When it comes to the judges who judge cases in ancient times, many people can't help but think of Bao Qingtian, who is a clean and honest official, who has done justice for the people, who is not afraid of power, who has done everything possible to eliminate evil, and who is the best official in the minds of the common people. But in addition to him, there are many honest officials who judge cases like gods, such as what we introduce to you today - Yuan Dai.
01 Brilliant is known as a prodigy
Yuan Dai (元绛), courtesy name Houzhi, was a native of Qiantang (present-day Hangzhou, Zhejiang), who was a chancellor and writer of the Northern Song Dynasty. In contrast to other officials, Yuan Dai was born into a family of eunuchs, and his grandfather was once a chancellor during the Wuyue period of the Fifth Dynasty. Because of his family's solid wealth, Yuan Dai has been full of books since he was a child, and his parents have invited the best mr. teacher for him, and compared with the same people, Yuan Dai is naturally intelligent in learning.
When she was young, Yuan Dai liked to write poetry, and at the age of five, she could write poetry alone, and at the age of nine, she was good at writing articles, and was known as a prodigy. Yuan Dai, who wanted to be strong, did not rely on his family to become an official in the DPRK, but relied on his own efforts to pass the examination and embarked on the road of career.
Because Yuan Daijue was like a god, he was quickly reused by the imperial court and was sent to Jiangning Province, where he became a judicial judge. Not long after taking office, Yuan Dai handled several difficult and major cases, which also made him famous and became a clean and honest official in the minds of the common people who was meticulous and eliminated harm for the people.
Later, Yuan Dai was transferred to Jiangxi to transfer the judge, Zhitai Prefecture.
02 The case was solved because no blood was found
Yuan Dai's mind is meticulous in solving the case, and he will find out the problems that others can't find. In a cracked rape case, two people had a conflict in the process of drinking, and they also moved their hands, and the other people present saw the situation and dissuaded them, so both of them returned to their respective homes.
As everyone knows, one of them fell back to bed and fell asleep, and in the middle of the night, his wife panicked and came to the county gate to report that her husband had been killed, and the perpetrator was the person who fought with him during the day, and this fighter was to get revenge on her husband, and she would kill the killer.
Yuan Dai heard the sound of drumming, immediately ascended to the church, and sent someone to the home of the fighter to arrest him. And this person who fought has also been shouting injustice, saying that he returned home after the fight, because he drank too much and slept until dawn, and he never went to her house, and the revenge that the woman said, he did not do it at all.
After listening to the testimony of both sides, Yuan Dai said to the suspect: "Your narrow-minded revenge and killing people are too much. "Subsequently, he was imprisoned and persuaded the woman to be severely punished.
In fact, when trying this case, Yuan Dai found a major doubt, if the husband was killed, why was the wife of the woman in the same bed without blood on her body, and she was still in a safe state?
As soon as the woman's front foot left, Yuan Dai sent someone to secretly follow her. Sure enough, in the distance, before the woman left the city, she came together with the monk standing on the side of the road, and the two men kissed me, and the spies came back and reported the matter to Yuan Dai, who felt that the problem was not simple, and soon he had the monk arrested.
During the interrogation, the woman was summoned, and when she saw that the monk was also present, she immediately lost her heart. Yuan Dai's face was majestic, let her tell the truth, otherwise she would be tortured to extract a confession, but she did not expect that the woman was afraid to tell the truth directly, she and this monk were secretly colluding together, and the two people conspired to find an opportunity to kill their husbands together in order to be able to be together in the future.
It happened that the husband returned home from a fight with someone outside that day, and the wife thought it was a good opportunity, so the two of them conspired to kill the husband together and blamed others. Yuan Dai was furious and immediately arrested the adulterer and adulteress, and put them under the law.
During his official tenure, Yuan Dai cracked many difficult cases and took justice for the deceased Zhaoxue, who was well-behaved, sympathetic to the people, and deeply loved by the people. In his old age, Yuan Dai was weak and sick, and several times asked to return to his hometown, but Emperor Shenzong appeased and retained him, until after Yuan Dai's son showed his grace, Yuan Dai returned to Wudi and eventually died of illness at the age of 76.