Chapter 51 News from Di Bao (more updates, there will be more in the evening)
Su Ze stepped into the county government execution room with one foot, and the system's voice sounded in his ears:
[The location "Xian Yamen" was found, and the skill "Criminal Litigation" can be learned. , do you want to study? 】
"Yes!"
Su Ze quickly chose yes, then quickly took his feet back and left the torture room door.
Sure enough, I found a skill! It turned out to be the "criminal litigation" skill!
In the game "Hundred Scenes", criminal litigation is a hidden skill that makes money.
A criminal lawsuit is a lawyer who helps people litigate cases, which is similar to lawyers in modern society.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang hated the lawyers of Meng Yuan Dynasty very much, and once banned the profession of lawyers.
During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, because the Yuan Dynasty had abolished the imperial examination, many scholars were unemployed, so they either entered the government as officials or became litigators to help the people fight lawsuits.
In order to make more money, some unscrupulous litigants will even deliberately instigate conflicts and persuade people to file lawsuits to profit from them, leading to "restlessness in the state and county and declining social order."
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once prohibited representing people other than his relatives in lawsuits. To this day, there is still such a clause in the "Da Ming Law", which stipulates that those who instigate litigants, add fuel to the lawsuit, and increase the crime will be jointly punished with the criminals.
This decree, like many of Zhu Yuanzhang's "ancestral laws", gradually disintegrated with the development of the times.
After the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, more professional litigation appeared, and the profession of professional litigants also reappeared.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty has turned a blind eye to litigants. Litigants will be hired for large and small cases in the county. There is a Xu Dazhuang in Nanping County, and some people even invite him to Jiangxi, thousands of miles away. Litigation.
However, the demand for litigants is so great that it is not easy to become a litigator, so criminal litigation is a hidden skill in "Hundred Scenes".
First of all, you need to read and be literate, which will screen out almost all ordinary people.
Secondly, being a litigator requires you to be familiar with the Laws of the Ming Dynasty. Not everyone can read the Laws of the Ming Dynasty.
Confucians are very disgusted with litigants, thinking that they are villains who instigate people to litigate for their own sake.
These people study the loopholes in the law day and night, which makes the people often go to the yamen to file lawsuits. Therefore, if ordinary people do not have connections with the county government, it is not easy for ordinary people to see the Ming law, let alone learn the law.
Those who can become litigants must either come from a family of litigants and have Ming law to study.
Or they are scholars who failed to pass the imperial examination and were able to go in and out of the county government office to borrow the Ming Dynasty Law.
Su Ze came across the skill of "criminal litigation", some precautions for writing pleadings, and common legal provisions came into his mind.
This county government office is a treasure house!
After a while, Su Ze learned the skill of "construction" from the workshop and the skill of "water conservancy" from the canal workshop.
What a great harvest!
In the county government, which ordinary people regard as a dragon's nest and a tiger's den, Su Ze actually gained four skills at once!
Construction includes the drawings and techniques for building houses and various facilities. This is also a secret skill passed down by ancient families. It is difficult for ordinary people to learn real skills.
Water conservancy is a rare skill, and water conservancy projects are a top priority in agricultural society. If the level of water conservancy skills is high, you can build any project and you will never be able to get the title of capable minister through the ages.
The Ming Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the Yuan Dynasty, which was destroyed by the Yellow River floods, and attached great importance to water conservancy construction. Officials who could manage rivers and canals were promoted very quickly.
After Su Ze gained four skills, Lin Xianyang finally caught up with him. He was sweating profusely and said, "Brother Azze, this is the county government. Don't run around!" After saying this, he pulled him away
. When Su Ze arrived in front of the Chengfa Department, he happened to meet Hai Rui who had finished reading the newspaper.
Hai Rui's face looked a little ugly. Seeing that Su Ze had finished his work, he took him out of the county office.
Shanghai Ruidu's face was livid all the way, and Lin Xianyang was so frightened that he was afraid that he had done something to offend the official.
