A large “supplement” to the Song-period Zheyu guijian (q.v.), motivated by the fact that it contains too few materials and is not exhaustive, and jointly published with it. Hu Wenbing also considered the organization in 20 categories (門) of the original work confusing, and replaced it with four categories, viz. “Crimes against propriety” (犯義), “Sexual crimes” (犯姦), “Banditry” (犯盜), and “Various crimes” (雜犯). The cases are arranged by severity of punishment (於朝廷之用刑錄之). There are more than 500 entries culled from the histories and classics, and more than 300 chosen among the “miscellaneous writings of the sages of our time” (時賢說部). While allowing that such materials might help beginners, the author insists that circumstances are constantly changing and that the outcome of an affair depends entirely on the quality of the men in charge and on their ingenuity in investigating and questioning. The pref. includes a development highly critical of the existing situation, namely, that turnover of local officials is too fast and no long-term policy can be established; in fact, adjudicating lawsuits is the only thing that a local official can do with entire dedication, and he can do it every day. J. 1 opens with Lü Kun’s Xingjie 刑戒.