My attribute of fast time travel is upside down

Chapter 655 Farming Shanlihan (220)

It was dereliction of duty for all the people in the county government to fail to arrest the killer, and punishment was inevitable.It's just that the yamen servants did their best to handle the case, and these killers were not bad, and they still couldn't be caught after traveling to neighboring counties. The current situation is really not everyone's wish.

As the so-called law does not blame the public, it is impossible to punish all the surrounding counties involved.

Now that the killer has not yet been arrested, such a mobilizing punishment will inevitably destabilize people's hearts, and the higher-ups must consider the overall situation.

And the most important point is that this matter cannot all be counted on the head of their county government.

After all, they didn't get the killer, and they reported it after the incident.However, the higher-level state officials didn't pay much attention to it at first, and only treated it as ordinary thieves and bandits.There are always a few cases of this kind in a year, and they are not painful or itchy. The state government generally does nothing, and even blames the county government for making a fuss out of a molehill, and it has not given any support.

As for the paper that was reported, it was naturally ignored and failed to be submitted to the Imperial City of Kyoto.

Think about it and you can understand why.

These days, which prefectures and counties do not pay attention to performance.If accidents happen to this jurisdictional site every now and then, it will definitely have an impact on the achievements of the year, and it may even be related to his official career.

No one is a fool, they all know how to think for themselves, unless it is too big to hide, or ordinary trivial matters, they all tacitly choose not to report to a higher level.

As for the bandit infestation reported by the county government, because there were not many victims at that time, the counties and villages below will basically have similar bandit infestation by the end of the year, and it is easy to be regarded as an insignificant trivial matter.

Although the county government found that this matter was not as simple as before, it suffered from lack of evidence. This was just a guess by Uncle Zhang, and there was no conclusive evidence to attract the attention of the superiors, so the matter was suppressed by the magistrate.

At the beginning, the yamen could comfort themselves by saying that the process of support from above would take time and not so fast, but after waiting for a long time, they gradually understood.

Knowing that most of the reported papers have been withheld, but what can they do.Officials crushed people to death at the first level, and the magistrate was unwilling to respond upwards, so they could only admit defeat.

Forced to do nothing, the yamen can only work hard to control the situation.But none of them knew the origins of this group of thieves, and they could do very little. The end result was that innocent people and government officials were persecuted and injured one after another.

The yamen never gave up on responding upwards, but since they didn't pay much attention at the beginning, they didn't pay much attention to them afterwards. The superiors even put away the papers submitted by the county yamen because they were tired of their endless reports.

Everyone in the county government hated their teeth, but there was nothing they could do about it, they could only knock out their teeth and swallow their blood.

After struggling for a while, with more and more victims, the magistrate gradually realized the seriousness of the situation and became concerned about the murder case in the county.

This attention scared the magistrate quite a bit.

At that time, quite a few people had died in the county. Thinking of the pile of papers he suppressed, the magistrate immediately became afraid, and he dared not report the matter even more.

Once reported, he will hardly shirk his responsibility, and he will even be severely fined for it.

So the magistrate began to put pressure on the county government, ordering them not to make things big and to control the rumors.Not only that, he also asked the county magistrate to catch this group of "thieves and bandits".

If the thief can be caught, the result will naturally be different.It doesn't matter if you give up merit for crime, the punishment can always be lighter.

As a result, one can imagine that the yamen did not arrest the person, and it also failed to control the situation in one county.

Neighboring counties are persecuted, but it is difficult to deal with the neighboring counties belonging to another state capital.

This case turned into a snowball. The two magistrates kicked each other back and forth, and no one wanted to take responsibility.

Things have come to this point, there must be no way to hide it.The other end of the capital learned of this incident without any accident, and immediately became furious, ordered severe punishment, and dispatched imperial envoys to thoroughly investigate the case.

The results of the investigation came out soon. The magistrate didn't report the information and deliberately suppressed the case, so naturally there would be no good results.

As for the officials at the county government level, because they insisted on reporting, there was no concealment, so there is nothing to criticize in this regard, but it cannot be said that they are completely innocent.

After all, this case happened in the county, and people died in the county. When things got to this point, even if the yamen was not responsible for slacking off, they were also responsible for doing things badly.

It's just that this kind of responsibility is relatively light compared to the crime of deliberately concealing the prefect's knowledge and failure to report.After the imperial envoy made an open and unannounced visit to understand the situation, and then reported it back to Kyoto, and finally came to the punishment of the county government, it was decided to give it a lighter sentence.

The magistrate of the county has an unshirkable responsibility for this matter, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.During his term of office, Nian Qi had a good reputation among the common people because of his prudence in his career. Although the situation was serious this time, he managed to control the rumors and did not cause panic. He only gave a two-year fine and removed the black hat , It's much better than losing your life.

The county magistrate is also very old, and he has only been in office for a few years. Now that he is dismissed, it is considered an early retirement.

As for the two-year salary, it sounds like a lot, but it's not impossible to get it out.As the saying goes, three years to Qingzhi county, one hundred thousand snowflake silver.The magistrate of the county has been working for so many years, no matter how poor he is, his life is better than ordinary rich people.

The two-year salary was not too much for the county magistrate, so he could retire smoothly.

In addition to the county magistrate, the yamen servants in the yamen are also to blame for this.But their culpability is relatively lighter.This is due to the fact that all the yamen servants tried their best to fight against the killer, and many people were seriously injured or even lost their lives because of this, so they did extrajudicial kindness and did not punish them too much.

You won't lose your official position, but the physical pain is inevitable.Each person received [-] yuan and a year's salary as a warning to others.

Like the county magistrate, general yamen servants are paid well, and there will be a lot of benefits every year during the holidays, and many people are used to frugality, so it will not be difficult to pay a year's salary.

That's not counting those yamen servants who often exploit the common people, just like the one Qi Xue and the others met at the gate of the county yamen, who usually take advantage of their status to make money when they have nothing to do. For such a person, a year's salary is not a thing at all.

As for the board, twenty boards said it was not heavy. For a young and strong boy, it would not kill him, but it was not light.

After going down twenty boards at once, I had to rest at home for a while before going down to the ground.

These are only for ordinary yamen servants, and it's hard to say about those bastards.They neglect training on weekdays, and they have no real skills, but they just rely on their status and their sabers to frighten the people.If these twenty boards go down, maybe we can really hit something.But even if there is something, it deserves it.

(End of this chapter)