Since the beginning of the examination of Jiangdong's counter-cases, it has taken on a vigorous posture, and a large number of lawsuits have almost frantically poured into the state, county, county, and other levels of government offices. In a very short period of time, a large number of cases have accumulated in government offices at all levels below the Yangzhou Prefecture level.

"Since the beginning of the day, there have been more than five days, and there have been more than 3,600 case files, and the people involved have reached more than 20,000 people......

In the state city of the Assassin Mansion, don't drive Mei Tao to report with the book file in his hand, he reported while peeking at the young man sitting in the hall, and there was no lack of emotion in his heart.

"There's a Laume duke."

Shen Zhezi listened while motioning to the officials to arrange a seat for Mei Tao. Although he is now in power, he is not rude to an old qualification like Mei Tao.

Mei Tao is now over sixty years old, Yongjia has entered the office before, compared with Shen Zhezi, it is an absolute old qualification, just when Shen Zhezi should be in the office, Mei Tao has served as the long history of Wang Dao. If it weren't for the poor family and personal style, his qualifications would be enough to serve as a Taiwan assistant.

Shen Zhezi's entry into Yangzhou was originally appropriate, so he did not make much adjustment to the original structure of the state capital, and he and Mei Tao are also old acquaintances, and there is still no lack of recognition for this duke's ability.

After Mei Tao explained the current situation of accepting lawsuits, seeing that Shen Zhezi did not have any special expression, he wanted to stop talking, and finally couldn't help but remind: "At present, the number of lawsuits in various counties and counties is still surging, if according to this state, it is very likely that there will be more than 30,000 cases by the first day of May...... The backlog of cases is like a mountain, and it is really not possible to make a decision in a short period of time. ”

The implication of these words is already extremely obvious, that is, to remind Shen Zhezi that this state is not normal at the moment, and it is obvious that someone is making efforts behind it, adding fuel to the fire, and deliberately exaggerating the scale of the lawsuit.

After all, manpower is poor, and so many cases cannot be handled in a short period of time by relying on several levels of government offices at the state and county levels, especially according to the previous work efficiency, it will take two or three years for these cases to be completely handled at the current time.

Mei Tao also looked through the files submitted to the state capital by some counties and counties, and found that a large number of them were simply filled and repeated, and some of them had nothing to do with the reverse case at all, for example, when a cow was lost in the countryside, more than a dozen families sued that they were the owners of the cow. There are countless similar cases.

Moreover, with a large number of people entering the lawsuit, there is already a serious shortage of officials at all levels in the county, and many county offices have even been surrounded by villagers, all of whom are queuing up to enter the lawsuit.

If the situation is allowed to develop like this, then this so-called purge is likely to turn into a chaotic end, and it will also be a great trauma for the world.

Mei Tao has experienced many years and understands people's hearts and minds, even if he does not take a standpoint, he also feels that the current state has great hidden dangers.

Obviously, Shiliu intends to force Liang Gong to make concessions, but he ignores the iron-blooded and strong side of this young minister, although on the surface he is also promoting the argument that something is judged by the public, but once the resistance encountered is too great, and this road has obviously become impassable, the biggest possibility is naturally to break the situation with violence and make Wu Jiangdong again.

If there is a little malicious speculation, this so-called lawsuit is likely to be a delaying tactic, in order to buy a time for the Jiangbei army to assemble, and when everything is ready, there will be a bloody purge.

Hearing Mei Tao say this, Shen Zhezi could probably guess his thoughts, so he said with a smile: "Since it is declared that the affairs of internal and external scholars are only judged by the public, and grievances are brought into litigation, how can it not be." However, there is no need to be overly forced, and the immediacy of manpower is a long-term strategy, not a temporary interest. ”

Mei Tao can detect the hidden secret, how could Shen Zhezi not know. The theory of law-based is actually a very strange argument at the moment, and many people still only regard it as a means of contingency for Shen Zhezi, but in fact, it lacks correct cognition.

