The Shaodian State Administration Council is also divided into five departments, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Legal Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry, and the Ministry of Culture and Education.
Among the ten great dukes, the Kong family controls the Ministry of Culture and Education, the Bao family controls the Ministry of Legal Affairs, the Fan family controls the Ministry of Finance, and the Yao family controls the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry. The Ministry of Civil Affairs has always been the concurrent post of the Chief Minister of the Government Affairs Council.
The Xuanyuan family, ranked second among the ten great dukes, never interferes in the management of the kingdom. It is in the Senate to safeguard the interests of the "indigenous nobles". It is the most low-key family in the kingdom.
Bao Tu is the son of the contemporary Duke of Lu and the current Minister of Legal Affairs. He came to his office early in the morning to prepare for the afternoon meeting.
"Mr. Yao and Mr. An from the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry are here." The guard outside the door announced.
If I don't go back to my office to work this early in the morning, why would the people from the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry come to my place?
Although he thought so, Bao Tu still got up and came to the door.
The only person with the surname Yao in the Ministry of Agriculture and Industry was Minister Yao Xian, whose position and status were similar to Bao Tu. Bao Tu could not put on airs and sit in the room waiting for the other party to come in.
"We are rare guests, Master Yao, Master An, come, please come and sit in the room." Bao Tu had a professional smile on his face.
"We don't come to your house for anything." Yao Xian was more enthusiastic than Bao Tu.
The three of them came to the room and sat down respectively. Bao Tu asked, "Why did Mr. Yao come to Bao's door so early in the morning?"
Yao Xian glanced at Anchang, who was coming with him. Anchang stood up and bowed deeply to Bao Tu, then said: "Master Bao, please make the decision for me. Ding Kui, the son of the Protector of the Country, injured my son yesterday."
Anbei, my son's right leg was broken, and Ding Kui also ordered his evil slaves to kill my captain of the bodyguard in the street.
The Zhenjing City Public Security Bureau actually shied away from the case on the grounds that the case involved the Department of Internal Security, and now Ding Kui and the evil slave are still at large. They regard the laws of the kingdom as nothing, and only you can punish them."
The news of Shaodian Dan's reward to Ding Kui did not spread. Only those who were present that day and a very few people knew about it. Bao Tu followed Lu Guogong to the Jiang Mansion, and he knew about it; Yao Xian did not go, so he didn't know about it.
"Why did Ding Kui hurt your son? And why did he instigate someone to beat your captain of the bodyguard to death?" Bao Tu was not immediately angry because Ding Kui ignored the law, but had questions about the cause of the incident.
"I asked people in the Knights Guild that Ding Kui had a conflict with An Bei because of a knight apprentice. When Director An's head guard came to stop the conflict, he was attacked by Ding Kui. He had to defend himself. Ding Kui thought he was responsible for murder.
He ordered the evil servant to kill him." Yao Xian explained for Anchang.
"Ding Kui is not yet sixteen years old this year. He had a conflict with Director An's son, and it would be inappropriate for Director An's bodyguard to step in. Besides, Ding Kui is still the right guard of the Internal Security Department. Even if he beat Director An's bodyguard,
The guard shouldn't have taken action to defend himself. Once he took action, he would be guilty of the following, and it would be excusable to be killed on the spot." Bao Tu was very reluctant to take over the matter and kept raising doubts.
"Sir, you don't know that the boy and the guards didn't know Ding Kui's identity at that time. It wasn't until the guard was killed, Ding Kui took out his badge, and the boy was told by the instructor of the special training camp that he knew it was Ding Kui." Anchang hurriedly said.
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Don’t you know Ding Kui’s identity? Could it be that your son took advantage of the presence of the guards and attacked Ding Kui first?
Bao Tu was still suspicious, but when a murder occurred and colleagues came to visit, he couldn't completely remove himself from the incident.
"It's impossible for the Internal Security Department to ask people from the Public Security Department to investigate their Right Guard. The Public Security Department really can't handle the case. So, I'll ask the Attorney General to investigate the matter, but I will never condone anything illegal.
, whoever it is will be severely punished." Bao Tu said seriously.
"That Ding Kui is the grandson of An Guogong. His family has a good reputation in the military. He doesn't take us civil servants seriously at all. Director An can't compete with him. So after I learned about this, I brought Director An here to find him.
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Who in the kingdom doesn’t know that Master Bao hates evil and is not afraid of power. Even if a member of the royal family does something illegal, Master Bao can still handle it impartially. Ding Kui will not be able to continue to be arrogant if he falls into the hands of Master Bao." Yao Xian kept giving Bao Tu Gao.
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Anchang was humiliated, and the Minister of Agriculture and Industry, Yao Xian, was also disgraced. In order to teach Ding Kui a lesson, Yao Xian did not hesitate to personally come forward to get close to Bao Tu. He believed that Bao Tu would not let Ding Kui go easily if he came forward.
Bao Tu smiled bitterly in his heart: Duke Rong Guo was very tight-lipped, and he didn't tell Yao Xian about Ding Kui's high-level reward from the king. He was just praised by the king for his loyalty, and now he wants me to arrest him and punish him severely, isn't that right?
Slap the king in the face?
"Master Yao, do you want to tell Duke Rong Guo? Duke An Guo is taking Ding Kui to hold a 'promotion ceremony'. If you come to me and demand that Ding Kui be severely punished, will there be a gap between the two masters?" Bao Tu was telling Yao.
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"This matter involves the face of the Government Affairs Council. It is not Yao's family matter. It's okay for my father not to talk about it." Yao Xian raised the matter to the level of the Government Affairs Council. He did not think that teaching Ding Kui a lesson would affect the relationship between the Yao family and the Jiang family.
