Judge of the Lamp

With a soft smile, Xia Hu quietly looked at the passers-by.

Although they were strangers, Xia Hu believed that she and these passers-by were destined.

She adjusted her breath, looked at the timing, and called out affectionately:
"Freshly picked oranges, keep them sweet!"

Pedestrians passing by stopped from time to time to ask the price.

This is the market of Qiancheng Kingdom, but it is not a market that people of Qiancheng are familiar with.

This is the so-called civil city.

After the emperor issued an edict allowing private sales and purchases, the first civilian market opened.

In the past, when selling oranges, you had to sell them at the bazaar in Anshi Yamen. It costs two yuan a catty, and a hundred catties of oranges can be sold for two hundred yuan. .

But if you buy oranges from the market in Anshi Yamen, it costs five yuan a catty, and a hundred catties of oranges can be sold for five hundred yuan, and the Anshi Yamen earns the difference.

In the public market, the oranges are sold directly without going through the Anshi Yamen. The asking price is three Wen for a catty, and three hundred Wen for a hundred catties of oranges.

Buyers get a good deal, and so do sellers, and the public market instantly becomes hot.

The business of Anshi Yamen is deserted.

After three days of opening, a deal was not made.

The yamen servants were panicking idle in various shops, and the yamen offices of all departments were jumping in a hurry.

Does this have anything to do with them?
The Anshi yamen is under the Ministry of Households, and it seems that it is only related to the Ministry of Households.

This is wrong, only half of the income of Anshi yamen goes into the treasury, and the remaining half is included in the subsidies of each yamen.

The Anshi yamen lost its business, and so did the subsidies of the yamen of various ministries.

From the first-rank Sanqing down to the ninth-rank officials, all those with official status are eating money from the Anshi Yamen. They can't figure out why the gods issued this decree.

This decree doesn't do anyone any favors, except those bastards.

The Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs boldly went up to play, denouncing the disadvantages of selling and buying privately. The memorial totaled more than 20 pages, and more than [-] people from each ministry followed it.

The memorials that could be handed up fell like stones into the sea, and there was no echo.

Hong Zhenji did not go to the court, and the officials cried and complained that there was nowhere to go. Even Kong Zhongshen, the grand master who had always been calm, often sighed: "If things go on like this, the country will be in trouble, and a thousand chariots will inevitably have a catastrophe!"

Shenjun ignored it and simply did it himself!
The Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Punishment took the lead in joining forces to establish the Anshi Police Department, which was dedicated to maintaining market order.

This is the power given to each department by the Qiancheng Law. In case of special events, each department can jointly set up a similar temporary organization and deal with it accordingly.

There are six Zhaomos from the Ministry of Household Affairs. As an official position, Zhaomo is mainly responsible for supervision, who is to find faults.

Anshi entered the civilian city according to the procuratorate, and first picked faults.

The faults are easy to find, the vegetable sellers are placed in the wrong place, and the cloth sellers are not paid enough.

The rice seller must have mixed with sand, you said there is no sand?I'll check it out on the ground for you!
There must be cracks in the clay pots, you said there are no cracks?Let's take a look if it breaks!
The bustling city was thrown into overdrive by this group of people, the buyers ran away, and the sellers knelt down and begged for mercy.

A Zhaomo came to Xia Hu's stall, crushed two oranges with one foot, turned his head and said to the clerk of the Ministry of Punishment: "She sells rotten oranges."

The clerk of the Ministry of Punishment shouted: "What's the matter? How dare you sell rotten oranges in the market? Do you still have the law in your eyes? Come with me to the yamen, bring the money jar, and confiscate it!"

Xia Hu stood up and smiled at Zhaomo: "You are the one who picks things up."

Zhao Mo said angrily: "What do you mean by that? I have wronged you and you will not succeed."

Xia Hu turned around and looked at the clerk of the Ministry of Punishment again: "You specialize in beating people."

The Yacha shouted: "What? Don't you accept it? Don't talk nonsense, you and my Yamen."

