The letter said: "If they are allowed to take advantage of the common people, we are not allowed to do the same thing?" He smiled, "I don't even need to follow our own commercial code and civil code—just the laws promulgated by the Ming government are enough to govern them." ”

Ji Xin said that the two macro ** dictionaries are actually not a single word until now, and they are still compiling. Or rather, it's being adapted.

"Really?"

"Of course, at least in the law, the Ming Dynasty does not allow heavy profit-taking, not only in the Ming Law, but even locally, the government has repeatedly issued bans. There are materials in the stalls, but no big family has ever taken it seriously. This is one; Second, these large households have been in arrears of grain for many years, is it illegal according to the Ming Law? That's a lot of money. What else is there to talk about in this article: 'Grain is given and grain is rented?' "Ji Xin Xiōng has Chengzhu," If necessary, I will settle this account with them first. ”

After the discussion, Liu Xiang's list of registered "prospective migrant workers" was hung in front of the Taoist temple and publicized for 24 hours.

As for those who cannot prove that the tenants have debts, they cannot be prevented from leaving the Ming Dynasty's tenancy system, and there is basically no longer a personal attachment to them, although the peasant tenants are still lower than the landlords at the legal level, but the tenants have personal freedom and come and go at will, and the landlords have no right to detain them.

By the end of the night, about 30 percent of the refugees had been proven to be in debt. All kinds of debt materials are piled up on the table. Ji Xin Xiōng took care of the financial staff sent by Delong, the retained county government office and the court staff to work together to sort out the materials, collect the various evidence of the plaintiff into a file, and then number them one by one, and then call people in to clean up when the time comes.

Ji Xin had the materials obtained from the county office: this is the list and number of arrears that were sorted out when he cleared the acres of land and took over the county yamen. The numbers have accumulated to a very large point. If you want to be more serious, there is no problem in raising a big prison. It's just that now the traversers have not gained a stable foothold, and they don't plan to make too ugly eating appearances for the time being. When the time comes, it is natural to clean them up fiercely.

The plaintiffs and defendants were gathered in a side hall in a Taoist temple in the temporary courtroom to clear their debts. The temporary courtroom was full of people, but one by one they did not dare to speak: the infantry bayonets flashed, and the officials borrowed from the county government were all armed with water and fire sticks and leather whips, and the whole temporary court was majestic.

The creditors and debtors who were called in first confirmed the authenticity and amount of the debt in front of Ji Xin. In the process of cleaning up, a large number of forged and altered contracts and IOUs were cleaned up, some of which were smeared numbers, some were simply Zhang Guan Li Dai, and some simply used a smeared note as evidence without a handprint.

If it is proved that the evidence is forged, the IOU shall be cancelled and confiscated.

Immediately, the plaintiff was dragged to the bottom of the hall to hit 40 boards, a fake deed was 40, 2 were 60, 3 were 90, and so on. The seconded officials have long wanted to make a face in front of the Australian leaders, and they are full of energy and do not let go of a little water in the hall, and the rain and blood flow in the hall, and the hall is a stream of feces and urine. He also killed one directly. The plaintiffs were so frightened that they demanded to withdraw the lawsuit and never ask for any more debts.

"How can this be, debt repayment, righteous, I beat a wicked person, and the fight is a good citizen, why be afraid?" Ji Xin also felt that it was almost the same, "Anyone who forges the deed as long as he knows that he has repented, he will immediately turn himself in and not be blamed,"

So immediately, a group of people came out and turned themselves in, and it was not a good feeling to be on the forty boards. Ji Xin immediately presented the forged documents of these people and cancelled them as evidence, and then ordered a cadre to write down a plea and pay a fine of ten stone of grain for each forged document.

Any valid deed will be settled according to the above figures and interest, and the court will not recognize the "debt" of three generations of people who have changed their money, and at most settle it according to Delong's regulations: the maximum annual interest shall not exceed 25%. In order to ensure that creditors are willing to accept the negotiable coupons, Ji Xin announced the policy on the spot: the negotiable coupons can be offset against the grain and other miscellaneous taxes payable in the summer and autumn. In this way, even if the large households believe that the negotiable bills have no negotiable value, ensuring that they can pay the public grain is tantamount to guaranteeing the credit of the state.

DeLong did not pay off for free, but in fact acquired the debt: these debtors borrowed money from DeLong against their own labor, i.e., their future wages.

In the process of liquidation, some tenants owed debts to large households, and as soon as they heard that they had to borrow money from the "government" to work in Lingao, they immediately changed their minds in fright. In response to this situation, Yang Yun worked hard and did not save a few, after all, in this era, borrowing money from the government is a horror rooted in the subconscious. Liu Xiang didn't care about this, anyway, the more he stayed, the better it would be for him.

