At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Therefore, before taking up their duties, these police officers were gathered together to learn a period of civil law of the Wei Empire, so that they could understand a little bit of the law and have a law to follow when dealing with disputes.

Only when something really needs to be solved by violence, the police will be dispatched collectively under the order of the chief executive, carrying hoop knives, crossbows and other weapons that can kill people, and using violence.

But the number of times this is done is very rare.

The imperial court stipulated that when the county magistrate and county guard need to use the police to carry out compulsory actions, they must write a report afterwards and submit it to the Police Department of the Criminal Ministry for record.

The report must describe in detail the reason, purpose, process, and result of their use of police force to enforce the work, the place and time of the work, the number of police officers used, etc., and there must be no omissions.

This type of file will be reviewed regularly by the Ministry of Punishment. If there are any problems or violations, the chief administrator will be invited to drink tea by officials from the local branch of the Ministry of Punishment.

Depending on the situation, the number of tea drinks varies. In severe cases, the Ministry of Punishment may even suspend the powers of the county magistrate and sheriff, and report to the superiors for further investigation.

At this level, the sheriff and county magistrate are very dangerous.

In this way, county magistrates and county guards are restricted from using police power to do private affairs, or act recklessly, domineering, bullying the weak, the people or lower-level officials at every turn.

The involvement of the Ministry of Penalties and the Ministry of Finance also prevented the police from becoming the personal thugs of the local chief executive, preventing the local chief executive from covering the sky in his jurisdiction and resisting the central government.

Therefore, local county magistrates and county guards are frightened by the coercion and accountability of the Central Criminal Department. Generally, more things are worse than less things.

Of course, if the other party confronts violently and does not obey the rules in an emergency, a police chief can order his subordinates to use violence and forceful suppression on the spot without an order from the chief executive.

Sima Yi served as county magistrate for three years, county guard for four years and guardian for four years. In total, as the chief executive, he ordered the police force to mobilize violent law enforcement three times, all of which happened for a reason, not because of personal matters.

Of course, because there were casualties every time, it was very painful to write the report every time. Afterwards, the officials of the criminal department would make a second questioning in the name of a return visit to ensure that Sima Yi did not use the police force for personal affairs.

Therefore, he is generally very reluctant to use large-scale police force to do things forcibly, otherwise if something goes wrong and someone is killed or injured, the Criminal Department will really annoy him to death, and he will write a report more than once.

Regardless of the fact that the county magistrate has the power of the police, he has no good looks towards the governor of Shangzhou. Some bold county magistrates dare to argue in front of the governor of the state, but in front of the central officials, they are as humble as grandsons. .

It is common for the sheriff of two thousand shi to speak softly in front of the doctor of the eight hundred shi central department.

Nodding, bowing and smiling, a set of three companies is a skill that local officials must master, otherwise it will not be enough to deal with the old men of the local branches of the central department.

Although their grades are low, they have great authority. If local governors have conflicts with them, they generally cannot take advantage of it.

As a master of anti-stress, Sima Yi was guarded by two thousand shi, and [-] county police were standing in front of and behind him in a majestic manner. Once he met a doctor in the central department with [-] shi, he would not be majestic.

So Sima Yi was very entangled in the current situation where the merchants collectively made trouble and collectively resisted closing the store.

He has no other way, and he doesn't intend to reason with anyone, so in this situation, there is no way to do it without forcing the use of force.

However, the forced use of force will inevitably cause personal injury, and even death if the trouble is not good.

But if you don't do this, and try to persuade him in a soft voice, there must be a large number of people who are unwilling to close the store. When the economic crisis comes, they will go bankrupt one after another, and the Ministry of Finance will definitely not let him go.

After thinking about it, Sima Yi suddenly felt a little wronged.

Seeing that the term of the guardianship is coming soon, it is a critical period of transfer, but something like this happened.

Being in the middle of the coercion of the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Finance, it is like a mouse in a bellows. There are no people inside and outside, and there is a slight disturbance. The responsibility is all on its own, and the benefits are all on the central government.

What the two thousand stone officials did was not as comfortable as the groom's official when they got married.

No, you can't do this. Their scapegoats, obediently being a scapegoat, none of them will have a good end, and the only way to survive is to take the initiative!

You can't be passive like this, you must take the initiative to do something to regain the initiative, otherwise you will be killed by these two master departments.

If they don't act now, it's hard to guarantee that they won't be pushed out to take the blame by them later.

The central department is not only strong, but also good at throwing the pot away. Sima Yi knew this kind of thing after suffering a loss.

Absolutely don't believe in the morals of those guys. Believe in their morals. It's better to believe that the Huns resurrected in place and entered the Central Plains to establish a political power.

Sima Yi will never trust the integrity of the central government anymore.

So Sima Yi used his powerful family skills - the ultimate anti-stress technique.

