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The people and merchants below listened to it with relish, after all, this kind of civil complaint is rare in a hundred years, and now they have encountered it, regardless of the final outcome for the time being, this is the matter, as a participant, it is enough for them to show off, and no one thinks there is any problem with Li Wenxuan's words. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Justice, although he changed his name, isn't it still Lord Qingtian after all?

However, Yuan Shikai frowned fiercely, he still miscalculated, he forgot that it was the first year, the empire had just been established for less than a year, and most of the people, although they had accepted the new empire and new life, but some ideological problems, they were still subconsciously doing it in accordance with the rules of the previous dynasty.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shikai gently knocked on the small wooden hammer, and Li Wenxuan, who was just about to make a long speech, subconsciously stopped, slightly frightened and at a loss in his heart.

He had already been told the rule in the courtroom that once the chief justice had struck the wooden hammer, no matter what you were doing, whether you had finished your sentence or not, you had to stop, and then be quiet and wait for the justice's questioning.

"Plaintiff, watch your words!" As soon as he spoke, Yuan Shikai felt that he didn't seem to understand what Li Wenxuan said, forget it, let's make an exception, after all, this is a mistake in the work of the court, and then, Yuan Shikai continued: "Now it's a new country, a new society, don't use the old society here, in the court, you can only call me justice, and you can't call me any other name, this is respect for the law, respect for the people, respect for the country." ”

"Good...... Understood, Justice! Listening to Yuan Shikai's words, Li Wenxuan breathed a sigh of relief, but he really didn't dare to guarantee that if Yuan Shikai came up twice, would his little liver be able to withstand it? Justice? Although it was written on that sign, Li Wenxuan still felt very awkward, hey, whatever, he can be shouted as many times as people tell him, anyway, it's just a title.

"Justice, there are three reasons for Xiaomin to sue the imperial government, one is that the small people in other places do not know, but Liaocheng, where the small people are, since the imperial government decided to apportion the Gengzi indemnity to the people, the people of Liaocheng will pay the indemnity on time according to the regulations of the government, although the imperial government has given a way to pay in installments, but the small people are still strictly in accordance with the requirements of the government to pay, in recent years, the small people have paid a total of three taels of silver, and other people are not too much.

Second, the imperial government announced that it would not pay indemnities to foreigners when it was founded, and the foreigners seemed to have acquiesced in this move, but the imperial government did not give an explanation internally, is the money we paid considered to be handed over to the national treasury?

Third, this is not in line with the edict of "Amnesty for the World" issued by His Majesty the Emperor on the day of his accession to the throne, and the small people feel that the imperial government is completely working against His Majesty the Emperor, otherwise, why would His Majesty the Emperor have already issued the edict, but the imperial government still does not give any explanation? ”

'Buzz ......'

Because there is a microphone placed in front of Li Wenxuan, although he listens to it, the people and merchants on the periphery can still hear Li Wenxuan's reasons clearly.

"This Li Xiucai is inevitably too bold, right?"

"Yes, although the imperial government is magnanimous, this Li Xiucai dares to say anything."

"Hey, who doesn't know that when the empire was first built, there were places everywhere to use money? The empire has done so much for the people, will it really take this money in its eyes? I think the empire must have spent the money on other things, plus there were almost no taxes, and it had to maintain a huge government and army, so there was no way to return this indemnity. ”

"Yes, anyway, although the previous days were a little harder, didn't this also get through? Now as long as they are willing to work hard, who will starve to death? There is no shortage of this money, so why do you have to embarrass the country? ”

"No, how did Li Xiucai's three taels of silver be paid? I remember that one of us here seems to be half a tael of silver, Li Xiucai died of his wife before, and he is the only one in the family, how can he pay three taels of silver? A citizen wondered, anyway, no matter how he calculated, according to Li Xiucai, the three taels of silver were not enough.

"What? You're only half a tael of silver per person? A businessman next to him instantly felt a pain in his flesh when he heard this.

"Okay, the rich man of Song, the empire is treated differently, those who have money pay a little more, those who don't have money pay a little less, so everyone can live, right? Although we businessmen did pay a little more, it didn't hurt the bones, don't you know what happened here in Zhongjing before? If they were to pay a tael of silver alone, how many people do you think they would have to starve to death? The other businessman didn't react much.

The empire also had different levels of merchants for merchants, with the highest paying ten taels per person, then descending in turn, and the lowest paying three taels.

Because the rich man of Song did a good job, there were dozens of shops in his family, and the annual turnover was millions of taels of silver, so the empire set him ten taels of silver per person, and the rich man of Song had more than 20 people of all ages, and according to this standard, he paid more than 200 taels of silver.

