After Lin Yanchao temporarily returned to the German Mansion, Qiu Huan interrogated Su Yan overnight, and suddenly dug up a big river engineering case from him.

However, this is no longer used to Lin Yanchao's business, he relied on the momentum of Qinchaqiu and defeated Su Yan, and suddenly felt like a trapped dragon entering the sea.

After Su Yan was detained, in the officialdom of the Guide Mansion, Lin Yanchao was the highest official. Lin Yanchao holds the seal of the prefect's office and acts as an agent for government affairs, how can this kind of majesty be compared with the second official who did not have any real power in the past.

However, sudden gain of power is not necessarily a good thing, just like sudden wealth.

Why is sudden power not a good thing?

is the issue of seniority and experience, Lin Yanchao has been a minister for many years, and has no experience as a magistrate.

Generally speaking, an official born in Jinshi must first serve as the magistrate of Guo County attached to the capital city for three years, and then transfer to the county seat of the difficult and important county to serve as the magistrate.

If the political performance is outstanding, and then promoted to the prefect, it is also to go to a non-critical place to serve as the prefect for a few years, and then to the prefect of a difficult and difficult place such as Guide Mansion.

Now the Ming officialdom has always been very mediocre, but it is not so mediocre that it makes rookies the prefect of the prefecture.

If it is important to return to the Defu, it must be a capable minister.

Although Su Yan is an official, he does have a set of rules. Now Lin Yanchao has replaced Su Yan and signed the prefect's affairs, so he doesn't need others to trouble him, and he has already been found in a bunch of troublesome things in the local area.

On this day, Lin Yanchao sat in the office, and the officials of the torture room and the magistrate of the government said to Lin Yanchao: "Master Sima, this is the litigation file accumulated in the past two months, I implore Master Sima to take a look at it, and then release it for interrogation on a later date." ”

After Lin Yanchao heard the words, there were as many as 80 volumes of this litigation file, including life, household service, thief, marriage, succession, debts, and so on.

Lin Yanchao said: "If these cases can be tried by the state and county, why should they be handed over to this government, could it be that they cannot be prosecuted by overstepping the lawsuit?" ”

In the Da Ming Law, it is stipulated that military and civilian lawsuits are all filed from the bottom up. For example, the division of the guard, the patrol of the road, and even the judicial department in charge of the criminal name of a province can receive the people's pleadings, but they cannot be tried in person, and they need to be sent to the prefecture and county.

As for the prefectures and counties, not all cases are heard, and the general civil affairs are decided by the village elders.

Generally, only major and important cases are handed over to the government for trial.

So Lin Yanchao looked at so many files and couldn't help asking, could it be that the magistrates of this place can't eat dry rice? These backlogs of criminal cases also need to be resolved by me, the acting prefect, am I an intermediate court or a local court?

The officials of the torture room on the side, as well as the pusher, told Lin Yanchao the reason.

It turned out that this was related to the evaluation of magistrates.

Why? Because the Confucian rule of law pursues the realm of non-litigation, Confucius said that when hearing lawsuits, I Jews will also, and I will also, so that there will be no lawsuits.

If the people of a place are litigious, it is called a litigious place. The official evaluation is that the people are all over the place.

Thus the lawsuit is related to indoctrination.

When magistrates govern the localities, their purpose is to hear lawsuits, so that people can be free of lawsuits, and to reach the state of no lawsuits; if they hear more lawsuits, the more lawsuits they will administer, and this will undoubtedly affect their evaluation of officials.

In this regard, the local officials below are also very methodical, such as the state and county yamen, which generally announce every 369.

They took advantage of the opportunistic approach and changed it to the second day of the month and the sixteenth day of the month, from the usual nine times a month to two times.

There are also many local states and counties that have set the period from April 1 to July 30 as the period of ceasing litigation, the reason is that when this period is busy with farming, the people still farm with peace of mind.

Of course, the most direct way is to refute. If the people complain or not, we will find fault with you, and we will not give you a trial for various reasons.

So the people had no choice but to overstep the control.

Lin Yanchao read this file, many of which were cases that were not tried by the state and county, and then the people overstepped the level and prosecuted.

Generally speaking, the common people are easy to speak, and the cases that have piled up to the government are all very resentful of the people, and they are really unbearable to cross the level.

Among them, there were cases of tyrannical encroachment on people's land, and some cases of beating people to death were not tried for six months. The common people are also iron-hearted, and they will not be buried if they are not wronged.

Such cases abound.

"If it's a dereliction of duty!" Lin Yanchao put the file aside.

The magistrate said on the side: "Sima, the following is so hasty, do you resend these cases to the state and county for trial in the name of improper refutation by the state and county?" ”

Lin Yanchao stretched out his hand and said, "If this is the case, it will become a mutual blame." The following mediocre officials who do nothing are worse than corrupt officials. ”

The officer of the torture room said: "But there are some cases that are difficult to handle, including the murder of the son of the Haoyou family who is on the run, and the case of the rape of the people's daughter by the feudal king's servant, all of which are difficult lawsuits. ”

"Even if these cases were in the past, they didn't dare to try them, please think twice."

