Section 24 Questions and Answers
When Huang Shi came in, he still had a thick dozen documents in his hand, he spread out the documents and put them on the podium, and continued in his mouth: "Shinong businessmen, businessmen and businessmen have always been the lowest people, untouchables, and rich untouchables are pigs and sheep to be slaughtered. Under the pretext, Huang's subordinates have also found a good one for Huang. β
Lowering his head, Huang Shi began to read the name on the document: "Liu Chang, the chairman of the Fujian Council, fornicated with the Shun army, and sent someone to donate 100,000 taels of silver to King Wu of Dashun......"
"Guogong, you are wronged." Boss Liu yelled behind his back.
Huang Shi ignored Boss Liu's cry and continued to read, and soon Zhu Jiu's name also appeared: "...... Zhu Jiu, fornicating with the Shun Army......"
"Duke Qi, the villain is loyal to Duke Qi, and I hope that Duke Qi will be clear."
Zhu Jiu didn't wait for Huang Shi to read out the accusations he had fabricated, he bounced up from his seat and shouted loudly towards the podium.
At this time, the voices of people in the hall began to boil, and many people guessed that today was mostly a Hongmen banquet, and their eyes were flexible and began to look around, looking for the shadow of the Funing soldiers at the door in horror.
"President Liu." Huang Shi looked back at Boss Liu, who was looking at him with a worried face, beads of sweat the size of beans rolling down his face.
"President Liu, please use the Shocking Wood." Huang Shi saw that the other party did not react, and raised his voice slightly to remind.
"The villain obeys." President Liu once again performed his duties and suppressed the shouts of injustice in the venue with a heavy startling sound.
After inviting Boss Liu to sit down for the third time, Huang Shi lowered his head again and thought that almost every businessman present was on the list, and the rankings were basically arranged according to their wealth: "...... Cai Yunnan, selling weapons privately...... Lu Yufan, smuggling arms to the Shun army......"
When reading the long list and their respective charges, Huang Shi raised his head, and at this time the hall was silent, and all the eyes cast over were full of horror and fear: "Someone persuaded me to carry out the plan of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, under the pretext of the matter of the Duke of Jin, pretending to be an act of persuasion and donation, and coaxing the monarchs to come to Quanzhou to kill them all, and then quickly send a horse to quell the rebellious party, and confiscate the wealth of the monarchs to fill the army." β
Chairman Liu had collapsed in his seat, and the startling wood had slipped feebly from his trembling hands, and he could no longer perform his duties, but fortunately the dead silence in the hall was no longer necessary for him to maintain order.
"I know that the king of Shun Wu issued a letter in Hangzhou, informing the merchants of Fujian and Guangdong, swearing that after entering Fujian and Guangdong, he will not commit any crimes, and the regulations I have built will be pursued as usual, and the king of Shun and the king of Shun Wu have always promised to do so, if I am a businessman, most of them will be moved by the words." Huang Shi raised the document in his hand: "I don't know how much of this is true and how much is false, it is impossible to be true, but it is also deceptive to be all false." β
Glancing back at Boss Liu, Huang Shi said loudly: "Boss Liu, I know him very well, I don't believe he will betray me." β
"The prince of the country sees it clearly." Boss Liu immediately regained his vitality, and as soon as the horror disappeared, his mind immediately became flexible, and he immediately scolded himself for being stupid in his heart: "If the prince doubts me, how can he let me sit in this position to maintain order?" β
Huang Shi turned his head again, looked at a few people he was more familiar with, and called out their names one by one, until Zhu Jiu: "The Ninth Master and I have known each other for thirty years, and the friendship in Jingshi and Liaodong in the past is vivid, and someone must have coveted the family property of the Ninth Master and framed him." β
After counting these names, Huang Shi looked around the audience: "But among the gentlemen here, there are only a dozen people who have a friendship with Huang, and the others are not familiar with each other, that is, there are not many people who have said a few words, I dare to assert that the things in this report are true or false, if you do a thunderous act, you will definitely be wronged." Although not to investigate is to tolerate adultery, but it is better to indulge in things, and Huang will not do it. β
"The country is merciful."
"The benevolence of the country."
"The villain will swear to death in retribution."
