The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

"I'm looking for the file of a murder case in Weizhou."

"Hasn't that case been discussed many times?" said the official who just came in.

"Ah? How come I don't know about it?"

"Weizhou, it's the Yang Zhen case. Yang Zhen was a guard. He passed by the Banqiao store in Weizhou. The store owner was killed that night. Later, blood was found on his waist knife, so he was arrested. The documents have been in contact for several months."

"You two, come over if you have something to say." Li Fu waved at them.

Li Chengqian also looked at the two men with a bad face.

The two men did not dare to neglect them, so they came to Li Chengqian and Li Fu and knelt down.

"So it's this case, Your Highness, Prince Jingyang, I'm negligent in my duty. This case is called the Yang Zhen case here. Now that you two mentioned the Weizhou case, we don't have any impression of it."

"Why, the cases here are not uniformly named, and there is no formal number or something?" Li Fu asked curiously.

It is not uncommon for each place to have a different name, but now that they have all arrived in Chang'an and have all been gathered here, the names used by the court and the functional departments below are still different.

No wonder Li Erfeng feels that the officialdom is too redundant and messy.

"This..."

The two officials looked embarrassed.

In the past, there was no such rule.

"Okay, let's not talk about anything else. This case has been going on for so long, and there is no result. The court has not received any official documents from you." Li Fu said, "I know that in the past, you listened to Pei Ji and reported to him about anything. Although Pei Ji is gone now, how come the three provinces and six ministries of the court can't even handle this small case?"

"You all said that several months have passed and you have discussed it several times. What's the result? Have you come to an agreement?"

"To reply to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Jingyang, this case is a bit complicated to say." The official responded with a bow.

"It's like this. This case was reported to the Ministry of Justice. After discussing it, everyone felt that the case was complicated and difficult to handle, so they transferred it to the Dali Temple. The Dali Temple also felt suspicious."

"Did the Dali Temple investigate?" Li Fu asked.

"It should be investigated, but the Ministry of Justice is short of staff, so they hope that the Dali Temple can send staff, but the Dali Temple can't send staff either. Therefore, everyone discussed that the Censorate has a large number of staff and there are supervisory censors who are specifically responsible for local affairs, so they transferred it to the Censorate."

The more Li Fu listened, the tighter his brows frowned.

Good guy, passing the buck is also a tradition since ancient times, right?

They just eat and don't want to work.

Li Erfeng wanted to streamline, which was really a wise decision. What can these people who are angry when doing things do do?

It's better to lay them off and save some money for the treasury.

"What does the Censorate say?" Li Chengqian asked.

He also felt that how could this group of people do anything, they were always making excuses and procrastinating. It was just one case, but it had crossed three departments. Wasn't there anyone who could do anything?

"The Censorate said that it could not be sent out unless it was a major case."

"Later, they simply asked the local authorities to send the prisoner here."

"Has the prisoner been sent?" Li Fu asked.

"Weizhou asked whether to bring only the prisoner Yang Zhen, or all the other witnesses. This matter could only be decided by the Dali Temple. The Dali Temple said that from the perspective of the effectiveness of the case investigation, it would be best to bring both the witnesses and the physical evidence."

"So we asked Weizhou to handle it this way, but Weizhou sent another document saying that the physical evidence and the crime scene were not known how to bring them."

Bang!

Li Fu slapped the table.

"Okay, okay, one case, kicked back and forth."

The ball was kicked to the head!

This is even worse than a service window in a hall!

Back and forth, nothing serious has been done, all it's been is paperwork!

Are you writing letters back and forth for fun? !

Is this how the post stations of the Tang Dynasty were used?

Just listening to the official's narration, it sounded like this case was a mess.

Li Chengqian's face was also very gloomy.

"They are all trash!" Li Chengqian was also very angry.

At this time, another official came here trembling with documents in his arms, his feet softened, and he knelt on the ground, with the documents scattered beside the table.

"Your Highness, the documents, the documents are here."

"Your documents are useless. Several months have passed, and you are just discussing? No decision has been made?" Li Fu laughed in anger.

"Your Highness, Prince Jingyang, since His Majesty has already known about this matter, then I will immediately report to the court again and request to send someone to Weizhou to investigate..."

In the carriage, Li Fu was silent.

He sighed and looked at Li Chengqian.

"Chengqian, now you know why your father wants to evaluate officials and streamline the court departments, right? "

Li Chengqian nodded.

Until now, he has not recovered.

It is a headache to listen to them talking.

It is obvious that they are shirking things and shirking responsibilities. No one wants to do anything and no one wants to take responsibility.

These officials in the court are like this, and it is even more so in the local areas. They can't make any decisions at all. They all have to submit documents and request Chang'an City to make a decision. Only when this side says it can it be done there.

And they need to explain everything here.

"A case should have ended when it came to the Ministry of Justice, but it ended up involving the Dali Temple and even the Censorate." Li Chengqian said: "Even these three departments have not handled this case well, so what is the use of these officials who don't do anything for the court? ”

“The court supports them and gives them salaries in order to make them work for the court. Now these people only receive salaries but do not work…”

Li Chengqian even began to feel sorry for the money and salaries that the treasury spent on these officials.

They feel guilty for receiving these salaries.

In the evening, Li Fu and Li Chengqian returned to Hanfeng Hall.

“What do you mean?” Li Shimin asked.

“No way to say.” Li Fu responded with a gloomy face: “I took Chengqian there and heard a lot of nonsense from the officials there. It was all nonsense. The local government reported to the central government, the officials took the documents and reported to the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice transferred it to the Dali Temple, the Dali Temple wanted the Censorate to send someone, the Censorate refused, and the matter was kicked back to the Ministry of Justice. Until now, there is no rule or decision.”

“Come here, summon Du Ruhui. "Li Shimin instructed the eunuchs around him.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Du Ruhui hurried over.

"Your Majesty."

"In the case of the murder in Weizhou, the murderer Yang Zhen was just a guard passing by. Why did he kill people? Why didn't the Ministry of Justice investigate?" Li Shimin asked directly.

Du Ruhui looked embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Justice said that the current institutional reform is a matter of great importance, so let's put this matter aside for now."