After the game emperor awakens

Qiuling Town.

With the hidden guards holding their necks with knives, several human traffickers took Xie Chongjin and Lu Xuechao to their residence in fear.There were several young men in the room who were bound and gagged, all of whom hadn't had time to sell.

There is a grand auction in Jiangnan every year, which is dedicated to auctioning the thin horses carefully trained from childhood in the three places. The auction bidding method is also an opportunity for rich merchants in Jiangnan to compete and show off their wealth, and these thin horses will be sold at unimaginable sky-high prices.For example, Yun Yao, the leader last year, fetched a full [-] gold at the auction, which can be called the highest in history, and it also made him the most famous thin horse in Yunzhou.

People like this who are bound to become monks halfway through adulthood, if they can't get that kind of table, they are all privately pushed to officials and rich businessmen.The amount of money in private transactions is not as much as that in public auctions, but it is not small.

When the hidden guard pushed open the door of the trafficker's house, the men who were tied up in the house shrank, fearing that they would be dragged out and sold when the trafficker returned, and afraid that the trafficker would bring back new victims.

I didn't want the person who came here to save them, but those abominable traffickers were the ones who were tied up.

The dark guard untied several men, and the men were so excited that they called for their saviors.

Xie Chongjin did not relax.It's not just these few that need to be saved.

Xie Chongjin vaguely remembered that in his previous life, every year when he went south, officials from the south of the Yangtze River would give him a skinny horse. The person who gave it was different in each life. It should be an ordinary concubine without a plot. The gift from officials is also a way to accept ordinary concubines.

There is such a deformed industry behind a channel that accepts ordinary concubines.

Those men who were persecuted because of this didn't even have a plot.

Turn around and ban this industry.Xie Chongjin secretly made up his mind.

After rescuing several men and obtaining witnesses, Xie Chongjin asked the traffickers to show them the way, and the dark guards drove to the Yamen to report to the officials.

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The front gate of the yamen was deserted and deserted. A few yamen guards hung their heads and yawned, showing no energy at all.

Seeing this scene, Xie Chongjin's expression darkened.

The official in charge of the local yamen is the county magistrate. Although he is a seventh-rank sesame official, he has a lot of things to manage.Flattening tax and service, listening to lawsuits, promoting education, and strict customs are all his responsibilities, and he is the parent official of the people.

In addition to handling the daily affairs of the county, the magistrate also has to mediate disputes among the people in the area under his jurisdiction. From murder and arson to trivial matters, all cases are judged by the magistrate.In a normal yamen, people should come to the door every day to ask the magistrate to uphold justice for him, and it will never be so deserted.

There are only two situations in which the yamen will be empty.

One is the long-term stability of the local area, the roads are not picked up, the houses are not closed at night, the neighbors are harmonious, and the people have no disputes and grievances, so there is no need to go to court.

But Qiuling Town obviously won't be like this.As long as Xie Chongjin heard it from the traffickers, one can imagine what the current security chaos in Jiangnan is like. Bandits, robbers, burning, killing and looting are doing all kinds of crimes, but the people are unwilling to ask the government for help. It will only be the second situation.

——If the government does not act, it has lost the support and credibility of the people. It is useless for the people to come, so they do not come.

No wonder the thieves and robbers here are so rampant.

Seeing Xie Chongjin's expression, Lu Xuechao knew that he was in a bad mood again.

Xie Chongjin is in a bad mood, and the officials inside probably won't end well either.

Xie Chongjin got out of the carriage and strode towards the yamen with a cold face.

The yamen servant lazily raised his eyelids: "Who is here? What's the matter?"

Xie Chongjin said lightly: "Report to the official."

The yamen servant saw that he had an extraordinary temperament, and his status should be unusual, so he forced himself to be upright: "Wait a minute, I will go in and report to your lord."

The yamen servant went in and murmured in his heart, the reporter must be a foreigner, who would expect them, the magistrate of Zhang County, to handle affairs?

It's also a good time for them to catch up.A few days ago, the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture was ordered to be an imperial envoy, and he was sent to the south of the Yangtze River to provide disaster relief. The prefect of Quling wanted to treat him with the same food and drink as in previous years, so he hurriedly sent this big Buddha away. Unexpectedly, the imperial envoy has been stranded in Quling since the road collapsed. By the way, Quling's government affairs were investigated.

