About half an hour later, the imperial censor Chao Cuo led Zhonglang General Zhidu and the new court lieutenant Zhao Yu to come to Liu Che.!

Liu Che then put down the report recorded by Yang Feng and stood up to greet him.

"I'm here to pay my respects to you!" Chao Cuo, along with Zhi Du and Zhao Yu, bowed slightly to Liu Che.

Liu Che quickly asked someone to give him a seat.

After An sat down, Chao Cuo immediately asked: "Is there any order from the unknown family that has urgently summoned ministers to come?"

However, Liu Che did not answer, but looked at the new court captain Zhao Yu and asked: "Qing Zhao, I ask you, if you murder the prince's subordinates according to the law, what crime should you do?"

When Zhao Yu heard this, he was shocked! Who dares to kill the prince's subordinates? You are impatient to live, right?

Let alone killing someone related to the prince!

Even breaking a vase in the prince's womb is a capital crime!

However, he was young and reacted quickly. He immediately went out to pay homage and said: "Go back to your family. According to Han law, murderers must die. Killing officials is equivalent to rebellion. Murdering the prince and his subordinates is an additional crime. The first offender shall be punished.

Depending on the degree of participation, the accomplices will be punished by cutting in half, abandoning the market, beheading, hanging, death penalty, exile, and the plotters!"

When Liu Che heard this, he laughed and said: "Good!"

This is why he wants to summon Ting Wei!

He then answered Chao Cuo's question and said: "Gu urgently summoned the ministers and others to come here this time because Gu's minister Yang Feng was corrupted by evil officials and became a bandit in Henan County when he was inspecting Guandong County incognito under Gu's order.

, all three of Yang Feng's escorts died under the siege of evil officials. Yang Feng went to the county guard's office to complain, but was beaten with sticks. Please tell me. How should this matter be dealt with? "

Zhao Yu was surprised and happy!

Surprisingly, such a thing actually happened!

The happy thing is that this is simply a God-sent opportunity!

As the saying goes, if you don’t take what God has given you, you will suffer the consequences!

He bowed almost immediately: "If this is really the case, I would like to ask my superiors to give an order, and I will immediately take people to Henan County to thoroughly investigate the matter!"

For Zhao Yu at this time, there was nothing more to his liking than such a major and important case.

Last year, the former Tingwei Zhang Ou made a counterattack and rose to power as a dark horse. With the support of Chao Cuo, he took the position of prime minister.

The position of Tingwei was immediately vacant and became the focus of competition among all parties.

Zhao Yu was able to become a Tingwei at less than forty years old, which can only be described as lucky!

Even Zhao Yu himself felt as if he was dreaming.

You know, a year ago, he was just an official serving a thousand dan.

According to tradition, a middle-level official like him would have to wait at least ten or eight years before he could hope to get an opportunity to work abroad and then upgrade himself to the level of two thousand dan.

Officials like Zhao Yu, who were promoted in a rocket manner, are rare even if you open the history books of the Han Dynasty!

Therefore, after taking office, Zhao Yu could be said to be very cautious. He was walking on thin ice for fear that something would go wrong.

But on the other hand, he also worked hard and wanted to handle a major and important case to convince the public and to make his name known!

Liu Che looked at Zhao Yu and nodded with satisfaction.

With the cooperation of Tingwei, this matter immediately became much simpler. At least, there were no problems with the procedure.

In the Han Dynasty, as long as Ting Wei takes the lead, there is no case that cannot be solved!

Regarding Zhao Yu, Liu Che was still very satisfied with the new Tingwei. He was brave enough to fight and charge, and he was full of courage. Soon after he took office, he changed the lazy administration of his predecessor Zhang Ou, actively adjusted the Tingwei Yamen, and solved several cases.

, and even solved a large number of problems left over from the Zhang Ou period.

In contrast, Tingwei's prison is also somewhat overcrowded...

Zhao Yu's position as Tingwei was really hard-won. Liu Che looked at Zhao Yu and felt some different emotions in his heart.

Speaking of which, Liu Che also contributed to Zhao Yu becoming a court captain!

Initially, Zhao Yu was not on Tingwei's list of candidates.

But later, all the recommended candidates were rejected by the emperor's father. The prime minister, who was in a hurry, had no choice but to stuff a few young and strong factions into the list out of anger.

The original intention was to recruit the emperor's army, but who could have imagined that the Qingzhuang faction who was thrust in actually contained a person with a big backer like Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu's candidate was Taiwei Zhou Yafu.

