The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

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"What are you doing? Why don't you ask people to calm down? In this scorching hot day, you won't let me take a rest, what are you doing so loudly?" Su Jinshang's teacher reprimanded him when he opened his mouth.

Wu Hengxin smiled and stepped forward and said: "My lord, our brothers guarding Ma Jun are patrolling the city according to your orders, and they accidentally reported that there was a black market for grain, and the four of them went there first. A large number of people of unknown origin and a large amount of food were found."

Su Jin was surprised and said: "Is it a black market? People who dump food? What is most lacking in Weizhou City is food. Some people actually make a fortune at this time. How can I sit idly by? You have done a good job, everyone is arrested Is it gone?"

Wu Hengxin pointed at the people kneeling all over the floor with the big stick in his hand, and said, "Isn't that so?"

Su Jin glanced at the hall, walked over with three steps, and shouted: "How dare you set up a black market in our Weizhou to make money from national disasters. This is not giving face to this official. This official is new. You don’t know how to restrain yourself, don’t blame me for being rude.”

Master Cui Dabao said with a mournful face, "My lord, you misunderstood me. What I'm opening is not a black market. It's a place where military rations are stored. We're just helping Weizhou to deploy and manage the grain depot."

Su Jin frowned and said, "Who are you? Why don't you wear clothes? How decent are you? You can't be naked even in the hot weather. What is that smelly thing on your body? Could it be that you are like a cow or a horse? Greedy and ran to the stinky puddle to roll around a few times?"

The master cried and said: "The villain Cui Dabao is the master of the grain depot. My lord, the villain doesn't want to look like this. It was the military master you accepted who stripped my clothes and smeared horse manure on the street. The villain How Panke behaves is embarrassing to me."

Su Jin rolled his eyes, looked at Wang Chao and said, "Did you take off his clothes and parade through the streets?"

Wang Chao cupped his hands and said: "My lord, it is indeed us who waited, but we did it according to your instructions. Didn't you say that the new official took office three times? You also said that you can take off your clothes and parade through the streets to make an example of others?"

Su Jin scratched his head and said, "You guys, when I'm talking, you're all slapping flies in your ears. I mean, if you catch indecent adultery, prostitutes, wives and daughters, you can be stripped and paraded through the streets like this. The guy in the black market should hit the top [-] on the spot."

Wang Chao knew the elegant meaning when he heard the string song, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Yes, yes, the little ones are not doing well, come and dress this master."

Someone took clothes and threw them on Cui Dabao's body. Cui Dabao covered his lower body and put on the clothes shyly.

"Come on, drag him down to hit the [-]th board." Wang Chao said with a smile.

Cui Dabao changed his face: "My lord, please forgive me, my lord, why are you hitting the board again?"

Su Jin sighed and said: "The law cannot be abolished. How can I not obey the rules set by this government. It was a wrong punishment for taking your clothes off and parading in the street just now. Now they are punishing you again, which is an act of correction. This government will not do that." Very obstructive."

"But my lord, the villain said that I don't open the black market, my lord must not mistake a good person."

Su Jin frowned and said, "Are you wronged?"

Cui Dabao nodded his head, and Su Jin turned his eyes to Wang Chao and the others before they could speak, Wang Chao took out a thick stack of account books from his arms and presented them with both hands: "My lord, these are the account books seized in the account room. , the price and quantity of the sale are clearly written on it, if it is a military grain warehouse, why are there records of these sales?"

Su Jin reached out to take it, casually flipped through a few pages, and suddenly clicked his tongue secretly. It was written in detail one by one, and the price of how much grain was sold was clear at a glance. Normal food prices are five or six times higher, which can be described as huge profits.

Su Jin held the account book and asked Cui Dabao, "What else do you have to say?"

Cui Dabao was so regretful that his intestines were green. He thought that in this Weizhou city, who would dare to stroke a tiger's whiskers to make trouble, so he didn't hide the account books and other things. Thinking of being turned over by someone, I was at a loss for words for a while, speechless.

Su Jin pointed to a line above and read: "Cheng Laojiu in Dongcheng is willing to offer ten days to his daughter in exchange for one stone in exchange for food; what does this mean?"

Cui Dabao muttered and refused to speak.

Su Jin read again: "Guo Xiucai in Dongcheng gave his wife seven days in exchange for five liters of grain. What does that mean?"

Cui Dabao bowed his head and said nothing, Su Jin suddenly shouted: "Say!"

Everyone in the hall was startled, but no one spoke.