This kind of response is not incorrect from the other party's position, but from Shen Zhezi's point of view, this kind of boost is also a kind of help that can be used by him.

Putting aside the heavy costs and pressures of litigation later, there are several benefits that can be seen in the present.

The first point is that although the people of the time did not approve of Shen Zhezi's policy of governing the country, they did not use force to confront it, but used this kind of incitement to fight back. It shows that they have reached a consensus, that is, the recognition of Shen Zhezi's current power makes them dare not engage in a head-on confrontation.

Powerful is a feeling rather than a fact, when everyone recognizes that you are strong, you are really strong, this psychological oppression is sometimes more effective than real knife killing.

The essence of an army is to go out to conquer in order to obtain more abundant resources, and only a constant influx of new resources can offset the huge cost of maintaining an army.

As for the use of the army to suppress civil strife, it is simply not the right medicine. The essence of civil strife is the collapse of the way in which the stock of resources is allocated, and even if it is pacified by the army, it does not lead to a new increase in resources from the perspective of the country as a whole. The most effective way to suppress civil strife is to use the military as a deterrent by force and to solve practical internal problems through administrative means.

At present, this state seems to be in an uproar, but it is a state that Shen Zhezi hopes to promote, and the Wang Shi in his hands is to deter internally and to seek externally, so it is still a good state in his opinion.

It seems that it is simple to use military force to intervene in politics, but the Jiangbei army is mobilized to the south, regardless of the real effect for the time being, the consumption of money and grain alone is enough for him to organize another expedition to Hebei. At the level of governance, force is the last resort of logical deduction, not the first choice.

As for the second point, the current surging litigation is itself a kind of popularization of the law in the suburbs. In the past, it was difficult for such large-scale lawsuits to occur, because they had already been blocked at the level of rural aspirations, and it was difficult for the people to hear any grievances. Rural folk arbitration is itself one of the privileges of those local tyrants.

If the popularization of this kind of legal thinking is presided over and promoted by a person in power like Shen Zhezi, it will be difficult to achieve results. On the one hand, the resistance comes from the wisdom and customs of the people, and on the other hand, it naturally comes from the privileged villagers.

The so-called imperial power does not go to the countryside, and one of the major manifestations of the imperial power in the countryside is the right to arbitrate, and this right has been held by local village leaders for a long time.

Shen Zhezi is just putting on a posture at the moment, and he didn't really make a move, and those Shiliu Township Sects made a self-conscious resistance through this self-harming method, encouraging the villagers to join the lawsuit, but in fact, they took the initiative to hand over the arbitration power they held.

The logic of these people's behavior is based on Shen Zhezi's inability to deal with it, but this is one of Shen Zhezi's goals in itself. If he can't even cope with the current situation, there is no need to mention the so-called reforms that have been implemented from top to bottom.

Of course, if we want to rely on this kind of legal system construction that arose at the moment, it is actually difficult to completely dismantle the control of the people's voices by the wishes of the villagers, but it is a very good start.

This time, the process of adjudication of the reverse case is from April to May, which is half a month to collect litigation files. In the first half of May, the case files were filed and organized, and the trial of the reverse case and its derivative lawsuits began in the second half of May.

Killing Zhuge Hui and the remnants of the Qingxu Qiaomen around him has never been Shen Zhezi's main goal. From his return to the capital in the south, the fate of Zhuge Hui and his henchmen is already doomed.

Shen Zhezi's real intention was to use this incident to thoroughly sort out and create the entire judicial system of the Jiangdong Imperial Court. Under the premise of this goal, the so-called people involved in the reverse case are just an additional harvest of beating rabbits and piggybacking on the grass.

The system that is applicable to the times is actually lacking in what can be created out of thin air, and more of it is born.

For example, Shen Zhezi's current focus is not that Mei Tao is worried about too many lawsuits and is unable to deal with them. He was more concerned about the serious shortage of local clerks, and the so-called county offices were surrounded by villagers and queuing up to file lawsuits, and the channels for filing lawsuits were too narrow and unblocked.

