Tang Ning really wanted to buy the Old Summer Palace, but it represented the dignity of the royal family, and now under the continuous stimulation of Tang Ning's new policy, the authority of the imperial court was slowly restored, and he didn't want to destroy the hard-won good situation, so it was likely that he would not really buy the Old Summer Palace. As a result, it is still difficult financially.

The family is poor and everything is in decline. The Ministry of the Interior could get money from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the banks could cooperate with the Bank of Zurich. And what Tang Ning wanted to do most was to bring the basic human rights of the Qing Dynasty into line with world civilization, which seemed to be not enough money.

Human rights are closely related to the conservative and backward justice system, and Downing has recently been planning ways to make justice cheaper. Downing summed up the results of his thinking in a stock market term: "over-the-counter trading". The core idea is to strip a large number of lawsuits out of the traditional justice system and allow victims and offenders to engage in off-the-counter transactions.

As long as the offender has not infringed on public property, then off-exchange transactions can be conducted. Theft, robbery, homicide, sexual assault, these crimes have clear victims, according to the law, they are all subject to fixed-term imprisonment or exile, capital punishment, but these have caused the rise of judicial costs, fixed-term imprisonment to create prisons, hire jailers, exile to escort, capital punishment may cause unjust cases, to the relatives of death row prisoners also cause suffering, the whole society does not because of the murder to pay for life and still bring happiness added value. Therefore, a qiē can be traded, including killing.

Most murderers are "murders of passion", few are born homicidal maniacs, and the victim's family is given a chance to receive compensation, which is agreed upon by both parties and punished by the justice system if the victim's family does not agree. For aggravated crimes, there is a provision that a fixed-term imprisonment of at least a certain number of years must be served.

Isn't it unfair, some say? Is it equivalent to the privilege of the rich? Indeed it is. Rich people have privileges, don't you want to be rich? Isn't it a win-win opportunity to legally "blackmail" a rich person, and maybe you become a rich person? Again, there is a penalty benchmark for vicious crimes, and it is not possible to wash away a crime with money. Off-the-counter trading is not allowed.

What if you still feel unfair, I don't have any money and I don't want to be rich? Then you can reject the deal offered by the criminal, and the criminal will still be subject to the most severe judicial sanctions. This is true fairness, and if you are inclined to pure fairness, you can do it. If other victims are willing to settle, but you want to talk about it, you need to reflect on whether you have violated fairness and the rights of others.

The parties to the OTC transaction must hire a lawyer, sign the agreement, and the three parties will be present and keep the agreement in a safe deposit box at the bank. Of course, there is no such thing as a lawyer, and it is now called a "lawyer".

Not only can the judicial system be exempt from a large number of lawsuits, but it can also set stamp duty on such over-the-counter transactions, which is like a tariff, and can also make a little money.

This is a criminal proceeding, and below is a civil proceeding.

The so-called civil is basically a dispute related to finance. Downing, who had always had no confidence in the Qing judicial system, still decided to try to divest a large number of civil cases and submit them to who for arbitration? The answer is: trade associations (also called trade unions, chambers of commerce).

In places where industry and commerce are developed, there are spontaneously organized guilds, such as Guangzhou: there is a Shahe noodle union in the fried noodle industry; Pig slaughter includes the pig slaughtering professional union; clogs are made by the clogs industry professional union; Those who make Tang shoes have the Tang Shoes Professional Union; Those who sell coffins include the Shouban industry, professional unions, and so on. It's all-encompassing.

Guilds have their own legitimate income, so they are less willing to take bribes than bureaucrats. Capitalists are, of course, all evil, but bureaucrats who make corruption their profession are 10,000 times worse than capitalists. Civilians are not better? Commoners have power, they are 10,000 times worse than bureaucrats, and they have to earn back what the world owes him in the first half of their lives, so they are even more unreliable than Confucian-educated bureaucrats, and they are the same as the eunuchs of the Internal Affairs Bureau. All kinds of helplessness, it can also be said that the helplessness of this world, capitalists are the only choice for relative integrity.

When signing a civil contract, you can choose the trade association, if you are afraid of competitors in the same industry, you can also choose an industry association that has nothing to do with the industry or the future Daqing General Chamber of Commerce.

In the same way, the signing of a civil contract can also be stored in the safe deposit box of the household bank. Civil contracts are different from over-the-counter transactions for criminal offenses, there will be a large number of small contracts, and the security procedures required are also different, for this reason, the local bank of the household bank will build some special cabinets similar to supermarket depository, and the bank will arrange security and service personnel, these service personnel are equivalent to notaries, to ensure that a large number of civil contracts have legal effect, but also to lay a good foundation for a certain amount of contracts to pay stamp duty.

The so-called stamp duty is that the "notary public" stamps the contract with a seal, indicating that the professional has recognized the transaction and has legal protection. There are different tax rates depending on the type of transaction and the amount of money. In order to improve the living standards of the people, the necessities of survival should be taxed less, and the development of civilized and economically important industries should be less taxed, such as education, publishing and other industries. Residential buildings pay less tax, and commercial real estate pays more. But in principle, it is to set a low tax rate, so that ordinary people feel that stamping a stamp is to serve them, not to squeeze their oil and water, otherwise who would want to use your set. The poor do not have enough money to pay their taxes.

Marriage is also considered civil, and there are many legal disputes arising from this matter. The main thing is to collect the bride price, and it is much easier to do it with the notarization of the bride price. Of course, there is no matchmaker guild, and this matter can be done by the local gentry to form a marriage jury to adjudicate marriage disputes, and they will disseminate, encourage and arbitrate marriage disputes. Of course, this is also a low tax rate, and the bride price of ordinary people will not reach the tax amount. The wedding of the local tyrant level will be full of 5 out of 100. The ability of the New Deal to levy taxes is not small, there is no way, the court is poor.

