Chapter 2598 The clear decision of recommending officials
Wen Rensheng naturally knows what recommending officials is.
Responsible for the criminal names of several counties or even more than ten counties in one prefecture.
In this world, the official positions in charge of punishment are, from small to large, county captain, push official, inspector, minister of the Ministry of punishment, and emperor.
They are in turn responsible for the punishment names of a county, a prefecture, a province, and the whole country.
The final verdict of the prisoner must be reported to the emperor.
But the emperor would not get involved in this. He always pushed it to the chief minister. The chief minister did not stick to the pot, so he still pushed it to the minister of the Ministry of punishment.
In the end, the emperor would often reduce the charges to one level and grant amnesty at every turn.
It gives you a sense of seeing a certain place.
Of course, one official position alone is not enough. They each have their own deputies, with complicated names and many deputies.
The push officer himself has four or five deputies and a bunch of masters to deal with the endless cases.
A push official is an official who can handle cases across counties.
Generally, it is the sixth rank or the fifth rank, which is a little larger than the county magistrate. The county magistrate is often the seventh rank.
The place where Wen Rensheng is located is a large county, which is the county where the government is located.
The so-called "doing evil in three lives, magistrate the county and attach Guo" is like this.
He followed a group of detectives to the office where the promoter was located.
Then I saw the official.
The official surname is Liu, he was born in the same Jinshi class, and he is over 30 years old.
Liu Tuiguan has an unkempt beard and his hair is more than half gray. He looks like a man in his fifties.
The whole person is a little haggard.
There were big dark circles in his eyes, and it looked like he had stayed up late reading files.
Or staying up late to do an autopsy, everyone knows the taste.
This official has real power.
Because no matter whether it is county magistrate or magistrate, no one will compete with him for this position, and no one will compete with him for his job.
It’s just that when the case is finally decided, I accept benefits from others, but I often say hello.
I have to say that this official Liu is rather unlucky.
I did a lot of work and it was very hard, but I was not promoted.
It will probably be like this for the rest of my life.
Actually, this is not bad.
Generally, those who do not know how to engage in military affairs will often work as county magistrates or even deputies for the rest of their lives.
At this time, Liu Tuiguan saw these police officers coming in.
Then he yawned and continued: "Another murder occurred in the east end of the county."
"Follow me out to take a look and catch the murderer."
The county where they are located belongs to the government, so it is the place where the official is permanently stationed.
If there are no cases in a large county, it does not mean that it will be easy.
Because some people will gather cases from all nearby counties into a large county.
Then the referral officer will handle the case according to the urgency of the case.
Then Liu Tuiguan took the police officers and headed toward the east of the city.
There was a policeman leading the crowd.
They came to an alley in the east of the city, and the alley was already filled with people.
One by one, they were pointing fingers at a dilapidated yard deep in the alley.
In the courtyard, there was already another group of government officials. They caught a man and pressed him against the wall.
The man was still shouting "Unjustly".
“Eight out of ten murderers are crying for injustice.” Someone said this.
“The body was dug up in the backyard of Liu Gen’s house. Who else could he have killed instead of him?”
Liu Tuiguan asked a few questions, and the facts of the case soon became clear.
It turned out that someone reported that Liu Gen’s backyard was so smelly that he couldn’t live next door.
Everyone who often buries corpses knows that the smell of corpses is not an ordinary smell and cannot be easily dissipated.
And it will become more and more intense until it turns into bones, which will take at least a few months.
So the government officials came.
Then a rotting corpse was dug up in Liu Gen's backyard.
The owner of this yard is called "Liu Gen".
At this time, Liu Gen’s hands were handcuffed by wooden boards.
When he saw Liu Tuiguan coming, he turned around and cried: "My lord, this is not the person I killed, I didn't kill him, I was wronged."
Liu The push officer looked at the body, then at the depth of the pit in the backyard, and then scanned the surrounding area.
He said lightly: "Who else is there in your family?"
"There is also an old father. My old father and I depend on each other. How will he live without me?" Liu Gen cried.
When Wen Rensheng heard this, he knew that this man was very cunning and cunning, and he was definitely not a filial son.
If you are a filial son, you will say at this time that this matter has nothing to do with my father.
Instead of involving his father to save his own life.
