Qi Zhen, styled as Anzhi.
Qi, the cousin of Mr. Qi, was the second top scholar in the 24th year of Zhengde, at the age of nineteen, and entered the Hanlin Academy as a compiler.
In the 27th year of Zhengde, he was sent to Taiyuan Prefecture as a Magistrate, ranked seventh, specializing in criminal cases, and handled major cases in the entire prefecture.
On his first day in Taiyuan, the government office was piled up with backlog cases in three storerooms, full of cobwebs.
The former magistrate left a letter for him: "This place is fierce, nine out of ten murder cases are unsolved, be cautious."
He didn't pay attention, just moved a desk into the storeroom and started reading from the oldest file.
In three months, out of 731 backlog cases, Qi Zhen re-summoned witnesses, re-examined murder weapons, rewrote verdicts, solving 626 backlog cases, and retried 96 wrongful cases.
Upon leaving office, the people raised a grand farewell parasol for him.
