face of danger. He evaluated the Governor as inferior and issued an official document stating that Jingguo would never hire this person again.
No one in the cabinet opposed Fang Yun. The Empress Dowager also quickly stamped the imperial seal on the document, confirming that he would never be accepted.
Then, the Ministry of Personnel followed the normal procedure and appointed a new Governor on the same day.
The Governor was in charge of the capital, but his rank differed from country to country. After Fang Yun's reform, the Governor was promoted from fourth rank to third rank, equal to the Provincial Magistrate and the other ministers.
For any Fourth Grade High Official, becoming the Governor was a matter worthy of celebration. However, no one was willing to offend the Chen Sheng Clan, this colossus.
No one could offend the current Left Prime Minister, Fang Yun.
As a result, the second Governor resigned a quarter of an hour after he received the appointment.
Fang Yun sent out a similar document, once again appointing the capital governor.
After the third Governor received the transfer order, he also left within an hour.
Within a day, three Governors resigned one after another, shocking the entire Jingguo.
Fang Yun was furious. Using the excuse that the three were not legitimate officials, he transferred all the officials who had been promoted to important positions.
These three people happened to be officials who supported the Imperial family.
Those people originally wanted to laugh at Fang Yun, but when they found out that Fang Yun had taken care of the three officials of the Imperial family, they couldn't sit still.
As a result, an Imperial Censor came forward to impeach Fang Yun. He believed that Fang Yun, as the head of all the officials and the head of the Ministry of Personnel, could not absolve himself from the blame. He even created a phrase to mock Fang Yun's incompetence.
Fang Yun admitted that he had only been the Left Prime Minister for a short time and didn't realize that Jingguo's officialdom had accumulated deep corruption. In the future, he must increase the number of officials. He also believed that it was inappropriate to choose a Governor from the officials of the capital and that it should be promoted from the provinces.
Everyone realized that Fang Yun wanted their own people to occupy such an important position, so they desperately objected.
Fang Yun took a step back in order to advance. He asked the officials to elect a new Governor the next day.
As a result, no one elected him the next day.
Even an idiot knew that electing someone now was tantamount to roasting them on a fire.
If they dealt with Chen Sheng's family, then no one would be able to withstand the revenge of the aristocratic families. This had happened many times in history. The aristocratic families admitted their guilt, but the judge of the case would always leave in disappointment.
If they didn't deal with Chen Sheng's family, then Fang Yun and the Disciplinary Court would definitely not let it go.
No one could escape unscathed.
In the end, Fang Yun transferred Dong Wencong from Xiangzhou to the capital as the Governor, and Feng Zimo took over as the Provincial Magistrate of Xiangzhou.
If Sai Zhixue, Zhang Poyue, and the others were only colleagues of Fang Yun, then Dong Wencong and the others had been the backbone of the Fang party for many years.
Dong Wencong becoming the Governor meant that the Fang party had finally taken root in the capital.
The Governor was far more important than the other Provincial Magistrates. However, the officials who opposed Fang Yun didn't care at all. Instead, they were gloating.
The Governor's position was already very difficult because the most powerful people in Jingguo were gathered in the capital. If he wasn't careful, then he would be blamed by the major powers.
Moreover, this was the case of Chen Sheng's family.
Everyone thought that after the Governor appointed Dong Wencong, he would use his relationship with the Disciplinary Court and the school of Legalism to have the Supreme Court take over the case. However, to everyone's surprise, Dong Wencong announced that he would personally handle the case.
Logically speaking, as long as it involved the children of aristocratic families, the Notre-Dame would intervene. This time, not only did the Notre-Dame not intervene, the Disciplinary Court gave the first trial of the case to the people of Jingguo. The Disciplinary Court only retained the basic right to decide and close the case.
This was because as long as it involved scholars and children of aristocratic families, unless there were special circumstances, only the Disciplinary Court had the right to decide.
On the first day of Dong Wencong's appointment, he borrowed people from the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice, the Overwatch Council, and more than half of the people in the capital to investigate this case.
Once a superior placed importance on a matter, the efficiency of the people under him would become unusually high.
In just three days, the entire case was investigated clearly. The file was ten times taller than the file of the previous case.
However, Dong Wencong only investigated the case and didn't make a decision.
On the ninth day of the woman's beating of the drum, Fang Yun returned to the Spring Garden. At night, someone came to visit.
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