In mid-April, Zhang Youde's youngest grandson celebrated 100 days, and the Zhang family held a 100-day banquet lively.

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In everyone's eyes, Zhang Youde is the person Li Yuntian relies on the most in the county government, and many of the affairs of the county government are from Zhang Youde's hands, and the relationship between the two is close and enviable.

No one would have thought that there was a strong murderous intent hidden in this seemingly intimate scene.

Li Yuntian has already begun to attack Zhang Youde, and he decided to start with a case to defeat Zhang Youde and the Zhang family, this case is the unjust case that Liu Bo has always wanted to sue.

The reason why Li Yuntian chose this time was for a special reason, because the new governor of Jiangxi, Yushi, arrived in early April, so that he could restart the trial of the Liu family's case.

Since the Liu family's case was finally concluded by the government, Li Yuntian did not have the power to overturn the case for the Liu family, unless he obtained the permission of the prefect Yang Demin.

However, this case was tried and concluded by Yang Demin back then, and it was not easy for Li Yuntian, as a subordinate, to overturn the previous verdict.

Therefore, Li Yuntian needs an opportunity, and this opportunity is the arrival of the new governor Yushi.

The Imperial Inspectorate is usually appointed by the Imperial Inspectorate to supervise the Imperial History, and in addition to the emperor's permission, it is basically served by the two Jinshi.

According to the unwritten rules of the Ming Dynasty, only the official can be promoted to various ministries and superintendents in the future, and other officials do not have this qualification.

And the reason why the emperor wants to use the two Jinshi to supervise the imperial history is that they have not yet entered the official career, and they have the strength of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, so as to patrol the place.

The grade of the supervising imperial history is not high, and it is the same as Li Yuntian, which is the grade of the two Jinshi after entering the officialdom.

Although there are only seven products, once the supervision of the imperial history is released by the emperor as a patrol of the imperial history, then it is a patrol on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers and county officials of Fuzhou and counties are inspected.

Therefore, it is not an official of the state capital, that is, the three envoys and the governor, they must give three points to the governor according to the imperial history.

The first thing to do is to inspect the prisoners in the prison and clean up the previous crime files, which is also the best time for those people who have grievances to be avenged.

Because the patrol is responsible for the supervision of a province, it is called "the patrol of the eight provinces" by the people, which means that its power is great.

If Liu Bo has conclusive evidence and goes to the Yamen to avenge his grievances, then once it is verified by the Imperial History, Yang Demin, the prefect of Jiujiang who tried the case, will definitely be implicated.

Don't talk about Yang Demin for a stubborn person like Liu Bo, the officials in the officialdom feel a headache, if he has evidence of an unjust case, he will definitely go to the imperial history to complain.

On the second day after attending the 100-day banquet of Zhang Youde's youngest grandson, Li Yuntian went to Jiujiang City to visit the prefect Yang Demin.

"Li Zhixian, I heard that you have something important to look for this official?" In the back house of the prefect's yamen, in the living room, Yang Demin walked in with pacing steps and asked Li Yuntian, who was sitting on a chair and waiting.

"My lord, the lower official got the news that Liu Bo, a fisherman in this county, is going to patrol the yamen to complain about his grievances, and the lower official has already made people stabilize him." Li Yuntian hurriedly stood up, bowed down to Yang Demin and said, "The lower officials came to ask your lordship, what should I do next?" ”

"Liu Bo?" Yang Demin frowned slightly when he heard this, he usually had so many affairs, where did he remember the name of a little grass man.

"My lord, I heard that he seems to have some new evidence, which is enough to turn the case around." Li Yuntian briefly recounted Liu Bo's case, and said in a deep voice, "It's just that he doesn't seem to be able to trust Xiaguan, and he refuses to tell Xiaguan what the new evidence is." ”

"You're saying that Liu Bo found important evidence?" After Li Yuntian's reminder, Yang Demin finally had some impression of Liu Bo and looked at him with a frown.

"It should be so, but the lower officials can't know." Li Yuntian nodded, and said worriedly, "If he reports to the Imperial History, I'm afraid it will be another storm." ”

Jiangxi has a total of thirteen state capitals, according to the custom, according to the imperial history to inspect the Nanchang Mansion where the three envoys are located, and then the nearby Jiujiang Mansion.

That is to say, even if Li Yuntian can detain Liu Bo in Hukou County, so that he can't go to the Yamen to complain, but if the patrol according to the imperial history inspects Jiujiang Mansion, then this matter cannot be suppressed, and once it reaches the ears of the imperial historian, then it will be a big trouble.

"This Liu Bo is simply unreasonable, if he had evidence, he would not have lost the two trials in the prefecture and county, I'm afraid it's just a trick." Yang Demin sneered, "How easy is it to think of the grievances of the Imperial History, if there is no conclusive evidence, how can the Imperial History accept his case." ”

"My lord, if someone had testified against him, things might have been different." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment, and said to Yang Demin with a stern expression, "The lower officials also investigated Liu Bo's case in private, and Liu Bo's son Liu Hu seems to have been beaten before his death. ”

"Will anyone testify for him?" Yang Demin's brows furrowed even deeper, he vaguely remembered that Liu Hu's autopsy record said that he had died of illness, and now it seems that things are not so simple.

