Emperor Ming Dynasty

Hugging grass and beating rabbits.

In the huge Qufu, apart from the Confucian Mansion, a large number of holy families were not left behind, and each of them was also punished. At the same time, some clansmen were also punished:

Exiled Liao.

Jin Yiwei made a fortune by raiding his home. According to the custom, he sold [-]% to the public and kept [-]% for himself.

Although the main residence of the Confucian Mansion was spared, the Zhuangtian other courtyards in various places were not left behind, and more than [-] silver coins were confiscated.

This is almost the tax of a county.

Seeing this, Jin Yiwei's eyes immediately turned red. If Zhu Yi hadn't stopped him, he might have caused a lot of trouble.

Of course, Jin Yiwei was suppressed like this.

Now that the world is peaceful, apart from occasional civil unrest and disasters in some areas, Jin Yiwei has no room to display.

As a sharp weapon, it is useless to hold it in for a long time, how can it not be uncomfortable?
It is also true that once there is a major case, it will burst out and it is difficult to restrain yourself.

To put it bluntly, Jin Yiwei is like a double-edged sword. Those who control must be strong, otherwise they will hurt themselves more than others.

Jinyiwei is not the imaginary organization to eliminate violence and clean up corrupt officials, and its political weapon is an extension of the emperor's exercise of autocratic power.

For example, Ming Taizu and Ming Chengzu were the most popular.

For Jin Yiwei, unjust, false and wrongly decided cases are as easy as eating and drinking, and the independent judicial authority is too deterrent.

Without independent judicial power, Jin Yiwei would lose his teeth, and no one would listen to him at all.

Considering Jin Yiwei's vicious reputation over the years, the emperor canceled their independent judicial power and handed it over to the Ministry of Punishment.

After all, Jinyiwei has always been positioned as an intelligence agency, and the right to investigate is enough. It is better to have fewer unjust, false and wrongly convicted cases, and torture to extract confessions.

Dongchang is in charge of the capital, nobles, and vassals, while Jin Yiwei is in charge of the frontier and inland prefectures and counties.

The responsibilities of the two organizations are relatively separated, which is also easy to check and balance.

In charge of Jinyiwei, Zhu Yi stayed in Qufu for half a month before returning.

But at this time, Duke Yansheng was still staying in the capital, and he didn't dare to act rashly at all.

"The Confucian Mansion is very powerful, covering tens of thousands of hectares of land. There are countless murders committed in his home. Everyone in Shandong has covered it up for fear of hurting the face of Confucius..."

Zhu Yi didn't read many books, and he was in the army after that. He was not very afraid of Confucius, so he reported it in detail.

"It's good to puncture this cancerous tumor."

Zhu Yixi didn't care.

In fact, as a political creature, human life is not important to him, and the political power of the Confucian government is definitely greater than these human lives.

We must know that in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Qianlong even married his daughter to the Confucian family and made a marriage, which shows its influence.

The bad deeds of the Confucian Mansion have been countless over the years, but even a wise man like Tang Taizong and Ming Taizu would weigh it carefully and give up after warning.

This is why he has not dealt with it over the years, because the political influence is too great.

Because in the eyes of those scholars, no matter what the reason is for dealing with the Kong family, it is

And once you look for the opportunity, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.He will be relentless, decisive and dealt with.

Obviously, the importance of the Liao State is significantly greater than that of the Confucian Mansion.

……

Here, in Liaodong.

Prince Zhu Cunqu, whose alias was Zhu Qu, worked as a patrol officer in the county. After waiting for two months, he knew a lot about the place.

The county is the township, with [-] households as the township, not based on the original Lizheng and the size of the place.

In this way, there is a township yamen in the township, and the common people call it the township office, and the yamen are all like this, and they are used to it.

The township head, the township elders, and the township police, the three elders wearing the official rank of nine ranks, are the most common officials among the people.

Baochang and Jiachang also obeyed the orders of the three elders, which can be described as unusually majestic.

It's a pity that in the army, he is just an officer with a little power to the three elders, and his real immediate boss is the sixth house of the county government.

After getting a general idea of ​​the Beijing Camp and the Patrol Battalion, the prince became agitated. He was eager to get a comprehensive understanding of the county government.

In this regard, what can the emperor say, once he was dispatched to another county, changed his face, and became the titular county owner Bo, from the eighth rank.

In the county yamen, the magistrate is the one who is the seventh rank, the second official is the general judge of the seventh rank, the county magistrate who is the eighth rank, and the master of the eighth rank.

As soon as he entered the county, he was welcomed by the county's sixth house, government officials, and county magistrates.

Of course, after half a year in the army, he didn't have the thin skin and tender flesh he had before, but he looked like he was from the army.

The county magistrate sat for a while and then left, and the county magistrate and Liufang Book Office did the same, leaving a group of yamen servants to sit down with him, very affectionate.

