Yang Zuren replied: "Shang said: I have eaten Dongpo meat, it is very delicious. ”

"Mingjun!" Zhao Xing shouted in surprise. Because Yang Zuren's identity is Jianzhou, in front of a person like him, he must show a five-mao style, sing the praises of everything and not "vomit" him to death.

Zhao Xing knew that the imperial court didn't want to deal with Su Shi now, so he made up for the missing parts. If the imperial court disposes of Su Shi, then they will also deliberately pretend to be confused...... The little emperor is still naïve and does not understand this truth, and when he grows up, he will also know that he "selectively accepts part of the facts" - this is called "the art of the emperor".

Yang Zuren chatted with Zhao Xing next about some ups and downs, and he briefly stopped on relief for a while, and highly praised Zhao Xing's fearless spirit of going overseas for the people of Hangzhou, bringing back a huge amount of grain, and alleviating the plight of the imperial court...... The two chatted, and the topic turned to the issue of female actors.

Men are like that. As soon as Zhao Xing guided him slightly, the topic slipped into the abyss of lewdness. The two deeply discussed the life of Vietnamese kabuki, and then discussed the customs and habits of the Japanese women, and Yang Zuren decided to personally greet several Japanese women and thank them for their efforts in the performing arts of the Great Song Dynasty...... In layman's terms: when he left, he took four Japanese kabuki with him.

Zhao Xing's gift to Yang Zuren also included six boxes and a long wooden box.

Originally, the rules for the exchange of gifts between officials were "add two" - refill the two gift boxes sent by Yang Zuren when he visited, and add two new gift boxes. But Zhao Xing added more than double the gift box this time. This means that Zhao Xing regards Yang Zuren as a very important and close friend.

However, the long box added made Yang Zuren very puzzled. It should be added in pairs, and Zhao Xing added a large wooden box with a unique shape, which made Yang Zuren's curiosity irrepressible. As soon as he got home, he hurriedly sent his servants to carry the gifts into the house, and opened the large, shiny black wooden box. And Yang Zuren's wife Zhe Shi focused on the other four wooden boxes, and she opened the first wooden box, and immediately let out an exclamation, at the same time. Yang Zuren's side also let out an exclamation. Zhe Shi hurriedly looked in the direction of Yang Zuren, and Yang Zuren ran to her and looked at the box in her hand.

Two exclamations followed.

Yang Zuren's large wooden box contained a complete set of swords, and in the box, there were three long and short knives on a wooden shelf shaped like antlers. There is nothing embedded in the scabbard of each sword. It's just pale green sandalwood, faintly emitting a burst of sandalwood. The handle of the knife is inlaid with gold wire.

The three-handled knife looks simple, but if you look closely, you will find that it is extremely exquisitely made, every detail has been taken into account, and the blade is extremely smooth. It is almost completely integrated, and the curvature of the blade and the smoothness of the scabbard are not flawed from all angles.

The gift box in Mrs. Fold's hand was filled with a box of pearls. These pearls are all round Japanese pearls. Although it is not big, it is uniform and the size is the same - this box was originally given by Yang Zuren, and it contained some fruits.

The box containing the fruit is used to hold pearls, and these pearls are afraid to weigh three catties (Song Jin).

Yang Zuren's curiosity became even heavier, and he hurriedly opened several other boxes and found that one box contained tortoiseshell. A box is filled with spices. A box was filled with ivory carvings – no, seal ivory carvings.

Besides. The other two boxes were filled with fruits—both tropical fruits that Yang Zuren didn't recognize, and the sweet smell of those fruits was mouth-watering......

Yang Zuren nodded and said, "Zhang Yong said that if he goes to visit the departed person, with his relationship, he will definitely not be treated badly, it seems that this is indeed the case." ”

Mrs. Zhe held the pearl in one hand and the tortoiseshell with mottled patterns in the other, and said nervously: "These things, I am afraid that there are five hundred yuan?" ”

Yang Zuren shook his head: "More than that, this box of pearls alone is worth five thousand guan...... Ah, go back and find a few edicts to be sent and string a bead chain for her mother, she has suffered for so many years, and she should also enjoy the blessings of her son. ”

Zhao Xing then rested at home for a few days, after the baptism, began to officially take office, has been in the government for a long time to do chores in the government with the subordinate officials in the government to greet at the door, Zhao Xing at the door of the government for a while, looking at this office, his heart is full of emotion, from now on, this government will be in charge of him.