"I don't know, if the patrol is interested, I'm afraid someone will testify to this." Li Yuntian thought about it and looked at Yang Demin with concern.

"Li Zhixian, you are the parent official of Hukou County, how do you think this matter should be handled?" Yang Demin was deeply convinced by Li Yuntian's words, and asked with a frown.

Whether Liu Bo's case will be turned over mainly depends on the attitude of the patrol according to the imperial history, if the patrol is to investigate according to the iron heart of the imperial history, then according to the situation that Li Yuntian said, there is a ten Yankuai This is an unjust case.

For the imperial historian, is there anything more than turning over an unjust case that has been reviewed by the government to prove its ability and value to the emperor?

"My lord, according to the lower officials, it is better for the lower officials to interrogate it once and see what evidence Liu Bo has in his hands." Li Yuntian thought for a while and said to Yang Demin, "Whether the case can be overturned or not, adults can be invincible." ”

"That's great!" Yang Demin nodded when he heard this, it is better to take the initiative than to be beaten passively, even if Li Yuntian finds out that this is an unjust case, then it is a merit for him, after all, he asked Li Yuntian to investigate, and those who cheat will be severely punished at that time.

Subsequently, Yang Demin gave Li Yuntian an official document to retry Liu Bo's case, and with this official document, Li Yuntian was able to open a court to try the case, and he was famous.

Because of getting this official document, Li Yuntian was very determined, he did not rush back to Hukou County, but went to visit Han Anyu, the Tongzhi of Jiujiang Mansion, and asked his subordinates to walk around with the officials in the sixth room of the government to contact each other's feelings.

In Li Yuntian's view, only if the effort is done on weekdays, then the critical moment can come in handy, and the government government's restrictions on the county government are mainly implemented through the six rooms of the government office, especially the household room and the punishment room are the top priority.

For example, when the prefect saw that the county magistrate was not pleasing to the eye, he sent an official to take the people from the household and the torture room down to check it, and the household counted the money and food, and the torture room checked the case file, which was enough to make the county magistrate miserable.

Deyue Tower is the largest in Jiujiang City, and its scale and momentum are by no means comparable to the grade of Yingchun Pavilion in Hukou County.

In the evening, in a private room on the third floor of Deyue Building, Li Yuntian and a middle-aged man in casual clothes with a medium-sized figure and a Chinese face sat around the wine table and chatted and laughed, and a young and bewitching singing and dancing girl sat next to each of them.

This middle-aged man with a national character face is Gu You, the Jingcheng of the torture room of Jiujiang Mansion, and the Jingcheng of the torture room is also the leader of the Xu officials of the torture room, or called the "criminal book", and the economic inheritance of the household is also called the "household book", and the officials under him are all called "Shuban".

For Li Yuntian's invitation, Gu You happily went, usually speaking, the matter of taking care of the six rooms of the government is something that the people under the county magistrate do, Li Yuntian is a dignified and powerful place, and the county magistrate looks up to him so much, he has no reason not to go.

In addition to Gu You, Li Yuntian also prepared a banquet for Xu Fan, the master of the government house.

Although there is a huge difference in the identities and status of the two sides, as long as it is meaningful to Hukou County, he does not mind condescending to handle the relationship with Gu You and Xu Fan, and if there is anything in the future, the two sides can also take care of it.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, just as the two were talking and laughing there, the door was suddenly pushed open.

"Gu Jingcheng, my brother is young and ignorant, please raise your noble hand and let him go." The person who came was a man in his thirties with a Chinese character face, brightly dressed, and came to Gu You with a smile on his face, and put an envelope on the table.

"Let your brother look longer next time, if you get into trouble again, it won't be so easy to come out!" Gu You didn't avoid Li Yuntian, after taking the envelope, he opened it slightly and glanced at it, there were two silver tickets of one hundred taels inside, so he casually stuffed the envelope into his arms and said to the man with a Chinese face.

"It's nature, it's nature, I'll teach him a lesson when I go back." When the man with the national character face heard this, he said with a smile on his face.

"Go back and wait, he'll be out in the evening." Then, Gu You waved his hand to the man with the national character face, signaling that he could leave.

The man with the national character face glanced at Li Yuntian with some curiosity, turned around and walked out of the room.

Li Yuntian turned a blind eye to the scene in front of him, anyway, he didn't see what was in the envelope, and continued to chat with Gu You quietly.

This kind of taking advantage of the opportunity to extort money is a common thing for the officials in the Yamen Torture Room, who hold the power to take people to prison in their hands, and can throw people into prison for any reason, and make a lot of money from them.