The window of this room was small, and the red glow came in through the small window, climbed onto the desk, and drifted with the swing of the window in the wind.

Xu Ping looked at the uncertain glow on the table, and said in a deep voice: "The third division wants to lay off people from yesterday afternoon, and three or five hundred people were gathered early this morning, and no one instigated it behind it, how is it possible?" ”

"The deputy envoy is right, but I just don't understand, what are they trying to do?"

Liu Xin watched it for a day and basically had a general understanding of things. This disturbance must have been attended by the high-level personnel of the three public officials, and some idlers on the street took the lead, and this result finally appeared. But he just couldn't figure it out, the lower-level officials were afraid of being laid off, why were those upper-level officials so actively involved?

Xu Ping smiled: "You are in charge of the military case, and all the names of public officials, relocation and even prison are under the management of the military case." But have you ever thought about whether you have said all these things-"

"I'm a judge, where can I be the judge? Naturally, I want to listen to the deputy envoy—"

"No, I don't count!" Xu Ping waved his hand, "It doesn't even matter if the provincial lord says it!" ”

Liu Xin said with a smile: "Do you still have to be in charge of the affairs of these little officials?" ”

"The prime minister wants to manage it, of course he can manage it. However, most of them will not care. It doesn't matter if we say it, it's not that the prime minister doesn't give us power, but the officials have a world of their own and have their own leaders. If their leader doesn't give us face, then we can only stare at them, and we can't help them at all! ”

"The deputy envoy is saying that this time-"

Xu Ping stood up, walked to the window, opened the window, and looked at the world outside in the sunset.

"Why did the officials get together to make trouble today? Why did the officials in charge kick them out? Isn't Han Yushi going to lay off public officials? It's simple, they will send out the people who are going to be laid off, and it is not enough to send them out, they have to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to make an appearance, and they have to go to the imperial historian's house to insult and vent their anger. ”

Liu Xin finally had a clue when he heard this, and was taken aback: "Did the deputy envoy say that the public officials who made trouble today were picked out by themselves and wanted to be laid off by the imperial court?" It's—"

"Yes, even if they don't look good, and they usually don't use it well, or they don't want to go along with them, all of them rush to the streets today! Today's trouble, especially the last insult to the imperial history of the dynasty, if the court can still tolerate these people, there will be no face. Want to lay off people? Today, the officials have laid off people for us. ”

"How unreasonable!" Speaking of this, Xu Ping slapped the windowsill suddenly. "Treat the chief as a fool, if I swallow this breath, this official won't do it, and I will go home and farm tomorrow!"

After being in contact with Xu Ping for half a year, Liu Xin was angry when he saw Xu Ping for the first time. In my impression, Xu Ping is usually the kind of person who is invisible, tolerant and kind to others everywhere. This is also normal, the young man is a high-ranking official, and he has no foundation, so he can only maneuver everywhere in the officialdom and seek perfection. This time, it seems to be a little different.

If the officials of the three divisions succeed this time, including Xu Ping, all the officials will basically be empty. In the future, you can only handle daily affairs in a proper manner, and it is impossible to do a little bit. Even the newly opened field affairs are in the hands of these people. The officials above said that they wanted to do something, and once it was not in line with the wishes of the officials, they did not say that they objected, anyway, they were busy with no results, and they had no handle at all. In the end, the officials themselves felt bored, so they could only go with their wishes.

This prospect is quite terrifying, and if you add that the tenure of the officials is not long, the entire three divisions will be controlled by the petty officials. In the future, things like the goods service a few days ago may not even have a chance to find out.

What is particularly odious is that these little officials do these things with little concealment, they simply come out of the blue, and they don't take the officials of the three divisions in their eyes at all. How could Xu Ping endure this breath? Even if he knew that they dared to do so, it must be the connivance of the ministers in the court, and Xu Ping had no reason to back down.

When Liu Xin took people to inquire about the news, Xu Ping also asked Gao Chengduan to understand the specific situation of the lower level of the third division, and talked for most of the day before he had a preliminary idea.

Due to the particularly serious hereditary and nepotistic relations, many yamen officials in the capital, including the three divisions, are relatives and relatives, and friends and friends form a huge network. The public officials have no way to rise, and they are rushing to make money when they enter the public gate, and no one cares about the national law and people's livelihood.

Over time, this net became closer and closer, and it slowly merged with the high-ranking officials and elites in the capital. Seriously speaking, except in special circumstances, the combination of officials and public officials is indirect, and no official is willing to deal directly with public officials, and they cannot afford to lose that person. But because they don't have direct contact doesn't mean they won't be an umbrella for public officials.

For some high-ranking officials in the court, these organized officials are too easy to use, not only to obtain huge wealth that is inconvenient to sell, but also to do things that they want to do but cannot do. And the public officials were confined to death and could only toss at the lower levels, and there was no threat to the high-ranking officials, and the two sides hit it off.

Collusion between the top and bottom, internal and external collusion, the entire three divisions are like a big colander, and what the goods show is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, if you really dare to check the accounts of each field, the amount will be quite amazing.

This kind of thing can only be known by Xu Ping himself, but cannot be told to Liu Xin and others. They have just stepped into their careers not long ago, and if they want to make some movement, they will overdo it if they are not careful.

Xu Ping looked out the window and was silent for a while, then turned to Liu Xin behind him and said, "You don't have to go to court tomorrow, just say that there is something in the department to ask for leave." Early in the morning, take someone to arrest the public officials who wrote down their names today, especially those who don't look like the officials of the Third Division, no matter what method you use, you must take them back to the Third Division. The military case is also in charge of the three divisions of the prison, before Kaifeng Mansion and Yushitai intervene, you must first figure things out! ”

Liu Xin said respectfully: "Subordinates obey orders!" ”

"As for the low-level officials who were coerced by demagoguery, every member of the yamen interrogated them together, asking them where the news came from and who instigated the trouble. Remember to record the pleadings clearly and make the evidence to death! ”

"My subordinates understand!"

"You tell those low-level officials that if you explain the ins and outs of the matter clearly, the third division may still give them a way out, otherwise, you will give the blame to the people who bewitched them! With the pleadings of these small officials, don't be polite, go and arrest the high-ranking officials such as Zhizhi and Confucius who participated, and wait for me to go to court! ”

Liu Xin promised, and said: "These little officials are extremely treacherous, and they only ask for confessions, but they are afraid that they will not say anything." Xia Guan wanted to send a few reliable people out to find out the news. ”

Xu Ping knew that Liu Xin wanted to send a spy to spy on the news, thought for a while, and nodded: "You just let it go, no matter what happens this time, I will carry it!" (To be continued.) )