This is also Xie Chongjin's order.Sending imperial envoys to the south is one for disaster relief, and the other is to inspect officials in the south of the Yangtze River.The Ministry of Officials used to hide filth, who knows what kind of officials they appointed and promoted?If a problem is found, it must be replaced in time.

The prefect of Quling was frightened half to death. If the things he did were told, dereliction of duty would be considered minor. Selling officials, colluding with officials and businessmen, fish and meat villagers, enriching private pockets, which one is not a major crime of beheading?In previous years, when the superiors sent people down, they were all on the same level as them, and gave some benefits. The so-called disaster relief investigations were just a formality.But this year was different, the one who came was an honest and upright old man, the magistrate was afraid that he would see something, so he turned around and gave him a copy in front of today, and he even landed with Wu Sha and his head.

Now that the imperial envoy is here, all the officials in Quling dare not be as idle and negligent as they used to be, and they have to put on a show.Seeing that the fifth-rank magistrates were all busy—mainly busy destroying criminal evidence, a seventh-rank sesame official in the county magistrate couldn't have his turn to curry favor with the imperial envoy, so he could only sit in the yamen.

Usually at this time, the county magistrate has not yet woken up, let alone manage affairs, and if he manages, it would be an unjust, false or wrongly decided case.

The county magistrate has not achieved much since he took up his post, and the "fairness" presided over is as follows——

A Cheng Huan bought a beautiful new dress and walked happily on the road, a Huan Huan saw sex and forced him.Afterwards, Cheng Huan reported to the official, and Zhang Zhixian judged Cheng Huan to marry Xun Huan as his concubine. The reason was that he wore beautiful clothes to intentionally seduce Xun Huan.

A man fell into the water and died, another man dived to save him but failed, and then a passer-by bumped into the police officer.Zhangzhi County convicted the man of murder for saving others. The reason was: "If you didn't push him into the water, why bother to save him with a guilty conscience?"

Yi Chenghuan couldn't bear the domestic violence due to her husband's marriage, and reported to the official to ask for reconciliation. Zhang Zhixian refused on the grounds that "the couple fought at the bedside and made peace at the end of the bed". The next day, her husband beat her to death because of the report.

...these absurd things are too numerous to enumerate.

Once the number of times is too many, no one will dare to seek justice from the county magistrate.

The yamen servant really felt that those who dared to seek justice from their county magistrates were all warriors.

Justice is at ease, but their magistrate...has been blinded by lard!

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When Zhang Zhi County heard that someone had reported to the official, he immediately cheered up and put on a black gauze.

Right now, the imperial envoy is still in Quling, so he has to perform well.

Zhang Zhixian, dressed in a seventh-grade green official uniform, sat under the plaque engraved with the words "Mirror hangs high" and cleared his throat.

"Send them in."

Without waiting for the yamen servant to send a message, Xie Chongjin had already entered. Although he was wearing a mask, his displeasure could still be seen from the corners of his lips pursed, and the majesty unique to an emperor brought a sense of oppression.

It didn't look like he was here to report to the official, but to take revenge.

Zhang Zhixian trembled, knowing that he was the one sitting on it, for some reason he had the urge to kneel down.

Lu Xuechao and Xie Chongjin sat down directly on the seats beside them.The few tied up traffickers and the men who were rescued knelt down obediently. They were common people, and if they didn't kneel down to the magistrate, they would be punished.

Zhangzhi County Jingtangmu patted: "Presumptuous! Who is in the hall, why don't you kneel when you see this official? Are you still covering up, not daring to see people?"

Xie Chongjin was still angry and didn't bother to talk to him.

Lu Xue said to her: "The two of us have fame."

Zhang Zhixian didn't know why: "So? What does this have to do with your rudeness in court?"

Lu Xue's eyes sank under the hood.

According to Changli's rules, those who have a reputation of being a scholar or above do not have to kneel when they meet an official.No one who has fame will not know this rule.

And if you want to be an official, unless you are hand-picked by the emperor like Liu Yansheng and Shen Hezhou, you have to be admitted to the Juren or above to be an official.

This magistrate doesn't even know about this kind of thing, how did he become a seventh-rank official?

Changli is not allowed to donate officials.Donating officials is generally when the imperial court is in financial difficulties, allowing scholars and civilians to donate money and goods to the country in exchange for titles and official positions.The disadvantage is that it will cause official corruption, bribery of public companies, and corruption.Xie Chongjin and Lu Xuechao would not tear down the east wall to make up for the west, even when the treasury was the emptiest, they never thought about opening up donations.