Su Ze was in a relaxed mood. Hai Rui must have read the newspaper in the Department of Acquisition and Facilities and saw some of the imperial court's tricks to make the city like this.
Sure enough, when Hai Rui returned to the county school, he immediately said: "Treacherous ministers are in power! Last month, the imperial court sent 30 teams of supervisory censors to go to various provinces to investigate the illegal activities committed by the ancestors of the officers, and to remove all the descendants of the illegal officers from their posts!" Su Ze was stunned
! After a while, I recalled my knowledge of Ming history. It seems that there was indeed a period in history. Nie Bao, the Minister of the Ministry of War, attached to Yan Song and proposed the case of Yushi Qing army. However, this matter was only mentioned briefly in the history books, and there was not much description.
Although Su Ze didn't know much about the situation in the Ming Dynasty, it was definitely not good news that the imperial court sent a censor to the Qing army.
In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the supervisory censors were fine, but from the middle and later stages, they were hated by people and dogs. Every time the imperial court sent a censor, it was a carnival of money-making for the censor.
Thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang's "exquisite" official system design, the censors responsible for supervising all parts of the world are the junior officials of the seventh rank.
The Ming Dynasty's characteristic "low salary to support integrity" made life very difficult for these seventh-rank supervisory censors. The word "Qing" in Qingliu not only means incorruptible, but also means poor.
There are 110 supervisory censors in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and not all of them are Qingliu. Even Qingliu need to eat. Every time they inspect the place, these censors extort money from the place.
When the censor goes to a place, he is touring the world on behalf of the imperial court. When he meets an official, he must be three levels higher. Even the chief envoy of a province must be treated carefully when he sees him.
Local officials at all levels have established rules on how to entertain censors. Su Ze's Level 1 "bribery" skill automatically activated, and a set of standards for county officials to bribe censors popped up in his mind.
Now that Japanese pirates are raging in the southeast, Emperor Jiajing actually sent his censor to blackmail the army. Su Ze really didn't know what the Taojun emperor was thinking.
Hai Rui continued: "They want to use fined silver to fill the warehouse. In order to please His Majesty, these cruel officials will definitely fight for favors and favours, disturb the military guards, and cause chaos in the southeast!" Su Ze understood now. It turned out that Emperor Jiajing had the idea
. It's very simple, just make money.
Taikoo is the emperor's private treasury. In recent years, the emperor has become increasingly obsessed with Taoism and overhauled palaces and temples.
In the 32nd year of Jiajing, there was a great disaster in the west of Beijing, which even went so far as to cause "people to eat each other". However, the imperial court still had no money to provide disaster relief, and finally drove the victims out of the city. The hungry victims opened a "human market" outside the capital city. The son changed his wife and ate her, turning the capital of western Beijing into a hell on earth.
But it was also the 32nd year of Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing took out 150,000 taels of silver from Taicang to buy gold, treasures and pearls. Then he gave a salary increase to the members of the royal family of the old Zhu family. Anyone named Zhu can receive a "ration" of seventy shi a year.
The result of this famine was that most of the victims starved to death before the problem was solved. There is no record of how many people starved to death in the history books, and there are no statistics in the imperial newspapers. The only thing the emperor did was to go to the altar and use his "loyalty and filial piety to the emperor" "The "mana" transcends the souls of the dead.
Su Ze thought of the "misfortune" recorded in the genealogy of later generations:
"On the 17th day of the fifth lunar month, the Imperial Censor Yan inspected the guards. The county clerk Xu Shisheng criticized the Seventh Patriarch, and the Censor temporarily dismissed the Seventh Patriarch from his military position. The Guards gave 500 taels of filial piety silver, and the Seventh Patriarch was reinstated. Gradually exhausted."
Judging from the time, the disaster in the genealogy should have happened during the time of the imperial censor of the Qing army.
The more Su Ze thought about it, the more likely it became that the Changning Guards were military guards. The purpose of the censor's inspection was to blackmail the officers. According to the court's order last month, the censor should be able to arrive in Fujian this month.
Changning Guard is his base, he must find a way to avoid this disaster!
(End of chapter)