In the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion, behind the "mirror hanging" Fu Yin's desk, Wu Zhi was very arrogant sitting on the seat that originally belonged to Fu Yin.

This seat has always been only available to Fu Yin or Shao Yin, even if there is no two Yin in Kaifeng Mansion, the judge can only exercise his power in the side hall, and no judge has ever dared to sit in this position in a grand manner.

And Fang Cai Wu Zhi walked into Kaifeng Mansion with a seal letter in a menacing manner, and immediately after proving his identity, he ordered the governor of the government to summon all the officials and officials of the whole government to come to the lobby to give a lecture, but they were all shocked, so no one dared to say anything about Wu Zhi's transgression.

On both sides of the desk stood Wu Zhi's guards, and Qin Hui stood beside Wu Zhi like a military advisor.

In the lobby under the stage, several magistrates and the chief secretaries of the palace, as well as the six Cao officials who were on duty, had already arrived, standing in this way, and some small officials and officials were coming to the lobby one after another.

The officials who had just come over saw Wu Zhi sitting on the main seat, although they were secretly surprised, they also immediately understood that Wu Zhi was the new judge, and after coming in, they automatically stood aside and didn't ask any questions.

"Master Peng, are you all here?"

Seeing that the huge hall was gradually filled with people wearing various uniforms, Wu Zhi asked the official who was in charge.

This official's surname is Peng, his name is Shun, he is the head of the three officials in Kaifeng Mansion, and he is also the real power figure in Kaifeng Mansion, second only to the judge in the low position.

Peng Shun smiled faintly at Wu Zhi, then turned around and carefully looked at the officials in the lower hall before turning back to Wu Zhi and said, "Lord Qiqi, except for some officials who work in the counties under their jurisdiction, the others are basically here. ”

looks old and dignified, and works safely.

Without waiting for Wu Zhi to speak, Peng Shun said to everyone: "This Lord Wu Zhi Wu is the judge of Kaifeng Mansion appointed by the emperor, and he just took office today, so everyone should not hurry up and see the courtesy."

After Peng Shun finished speaking, all the officials in the hall bowed to Wu Zhi in unison: "I'll see Master Wu"

"Well, we will all be colleagues in the future, and we don't have to be polite."

Wu Zhi glanced around and smiled meaningfully.

"Lord Wu, with all due respect, only Lord Fu Yin and Lord Shao Yin can sit in the position where you can sit, let's go to the side hall to discuss matters," Peng Shun said tentatively.

Wu Zhi raised his eyebrows and replied, "May I ask Lord Peng, where are the current Yin and Shaoyin of our Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Lord Fu Yin is the crown prince, and now he is in the northwest. The post of Shao Yin has been vacant. Peng Shun said unhurriedly.

"Then who is the biggest in Kaifeng Mansion now?"

"Naturally, you are the biggest, Master Wu."

A trace of disdain flashed in Peng Shun's eyes.

"Since I'm the biggest, why can't I sit in this position" Wu Zhi said coldly: "I'm sitting in this position today, you still have someone to come and beat me"

When Peng Shun and the others heard Wu Zhi's words, they suddenly didn't dare to shout, smiled leisurely, Peng Shun changed the topic and said: "Otherwise, let's go to the restaurant to set up a feast for Master Wu."

This will Peng Shun is testing Wu Zhi, in fact, they don't put Wu Zhi in their eyes at all, if Wu Zhi just took office and wants to establish a prestige, then they have already cooperated with Wu Zhi just now, if Wu Zhi is interested, this should be with the beginning of the mud to envelop everyone, and it will be convenient for everyone to do things in the future.

But if Wu Zhi is really "not good" and deliberately finds fault, then Peng Shun and they are not afraid, all the important positions in Kaifeng Mansion are his people, in their opinion, Wu Zhi is a new official is blind, they want to rectify Wu Zhi and ensure that Wu Zhi is shackled everywhere in Kaifeng Mansion.

This is also a problem that successive new officials have to face when they take office, that is, their subordinates are too raw, they don't have the same heart with themselves, and they don't listen to their own words.

