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各位：匆匆出帖，误漏一定不少，望谅！

出处：《曲阜孔府档案史料选编》第三编第一册 68-69页

背景：解放后人民政府对孔府文件整理成册，下文是其中一篇。孔府权力很大，有自己的家法系统，对犯法者可处体罚和监禁，只有家法处理不过来的案件才可送官。这个案子好像还是在内部处理阶段。又：下面的执事官、职官大概也是内部有效的，而族长只是家族分支的头目，宗主是不是孔府最大的，我也不知道。

（以下瑛为铁旁，肯勒之肯为“手+肯”）

孔传瑛呈为孔玉芳殴辱尊长请究惩事

具呈人七品执事官孔传瑛

呈为持刀杀人毁辱尊长大伤伦理有干法纪事。切有李姓当给孔兴炽地六亩，于去年冬月间将麦禾卖给于职，用价银五十四辆。当未成交之先，李姓谆让求买，坚执不要。及至与职成交之后，求炽放赎，又立意肯勒，职诚不知其何心。昨麦禾已熟，职令顾工收割。不意孔玉芳率领四十余人，各持鸟枪、铁棍、铁圈、刀子，如同反状。将职弟扭倒，枪刺棍打，苦央方免。一概麦禾尽行抢去。职不得已，与族长处具禀求和，以全一家之情。职之本心如是。族长遂出票呼唤，细问情由。孰料孔兴炽撕票毁，辱骂族长，连及与（举）事。此岂职官之所为，野莫野于炽矣。职思立约成交，是职与李姓，非职与炽也。孔兴炽理当与李姓较明，何得与职较白。纵令与职较，有何得口出骂言，持铁杀人乎。更可恶者，牲畜何罪，孔玉芳手持铁棍，将职骡痛打不堪，鲜血直流，恹恹待毙。是孔玉芳不与职而与牲畜较也。孔兴炽父子，同恶相济，不惩何待。且炽自任职官，毁辱尊长，犯上作乱，褫之可也。孔玉芳无知肆行，凶恶害人，置王法于不问，惩之宜也。伏乞

仁明宗主恩准施行。

被呈孔玉芳孔兴炽

干证孔玉来陈君佩

乾隆十四年四月日

Petition for Prosecution by Kong Chuanying on Complaint of Assault on and Disrespect for Family Elders by Kong Yufang

Petitioner: Seventh-Class Executive Officer Kong Chuanying

This matter concerns assault with a knife with intent to kill, blasphemy, disrespect for family elders, wanton disregard for filial piety, and disruption of law and order. TO WIT: There is a certain Li from whom Kong Xingchi holds as a loan collateral six mu of farmland. Last winter Li agreed to sell this year's wheat harvest on that land to me for the price of fifty-four liang in silver currency. Before we made this contract, Li sincerely offered Xingchi a chance to buy the same wheat, but Xingchi turned it down persistently. After the deal was struck, Li had asked Xingchi to release the hold on the property and had been firmly rebuffed. I really could not figure out what his true intentions were at the time. Yesterday the wheat was ripe for harvest, so I dispatched some farmhands over to reap. Unexpectedly, Kong Yufang appeared with more than forty men, with their fowling pieces, iron bars and rings, and knives, looking like a band of rebels. My younger brother was wrestled on the ground, and was stabbed with knives and beaten with sticks. His life was spared only after much pleading. In the end, all the wheat was forcibly taken. By now I had no choice but to report the incident to the Lord of the Family branch, hoping for a peaceful resolution and the preservation of familial harmony. O so innocent were my intentions. The Lord subsequently issued a summons for inquisition. Who would know that Xingchi would tear up the summons and profane the name of the Lord as well as that of mine. Xingchi is as impertinent as it gets, as the issuance of the summons is not a function of my office. My view is that the wheat contract was made between Li and me, not Xingchi and me. If he were a reasonable man, he should have taken his grievances to Li, not to me. Even if, for argument's sake, he had a right to take issue with me, why all those obscenities and knives? Most egregious, what crime has the cattle done? Yufang beat my mule to a pulp, until it was bleeding profusely and barely had a breath left. This man, instead of going after me, took it out on the cattle. Xingchi and son are partners in their criminality and swift punishment is called for. Xingchi, himself an officer within the family, should have his office removed for blaspheming and dishonoring family elders, and for being rebellious of the authority of the Patriarch. Yufang should also be punished accordingly for being ignorant and bullying, for using violence to harm others, and for having no regard for law and order. I therefore humbly plead for the permission of and an order by the benevolent and virtuous Patriarch to do just that.

Defendants: Kong Yufang and Kong Xingchi

Witnesses: Kong Yulai and Chen Junpei

On such a day of the Fifth Moon of the Seventeenth year of the Qianlong Regime