I am a temporary worker in Jinyiwei, how did I become a powerful official?

Chapter 62 Good Luck Lin Shisan

Liang Chun talked a lot of nonsense, but Wu Cheng'en just refused to fall for it.

Old Wu was the one who wrote about the real and fake macaques in "Journey to the West". Although he was not as sure as Lin Shisan that Liang Chun was a liar pretending to be a broker, he at least had some suspicion.

Wu Chengen stood up and said, "Ah, Mr. Liang, oh no, Captain Liang. It's getting late. I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave first."

Liang Chun asked quickly: "Are you still going to buy those two lucrative positions?"

Wu Cheng'en cupped his hands and said, "My family is poor, and I really can't afford these two lucrative positions."

Wu Cheng'en was crying poor. With the money he earned from writing, he bought a thousand acres of good land and two large houses in Jiangnan. This time when he went to Beijing, he brought 15,000 taels of silver notes.

Liang Chun was not a clever liar. He was a little panicked at this time: "The price is negotiable."

Wu Cheng'en was determined to leave: "Goodbye."

Sun Yue next door reminded Lin Shisan: "Old Wu has left. Should we follow him?"

Lin Shisan said, "Why rush? Eunuch Huang gave us a deadline of the first day of the first lunar month to steal the monkey. This job is not urgent."

"There is a merit in front of us, it would be a waste if we don't take it."

Sun Yue asked, "Are you talking about that liar?"

Lin Shisan nodded, opened the door and walked out. He did not follow Wu Chengen, but followed the liar Liang Chun.

When they followed him into a small alley in Dazhalan, Lin Shisan shouted, "Stop!"

Liang Chun turned around and asked, "Who are you?"

Lin Shisan ordered his disciple Sun Yue: "Capture him!"

Sun Yue pounced on his food like an old sow, and the strong man weighing more than 200 pounds fell directly on Liang Chun.

Liang Chun shouted: "Who are you? The secret police from Shuntian Prefecture? Do you know who I am? I'm from the Northern Pacification Division!"

"Catch me? You'll be in big trouble!"

Sun Yue lifted Liang Chun up like a turtle. Lin Shisan stepped forward and searched him for the fake badge: "From the Northern Pacification Office? Oh, so impressive."

Liang Chun angrily said, "It's good to know! Why don't you let me go and apologize to me?"

"Pa pa!" Lin Shisan slapped him twice in the face: "What a liar who pretends to be a Tiqi and swindles people. Fatty disciple, tie him up and take him to the Northern Pacification Office!"

In the crowd in the distance, Wu Chengen, riding on a white mule, said to Wu Jing and Gao Laoba: "There are many demons and monsters on the journey to the West to obtain the scriptures. I think there are also many demons and monsters in the capital."

"Without a keen eye, you will suffer a great loss."

Half an hour later, in Maoer Hutong, next to Bei'anmen, the Beizhenfusi.

The Jinyiwei Office was located on the west side of the Qianbu Corridor outside the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial Palace, opposite the six ministries. The Beizhenfu Division was not in the same place as the Jinyiwei Office.

After all, the Northern Pacification Office managed the Imperial Prison. It was not decent to place the Imperial Prison, which was extremely unlucky, at the gate of the palace.

Emperor Taizu established the Jinyiwei, but abolished it. Emperor Chengzu restored the Jinyiwei and added the Beizhenfusi.

From then on, who was the chief manager in Jinyiwei was not determined by who had a higher official title, but by who controlled the Northern Pacification Office.

For example, during the restoration of Emperor Yingzong, Yuan Bin was nominally the commander of the Jinyiwei, but the supreme power within the guard was in the hands of Lu Gao, the assistant commander and pacification envoy of the Northern Region.

Since Lu Bing took over the Jinyiwei, he has firmly controlled the Northern Pacification Office in his hands.

The young shopkeeper Lu Yi was too young to be the Northern Pacification Envoy. His father Lu Bing simply left the Northern Pacification Envoy position vacant and let Lu Yi serve as the Northern Division Captain temporarily.

In a word, this is the territory of the young shopkeeper Lu Yi.

Master and apprentice Lin Shisan took the swindler Liang Chun into the Northern Pacification Office and found the deputy captain who was on duty during the New Year holiday.

The deputy captain on duty turned out to be Lin Shisan's superior, Liu Shouyou.

As the Chinese New Year approached, Liu Shouyou's delivery room brought good news - he was promoted from a hundred households in the Southern Division to a deputy thousand households in the Northern Division.

Liu Shouyou saw that Master Lin Shisan and his apprentice looked unhappy: "Didn't I tell you that we will only meet in Shilixiang. How did you find Beisi?"

