Probably because he didn't have a good rest recently, Shang Cheng's eye disease happened again this night, and he endured the torture of illness all night, tossing and turning on the kang, and he couldn't fall asleep at all. It wasn't until the rooster crowed that he fell asleep in a daze.

…… Although he didn't sleep well the first night, he got up early as usual. When the red morning glow entered the west courtyard of the Admiral's Palace, he was already sitting in the hall and preparing to deal with official business.

He gently rubbed his temples, which were still aching, and sighed at the stacks of files piled up like a mountain on several cases, alas, things could never be done. Sometimes he wondered how the people who used to sit in this position became admirals. Are they like him, every time they look at this endless official document, they are as cautious as if they are facing a war with no sword and sword, and desperately try their best to deal with it?

Sometimes he was also tired of his nervousness and caution. At such moments, he always had to ask himself in his heart: Why do you work so hard because you do not covet the seat of the Admiral, nor do you covet those allowances? Unfortunately, he has not been able to find an answer that satisfies him......

He sat down in front of a few cases and took a moment's notice, and then began to look through the official documents sent by various localities and the various yamen of the Health Department.

At this time, there were voices in the courtyard. The scribes who had stepped on the hour arrived at the office, and the courtyard that had been clean just now sounded the whispered greetings of their colleagues when they met. Two handymen walked lightly around with large copper kettles. In each room, there was the sound of the clanging of porcelain touching when making tea and shabu-shabu. After a while, the courtyard was quiet again.

When it was almost time, Shang Cheng had already read several of the most important official documents sorted out by the clerks of the six rooms, and most of them were also explained separately, asking them to tell their opinions to the specific handling of the Yamen, and let them deal with them at their discretion. He only kept an official document from Zhu County. He also had to think carefully about the treatment of this detailed document.

The full name of this official document is "Detailed Punishment for the Failure of the Yan Family in Zhu County", which is actually not an important matter, but I don't know what happened, and it was actually included in the priority by the book office. According to the official document, there is a woman surnamed Yan in Zhu County who was commended by the imperial court for her dedication to observing the festival for 20 years just last year, and suddenly announced that she was going to remarry at the beginning of this year, and the matter caused a stir in the local area. In a fit of anger, he took off the woman's "festival woman" plaque, and arrested the woman in prison, and specially submitted a document to the Wei Mu Mansion, requesting that the woman surnamed Yan be sentenced to a heavy sentence of "piercing the cheek, being in a shackle for one month, and being imprisoned for thousands of miles".

The official document was transferred from the Wei Mu Mansion, and at the end of the file, the Wei Mu Mansion's handling opinions were also attached, one by one, they thought that the sentence of the Zhu County Yamen was reasonable and in accordance with the "Great Zhao Criminal System".

Shang Cheng has never watched "Da Zhao Criminal Rule", and he has not dealt with specific cases except for suppressing bandits. He just felt that the handling methods of Zhu County and Wei Mu Mansion were inappropriate.

He asked Fa Cao to call over, pointed to the file and asked, "Have you seen the case of the festival woman in Zhu County?" ”

Facao glanced at the title of the dossier and nodded.

"Does the Great Zhao Criminal Statute have specific provisions for this kind of thing?"

Facao thought for a moment and shook his head. He stood in front of a few cases with his hands down, quietly examining the young overseer. He was still a little confused, and he couldn't figure out what Shang Cheng had done when he called him over.

"Got the same case before?"

Fa Cao frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "I don't remember having one." ”

“…… It doesn't have to be a case in our Yanshanwei. The same thing has happened somewhere else? Is this also the result of processing? ”

Fa Cao thought for a long time, but still shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of the same case in any other place." ”

Shang Cheng opened the file, pointed to the instructions of the Wei Mu Mansion and asked, "Then what does the 'reasonable and compliant' mentioned above mean?" ”

Fa Cao looked at Shang Cheng's expression, and explained after considering the words: "...... Probably, perhaps, this is to say that the sentence of the Zhu County Yamen is reasonable and precedented. After a pause, he immediately added, "I haven't seen the same case." Maybe it's because I'm lonely......"

