“…… That time was the coldest morning I had ever experienced in my life, from head to toe, I was constantly trembling, I was not afraid of Jiang Gongzi's jokes, and I was almost unsteady when I stood at that time. Speaking of this, Zhou Zide picked up the wine glass on the table, squeaked and drank it all, the liquor entered his throat, making his face deformed, and then he exhaled a long sigh, melancholy, overflowing with words.

Jiang Xiaoshu couldn't help asking:

"And after that?"

"After that, I immediately went back to the government office, and when everyone arrived, I interrogated the grievances of the case......" Zhou Zide paused, and then said:

"That day was the second day of my tenure, but the master surnamed Tang had already left, and the trial records of that day were written by myself. In the first instance of the case, it was clear that the Jiang Yue Gang was heinous and irrefutable, and then I called someone to summon Wang Yang...... Jiang Gongzi, you must think that Wang Yang will not dare to come, right? Jiang Xiaoshu sighed:

"Brother Dulong has done such a vicious deed, and he has been doing it for many years, so naturally there are more powerful big people covering him above, otherwise how could he be so rampant? If you pass on him, if he doesn't come, he will still feel that he has lost face...... If you want me to say, not only did he come, but he also made a big fanfare, beating gongs and drums, yes or no? ”

"That's right," Zhou Zide nodded heavily, then raised his head and recalled:

"That day, above the public court, Brother Dulong and Chen Cai were passed up, hundreds of fierce and vicious men gathered at the door, blocking the entire mansion, I went to scold them, who knew that the man who asked me to wash the floor actually choked and said: Daqin has allowed the villagers to watch and listen when the case is tried since ancient times, as long as the bottom line is not crossed, the prefect drove us away, is there a ghost in his heart?"

"His subordinates are so arrogant, won't the lord be even more violent?"

"I came back to continue the trial, but before I could speak, Brother Dulong shouted that he was wronged, he said that he was just doing some small business on the dock, and I don't know who framed him, saying that he was abducting and selling people, which is really better than pigs and dogs. When I heard this, I was furious, and immediately shouted: "The evidence of your Jiang Yue Gang's abduction and trafficking is conclusive, and this official has seen it with his own eyes, you dare to say that you have been framed, so shameless!" After hearing this, Brother Dulong pretended to be shocked and said: "Okay, even if someone really committed the abduction and trafficking last night, but I was obviously rolling the dice in the casino last night, and many people saw it, how can last night's incident be counted on my head?" After he finished speaking, he looked behind him and asked if it was true, and the group of men said in unison Yes, you didn't go anywhere last night, and your voice was so harsh that the roof almost collapsed...... What a bunch of good thieves! The more Zhou Zide spoke, the more angry he became, and slapped him the thigh, full of indignation.

Jiang Xiaoshu is also very angry, he grew up in the capital and Langya County in Qingzhou since he was a child, they are all places with rules and strict laws, although he has seen a lot of high-flying and domineering people, but most of them are shameless scum who oppress the common people, where did he think that in this Xiangzhou, a small Jiangyue Gang doesn't even pay attention to the dignified Wupin Prefect?

Dare to ridicule it so blatantly? He couldn't help but say:

"What is the origin behind this Jiang Yue Gang? Damn, it's a little more arrogant than the king of heaven. Zhou Zide waved his hand, and then continued:

"At that time, I was angry when I heard this, got up and pointed to Brother Dulong's face and said, the entire Wuling County knows that your Wang Yang, nicknamed Brother Dulong, is the biggest person in the Jiangyue Gang in Xiangzhou, these dirty and dirty deeds, you say that it has nothing to do with you, who is willing to believe it? Wang Yang sighed meaningfully, and then said, It turns out that the prefect just listened to the rumors, and if there is no evidence, he will condemn me, I'm afraid this is not in line with the king's law, right? Before I could speak, a mournful voice came from the crowd outside the court: 'Many people are still rumored that the new prefect is corrupt and lustful. According to his logic, does he have to wash his ass and go to prison first? When I heard this, I was so angry that I cried out to me who it was, but who answered me? When Wang Yang in the court heard this, he laughed out loud, so he was not arrogant......"

"Isn't that contempt of court?"

"Yes, I immediately threw down a sign, condemned him to contempt of court, and let the official slap his mouth." Jiang Xiaoshu shook his head:

"Whoever slapped his mouth, I'm afraid that he will die when he walks out of the mansion."

