Li Hongzhang's southward movement is still inseparable from Yang Feng's help, his two towns want to go to Guangzhou naturally have to take the sea route, no one can have more advantages than Yang Feng in this regard, six landing ships go north without considering the problem of landing after loading, it is more than enough to load 2,000 people, eighteen knots of speed is even faster than the four cruisers, and the two towns can be transported to Guangzhou in half a month.

In fact, Yang Fengzheng felt that the number of landing ships was too small, and the second batch of ten ships was already under construction in Britain and Sweden, and when this batch of landing ships joined, he would have the ability to carry one division at a time to seize the beach, and as for the port landing, two divisions could be guaranteed. This kind of landing ship is attracting the unanimous attention of European countries, but because of the cost problem, only Britain and Germany have placed orders for six ships each, of which the British one is built at Armstrong, the German one is built at Sweden's Young's shipyard, and the remaining four are built at the Volken shipyard.

Yang Feng doesn't need to care about this trivial matter of transporting troops, he has been very busy recently, anyway, he is already Dong Zhuo in the world, so naturally he has to go on this great road without hesitation, because he has pretended to be a judge twice in a row, so he has no interest in this work, he wants to establish a modern judicial system in Fujian, Zhejiang and Taiwan provinces, courts, procuratorates, police, and even armed police, of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, only a court and a police station are needed, and the rest will be talked about later.

"This can be regarded as liberating local officials from heavy burdens, to be honest, the work of local officials in our Qing Dynasty is too heavy now, and a county order has to be grasped in every detail, which is very unreasonable, from now on, these things will not need to be taken care of, and they will be handed over to the special judicial system to be responsible." This thing said with a face that was thinking about those magistrates.

"Nima, where else is Lao Tzu going to make money?" The few remaining prefects and counties who were summoned by him to the meeting couldn't help but curse secretly, without this money, their income plummeted by more than seventy percent, and they secretly decided to run away when they went back, and they must no longer have any illusions about this chaotic minister and thief.

Even the agents elected by those places were not very optimistic about Yang Feng's plans. This is because this will inevitably increase a large number of non-staff personnel, which will be a heavy burden on local finances, and they will have to consider this problem in their own towns.

"You don't need to worry about this kind of thing, the court funds are in charge of the governor's yamen, including the appointment of these people will also be directly appointed by the governor's yamen, as for the police station, which is reorganized by the original yamen officer, the police chief is appointed by the local officials, but it must be explained that the crimes of the local officials are also the responsibility of the court. In view of the fact that we Chinese are generally not familiar with these things, I will hire a group of professionals from abroad to act as judges everywhere. Yang Feng said. He is also helpless about this, and it is simply impossible to find a familiar person in China at this time who is familiar with the operation of the modern judicial system.

"Then what about the judge you appointed!" A prefect couldn't help but say sarcastically, anyway, he was about to run away, so he naturally didn't care about angering Yang Feng, in fact, these officials had already found that as long as they were reasonable, even if you spit on Yang Feng's face, he would not pull down and hit the board, but they also automatically classified this behavior as Wang Mang's humility and not usurpation.

"Quite simply, every trial in the court had to be overseen by a jury made up of local gentry and celebrities, and all proceedings were open to the common people. Those who have an opinion on the verdict can appeal to a higher court, up to the Supreme Court under the Governor's Yamen, and if they want to bribe judges, they have to be bribed from level to level, and from judges to jurors, they may need to bribe hundreds of people. So I think the cost is overestimated.

There is also a lawsuit that costs money, and it does not need to be paid before the trial, but after the judgment is over, the loser is responsible, and the loser must also compensate the winner for the economic losses caused by the lawsuit with him.

And for judges and jurors who take bribes. The Supervisory Yuan, which is subordinate to the Governor's Yamen, will be responsible for investigating and dealing with the case, and will be convicted according to the amount of bribes, including the death penalty. Yang Feng said.

"Since my lord hires foreigners. I'm afraid there is no right to dispose of it, right?" A county official said with a sneer.

"This is very easy to solve, all the people I hire will sign commercial contracts, if they are found to have committed crimes, believe me, I will punish them for worse than death, and they are just a transition, I am building a law school, and in the future, our own judges will gradually replace foreigners, this process is estimated to take no more than two years." In fact, Yang Feng said, he did not worry about the crime of inviting foreigners, and that the introduction of a modern judicial system in China was the unanimous goal of the great powers, and it is conceivable that the people who accepted his employment were all there to advertise and sign, and they would not do anything to smash their own façade, and besides, he could not hire from a country.

