Ji Xin said: "They are allowed to exploit and rob the people, but we are not allowed to do the same?" He smiled, "I don't even need to follow our own Commercial Code and Civil Code - just the laws promulgated by the Ming Dynasty government are enough to govern them.
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The two great classics mentioned by Ji Xin actually haven't left a single character out yet, and they are still being compiled - or rather adapted.
"really?"
"Of course, at least legally, the Ming Dynasty does not allow usury and exploitation. Not only in the Ming Dynasty laws, but also locally, the government has repeatedly issued bans. There are materials in the stalls, but no big business has ever taken it seriously.
.This is one; secondly, these large households have owed a lot of food over the years. Is it illegal according to the Ming Dynasty law? It adds up to a big number. What is the point of talking about "taxes come from grain and grain is rented out"?
?" Ji Xin was confident, "If necessary, I will settle the account with them first." [..com]
After the discussion, the list of "quasi-migrant workers" who had been registered by Liu Xiang's caretakers was hung in front of the Taoist temple. It was publicized for 24 hours. Anyone who had any objection to someone's debt must immediately bring evidence to the temporary court.
Objections will not be accepted after the deadline.
As for those who cannot prove that the tenants have debts, they cannot be prevented from leaving - the tenancy system in the Ming Dynasty generally no longer has the nature of personal dependence. Although at the legal level, peasant tenants are still lower than landowners, but tenants have personal freedom.
They can come and go as they please, and the landowner has no right to detain them.
By nightfall, nearly 30% of the refugees who were recruited were found to have debt problems. All kinds of debt materials were piled up on the table. Ji Xin was confident, and took care of the financial staff sent by Delong, and retained the county government office clerk.
The office and court staff worked together to sort out the materials and collect the plaintiff's various evidence into files, and then numbered them one by one, and called people to come in and clean them up when the time came.
Ji Xin had in his hand materials obtained from the county office: this was the list and amount of taxes owed during the clearing of land and the collection of county offices. Some large households had owed grain taxes for many years, and some had never paid at all.
The accumulated numbers have reached a very huge level. If you want to be serious, there is no problem in starting a big prison. But now the time travelers are not on a stable footing, and they don't plan to show too ugly eating faces for the time being. Wait until the time is right.
, naturally we must deal with them severely.
The plaintiff and the defendant were brought together in a temporary court, a side hall of a Taoist temple, to carry out debt settlement work. The temporary court was full of people, but none of them dared to speak: the infantrymen flashed their bayonets, borrowed from the county government.
Each of the government officials was armed with fire sticks and leather whips, and the entire temporary court looked majestic.
The creditors and debtors who were called in first confirmed the authenticity and amount of the debt in front of Ji Xin. During the cleanup process, a large number of forged and altered contracts and IOUs were found. Some had smeared numbers, some were simply fake, and some were simply fake.
If you don’t have a handprint or signature, just take a piece of paper you daubed on yourself as evidence.
If the evidence is proved to be forged, the IOU will be canceled and confiscated. The plaintiff will be immediately dragged into the hall and slapped with forty marks. One fake deed will be hit with forty, two will be hit with sixty, three will be hit with ninety...
By analogy, the seconded government officials had long wanted to show their faces in front of the Australian chief ministers. They were all in high spirits and refused to let go. Rain and blood flowed in the hall, and feces and urine flowed in the hall. One of them was beaten to death. All the plaintiffs were beaten to death.
They were so frightened that they all asked to withdraw the lawsuit and never ask for any more debts.
"How is this possible? It is natural to pay back debts. I beat the evildoers. You are all good people. Why should you be afraid?" Ji Xin also felt that it was enough. "Anyone who forges a deed should only know that he has repented."
, come out immediately and surrender, and let bygones be bygones,"
Immediately, a group of people came out to surrender - the feeling of being slapped on the Forty Board was not a pleasant feeling. Ji Xin immediately showed these people's forged documents and canceled them as evidence, and then ordered a group of people to write down their pleas, according to the
A fine of ten kilograms shall be paid for each forged document.
All valid deeds will be settled according to the above figures and interest - the court will not recognize the kind of "debt" that has been used to cheat people for three generations. At most, it will follow Delong's regulations: the maximum annual interest shall not exceed 25%.
To settle the matter, the principal and interest are converted into grain circulation coupons and paid by Delong.
In order to ensure that creditors were willing to accept the circulation coupons, Ji Xin announced a policy on the spot: the circulation coupons could be used to offset the grain tax and other miscellaneous taxes payable in the summer and autumn taxes. In this way, even if the big households believed that the circulation coupons had no circulation value, they could ensure that they could pay public grain equal to
It is guaranteed by national credit.
Delong did not repay it free of charge, but actually acquired the debt: these debtors borrowed money from Delong with their own labor - that is, their future wages - as collateral.
During the cleanup process, there were also some tenants who owed money to large households. As soon as they heard that they were going to work in Lingao, they had to borrow money from the "government" first, and they were so frightened that they immediately changed their minds. In this case, Yang Yun dealt with this situation carefully.