The sign fell to the ground with a snap, but the officials looked at each other, and no one dared to do anything, so I ordered them to obey the order, but they said that they would rather not be a servant than obey the order...... My brain was hot, so I walked down by myself, picked up the board, and slapped Brother Dulong's twenty mouths firmly. ”

"Well done! Haha," Jiang Xiaoshu clapped his hands again and again:

"This beast must have thought that he could bluff you, and in order to show his courage, he must have taken the initiative to restrain him, and originally thought that you would personally untie him later and teach him to be majestic. Who knows that Lord Zhou, you are iron-faced and selfless, and you rolled up your sleeves and went up in person without a servant, and he fell into the trap by himself, so he naturally complained bitterly. Zhou Zide was very excited, drank the wine again, and then said:

"Zhao, that mouth, but when I was the most comfortable in these years, Brother Dulong was stunned by a mouth, including everyone present, and when I finished playing back to the position, they were in a commotion, and the men outside the door shouted in unison, and they were about to rush in, but they were stopped by Brother Dulong, and said loudly: 'This is the public court, what are you dogs barking?' Go back, haven't you seen Lord Zhou's rules? After the group of thieves dispersed, he raised his head, looked at me coldly, gritted his teeth and said: "Lord Zhou, you are such a great official, I must remember this lesson in my heart, and I will never forget it!" 'Where do I heed his threats?' Immediately ordered the officials to put him in prison, and when the officials saw that I was the first soldier, a few young men became bold and put Brother Dulong in prison......" Jiang Xiaoshu asked:

"And after that?"

"After that, I immediately wrote down on the desk, recorded all what I saw and heard in this place, sprinkled tens of thousands of words, wrote for a day and a night, with three bald pens, and most of the ink ingots......" Speaking of this, Zhou Zide couldn't help but reach out and rub the tendon sheath of his right hand, which shows the indignation when he wrote those words that day, even if his wrist fell wrong, he must immediately bring the culprit to justice, Zhou Zide continued:

"After that, I sent nearly 100 pages of paper to the Department of Punishment and Prosecution in Changsha County, and it was directly to my Xiangzhou Inspector." In the past, when the Yi Dynasty was established, the government, criminal and military affairs of each state were unified by the state pastor, in other words, within a state, around the state pastor, formed an absolute high degree of centralization, the Yi Dynasty emperor was established at the beginning, in order to local political autonomy, reduce the burden of the capital administration, the system has been exercised for hundreds of years, has been very effective, the Yi Dynasty royal family is often complacent about this, boasting of the wisdom of the ancestors.

But they ignore a question - the power of the state minister is given by the imperial power, so when the imperial power declines, or the world is shaken so that the imperial power is beyond the reach of the whip, what will a state with a high degree of centralization evolve into?

The answer is that the feudal towns are divided. At this moment, the governor who controlled the power of a state was transformed into a prince who supported the army and stood on his own.

The final fall of the Yi Dynasty was naturally because of the decay emanating from the roots of this huge dynasty, and the common people could not survive, so they had to revolt, but the uprising could not be suppressed at all, and eventually led to chaos in the world, but because the state pastors were not constrained by the imperial court, they did not suppress the uprising, but instead set themselves up as kings, and also joined the chaotic war for the world...... The founding emperor of Great Qin, Emperor Jianyu, whose original name is unknown, was appointed as the governor of Jizhou, and was given the name Qin Yiji by the last emperor of the Yi Dynasty, he was the first person to divide the feudal town, he gathered a group of people who could not survive to compete for the world, and left a strong mark in the war-torn Yi Dynasty in the last years, and finally, he defeated the princes from all walks of life, and was about to enter Yongzhou, when a mysterious swordsman broke into the military camp, such as entering a no-man's land, the swordsman came to Qin Yiji, dropped a head, and left a sentence and drifted away:

"The faint monarch confers and receives, the Central Plains artifact, from now on, it will be resided by the public." Without spending a single soldier, Qin Yiji entered Chang'an City and became the new king of the Central Plains

"Qin Yiji" was changed to

"Qin Yiqi", and then ascended the throne, he took his surname as the name of the country, established a new dynasty, the year name Jianyu, meaning that he was like the water control of the Yu in general, the end of the troubled times at the end of the Yi Dynasty.

After ascending the throne, Emperor Jianyu learned from the pain, learned the lessons of the fall of the Yi Dynasty, eliminated corruption, and changed the people, the world quickly recovered its vitality after the war, and at the same time, Emperor Jianyu also reformed the local political structure.

