Chapter 11 11. Be a small county magistrate who works hard

Cao Cao has been in office for more than half a year, but there is still a legacy case that has not yet been closed. The tenant farmer Wang San sued Liu Lang, the landlord of Dunqiu County, for murder. Four generations of Wang San’s family have been farming for the Liu family. Just because Wang San’s father lost two of the Liu family’s cattle, Liu Lang instigated his servants to beat Wang’s father alive. die.Wang San went to argue, was beaten up by the Liu family, and was expelled from the field and cut off his livelihood. In desperation, he went to the county government to sue the Liu family, but the former county magistrate did not dare to provoke Liu Lang, so he only gave him some money It's over.It turned out that Liu Lang was not only a landlord, but also the descendant of the Liu family's clan, and ordinary county magistrates dare not take care of him.Wang San refused to accept and sued several times, but the county magistrate refused. It took a whole year and a half until the county magistrate died of a sudden illness.

Cao Cao is well aware of the harm of local tyrants now, and Liu Lang is the most arrogant landlord in Dunqiu County. If he wants to establish his prestige and heal Dunqiu, he must first pull out this nail.Zheng worried that he couldn't catch the topic, and the case would be settled as soon as Wang San complained.But arresting people is a problem. There are many adults in the Liu family's mansion, and they have seduced the upper-level officials. Not to mention that they can't go in and arrest them.Thanks to Bian Binghua, who has a lot of guts, he managed to trick Liu Lang out without any effort.

"Ascension hall!" Lou Yi yelled towards the entrance of the hall. For a short time, Yuan and Fang, the dunqiu county team leaders, led the yamen servants in two rows, all of them stood upright in all uniforms of green clothes and hats.Cao Mengde sat in the middle of his clothes and sleeves, and the county meritor Cao Xu Tuo stood by to watch the trial, and the hall was dignified and quiet.There was a lot of trouble outside the county government, not to mention the people in the county, even people from ten miles and eight villages who had been oppressed by the Liu family flocked here.

Although the weather is in August, after all, the autumn tiger has surpassed the volts, the weather is really gold and fire, the sky is clear and the clouds are gone, a round of red sun shines down, scorching the ground, hundreds of people block the gate of the yamen to go in Looking around, people are crowded by everyone, and they are so hot that they sweat through their thin shirts.The gate of the outer courtyard of the Yamen Temple was open, and the people who came early crowded into the entrance of the hall. Lou Yi led a few soldiers to guard the gate to maintain order, and kept shouting: "Don't push! Stop pushing! The entrance of the hall must follow the rules. Who wants to squeeze in again, watch out for my whip!" It took a long time for the people to gradually calm down.

Cao Cao smiled slightly, and said to Xu Tuo: "The sky is hot and the people are hot too! Look at me, the new county magistrate, breaking this case, and make a good start!" After saying this, he turned his face away, opened his eagle eyes, and shouted: "Take the prisoner!" Several yamen servants went away in response, and in an instant they escorted Liu Lang in, pressed him to the ground, and told him to kneel down.Liu Lang was still ignorant up to this moment, but vaguely felt that the new county magistrate was planning to kill him, so he kept his head down and dared not speak, secretly thinking about how to deal with it.At this time, thunder was deafening to my ears, and Cao Cao asked coldly, "Liu Lang! Are you guilty?"

"The grassroots don't know what the crime is." Liu Lang forced himself to retort with the mentality that he is not afraid of taking cold medicine when he is not sick. "I don't know what's the crime?" Cao Cao suddenly became amiable, and he didn't seem to be asking the case at all. He leaned over the case and asked, "Do you really don't know what the crime is, or have you done too many sinful things? I don’t know which one committed the crime? You look back at the people outside the hall... Poor people from tens of miles around have been recruited, and you, Mr. Liu, are very popular! Look at the fellow villagers, what expression do you see on your face? If I put you in a stew right now, it might not be enough."

Liu Lang really shuddered and turned his head to take a look-it was so dark!There are a few familiar faces in the front row, all tenant farmers who have been squeezed by him, and the others must not be friendly.His heart trembled, but after all, the tiger's dead body won't fall down, so he immediately calmed down: the more soft you are, the more you will suffer!Then he turned around and shouted tremblingly: "My lord said that the grassroots don't understand. If someone sues me, I should ask him to confront him. Your lord has put up such a situation, is he trying to deceive me, Liu?"

"I've only deceived celebrities and important ministers, but a snob like you? You deserve it too! Take Wang San!" Wang San rushed to the hall, and hurriedly knelt down: "I beg you to be the master of the grassroots!" "Don't worry, speak slowly." Cao Cao's attitude towards him was quite good. Wang San had long held back his grievances, and his enemy was extremely jealous when he met him. He pointed at Liu Lang's nose and told how he oppressed the tenant farmers, how he rented the cattle, how he beat his father to death, how he beat him out of the farm, etc. After reading about the rotten millet in someone else's house, I made it clear in every detail.Seeing Liu Lang's denial, Wang San couldn't help being furious, got up and grabbed Liu Lang's belt and punched him.Liu Lang is someone who has been supported for a long time, and his cheeks have been blackened with two punches.Suddenly there was a commotion in the hall, and the officials on both sides hurriedly pulled the two apart.