Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 450 The Dark History of My Cousin
The official position of "Sima" was mainly in charge of military Fu in the pre-Qin period of the Warring States period. As the name suggests, Sima's power is related to the army's war horses.

The recruitment and feeding of military horses, including ordnance related to cavalry, etc., are all under the jurisdiction of Sima.

After the Han Dynasty, Sima's powers gradually changed. It has become an official title, and no longer specifically manages the horses in the army.

There are still many official titles that do not match the real name, such as "Eastern Palace Washing Horses", etc. No one would naively think that this official position is really just for the prince to wash the car, right?

After the Han Dynasty, the official position of Sima was also the same. In the Tang Dynasty, Sima was an important right-hand man of a state governor.

Sima holds important real power, and he can ask about everything in a state, including criminal investigation, case resolution, civil taxation, water conservancy, etc.

Of course, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, Sima's real power gradually declined, and it basically became a decoration, and most of them existed in the establishment in the form of demoted officials. For example, the sentence "Jiangzhou Sima Qingshan Wet" in "Pipa Xing" is representative.

Now belonging to the early Tang Dynasty, Li Jingye's Liuzhou Sima has a lot of power and handles enough things.

There are too many things to deal with, and it seems reasonable to be caught in the pigtails, especially Li Jingye... who can expect a super dude to be upright and honest when he is working in the local area?

The person from the Duke's Mansion was vague, and Li Qinzai couldn't ask anything, so he ordered Liu Ahsi to prepare his horse and prepare to rush back to Chang'an.

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Cui Jie packed his luggage without saying a word, and sent him out of the house.

Seeing Li Qinzai and his followers set off on their horses, Cui Jie, who was preoccupied, suddenly stopped him.

"Husband..." Cui Jie hesitated to speak.

Li Qinzai reined in his horse and looked at her: "What's the matter?"

"Husband, leave early..." Cui Jie bit her lower lip after she finished speaking.

Li Qinzai asked strangely, "What do you mean by cutting off half the words?"

Cui Jie took a deep breath, looked up at him and said, "Husband, the county master of Jinxiang is still in Chang'an, husband, you..."

Li Qinzai understood: "Understood, don't worry, I will take good care of her."

After speaking, Li Qinzai kicked the horse's belly, and the horse galloped away, followed by Liu Asi, Lao Wei and others. A group of people swept across the village road of Zhuangzi like a wind and cloud, and soon disappeared.

Cui Jie still stood where she was, gritted her teeth and stomped her feet angrily: "I didn't mean that! You bastard!"

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It was already sunset when the group arrived in Chang'an.

When he came outside the Duke's mansion, Li Qinzai flew off his horse, threw the reins to the servants who greeted him outside, and ran towards the door without looking back, shouting like a gourd baby: "Grandpa, grandpa! ..."

In the backyard of the Duke's Mansion, Li Ji squatted in front of a peony to loosen the soil. This is a new peony. After the peony was destroyed by Li Qinzai's urine last time, Li Ji did not change his mind and transplanted another peony from another place. .

The peony rhizome is thin, and it is not yet in flowering season, and the peony stands lazily in the soil.

Hearing Li Qinzai's call, Li Ji's expression tightened, and he quickly turned the bucket of watering flowers upside down on the peony, and then got up and rushed into the study. The whole operation can be described as smooth and smooth.

Li Qinzai quickly ran outside the study in the backyard, glanced casually, and suddenly found a bucket upside down on the ground in the yard.

This bucket was so eye-catching, it was so obtrusive, it was hard for Li Qinzai to ignore it.

Curious, Li Qinzai stepped forward to uncover the barrel, and found the newly transplanted peony. Seeing the peony lazily drooping its leaves, Li Qinzai felt distressed.

"Since you have planted flowers, why don't you take good care of them? Look at this slumped head, lack of nutrition."

Apart from anything else, he lifted the hem of his shirt and was about to add some green organic fertilizer to it. When he was ready to go, he suddenly heard an angry shout.

"Naughty animal! Stop it! If you harm this peony again, this old man will break your leg!"

Li Qinzai trembled in fright, but the urge to urinate in his lower abdomen had already entered the barrel of the gun, and he couldn't hold it back.

As the saying goes, the general is outside, and the king's life is not accepted.Li Qinzai had no choice but to grit his teeth and abruptly turned around.

Crash.

A bubble of clear urine urgently changed its target and poured down on the open space next to it.

Turning his head and seeing Li Jiji's fire-seeking eyes, Li Qinzai grinned: "Grandpa, it said it was thirsty..."

Li Ji didn't say a word, and began to look around.

Li Qinzai's eyelids twitched, and he hurriedly said: "Grandpa, let's get down to business! My grandson has come all the way here just to relieve my Li family from being upside down and to save the building from falling."

Only then did Li Ji calm down his anger a little bit, and said coldly: "It's not that serious, the Li family can't fall."

The grandparents entered the study, and Li Qinzai learned the whole story after inquiring.

Cousin Li Jingye is really not worrying. As soon as it was reported that he had stolen the concubine of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, no one knew who was following him. The black history a few years ago was also dug out.

Let’s not talk about stealing other people’s concubines. It’s not serious at first, but in the open Tang Dynasty, it’s just gossip at best.

But Li Jingye's black history a few years ago is really a bit troublesome.

About three years ago, Li Jingye took up the post of Liuzhou Sima. Of course, he was not selfless in his tenure.

The cause of the incident was a murder case. A householder in a village under the jurisdiction of Liuzhou had an argument with a householder in the same village because of his temper, and he beat him to death out of reason.

In the Tang Dynasty, where folk customs are simple and simple, homicide cases are relatively rare, and the local government must seriously investigate and deal with them.

After the county government detained the farmer for interrogation, he immediately reported it to the governor's office.

At that time, the governor of Liuzhou was inspecting the place, and the biggest official in the governor's mansion was Sima Li Jingye.

Li Jingye took over the case and ordered the local county government to send the criminal and the evidence to Liuzhou City for review.

Up to this point, all the procedures are still legal. Major cases involving human life really need to be reviewed layer by layer until they are reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice.

It was originally a simple murder case, but after it was reviewed according to the procedure, it was reported to the Criminal Department of Chang'an, and Li Jingye had nothing to do with it.

But when Li Jingye was reviewing the case, the wife of the murdered farmer came to Liuzhou City.

Although the wife was a typical village girl, she was very handsome and charming, with a charming charm of a young woman.

When Li Jingye tried the case, the prisoner's wife knelt outside the governor's mansion all the time, pleading for her husband and asking to see the presiding judge. She knelt for two days and two nights, but no water or rice came in, which also attracted many people from Liuzhou City to watch.

The governor's mansion was afraid of another life, and the onlookers were making bad rumors, so Li Jingye had no choice but to summon the prisoner's wife in private.

As soon as the two met, Li Jingye fell in love.

Well, it's actually not that pure and romantic. To be precise, Li Jingye was attracted to him.

(End of this chapter)