Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 202
Yuan Keli nodded, looked at Yu Leting and said with a smile: "Our Metropolitan Procuratorate is different from the imperial court. The officials who investigate and deal with must have evidence, and you can't just talk nonsense. You have to bear such a heavy burden when you first come here. You have to be serious." work."

Yu Leting hurriedly said: "Don't worry sir, the students know."

Li Jing continued: "One thing I want to remind you is that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is only responsible for supervising civilian officials above the county magistrate level. Military officers are not under the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Military officers make mistakes and are dealt with by the Military Law Department."

"How does the Metropolitan Procuratorate supervise officials?" Yu Leting asked.

"It's mainly common people who report. The Metropolitan Procuratorate has its own special office. If ordinary people want to sue officials, they go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. As long as there is evidence, the Metropolitan Procuratorate can file a case for investigation." Li Jing said.

"What if there are rumors? Will the Metropolitan Procuratorate handle the case?" Yu Leting asked.

Li Jing shook his head and said: "You must know that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is governed by officials above the county magistrate, these people will inevitably offend others when they do things, and it is inevitable that there will be rumors and troubles, so the Metropolitan Procuratorate must not investigate officials based on rumors. "

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "I know you are worried that the common people dare not sue the officials, but I think there will always be common people who have been wronged and try to sue you. What is the court doing?"

Yuan Keli smiled and said: "Junyang, it is not easy for us to appoint officials, so we must not investigate and deal with officials based on rumors, so as not to chill their hearts. In addition, the Metropolitan Procuratorate only has the right to investigate and deal with officials, but has no right to deal with them. You need to figure it out."

Yu Leting nodded, thought for a while and asked: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate is only responsible for monitoring officials above the county magistrate, so who will take care of officials below the county magistrate when they make mistakes?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Naturally, the county magistrate will be in charge. Think about it, if officials below the county magistrate are also in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate will be exhausted. But the officials you can manage right now Indeed, there are not many. There are only Puzhou, Jiangzhou, and Jiezhou in Pingyang Prefecture, as well as the officials of Linfen County, Xiangling County, Quwo County, and Yicheng County. .”

Yu Leting heard this in silence.

In fact, when Yu Leting heard that Li Jing had set up a Metropolitan Procuratorate, he had already realized that Li Jing should start from scratch. Now that he heard that there were still many counties in Pingyang Prefecture that were not under his jurisdiction, he immediately understood that Li Jing was still in those places. no control.

However, Yu Leting was very surprised by Li Jing's approach. The nature of the inspectors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself has not changed, only the approach has changed.

Whether an official made a mistake is not based on words, but on evidence. As long as the evidence is presented, the officials who are investigated will be obediently punished, which prevents officials from arguing.At the same time, since the Metropolitan Procuratorate does not have the right to dispose, and the problem of excessive power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is avoided, provincial officials meeting the Metropolitan Procuratorate is like a mouse meeting a cat.

Moreover, Yu Leting believed that Li Jing's right to deal with officials would definitely be delegated to the people below, leaving him a buffer.

Yu Leting looked at everyone present, and finally set his sights on Yuan Keli. Yu Leting concluded that the right to deal with officials probably rested with Yuan Keli.

Yuan Keli has a high reputation and is Li Jing's teacher. It is only reasonable for him to take care of this matter.

As long as Yuan Keli was in charge of dealing with officials who made mistakes, then Yu Leting would not have to worry about the officials covering each other up.

Thinking of this, without any hesitation, Yu Leting immediately agreed to be the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

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After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Yuan Keli also drank some wine more or less.

After all, Yuan Keli is old, and there are some problems that old people often make, for example, he likes to be lively and play with children.However, Li Jing only had one son, and Yuan Keli was very dissatisfied with this.

So Yuan Keli began to criticize Li Jing under the influence of alcohol: "Jimin, you seem to be thirty this year, right? Others at your age are full of wives and concubines, full of children, but you, Yingying is alone, and the children are also there." There is only Anguo, how can this work! Have you done what I told you last time?"

Li Jingwen smiled wryly, knowing that Yuan Keli was talking about Zhu Huiyu again, but Zhu Huiyu is the princess, how can he be a concubine for someone?
Seeing that Li Jing was silent, Yuan Keli sighed: "How old is the princess? 23 or 24? Do you want her to stay by Yingying's side all the time? You should give her a title."

Li Jing smiled bitterly: "Sir, you are always joking, what is the identity of the princess? Besides, she and I..."

Yuan Keli shook his head, sighed and said, "I'm afraid the princess has already been kicked out, otherwise, how could the King of Zhou have allowed his daughter to stay away for many years, and how could he have allowed her daughter to be in her 20s without marrying her?"

Li Jingjing nodded, remembering that the princess seemed to have said that she had nowhere to go many years ago. At that time, Li Jing vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with the princess and Zhou Wang's father and daughter, but then Li Jing got involved in many things and never went again. Think about the princess.

After many years, Li Jing suddenly heard Yuan Keli say that the princess might be expelled from the house by King Zhou.