Shang Cheng stared at the piece of paper for a long time, then raised his eyelids and asked Fa Cao: "Widows are not allowed to remarry on the "Great Zhao Criminal System"? Is there a law on this? ”

Facao immediately shook his head and said no. As the saying goes, "the first marriage is from the parents, and the remarriage is from the own oneself", the widow can't even control the father and mother when she remarries, why should the court stick a lever? However, "the imperial court also has a system, and widows keep festivals for twenty years, and the local government must report to the imperial court to reward them; Those who do not comply with the violence should also be commended. It is necessary to put up a watch, hang the plaques of 'festival women' and 'martyrs', and exempt them from forced labor and taxes......"

Shang Cheng was impatient to listen to his explanation, so he interrupted him and asked, "If you remarry after being commended by the imperial court, what kind of punishment will you repay?" Are there any relevant laws in the "Great Zhao Criminal Code" or other proclamations? ”

"There is absolutely no such law." After a pause, Fa Cao said, "During the reign of Taizu Yide and the reign of Taizong Kaiping, the imperial court also issued two edicts to encourage widows to remarry to accumulate the population. ”

Shang Cheng listened to Fa Cao's explanation of the imperial court's system and decrees on civil marriage, and while examining the documents in his hand, he finally said: "This file will be left here for me." You go and say hello to the Wei Mu Mansion, and say that this case will be postponed for a few days, and everyone will think about it to see if there is a better way to deal with it. One by one, oh, by the way, in addition, ask them to send an official document to Zhu County, and let Zhu County's yamen ......" He immediately found that his idea was not realistic, so he changed his words and said, "Forget it, just tell Zhu County, don't rush to judge this case." After speaking, he put aside the official document first, and was about to pick up another file, when he saw that Fa Cao had not left, he asked, "What, you still have something to say?" ”

Fa Cao hesitated for a moment before saying, "...... Zhu County's Tang County Order, that person is not very easy to speak, and he is afraid that he will not obey the official document of Wei Mufu. ”

Shang Cheng frowned and thought for a while, and immediately remembered what kind of character Tang Tang was in Zhuxian County. He had heard of this person, who was the second place in the palace examination of the Beijing Guild Examination in the eighteenth year of the Eastern Common Era, and was only fourteen years old when he was a junior scholar. It is said that when he was just the official ministry and the county magistrate of Zhu County, he dared to accuse Li Wei of Yanshan covering the sky with one hand in person as "a pedantic and stupid person, and the corpse is just gluttonous"; Although Li Wei was so angry that he fainted, there was still nothing he could do about him.

It's actually this stunned case in Qing County, it seems that things are a bit tricky!

Shang Cheng thought for a while, and then said to Fa Cao: "If you draft an article, just say that it is my opinion, the plaque of the festival woman can be removed, and other punishments are not allowed for the time being, if he insists on the original judgment, let him list the reasons in detail, including the source of the law, the precedent, and the severity of the sentence, all of which must be explained one by one." After using the seal, send it to the Wei Mu Mansion, ask Lord Lu to also use the seal, and then quickly send it to Zhu County. ”

Facao agreed.

Fa Cao walked on the front foot, and Su Zha, who was on duty, came to report, and Lord Zhang Shao of the Weifu came.

Zhang Shao came to report on military affairs. During this time, the Wei government has been doing two things, one is to coordinate the dispatch and coordination of the bandits, and the other is to place more than 200 low-level officers of the Liyuan battalion. After a series of battles for most of last year, a large number of sentinel officers of the Yanshan Left Army and the Central Army who participated in the war were killed in battle or retired due to injuries, and because of the lack of experienced grassroots officers, the combat effectiveness and training level of the two armies declined to varying degrees. These remaining Li Yuan soldiers can just solve the problem.

