Chapter 24, what I saw and heard on the streets of Nanxia
On the 20th of July, Cangyuan was finally free again.
After returning from the early dynasty, he found Pan Long, who was reading in his room.
"Pan Shaoxia, Cang has something to ask for. After a few words of greeting, he said, "The young man roamed the rivers and lakes before, and he was involved in several cases. Now that the case has been completed, if the closing document can be signed by you, the matter will be considered a success. I don't know what you think, young man?"
Pan Long smiled and nodded: "No problem, then let's go." ”
He had also heard of this matter, people in the rivers and lakes fought against each other, and they often left after the fight - if they didn't leave, would they wait to be sought revenge by others? But the court can't just leave, on the contrary, the court is responsible for all kinds of cleaning and finishing work, in the words of Pan Long's previous life game film and television, it is called "washing the floor".
The ground must be washed, the corpses must be collected, and the ins and outs of the matter must be clarified. For every vendetta in the rivers and lakes, a file must be formed for the record of the imperial court in the end.
And if a Jianghu person wants to join the officialdom, or wants to express his support for the imperial court, then there is a very intuitive way to express his position - find out those case files that are directly related to him, review them as a party or witness, and finally fill in a simple document.
This document is not a "crime certificate" or anything else used to try him, but it represents his willingness to support the imperial court in sorting out and summarizing the case. In other words, it represents his recognition of the "order" of the imperial court.
Something similar was done once before his grandfather Pan Shou became the lieutenant of Dingfeng Town.
At that time, the court officials took out a file about one person high, all of which were battles he experienced during his wanderings. Pan Shou carefully read them one by one, annotated them in detail one by one, and wrote reports one by one, and it took him two months to finish processing these files.
After processing these files, it means that he is the "own person" of the imperial court and is considered to have entered the system. If you are in trouble, you can ask the local government for help – whether you can get it, how much you can get, that's another matter.
Of course, there are gains and losses, and there is no such thing as the best of both worlds. Now that he has entered the system of the imperial court, if there are any grievances and fights in the future, it is inevitable to make up a report afterwards.
Most people in the rivers and lakes are not afraid of wielding knives to fight people, but they are very afraid of the hard work, especially when they have to deal with piles of files, which makes them even more annoying.
Over time, except for people like Pan Shou who wanted to wash their hands and join the officialdom, ordinary people in the rivers and lakes were unwilling to go to the court to settle their own cases.
Pan Long didn't have this concern.
He has only been in the rivers and lakes for a few years, and he does not have many criminal records in the imperial court. Presumably, it shouldn't be very troublesome to settle.
Especially he likes to hang a vest to mess with the rivers and lakes, and there are even fewer cases that he has really experienced as "Pan Long" - if the court can tear down all his vests, then the court has the ability, and it's a big deal that he runs away.
Pan Long and Cang Yuan got into the carriage, and the carriage walked unhurriedly on the road, and from time to time it was overtaken by the horses or carriages that passed behind.
Pan Long looked at those who were "overtaking" and couldn't help asking: "Cang Yushi, your car...... Is there something wrong?"
Cang Yuan asked with some confusion: "Why do you ask that? My car is very good." ”
Pan Long pointed to a carriage that had just passed behind them, swaggering ahead of them, and quickly pulling away.
Cang Yuan frowned and said, "According to the laws of the imperial court, the speed of chariots and horses in the city must not exceed one hour and forty miles, and this speed is not slow. When ordinary soldiers march in a hurry, it is only at this speed. ”
"The car in front of me is afraid that it has been more than sixty miles in an hour, right?"
Cang Yuan sighed: "This is the rule set by Taizu back then, and for so many years, few people have followed this rule in other places except in the Divine Capital City. ”
He said helplessly: "Especially in the four acropolises in the southeast, northwest and northwest, there are many high-ranking families in the city. It's not uncommon to see horses on the street, and you can't manage it......"
While he was talking, Pan Long suddenly rushed out of the carriage, like a peregrine falcon catching its prey, whistling and flying out, rushing out more than thirty zhang in a blink of an eye, rushing in front of a horse that had overtaken them not long ago, and holding an old man who was almost hit by a horse, and sending him to the side of the road.
The steed was also startled, and with a neigh, the man stood up, and claws suddenly sprouted from his scaly front legs, but he was restrained by the call of the knight on the horse, and leaped far away, and flew away.
Pan Long heard an unpleasant cold snort from the horse's back, obviously the knight was disturbed by Pan Long's interest in galloping the horse, but he didn't dare to turn his face on a great master who could resist the wind, so he could only give up.
But he gave up, but Pan Long didn't plan to give up.
"I almost hurt someone, and I just left?" he asked coldly.
The horse, which had already rushed out more than ten feet, was reined in and turned around.
The knight on horseback was a young man who looked to be about twenty years old, probably because he was usually used to looking at people with his nose, and his expression was quite arrogant. But at this moment, he seemed a little flustered, and asked loudly, "What do you want?"
Pan Long slowly stood up straight: "There is no way for good or evil, but people call themselves." What I do is up to you. ”
The young man naturally understood what he meant, clenched his fists, but did not dare to say anything that might anger him, untied the money bag at his waist, threw it over, and he reached out to catch it.
"Can I go?" asked the young man angrily.
Pan Long smiled slightly: "Please, remember to be careful next time, not every Jianghu person is as good at talking as me." I know that you are from an extraordinary background, but no matter how high your background is, you only have one life, and it is not worth losing for such a trivial matter. Are you right?"
The young man's face turned white and red, and he answered in a sullen voice, and turned his horse's head away.
This time, his horse was noticeably slower.
Not only did his horse slow down, but so did many nearby chariots and horses.
Pan Long flew dozens of zhang just now, and a character with this skill, even if he is not a real grandmaster, is also an extremely strong character in the innate realm, and even a character who may leapfrog the challenge.
He obviously didn't like speeding in the city, so of course everyone didn't dare to touch his moldy head.
The kind of goods who are obviously not very strong and are so arrogant that they dare to blow up their hair with anyone will not live long in this world.
Just like Pan Long just said, no matter how high he is, he only has one life. There is no shortage of princes, kings and grandsons who died at the hands of the Jianghu people, what are they worth?
When you cut it off, who cares if your father's surname is Zhao!
Even if you can take revenge afterwards and hunt you down from heaven to earth, you're already dead!
Pan Long ignored these obviously frightened people, handed the money bag to the frightened old man, smiled, turned and walked to the approaching carriage, jumped back.
"Just now, it was Lu Ziwen, the son of Lu He, the servant of the household department. Cang Yuan said, "He likes to be a horse on the street in this Nanxia City, and he is one of the more famous." ”
"You don't care?" Pan Long asked, "Isn't the Imperial Historical Observatory in charge of supervising hundreds of officials?"
Cangyuan smiled bitterly: "Lu He has been fined four times because he has no way to teach his son." Lu Ziwen himself was also sentenced to detention or imprisonment six times. It's just that the Lu family has a knighthood, and for a crime of this magnitude, it's enough to pay for the crime with money......"
"It's no wonder that there are provisions in the law to reduce idle positions and change people's jue, if this article can be implemented. Unless Lu Ziwen attacks the lord, he can only have a civil lord. The people's punishment should be reduced, and if it is not enough, it must be punished...... You've put a lot of thought into it!"
Cang Yuan sighed and shook his head, but said nothing.
It can be seen that he does not have much confidence in whether this change can be fully implemented.