Touring the Ming Dynasty

Duan Fei was very surprised, and then he saw Ji Fushi asking someone to help Duan Fei move the table, chairs and bamboo bed, and then moved the piles of files to Duan Fei's desk, Ji Fushi said to Duan Fei very seriously: " Our company is the most serious criminal name. Since you are good at solving cases, I will entrust you with this important task. I just want to remind you a few words, you must be cautious in handling cases, and you must not be in vain. ..."

Ji Fushi stuffed a pamphlet into Duan Fei's hand and said, "I won't say much more. This is a treasure I copied with my own hands. It is a treasure for officials - "Official Classics". You may wish to read more when you are free." Look, you're still young, it's better to understand some things, I'm going to hand over the duties, please."

Deputy Ji also ran away in a hurry, Duan Fei shouted from behind: "My lord, how should the two people brought by the lower officials be arranged?"

Deputy Shi Ji shouted without looking back: "Report your name to Mr. Wu, and he will arrange it for himself."

According to the scope of the responsibility of the procuratorate, the procuratorate is not only the criminal name of a province. They are also responsible for patrolling military equipment, educating students, patrolling the sea, the Qing army, passing on the post, and garrisoning the fields. He inspected various matters in different ways, among which the punishment was the most serious and the most difficult to handle. Ji Fushi handed over this burden to Duan Fei and went to do other work.

Duan Fei went to see Mr. Wu again, and reported the names and backgrounds of Shi Bin and Guo Wei, and Mr. Wu arranged the two of them to be servants under Duan Fei. In addition to the matter, there are some clerks and many government servants. These people have no official rank, but they are still civil servants in the provincial government. It is still very good to go out.

After everything was done, Duan Fei returned to his office and started working. He didn’t know what to do, but he was shocked. There are so many criminal cases in a province. For those in the yamen, cases where human life is at stake will be directly thrown to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to wait for resolution. However, the case files in front of Duan Fei are still piled up into mountains, and it is even more troublesome to deal with. It makes people feel scalp numb when they see it. No wonder that Ji Deputy Shi ran so fast.

Fortunately, these cases have already passed the preliminary trial. What Duan Fei has to do now is to review the cases that have been pre-examined or re-examined by the three-level system of county level, state level, and prefecture level. If the verification is correct, Then you can sign and seal the verdict of the case. The prisoner should do what he wants to do. The case is basically over here. Otherwise, it will be necessary to dismiss the retrial or change the sentence.

It can be said that Duan Fei's current responsibilities are equivalent to those of the presidents of the provincial high people's courts and high-level procuratorates in later generations, responsible for checking case files and approvals, and even retrials.

The magistrate of the county handles a wrong case at most to be approved for retrial and scolded at the same time. Duan Fei is the last one to make the final decision. Once signed and stamped, the fate of one or more people will be decided. Duan Fei, the one who made the final decision on wrongful and unjust cases, bears a heavy responsibility, ranging from being dismissed from office to being imprisoned, so Ji Fushi warned Duan Fei repeatedly before leaving.

Moreover, it is one thing for Duan Fei to solve the case by himself, but it is another to review the case files submitted by others. Most of the officials in the Ming Dynasty came out of stereotyped essays. He is a layman when trying a case, and if he is better, he will ask a famous criminal master to help him. Those who are not willing to spend money to hire a master like Mr. Min have no choice but to push the matter of solving the case to the county magistrate, master Bo, and Dian Shi. Those people are also stereotyped After they came out, they had no reason to invite a teacher, so they randomly arrested people and tried the case. The usual method was to torture the suspect severely, and then handed over a messy case file. This is how many unjust, false and wrongful cases are created.

Seeing those messy files, Duan Fei had the urge to kill. He wished he could go to the scene, kick the local magistrate to the ground, and then try the case himself.

After staying in the yamen for a long time, Duan Fei carefully went to Mr. Wu with a few files that he thought were unquestionable, and asked him to make a verdict. Who would have thought that Mr. Wu just glanced at him and said to him: "You can deal with these matters." Make up your own mind, you don’t need to come to me again, I believe in your ability, do it well!”

Duan Fei felt as if he wanted to cry, but it was only at this time that he realized that it was not a good thing to be promoted too quickly. If he had come up from the grassroots level, how could he feel so bewildered now?In the past, you could ask Yan Butou and Shi Zongbu when you encountered something, but now Mr. Wu has made it clear that he wants to be a hand-off shopkeeper, and he has no one to discuss and ask. What should we do?

The words Urgent, Urgent, and Urgent are written on the cover of each case file. Duan Fei looked at them but was stunned. Power and responsibility are equal, and now he finally understands deeply.

In the end, Duan Fei signed and sealed the few cases that he thought the trial process was clear and the evidence of the crime was convincing, and then wrote and sealed the verdicts, then put them in briefcases and sealed them with wax paint, and filed them with the local government and the Ministry of Criminal Justice respectively...

This afternoon made Duan Fei dizzy. He felt more tired than solving a hundred cases himself. Shi Bin and Guo Wei could only help him with errands. The three of them walked out of the Yachasi Yamen, and saw that Huang Suliang had been waiting for a long time. After meeting, Huang Suliang saw that Duan Fei's expression was not good, so he didn't dare to ask more questions, and took Duan Fei and the others to a nearby inn.

The first floor of the inn is a place for guests to eat. Su Rong and Tang Bohu were chatting while drinking tea. Seeing everyone came back, Su Rong immediately ordered Xiaoer to serve the food.

After Duan Fei took his seat, Tang Bohu asked: "The boss is frowning deeply, but the first day of being an official is not going well?"

Duan Fei nodded, and asked back: "Mr. Tang, do you understand the officialdom and the review and approval procedures of the case?"

Tang Bohu shook his head, Duan Fei sighed, and said: "It seems that I need to hire an experienced master. Reviewing and approving cases is completely different from solving cases on the spot. I am really exhausted after working all afternoon today."

Seeing that Tang Bohu couldn't do anything, Huang Suliang frowned and said, "It's just a trivial matter to invite a master. This matter is left to the villain. The villain will go and invite you to the best criminal master in Nanchang overnight. Don't worry, son. , have dinner first."

Su Rong rolled her eyes a few times, and suddenly said: "My father was an official. I am very familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty and the rules of official circles. Why don't you let me be your master, and the salary will be double."

"Stop joking." Duan Fei said weakly, this afternoon he really lost his temper, he was exhausted physically and mentally, and most of his vigor was worn away.

Su Rong pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "If you don't believe me, you can test me with any case."

Seeing her confident appearance, Duan Fei was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly used his trump card, saying: "Women should stay at home obediently, how can they go in and out of the yamen to be a teacher? You should forget it, so active, you will be reincarnated in the next life to be a teacher." man."

Su Rong was speechless by him, and seeing his sarcasm, her pretty face turned pale, she snorted, stood up and walked upstairs without saying anything.