Lin Yanchao thought for a moment and said: "This Cheng knows everything, but since Ben Cheng is temporarily in charge of government affairs, how can he sit idly by." The order went to the house to make a notice on the day after tomorrow, and the people in the house could file a complaint, and Ben Cheng personally tried it, and then gave the card ticket to the two parties on these complaints, so that they could come to the government together the day after tomorrow. ”

After Lin Yanchao finished speaking, the officials and the officials of the torture room were all shocked: "Lord Sima, you have to interrogate so many cases in one day?" Think again. ”

Lin Yanchao said: "You just obey orders." ”

The officials and officials of the Criminal Department all glanced at each other, thinking that with so many cases, Lin Yanchao would have to finish the trial in one day, it was just a fool's dream.

Many of these cases are complicated.

Lin Yanchao temporarily handled government affairs, and he had no experience, so he was afraid that he would cause big trouble if he dealt with such a complicated criminal matter.

Lin Yanchao said again: "The day after tomorrow, you will invite all the official seals of all the prefectures and counties in your prefecture to the government office." ”

The magistrate and the officer of the torture room glanced at each other, and there was such a thing in his heart, and the trial of the case was still so exciting.

Both of them don't know Lin Yanchao, so if Lin Yanchao's trial on this day goes wrong, isn't it a shame in front of all the subordinate state and county officials?

But neither of them dared to persuade again.

On this day, the government is in the six counties and one state of the Defu Prefecture, and the seven magistrates of the counties and prefectures are all there.

In the government office, several county magistrates wanted to trouble them because of the backlog of cases, so they spat on it.

"The local people are fierce, the people are fighting for profits, and the gang of people under the rule will sue the yamen if they have nothing to do, this is not an overnight thing, what do you want me to do?"

"It's strange that the imperial court uses the number of lawsuits in a county to participate in our county, and the future plan will be included in the assessment. If there are too many lawsuits, it will be difficult to get promoted. ”

Another person said: "This official is not afraid of things, but the people below the Zhou Wangfu have committed trouble, and I am a seven-rank county, even if I eat the gall of an ambitious leopard, I don't dare to care about this matter." ”

"Yes, we have fifteen vassal kings in Henan Province, and even King Lu has to be a vassal in Henan, and these vassal kings are all uncles, so we have to offer them like ancestors."

"We don't care about the affairs of the people, it's our dereliction of duty, but if we take care of it, let's throw away the black yarn hat, I will ask Master Sima to teach me how to manage it today? Let us also learn from him to give up this life and advise the Son of Heaven. ”

"Brother Ma, what do you think of this?"

"This Lin Sanyuan is from the capital, I don't know how difficult it is for our pro-people officials, you can say a word for us."

"Yes, Brother Ma, you have the highest official position in our place, so I will leave everything to you."

Ma Guang, the governor of Suizhou, is from the fifth grade, which is higher than the official position of the general judge of this prefecture, and his position is only one level inferior to Lin Yanchao, and he is the highest-ranking official in the seven prefectures and counties.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Ma Guang sneered: "What else can I do, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, what reason does he Lin Sanyuan use to ask us, and we will go back." ”

"What's more, he is currently in charge of the government, if something really goes wrong at this juncture, can he afford it? Divide the way, won't the clan ask for sin? ”

When all the officials heard this, they all nodded yes, and one said: "Don't say that he is a temporary government minister, even if he is the prefect, he can't blame us for this matter." ”

Everyone has Ma Guang as the backbone, and they are not panicking at the moment.

So they sat in the main hall of the government and waited, but they waited left and right, but they didn't see Lin Yanchao.

When they sent someone to ask, the government officials just said that Lin Yanchao would come soon.

So these people sat in the government and waited, and the water in the tea bowl was brewed three or five times, and they drank it tastelessly, and there was still no trace of Lin Yanchao.

It's almost the third pole of the day, not to mention the government office, the people outside the government are also waiting to be exhausted.

can go beyond the state and county, to the government and the government, they all have great grievances and grievances, and they have not yet been resolved. They are not afraid to wait, they are afraid to wait until the end, and there is no one to uphold this justice for them.

"Dad, do you say Lin Sanyuan is really a good official? Can you avenge our sister? ”

A twelve or thirteen-year-old boy asked his father.

The father's hair was gray, the skin of his hands and feet were dry, and although he couldn't even straighten his waist, he said firmly: "Yes, we ordinary people all say that Lin Sanyuan is a good official, and he will definitely be able to get justice for your sister." ”

The young man nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, if Lin Sanyuan doesn't help us, when I grow up, I will kill this dog thing to avenge my sister." ”

At this time, there was a cannon fire at the gate of the yamen, but when I saw more than a dozen officials coming out of the gate, I said loudly: "Tell the notice, let it go, tell both sides to stand on one side, and then hand over the pleadings." ”

The common people consciously stood on one side. In the past, the arrogant and domineering officials are all very kind and polite today.

In the past, when handing over the letter to these clerks, they had to take a sum of money to accommodate them, but today these clerks seem to have become as clean as water and do not accept anything.

At this moment, but I heard a sound and ascended to the court!

The officials in the main hall of the government held water and fire sticks in line, and Lin Yanchao wore a five-grade official uniform and walked to the main hall to sit down.

Lin Yanchao stood on the hall and looked at it, but under the platform, the people were crowded.

I used to be one of them, and I hope that my grievances can be redressed in the court.

But today he is sitting behind this case and upholding justice for the people. Lin Yanchao reminded himself, don't forget the grievances when he was a small people, and sit in this position, don't forget to be the master of the people and uphold justice for the people.

Thinking of this, Lin Yanchao was shocked.

There was a clear sound, and the hall was silent.