Zhou Ziheng smiled and said, "Such a big thing, why do you need to worry about it, a little brat? ”

"Hey!" Wang Xiaotian happily picked up the teacup and drank tea.

On 28 May, another special issue "Who is Confusing Right and Wrong" suddenly appeared on the market. The content of the article is completely different from the previous ones, and comprehensively restores the entire trial process, pointing out that Yang Yipu was short of breath, incoherent, and incoherent in the center of the trial. Moreover, the testimony of the three witnesses is completely on the opposite side of him.

It is inevitable that Yang Yipu will lose the case, and the judge will pronounce the verdict in accordance with the law, and there is nothing wrong with it, let alone harmony. Moreover, Yang Yipu's abuse of his power as a lawyer has also discredited all lawyers. If such a person stays in the lawyer team, he will only let this rat and spoil a good pot of soup.

At the end of the article, he righteously suggested that the lawyers association should cancel Yang Yipu's lawyer's qualification!

This special issue is obviously the work of a certain bigwig in the cultivation world, and the number of printouts is extremely large, more than the special issues of those magazines yesterday combined, and it can be said that it is overwhelming. The people who eat melons for good things put the two special issues together and read them with relish.

On 29 May, more than 20 magazines once again threw out a special issue entitled "Force Cannot Overwhelm Justice, Justice Comes to the Hearts of the People," which once again pushed the entire public opinion to a climax.

This special issue deliberately avoids the case itself, and only talks about how overbearing cultivators are to ordinary people. How helpless ordinary people are for cultivators.

The article enumerates the harm done to ordinary people by a large number of practitioners. On a certain day, two practitioners broke out a fierce fight in a residential area because of a small quarrel, destroying 13 houses, killing six livestock, and injuring eight residents, three of whom died of serious injuries. The two practitioners walked away without apologies or compensation, and the victims wanted to cry without tears.

On a certain day, a certain month, a practitioner wiped out the door of a foot shopkeeper (all ordinary people) because the shopkeeper asked the practitioner for food!

On a certain day, a certain month, a practitioner wiped out the entire family of a wealthy family, and the reason was that the daughter-in-law of the rich family that the practitioner had taken a fancy to wanted to take her away, but the rich family refused.

On a certain day, a certain month, several cultivators ransacked a mine, just because this mine mined a few hundred grams of Xuanjin, these cultivators asked for it, but the miners did not give it!

The article is generally full of such evil deeds committed by practitioners, and the time, place, and people are all detailed, and they are real cases that have happened. The practitioners who committed these crimes, without exception, are still at large.

As soon as the special issue was distributed, the public's favorable opinion of the practitioners dropped dramatically. Many ordinary people look at the eyes of cultivators with less awe and more resentment.

Wang Xiaotian knew that the cultivation world had to take measures immediately. Otherwise, over time, the matter will slowly ferment and may eventually lead to a huge conflict.

However, the next day, May 30, there was no action from the spiritual world, no special issue was issued, and no other statement was made. The resentment and dissatisfaction in the hearts of ordinary people have increased one more.

On 31 May, more than 20 magazines reissued a special issue entitled "Silence Is Because of Weakness of Heart," pointing out that the spiritual community did not issue a special issue for two days, and it was clear that they had been caught with a sore foot and had a weak heart, and wanted to delay it with silence. The special issue calls on ordinary people to unite and put pressure on the spiritual community to hand over the murderers of those crimes.

As soon as this special issue came out, the crowd was immediately outraged. Demonstrations organized by ordinary people took place in major cities. Especially in cities where there have been cases of cultivators harming ordinary people, there are even more empty alleys. They shouted slogans demanding severe punishment for the murderers.

The march went on for three days in a row, and the number of people participating in the march increased day by day, and the order became more and more chaotic day by day. Sheriffs everywhere are busy.

They appealed to the garrison for help, but were rejected by the army.

The army's rationale is that "the army must not turn its guns on the people". This is an iron law jointly set by the first great consul and the first marshal of the military. Even if it is a riot, it is a contradiction among the people, and the army cannot be dispatched.

Just when the situation was about to get out of hand, some practitioners took to the streets, loudly confessing the crimes they had committed against ordinary people, and restraining themselves and expressing their willingness to accept the punishment of the law.

Those cultivators who committed murders were taken by other practitioners to the public, counted their crimes, registered them one by one, signed and posted, and were directly beheaded.

For a moment, blood splattered and heads fell to the ground. The ordinary people who participated in the march were all shocked by the terrifying sight in front of them.

Immediately afterward, the cultivators issued a special statement that in view of the chaotic management of practitioners, there are many cases of practitioners infringing on the rights and interests of ordinary people, and they have not been able to be effectively resolved. After consultation, the procuratorate is responsible for handling cases where practitioners infringe on the rights and interests of ordinary people.

As soon as this statement came out, all the ordinary people who participated in the march immediately dispersed. They know very well that the Inspectorate is the Hades Palace, and as long as they have a relationship with the Inspectorate, they will have to shed their skin if they don't die. With the signboard of the Inspectorate, it can definitely deter lawless cultivators.

Then, the whole world was silent. Not only did the mass march disappear, but even the special issues on both sides were gone.

Moreover, no one cares about the cases of Yang Yipu and Guanyun Pavilion anymore. Originally, Yang Yipu was still thinking about seeing who would contact him and touch the details of the other party. Unexpectedly, the subsequent development of events was far beyond his expectations and scared him a lot.

