Chapter 11: Groping for fish
Jingcha, Dafeng Beijing officials assessment system, three years a check, to 'four grams', 'eight laws' as the standard of promotion and demotion.
Unqualified officials, demoted, or even cut their posts to the people.
It was a matter of future prospects, which was understandable. The other party has a distant relative who is a governor, turn around and impeach, cool.
Changle County has a backlog of murders, which is something that can be a reason for political opponents to attack.
"How to die." Xu Qi'an asked carelessly.
"Went to the countryside to collect rent, came back in the middle of the night, happened to encounter a beamer in his own inner courtyard, and gave it a click." A fellow officer tsked.
"Any witnesses?" Xu Qi'an said.
"When the wife heard the commotion and went out to check, the man was already dead in the courtyard. But we found footprints on the outer wall."
"Is it possible that an enemy disguised as a burglar committed the murder." Xu Qi'an poured himself a cup of tea and took a few candied fruit from his fellow officers and dropped them into the cup.
His tone was just like when he was discussing the murder with his colleagues back at the police station.
"Having asked his wife, children, servants, and neighbors in the neighborhood, the deceased has not been feuding with anyone in recent days."
"Did the soldiers patrolling the night ask?"
"The Imperial Sword Guards said there were no suspicious characters in the neighborhood that night."
The capital had three walls, the palace city, the inner city, and the outer city.
Although there are night patrol soldiers in the outer city, there is no curfew, the city gates remain open all night for twelve hours, and merchants and businessmen are free to enter and exit the city gates as long as they make a good report in advance and take the credentials.
This system greatly improved the capital's commercial trade and promoted economic development.
Xu Qi'an nodded, "In that case, if it's a thief, it should be an acquaintance who knows that part of Kangping Street like the back of his hand."
"How can that be?" The magistrates were stunned.
"The fact that the thief was able to enter and exit the mansion at night without being detected by the patrolling soldiers indicates that he had stepped on the spot and knew the patrol patterns of the Imperial Sword Guards well." Xu Qi'an analyzed while instinctively feeling for a cigarette in his pocket.
Disappointedly, he felt empty.
He couldn't help but think back to when he was serving in the police department, when everyone was also sitting together in twos and threes, smoking cigarettes and discussing cases.
He was also therefore close to the ink, and caught the addiction to smoking.
Several fellow officers were taken aback, scrutinizing Xu Qi'an:
"Very reasonable."
"Why didn't we think of this."
"Ning Yan, after going to prison once, people have become resourceful."
There was no systematic teaching program these days, constables handled cases based on experience, and the ones with the best performance could become constables.
"You guys didn't think of it, but Sheriff Wang must have thought of it, did the west side of the city go and ask?" Xu Qi'an is low-key and does not show off.
Fellow officer replied, "Asked for two days, did not lock the suspect."
The west side of the city is a slum, all the people who steal chickens and dogs, mixed fish and dragons, generally out of the security problem, the magistrates take the white service, run over there, a catch.
"How much silver was lost?" Xu Qi'an subconsciously unfolded his reasoning in his mind and asked.
A fellow officer glanced at Xu Qi'an and felt that his tone was a bit of the county magistrate's old man, so he replied, "No silver was lost, the deceased had just come back from collecting rents, and all that was collected was broken silver; copper coins as well as rice and grains, so how could the thieves have escaped with a large box of silver after murdering someone?"
Incorrect!
Xu Qi'an narrowed his eyes, if I were the thief and had stepped on the spot, then I would definitely choose to steal it every other day, not today.
He didn't voice out this doubt, getting high on melon seeds and continuing to listen to his fellow officers kibitzing.
"It's a pity that such a delicate woman has to be widowed at such a young age. That body, that breast, tsk, can't even find such an outstanding woman in the hookah. Even if it's one or two pieces of silver for a night's sleep, I'd still be willing."
"It's not young, just twenty years different from the one surnamed Zhang, seems to be in her early thirties. A woman of this age is most unable to keep a widow."
Hearing this, Xu Qi'an lamented, "Thirty year old women are good, they know more about bedside manner, and have unlimited flavors."
Some old-fashioned words, but did not get the recognition of his colleagues, the crowd looked at him, laughed and joked: "You a child chicken who does not even go to the hookah, what do you know!"
To follow the path of martial arts, without breaking through the realm of qi cultivation, you can not break the body, once the yuanyang is leaked, it will be difficult to open the door to heaven.