Lin Shisan bowed and said, "Captain Liu, no, Captain Liu. I have caught a swindler who was pretending to be from the Northern Division and was swindling people."

Some rules in the officialdom are passed down from generation to generation. Later generations called the deputy director "some bureau" and the deputy director "some department", omitting the word "deputy" to show respect.

The Ming Dynasty was the same, calling a trial centurion "some centurion" and a deputy centurion "some centurion".

Liu Shouyou became interested: "The liar who pretended to be the Northern Secretary? Did you tie him up?" Lin Shisan nodded: "He just tried to cheat a tribute student who was going to Beijing for the imperial examination out of 10,000 taels of silver, but failed. I heard it with my own ears and can be a witness."

"He carved a fake waist badge, which can be used as physical evidence."

After saying that, Lin Shisan presented the fake badge.

Jinyiwei did not always make false accusations when handling cases. They paid the most attention to the presence of witnesses and physical evidence.

Of course, if there are no witnesses or physical evidence, frame-up is also possible.

If the frame-up fails, then the case will not be handled openly. As a last resort, it can be handled secretly.

Liu Shouyou smiled with satisfaction: "What a coincidence. At the end of the year, a large number of candidates and tribute students came to Beijing for selection. The scammers in Beijing took them as fat sheep."

"There have been at least seven or eight fraud cases recently, all of which were people impersonating the Northern Pacification Office to deceive candidates for the imperial examinations and tributes to Beijing, ruining the reputation of our Northern Pacification Office."

"The young manager just said yesterday that he wanted to punish a few people severely to serve as a warning to others. Did you catch one today?"

"You are so lucky, kid!"

Lin Shisan laughed and said, "I am a stupid subordinate. It was only thanks to Captain Liu's good training that we were able to catch him."

Liu Shouyou picked up the pen and said, "I'll ask the questions, you answer them, write your testimony first."

Lin Shisan took the order and answered Liu Shouyou's questions truthfully.

Liu Shouyou then tortured the fraudster Liang Chun, who confessed and signed his confession.

In less than half an hour, the case was closed.

Liu Shouyou asked Lin Shisan: "By the way, what are you doing at Gaosheng Teahouse?"

Jinyiwei was most afraid of lying to their superiors. Lin Shisan reported the incident of Huang Jin asking him to steal the monkey.

Anyway, Eunuch Huang was venting the anger of Emperor Jiajing, so there was nothing he couldn't say.

Liu Shouyou laughed so hard he fell backwards: "Stealing monkeys? It's amazing that our eunuch Huang could think of that. Well, since he has asked you to do it, you have to do it."

Lin Shisan bowed and said, "I obey your command."

Liu Shouyou restrained his smile and said, "Originally, catching a swindler is just a small achievement. But the young shopkeeper just said that this kind of fraud case should be severely punished. I will give you a small achievement record."

The Jinyiwei's merits are divided into five levels, namely, fly merit, micro merit, small merit, medium merit, and great merit.

It is not so easy to achieve success.

Comrades have a saying: Great merit requires life, medium merit requires disability, small merit only leaves a scar; slight merit requires great effort; small merit requires care.

Lin Shisan picked up a micro-gong without any effort, which was really a stroke of luck.

Lin Shisan knelt down and said, "Thank you, Captain Liu, for your support."

Liu Shouyou waved his hand and said, "Get up. You have just been promoted to the small flag and have a record of minor achievements. You are indeed a smart and capable person."

"Work hard, you have a bright future ahead of you."

Lin Shisan said: "I will definitely live up to the expectations of the thousand households."

Liu Shouyou suddenly dismissed his attendants and took down a copy of "Journey to the West" from the bookshelf in the duty room.

Being on duty during the annual leave is very boring, so the officers on duty will put some of their favorite books on the bookshelf to pass the time.

Liu Shouyou lowered his voice and said, "Can you do me a small favor in private?"

Lin Shisan said: "If you have anything to ask, just tell me. Why would you ask me to help you?"

Liu Shouyou smiled awkwardly: "My kid is spoiled by me. He loves to watch Journey to the West the most."

"Since you have to deal with Wu Cheng'en recently, can you think of a way to get him to write a couple of words of devotion on my boy's book?"

"I'll give it to him on the first day of the first lunar month. It's a meaningful New Year's gift from me as a father to my son."

Lin Shisan said, "I'll take care of it."

But in his heart he was thinking: Oh, stealing someone else's monkey and asking them to write an inscription for it. This job is really wicked. His mother opened the door for wickedness. It's wicked to the extreme.

(End of this chapter)