It is said that the new official took office with three fires, and the first fire burned all in terms of personnel, otherwise the remaining two fires would not burn at all, and this first fire was not only critical, but also difficult to burn.

"The restaurant is exempted"

Wu Zhi said to Peng Shun with a straight face: "The official family ordered me to retry the fire extinguishing case of Lord Sun Xin's house, without further ado, I think I will do the work first."

"It's time for office work now," Peng Shun asked slowly, his tone seemed to be mocking Wu Zhi for not understanding the rules.

"It's now" Wu Zhi looked at Peng Shun and said, "Please Lord Peng submit the file of the Sun family fire case."

After Wu Zhi's order was issued, everyone below was silent, and Peng Shun even pretended not to hear and left Wu Zhi aside, no one paid attention to Wu Zhi at all, and no one went to get the file.

Wu Zhi does not abide by the "rules", Peng Shun and they naturally want to embarrass Wu Zhi, he has a backstage, and he is a pusher, and the appointment and dismissal are returned to the Ministry of Officials, and the judge can't control it at all, he doesn't take Wu Zhi in his eyes at all.

"Hmph"

Wu Zhi sneered, he knew that Peng Shun was an official in Cai Jing's faction, but if there was really no one to follow his orders, he would naturally have the means to make them comply, but now was not the time.

"Daring, my lord is the judge ordered by the emperor to try this case, if you don't obey the order, don't you want to resist the order" Qin Hui scolded everyone in the hall.

At this time, Peng Shuncai smiled proudly at Wu Zhi, and then changed his fierce expression to a criminal officer beside him: "Do you hear, why don't you go and help the judge get the file and useless waste?"

These words obviously refer to Sang scolding Huai for Wu Zhi, and even the guards under Wu Zhi's case couldn't help but be angry, but Wu Zhi looked indifferent as if he didn't understand at all.

After a while, the case file was taken and put on the case of Wu Zhitai, but Wu Zhi did not look at it, but asked Peng Shun.

"Master Peng, I heard that this case is an accidental fire in our Kaifeng Mansion."

"Since Master Wu knows, why do you ask this question?"

Peng Shun stretched out his voice, after the temptation just now, he felt that Wu Zhi was not enough, and his tone was full of contempt.

"Then what is the basis for Kaifeng Mansion," Wu Zhi said very politely.

Peng Shun said impatiently: "Naturally, it was a judgment after the autopsy, and the on-site investigation and later evidence collection did not find anything suspicious."

"Then how did you judge that the fire was accidental?"

Listening to Wu Zhi's tone gradually softened, Peng Shun unabashedly smug, and there were also several officials and officials below who looked at him knowingly, they were secretly laughing at Wu Zhi's hardness just now was too naïve, and they cooperated obediently, so everyone could have a good life.

"Zhang Tixing, you say listen to Master Wu."

Peng Shun waved his hand, and immediately a criminal officer came out of the queue below, explaining to Wu Zhi: "My lord, the autopsy of any fire is the most difficult, because the fire burned the corpse, and all the traces were destroyed by the fire, and we can only judge from one or two places whether the corpse was killed by accident, one is whether the corpse is intact, and the other is whether the corpse has inhaled the smoke and ash of the fire in the mouth and nose. ”

After this Zhang Ti criminal officer finished speaking, Wu Zhi nodded slightly, even if medicine was so developed in later generations, it was nothing more than these two points of examination for charred corpses.

Zhang Tixing continued: "After the fire, our Kaifeng Mansion inspected the corpses of the fourteen members of the Sun family, although they were burned beyond recognition, but the corpses were generally intact, and there were fourteen charred corpses, and there was a large amount of soot in each mouth and nose, so we Kaifeng Mansion concluded that the case was an accidental fire after the investigation had no other evidence. ”

This remark is logically correct, reasonable, and unrefutable.

"Is it?"

After hearing this, Wu Zhi asked leisurely, his tone full of suspicion.

"Hmph, don't you suspect that our Kaifeng Mansion is cheating," Peng Shun immediately asked rhetorically.

