Chapter Seventy-Three

In the lobby of the county office, Yang Shangjing looked at the old man kneeling below, his face was full of helplessness.

In the feudal era, the foundation of the founding of the country, or the basis for the ruling class to rule the common people at the bottom, was the etiquette system, not the legal system, so in the face of the construction of imperialist spiritual civilization with Ming characteristics, the construction of the imperialist legal system with Ming characteristics had to give way, and wanted to punish an old man in his seventies...... Let's rest.

As for this old man who is a scholar, he also has a reputation for showing talent, but he has become the second, and the article of not punishing the doctor was abolished by Zhu Chongba during the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the founding heroes have killed one stubble after another, who cares about a showman?

Therefore, this old man is also hard-hearted, and he gave full play to the privilege of Xiucai not kneeling when he sees officials, but he just stood there and owed slightly: "Old Huang Ren'an, I am the Li Zheng of Huangjiazhuang in the south of the city, and I have seen the county honor." ”

Things have come to this point, and it is even more contemptible to kneel and knock three times, anyway, the old man is such an old bone, you can clean it up as you want, the Ming Dynasty will not have to pay taxes and serve at the age of sixty, what else can you do with me?

Originally, Yang Shangjing, who was just a little helpless, became popular in an instant, I haven't done anything yet, you just leave here for me to rely on the old and sell the old? What are you kidding, I'm not a reason for you to put on a fork when I'm low-key!

So, Yang Shangjing slapped the shocked wood and snorted coldly: "Huang Ren'an, are you guilty?" ”

The old man was silent for a moment, and then gritted his teeth: "If you go back to the county, the old man will be guilty!" ”

There are many first laws in politics, that is, don't uncover the scars, a little bit of anything that casually flows out of it is enough to make people die and live and die again, even if he wants to make a fuss, he can't directly face Yang Shangjinggang and say, "Today's villages in Huangyan County are like this, Zhuangzhuang is like this, what is the crime of old decay", then Yang Shangjing has to investigate thoroughly if he doesn't want to investigate thoroughly, and the public anger aroused at that time will not be directed at the government, but only at their Huang family.

The simplest point is that the court holds a knife handle in its hand, not to mention the guard post outside the city, which can be done by these three classes of officials in the city, and they are called Dad.

Yang Shangjing nodded, looked at the old man, and said slowly: "As the head of the county, I can't check the household registration, so that the people hide in Dingkou and escape from servitude, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, what should I do?!" ”

The old man put a stalk on his neck, and simply stopped talking, ordinary people will be afraid of the authority of being an official, but the townsman of his grade is still not so in his eyes, after all, the Huang family is one of the two largest families in Huangyan County, and there are still people who are officials outside...... He is over seventy, and he kicked his legs with two boards, can Yang Shangjing still do this county order?

Yang Shangjing didn't expect him to answer, and turned his eyes to Li Ji, the classic history on the side, at least before he got the position of Jiupin Master Book, it was impossible for Li Ji to oppose him, after all, although the decision-making power of many officials who were divided into patrol roads and guarded roads was very important, but Yang Shangjing's right to recommend them locally was also indispensable, and looking at the pomp and circumstance when Yang Shangjing took office, the bigwigs who divided the patrol road and the patrol road should not refute Yang Shangjing's face.

So he began to memorize the law in a serious manner: "If the chief of the li is lost in the survey, and there are those who leave the household, one to five households, fifty flogs." For every five households, add one. A hundred rods of sin. Those who leak their mouths will be punished with one to ten mouthfuls and thirty lashes. For every 10 bites, add one. Fifty lashes for sin. ”

After Li Ji finished speaking, the old man Huang Ren'an's face didn't even change, he just stiffened his neck, clasped his fists with both hands, and shouted, "The old man is guilty, the evidence is conclusive, and he deserves to be punished, please order the old man to be taken down and the law of the country will be corrected!" ”

After speaking, he didn't look at Yang Shangjing at all, and as soon as he turned around, he knelt down with a grunt to the crowd watching outside the county government hall: "Old Huang Ren'an, I am ashamed of the trust in the Great Order, and I disregard the law of the country, and I should be punished with fifty lashes!" ”

The people outside began to talk about it as soon as they "coaxed".

"I have long heard that this Huang Ren'an Huang is a talented person, an upright person, and a highly respected person, and today I see that this is really the case."

"It's just that, I'm over 70 years old, and I know that I have broken the law, and I want to be punished so hard."

"I don't know if this new county order can be handed down."

"Hey, the law of the country is like a furnace, of course you can."

"Who hasn't hidden Dingkou in these years? If they are all arrested, our Huangyan County will become a dead place. ”

"But isn't it, so it seems that Old Man Huang is standing up for us?"

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The crowd talked about it, and Yang Shangjing's brain exploded when he heard it, what is this special...... Let's fight, the people will stop doing it, is it possible to really have a census in Huangyan County? Then don't say that you take out a little human resources from the hands of the village sages, even if you take them out, you can't command them, and the prestige of the people is a waste.

But don't fight...... If you don't fight, what will happen to this Ming law? When the time comes, the county Cheng Huang Cheng will stab a knife in the back again, and he will confess.

It's hard to ride a tiger!

Yang Shangjing's teeth are itching, these townsmen are simply old and refined, and the use of feudal etiquette is simply superb, this kind of regularity is to be summarized, but Yang Shangjing has only been here for a few days? I haven't studied "Da Ming Law" yet, and I haven't read "The Imperial Decree", how can I play with these old guys under this rule? There's no curse at all.

At this moment, the crowd outside had already knelt down with hula hula, and they didn't know which leader it was, anyway, they shouted in a water: "Please be merciful, Lord Qingtian." ”

So Yang Shangjing's nose was crooked, and just wanted to stand up and get off the donkey along the slope of public opinion, when he saw Li Ji stand up, walked to his side, and muttered: "Huang Ren'an leads public opinion with etiquette, why not fight with him with filial piety?" ”

Sure enough, dialectics can only be used after understanding the substance of things, it seems that I have to work overtime to study the etiquette system of the Ming Dynasty today, otherwise I will be beaten by a native of the Ming Dynasty in this regard, and it will be too embarrassing to be a traverser, right?

So Yang Shangjing stood up, smiled and waved his hand, walked down the warm pavilion, and came to Huang Ren'an's face, his knees bent slightly, and then he leaned over and picked Huang Ren'an up, and the voices of the people outside were quiet.

I only heard Yang Shangjing laugh and said: "I am a Ming Dynasty who rules the world with etiquette, and this official is also a character who has read the books of sages and walked in the Hanlin Academy, how can he torture an old man?" ”

The Qiantou outside breathed a sigh of relief, but looking at the banter in Yang Shangjing's eyes, Huang Ren'an only felt a cool air rushing from the soles of his feet directly to the top beam door, and his two eyelids were jumping wildly.