The Dayue Imperial Court has long had regulations, and all the state capitals and government affairs are close to the people, and a drum is set up outside to make the people beat the drum and complain about the lawlessness.

However, this rule is also the same as many rules established by Taizu Taizong when he was cleverly bypassed or destroyed by later generations in various ways, and this drum of injustice has long lost its original usefulness.

Not to mention the big drum with red paint and white background in front of the Taishou Mansion, it is the drum of grievances in front of the yamen of the most basic counties.

Because this rule has long been replaced by a new unspoken rule, in the people, everyone knows that there are no major events such as destroying the door, rebellion, and bandits attacking the city, and it is forbidden to beat the drum without authorization. Otherwise, no matter whether the accusation is true or not, he will be asked about the crime of disrespecting the government and causing trouble.

And this is only for the county government, as for the state government yamen on it, and even the Taishou Mansion, it is even more terrible. It can be said that for two hundred years, the drum in front of the Hangzhou Taishou Mansion is just an ornament, and it has never been sounded.

But today, the drum suddenly clicked and sounded, and the sound was slightly sluggish and dull, which was a sign that the drum skin had long been relaxed.

But even so, the sound of the drum still spread far away, not only the many officials and people in the yamen were shocked, but also the hundreds of people passing by on the street outside the yamen were also attracted by this sudden behavior, and in the blink of an eye, two or three hundred people quickly gathered in front of the Taishou Mansion, and they looked lively around.

It's really too rare and shocking, so naturally everyone is shocked and suspicious.

Among them, the most fierce reaction was the seven or eight messengers who should have been guarding the yamen.

Heaven can see that if they were derelict in their duties, they let the guys dressed as businessmen run to the door and knock on the drum at will, but they were just busy taking care of the servants and vehicles of several big businessmen, and they felt that no one in front of the Taishou Mansion dared to make a fool of themselves, so they walked away a little.

As a result, they walked away before they had a meal, and they were taken advantage of and beat the drum of injustice.

Moreover, even the drumsticks are brought by the people themselves, because there is no need to arrange any drumsticks for the drumsticks as decorations, and no one will think of striking them......

"Stop them for me!" The head of the Hou Ban was really angry at this time, and while ordering his brothers to step forward to stop those people from continuing to disturb them, he himself also pounced viciously, waving the stick in his hand, and wanted to teach these few blind things a lesson first.

"Lord Qingtian, we have wronged...... We have a great grievance to tell the Taishou......

In the face of the shouting of the messengers, these people were quite unscrupulous, and immediately threw away the drumsticks, and then quickly fell to their knees, and wailed and shouted.

This burst of shouting, like weeping and complaining, really seemed to contain a great grievance, fell into the ears of the onlookers, many people showed compassion, and the bold shouted: "Let them tell their grievances, please avenge them!"

This attitude and the shouting of the people suddenly really made it difficult for the officials to really do anything, so they could only surround the people stupidly, and then one person ran in to make a report.

However, Hou Bantou knew in his heart that this time the matter was so big, and his brothers would inevitably have to eat some hanging, which was really wronged.

At this moment, a brother next to him suddenly stared at a businessman who was crying out and exclaimed, "Qi Laosi, why are you dressed like this, and you are still running to the gate to make trouble?"

Qi Laosi, who was called to reveal his identity, was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "Although I, Qi Laosi, was just a street helper before, I can't reform my ways, can't I have grievances?"

"I, what kind of businessman can you become, and what grievances do you have with me? Say, what the hell are you making trouble?"

In the face of the suspicious questioning and scrutiny of several errand servants, this Qi Lao Si immediately showed that he was a housekeeper as a ruffian - a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

I saw him kneeling on the ground like this, holding his head slightly high, and replied loudly: "I just have a grievance appeal, I want to see Lord Taishou......" The rest, but he didn't say a word.

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In other cases, whether it is Hou Bantou or other brothers, there is naturally a way to rectify him and let him tell the truth.

But now, in the face of more and more people, and the fact that they have already let people enter the yamen to report the news, they can't do anything excessive, so they can only surround and watch them, and don't let them do other things out of line.

After a while, a number of soap servants came out of the yamen, one by one, with tiger faces, and several reprimands, and after learning that they had appealed for grievances, they quickly brought them all into the yamen.

And as several people who shouted grievances were taken into the second hall by half of the guard, and when they came to a majestic and wide hall, Chu Xiangxun, who also looked gloomy, Chu Taishou was already sitting neatly on the top, behind the long case.

The sudden sound of drums stunned him and everyone in the hall, such a strange thing had never happened, and there was no strategy to deal with it.

But he also knew that the more strange things were, the more he couldn't wait to be idle, and after a little thought, he decided to interrogate them himself.

After all, there is still an emperor stationed in Hangzhou City, and once something goes wrong, the consequences are not easy to say.

But even if he was mentally prepared, after the few grievances were brought in, knelt down in a row, and the people led by shouted loudly, Chu Taishou still chuckled in his heart.

"Lord Taishou, we have a great grievance to tell Wumen...... We were originally silk merchants in Hangzhou, and we opened a shop. As a result, there were three wealthy businessmen of the Ji family, the Yu family and the Zhou family, who completely ignored the rules and the law, and forcibly refused to let me and others buy silk from the people, but insisted on buying silk from them with a price increase of 30%.

"Also, they decreed that we were not allowed to sell more than one piece of silk to a single guest, and we were not allowed to transport more than ten pieces of silk out of the city, and we were not allowed to ......."

He reported more than a dozen cases of bullying and dominating the market by the three families in a row, and finally said: "I went to Qiantang County to file a complaint, but it was not accepted by the county government......

"We really have no other way to tell them, so we can only run to the Taishou Mansion and beat the drum to sound the grievances. Please also ask Lord Qingtian to administer justice for us......

"The grass people believe that this must be those yamen, and they have already colluded with Ji Yu's family, please also investigate strictly!"