The walls on both sides of the government are painted white, which is a common procedure for new officials to take office. The walls on both sides of the government are called "powder walls", which are used to post official cloth places. Every time a new official takes office, the court has to allocate a fee for the new official to paint the walls on both sides, remove all the old land notices, and paint the walls white, leaving no piece of paper, so that he can re-paste his own notices.

This ritual is called "whitewashing" and "taking up the new position".

Generally speaking, every time a new official takes office, it is the happiest time for the officials, such as painting the wall, and the price offered by the officials to the new officials is 100 yuan, and this money will be written off in the "new performance" fee, but in fact it will not cost 100 yuan. If the officials bought the lime themselves, it would only cost ten cents. However, this time the new official in Hangzhou took office differently.

In the Song Dynasty, poetry was used to win scholars, and many talented people made poetry beautifully, arithmetic was a mess, and their understanding of world affairs was like that of a three-year-old child. Moreover, under the mechanism of foolish education, most talented people are misled, and their understanding of the world is even less correct than that of three-year-old children. Therefore, when many "talented people" come to the local area to serve as magistrates, they are often hijacked by local officials, and they spend their term of office in a confused and confused manner. Maybe there are people among them who are really doing practical things, but when they understand the local situation and the three-year term is up, it is time for them to leave......

Unfortunately, Zhao Xing, the new official, is a local, and the officials fooled others, but they didn't dare to fool this local hero who dared to cut off the horns of the dragon king during the rain.

Generally speaking, when a new official takes office, the officials have to give the new official a dismissal. So that this new official was willing to let the officials toss and fool in the years to come, but this "new appointment" ceremony was completely different from the original: the chief official Su Shi was originally a general judge in Hangzhou; Oshishi Gao Yu was born as a small official; The official Qin Guan was brought by Su Shi; Zhao Xing is a local again, so the smiles of the officials to greet Zhao Xing are as ugly and ugly as they are.

These officials had also dealt with Zhao Xing before, so there was no need to introduce them, each of them greeted Zhao Xing, and then, Gao Yu came over with a large number of official documents, drove away the others, and he chatted with Zhao Xing. While stuffing the pile of documents to Zhao Xing: "Brother Zhao, I have already handled the small matters in the yazhong for you, and the rest are all major matters, Mr. Qin has already read the file." He made a note after each dossier. If you don't think there's anything wrong with you, just do as he says, just use the seal......

There are a few more here, the stakes are very high, and they all have some beginnings and ends, and Mr. Qin does not dare to make a judgment. But it's up to the people to decide. ”

The Song Dynasty Yamen did not try cases every day, nor did they accept lawsuits every day. Considering that there are often holidays on the first day of each month, the Song Dynasty stipulated: every Friday. That is, the fifth day of each month. Fifteen. For these three days on the 25th, the petitions of the people were received and tried.

Song's "Criminal Rule" also stipulates the time limit for handling cases: those with more than 20 cases are considered "major (major cases)", those with more than 10 cases are considered "medium matters", and those with less than 10 cases are considered "minor matters". In order to improve the efficiency of the judicial organs, the imperial court also made the following provisions: All cases tried in Dali Temple should only be 25 days. The matter is only 20 days. It's just a trifle of 10 days. Local government review cases: major events are only 15 days, and medium matters are only 1 day. It's a trifle of just 5 days.

Most of the stacked cases handed over by Gao Yu have exceeded the 15-day trial period, and this does not violate the local criminal trial time limit, because the Song Criminal Unified System stipulates that when the local trial involves the collection of evidence in other places, or there are too many witnesses to be gathered, the imperial court also gave a grace period of three months, considering the traffic efficiency at that time.

However, in order to increase efficiency, the court also stipulated that if the witness lived more than 1,000 miles away from the official office, the witness would not be summoned in this way.

For Zhao Xing, his appointment to a new official position did not exceed three months, and the term of office for the new official was already half a year, so even if he did not perform his duties during this time, it was still legal, and of course it could not be regarded as delaying the case.

Zhao Xing was full of energy, ready to be a judge in the Song Dynasty, using his knowledge of logical reasoning to judge a case well, and won the title of "Qingtian Lord" in the Ming Dynasty in the Song Dynasty, but after he flipped through the stack of files, he was disappointed to find that there were very few murders in the Song Dynasty, and he had nowhere to show his skills.

