Chapter 40                                                             �

Are there any rules for students not to discuss the government affairs? Of course, there are some.

But is it still useful now?

It is of course useless. The couplet of the Donglin Party, "The sound of wind and rain sounds, the sound of reading is heard, family affairs, national affairs, and the world are concerned about everything." This is not about not discussing the government affairs, but about the special discussions, and I wish I could move the court to their homes.

Although it has not reached the level of the Donglin Party, sometimes all the students in the world talk and laugh at the world and give guidance. They seem to be like Zhuge Liang alive.

It is already very common for students to participate in local affairs.

What did Zhu Xiucai think? Hai Rui didn't think about it. He shouted sternly: "Take it down."

With a loud shout, two old soldiers rushed over and took Zhu Xiucai down neatly.

So in the midst of the commotion of the crowd, many people watched Zhu Xiucai be crushed away.

Hai Rui's tone became more gentle and he said, "Maybe, I don't say something clearly enough. Today I will tell my fellow villagers that the rule set by Emperor Taizu is to clear the meter every ten years. Now Haining has not cleared the meter for many years. Clearing the meter is not good for the big households, but it is beneficial to you. The imperial court cleared the meter for land for taxes, but it is more for equal labor service. Therefore, people with more land pay more taxes, and those with less land bear less labor service."

In order to let the people below hear it clearly, Hai Rui tried hard to speak loudly while trying to correct his accent. He did not make the Haikou dialect that the people in Jiangnan could not understand.

Hai Rui's three words are always with the Grand Master.

This is very much for the appetite of these old farmers. In fact, they are deeply impressed, and they don’t understand it. But they all have a simple feeling, that is, Taizu-hist was good at that time. The situation is getting worse and worse now, either because of Taizu-hist’s policies, which have ruined the descendants of the future.

After all, no matter how Emperor Taizu destroyed the gentry, Emperor Taizu was really good to the lower class people.

The gentry spared no effort to slander Emperor Taizu. But the people missed it until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. It was just that they had no say. It can even be said that the Ming Dynasty exhausted the virtues of Emperor Taizu and finally had to perish.

Hai Ruifan called Taizu, but these old and weak people just took this trick.

Hai Rui often works at home, and is not an official, which is no different from ordinary people. Even though Hai Rui has a strange Hainan accent, his understanding of the people's sentiments is incomparable to any official.

Hai Rui could do a few words to calm the excited crowd. Hai Rui even stayed in Zhugongting for a day. He understood the sufferings of the people and heard that there was an injustice. Without saying a word, he set up a court in the village for a local trial. After only one day, the people of Zhugongting were convinced. Soon, nearly 10,000 acres of land in Zhugongting were cleared.

Originally, there were only a few thousand acres in the account book, but the population increased, and some land that could not be reclaimed before was also reclaimed. Therefore, the land volume showed an increasing trend.

Hai Rui estimated that 300,000 mu of land could not be defeated in Hainingwei territory. It could reach as many as 400,000 mu.

However, as soon as Hai Rui returned to Haining County, things happened.

Because of Zhu Xiucai.

Zhu Xiucai was fame and no one could be detained in the county government. If he wanted to be detained, he would be allowed to leave the scholar's academic record first before he could be imprisoned.

I don’t know if it was because of Zhu Xiucai’s friendship with Guangkuo or if there was someone behind him. In short, after Hai Rui came back, before his butt was firmly sitting, several scholars came to plead for Zhu Xiucai and were driven out by Hai Rui. Hai Rui didn’t want to see the remaining scholars.

After all, this time the incident between Zhu Gongting made Hai Rui feel that he had not done anything, so he thought he would sue him for two days first.

The time for the case to be tried. In many TV series, it seems that the county magistrate’s job is to be tried, but it is not. The case to be heard is only a small part of the county magistrate’s work. Only on the day of the case can the case be heard, and the people can sue.

Generally speaking, this time depends on the person, it is nothing more than 369, or 15th day of the lunar month. It depends on the mood of each county magistrate.

Hai Rui accumulated a good reputation in Zhu Gongting. After a few days of trial, he accumulated more. For a time, Hai Qingtian's reputation spread.

