Aoshanwei outside the acropolis of Dengzhou Town, Jiaozhou Thirteen Fort, Liu Minyou and Mo Huaiwen sat in the official office of the civil officer of Jimo, the official room area here is quite large, when the fort was built here, Chen Xin had just entered Dengzhou Town from the Wendeng camp, in order to suppress the Dengzhou Rebellion and recover the power of southern Liaoning, and the Jimo battalion garrison was also a person in Dengzhou Town, so the palm print of Aoshanwei was very honest, Yang Yunnong honestly handed over the military field as soon as he threatened, and also agreed to Dengzhou Town to recruit soldiers in the military households, Tang Wei went at that time. Love to see the flowers

After the Jimo battalion was replaced by the Dengzhou soldiers, the surrounding bandits were quickly cleared, although Jimo was near the sea, but it was in the interior of Laizhou, and it was not a traffic artery, so the fort did not build a fort wall. After the civil system of Dengzhou Town set up civil officials in the local area, Mo Huaiwen also set up a second-level civil official in the area of Jimo Camp, who was in charge of civil affairs near Jimo Camp, which was equivalent to the magistrate of the imperial court.

The Thirteen Fort is located at the hub of several nearby Tun Forts, where the civil officials of Jimo are located, and the Thirteen Forts also have the function of a reserve meeting and a tunhu assembly, so the official office and the square are built larger.

At this time, there were already a lot of tun households waiting in the courtyard of the official house, each of them was discussing in a circle, and there was a noise everywhere, and it was said that it was a public judgment, and the tun households could come to listen, but the hall inside was not big, and only a hundred people could enter, and those who arrived later could not enter, so people who wanted to see the excitement ran to the courtyard in advance to occupy a quota.

At this time, the spring ploughing has been busy, there are a few vegetables in the field, there is not much farm work, and there is no road repair work nearby, so there are many tun households who come. Dengzhou Town Tunpu is strictly forbidden to open a casino, although prostitution is not forbidden, but it is difficult to operate in a small simple community like Tunpu, Tunpu residents usually say that entertainment is mainly to watch plays, today there are free big plays to watch, naturally to join in the fun.

The civil officer of the Jimo camp is called Tan Shansheng, who was born in a military household in Weihai, has read an early literacy class, and belongs to a relatively early civil system official, Chongzhen has worked under Liu Minyou for three years, and now this judgment is the first time in Dengzhou, Liu Minyou came to listen again, and Mo Huaiwen also came, and the two important superiors were here, Tan Shansheng was quite apprehensive.

"Lord Liu, Lord Mo, this is the process of selecting jurors at that time, after receiving the letter from Lord Liu, the lower officials did not dare to slack off, and participated in the supervision of the selection throughout the whole process, drawing lots from the other four tunpu, four people from each tunpu, each tunpu from the cardboard box, and four Aoshan Wei people who actually belong to the tunpu system, a total of twenty people, are waiting for selection in the warehouse. The list was kept by only one official, sealed with fire paint and locked in a cabinet, and two adults could designate nine of them. ”

After Tan Shansheng finished speaking, he handed over a roster, Liu Minyou took it and looked at it, the list has each person's tun number, source, sideline business and cultural Cheng dù, Liu Minyou looked at it carefully for a while, took a brush and crossed out one of the old students and a tun chief, and then handed it back to Tan Shansheng, "There are nine people in the remaining list." ”

Tan Shansheng took it respectfully, "My subordinates will go and inform these nine people to enter, will the other eleven send them back?" ”

Liu Minyou waved his hand and said, "Let them wait, in case any of these nine people know the plaintiff and the defendant, they need to be re-selected." ”

Tan Shansheng quickly went out, and Mo Huaiwen whispered to Liu Minyou beside him: "My lord, this, whether this method is more labor-intensive, Tan Shansheng has been doing it for half a month before he basically finishes this matter." ”

"The first time it was a little more troublesome, but then it's not a matter for civil officials." Liu Minyou took a sip of tea and said softly, "The civil officer is still in charge of the previous affairs, and the matter of judging the case will be handled by a special person, and a special agency will naturally be set up after the pilot is completed." ”

When Mo Huaiwen heard that it was to cancel the civil officer's function of adjudicating cases, he couldn't help but be a little stunned. In his understanding, the civil official is the magistrate of the county and the governor of the imperial court, although there is a sentence above, but at the county level, the magistrate can judge the case, and generally speaking, it can be regarded as handling the case according to the law, mainly based on the "Daming Law", "Daming Huidian" and "Punishment Regulations".

The canon is mainly aimed at officials and the army, and the county level uses the "Da Ming Law" and the "Punishment Regulations", because Zhu Yuanzhang stipulates that the "Da Ming Law" cannot be changed, but the "Da Ming Law" is difficult to adapt to the social development of the Ming Dynasty, so the Wanli Emperor compromised and came up with a "Punishment Regulations", which was attached to the Da Ming Law as the basis for judging the case.

