Actually, strictly speaking. Shen Shuren read history in his previous life, but he didn't know about the trade between the gentry of Jiangxi and the thieves on the other side of Poyang Lake in the last years of Chongzhen. This is not to blame the lack of records in the history books, but only to blame him for reading less and not in detail.

In his previous life, as a staff member of an international relations think tank, he only needed to read most of the books related to military diplomacy when reading history, and there was no need to study the details of those vast and poor scriptures.

Therefore, his first-hand historical research on the Ming Dynasty only skimmed the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and the rest are some modern people's analysis and interpretation articles.

But if he had carefully read the local chronicles of these places in his previous life, he would have seen a record:

In the local chronicles of Jiujiang Mansion, it is written that before the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the prefect of Jiujiang was Zhou Huang, and Zhou Huang was finally punished by the imperial court because he could not ban the profiteers "traffic thieves" during his tenure, and was replaced by the new prefect Shi Tang in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

After Stun arrived, "strictly protect the armor, be diligent in the sentry, and thieves will not be allowed to cross." Isolate thieves in Huangmei, Guangji and other places", which can be regarded as greatly improving the situation of local bandits in Jiujiang. But in the end, this Shi Yan was also excluded because he was "upright and offended the township party eunuch" in this matter, and returned to his hometown in Jintan, Changzhou.

Nowadays, everything has changed slightly because of the butterfly effect, and the thieves who can be "traffic" by the Jiangxi gentry and profiteers have been greatly reduced, and only one Lin is left, and Liu Xiyao, the original head of "traffic", is dead.

However, the temperament of Zhou Huang and others will not change, and the appearance of Jiangxi gentry will not change, it is nothing more than a delay in time and a reduction in degree, and in the end, going around and around or accidentally bumping into Shen Shuren and Zheng Chenggong.

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Because he had to reprocess the evidence with Zheng Chenggong, Shen Shuren had to delay for one more day, and it was delayed until the morning of the next day, the 29th day of the lunar month, before he asked Zheng Chenggong to send his henchmen and warriors to Jiujiang Fuzhi and Dehua County, which were not far from Hukou.

Early in the morning, not long after the o'clock time, around the hour, the prefect Zhou Huang had just started his office when he heard a commotion outside the mansion. (The o'clock is three o'clock, that is, half past six in the morning.) It's not the beginning of the day, it's only five o'clock at the beginning of the day)

Zhou Huang's official authority was quite big, and he immediately scolded his subordinate officials to quickly go to find out, and after a while, the officials came to report in a panic:

"Back to Futai, it is the people of the Huguang Salt Law Dao Yamen and the Lijin Inspection Division, saying that Shen Shuren, the imperial history of the capital, came to Jiujiang and got a report from his subordinates, saying that there are bandits in Jiujiang Mansion and other places, Shen Daotai is furious, let you go to Hukou Town to visit and clarify.

On the wharf by the lake outside the city, there is a search warship parked on the Huguang Salt Road, and the people who patrol the waterproof division say that there seems to be a Hongyi cannon on the boat! ”

"There are Hongyi cannon warships? What does this Shen Shuren want to do? Doesn't he have the law of kings? Zhou Huang was shocked at this time. Although he is an official in Jiangxi, he has also heard of Shen Shuren's prestige, and knows the speed and strength of his rise in the past two years.

Under the rule of several wealthy families with hard backgrounds, Lin Chengcheng Liu Xiyao did business, Zhou Huang has always known, and he can't help it.

Jiangxi has always been one of the provinces in the south of the Ming Dynasty with the most serious prevalence of related households. In the Ming Dynasty, because of the large number of Jinshi from Jiangxi, the families of many bigwigs in the court stayed in the local area and brought their relatives with them, so that no one dared to offend the magistrates who came to Jiangxi.

He is a prefect of Zhou Huang, even if Jiujiang is a high-class prefect, his prefect has four products, but he still doesn't have much energy.

