Return to the great era of China's eternal emperor, the Qin Dynasty, and change the established history.

At dusk, in the official temple of Anlu County, in the main hall of the county jail, Anlu Xiancheng finally finished his day's office work, lifted his head from a mountain of bamboo slips, and when he slapped his sore neck, he heard the petty officials at the door report that the jail was happy to come back.

"Come back so soon?"

Xiancheng was overjoyed, hurriedly adjusted her clothes, and planned to greet her personally.

Qin system, the county magistrate is the chief executive, and the county temple is ruled. The bronze seal is black ribbon, and the rank is six hundred stones. Xiancheng is the second official, who is in charge of the county jail, with a bronze seal and a yellow ribbon and a rank of four hundred stones.

Xiancheng's duty is to assist the magistrate in managing government affairs, which is equivalent to the deputy magistrate and court president of later generations. The prison is just a subordinate official in charge of litigation and punishment under Xiancheng, which is equivalent to the president of the court. As a boss, there is really no need to rush out in person.

However, Anlu Xiancheng is very clear that this "Xi" is not comparable to ordinary subordinates. He has worked as a clerk and envoy in Anlu County for many years, and is known as capable. Later, he was transferred to the neighboring Yan County as a prison officer, responsible for legal answers and law enforcement, and his reputation of impartial law enforcement even passed back to Anlu.

In the fifteenth year of Qin Zheng's reign, Xi joined the army, took part in the battle of Qin's attack on Zhao, defended Pingyang, made contributions, and never rose to the fifth level of "doctor". Of course, this doctor is not a concept with the doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period, but just a moderately high title. Later, Xi was transferred back to Anlu County, where public security was extremely poor, by the governor of Nanjun County, hoping that he could restrain the lawlessness.

Over the past few years, although he likes to work conscientiously and has not had a grievance in his hand, there is nothing brilliant about it, so Anlu Xiancheng also treated him as an ordinary subordinate at the beginning.

Until July this year, Xi's mother died of illness, and Xi went back to her hometown for burial and mourning. For more than two months, without Xi's help, Xiancheng was startled to find that his work was more than three times heavier than before! Other official jails, sealed clinics, and written books are not appropriate, and there are many mistakes.

It's also right to think about it. Looking at the whole Anlu County, where can we find an official like Xi who can copy down the whole Qin law and recite it by heart?

An Xiancheng woke up, and it turned out that Xi was his right-hand man in the administration of Anlu Prison, but he could not be neglected.

After going out, Xiancheng saw Xi's figure in the distance, and he laughed, "Ben Cheng finally hoped for you!"

"It's really killing me that the lower officials dare to let Xiancheng meet them personally."

Xi Qin Zhao Wang was born in forty-five years. He is thirty-six years old, with dark hair and a coronet, two arrows on his lips, a narrow sleeve and a deep coat, and a standard clerical dress. When he met Xiancheng, he hurriedly bowed and dared not.

Xiancheng picked him up and found that he was still the same. He often kept a roll of bamboo slips in his clothes, so that he could easily read them during meals and rides. His fingers were always stained with ink. Who knows how many laws and regulations he had to copy every day?

"Xijun really hasn't changed at all." Xiancheng regrets in my heart.

When they returned to the class hand in hand, Xiancheng sighed at the funeral of Xi's family, but Xi had already come out of the pain of his mother's death. Instead of exchanging pleasantries with his boss, this workaholic went straight to the point, talking about the case he encountered when he passed through Huyang Pavilion today, and asking Xiancheng who should be responsible?

Xiancheng frowned. This matter involves a abbot who knows the law and breaks the law. It's a bit tricky. Besides, he's been busy with cases in the past two months, and he can't wait to come back and share some work. He smoothed his beard and said, "Since it's a case that you met on your way, Shi Wu Heifu also told himself to you, so you should try it. How about that?"

"I will never refuse!"

This man has no hobbies, but he has a special liking for hearing cases and copying Qin laws, and any difficult cases can be solved. After more than two months' absence from the prison, Xi felt uncomfortable. He was like a rusty steel knife and needed a case to sharpen it.