That's why Xu Qi'an has been carrying the Sea Defining Needle for nineteen years, and has yet to subdue a female goblin.
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The back hall where the county magistrate lives.
The dark-skinned, like a ridge farmer's head of Wang lowered his head, listlessly listening to the magistrate master's reprimand.
County magistrate master surnamed Zhu, rich white fat, Yanzhou people, Yuanjing 20 years of the third grade jinshi, good at drilling, not good at official business, is a lack of business ability, but knows the way of the official readers.
He is a scholar with little business ability, but knows the way to be an official. The advantage is that he is quite conscientious, not too greedy, incompetent, but not disturbing the people.
The disadvantage is that he treats his subordinates with a bad temper and is prone to spitting fenfang.
"Incompetence, what incompetence."
Knowing that Sheriff Wang still had no luck yesterday, Magistrate Zhu was furious.
"You are at least a seasoned veteran, a district murder case, so many days without a clue."
Wang sheriff's forehead perspired, a thorn in his side.
The Beijing inspection is imminent, and Zhu magistrate is getting more and more irritable ...... Li Dianshi didn't dare to interrupt, even though he and Sheriff Wang were old friends for more than ten years.
Li Dianshi know, the county magistrate has been wanting to go up a promotion, promotion needs two conditions: backing, performance!
There is no political achievements, only backing, easy to be impeached, the position is not stable.
If you have achievements and backing, you can rise steadily.
Where to come from?
Jingcha is an important assessment standard.
After a quarter of an hour, Zhu magistrate withdrew his gaze, picked up the tea cup and took a sip.
Officialdom rules, serving tea to send off guests!
Seeing this, Li Dianshi pulled the Wang sheriff who lowered his head and did not say a word, and the two left in a mess.
......
Sheriff Wang returned to the lounge with an ugly face, the chaotic chamber quieted down all of a sudden, everyone looked at Sheriff Wang cautiously.
"Chief, did magistrate Zhu scold you again?"
Sheriff Wang rolled his eyes, grabbed the tea and took a sip, "Damn, the man died and the thief left, where can I find him? Today is unlucky, I also dropped a penny of silver."
That money is you dropped ah .... Xu Qi An shrunk his neck and drank tea to hide his heart.
The silver is obviously not related to you.
After listening to Sheriff Wang's complaints, a small constable gave him a bad idea: "How about touching a fish?"
Xu Qi'an's eyebrows jumped.
Touching a fish, a specialized term in the underlying officialdom!
It meant: find a scapegoat.
Limited by technology and equipment, most of the cases in ancient times were headless cases with extremely low detection rates. Sometimes officials would look for a scapegoat to take the place of their superiors in order to get the job done.
The process is like this, first by the local people of the officials selected a group of often treacherous old bastard, the name written on the paper folded, the official hand touch.
Who touched, who is the scapegoat.
So it is called touching fish.
After the unlucky man locked, officials went to lock people, brought back to the Yamen a set of assembly line called 'bent into recruiting' down, the bones of even the hardest people also recruited.
The superiors are satisfied, the middle of the officials have been rewarded, the officials have been rewarded, you good I good everyone good.
The scapegoat is not wrong, anyway, is a bad person, early to send him to reincarnation, but also for the well-being of the people around.
There are many, many more similar tawdry maneuvers in the officialdom.
Sheriff Wang nodded: "It can only be like this, Xiao Li, you go and handle this matter, pick a few mixed ones, older ones."
Xiao Li was about to nod, when Xu Qi'an frowned, "Wait! Guv, this case has a lot of doubts, it's not like there's no way to start."
Xu Qi'an did not recognize this reasoning.
Despite not being a police officer for many years, the three views established at that time were still alive and well.
Although he was a criminal, he did not deserve to die. Even if he deserved to die, it was still one size fits all.
This side to find someone to take the place of, over there is not a cheap real murderer.
Sheriff Wang sank his face, didn't say anything, and looked at him with an unpleasant demeanor.
The crowd persuaded:
"Ning Banquet, don't be nosy."
"It can't be helped that the chief gets scolded every day, and besides, Solemnity is just a jerk who often commits crimes."
Those with better relationships said, "Chief, Ning Yan's family just suffered a big disaster, so it's inevitable that he's a bit sensitive to this kind of thing."
Sheriff Wang turned a deaf ear and stared at Xu Qi'an, unhappy and sullen: "Tell me how to investigate!"
"Give me the dossier!" Xu Qi'an was straightforward.