The clean-up process started slowly, but then it progressed quickly. Ji Xin saw that there was nothing tricky below, it was nothing more than some cleaning procedures, so he handed over the work to a few naturalized cadres under him, and came out to breathe by himself.

Liu Xiang greeted him: "Well done!" Your hand is a big stick to open the way, and the carrot will follow. ”

Ji Xin didn't speak, just smiled. A common wry smile appeared on his face.

"Honestly, it's not good. It's nothing more than a stopgap measure. ”

"What's not haode?" Liu Xiang was puzzled, "This big family, blatantly forged documents, and exploited heavy profits, and didn't clean it up ruthlessly, probably still want to continue to do what he wants, fish and meat in the township." ”

Ji Xin nodded: "That's a good word, but if I do this, I just have Tianxian grass in my mouth and ignore people's lives." To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than Han Fuyu and Han Qingtian's approach. From the point of view of building a society with a legal system, it is extremely inappropriate. He sighed and added, "Actually, they don't sin unto death." ”

Although Liu Xiang felt that he was reasonable, he still felt a little tired, and couldn't help criticizing in his heart: "The weakness of the petty bourgeoisie has flare up again. ”

"Don't think too much about it, hasn't the situation in China been like this for thousands of years?" He said, "I'm not biased towards the poor, the poor are not the same as the good people, and there are people everywhere." But if you look at the current situation, the rich big families really don't have a bottom line at all, and they write a note casually, and they don't know who to call to draw a mortgage to exploit the tenants. If we don't kill their arrogance ruthlessly, can we stand up to it? Even if someone does not die for his crimes, what temple does not have a ghost who succumbs to death? As he spoke, he moved and pointed to the refugees in the Taoist temple, "Look at these refugees, they have suffered disasters and have no food to eat, which one is not their tenant?" If we hadn't forced us to collect donations, we wouldn't have given a single piece of rice for relief, waiting for them to fend for themselves. We're going to take people away, and they remember that it can't be done without farming, and they knew what they were doing so early! ”

"That's why I said it was only from power. But in the long run, such an approach is not advisable. Ji Xin didn't argue, he suddenly said, "Liu Xiang, you are now the county magistrate, maybe you will become a provincial governor or other local high-ranking officials in the future, don't have the urge to be a blue sky, China's affairs will not succeed by relying on a few blue heavens." ”

Liu Xiang didn't speak, he understood that Ji Xin was still advocating the argument of "governing the country according to law" in the end, and he didn't object to this, but it seemed a little too early to talk about this now. He suddenly realized that what he had just said seemed to be consistent with the Governor's line of thought, and it seemed that he was indeed a revolutionary in his heart.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw Yang Yun and his people distributing rations to the refugees: the rations were changed to seafood porridge - a nutritious meal in a traditional quarantine camp.

"Yo, good food!" Liu Xiang looked at the food of these victims and greeted Yang Yun.

"Hehe, how can you send it away if you don't raise it well, whether it's by sea or by land, it's physically exhausting." Yang Yun pointed to the crowd: "There are still some children, thin, ouch!" If you don't supplement some nutrition, you will hang up before you reach Lingao. ”

"It took a lot of effort to get thousands of people, don't you think it's a bit of a loss" Liu Xiang asked Yang Yun tentatively.

"This is called drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, people are one thing, and the life of the landlord is the second aspect." Yang Yun didn't hide it, "You should have read the documents, right?" ”

"Of course, of course," Liu Xiang said, "but I have concerns, isn't it too much to do this?" ”

Liu Xiang was inspecting like this, chatting with Yang Yun with a pair or not, and by the way, he inquired about what was happening in Lingao, especially on the 88S. Far away from the core area, many things can only be guessed by the words of official business, and this kind of information asymmetry makes Liu Xiang feel very bad.

"Hehe, I can't imagine that you used to call yourself a revolutionary leftist, and now you have become a right-leaning?" Yang Yun smiled, "Things are not absolute. What the Governor wants: nothing more than enough food, manpower, and strong grassroots control. ”

This is equivalent to not saying this, Liu Xiang thought, this is just the basic policy of the Senate at all. He had no choice but to say: "Actually, the population of Qiongshan is not excessive, it can be digested on the spot...... he decided to talk about his idea to Yang Yun first.

"I didn't expect you to fight the idea of these laborers." Yang Yun heard Liu Xiang talk about his idea of applying for the transfer of some industries to Qiongshan, "However, this time the governor is not only targeting these tenant farmers, but also the surplus grain of the landlord's family." ”

"I'm afraid, there are still landlords of the surplus grain family." Liu Xiang joked seemingly unintentionally.