Chapter 183: The Suffering of Case Trial

Yang Zuren replied: "The emperor said: I have eaten Dongpo pork, it is delicious."

"A wise king!" Zhao Xing shouted in surprise. Because Yang Zuren is in Jianzhou, he must show his 50-cent style in front of people like him, and praise him whenever he is involved, and he will not "sigh" him to death.

Zhao Xing knew: the court did not want to deal with Su Shi now, so he completed the missing parts. If the court dealt with Su Shi, then they would deliberately pretend to be confused... The little emperor is still naive and does not understand this truth. When he grows up, he will know that "selectively accept some facts" - this is called "the art of emperors."

Yang Zuren talked about some love and mistresses with Zhao Xing next. He stopped at the relief for a while and highly praised Zhao Xing's fearless spirit of traveling overseas for the sake of the people of Hangzhou, transporting huge amounts of food and alleviating the predicament of the court... As the two chatted, the topic turned to the issue of female crafts.

All men are like this. Zhao Xing guided him a little, and the topic slid into the abyss of lewdness. The two deeply discussed the life issues of Vietnamese geeks, and then discussed the customs and habits of Japanese girls. Yang Zuren decided to personally greet the Japanese girls and thank them for their efforts in the Song Dynasty's acting career... In layman's terms, he brought four Japanese girls and geeks when he left.

The gift Zhao Xing gave to Yang Zuren also included six boxes and a long wooden box.

Originally, the rule of gift exchanges between officials was to "add two" - to refill the two gift boxes that Yang Zuren sent during his visit, and add two new gift boxes. However, Zhao Xing added more than twice the gift boxes this time, which means that Zhao Xing regards Yang Zuren as a very important and close friend.

However, the long box added made Yang Zuren very puzzled. It should have been added in pairs. Zhao Xing added a large wooden box with a unique shape, which made Yang Zuren's curiosity uncontrollable. As soon as he got home, he quickly sent a servant to move the gift into the house and opened the large, dark and shiny wooden box. Yang Zuren's wife Zhe focused on the other four wooden boxes. She opened the first wooden box and immediately exclaimed. At the same time, Yang Zuren's side also screamed. Zhe quickly looked at Yang Zuren's direction, and Yang Zuren ran to her and looked at the box in her hand.

Two screams followed.

Yang Zuren's big wooden box contained a complete set of swords. In the box, there were three long and short knives on the wooden shelf shaped like deer antlers. There was nothing inlaid on the sheath of each knife, but light green sandalwood, faintly emitting a wave of sandalwood. The handle of the knife was inlaid with gold wire.

The three-handled knife seems simple, but if you look closely, you will find that it is extremely exquisite in workmanship. Every detail is taken into account. The blade is polished extremely smoothly and almost integrated. The curve of the blade and the smoothness of the sheath are seen from all angles without any flaws.

The gift box in Mrs. Zhe's hand was filled with a box of pearls. These pearls were round Japanese pearls. Although they were not big, they were even in size and the size was the same. This box was originally given by Yang Zuren and contained some fruits.

The box that holds fruits is used to hold pearls. If you count these pearls, you may be worth three kilograms (Song Jin).

Yang Zuren became even more curious. He quickly opened several other boxes and found that one box contained tortoiseshell, one box filled with spices, and one box filled with ivory carvings - no, it should be a seal carving.

In addition, the other two boxes contain fruits—all tropical fruits that Yang Zuren doesn’t know. The sweet smell of those fruits makes people salivate...

Yang Zuren nodded and said, "Zhang Yong said that he would not be treated unfairly with his relationship. It seems that this is true."

Mrs. Zhe held the pearl in one hand and the mottled tortoiseshell with the other hand, and said nervously: "I'm afraid of these things, are you afraid of five hundred stag?"

Yang Zuren shook his head: "More than that, this box of pearls alone is worth 5,000 guan... Oh, I look for a few advisors and string a bead chain for my mother. She has been suffering for so many years and should enjoy the blessing of her son."

Zhao Xing rested at home for a few days. After the baby baptism ceremony, he began to take office. Gao Qiu, who had been working in the government office for a long time, brought his subordinates from the government office to greet him at the door. Zhao Xing stopped at the government office for a brief moment, looked at the government office, and felt full of emotion. From now on, he will be in charge of this government office.

