Wentang

Chapter 356

"I think everyone knows what we are stepping on." Yue Shan looked at the nervous crowd and showed a playful smile: "Many people think that I am the kind of person who can't hold sand in my eyes, but I am wrong. The requirements are very low.”

Hearing this, many people ridiculed in their hearts, are you asking for less?Those who were beheaded by the Great Trial have something to say.

"I can allow your hands to be dirty, you can neglect your duties, and you can be incompetent. But there is a bottom line. When you are greedy, you will give the lowly people a way to survive."

Speaking of this, Yue Shan's face pulled, and he said coldly: "Whoever crosses this bottom line, whoever dares to drive the people to a dead end, I will kill him."

The lowly officials were frightened and kept silent, fidgeting, and many of them broke out in cold sweat.The officials who originally belonged to the six counties of Dezhou were fine. Yueshan had already been liquidated once before.

The officials of the three counties that were just transferred here were different, they were all scared out of their wits.It's not that they have someone's life or something in their hands, but that there are not many officials who are clean, and they check a lot of crimes casually.

Who knows if Yue Shan will make an example of them.

"I have low requirements for you, but correspondingly, once someone touches the bottom line, the punishment will be very severe. The main criminal will be executed, his family property will be confiscated, his family will be exiled for three thousand miles, and he will not be an official or do business within three generations."

"As long as I can still be the master of Dizhou, this rule will continue to be enforced. Did you hear clearly?"

"Here." Everyone including Yu Kexun and Tian Xuechen got up and said yes.

"Don't say that I don't care about people. Today is the first time we meet after the establishment of Dizhou. It is unlucky to shout and kill. So I will give everyone a chance to find Tian Biejia and confess to Tian Biejia if he feels dirty. , the crime of someone's homicide is reduced, and the case of no homicide is exposed."

"If you refuse to confess and are found out later, the crime will be aggravated."

"Here." Now the officials of the former six counties of Dezhou finally put their hearts into their stomachs, and their voices in reply became much louder, because they had already reported it before.On the contrary, the officials in the three counties of Xin were mourning and examining their concubines.

Li Daoyan, who was sitting on the side, looked at Yue Shan with a little more admiration and sudden realization.

He murdered and ransacked his house and confessed himself, as harsh as he wanted, but these people not only did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, but were full of gratitude to him.

A 12-year-old boy flattened and rounded dozens of officials in an understatement, and the wisdom contained in it was enough for him to ponder for a long time.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being a child of a fairy, Li Daoyan said with emotion.

If Yue Shan knew what he was thinking, his belly would burst with laughter.What's the point of this?Jujubes and sticks are known to all primary school students in later generations.

These people are afraid of him not because of his skills, but because of the court behind him, and later because of the knife in his hand. In a word, these people are afraid of being killed.

They thought they were going to die, but now they have a way out, they won't blame Yue Shan for being ruthless, they will only be grateful to Dade.

After beating these people, Yue Shan finally started to get into the theme.

"I called everyone here today because there is an important resolution to be announced. It is stated in advance that this resolution has been agreed by the sages and ministers. You have only two choices, one is to resign and the other is to fully support it." Yue Shan said.

Hearing what Yue Shan said so solemnly, everyone knew it was not a trivial matter, so they immediately sat up straight and pricked up their ears.

"This matter is the reform of the yamen, adding new departments and officials in the government and county yamen of Dizhou."

Add new departments and bureaucrats?Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Qingshuihou is going to reform.At the same time, there is some reluctance. The addition of new departments and officials means that everyone's rights will be divided.

But at this time, even if they were given ten guts, they would not dare to object. They could only pray that it was not their own power that was taken away.

"The newly added ordering officer is the criminal officer, which means to mention some criminal and prison affairs. That is to say, from now on, the county magistrate and governor will not be in charge of adjudicating cases."

