After the prefect of Xuzhou sent a housekeeper and a servant to warn the ordinary people, he no longer paid attention to the matter, and he was confident that the ordinary people would never dare to offend him for the harvest of a few corns.

However, the prefect of Xuzhou was undoubtedly wrong.

On 22 March, when the day of the court session arrived, police officers from the police station and judges from the court came early to summon the Xuzhou prefect to appear in court.

Looking at the two policemen and a court judge standing in front of him, the face of the Xuzhou prefect instantly became gloomy, and he only thought in his heart that the ordinary people were so ignorant that they really dared to sue him in court.

It is to be said that since the establishment of the Xuzhou People's Court, many cases involving ordinary people have been pronounced, but this is the first time that an official's case has been heard, especially the case of the dignified Xuzhou prefect.

"Have you heard, today the court is going to hear the case of the prefect who destroyed the people's corn and ignored the laws of the Ming Dynasty!"

"I heard that the prefect not only destroyed people's corn, but also refused to compensate and apologize afterwards, and after the defendant went to court, he also sent a housekeeper to warn the people, which can be described as extremely arrogant!"

The people sighed, the prefect of Xuzhou, that is their highest governor in Xuzhou, and now he has been sued by an ordinary family for such a small matter, this kind of appalling thing, it is difficult for the people not to pay attention to it, and everyone is looking forward to the final trial result.

At this moment, two judges of the court suddenly walked out of the door of the court.

"In order to show justice, the court specially allows 100 ordinary people to observe the trial, if you are willing, please sign up and queue up!" One of the judges of the court said loudly.

The eyes of the people immediately widened, and they didn't know who reacted first, and immediately ran towards the door of the court.

"I want to sign up!"

"I want to sign up!"

More and more people are crowding in to sign up to attend the courthouse.

This is a case of the prefect, and you may not be able to see each other for a while in your life, and of course the people are very excited to be able to observe.

In the end, the 100 ordinary people who were the first to sign up were able to enter the court to observe the trial.

The response was a little slower, and the people who had the opportunity to take measures beat their chests and stood, feeling remorseful.

At three o'clock, the court hearing began as scheduled.

"Take the plaintiff Zhang Laohan, and the defendant Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou!"

When Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, was pressed up by two policemen, his face was dark, and he never dreamed that his dignified Xuzhou prefect would be sued in court by an ordinary family for a trivial matter, and he was watched by so many people, which is simply the biggest shame in this life.

Towards this, Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, couldn't help glaring at Zhang Laohan angrily, and swore that he would not let the bold Zhang Laohan family have a better time afterwards.

Zhang Laohan has been paying attention to the expression of Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, and naturally saw the unkindness in Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, when he looked at him, but Zhang Laohan was not panicked, after all, according to what the Lord Jinyiwei said, Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, was finished, no matter what, he chose to believe in Jinyiwei, believe in the court, and believe in the current emperor.

"Lawyers from both sides are in court!"

Since the establishment of the court, the Ming Dynasty has also established a lawyer system, after all, ordinary people rarely understand the law, even if they have read the Ming law, it is impossible to really remember all the Ming law, although the lawyer is sometimes used by the rich and powerful, but the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages.

Mr. Zhang's lawyer is a well-known lawyer in Xuzhou City, who has taken on more than 20 cases involving ordinary people over the years, and has an excellent reputation. The lawyer of Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou, because after Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou instructed the housekeeper to warn Liu Laohan's family, he no longer took this matter to heart, so he did not hire a lawyer until the court was held today, and for this reason, the Xuzhou court arbitrarily assigned a lawyer to Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou.

In the end, there is the support of the Jinyi Wei secret agent, and the current emperor Zhu Ci wants to take this matter as the beginning of the storm of suing officials, and gives the highest attention to this matter, so there is no doubt that the human and material evidence are there, Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou's carriage ran out of control and rushed into the people's corn field, causing the people to lose more than 100 catties of corn, and Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou refused to apologize and compensate afterwards, and after receiving the court summons, he also knew the law and sent a housekeeper to warn Liu Laohan, and the two crimes were punished concurrently, and the court sentenced Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou to apologize to Liu Laohan, and compensated Liu Laohan for the loss of one or two pieces of silver, and at the same time committed the crime of malicious threat and was imprisoned for five days!