The reform of the judicial system has become so advanced, and of course those old bad habits must be changed. The first thing to change is the interrogation system. In the past, there were too many cases of torture of civilians to extract confessions, and from now on, not only "doctors and doctors must not be killed in vain", but even ordinary people cannot be tortured. The principle of presumption of innocence is implemented, and the judicial system cannot treat people as prisoners when they are not sentenced, and their rights are guaranteed.

This set of reforms is basically the beginning of the gradual implementation of the jury system of the propertied people, and the future of the members of the Daqing Chamber of Commerce is senior arbitrators. These will be piloted in commercially developed cities such as Guangzhou and Shanghai, and after accumulating experience and talents, they will be promoted to the whole country and open the prelude to the judiciary.

It is foreseeable that in the future, there will be a wave of registration of members of the Chamber of Commerce, and everyone has ever wanted to be addicted to being a judge. There must also be regulations for the Chamber of Commerce, according to the amount of tax paid, and the small broken union of a few people should not want to be recognized by the imperial court.

Contrary to Qi Taiyu's expectations, the garden of the Humble Administrator's Garden is really someone who dares to bid, and finally he bought the Humble Administrator's Garden from Wu Jinde at a price of five thousand taels, and the two have become friends and often come and go, Wu Jinde is very diligent in coming to the Humble Administrator's Garden, and every time he is "at home", no way, he has lived here before.

When the Daqing News newspaper explained the judicial reform at length, Qi Taiyu patted the newspaper and said to Wu Jinde next to him: "Look! The merchant is angry, right? That's right, keep up with the world's advanced civilization, Emperor Shengming! Ha ha! ”

"The way forward is taxpayer governance...... It's really a big change......" Wu Jinde read one of the highlights, full of emotion.

Qi Taiyu sincerely admired the "emperor", and even the bride price money was taxed, how much tax would be added to this.

Now Wu Jinde knows that this foreign comprador has a lot of origins, and even knows the direction of the Qing Dynasty's legal system so clearly, he can't help but pat his ass.

Qi Taiyu triumphantly took out a stack of toys and said, "What is that, look at it, what is this." ”

Wu Jinde took a look, and it turned out to be a stack of very tough rectangular "pieces of paper", on which was written "Daqing Treasure Banknote". There are one, two, five, ten, and hundred, and one, two, and five, and one, and two, and one, and two, and five.

"Could it be ......" Wu Jinde was shocked in his heart.

Qi Taiyu: "Exactly! The unissued legal banknotes of the Great Qing Dynasty will soon appear throughout the Great Qing Dynasty, and my Taiyu Money Bank is one of the money banks that undertake the issuance. I'll just say one thing and you'll know its power: one dollar Qing treasure banknote can be exchanged for a silver coin or two at any time, and you don't have to pay fire with the treasure banknote to pay taxes! ”

Wu Jinde: "Awesome...... It's beautifully printed. ”

Qi Taiyu: "That's it, this is printed by the world's best bank, the Bank of Zurich, using special plastic materials, others can't even forge this kind of plastic, let alone the exquisite patterns and various hidden anti-counterfeiting agencies." Do you know about plastics? It is not afraid to rub it in the water, and it is more advanced than the paper money that is now popular in the UK. You can't tear it with your hands, at most you can pull it for a long time. ”

Wu Jinde: "Why are the shells printed on it?" ”

Qi Taiyu said: "What shell? Those are two kinds of snails that were used by two ancient primitive tribes to make money. One is called the Yellow Conch, and the other is called the Black Star Conch. Our boss...... Ahem, the owner of the Bank of Zurich likes the combination of art and practicality, and the Yellow Conch and the Black Star Conch are the most beautiful currencies that have ever appeared in the world, so the banknotes of the Qing Dynasty use them as symbols. ”

The points and corners of this Daqing treasure banknote are totemic yellow treasure snails, the yellow treasure snails of the horns look a little larger, this kind of treasure snail will fade after a few months after being used as currency, so the value is not as high as the black star treasure snail, which can still be brand new after several years.

The size of the treasure banknote is the same, and it can be folded into a mechanical chip identity card and the size of a bank card of the Daqing Household Department, which is convenient for the public to carry, and is more suitable for the manufacture of ATM identification systems in the future. （http:/／.）。 There are four colors for easy identification, of which green is one, two, and five cents for "ordinary", blue for one, two, and five corners for "rare", purple for one, two, five, and ten yuan, for "epic", and orange for one hundred yuan, for the top banknotes, for "legendary".

On the back of the treasure banknote are all kinds of things related to China, there are four major inventions, there are porcelain, tea, silk, when Wu Jinde saw that the only building was actually ...... When he was in the Humble Administrator's Garden, he was not good. I...... My garden was actually printed with Qing Dynasty treasure money? It is the mountain tower that Lord Wu is familiar with! Even the Old Summer Palace didn't have a treasure banknote! It's a pity it's not mine anymore...... Woooooo

Qi Taiyu was stunned, and said: "I just mentioned it to the painter, and he really came to shoot and paint, and it was adopted by the above, tsk, our garden will be famous in the future." It seems that it would be too selfish for me to live alone, no, I have to make everyone live. Don't, I'll make it a mansion, specializing in receiving Chinese and foreign VIPs, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, European aristocrats, the richest man in the United States or something, the Humble Administrator's Garden Mansion is about to open, haha! ”

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