86_86695 "The law embodies the will of the ruling class. What does that mean? This is to tell us that whoever speaks well will make rules, and this rule reflects whose ideas and protects whose interests. ”

"I've told everyone in the past that power comes out of the barrel of a gun. Everyone also understands that whoever has mastered the barrel of the gun will be able to speak well. So, from this point of view, we Revival will have the barrel of the gun, and our Revival will speak. The rules that we will make in Revival are the laws. ”

"We, the Revival Society, are for all the poor brothers and sisters in the world, for the working people, and for the happiness and interests of the people. We, the Revival Society, represent the interests of the people. Then, the rules and laws that we will make in the Reconstruction Society must reflect the ideas of the people! It is necessary to safeguard the interests of the masses of the people! ”

-- 1622, Wang Shuhui, "The Eyes of the People Are Bright"

Li Erniu came to Songzi County from Zhijiang County, and his original task was to establish a police system in Songzi County. Originally, because Songzi County's current work is focused on the construction of three projects. Therefore, the establishment of the police force in Songzi County has been very slow.

However, in this case, Shizun Wang Shuhui added another job to him: to work with several staff officers in the revival army to develop a set of trial systems.

In the Revival Society, this simple logic has always been implemented. The landlords took possession of a large amount of land. The people had no land and were exploited by the landlords. The Revival Society is an organization that serves the common people. Therefore, the Revival Society had to expropriate the landlords of their land and use it to feed the people.

Generally speaking, under this simple logic, the landlord is bound to die. The reason for this is really very simple. If you want to deprive the landlord of the land, it is impossible for the landlord to obediently accept your deprivation, and they will definitely resist. The result of the rebellion was naturally to be sent to the gallows.

The common people hated the landlords, and they always rejoiced and applauded the landlords when they were hanged. The Revival also knew that it was avenging the common people. But why kill the landlords, on this question, the opinion of the Revival Society is that the landlords occupy so much land, so damn it.

But Wang Shuhui now raises a question. The landlord deserves to die, but the landlord's crime should not be for taking possession of the land. It should be the process of their possession of the land that they committed crimes against the common people. That's why they deserve to die.

Wang Shuhui now not only asks for the revival association, but also to do things that are beneficial to the people. He also has to come up with a set of rules to tell the people that the revival will be their master and support them.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not without those well-known big Vs who plundered the people and shouted indiscriminately while defecting to the enemy and betraying the country. These people are everywhere in the Donglin Party and in all kinds of so-called clear streams. But there are no such people in the Revival organization.

In Li Erniu's view, Wang Shuhui's idea is a bit like taking off his pants and farting, and he is making trouble for himself. The deprivation of the landlord's land was to feed the common people. As long as the common people get real benefits, they are completely fine. This is for the people to decide.

As for the fact that the landlords must be convicted and killed, Li Erniu felt that it was completely unnecessary. The gun is in the hands of the Revival Society, so shouldn't it be that the Revival Society says that whoever deserves to die? What's so important about this thing?

As a cadre of the Revival Association who was born as a homeless person, it is difficult for Li Erniu to understand Wang Shuhui's thoughts. In Wang Shuhui's view, the greatest evil of the landlords is indeed that they occupy the land, the means of production, and exploit the working people in this way. However, as a modern person, Wang Shuhui knows very well that convicting the landlords with this article will cause a lot of trouble in the later generations.

Wang Shuhui is not afraid that he will leave an infamy in the future generations. Great men are scolded, and it is delusional to want not to be scolded. However, Wang Shuhui really didn't want to leave an unnecessary truth. Since so many people say that they lack the so-called legal spirit and are not fair enough, he wants to give the landlords a trial with the spirit of the law, so that they can enjoy the so-called "fairness."

Later generations have had many different evaluations of the first judgment in the history of the Revival. However, on the whole, most people believe that the Fuxing Society's trial of Wu Chaozong is relatively fair. In the Revival documents, the record of the trial is as follows.

Judge: Li Erniu (President of the Renaissance Society's Trial Court)

People's delegation: Wang San, Wei Gouzi, Sun Ermei, Zhou Shan, etc. (a total of 15 people, all of whom are workers in the county who have reached the age of 18.) See appendix for detailed names)

Defendants: Wu Chaozong, Wu Chaozu, Wu Xingfa, Wu Zhang, etc. (see appendix for detailed names)

Plaintiffs: Chen Li, Zhao Daniu, Wu Heizhu, Liu Erwa, etc. (see appendix for detailed names)

Defendant's agent: Qu Lizhi (former Wu Chaozong's account office, currently acquitted)

Plaintiff's agent: Cai Xingguo (staff officer of the Fuxing Army)

The trial that Wang Shuhui conducted was actually a relatively loose and casual trial. However, when Wang Shuhui designed the trial process, he formulated special guidelines. The first is that the will of the people must be reflected in the trial. The second is that the form of the trial must be fair. The third is that the trial must be public.

