Lord Li was not sent by the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Command Division, and there was only a lonely inspector left with the title of Imperial History, so he could only report to the Yamen of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate is also famous in the national dynasty, and it is a holy place for low-grade Qingliu officials to raise hope together with the Hanlin Academy and the Six Branches, and there are countless places where there are ideals and aspirations for officials.

However, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is responsible for supervision, is different from other yamen, and its internal dignity and inferiority are not so clear.

The head of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court has the Imperial History of the Zuodu, the Imperial History of the Left Deputy Capital, and the Imperial History of the Zuodu, and nominally subordinate to the 13 provinces such as Henan Province and Shandong Province, with a total of 110 superintendents.

However, the supervision business of the thirteen provinces is carried out independently, without interference from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and each province can directly march to the Son of Heaven without going through the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The imperial history of each province often claims to be a certain imperial history outside, and does not add the words of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. In addition, the canonical system also clearly stipulates that the head of the Imperial Court and the superintendent of the imperial history can supervise and impeach each other.

The control of the Thirteen Dao by the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can probably only be reflected in two aspects, one is the dispatch of the difference, and the other is the return to the Dao investigation. Unlike other yamen, the court officials had decisive power over their subordinates.

Therefore, when Zhao Liangren served as the imperial history of the left capital, after Li You was besieged by the imperial history, he slandered Zhao Zongxian's control was too poor. In fact, Zhao Liangren was really wronged, whoever will be the imperial history of the left capital will not be able to turn the entire Metropolitan Procuratorate into his own hall.

On the second day after Li You and the eldest princess of Guide reconciled, he took all kinds of diplomas and left the house to perform his duties in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He spent most of his time in Beijing in the middle and east of the city, but this time he was heading west.

Because of feng shui reasons, unlike most ministries and offices, the Metropolitan Procuratorate Office was not built in the middle of the city, but in the west of the city. Living next to each other in Xicheng, there are also the Criminal Department and Dali Temple.

The Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple are collectively known as the Three Law Divisions of the National Dynasty, and there is a high wall built around the three yamen to show the forbidden place of the Law Division, and to isolate irrelevant pedestrians.

One more thing to say here. The Imperial Procuratorate not only has the function of supervision, but also has judicial functions, and is listed as the two major judicial yamen along with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. However, the division of labor is slightly different, and regular cases are generally tried by the Criminal Department, but many hand-picked serious cases, especially official cases, are tried by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After more than a quarter of an hour, Lee Woo arrived at the Metropolitan Inspectorate in Gyeonggi-do Street. After passing the gate, the report came up. Then the chief officer of the secretary office (that is, the miscellaneous officer) came out to greet him and led him to continue his way inside.

It wasn't until under the eaves of the lobby in the middle of the back that Li You was passed in after another reporting process.

In front of the screen in the hall and behind the public case, there was an old man with three locks of long beard and a round face, although he was not familiar with it, but of course Li You knew that this was the Imperial Shi Jiang Xinyue of the Zuo Capital. One step forward. He bowed his hand and said: "Xia Guan has seen Dazhongcheng." ”

Jiang Zongxian hesitated for a moment, sat down and raised his hand to return the salute.

Regarding Li You's arrival, Jiang Zongxian was very strange in his heart. Not to mention the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, in the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, the right prefix of the imperial history is always a permanent foreign mission, not working in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which has formed a fixed system.

Moreover, the official title of the right word is a symbiotic relationship with the supporting dispatch, the official title is virtual, and the dispatch is real. He has been in the sea for more than 20 years. I really haven't seen a strange example of being dismissed, but leaving the right prefix with the false title of the imperial history.

If it weren't for the fact that Li You's official notice and related appointment and dismissal edicts were clearly displayed in the public case, and that he had seen Li You himself at the court meeting, Jiang Dazhong would have suspected that someone had cheated him, and it was a deception that particularly humiliated the intelligence of an old bureaucrat.

