Guo Ziren and Gu Jianshan quickly published a letter of apology written in their private capacity in the "Liuqiu Xun Bao", sincerely admitting to all citizens that their private lives were not disciplined enough, and that they would follow the soon-to-be-released "Civil Servants Law" from now on, and welcome everyone to supervise.

King Zhang Anguo also inscribed a couplet to the newspaper, the upper link is the iron shoulder to bear the morality, the lower link is the article written by the wonderful hand------ the horizontal link is the folk imperial history.

Of course, this painting was written by Wen Tianxiang, and even if he became a king, his calligraphy was still miserable.

Wen Tianxiang is now in a very good mood, he fought a lawsuit for the "Southern Confucius" and the "Northern Confucius", and finally, with the approval of the "civil court", he and the Southern Confucian family won the lawsuit: forcing the Northern Confucian family to accept the Southern Confucian family's northward movement and cede half of the rights of the Confucian area.

As a result, one-third of the Southern Confucian family of the Great Song Dynasty remained in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the other third went to Qufu in the Shandong region, and the last third came to the island of Liuqiu------ and they won the lawsuit by virtue of their status as citizens of the empire.

None of the big merchants and the leading officials of the empire cared about this civil case, which seemed to them to be as boring as a struggle over family property.

But in the eyes of literati like Wen Tianxiang, the Northern Confucian family, who voluntarily surrendered to the Tatar bandits, did not deserve to still live in Qufu!

Originally, he wanted to get rid of them completely, but the lawyer who helped him fight the lawsuit was very experienced, and said that if he completely drove them away, I was afraid that the jury would not fully agree, after all, there would always be people who would be kind.

At that time, Wen Tianxiang did not understand the court system of the Federal Empire at all.

The three major judicial organs of the Federal Empire are divided into the Patrol Department, the Court Department, and the Public Prosecutor's Department, which are independent of the three.

Wen Tianxiang understands this kind of judicial system.

He believes that this is similar to the Great Song Dynasty------ the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty system, and the three major judicial organs of the central government are still Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Yushitai.

As a judicial administrative organ, the Criminal Department is also responsible for reviewing the death penalty cases decided by the Dali Temple.

Dali Temple is the highest judicial organ of the central government, responsible for hearing criminal cases reported by local prefectures and counties and cases of hundreds of officials in the capital, and the separation of trials.

The functions of the Imperial Historical Observatory are mainly to supervise civil and military officials, correct violations of the law, and enforce discipline.

Wen Tianxiang believes that compared with the judicial system of the Great Song Dynasty, the judicial organs of the federal empire are only more complex in structure.

A patrol department also includes several branches of the traffic police, mounted police, and coast guard; Although an inspection department is similar to the imperial embassy, it is not only for officials, but also for ordinary citizens, they sometimes take action.

But what Wen Tianxiang really doesn't understand is that the court department, which is similar to Dali Temple, does not judge the case, but makes a randomly selected citizen jury to judge the case.

Wen Tianxiang was puzzled and asked the lawyer hired at a high price: "The citizen jury has decided the case, so what is the use of the judge?" ”

The lawyer said meaningfully:

"Extremely useful! Upon receipt of the complaint, decide whether to dismiss the complaint; Supervise both parties to collect evidence and discover evidenceIn civil litigation, when the evidence collection is completed, decide whether to make a summary judgment without going to court at the request of one of the parties; In court proceedings, supervise the prosecution and defense to conduct plea and lead the court debate and make decisions on the disputed application of law!

If it is a criminal case, he will sentence the person found guilty by the trial team! ”

Wen Tianxiang's head was a little dizzy, and he said:

"Even I can't memorize so many laws and regulations, those randomly selected citizens, they can understand the law?! ------ people who don't even know a word, how can they solve a case?! ”

The lawyer smiled and said:

"There is nothing in the world that is greater than the word 'reason'!

A little common sense is enough to distinguish between right and wrong------ and you don't need to be talented.

When the members of the jury are selected, as long as they have more than three years of citizenship, as long as they are of normal intelligence, they can be selected------ so that they only need to understand the truth of the facts under the guidance of the lawyers on both sides, and then they can ------ some proprietary legal terms, which the judge in the court is responsible for explaining to the jury until they understand it. ”

At that time, Wen Tianxiang sighed: "Ah, doesn't that mean that the role of the lawyer is very great?!" ”

The lawyer said proudly: "Since I studied the laws of the Federal Empire, I have represented more than 500 cases, of which only seven or eight were defeated------. ”

Wen Tianxiang really understood why it cost so much to hire him------ but he said: "What if ordinary citizens can't afford to hire lawyers? ”

The lawyer sighed at this:

"There are more than 30 members in my lawyer's office, and they have the obligation to fight more than 100 lawsuits for citizens free of charge every year------ even I have to get two or three cases every year."

Wen Tianxiang couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

In fact, all the government activities of the Great Song Dynasty government were carried out in the name of the Great Song Dynasty officials.

Only the officials of the Great Song Dynasty held the supreme judicial power, and sometimes not only personally tried major cases and initiated prison edicts, but also controlled and supervised judicial activities throughout the country.

The judicial supervision role of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty was different from that of the legal supervision of the central and local supervisory organs.

The Yushitai and Zhulu Tidian Criminal and Prison Divisions participated in the trial of major cases and reviewed the criminal prison cases of all walks of life, mainly to supervise the legality of the trial and the activities of the judicial officials, and to report directly to the officials of the Great Song Dynasty when necessary.

The official family of the Great Song Dynasty directly controlled and controlled the judicial trials of the whole country.

This is an important symbol of maintaining the supremacy of imperial power!

However, here in the Federal Empire, things have changed------ and the jury is in charge of the final trial!

The lawyer said faintly: "Fortunately------ the people's entanglement will be resolved by the people in accordance with the law, and the government does not need to work hard for this, and of course there will be no opportunity for a certain high-ranking official to do it; Our King and Queen, who have the sole power of amnesty every year-------"

The civil entanglement is solved by the private sector?

Haha, that's good, whether it's right or wrong, it's the responsibility of the citizen jury, even the powerful can't manipulate the case.

Hahahaha------ clever.

In the course of the subsequent trial, because not too many people paid attention to this case, not many people came to the court to observe, only Wen Tianxiang and the others of the Nankong family insisted on hearing the trial.

The lawyer was really sophisticated, and made a big fuss about jurisprudence and morality, justice and fairness, which made the members of the jury nod their heads frequently after hearing this.

The lawyer invited by Beikong was just an ordinary lawyer, and he would only take out the edicts issued to them by the big bandit leaders such as Liao, Jin, and Tatar, as well as some supporting documents of the Liao, Jin, and Yuan dynasties.

And when the lawyer finally produced the proof provided by the Nankong family that they were forced to be expelled from Qufu that year, Wen Tianxiang knew that he had won the lawsuit.

Sure enough, three hours later, a jury of ordinary citizens ruled that members of the Nankong family had the right to share in Beikong's rights in the Qufu area.

Although Wen Tianxiang did not gain anything in this matter, he was still extremely happy!

That's a punishment!

Those who are good at resorting to surrender to save themselves must be punished, and they must pay the price!

Therefore, when the king asked him to write that couplet, Wen Tianxiang wrote it seriously.

I have to say that his current methods are becoming more and more vigorous-------