.Chapter 852: Township Wishes (Chinese)

In front of Nanchan Temple in Songjiang Prefecture, in the mansion of Xu Ying, the third son of Xu Jie, a scholar wearing a straight green mansion, holding a piece of paper and chanting, "The complainant is Liu Xiazhi... and the punishment is tortured day and night, and forced to offer three hundred acres of Weitian in Shouyang. There is a contract but no friendship, and the witness of the Chonghouhu... I secretly think of King Wu's supreme, and I was humiliated by knocking on horses, let alone just an ant, and sued..."

"Hahaha..." Hearing his strange thoughts, everyone in the hall seemed to see the King of Hai Yan's beard and stare at him. They all laughed so hard that they were a little exaggerated, holding their stomachs and even laughing out loud.

After laughing enough, Xu Ke, the youngest son of Xu Jie, who was sitting beside Xu Ying, wiped his tears and pointed at the scholar and said, "Nan'e, you are a slutty ghost. Mr. Changhe's bitter and revengeful love, has been played into a comedy by you."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just to make him make a fool of himself..." The man who was called Mr. Changhe, named Dong Ji, was a miserable scholar. He became a friend of the guy Xu Ying. This man was full of tricks and had helped Xu Ying to seize many civilian land and house property, so he was highly valued by Xu Ying and asked him to make any decisions if he had anything to do.

This time Hai Rui came to Songjiang for wind and rain. Xu's tree attracted a lot of wind and Ye Mi caused rain, so he naturally suffered the first blow. Although Hai Rui was still paying attention to maintaining the reputation of the Xu family father and son, their numerous servants and slaves still became the target of key attacks and were asked by the government to withdraw their land. The slaves cried in front of them all day long and took away so much land. Those rural officials who had been friends in the past also frequently came to the mansion to ask for advice. On the one hand, they tested Mr. Xu's attitude, and on the other hand, they instigated the two playboys to take the lead in taking a look at the King of Sea Hell.

Xu Jie's four sons, the eldest, Xu Fan, once served as the minister, and the second son, Xu Kun, was in charge of housework all year round when his father was not at home, so he was calm and could not be the first to be a pioneer. However, the remaining two sons, Xu Ying and Xu Ke, have been a high-ranking official in the court since they were sensible, and their family was rich. In addition, they lived with their grandmother since childhood, were spoiled and lacked education, so they developed a domineering and arrogant temperament. In their opinion, the Xu family is the master of the land of Songjiang, so how could he allow his surname Hai to act wildly?

The strong dragon is not enough to suppress the local snake! So, under the instigation of a group of bad friends, the two brothers decided to teach Hai Rui a lesson. As for the important task of giving an idea, it naturally fell on Mr. Changhe Dong Ji. In theory, it was against the government... and against the King of Hai Yan. Most people avoid such high-risk chores. However, Dong Ji always felt that he was not satisfied with his talent and wanted to have such a chance to prove it. So he happily agreed and fabricated this sinister and mean "anonymous" and then sent someone to post it on the streets and alleys of Songjiang City while the night was in the air, giving Hai Rui an ugly look.

After hearing the content of this statement, the Xu brothers were indeed very satisfied. But after laughing, they felt that they were not strong enough. Xu Ke narrowed his eyes and said, "This method is certainly useless except to provoke the madman and help those mud legs even more violently."

"It is to make Hai Rui angry," Dong Ji twisted a few sparse rat whiskers and squinted a pair of goldfish eyes and said, "He must have guessed that it was our gentry, but he couldn't know who did it. He could only vent his anger on the case." He said, "He must have thought, I'll ask you to mock me. I'll make more cases and get some land for those mud legs. It's the best revenge!"

"But what are the benefits of this for us?" Xu Ke rolled his eyes and said, "Are you losing the 'watermelon picking sesame seeds'?"

"The fourth young master said this badly," Dong Ji's head shook like a rattle, and he smiled: "You must know that you can't bear to leave your child and don't look for a wolf..."

"Mr. Changhe, don't keep it aside," Xu Ying became tired of looking at Dong Ji's poor appearance, but who made him count on him? He smiled dryly and said, "Tell the fourth brother's next step." Everyone also echoed, "Yes, Mr. Changhe, please tell me quickly."

"Get orders." Dong Jituan clasped his fists and said with pride: "Actually, the student's writing this 'anonymous statement" is not just to vent his anger for everyone, but to add fuel to Hai Rui's fire, and he will hate us to the core and help the miserables indiscriminately." He paused, pinched his beard and sneered: "I heard that Hai Gangfeng said to his subordinates, 'Things are about to fight for property, rather than Qu Xiaomin, I would rather Qu Xiangzhang" How paranoid and arbitrary is this? How can there be no unjust, false and wrong cases? With many unjust, false and wrong cases, how can the superiors not deal with him?"

"It's right," a gentry said softly: "But he has a good reputation and a strong backstage, and there is no big deal of random sentences."

"Then let's make some trouble for him!" Dong Ji spread his folding fan and said coldly: "It should be noted that the ground in Songjiang is far from being so simple. In addition to the rich townsmen and farmers and tenants, there are also the majority of people who are idle, greedy for enjoyment, gambling, and cheating... These people all have a common characteristic, that is, their family has no property, and in the eyes of Master Hai, they are considered standard 'poor people'."