The walls on both sides of the government office are painted with white powder, which is a common procedure for new officials to take office. The walls on both sides of the government office are called "pink walls", which are used to post official edicts. Every time a new official takes office, the court will allocate a fee. The new official paints the walls on both sides, remove all the old notices, and paint the walls white without leaving a piece of paper, so that the new official can post their own notice again.

This kind of ceremony is called "whitewashing" and "taking new jobs".

Generally speaking, every time a new official takes office is the happiest time for the yamen runners. For example, painting this wall, the price offered by the yamen runners is 100 jin for the new official. This money will be written off in the "newshold" fee, but in fact it cannot cost a hundred jin. If the yamen runners buy lime by themselves, it will only cost ten cents. However, this time the new official in Hangzhou takes office is different.

In the Song Dynasty, many talented men used poetry to win scholars. They wrote extremely beautiful poems, were arithmetic, and understood worldly affairs like three-year-olds. Moreover, under the mechanism of education of foolish people, most talented men were misled and their understanding of the world was not even correct as well as those of three-year-olds. Therefore, many "talented men" were often kidnapped by local officials when they came to the local area to serve as local officials, and spent their term of office in a daze. Perhaps there were people among them who were sincere in doing practical things, but when they understood the local situation, the three-year term of office had arrived and it was time for them to leave...

Unfortunately, Zhao Xing, the new official, was a local. The clerks fooled others, but they did not dare to fool the local tyrant who dared to cut off the Dragon King's Corner during the rain sacrifice. The original painting fee was 100 yuan, and they quoted: 100 yuan.

Generally speaking, when a new official takes office, the officials will give the new official a warning so that the new official will be willing to let the officials mess with each other in the future, but this "newly accepted" ceremony is completely different from the original one: the chief official Su Shi originally did the magistrate of Hangzhou; Gao Qiu, the magistrate, was born as a minor official; the proclaimer Qin Guan was brought by Su Shi; Zhao Xing was also a local, so the smile of the officials greeted Zhao Xing was so ugly.

These officials have dealt with Zhao Xing before, so there is no need to introduce them. Each of them asked Zhao Xing for peace. Then, Gao Qiu came over with a lot of official documents and drove away the others. While chatting with Zhao Xing, he stuffed the pile of documents to Zhao Xing: "Brother Zhao, I have already dealt with the small matters in the yamen for you, and the rest are big matters. Mr. Qin has already read the file, and he has marked each file after each file. If Li Ren thinks there is nothing wrong, just follow what he said and just use the printing...

There are still a few more copies here, which are of great importance and are all at the beginning and end. Mr. Qin dared not make a judgment, but he made the decision based on the separation."

The Song Dynasty yamen did not try cases every day, nor did they accept litigation every day. Considering that holidays were often encountered on the first day of each month, the Song Dynasty stipulated that it would be announced every five days. That is, the three days of the fifth, fifteenth and twenty-fiveth day of each month, the complaints of the people will be accepted and tried.

Song Dynasty's "Criminal Constitution" also stipulates the case handling period: 20

The above is a "big event (big case)", the above is a "middle event", and the above is a "middle event", and less than 10 yuan is a "small event". In order to improve the efficiency of the judicial organs, the court also made the following provisions: In the case of trial in Dali Temple, the major event will last for the 25th day, the central event will last for the 20th day, and the minor event will last for the 10th day. The local government reviews cases: the major event will last for the 15th day, the central event will last for the 10th day, and the minor event will last for the 5th day.

Most of the pile of cases handed over by Gao Qiu had exceeded the fifteen-day trial period, which did not violate the local criminal trial period, because the Song Dynasty stipulates that when local trials, it involves collecting evidence from other places, or too many witnesses cannot be summoned. Considering the traffic efficiency at that time, the court also gave a grace period - three months.

However, in order to increase efficiency, the court also stipulated that if the witness lives in the place of the case more than a thousand miles away from the official office of the case, such witnesses will no longer be summoned.

Generally speaking, officials of the Song Dynasty were able to abide by the limits of the trial period. For Zhao Xing, his appointment of his new official position did not exceed three months, and the term of office of the new official was already half a year, so even if he did not perform his duties during this period, it was legal, and of course it could not be considered delayed.

