The temple is small and the wind is strong, and the pool is shallow and there are many turtles. It is indeed a portrayal of the officialdom of the state government today.

Shuzhong has always been a province with little presence. In the eyes of the people of the Central Plains, this place is a place where the Southern Barbarians are entrenched, while the people of Jiangnan feel that it is full of miasma and has not yet been civilized. Even people in the Lingnan area think that the food here is too spicy.

However, in fact, Shu is rich and does not go to the south of the Yangtze River. The rice here is ripe twice a year and produces expensive green salt. The climate is pleasant. The mountain basin is a first-class and livable place.

But this is just saying that if you enter the mountains around Tianzhou Prefecture, it will be barren and primitive, and there are even many legends of mysterious poisonous insects.

It is precisely because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor and the special geographical location that the officialdom in Shu was bleak. This dynasty had caused several corruption cases with great influence. A tough emperor once made up his mind to kill a group of people, but he changed the soup and did not change the medicine. A few years later, he still remained the same.

Wang Bailing is a newbie. He has always been out of place in the officialdom in Shu. He wants to be serious about discipline, but he has also been hindering. In recent years, he has been a master of saying strange words. Unexpectedly, Ye Xingyuan gave him a surprise when he came.

Although this sentence is vulgar, the more you read it, the more you feel it tastes. If he had the power, he would want to hang this couplet at the door of every yamen in Tianzhou Prefecture.

So the first impression is very important. Although Wang Bailing had prejudices against Ye Xingyuan before, it was completely changed because of these ten words.

He said to his master privately, "This person is worthy of being the top scholar, he is really a talented person. From what he said, did he come to Shu to do something?"

The most important thing to be an official is to observe his words and expressions, and to be conscious of the small details. Even a clean official is no exception. Of course, Wang Bailing's ability to reach this high position today is not entirely due to his bad temper. Ye Xingyuan's words missed some thoughts.

The master shook his head and said, "This person's official voice is good, but the students can't see what kind of method he is. He acts wildly and always makes incredible moves. I really don't know where he is."

Anyone who has come into contact with Ye Xingyuan or has paid attention to his deeds will feel a wonderful dissonance. Whether it is said that he is unconventional or unexpected, he always sees him dead, and he changes again.

Ye Xingyuan has a low official qualification, and he has no reputation for being rude, and he has never heard of him loving money. But he said he is honest and clear, but obviously he is not. He can only say that he is a new type of bureaucrat.

Even the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet had no idea what he wanted to do. For example, this time, everyone guessed Ye Xingyuan's qualifications and political achievements, and should find a way to return to Beijing. Who knew that although he left Qiongguan, he came to the same remote Shuzhong.

Could it be that Ye Xingyuan really came with a pure official spirit and punishing past mistakes to prevent future treatment and save lives? Thinking of what he did in Qiongguan, it is difficult for people to believe. The final conclusion still needs to be observed.

No matter what his boss thought of him, Ye Xingyuan started to work seriously and began to study the backlog of files as if he were decent.

If the Censorate Department must be compared, it is more like a combination of the Provincial Public Security Department and the Provincial Procuratorate. At this level, unless it is a major case, it will not participate in the investigation in person, but will be more of a supervision and verified cases handled in various places.

For example, when Ye Xingyuan was in Guiyang County and Zhou Zhixian County, his parents and officials disappeared in one county, which means that the county-level judicial organs were almost paralyzed, so Fan Qianshi came down to blame him. Unless a case of this level or above can Ye Qianshi participate.

Of course, this kind of thing will not happen every day. Daily work is to check the file cases reported in various places and approve them.

If you want to see whether a place is corrupt or not, it is easiest to see the clues from the handling of criminal cases. So Ye Xingyuan is very patient. He knows that he is also a long-term job in Shuzhong and is not in a hurry.

There was no three fires for the new official to take office, and the clerks under him also relaxed. After almost half a month of nervousness, they became reborn again. Ye Xingyuan silently saw what should he do to follow the old examples.

Concubine Qing couldn't stand it and advised: "There are many clerks below who are promising their own affairs, so why not deal with them first to serve as a warning to others?"

Ye Xingyuan shook his head and said, "A place in Shu, I only see a few signs, especially the Tianzhou Prefecture is already rotten. I am determined to lift the table in one fell swoop. Now I catch some minions, I am afraid that I will alarm the snake."

Qing Feiqi said: "You hardly leave your home in the past half month. Although you have had several social engagements with colleagues from other yamen, it is just superficial skills. How can you get the inside story?"

Ye Xingyuan sighed, "Where do you need to touch? All these case files are clearly written, so why do you need to ask again?"

The more you read these files, the more you become more and more angry, and even he became a little annoyed. These grassroots officials colluded with the wealthy family, were corrupt and abused, and were lawless, and refused to even cover up a little. The files were filled with absurd words and tears of bitterness!

There was a good girl who was intercepted by Kuo Shao in broad daylight and brought her to a restaurant. After that, she fell off the building and died. The local judge was sentenced to excessive drinking and fell off the road. Kuo Shao was suspected of urging him to drink and fined him fifty kilograms of copper.