He calmed down, calmly thought about the situation he was facing, his own strengths and crises, and then made a decision.

He decided to tidy himself up, and went directly to the branch of the Ministry of Finance in the Annan Protectorate, to find the head of the branch and the doctor of the Ministry of Finance, Ren Yong.

Chapter 1548 One thousand four hundred and sixty-eight

The local branches of the Central Ministry of Finance are mainly responsible for some financial tasks that can only be handled by the central government.

For example, granting loans or something, this is generally not allowed to interfere with the local government.

They are also responsible for taxation statistics, local budgets are proposed by the local government and then approved and allocated, and police salaries are also distributed by them.

They are as high as holding the key points of the local government, and they can make the county guards and county magistrates frightened at every turn.

In the second year of Sima Yi's tenure in the Annan Protectorate, Ren Yong switched positions with the former head of the finance department in a temporary transition, and was transferred from the central government to the Annan Protectorate.

It is said that because of his strong business ability, he was named and arranged by Wang Can, Minister of Finance, to the Annan Governor's Mansion, where he took charge of the local economic work.

He is indeed very capable in business, and he quickly sorted out the family background of the Annan Protectorate's Mansion, and took over the taxation, administrative budget, and salary distribution in an all-round way without any mistakes.

Sima Yi didn't have much contact with him, so he didn't know him very well, but he also heard that this person came from a humble background, but he was relatively strong. He didn't like others to point fingers at him when he was doing things, and he had his own views and opinions.

Therefore, some people suspected that the reason why he was transferred from the Central Ministry of Finance to such a foolish place must be because his strong character offended Wang Can or some of Wang Can's cronies.

Sima Yi never cared about such claims. He would never participate in the internal struggle of a powerful department like the Ministry of Finance. This time, he just planned to use Ren Yong's strength to achieve a certain goal of his own.

Knowing that Sima Yi, the protector of Annan, came to visit him, Ren Yong tidied himself up and received Sima Yi politely——

After all, Sima Yi is a high-ranking official with two thousand stones, his rank is higher than him, and he is the highest local chief executive in name.

Although in fact Sima Yi still depends on Ren Yong's face to a considerable extent.

Ren Yong felt that Sima Yi must have come to discuss with him because of handling the government affairs of the court.

Before, the Central Ministry of Finance issued a notice to ask the local branch of the Ministry of Finance to assist local officials in stopping loans and controlling the scale of business, which caught Ren Yongshi by surprise.

He felt that this matter would definitely arouse public dissatisfaction.

But there is no way.

The imperial court's finances are tight, and there are too many places where money is used. The Shu Road, the Grand Canal, and the development of Jiangnan are all gold-swallowing beasts.

The existence of Northwest business is a miracle in itself. It suppresses conservative bureaucrats in exchange for making money to maintain its existence. The biggest purpose of its existence is to make money for the treasury. Even so, there are many doubts.

Conservative bureaucrats never pass up an opportunity to attack Northwest businesses.

Whenever the imperial court needs to spend a lot of money, some people advocate that the Northwest Commerce should be taken across the board, and all the funds of the Northwest Commerce should be seized in one go to do big things and save money for the treasury.

From the bottom of their hearts, they regard supporting private businesses as raising pigs. They think that the court is short of money, so they slaughter a batch of pigs, and give some policies as feed, and want to ask for money directly?

Now you can’t make money, and you still have to lose money to get in. It’s strange that those conservative officials can accept it—you’ve lost money, why don’t you kill and eat meat?

Therefore, it is unrealistic to expect the central government to allocate huge sums of money to save the Northwest.

Even if the central treasury can take out this money, conservative officials are under great pressure and desperately oppose it.

Unless the emperor suddenly showed kindness and was willing to bypass the court and empty out his inner treasury to rescue the Northwest.

That would be able to revive the Northwest, but if the rest of the merchants don't come, the demand will be gone. Even if the shops that were born in excess during the prosperous period are revived, it will only be for a while, not for a lifetime.

It is the only way to give up the small and protect the big, preserve the vitality, and wait for the chaos to end.

Ren Yong had nothing to do about it.

Northwest bureaucrats are trying to maintain the status quo of Northwest commerce because of their vital interests, but bureaucrats in other places have no vital interests here, and there are not many officials willing to maintain Northwest commerce.

It is almost impossible to completely rely on the support of the central government to solve this crisis. Northwest must find a way by itself.

So while he stopped the loan review, he rejected all the loan applications under review, and at the same time contacted Sima Yi to inquire about his progress.

The completion of this matter is also related to the Ministry of Finance.

Because many small shops are established with loans from the Ministry of Finance, if there is a slight error, it is a messy account, which is quite troublesome to deal with, and it also involves the land of the other party's family, so it will have to be related to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Regarding matters related to land, after nine years in Yande, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has had nothing to say. It is quite rigid, rigid, and extremely strong on land issues.