The participation of people's representatives in the trial has been in effect for more than two years in every base village under the control of the Fuxing Society. The choice of people's deputies is also very simple. All workers who have reached the age of 18 and have no bad records will be registered in the working group of each base village.

Whenever there is a dispute between the villagers, either the plaintiff and the defendant in person, or by an agent, they begin to extract five names from a box filled with the names of the people's representatives of the village. The members of the Working Group will also draw five names in the box. The 15 people drawn from the three parties then formed the people's delegation.

In the dispute mediation process, the plaintiff and the defendant argue the dispute on their own, or by their representatives.

After that, the judicial officer analyzes and explains the disputes to the people's delegation in accordance with the regulations established by the Renaissance Council. After that, the judicial officer will give a mediation result to the people's delegation for a vote.

Finally, the final decision is announced by the people's delegation.

Generally speaking, the influence of the people's delegation on civil disputes is very large. This is because the Renaissance Council has not yet formulated specific provisions for civil disputes among the people under its rule. So, basically, whether to compensate, how to compensate, and how much to compensate are all decided by the people's delegation.

As for criminal disputes, the influence of the people's delegation is relatively small. For criminal cases such as homicide, robbery, forcible assault, and fraud, one is that there are very few cases in the prosecution area of the Renaissance Society. On the other hand, there's not much to discuss. For those who have committed these sins are not under the jurisdiction of the local magistrates. These people are all run by the military.

At present, Wang Shuhui and the Fuxing Association do not have the energy to formulate criminal laws for the people under their rule. Therefore, only criminal offenses can be regulated.

Wang Shuhui aimed at the landlords and specially set up a people's court within the Revival Association. This people's court only tried the landlords, and did not involve anything else.

This time, the trial against Wu Chaozong, in Wang Shuhui's view, was not very successful. Because the trial was held in public. Therefore, after the first half of the trial, the second half appears to be rushed.

When the plaintiff's attorney made a statement, after hearing about the Wu family's blood debts one after another, and how the Wu family used usury and other means to harm the people, many things that the local people had never heard of at all were gradually revealed.

The local people did not need guidance at all, and spontaneously began to shout "Kill them!" Kill them! "That's it. In this environment, Wu Chaozong and the others, the only agent who was willing to stand up and defend them, was so frightened that they couldn't say a word. However, Wu Chaozong had some special expressions, and scolded some at the scene, "Thief bones, anti-thief, you must not die well!" Something like that.

Wu Chaozong's behavior not only did not win any applause, but angered the people at the scene. If it weren't for the presence of Renaissance Army soldiers around them (although they were also angry), Wu Chaozong's family and their main dogleg would not even have a chance to go to the gallows. It is quite possible that they will be torn to shreds on the spot by the enraged masses.

Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people at the scene, 15 people's deputies, who were also born as working people and hated Wu Chaozong's actions very much, put their fingerprints on the results of the trial. In this way, Wu Chaozong and others were hanged by the People's Court of the Fuxing Society on charges of murder, forcible strength, robbery, and illegal lending.

Wang Shuhui said to everyone at the subsequent meeting of the Revival Association: "We of the Revival Association not only pay attention to democratic centralism within ourselves, but also pay attention to democracy when dealing with the people. What does this democracy mean? It's not that we will make decisions for the people in our revival. Rather, the people, under the leadership and organization of the Renaissance Society, rose up and took charge of their own affairs. This is people's democracy. ”

"When the people are the masters of their own country, it is democracy. So how do we implement this democracy? This requires all the members of our revival church to not be afraid of trouble and cumbersomeness. We should not only let the people themselves rise up and be the masters of their own affairs in propaganda, but also implement and embody this people's democracy in the rules formulated by our Revival Society, in the laws formulated by our Revival Society, in the system of our Revival Society, and in every move of our Revival Society. ”

"All the actions of our Revival Society must rely on the people and mobilize the people in order to succeed in the end. Therefore, we must implement the concept of people's democracy well. ”

Since then, the concept of democracy as the ownership of the people has been established within the Renaissance Society