Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 541 Never Compromise

Cai Yanqing, as the magistrate of Hezhong Prefecture, actually has a lot of power. He is also in charge of the military affairs of the Hezhong Prefecture, but there are officials such as inspectors, censors, and officials to check and balance him. It's not him. One person has the final say.

But his words must be very important.

The reason why Wei Yingfang and the others still avoided bringing their conflicts with the imperial court to the surface was because Cai Yanqing did not make a clear statement.

Of course, Cai Yanqing is also very clear in his heart that if he wants to manage the state capital well, he still needs to be kind and powerful. If he is alienated from everyone below, it will be difficult for him to achieve anything.

After all, he couldn't change everyone.

According to the system of the Song Dynasty, even the master book was dispatched by the central government, which greatly weakened the power of the local governor.

Both parties still have a certain tacit understanding, try not to overdo it.

But this situation is gradually getting out of control, because everyone is more and more afraid of the public security law, and there are many officials outside the Hezhong Prefecture who are fanning the flames, including some Beijing officials and officials from the Jingzhao Prefecture.

In fact, Cai Yanqing was also a little worried. On the one hand, he hoped to use the public prosecutor's law to help him rectify the bureaucracy. He couldn't rectify the bureaucracy. Even the top talents like Fan Xiang and Xue Xiang didn't dare to touch this line.

Because if you touch this line, you will not be able to do well in government affairs. After all, you have to rely on them, but the public security, procuratorate and law are very special. They don't care about government affairs, they only care about the judiciary.

But on the other hand, he did not dare to put all his eggs in this one basket. It is not certain whether the public security law will succeed in the end. It requires wisdom, not brute force.

"Prefect Cai, I heard that Chief Prosecutor Su came to look for you before?"

Wei Yingfang asked tentatively.

Cai Yanqing nodded and said, "That's why I asked you to come here today."

Wei Yingfang immediately asked, "What did he say?"

There was not the slightest movement from the procuratorate, and they were also a little uneasy, fearing that the public prosecutor's office was planning some conspiracy.

"It's because of Chen Guang."

Cai Yanqing said: "Chief Prosecutor Su expressed that he did not want this matter to become a big issue, so he hoped that their procuratorate would mediate and let the government issue the pension to Chen Guang. Pay off the debt, as for the matter of cloth, they will not pursue it."

It turned out to be begging for mercy.Wei Yingfang breathed a sigh of relief, just as they expected, and glanced at Cai Yanqing, "I don't know what the prefect Cai thinks?"

Cai Yanqing said: "I think it's better to have one more thing than one less thing. So Prosecutor Su is a Jinshi, he still knows the priorities, but if he gets involved in the imperial court, it's not necessarily so."

He believes that at this moment, the strength of the imperial court is irreversible. No matter how low-key Zhang Fei is, people will be afraid. He hopes to shape the procuratorate into a centrist to ease the conflict between the imperial court and the government.

Because he knew that Su Zhe and Zheng Xie had a good relationship, and they had the temperament of a traditional official, which was different from Zhang Fei, who belonged to another type of official.

Wei Yingfang asked: "Cai Zhifu thinks that the procuratorate and the imperial court are not of the same mind?"

Cai Yanqing said: "According to the system, the public prosecutor's law is equal, and I have also asked Na Su Zhe, he and Chief Judge Zhang are by no means on the same mind. When he was in Bianjing, he had repeatedly argued with Chief Judge Zhang in court. According to Xueshi Zheng, the reason why the imperial court sent Su Zhe here was mainly to check and balance President Zhang."

Having said that, he paused for a while, and then said: "Let's talk about the matter, if this matter becomes a big deal, no one's face will look good, and it's just a trivial matter, so there is no need for it."

Wei Yingfang pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Prefect Cai, I really have nothing to do with this matter. Since Prefect Cai wants to calm things down, I will tell them about it."

Cai Yanqing nodded with a smile.

Logically speaking, even the governor of the government has spoken about such a trivial matter, so how could it not be resolved.

But it is precisely because it is a small matter that it becomes very complicated.

The officials below learned that the procuratorate's initiative to show favor was exactly as they had expected, which meant that the procuratorate also realized that if it was brought to the imperial court, the matter would become very difficult to handle.

