"Last night, 32 people were arrested who participated in the gambling, and the gambling money and various gold and silver treasures were added up to 217 guan and 135 Wen Zumo, and a number of various gambling equipment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Thirty-one people, including Jiang Dalang and his subordinate servants and all kinds of people, were temporarily imprisoned in the Three Emperors Temple. -- To be systematized, the amount of money and the number of participants is quite large. ”

In the courtyard of the Three Emperors Temple, Li Shen reported to Xu Ping the results of last night's arrest, and his face was extremely unsightly.

If this is according to the crime of theft, although the amount of money involved in the death penalty has been raised again and again, it will be a death if it reaches twenty or thirty times. There are more than 200 times, not only Jiang Dalang, who gambles, is a capital crime, but even a few of those who participate in gambling have crossed the line.

The death penalty is ominous, whether it is the emperor showing virtue or the magistrate boasting about his achievements, it is all flaunted by how many years there have been no death row prisoners and empty prisons. Li Shen is the chief judge of the civil affairs of a state, and if he does a good job, he will have a bright future, not only has the qualifications to serve as the governor of the state, but also leaves a good impression on Li Di, an important minister of the imperial court, and is an important intangible asset.

If a few death sentences are really imposed this time, it will not be a good thing for Li Shen, and it will also affect the reputation of Zhizhou Li Di. But it can't be ruled out, with Xu Ping here, this case can't be fooled at all.

Xu listened quietly and said to Li Shen: "This is already the case, and the most important thing now is not to have any accidents when trying the case." Have you sent someone to Jiang Dalang's house to confiscate his family's assets? ”

"Someone has already been sent, and the two brothers of the Jiang family are already involved in the case, so they should be arrested. The people of the Jiang family know about this casino, and the money earned is used for their family's expenses, so it is not clear that it can be divided. All the assets of the Jiang family are temporarily classified as suspicious gambling funds, and I have ordered this county not to buy and sell, and people from the state must go to see and live in the collection of rent and taxes. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "This is as it should be." However, according to common sense, the Jiang family, as the largest local landowner, cannot rely on the casino to make everything in the family, and there is no need to be too harsh. ”

Li Shen agreed: "Xiaguan remembers." ”

"Also, the Jiang family is not an ordinary family, and most of the land in Manxian County belongs to their family. You have to be careful not to cause local turmoil because of the arrest of the Jiang family. Now this season is the time to harvest summer grain and plant autumn grain, and we must tell the locality, no matter what happens to the Jiang family, don't miss the agricultural time. ”

Li Shen agreed, and immediately sent people to take the people from Heyin County out to calm the people's hearts.

In fact, what Xu Ping was most worried about was that the news that the Jiang family had committed a crime and were arrested spread out, and the people who rented his family's land had ideas in their hearts, which led to the delay in the agricultural time of autumn grain. The Jiang family was arrested, how to calculate the land rented by his family? Is the annual rent still the same, and to whom will it be handed over to when the time comes? All of this can cause turmoil in the hearts of tenants. Some people may even have unrealistic ideas, will the land they planted become their own?

Xu Ping didn't care about Jiang Dayou's family, let alone how much his family's assets were lost, what he really cared about was the stability of the place. A local tyrant dies if he commits a crime, and the most important thing is to deal with the aftermath.

After asking Li Shen about the arrangements for the aftermath of Heyin County, Xu Ping said again: "How are you going to try this case?" Should the prisoners be sent to Mengzhou, or should officials from the prefecture be transferred to the county for trial? ”

Li Shendao: "Back to the system, the lower officials think that it is better to put the preliminary trial in Heyin County." First, the prisoner has already been arrested here, and it is also convenient to find human and material evidence. Again, this case involves too much local involvement, and there is no room for sloppiness. The first two **** have already asked the state to record the army and bring people to take care of some affairs in Heyin County, since there is this case again, let the manager join the army and bring people over again, and try the case in the county together. ”

"That's fine, you just have to arrange it, just tell me anything."

Li Shen promised to arrange the manpower himself.

The trial of the case is a local matter, and Xu Ping only intervenes and cannot interfere too much.

According to the system, the preliminary trial of the case is generally presided over by the manager of the army, and then reviewed by other staff officers, and finally the judgment of the judge is submitted to the general judgment and the governor for approval. Therefore, the general state capital has three places where prisoners are held, the military court under the judge and the military court under the officials who recorded the military and other officials, and the other is the military court under the manager.

The division refers to the separation of the trial officer from the adjudicating officer, and the adjudicator does not judge, and the adjudicator does not try the case. According to the normal procedure, the establishment is complete, and it should be the manager who participates in the military to try the case, the judiciary to participate in the military prosecution, the judge and the magistrate to judge the case, and finally the governor and the general judge to decide together. In fact, very few state governments are fully staffed, and most of the subordinate staff officers are part-time, plus there may be other cases at hand, and the trial and adjudicator are often uncertain, but the procedure is fixed.

It is difficult for outsiders to intervene in such judicial procedures from the beginning, and most of them are not satisfied with the previous trial or feel suspicious when it comes to the next step, and then find other officials to retry the case. In a major case like the death penalty, a general judgment or judge from a neighboring state must be reviewed. As for the officials often seen in Xu Ping's film and television dramas in his previous life, sitting in the lobby, the trial is one, and the court is decided, it does not exist in this era. Even if it is in the center of the capital, even the edict issued by the emperor must follow the principle of division of divisions, and it is impossible for an official to do the trial and conviction together.

In fact, regardless of whether it is a prefecture or a county, the most important work is not to try the case, but only to check at the end.

Now that the person has been arrested, the trial should naturally call the manager to join the army, and Li Shen is only responsible for ensuring that there is no fault in the intermediate process, and his energy should still be put into dealing with the aftermath.

Most of the manpower of the Qiaodao Xiang Army was seconded to Li Shen, and today Xu Ping took a day off and did not go out to inspect the river. Sitting under the ginkgo tree in the courtyard of the Three Emperors Temple, holding a book of Tang poems and reading leisurely.

Before you know it, the middle of May is coming, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the sun in the sky is scorching the earth, making people feel that the yellow earth is almost going to smoke.

Liu Xiaoyi was sorting out a bamboo basket on the side, which was brought over to Xu Ping by someone at home yesterday, mainly for some food. After reading Xu Ping's letter home, seeing that Heyin was a remote place, Lin Suniang specially packed some of Xu Ping's usual favorite foods from Zhongmu Tianzhuang and brought them over. After all, Heyin is 100 miles away from Zhongmu, and it is close to the Bianhe River, so it is convenient to come and go.

When it was almost noon, Li Shen hurriedly came over again and saluted Xu Parallel: "To be systematized, the lower officials still have a matter that they can't decide, so they have come to ask for advice." ”

Xu Ping put down the book in his hand and said, "Just say it and listen to it, and see if I can help you." ”

(Recently, there have been some troubles, and it took a lot of time, but I couldn't write a word, so please forgive me.) (To be continued.) )