Chief arrester Bai Ying stopped him, poured wine enthusiastically, and said nonchalantly, "Brother, don't mind, these scholars look down on you because you are from the army."

"Why?" Zhu Cunqu asked knowingly.

"They are scholars, how can they think highly of us?"

Bai Ying sneered and said: "Your Majesty is benevolent, we have been exempted from the lowly status of our yamen servants, and can pass the imperial examination. This will naturally make them unhappy."

"And, brother, I am also from Xingwu."

"Before I came here to be a fast arrester, I was the deputy captain of the Beijing camp." Bai Ying said proudly, "I couldn't stand the hardships in the army, so I didn't go to the patrol camp, but came to the county government."

In his narration, Zhu Cunqu only had a rough understanding of the county government's arrest.

Yamen servants are actually divided into four classes, that is, Zao, Catch, Kuai, and Zhuang, each performing its duties.

The soap class is mainly responsible for standing up and shouting mighty when being promoted in the yamen; the strong class is generally responsible for executing criminals;

"The two are called catchers and fast hands respectively, so they are called catchers, and there are three classes of yamen servants."

Bai Ying sighed: "Now the emperor's benevolence has made all of us into the low-ranking ranks. The quick arrest is from the ninth rank, and the head is the ninth rank."

"But the money is not enough to spend, so I can only hurry up with foreigners!" Zhu Cunqu said with a light smile.

"Hey, I won't hide it from you. This is a well-known thing." Bai Ying laughed and said, "Catch ten yuan of silver and ten stones of grain a year. It's a pleasure for ordinary people, but how can we have enough?"

Speaking of this, he was not reserved, and poured it out directly.

Because as long as you are in the county government, you can find out with a little inquiry.

For example, in a lawsuit, it is a normal operation to go home after eating and eat home.

"Now that Master Tong San is here, we have to be dispatched by the strong squad and the police, so it's a bit more troublesome, and it's not as convenient as before."

"Of course, our fourth class of yamen servants has also expanded a bit, doubled. In the past, there were only about 60 policemen in charge of the county, but now there are [-] people. Many brothers are grateful!"

Zhu Cunqu shook his head in his heart, sure enough, the government servants in the world are generally black, and nothing can change it.

But after talking about the benefits, he sighed again: "But the yamen servants are also suffering. Once a case is encountered, whether it is the county magistrate or the general judge, there is a limit. If you can't complete it, you have to hit the board."

"Ratio limit?"

"The average person is limited to five days to solve the case within the time limit. Serious cases are three days. If they are not solved within the time limit, they will be beaten. They are not stingy."

Zhu Cunqu suddenly said: "It's still rich!"

"You still have to have power." Bai Ying said proudly, "You don't think the county government has only six book offices, but in fact there are eight offices in total."

"After the provincial examination by the imperial court, these eight rooms were basically occupied by scholars. The lowly officials in the past, after paying the benefits, naturally they are reluctant to leave."

"It's no wonder that Brother Bai doesn't want to be recruited from the seventh-rank patrol battalion, but the chief arrester of the ninth rank."

"There's no benefit to face." Bai Ying shook her head, the smile on her face couldn't be stopped no matter what.

"Look over there, the one with the full face and the big bowl of wine."

Zhu Cunqu followed this gaze, and sure enough, he saw a yamen servant with a fleshy face, who seemed not to be trifled with.

"He's a headhunter in the strong class, who specializes in beheading. Guess what he did before?"

Bai Ying took a sip of wine and asked.

"It should be from the army too!" Zhu Cunqu was not sure.

"You guessed wrong. He is a Tongsheng. He is just one step away from being a scholar. He failed the exam for more than ten years. When he came to us, he became an executioner."

"At the beginning, I was so frightened that I fell into a coma for three days. Later, I beheaded without blinking an eye. In just ten years, I have a yard in the county and twenty or thirty acres of land outside the city. I am very happy."

Bai Ying shook her head and said, "Don't think this business is dirty, but the money is rich. Before the beheading, the prisoner's family members always offer bribes to make him suffer less."

"The county government also has good wine and good meat to serve. When a month is busy, one hundred and eighty yuan can't stop it, no matter how bad it is, two or thirty yuan."

"He has no hope himself, so he wants his son to take the imperial examination."

"The criminal's family is so rich?" Zhu Cunqu didn't really believe it, especially in Liaodong, a sparsely populated place, where there were at most three or five criminal cases a month.

"Tomorrow there will be execution, you always go and have a look."

Bai Ying didn't elaborate, she was all smiles.

However, at the end, he shook his head and said:

"Now the superiors say that running water is not rotten, and that the yamen servants are not allowed to pass on sons. I am the chief arrester, and the arresters of each class, the book office, and the pawns are all sent by the superior. They are either Beijing camps or provincial examinations."

