The Word Means Palace

All the evidence of Dayin are written. Fields, grain, people, and lives only count if they are written down - the person who truly holds the power is always the person who writes the document. Shen Yan was a doctor of literature who could only read and had never been an official. When he woke up, he became the seventh-rank magistrate of Tongxi County. The original owner died three days ago, leaving behind a false account, 3,000 acres of hidden farmland, a prisoner sentenced to death, and grain that would be shipped in three days—only 30% was left in the treasury. No one in the yamen listened to him. The county magistrate was waiting for his seat. The six houses had already had a tacit understanding. The official seal was in the hands of the old servant. The old servant knelt down and said he did not dare to use it. But he has read thousands of volumes of official documents, county annals, and official documents in his life. The line on the account where the pen was changed, the extra stamp on the official document, the wrong sentence in the confession - the words can lie, but the handwriting cannot. "A death penalty requires a law. It's not written above." "So the person who wrote it didn't intend to let it go."