These two things are quite large and complicated, and the magistrates of the imperial court are born as scholars, and when they want to use them, they will turn them over, or they will be found by familiar officials. The ordinary tun chief of Dengzhou Town could not read it at all, so the previous settlement of Tunpu disputes was more similar to the clan method, where the tun chief replaced the role of the patriarch and relied on administrative power or personal prestige.

These two laws are set up in accordance with the social system of the Ming Dynasty, different classes and identities have different judgments, which is a reason why Liu Min is reluctant to use it, Dengzhou Town has a power system, if the laws are copied, the final result is to become a new Ming law with power as a class.

On the other hand, Dengzhou Tunpu is under the guise of self-protection of the guard and the local gentry, and if the new laws and regulations are used on a large scale to judge the case, it will violate the taboo of the imperial court, so Liu Min has thought about it, and only uses the common law system to exploit loopholes, which is also an important reason why he did this pilot.

bsp; Liu Minyou glanced at Mo Huaiwen's surprised face, the judiciary must be separated from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but now looking at Mo Huaiwen's face, he knows that the group of civil officials will definitely have some resistance, interests and power are one aspect, and the other is that once this power is stripped away, it means that the civil officials themselves may also be subject to judicial constraints, so it is not surprising that Mo Huaiwen has this expression. At this time, the Dengzhou system is not huge, and if it is changed later, I am afraid that the resistance will be even greater.

"Huaiwen, it is absolutely impossible to decide a case in Tunpu, if it is handed over to a second-level civil official, there may be many Tunpu under the jurisdiction of this civil official, then he doesn't have to do anything else, and every case can be decided. The magistrates of the imperial court seem to be in charge together, but in fact they are not managed, and the disputes in the countryside are mostly decided by the gentry and the patriarch, which is equivalent to letting it go, it is not possible in our Dengzhou Town, so there must be a separate judicial officer, and the judicial officer I brought this time is from the Dengzhou Civil Department, and it is also for him to experience. ”

Mo Huaiwen saw that Liu Minyou had a resolute attitude, so he bowed slightly, and didn't say anything more, Liu Minyou also closed his eyes and waited for the court to begin.

The door creaked, and Liu Minyou closed his eyes and asked, "Is the court open?" ”

A voice rang out, "Not yet." ”

Mo Huaiwen hurriedly stood up, Liu Minyou turned his head to look, Chen Xin stood at the door with a smile, and said to Mo Huaiwen: "The official has just arrived, and there are a lot of households outside, and the scene is a little chaotic." ”

Mo Huaiwen immediately understood: "Xiaguan will go and take a look immediately." Then he hurried out and took the door leaf with him.

Chen Xin sat on Mo Huaiwen's chair at this time, and Liu Minyou looked at him and smiled: "Your spring offensive is over?" ”

"It's over, but the momentum of the Liukou is very huge, in the past, Lao Tzu thought that they could destroy the original system, but now the more I think about it, the more wrong it is, they have destroyed all the qiē, so I came to sum it up with you." ……

Liu Minyou raised a hand and said lightly: "According to the report of Qianzhuang last month, the Wuchang branch received one million and twenty thousand taels of silver that month, and half of the silver tickets were due, and most of the tickets flowed to Nanzhili, and there were about two percent of them to Jinan Mansion. The Wuchang branch was established not long ago, but the intelligence bureau did a very good job, the news spread quickly, and many locals knew that it was run by Dengzhou Town, and most of them were willing to save here by virtue of our military credit. After Zhu Daichun's department arrived at the periphery of Wuchang, the business of Qianzhuang has been very good, but he didn't expect to be able to deposit more than one million dollars in a month. ”

Chen Xin said in surprise: "Is it related to Liukou?" ”

"It should be that the news that the Liukou left Shaanxi that month should have been received, and the rich people in Huguang were worried that they would come to Huguang again, so they deposited a lot of silver. In March, the Liukou broke Fengyang, and all parts of Nanzhili were terrified, and the money in Yangzhou, Xuzhou, and Jining Prefecture also increased sharply, and the flow of tickets was Linqing Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture, but there were not many people who went directly to Dengzhou. According to inquiries from trading companies and bankers, the amount of money deposited in other banks is also increasing, but it is far less than we do. ”

When Liu Min talked about silver, he was afraid of less before, but now that it suddenly increased, he still frowned, and Chen Xin looked the same, he touched his chin and said: "All the money flows to one place, but the goods do not increase, so the price will skyrocket." ”

"Not for the time being, the use of the ticket is a large family, they have less money and more money, saving money from all over the world is counting on our Dengzhou Town can protect Shandong, after all, Denglai Qingsanfu has always been a remote and poor place, Jinan Mansion is prosperous, one step away from Qingzhou, so the most flow is Jinan. These people are small and will not directly cause the rise in essential consumer goods, but the land and houses related to home ownership will rise sharply, because most of these people will still buy land. Their surplus silver taels may still eat interest, and the circulation surname is not strong, but the price will definitely rise in the long run. ”