"Here comes someone." Bao Tu called his staff, "Go to the Law Department and inform Mr. Cui and ask him to send someone to investigate the case of Ding Kui's murder of a slave."
Yao Xian and Anchang looked at each other.
"We are relieved that Mr. Bao can handle the matter impartially. There will be a court meeting in the afternoon, and Mr. Bao must have many things to deal with. It is inconvenient for us to bother you here." After saying this, Yao Xian stood up with Anchang, said goodbye to Bao Tu and left.
Office of the Ministry of Legal Affairs.
Internal Health Department Office.
"What? Did the An family make trouble at Ding Duhu's house last night?" After hearing Li Hong's report, Shao Dianyin was very unhappy, "Ding Duhu didn't reveal his identity to bully Anbei, which already gave the Water Affairs Department a lot of face.
That servant intervened in the young man's fight and dared to attack Ding Duhu with all his strength. Even if Ding Duhu didn't let anyone kill him, I wouldn't let him go. Why would Anchang dare to bring people to the Huguo Hou Mansion to cause trouble!
These civil servants are just like little chickens. They want to regain their position regardless of whether they are justified or not. They don't even think about whether our department of internal health is so easy to make money. How dare they go against us!
You send someone to keep an eye on Anchang. If he dared to cause trouble last night, he will definitely take action in the future, but Ding Duhu cannot suffer a loss."
"I obey!" Li Hong accepted the order and left.
The murder outside the special training camp quickly spread among the kingdom's top officials.
Under Anchang's deliberate propaganda, the officials of the Government Affairs Council believed that Ding Kui was bullying others, arrogant and domineering, instructing his guards to kill people in the street, and did not take the laws of the kingdom into consideration at all, and demanded that the Attorney General handle the matter strictly in accordance with the law.
Naturally, the Department of Internal Health would not show weakness and sent a large number of manpower to publicize the truth of the matter. The director of the department, Shao Dianyin, even went to the Office of the Water Affairs Department to demand an apology from Anchang for insulting his son and allowing his slaves to attack Ding Duhu.
After many nobles learned the truth of the matter, they blamed Anchang's chief guard for intervening in the dispute between young people. The An family's actions were despised by the martial nobles. Of course, there are traces of the Jiang family's operation.
"So, what those people from the Department of Internal Health said is true?" Cui Shuo, Director of the Department of Legal Affairs, looked at several investigation reports on hand.
Deputy Director Geng Jie replied: "Judging from the testimonies of bystanders, this is probably the case. However, there are big discrepancies in the testimonies of Anbei and others. Now we lack the testimonies of Ding Kui and his bodyguards."
"Theoretically speaking, Ding Kui did nothing wrong, but he did break An Bei's leg, and he did order Han Yuanming to be killed. According to the law, he is suspected of hurting and inflicting excessive torture.
"Cui Shuo is familiar with the laws of Shaodian Kingdom.
"Officials from other departments are keeping an eye on us. As long as Ding Kui breaks the law, he must be captured and interrogated." Geng Jie felt tremendous pressure.
"Are you going to arrest him? Didn't you see the people from the Internal Security Department squatting outside the door?" Cui Shuo frowned.
"Then what should we do? We can't just ignore it, right?" Geng Jie shrank his neck. The people of the Internal Security Department were already unreasonable, but this time they were still being reasonable, so they were not allowed to arrest people.
"Then Young Dianyin has gone to the Water Affairs Department to cause trouble. Will he not dare to come to our place? We can't handle this matter. I'll report it to Mr. Bao. He can only make the decision." Cui Shuo is not afraid.
Shao Dianyin, he vaguely felt something was wrong with Bao Tu.
For this kind of matter, Bao Tu would normally issue an official document demanding severe punishment for the lawbreakers, but this time there was no official document. The Minister of Agriculture and Industry came to visit, but Bao Tu did not show any corresponding concern. This was unlike his usual
It didn't match his personality, so Cui Shuo thought it would be better to ask his immediate boss face to face.
"Master Bao, this is what happened." Cui Shuo read the investigation report to Bao Tu in detail.
"What do you think?" Bao Tu glanced at Cui Shuo.
"My subordinates believe that the investigation is not sufficient and lacks the confessions of the parties involved. Ding Kui has indeed harmed the host and should be summoned to the Legal Department for interrogation." Cui Shuo replied.
"Then why don't you go and do it? Do you still need me to interrogate you personally?" Bao Tu's tone was unkind, but his expression was not so severe.
"This, my subordinates are worried that there will be a conflict with the Department of Internal Health." Cui Shuo told the truth.
"Well, Ding Kui hurt someone because he was under 18 years old, so he went home to be disciplined according to the law. If the punishment is too severe, this is the internal affairs department's own business. The judicial department has the right to supervise but cannot take the lead. You can't summon Ding Kui alone.
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I will write a document for you, and you will hand it to the Department of Internal Security, and the two departments will jointly interrogate Ding Kui, and let the Department of Internal Security deal with Ding Kui in accordance with the law." After saying this, Bao Tu handed Cui Shuo a document.
It turns out that Bao Tu had already thought about how to deal with this case. He sent someone else to learn about the situation. His knowledge of the law was certainly better than Cui Shuo's. Supervising the Internal Security Department to punish Ding Kui himself would make Shaodian Dan lose face.
The person is Shaodianyin, not his Baotu.
Cui Shuo felt relieved and left Bao Tu's room briskly, holding the documents in both hands.
The Protector's Mansion.
Li Hong said to Ding Kui reluctantly: "Ding Duhu, please come with me. Hey, Director Bao of the Legal Affairs Department has written a letter. You have to walk around the lobby of the Department of Legal Affairs. The director will be the best."
Give an explanation to the Ministry of Legal Affairs. After this matter is over, we will definitely not let Anchang go."