With a pair of huge panda eyes in hand, Hu Jian stood at the county government office holding the book, looking at the ground with his eyes intent.

"Prince Hu..."

Suddenly a familiar voice came from his ears. Hu Jian turned around and found that it was his colleague, County Magistrate Chen Wannian.

Today, the bureaucratic system of Xinfeng County has formed a three-legged stalemate in the upper-level institutions.

Chen Wannian was in charge of civil affairs, public security, Sang Jun was in charge of industry and commerce, and market affairs, while Hu Jian was in charge of justice and prisons.

These three systems do not belong to each other and do not interfere with each other.

Chen Wannian could not reach into the judicial system and industrial and commercial affairs, and at most he could only ask for assistance from the other two systems. By the same token, Hu Jian and Sang Jun could not control anything other than this system.

Of course, this is not a novel creation.

It's just tradition.

In fact, theoretically speaking, most of the Han governments are now in the structure of this.

However, in Xinfeng, these things are particularly emphasized and become discipline.

Just like now, the arrest of people belongs to Chen Wannian or Sang Jun (if the criminal was arrested in a market or involved in economic crimes), but trial and trial are Hu Jian's power.

Is the arrested person guilty? How should he be sentenced?

The other two systems can only be suggested, but cannot be decided on behalf of Hu Jian.

In this way, Hu Jian's pressure and workload were greatly reduced.

You can focus on trial and judgment.

but……

It also made Hu Jian fall into confusion.

"Prince Hu, His Highness Changsun and Shizhong Zhang invite you in..." Seeing Hu Jian's absent-minded look, Chen Wannian quickly reminded: "If the county magistrate is too tired, then come and report tomorrow..."

In this Xinfeng County, Chen Wannian's most respected colleague was Hu Jian.

In Chen Wannian's opinion, a judicial officer like Hu Jian is simply a capable and powerful official from a hundred!

He is familiar with the law, quick to make decisions, careful and serious, and compassionate.

Since becoming a county magistrate, he has tried dozens of cases every day. After each case is completed, neither the defendant nor the victim has any objection and is willing to obey the judgment.

Chen Wannian has been at the grassroots level for so many years, and this is the first time he has met a Legal official like Hu Jian.

Other guys are either zealously pursuing political achievements and want to deal with every arrested prisoner strictly and severely.

Or it is just a good old man like Zhao Yu and Zhao Zhou.

For all prisoners, if they can be sentenced, they will definitely not be sentenced.

It's totally two extremes.

And officials like Hu Jian who are loyal to the law, loyal to ethics, loyal to personality and conscience.

Chen Wannian had only heard that Zhang Shizhi, a famous minister of Emperor Taizong, could do this.

Therefore, while respecting, Chen Wannian was full of kindness to Hu Jian.

He knew very well that if such a Legal official was in Xinfeng's judicial and criminal prison system, it would be clear.

The Qingming judicial and criminal prisons will surely bring good relationships between officials, people, and officials and gentry.

The government will also have prestige in society!

Hu Jian will also take off from his tenure as Xinfeng, and may be ranked as the Ninth Minister in the future.

As an official fan, Chen Wannian naturally knew what to do.

Thinking of this, Chen Wannian felt a lot of emotion.

He is now completely impressed by Zhang Yue.

"There is no better wisdom in identifying people than Shizhong Zhang..." Chen Wannian sighed in his heart. So far, the terrifying Shizhong official has never failed to appoint officials, and almost everyone has been arranged in a suitable position by him.

It was not just the officials he personally recruited.

Even the huge group of civil examination scholars, such as the twenty or thirty people assigned to their own people, each of them is a talented person in civil affairs and documents, and each person's position just matches his specialty!

Not only that, as Chen Wannian knows, Sang Jun's official in the Industry and Commerce Department and the criminal prison officials under Hu Jian are all like this.

This is simply a bug!

This forced Chen Wannian to believe that there are indeed people born to know this world.

Hu Jian looked at Chen Wannian and bowed slightly, "Thank you for your kindness in County Magistrate Chen, but the official can hold on!"

When he raised his head, his whole body was already full of energy.

Every Legal official is a workaholic!

Since Li Kui, that's what it is...

Compared to physical fatigue, Hu Jian felt that the confusion in his heart caused more troubles.