Another woman was missed by her beauty. She went crazy with alcohol during the day and actually killed her in-laws and husband and raped her forcibly. The woman sued her and finally broke it up. The woman committed adultery and poisoned her family and sentenced two deaths. As for the suspects of the woman's accusation, even her name was hidden.

Ye Xingyuan only talked about two or three cases casually, and Concubine Qing was so angry that she raised her eyebrows and said angrily: "If you don't get out of this unjust case, what else do you say?"

She is a yin god. She has seen all kinds of things in the world for thousands of years, but she has never discovered that there is a place where the judiciary can be so dark and corrupt.

Ye Xingyuan smiled bitterly and said, "It is natural to overturn the verdict, but it is not now. If the second case is not founded, then even if I go to Beijing to file a lawsuit, I will have to save the woman's life.

It’s a pity that the woman and the so-called “adulterator” were already being executed in the autumn of the previous year. I want to overturn the verdict for them, so there is no need to rush to do so."

Qing Fei was silent. She forgot that the file Ye Xingyuan looked at was in the past five years, and many cases had been concluded long ago. Even if the case could be reversed in the future, the person who was wrongly sentenced to death would never be saved.

She gritted her teeth and said, "I don't know that these dog officials are so careless. If it were my father's time, I would definitely ask him to skin all these corrupt officials!"

Ye Xingyuan did not agree, "Even if Emperor Wen's rule was ruled, the administration had never been truly honest. The world was as black as crows. If anyone was in power, there would be people who would favor personal gains, unless it was really the world of great harmony as the saint said."

The people’s expectation of honest officials to save their lives is actually just an unrealistic delusion. If they really want the people to be the masters of the country, they will eventually need to start a revolution. However, after the revolution, the people become officials, which is another cycle.

Concubine Qing didn't want to study these metaphysical issues. She paid more attention to the real people's livelihood. "What about the recent files? The previous cases cannot be translated. I don't believe that there were no unjust cases in the near future. It would be fine if the person who died in vain before was. If you were here and asked to die unjustly, what kind of official do you still want to be a vain?"

As an official, it is better to go home to sell sweet potatoes than to be an official. Ye Xingyuan has this awareness. When he comes to Shu, he also has the determination not to join these corrupt officials. Without this moral integrity, how could he be recognized by Yan Wuxie?

Ye Xingyuan replied: "This is naturally. There is a case recently. I think it is a breakthrough point to summarize the main points. I was just trying to follow the clues and catch them all in one place."

Qing Concubine was very surprised. She took the file from Ye Xingyuan, read it for a long time, and said in anger: "Langlang Qiankun, there is such a dirty thing! It's really disgusting! But how do you know that this matter will be related to the officialdom of Tianzhou Prefecture?"

Ye Xingyuan pretended to be mysterious and said, "You only need to look at the female relatives involved to know that how can you have such courage in a mere Zen temple? There must be a shaman behind it. This matter lasted for more than ten years and was extremely angry. It was not until this year that it was finally broken due to the pressure of Mr. Wang.

But letting all the blame be taken by several monks, ignorant and foolish people may believe it, but how can anyone with discerning eyes not knowing that there is something wrong with it?"

The case Ye Xingyuan mentioned was a case of a girl missing in Tianzhou Prefecture solved this spring. In early March, Luo Laoshi, a villager in Hongyuan County, Tianzhou Prefecture, reported the case, saying that his daughter, who was only fifteen years old, was missing and was missing.

This case of missing girls near Tianzhou Prefecture actually happened frequently in more than ten years, but it has never been solved. The prefecture and county chief only said that he was abducted by a foreigner, but if you study the case carefully, you will find that something is wrong.

At that time, Luo Laoshi was also told that his daughter had elopement with someone, but he didn't believe it. He ran to the provincial capital to stop the censor Wang's sedan chair and complained. Wang was furious and ordered Hongyuan County to investigate thoroughly.

Hongyuan County was originally a slander, but probably because the net of heaven was vast and unobstructed. Sometimes, the retribution of cause and effect finally came out. After being rescued, it was proved that the monks from Cisheng Temple in Qingxiu Mountain, Tianzhou Prefecture were robbed into the temple, wantonly, lustful and humiliated.

Fortunately, a little novice monk was kind and quietly untied the rope for her, so she had the chance to escape.

This incident spread and shocked the entire Tianzhou Prefecture. The county could no longer suppress it. It sent people to surround Cisheng Temple to search. As a result, not only did the corpse of a little shaman who had just been killed by venting anger, but also dozens of women's bones. Judging from the victim's clothes and tokens, it was the girl who had disappeared around Tianzhou Prefecture for more than ten years.

Things got worse now. The key is that Cisheng Temple is a large temple on Qingxiu Mountain. There are many good men and women going to burn incense, and even many officials and relatives. Who knew that it was such a place that was so filthy.

Later, the matter had a chain reaction, and an official family member confirmed that he was lewd and humiliated in the temple, which became a heinous case. Originally, the eldest son of the king had to pursue it, but for some reason he stopped and stopped pursuing it downwards. He only convicted several monks in the temple and sealed the temple to disperse innocent monks, as if he was interested in this.
Chapter completed!