Chen Letian waited for everyone to drink a few sips of tea before he spoke: "Everyone, I think so, you listen to my method, if you think it's not good, you must say it, let's work together, let's think together..."

After an hour, the meeting adjourned. This not very long meeting ended with everyone's solemn faces, before the meeting, Zhang Yushi and other ten imperial historians bowed their respects to Chen Letian, Zhang Yushi said on behalf of the others, the adults are really confident, we admire. We have been running outside for more than half a month, and the adults have been thinking about it in the yamen for half a month, we are doing the work that anyone can do.

Chen Letian smiled and said: "Don't praise me, Master Zhang, I know what I do, let's work together, I know that I don't do well in many aspects, or even do it wrong, but I will work hard to learn to do it well." Let's work together. Oh yes, we're going to have a few days of hard work starting tomorrow. ”

Zhang Yushi said: "It's not hard, just do what we should do, just do what we do." No need to be reminded of the adults, we will come early tomorrow. ”

Beginning the next day, the Prime Minister's Imperial History Yamen began to try the case just after dawn.

The so-called trial of a case is different from the trial of a case in the normal sense. There are no plaintiffs, no defendants, no witnesses, and no physical evidence, and they are no longer in court. This is what Chen Lotian meant; when Chen Letian first raised it at the meeting last night, everyone was full of bad questions, and if they don't go to court, they won't bring the plaintiff and defendant to the court, how will this case be tried?

However, after Chen Letian's explanation, everyone not only understood what Chen Lotian meant, but also had to admire how Chen Letian came up with this method, which was simply too time-saving and irreproachable.

Chen Letian's method is to first classify the case.

The form received by Lord Chen and the ten deputy envoys first looked at the form paper, and each piece of form paper was carefully looked at and screened layer by layer. This is the first step. Screening is all these forms, those who can't write smoothly in three sentences, eliminated to the side, those that don't write the key points, eliminated, written in a mess, can't understand what it is, elimination.

When this screening process is carried out, it is carried out in a cycle, and it is carried out by a total of 11 people in the car.

That is to say, if there are 10 copies of the form, then everyone has to eliminate the 10 copies.

The advantage of this is that it will not be eliminated incorrectly because of the subjective opinion of one or several people.

Maybe you Chen Letian feel that this expression is unclear and needs to be eliminated, but Zhang Yushi feels that the expression is clear after reading it, and there is no need to eliminate it. And there may be five other imperial histories who find this expression unclear.

Based on the possibility of this subjective incompleteness, Chen Letian specifically said that this circular review is the key, and we must resolutely implement it in order to make this screening meaningful, and this kind of screening is not random.

But it's a lot of work.

Everyone summed up the previous receipts, including the most received in Chengdu, a total of more than 2,000 documents.

Therefore, the cyclic review and elimination method requires everyone to look at the two thousand points. Although each copy is only three sentences, the workload is also very large.

So from dawn the next day, eleven people, including Chen Letian, sat around a long table and began to review.

But after half a day, they found out a very troublesome thing.

There is only one copy, so the first person can see it, and the second person can't see it. Anyone after that won't be able to see it. And after the first person saw it, how to express his opinion is also a problem.

However, the problem was solved after half an hour.

After a brief meeting, Chen Letian finally came up with a solution. However, Chen Letian can't be sure whether Zhang Yushi or other imperial histories are clumsy, he thinks that there are many possibilities for these people to hide clumsy, after all, he always has to give himself a little face for this young and vigorous young man, if many of the problems he has shown can be solved, then where will he, the prime minister, put his face.

Chen Letian used such a method.

First, mark the front of each piece with a number, ranging from one to two thousand.

In this way, each sheet has a unique number.

then

In the middle of the long table, where everyone can go, put a few large baskets. First, put all the 2,000 portions in the largest basket in the middle.

Then everyone randomly grabbed a handful from it and reviewed it.

Whoever reviews a certain sheet will make a mark at the back, a total of eleven people, from one to eleven.

For example, Chen Letian is one, so after he has seen a shape, he will write a small one on the back of which shape.

If Chen Letian thinks that this shape should be removed, then he will put it in the basket on the left, and if he thinks it should not be removed, he will put it in the basket on the right.

When there is an objection, put it in the smallest basket.

In other words, if you take a form out of the exclusion basket and you review it and you feel that it can't be excluded, then you have to put it in the objection.

If it's in the case of an objection, don't worry about it for now. Don't take it again just yet. Take only the form from the form that has not been taken in the middle or in the middle of the elimination or non-removal.

Later, Chen Letian felt that it was not good to make records on the form paper, so he changed to record them on his own paper.

That is, when doing these acts, everyone has to make a record on their own paper, so that there is no need to make a mark on the form of who gets who gets and how to classify, and there is only a small unique number mark of one to two thousand on the form. The pleadings of this complaint are the evidence of the people's complaints, and according to the rules, there can be no marks on it, and adding a small mark is already the limit.

In normal times, this is a violation.

At the beginning, everyone was a little unaccustomed to it, but after all, they are all smart people, and everyone can review the case very freely in less than a stick of incense. Although there were more than 2,000 copies, all of them were not slow to move.

During the trial, they were absolutely not allowed to enter and leave the house freely, except for Chen Letian, the head of the house, who could occasionally go out, and the others followed from morning to night, even going to the toilet.

This is stipulated by Zhang Yushi, Chen Letian doesn't think it's necessary, but Zhang Yushi said that we have been coming to Shu for a few days, and some of the imperial history has been bought by some officials in Shu. This has to be guarded against. In such an important trial, we must do this in order to avoid letting no one escape.

As for Lord Chen, you don't need to do this, because if you can be bought, then we won't be here, so Lord Chen, please do it.