There were already people below clamoring for money to help, but Chairman Liu, who was the most active in mobilizing everyone to pay out of pocket before the meeting, suddenly slapped the wood in shock: "Silence, let the prince speak!" β
Seeing Huang Shi looking back again, Boss Liu was shocked, he was anxious to listen to Huang Shi's next words, so he patted Huang Shi without thinking, but he didn't know if Huang Shi just wanted to persuade everyone to help, and hurriedly asked: "Guogong, the villain remembers that you said that you can only speak alone." β
"President Liu did a good job, but he didn't have to add the second half of the sentence." Huang Shi smiled and nodded, then turned back and continued to speak:
"It's just that although Huang is unwilling to do what he would rather do today, how do you know that I won't change my mind tomorrow? How do you know that the person who will take over Huang's position in the future will also have the same mind as Huang? King Shun and King Shun Wu have not broken their promises and gained weight so far, but how do you know that if they can really defeat Huang Mou and dominate the world, they will still be like this after they have no scruples? Even if they strictly keep their promises all their lives, the descendants of King Shun will follow the rules and do not commit any crimes against the property of the kings? The net worth and life of the monarchs are still the hands of the people after all, don't forget the farmers and industrialists, kill the monarchs to fill the treasury and the army, and the scholars will only applaud. For the king, it is a matter of fame and fortune. β
None of the council members present did not understand this truth, before Huangshi treated businessmen well, everyone tried their best to support him, hoping that he could be in a high position in the middle of the court, and everyone was sheltered from the wind and rain, and after Xu Ping issued a message, these businessmen were also willing to believe in Dashun's sincerity - man-made swordsman
Is there a better way for me to be a fish than to believe in the good intentions of those in power? But at this moment, it sounds like Qi Guogong is already confident that he can come up with a long-term solution to everyone's crisis, and everyone is waiting with bated breath for Huangshi's solution.
It's just that Huang Shi didn't continue, but threw aside the black materials of the merchants, opened the following documents and read: "Hangzhou is a great victory, killing 30,000 thieves; Xiaoshan won a great victory, killing 20,000 thieves...... Guibei won a victory, killing 50,000 thieves, and the thieves escaped...... Lake vast ......"
After reading the Ming army's outstanding achievements in one breath, Huang Shi raised his head again and looked at the people in the hall: "I don't know how many of them are true or false, if there are really so many great victories, the battlefield should be in Beijing instead of eastern Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi." These great victories have begged me for more than 5 million taels of rewards and compensities, and I can refuse to do anything, but I am afraid that the loyal and good will be humiliated and the families of the martyrs will suffer from hunger and cold. I don't know how these battles are fought, and none of the monarchs here will know everything, but no one will know, but you will only help, and watch me throw your hard-earned money into the water and secretly feel distressed and not say a word, because you are afraid of retribution, for fear of angering the powerful - gentlemen, no one has ever told me the truth, not a single one. β
Then Huang Shi read several more reports, ranging from the intelligence front to the coastal defense and private affairs: "The situation is really good, what I see every day is one brilliant victory after another, sporadic mixed with some innocuous defeats, but the Shun army has crossed the Yangtze River, and the officers and men are retreating again and again." When the first emperor was there, he didn't undress, he couldn't put out the candle when he slept, and he got up to correct it as soon as he had a report, and he was martyred in the coal mountain. I asked myself that I was far worse than the first emperor, I had to sleep for four hours every day, and I couldn't do every county's recital and report. Even the first emperor can't reverse the decline, of course I can't do it, if there is no better way, I think I just have to be tired and blind and don't want to do state affairs well. β
The feudal regimes are all extremely corrupt in the end, but when the two feudal regimes face off, the emerging one often defeats her competitor before it has time to complete the complete **. The old regime had to endure until the new regime became exactly like her, and if the new regime did not succeed in taking over most of the country's territory with the momentum it had started, the old regime would have the hope of crushing her enemies with a larger territory, and the history books would call this luck Zhongxing. ZTE is an extremely rare phenomenon, so the emperor who leads ZTE will be greatly glorified - because his enemies have so rarely and brilliantly and quickly completed the corrupt path of the ** regime to this emperor who picked up the pie that fell from the sky.
