As the saying goes, when a new official takes office, he has to burn a few fires when he takes office, so as to show his ability and determination to eliminate the evils of the times, so as to show his official authority, and then of course everything will be the same as before. To put it bluntly, it is to give the subordinates a dismount and let the subordinates bow down and obey the orders, so that the officials will be more comfortable in the future.

But Li Sanjian's new official took office, and before he started to burn the fire, his subordinates sent Li Sanjian a "charcoal"...

This "fire coal" is a valuable gold pixiu.

When a new official takes office, his subordinates always want to give some gifts to express their congratulations, and at the same time, they also hope that the new official can take care of them, at least when they should close their eyes. This is the so-called "official respect", and then there are "monthly respect", "annual respect", "festival respect" and so on.

Now the "official respect" given by Zhou Fanggeng, the Confucian official in the right hall, is a valuable gold pixiu, which has far exceeded the amount of the usual "official respect".

Li Sanjian had only heard about these things before, but he had never been in contact with them, so Li Sanjian was a little confused.

Li Sanjian didn't know whether to accept it calmly or politely reject it, or half-push and half-push, and want to refuse and welcome?

At this time, what Zhou Fanggeng said was congratulating Li Sanjian on his new marriage, it was a congratulatory gift, so it was not a bribe to the official, at least not on the surface, and at the same time, when Li Sanjian got married, he also received some congratulatory gifts, so Li Sanjian was a little difficult to refuse.

If Li Sanjian refuses and asks Zhou Fanggeng to take it back, it will definitely make him unable to step down, and he will even be resentful, so what will Li Sanjian do as an official in the future?

You must know that Li Sanjian did not start from the lowest level of Kaifeng Mansion, but passed the imperial examination, and he was directly promoted by the imperial court to be the prison magistrate of the right hall of Kaifeng Mansion, so Li Sanjian is not familiar with the affairs of the right hall of Kaifeng Mansion at all, let alone understand other affairs of Kaifeng Mansion.

Therefore, Li Sanjian needs to rely on these old officials and cadres at this time, and he needs them to handle the daily affairs of the Beijing Division.

Song Tokyo Kaifeng Mansion is the capital of the world, is the eight wilderness contend, all the countries are salty, the economy is prosperous, the population is large, at this time the population of Kaifeng Mansion is about more than one million, than the Han and Tang Dynasties, ten times its people.

The large population has caused the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion to be busy, and all kinds of things are as many as cattle hair every day, only the daily fights and fights, and the Kaifeng Mansion can receive hundreds of cases every day.

Therefore, the Kaifeng Mansion is divided into two halls on the left and right, and only on the left and right military patrol courts, six Cao, etc., each of whom is in charge of a stall, co-governing the ministry and handling daily complicated affairs. At present, Lai Yongnian, the judge of the right hall, is in charge of household registration and taxation, and Li Sanjian, the magistrate of the right hall, is in charge of punishment and prison lawsuits.

At this time, Lai Yongnian, the judge of the right hall, returned to his hometown and went to worry about it, so the matter of the right hall at this time was basically pressed on Li Sanjian.

Therefore, at this time, Li Sanjian must rely on Zhou Fanggeng and other subordinates, otherwise he will not be able to break Li Sanjian into eight petals.

But if he accepted such a generous gift, Li Sanjian was extremely uncomfortable.

Li Sanjian is unwilling to be a person like Hai Rui, the duke is selfless, jealous and hateful, jealous and hateful so that he cannot tolerate the peak, colleagues, and subordinates, and the duke is so selfless that his daughter starves to death.

But Li Sanjian is unwilling to be Hai Rui, nor is he willing to be Zhao Gao of Qin, Liang Ji and Wang Wenshu of Han, Yan Song of Ming, Yan Shifan and his son, and he is not willing to be a corrupt official who loves money like his life.

At this time, he just took office and accepted generous gifts from his subordinates, so what happened to Li Sanjian? Just took office and were you going to be dragged into the water by them? Be in the same league with them?

You must know that they have nothing to do and are diligent, they must have something to ask for themselves now or in the future, so they will give such a heavy gift, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

As the saying goes, eating people with a soft mouth and taking people with short hands, if Li Sanjian accepts their generous gifts, then wouldn't Li Sanjian be somewhat controlled by others? This is also what Li Sanjian does not want.

At the same time, Li Sanjian already understood what period he was in at this time, and it would be a moment of chaos in the world.

There are huge greed, power thieves, filthy officials, thieves, it is collusion between the top and bottom, grabbing the state treasury, scraping the fat of the common people, only the wealth is swallowed, and the bottom is known, so that the splendid rivers and mountains are given to others.

Li Sanjian hated it deeply, so how could he be in the same league with them at this time?

At this time, Li Sanjian was neither accepting nor refusing, he was in a dilemma and hesitated, which made Zhou Fanggeng, who was standing aside and laughing, puzzled.

Is he receiving it or not? Of course, it is the best to accept it, and it is not unacceptable not to accept it, anyway, Zhou Fanggeng gave such a generous gift, and his heart was painful, if he didn't accept it, then he had other ways to make him comply, Zhou Fanggeng said secretly in his heart.

"Is there anything else?" After thinking about it for a long time, Li Sanjian covered Jin Pixiu, who made people feel extremely tempted, with an official document, looked up at Zhou Fanggeng and asked.

Temporarily deposited here for the time being, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart, and then find a way to properly deal with this matter.