If Mei Tao knew what Shen Zhezi was thinking about at the moment, he would definitely think that he was so excited that he was almost crazy when he suddenly seized power. Because the current scale of litigation alone, in Mei Tao's view, it is already a difficult problem for Mount Tai.

After learning about the current litigation situation, Shen Zhezi recruited Danyang Yin Li Chong, Jiankang Ling, Moling Ling and other surrounding county magistrates to listen to the reports of these front-line administrative officials.

After these people arrived in the state capital, most of them first complained, and they were also as worried as Mei Tao, thinking that such a large-scale storage case could not be handled at all. If this momentum persists, it is very likely to trigger a new round of popular uprisings.

"Before the matter is established, the first worry about the difficulties, all the kings are in their duties, is this such an attitude to respond to the king's order?"

In the face of these officials who blindly complained and complained, Shen Zhezi did not have the kind of politeness to Mei Tao, and after listening for a while, his face sank, and his knuckles tapped on the book: "At present, the procedure is still being litigated, and I summon you today to listen to you tell you about the difficulties in this, as for the decision to conclude the lawsuit in the future, it is not a matter of discussion." ”

When everyone heard this, they were dumbfounded for a while, and when they heard the meaning of this statement, they seemed to be still a little dissatisfied with the progress of the current lawsuit, in other words, this Liang Gong was already crazy.

After all, these officials are still not accustomed to Huainan's concise and clear style of asking questions, coming up with plans, and doing things succinctly. So after a little cold, Li Chong spoke first. The problem is actually very simple, that is, there is a serious shortage of available clerks, and the quality is uneven, and many of them are not even literate, which greatly slows down the efficiency of the storage of cases.

When several other people saw Li Chong report like this, they all did the same, after all, this is also the main dilemma they are facing at the moment.

This matter is a matter of concern, and the king's order cannot be disappointed, but it is also not possible to ignore the facts and force the officials to be driven by cattle and horses. Please have your own expressions, and I will return to Taiwan later and ask for additional assignments. ”

After finalizing the matter, Shen Zhezi asked someone to bring a stack of neatly cut paper and distribute it to everyone present: "The essence of the law is that the rope is clearly broken and orderly. I have also read a lot of the files submitted by the various departments before, and I can only say that I cannot be held accountable for the rules and regulations. Such a confusing account cannot be included in the judicial strategy. Thereafter, the case will be filed in this format. ”

Everyone took the paper and found that it was not blank, but a criss-cross line grid, in which the name of the litigant, the place of origin and the type of litigation were listed, as well as various information of the respondent, including the content of the lawsuit, etc., all of which were printed in the column and filled in blank.

This form is clear and clear, and the intention is clear, even if Liang Gong does not explain, everyone quickly understands how to use it. Some people subconsciously complimented them slightly, saying that if they could use this type of form to sort out the litigation as soon as possible, the efficiency would definitely be higher.

Shen Zhezi only smiled slightly after hearing this, the biggest significance of this form is not that the case is clearly recorded, but mainly the origin. This is another form of naturalization of villagers, ostensibly a judicial file, but in fact another form of combing of civil citizenship.

The reason why they didn't take it out before was because those who entered the lawsuit were mainly those who were in the shadows of the Shiliu Township Sect at the beginning, and if they needed to fill in their place of origin, they would subconsciously retreat, which was not conducive to the hype of the atmosphere. Now that the atmosphere has been created, it has spread to the suburbs, and it is difficult to cool down easily, so Shen Zhezi fully revealed his intentions.

In other words, Shen Zhezi never thought of dealing with the more than 3,000 case files that Yangzhou subordinate officials were worried about and difficult to deal with before. You don't need to think about it to know that there must be a large number of cases that deliberately confuse right and wrong and are purely troublemakers. And the cases accepted from this moment onwards can really enter the follow-up judicial process.