Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

Aren't you officials protecting each other?Isn't it layer upon layer hooked together, interweaving into a net of sky and earth, so that people like the net can make the sky not work and the earth not work?

Then I will completely tear this net apart.

Zhao Yiyi said in a calm tone: "Your so-called mutual protection between officials and officials is probably because they are too familiar with each other and have mixed positions. For example, the officials in charge of a prison are also in charge of people's livelihood and taxation, then if If a commoner is bullied by a local parental official or his subordinate officials, if they want to sue, they can only sue the official himself."

When the time comes to ask questions in the hall, there will probably be ridiculous scenes such as "who is in the hall and why is the judge sued?"

A person cannot be an athlete and a referee at the same time, and an official cannot be in charge of administrative power and judicial power at the same time.

Once these two powers overlap, the official and his subordinates are equivalent to the power of life and death in the whole place. They can search the people's fat and anoint the fish and flesh with one hand, and put the civilians who dare to resist into prison with the other hand.

For local officials, there is still an "official reputation", "popularity", "propriety, righteousness and shame" restraints, and with a generous salary, there is a high probability that they will not do too crazy things.But there are no grades and no grades, and the petty officials who spent money to buy a position to eat the emperor's food, purely to earn money for a living, would not care so much.

To put it bluntly, the current team of swordsmen and writers is not good enough, they have not received systematic education, they are mixed with good and bad people, and they have no sense of social responsibility at all...

Zhao Yiyi complained silently in his heart.

He said solemnly: "In this case, the reason why the deceased had no place to sue until the last moment of his life was because the person who could make decisions for him, the so-called parental officer, had long been collaborating with the murderer who killed him. We can only re-establish a yamen, so that this yamen has nothing to do with the local government, nor does it have anything to do with the local people. In this way, the people can really have a place to redress their grievances."

Fan Zhongyan, as Prime Minister of Zhaowen, asked timely: "Dare to ask the officials, how can this new yamen have no connection with the local government?"

Zhao Yiyi smiled: "It's simple, just call it independent from the existing government offices, and be self-contained. Let's call it Judicial Taiwan for the time being."

Judiciary, similar to Situ Sima Si Nong, as the name suggests, is in charge of the law.

Judicial Taiwan and Yushitai are similar parallel institutions.

"Set up a main station in the capital, and set up branch stations in all roads, states, and counties to take charge of all criminal and prison-related affairs in the country. From now on, prefects and counties will not be allowed to intervene in criminal and prison legal affairs."

He only emphasized that local prefectural and county officials are not allowed to be in charge of the judiciary, and did not mention how the existing judicial-related institutions such as the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment in the capital should be dealt with.

Anyway, this was a very common thing in the Song Dynasty-the emperor set up a new institution either on a whim or with deliberation, encroaching on some capabilities of the existing old institution.From now on, these old institutions will have nothing to do. The officials in them are either put on other jobs, actually transferred, or simply demoted from Beijing during the political turmoil that created the "new institution". After I came back, things changed and people changed. From then on, the old institution was only an empty shell, with three or two kittens inside, doing some unnecessary chores every day.

Zhao Yiyi affectionately called such institutions that have nothing to do but refuse to disappear in the long river of history for a while as "political corpses".

When he was free, he packed up and cleaned up the remains... Although the remains did not interfere with the living, it would cause a bloated organization and bring a lot of inconvenience.

Regarding the overlapping of the functions of the newly established "Judicial Taiwan" and the existing functions of the Dali Temple Criminal Department and other yamen, even the chiefs of these yamen did not take it seriously.Anyway, being an official is not the same as being an official, it's the same as being an official at the judicial platform of Dali Temple.

Seeing that they had no objections, Zhao Yiyi continued: "The executives of the Judicial Office are directly appointed by me. The appointment, dismissal and promotion of officials at all levels in Taiwan are determined internally by the Judicial Office. They only need to be reported to the Prime Minister to know. Officials' salaries and other financial resources are directly allocated from the Third Division. .”

In this way, the head of the judiciary was appointed by the emperor, judicial officials at all levels were appointed internally, and the source of finance came directly from the third department, which fundamentally cut off the connection between judicial officials and local governments.

The personnel are not under your control, and the finances are not under your control. Naturally, real judicial independence can be obtained.

"By the way, there is another thing," Zhao Yiyi seemed to have thought of something, and added: "Judicial Taiwan is self-contained. Except for the transfer of personnel at the beginning of its establishment, all personnel can only be transferred internally. That is to say, Officials within the Judicial Office shall not be transferred to other yamen, and officials from other yamen shall not be transferred to the Judicial Office, nor shall they have any part-time jobs."

Only in this way can it be regarded as true "independence".

"Of course," Zhao Yiyi said narrowly, "unless you take the imperial examination again and enter the imperial court again with a white body."

Otherwise, once personnel and personnel are mixed up, the chaotic network of relationships will pollute the judiciary. How can we talk about "judicial independence" then?

