The Criminal Department is a ministerial-level unit of the Great Song Dynasty, which is in charge of national criminal and prison proceedings and legal affairs. Dali Temple is a vice-ministerial-level unit, nominally a subordinate unit of the Criminal Department, but the main function of Dali Temple is to hear serious and important cases in the country, and has the right to make final judgments, because the importance of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department are comparable.

In Wu Zhi's view, the Criminal Department is the Ministry of Public Security in later generations, and Dali Temple is equivalent to the Supreme Court.

Now that the two ministerial-level high-ranking officials of the Criminal Department Shangshu and Dali Siqing have come to Kaifeng Mansion in person, Wu Zhi, a deputy department-level cadre, should be weak-minded.

However, Wu Zhi is not weak-minded, although he is only a deputy department-level judge from the fourth, but the level of the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion is the deputy national level if the prince is counted, not counting the prince, he is also at the same deputy ministerial level as Jiuqing, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple have no right to criticize Kaifeng Mansion, so Wu Zhi does not have to be weak-minded.

It's just that due to the similarities in the functions of the three yamen of the Criminal Department, Kaifeng Mansion and Dali Temple, the previous Kaifeng Mansion Shaoyin declined, and the big cases handled eventually ended in various requests for instructions from the Criminal Department or transferred to Dali Temple.

Therefore, Lin Lingsu asked Shangshu of the Criminal Department and Dali Temple Qing to come to Wuzhi to dignitaries, which can be said to be to the point, and for the suspects in the case, the Criminal Department and Dali Temple originally had the right to detain.

But what they met was Wu Zhi, and after a disobedience, Wu Zhi sent the two ministers back.

Zhao Ji of the Sun family case was handed over to Wu Zhi to be fully responsible, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple should not have interfered. In fact, Wu Zhi's refutation of the face of the two high-ranking officials is also to show an attitude, from now on, Kaifeng Mansion and Dali Temple of the Criminal Department are no longer habitual subordination

After the two ministers left rather boredly, Wu Zhi sent someone to summon Peng Shun.

"That Taoist Xie Yufan is still honest in the cell"

"Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates have arranged a clean single cell for him, and he will be served with good wine and food every day. He's pretty honest for the time being. Peng Shun said.

"Hmm"

Wu Zhi narrowed his eyes, Peng Shun obviously guessed the wrong leader's meaning, and he thought that Wu Zhi was afraid of offending those Taoist priests, so he naturally didn't dare to snub Daoist Xie.

"My lord, what's wrong" Peng Shun immediately asked in panic when he heard that Wu Zhi seemed dissatisfied.

"Oh, nothing."

Wu Zhi nodded, Peng Shun also mentioned that he was a leader, and it didn't hurt to be wrong.

The corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a wicked smile, Wu Zhi asked, "Is there a good prisoner of Longyang in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Naturally, there are a lot of them," Peng Shun replied in surprise.

From ancient times to the present, there have been endless people in the prison, and it is not surprising that there are more than ten or twenty people in the prison of Kaifeng Mansion.

"Why do adults ask this?"

After Peng Shun asked, seeing Wu Zhi's inexplicable strange smile, he suddenly shuddered, and his eyes became extremely weird.

Wu Zhi squinted his eyes and smiled evilly, but he didn't pay attention to Peng Shun's strange eyes when he looked at him, and he said in a sinister tone: "Pick three or five tiger-backed bears from the prisoners of that good Longyang, it is best to have a rough personality."

"For adults"

Before Wu Zhi finished speaking, Peng Shun immediately said in an incredible tone.

"Phew"

Wu Zhi sprayed Peng Shun with a face foaming: "Fart, what do I want a strong man to do, send me to Daoist Xie's cell, so that they can run in with each other more" Speaking of this, Wu Zhi couldn't help but laugh sinisterly again.

"This is"

Peng Shun wiped his face, with a disgusting face, disgusting with three points of schadenfreude, and schadenfreude with no points of horror.