So it's better to go along with those people and turn a blind eye. Although Zhou Huang himself has never been involved in those businesses, he has also received the benefits of those families, and he can always routinely share the profits to a few thousand taels of silver every year-

These big families who send silver are also more artistic, and they will not directly say what they are sending for, so as not to fall behind, and it seems that they are sent for the sake of entrusting the Tai to do things.

Decent people, no matter what they do, have a routine of filial piety at four o'clock in the year, and the eventful autumn is nothing more than a little more with the New Year's Festival.

In this way, it will never fall into the handle, and it will never be clear what it is for, and it can always be reconciled with the mud - it is not good to say much about the specifics, but if you are interested in this topic, take a look at Luo Zhangsan's case of accepting bribes and analyzing the law, and everyone who understands it understands.

"Shen Shuren came to the door, this matter is a big trouble, their family is very rich, oil and salt do not enter, I heard that for the sake of Daming, he also posted money to be an official, this is not something that silver can pull into the water......

Eh, no, since Shi Futai was officially transferred to the governor of Caoyun a few months ago, now that Anhui is vacant, our Jiujiang Mansion has been reassigned to the governor of Jiangxi. He Shen Shuren wants to arrest smuggling, and at most he will intercept it outside the lake, why should he come to the door to shake his prestige? ”

Zhou Huang, who knew that he was wrong, after thinking nervously for a while, suddenly felt that he had grasped a life-saving straw and realized that he was too nervous before.

Between himself and Shen Shuren, it is clear that they are not subordinate to each other! Even if there is a case implicated and it is indeed the fault of the local officialdom in Jiangxi, he should not directly exceed his authority! The governor of Jiangxi should be notified first, and then let the governor of Jiangxi ask in writing!

Let's take the simplest example, which can be understood by ordinary viewers in later generations: if the Hubei High Court wants to go to the Jiujiang Intermediate Court to challenge a dispute over jurisdiction, can it directly argue? Of course not!

According to the procedural law, it is necessary to find the joint superior of the two dispute courts to adjudicate. Not to mention that the Jiujiang Intermediate People's Court could not decide on the transfer of disputes, and even the Jiangxi High Court could not decide, and the jurisdictional disputes of inter-provincial cases had to be brought to the Supreme People's Court.

The legal procedures of the Ming Dynasty were not as complicated as those of later generations, but the reason was the same, at least Shen Shuren should not go directly to Jiujiang Mansion, he had to go through the process.

Thinking that the law of Daming was on his side, Zhou Huang also recovered some of his courage, and hurriedly asked people to reply:

"What are you doing? Have you forgotten all the laws of the court? This involves a dispute between Huguang and Jiangxi, he should first find the governor Yamen, how can this official privately run errands for officials from other provinces!

Of course, you have to tell Shen Daotai's people well, after all, he has worked official business, and the gift of wine and meat that should be given is indispensable! If Shen Daotai has other private matters and has to insist on talking to me, then let him go into the city to talk, the official of Hukou Wharf will not go! ”

Let him go to the wharf by Poyang Lake, he doesn't dare, there are Hongyi cannon warships over there, who knows what those rough people dare to do? After all, Huguang is in charge of this case, and the gentleman does not stand under the wall.

And as long as Shen Shuren is willing to enter the city, even if Zhou Huang himself can't do anything about him, he can finally summon all the wealthy people in Jiujiang who are hard in the middle and back of the court, and set up a banquet together to entertain Shen Dao, and let those people take Shen Shuren into the water with their own benefits.

If he can't pull into the water, this matter is none of his business, Zhou Huang, at most, he will be transferred or even demoted after the crime, but there is no way to talk about punishment.

As for those Jiangxi wealthy families who have a backstage in the court, if they can't get used to seeing them and want to jump over the wall to leave Shen Shuren behind, as long as they don't do it in the prefect's yamen, then he Zhou Huang is at most a dereliction of duty with poor public security.