"So how do you determine the jurors?" An elected acting magistrate asked, it seems that this has been tempted, and began to consider the specific details, in fact, the reason why these people came out like this, to a large extent, does have the desire to benefit Sangzi, those wolf-like magistrates scraping the ground are not only hated by the people at the bottom, but also hated by the local gentry, and judging from Yang Feng's measures, he is obviously to avoid this situation, which is naturally very welcome.

"This is selected by the locality, and then handed over to the governor's yamen to send a special person to review and determine, but there are some restrictions, first of all, you must be a local, second, you must be literate, and third, there must be a certain property limit, of course, this set of things will be explained to you by someone else." Yang Feng said that he didn't have the time to give these people a judicial popularization class, so he could find a lawyer to be in charge.

Just when he was studying how to establish a court, the counterinsurgency army led by Li Yuncong had already arrived in Changting, although he was harassed by several small groups along the way, but basically it can be said that it was an easy march, only two soldiers were injured by the ambushers with guns, but the distance was nothing more than a few iron sand on their bodies, and even their combat effectiveness was not affected.

It's not that Dezhi's Yang army is poorly equipped, in fact, he has more than 3,000 Mauser fast guns in his hands, and even four Grusen 57 fast guns, but unfortunately it is not easy to expect his rabble to hit the target with these weapons, but it is better to carry the gun with iron sand.

Changting as Tingzhou Prefecture plus is also a thousand-year-old city, the defense is still very considerable, the ancient city wall built by the Ting River stands majestically, the moss-scarred green bricks carry the vicissitudes of the years, the mountains behind are lush and green, the blue sky and clear water are suddenly the world's victories.

"Go, tell the people in the city to hurry up and surrender, such a good scenery will be destroyed with a cannon bombardment." Li Yuncong, who was recently learning from Governor Yang to move closer to Shiren, looked at this beautiful ancient city with emotion, and then said to a local official caught on the road beside him, behind him, hundreds of cannons were lined up, the black hole was aimed at the city wall, the flags on the city wall were displayed, and tens of thousands of defenders stood upright one by one, with rifles, bows and arrows, broadswords and spears in their hands also looked majestic.

It's a pity that Lord De turned a deaf ear to Li Yuncong's threat, this banner man who was born as a jinshi, was learning the style of the Confucian general, sitting on the rattan chair at the head of the city with the four books of the book, and behind him the rebel general De's big army hunted in the wind, and the generals on both sides carried their waist knives and chests like roosters, and even some people put on armor, and the red tassels on their hats were like a turkey, but the soldiers standing behind the female wall were trembling with their legs one by one, which Lord De didn't see.

"Hmph, you go back and tell the traitor that if you want to fight, what are you doing with so many words? This official is on the iron-beaten Tingzhou City, waiting for him to come and die!" Lord De said with pride, he is really confident, Tingzhou City is impregnable, he has gathered more than 10,000 righteous troops during this time, plus there is enough food in the city, it is impossible to defeat the other party's more than 10,000 people.

"My lord, they have more than a hundred cannons, and the muzzles of those cannons are as thick as people's heads, and this battle can't be fought!" The envoy who persuaded him to surrender was a local, and he had seen Li Yuncong's strength very clearly, and he really couldn't bear to let his hometown be destroyed by the war.

"Bold, you are also full of poetry and books, don't you know that the world is always just the word obedient and disobedient, the victory or defeat of the war is not in virtue, I wait for the saint to look up to the heavens, and the people of Li support it, there are both strong city weapons, and there are saints to protect them, why not be afraid of this rebel!" Lord De waved the Analects in his hand and howled as excitedly as a mustache, and the surrounding generals immediately became excited, as if they saw the scene when they knelt on the Jinluan Hall in a yellow coat and were sealed.

The envoy was stupid, he really didn't understand how Lord De could use the Four Books in his hand to resist the cannon.

After boosting the morale, De Daren waved his hand with satisfaction, signaled the generals not to be too excited, and then told the envoy in a righteous and awe-inspiring manner: "This official Nianer and others are also helpless, so they do not pursue the crime of being a thief, and quickly go out of the city to tell the leader of the rebel army. Don't you see the long hair, if you have to repent at this time, the precipice reined in, this Lord has the virtue of a good life, and he will definitely play the Ming Holy to protect his immortality, if he can atone for his sins, follow this Lord to recover Fuzhou, and capture Yang Shun, then the wife and shadow will be just around the corner, otherwise Tianwei will arrive, and it will be too late to regret when the door is copied! ”

His words almost made Li Yuncong laugh, Nima, Lao Tzu even beat the emperor, and he didn't see where you were Tianwei, but he suddenly found that he could play foolish, although Tingzhou City would open after a while, but after all, it was a waste of time, and the collateral casualties to the people were relatively large, so it was best to blow him up directly at once, thinking of this, he turned his gaze to the messenger with a smile. (To be continued......)