"Eight workers, all living people, all father's son, wife's husband, little child's—father!" Huang Yang recited exaggeratedly in the lobby of the magistrate's house, as if reciting Chu Ci in the school: "Eight families, from now on, they will be broken!" ”

The expressive Guo Shan is also singing and harmonizing: "Eight mountains - down!" Eight rivers - cut off! Eight families – they have lost their pillars since. ”

Accompanied by the widow's crying, Guo Shan and Huang Yang pointed to Long Tao, who was beaten so much that his mother couldn't recognize him: "It's all because of this shameless villain who eats inside and out, despicable and insidious!" ”

"Silence in the hall!" After he couldn't bear it anymore, the magistrate sitting in the hall finally slapped the shock: "This is the public court!" It is where Zhaizhuang is located, not a vegetable market, not a stage. Don't play tricks with Master Ben! Who is the plaintiff, who is the defendant, what are you suing, choose a representative to come out and say, the others are not allowed to speak out without the permission of the official, and the violators will be severely fined! ”

Guo Shan shut up and stepped aside. Leaving Huang Yang to continue his performance: "Actually, this case is very simple...... Hey, that's the little brother, by the way, here. Don't run, come on, come on, tell Master Qingtian, who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant in this matter? ”

Huang Yang grabbed a small official in Xia Cai County, he was sent by Qiuzhi County to send the paper, but he didn't expect to be grabbed by Huang Yang, so he could only hand the paper with a bitter face. The magistrate glanced at it: "It's not unorthodox." How can such a big case be prosecuted by Xia Cai County? Send back, send back, do it all over again, start again. ”

The little official said with a bitter face: "What should I do if I see the bottom of the official master?" ”

The official said: "You still have to study the "Criminal Procedure Law", although your pro-people official affairs are complicated, but the country's legal system still has to be studied. Take all these back, go through the procedures, and hand them over to the judicial department of the prefect's yamen, so that they can file a public prosecution. It's ridiculous! ”

After that, the magistrate was shocked and announced his retirement.

This matter came back to Zhu Ming's ears, and he hugged the newly married Shandong girl Jin Cheng and smiled: "These officialdom veterans, all of them are slippery like eels, and they all want to drag it out, and they will deal with it until Master Fei comes back." ”

Jin Cheng is a singer, and he doesn't know much about these officialdoms, so he can only nod his head blindly. Zhu Ming stretched out his hand and reached into her belly pocket, and suddenly felt a nameless fire, and there was a strong urge to correct this big girl on the spot.

Just as Jin Cheng was tactfully acknowledging joy on the desk, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the study: "Master, the second master is here." ”

"This grandson!" Zhu Ming scolded angrily; "Tell him to wait, sir, I'm doing something!"

Having said that, Zhu Ming also knew that his younger brother must have something important to come to him during working hours, so he retreated heavily, and pinched Da Niuniu's snow-white thighs: "Hurry up and go from behind, and the master will come to you again in the evening." ”

"Master ......" The woman's eyes were like silk, and she almost hooked Zhu Ming's soul away: "You have to talk at night." ”

After simply putting the desk in order, Zhu Ming finally opened the door and let his younger brother in.

"If there's any fart, let it go." He said angrily. Zhu Qing also seemed to smell something, stood at the door and said, "I found out, and the people who took the lead in instigating the workers to do things were a few students from other places. I now live at the Anju Hostel on Xiguan Street. Brother, do you want to arrest them? ”

His younger brother's proposal made Zhu Ming's mind move, but when he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong: "It's a student from other places...... It is not advisable to act rashly, you should send someone to monitor them first, and if you catch them with any tricks, report them to me immediately. ”

"Okay, my subordinate said that the hostel has secret prostitutes, if needed......"

"Hold this line first, don't startle the snake as soon as it comes up." Zhu Ming pondered for a while: "You prepare some capable people to mix in, and inquire about what they are doing in Shouzhou." ”

"I understand, I'll tell someone to go."