Twenty dollars is a big case, what can these 20 dollars do? At that time, the most fertile grain fields in Hangzhou were about five to seven per mu, and the big case stipulated by the law of the Song Dynasty was that three acres of fields belonged to each other. This shows from another side: the Song Dynasty was outrageously safe, like a legendary utopia.

After reading the stack of files, only Zhao Xing hated itchy, he couldn't wait to roll on the ground a few times, and reminded everyone loudly - I earn thousands of times a day, and the time spent reading these files is worth hundreds of dollars.

hated, Zhao Xing really wanted to call those litigants to his eyes, send them twenty times each, and let them go home. How many big cases, twenty silver coins to fight for, who has the leisure to listen to your arguments, it is better to enjoy a cup of tea - my glass teapot alone is worth 20 yuan.

After opening a big case file again, after a few glances, Zhao Xing, who couldn't bear it, finally broke out, and he let out a loud roar in the official office, his voice was full of pathos and indescribable grievances: "Gao Yu, you are a ...... Look at this file, this is also a big deal: a cow ate the other party's seedlings and trampled on the mouth of the ditch, causing the opponent's seedling field to flood...... There are hundreds of people in my family, and more than one cow is slaughtered every day! God, what kind of world is this, two old men take a cow to toss me—or do they toss me legally. ”

Gao Yu reminded on the side: "Brother Xian, a cow is worth a hundred yuan!" That's a huge case! What a big case! Look, it flooded the other party's ten acres of land - now this bucket of rice is worth sixty-seven yuan? Ten acres of land can produce hundreds of buckets of grain. Isn't this delay in agricultural production a loss of hundreds? ”

"Call those two old men, I'm angry! I sent 200 to each of them, just begging them not to sue me, my time. My life, my energy......" Zhao Xing roared viciously.

"Today is not the day of the trial, I can't find those two old men", Gao Yu replied very calmly: "As for saying that the magistrate sends money to the people to complain - leaving people, it is not stipulated in the "Song Criminal Union"! ”

Zhao Xing had nowhere to vent his anger, he took a deep breath and spit out one word: "Forbearance".

He then continued to look at the dossier......

On the first day of his tenure, this job made Zhao Xing very depressed, and he was so busy that he got off work. Hastily finished the work, climbed on the horse with an unhappy face, and went home with Gao Yu.

Officials in the Song Dynasty did not have a work and rest time system, and most officials lived behind the official office. In order to accept official business at any time. Zhao Xing, a local, made a rule on his first day in office: except for the officers on duty, the rest of the officials went to work every hour (about 7:30 a.m. local time) and left work at about 5 p.m., while the night shift staff took turns and enjoyed night shift allowances three times the daily wage. Today is the first day of work. Zhao Xing practiced himself, and when he heard the lotus leak in Hangzhou ring the fifth stroke in the afternoon, he immediately left the mansion without hesitation. Rush to the warmth of your home. Gao Yu, a leftover man in the Song Dynasty, got married when he left Beijing. He has no place to live in Hangzhou, and he is not used to being crowded in the official office, and Zhao Xing's family has many houses, and there is a large garden, and the living facilities are complete and modern. So. He commutes to and from work every day, but he can walk with Zhao Xing.

When Zhao Xing entered the castle. I want to cry when I see the interior of the castle...... Su Dongpo is leisurely today, and he leads a group of monks around chanting poems and drinking. It is said that he was inspecting the West Lake and planning the dredging project by the way...... Yes, monks were special professions in the Song Dynasty, and they also had another identity: water conservancy experts. The dredging projects of the Song Dynasty required the presence of monks, ostensibly because they had the best ability to suppress the floods, and according to their planning and construction, the project was strong and durable - but from a modern point of view, these monks must have been trained in water conservancy engineering in the monastery.

