Mai Ke and the other five returned to Qin Richang's residence yesterday and saw a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe standing in front of the door. Wei Changhui hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "Master Huang, how did you find here?"

Huang Yishi said: "It's not for Shaoguang's business. Let's go into the house and talk. ”

Qin Richang let a few people into the house, Feng Yunshan took a step back, pulled Mai Ke, and the two did not go in. Then sue Sù Mai Ke, this lawyer is Huang Yukun, who contributed a lot to saving Feng Yunshan from prison last time. I guess this time it has something to do with it.

Lawyer? This is the lawyer of this era. Mai Ke didn't ask much, because he felt that if this lawyer came here so late to find someone, the matter must be serious.

When Mai Ke entered the house, Wei Changhui hurriedly introduced him to Huang Lawyer, and at the same time told Sù the latter, if you have anything to tell Mai Ke directly. Now he admires Mai Kena so much, and he has been thinking in his heart, if he does things with such a person, wouldn't he have a long insight and raise his eyebrows?

Seeing that everyone was headed by Mai Ke, Huang turned his head and said to him, "Since they are all my own people, I will tell you the purpose of coming here." I was entrusted by the Zeng family of Bauhinia Mountain to come to Brother Wei to learn some about Brother Feng so that I could get him out of prison. ”

After listening to Master Huang's account, everyone learned that the charcoal burners of Bauhinia Mountain and the nearby villagers had gathered more than 1,000 people, all of whom were members of the God Worship Society organized by Feng Yunshan.

These people are led by Zeng Yuzhen's family of brothers and sons, including Zeng Yuzhen, Zeng Yujing, Zeng Yuzheng, Zeng Guanlan and others. This Zeng Yuzhen is the head of the Zeng family and the eldest brother of Zeng Yujing. Zeng Yuanzheng, Zeng Guanlan and others are juniors. There are also Zeng Kaiwen, Zeng Kaijin, Zeng Kaibin, Zeng Tianyang and many other Zeng people.

Feng Yunshan went to Bauhinia Mountain to accumulate strength and teach as a profession, that is, he lived in the Zeng family, so all the members of the Zeng family joined the God Sect, and they were the first batch.

Among the earliest people was Lu Liu, who had died in prison when he was last caught, and was also the first martyr of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After Lu Liu's death, the most important leader, after Feng Yunshan, was Zeng Yuzhen, so this rescue of Feng Yunshan was that he responded to every call, gathered most of the strong members in a short period of time, and quickly drove here.

The one who came to contact Huang Yukun was Zeng Yuzhen's eldest son, Zeng Yuzheng. These people are all familiar with Huang Yukun, and know that although he is a lawyer, he thinks about the poor people, and they are all the way. So contact him if you have something. It would be better to be able to reasonably cooperate with others, or at least to provide some information.

Although Huang Yukun has been a lawyer for a long time and has some acquaintances, it is really difficult to find someone who can help when he encounters such a thing, and he remembered Wei Changhui, who was newly connected with the Divine Sect, so he came to him. First, to see if we can respond to the saving congregation, and second, to inquire about the situation.

While listening to his briefing, Mai Ke kept thinking about the troops he had seen before he entered the city. Isn't the place where they lay an ambush the way for the saving congregation?

Wouldn't the purpose of their ambush be clearly revealed? It seems that the people behind the scenes are really cunning and cunning, not only to cut down the roots of those who have been arrested, but also to wipe out all those who have not been caught.

It seems that their arrest is only the first link in the chain of schemes, and the big head is still behind. If you don't use the excuse to lure the charcoal burners here to save people, because you are saving people and attacking the city, and you gather people to attack the city, and you pick up weapons, at this point, it is a real rebellion, and since you rebel, you can kill it openly.

It seems to be really deliberate. It is estimated that these people who came to the county seat to rescue people are also under their surveillance, and even as soon as they move, they are known by the officers and soldiers, so they can set up an ambush in advance and wait for the enemy to take the bait.

After Huang Yishi finished his introduction, Mai Ke did not respond to the matter of whether it should be compatible with the outside, but asked Huang Yukun: "Where is the person who sent the letter from the Zeng family?

"He's waiting to hear from me at my house. ”

"Bring him over and I ask him something. ”

Huang Yukun got up and wanted to go, but was stopped by Mai Ke and sent Wei Changhui to run, he still had something to ask this lawyer. Mai Ke has always been thinking about his own ideological transformation system, and always wants to search for suitable candidates and formally establish this system. The two errand officers who I heard about some time ago who released Yunshan were barely able to be assistants, and they were too bad as supervisors.

As expected, this Huang lawyer is worthy of being a legal expert of that era, and he has a very thorough understanding of the nature of human nature and how bad people can be. He said with a wry smile, "I don't want to say that others are bad, and I'm not a good person." Not only are we often criticized, but even the government has severely suppressed us. We're real rat bellows - gas at both ends. ”

Mai Ke was also surprised when he heard it, although later generations of lawyers were not welcomed, but it was still a better profession, at least they would not be discriminated against, and it would be good if they did not discriminate against others. It's really hard for a lawyer to be angry at both ends. Busy asked him what the reason was.