Xia Hu smiled and said, "It's easy to talk about going to the Yamen, but what about the remaining oranges?"

Zhao Mo said angrily: "All you sell are rotten oranges, naturally they will be confiscated and investigated. This is all evidence!"

"But my oranges are rich!"

The Yacha was stunned for a moment, and said in amazement: "What a rascal, do you really know what to do?"

Xia Hu rolled up her sleeves and said, "You trampled on these oranges today, so you have to buy them all."

Yacha was startled, took a step back and said, "You, what do you want to do?"

boom!
Xia Hu punched the Yachai's nose, and the nasal bone was broken immediately: "This orange, do you want to buy it?"

"Mother!" Yacha cried on the spot, sat on the ground and howled loudly.

Zhao Mo yelled angrily: "Beating the officer in the street, you rebelled..."

Xia Hu punched back and hit Zhaomo's nose, breaking the nasal bone.

"It's a rebellion, it's going to be a rebellion..." Zhaomo didn't call his mother, but he cried louder than Yacha.

Xia Hu stepped forward and kicked: "I asked you whether you want to buy oranges or not?"

"Buy, buy, I will buy as much as you want." Zhao Mo cried while covering his face.

Xia Hu pointed at the oranges and said, "If you buy them to eat, you will pay three Wen per catty. If you buy them to step on, you will pay 300 taels each. If you trample on two of them, you will get 600 taels of silver first."

600 two!
The Yacha looked at Xia Hu in astonishment.

This woman's hands are really ruthless, almost catching up with their ministers of punishment.

Zhao Mo cried, "We don't have so much silver..."

"How dare you step on my oranges if you don't have money? Is it for you to step on such a good orange?"

Xia Hu raised her foot and stepped on the heads of Zhaomo and Yachai one by one.

Hearing the cries and cries from this room, the remaining Zhaomo and Yachai all surrounded him, Xia Hu rolled up his sleeves, punched one by one, and beat him hard in turn.

Chen Zhengming looked on and was a little worried: "Madam, you have heavy hands, don't beat people to death."

Zhang Shifeng handed over an iron rod: "That's right, ma'am, you still use this."

Xia Hu took the iron rod and pushed it down. One of the servants twitched twice, but there was no movement.

Ning Yongwei said from the side: "No, this is not allowed, ma'am, you can't hit the vital point, won't this kill people?
In this way, I will tie them up and hang them on the tree, so that they will not move around, and you will hit them when you see them. "

Several judges hung six Zhaomos and twenty yamen servants from a tree, and beat Xia Hu for half an hour.

This incident spread in Shenlin City. The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Punishment went to the city to make trouble, and were hanged from a tree by a female hero and beaten.

Hubu Shangshu wrote more than a dozen memorials for this, but Shenjun did not respond.

Zhang Jingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, heard that the woman was selling oranges in the civilian market again, and gathered more than 100 government agents, large and small, and borrowed more than 100 war horses from the Ministry of War. Riding a war horse, stepping on a long knife, he went to the city of Minshi in a menacing manner.

Before leaving, Zhang Jingwen said: "Don't keep your hands. If you see someone in the market, beat them to death. You really beat someone to death. I will take care of the matter!"

They went there at noon and returned before dusk.

Lu Zhongyuan knelt in front of Zhang Jingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, and described what happened.

"This group of line hooligans (thugs) are too insidious. Before I even arrived in the city, they made a surprise attack (sneak attack). They all had weapons, they ganged up with each other (formed a gang), and they all committed serious crimes... ..."

Lu Zhongyuan's teeth were broken several times, and his speech was a bit leaky.

Zhang Jingwen gritted his teeth and said, "Where's the horse?"

Lu Zhongyuan puffed up his chest and said: "It was rang by the gangster." (Snatched by the gangster)
"Where's the weapon?"

"It was also rang by the wire hooligan."

Zhang Jingwen stared and said, "You just came back like this?"

Lu Zhongyuan said angrily: "At first they refused to let go, but later I waited to fight hard and made a bloody path, and then came back..."

