July 1, the twelfth year of Astronomy (1543), Imagawakan.
Imagawa Yoshimoto is visiting the territory - this visit has lasted for 10 days. In order to complete Taiyuan Xuezai's instructions for him to modify the "Imagawa Kana Directory", Imagawa Yoshimoto had to "go to the grassroots in person" and go deep into Suruga's direct leadership
Among the acting officials, let’s find out what problems we will encounter during the implementation of the bill.
"Your Highness, this is our complaint over the past few months. Please review it."
"Your Highness, these are new mentions!"
"Your Highness, this stack is full of term contracts that need to be extended."
"Your Highness, these are the extended term contracts when the German government decree was issued last time. Please see this time..."
Imagawa Yoshimoto felt like his head was getting bigger.
This time it was the same as usual. Before he had walked for half a day or even finished a county, the agents had already submitted piles of files, complaints and annual contracts. Imagawa Yoshimoto looked back behind him and saw the people who were following him.
Each of Furunoji Yutaka, Sena Ujitoshi and Hayasaka Nao were holding a large pile of documents above their heads and swaying hard - he really didn't expect that there would be so many controversial matters in the territory.
It is up to the home supervisor to decide - no wonder the teacher is so busy on weekdays.
"Put it down." After returning to the castle tower, Imagawa Yoshimoto himself knelt down on the tatami in front of the desk, and at the same time instructed Yutaka Furuno, Ujitoshi Sena and Nao Hayasaka to put the documents brought back today in the corner - why
It's the corner - because there are still piles of documents collected three days ago in front of Imagawa Yoshimoto's desk - the documents collected yesterday and the day before yesterday have not yet been put on the table.
"Don't be idle, come together to help." Imagawa Yoshimoto glanced at the writing on the desk, and he already had a headache and didn't want to work, and immediately called the three people to help.
"I'm responsible for the household expenses, and I don't know how to handle these documents." Furunoji Yutaka didn't want to touch this document as high as a hill, so he immediately found an excuse to shirk it.
"I... I am usually responsible for dispatching the guards and ninjas around you, Your Highness. I don't understand this..." Nao Hayasaka looked embarrassed and whispered shyly. He who has always been "submissive" is not for this.
Avoid, but really don’t know how to do these jobs.
"I understand." Sena Ujitoshi, who has thick dark circles on his face, has no intention of shirk. He upholds the same infinite masochistic workaholic spirit as his father Sena Ujisada and is ready to devote himself to the endless and tedious review process.
.Yes, when Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taihara Sekssai were away, Sena Ujitoshi shouldered half of the workload of Imagawa Hall by himself.
Sena Ujitoshi walked to the desk, took away nearly two-thirds of the files and documents, and piled them on his desk. However, even if only one-third of the work was left,
But Imagawa Yoshimoto still had a headache. He opened the document and glanced at it a few times before he couldn't read any more.
"When will this end? It's all almost the same, nutritious homework." Imagawa Yoshimoto put the brush on the inkstone, as if giving up, "This family is suing that family, that family is suing
Accusing this family has either stolen some land, blocked the canal, or snatched away the banker opposite, or endlessly extended the annual lease... There are thousands of wealthy people in the entire Imagawa family, how can I still
Can we restore them one by one?"
"Before His Highness started to manage the government, I, Master Xuesai and other disciples have always done this." Sena Shitoshi had a gentle and kind smile on his face as always, and tactfully advised Imagawa Yoshimoto, "
Your Highness, pay attention. Once you become familiar with it, your speed will be greatly improved. With the well-being of all people in mind and the teachings of Master Xue Zhai, there is nothing you can't overcome."
Imagawa Yoshimoto fell into deep thought after hearing this, and Sena Toshiro smiled happily - yes, for the retainers, the lord can work hard to govern because of his advice - there is nothing more fulfilling than this.
.Is this what your father has been pursuing?
"I have an idea." After being silent for a long time, Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly raised his head, took out the revised draft of the "Imagawa Kana Directory" from the drawer, and at the same time raised his writing brush, "I know how to amend the law."
"Oh?" Sena Ujitoshi immediately put down his work, stood up and came to Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had already written two drafts in a hurry——
(1) Even after the ruling, there is no problem in filing an appeal again with new evidence. However, if you just repeat the same claims as in the first trial, you will be punished.
(2) In the absence of a government decree, it is not allowed to extend the term contract without authorization. The person involved in such a lawsuit will have one-third of the territory confiscated. The person who caused the lawsuit will have all the territory confiscated.
"Your Highness?" The stunned Sena Ujitoshi took a breath of cold air and snatched the draft from Imagawa Yoshimoto's hand: "What are you doing, Your Highness? Who else dares to complain and accuse me?"
