Five-two-seven flags and 100,000 slaying Yama (13)
Kunshan County is located in the southeast of Suzhou Prefecture and is adjacent to Qingpu County in Songjiang Prefecture. Although it is not like Huzhou, the land in this county is mostly mulberry, cotton and tobacco, and the real grain fields are less than three or four. Such an economic structure is an advanced representation of the transition from agricultural society to industrial and commercial society in history books, but in this era, it represents a decrease in resistance to natural disasters and man-made disasters.
Once natural disasters or man-made disasters occur, famine will immediately lead to, thereby causing social unrest.
In this case, the grain in Jiliu Warehouse is even more important. Anyone who is literate will come to a conclusion after reading the newspaper: Kunshan County is over.
If this magistrate has a turning point, someone may speculate.
No one is willing to die with the waste that is for sure to be discarded. Although the county magistrate said it very reasonably, changing the magistrate, especially changing the north-famous official, it is not easy for the county to have a large family in the county... but this does not mean that others are willing to take out the food.
In the eyes of local gentry, any county magistrate, no matter how far he comes from south to north, must abide by the rules of the Ming Dynasty.
What were the rules of the Ming Dynasty? It was that county officials did not go to the countryside.
If they want to complete the regular tax quota, they can only rely on the gentry; if they want to be promoted, they can only rely on the gentry; if they want to have a helping hand when natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, they can only rely on the gentry.
In short, if they want to spend their term smoothly and without disasters, they can only rely on the gentry.
In this case, what's the point of replacing a county magistrate?
The hope that had just risen in Kunshan County was immediately extinguished again. Every day, I went to the yamen like I was punished. I waited for someone to kick the door of the yamen to be kicked open. The tikka holding an iron chain and ruler arrested him... In just a blink of an eye, the tikka turned into a bull-headed and horse-faced...
"County Master, it's okay, it's okay." Seeing that the magistrate of the county was in a habitual stagnation and twitching, the county magistrate quickly woke him up and advised him: "Don't worry, Nanjing has brought documents. It is said that this time the crown prince attaches great importance to this matter. In order not to cause grievances, not only were there people from the Crown Office, but also interviewers from various newspapers. There are so many people, so there will definitely be delays on the way."
"It's better to have three-foot white silk than to put aside..." Kunshan County couldn't help crying again: "It's really worse than death if you torture like this... By the way! I'll still catch those three things that are scattered inside and outside! I'll have to ease them even if I die!"
The county magistrate said: "They have escaped long ago. They don't even see a shadow, obviously because of guilt." In fact, Wu Sunchang and the other three went to Shanghai to work with the official documents issued by the county magistrate.
This county magistrate is not a brainless person. He was implicated and deficit but exiled. If he was involved in the assassination of the imperial officials, he would be a great lie!
What's more, now I will protect these three officials from the north, no matter where the wind blows in the future, I will have a way out, so why not do it?
When the magistrate heard that Wu Sunchang and others had already escaped, his back teeth were grinding and suddenly asked, "Why did the Censorate send someone?"
The county magistrate recalled for a while and said, "It seems that there was an official document before, saying that the six ministries were reorganized, and the rights and responsibilities for investigations in the future will be all over the Censorate."
Both of them don’t care about the so-called reform and reform. Anyway, just take care of yourself as much as three cents of land. Wouldn’t all serve each official when they come?
The mayor of Kunshan County said "Oh" and said again: "Do you think you can start with the censor of the Censorate?"
"This is the perfect meaning, but I don't know if it's the same as those officials from the north... "
"Go and try." Kunshan County calmed down: "I'll go and talk to those food mice again. If I die, they won't even think of escaping!"
The county magistrate nodded with a heavy expression. After he went out, he found that all the relationship networks in the Yingtian Prefecture Office had been removed, so he had to go to find old friends from other prefectures and counties to inquire about the censors of the special case.
I originally thought that the court would hide such a major event, but who knew that I hadn't seen an old friend yet. I just bought a copy of "Quyuan Zatan" and saw the censor's large account hanging on it, as if I was afraid that others would not go to his way. The county magistrate was really in love and hate for this newspaper. He rolled up his sleeves and went straight to arrange for people to meet the censor privately.
The only thing that made Kunshan County and the county magistrate happy is that although this censor is from the northern age, he is also from a Jinshi, and most of them still have to talk about official morality.
After finally waiting for the eighth day of March, the special censor Zhang Ren and Zhang Wenquan finally brought a huge group of interviewers to Kunshan County and settled in the inn. Kunshan County and the county magistrate had already obtained Zhang Ren's resume, inquired about the Nian Department, and rushed to the inn with a proper gift.
Zhang Ren was originally an official in Shandong because he accepted gifts from his subordinates, listed as a criminal, and was incarnated into the prisoner's court. In that environment that was only better than a shack, Zhang Ren's heart and nature really tormented, and also allowed him to see the warmth and warmth of the officialdom - none of them extended a helping hand to him in the same year, so that his wife actually had the idea of entering the palace to become a female official!