However, at that time, he also found that although the situation was getting more and more chaotic, no one paid attention to his case. This is also a blessing in misfortune.

Although he had found that no one was paying attention to him, he was still scared. It wasn't until after the appeal period that he was truly relieved.

What Yang Yipu didn't know was that during the time when he was worried, there was a violent dispute between the great consul Xie Mingdian and the speaker Han Zhaosong. The core issue at issue was whether to allow Yang Yipu to continue to appeal.

Xie Mingdian said: "The fact that the cultivation world was able to arrest these criminals in such a short period of time shows that those Force masters and masters have been united. If we keep pressing, they're likely to jump over the wall. So, let's hibernate for a while. Didn't you also say that the temporary hibernation is for the sake of future rise?"

Han Zhaosong sneered and said, "Don't be so scared and say it so high-sounding. ”

Xie Mingdian's face was a little embarrassed, and he said, "How could I be afraid? It's just that the situation has changed now. The cultivation world was originally scattered, but now it suddenly acted in unison, and it was obvious that it was the old guys behind the scenes who spoke. ”

The corners of Han Zhaosong's eyes twitched, but he didn't speak. The five Force Grandmasters are still as high as gods, and once they jump too happily, they will attract the attention of these grandmasters, and even punish them.

Xie Mingdian continued: "What's more, in their statement, these cases were handed over to the inspection court for handling, don't you think there is a problem here?"

Han Zhaosong rolled his eyes, "What's the problem? Leave it to the magistrates in various places, can they handle it?"

Xie Mingdian said: "The inspection institute is all cultivators. Leave it to them to deal with, isn't it handed over to the cultivation world to deal with it themselves?"

The social structure of the Eastern Chu State did not distinguish between cultivators and ordinary people. Regardless of the profession, ordinary people and practitioners can engage in it. For example, there is no rule for a shop clerk, a factory worker, a hotel cook, a grocery store guy, and so on, and it must be done by ordinary people or practitioners.

However, due to

Cultivators are much stronger than ordinary people in terms of longevity, combat power, and work ability, so some professions have become exclusive to cultivators over time. For example, bounty hunters, military officers, and inspectorate staff, especially field personnel.

The biggest feature of these professions is that the risk factor is relatively high, and ordinary people may burp on the first task if they do it.

Even in unrestricted positions, cultivators have a great advantage over ordinary people. Over time, practitioners have occupied important positions.

If there is no limit on the number of years of service, the positions of the chief consul and the speaker of the parliament, the governor of the provinces, cities, and counties, and the speaker of the parliament at all levels, they will be occupied by the practitioner for a long time, and eventually become a lifelong position.

What's even more terrifying is that since cultivators' lifespan is much longer than ordinary people, they can calmly plan for decades, hundreds of years, or even hundreds of years later, and use the advantage of time to grow their own families. For example, anticipating the development of the city in advance, and preemptively buying land in key locations, etc.

For thousands of years, all the wealthy families have been cultivator families, or families closely related to cultivators.

The absolute number of these categories of people, although not large, occupies the spire of the pyramid. The places reserved for ordinary people are only at the bottom of society, a small number of middle levels, and a very small number of high-level people with a time limit of office.

In particular, those posts with a time limit must be elected. The person who holds these positions, even if he is a cultivator, has to win the votes of ordinary people, so he must speak from the perspective of ordinary people. Therefore, Xie Mingdian, who is the great consul, and Han Zhaosong, the speaker of the parliament, seem to have forgotten that they themselves are also cultivators.

The original intention of this system is to ensure that ordinary people have the right to speak. I don't know if the original sages had foreseen today's situation. Historically, however, a similar system has long existed, and its name is meritocracy.

It is difficult to say whether the system itself is good or bad, and the key is whether it can adapt to social development. The Ming Dynasty in the old era had developed a mature cabinet system, which was a little bit short of the hypocritical cabinet system of later generations, but it was defeated by the backward Eight Banners system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Is the cabinet system not as advanced as the Eight Banners system?

Not.

The main reason is that the cabinet system is too ridiculous, and the interests of the imperial power and the civilian collective are torn. Moreover, it was during the Xiaoice River period, with continuous natural disasters, poor food harvests, and displaced people. In this case, we should have provided disaster relief as quickly as possible to reassure the people.

However, it is no wonder that the emperor and the cabinet continued to quarrel, resulting in inefficient administration, delayed disaster relief, and did not cause violent social unrest.

On the other hand, the Eight Banners system, although power is highly concentrated, but the resources are concentrated, the administrative efficiency is high, and the head of the head can point where to fight, like a sharp steel needle, easily puncture the hollowed out Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Ziheng has read history books and knows that countries are often ruined by internal divisions. The case of Yang Yipu v. Guanyun Pavilion seems to be just a trivial matter, but there are people behind it who are fueling the troubles, clearly trying to make things bigger, create contradictions between ordinary people and cultivators, and then cause social tears.

Once this tear is formed, there will be two for one, and there will be three for two, and the consequences will be unimaginable. As a powerful institution for maintaining the security of the Eastern Chu State, it is necessary for the Inspection Yuan to nip this danger in the bud.

Therefore, after the verdict of the case was announced, when the editors of those magazines interviewed Yang Yipu invariably, Zhou Ziheng topped them. When those special issues had not yet been printed, Zhou Ziheng got the samples.

Then, Zhou Ziheng contacted several Force Grandmasters as quickly as possible, and quickly came up with a plan to suppress it forcefully and eliminate the opponent's conspiracy trajectory invisible.

This is the terrible strength of the Inspectorate.