This is not a sign of working hard to cure the disease! This is just to be lazy and just practice the law!
"Sena, you haven't understood yet. These lords are taking advantage. Because our Imagawa family has many principles, handles things quickly, and has a more positive attitude towards complaints and accusations, so they have to report any small things to the upper levels.
It’s a waste of the disciples’ time.” Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed to the high mountain of files to be reviewed on the side, and then pointed to the completed part behind:
"I didn't understand it before, but after a few days of approving it myself, I found out: out of a hundred complaints, at least ninety-five were returned unchanged, and only one or two that really had big problems were all.
Isn't it just a waste of administrative efficiency? How much more can our followers do for the territory if we have time to correct these? And because most appeals are meaningless, it also leads to the followers being slack, and many of them are dealt with just by looking at them.
Just deal with it, and uphold the original verdict if there are no major flaws. In just a few days, I found more than a dozen files where the verdict should have been changed but the original verdict was upheld."
"What do you mean, Your Highness?" Sena Shitoshi frowned and slowly put the draft back on the table.
"Stricter restrictions on appeals and accusations will increase the cost of failure of this action, so that in the future those wealthy families will weigh it before they appeal, and some appeals that are unlikely to succeed or appeals that are of little significance will not appear again.
On the other hand, if the appeal is still submitted after careful consideration by the wealthy family, it is obviously very reasonable, and then the adherents must take it seriously when handling it, and cannot turn a blind eye like now.
I closed my eyes and upheld the original verdict on most of the appeals." Imagawa Yoshimoto plausibly explained to Sena Ujitoshi.
Toshi Sena nodded doubtfully, obviously still doubting whether Imagawa Yoshimoto was just looking for some high-sounding excuse for his lazy behavior.
However, Imagawa Yoshimoto seemed to have thought of something again. He quickly looked through the original "Imagawa Kana Directory", browsed a few items and then started to write. At the same time, he said to Sena Toshi:
"But if I change it like this, the power of punishment when dealing with appeals will be too great. Someone may collude with us to impose harsh penalties on our enemies. So we need to make a few patches."
"The second article of the old "Kana Catalog" is: Regarding disputes about the boundaries of fields, mountains, forests and wilderness, after the original correct boundaries are clearly ascertained, if it is determined that the plaintiff or the defendant has made an unreasonable and unfair conspiracy, the confiscation
One-third of that person’s entire territory.”
"The fourth article of the old "Kana Catalog" is: before the land litigation is concluded, if someone uses force to prevent others from cultivating, regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, the lawsuit will be directly judged as losing. Three years after the judgment, a new trial should be held.
Let the legitimate rights holders get their due rights."
"These two old laws give Feng Xing a lot of power. If coupled with the two new ones I added, wouldn't Feng Zong be able to cover the sky with one hand? In order to prevent someone from bribing Feng Zong to favor himself in sentencing or maliciously delaying time, I
Some modifications need to be made to these two articles.”
It was also Imagawa Yoshimoto who wrote on the paper:
(1) In Article 2 of the "Kana Catalog", "confiscation of one-third of the entire territory" was relaxed to "confiscation of twice the territory of the land in question".
(2) In Article 4 of the "Kana Catalog", "While the land lawsuit is not over, if someone uses force to prevent others from cultivating, regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, the lawsuit will be directly judged as failed. Three years after the judgment, it should be re-examined.
Trial." However, because some people maliciously take advantage of this to delay the trial, those who do this in the future will donate the annual tribute of that year as the construction cost of Sengen Shrine. On this basis, start again from the second year
Hear litigation.
"How is it?" After finishing writing, Imagawa Yoshimoto turned around and looked at Sena Ujitoshi.
"I didn't expect that His Highness would be quite capable of politics when he took it seriously." Sena Ujitoshi finally put away his suspicious eyes and praised with emotion.
"Yeah, right." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time stood up easily and said: "After working hard for a long time, it's time to go to Cuju to relax. Seeing that I'm doing well, Sena doesn't want to go to the teacher
Give me a report there."
"That's why I urge you to be diligent in your work!" Unexpectedly, Sena Shitoshi suddenly knelt down solemnly, blocking the way Imagawa Yoshimoto must pass when he went out, and said with fear and fear: "You have such a talent, if you can
It is such a pity to waste time on sensuality! I cannot allow this to happen, otherwise I will be sorry to the ancestors of the Imagawa family! Please devote all your time to work!"
"There is really no way..." Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled bitterly and rubbed his head, and had to sit back at the desk obediently: "Sena, Sena..."
