"Ah!"
Sun Shaozong was sitting alone in the study. He had just stretched out the draft on the desk, and suddenly felt itchy nostrils. He hurriedly turned his head to the empty space and sneezed heavily.
Who is this thinking about himself
Was it the King-Princess of Beijing who left not long ago, or was it her Aunt Xue who lost her life by accident last night
Sun Shaozong rubbed his nose and thought for a while to no avail. Then he focused his attention on the draft on the table.
On the second day after he joined Dali Temple, he was thinking about how to break the game. Although he had already established his power when he investigated the case later, the word of breaking the game was far from being achieved.
What he wants to break through is not the situation where he is isolated and helpless in Dali Temple, but the embarrassing status quo of the entire Dali Temple in the three judicial divisions.
In fact, the crux of Dali Temple's current crux is nothing more than the four characters of "disconnection from top to bottom".
Although it is called the general constitution of the world, the current Dali Temple is actually a 'waiting and relying' yamen. It has almost no capital to control the local government, and can only wait for the other party to take the initiative to turn in difficult cases.
But the local officials, in order to keep their official reputation, are extremely resistant to this.
So after coming and going, Dali Temple is like a pineapple in the wind, with almost no foundation at all.
After losing its practical significance, the status of Dali Temple in the three judicial divisions, and even the entire court, naturally declined steadily.
Nowadays, it has even become a vassal of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Most of the cases handled year-round are handed over by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it only needs to be sentenced according to the other party's wishes.
The more this is the case, the more people who are close to the people below, the more they ignore Dali Temple, which further forms a vicious circle.
In order to reverse this situation, it is undoubtedly necessary to re-establish the foundation of Dali Temple, and then regain some of the rights from the Ministry of Punishment and the Supreme Court.
In fact, it is not difficult to find out that when Wei Yi first took office, he also thought about reviving the situation.
In the first year of his administration, he obtained three decrees one after another. He asked officials from all over the country to take the initiative to declare difficult and miscellaneous cases, and he sent a working group to investigate and find out.
But this move ended in vain.
The reason is that, firstly, the Dali Temple lacks the means to control local officials; secondly, there are not many elite soldiers and strong generals in this Dali Temple. Made a lot of jokes.
It is not a strong order to catch Wei Yi again, it is just three fires for wanting a new official to take office.
Seeing the intention to take the initiative to report the case, he failed to get a response from the local officials, and the dispatched working group caused a lot of criticism. Wei Yi immediately shrank his eggs.
Since then, the prestige of Dali Temple has declined further, leading to the dilemma it is today.
If you carefully analyze the reasons for Wei Yi's failure in the first place, the biggest problem is that he completely pinned his hopes on the imperial power, but did not dare to touch the interests of the Court of Justice and the Ministry of Punishment.
As a result, this top-to-bottom trend has only caused some ups and downs, and it is still several blocks away from the sandstorm, let alone changing the world.
However, this cannot be entirely blamed on Wei Yi.
Not to mention the Ministry of Punishment. In the current system, the Ministry of Punishment is in a supervisory position. Given the decadent status of Dali Temple, it is basically wishful thinking to seize power from the Ministry of Punishment.
Of course, if the situation reverses in the future, it is completely impossible to deprive some rights from the Ministry of Punishment.
As for the Procuratorate...
Although there is no direct supervision authority over the Dali Temple, the family itself is responsible for supervising the conduct and discipline of hundreds of officials, and its deterrent power to civil and military officials is comparable to that of the Dali Temple, which has no real power inside. , to be more than a hundred times stronger.
Therefore, it is even more difficult to seize power from the Supreme Court.
In particular, these people are pens, talking and fighting, and if there is a face-to-face commotion, there is no entry point to gain a firm foothold. How easy is it to seize power
Therefore, when Sun Shaozong took office, he also had a headache for a while.
Fortunately, although he is not from the court or procuratorate system, he still has some understanding of this set, and finally learned some ideas from it:
Since it is not easy to seize power, and it is not very effective to use imperial power to exert pressure, then we should start anew and create a system that can take root in a logical place and conform to the core functions and powers of Dali Temple.
The core of this system is also four words: popularize the law and go to the countryside!
In addition to inspecting difficult and miscellaneous cases reported by various places, or handling imperial cases under the order of the emperor, Dali Temple also has the responsibility of compiling and publicizing the law.
The booth in front is now in charge of Sun Shaozong, but it has a considerable degree of overlap with the Ministry of Punishment and the Supreme Court.
The latter two parts are logically in charge of You Shaoqing Li Wenshan.
However, over the years, the right Shaoqing of Dali Temple has only been in charge of compiling and revising laws, but he has rarely been involved in propaganda.
Not only that, according to what Sun Shaozong saw and heard when he was in government, the local officials were also passive and slack in the work of popularizing the law.
Because the prevailing argument is: the people can let it go, but can't let it know.
As long as the law is in the hands of officials, it is enough. As for those little people, the more they understand the law, the more likely they are to cause trouble.
This kind of speech and thinking, in fact, has not been completely eradicated in later generations.
Fortunately, Sun Shaozong did not point out that it could be completely eliminated. For him, as long as he could use this pretext to create a new path in the powers of the three judicial divisions, it would be enough.
However, it is definitely unfeasible to propose to 'popularize the law and go to the countryside' out of thin air.
Because of this, Sun Shaozong asked Liu Xianglian and others to check and count the records of people from all over the world gathering together and fighting in recent years.
Before he was an official in the capital, he didn't think so.
After going south to Huguang, it was discovered that the people's fighting for water, land, and even people's morale led to group fights one after another.
This is due to the lack of control of the local government, and secondly because most of the people only know the clan elders and do not know the laws of the court. Once conflicts arise, they are often resolved by violence.
Only those who are weak and oppressed by the tyrants will think of the government.
However, local officials often find it difficult to make clear judgments about these women who say that they are reasonable and that the public is reasonable. Even if they intervene, they are often considered to be favoring one side, and even if they make a ruling, it is difficult to take effect. .
At that time, Sun Shaozong felt that he should try to increase the control of the government and try to avoid such a thing from happening, otherwise the local clan forces would definitely have less and less reverence for the government as time went on.
When the place is completely out of control, the Great Zhou Dynasty is estimated to be on its end.
Now joining the Dali Temple, I just combine the two things, and try to curb the growing trend of private fights in the countryside by popularizing the law.
Of course, the details of this are definitely not that simple, and they have to be carefully considered before they can be discussed in the courtroom.
In short, in the end, as long as two things can be done the same, even if Sun Shaozong is not an official in Dali Temple in vain.