When Li Jing heard that the father of the pit son really had a friend who was an official, he couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that there should be no problem with using Jiang Shi's power to deal with a ruffian like Ergouzi. After all, Jiang Shi is also a formal government official, and the head of Ergouzi is at best the role of the aunt of the neighborhood committee.

Thinking of this, Li Jing comforted Li Liu's two words, and asked the third sister to take care of Li Liu's at home, so he took Li Hao to the yamen to find Jiang Shi.

The third sister sent her two brothers out and walked in the yard, she suddenly said to Li Jing: "Big brother, if it weren't for you, I really don't know what to do." ”

As he spoke, his eyes turned red.

Li Jing touched her head and whispered, "I am your brother, and protecting you is my mission." Rest assured, the big brother will not let you be bullied by anyone in the future, not even the king of heaven. ”

The third sister was still holding back her tears, but after listening to Li Jing's sensational words, the tears suddenly welled up, and she couldn't stop wiping her tears while nodding, and she couldn't even bother to say anything.

Walking to the door, Li Jing instructed the third sister to close the door, and then walked towards the outside of the alley.

Usually, when people in the alley see Li Jing, they will say hello, but after the incident just now, everyone regards Li Jing as a madman, and no one dares to say a word to him, even Liu Ping, the shopkeeper of the 'Liu Ji Tailor Shop' who lives opposite Li Jing's house and usually likes to chat the most, lowered his head when he saw him.

Li Jing and Li Jue brothers walked out of the alley, Li Jue often ran outside, very familiar with the terrain of Donghu County, the two walked out of Baiyi'an Street, and then through the famous Mochi Academy, and then crossed two streets, and came to Chengxi County Yawai.

When Li Jing saw the ancient yamen, his first feeling seemed to be that he had come to a tourist attraction.

According to the "Qing Historical Manuscript", Yongzheng used Yichang to be called Yiling Prefecture, under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou Prefecture, 13 years before Yiling Prefecture was promoted to Yichang Prefecture, and Donghu was placed as a prefecture and county, under the jurisdiction of Changyang, Xingshan, Badong, Changle four counties, and Guizhou, Hefeng two prefectures. Donghu County Ya is also the original Yiling Prefecture Ya, the county Ya and the government Ya are on the same street, not far apart.

There is a big drum on the east side of the yamen, commonly known as the 'big drum for shouting grievances', as long as this big drum is sounded, the magistrate will immediately summon the drummer to the court to try the case.

However, this drum does not mean that you can knock twice to play if you have a case, you can only knock it when there is a major case such as murder and arson, otherwise you will disturb the county lord and flirt with the concubine, and you will be beaten twice at the least, and you will be imprisoned and fined silver.

Small cases are generally written and handed to the Yamen Torture Room, and after being inspected and stamped by the county master, the Torture Room will send a squad to investigate the case. Ban Kuai is equivalent to a modern combination of police and criminal police, and civil and criminal cases are grasped at the same time.

In addition, there is a soap fast person who is promoted to the church and plays the board, which is equivalent to the bailiff in the court; There is also Zhuang Kuai, who is responsible for collecting grain and paying taxes, which is equivalent to the brother unit of the tax bureau, that is, the household.

Ban fast, soap fast, Zhuang Kuai, in the yamen each has its own class room, respectively called fast class room, soap class room and Zhuang class room, collectively referred to as the three classes of the officer.

After the investigation is completed, it will be handed over to the criminal ward for inspection, and then reviewed by the magistrate. If it is a major homicide, it will have to go to the Fuli Province and the Beijing Criminal Department for retaliation and final trial.

Li Jing looked at the big drum and thought of an old saying, 'Since ancient times, the yamen has been open to the south, and you can't come in if you have reason or money'. When he came, he brought with him the only 500 yuan he had in his family.

"Big brother, we can't get in."

Li Jue saw Li Jing standing at the gate of the yamen in a daze, thinking that he was feeling weak when he saw the yamen, so he was a little contemptuous in his words, and he actually forgot about Li Jing's great power in the morning.