The body of the last person who sold officials and nobles in Yujing was cold.

Seeing Zhang Zhixian's ignorance exposed, his master immediately reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, with fame and fame, it can be seen that officials don't kneel, but..."

But it's just that he doesn't kneel, and he has to stand and talk, so it's too arrogant to just sit down like this.

Zhang Zhixian didn't finish listening, and coughed twice in disguise: "Ah, that's it, I forgot for a while."

Then scolded in a low voice: "You didn't say it earlier."

humiliate him in public.

The magistrate of Zhang County was naturally not admitted, but bought with money.He was also a rich businessman, and the magistrate asked the rich businessman to pay money and food for his political achievements, so that the tax reported to the court would look good.Rich businessmen are not being taken advantage of. It is impossible for everyone to be willing, so the magistrate acquiesced in the practice of using money to buy officials.There are still many businessmen who are willing to do so from the lowest class of businessmen to the highest class of scholar-officials.

Not to mention studying hard for ten years, he hasn't read a book in a single day.

Zhang Zhixian said: "What are you going to sue?"

Without Xie Chongjin and Lu Xuechao opening their mouths, several victimized men have already told the story of their kidnapping in tears, so let the official make the decision.

Zhang Zhixian understood as soon as he heard it.There are also several skinny horses in his family, but some of them were kidnapped and trafficked.

This kind of thing has always been that the people don't raise officials and don't investigate. If they really investigate, it will affect their own interests.

But right now, when I come to the front, I still have to pretend to ask.

"They sued you for kidnapping, what's your excuse?" Zhang Zhixian asked the traffickers.

Several human traffickers fell into the hands of Xie Chongjin, afraid of being dealt with privately, they all acted like they wanted to change their minds and start a new life.Now in court, I feel confident and start to resist again, refusing to admit my mistake.

"My lord, don't listen to their nonsense. These are domestic slaves who voluntarily sold themselves, and the deeds of sale are in our hands. But these two people broke into our house and took away these lowly slaves. What about private property! You see, this is their bond of sale."

The traffickers knew that this reason was lame, and those men didn't seem to be volunteering, but so what?The deed of sale is in their hands, the greatest physical evidence is more effective than any personal evidence.

The people of Changli are divided into good and humble.A person with a good nationality is considered an individual and has human rights.Household slaves, prostitutes, and other lowly statuses are low-ranking, private property that can be bought and sold at will, and are stamped with a red seal in the government to distinguish them from good ones without seals.

People of low status either voluntarily became slaves, or were sold by their families, or committed a crime... After being investigated and confirmed by the government, they will be stamped with a red seal and have a contract of sale.Yujing has almost no abduction and trafficking cases, but Xie Chongjin was a strict investigation back then, and the government was particularly strict about the stamping of low-level registries. Once they found that they might be abducted and trafficked, they immediately pursued the investigation and sent the victim home.

But the government that does nothing obviously will not check so carefully, and the stamps are also arbitrarily stamped, and they will not check the details of the origin of the slaves at all, and will casually brand people for a lifetime.

Although this is the case, the government is absolutely impossible to admit that it is its own inaction.Zhang Zhixian had seen a few contracts of sale, and squinted his eyes: "It is indeed a contract of sale... In other words, it was not them who kidnapped, but you. And you escaped slaves, who actually beat up the master's house, come here People, drag it down and beat it again..."

The faces of several men were in disbelief: "Your Excellency is clearly aware!"

Lu Xuechao said calmly: "Do you know what the meaning of the four characters hanging above your head is in the mirror?"

Of course Zhang Zhixian didn't know: "Don't mess with me—"

"With copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; with history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; with people as a mirror, you can see gains and losses." Lu Xuechao said, "An official should be upright and honest, and your heart is like a mirror. Your heart is not worthy of this body." Clothes."

"Why does Qingshu talk so much nonsense with him?" Xie Chongjin couldn't see that the county magistrate was just an idiot, and he had completely lost his patience.I wanted to see the works of Weizhi, and see the big from the small, but now I just feel that his brain was kicked by the donkey, so he stayed here to spend half a day with a seventh-rank county magistrate.

"Let the prefect of Quling roll over and see me."