Suzhou City.

A group of officers and soldiers posted notices stamped with the seal of the governor of Ying Tian on the notice walls all over the city.

Pedestrians gathered around in twos and threes, and some read aloud the contents of the notice.

"From now on, the governor's offices set up in each county of Suzhou Prefecture will be listed for three days at the same time. If the people have suffered injustice, they can come and bring the pleadings. The government office also set up a proclamation book to allow the people to present their pleadings orally......"

"Great, the blue sky is the blue sky! I know the difficulties of our people best! After listening to the notice, the people of Suzhou were boiling. Since Haigong took office, they have long been looking forward to the day of the opening of the government!

However, because Haigong forbade the litigants to enter and leave the yamen, the talented people who made a living from it held a grudge and deliberately did not write a complaint to the people.

Most of the common people are illiterate, even barely able to read a few words, and they can't write very professional forms. Everyone didn't know what to do, but when the notice of the governor's yamen came out, he directly accepted the oral lawsuits of the ordinary people!

Now everyone has no more headaches, and they rushed to the governor's office and lined up to complain.

Sure enough, I saw that on the concierge of the government office, there was a sign of 'oral notice office', and there was a room of clerks sitting in it, which was specially written for the people who could not write in person.

But there were so many people who came to complain that there were not enough eight clerks. The government office urgently dispatched sixteen scribes to come to support, and it was only before dark that all the letters were written.

When the experience officer put all the papers together, everyone jumped.

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

~~

In the governor's signing room, Niu Yanshi smiled bitterly and reported to Lord Zhongcheng:

"On this day, I received the form of the previous year. There are still two days after tomorrow, and I am afraid that it will not be 5,000. Zhongcheng, let's stop doing business? ”

"This is the right thing...... Hai Rui wore the reading glasses that Zhao Hao gave his mother, and looked intently at the thick Suzhou government tax and grain account book, and there were several high stacks on the table.

"Huh?" Niu Yanshi looked confused, and asked in a low voice: "Didn't Zhongcheng want to have all the fields and grain?" It's not related to the trial of the case. ”

"That's just you can't see through it." Hai Rui didn't look up, and said lightly: "I really want to know, classify the complaint, and you will know what's going on." ”

"Well, good." Niu Shishi responded casually, and said that I was not so curious, so I should go back to sleep.

"Report the results to this hospital tomorrow morning." Who knew that he hadn't retreated to the door yet, but he heard Hai Rui add again.

"Understood." Niu Shishi can't wait to slap himself, I'm not a slut with a lot of mouth, don't I have anything to do?

~~

Early the next morning, after staying up all night, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, he stepped on cotton and entered the signing room.

saw that Hai Rui still maintained a sitting posture, and the robe on his body was still the same as yesterday.

"Zhongcheng didn't sleep all night?" Niu asked with a yawn.

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

"Back to Zhongcheng, there are more than 2,200 complaints, of which more than 2,000 are sued by the squire for seizing the land."

The cow's affair is from the four products, and it is not a lottery. At this time, he had already understood Hai Rui's intention - Lord Zhongcheng wanted to use the trial as a breakthrough to cut the opening of the financial and tax reform of Yingtian Shifu with one sword!

What is the essence of fiscal and tax reform? It is to change the embarrassing situation that the imperial court cannot collect taxes.

Why can't the imperial court collect taxes? Because the gentry did not pay grain, they also wantonly annexed land and hid acres. The landlords who should have paid the grain also entrusted the land to the names of the gentry. As a result, the clan forces and gentry forces were intertwined from the local government to the court and formed a huge group of officials and gentry.

This clique controlled the localities, hollowed out the government, and made the imperial decrees a dead letter. Naturally, the imperial court and the government could not collect taxes.

And the squires who seized the land and property in the complaint are highly overlapping with those gentry who do not pay for food...... Even if it is not them, they are their relatives, slaves.

Hai Rui used the announcement as a breakthrough and easily took the handle of these people. As long as his knife is fast enough, or others believe that his knife is fast enough, it is enough to deter those eunuchs who are usually unscrupulous and merge, and their butts are full of shit, so that they can honestly kneel on the ground and sing about conquest.

Who said that Hai Gangfeng doesn't know how to be flexible and too rigid? He's too flexible, too non-rigid.

It's just that other people's flexibility and flexibility are used to 'seek one's own self'; Hai Gangfeng's flexibility and non-rigidity are only used to 'seek national affairs'.

'Do great things without sparing your life, and things will be done!' Niu Yanshi suddenly popped up such a sentence in his mind. In addition to admiration, he couldn't help but ask: "Why did Zhongcheng guess that this would be the result?" ”

"It is said that before Chenghua, the scholars and doctors were empty for decades. Even if the second-class master is a generalist, the family is only well-off. ”

Hai Rui smiled teasingly, as if he didn't answer the question: "Now any county magistrate has 10,000 acres of fertile land in his family. Retired political envoys can build dozens of acres of gardens and raise countless slaves and concubines. Why has the world changed so much in the past seventy or eighty years? ”

"The world is declining, and people are proud of luxury and pleasure. Officials are no longer honest and self-controlled, and they all collude with the squires to prey on the common people. Niu Yishi was deeply touched and said:

Xia Guan understood what Zhongcheng meant. Over the years, the annexation has been so serious, but every time the people sue the gentry to seize property, the state and county officials will inevitably favor the rich and powerful, so it must be the poor who lose. So much so that the folk in the south of the Yangtze River have a saying that 'the eight-character yamen opens to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money'. ”

"Not bad!" Hai Rui nodded, and looked at Lao Niu with some admiration: "What are you Taifu?" ”

When Niu heard this, tears almost fell. I suddenly felt that this overnight night was worth it.

He has been following Hai Rui for a month, and his new boss has never asked him about his name or alias. This inevitably made Niu Yanshi feel that he was on the blacklist of Haizhongcheng, so he didn't bother to ask him Taifu.

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

Niu Yanshi said with red eyes: "The official name is Ji Lei, the cursive character is silent, and the cheap name is Cuiyun Mountain Resident." Zhongcheng can call the lower official silently. ”

"Silent, you're right." Hai Rui nodded and changed his title: "In the past, the government favored the squire, which greatly contributed to the trend of annexation. As a result, the encroachment became more and more and more accumulating. So it's normal that there are so many cases like cows. ”

"I understand, Zhongcheng Cave candle machine first, Xia Guan admires it very much." Niu Mo asked in awe: "Then what should we do next?" ”

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

"There are more than 2,200 cases, you can't try them one by one, right?" Niu said softly: "This is the ...... of a city in Suzhou and yesterday."

"Of course, one by one." Hai Rui said as a matter of course: "Arrange it, and tomorrow the hospital will start to pass the hall!" ”

"Huh?" Niu Yan's jaw is about to hit the ground in shock, how can this be judged?

ps. third more. Today, I checked the information for most of the day. Grandma's, the financial and tax records of the Ming Dynasty are contradictory, there are different opinions, and the buttocks are still crooked. Ay...... Why am I so serious? If you don't like it, I'll write it tomorrow.