Indeed, Li You's situation is surprising to anyone who knows a little about officialdom. Therefore, it was very insincere for Li You to just resign from the dispatch, and the discerning person saw that this was a means of bargaining, and even Li You himself did not expect that he would really be dismissed. ..., but said that he had just heard the report that Li You had met him. Jiang Zongxian has been thinking about it all along. What does the Cisheng Palace mean by removing Li You from his post and keeping his title? Is it meaningful, or is it confused for a while?

Li You came to the door. It is obvious that the fictitious title is to be turned into a real official, and it stands to reason that this is the way it should be, and there is no way not to accept it. But the biggest question is that there is no precedent, how to arrange Li You's work? Jiang Zongxian was entangled again.

First of all, Li You was personally dismissed by Empress Dowager Qian, and if he couldn't understand Empress Dowager Qian's thoughts, it was easy to make mistakes.

Secondly, Li You's official rank is not up or down, and his grade is more embarrassing in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. If it is above the envoy of the four grades, it can be directly arranged as the official of the court, and if it is the seventh grade, it belongs to the scope of the thirteen realms.

But the five grades are a bit inferior and not up to the bottom, and it is a joke to be arranged as a hall official, how can there be a five-grade hall official in the Beijing Division?

Arranged to thirteen errands, it is a bit low for Li You. The number of the thirteen imperial histories is also customized, even if an exception can be made, no one wants to have a five-grade master on his head.

Third, Li You's fame is too great, and his lethality is known all over the court. In this sensitive period of political handover, it is easy to cause unexpected troubles if the arrangements are not good. Although everyone in the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for their own responsibilities, who dares to guarantee that the fire will not burn on their own Zuodu Yushi?

It's a pity that Yuan Ge is not in Jingshi, otherwise he can still go and ask for instructions...

After thinking about it, Jiang Zongxian first put down the problem of errands and recruited miscellaneous servants to summon the secretary of the hospital. He commanded: "Quickly clean up the room in the east courtyard." ”

Then he said to Li You: "When Master Li is settled, I will talk about other things." ”

Li You withdrew from the lobby of the General Constitution, and as the secretary crossed the door for a few months, he entered a quiet courtyard with ancient trees, two rows of spacious three-sided rooms opposite each other, and the cornices drew a very pleasant arc to the air. There are ancient wells and ancient pavilions in the middle of the courtyard, and the style is very elegant and quiet.

Li You raised his forehead slightly with satisfaction, and then looked at the secretary, this person is not very old, more than thirty years old, and his face is slightly dark. "Your Excellency, your surname?"

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, my surname is sealed. Do you still like this courtyard? ”

Boss... Hearing this honorific title, Li You's face twitched a few times and replied, "Very good." ”

Secretary Feng pointed to the room and said, "There are many officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the place is crowded. This row is Hu Yanxian's public house, he is not in the courtyard at this time, and the other row opposite is still empty, and he wants to be wronged by the two elders to share this courtyard. ”

He also said: "According to the court etiquette system, as an old man, four servants must be allocated for use. I can't have it all for a while today, and I still look at Haihan. ”

has an entourage of public funds, and Li You naturally does not refuse to come. gladly accepted it, and specially instructed the secretary to choose some strong ones.

This is the end of Li You's trip to the Metropolitan Procuratorate today. He originally wanted to go to the Henan Provincial Mansion with the documents of the eldest princess and visit Fan Zhong, the head of the imperial history, but after thinking about it, he would wait until he officially arrived.

Recalling Jiang Zongxian's attitude, Li You felt that he was going to sit on the cold bench, and sure enough, as he guessed, there would be no actual errands for a while and a half.

The Imperial Historian is known as the Speech Officer. It's true that he doesn't care about general affairs, but it's not as idle as outsiders imagine all day long. Most of the imperial histories have actual errands to do, and the division of the thirteen paths is not for no reason, and what each one is responsible for and what it is aimed at, and the system is clear.

