Simao was speechless for a long time, in his mind, Wang Daoist was a sloppy, lazy, pretending to be a ghost, a standard old liar. If you want to say that it is a bit outstanding, it is his autopsy skills, but Simao thinks that it is only because he is responsible for the convergence of the ownerless abandoned corpse in Yizhuang, he is well-informed, he has seen a lot, and he is naturally familiar with it, and it is not a big deal. It's like messing around in the casino all day long, seeing too many gamblers in the three mountains and five mountains, listening to a lot of anecdotes in the casino, and experiencing too many tricks. Now it seems that this Wang Taoist priest has a lot of hills and valleys, and there are still many unknown skills that have not been revealed. Just because he told the people in the county yamen like a few treasures just now, it is enough to show that this must be a strange person with a story and a show.

Wang Daoist didn't wait for the admiration on Simao's face to fade, and threw out a bunch of questions: "Do you know who among these people is an official, who is bad, who has a fortune, who does not have a fortune, what do those who do not earn money, and what taboos and tricks do you have?" ”

Simao's face was full of anticipation and excitement: "The ones I deal with the most are the inspection department and the catcher." Gambling and street tax collection are under the control of the inspection department, and the arrest is quickly managed, and then there is the cell head, I have gone in and squatted a few times, except for these people, I don't know what the surname is. Tell me about ........." Unconsciously, Simao moved his ass and almost approached Daoist Wang.

"If you don't believe it, except for the county, county, master, and history, which are appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Officials, the Inspection Department is a military position, and the teaching and discipline are subordinate to the academic and political authorities, and other people's courts do not issue a salary. All of them have to be raised by the county itself. ”

When Simao heard this, he suddenly realized: "I understand, even if it is the emperor, if you send hungry soldiers, you have to let them find their own money." ”

"That's the reason, a county is big, the county master has a lot of things, and he has to raise such a large group of people, otherwise how can he talk about governing the people, these people don't have money, don't eat the people, don't take bribes, and fill their pockets, you let them drink the northwest wind? Therefore, with the seal handle in hand, they have the right not to use it, and it will be invalid when it expires, whether it should be managed by the court or not, or what they can't manage, it is their way to make money. What are the rules and ordinances for? The people say that the king is like a furnace, in the eyes of those who knock on the bones and suck the marrow, the king law is the bamboo pole that can knock the sound of the mountain, and the people who fall into their hands have no wind and three feet of waves, and there are monstrous wind and waves. ”

Hearing this, Simao smacked out a little bit of a voice: "Listen to what you say, if these people's fortunes don't fall on the county master, wouldn't they have to let them do evil?" ”

Wang Laodao said: "The county master is a positive seventh grade, the first year of the Qing Dynasty was twenty-nine taels of silver, and at the beginning of the third year of Qianlong, the amount of incorruptible silver rose to 1,400 taels, and the public silver was 160 taels. What can you do if you are a seven-pin main church? ”

Simao tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally popped out a sentence: "If I am the county master, I will beat a stick and give a sweet date, I will be too dead, these officials will have no income, and they will be hungry at the lightest, and no one will do the errand." But if you let it go, it is equivalent to raising tigers, and these bastards don't even have a tight spell to harm the people, and in the end it is the official reputation of the county lord who is broken. ”

Wang Laodao snorted: "What you can imagine, the county magistrates in this world can think of it, on the one hand, you have to rely on these officials to run errands, and on the other hand, you have no money to support you, except to acquiesce to them to be greedy for ink, what else can you do?" The righteousness and clean air of the county order are certain to die in the end. Not for anything else, only one, not tolerated by the officials, different from colleagues, not in line with the orders of the chief, this kind of county master in addition to going home to farm, is there a choice? ”

"The county order can hold the officials hostage, and everything is easy to say. If the county order can't hold the officials hostage, it will be reduced to fish and meat, right? Simao asked.