Speaking of this, Zhu Ming touched his beard's chin again: "Lawsuit...... Do they really want to go to court instead of making trouble? Are there any lawyers in the city who have come forward now? ”

Zhu Qingdao: "I talked to their guild leaders. Their president didn't take Fei Ye's money less, he and I fought for a long time haha and said that he hadn't seen the door clearly for the time being, but said that if this was Fei Ye's housework, he would never participate; If this is someone who wants to go against Fei Ye, then his attitude is the same as in the past. ”

Zhu Ming thought in his heart: Almost the entire Shouzhou City, everyone thinks so in their hearts, if it is really the internal strife of the Fei family, there will be no good end for outsiders to intervene; If someone wants to go against Fei Ye, then everyone will pounce on it and take a bite to show Fei Ye.

Zhu Ming and the others were busy here, and Cheng Qi, who had not shown up all morning, was not idle, he personally wrote two letters, one letter was addressed to Peng Youzhi, and he wanted to explain to him the deep meaning behind the farce he set off in Shouzhou: Fei Jianren's power to hold the place hostage and enter the fourth-level council was rooted in the 100,000 miners and countless money he controlled, and Cheng Qi was to be separated from his own power base like the hero Hercules in distant Greek mythology defeated Antey; Cheng Qi is very confident in this matter, after all, he has five volumes in his heart, so why worry about millions of ghosts. The other letter was addressed to his friends in Luoyang, telling them that there was now a practical opportunity to support justice and save orphans and widows. Obviously, the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty had nothing to do, and for idealistic young people, they were obviously happy to do it if they had the opportunity to fight a lawsuit for orphans and widows in the public court of the magistrate's court.

After sending these two letters by noon train, Cheng Qi was still sighing: "Why are there so many smart people in the world, but they haven't invented the telegraph and telephone?" ”

Coincidentally, Yuan Xue happened to pass by the door: "Telegraph? I've been around for a long time. ”

Cheng Qi pounced on her all of a sudden; "It's been there for a long time? How I've never seen one! ”

Yuan Xue hugged her chest and took a few steps back: "This thing has been invented for at least decades...... Haven't you heard of it? ”

"Give me some science!" Cheng Qi was almost crazy: "What else I don't know!" ”

In fact, this can't be blamed on others - the main thing is that Cheng Qi is playful and didn't finish reading the set of "Encyclopedia" given to him by his sister Xia Yusi, if he starts with the science volume like his playmate Wu Liwei, it won't take half a month to see the content about "cable telegraph" in the chapter "Electricity and Magnetism".

The concept of cable telegraphy emerged in the Song Kingdom, and scientists in Luoyang began to study the use of electric current to transmit messages nearly 100 years ago. However, the practical telegraph prototype appeared in the vast territory of Daliao.

In the year 2506 of the Confucian calendar, Mors, an alternate scholar of the Daliao Royal Academy of Sciences, established the first electromagnetic laboratory, and in the same year, he proposed the design scheme of "Mors Code". Eleven years later, he and a few students sent the first telegram in human history in the National Assembly building in Zhongjing, and with a series of tick-tick sounds, the message was soon transmitted to Huludao, a naval base hundreds of kilometers away.

The test caused a sensation in the military and political circles of the Great Liao, and soon the laying of the cable telegraph was guarded as a first-class military secret and successfully blocked for decades, only recently to be declassified. The reason for the decryption was because the Song people had developed a telegraph with better performance.

However, until the 2590s of the Confucian calendar, the telegraph was still a national defense weapon used by the army, and in addition, there were only a few telegraph relay stations sporadically between the imperial mainland and the governor's palaces of overseas colonies, and the large-scale commercial operation of the telegraph in the civil society was still an impossible thing in the Liao State - after all, it was related to the fate of the country; In the Great Song Dynasty, there seems to be little need for it – the cost of laying the line is very high, and the maintenance and operation require specialized personnel, and it is still too extravagant for private companies to use it to convey business messages. All in all, until the economic benefits of the telegraph were not highlighted, it still seemed to be just a lifesaver for the military and colonial governors.

Fortunately, although the train was a little slower, it directly brought all the reinforcements he hoped for.

"Li Ziming came alone, and he defeated a million male soldiers!" Cheng Qi happily patted the arm of a thin man with glasses like a hemp pole: "Look, this time our million-strong master is about to break through Huainan!" ”