In the early morning, the warm sunlight shone into the classroom through the window.

Du Yuan, who is nearly 40 years old, looked at the autopsy records in his hands and the confessions of the deceased's family members with a blank face.

has been in the yamen for more than 20 years, and Du Yuan can tell at a glance whether the confession is true or false.

With this stack of confessions in his hand, Du Yuan only glanced at it a few times and understood that it was all colluded in advance.

"Squeak!"

The false door was pushed open, Du Yuan looked up, and saw that it was his nephew who walked in with a confession, and a gentle smile appeared on his expressionless face.

"How does it feel after a day of errands?"

Putting the confession on the table, Ang Lee learned the habit of remembering his predecessor and sat lazily on the chair next to him.

"It's okay, it can withstand it, but the smell of the cell is a little bad."

Li An showed a flattering smile on his face, and said with a grin:

"Second uncle, why don't you transfer me to another place, the smell in the prison is too bad."

Looking at the confession brought by Li An, Du Yuan didn't raise his head and said: "You better bear with it first, the paperwork in other places has been done for so many years, and if you are transferred, you will be squeezed out."

are all old brothers who have worked in the yamen for so many years, if I squeeze people away for your sake, what will the other brothers think? ”

Li An pursed his lips, took out the remaining 30 taels of silver tickets, and put them on the table.

"The Cui family gave it, I took out 20 taels and gave it to the fourth brother, and the remaining 30 taels are here."

"Heh, it's not a small shot!"

Glancing at the silver ticket on the table, Du Yuan smiled disdainfully.

"What? Second uncle, don't you like it? ”

Noticing the second uncle's disdainful expression, Li An was a little puzzled.

30 taels of silver is a lot.

In the year of the disaster, there will be enough to buy four or five little maids.

"Humph!"

Du Yuan snorted coldly and threw aside the confession that Li An had worked hard to record in the middle of the night in his hand like garbage.

"Do you know how much money he gave to the county order?"

Ang Lee leaned forward.

"How much?"

Du Yuan glanced outside the door and stretched out a finger.

"Oh, good fellow, I actually gave a hundred taels.

This county order is really fucking profitable, if you don't do anything, you will give an order, and you will take a hundred taels for nothing. ”

I want to climb over the wall and climb the yard by myself, and I wasted a lot of brain cells to earn 110 taels, so I have to worry about the risk of exposure.

But the other party, just moved his mouth, just like he earned, it's really eye-catching!

"!"

Du Yuan shook his head, his nephew is still too simple, his knowledge is too shallow, and he needs to hone and hone again.

"As far as our master's greedy nature is concerned, a hundred taels let him do this, don't even think about it."

Li An's eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "It won't be a thousand taels." ”

"What do you say?"

"This thousand taels is also only for our adults, I heard that the two of them are five hundred taels each."

Li An chirped and couldn't help but sigh.

"Ma Dan, being an official really makes money."

Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.

That's right.

In a case, one county order can get 1,000 taels, and two auxiliary officials at the lower level can get 500 taels without doing anything, without even saying anything.

It can be seen that a higher-level prefect can make a lot of money.

No wonder the ancients sharpened their heads to become officials, which is not only the improvement of status, but also the speed of making money can make people crazy.

"Huh!"

Du Yuan chuckled lightly and reached out to pat Li An's shoulder.

"It's really profitable, but don't forget, once the matter is revealed......"

The second uncle pointed to the headcatcher hat on his head.

"Not only can't the hat be saved, but the lives of the whole family will be lost together."

Picking up the teacup next to him and taking a sip, Du Yuan explained again:

"However, the money is not just for the life of this book, there are other things."

Li Ang suddenly realized.

He said, well, how can a little scholar be so valuable, it turns out that there are other doorways in it.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

"Head, the master asked you to take the confession, and I will be promoted to the court later."

Just when Du Yuan told Li An about the other meaning of this money, there was a knock on the door.