Li Jing calmed down, said 'go' to Li Jue, and strode towards the yamen.

There were two soap fasts standing at the entrance of the yamen, each holding a burning stick in their hands, and when they saw Li Jing and the others coming, they immediately came to their senses. A soap quickly said to Li Jing and the others: "Come and deliver the form? Pay 20 wen for errands first. ”

Li Jing was taken aback, and secretly scolded in his heart that this yamen was really dark, and he started asking for money before he entered the door. He smiled, "The two poor masters misunderstood, they didn't come to complain, they came to find someone." ”

The soap who spoke heard that Li Jing was looking for someone, and couldn't help but look at this young man carefully, and saw that he was dressed as poor and sour, and thought that the person he was looking for must not be a big person, so he said in a strange tone: "If you are looking for someone, you need to add another twenty Wen to find someone and twenty Wen to saliva money." A total of sixty texts,"

Nima, in ancient times, people really had a set of extra money, and they couldn't accept it.

Li Jing was very unhappy, but he had no choice but to give the family's food money for several days to Na Kuai.

Soap quickly counted the copper coins, and then gave out thirty pieces to his companion, and asked Li Jing who he was looking for?

Li Jing said Jiang Shi's name, and said that he was the son of his old man, and was about to say which department Jiang Shi was, but the soap snatched his words with a smile, "It turned out to be Jiang Zhudian from the military room, you wait here, I'll help you call him." ”

So saying, he ran into the yamen. About half a pillar of incense passed, and the soap quickly walked to the door with a slightly fat middle-aged man talking and laughing.

Li Jing knew that this middle-aged man must be Jiang Shi, so he hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Senior Li Jing, please say hello to Jiang Shibo!" ”

Li Jue was also busy clenching his fists in a similar way, and said two polite words.

The middle-aged man smiled at Li Jing and the others, and looked at the sky again, "It's almost noon, let's go, let's find a restaurant to eat and chat." ”

When Li Jing heard this, he almost fell to the ground, he only had more than 400 yuan on him, and he didn't know what the price of eating in the ancient hotel was, so he couldn't help but hesitate.

The middle-aged man saw Li Jing's embarrassment and said with a smile: "The two virtuous nephews are looking for Jiang, just to give me face, and this meal is naturally invited by me." ”

Li Jing breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but have a good impression of this middle-aged man.

When Li Jue heard that there was food to eat, his eyes couldn't help but shine, and he subconsciously touched his shriveled stomach.

Walking on the road, Jiang Shi was full of emotion and said a lot about him and Li Jing's father. Li Jing and Li Jue didn't listen to a word, and soon, they came to a restaurant and strode in.

Jiang Shi seems to often come here to eat, and when the shopkeeper saw him coming, he quickly ran over, and said with a smile on his face: "Why is Jiang Ye here, you send someone over to say, and the small one will be sent to the yamen for you." ”

Jiang Shi waved his hand, "Shopkeeper Wang is polite, find me a box, I want to talk to the two virtuous nephews." ”

Shopkeeper Wang hurriedly agreed, and led the three of them to a good box upstairs.

After the three of them sat down, Jiang Shi asked Li Jing and Li Jue what they were eating.

Li Jing and Li Jue are embarrassed to order food and let Jiang Shi call the shots.

Jiang Shi glanced at the dish brand and ordered a plate of fried chicken, a plate of beef and fried green onions, a plate of braised lion's head, and a plate of steamed fish......

Every time Jiang Shi reported the name of a dish, Li Jing and Li Jue couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva in their throats. Especially Li Jing, he has been in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten days, and he has not eaten meat, even in the days when he was recuperating, he only ate two eggs.

Suddenly, he wanted to shout loudly, heaven, earth, Lao Tzu has finally eaten meat!

Jiang Shi ordered a total of eight dishes, four dishes and four vegetarians. After ordering, he asked Li Jing and Li Jue if they wanted to drink some wine.