"We couldn't pass the test to show talent or anything, so we took this road, not because we were willing to do it, but because if we didn't do it, we wouldn't have anything to eat. Therefore, we must take advantage of the loopholes of the law and help those ordinary people who have no knowledge of the law to speak, so that they will not be arbitrarily deceived by those officials who seize power, so that people can continue to enjoy food and eat.

"If you think about it, there will always be times when we succeed? Our success means that the officials will suffer, because they will gain by perverting the law. So it's easy to understand that the government hates us and tries its best to suppress us.

"As for the people hating us, it is better to understand. Wouldn't it be even worse for the common people who were already suffering losses to pay us lawyers? Moreover, because bullies are rampant and corrupt officials bend the law, it will be too difficult for us to help the common people win, and the result will be that we will lose more and win less. So it's no surprise that they hate us.

"Therefore, whether it is from the conscience or from the job bowl, we must learn relevant knowledge to increase the proportion of winning lawsuits. Therefore, our industry has summarized some experience and skills by ourselves, and compiled a book for those of us to learn.

"The more famous lawyer's books, we generally call them the lawyer's secret book, including "Xiao Cao's Last Writing", "Shocking Thunder", "Through the Cold", "The Pearl of Prison", and "Two Penny Knives".

For example, some books guide litigators to say that the facts of the case are not important, but how to highly summarize the cause of action and exaggerate the severity of the "trivial cause" dispute. Achieve the effect of judicial victory.

Of course, there are also books that require our industry, such as "Two Penny Knives", which requires lawyers to "not be muddy and unclean, not to be overgrown, not to make false accusations, not to break in the middle, not to misuse words, not to close the knot, not to lose the law, not to speak without tightness, not to collect miscellaneous, not to control and drag." ”

"Yes, this is the equivalent of semi-official industry management. Mai Ke praised. He knew that in the United States in later generations, all industries had their own organizations, examinations, annual fees, education procedures, follow-up education, discipline and punishment, and so on, all in order to occupy the mountain and restrict others from entering this circle.

"Where! The hateful Manchu government has come to make trouble again. The "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty" stipulates: "The secret books of litigators published in the shops, such as "Shocking Thunder", "Xiangjiao", "The New Book of the Legalists", "Xingtai Qinjing", and other books of litigation, shall be banned and destroyed, and shall not be sold."

"What's even more infuriating is that this bastard Manchu Qing government actually compared these books to obscene novels, stipulating that anyone who writes and engravings will have a hundred rods and three thousand miles. Whoever reprints and sells an old book shall be punished with one hundred rods for three years. Buyer, a hundred rods. Concealing old editions cannot be destroyed, and reducing printing and engraving is a first-class punishment. Conceal his books and punish them as if they had violated the law.

"Local governments are also subject to strict supervision, and according to the regulations, if there is a failure to supervise at any level, the officials who are in charge of the failure to supervise must be handed over to the relevant central departments and departments according to the number of failures. Under such strict demands, these officials at all levels, who were already suppressing us, have even more emboldened oppression of us.

"You see, can this Manchu government still tolerate it? They should have done things fairly and according to the law; they couldn't do it themselves, and if we helped them, they would take revenge on them. We are still being oppressed like this, let alone the common people. ”

This guy is also full of anger and complaints. It seems that his conscience is not completely degraded, and if he can repent and confess to the Lord, my system of ideological transformation can be entrusted to him.

Mai Ke also wanted to further reveal the function of the system to him to see if he was interested, Zeng Yuan was led in by Wei Changhui. The young man was seventeen or eighteen years old, tall, with smart eyes, and at first glance he was a promising young man with both wisdom and bravery.

After saying hello, Mai Ke asked him, "How far are the people from Bauhinia Mountain from here now?"

The young man replied brightly: "If the one qiē is normal, it will be there tomorrow at noon." ”

"Good. I'll give you a task. Immediately you hurried back and told them that there was an ambush of officers and soldiers on the thoroughfare of the east gate, two miles from the city gate, on either side of the section of the road where the woods and the mountains were on either side. You take my request: just stay about half a mile ahead of that lot and await my further instructions. Can you meet them before midnight tomorrow?"

The young man didn't frown, and said loudly, "No problem!"

"You also have to tell them to send people around at once, paying special attention to whether the enemy has any other ambushes. It's better to go slower than to risk getting to guò. ”

It was already late at night when Zeng Yuzheng was sent away. A few people decided to rest first, tomorrow is sure to be an eventful day. gave up the only bed to Huang Yukun, and Wei Changhui and Qin Richang had to sleep on the ground. There were only two quilts, one was given to Huang Lawyer, and one was covered by Wei Qin. Mai Ke said, "You go to sleep first, leave us alone," and then go outside the house with his two brothers.