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Chapter 857 Let me tell you

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    Suzhou City.

    A group of officers and soldiers posted notices with the seal of Governor Yingtian on notice walls everywhere in the city.

    Pedestrians gathered around in twos and threes, and someone read the notice loudly.

    "From now on, the governor's offices in each county of Suzhou Prefecture will display signs allowing complaints for three days. People who have suffered injustice can come to submit complaints and bring letters. The government offices also set up oral complaint books to allow people to make oral statements.  complaint¡­¡­"

    "Great, the blue sky is the blue sky! You know the difficulties of our people best!" After hearing the notice read, the people of Suzhou immediately became excited.  Ever since Haigong took office, they have long been looking forward to the day when the government will open and announce the announcement!

    "But because the Duke of Haitang prohibited litigants from entering and exiting the yamen, the scholars who made a living in this way held a grudge and deliberately refused to write complaints to the people.

    Most of the people are illiterate. Even if they can barely read a few words, they cannot write a very professional statement.  Everyone just didn't know what to do, when the governor's Yamen notice came out, and they actually directly accepted oral lawsuits from ordinary people!

    Now that everyone had nothing to worry about, they rushed to the governor's office and lined up to file a complaint.

    Sure enough, I saw a sign saying "Oral Complaints Office" was hung on the gatehouse of the government office. There was a room of clerks sitting inside, specializing in ghostwriting for common people who could not write their own complaints.

    ¡°But there were so many people coming to complain that eight book offices were simply not enough.  The government office urgently dispatched sixteen more scribes to come over for support, and they managed to finish writing all the petitions before dark.

    When the experience officer gathered all the papers and counted them at one o'clock, everyone jumped.

    In one day, more than 2,000 oral and written complaints were received!

    ??~~

    In the governor¡¯s custody room, Niu Qianshi reported to Mr. Zhongcheng with a wry smile:

    "On this day, we accepted the petition from the previous year. There are two days left tomorrow and the next, I'm afraid it won't reach five thousand. Zhongcheng, let's not get down to business?"

    "This is business" Hai Rui was wearing the pair of reading glasses that Zhao Hao gave to his mother, and was looking at the thick Suzhou government tax and grain account books. There were several high piles on the table.

    "Ah?" Niu Qianshi asked in a low voice with a confused look on his face: "Don't Zhongcheng want to equalize the land and grain? It has nothing to do with the trial of the case."

    "That's just because you can't see through it." Hai Rui said calmly without raising his head, "I really want to know. If we classify the complaints into different categories, we will know what's going on."

    "Oh, okay." Niu Qianshi responded casually, thinking that I'm not that curious, so I'd better go back to sleep.

    "Report the results to this hospital tomorrow morning." Who knew that before he could retreat to the door, Hai Rui added another sentence.

    "Understood." Niu Qianshi wished he could slap himself in the face. I'm a bitch and talk too much. Why am I looking for trouble?

    ??~~

    Early the next morning, after working hard all night, I entered the deposit room with dark circles under my eyes and stepped on cotton.

    However, they saw that Hai Rui was still sitting upright and wearing the same robe as yesterday.

    "Zhongcheng didn't sleep all night?" Niu Qianshi asked, yawning.

    "I slept for a while." Hai Rui then raised his head and asked him, "What's the result?"

    "When I returned to Zhongcheng, there were more than 2,200 complaints in total, more than 2,000 of which were against the squire for grabbing land."

    The Niuqian thing comes from the fourth grade, and it is not obtained by lottery.  At this moment, he already understood Hai Rui's intention - Lord Zhong Cheng wanted to use the trial as a breakthrough to cut open the fiscal and tax reform of Yingtian's ten mansions!

    What is the essence of fiscal and tax reform?  It is to change the embarrassing situation of the court being unable to collect taxes.

    Why can¡¯t the court collect taxes?  Because the officials and gentry did not pay the grain, they also annexed land and hid acres of land.  The landowners who were supposed to pay the grain also entrusted their land to the officials and gentry.  As a result, clan power and gentry power were intertwined from the local level to the court and became a huge official and gentry group.