Although Zhou Yafu recommended Zhao Yu and then left it alone, at that time, Zhou Yafu was favored and was a popular figure in the country. The emperor's father wanted to give Zhou Yafu face, so he mentioned it to the court.

in the list.

Originally, when things came to this point, Zhao Yu would have nothing to worry about.

For a newcomer to the officialdom with neither qualifications nor noble background, it is already a great honor to be able to attend a meeting to discuss the selection of the Nine Ministers.

Who dares to hope for more?

But, at that time Liu Che took action.

A secret letter in the name of Ji An was delivered to the emperor's case.

Then, Zhao Yu unexpectedly became a Tingwei.

Liu Che actually didn't say anything. He just asked Ji An to cite various data about Zhang Ou when he was a court captain in the memorial. After seeing the various data about Zhang Ou when he was a court captain, the emperor immediately canceled the appointment of those people.

A layman's plan.

Who asked Zhang Ou to be a court captain? He did an "excellent" job!

Judging from incomplete statistical data, Zhang Ou served as a court captain for two years. As a result, hundreds of death row prisoners who should have been convicted were not punished by law. Instead, they waited in the court prison for amnesty by the emperor.

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The law has not played a role in deterring crime. The dignified official, who is supposed to be the enforcer of the law, the protector and upholder of fairness, ended up becoming a protector of crime for the sake of his personal reputation.

How unbecoming is this!

Therefore, Tingwei still has to be a legal worker who specializes in prisons.

As a result, most of the candidates became unqualified, and Zhao Yu successfully passed the model of selecting generals among the dwarves and became the new Tingwei.

Of course, the more important reason may be that the emperor's father sent someone to ask Zhou Yafu.

Thinking about these things in his mind, Liu Che didn't stop talking.

He looked at Chao Cuo and asked, "What do you think, the imperial censor?"

If you want to punish a two-thousand-stone county guard, a court lieutenant alone cannot do it.

The censors had to take action. Liu Che believed that the supervising censor sent by Chao Cuo to Henan County must have a lot of dirty information about Dou Quan.

It all depends on whether Chao Cuo is willing to risk offending the Dou family and stand up as the mt!

Liu Che's heart was like a mirror. If he killed Dou Quan, Dou Guangguo, or Queen Mother Dou, as long as he made it clear and communicated well, the problem would not be big, and the rest of the Dou family would not dare to have any dissatisfaction.

But Chao Cuo, who was in the early years, was different.

Dou Quan's family didn't dare to complain about the prince, why didn't they dare to complain about Chao Cuo?

What's more, Dou Ying already had a rift with Chao Cuo, and this matter was going to escalate again. Chao Cuo was with the Dou family. It is estimated that Chao Cuo's reputation would directly turn into hatred, and he would never stop fighting!

Liu Che looked at Chao Cuo calmly, waiting for Chao Cuo's answer.

Chao Cuo's answer was exactly what Liu Che had guessed. He replied calmly: "Returning to the report home, I thought that what Tingwei said was true. Those who kill must die. This is the iron law of Emperor Gaozu. What's more, killing the prince and his subordinates is a crime in Henan."

What the county governor did is not dereliction of duty, and I should be impeached!"

Liu Che nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.

Chao Cuo is indeed the same Chao Cuo!

He is worthy of being the ruthless man who pushed for the elimination of vassals in his previous life despite the pressure of the whole world.

However, since Liu Che didn't tell why the officials in Henan County wanted to kill the prince's subordinates, Chao Cuo was naturally smart enough not to ask.

He is not stupid and knows that there must be something ulterior motives here. If not, it may trigger a super storm that sweeps the entire country.

After all, not even a fool can see how rotten the grassroots level of Guandong County is!

Xiapi County is a very vivid example!

Against the backdrop of the continuous cutting of leeks in the Lingyi system, the local tycoons and landowners and officials in Xiapi were able to pull out a rebel army of tens of thousands and swept across the entire Huaihe River Basin. The court actually wanted to mobilize the seven counties of the Three Kingdoms

Only with troops and horses can we contain...

It can only be said that over the years, local problems have gradually become stubborn.

In fact, the imperial court is not unaware of these issues.

It's just that everyone buries their heads in the sand, pretending not to see or listen, and refuse to speak out until they die.

Anyway, no matter how serious these problems are, they cannot harm them. Those who suffer are just mud-legged people. What does it have to do with us?

Liu Che looked at Chao Cuo and then at Zhao Yu.

Originally, he thought that Chao Cuo and Zhao Yu might ask him what happened that caused all this, so that he could throw away the blank papers he was holding now.

However, now I see Zhao Yu and Chao Cuo with their heads lowered and their bodies bowed.
To be continued...