To Shang Cheng's surprise, Zhang Shao did not talk about military affairs immediately after doing it, but first mentioned a strange thing he had only heard about last night, one by one, a sneaky guy entered Lu Ji's house after dark yesterday evening. He first told the story he had heard as if he had seen it himself, and then described the image of the mysterious figure in detail, and finally he gave his opinion through the mouth of someone else: "...... I heard that the man's walking posture was very similar to that of a senator next to Li Shen. He was also afraid that Shang Cheng wouldn't understand what this meant, so he deliberately added a comment, "You said that Li Shen didn't stay in Duanzhou to train his troops and fight bandits, he came to collude with Lu Ji, what did he want to plot?" His voice fell heavily on the word "conspiracy". After speaking, he looked directly at his young boss in confusion.

Shang Cheng really didn't know what to say. He was laughed and cried by his military deputy. Alas, this Zhang Shao! I don't know where he and Lu Ji got such a deep contradiction, almost every time he meets with him to talk about official business, he always has to figure out Lu Ji's rights and wrongs first......

He endured some unhappiness in his heart and poured Zhang Shao a cup of tea.

Zhang Shao took the tea soup and said, "It is said that when Du was about to die, that person came out of the Lu Mansion. Someone also saw Lu Ji giving him off inside the gate. ”

Shang Cheng stroked his temples with throbbing blood vessels, and asked after a while, "You came here today to talk about this?" ”

Zhang Shao heard Shang Cheng's words with an uncertain tone, so he took a sip of tea like no one, moved Fa Fu's body in the seat, and said, "That's not it." One by one, but you have to be careful of land mailing! These civil officials have always done things in the open and dark, and when people smile at you in front of them, they may have to use knives behind their backs......"

Shang Chengmu didn't say anything with a wooden face.

Zhang Shao was bored, smiled dryly, sat up straight and said, "The people who went to Duanzhou to send troops are back." Li Shen's-stirring stick, he kicked back the dozens of officers we sent over. He was delighted with the nickname he had come up with on the fly. He hates Lu Ji, but he hates Li Shen even more, he has been in the Wei Mansion for four or five years, and he has the title of the head official of the Wei Mansion and the town envoy, and he usually doesn't even have a small chief bookkeeper Si Cao, which is all thanks to the two brothers Li Shen and Li Wei!

"Why?" Shang Cheng asked.

"Li Shen said that the Right Army itself still has a large number of meritorious soldiers who have not been promoted, and there is no need to use Liyuan to make up the number."

Shang Cheng nodded and pondered how to solve this matter. Li Shen's approach is undesirable. Although the Right Army, as the garrison of Yanshan, did not suffer much losses in last year's grassland battle, it lacked actual combat training because of this, and its actual combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Qian Lao Third Division stationed in Beizheng and Fan Quanquan stationed in Ruqi, so it was imperative to replenish the command personnel at the grassroots level. Moreover, the task of the Yandong garrison is not only to suppress a few bandits, they also have a greater use, so it is even more urgent to strengthen training and command......

It seems that he must meet with Li Shen as soon as possible, reveal some of his thoughts and plans to Li Shen, and strive for the support of this old boss. Even if you can't reach an understanding with Li Shen, at least let Li Shen make a difference, don't be a hindrance in this matter!

He said to Zhang Shao: "In this way, you go back and issue an order to the Duanzhou garrison, saying that I will go to Duanzhou to inspect military affairs in the near future, and let Li Shen be sure to wait for me in Duanzhou." He silently calculated the time, "Today is the eighth day of the fourth month, I will leave the day after tomorrow, and I will definitely arrive before April 15." ”

Zhang Shao said: "Okay. I gave them orders in the afternoon; All villages along the way should also be notified. ”

Shang Cheng smiled: "You can arrange it." The order must say that I will not leave until the day after tomorrow. ”

Zhang Shao was stunned and asked, "...... So when are you going to go? ”

"Tomorrow morning."