Speaking of this, Guo Shan said: "My cousin happened to be working in the Criminal Prison Department on Henan Road, although today is a day off, but he is a workaholic and should continue to work in the yamen." ”

The three of them immediately decided to turn the car around and go to the Yamen of the Criminal Prison Department on Henan Road.

Henan Road Tidian Criminal Prison Division is actually a special yamen, because Kaifeng Mansion is the capital of the Great Song Empire, if each level is set up according to the design of the political system, then it will inevitably have the feeling of stacking beds and frame houses. Therefore, the design of the five-level yamen is often reduced to two or three levels in Kaifeng.

In the case of the procuratorial system, for example, the punishment yamen at the county level and below under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture have been abolished, so that people who feel unfair about judicial or administrative actions will feel as if they are being taken seriously, or at least temporarily hopeful, if they want to complain.

Prosecutors are not easy to do, if they do too much, it is easy to offend people, and if they do less, they are easy to be accused by Qingliu of being a corpse vegetarian meal. Sometimes it's really a rat caught in the bellows, and it's infuriating at both ends.

Therefore, at the local level, the grassroots prosecutors everywhere (the standard name is the public prosecutor for criminal prosecution) still has three life-saving hairs of Sun Wukong: the right to approve arrest, the right to plea bargaining, and the right to release on bail pending trial. These three weapons of mass murder have made it possible for the grassroots prosecutors to deal with the vast majority of troubles.

Guo Shan took his two friends to the front of the Yamen of the Prison Department on Henan Road, Cheng Qi noticed that there was a unicorn made of bronze in front of the door, so he asked; "It's ...... Hedgehog? ”

"Yes, the pig has horns, and it can't be straightened. Therefore, it is used as a synonym for administering justice. ”

"And what about the magistrate?"

"The referee is in the middle of the referee, impartial. Therefore, we should use the truth as a symbol. ”

While exchanging the subtle relationship between artistic symbolism and cultural meaning, the three Xiaolangjun walked into the main gate of the Yamen of the Punishment Division. There is a pair of cowhide drums at the main entrance of the yamen, which are said to be the remains of the Dengwen drums. As early as the Sui and Tang dynasties, if there was a grievance, you could knock on the Dengwen drum to complain about the grievance, but there were soldiers around the Dengwen drum, and it was not something that could be knocked casually.

In fact, as long as the relationship between superiors and subordinates exists, the contradiction between the supervisor and the supervised will always exist. In the era of absolute monarchy, imperial power is the source of all power, whether it is administrative, judicial or supervision are authorized by the imperial power, for example, the most famous Bao Longtu Bao in the Great Song Dynasty, the reason why he has the right to knock out the emperor and behead the traitorous ministers, or because of Emperor Renzong's authorization to him, once the emperor was deceived by the adulterous concubine and took back this right, Bao Bachelor couldn't even clean up a county order.

Fortunately, in this era, the source of power of the supervisor comes from the law rather than any political entity, whether it is administrative supervision or judicial supervision, it is expressly authorized by the law, no matter how the political party structure changes in the four levels of parliament, and the contrast between the government and the opposition is divided into three worlds or seven heroes competing for hegemony, it will not affect the independent use of supervision power in the hands of the transcendent supervisor - of course, this is only the beautiful vision of the legislator, in fact, in concrete life, sometimes it is not perfect. However, on the whole, the current system of the Criminal Division, as a legal supervision system that performs its duties in accordance with the law and operates independently, and the "last night watchman" of the legal kingdom is already much higher than the blue sky in history, which is completely pinned on the discovery of personal moral standards and conscience.

Guo Shan has been here many times, and he has skillfully greeted people all the way and called him brother. Cheng Qi wanted to ask him: "How many times have you been here, why are you so skilled?" ”

Fortunately, before this became the scene of Bai Xue, Guo Shan had already led them to a wing room in the side hall on the right, he pushed the door open and glanced at a thin slit before opening the door: "Uncle Cousin, I'm still busy." ”

There were several tables in the room, and many more cabinets, both cabinets and tables, were piled with brown paper document bags. After this mountain of case files, a middle-aged square-faced man who was about forty years old just raised his head: "Xiaoshan...... Come, sit down, sit down. What are you doing here. ”

Guo Shan and the two classmates found a place to sit down and talked about last night's chivalrous deeds. Uncle Guo Shan said: "Young man...... Flesh and blood bravery. You are all meritorious people, and in the future, you will go to that kind of place less, and go less. Characters like actors rarely make friends. ”

Guo Shan was stunned: "Uncle, it's too different to talk like this, vertical is vertical, horizontal is horizontal." If you do something wrong, you should be beaten, and if you are insulted, you should be protected. I'm not wrong. ”

"Everyone is equal before the law, but some people are more equal than others," his uncle said. Have you ever heard such a joke - one more donkey makes you a member of parliament, and a dead donkey makes you put forward by parliament, now please answer, is it the donkey or you, voting for the prime minister in the parliament? The answer is – the prime minister is the donkey. ”

Uncle Guo leaned forward and leaned back because of his jokes, and Cheng Qi and the others also laughed a few times with him. When the uncle stopped laughing, he added, "I'm afraid it's still a joke for you students, but at my age I should understand that it's not a joke." If you can't tell which ones are jokes and what aren't jokes when you reach my uncle's age, I'm afraid it's really going to be a joke. ”

Guo Shan hurriedly diverted the topic: "Then uncle will take us to visit the Criminal Division." ”

His uncle smiled and shook his head: "I know you want to peek into the mysteries of power, but unfortunately you can't see it here." You should go to the Fourth Council - where you learn faster and more. ”

After the three of them said goodbye, they went to the Fourth Council - this is a landmark and a scenic spot, and many out-of-town business travelers come to Bianjing to visit the majestic Fourth Council venue. It was a Tang Dynasty-style building, and it is said to be a reference to the drawings of the Daming Palace - as for where the drawings came from, Guo Shan is not clear, but the streets and alleys say so. There is a theory that Yang Guifei was brought to Japan, and then a Japanese emperor and general sent it to the imperial government.

As for how ridiculous this statement is, Huang Yang didn't bother to scoff at it. However, he also had to admit that from a distance, the building was indeed full of powerful beauty, and the foundation deliberately raised by the architect made the whole building more majestic, which could better reflect the meaning of being the foundation of power.

At the door of the fourth-level meeting was a row of eight-foot-tall mighty guards, dressed in steel armor that had now been obsolete, but they looked more powerful than the tweed uniforms.

The venue of the fourth-level meeting was open to the public, but there was a small requirement: people in disheveled clothes and monks and Taoists were not allowed to enter. The former is mainly to screen out the poor and use it as a relief hall to seek refuge, while the latter is a tradition that originates from the tradition of Chinese civilization under the king. Of course, the four-level council had the right to decide the religious policies of the Great Song Empire and its overseas colonies, but no matter which sect had the obligation to accept it, it had no right to refute it. This is called secularism, secular government. Politics sees religion as a tool, not the other way around. The Song people believed that this was the fundamental reason why several civilizations in the East and the West, which had similar origins in time, but now the East illuminates the West.