Chapter 180: The Inspection Office's Iron Hand
Inspection Office.
Above the pavilions.
"Brother Ye!" Jiang Ning greeted him as soon as he came up.
"Brother Jiang!" Ye Qiu smiled.
Ye Qiu looked below. "Brother Jiang, do you know the full story behind what happened down there?"
Jiang Ning shook his head. "Not really."
Ye Qiu said, "There's an Inspection Guard below. He passed the assessment yesterday, then got drunk and became so carried away that he beat to death a yamen constable who had once offended him. But he did nothing wrong."
"Nothing wrong?" Jiang Ning was slightly surprised.
"That's right, nothing wrong!" Ye Qiu nodded. "The Inspection Office has only just been established. We happen to need to make an example and establish our prestige. Without authority, our work will be hard to carry out in the future. This incident came at just the right time. Right or wrong, we can use the county yamen to establish our might."
"Wouldn't that be somewhat inappropriate?" Jiang Ning asked.
Ye Qiu shook his head. "There's nothing inappropriate about it."
After saying that, he smiled at Jiang Ning and continued, "It's only natural for Brother Jiang to think that way. After all, Brother Jiang used to be an ordinary commoner."
"But from now on, Brother Jiang will have to change your way of thinking."
"To those who sit high in the imperial halls, raised above the clouds, this world is nothing more than a chessboard. Right and wrong, good and evil—none of that matters. What matters is that their will must be carried out."
"The establishment of our Inspection Office represents the will of certain people. Our foremost duty is to execute their will. Before that, it is righteousness, because righteousness represents these people's interests."
"Before righteousness, the interests of petty commoners