However, excluding the official status of the Tingchang, the case we met today is not complicated. As for how to try it, Xi had a general plan, so he asked Xiancheng for instructions:

"In my opinion, this case can be split in two. First, it's the merchant Bao's self-accusation of robbery. Second, Shi Wu Heifu, Ji Ying self-accused Huyang Pavilion Director, asked for theft, and so on ... Only when the crime of the thief in the former case is determined and he is executed, the latter case can be tried. "

Similar to litigation in later generations, there is a fixed process for litigation and interrogation in the state of Qin. If a case wants to enter this process, someone must report it first before it can be used as the beginning of an interrogation. If the victim reports himself, it is "self-accusation", which is equivalent to the "plaintiff" of later generations.

Xi also said that now three thieves have been tied to the county jail, and doctors have been arranged to heal the wounded thief and stop bleeding. The prosecutor and defendant of the two cases were all brought back by him, and the case can be formally opened soon!

"Xijun is really vigorous and vigorous, and I feel at ease when you do things." Xiancheng was very satisfied, so he set his mind at to be the shopkeeper of cutting and let Xi make his own choice ...

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After saying goodbye to Xiancheng, he rushed to his office room non-stop. His two subordinates had been waiting here for a long time, making the collectors "angry" and the warders "happy".

It's also a coincidence that his subordinates are named. Le often says to anger, and then find someone named "Ai" to do the paperwork. Their little official office will gather together four emotions of "joys, sorrows and joys".

However, he didn't have time to joke. While writing "closed diagnosis" on the case, that is, the trial principle and procedure of this case, he said, "You should know that before the trial begins, you should first determine the names, identities, and native places of the criminals and self-accusers."

The two nodded, "It's natural."

Xi arranged, "Angry, your face is fierce and harsh, which makes people feel scared. So you are responsible for questioning three thieves and intimidating them a little."

"Le, when you are kind and pleasant, you are responsible for asking the three self-informers, so that they don't panic and wait for the interrogation."

Anger and joy hurriedly said, since they knew their boss came back, they knew that their hard days of working overtime had come again. Fortunately, this prison inmate was experienced in handling cases, and knew exactly what kind of people to deal with.

"As for the Huyang Tingchang and the thief and others ..."

Xi stopped writing, looked up, and said coldly, "Being an abbot, but knowing the law and breaking the law shows that he is a bold man. I heard that he still has some background in his family, so I'm afraid you can't handle it, so let me meet him in person. “

Anger and Le obeyed, saying that they would do these things first thing tomorrow morning.

"Tomorrow morning?"

However, Xi shook his head and said, "It seems that you've been slacking off a lot since I've been away for two months."

He stood up and began to instruct the two men: "As early as the time of Shang Jun's political reform, he asked the government to finish the official business of that day and not to delay overnight!"

Anger and Le have numbness in their scalp. The boss admires Shang Jun the most. He likes to follow suit in everything, so he must call it.

Sure enough, Xi pointed his finger up and quoted a word from Shang Yang.

"Shang Jun said, rule by day is king, rule by night is strong, and rule by night is cut!"

A country that can handle all government affairs on the same day can be king in the world; The country can be strong even if it is finished that night; But if we delay the night and do it tomorrow, this country will be weakened!

He said earnestly, "Our local petty officials dare not say that what they have done can help the king and the world, nor can they say that they can make the state of Qin strong. But at least, we can't weaken the country because of our slackness ... "

Anger and joy looked at each other, just working overtime. How did it get involved in state affairs?

In fact, there's another sentence, I didn't say it clearly.

He has already heard that the director of Huyang Pavilion, who committed this crime, turned out to be the nephew of Zuowei (deputy director of the Public Security Bureau) of the county!

Qin system, big county, right and left two commandant, the main series of theft, military service. Zuo Wei is the fourth largest official in Anlu County, ranking above Xi. The reason why Xiancheng handed the case over to Xi for trial is that he was afraid of enmity with Zuo Wei.

Wei Zuo's family has a great background in Anlu County, and they have many guests. If Xi can't handle this case quickly, I'm afraid big sleep will give people room to practise fraud and engage in malpractices for personal gain!

So thinking, Xi grabbed the pen on the case, cut it, and strode out.

"Don't wait until tomorrow, anger, joy, you go out with me immediately, and interrogate overnight!"