Chapter 22 Being an Official
One of the three thieves died, but now it is better, and there is no need to think about anything. It has become a fact. There is no need to look back and forth, and I am worried about gains and losses. At this point, Gu Zuo breathed a sigh of relief. They killed a household in Southern Wuzhou. No matter what they do in the future, at least one of them will be executed first, which is to give their own people an explanation, otherwise the public will be extremely resentful.
Gu Zuo asked: "It is one thing to continue interrogating the two thieves, and Tian Chao's affairs are another thing. What should you do if you think about it?"
Cheng Shanhu said: "Tian Chao is a big trouble. As I mean, I might as well kill him and send a letter to the court, saying that there were casualties in the mining. Otherwise, Youzhou would not give up. Come a few today and a few tomorrow. Where can we deal with it? I am so troublesome!"
Although this idea sounds very irritating, it is a good idea to kill someone after thinking about it carefully. It not only matched the wishes of Zhong and Chen to join the army, but also saved their own troubles. Of course, there are also disadvantages, which are to offend the Youzhou people to death, especially Tian Chengsi and Gu Zuo still have an impression of this name. The decline of the Tang Dynasty began in the Anshi Rebellion, but the separatist rule of the feudal towns began in the Tian family.
I just don’t know if the story of the Tang Dynasty will be repeated in this Tang Dynasty. This is what makes Gu Zuo most confused. What you know may not work, it is quite a headache.
But no matter what, the name Tian Chengsi put a lot of pressure on Gu Zuo.
The butcher saw Gu Zuo's doubts, and he could understand them very well. From their perspective, there was no need to give Youzhou people any good faces. If they committed crimes, they would be sentenced to death and killed if they injured people.
But Gu Zuo was the lord of Southern Wuzhou. When he stood in his position, his horizons were broad. He had to consider Tian Chao's identity as Wu Qiwei, Lu Long's army, Tian Chengsi, An Lushan, Yang Xiang, and of course the wishes of the local Heishanzhao. It is difficult to weigh in all aspects. : :
Thinking of this, the butcher was suddenly startled. Before he knew it, did the little fish dealer who set up a stall actually start to consider these issues?
Then Gu Zuo thought for a moment and asked Liu Xuanji: "What do you think?"
Liu Xuanji offered advice: "In my opinion, these are just three thieves who want to come to Nanwuzhou to make a fortune. Such rhetoric like Youzhou, who deceived and bluffed under the banner of General Zuowuwei! Didn't they all admit it? They originally wanted to sell horses, but later they saw that Nanwuzhou was empty, and they were malicious and tried to steal the spirit stones. These thieves were originally sent directly to the mine to work, but since they hurt the people, they could only pay their lives and there was nothing to say!"
Gu Zuo thought for a long time and nodded, "Brother Liu's words are reasonable! Then, leave this case to Brother Liu for judgment!"
Liu Xuanji wondered: "I'll judge?"
Gu Zuo nodded: "Yes, you will decide the case and you will announce the verdict!"
Liu Xuanji suddenly felt something was wrong and said dryly: "Local owner Gu was joking. I am a prisoner, how can I be qualified to be judged?"
Gu Zuo said: "No, no, no, Brother Liu is well-informed and familiar with the people in the court. You must be the one who is in this case. By the way, Brother Liu can call me Gu Changshi in the future. Well, I am the Chief of the Southern Wuzhou, and Brother Liu knows it."
As he said that, Gu Zuo touched the storage spirit lock, and remembered that the paper and pens he bought were thrown into the warehouse of the Nanwuzhou Supermarket. There was a pen and ink in the small storage ring, but it just happened to be out of paper. So he said to several people: "That's what things are. When you don't need them, you can't find them when you want to use them... Who has paper and pen?"
Cheng Shanhu pulled out a wrinkled piece of wrinkled paper from his arms and folded several folds of yellow paper: "I haven't used up the toilet paper..."
"Is there nothing else?" Gu Zuo was disgusted and asked Cheng Shanhu to spread the paper on the table, lift his pen and hang his wrist, and the pen was like a dragon and a snake. In an instant, a letter of appointment was written.