"Unlike the first emperor, I was born in the army, with several ups and downs, and I have seen the warmth and coldness of the world." Huang Shi pushed all the reports to the corner of the podium: "Although everything is very good, I guess: the dynasty is very close to complete defeat, whether it is military, financial, internal affairs, or people's hearts, the dynasty has reached the precipice of total defeat, even if you donate more military salaries to me, it is only to delay the time when the final defeat comes, so I do not plan to ask you for a copper." β
Waving his hand towards the roof of the hall, Huang Shi said frankly: "I started building this hall last year, but I wanted to wait until a more appropriate time, I thought it would be the right time to give it to the monarchs after quelling the rebellion and civil war, but when I saw that the situation was still good in the report, I knew that there was a big problem with the dynasty - the court that could not find the crisis was problematic, and the court that could not find the problem at the moment of life and death was the court that was about to collapse, whether appropriate or not, Today is my last chance to hand over this hall to you. β
"All the decrees of Fujian Province, including the tax law that the monarchs are most concerned about, will be issued from this hall when Huang is still sitting in this ruling position."
The word tax law provoked a burst of whispers again, but this time before Chairman Liu slapped his shock, the person who spoke out was angrily reprimanded by the people around him: "Silence." β
"I will name this yamen the Provincial Secretaries' Court, and the princes will be the doctors of the Fujian Provisional Provincial Secretaries' Court, and this Provincial Secretaries' Court will be responsible for formulating and revising the laws of the dynasty and deciding the policies of the dynasty. Taking the tax law as an example, the amount of tax that the dynasty can collect from the merchants of Fujian will be determined by the provincial court, and once the rules are set, it will become the law of Fujian Province, and the government can only collect the amount permitted by the law and not many of them. I believe that you will soon find out that this provincial court will be the guarantee of your life. Huang Shi paused: "I know that you still have a lot of incomprehension, the more I say, the more you may not understand, next I will accept questions, I will first explain the rules of asking questions in this hall, do not sit on the chair to ask questions, raise your hand to indicate that you have something to ask, the person I ordered can stand up and ask questions." Alright, you can get started. β
Although he was still afraid of the power of a high-ranking official like Qi Guogong, someone raised his hand before Huang Shi's words fell.
Huang Shi nodded to the first person he saw: "This doctor, please speak." β
Guogong, the person who was pointed stood up, nodded and said: "The villain is a fire factory owner, there is something I don't understand, take the tax law that Guogong just said as an example, if we set a tax of only one percent for each horse fee, but the government still wants to levy fifty percent as it is now, and if I don't pay it, I will close my factory, what should I do?" Can I go to the government? β
"What is this doctor's surname?"
"Don't dare, the villain's surname is Lu."
"Doctor Lu, please take a seat." Huang Shi said happily: "This involves another major issue, I just forgot to say, in order to ensure the authority of the Provincial Procuratorate, in the future, the Fujian Provincial Capital will set up a special criminal officer to be responsible for the judiciary, this criminal officer will be divided into three levels: province, government, and county, the governor, the prefect, and the county order will no longer have the right to decide the case, and anyone, not just the monarchs, as long as they feel that the government violates the law of the Provincial Procuratorate, can appeal to the criminal judge, and the criminal officer will make a judgment according to the law formulated by the Provincial Provincial Court." β
The people below were dumbfounded for a moment, Huang Shi knew what they were worried about, so he continued to explain: "Officials protect each other, as is the case in ancient times, and this criminal officer is also not appointed or dismissed by the governor, prefect and county order, they are voted by the court. β
Immediately someone shouted, "What is a vote?" β
"Silence!" Chairman Liu was fascinated by what he heard, and he was furious when he heard the words.
"In the past ten years, the village chiefs of many villages in Fujian Province have been elected, and everyone must be familiar with elections, and the voting of the Qing Yuan is similar to the election." Huang Shi didn't care, but immediately began to answer.
"Is it who has the most people who has the final say?"
"Silence!"
"Yes. However, there are also differences, the court votes on different elections, and must vote publicly, and the doctors must not conceal their wishes, and the criminal officer can only take office through the vote of the court, and once he takes office, he has no right to remove him. But if he does something that undermines the authority of the Chamber, the Chambers can be impeached. β
"Impeachment? Who will approve this impeachment? β
Huang Shi didn't answer again, but started to look around the hall again: "Who has a problem?" β
A bunch of hands raised.