This Master Wu is really insidious.9 The one who offended him was not me.

"Go ahead."

"Yes."

"Wait"

As soon as Peng Shun turned around, Wu Zhi stopped him again, which couldn't help but make him tense.

"Remember to keep an eye on all the time, and don't hurt Daoist Xie's life." Wu Zhi added.

Peng Shun suddenly felt a chill, this kind of thing has to be monitored and unbearable, he smiled bitterly, he didn't dare to give an opinion, so he took the order.

After Peng Shun left, Wu Zhi thought for a moment, and Daoist Xie's thin skin, tender flesh and weak body and bones were wantonly ravaged and destroyed by the three or five big men, and it was also a chill, touching his nose, Wu Zhi shook his head leisurely. Lin Lingsu's energy is beyond Wu Zhi's imagination, after he left yesterday, the people who came to take the lead today are actually senior ministers of the country, you can imagine how terrifying the pressure behind will be.

Wu Zhi finally felt the tremendous pressure from the capital's public security chief.

It seems that Daoist Xie will be rescued before the time that Wu Zhi expected, there are many powerful people in the capital, and there are scholars, deacons, princes, and princes above the ministers, these powerful Wu Zhi is not afraid of it, and they may not be able to influence Wu Zhi, but the most important thing is not the connections

If they come to intercede with Wu Zhi and don't give face, then they will offend people, and Wu Zhi still wants to be an official

Lin Lingsu put so much pressure on Wu Zhi as soon as he made a move, and Wu Zhi had no choice but to take out his beloved disciple's anger, and he must thank Daoist Xie when he was released from prison, although this kind of thing was more insidious, but even if Daoist Xie was killed and brought back to life by Wu Zhi, he would not tell his master to help him get angry when he was released from prison

Therefore, Wu Zhi has no fear, and men also have the sadness of suffering.

Kaifeng Mansion is not as free as in the Hanlin Painting Academy, Wu Zhi works in Kaifeng Mansion during the day to deal with court affairs, and the time for meetings with his subordinates to deal with business and intelligence affairs is concentrated after dinner, since Wu Zhi took office as the judge of Kaifeng Mansion, every night after dinner, the front yard study is crowded with people.

Brother Yun, Xiao Rang, Jiang Jing, Guan Xia, Bai Sheng and Shi Qian, because they still had some affairs in Bianjing, Xiao Rang did not return to Qingzhou for the time being.

"Big official, the situation is not optimistic, if this goes on for a long time, I am afraid that our local officials in Shandong will never have a chance to be promoted," Xiao Rang frowned at Wu Zhi.

The others, including Wu Zhi, all had solemn faces.

After the first lunar month, the yamen of the imperial court are back in operation, and the first few days of the opening of the yamen are not only the beginning of the year, but also the end of the various work of the previous year. Among all the yamen of the imperial court, it is the actions of the officials in recent days that have attracted the most attention from officials.

Because in recent days, the main busy task of the Ministry of Officials is to evaluate officials, determine promotions, and move to fill vacancies. The Ministry of Officials is in charge of the appointment and dismissal, examination, promotion, decoration, transfer and other affairs of officials below the fourth level in the world, similar to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in later generations. It is the head of the six departments, and has the reputation of "heavenly official".

In the past, the Song Dynasty was a professional official system, and the various Shangshu did not actually govern the affairs of the Ministry, but after Xining changed the law, the six Shangshu actually performed their duties, and now the official Shangshu of the Zhao Ji era is called Pan Gui, who is the descendant of Pan Mei, the founder of the Song Dynasty, although he does not belong to any party, but he can become a heavenly official under the nose of Cai Jing Wang, and maintain a harmonious relationship with these people, just because he is not a good bird.

The upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, the emperor's prime minister's life is corrupt, there are naturally more such officials in the court, Pan Gui has no other hobbies, and he is also greedy for money, the more prosperous the Chinese society is, the more greedy the officials are, and he is the official who determines the honor and disgrace of all the middle and low-level officials in the world, and it is even more convenient to be greedy.