He didn't save many jobs - after all, in this era, borrowing money from the government is a fear rooted in his subconscious. Liu Xiang doesn't care about this, anyway, the more he keeps, the better it is for him.
The clean-up procedures started slowly, but then progressed very quickly. Ji Xin saw that there were no more difficult things down there, it was just some clean-up procedures, so he handed over the work to a few naturalized cadres under him, and came out to get some fresh air.
Liu Xiang stepped forward and said, "What a great job! You opened the way with a stick, followed by carrots."
Ji Xin didn't say anything, just smiled. A common wry smile appeared on his face.
"To be honest, this approach is very bad. It is just a temporary measure."
"What's so bad?" Liu Xiang was puzzled. "This big business blatantly forged documents and exploited us for huge profits. If we don't deal with it severely, they probably want to continue to do whatever they want, in the land of fish and meat."
Ji Xin nodded: "What you say is true, but what I do is just talking about Tianxian grass and taking human lives. To put it bluntly, it is no different from what Han Fuju and Han Qingtian did. From the perspective of building a legal society, it is extremely inappropriate." He sighed and added.
He added, "Actually, their sins are not worthy of death."
Although Liu Xiang felt that what he said was reasonable, he still felt a little bored. He couldn't help but criticize in his heart: "The weakness of the petty bourgeoisie has shown up again."
"Don't think too much. Hasn't China's situation been like this for thousands of years?" He said, "I'm not biased towards the poor. Poor people don't necessarily mean good people. Shrews and cunning people are everywhere. But look at the current situation.
, the rich and large households really have no bottom line at all when doing things. They just write a piece of paper and don’t know who to ask someone to draw a pledge to exploit the tenants. If we don’t kill their arrogance ruthlessly, we can stand up like this.
Stop? Even if there are people who have committed crimes that are not worthy of death, which temple does not have ghosts who have died?" He became excited as he spoke, pointing to the refugees in the Taoist temple, "Look at these refugees, they have suffered a disaster and have no food.
Eat, who is not their tenant? If we hadn't forced donations, we wouldn't have given out a grain of rice for relief, waiting for them to fend for themselves. We were going to take the people away, but they remembered - no one farmed the land
It’s not possible, if I had known what I would have done!”
"So I said we can only exercise power. But in the long run, this approach is not advisable." Ji Xin did not argue, he suddenly said, "Liu Xiang, you are the county magistrate now, and you may want to be the provincial governor in the future.
Senior local officials like this must not have the urge to be like the sky, because China's affairs will not be successful by relying on a few skyscrapers."
Liu Xiang didn't say anything. He understood that Ji Xin was still advocating "ruling the country according to law" after all. He didn't object to this, but it seemed a little too early to talk about it now. He suddenly realized that what he just said seemed to be inconsistent with the Governor's views.
The thoughts are consistent - it seems that I am indeed a revolutionary deep down in my heart.
Just as I was thinking about this, I suddenly saw Yang Yun and his people distributing rations to the refugees: the rations were changed to seafood porridge, a traditional nutritious meal in the quarantine camp.
"Hey, the food is good!" Liu Xiang looked at the food of the victims and said hello to Yang Yun.
"Haha, if you don't take good care of yourself, how can you send them away? Whether it's by sea or by land, it's very tiring." Yang Yun pointed to the crowd: "There are some children who are thin, ouch! If they don't supplement some nutrition, they will die before reaching Lingao.
Already."
"It took a lot of effort to get thousands of people, don't you think it's a bit of a loss..." Liu Xiang asked Yang Yun tentatively.
"This is called drawing fire from under the cauldron. People are on the one hand, and revolutionizing the lives of landlords is the other." Yang Yun did not hide it, "You should have read the documents, right?"
"Of course, of course," Liu Xiang said, "but I have concerns - is this too radical?"
Liu Xiang was inspecting like this, while chatting with Yang Yun. He also inquired about what was going on in Lingao, especially on BBS. Being far away from the core area, many things could only be guessed from the words of official business.
This information asymmetry made Liu Xiang feel very bad.
"Hey, I didn't expect that you used to call yourself a revolutionary leftist, but now you have become a rightist?" Yang Yun said with a smile, "Things are not absolute. What the governor wants: nothing more than enough food, manpower and strong grassroots control."
This is like saying nothing. Liu Xiang thought, this is simply the basic policy of the Senate. He had to say: "In fact, the population of Qiongshan is not surplus, and it can be absorbed on the spot..." He decided to put his idea into practice
Let’s talk to Yang Yun first.
"I didn't expect you were also targeting these laborers." Yang Yun heard Liu Xiang talk about his idea of applying to transfer some of his industries to Qiongshan. "However, this time, the governor is not just targeting these tenant farmers.
There is also the surplus grain from the landlord’s house.”
"I'm afraid there are still landlords from the Yuliang family." Liu Xiang joked seemingly unintentionally.