Zhao Xing cheered up and prepared to become a judge in the Song Dynasty. He used his logical reasoning knowledge to make a good judgment on a case, and won the title of "Qingtian Master" in the Ming Dynasty in the Song Dynasty. However, after reading the stack of files, he was disappointed to find that there were very few murders in the Song Dynasty, which made him nowhere to show his skills.

Twenty cents of money are big cases, what can these 20 cents of money do? At that time, the most fertile grain fields in Hangzhou were about five to seven cents per mu, and the big case stipulated by the law of the Song Dynasty was just the ownership of three acres of land. This shows from another perspective: the good public security in the Song Dynasty was outrageous, and it was like a legendary utopia.

After reading the stack of files, Zhao Xing was so angry that he wanted to roll on the ground and loudly reminded everyone that I earned about thousands of guan a day, and the time I spent reading these files was worth hundreds of guan. I wasted hundreds of guan and pondered the ownership of dozens of guan. Isn’t this a torment?

When he hated, Zhao Xing really wanted to call those litigants in front of him, each of whom gave them twenty cents to go home. What a big case, the battle for twenty silver coins, who has the time to listen to your arguments, it would be better to make a cup of tea and enjoy it - my glass teapot alone is worth 20 cents.

After opening another major case file, Zhao Xing, who could not bear it, finally broke out. He let out a roar in the government office that resounded through the sky, his voice full of sadness and indescribable grievances: "Gao Qiu, you guy... look at this file, this is also a big deal: a cow ate the other party's seedlings, stepped on the canal entrance, causing the other party's seedlings to flood... There are hundreds of people in my family, and more than one cow is slaughtered every day! Oh my god, what kind of world is it? Two old men use a cow to toss me - it is still legal to toss me."

Gao Qiu reminded on the side: "Li Ren, a cow is worth 100 yuan! That's a super big case! A big case that pours the sky! Look, it flooded the other party's ten acres of land - now this dou of rice is worth 67 cents? Ten acres of land can produce hundreds of dogs of grain. Isn't this delay in agricultural production a loss of hundreds of cents?"

"I'm so angry that I'll call those two old men! I'll give them 200 guan each, just asking them not to sue, my time, my life, my energy..." Zhao Xing roared fiercely.

"Today is not the day for trial, I can't find those two old men," Gao Qiu replied calmly: "As for the local officials sending money to the people to resign - to leave people, this is not the case in the Song Zhengtong!"

Zhao Xing was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger. He took a deep breath and spit out a word: "Tolerance".

Then, he continued to read the file...

On the first day of taking office, this job made Zhao Xing very upset. He was so busy that he got off work that he had finished his work, climbed onto the horse with an unhappy face and went home with Gao Qiu.

Officials in the Song Dynasty had no schedule, and most of them lived behind the government office so that they could accept official duties at any time. Zhao Xing was a local, and he set a rule on the first day of his tenure: except for the on-duty staff, the rest of the officials went to work every day (about 7:30 am local time) and got off work at You hour (about 5:00 pm), while night shift staff were on the turn and enjoyed three times the daily salary of night shift allowance. Today was the first day of work. Zhao Xing practiced it himself. When he heard the lotus leak in Hangzhou ringing in the fifth afternoon, he immediately left the government office without any nostalgia and rushed to the warm home.

Gao Qiu, a left-hand man in the Song Dynasty, got married when he left Beijing. He had no place to live in Hangzhou and was not used to being crowded in the government office. Zhao Xing's family had many houses and a large garden with complete and modern living facilities. Gao Qiu simply watched Qin and moved into Zhao Xing's castle with his family. In this way, he could travel with Zhao Xing every day to and from get off work.

When Zhao Xing entered the castle, he wanted to cry when he saw the scene in the castle... Su Dongpo was leisurely today. He led a group of monks to recite poems and drink, which was said to be patrolling the West Lake and planning the dredging project by the way... Yes, monks were special professionals in the Song Dynasty, and they had another identity: water conservancy experts. Dredging projects in the Song Dynasty all required monks to come forward. On the surface, they had great magic power to suppress floods. The construction was carried out according to their plans, and the project was strong and durable. But from a modern perspective, these monks must have received training in water conservancy projects in the temple.

When Cheng Shuang reported Su Shi's whereabouts to Zhao Xing, Gao Qiu was having a sweet relationship with his wife behind Zhao Xing. Four servants were carrying a slaughtered ox to the kitchen, followed by two Japanese girls carrying pigs. Cheng Shuang was muttering: "Teacher, Master said that you don't have to wait for him to eat today, and you don't have to wait tomorrow, because he will travel to Tianzhu tomorrow and may come back in ten days."

