Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

In order to increase the credibility of the content on the imperial list, Zhou Xingzhi had someone put up a guard of honor, and he walked slowly on the street in a carriage for half an hour before arriving at the magistrate's yamen.

"I see your Majesty, long live your majesty, long live, long live." The magistrate had brought people from the yamen outside to greet him early.

"Exemption." Zhou Xingzhi was wearing a bright yellow robe. Although it was ordinary clothes, there was not a single five-clawed golden dragon on it.

After Zhou Xingzhi entered the yamen, there were a lot of onlookers around the yamen. Some of them were purely curious, and some came to inquire about the news on purpose. I want to help people get justice.

"Prefect, show me the dossiers of the last three months." Zhou Xingzhi made preparations for the first day that no one would complain, and directly began to spot check the prefect's government affairs.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please wait a moment." The magistrate lowered his head and slowly retreated, then trotted to the study immediately, and took out the dossier he had prepared in advance.

These were all selected by him overnight, including the files reported to the superiors and the files sent to the jurisdictional county, and even mixed with a few unsolved cases, which can be said to be perfect.

Zhou Xingzhi relaxed his back and leaned back on the chair, and randomly selected a few files to read.She notified the magistrate one day in advance. If her guess is correct, these things should have been carefully prepared by him, and it doesn't make much difference whether he looks at it or not.

Although the prefect has always been sitting at the bottom, his heart can't settle down. From time to time, he has to glance at the gate of the government office to see if anyone really dares to sue.

After about an hour, the grievance drum at the gate of the yamen was sounded, and the magistrate's nerves tensed up instantly.

"Your Majesty, there are people outside the door beating drums to complain, saying that they want to sue the husband-in-law." The guard outside the door quickly trotted over to complain.

"Let her come in and explain in detail." Zhou Xingzhi became a little interested, and waved for someone to put away the files on the table.

"Caomin joins His Majesty, Long live Your Majesty." Outside the door was a 30-year-old woman who looked like she was beating the drums. Her face was a little yellow, and there were many patches on her clothes, which were a little pale from washing.

"Mianli, you said you want to sue your husband-in-law?" Zhou Xingzhi adjusted his sitting posture, and his eyes fell on the woman, "What's wrong with your husband-in-law?"

"Your Majesty, Caomin is 28 this year. He married Chen Dalang of the Chen family 12 years ago. In the past 12 years, Caomin has given birth to a pair of children for the Chen family. After becoming a scholar, he became ungrateful and beat and scolded grassroots..."

After saying this, the corners of the woman's eyes began to turn red, and she began to wipe her tears. She took several deep breaths before she managed to calm down, "It's fine if it's just like this. Last year, he even sold Cao Min's ten-year-old daughter out. , used the money from the sale to pay for a house of concubines."

After hearing the woman's cry, Zhou Xingzhi frowned, but the magistrate secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the woman really came to sue her husband, not to trouble himself, the magistrate.

"Just a while ago, before you came here, Your Majesty, I told Chen Dalang that this year's harvest might not be good, and asked him to buy some food for storage, but he locked me up directly, saying that I would not eat alone, Life goes on."

After saying this, the woman finally couldn't help crying, and the words she uttered began to become intermittent, "If it wasn't for your majesty's success in praying for rain, Chen Dalang would have starved me to death, and he wouldn't let the grass people come out to farm the land gone."

"Is everything you said true?" Zhou Xingzhi's face has become ugly, but the words he uttered are still calm, "You must know that if you lie to me, it will be a death penalty."

"What the Caomin said is true, and please Your Majesty to make the decision for the Caomin." The woman said, and began to kowtow desperately, and blood soon came out.

Zhou Xingzhi patted the gavel, "Come here, take this woman down first, and then bring Chen Dalang back."

My own thoughts are still too idealistic, this is not the society ruled by law that I used to live in.Compared with the dirty things among the officials and the rich, the place where more tragedies happen is the place where the people at the bottom live.

The matter of arresting people was carried out by the yamen servants and the guards together, and the whole process was on a fast horse, so in less than half an hour, Chen Dalang was brought to the court, and he even brought his pregnant concubine and his five-year-old son together. followed.

"Grassmen see His Majesty." Chen Dalang was still dazed when he was brought here, he thought he had done nothing wrong, he kept asking the guards and yamen servants why they arrested him, but no one answered him.

"You have a reputation?" Zhou Xingzhi put a lot of things on the desk. When the guards went to pick up the person, the article he had written as a scholar and some temporarily collected confessions were also rushed to Zhou Xingzhi's place. .

"Yes, the grassroots are not talented, and I was admitted as a scholar three years ago." Chen Dalang felt a little drummed in his heart, and kept recalling what he had done recently, and whether he had said anything disrespectful.

"You once sold your daughter to a wealthy businessman passing by?" Zhou Xingzhi asked with squinted eyes.

"Caomin was wronged. I saw a wealthy businessman passing by in a good situation, so he decided to betroth his daughter to him." Chen Dalang's heart tightened, and he brought out the previous argument of selling people, "At that time, Caomin hired a matchmaker, and the matchmaker was ordered by his parents. What you say is not a business, Your Majesty knows that."

"Then you once locked up your wife and planned to starve her to death?" Zhou Xingzhi continued to ask.