"Xuzhou Governor Liu Chunhou, do you have any objections to this court's verdict?" The judge asked Liu Chun, the prefect of Xuzhou, to be kind.

The human and material evidence is all clear, and the ironclad evidence is like a mountain, and Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, cannot refute it.

"I, no objection!" Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, blushed and was extremely unwilling to bear the blame.

Xuzhou prefect Liu Chunhou's heart was dripping blood, he never thought that his dignified Xuzhou prefect would be planted like this at this moment, in the hands of an ordinary farmer, just for such a trivial matter as a hundred catties of corn.

Liu Chunhou was angry, but also faintly regretted, he knew that an apology on the spot would be over, he was dignified Xuzhou prefect, not to mention anything else, how could an ordinary farmer dare to sue him, and the Xuzhou court, usually the well water does not violate the river water, he has not been in his eyes, how dare he take this matter, and pronounce him in front of so many people, let him suffer such a great humiliation.

Liu Chunhou was naturally not reconciled, his eyes looked at Liu Laohan viciously again, and glanced at the judges of the court again, when he returned to the prefect's yamen, he would inevitably make Liu Laohan and the court regret today's incident.

Although he was sentenced, Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, was not panicked, no matter how he was the prefect of Xuzhou after all, no one in Xuzhou could beat him.

The idea of the prefect of Xuzhou is good, but it is a pity that he has no chance.

After the court announced the verdict, the police immediately took Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, down and executed the sentence of five days in prison.

On the same day, without waiting for the Xuzhou prefect to recover from his anger, the documents of the ministry also arrived, and there was only one sentence on it, Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, knew the law and violated the law, the circumstances were bad, and the impact was particularly far-reaching.

Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, was stunned for an instant, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, this was too coincidental, and it was too fast, if it was calculated according to time, the news that he was sentenced by the court was afraid that it did not even reach Nanjing City, how could it be that the document of the official dismissal from his prefect's post came out.

Thinking of a possibility, Liu Chunhou, the prefect of Xuzhou, sat paralyzed on the ground, he knew that as soon as the documents of the Ministry came, he would really be finished.

Thinking about it, I feel ridiculous, he is the prefect of Xuzhou, and he planted it completely because of this little thing of sesame mung beans.

The next day, Daming Daily publicized a large number of Xuzhou prefects, and the people of the world were shocked, and found that it was possible to sue the official for this little thing, and it was so simple to win.

The people were talking, and the matter was not over.

In the next three months, Daming Daily reported every day that there were cases of official complaints across the country, and almost every day, some county officials or other officials were summoned by the court because of the trivial things they inadvertently committed or the trivial things committed by their family members in their own name.

All of a sudden, the lawsuit seems to have become the mainstream for a period of time, and there are officials who are sued by ordinary people in court at every turn, and even some high-ranking officials and important ministers in Nanjing City have not been able to avoid it, and all of a sudden, the officials all over the world feel that something is wrong, and they are silent for a while, and they dare not dare to act so casually, at least they dare not violate any trace of the law clearly, and they are also polite to the ordinary people, and they dare not put on any official show, and they should apologize if they are wrong, and they should be compensated without a word. The Ming government and the people presented unprecedented harmony.

During this period of time, the law of the Ming Dynasty appeared in the ears of the people every day, and the publicity was too much, and the impression of the people gradually deepened, realizing that violating the law of the Ming Dynasty would be punished, whether it was a high-ranking official or a relative of the emperor, as long as he dared to break the law, he would be sued.

With the passage of time, the law of the Ming Dynasty gradually became deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and a consensus was formed in the hearts of all the people of the Ming Dynasty, that is, no one can break the law.