Chapter 2600: The clear decision of promoting officials
Wen Rensheng naturally knows what recommendation 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 Lieutenant, Recommendation Officer, Inspector Envoy, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Son of Heaven.
They are in turn responsible for the punishment 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 would always pass it on to the chief minister. The chief minister would not stick to the pot, but he would still pass it on to the Minister of Punishment.
In the end, the emperor would often reduce the crime to a lower level and often grant a general pardon.
It gives you a sense of seeing a certain place.
Of course, just one official position is definitely not enough. They each have their own deputies, with complicated names and many deputies.
The official himself has four or five deputies, as well as a bunch of masters, to deal with the endless cases.
A push officer is an officer 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 usually 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 "Those who have done evil in three lives will be magistrates and subordinates to Guo", this is what it is.
He followed a group of detectives to the office of the promoter.
Then I saw the push officer.
The official's surname is Liu, he was born with 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 looked very haggard.
There are big dark circles in his eyes, and it looks like he stayed up late reading files.
Or staying up late to do an autopsy, everyone knows the smell.
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 judged, I will often say hello after receiving benefits from others.
I have to say that this official Liu was rather unlucky.
I did a lot of work and it was very hard, but I didn't get promoted.
It will probably be like this for the rest of my life.
In fact, this is not bad.
Generally speaking, those with Jinshi status who are not able 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 and take a look and catch the murderer."
The county where they are located belongs to the government, so it is the place where the officials are permanently stationed.
If there are no cases in a large county, it doesn't mean it will be easy.
Because some people will gather cases from all nearby counties into the big county.
The referral officer will then handle the case based on the urgency of the case.
Then Liu Tuiguan took the policemen 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.
Each one of them was 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 "Unjust".
"Eight out of ten murderers are crying out for injustice," someone said.
"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 case soon became clear.
It turned out that someone reported to the police that Liu Gen's backyard was so smelly that he couldn't live next door.
Anyone 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 white 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 courtyard 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: "Sir, this is not the person I killed. I didn't kill him. I was wronged."
Liu Tuiguan looked at the body, then at the depth of the pit in the backyard, and then scanned the surrounding area.
He said calmly: "Who else is in your family?"
"There is also an old father. My old father and I depend on each other for life. 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 he is a filial son, he 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 and am single all the time.
As mentioned 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 a personal matter for him.
He also had a wife before, but Liu Gen was a gambler, so his wife got angry and ran away.
You will lose as much as you earn.
After that, no one followed him anymore.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of food or food here, and 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.
And the population here has never been too large.
Therefore, 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 did not work diligently, 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, and according to the settings of this world, the frequency of cases will increase.
The master died very quickly.
Therefore, even in a wealthy family, the number of servants is very small, and there are usually no more than a hundred people.
There are often only a few direct servants.
Especially for our young masters, the situation in Dream of Red Mansions in Blue Star will not happen.
A young master is accompanied by more than ten maids, young and old, 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."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Looking at the depth of this pit, it cannot be dug during the day. Someone must have seen the pit dug 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 will definitely be sleeping peacefully at home. You may go out to gamble, but your father will definitely be at home."
"If outsiders came to your house to dig a hole and bury the body, how could they hide it from your father?"
"According to my inference, it should be the body you buried."
"And when your father woke up and asked you, you just responded casually and brushed him off."
"And your father also trusts you, so he doesn't take it seriously."
"is that so?"
Liu Gen's face was shocked, and he was 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 from me, so I didn't care about you anymore."
"I didn't expect you to be hiding the body. Our Liu family has been innocent for generations, so why did you become a murderer?"
"Oh my God, I, Liu Wu, have no grandchildren, and my son has become a murderer, so what else do I do with my life?"
Liu Gen's father was crying miserably there.
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.
The person who is even more shocked is that after the death of the other person, no one will hold the funeral or burn incense. They can only rely on the neighbors to simply restrain themselves and let Li Zheng bury him casually.
There will definitely be no incense after death.
Cases happen frequently 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.
None of the neighbors had anything 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'll recruit them all."
"This person is actually a businessman from out of town. He met me at Bureau D."
"He stayed at my house for three days before leaving because he disliked the hotel for being dishonest and stealing his money."
"Three days later, 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. When I called him, I found that he was dead."
"Then I was worried that I would be caught and blackmailed, so I buried it myself..."
After hearing this, the detectives all 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, they know the ins and outs of the case.
So they usually extort criminals who are sentenced to death.
The criminals will be arrested immediately and beheaded. Once they are dead, there will be no other cases involving them.
Especially 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 release Liu Gen, 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 found 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 chairs, and shoe wear and tear... What's wrong?
This world is the same as in the ancient times of Blue Star. If you can't report something to the official, try not to report it to the official. Everyone either keeps it private within the clan, or under the auspices of the local squire, or they hide it themselves.
This is what Liu Gen did.
Official Liu obviously believed that Liu Gen did the right thing, but he couldn't say so.
Then all the detectives followed Liu Tuiguan and left.
"Master, you are too casual in doing things 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 magistrate of this county.
The iron rice bowl of their detectives is probably 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 yamen.
Otherwise, it would be better to say that the pushing officer is Zuoerguan.
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 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 was a chatterbox and didn't even take his position seriously.
In other words, guys who take their positions too seriously get involved in crimes and then die violently.
The promoter said: "I know you will definitely be confused."
"I'm going to tell you now, you are sending 8 people here to take turns staring at Liu Gen."
"This is called playing hard to get and playing a long game to catch the big fish."
"Otherwise, if Liu Gen is simply arrested and tortured, no real irrefutable evidence can be found even if he is tortured."
"This body has been buried for too long, and the traces of the crime have long since disappeared."
"If Liu Gen was seeking wealth and murder, he would definitely run away with the silver after escaping punishment."
"If it is true that Liu Gen did not kill anyone and he was 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.
"The promotion officer is still wise."
Wen Rensheng smiled slightly.
Recommending someone 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 would 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 as soon as possible.
Because this time I met a good-hearted referee and found him 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 his belongings 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 out arrest documents everywhere to get you."
"I have lived here for most of my life. If I die, 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.