Or turn it over to the state treasury? Li Sanjian tried to suppress his desire to take this tempting gold pixiu for himself, and thought secretly in his heart.

Jin Pixiu is worth a lot of money, ordinary people can't withstand the temptation, and Li Sanjian is the same, it is said that Li Sanjian still has a large family to support.

But Li Sanjian struggled in his heart to throw out the idea of taking this golden pixiu for himself.

A gentleman loves money and should take it in the right way, how can he be tempted by this at this time? Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart. No. 3 Chinese Network

"It's okay, it's okay, you're busy." Zhou Fanggeng thought that Li Sanjian had accepted the heavy gift, so he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and smiled: "But there are a few important things that need to be handled immediately, I don't know if the minister has time at this time?" ”

"Bring it." Li Sanjian put down the other papers, stretched, yawned and said.

It has been more than four hours since Mao Shi painted Mao, and it is almost time to have lunch, Li Sanjian has been sitting in the right hall and has not moved, and he feels some backache.

Yesterday's wedding night, Wushan rain clouds doubled... One night of romance, Li Sanjian has not slowed down...

"Yes, yes, go get the little ones." Zhou Fanggeng hurriedly rushed over to get a few case files, and respectfully placed them on the wide table in front of Li Sanjian.

Li Sanjian glanced at Zhou Fanggeng again, and then took a few copies of the case files of the military patrol court and the government court and looked at it carefully.

If there were no previous events, and he was not familiar with the situation when he had just taken office, he might have signed and sealed it after a rough look, but what happened above, Li Sanjian looked at it very carefully.

One of the case files made Li Sanjian look at it a few more times.

This case is a rape case, it is said that there is a Bi surname outside, Bi Yuan has an elder brother, the two brothers came to the capital from Datong Mansion more than ten years ago, and then begged for a life in the capital, through the efforts of the two brothers for more than ten years, they have created a large family business, and have a restaurant and several workshops in the capital.

Seeing that the days were getting better and better, but at this time, my brother was seriously ill and died soon, leaving his Hun family with a daughter, an orphan and a widow.

The elder brother's widow and daughter lived with Bi Yuanwai, and after a long time, there was a conflict, that is, Bi Yuanwai accused the widow of behaving lewdly and degrading the woman, but the brother's widow in turn sued Bi Yuanwai for seeing lust and forcibly defiling herself, so the two sued Kaifeng Mansion.

Outside the staff? Li Sanjian was a little disgusted when he saw the word "outside", is it because of the rich and unkind? Bullying orphans and widows with some money?

"How?" Li Sanjian asked after looking at it.

"If you push back the official minister, the military patrol court will be cut off as a spine cane seventeen, and the thorn will be matched with Caizhou." Zhou Fanggeng replied.

The military patrol court is the left and right military patrol court, and the government court is the Kaifeng government division record to participate in the military, also known as the "government division", is the Kaifeng government government "three courts", generally speaking, the left and right military patrol court to decide criminal cases, and the government is responsible for deciding on household registration, marriage, civil disputes and other civil affairs. The division of responsibilities between the government and the left and right military patrol courts is not so clear, and it should be said that this case was decided by any of the "three courts."

"Huh? Why such a lenient sentence? Li Sanjian asked suspiciously.

According to Song Law, the case of raping his sister-in-law like this will definitely be a heavy sentence.

The traitorous brothers and wives, the brothers and their wives flow two thousand miles, and the strong are hanged. That is, those who commit adultery with their sisters-in-law or brothers' wives are to be given at least 2,000 li, and in the case of rape, they are to be hanged to death.

"Push back the words of the official" Zhou Fanggeng replied when he heard this: "His ancestors have grace, so they can atone for their capital crimes, seventeen canes, and stab Caizhou." ”

"Ransom copper? I see. Li Sanjian nodded.

Ransom or "atonement", that is, to atone for sins with property, that is, to pay a certain amount of money to redeem the punishment.

Song's atonement was strictly limited, and not everyone could use money to atone for their sins.

According to the Song law, there are five situations in which redemption can be used.

One of them is the redemption of privileges, that is, the imperial relatives, the royal relatives, the officials of the court above the seventh rank or the ancestors have the grace of the shadow, all apply the redemption, which is also called "the atonement of the official", and they ask to resign from their official positions and forgive their sins.

The second is the mourning of widowhood, which can be atonement for the old and the young.

The third is negligent attenuation, which can be applied to crimes committed by negligence or infatuation.

The fourth is the atonement of doubt, that is, if there is insufficient evidence to convict, the atonement can be made.

The last one is that it depends on the situation... Redemption depends on whether it is redeemed or not. Generally speaking, under such circumstances, especially for some serious crimes and capital crimes, the emperor will decide whether to live or die.

The Song Dynasty also had strict restrictions on redemption, such as non-redemption for the ten evils, non-redemption for the fifth rate, non-redemption for male thieves and female rape, and so on.

However, although the Song law had many restrictions on ransom, the emperor could intervene arbitrarily and decide whether or not to apply the ransom.

At present, Li Sanjian's official rank is from the seventh grade, and according to the redeemable seven-grade official, it is only one step away... However, the premise of atonement is that you must have money, and it is another matter if you don't have money.

Li Sanjian didn't speak again since then, but just took the case file and looked at it carefully, which made Zhou Fanggeng, who was standing aside, puzzled.