After all, it is to let the court spit out money, not to collect money for the court.

If the money will be very large, then the nature will change.

In fact, they don't care about giving Chen Guang more pensions and rewards, but they hope to use this to fight against the public prosecutor's law.

You passed the sentence, but you couldn't execute it.

This is the best weapon to attack public security law.

The low-level officials of the various government offices all objected. The reason was that the procuratorate interfered in the government's government affairs and agreed not to control each other. In the end, you came to teach me how to do things.

We have not violated the law. We give cloth every month. Pensions are subject to various approvals, depending on the financial situation. If you can’t ask for it, I will give it.

But Cai Yanqing finally said this, he is the governor of a government, if he still can't decide this matter, then it's fine.

However, the matter involved financial issues.

The government is only responsible for tax collection and payment. Once the money enters the warehouse, it will belong to the transfer envoy, and the military expenditure is also allocated through the transfer envoy.

This definitely involves the Transshipment Division.

On the surface, Yuan Jiang and Zhang Fei had a very tense fight because of the salt money case.

Therefore, the government officials headed by Wei Yingfang obeyed Cai Yanqing's orders on the surface, but in private they urged the officials of the warehouse department to complain to Yuan Jiang and use Yuan Jiang to check and balance Cai Yanqing.

Unbeknownst to him, Yuan Jiang had colluded with Zhang Fei a long time ago, knew the whole plan, and now he wanted to win people's hearts, so he came to talk to Cai Yanqing in person.

"This is just a trivial matter. If it gets into trouble in the imperial court, it may cause unexpected problems and get out of hand."

Cai Yanqing said while looking at Yuan Jiang.

"Cai Zhifu's worries, I also understand." Yuan Jiang nodded, and said: "I am also willing to give Chen Guang a pension and bonus, but I will not allow the procuratorate to mediate.

Because the procuratorate only targets illegal matters, if the procuratorate is involved in this matter, it will prove that our transshipment department has violated the law, and if it gets out, it will have an impact on the reputation of our transshipment department.

Moreover, this can be regarded as the procuratorate's interference in the government affairs of our transshipment department, and it may bring more serious consequences to our transshipment department.Therefore, as long as the procuratorate participates, we will ignore this matter, unless the procuratorate abandons the lawsuit first, and we will give Chen Guang some help after the turmoil of this matter is completely over. "

He is an old driver, and his words are impeccable. This kind of situation was very common in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The reason why the efficiency of the Northern Song Dynasty is said to be slow is because of mutual checks and balances, mutual disobedience, and countless things about power.

You have no right to control me, so why should I listen to you.

In fact, the general judge could not listen to the magistrate, but Wei Yingfang did not participate in this matter, and he was not willing to quarrel with Cai Yanqing for this matter.

But what Cai Yanqing heard was not Yuan Jiang's reason. Last time about the salt bill, he was sure that Yuan Jiang and Zhang Fei must have a private connection. Now I have already spoken about this matter, but you want to object.

There must be another conspiracy behind this.

royal court.

On the sparkling lake, a "single" gentleman fish is swimming in it, it's not Zhang Fei.

After the cramp last time, Xu Zhiqian laughed for a long time, this face must be recovered, Zhang Fei kept swimming for half an hour every day.

Let those women admire their fit figure.

A bearded, dark-skinned man stood by the lake, his eyes moved slowly with Zhang Fei's position, and there was a hint of jealousy in his eyes.

A clatter.

I saw Zhang Fei rushing out of the water, put his hands on the big rock by the lake, and said to the big man, "Da Niu, what are you doing here? Don't stay here. I'm nicknamed "Wang Li Bai whore." Can hold me back."

"Sanlang, it's not difficult for me to disobey this lady's order."

As he said that, Niu Beiqing rolled his big eyes, "Otherwise, I will also go into the water and swim with Saburo, so that I won't have the nickname of insulting Saburo."

On this hot day, he also wanted to go into the water to cool off.

Zhang Fei wanted to play in this small lake with a dark and fierce man by himself, so he shivered for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Stand on it and watch, if you really want to swim, go outside and find a river to swim in." .”