Chen Xin waved his hand and said: "I'm talking about the entire canal, the grain in the south of the Yangtze River depends on Huguang and Jiangxi, and the Liukou went to Huguang for a trip, although Chen Qiyu quickly drove them into the direction of Sichuan and Hanzhong, but it has destroyed many places, and the grain will begin to decline this year." That's the real food shortage, not something we fry, which is really not a good thing for us. There is a lot of money in the money village, we can't just pay interest, money wants to make money, we have to expand production and increase profits, the question now is what kind of Cheng dù can be destroyed by the Liukou, if the entire northern erosion population withers, Huguang grain harvest is gone, then the population can not survive, and the goods will have nowhere to sell. ”

"I'm also worried about this problem, the Liukou used to toss, just destroy a place, if it really breaks everywhere, it will cut off our commercial interests, there are too many cash crops in Jiangnan, cotton cloth will take time to completely defeat Jiangnan cloth, those fields will not be lightly replanted with food, at least two or three years later, Jiangnan is too dependent on commerce, food is not much of the fundamental thing, food is not enough to talk about consumption, in addition, the movement of Liukou will also affect the economy of Jiangnan, when our goods are sold to whom, in the end not only cotton, I'm afraid that even cigarette sales will decline. ”

"Now it is not only Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other big stocks, but thieves and bandits from all over the country have swarmed, they have wiped out the population and the market, cut off the trade routes, and affected our business system. So the rogues are already our great enemy. Chen Xin covered his face, "But I really can't spare my hands, the main force is still there, and it will probably take two or three years of continuous blows, I'm worried that the rogue will not."

will give us this time, look at their current momentum, it is not enough to destroy the five provinces, sooner or later we will have to enter Sichuan and Jiangxi, and then the land will be a wasteland, and we will have to spend more effort to stabilize the dìng shape shì if we really take over, and the difficulty will be greatly increased. ”

Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "Thinking about it is also a headache, your original plan was to use business and money to divide the gentry class, and use military power to deter **, so that there can be less bloodshed, but it is a long time, but now the rogue may not give us this time." ”

"There's one more person who probably won't give it either." Chen Xin took out a piece of letter paper from his pocket and handed it to Liu Minyou, Liu Minyou looked up for a moment, it was a top secret level, and after looking down at the contents, he looked up and asked Chen Xin: "I want to recruit you into the Beijing Division, what does the emperor mean by this?" ”

"Maybe it's a temptation, or maybe it's a trap." Chen Xin couldn't help but stand up and take two steps, "The emperor and the imperial court occupy the Taoist system, on the bright side, I am still an official of the imperial court, I will give me a young guarantee for a while, and a young master for a while, I have to accept it if I don't like it, and now let me go to Beijing to offer victory, which is also high-sounding." ”

"What kind of conspiracy will there be? The emperor dares to kill you? ”

Chen Xin smiled and said: "Although the emperor is young and impulsive, he is not so inferior, you don't need to kill me to deal with me, there are many other options." can give me a knighthood or something, let me stay in Beijing as a Beijing camp and serve as a politician; or thrown to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies as an idle post, usually under house arrest, but said that it was preferential treatment to the outside world; or half-intercept and kill, blame others, and so on, and then slowly divide Dengzhou Town. ”

"Maybe I will marry a princess to you, according to the court system, you can't be an official like a concubine, and others will think it's a preferential treatment."

Chen Xin laughed and said, "That's a bit of compensation." ”

Liu Minyou also laughed for a while, and after laughing and waiting for a while, he said: "I don't think you should go, what you get from going to Beijing is just a morality, it seems that you are not worthy of the court, plus the intention of stabilizing the emperor and the court." But last time, I also watched the intelligence bureau's analysis of the emperor's surname, and what I decided was quite paranoid, and even if you went, you couldn't dispel his vigilance. But in case the imperial court really deals with you, the loss of our Dengzhou Town will be far greater than this gain, and the possible surname of the disintegration is not that there is no zài, which is not taken by the wise. ”

Chen Xin nodded, "Morality is just the icing on the cake, it is for literati and officials, and whoever looks at that thing and can give them a good name is morality." Even if it's like Zu Dashou, it's only the officialdom who knows his details, and the people of the world know whether he is moral or not, so strength is fundamental, and I won't go to Jingshi. ”

Liu Minyou sighed and continued: "Anyway, you have a way to find an excuse not to go to Jingshi, just don't tear your face on the surface, as long as the reason is just, others will not say that you have lost your morality." But this is just a pass, what I'm worried about now is still the chaos in the world, the rogue is now stirring up the situation badly, we should have a way to break the game, if it is allowed to erode, I really don't know how to clean up this mess in the future. ”

Chen Xin returned to his seat and sat down, leaned back in his chair and pondered for a while and said softly: "Now the one who has the most power to restrain me is still the Houjin in Liaodong, and if the Houjin is not destroyed, it will be difficult to destroy the Liukou, it seems that I am going to settle with Huang Taiji early." ”

At this time, Mo Huaiwen's voice came from outside the door, "Two adults, the court is open." ”

Chen Xin patted his forehead and stood up and said, "Let's go, let's see the excitement." ”

Liu Minyou stopped him and said, "You change your clothes first, let's pretend to be a tunhu and go in." (To be continued.) )