Chapter 121 Three fires when the new official takes office
Human nature is like this. If you like someone, no matter what they do, they will definitely be labeled as excellent.
And what Li Jihe looked at Han Qing was more than just pleasing to his eyes?
If Dou Rong and Han Qing hadn't been inseparable all day long, and the two young people had shared weal and woe, Li Jihe would have even gone through his own granddaughters to find a suitable one and directly promised Han Qing to be his wife!
Nowadays, it is definitely impossible to ask Han Qing to be his grandson-in-law or grandson-in-law.
Given the status of the Li family, even the granddaughter of a concubine could not be a concubine. Therefore, the old man simply worked hard to continue the "family friendship" between the Li and Han families.
In his opinion, with Han Qing's ability and scheming, it is only a matter of time before he becomes a general and becomes a prime minister. It may not even be later than Kou Zhun. And no matter how much the officials respect and trust him, it is impossible for him to become the next chief general of the Suppression Army.
Again from the Li family.
Therefore, while I still have some weight in my words and some power in my hands, I gently "push" Han Qing. By the way, the brothers Zhao Liang and Zhao Xun can form a "mutual exchange of ideas" with Han Qing.
", good buddies who support each other.
In the future, when he is too old to lead troops to fight anymore, or is rejected by the officials, he will write a letter begging for his body. Even if brothers Li Zhaoliang and Zhaoxun do not lead troops, Han Qing will take care of them, or Han Qing will help with advice from behind.
It also allows the brothers to maintain their position of fourth-level real power.
As a result, in the next few days, under the full care of his old man, Han Qing went smoothly no matter what he did. Soon, he completed the transformation from an official who joined the army in name to a real-power sentencing judge.
Corresponding temporary tents, daily utensils, subordinate staff, etc. were also put in place at a speed visible to the naked eye. When Kou Zhun finished handling the trivial matters in the Qingzhou area and turned to Chang'an via the road, the new Yongxing Army Road Criminal Division was already in place.
A complete prototype.
When Kou Zhun was young, he was known for his hard work. Now that he is more mature, he pays more attention to results and is unwilling to consider all kinds of trivial details.
Therefore, even though he knew that Li Jihe helped build the Yongxing Army's Criminal Division, he didn't care about the old general's meddling in other people's business. Instead, he was very pleased that the Criminal Division could be established so quickly.
Anyway, in his opinion, as long as the Yongxing Army Road Criminal Division is pulled out from under the Transport Department, there will definitely be officials who wantonly place private individuals inside. Instead of letting other people from Yongxing Army Road do so, it is better to let Li Jihe go there.
Take advantage of this.
After all, Li Jihe is the uncle of the current official family. No matter how stupid he is, he will not do anything that will harm the country of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, the people Li Jihe trusted were either veterans with military exploits or direct descendants of the Li family. Neither the former nor the latter had anything to do with the Red Lotus Sect.
However, based on the current situation of Yongxing Military Road, there is no guarantee that any official or the relatives and friends they recommended have really had no contact with the Red Lotus Sect before.
In addition to the manpower deployed by Li Jihe, Kou Zhun ignored several low-level officials who Han Qing specifically requested to be transferred to the Criminal Division.
Any official who wants to do practical things must have a group of reliable arms. For example, no matter where he goes now, he either takes Wang Shu or Zhe Weizhong with him.
Han Qing took up an important position for the first time. In addition to accepting the officials arranged by Li Jihe, he also did not forget to promote his own old subordinates. This shows that this person has not forgotten about his job just because he was promoted.
Secondly, it also shows that this person really intends to make a difference during his term as a sentencing judge, instead of being like other scholars who push everything to their subordinates and talk about it themselves.
Half a month later, Kou Zhun finally returned to Chang'an to take charge and continue to deal with a series of problems left behind after the Red Lotus Sect was annihilated.
The official decree of the imperial court also arrived at Yongxing Military Road.
Han Qing was the first to discover that the Red Lotus Sect was stealing official food, so he stepped forward. He offered miraculous tricks such as stripping off the belly to retrieve arrows and transferring blood to save the lives of the soldiers. He also offered gunpowder formula to help the army kill powerful enemies, and offered clever tricks to help Li Jihe.
For his many merits such as capturing Anhua City and quelling the rebels, he was awarded the rank of Sixth Grade Chengdu Lang.
The specific actual positions to be awarded will be arranged by order after the assessment by the Ministry of Personnel.
Before that, he stayed at the side of Kou Zhun, the political minister of the Council, and was appointed as the judge of the Department of Penal and Prison.
As for the Criminal and Prison Departments, most of them were, as Kou Zhun said in advance, ordered by the imperial court to be separated from the Transportation Department and under the direct control of the Central Committee and no longer subject to the constraints of the Transportation Department.
The only slight discrepancy with Kou Zhun's previous statement is that the chief officer of the Tidian Prison Department is named Tidian Prison Official Affairs, not Tixin Inspector.
However, Kou Zhun left Bianliang more than a month ago, and the imperial edict only arrived on the day he returned to Chang'an from Qingzhou. It is not surprising that after such a long time difference, the officials made slight adjustments to the name.
On the contrary, it also witnessed what Li Jihe once said: Kou Zhun was deeply trusted by the officials and had great power that ordinary people could not imagine.
As a reminder, there are eighteen fixed officials in the Prison Department. The chief officer and corresponding subordinates are lower in rank than the Transport Department. However, they can send memorials to the central office, which shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to this newly established institution.