Liu Tuiguan then asked the surrounding neighbors.
I learned that Liu Gen’s father was in his 50s and Liu Gen was in his 30s.
I haven’t married a wife yet, I have always been single.
As I said before, this is a land of abundance, and everyone has no worries about food and clothing. Why didn’t Liu Gen get a wife?
This is entirely because of his personal matter.
He also had a wife before, but Liu Gen was a gambler, so he made his wife angry and ran away.
You will lose as much as you earn.
No one followed him anymore.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of food or food here. Liu Gen will always have something to eat no matter what happens.
Even if he goes to the streets to beg, everyone can still give him food.
Even if you pick fruits from the trees on the roadside, you can pick them every day without starving to death.
The population here has never been too large.
So the land rent will not be too high.
Even though the land has been annexed a long time ago, the population has not increased, so the landlords have no way to increase the land rent. After all, if the land rent is higher here, others can go elsewhere.
Unless you buy serfs in large quantities.
However, the government had to collect taxes from the slaves, and the serfs were not diligent in their work, so they were worse than day laborers.
One more slave means one more tax.
This is actually not the fundamental problem.
The biggest problem is: there are more servants in the family. According to the settings of this world, the frequency of cases will be higher.
The main family died very quickly.
Therefore, even in a wealthy family, the number of servants is very limited, usually no more than a hundred people.
There are often only a few direct servants.
Especially for our young masters, situations like Dream of Red Mansions in Blue Star will not happen.
A young master is accompanied by more than ten maids, big and small, and seven or eight attendants.
That is courting death.
Such a young master would be poisoned to death by his servants within a year.
Liu Tuiguan looked at it again, and then said to Liu Gen: "You said you didn't kill the person, but the body is buried in your backyard."
"Look at the depth of this pit. It couldn't have been dug during the day. Someone must have seen the digging during the day. "You must have had time to dig so deep late at night."
Liu Gen's face turned pale.
"And late at night, your old father must be sleeping peacefully at home. You may go out to gamble, but your father must be at home."
"If outsiders come to your home to dig a hole and bury the body, how can they hide it? Can you beat your father?"
"According to my inference, it should be the body you buried."
"And when your father woke up and asked you, you just said it casually. He ignored it. "And your father also trusted you, so he didn't take it seriously."
"Is that so?"
Liu Gen looked shocked, obviously very horrified by Liu Tuiguan's words.
This means that Liu Tuiguan's words hit Liu Gen's mind.
At this time, Liu Gen’s father was also brought out by the government officials.
He looked at Liu Gen with a heavy face and said, "My son, a few days ago I asked you what you were doing in the middle of the night?"
"You said you wanted to hide some money so that I wouldn't know about it, so I didn't care about you anymore."
"I didn't expect that you were hiding the body. Our Liu family has been innocent for generations, so why did you appear like this?" Murderer? "
"Oh my God, I, Liu Wu, have no grandchildren, and my son has become a murderer, so what else can I do while living?"
Liu Gen's father is miserable there? The ground was crying.
The neighbors also expressed sympathy.
This father has worked hard all his life, and his son turns out to be a murderer. That is really shocking.
What was even more shocking was that no one held the funeral or burned incense after the death of the other party. They had to rely on the neighbors to restrain themselves and let Li Zheng bury him casually.
There must be no incense after death.
There are frequent cases in this world, so people also believe in retribution from ghosts and gods.
Otherwise, why would there be so many cases?
The evil people in this world die very quickly.
Unlike the real world, evildoers often bully their neighbors for decades, and no one dares to resist. They all swallow their anger and linger, allowing the evildoers to live until old age.
The neighbors all had nothing to say.
"Liu Gen, look at the good things you have done."
"Yes, you are so old and you still let your father worry about you!"
At this time Liu Gen cried and said: "I really didn't kill the person."
"I hired them all."
"This person is actually a businessman from out of town who was with me. I met him at Bureau D."
"He stayed at my house for three days before leaving because he disliked the inn's dishonesty and would steal his money."
"Three days. After that, he asked me to call him in advance so that he could leave the city gate early.”
"Then when the time came, I went to call him, and when I called him, I found that he was dead."
"Then I was worried that I would be arrested and blackmailed, so I buried it myself..."