Su Jin shouted: "Don't say yes, if you openly confront the official, each person will be hit forty times first, and if no one confesses, they will be beaten again, and they will be killed."

The guards of the yamen servants shouted and stepped forward, and seven or eighty people were pushed down inside and outside the hall. The big sticks were shone on the buttocks of these people and they were crackling and pumping. After the forty big boards were beaten, half of the people The pain passed out.

"Should I still talk?" Su Jin sneered.

Cui Dabao's butt was covered with blood, he gritted his teeth and insisted, and said to Su Jin: "My lord, my lord... I advise you to check the situation first before making a fuss. This market is not run by villains, it is... In short, Your lord may not be offended either."

Su Jin sneered and said: "I don't care whose subordinate you are, I have only been here for a few days, you guys are messing around on my site, but you don't even say hello, this is not paying attention to me , I want you bastards to understand today that this is my territory, you have to feed my family and give me enough face before you can do things, understand?"

Everyone's eyeballs fell all over the place, feeling that the magistrate did not act violently for the people, but because these people did not understand the rules and did not come to honor the good government, so he beat people severely. This is a blatant extortion of bribes.

Cui Dabao was very clever, and hurriedly said: "This is indeed the fault of the villains. The villains thought that you would communicate with each other on your own, but unexpectedly, the communication has not yet been completed. Your Excellency, you have let me wait. You must follow the instructions when you go back." Do your request."

Su Jin scolded: "I will chop you up with a knife and then apologize to you, will you accept it? Just because you don't take this government seriously, you can't forgive you today. What does it mean to serve your wife and daughter for ten days and seven days?" ? Say or not?"

Cui Dabao showed embarrassment and didn't dare to speak at all. Su Jin's face was livid, and he shouted: "Come here, beat me to death, and I will use all the strength of sucking milk. Whoever doesn't work hard will deduct the salary for three months." .”

The guards of the yamen servants rushed to do it, and after a while, there was a sound of boarding, and the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves came from far away from the yamen.

Sitting behind the case, Su Jin wondered why no one came. Could it be that those people wanted to abandon their pawns to save the car?However, he quickly vetoed his guess. He had just negotiated the terms with Li Zhihe in the morning, and in the afternoon he swept up the black market by himself. Li Zhihe would show up no matter what. Even if he didn't come, he would send someone to stop .

Sure enough, not long after, a few people rushed in at the gate of the yamen, but it was not Li Zhihe, but Xu Wei. Xu Wei held his fat belly and trotted, his face was covered with oily sweat. He raised his hands and shouted when he entered the door: "Stop, stop, Mo killed someone."

How could the guards of the yamen servants listen to him? The lives of these people were more important than three months' salary. If Su Jin didn't speak, how could they stop.

Xu Wei came to Su Jin at a trot, and hurriedly cupped his hands to Su Jin and said: "My lord, please tell them to stop, if you continue to fight like this, they will kill you."

Su Jin rested his chin and tilted Erlang's legs, shaking his eyes a few times and said, "They are your relatives? If you beat them to death, they will kill them. What have you got to do with them? Why don't you go to the police room to handle business and come to the lobby?" "

Xu Wei said solemnly: "My lord, the lower officials also have the right to intervene in matters of punishment and prison. If the beating continues like this and someone is really killed, how can my lord explain it?"

Su Jin said: "It turns out that you can also take care of the case, punishment and prison. Well, to save face, I won't beat you for now, but if they are dishonest and don't confess, they still have to continue beating. The stick will produce a dutiful son, and the stick will be the same. can be exported."

Xu Wei swallowed, and thought to himself: You are a stupid official, you know how to extract confessions by torture.However, since Su Jin let go, Xu Wei also heaved a sigh of relief, and shouted repeatedly: "Stop, stop, my lord ordered you to stop."

Only then did the crowd stop beating the group of people, only to see that more than half of the 80 to [-] people were beaten to death, and a few weak ones seemed to be dying.

"Carry it down and apply the medicine, don't really kill someone." Xu Wei hurriedly said.

Su Jin stared and shouted: "Who promised to give them medicine? They refused to answer what I said, and they deserve to die."

Xu Wei whispered in Su Jin's ear: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there may be a misunderstanding here. If you have anything to say, just ask me. Let these people heal first, and then the officials will answer every question."

Su Jin asked in amazement: "Why does this matter have anything to do with you? How do you know their secrets?"

Xu Wei clasped his hands and made a gesture of invitation: "Please, sir, take a moment to explain, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."