The subordinate officials got Zhou Huang's orders and immediately went to arrange it. However, after more than half an hour, he only came back with a disgraced face, and begged for mercy:

"Zhou Futai, why don't we come to negotiate? Shen Daotai was furious, and a fierce young detective officer under him was also very domineering, and said that the military situation was like fire, and he had ironclad evidence in his hand, and if he wanted to arrest the bandits, he had to hurry up and obey the power, and he couldn't wait! If you don't go, they'll just arrest people based on the evidence! ”

Zhou Huang sat up from the chair in shock, trembling with anger: "Insulting Sven!" Insulting Sven! Did he ignore the laws of the court? Even if it is a wartime inspection of bandits and profiteers, it should be coordinated by the localities, how can it be ...... He dares! ”

The more fierce the other party is, the more Zhou Huang is afraid that there will be problems with his personal safety, and he is also afraid that after he is taken away like this, if he privately orders some alliance under the city, after coming back, the local gentry who have damaged their interests will come to him to settle accounts.

He had already figured it out that Shen Shuren recruited him to negotiate alone, but refused to enter Dehua County, not necessarily because Shen Shuren was worried about his personal safety, but more to divide him Zhou Huang and the local wealthy families in Jiujiang.

As long as he participates in the negotiations alone, it will be inevitable that he will be isolated in the future, and sooner or later he will be mixed up inside and outside and will not be a person.

Zhou Huang didn't believe that Shen Shuren dared to mess around, and continued to delay there, and at the same time quickly notified several major families involved in the case in Jiujiang Mansion, and also frantically sent fast horses to Nanchang Mansion. Because he knew that several families in Nanchang Mansion were also involved.

However, Zhou Huang was destined to underestimate Shen Shuren, underestimated that it had been almost fifteen years since Chongzhen, and how much the imperial court government affairs needed to be in a hurry.

People who hold the power to suppress thieves occasionally do not follow the process is not a big deal at all.

Two hours later, Shen Shuren lost his patience, and Zheng Chenggong moved "uncontrollably", and then, Zhou Huang heard a piece of exciting news.

This time, the person who came to report was no longer the official of the Jiujiang Prefect's Yamen, but the guard of Dehua County, a guard guard.

"Lord Futai! The people of the Lijin Inspection Division rushed into Hukou Town and arrested Fei Rulong, the richest local man, and announced in public that he was a bandit, and arrested and killed all the people involved in the case in front of the people on the Hukou wharf! ”

Zhou Huang was so shocked that he sat down from the prefect's seat: "He's ...... How dare he? Isn't he afraid of the laws of the court? ”

The Dehua garrison was a little crying when he reported it:

"Lord Futai, you better come forward and deal with it! The salt road official who did it was a member of the Zheng family in Fujian! You know what our Jiujiang Weisuo Army looks like, it's okay to deal with Shunmin, but I really don't dare to deal with those fierce Haikou people from the Zheng family! ”

It was not until this moment that Zhou Huang was completely recognized.

It's like a chess game, where a tiger eats a jackal and a cat and a dog, but the smallest mouse can eat an elephant in turn.

The people of the Zheng family in Fujian were originally an insignificant existence in the officialdom of the center of the Ming Dynasty, but they were only considered emperors in Fujian.

However, if the two sides of the officialdom fight infighting according to the rules, one of them occupies the principle of substantive justice, but only does not occupy the process of procedural justice, and he can also let the Zheng family help him do the dirty work, the situation is completely different.

The pot of "not abiding by procedural justice and not following the process", as long as you throw it at the Zheng family, what can you do?

The people of the Zheng family were originally known for only looking at substantive justice and not following the process.

I cut the queue because I don't have the quality!

After thinking about this, Zhou Huang could only leave the city in fear and go to Hukou Wharf to meet Shen Shuren.