"I'm waiting to see Lord Lu, on the order of the prefect, I hereby send the official seal and appointment documents, please Lord Lu to receive the documents!"

The five officials dismounted and knelt down on one knee, and the leader held the document in both hands and handed it to Lu Sheng.

"Everyone, please go and sit in the hut for a while. ”

"The prefect has an order, and he will return immediately after handing over the documents to Lord Lu. Lord Lu forgive me, Suzhou Mansion has just been hit by a typhoon, and everything is waiting to be rebuilt, and the prefect is busy with official business and cannot be personally appointed in the government office, and he still asks Lord Lu to be treated. ”

"It's serious, since that's the case, the official won't keep you. I wonder when I'll be able to take office?"

"I can take office tomorrow. ”

After the five officials saluted, they stepped on the fast horses and galloped away again, Lu Sheng held the paperwork, and the big stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground.

"Brother, open it up and see, what is the official position? is it a county order or what?"

"Thinking too much, the county order of Suzhou Prefecture is short, there has never been a vacancy for hundreds of years, how can I become a county commander when I come? ”

Back at the hut, Lu Sheng slowly opened the package. But the moment he saw the appointment and dismissal documents, Lu Sheng was stunned.

"Brother of the Criminal Division, what kind of official position is this?"

"A dispensable official position......" Lu Sheng showed a wry smile, "Although I had long expected that there would be no good position, I didn't expect it to be the ...... of the Criminal Division."

"What is the Punishment Division?"

"The Criminal Division was founded a hundred years ago, Hongyuan 17 years, the Yu Dynasty was turbulent, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and bandits were numerous. The state capitals in various places have been sent to the imperial court, and the state capitals are too busy to be busy with their livelihoods and to investigate and arrest the murderers.

Emperor Hongyuan ordered the establishment of a new criminal investigation department to separate the criminal investigation from the state capital, so as to reduce the burden on the state government. However, the Criminal Investigation Division is only responsible for criminal investigation and solving the case, and the final verdict is still in the prefect's yamen.

Therefore, the Criminal Division has become an errand runner for the prefect's yamen. Even if you run errands, this criminal department is not divided into the six departments of the cabinet, so it is not in the original system of the imperial court.

The criminal department of each state capital is named in the state capital, but the state government is required to spend an additional expense, so naturally it is not welcomed by the state government. When the Criminal Division was created, there were still many achievements.

However, as the situation stabilizes, the role of the Division becomes dispensable. Alas - I didn't expect that in the vacancies of the entire Suzhou Mansion, there was only this criminal division left. ”

"Brother, have we offended the prefect?" Lu Li, after hearing this, asked with some aggrievedness.

"We haven't even met the prefect in person, how can we be offended. However, the Criminal Investigation Division has the advantage of the Criminal Division, which is in charge of criminal investigation cases in a government, and the grade is positive eight, which is half a level larger than the county order.

If you do a good job, you can be promoted much faster than one of your parents. Let's just mention the criminal division, and tomorrow our brother and sister will take office. ”

Early the next morning, the Lu Sheng brothers and sisters set off with their bags. It is more than 20 kilometers from here to Suzhou Mansion, and I took a board car along the way, and stepped into Suzhou City when the sun was just rising.

Compared with Zhongwu County, Suzhou City is one in the sky and one in the ground.

In the early morning, Suzhou Mansion was already completely noisy. Walkers and pawns come and go, and pedestrians on the street hit their shoulders.

After inquiring with several people, Lu Sheng found the location of the Criminal Division.

Lu Sheng and the two stood at the door of the Criminal Division, staring at each other.

Although I have long known that the Criminal Division should not be very good, I really didn't expect it to be dilapidated.

There were supposed to be a pair of stone lions at the doorway, but now only two square piers remain. The gate was opened, and the paint on the original red gate had faded.

The steps paved with stone slabs are already full of cracks.

If you want to say that this is an abandoned mansion, there are still people who believe it, but if you want to say that this is the dignified and upright Yamen of the Punishment Division? Lu Sheng felt that he must have come to the wrong place.

Maybe it was because he saw that the Lu Sheng brothers and sisters couldn't move, and the white-haired old man who was originally sweeping the floor behind the door slowly walked out of the door with a broom.

"Two young ladies and gentlemen, what do you have to do? If you want to handle the case, please go to the prefect's yamen, the criminal department has been closed for a long time. ”

"Suzhou Mansion is also one of the largest mansions in Jiangzhou, why is the Criminal Division closed for a long time?"

"Childe, it is precisely because Suzhou Mansion is one of the richest places that the Criminal Division is dispensable. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can generally have something to eat. In that case, why do you need chickens and dogs?

The people in the south of the Yangtze River are soft and glutinous, not as fierce and vicious as the north. Some small disputes go to the government office, but there are no big cases, what do you say is the use of mentioning the criminal division?"

"Did you say this?" Lu Sheng frowned, the jurisdiction of Suzhou Mansion is not small, Lu Sheng does not believe that Suzhou is so good that there is no case.

The old man's words made Lu Sheng a little displeased.

"No, it's the county order of the six counties of Suzhou. Without the Criminal Division, they can take away more of the money that belongs to the Criminal Division, so the Criminal Division is what you see. ”

"Old Wei, who are you muttering to again? They are all people buried in the loess to their necks, and they are still full of resentment. Did you take the eggs today?" an old man's voice sounded in the distance behind the door.