One stone caused a thousand waves, and many officials were shocked by the emperor's words and didn't know what to say.

Internal officials of the Judiciary cannot be transferred to the outside, and external officials cannot be transferred in?

Doesn't Judiciary become its own faction from now on, free from external political interference?

You fight your own, I can watch from the sideline anyway, no monstrous waves can hit my one-third of an acre of land.

This……

Some people are secretly moved by this detached sense of security, but more people think more.

According to the emperor's will, the Judiciary Taiwan will be like a small imperial court in the future, free from external interference.In this way, although the chief executive of the Judicial Station will gain an unparalleled sense of superiority, but more importantly-compared with the larger imperial court, the Judicial Station is slightly smaller in size after all, and can provide There are also relatively few high-level jobs.

In the judicial platform, there may be only a few positions above the third rank, the number of places is limited, and you can't leave to find another way out, the competition is quite fierce...

Facing the fierce competition that will emerge, officials who are interested in this are all eager to try to get a high-level position in the Judiciary at the "early establishment" in the emperor's mouth.

It would be great if he could become the "director" in one step.

The judicial platform directly under the emperor and in charge of the judicial platform of the country's prisons, the rank of the "director" must not be lower than that of the imperial doctor.

And in the early days of the establishment of Judicial Station, the position of "Director" will definitely be granted!

The nominal chief of the Yushitai should be the Yushi doctor, but for various reasons, the post of the Yushi doctor was basically not granted in this dynasty. In fact, the head of the station is the Yushi Zhongcheng.And the post of Yushi Zhongcheng is often not granted truthfully, and the person who is really in charge of Yushitai is often "servant Yushi who knows miscellaneous things".

In other words, in Yushitai, being an official and doing the best is probably just a chore.

It is a tacit political agreement formed under the hundreds of years of history of this institution that the chief of Yushitai did not give the truth.

In the early days of a new institution, this tacit understanding does not exist.

It is impossible for a position to be set up just to be vacant, and the tacit understanding of "the chief's false appointment" can only be formed after three or four terms at the earliest.

And in order to match the newly established "judicial platform" in charge of the functions of the world's prisons, the rank of this chief is likely to be the second rank up.

A second-rank official still has real power and functions, not an honorary position that looks good.

The vast majority of officials will never reach this height in their lifetime!

The emperor's establishment of this judiciary platform is equivalent to creating a second-rank seat with real power out of thin air.

After sorting out this idea, the eyes of the officials became fiery, especially those officials who were only one line away from the prime minister, wishing to sharpen their heads and sneak into this new organization to grab the second-rank quota.

Judicial Taiwan officials are not allowed to have part-time jobs outside, and this restriction blocks the few who already have aspect.

A good prime minister and deputy is equivalent, there is no need to transfer to the judicial platform where there are too many monks and few porridge to get the second grade.

I don't know who this second grade will end up with...

The officials of the third and fourth ranks who have never paid homage to the prime minister are full of ambition and eager to try.

But the emperor laughed, and asked a courtier in the hall casually: "Bao Qing's family, do you intend to come to the judicial platform to be the first director?"

what?

Bao Qing's family?

The emperor actually appointed a director...

Oh, it's the censor who is fearless...

Some of the officials were aggrieved, and some were in a delicate mood, thinking that you were not as good as me when you first became an official, and secondly, you were not as high as my rank in the imperial examination. ?

Bao Zheng said in a deep voice: "My subject, please follow the holy order."

……

The court meeting was over, and Bao Zheng returned home in a sedan chair.

The chaotic days before the Dragon Boat Festival were over, Zhan Zhao came back from the Forbidden Army camp, and was watching Li Yuanlang instructing workers to lay bricks and repair the wall in the yard.

He gritted his teeth and said, "You little rascal, it's only been a few days, and even the wall is blown up!"

Li Yuanlang comforted him in turn: "It's nothing, his brother paid a lot of money. After building this wall, there will be a lot of money left over to subsidize the family. First make a few pairs of shoes for the adults, and then make a new sheath for your sword." .”

She knew how much Zhan Zhao cherished her Juque sword. Even the scabbard was made of shark skin, and it was carefully maintained every day.After following Bao Zheng, he faced more and more dangers, and his money became tighter and tighter. The sharkskin scabbard was worn out a lot.

Zhan Zhao's face brightened slightly, and he said bitterly, "Don't let me see him again!"

Seeing Bao Zheng came back, both Zhan and Li surrounded him and asked, "What's the matter? How will the officials deal with it?"

Bao Zheng said: "The first offender is dead. It is against morality to kill the corpse. He dragged it to any wilderness outside the city and threw it away. The official of the petty official was not strict and has been dismissed. A new judicial platform has been set up by the government. , in charge of the world’s prisons, with me as the director, and there are also courts, procuratorates, etc. under the stage, all of which have not yet been finalized and are still subject to discussion.”

"But one thing has been settled."

He said to Zhan Zhao: "The officials will seal you as a fourth-rank guard to protect me."