After hearing this, the detectives glared angrily.
In Wen Rensheng’s eyes, they were clearly scolding: Even if this is true, you can’t say it everywhere!
Liu Tuiguan nodded, seeming to believe what Liu Gen said.
A miscellaneous official like him who does practical things knows best the moral character of his subordinates.
How is it possible to expect them not to extort money?
If you are an ordinary person, you will probably be afraid that the case will happen at home.
Because they are detectives and know the ins and outs of the case.
So they usually blackmail criminals who are sentenced to death.
The criminals will be caught and imprisoned soon, and beheaded. Once they are dead, there will be no other cases involving them.
Especially for the Liu family, where there is only one old father.
They are less worried.
After all, silver is so attractive.
Some people are willing to die just for money, let alone if they just take some risks.
Those gentlemen, emperors and ministers are not short of money, so they will not take risks for money.
They are different.
"Well, in that case, it seems you are innocent."
"Now let Liu Gen go, take the body back to the Yamen, and continue the autopsy."
"What, are you letting people go?" Everyone was a little confused.
"Does this mean Liu Gen is not guilty?" Even the police officers were unwilling to accept it. After all, Liu Gen openly slandered them.
They work so hard and charge some money for tea, sedan chair, and shoe wear and tear... What's wrong?
This world is the same as Blue Star's ancient times. If you can't report something to the official, try not to report it to the official. Everyone either keeps it secret within the clan, or under the auspices of the local squire, or they hide it themselves.
This is what Liu Gen did.
Liu Tuiguan obviously believed that Liu Gen did the right thing, but he couldn't say so.
Then the detectives followed Liu Tuiguan and left.
"Master, you are too casual today." One of the catchers complained in a low voice with dissatisfaction.
He also wanted to get more.
I heard that Liu Gen has been very lucky recently and has a lot of money.
The other detectives didn't say much.
After all, they are all low-ranking people, and the dignified official is a sixth-rank official.
To put it bluntly, I only need to send a message to the county magistrate.
It is very likely that the iron rice bowl of their detectives is gone.
Of course, promoters generally don’t do this.
After all, these agents are not directly subordinate to the official.
In fact, the people this official can directly use are a few deputies and a few people in the government office.
How else to say that the official is the second official.
The ones who really have the soldiers and people are the county magistrates, who seem to have low official positions.
And this catcher is the county magistrate’s brother-in-law. All things considered, he has the right to complain.
The head catcher only said this sentence and said no more.
Although the others were confused, they all followed the order and left Liu Gen's house one by one.
But this promoter is a chatterbox and doesn’t even take his position seriously.
In other words, guys who take their positions too seriously have cases and then die violently.
The official said: "I know you will definitely be confused."
"I will tell you now, you will send 8 people to take turns staring at Liu Gen."
"This is called playing hard to get, playing a long game to catch the big fish."
"Otherwise, if Liu Gen is simply arrested and tortured, no real ironclad evidence can be found even through torture."
" The body has been buried for too long, and the traces of the crime have long since disappeared."
"If Liu Gen was seeking money and murder, he would definitely escape with the money after he got away with it."< br>
“If Liu Gen did not kill anyone and was really wronged, then he will continue to live here peacefully.”
When Wen Rensheng heard this, he shook his head slightly.
When others heard this, they all raised their thumbs.
“It’s still wise to recommend the official.”
Wen Rensheng smiled slightly.
Recommending officials makes you feel good about yourself.
Because there is still no evidence for the other party's inference.
In his opinion, even if Liu Gen escaped, it could not prove that he was the one who killed him.
It can only be said that after this incident, Liu Gen will definitely take his father and leave quickly.
Because this time I met a good-hearted referee and was found not guilty.
The next time I change the promotion officer and encounter a cruel one, I will pull him out and make him a scapegoat.
It was just as Wen Rensheng guessed.
Liu Gen packed up Xinruan that night, called his father and left.
As a result, his father refused to leave.
"If you haven't killed anyone, don't leave."
"As soon as you leave, others will think you have a guilty conscience, and they will send arrest documents everywhere to get you."
"I have lived here for most of my life, and I want to die at home. I don't want to die outside."
So, Liu Gen gave up on his father and ran away alone.
(End of this chapter)