Therefore, for a time, countless pairs of eyes were fixed on the Yongxing Military Road Criminal Prison Division Yamen. From Bianliang to Chang'an, hundreds of officials wanted to be transferred to this Yamen and show off their skills.
However, after careful inquiring and activities, the owners of each pair of eyes were all poured cold water on them.
The Yongxing Military Road Department of Prisons and Prisons officially started handling official business on the day the imperial edict arrived.
In addition to the vacancies for the chief and deputy officers in criminal and prison matters, the following positions of judge, governor, chief registrar, inspector, and prison chief are all filled.
And Kou Zhun was stationed at Yongxing Military Road, specifically responsible for the separation of the Criminal and Prison Department from the Transportation Department. How could other officials be needed for these two key positions of "chief and deputy responsible for criminal and prison affairs"?
Even if it was necessary, which official would dare to rely on the connections to hand the note right under Kou Zhun's nose and ask him to arrange something?
As a result, the subsequent operation of the Tidian Prison Department was exactly as Kou Zhun said on that day. Han Qing, as a temporary sixth-grade judge, was fully responsible for the entire Tidian Prison Department.
All matters big and small were decided directly by him. Only those that couldn't be decided or couldn't be provoked would be sent to Kou Zhun's desk.
Kou Zhun will also refer to his suggestions to make the final decision, rarely rejecting them or delving into specific details.
As a result, Han Qing was under great pressure.
Fortunately, the nephews and nephews from several clans sent by Li Jihe had rich experience in both work and officialdom. And he himself, the veterans Wu Er and others brought from the Yongxing Army, were also loyal to him.
Therefore, although there were many eyes staring at the Prison Secretary, for a while, no one could find anything wrong with him.
After another seven or eight days, Han Qing was reviewed by Kou Zhun, and Zhang Fan, Wang Wu, who was transferred from Jinniu Village, and Dou Rong's uncle Li Yu also arrived. The three of them were familiar with the local situation, and Han Qing was able to do things with ease.
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According to Han Qing's arrangement, all the officials in the Department of Punishment and Prison worked together to reorganize the major cases in the past four years in the Yongxing Military Road states that were most affected by the Red Lotus Sect. Soon, they found out
many questions.
Since the Red Lotus Sect can even help the county magistrate arrange promotions, how could they not take a hand in various cases that the local government is responsible for?
Crimes such as practicing favoritism, accepting bribes, confusing right and wrong, and seeking property from others are everywhere.
They even repeatedly replaced the heinous people in prison who were ready to be executed with beggars who had been deceived, or desperate poor people who were willing to die for others.
In the past, these cases were always covered up because the officialdom of Yongxing Military Road was filled with followers of the Red Lotus Sect from top to bottom, and many officials in high positions also received large sums of benefits from the Red Lotus Sect.
Strictly.
However, the details simply cannot withstand careful scrutiny.
However, when Han Qing was a divorce counselor in his previous life, what he was best at was finding out the truth from the details. In his eyes, the fraud methods used by people in the Song Dynasty were not even the slightest bit worse than those in the 21st century.
As a result, with a little effort, he was able to figure out the entire case from beginning to end.
Every time a case was investigated, he would classify and organize all relevant documents and hand them over directly to Kou Zhun. He would not make any judgment himself.
Kou Zhun, on the other hand, based on the seriousness of the crimes of the officials involved, with a stroke of a pen, those who should be punished were punished, and those who should be sent to Lingnan were sent to Lingnan. No matter whether they were civil or military, they would never tolerate it.
At this time, many people in the Yongxing Military Road officialdom were really anxious and became ants on the hot pot. They were even several times more anxious than when they heard about the Red Lotus Sect's rebellion.
When the news of the Red Lotus Sect's rebellion came, if the officials were not optimistic about the future of the Red Lotus Sect, they could quietly make a cut.
And now, major cases within four years are being investigated one by one. Even if they are not found to have colluded with the people of the Red Lotus Sect, they cannot guarantee that they did not violate their conscience when they handled the case!
When people are anxious, they naturally want to fight back.
During this twelfth month of the twelfth lunar month, many officials on the Yongxing Military Road were extremely diligent and collected the faults of Han Qing, the newly appointed judge of the Department of Punishments and Prisons.
As a result, after searching again and again, everyone was shocked to find that the latter had only served as a ninth-level inspection for a total of half a year. During his tenure, his favorite thing to do, besides hunting, was to deal with trivial cases.
Mediate disputes between villages.
Moreover, every case is handled fairly.
Even in individual cases, the handling methods are unconventional. However, the amount involved in the case does not exceed five thousand dollars at most. The most serious harm to the parties concerned is just a few slaps on the butt.
It would be extremely difficult to overthrow or drive Judge Han away with these trivial cases.
"This Kou Laoxi'er is so insidious!" Finding that the new judge Han Qing was as clean as a piece of white paper, many officials turned their resentment directly to Kou Zhun.
According to common sense in official circles, it was impossible for Kou Zhun to appoint a novice with no prison experience to such an important position. Since he did, he must have had ulterior motives.
But now, Kou Laoxi'er's plot has been revealed.
When he first appointed someone named Han, he was interested in the fact that he had only been in office for a short period of time and had no chance to take bribes and pervert the law.
And now, the less there is anything to hold against the person named Han, the more unscrupulous he will be when investigating the case.
"This Kou Laoxi'er lacks great virtue!" The curses, accompanied by the cries of officials and their families, came from the core of Chang'an City and continued throughout the twelfth lunar month.