"Oh!"

Niu Beiqing scratched his head depressedly.

"Zhang San! Zhang San!"

Suddenly seeing Xu Zhiqian walking towards this side quickly, "Come out quickly."

Zhang Fei asked: "What's the matter?"

Xu Zhiqian stomped her feet anxiously, "Mr. Su Xiao is here."

Zhang Fei wondered, "So what? It's not Su Xiaomei."

Xu Zhiqian said anxiously: "How can you meet guests with your appearance?"

Zhang Fei rolled his eyes and said, "I'm the president of the court, not the face-to-face. Do I have to dress up when I meet guests?"

Xu Zhiqian wished to kick this face down, "Who wants you to dress up, but you have to be neat and tidy anyway, this is the way of hospitality. Look at your hair and your clothes, hurry up, hurry up Come up."

Zhang Fei grinned and said: "It's okay, Mr. Su Xiao grew up with Mr. Su, so he won't care about these things, just invite him here."

Xu Zhiqian wondered, "Don't you usually care about your appearance?"

Zhang Fei said: "That's just work, when will I dress so coquettishly in private, no, handsome."

Xu Zhiqian immediately said: "The first time I went to Baifanlou."

woman!I really remember these things better than anyone else.

Zhang Fei got bored and slipped away.

"Hey! Hey! Zhang San.!"

Xu Zhiqian stomped her feet in anger.

Niu Beiqing said: "Miss Xu, Sanlang has always been such a free and easy me. I'm going to watch the door."

There was no other way, Xu Zhiqian could only invite Su Zhe here.

It wasn't until Su Zhe appeared by the lake that Zhang Fei came out of the lake, wrapped in a coat, and brushed his hair back casually.

"I'm really sorry. I didn't know that Mr. Su came back today, and he was swimming just now, but it's not good to keep Mr. Su waiting for a long time. I hope Mr. Su will forgive me for the offense."

When speaking, Zhang Fei deliberately avoided Xu Zhiqian's murderous gaze.

"Swimming?"

Su Zhe said in surprise.

Swimming was not an exercise for the whole people in ancient times.

"Yes, exercise."

"Oh."

Su Zhe nodded, then cupped his hands and said, "It was Su who took the liberty to interrupt, and I hope Chief Judge Zhang will forgive me."

"Where! Where! Mr. Su, please sit down."

After Su Zhe sat down and left, Zhang Fei first sized up Su Zhe, "It doesn't look like good news."

Su Zhe sighed: "I have persuaded Cai Zhifu, but unfortunately the Transshipment Department did not agree. Their request is that our procuratorate should give up the case first. After the storm passes, they will give Chen Guang according to the specific situation. compensate."

Zhang Fei frowned slightly, and asked Su Zhe again: "Then what is Mr. Su Xiao's plan?"

Su Zhe said very decisively: "Our procuratorate can't do this. The fact is that they are at fault. Our procuratorate just enforced the law impartially, but now we interfere in their government affairs. It's like the wicked first sued, and our procuratorate intends to prosecute."

After hearing this, Zhang Fei seemed a little hesitant.

Xu Zhiqian at the side quietly rolled her eyes, acting as if she was real.

But Su Zhe didn't know the truth, but he came prepared and figured out how to persuade Zhang Fei, so he said: "Then Chen Guang originally planned to come to your imperial court to sue, and we intercepted it. If we give up the prosecution, then Chen Guang It is very likely that he will still come to the imperial court.

Judge Zhang is not worried about the recent popularity of the imperial court. If Chen Guang goes directly to the imperial court, it may cause your imperial court to be in a dilemma. If our procuratorate initiates the prosecution, it will reduce your imperial court's burden a lot. "

It has to be said that Su Zhe's eloquence is also very good, and he is a master negotiator. This reason is indeed difficult for Zhang Fei to refuse.

Zhang Fei glanced at him, and after weighing it up, he asked: "Mr. Su Xiao is sure?"

Su Zhe nodded and said, "We plan to sue the Transshipment Department together with the Legal Aid Department, and no specific officials will be involved. We just seek justice for Chen Guang. Don't worry about Chief Judge Zhang. We won't settle their old accounts. .”

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Okay."