Just as the "lame Li" downstairs was cursing the little white face upstairs in his heart, he didn't know that the two upstairs had been transferred. Although the little white face who scolded people very neatly just now looked unhappy, he still didn't dare to say a word. And the bloody, good-for-nothing young master who was scolded just now, looked very serious. From time to time, he criticized the little white face for a few words, and even the old drunkard who pretended to be asleep did not speak. The little white face who was scolded looked like you could do whatever you wanted.

At this time, the young man has changed from the inactive and honest appearance just now, and there is a faint prestige of the superior. If he was seen by "Cripple Li", he would never believe that he was a businessman who had just gone out to learn to do business, and he was definitely an official who ate imperial grain.

Yes, he is Qin Tai. In the autumn examination last year, he won the first class and 13th place in the Jinshi. Originally, he could have given a county magistrate or entered the Hanlin Academy as a doctorate. But Qin Tai unexpectedly asked him to study in the Criminal Department and become a professional Criminal Department official. This made everyone fall through the glasses, whether this kid had taken the wrong medicine.

At that time, the society valued literature over business, and all scholars wanted to pass the exam and embark on the road of officialdom. And anyone who has been awarded a jinshi and can be an official definitely wants to be a prince outside, or stay with the emperor and be able to see the emperor every day. Those who want to release have their reasons, the so-called "rather be a chicken head than an oxtail." "Make your own decisions. There is another saying: "Three years, the Qing prefect's mansion is 100,000 snowflakes of silver." "You can see how easy it is to make money locally. If you are a local official for a few years, even if you don't make a lot of money, you can be rich for a lifetime. If you want to be promoted quickly, stay in the capital and become an official in the Hanlin Academy, you can see the emperor every day, and you can also have a good relationship with the bigwigs in the DPRK and China, paving the way for you to be a high-ranking official in the future. However, no one would have thought that the Sixth Ministry would be appointed to a real post, and this kind of official is the most difficult to do, not only must he have strong professional and technical ability, but he also cannot go to the court and have much contact with the outside world. It takes several years to learn professional technology, and upgrading is not only slow but also prone to errors. Therefore, the six departments recruit professionals in various places every year, and they are exempted from the examination to enter the six departments. If a person who has won the Jinshi is assigned to the sixth department, it will be considered a disguised distribution. How could anyone ask to go to the Sixth Department by himself? What's more, I still go to the criminal department that is the easiest to offend people in the six parts.

Qin Tai was the only Jinshi who volunteered to go to the Criminal Department at that time, and all the Jinshi of the same period at that time felt that Qin Tai was sick. The happiest thing is the Criminal Department, I heard that someone voluntarily came to the Criminal Department, and the Criminal Department immediately sent someone to pick up Qin Tai, for fear that Qin Tai would regret it or someone would sabotage it. After entering the Criminal Department, the director of the Criminal Department asked Qin Tai some professional questions, and Qin Tai answered them fluently. The director of the Criminal Department directly allowed Qin Tai to take office, reported to the Criminal Department attendant in charge of the affairs of the Criminal Department, and actually awarded Qin Taizheng the seventh rank of criminal officer.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were the strangest, and all the officials had great or small powers. In the end, the emperor did not trust any official, and in addition to arranging one official to be the main manager, he had to arrange another to supervise. This is known as the "art of checks and balances". As early as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he stood out and worked out an amazing method of "small officials supervising big officials". The officials of the DPRK and China are mainly divided into two parts, one is the Beijing officials, that is, the officials directly managed by the yamen of the capital, there are the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Hanzhan Kedao, which is the so-called "six ministries and nine secretaries"; There is also a kind of magistrate, which is arranged like this from top to bottom, governors, governors, admirals, general soldiers, daotai, prefects, pipe belts, thousand generals, magistrates, hundreds of households, and so on. There were tens of thousands of officials at that time, so who would supervise them? It is the imperial history of the Metropolitan Inspectorate. When Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu was alive, he issued a lifelong order, giving these petty officials of six or seven grades a certain amount of authority, and they could impeach all those who committed adultery and criminality, including the emperor's relatives, the first assistant of the cabinet, and the common people. Although they were not many in number, only about 300 people, they supervised no less than 100,000 officials in the Ming Dynasty. There are also internal inspectors in each yamen, who supervise the officials. This is a bit like the discipline inspection committee in modern society, the metropolitan procuratorate is like a ******, and the departments and yamen are like discipline inspection teams. At that time, the officials were in charge of the imperial history of the Imperial Inspectorate as "Dao", and the internal supervision of the department was "Branch". After Qin Tai first entered the Criminal Department, because he was a Jinshi, he voluntarily came to the Criminal Department and was selected as the supervisor of the Criminal Department. Although his position has not changed, he has one more power, he can supervise all officials of the Criminal Department, and he has the right to report directly to the emperor if he violates the law and neglects the law. His official name was also changed from a criminal officer to a rare criminal department.

The news of Qin Tai's employment in the Criminal Department spread to Qin Tai's hometown of Pingyao, Shanxi, and Qin Tai's father fainted on the spot. It turned out that Qin Tai's father was also an official, and he was the magistrate of Tai'an, Shandong. At that time, the prefect of Taean Province was the second assistant of the current cabinet. Qin Tai's father was one of the most promising officials in Shandong at that time, and he could have made a big difference. When Qin Tai was just born, the proud Lord Qin of officialdom named his son Qin Tai, just to remember this glorious moment, and to remember that Qin Tai would remember that his father started from Tai'an, Shandong in the future. It's a pity that an accident caused Qin Tai's father to be the most directly victimized by the person responsible, Qin Tai's father not only lost the opportunity for promotion, but also couldn't keep his current position. Qin Tai's father left the officialdom with hatred, and he swore that his son would return to officialdom in his place in the future. So he forced his son Qin Tai to study and test his fame since he was a child, but he didn't expect Qin Tai to make his own decision to be the criminal officer of the Criminal Department. Of course, it made the old father angry.