Li Jing thought that if he ordered the food anyway, people would definitely not care about the wine money, so he smiled and said, "If Shibo wants to drink, the virtuous nephew will naturally accompany him." ”

Jiang Shi was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Li Jing to answer like this, and then asked for another pot of wine.

"Let Shibo break the money today, and another day Li Jing will be the east and invite Shibo to the best restaurant in our Donghu County to eat noodles."

Jiang Shi laughed secretly in his heart, why did Li Yanchang give birth to such a thick-skinned son, and looked at Li Jing and Li Jue again, thinking that he would see the two of them dressing up, they must not be very good, and they just wanted to play some autumn breeze when they found themselves.

He and Li Yanchang do have some friendship, since their sons have come to the door, then invite them to a meal, and then send a few taels of silver, which can be regarded as worthy of friends.

Soon, the eight dishes were put on the table like flowing water, and Li Jing said a few polite words, and then ate with Li Jue.

Like a starving ghost, Li Jue stuffed four or five pieces of beef with a chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth, and before he had time to chew it, he put another piece of chicken in his mouth.

Li Jing saw Li Jue's gobbling appearance, it was inevitable that he was a little sad, thinking that the rebellion could be done slowly, anyway, Lao Tzu was only sixteen years old, and now the main thing is to let the family eat meat at once.

The two of them ate the eight dishes cleanly, touched their bellies with satisfaction, and found that Jiang Shi didn't move his chopsticks at all, and the glass of wine was also full.

Li Jing smiled awkwardly, "Let Shi Bo see it, do you want to order two dishes again?" ”

Jiang Shi looked a little strange, waved his hand and said: "No need, I'm not very hungry, I'll ask the shopkeeper to cook two dishes and send them to the yamen to eat, and the two virtuous nephews will be full." ”

After eating, I withdrew the wine and food and replaced it with tea.

Jiang Shi asked Li Jing and the others: "I don't know what the two virtuous nephews are looking for me." ”

Li Jing told what happened this morning, and said that the two dogs and Zhang Bantou in the yamen were brothers, and he was afraid that the two dogs would find Zhang Bantou to retaliate against them.

Jiang Shi's brows furrowed, and after a while, he said, "Zhang Bantou? The head of the county government's fast class is Wang Dashou, and the area around Baiyi'an is under the jurisdiction of Sun Bankuai. I've never heard of this Zhang Bantou, most of them are Sun Bankuai's assistants. ”

The number of officials in the prefecture and county ranged from 60 to 120, and it was simply impossible to manage the huge population of the county in the Qing Dynasty, so some young men would be recruited and sent to serve as assistants to assist the officials in completing various tasks.

Helpers are also called white servants, which are equivalent to the supernumerary temporary workers invited by the imperial court now, according to relevant records, the maximum number of helpers in a county in the Qing Dynasty was as high as nearly 10,000 people.

In ancient times, there was no pay at all for doing temporary work for the imperial court, and it was classified as lowly labor, and it was not allowed to take the test for fame, but it could be exempted from forced labor, so although some counties had tens of thousands of helpers, in fact, most of them were rich and hopeless wealthy industrial and commercial households.

And the helpers who really do things for the yamen, they don't know a word, fame is a floating cloud for them, and for them making money, eating and drinking, and playing with women is the king.

Most of the helpers have their own ways to make money, such as the Qincha or the Imperial History who came from above, and they would report to the casino brothels in advance and get a considerable reward; Another example is to deliberately ask a few ruffians to go to a merchant house or restaurant to make trouble, and then come forward to drive away the ruffians and hooligans and collect protection money; When assisting the officials in investigating cases and collecting money and food, they can also get a lot of benefits. In short, being a helper is to take advantage of the tiger skin of the yamen.

Note: To explain, some historical materials say that in the fifth year of Shunzhi, Yiling was changed to Yiling. However, the "Qing Historical Manuscript" Zhi 42, Yichang Mansion, Hubei, did not mention changing Yiling to Yiling. Yi: Refers to the ethnic minorities in the east!