He took out the wooden box and opened it in everyone's eyes. He walked around the row of seals in the wooden box twice, picked out the Changshi seal, opened the ink box and dipped it in it, and pressed it on the yellow paper.
"It's done!" Gu Zuo put away the seal, put it in the wooden box, and picked out a small seal used for the Nine-grade recording from it and placed it on yellow paper.
Cheng Shanhu stuffed yellow paper and seal into Liu Xuanji's hand: "Okay, fellow Daoist Liu is now qualified to decide the case, this is your confession."
Liu Xuanji smiled bitterly: "I am a prisoner of sin, how can I become an official?"
Gu Zuo said: "So it is the record of the Ministry of Justice. When your transfer period expires next year, we will deduct the actual lack of political achievements. What about it? The duties of the second shopkeeper of the supermarket will be handed over to fellow Daoist Jia."
After Liu Xuanji opened it and read it, it was indeed a "record of the Ministry of Justice" and had no grade. So he struggled and said, "Liu Moude is not worthy, can he refuse to resign?"
The butcher frowned and turned to Gu Zuo to suggest: "Piece No. 1..."
Liu Xuanji quickly stated: "Although Liu is not virtuous, he is more suitable for filing cases than mine affairs."
The first temporary official in Southern Wuzhou took office in a half-compulsive state, and the first case of taking office was scratching his head.
In fact, the case is not complicated. The key is that someone needs to take the blame. In order not to be sent to the mine by the butcher, Liu Xuanji could only bravely sign the judgment document.
Three thieves from the north coveted the spirit stone veins of the Southern Wushan Mountain. When they were trying to steal, they were broken by the Wang couple of the people of Southern Wuzhou. They killed people for some reason. After the Jurisdiction, the evidence was confirmed and all the evidence was executed according to the Tang law. The document was sent to the Chang'an Ministry of Justice for filing, and the signature was Liu.
As for Tian Chao, no one cares anymore, and the few people pretend to be ignorant. It can be imagined that Tian Chengsi would never sit idly by and watch his son be used to mine. There will definitely be trouble in the future. Doing this is an emergency method to treat the headache. However, now he is eager to develop Southern Wuzhou, and he has no time, energy, and strength to make a fuss with the north. If things get bigger in the future, Gu Zuo can pretend to cover up and say that he is unaware of it, which is a buffer.
Gu Zuo was still very unhappy when Chen Damazi brought him such a person, but Southern Wuzhou was in the Black Mountain Edict, and he had to rely on others for everything, but he had no choice but to mention the butcher and others, and pay more attention in the future.
After the trial, Liu Xuanji posted a notice in Shuangfeng Town to personally supervise the execution. In addition to the mine veins that could not be stopped, more than 200 people came to the scene and witnessed the execution process with their own eyes. The two thieves who were still alive were in different places amid cheers. The public grievances subsided and Gu Zuo's prestige rose sharply.
When the two heads fell to the ground, the butcher said to Gu Zuo: "He is decisive and responsible, and can be of great use."
Gu Zuoshen agreed: "Which do you think is better to let him take care of?"
The butcher said: "Let's be the military officer."
So, Gu Zuo quickly issued the second order after being the chief minister of the Southern Wuzhou, and conscripted himself into a mountain tiger to serve as a military officer in the Southern Wuzhou, and was promoted from the seventh rank. This was a formal appointment, with a serious rank, and the paper for reporting his body was also a serious silk.
After Cheng Shanhu took over the proclamation and seal, he carefully put it away and returned to his residence to observe carefully.
After hearing this, my friend Su San came to pay his respects to his ancestors. After the ceremony, he sighed to him: "One of us who was a warder, we have also become an official. You said that this matter is actually a mess. If you talk about the original intention, it is not my wish. I prefer to travel around the mountains and forests and refine Qi to take pills."
Su San snatched the news and prostrated himself: "If you don't find the owner, I will tell you that the owner will change. For example, I, Su San, will be very suitable."
Cheng Shanhu hurriedly went to snatch his promise: "Hey, be careful, this is the official's thing. Do you think it's so casual? If it's broken, I will never give up with you!"
Chapter completed!