During the Zhaode period, there was no shortage of laws in Dajing, but what was lacking was the courage to apply the laws to those who should use them.
Yang Chengyu took charge of the Yinlin Guards and visited Kyushu on the orders of Emperor Zhaode.
Along the way, he checked the bones sunk at the bottom of the river, looked through old files that had been altered, and saw how a piece of official documents could bankrupt a family.
At first, these were local cases. Until he discovers that some cases have complete evidence, but are always suppressed at the last step; some officials are full of evidence, but they have people who cannot be moved lightly in the court behind their backs.
At the same time, Gu Ningxue, the daughter of the Minister of Punishment, used the Ming Law Hall to secretly investigate old cases in various places. Two originally unrelated lines eventually pointed to a past event twenty years ago.
In that past, there was an unfinished reform, and there was also a person who should not have been alive today.
Only then did Yang Chengyu realize that what he was ordered to investigate was never just corrupt officials and wealthy families.
The aristocratic family has its reasons, the court has its concerns, the people want justice, and the world must continue to function. Many times, the wrong person may not know that he is wrong, and the right person may not have a better way.
If the light enters an inch, the shadow becomes ten feet deep.
When a person really wants to change something, the first thing he has to face is often not the enemy, but the price of the change itself.