According to the supervision system, more than 100 imperial histories can not only supervise the yamen of the Beijing Division. It can also penetrate into all aspects from the imperial court to the local area. It can be seen from the name of the errand that the patrol press imperial history, the imperial history of the patrol warehouse, the imperial history of the patrol pass, the imperial history of the Qing army, the imperial history of the tea horse, etc., are ultimately to ensure the control of the Son of Heaven over the world.

Of course, in other words, the imperial history that has no errands is a cold bench, and the real ones can only hear about things and use the empty cannon to brush their sense of existence. ..., Li You didn't know that after he left, Jiang Zongxian summoned Zheng Liangdi, the imperial envoy of the left deputy capital, to discuss, and the content was naturally about Li You.

The two chief and deputy officials are not courageous people. At this moment, they are all worried. It is very inconvenient to arrange errands for Li You, and I am afraid that he will make a big fuss if he is idle.

This Li You is obviously not a person with a simple background, and he is still very energetic when he makes trouble, and besides, the Metropolitan Procuratorate itself is a place where the upper and lower levels are ambiguous, Li You has the backing of the officials, and he is not afraid that they will use the investigation to restrain him.

Although they are not the same as Li You, they can't make trouble for this matter after all.

Zheng Vice Xian thought for a moment, and suddenly had an idea, "It's not appropriate to settle in the Thirteenth Dao." It is even more inappropriate for him to sit in the court. It's better to call him a self-contained agency. Judge things alone. ”

Jiang Xinyue was puzzled: "Is there anything suitable for him to be arbitrary?" ”

"Recently, this court is responsible for a serious case, which can be handed over to him for trial. This Li You has served in successive places, and he still has the ability to judge cases. Moreover, the outcome of the trial is the responsibility of the presiding judge, and we have nothing to do with it. ”

Jiang Xinyue suddenly realized and said with a smile: "Not bad, not bad!" is just handed over to Li You, there is no more suitable person than him! ”

The serious case mentioned by these two people is indeed a rare big case in recent years, and it is also the most difficult matter for the Metropolitan Procuratorate in recent times, and it has not been able to be concluded for several months.

Li You will definitely feel familiar with this case, and Li You is also one of the people who knows the inside story best, because the full name of this case is "Two Huai Smugglers Yu Yan and Murder of Guozhang"...

It is said that Yang Qianfutai, Ding Qianyun, and Luo Qian, who participated in politics, were three unlucky people who ostensibly harmed each other, but in fact suffered from Li You's pit death, were arrested and brought to Beijing, and have been imprisoned in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for three months, but the case has not yet been closed.

This case itself is not difficult, but the difficulty lies in the layered relationships between these three people.

In order to reduce the crime, Ding Qianyun bit out Wei Guogong and the eunuch guarding Nanjing in one bite, so the trouble came out. Another person who committed a slightly lesser crime, Yang Futai, also bit out that Guogong had crossed the border and committed the crime, claiming that he had been deceived.

The Duke of Wei was one of the most powerful and powerful nobles, and it is said that he was about to enter Beijing as the governor. In fact, the governor is nothing, but the queen mother's intention to support him is a little obvious, and the Son of Heaven will not object to this in his heart. If you want to engage Wei Guogong, you have to think twice and think twice.

Wu Dayong, the eunuch guarding Nanjing Town, was a close attendant of the former emperor, and there were his apprentices among the celebrant eunuchs, and he couldn't be convicted easily.

But it is not so easy to make Ding Qianyun eat all the charges. Ding Qianyun is the old Shoufu's protégé, and Xu Shoufu is the same door, although so far, Xu Shoufu has not said a word about this case, but who dares to ignore the weight of Shoufu?

Yang Qianfutai himself is also a very well-connected feudal official, and he has some old relationships, and he seems to be the same year as the old Jinge. Even Luo, who is the most scummy in politics, is said to have joined Peng Gelao.

Therefore, the most difficult part of this case lies in how to balance all parties, and the main culprits arrived in Beijing in May and are still being tried.

If Master Li learns that this tricky matter will fall on his own head, he will definitely sigh that "he can't live if he does his own sin."