    This group controlled the local area, emptied out the government, and turned the imperial decrees into empty documents.  Naturally, the court and government could not collect taxes.

    ???????????????? The squires who usurped the land in the complaint are highly overlapped with the gentry who did not pay the grain Even if they were not themselves, they were their relatives and servants who took refuge in them.

    Hai Rui used the accusation as a breakthrough and easily took advantage of these people.  As long as his knife is fast enough, or others believe that his knife is fast enough, it will be enough to deter those country officials who usually engage in unscrupulous mergers and acquisitions and have their butts full of shit, and make them kneel on the ground and sing about conquest.

    Who said Haigangfeng doesn¡¯t know how to adapt and is too rigid?  He is so flexible and not rigid.

    "It's just that other people's flexibility and flexibility are used for 'self-care'; Haigang?'s flexibility and lack of rigidity are only used for 'national affairs'.

    ¡®Think of great things without sacrificing your own life, and they will surely come true!  ¡¯ This sentence suddenly popped into Niu Qianshi¡¯s mind.  In addition to admiration, he couldn't help but ask: "Why did Zhong Cheng already guess that this would be the result?"

    "It is said that the scholar-bureaucrats before Chenghua had no money after serving as officials for decades. Even if a second-grade official became an official, his family was only well-off."

    Hai Rui smiled teasingly and seemed to have answered the question inappropriately: "Nowadays, any county magistrate's family has thousands of acres of fertile land. A retired chief envoy can build dozens of acres of gardens and keep countless slaves, concubines and concubines. How come the world has changed so much in the past seventy or eighty years?  So big?"

    "The world is declining, and people are proud of their luxury and enjoyment. Officials are no longer honest and self-reliant, and they all collude with the gentry to prey on the common people." Niu Qianshi said with deep feeling:

    "The lower official understands what Zhongcheng means. In recent years, annexation has been so serious. However, every time the common people sue the gentry to seize property, the state and county officials must favor the rich and powerful, so the losers must be the poor. So much so that among the people in Jiangnan, there is a rumor  There is a saying that 'the eight-character yamen opens to the south, so don't come in if you have reason or no money'."

    "Not bad!" Hai Rui nodded and looked at Lao Niu with admiration and said, "What is your reputation?"

    When Niu Qianshi heard this, he almost burst into tears.  I suddenly realized that staying up all night was worth it.

    He has been with Hai Rui for a month, and his new boss has never asked him his cousin or alias.  This made Niu Qianshi feel like he was on Haizhong Cheng's blacklist, so he didn't bother to ask him.

    After a month of hard work, I can finally have a name.

    Niu Qianshi then said with red eyes: "My official name is Ji Lei, the cursive character is Moyi, and my nickname is Cuiyunshan Jushi. Zhongcheng can just call me Ji Lei."

    "Mo Tong, you are right." Hai Rui nodded and changed his title: "In the past, the government favored the country gentry, which greatly encouraged the trend of annexation. As a result, more and more embezzlements were committed, accumulating day by day. So this kind of cases  It¡¯s perfectly normal to have so many people.¡±

    "I understand, Zhongcheng Dongzhuji was the first, and I admire you very much." Niu Mo and Niu Qianshi asked in awe, "Then what should we do next?"

    "What should I do?" Hai Rui was stunned by his question.

    "There are more than two thousand and two hundred cases, we can't try them one by one, right?" Niu Qianshi said softly: "This is what happened to one city in Suzhou yesterday"

    "Of course we will go to trial one by one." Hai Rui said matter-of-factly: "Let's make arrangements, and the court will start hearings tomorrow!"

    "Huh?" Niu Qianshi's jaw almost hit the ground with shock. How could he survive the trial?

    ps.Third update.  I checked the information for a long time today.  Damn it, the financial and tax records of the Ming Dynasty are contradictory, there are different opinions, and the buttocks are still crooked.  Heywhy am I so serious?  I¡¯m out of my mind, I¡¯ll write again tomorrow.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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