"Caomin never did this thing, but Caomin's first wife couldn't see that my Xiaomei was pregnant, and wanted to murder the child in Xiaomei's womb, so I locked her up." Chen Dalang kowtowed, "I hope your Majesty will investigate Clarify the truth and return the innocence of the grassroots."

Tsk tsk, as expected of someone who has read the book and knows how to avoid legal risks, this rhetoric is really perfect.

"In the rural examination three years ago, the test was about water conservancy. I ask you, what plan did you propose?" Zhou Xingzhi turned a corner and asked about the imperial examination.

"This..." Chen Dalang was stunned for a moment, it was all three years ago, and he was just lucky enough to read similar articles before the provincial examination, so he was admitted as a scholar.After being admitted as a scholar, he didn't continue to study, and he had long forgotten what he had written.

"You don't know?" Zhou Xingzhi's tone became serious, "Don't you even know the theory you wrote?"

"Your Majesty, the time is too long, Caomin, Caomin can't remember..." Chen Dalang really couldn't remember what he wrote in the policy discussion three years ago.

"I can't even explain the policy theory I wrote. It seems that this person cheated during the imperial examination." Zhou Xingzhi snorted coldly, "Prefect, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty is guilty, and your Majesty is punished for your ineffective supervision of the imperial examination." The magistrate got up and knelt on the ground to admit his mistake.

The magistrate saw Zhou Xingzhi's intentions, she tended to believe what the previous woman said, even if Chen Dalang found an excuse, she would punish him in other ways.The so-called policy theory is just a pretext for the outbreak, and most likely will not continue to pursue it.

It has to be said that the magistrate is still very discerning. Zhou Xingzhi simply sees this kind of white-eyed wolf as displeasing to the eye. If he directly starts from the strategy, not only will it not affect the reputation of the previous woman, but he can also directly seize what Chen Dalang cares about.

"Because of your recent meritorious service in disaster relief, I will not pursue this matter with you anymore." Zhou Xingzhi patted the gavel, "As for Chen Dalang, he not only cheated in the imperial examination, but also dared to lie to me. He will remove all meritorious service from him from now on. , sent to the frontier to exile."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, Caomin really didn't cheat, Caomin just forgot... just forgot!" He is a frail scholar, if he is exiled to the army, he will definitely die.

"If you still dare to quibble, then just ask for beheading." Zhou Xingzhi is the emperor, and she doesn't need to follow the rules of reporting, "Come here, drag it down, and pick a place where there is no one to be beheaded. "

"Yes." The guards on both sides immediately came up, gagged Chen Dalang's mouth, and then dragged him out like a dead dog.

After seeing this scene, the magistrate couldn't help but break out in cold sweat on his forehead. He realized very clearly that in front of him was the emperor who controlled the lives of all the people in the whole country. A simple sentence could make his head fall to the ground.

"Prefect, is there any local law about caring for widows and young children... and pregnant women?" The dissatisfaction on Zhou Xingzhi's face was wiped away, and he returned to his usual appearance.

"Your Majesty, there is none for the time being, but I feel that some subsidies should be given to these people." The prefect said with his head down, sweat from his forehead had flowed down his temples into his neckline.

"The prefect makes sense." Zhou Xingzhi nodded, "Then the prefect thinks who should pay for the money?"

"Chen... I am willing to take the lead in donating one year's salary." The prefect said tentatively.

"Oh?" Zhou Xingzhi raised his eyebrows, this was not the answer she wanted.How much money a magistrate's salary can have is not enough for him to accept bribes at one time.

"Of course, this kind of thing that is beneficial to the people is what every official should do. After the follow-up, I will carry out a targeted fundraising activity." After two or so, stop this fundraising.”

Zhou Xingzhi nodded, "The magistrate has a heart, but the money is all collected from donations, and every penny here must be used wisely. You should understand what I mean, right?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty! The minister will supervise, and when the time comes, write down the use of every penny on the notice." The magistrate said, bleeding in his heart, and he had to pay at least 1 taels for the 1000 taels ah!

"That's a good idea." Zhou Xingzhi smiled at the magistrate, "I think all the money allocated by the imperial court to the local government can be announced in the future."

"Go and draw up a memorial. When the time comes, I will send someone to show it to the prime minister. If it is possible, then let's promote it nationwide."

The magistrate was stunned for a moment, and when he realized it, his heart went cold.If every expense is written out, how can they benefit from it.

Most importantly, if I wrote this memorial, I would definitely become a thorn in the side of other officials!

Your Majesty is trying to kill him!

"Your Majesty, if every appropriation has to be recorded, the workload of the officials under him will be heavy, and I'm afraid it will take some time..." The prefect still wants to live for a while, so he is doing the last struggle.

Zhou Xingzhi smiled, "Prefect, you don't have to worry, if it was a problem in the past, but recently the Ministry of Households has a new counting method, which can save a lot of time."

"Don't say that every appropriation has to be recorded, even if it is to record the use of every penny, that is an easy thing." Zhou Xingzhi will not create something new just because of a whim.

Zhong Qingyi has worked out a new calculation method before. Although it is difficult to promote it nationwide, it is really fast among officials.In addition, corruption and bribery in Jiangnan is relatively serious, so she took this opportunity to raise this matter today.

As for why the magistrate was asked to write the memorial, it was naturally because she valued the prefect of Hangzhou and wanted him to get the credit~

She is such a nice person!

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