When Jiang Zhonghou came to the big drum again, the guards did not come to say anything to him.

But the servants also looked at him, and the officers all knew that if they dared to beat this drum, it meant that it was a homicide case, and if there was a homicide case, it would definitely not be a trivial matter, and everyone was busy!

Jiang Zhonghou was stared at by the officers, he walked up to the drumstick, picked up the drumstick, slammed it twice on the drum, and then turned his head and looked at the officers at the door with a smile on his face.

I heard an errand officer say, "You want to report a crime, and it's a life lawsuit, right?" I can't be wrong with telling you, if you lose a chicken or a duck at home, you dare to beat this drum, I tell you, after you enter the hall, you will have to shoot you for 20 boards, this is not a joke with you! ”

Jiang Zhonghou hurriedly said: "No, no, the villain knows this rule, the villain is really a murder case in the family, the villain has just written the case, so he came to report the case!" ”

The officer who spoke came up and said, "You don't need to call yourself a villain with us, but since you have reported the case, then give me the case!" ”

Jiang Zhonghou hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, then the two drums I just beat are okay?" Do you want to knock louder? I'm afraid that the county magistrate inside won't hear my drums! ”

As he spoke, he handed the form in his hand to the officer.

The officer said: "If you knock very loudly, in fact, there is no need, if you knock very loudly, the county magistrate in the backyard will hear it, and the people on the whole street will also hear it, there is no need for this, this drum you beat is equivalent to coming to report the case, we will report it for you!" ”

The officer took the form, ran into the gate of the county government, ran all the way to the second hall, and presented the letter to Li Rizhi.

Li Rizhi took the form, looked at it a few times, and said: "Isn't this the same thing as the person who came to report the case in the morning, but the things written in these two forms are completely different!" ”

In the morning, he also received a complaint, and the person who came to complain could not actually be said to be a complaint, but could only be said to be a report, and the person who came to report the case was Jiang Zhonghou's younger brother Jiang Laoshi.

However, Jiang Laoshi did not really report the case, but was beaten by Li Rizhi for twenty boards, and then someone carried him to treat the injury, but the injury has been treated until now, and Jiang Laoshi has not come back, so the case has been dragged down.

Why did Li Rizhi beat Jiang Laoshi?

Because Jiang Laoshi is very unruly, and the writing is messy, at the very beginning, Jiang Laoshi ran to the big drum outside the door, and directly beat the big drum, knocking on the mountain, and the guard of the door has already told him that if there is no form, he will knock on this big drum directly, and he will be hit after going to the hall.

But Jiang Laoshi just didn't listen, he had to beat the drum first, then, of course, Li Rizhi was promoted immediately, and after going to the lobby, Jiang Laoshi couldn't take the form, and the twenty boards would definitely be slapped on his ass.

In this era, beating the drum directly without a form is equivalent to playing with officials, and if it is in a big city like Chang'an or Luoyang, it may be accommodating, but in non-Gyeonggi areas, this rule still has to be observed.

Of course, this rule will be abolished after Empress Wu comes to power, because Empress Wu especially likes someone to sue, if no one complains, she will also instruct her henchmen to go down to sue indiscriminately, so as to achieve the purpose of excluding dissidents, then there is no form, and it is not allowed to directly beat the drum and voice grievances, and it has been abolished since that time, but now this rule still has to be enforced.

Why is there such a rule? In fact, this is an unwritten rule, that is, it is not a rule written on paper.

In the early years, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty believed that his Tang Dynasty must be better than the Sui Dynasty of the previous dynasty, and the officials should be more diligent, and they should do some practical things for the people, and should not be like the Sui Dynasty, just because it is not good for the people, causing chaos in the world, and it will only be a few decades of life, and the country will be destroyed directly.

Therefore, the imperial court stipulated that as long as there are ordinary people who beat the drum and voice their grievances and want to enter the yamen to fight a lawsuit, then the officials must immediately rise to the court and solve the lawsuit for the people.

This is a very good wish, and at the beginning of its implementation, the magistrates did their best to implement it, hoping to make it happen.

However, only a few months later, officials discovered that this was an impossible wish.

Because there are a lot of ordinary people who will think, is this true? As long as I go to beat the drum and I have a grievance, will the officials immediately rise to the court to settle it for me?

So, there will be people who go up and beat the drum, wanting to see if this is real or fake?

If this kind of thing happens a few times, it will be like that, but if it happens too often and too many times, then it will seriously interfere with the normal official affairs of the yamen.

And the magistrates are also tired of it, and they really can't stand it anymore, so they simply stipulate that if you have a case, you can beat the drum and cry out for grievances, and if there is no case, if you dare to beat the drum and voice the grievances, then you are careful, I will beat you on the board.

However, after a while, the officials found that when the common people went to beat the drum, they did take the form, but the case was either lost at home, or they quarreled with someone, and they lost the quarrel and suffered a loss, or they had some trivial things in the family.

However, these so-called cases, to put it seriously, are grievances, and they do not need to be resolved by the county order of the presiding officer, or even the assassination of the history, and the magistrates who preside over the local government, their main task is not to try the case, and this kind of thing should be done by their deputy.

However, the imperial court requires that as long as someone beats the drum and voices grievances, then the officials in charge of a place must be promoted, isn't this fatal, even if he encounters a case of beating drums and complaining one day, and asking the county magistrate to find the old hen for him, the county magistrate will also be driven crazy, so can the county magistrate not beat people's boards!

So, later, it became that it must be a homicide case, and there must be a case, so that the drum can be beaten to voice grievances, and other small cases, or civil disputes, must be handled by Fa Cao or the county lieutenant.

However, Jiang Laoshi broke this rule, he beat the drum directly without taking the form, and beat the drum very loudly, so that Li Rizhi was immediately promoted to the church, but after the ascension, Jiang Laoshi said that he had no form and wanted to use dictation.

Li Rizhi was also kind, so he asked Jiang Laoshi to go out to borrow a pen and paper, and then come in to report the case after writing the complaint, and if he wanted to write the complaint in the court, it would definitely not work.

So, Jiang Laoshi went out to find the old goatee pedant and wrote a copy, but he didn't want to spend more money, so he wrote it himself.

However, Jiang Laoshi's level is really bad, he failed to tell the story clearly, and Li Rizhi didn't see it too clearly, so he could only guess.

Fortunately, Jiang Lao made things clear with his mouth, and Li Rizhi immediately sent someone to arrest the Beigong Tai, and then sent someone to Jiangjia Village to carry Jiang Dazhu's body to the county office.

Because Jiang Zhonghou did not return to Jiangjia Village, he didn't know about these things at all.