Regarding this, Zhu Cunqu didn't say anything, he said in his heart, if he lost his lowly status, if you really let your hereditary inheritance remain unchanged, then people's hearts will be really impetuous.

In fact, the purpose of including yamen servants in the ranks is to facilitate replacement, thus breaking the situation of the integration of county yamen.

However, just like the headhunter of the strong class, even though he was a scholar, he was relentless in collecting money and was collude.

"However, sixty guards are not enough for the county government." Bai Ying shook her head, her tongue clumsy: "There are still many white guards."

"In our county, there are sixty yamen servants, and there are two hundred white servants. They bring their own dry food and wait to earn money to live. They will be the first to be promoted to yamen servants in the future..."

At the end of the drink, everyone was on the verge of lying down, and everyone was crazy about drinking.

Only Zhu Cunqu was still awake.

In the end, he didn't ask Bai Jie about it.

Because the imperial court really couldn't support so many people.

Ordinary yamen servants pay ten yuan a year and ten stones of grain. This is already a rare grace. If there are too many expansions, the pressure on the local area will be too great.

You must know that in the previous Ming Dynasty, a county government had no more than a hundred people, but now it has doubled in size. Although it is lighter than before, it is still limited.

This kind of white slavery will naturally continue.

What they get is nothing more than the supply of merchants in the streets and alleys, and the benefits of litigation cases are divided up.

The number of white servants depends on the size and prosperity of the county, two to three hundred in small counties, and two to three thousand in large counties.

To be counted as a temporary worker, you must also register for household registration, after all, you have the right to enforce the law.

The four counties of Gyeonggi in the capital city are the first-class counties in the world, and there is no one with less than [-] white soldiers. Only by cooperating with thousands of soldiers and horses in five cities can we really suppress the millions of people in Jingying City.

In fact, the emperor also wanted to make an allowance, but he felt that the finances were too much to handle.

For four thousand white servants, the salary is at least two hundred thousand.

The white servants in the world say at least 40 to 800, and if they all pay their salaries, they will not be able to stand up to [-] million.

Besides, even if you give money, people will still be greedy.

Therefore, in the capital, white servants can only receive one silver dollar per month, which is considered as a temporary worker.

As soon as the capital became popular, all prefectures and counties in the world followed suit and did what they could, basically a grain of grain, or five cents of silver.

Even so, the prefectures and counties all over the world are full of complaints, and there is a lot of money and food.

The next day, Zhu Cunqu met the county magistrate in the county government office, and after learning that he would be in charge of the river channel in the future, he could only admit it.

Zuo Erguan also has his own yamen, each in charge of a stall.

The general judge is responsible for litigation, prison, and patrolling; the county magistrate is responsible for taxation, money and food, tax collection, and household registration.

The boss, on the other hand, has a lower official rank and can only be responsible for a certain aspect, such as money and grain, or patrolling and arresting.

The person in charge is the county magistrate, who has decision-making power and has the right to distribute things to the master Bo and the county magistrate.

If the power is monopolized, the county magistrate and the master will become empty shells with no power at all.

In other words, the county magistrate didn't approve of him, so he assigned him a river job.

Not long after I was seated, the inspector in charge of the river channel came to ask for an interview, and his tone was respectful.

In the Ming Dynasty, there will be patrol inspections everywhere in the world, such as dangerous passes, lakes and great rivers, but they are only nine grades.

"Xiaguan has three small boats, three or five servants, and about thirty white servants. The county's errands are also considered considerate. There have never been any bandits and water bandits."

Zhu Cunqu nodded at this: "When the new official takes office, I don't have three fires. You can handle it well, as always."

Seeing that Shangguan was so polite, the inspector felt relieved and put down the red envelope: "You are old and new, this is the filial piety of Xiaguan Hedao..."

Seeing this, Zhu Cunqu accepted it.

This is an outdated habit that cannot be changed at all.

After sitting for a while, he walked towards Caishikou.

As for beheading, I have never seen it.

Sure enough, before noon, the Caishikou was crowded with people, a large number of people were watching, and many white servants surrounded them, and beat anyone who came straight.

"The auspicious time has come, let's execute!"

After a while, the supervisor and beheader who served as the county magistrate issued the token.

Soon, after eating wine last night, Tong Sheng, who was full of flesh, picked up the head directly, took a sip of the wine expressionlessly, and blew it on the knife edge, and it was a knife when he went down.

"Crack-"

The large human head hangs to the ground, with only a layer of skin attached to the neck.

The family members on the side immediately went to check and saw that the flesh and blood were connected, and they were immediately grateful.

The onlookers were even more excited.

Holding the bowl in one hand, and holding the silver penny and copper coin in the other, it can be said that he is crazy.

Some paid the money and rushed in to get the steamed buns sticky with blood, and devoured them hungrily, for fear that someone would snatch them.

After taking it, it was like some kind of magic elixir, and the face was full of relief, as if the medicine had cured the disease.