Lu Sheng sighed, raised his foot and stepped forward again.

"Hey, Miss Childe, you haven't told me what you're here for?"

"This official is the newly appointed head of the Criminal Division, and from today, the Criminal Division is open!"

"Is it Lord Si who has arrived?" Old Wei's face immediately became a little restrained, "Your Excellency, you ...... The most prefect of the country?"

Selling hemp pies, why do people think so?

"My name is Lu Sheng, the word Yuzhu, and I am a Jinshi in the thirty-seventh year of Kaiyuan. From now on, this official is the chief of the Criminal Department of Suzhou Prefecture. How many people are left in the Criminal Division?"

"Three!" Lao Wei held up three fingers.

"Are they all old men?" Lu Li's ghost asked.

"Yes, they are all old men, how can young people continue to stay here and wait for death? ”

"Then why didn't you leave?" Lu Li felt that the old man was a little pitiful, and asked with concern.

"I'm in my sixties, where are I going? I've been working in the Criminal Division all my life, and I'm not willing to do it. Since five years ago, there has been no chief of the Criminal Division. I waited year after year, but I didn't see a new boss take office.

As long as the criminal department has no owner, the state government's appropriation will be in arrears for one day, and for five years, the criminal department has not received a penny.

They all dragged their families with their mouths, so the guards left one by one, and in the end there were only three of us left. We are old, and our children are married, so we have nothing to worry about, so we also regard the Criminal Division as our home. ”

"Is that so...... Lao Wei, call them all, and the official wants to ask about the situation. ”

Lao Wei hurriedly responded, turned around and threw down the broom and ran inward. Where does that vigorous walking posture look like an old man who is over half a hundred years old?

Entering the Criminal Division is much better than I imagined. It's old, but it's clean.

Moreover, the framework of the Criminal Division is not small, and it would be good if it could be reorganized.

Entering the office, the three old men stood neatly under the hall. looked at Lu Sheng eagerly, as if he had seen the dawn of hope.

Lu Sheng walked up to the hall and sat down like on TV, "Your respective names and duties will come together." ”

"My lord, my name is Wei Dong, and I am the general director of the Criminal Department of Suzhou Prefecture. ”

"Lord Hui, my name is Xing Er, and I am the secretary of the Suzhou Mansion. ”

"My name is Li Gui, and I am the secretary of the Criminal Department of Suzhou Prefecture. ”

Looking at the three old men with gray hair, but they can stand straight, and the team is neatly lined up, I can't find the slightest fault.

"You were all soldiers before?"

"Yes, almost all of the guards are brothers who have retired from the army. ”

"How much does the state owe us?" Lu Sheng was most concerned about this question.

"This ...... It can be said that it is 80,000 taels ......," Lao Wei said with some difficulty.

"Why can you say yes? Yes is yes, no is not. ”

"Your Excellency doesn't know that the minimum annual funding for the Criminal Prosecution Division is 15,000 taels, but this amount is not a hard and fast rule. From the 18th year of Rainbow, the Criminal Division can make its own profits and losses.

Since then, the state government has been able to withhold the payment of the Sentencing Division if there is sufficient reason to do so. ”

"Why?" Lu Sheng was a little puzzled, how could there be such a strange regulation.

"That year was another year of natural disasters, the treasury was empty, and the people lived hard. The state capitals petitioned the imperial court and could not afford the cost of the criminal division and requested that the criminal division be abolished.

However, Emperor Rainbow insisted on leaving the Criminal Division, so he decreed that the Criminal Division could make up for the lack of funds by making up for the lack of funds. ”

"How to make your own profits?" Lu Sheng suddenly became a little interested. Perhaps in the eyes of these people, not having a regular source of income is equivalent to being cut off.

But Lu Sheng doesn't see it that way, this is decentralization, this is freedom. If there is such an article, then the Criminal Division does not have to stare at the government office, and there is no need to be a man with his tail between his legs.

The barrel of the gun and the money bag, as long as these two things are controlled by others, they can only hold grandchildren.

"Returning to my lordship, I can not be assigned by the government, and I can accept the people's papers to investigate the case. Of course, if the people want to investigate the case, it will naturally cost a considerable amount of money. After all, this is private work, not official business. ”

"What about the people who have a grievance to avenge and who have no money?"

"The people can go to the state government yamen to seek justice, and then the state government yamen will transfer the case to our criminal department. ”

Isn't it the business model of a private detective agency? However, this authority is much higher than that of a private detective agency, and after all, it is still a yamen in the system.

"Old Wei, does the Treasury of the Criminal Division still have any money?"

"My lord, if there is any, how can there be only three of us left?"

Although he already knew it in his heart, when he really heard these words, Lu Sheng still felt a chill. Nima, but he really started with nothing, all on his own hands.

At present, the primary problem is to make money. Fortunately, he is an official official of the imperial court, so his salary is not included in the funds of the Criminal Division. Even if you really can't make money, you can't starve to death.

"Lao Wei, go buy a few strings of artillery and come back, let's open the door of the Criminal Division...... cough cough cough ...... Reopen, it's time to let me know. Also, bring some pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and I'll write a notice and stick it at the door. ”

Lu Sheng ordered them one by one, and Lu Li and the three old men also went separately and drove away.