In fact, Qin Tai is quite an official of the Criminal Department, and the Qin family knows it. Even Qin Tai's stubborn father knew about it, but he didn't allow Qin Tai to meddle in anything about the trial of the case. In order not to prevent Qin Tai from setting up too many enemies and opponents too early. It's a pity that Qin Tai didn't listen to his old father's words and entered the criminal department.

Qin Tai is quite an official of the Criminal Department, and the one who knows the details best is Qin Tai's uncle, who is an enemy in Pingyao County. The Qiu family turned out to be the world of medicine, and it has been hanging pots for several generations. At the beginning, because Qin Tai's grandfather helped the ancestors of the Qiu family, Qiu Min's father married his eldest daughter into the Qin family of a scholarly family. Shortly after Qin Tai was born, Qin Tai's father was dismissed, and Qin Tai's mother invited his old father to live in Pingyao for a long time. First, father and daughter can meet often, and they can also enlighten Qin Tai's father's mood, and thirdly, Qin Tai has been in poor health since he was a child, and it is better to have his grandfather to take care of him than to find some quacks. Qiu Min was only a teenager at the time, and he and his father took root in Pingyao. When Qin Tai was five years old, eighteen-year-old Qiu Min officially graduated from school and worked as an intern doctor in a medical center. Two years later, Qiu Min officially took over his old father's medical clinic and was ready to break out of his own business name in Pingyao. Unexpectedly, as soon as the old father of the Qiu family retired, and Qiu Min had just taken over the hospital, a strange patient came. The enemy did not have time to "look and hear", and the patient died in the hospital. The patient's family insisted that it was the quack doctor who harmed the people, delayed the illness, and sued the enemy to the yamen. With the efforts of many squires such as Qin Tai's father, the enemy was exempted from criminal prosecution, but he was not allowed to practice medical treatment again. The enemy had no other ability, so he had to arrange to be a servant in the yamen to check the dead.

Since Qiu Min became a despised servant, Qin Tai's grandfather also fell ill, and finally died in less than a year. This incident hit the young Qin Tai a lot, and at this time, Qin Tai vowed to be a Qing official who redressed unjust cases. Qiu Min was very happy to learn that his nephew was so ambitious. Because Qin Tai's father did not approve of it, when the enemies came to visit Qin Tai at Qin's house every few days, he always privately told Qin Tai some skills and experience in solving the case. Qiu Min himself is a puppet of the government, and he can access some criminal evidence and victims, so he told Qin Tai some of what he saw and heard 1510. On Qin Tai's growth path, there are two teachers, one is his uncle Qiu Min who gave him practical experience, and the other is Qin Tai's idol Song Ci in the Song Dynasty.

The accompanying old drunkard was recommended to Qin Tai by an old man from the Criminal Department, saying that this old drunkard was a know-it-all and could play some role at a critical time. Qin Tai asked him to be his master, and "Old Drunkard" was his nickname, but his real name was not known. When everyone asked the old drunkard's name, the old drunkard said that he had forgotten it himself. Everyone had to call him "Old Drunkard" or "Master".

The little maid is called Xiao Lingzi, and he is an orphan brought back by Qin Tai's father when he went out once. grew up beside Qin Tai since he was a child, because he knew that Qin Tai wanted to be an official who tried cases, so Xiao Lingzi secretly practiced the ability to track and survey the scene. When Qin Tai's father, the master of the Qin family, was not paying attention, he went to the enemy for a period of time to do free work and learned a lot of practical experience. He is loyal to Qin Tai and can be said to be Qin Tai's indispensable right and left hand.

The bearded man is called "Ma Sandao", and "Ma Sandao" is his nickname and his name. It is said that he forgot his name so much that he was the second oldest drunkard. It turned out that he was a warden in a small town prison, and as for how he could be a warden, he didn't know. He doesn't look stupid, he inherited his father's career and became the warden of this town. Combining the experience of two generations of their father and son, he has a unique ability to interrogate and care for prisoners. He always carried three knives with him, and the large knives were used to prevent prisoners from escaping and outsiders from robbing prisoners. The razor is used to shave one's own beard, and of course sometimes it is used to mark some disobedient prisoners. The knife is used when convicting prisoners, and many prisoners who are not afraid of death cannot survive under the knife, and they can't die when they beg for death, and they obediently confess their crimes. Unfortunately, he had bad luck, and the town was annexed to another county, and the town's prison was abolished. When "Ma Sandao" became an unemployed vagrant, Qin Tai just appeared. He joined Qin Tai's camp with Zhan Xiaoxiao. Externally, "Ma Sandao" was the porter and bodyguard of this caravan, and internally he was in charge of logistics and prisoner custody.

The name of the little white face is Zhan Xiaoxiao, according to his own confession, his ancestor is the first master under the famous Song Dynasty Kaifeng Mansion Bao Qingtian Bao, the fourth product with a knife guard, the emperor personally sealed the "royal cat", Nanxia Zhanzhao. The story of Zhan Zhao and Bao Daren has long been spread in the folk teahouse. As soon as the teahouses in various places talked about the "Bao Gong Case", they couldn't finish it for a whole year. As for whether Zhan Xiaoxiao is a descendant of Zhan Zhao, no one knows. However, Zhan's small kung fu is not bad, he can fly the eaves and walk the wall, and he can deal with more than a dozen big men by himself. The reason for leaving Zhan Xiao was that Qin Tai himself had no kung fu and needed a guard to protect his personal safety.