"This doctor."
"Guogong, the villain dares to ask who will approve this impeachment?"
"Any doctor can propose the impeachment of the criminal officer, if two-thirds of the doctors in the court agree with the impeachment, they can report it to the Qi State Mansion, and I will determine whether to approve it, if three-quarters of the doctors are in favor of impeachment, there is no need to report it to me, and the dismissal order of the criminal officer will take effect immediately." After Huang Shi finished explaining, he added: "Not only the criminal officer, but in the future, under the guidance of the Provincial Secretaries' Court, each prefecture and county will have its own Governor's Court, and the County Governor's Court can impeach the county order, the Provincial Governor's Court can impeach the prefect, and the Provincial Governor's Court can impeach the governor." β
One question after another was raised, and one person asked: "Guogong, what if the government is not satisfied with the rules we have set and arrests us?" β
"First of all, the criminal officer is responsible for judging the case, and secondly, I have thought of this, all doctors have immunity, whether it is killing or owing money, the criminal officer cannot arrest you, but this does not mean that you can do whatever you want, because your doctor's identity can also be impeached, if the impeachment of a doctor is passed, then he loses his immunity."
Then more questions followed, and the more questions were asked, the more carefully they were asked, and finally someone asked:
"Why is it called the Provisional Provincial Minister's Court? Will the government cancel this court in the future? β
In the original world of Yellowstone, the first to industrialize was the United Kingdom, which she explored for more than 100 years, and then the country had precedents to follow, and the process of industrialization became faster and faster. The rise of civil rights went through the same process, in the early days of industrialization, the capitalists brutally oppressed the workers, sweatshops sprang up one after another, and the blood shed by hundreds of thousands of people at the bottom of the pioneer countries allowed the later countries to shorten this bloody process. Because the experience of the forerunners in the rising countries can be expected, and they can copy the mature laws, this bloody evolutionary road, the later countries can be shortened to one-fifth, one-tenth of the pioneers, and even some countries can complete the road of civil rights that Britain took hundreds of years to complete in a few years.
Like guns, military systems, and scientific shortcuts, this is the prerogative of the traverser. Huang Shi does not think that the centuries of blood shed by the British workers are the reason for the Chinese rulers to watch their compatriots shed blood, on the contrary, it is precisely because it knows what kind of policy will lead to bloody consequences that the government has an unshirkable reason to avoid it - only such a government can claim to be the government of the Chinese people.
"The villages of Fujian Province have been conducting elections on a trial basis for more than 10 years, and I think it's time to extend it to all levels of government in the province, including the Qing Yuan." Huang Shi's rule for the court is to vote publicly, so that the people can know what kind of position the doctors sitting in the court are on: "Next year, the doctors of the court will be elected, and all the princes are rich and famous, as long as you want to stay in this hall, I believe that it is not a big problem, as long as there is no law to oppress the workers under your command." You have given the workers their jobs, so let them continue to be grateful to you. β
"Guogong, the villain also has a problem!"
Boss Liu shouted behind Huangshi.
"President Liu, sit in your position and don't need to ask questions."
Lu Yufan and Cai Yunnan, who were sitting in the remote corner of the back, did not ask questions, and the two of them also held back their questions, and when the sun set, the hungry council members still asked questions one after another. The two of them muttered for a while, and Lu Yufan also raised his hand hesitantly.
"The doctor in the distance, excuse me."
Yellowstone keeps an eye out for members who are not active.
"You have made it very clear that all tax laws will be made by us, but what if we declare that merchants do not pay taxes? Are you really not going to interfere? β
"What is this doctor's surname?"
"The surname is Lu."
"That is to surrender to the Shun army, which means the defeat and disintegration of the imperial court." Huang Shi replied: "After this day's questioning, presumably Dr. Lu has already understood that as long as I am still in the ruling position, this Qingyuan will exist, and the status, property and life of the monarchs will be under the protection of the Qingyuan, and you will never have to worry about being raided, exterminated, framed, blackmailed, and your children and grandchildren, isn't this worth defending?" Isn't it worth fighting for? If you really don't think it's worth it, it's fine, I won't interfere, I'll go overseas and let you stay under Da Shun. β
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