Zhang Jingwen kicked Lu Zhongyuan down, and was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.

Where did such a group of villains come from?
At the feet of the Son of Heaven, do you still dare to rebel?

Zhang Jingwen was going to the palace to ask for an explanation, but suddenly the housekeeper rushed to report: "My lord, it's not good, Mr. Junyuan has been arrested."

Zhang Jingwen shouted angrily: "Who caught it?"

Zhang Junyuan, the sixth son of Zhang Jingwen.

In Shenlin City, unless the god-lord personally took action, only the Ministry of Justice would arrest others. I had never heard of anyone daring to arrest the son of Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice.

The butler lowered his voice and said, "It was captured by the Divine Machine."

"Why are they arresting people?"

"They said that the son insulted the woman in the street, so he was locked up on the spot."

"Insulting women? My son can't do such things..." Zhang Junyuan swallowed half of his words.

Zhang Junyuan can really do this.

But why does Shen Jiji care about this?
Although the Shenji Division has been rebuilt, and although the duty of supervising all officials has been added, in the final analysis, isn't it still doing dirty work for the Shenjun?
Is this the order of the gods?
Zhang Jingwen didn't dare to neglect, and quickly sent someone to the Shenji Division to inquire about the situation.

The Shenji Division has just been rebuilt, Zhang Jingwen doesn't know anyone from the head of the branch to the captain below, and his subordinates have gone without finding anything.

In desperation, Zhang Jingwen bit the bullet and went to the Shenji Division in person to ask to see the new chief minister, Hua Hongxiao.

Hua Hongxiao was recommended by Prince Hong Huaheng. It is said that he is a capable person with both ability and political integrity.

But even if it was recommended by the prince, this is not in compliance with the rules. The head of Shenji is a first-rank official, and this person named Hua Hongxiao has never been an official before. How can he be a first-rank official as soon as he enters the official career?
The Ministry of Officials criticized this, but the memorial recommended by Hong Huaheng was handed over, and it was awarded the next day.

Since the emperor agreed, the officials did not dare to make a sound, Hua Hongxiao officially took office, and appointed several Shuwei and Shangqing that day.

Zhang Jingwen hasn't seen this chief since the reconstruction of Shenji Division, but he came to the door for the first time today because of this kind of thing.

Zhang Jingwen waited in the hall for a long time, and a captain of Shenji took him to the prison.

In the prison cell, Zhang Junyuan was beaten all over his body, lying on the ground and wailing at Zhang Jingwen: "Father, save me, I won't dare again..."

Never again.

Really committed a crime.

But what can I do if I make a mistake?

Zhang Jingwen gritted his teeth and said, "You can just arrest people, why beat people like this?"

The school lieutenant laughed and said, "Master Shangshu, are you here to reason with the Shenji Division?"

"Why can't you be reasonable!" Zhang Jingwen said angrily, "This is my son, a child with a long body, why should you beat him like this!"

The captain frowned and said: "Your son has a long body. Could it be possible that the girl was planted in the soil? How should this account be settled for being treated lightly by this villain on the street?"

"I have nothing to do with you!" Zhang Jingwen showed the majesty of a second-rank official, "I asked you to come to see me, this matter must be made clear!"

The lieutenant shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, I don't want to see you now."

"Then when does he want to see?"

"When I want to see you, I'm afraid you have to come in to accompany your son."

"You still dare to arrest me?" Zhang Jingwen was very disdainful.

The lieutenant lowered his face and said, "Why are you being arrested? The emperor ascended the throne and opened the city, but you led people to make trouble, not to mention arresting you, even if you are killed?"

Zhang Jingwen said righteously: "I sent people to the city to catch unscrupulous merchants!"

The captain couldn't help laughing again: "Master Shangshu, you are really a reasonable person, and keep this set of fallacies in your heart. When you come to the prison tomorrow, you can explain it slowly."

Zhang Jingwen pursed his lips, and layers of cold sweat broke out on his back.