The Ministry of Finance also doesn't want to make things too troublesome, so it hopes that Sima Yi will be decisive, close all the stores that should be closed, recover all the loans that can be recovered, and reduce the number of bad debts.

If there are fewer bad debts, they will have enough energy to ask the other party to repay the debt on schedule according to the income of the other party's family.

In this way, there is no need to make a fuss about the land of the other party's family, and there is no need to involve the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Then when bad debts are filled, there is no need for the Ministry of Finance to take the blame.

As a result, Sima Yi vomited bitterness to Ren Yong as soon as he arrived, saying that things were difficult to handle.

The people he sent to work were blocked by the relatives, friends and neighbors of the other party's family, and they couldn't even enter the store, let alone let them close the store.

Now the owners of many shops have united together, there are many people, and there are many people, but he is alone and alone, and it is difficult to offend the crowd, so he is in a dilemma, struggling, and he panics like an ant on a hot pot.

Ren Yong was very upset right away—You Sima Zhongda has always been known for his ability, and you wear a hat of an official, and now you come to me to pack straw bags?

So he speaks very rudely.

Anyway, I've rarely been polite.

"Sima Duhu has always been known for his ability and courage. The entire Annan Duhu Mansion knows that Sima Duhu is the head of capable officials. He handles government affairs without any mistakes and is orderly. I have always admired him. Why is he so timid at this time? Are you still chattering and fearing fools?"

It's very blunt to say this, comparing Sima Yi to a man who is afraid of a good-for-nothing is almost swearing.

No matter how well-bred Sima Yi was, he still felt a burning fire in his stomach.

If he didn't dare, he really wanted to punch Ren Yong in the face and make him arrogant!

Of course, dare not dare.

Sima Yi took a deep breath, smiled all over his face, bowed his waist and said with a chuckle: "What Mr. Ren said is out of the question, who knows who doesn't know, we local officials seem to be strong, but in fact they don't wear Shackles work?

The use of money depends on the face of your Ministry of Finance, and the face of the Ministry of Punishment depends on the employment of people. When you do something, you have to be tied up, and you have to write a report afterward. You guys are all wrong. "

Ren Yong listened to this kind of routine official speech too much, and it didn't make any sense at all.

He waved his hand.

"Sima Duhu, if you have something to say, Ren has a lot of things to do here."

Well, that's what you said.

Sima Yi smiled.

"Ren Langzhong said this, so I won't go around in circles. Ren Langzhong, the non-cooperative attitude of those merchants is already very obvious in this matter, and it is very unlikely that they will talk about it. Ministry's request, there is only one way."

"any solution?"

"The police force was dispatched to forcibly close these non-compliant shops."

"Then go out, this is not something you Sima Duhu said? What are you doing here? Will my order be useful?"

Ren Yong felt very annoyed.

Sima Yi spread his arms.

"Mr. Ren, you put it lightly. Is it doomed to have conflicts with those merchants and their people if I send the police force? If you push me and fight with each other, there will be a fight, or a group fight. When the time comes, you will be injured. If someone is killed, who is responsible?

It's not like you don't know that once I use the police force to enforce something, I have to write a report to the criminal department. After the criminal department reviews it, if they think there is something wrong with me, they will come to ask me what's going on. I think I'm serious. , more than once.

But in the current situation, if I make them shy away from doing anything, I'm afraid that the police force will be seriously injured by them!Things get worse and worse, and once they get out of hand, this responsibility becomes even more unbearable. "

Ren Yong took a deep breath and rubbed his temples.

He suddenly remembered that this year was the last year of Sima Yi's term as the guardian.

It turned out to be the case.

"Sima Duhu, you and I both know these things, just tell me, what do you want to say when you come to me, what do you want me to do, just say it."

When Ren Yong asked, Sima Yi said it straight.

"Ren Langzhong, I can dispatch the police force to handle this matter, but you have to be responsible for communicating with the Ministry of Criminal Justice. If the police force is not stable, the attack is heavy, and a few people are injured, it cannot be regarded as my fault." The problem, this is a request from your Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Punishment..."

Sima Yi plans to see him poorly.

Ren Yong understood the meaning of Sima Yi's coming today.

Feelings come to find the blame man who took the blame with him.

This matter itself is related to Sima Yi's political achievements, and it must be inseparable from Sima Yi.

But this matter also involves the achievements of the Ministry of Finance, loans, and central government orders.

The central government instructed the Ministry of Finance and the local government to work together to solve this matter. If Sima Yi couldn't handle it well, the Ministry of Finance couldn't get away with it.

If the loss cannot be stopped in time, once the loss expands, none of them will have good fruit to eat.

Ren Yong knew that what Sima Yi meant was that he could do things well, but I couldn't bear the blame alone. Your Ministry of Finance also had a part in it. This blame is too dark and heavy, so we must bear it together.