The next day, on the streets of Guangzhou City, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu Told the People of Yangcheng" was posted everywhere.

The content is as simple and straightforward as ever, but extremely inflammatory.

"Tell the people of Yangcheng that His Royal Highness the King of Chu was ordered to patrol Guangdong, specifically to punish traitors and eliminate evil, and to be the master of the people. So far, dozens of lawless officials below Xu Benya, the Guangdong Provincial Prosecutor, have been arrested. The trial found that the corruption of the judiciary in Guangdong Province was shocking! Unjust, false and wrongful cases, the amount of vehicles is loaded! Why are the people innocent of this? If we don't strictly investigate and crack down, how can Wang Fa exist?! The official in charge of reading the notice was terrified, and said that the prince's posture was destined to set off a bloody storm.

The people of Yangcheng listened very well as if they had eaten betel nut Shunqi pills. The emperor of Guangdong Tiangao is far away, and the big clans have controlled the place for generations and joined hands to cover the sky. These small families and ordinary people are oppressed and blamed at every turn, and there is no place to reason at all.

"Therefore, His Royal Highness the King of Chu wants to sweep away the evil and review the unjust, false and wrongful cases! No matter who committed the crime or how powerful it is, it must be investigated to the end and dealt with strictly according to the law! From now on, all sufferers can go to any yamen in Guangzhou City to complain, just go empty-handed, and someone on the spot will help write the complaint. ”

"Yes, yes!" The common people applauded. Now it's okay, there is finally a place to reason, and someone is in charge for them. And you don't have to write your own statement, which shows that Your Highness sincerely accepts the report.

In the past, just writing a complaint would stump most of the people who complained. The common people are illiterate, and the generally literate do not understand the format of the lawsuit, so they can only ask Xiucai, who has learned the table judgment, to write it on their behalf.

Over time, there were litigators who specialized in litigation, and these people did not charge expensive, and they could even help write without money, just with a few gifts. But the problem is that they turn their heads and go to the defendant with the lawsuit, and as long as the defendant is willing to break the bank and eliminate the disaster, they will revise the lawsuit to the defendant, and then collude with the officials of the yamen to designate the plaintiff to lose the lawsuit.

Therefore, the common people said, 'The eight-character yamen is open to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money', and these lawyers are mostly responsible. It is now possible to sue directly bypassing the lawyer. With His Royal Highness the King of Chu in town, there is no need to worry that the government will favor the big families, and now you can finally avenge the wrongs and revenge.

The people excitedly exchanged their ears and listened to the official continue:

"In addition, those in the know can also actively report it. Whether it is an old case or a clue to solve the case, once it is verified, there will be a reward immediately, and after the case is closed, the criminal's family property will be rewarded with 10%! ”

As soon as this was read, the crowd buzzed, and the voice was ten times louder than just now. After all, the bitter lord is still a minority, and most of the people used to join in the fun and listen to gossip, but after listening to this, their eyes lit up.

But anyone who can buy the government and create unjust, false and wrongful cases is a rich man. If ordinary people can get one of their family property, they will spend enough in this life!

Wealth is moving, but you also have to have a life to spend. While the people were excited, they were inevitably worried about being retaliated against by their fellow clansmen afterwards, and they were eager to try for a while, and they looked forward and backward, and they were very entangled and restless.

At this time, the official continued to read: "Finally, His Royal Highness the King of Chu solemnly declares to protect the bitter master, witnesses and whistleblowers!" Whoever dares to retaliate is an enemy of His Royal Highness and the imperial court, and he will be severely punished and will never be forgiven! ”

This last article suddenly relieved the people's worries. Many people immediately began to think about which big household they could report and what clues to provide......

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The notice was posted in the morning, and on the morning of the same day, the Panyu County Ya, the Nanhai County Ya, the Guangzhou Prefecture Yamen, the Inspectorate Department, and the Political Envoy Department in Guangzhou City were all crowded with people who had come to complain and report.

In particular, the Panyu County Ya of Daotong received thousands of lawsuits and reports in half a day.

The literate officials in the yamen all went into battle to write a petition to the people, but they were still too busy, so they could only register the plaintiff, the defendant, the cause, the process, and the witnesses, and let the people press their fingerprints, even if it was a simple petition.

The other four yamen also received hundreds of copies each that day, keeping the government busy. As a last resort, I called the students from the county school and asked them to help write the report together and sort out the report.

Who knew that the next day, the person who complained was gone. The one who reported it is gone...... Seeing this scene, the students who rolled up their sleeves and prepared to do a big job couldn't help but secretly laugh.

But the Taoist people couldn't laugh, because according to experience, within three days of the announcement being issued, there would be an endless stream of complaints.

In this era, the transmission of news is slow, and people's reactions are also slow, and it will definitely not take half a day to tell everything and report everything.

"The county lord guessed correctly." The team leader who was secretly sent out by Daotong to check the situation came back and reported: "There are ruffians and hooligans who are blocking Yaqian Street, and when they see that there is something like they want to sue, they will drive them away directly. He also threatened to set their house on fire if anyone dared to come again. ”

"The ruffians are going to take care of this?" Mr. Hu snorted coldly and said, "Someone instructed them to do this, right?" ”

"That's for sure." Dao Tong nodded solemnly and said, "The people who complained are not something that a few ruffians can stop, and there are still people behind the scenes." ”

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In the Wind Pavilion from all sides, Zhu Zhen looked at Lin Zhongmo and Daotong with sad faces, and asked coldly, "Are those local tyrants working hard in secret?" ”

"Yes, that's them." Dao Tong nodded and said: "The people below inquired that last night the local tyrants didn't sleep all night, gathered all the Jiasheng in Guangzhou City, promised a lot of profits, and asked them to stop the people of each Jiajia from complaining. ”

"A student?" The sixth child is very unfamiliar with this word: "I have only heard of the chief of the li, what is the first child?" ”

"This is the set of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Mongols divided the twenty households into one Jia, and set up one Jiasheng to rule. At that time, the power of Jiasheng was much larger than that of today's Li Changjia, and the government relied on them to upload and distribute, and did not contact the people. Lin Zhongmo explained:

"Guangdong has not yet begun to implement the Lijia system, so it still retains the Yuan Dynasty."

"They are nostalgic for the Yuan Dynasty, and at that time they were called Tiangao Emperor Yuan, and they didn't care about anything, they were completely tossed around." Dao Tong snorted and said: "The local tyrant power in Guangdong also grew up in the hundred years of the Yuan Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, they were all obedient to the management, how could it be so difficult now? ”

"It's all the same, the big families in Jiangnan also grew up in the Yuan Dynasty, but it's not the obedience that my father and son cleaned up?" Zhu Zhen sneered.

"It's still different." In terms of civil affairs, Lin Zhongmo was much more confident, and said eloquently: "The clan concept of the people of Guangdong is much heavier than that of Jiangnan, and those Jiasheng are also people with higher prestige in the same clan, and they are controlled by the patriarch of the clan. ”

"As for those small ethnic households and immigrants, they are the main targets of oppression, but their livelihood depends on the local tyrants, either to carry the work for the local tyrants, or their children are on the local tyrants' boats, or they rely on the local tyrants to do business. So even if there is a grievance, the local tyrant has to listen to every word he speaks. ”

(End of chapter)