"I know, let the brothers bring all the prisoners and witnesses."

After a brief introduction to Li An, Du Yuan, who had unspoken rules in the yamen, replied to the outside.

picked up a confession and said to Li An: "Let's go, go over together, you also look at the procedures of the Yamen trial, and when you turn back, you will not be blind." ”

Li An, who also wanted to go over and see how the case was tried in ancient times, responded happily, helped the second uncle hold up the confession, followed the second uncle, and went to the front hall.

In ancient times, the county government tried cases, and there were halls and two halls.

The trial in the lobby was like a TV show, and a large crowd of people crowded around the door to watch the excitement.

If the case is tried in the second court, except for the plaintiff and the defendant, only the arresting officer who is responsible for the case can enter, and unrelated persons, including the officer, are forbidden to approach.

Ang Lee was originally not qualified to come, but who let him have a second uncle who always catches heads.

"Ascension!"

With a loud shout from the on-duty catcher, the two rows of standing guards paused the water and fire sticks in their hands, and shouted in their mouths.

"Sin is not ~ not guilty ~ "

"Wow~Wow~"

With the sound of the hall's majesty, the two officials dragged Zhang Wen, whose legs and feet were weak and could not stand steadily, walked into the lobby.

"Smack!"

A startling sound sounded, and the two classes of officials stopped shouting.

Li An took advantage of the cover of the pillars beside him and looked up the lobby.

At first glance, I saw a big sign hanging in the court.

Mirror hanging!

Below, a middle-aged fat man in court clothes looked ahead with a serious face, and the wide public case blocked his lower body.

Underneath the desk, there are three seats.

In the first two positions, it was the county lieutenant who received five hundred taels of silver each, and the back chair was a white-haired scribe.

"Brother Zhao, who is that old man? Why haven't you seen it? ”

County Cheng, county lieutenant, Li An has seen it with his second uncle before, but he has never seen this white-haired old man.

A servant standing on the other side of the pillar glanced at the old man and replied in a low voice: "Zhang Wen is famous, although he is only the lowest child, but he is also different from ordinary people.

That adult is our Tai'an County school official, and he is a jury invited by the county lord. ”

Li An nodded suddenly.

Only then did he remember that the status of scholars in ancient times was very high, especially those who were famous.

Even if a crime is committed, the county magistrate does not say that a conviction can be convicted.

This requires the school administration of each county to remove his fame before he can be interrogated like ordinary people.

If the academic administration does not remove the meritorious reputation, the county government will not have the right to try it, let alone arrest people.

"Smack!"

A deafening shocking sound resounded in the lobby, and the middle-aged county magistrate glared at his squinting eyes, looked at Zhang Wen, who was kneeling on the ground, and shouted coldly:

"Who's in the hall?"

Zhang Wen, who was a little frightened by some old fritters in the cell, subconsciously shivered in his body, and secretly glanced at the county magistrate with a serious expression, and the fast catcher who stood on both sides, his face was cold and could scrape off the frost, and replied tremblingly: "Little... Small... Small... Raw, Chapter... Chapter... Text..."

The old master sent by Xuezheng shook his head in disappointment when he saw Zhang Wen looking so unusable.

It's a shame to look like this.

"Zhang Wen, are you guilty?"

Zhang Wen looked like this, and the county magistrate didn't care.

After two years as a county magistrate, I have seen too many scenes like this.

Not to mention this kind of stammering, he has seen a lot of scared and urine.

As soon as he came up, he was questioned, and Zhang Wen's body trembled again.

Then I didn't know where I got the strength, so I crawled and threw myself at the old master.

"Mr. ~ Mr. ~ Save me, sir save me, they framed me, they framed me... I really didn't kill anyone, I really didn't kill anyone! ”

But as soon as he climbed a few steps, he was kicked down by a servant standing behind him, and then he was pressed to the ground.

"Bastard, above the lobby, talking nonsense, yelling, what kind of system, it's really insulting, coming... Palm! ”