Although it couldn't hurt the bones, it also made the rich man Song feel a lot of pain, which was equivalent to his family paying more than 400 people here in Zhongjing.

Treat them differently, they all know this, but the lowest is also three people and two taels of silver, this is what they know so far.

Listening to the discussion below, Yuan Shikai hurriedly rang the wooden hammer and signaled to be quiet, with the help of the military police, the scene was under control, and those military policemen stood next to them and did not leave, which made them hold back in their hearts if they had anything to say, and did not dare to say it.

Immediately afterwards, Li Wenxuan took out the evidence he had carefully prepared, and it could be seen that Li Wenxuan had indeed worked hard, and he collected an announcement that the empire had published an announcement that the empire had decided to stop paying Gengzi indemnities to the foreign powers, and the issuing party was the Imperial Chancellery, which was equivalent to an official announcement, so it had legal effect and could be used as evidence.

Moreover, the newspaper also has archives, and this evidence can be easily verified, besides, everyone knows about it, but no one cares.

The second piece of evidence is the receipt of Li Xiucai's payment of compensation, which was issued by the Liaocheng government and has a seal and money on it.

Li Xiucai had some money in his hand at the time, so he didn't choose to pay in installments, but paid all the indemnities in one go, and Li Xiucai was in Liaocheng County, and the economic conditions were better than those in the countryside, so the standard there was 1.5 taels of silver per person, and Li Xiucai's wife had not died at that time, so he had to pay the fees for two people.

Of course, if it weren't for Li Xiucai's inability to access those confidential matters, he wouldn't have known how much money the imperial government had received and not handed over to the foreign powers, and now Li Xiucai would definitely sue the imperial government on behalf of the people of the whole country.

All the evidence was presented to Justice Yuan Shikai, in fact, Yuan Shikai had already seen these evidences, and because of the special nature of this case, Yuan Shikai privately decided to supplement the evidence for Li Xiucai, although it was unreasonable, but it also avoided that after Li Xiucai, everyone came to sue the imperial government, in that case, he would not play with the court, and try this kind of case every day.

Therefore, in his capacity as a justice of the Supreme Court, Yuan Shikai checked the bank's handover records and learned the amount of funds in the compensation account that had not yet been handed over.

"The evidence submitted by the plaintiff was authentic and valid, and at the same time, the court had done a great deal of investigation in the early stage, and learned that there were still 31 million taels of silver in the reparation account of the Imperial Government in the Imperial Bank that had not yet been handed over to the foreign powers, and that after the establishment of the Empire, no money had been received into the account. Defendant, do you have any objections? Yuan Shikai looked at the defendant.

The secretary of the Prime Minister's Office stood up a little helplessly, in fact, he already knew the result before he came, but there was no way, the law gave the Supreme Court this right, so the imperial government had to come forward to deal with it.

"There is no objection, but there is one point that we need to be clear, in fact, as early as the establishment of the imperial government, there were internal considerations for refunding this money to the people, but because the amount of early collection is different, the payment method is different, so it has caused great difficulty to the return work, and in addition to the beginning of the empire, the imperial government needs to do too many things, and there are not enough people, so this matter can only be temporarily suppressed, and it is planned to wait for the stability to discuss how to return the funds."

The defendant lawyer on the side was also a little stunned for a while after hearing the secretary's answer, although he knew that it would be very difficult for the imperial government to win the case this time, but as a lawyer, he must find a way to win, but the secretary directly admitted it, which made it a little difficult for him as a lawyer for a while.

Of course, this can bring a lot of prestige to the government, but it is not in the status of a lawyer, if you think about losing the case from the beginning, then what are you going to hire a lawyer? Shame on you?

"Your Excellency, I have something to add." The lawyer hurriedly stood up and spoke, and after obtaining Yuan Shikai's consent, he continued: "Although the money comes from the common people, the use of this money is obvious, and although the empire refuses to pay the remaining indemnity, before collecting these indemnities, his purpose is clear, and the law does not stipulate that this indemnity must be returned to the people immediately, or within a time limit."

Of course, the empire will certainly not let the people suffer, but the huge fiscal deficit that the empire is facing at present is far from what we ordinary people can understand, take the just-concluded Korean War as an example, the imperial government gave the Japanese a military expenditure of 100 million, of course, there is some water in it, but at least about 70 million or 80 million. Just this war, which lasted less than half a month, cost the empire a theoretical year's income, and in this case, it is understandable that the empire chose to hold off on the refund or not choose not to refund it. ”

'Shame on this guy!' Listening to the remarks of the defendant's lawyer, the people below cursed in their hearts.

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