He divided the three major powers of local politics, justice, and military into three organs, namely, the Department of Political Envoys, the Department of Procuratorial Envoys, and the Department of Command and Command, and set up three official posts that did not interfere with each other but were under the jurisdiction of the imperial court at the same time, which greatly strengthened the centralization of power and reduced the possibility of local secession and self-reliance as much as possible.

What Zhou Zide said

"According to the procurator", he is the highest official of the Xiangzhou Sentencing and Procuratorial Department, in other words, the highest authority in the judiciary.

It can be seen that Zhou Zide's move was to vow to completely eradicate the illegal forces in Wuling County, and directly sent the evidence of Brother Dulong's crime to the most authoritative person, striving to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

When Jiang Xiaoshu heard this, he just wanted to praise a good plan, but suddenly felt a chill in his heart - five years ago, the Xiangzhou envoy had received this incriminating evidence, but now Brother Dulong is still alive and well...... Just as he was thinking about himself, Zhou Zide continued:

"After receiving my letter, the Prosecution Department quickly sent a reply letter, and the reply was very short: 'Chen Cai raped and corrupted the people's daughter, the evidence is conclusive, and he will be executed. Wang Yang's matter is of great importance, and this person was immediately brought to Changsha for trial. Naturally, I was overjoyed, and after beheading the old official Chen Cai in public, I sent Wang Yang over. Zhou Zide raised his head and said leisurely:

"During that period of time, it was my most proud time, thinking that I had eliminated a big evil for Wuling County, I was naturally overjoyed, that is, during this time, a group of people gathered around me, they were all businessmen and ordinary people who had been oppressed by the Jiangyue Gang, they praised me for my excellent means, even Brother Dulong was ruled by me, we collected the evidence of the Jiangyue Gang's crimes together, and strived to wipe out the remnants of Wuling County after Brother Dulong was ambushed!" Jiang Xiaoshu picked up the wine glass and silently took a sip.

Zhou Zide's eyes showed disbelief:

"It was a month after Brother Dulong was sent to Changsha, and that night, the sound of fish transport, which had not been seen for a long time, actually appeared again, and it was much louder than ever before—I woke up from my dream, and the screams, whippings, and laughter of the Jiang Yue gang almost burst my eardrums...... Jiang Xiaoshu asked:

"Brother Dulong is back?" Zhou Zide lowered his head:

"Since the incident of Chen Cai, I no longer live in the partial room of the government office, but live in the doorman's room, and personally open and close the door every day, when I was woken up, I immediately wanted to open the door, but when I touched the key in my arms, the key that was still there before going to bed, but it was gone, I touched it harder, but I touched a note, which said-The evidence is insufficient, Wang Yang is acquitted......" Jiang Xiaoshu's tone was heavy:

"It's a warning."

"They can change the key in my sleep, and they can take my life, but if they think it scares me, they are very wrong!" Zhou Zide raised his head, his face full of anger:

"I struggled to get up and opened the small door of the class room, and was about to personally stop their criminal deeds, but when I opened the door, I saw a cold light......" Speaking of this, Zhou Zide almost burst into tears, his hands trembled, and he pointed to the hideous wound on his body that stretched from the left pipa bone to the right ribs, across the entire chest, and said loudly: "This is what was left at that time!" The dog thieves! Thief! Traitor! Jiang Xiaoshu pressed Zhou Zide's hand and said in a deep voice:

"Lord Zhou, you are a real good official, this is not a shame, this is your glory against sin!" Zhou Zide nodded, and then said:

"I only felt a cold in my chest, so I fell down, I lay on the ground, and saw seven or eight corpses piled up in front ......of the class, and carefully identified that it was the young servants who escorted him in the case of Brother Dulong, the youngest one was just seventeen years old" Zhou Zide closed his eyes in pain, tears flowing down his cheeks:

"I was already unconscious, and the man who attacked me crouched down and looked at me quietly, although he was masked, but under the mask, there was only one eye......"

"What a dog thief who will be avenged!" Jiang Xiaoshu said angrily. Zhou Zide wiped his tears and said slowly:

He opened his mouth and said three words. Jiang Xiaoshu didn't say a word, because if he thought with his feet, Brother Dulong wouldn't say anything good.

"He patted me on the cheek and said, 'You don't seem to have that much rule?' Master Zhou, when others are officials, you are also officials, why are you so unpopular? ’”

"Then he got up, and a voice came from above my head: 'After night here, I have the final say, and there can only be one person in Wuling County who has the final say, and that person is me, you remember.'" ”

"He led people over the wall, and his laughter came from outside the courtyard: 'Let's go, don't delay after dawn, those messengers will wash the floor for Lord Zhou'......'"