In fact, in ancient times, there was no suspense in many cases, and even in modern times. Only a few cases are very complicated. Most cases, you can tell who the murderer is after a quick look. But the most important thing is not to investigate, but to judge.

In simple cases, there are often unsimple judgments, and the reasons behind this are worth exploring.

After all, even judges in later generations always make judgments that go against common sense. Is this a bad case handling in later generations?

Therefore, Hai Rui's judgment is very fast, and even these cases do not need to be brain-written. People who need to be brain-written must consider the issues behind the case, such as whether to offend people, who is the criminal, etc. When Hai Rui doesn't need to consider things, it is naturally very fast.

In Shanghai Rui, Ning is the principle of not giving up the big family, not beating the small people. The big family in Haining County suddenly became unlucky.

Hai Ruicai doesn’t care whether you have a father who commands the Tongzhi, or an uncle in charge of the Ministry of Works, or even related to the palace. Anyone who commits a crime will be judged according to the Ming Dynasty Law.

These wealthy families naturally held a grudge against Hai Rui. Under their organization, dozens of scholars broke into the county government office and wanted to find Hai Rui to make an explanation, saying that Hai Rui was insulting his ethics and imprisoned Zhu Xiucai. Hai Rui was not a person who bowed his head. So these dozens of scholars took them down and immediately asked Zhejiang to study and eliminate these dozens of scholars' fame.

This made the matter suddenly become a big deal.

Or, it became bigger suddenly after many people fueled the fire.

The entire Jiangnan Shilin was talking about it, and Hai Rui was pushed to the forefront. Many scholars were sad about the death of rabbits and foxes, thinking that Hai Rui was too much. Some people even wanted to make Zhejiang Xuezong reject Hai Rui's request through various relationships.

Zhejiang academician was very accustomed to bed sick.

After all, Zhejiang academicians can't see the direction of the wind clearly.

On the one hand, there is Jiangnan Shilin. On the other hand, there is the new Crossing Raptor. They all look very powerful and cannot afford to offend one. Of course, they can't afford to offend them and can't afford to avoid them?

So, Zhejiang academicians and government avoided it.

Tang Shiying, who had just arrived at the office, received this matter and didn't know how to make a judgment for a while. So she wrote a letter to Zhou Mengchen for instructions.

Zhou Mengchen held this letter and said, are dozens of scholars important? It’s not important. It’s true that a generation of scholars in Jiangnan is very difficult to take. As long as you pass the scholar, you can pass the imperial examination in other provinces.

But so what?

At the level of Zhou Mengchen, this is always a trivial matter.

However, whether it is accurate or not is to let Zhou Mengchen think about it.

After all, Zhou Mengchen is now unable to bear it. He has no money to worry about. Now that he has to do so many things, Zhou Mengchen can hardly hold on to the stalls of all parties. He can't do anything without money.

Even Zhou Mengchen was wondering whether he wanted to lead the Shanxi merchants into Jiangnan. But after thinking about it, he would forget it. Because Zhou Mengchen could not offend the gentry of Jiangnan to the end, he led the Shanxi merchants into Jiangnan and joined the traditional circle of Jiangnan merchants. This would definitely be a major benefit for the Shanxi merchants. However, for the people in Jiangnan, the bond with Zhou Mengchen became deeper and deeper, and it was even difficult to resolve.

This is not the solution Zhou Mengchen wants.

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen was waiting for the letter to surrender first. Otherwise, Zhou Mengchen would only criticize him, sweep the fame of dozens of scholars, and encourage Hai Rui to continue doing things.

Haining County is a minor matter. If this continues, no one knows what Zhou Mengchen is going to do in Jiangnan. Copy the policies of Haining County.

If the gentry in Jiangnan were a group, they could naturally hold on until Zhou Mengchen could not hold on. Unfortunately, they were not.

So Zhou Mengchen received an invitation. It was Xiang Yuanbian, the head of the Xiang family in Jiaxing who wanted to invite Zhou Mengchen, and the location was Suzhou.

Xu Wei smiled and said, "Sir, the Xiang family has given up, so the following things will be easier."

"So that's it." Zhou Mengchen said: "I have to eat this wine well."
Chapter completed!