Li Ziming heard the words of the priest outside, but sneered, Shi Shiran sat down on a small folding stool that he didn't know where it came from: "If he doesn't come out, I won't go in." ”

The surrounding plaintiffs shouted in unison: "Yes, call the pusher to come out!" ”

"Since ancient times, there has been no reason why the official does not see the plaintiff." Li Ziming said: "Even in the era of autocracy, the emperor had a tradition of listening. Shangshu Yuntian listens to his own people, and Tiantian sees himself as the people. There is no reason why the magistrate should not personally meet with the plaintiff in his or her review of the case. ”

The judge frowned with a sad face: "Sir, what you said is right, but who has ever seen a magistrate go out and sit on the street to try a case." It's all going in. ”

Li Ziming smiled slightly, and shook the folding fan on a cold day, with the demeanor of a scholar: "Then the yamen did not let the plaintiff in?" ”

The judge had no choice but to go in again and ask the magistrate. Ai Fan knew that this time the idea was prickly, and it was no better than the usual local lawyer. He walked around the room: "Push the courtyard court? No, so many people don't make a mess. The court should be quiet, and if it becomes a vegetable market, where is the authority of the official? You must not fall for this kid. Get out? Hmph, do you really think that this official is eating and waiting for death to come up? After you go out, the official will eat you first, and then he will be three inches shorter when dealing with you. This kid is cunning. ”

However, Jiang is old and spicy after all, and Ai Fan also came up with an idea after scratching his scalp in the room: "Tell them that the official will review the identity of the plaintiff today and let them come in one by one in order." ”

Ai Fan changed into the uniform of the magistrate and then put on the crown of the pig, sat majestically on the lobby, served with writing and ink on the left and right, and the eight legal officers in the hall were as heavy as water, holding water and fire sticks without anger and self-authority. The first plaintiff who was brought to the hall was an old man, when had he ever seen such a solemn occasion, looking at the big magistrate Ai who was high above the lobby, he was almost so frightened that he couldn't walk, fortunately Li Ziming helped him in time, otherwise the old man might really want to kneel on top of the hall and shout, "The big man of the blue sky and the small people should die." ”

Li Ziming helped the old man to the hall, thrust the folding fan into his waist, bowed his hand, and said: "The official is on top, and the student Shanxi Xie Liang Li Xi." He was the agent of the two hundred and seven plaintiffs in this case. ”

"Two hundred and seven." Ai Fan patted the complaint in front of him: "According to the law, this official should first review whether the identity of the plaintiff complies with the provisions of the procedural law before conducting a substantive review. Come on, the first plaintiff's name, age, home address, and what industry are reported in 1510. ”

In this way, each plaintiff came in to state his identity, and Ai Fan asked how many people in the family were, how many cows they had, how many acres of land per capita they had, who their father was, who their mother was, and whose daughter-in-law they belonged to, how old the children were, whether they went to school, and whether they had kissed the baby...... looks amiable, but when it gets dark, he only asks about a dozen people.

Seeing that the sky was dark, Ai Fan patted the startled wood happily: "Okay, that's the end of today." This official is also a human being, and a person is iron and steel, and he is hungry and panicked if he doesn't eat a meal. Let's move on tomorrow morning. ”

Li Ziming knew that the old fox wanted to play a delaying tactic and use procedures to obstruct the villagers' lawsuits, but this was also the power of the judge, although Li Ziming was dissatisfied, he could only endure it.

When they returned to the inn in the evening, they met together. Li Ziming told Ai Fan's trick and asked: "As the saying goes, three stinkers, one Zhuge Liang." Do you have any strategies to break this move? ”

Cheng Qi said: "I expected it, comrades, I have a word, please listen quietly - revolution is not a dinner party, not a fuss, not embroidery and painting, not so elegant, not so calm, gentle, and polite." Revolution is our struggle to unite the oppressed and bullied broadest masses of the people against the most ferocious and inhumane special strata of officials and businessmen. In this struggle, we must use legal means to carry out an active struggle, and we must also flexibly prepare to fight the enemy on the other side according to the changes in the situation. ”

"Li Ziming's charge is a struggle on a line of Ming, and his enemies on this line are the bureaucratic class that holds the judicial and administrative powers. He is fighting with the weapon of law, and our enemies are fighting back against us with the laws they have made. Is this kind of retaliation fair? The formal view is fair, but the substance is not, because our people, our oppressed and bullied people, do not have the power to make laws, nor do they have the power to evaluate laws. So we can't fight them on one battlefield with just one weapon, we have to fight them with multiple weapons in multiple places. ”

"This kind of struggle is multifaceted, and we have to find the weakness of the other side and give them a fatal blow." Cheng Qi said: "What are you most afraid of being an official? It's your own black yarn hat that can't be guaranteed. And how can it affect his black gauze hat? Then there is no better way to make a big news. ”

Huang Yang took advantage of his drinking water to stand up and continued: "Today I went to a place - Shouzhou Railway Station, and the workers here are also villagers near us. Starting tomorrow, the government will not hear the case for a day, and the unloading workers at the railway station and the dispatch workers at the assembly station will all declare a strike. They would come to the door of the magistrate's house to hear the trial and support the demands of the elders and villagers. ”

Guo Shan got up and said, "I'll also report my results to everyone." I'm ashamed that I only did a little smile work. According to my investigation, Yuxing, the governor of Shouzhou Prefecture, is a member of the Chu Party, although he is a periphery, but his tutor is none other than Xiong Longfei, the boss of the Chu Party. ”

"But Xiong Longfei is not afraid, firstly, he is far away in Tokyo, and there are bigwigs from other parties such as the Donglin Party and the Republican Party around him, and secondly, according to my investigation, although Yuxing and him have a teacher-student relationship, they are not close. Moreover, the Shen Hei dog of the Zhejiang Party once bit Yuxing, and the gap between the master and apprentice caused by this incident may not have been repaired so far. ”

"Oh, and that kind of thing?" It is human nature to listen to gossip, and everyone is immediately interested, and they all pricked up their ears to listen to the story.

"Shen Heigou is the whip of the Zhejiang Party, and he has always loved to bite people, biting people like mad dogs, so he got such a nickname. At that time, the Chu Party and the Zhejiang Party had just formed an alliance, and they were in a state of discord between face and heart. Shen Heigou didn't know where to get a piece of gossip that Xiong Longfei used his protégé to come to the door to thank him for the New Year's holidays, and then in exchange for voting in the fourth-level council. According to an insider in the Zhejiang Party, Shen Heigou's evidence was a letter of worship and a gift slip from Yuxing to his master. The list contains many valuable items, and the prayer note implicitly mentions that these priceless goodies were honored by a certain merchant. Ladies and gentlemen, it is absolutely difficult for anyone else to know about such confidential matters unless they are the parties involved. Xiong Longfei naturally suspected that it was Yuxing's side that leaked the news, although there is no conclusive evidence to prove that Yuxing set the teacher, but at least one charge of failing to handle things and leaking secrets is indispensable. ”

When everyone heard this, they all praised it and said that it was very reasonable, so it seemed that Yuxing looked like a guy who could start.

Cheng Qi said: "Since this is the case, then it is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to sell the name of the overlord." Let's make a big deal out of it and add another fire to the ass of Yuxing Yu Governor. ”

Li Ziming also praised: "Based on my years of experience in dealing with the government. The mediocre officials are not afraid that the sky will fall, and they are not afraid that the ground will fall. I'm afraid that it will make a big deal and the peaceful world will disappear. As long as we make things bigger, we don't need to open our mouths, the officials will naturally come to us to beg for mercy! ”