However, after all, this person is from a famous family, and his vision is extremely high, so he not only has to come up with a huge amount of money, but also has to look and temperament into his eyes, otherwise he will not see you at all.

To put it bluntly, this person not only looks at money, but also looks at appearance.

This kind of personality coincidentally makes Da Song not thorough, because his bid is too high, and he looks at his face, which discourages many incompetent officials who want to leave, after all, not everyone in Da Song has so much money, and not everyone is very handsome.

Although Wu Zhi is now a saint and has also obtained a real power position, he is still a lone figure in the Great Song Dynasty and has no foundation, and the most important point in the chaos, especially in the six thieves, is to cultivate a bureaucracy that is loyal to him, to put it bluntly, he is a party.

Ouyang Xiu's book on the party is unashamed to say that "a gentleman is a friend, and a villain forms a party", putting aside the villain and the gentleman, which shows that even people like Ouyang Xiu know the importance of forming gangs.

Wu Zhi has the support of Brother Murong and Tong Guan, but these two can only be regarded as Wu Zhi's "friends", not "party", they will help Wu Zhi at critical moments, but what is the usual command, Wu Zhi is not easy to find them, only by cultivating his own bureaucratic henchmen, when the Yin people fight in the future, someone can charge into battle and send them to death.

In fact, Wu Zhi has long made long-term plans for how to cultivate this "henchman", and the students of Qingzhou College will be his "henchmen" in the future, but it will take a long time for those young people to grow stronger, and now Wu Zhi is eager to establish power in the DPRK, so Wu Zhi is targeting the local officials in Shandong, where he made his fortune.

If the southeast is Zhu Mian's territory, then Shandong is Wu Zhi's own land, although Wu Zhi can not control the local officials in Shandong as freely as Zhu Mian controlled the southeast, but under the operation of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce all over Shandong in recent years, at least the local officials of the prefectures and counties in Shandong have all sided on Wu Zhi's side.

Wu Zhi is now barely counted as the seventh thief of the Great Song Dynasty, he wants power and power, and he has a good relationship with the emperor, and his future is unlimited, and these local officials are really in the Shandong region where Wu Zhi has the deepest influence, and their ideas are very advanced, and they also admire Wu Zhi very much, so it is not surprising that they stand on a team with Wu Zhi.

However, after all, they are local officials, and they have almost no influence on the central court, and they can't help Wu Zhi with anything in the court.

Therefore, since last year, Wu Zhi and the Chamber of Commerce have raised a lot of money, and they have also sent Bai Sheng with a group of officials with a better image and temperament to start to deal with this heavenly official Pan Guipan, the purpose is very simple, that is, to let Pan Tianguan transfer several local officials from Shandong to Beijing to take up positions in the coming year, so that Wu Zhi will have the first batch of helpers.

The first batch will be operated first, and then the power will gradually increase.

Wu Zhi is familiar with the road here, and he quickly got Pan Tianguan, after Bai Sheng grinded his teeth, his temperament and appearance are excellent, quite the style of his descendant Bai Zhantang, and he has become friends with Pan Tianguan.

Originally, this matter had already been decided, and this year, Wu Zhi and they were waiting for those officials from Shandong to enter Beijing to take up their posts, and even Ding Wuzhi, the maid of the mansion, had prepared them for them. But just today, the latest news came from the ministry, and the matter was yellow

Several local officials in Shandong, who were originally scheduled to be promoted, were not only not qualified to be promoted to the central government this year, but even one of them was demoted to the northwest

It is precisely because of this change that every talent in Wuzhi's core group now has a solemn face.

And Wu Zhi's side also learned for the first time that the reason why there was such a big change on the part of the officials was that the culprit was none other than Zhu Mian's bad envoy.

He put Wu Zhi along.

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