When Cheng Shuang reported Su Shi's whereabouts to Zhao Xing, Gao Yu was talking sweetly to his wife behind Zhao Xing, and the four family members were carrying a strong cow that had just been slaughtered to the kitchen, followed by two widows carrying whole pigs, Cheng Shuang was chattering: "Teacher, the master said that he doesn't have to wait for him for dinner today, and he doesn't have to wait for tomorrow, because tomorrow he will swim to Tianzhu and may come back in ten days." ”

"Heavens! Earth! If you come to the Buddha, Confucius, Mozi, Shakespeare...... The bachelors have all gone into the deep mountains and old forests to study the water conservancy problem of the West Lake, why am I so miserable......" Zhao Xing pointed to the pig and cow that was carried over by him, and snorted at Gao Yu. Gao Yu knew what he wanted to say, so he didn't answer with a smile. Qin Guan, a decrepit man, walked leisurely with a fan, and a sentence made Zhao Xing roll his eyes, and he said sympathetically: "Who told you to bet and lose the teacher?" Alas, resign to fate! ”

Cheng Shuang, the kid, didn't say anything, stepped forward to help Zhao Xing was still there, and asked curiously: "Master Qin, why didn't you go to Tianzhu with your master." ”

Qin Guan shook his fan and walked towards the castle, and said idly: "I'm stupid, my teacher wants to eat a vegetarian feast, but I'm disgusted with that kind of tofu made fake, so I don't eat the delicious food in the yard, and go into the ravine to eat tofu...... Hey. ”

"Vulgar!" Zhao Xing finally found an opportunity to fight back: "Everyone is a good feast in a Buddhist temple, as evidenced by poetry: ...... Why do you say that thing is bland and tasteless, it's so vulgar! ”

"It's not good, why haven't I seen you eat a vegetarian feast?" When Qin Guan said this, he had already gone away.

"Xiao Shuang, hurry up and take out the manpower deployment plan for the dredging of the West Lake, 200,000 people, how much food will be wasted every idle day, I don't know how to save at all", Zhao Xing suddenly broke out, he reprimanded Cheng Shuang, and without waiting for the other party to answer, he turned around angrily and left. Behind him, Gao Yu frequently squeezed his eyebrows at Cheng Shuang.

Winter is coming, and the winter farming time is generally the time for the government to organize water conservancy projects. Cheng Shuang and others have long had experience in organizing and deploying manpower, and a few days later, Zhao Xing rushed to Tianzhu and submitted the project plan to Su Shi, but Su Shi had no time to look, he was busy fighting Zen poetry with the monk, and hurriedly said: "You look okay, just do it, the official seal is in Qin Guan, you have a lot of things, you will hold the official seal in the future...... By the way, today the monk makes vegetarian chicken, and he stays to taste it? ”

"I can't even eat fresh chicken, how can I have spare time to eat tofu chicken", Zhao Xing angrily put away the project plan, depressed to the extreme, Su Shi did not send it, and continued to chat happily with the monk.

Zhao Xing went out of the temple, he didn't have the heart to browse the lakes and mountains, he hurried all the way home, Cheng Shuang didn't answer when he asked, and when he walked into the door, Fang muttered sullenly: "What the world!" I do all the work, I get up earlier than the chickens, sleep later than the dogs, and do more work than the donkeys...... It's unreasonable! ”

Cheng Shuang was surprised: "But the teacher's life looks better than anyone else!" ”

"Sure enough!" A visitor at the gate of the castle shouted: "After many years of absence, I am still so heroic and beautiful, and I really look better than anyone else."

Zhao Xingwen looked at the side of the road, there were two people on the side of the road, one was Zhou Bangshi, the same science jinshi, and the other was a shriveled old man with a few dry and thin appearances, his clothes were white, his knuckles were thick, and his expression was depressed. He saw Zhao Xing jump off the horse, and stepped forward with an indifferent expression.

"Brother Zhou, what are you involved with, do you know what we're talking about?" Zhao Xingchong arched his hand at Zhou Bangshi, and turned to Zhou Bangshi to ask: "This ......"

Zhou Bangshi seemed to be trying to clear himself: "Liren, I'm not here to visit Dongpo Gong this time, this Mr. Mengxi, he is looking for Dongpo Gong, I'm here to play with you." ”

Zhao Xing nodded at Zhou Bangshi: "You guy, it's been more than ten days since I came back before you came to the door, damn it." What to play, I don't like to chant poetry with you, just drink. But I'm busy right now......"

As soon as Zhao Xing said this, he suddenly remembered something, he turned to the old gentleman and muttered, "Mr. Mengxi!" Mengxi - Isn't it Shen Kuo, didn't Shen Kuo name his manor Mengxi Garden? ”

"Sir, but Shen Kuo, Lord Shen Cunzhong?" Zhao Xing asked.