"Hijacking the officials, foolish dreams? Not to mention anything else, there are several major items in the performance appraisal of officials, and the collection of taxes is based on the account books of Tian Ding, and the local money valley and household officials are often operated by several generations, before they fall into a fish scale book, the division of fields, and the increase and decrease of people are clear at a glance, but these are the magic weapons passed down from generation to generation by the officials, and they will never be easily leaked. There are also county magistrates who have two or five eyes, bypassing the money valley and the house, and personally going to the countryside to collect taxes, and guess what? You can't collect a grain of grain, let alone the field account book, you can't even find a single human hair, and the time for the imperial court to inspect the warehouse is not waiting for you. ”

"According to what you say, isn't it true that the county master is just an empty seal, and there is no way to control these officials?"

"It's not all like that. In this world, officials and officials are dependent on each other, officials rely on officials to do things, officials rely on officials to take advantage of the coolness, unless everyone scatters in two, the fish dies and the net is broken, no one wants to compare this truth, and they have to put the other party to death, after all, things that harm others and are not beneficial to themselves, or things that hurt the enemy by a thousand and damage themselves to eight hundred, all smart people will not do it. You just asked me why I pretended to be deaf and dumb even though I knew that the corpse had grievances? It's just because you don't know that the murder case is not solved, but it is the fast class, the torture room, the criminal master, the county Cheng and the county zun that are implicated. This corpse is obviously a businessman from a foreign country who was killed for money and abandoned in the ditch. As for the murderer, if it is a local, it's okay, in case it is a wanderer, where can you go to investigate, once the case is filed, the murderer must be arrested within a time limit, Liu Pumao has to be more serious, not only has to put himself in, up to the county master, down to the arrest of the same ya, everyone has to hate him to death. ”

"Then what if a sufferer comes to the door?" Simao blurted out.

Wang Daoist smiled and said: "I'll just say that you kid is a thief and a thief, and you saw the key point at once." Why do you encounter this kind of headless case in the yamen, you have to announce the search for the bitter master, on the surface, it is to let the corpses return to their hometowns, not to be lonely souls and wild ghosts, and to accumulate some yin virtue, but in fact, they are doing superficial articles. The bitter master was lonely, so he asked him to collect the corpse and draw a knot to close the case. Once the handprint is stamped on the official document of the yamen, you should swallow the great dumb loss in your stomach. ”

"What if the bitter lord refuses to make an agreement and has to avenge his grievances?"

"It's very simple, I won't let you collect the corpse, and if you delay it for ten days and half a month, the corpse will be full of maggots, and there is no proof of death, what else can you do?"

Simao couldn't help but take a sip secretly, and then asked, "What if the bitter lord is powerful?" ”

"Then the yamen should be unlucky, and he can only work hard, and he can't solve the case, how can the bitter master give up."

Simao touched the bypass: "So the rule of the yamen is that the headless case should be announced to find the bitter master, but when the time comes, no one will claim the abandoned body, which means that there is no bitter master, and the case can be hastily closed." According to what you say, the best way at that time is to burn the abandoned corpse cleanly, even if the bitter master comes to the door in the future, he will advance and retreat freely. The second is that the corpse is already a bowl of ashes, and there is no evidence for death, so that you will have no evidence to overturn the case, and there will be no future troubles. Yes and no? ”

Wang Daoist poured the last sip of residual wine into his stomach, and said with a smoky drunkenness: "Your kid is fortunate to have a pure nature, otherwise it would be really self-taught to do bad things, fortunately, very lucky." Eat and drink, sleep. After saying a word, he fell to the ground, snoring like thunder in an instant, and fell asleep.

Simao shook his head helplessly, looked around, the candles flickered, the night was deep, he slowly stood up, tore off the tablecloth from the incense table, shook the incense ash, put it on the Wang Daoist, and then turned his head, facing the bright moon hanging high in front of the door, and paced out of the hall.