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The officials from all over the country who had gone away during the anti-tax movement returned to Tianjin and collectively visited Li Zhi, the uncle of Xingguo.

After the princes in the court stopped crusading against Li Zhi, the magistrates of Tianjin returned to Tianjin one by one. But they didn't come to visit Li Zhi immediately at that time, but were watching the direction of the imperial court. Anyway, they have been hiding from the wind and waves for a few months, and they don't care about hiding for a few more days.

Until Li Zhi published the "Tianjin Daily", these civil officials couldn't sit still and came to visit Li Zhi one after another.

In the second hall of the General Military Mansion, the chief officials of various prefectures and counties in Tianjin gathered together, but Li Zhi was late and never showed up. The twenty magistrates and the two magistrates were a little flustered, and whispered to each other.

"If we hang up the seal and leave, will Xingguo Bo hate us?"

"No, it won't. After all, we are civil officials, and we have our own difficulties as civil officials, and Xingguo Bo will be considerate of me and wait? ”

"I don't think it's good, Xingguobo won't come for a long time..."

"Xingguobo's newspaper swept Tianjin, if Xingguobo is dissatisfied with us, he will publish an article in the newspaper..."

The officials were anxious there, but they saw a personal guard enter the second hall and shouted: "Xingguo Uncle has arrived!" ”

The civil officials glanced at each other, and finally the governor of Cangzhou took the lead, and the twenty-two local chiefs knelt on the ground to greet Xingguobo.

According to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, civil officials do not have the tradition of bowing to military attachés. Even if this civil official is from the Zhizhou of the fifth grade and the magistrate of the seventh grade, even if it is such a petty official, he has his own set of civil officials in front of the high-ranking military attaché, and he will not bow down.

But when it comes to Li Zhi, this kind of civilian style can be exempted from talking. Li Zhi's killing of civil officials is like killing chickens and dogs, and he has already killed more than a dozen civil officials directly and indirectly. On the one-third of an acre of land in Tianjin, which civil official would dare to pose in front of Li Zhi? Who can't get along with their own heads?

And what is even more terrifying is that as soon as Li Zhi published the "Tianjin Daily", he controlled public opinion in Tianjin. Nowadays, all teahouses in Tianjin's prefectures and counties have followed suit, and have hired newspaper readers to read Li Zhi's newspapers, and the people in the market learn about the world's major events through the newspapers every day, and their emotions and thoughts are also greatly guided by Li Zhi's newspapers.

Li Zhi already had a powerful Jinyi Wei spy in his hands, and he was clear about the indiscriminate affairs of the civil officials in Tianjin. Now that he is controlling public opinion in Tianjin, whoever he wants to smear in the future will be completely doomed as long as the scandalous affairs of the civil official are published in the newspapers. When the time comes, you will sue Li Zhi for defamation? Li Zhideng's is all true! Where do you go to reason?

These masters from Jinshi all know the horror of public opinion, and now let alone bow down to Li Zhi, even if it is to ask them to kowtow to Li Zhi and beg for mercy, they have done it.

When Li Zhi walked into the second hall, he saw that he was already kneeling on the ground, and he only saw dozens of black black gauze hats.

Li Zhi sneered, swaggered down on the main seat, and said lightly: "Get up." ”

The magistrates and governors got up from the ground, took out gift slips one after another, and gave Li Zhi gifts to dissipate their anger. Li Zhi looked at the gift lists, which all had hundreds of taels of silver, and these local officials couldn't say that they were not generous.

Seeing that the civil officials had finished sending the gift list, the governor of Cangzhou took the lead and said: "I came to the uncle's house this time to make amends for the uncle's crimes." ”

"During the period when the uncle collected taxes from the gentry in Tianjin, we were afraid of the words and writings of the officials of the heavens, and did not dare to assist the uncle in collecting taxes, so we hung up the seals and left one by one. Such an approach is really courageous and unscrupulous. Now the uncle has succeeded in collecting taxes and won a great victory. I came to confess to my uncle and begged him to forgive me for withdrawing from the incident. ”

Hearing the words of Cangzhou Zhizhou, Li Zhi did not speak.

Cui Changwu, who was sitting to the left of Li Zhi, said with a smile: "What you said seems to be that you support your uncle's tax collection." ”

Cangzhou Zhizhou Zhengse said: "Cui Qianhu Mingjian, Uncle Mingjian, Uncle Mingjian collects taxes from the gentry in Tianjin, blocks the channels of tax evasion, rejuvenates the country's finances, and benefits the country and the people, we are twelve points of support." Now that the uncle's tax collection has been completed, we are all happy and celebrated, how can there be any resistance? ”

Hearing this Zhizhou's cheeky words, Li Zhi was a little speechless.

These civil officials are at both ends of the rat, and they fall when they see the wind. Now that Li Zhi has collected taxes, and the officials in the court have also kept their mouths shut, they dare not crusade against Li Zhi anymore, and these civil officials immediately said that they all support tax collection. If Li Zhi fails, they will naturally oppose the collection of taxes.

Li Zhi didn't bother to talk nonsense with these civil officials, and knocked on the table.

Cui Changwu sat on Li Zhi's left and said loudly: "Since you have come to the General Military Mansion, you will not have to send people to inform your uncle one by one." Uncle has something important to announce, you guys listen! ”

The civil officials were stunned, not knowing what big event Li Zhi was going to announce, and they became nervous one by one.

Cui Changwu said loudly: "From now on, Uncle will set up a 'Xingguo Bo Court' in all states and counties for the people of each county to use for lawsuits. In Hejian Province, Baodi County, and Luanzhou Province, Yongping Province, the 'Xingguobo Intermediate Court' was set up for those who were still dissatisfied after the lawsuit was fought in various prefectures and counties to continue to appeal. The 'Xingguobo High Court' was set up in the Tianjin Acropolis for those who were still dissatisfied with the judgment of the Intermediate Court to appeal and give a final ruling. ”

"In the future, if the judgment of the lawsuit in the yamen of the prefecture and county is different from the ruling of the Xingguobo Court, the Xingguobo Court shall prevail!"

Hearing Cui Changwu's words, the faces of the local supervisors turned white.

Their right to tax has been deprived by Li Zhi, and Li Zhi will now deprive them of judicial power. Although Li Zhi did not directly say that he would not let the people go to the yamen to fight lawsuits, since everything is subject to the Xingguobo court, who would go to the yamen to fight the skin? Naturally, they all went directly to the Xingguobo Court, which has the final right to pronounce the verdict.

Without taxation and the power to adjudicate lawsuits, what is left of them, the governor of the state and the county? Li Zhi is going to completely empty them.

The so-called broken prefect and the county order of destroying the door! The power to adjudicate lawsuits is the greatest power of the magistrate. Without the power to adjudicate lawsuits, how can they get money in their hands? Who will honor them? What will they do in the future? Just bury yourself in construction and water conservancy? Li Zhi wants to turn them from parents and officials into empty shelves with no power in his hands?

The faces of the local magistrates present were red and white, and they were very ugly.

This time, Li Zhi hit these civil officials with another stick. The magistrates hung up their seals to boycott Li Zhi's taxes, and Li Zhi took revenge on the magistrates like this?

Moreover, the power of the magistrate is different from that of collecting taxes from the gentry. The latter was a declaration of war on the corporal of the world, and behind the gentry of Tianjin was the corporal of the world. The former, on the other hand, is simply a struggle for power. Although the world is big, no one will stand up to help the chief officials in Tianjin and challenge the powerful Li Zhi.