Prosecution officer?Mention prison affairs?The county magistrates looked bitter. This is the most important part of their authority. After being taken away, their rights will be reduced by at least half.

Yue Shan ignored them, and said to himself: "County-level punishment officials are under the ninth rank, and prefecture-level punishment officials are under the eighth rank. The county-level punishment officers are under the dual management of the county magistrate and the prefectural punishment department..."

Ming officials are officials directly appointed by the emperor, referred to as Ming officials.At the county level, there are only three officials appointed by the emperor, namely the county magistrate, county magistrate, and chief bookkeeper.This situation continued until the Yuan Dynasty, when the imperial court added a canon history in charge of punishment and prison.

The official history is well-prepared and weighty. Although it is also a low-level official, it is still appointed by the emperor himself. It belongs to the lowest-ranking official. The Ming and Qing dynasties continued this rule.

In other words, only four of the huge county government offices are order officials, and the rest belong to officials.

Before the imperial examination system flourished, it was very common for officials to transfer officials. After the imperial examination became the mainstream, the possibility of official transfers was basically cut off.

This is retrogression and progress. Regression means that the road to becoming an official has narrowed, and some capable but uneducated people have lost their qualifications to be officials.

The progress is that the foundation of the aristocratic family is completely cut off, officials are selected in a fairer way, and the circulation of the class is opened up.

Closer to home.

Dian Shi belongs to the assistant officer of the county magistrate, and he is qualified to adjudicate cases only when the county magistrate asks him to adjudicate the case. If the county magistrate doesn't like him, he can take over his work and do it himself, and make him empty.

Let's talk about the appointment of the criminal officer. In the original history, the appointment of the criminal officer was a unique official position in the Song Dynasty.

Generally speaking, they will take over cases where the county magistrate is helpless or has grievances, and it is usually the county magistrate's responsibility to try cases.

The criminal-promoting officer established by Yueshan borrowed the name of the criminal-providing officer from the Song Dynasty, but the actual power is a combination of the criminal-promoting officer and the classic history.

Moreover, the power is greater than both, and the power to decide the case is directly distributed from the hands of the county magistrate.

That is to say, from now on, all county magistrates in Dizhou will not be qualified to try and decide cases, and this right will be transferred to the criminal judge.

However, in order to prevent criminal officials from taking bribes and neglecting human lives, Yue Shan still retains the right of supervision by the county magistrate.

In Yue Shan's plan, cases will be graded in the future.Cases that require more than one year of imprisonment, exile, or decapitation must be reported to the prefecture-level punishment department for review after the trial is completed; charges of more than ten years of imprisonment, exile, and decapitation must be reported to the central level. Division review.

It's just that the criminal prosecution system is still in the verification stage. Only Dizhou has one, and there is no central-level institution. Major cases still have to be reported to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for approval.

As for why the criminal punishment department was established... one is to divide the power of the county magistrate, and the other is to prepare for the future imperial examination.

The separation of powers is easy to understand. The power of the county magistrate is too great. The magistrate who ransacked the house and the county magistrate who exterminated the family is no joke. The division of their power is conducive to the long-term stability of the country.

Preparing for the imperial examination is more complicated.

The imperial examination system is to study to obtain fame and fame. How many of those scholars who have a poor head and poor scriptures understand the law?How many people know how to judge cases?

In later generations, some officials did not understand the law, and used the Analects of Confucius to judge cases with ethics and morality, which resulted in a big joke.

Now that we know that such problems will arise in the future, it is natural to take precautions in advance.Directly cut off the county magistrate's right to judge cases from the root, and delegated power to the Criminal Division.

If you want to be a criminal judge, you must know the law and take a special criminal examination.Those who fail to pass the criminal examination department will definitely not be allowed to serve as criminal judges.

In this way, specialization in the art field can reduce jokes and unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and also improve the status of Legalism, which can serve multiple purposes.

"The second point of innovation is to add six rooms to the yamen."

(End of this chapter)