The princess has not been home for many years, only this explanation is the most reasonable, otherwise, how can the princess not go home to celebrate the king's birthday every year?As for King Zhou, he never sent anyone to pick up his daughter.

What did the princess, a girl, come to Hongshanlingtu alone, is it just for the sisterhood with Yingying?This is obviously inexplicable.

Recalling that Shen Ying mentioned to herself many years ago that in the Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng, the princess and Yingying actually drew two identical lots, Li Jing felt silent.

Although Li Jing's emotional intelligence is not high, he is by no means an emotional idiot. Li Jing knows that people in this era are very superstitious about drawing lots and divination, so it is self-evident why the princess came from.

At the same time, Li Jing secretly admired Zhu Huiyu. This girl abandoned her home in order to pursue her own happiness. In this era, such a girl is undoubtedly remarkable.

After thinking about it, Li Jing said, "Sir, let me go back and ask Yingying about this matter to see what she thinks."

Yuan Keli nodded and said: "You can ask Yingying, if Yingying agrees, then I will ask your teacher's wife to adopt her as a righteous daughter, so that this matter can be handled, and after the matter, you can send someone to Kaifeng Zhou Palace for a while. Come on, there are no wrong parents in the world, there are some etiquettes that must be fulfilled."

Li Jing nodded silently.

Yuan Keli talked to Li Jing about taking a concubine, Yuan Shu, Yu Leting, Zhou Hengchen and others were all surprised, they never thought that Li Jing had no concubine.

However, the identity of the concubine that Li Jing was going to accept was really frightening. It turned out to be a princess. It would be an earth-shattering event to spread the word.

What surprised them even more was that Yuan Keli and Li Jing didn't show any respect when they mentioned the princess. Judging from the appearance of the two, the princess seemed no different from ordinary women in their eyes.

If Yu Leting, Yuan Shu and the others were shocked by Yuan Keli letting Princess Li Jingna be his concubine, then when they heard Ma Wu talking about Wang Chengen, they were completely stunned.

This guy dressed as an inconspicuous businessman in their eyes has such a close relationship with Wang Chengen. Doesn't this mean that Ma Wu's relationship has already been established?
Unexpectedly, when Ma Wu recounted how he met Wang Chengen, and repeated what Wang Chengen said before returning from the capital, he actually said: "Brother, Mr. Yuan, do you think this Wang Chengen is trustworthy?"

Wang Chengen has done this, but Ma Wu actually asked him if he was trustworthy?Does this make sense?

What was even more outrageous was that Yuan Keli and Li Jing shook their heads at the same time.

After waving his hands, Yuan Keli said, "Ma Wu, Wang Cheng'en's scheming is beyond your imagination. He made great contributions to becoming the current emperor back then, but have you heard any rumors about this? Keep it hidden, you must not be careless when dealing with him."

Ma Wu heard this and nodded hurriedly.

Smiling, Yuan Keli continued: "But what you are doing right now is very good. Maintain your relationship with him, let him owe you favors, and don't ask him for help until the critical moment. Favor is a thing that loses one point once you use it. In the end, there is no affection at all, therefore, Wang Chengen's favor must be used wisely."

Ma Wu nodded and said, "Sir, I understand."

Yuan Keli then laughed and said: "Wang Chengen asked you to recommend a friend to be an official. I know you want to push your elder brother, but you must not do this."

"Why?" Ma Wuqi asked.

Li Jing sighed and said, "Fifth brother, do you know what the emperor is most taboo about?"

Without waiting for Ma Wu to answer, Li Jing continued: "The emperor's most taboo is the collusion between internal officials and generals who hold heavy troops. I was promoted to an official because of the recommendation of Shanxi Governor Xu Dingchen and Cao Wenzhao. The emperor was actually very skeptical, but he agreed to promote me to be an official in order to encourage other generals to suppress the bandits. You think, I have been promoted to Shanxi General, if Wang Chengen continues to recommend me in front of the emperor, the emperor will How do you feel?"

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Wang Chengen is very smart, he will never do things that make the emperor suspect him. In fact, you don't need to ask Wang Chengen to recommend me again. I have little interest in being an official of the court. .”

Then Yuan Keli said: "The current emperor is self-willed and doesn't trust the ministers in the court. You must be careful when doing things in the capital."

"Yes! Thank you sir for your guidance." Ma Wu clasped his fists and said.

Li Jing patted Ma Wu's shoulder lightly: "Fifth Brother, anyway, be careful and come to drink."

Ma Wu heard and raised his glass silently.

Everyone enjoyed the meal on New Year's Day. Li Jing's interest suddenly rose for some reason, and he pulled Ma Wu, Gao Qi, and Zhu Zi to start drinking together.

The three of them also knew that it was rare for Li Jing to drink to his heart's content, so they risked their lives to accompany the gentleman.

In addition, Hutou and Li Dingguo contributed to the flames, and Zhou Hengchen, Yang Liufeng, and Fang Fang would occasionally toast a few glasses of wine. Rao Li Jing's drinking capacity was amazing, and he was also bewitched. His eyes became blurred and he didn't speak. Tongues are getting bigger.

(End of this chapter)