Chapter 83 Judicial independence
"Why didn't Shouli go to work in the mine today, but came to Zhangye County?" Zhang Shouxin, who was buying a newspaper, suddenly saw a familiar figure and hurriedly greeted him with a smile.
The figure was called by name, stunned for a moment, and when he turned around, he found that it was his eldest brother Zhang Shouxin who called him. Zhang Shouli hurriedly stopped, looked back at his eldest brother and said, "Today the mine is resting, I came here to buy some good fabrics and go home to make a new dress for my little sister." ”
This is because of the policy of compulsory education under Li Wenyuan's own rule, coupled with the promotion of accelerated literacy classes for adults. As a result, there are fewer and fewer illiterate people in the four counties, and Li Wenyuan also launched a newspaper at this time, which is extremely suitable for opening a wise new thing. For this reason, Li Wenyuan specially found many additional wood carving masters, and by the way, the technology of movable type printing was also developed. The hand-copying of books has become an outdated work, after all, compared to the hand-copied books of each person's font is different, which leads to the difficulty of identifying some words, and the unified font used in movable type printing makes the printed books and newspapers more convenient to read, which has also been unanimously recognized and loved by the public.
In addition to publishing some of the government's policies and regulations in the newspapers, there are often great Confucian scholars who publish some of their own opinions and works on them, and also contain some prices of the day in various places for the public to read. The emergence of newspapers has made the public's understanding of government policies no longer limited to the notices posted by the government, but can more intuitively obtain first-hand information from newspapers, avoiding ambiguity caused by false rumors, and Li Wenyuan's support has completely controlled the price of a newspaper within the acceptable range of people. Therefore, many people will buy a newspaper after work, or go home, or go to the nearest restaurant and wine store, and hand in a copy of the food to read while eating. At the same time, under the subtle influence of Li Wenyuan, the wisdom of the people was gradually opened.
Zhang Shouxin heard Zhang Shouli say that he wanted to buy some good fabrics for his little sister to make a new dress, and he also missed Zhang Xiaomei, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and went to the cloth workshop with Zhang Shouli. Zhang Shouxin's two brothers' families were originally not well-off, only a few acres of thin fields, and they relied on the sky for food. In order to buy a thin coffin for his father to bury, he gave his only little sister to the Guo butcher family in the county as a child daughter-in-law. Later, after Li Wenyuan came to the Western Regions to serve as the general manager, he explicitly forbade the appearance of child brides, and at the same time, Fengli Bank provided these people with the money needed to redeem the child brides. The Zhang Shouxin brothers returned the money to Guo Tuhu.
But who knew that after Guo Butcher took the money, he repeatedly refused to let go. The brothers had no choice but to find the local government, and the local government sent a group of officials to Guo Tuhu's house, which could be regarded as a reluctant redemption of Zhang Xiaomei. Because the younger sister was still at school age, she followed Zhang Shouli, who worked in the saltpeter mine, and stayed in Lejun County in Zhangye County to live.
After the two brothers bought the fabric, Zhang Shouli, who happened to be paid, invited his brother Zhang Shouxin to return home with him, and took his little sister to the wine shop in the county for a small gathering. When the two brothers returned to Zhang Shouli's place of residence with a smile, they happened to see a group of strong men snatching their little sister out of the house. My little sister also saw her two brothers coming back, and hurriedly shouted for help.
Zhang Shouli hurriedly pushed the fabric into Zhang Shouxin's arms and said, "It's bad, this should be Guo Butcher who asked people to rob the little sister again." Big brother, go to the county office to report the case. I'll hold them off first. After speaking, without waiting for Zhang Shouxin to agree, he stretched his arms and sleeves and rushed to the group of people who were robbing their little sister.
A quarter of an hour later, under the leadership of Zhang Shouxin, a group of officials finally rescued the beaten half-dead Zhang Shouli and Zhang Xiaomei, who was forcibly snatched away, from the hands of those strong men.
Li Wenyuan slammed the file in his hand recording this matter on the table in front of him, and said to Gao Sheng in front of him: "Okay, what a Diao Min." dared to rob the people's girls in broad daylight, and even hurt people. The government has already issued a notice strictly prohibiting the people from taking in child daughters-in-law in any form, not to mention that the Zhang brothers have already doubled the dowry given by this Guo butcher to redeem their little sister, and he dares to do this! But it's just right, haven't you been looking for a suitable opportunity to officially promulgate our newly revised Western Regions Law? For this opportunity, you don't have to give anyone a favor, I'll support you in the back. In this matter, we must make an example of a hundred people, so that the people under our rule know that as long as they violate the law, they will definitely be punished. Even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes, he can't save him. In addition to promulgating our newly revised laws of the Western Regions, we will take advantage of this matter to formally separate the judicial power from the local government offices, and from now on, the yamen in various places will only retain administrative power. As for the judicial capacity, it is self-contained, with each county having a judicial office, which is under the unified management of the judicial department set up in the county government of the county, and a judicial department is set up above the judicial office of each county, and the Ministry of Justice is directly responsible to me.
If the public disagrees with the judgment of the Judicial Department, they can file a declaration with the Judicial Department for a second review of the judgment. If there is still an objection to the decision of the Judicial Division. It is possible to directly bypass the Department of Justice and file a declaration with the Ministry of Justice. In addition to this, whether it is the number of justices, the Department of Justice, and even the Ministry of Justice when every judgment is made. The people must be allowed to sit by, and there must be no situation in which the judgment is made behind closed doors without the people. ”
"Did you hear that? We're going to promulgate the laws of the Western Regions that apply to the entire Western Regions. In the future, when there is a lawsuit, there is no need to go to the yamen. You can go to the judicial office set up in our county. "In the happy market at the center of the whirlpool of this case, such voices often sound.
"What is the Department of Justice? Since ancient times, to fight a lawsuit is to go to the yamen to fight, who do you listen to nonsense? Another citizen said with a smile.
"I didn't listen to anyone's nonsense this time, you see what is written in this newspaper is clear, the lawsuit to the Justice Department is said by our general manager himself. It is very clear that in the future, we will go directly to the local judicial office to fight the lawsuit, and say that the yamen will only take care of it in the future. Well, it's called an administrative thing. The citizen handed over the newspaper in his hand to the person who questioned him, and motioned for him to read it for himself.
The citizen took the newspaper and checked it several times. The content of the above is as concise as possible, even if I have only taken a crash course in a literacy class, I can actually recognize all the words on it. Seeing that what was written in the newspaper was indeed what the citizen had said before, the citizen who returned the newspaper said, "This time the butcher Guo is going to be unlucky." ”