Kaifeng Mansion is an important institution in the imperial city, and no one dares to falsify even if it has ten heads, and no one dares to instruct it to cheat in a case involving human life, not to mention that this case is still a case that attracts national attention and is related to high-ranking officials in the imperial court.

"It's not that I suspect that I'm fake, but that I suspect that your level is not enough."

Wu Zhi smashed the startled wood, and his eyes scanned everyone coldly. What kind of goods these people are, Wu Zhi has long known clearly from the investigation of Shi Qian.

"Hehe, we don't have the level, but the adult will personally test it," a small man in the hall made a yin and yang strange aura.

"I'm not going to test it." Wu Zhi stared at the puppet and said, "But there is one person who has already checked it for me" After speaking, Wu Zhi looked down and asked, "If there is a person named Song Gong among you, please come out of the queue, and if you are not there, please call me for help." ”

Wu Zhi knew that there was indeed an official named Song Gong in Kaifeng Mansion, which Wu Zhi paid special attention to in the information given by Shi Qian, this person was previously in the state government as a magistrate to investigate the case, it is said that there are very good autopsy methods, and no clues can hide from him, but after being transferred to Kaifeng Mansion, he was transferred to a small scribe because he was upright by nature, responsible for sorting out documents.

In the information of Shi Qian, it is specifically mentioned that after the fire case of the Sun family, Song Gong overstepped his duty to do an autopsy, but it was discovered, for which he was also punished with a spine rod, and he was also the only one in Kaifeng Mansion who firmly believed that the fire case was murder, so Wu Zhi would record this person.

He insisted so much, thinking that he had some clues.

"Song Gong is just a little scribe who doesn't enter the stream, not here"

"Then call me"

Before Peng Shun finished speaking, Wu Zhi drank a sentence, and he had to snort coldly and send someone to call Song Gong over.

"Song visits Master Wu."

Song Gong was a very thin young man, and after seeing Wu Zhi, he was neither humble nor arrogant.

"Song Gong, I heard that you have examined the corpse of the Sun family's fire, and now this official wants to retry this case, let me ask you, what is the result of your examination" After speaking, Wu Zhi added: "You have something to say, but you don't have to worry about anything, that's right, this official promoted you to the chief criminal officer of Kaifeng Mansion"

As a judge, it is not difficult to appoint a criminal judge.

Song Gong looked at Wu Zhi, and then bowed: "Song has one thing to say, not for an official position." In the next thought, the Sun family fire case was a murder, not an accident"

"Song Gong, don't talk nonsense" Peng Shun immediately reprimanded angrily, overturning his verdict on the case, which was very bad for him.

"I only examined the next fourteen corpses, but I found a key problem" Song Gong ignored Peng Shun's angry shouts at all, and said bluntly: "The key to the problem is the soot in the mouth and nose of the corpse, but anyone who is burned by fire will indeed have a large amount of soot in his mouth and nose after death, but these soots will definitely dissolve in people's saliva, and after being burned by the fire, they will be clumpy, and will not be scattered."

Song Gong turned around and looked at everyone in the hall, as if he was venting his frustration that had been suppressed, and said sonorously: "And the fourteen charred corpses in the Sun family case have scattered soot in their mouths and noses, which is obviously deliberately done by someone after the fire" Saying, he turned around and bowed to Wu Zhi and said: "Therefore, I think that the Sun family fire case is a murder, and I implore you to investigate."

"Good"

Hearing Song Gong's inference, Wu Zhi couldn't help but clap his hands and shout, and then looked at Peng Shun and those officials in the hall who were all dumbfounded, and even turned pale, what Song Gong said was a good verification that the pigs couldn't help but be unrecognized, and there was such a big loophole in the case, they couldn't escape the blame.

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"The tragedy of the court officials, you can be convicted of such a hasty verdict"

Wu Zhi slapped Tang Mu angrily, and scolded Peng Shun and the officials below.

The handle has been found, and Wu Zhi below is starting to show his fangs to them and start the purge that takes office

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