"God! Earth! Tathagata Buddha, Confucius, Mozi, Shakespeare... The bachelors all ran into the deep mountains and forests to study the water conservancy problem of West Lake. Why am I so miserable..." Zhao Xing pointed to the pig and cow lifted by his side and hummed at Gao Qiu. Gao Qiu knew what he wanted to say, but he smiled and didn't answer. Qin Guan, a weak man, walked leisurely with a fan, and rolled his eyes with one sentence. He said sympathetically: "Who told you to lose the teacher by betting? Alas, accept your fate!"

The child Cheng Shuang didn't say that he went up to help Zhao Xing asks in a curious way, "Sir Qin, why didn't you go to Tianzhu with your master?"

Qin Guan walked into the fort casually, swaying, "I'm stupid, my teacher wants to have a vegetarian banquet, but I'm disgusted with the fake tofu that kind of tofu, I don't eat delicious meals in the yard, and go into the ravine to eat tofu... Hehe."

"Volubly!" Zhao Xing finally found a chance to fight back: "It's good for people to have vegetarian banquets in Buddhist temples, and there are poems to prove it:... Why do you say that the thing is bland and tasteless? It's really vulgar!"

"Not vulgar, why haven't I seen you have had a vegetarian banquet?" Qin Guan had already walked away when he said this.

"Xiaoshuang, hurry up and take out the manual allocation plan for the West Lake dredging. 200,000 people. How much food should be wasted every day? I don't know how much money I have to save at all." Zhao Xing suddenly broke out. He scolded Cheng Shuang, and without waiting for the other party to answer, he turned around and left angrily. Behind him, Gao Qiu frequently winked at Cheng Shuang.

Winter is coming soon, and the slack season in winter is usually the time for the government to organize water conservancy projects. Cheng Shuang and others had the experience of organizing the allocation of personnel. A few days later, Zhao Xing rushed to Shangtianzhu and submitted the project plan to Su Shi, but Su Shi had no time to see it. He was busy fighting Zen poems with the monk and said hurriedly: "You think it's okay, so do it as you do. The official seal is in Qin Guan. You have a lot of work. In the future, you will take the official seal... By the way, today the monk makes vegetarian chickens, and leave people to try it?"

"I can't even eat fresh chicken, so how can I have time to eat tofu chicken?" Zhao Xing angrily put away the project plan and was so depressed that he went down the mountain. Su Shi didn't give it to him and continued to chat happily with the monk.

Zhao Xing left the temple and had no intention of browsing the scenery of the lake and mountains. He rushed home all the way. Cheng Shuang didn't answer when he asked. Before entering the door, he muttered a depressed voice: "What kind of world is it! All work is mine. I get up earlier than a chicken, sleep later than a dog, and do more than a donkey... It's unreasonable!"

Cheng Shuang was surprised: "But the teacher's life looks better than anyone else!"

"Sure enough!" A visitor at the entrance of the castle whispered: "After many years of separation, people are still so heroic, and they do 'look better than anyone else'!"

Zhao Xing heard the news and looked at the roadside. There were two people on the roadside. One was Zhou Bangshi, a Jinshi of the same subject, and the other was a few dry and thin old man with white clothes, thick knuckles and a depressed expression. When he saw Zhao Xing jump off the horse, he stepped forward with nonchalance.

"Brother Zhou, what are you involved in? Do you know what we are talking about?" Zhao Xing bowed to Zhou Bangshi and turned to Zhou Bangshi, "This..."

Zhou Bangshi seemed to be trying to clear himself: "Li Ren, this time I am not here to visit Mr. Dongpo. This Mr. Mengxi, he is looking for Mr. Dongpo, I am here to play with you."

Zhao Xing nodded to Zhou Bangshi without seeing each other: "You guy, you have been here for more than ten days. Damn it. What are you playing? I don't like to recite poems with you, I just drink. But I'm busy now..."

When Zhao Xing said this, he suddenly remembered something. He turned to the old man and muttered: "Mr. Mengxi! Mengxi - isn't Shen Kuo? Didn't Shen Kuo name his manor Mengxi Garden?"
Chapter completed!