He raised his head and looked at the county government hall ahead. He knew that the person who could answer his doubts might be waiting for him.

So he bowed to Chen Wannian and said, "The Lord will meet His Highness and the Minister first..."

As he said that, he led his subordinates to step into the county government office.

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"Men Jian pays homage to His Highness Changsun, Shizhonggong..." Hu Jian held the book slip and bowed slightly.

More than ten young officials behind him were also full of excitement and bowed with admiration.

But Zhang Yue and Liu Jin were shocked!

Because, Hu Jian and his subordinates all appeared in front of them, all with huge dark circles of eyes, and it seemed that they had not had a good rest for a long time.

"What's wrong with you?" Liu Jin quickly stood up and said, "Come here, prepare a seat for County Magistrate Hu and everyone..."

"No..." There was a servant immediately, and Hu Jian and others were taken on both sides, arranged to sit down, and then served tea.

"Why are you so tired?" Zhang Yue couldn't help asking.

To be reasonable, to be an official of the Liu family is much happier than to be an official of Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the Han system, all officials, whether they are staffed or temporary workers, enjoy legal paid leave of every five days of rest.

In addition, there are holidays during festivals and holidays.

If the political achievements are excellent and the assessment is "most", then this official can also enjoy two months of paid leave every year.

In addition to the low salary, the welfare and treatment of Han officials have surpassed all subsequent dynasties.

To be honest, Hu Jian and others shouldn't be like this.

When Hu Jian heard this, he just nodded slightly and replied: "After your highness, the minister of the army is trusted and entrusted with the full power of Xinfeng's punishment. I was trembling with fear, walking on thin ice, and did not dare to be careful, did not dare to observe it carefully, and did not dare to be disrespectful..."

"Mr. Shang said: Killing people is not violent, rewarding people is not kind, how dare you depose them lightly?"

Liu Jin listened, looked stern and said, "What Hu County Magistrate said is a lonely person, I am very grateful to you, please be taught!"

After countless things, especially after reading a large number of works and discussions from other schools, Liu Jin now knows it.

Benevolence, righteousness and morality are not just about Confucianism.

The Legalists, the Huang-Lao School and the Mohist schools are all talking about it.

It’s just that the meaning of ‘benevolence, righteousness and morality’ defined by each other is somewhat different.

Just like the Legalists, the Legalists believe that benevolence and righteousness is fairness.

The random murder and punishment, or the casual rewards and graces are opposed and despised by the Legalists.

The Legalists are cruel officials, but the orthodox Legal officials must be dealt with according to law.

"I dare not be your Highness Miao Zan..." Hu Jian bowed deeply: "I am here today to report to your Highness and the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and the officials who have taken office, and the matters of Xinfeng Prison..."

As he said that, he opened the bamboo slip in front of him and said, "Since I was ordered, I have been interrogated, interrogated, and decided more than 300 cases... Among them, 200 cases were public notices, and the rest were non-public notices..."

Liu Jin listened, confused and asked Zhang Yue: "What is Zhang Qing's official announcement, and what is non-official announcement?"

After hearing this, Zhang Yue replied: "Report to Your Highness, the one who reported the case in the office is to kill and injure others. It is not a notice from the office that the son stole his parents, the parents kill him without permission, and the son hurt his children, and the servants..."

"According to the Han laws, the official prosecutors, the government filed lawsuits, not the official prosecutors, and the people filed lawsuits by themselves. If they sue their parents, slaves and concubines sue their masters, if they are not involved in the crimes of great disrespect and injustice, do not listen to them..."

"In addition, if parents complain about children and wives complain about husbands, they are all three rings, and then listen to them!"

Simply put, this is an obvious proof that the Han Dynasty inherits the Qin system.

The entire Han Dynasty system was copied from Qin Dynasty.

Although the Liu family has applied a lot of patches, modified and added, and deleted countless clauses over the past century, Zhang Tang took the lead in the "Spring and Autumn Prison Decision" after Yuanguang.

But in fact, the spirit and core of the entire Han law are still Qin law and Qin law.

And in this system, the most distinctive feature is to separate public crimes from family crimes.

Public crimes are investigated to the end. No matter when they are discovered, as long as they are discovered, the government has the obligation to hold criminals accountable.
To be continued...