Finally, the Eastern Palace was revived in the past two years, and many criminals were recovered. Those who were more brave went directly to the front line to serve as herders officials, and now they are among the top officials. He was too brave at the beginning and missed the trend of promotion. He is still only at the sixth rank.
Fortunately, Zhang Ren heard that the Censorate recruited people and took out the hard work of the imperial examination that year, read the Ming Dynasty's laws and regulations, the crown prince, and Li Mingrui's books and articles, and finally successfully entered the Censorate and became the Censor. This was really a blessing in disguise. Who would have thought that he would become a Qingliu in Taigao?
Zhang Ren soon found that he had a deviant understanding of the Censorate. The Censor seemed to be doing things to inspect the discipline, but his power was even greater. Moreover, his treatment was a bit too good. If an officer violated the discipline was found, he would not only have a bonus, but also a possible merit. Of course, if the Censor was corrupt and abused the law, the punishment would be extremely heavy. The least is to appoint Liaodong as a clerk, and the more important ones, he would go directly to build roads and mine.
At first, Zhang Ren was a little guilty and thought that with the censor's salary, he seemed to have to live a few hard life.
No matter what, it is much better than being in the offender court. Your wife doesn’t have to be a female official, just suffer a little.
Unexpectedly, the Censorate issued the task of "Special Project on Punishing Judicial Judges", and almost all the censors stared at the new judicial officers.
Zhang Ren was so mature that he didn't listen to the wind and rain like a young man. He took a step forward on purpose, but he regretted it all the time.
There are too many facts about those judicial judges violating discipline and law!
From receiving gifts from the parties involved to being greedy and abuse of power... this is simply a mountain of silver!
What is most exciting is that most of these judicial judges are from Ding Ke. After entering the School of Political Science and Law, they took up local judicial work. They have no backers in the court and have no Internet between each other. Who else can they beat if they don’t beat these people?
After seeing the times clearly, Zhang Ren's movements were not slower than those of young people, and he chased judges at all levels to beat him hard. Because he was good at writing and familiar with the regulations, especially the years of Confucian education, he could find "righteousness" from "small words". His interpretation of the regulations was very insightful and soon stood out among the young people.
Relying on these judges, Zhang Ren successfully became rich and was commended by the Censorate. He issued a special "bank notes" of 100 taels, which were framed and hung on the wall.
At the beginning, Zhang Ren had to comfort himself with different backgrounds: he was a genuine Jinshi, and those people were just white Ding from female Ding Ke, a trash party. Later, he had no background problems. He only had white silver and certificates that showed his identity. Even when he met an official from a Jinshi, he had never been ruthless even in the same year.
This time he was recommended to serve as the censor of the special case by the Censorate, which is naturally because of his reputation of being quick and accurate in his actions.
Zhang Ren rushed to Nanjing quickly, and the interviewer group was almost formed, and he happened to go to Kunshan together. On the way, he had read various newspapers and knew that "Quyuan Zatan" belonged to the crown prince - that is, his own. Most of the other newspapers were from the Jiangnan Shilin faction, which was more or less friendly.
These interviewers are known as "common censors", staring at each other with their eyes, and they must be careful in their words and deeds.
On the first night in Kunshan, Zhang Ren received a post from Kunshan County, who wanted to visit his seniors in the inn. This normal interpersonal relationship was nothing, so Zhang Ren naturally did not refuse. Moreover, he also wanted to touch his opponent's character and see how big the case could be.
According to the rules that the Censorate is not humane: the bigger the case, the higher the prize, and the more merits it will be.
Therefore, experienced censors usually start to investigate the crimes first, and they will only be unable to reduce the amount of crimes if they are not qualified.
Zhang Ren was not very satisfied with this case because the granary was deficit, which was the worst. If an official was caught selling grain to a grain merchant, he could also add a private sale of public property; if the official could not explain it clearly, he could deduct a huge amount of property from unknown sources.
The punishment for multiple crimes was only for the thirty or fifty years of Liaodong guarding the border.
"The descendant Yang Chengde met his senior." Kunshan County and the county magistrate met Zhang Ren and respectfully performed the descendant's ceremony.
Zhang Ren nodded, signaled to them to sit down, and said, "You two are so hardworking to come here at night."
Yang Chengde looked at the other censor who was sitting with him and felt itchy, so he had to bite the bullet and said, "This one is..."
"The Censorate's rule is that people related to this case must not be met separately when handling cases." The censor said with a cold face: "You don't have to worry about me, just act like I'm not here. Anyway, I'm not a Jinshi."
Yang Chengde twitched awkwardly, trying to make a smile but was defeated. He glanced at the county magistrate, who shook his head. With such a huge candle present, how can he say those private words?
"The later students prepared some local products..." Yang Chengde pushed the gifts forward and smiled and said, "Please accept them with a smile."
"It's so troublesome..." Zhang Ren shook his head slightly and reached out to push it. However, he saw that Kunshan County was quite persistent, so he had to take it down, take out another form, and said, "Then please trouble Xianling to fill out this form."
Kunshan County took it and saw it, and was stunned: There is time for gift giving, gift giving, recipient, witness, gift name, color, value...
Is this the East Palace so strict?
Chapter completed!