"These unruly people are greedy and cunning. Seeing that the governor tends to be a commoner in judgment, they have long had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the opportunity to get rich overnight." Dong Ji shook his fan and said, "We can just go with the flow and instigate them to go to Hai Rui to file a lawsuit, fabricate evidence, and seize the wealth of the rich."

"What's this a bullshit idea?" Xu Ke said impatiently: "I can't talk a little bit after talking, no wonder I can't pass the exam in my life." Dong Ji's face turned red with shame.

"Actually, those unlucky people have done this long ago, but the rich people are strictly guarding the situation, and very few have succeeded." Xu Ying had to take the conversation and said, "But if we let people let the water go and deliberately don't take out the Tianqi document, it will be a different scene."

"Even if you can't come up with evidence, it's just a case of "two liability cases," everyone suddenly said: "Neither Lord Hai will definitely award the land to the unruly people."

"Yes!" Dong Jixin said, it was obvious that I had the idea, so I couldn't let others steal the limelight. Regardless of the hotness on his face, he hurriedly said: "With more cases like this, we can let those landlords who have been taken away from their property go to Nanjing or even Beijing... Those censors who are looking for us will definitely not miss this opportunity, make a big fuss and give Hai Rui a good look."

"Good idea!" Everyone understood this time and suddenly became excited and said, "Just do it!"

"Good guy," Xu Ke also changed his face, patted Dong Ji's shoulder with a smile, "It's indeed our ovary."

"Where are there..." Dong Ji was proud, so he assigned tasks with the will of his own, and wanted to give Hai Rui a good look.

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The saying of a strong dragon not overpowering local snakes makes a lot of sense. Even if you are the governor, even if you are Hai Rui, once local snakes want to do something bad, you still cannot be guarded against.

In fact, Hai Rui has always been very clear-headed. In the Treaty of Governors, he clearly pointed out that the "Jiangnan wind is prevalent" so he does not accept the "scam complaints". But the so-called "scam complaints" are naturally letting people sue. Moreover, due to various reasons, more than 300 cases have to be handled a day. How can we clearly distinguish between "scam complaints" and "scam complaints"? He can only adhere to the principle of fairness and efficiency, and try to eliminate those who sue for suing them and punish them severely.

He stipulated that according to the "Da Ming Law", those who sued the slander were 20 sticks and shackles were displayed on the public for eight days. Therefore, there were seven or eight outside the yamen, and about ten "troubled people" who were beaten to pieces and wore shackles to show their shackles to the public, but they still could not stop some rude people from succeeding.

So on the streets of Songjiang Mansion, rumors such as "a bad guy falsely accused a rich family of wealthy families and obtained 500 acres of land at once, "a bad gambling man was originally poor, but he entrusted Lord Hai's blessing to get rid of poverty overnight" are rampant. And Lord Hai's originally secret rule has become a well-known secret. So a "famous saying" circulated in the market: "It's better to complain about thinness than to plant fat fields." Some unruly rogues, with the dream of getting rich overnight, call on friends, fabricate facts, and flock to the rich village officials.

Although these troublemakers were not very large, they were all wearing ragged clothes and were flew with fifty or sixty people, rushing their arms along the streets and shouting, but the impact was very bad, which incited many ignorant and foolish people. There were so many people who complained, and the situation became a little out of control.

Even Wang Xijue felt heavy pressure, let alone Hai Rui, who was the first to be affected. But Hai Rui did not stop temporarily as suggested by the people around him, but still made a lawsuit on time, and made a quick decision, and could handle two or three hundred items every day. He could calm down. Songjiang Prefect Zhong Zhenji panicked first, and found Hai Rui three times a day, asking him to pay attention to the chaos in front of him to avoid being out of control. He said: "Songjiang is a major grain tax place for the imperial court, and he has always been the first to be stable, but now the unruly people are fanning the chaos and the big families are not leaving. If this continues, there will definitely be a big trouble!"

"The people are dissatisfied because of their deep grudges," Hai Rui said coldly: "If the government can help them uphold justice, naturally no one will do anything." Instead, he did not stop, but he became more involved in the judgment of the case.

However, more and more cases have been sentenced, but none of them have been executed until now... Although the government has already sentenced them, any rich family is willing to give their land to the common people. They really expect the direction of the wind to change so that they can escape this disaster, and they are all standing there.

Hai Rui has no intention of enforcing the people for the time being, which also makes those people who win the lawsuit and cannot take the land hung in the air, which is very uncomfortable. There are three reasons for him to do this. One is to concentrate on the matter first and then concentrate on the execution, so that individual behavior can be turned into collective actions; the other is to cool down the hot-headed people, and no one has really obtained the land so far. The so-called lies of getting rich overnight are broken, and there are naturally fewer people who follow them to make fun of them. The last one is actually waiting for the cabinet's reply...

In the last few days of November, more than a month after he flew to the capital with eight hundred miles of audit accounts, the cabinet's reply came late, and the Grand Secretary Zhang Juzheng, who was in charge of finance. In the letter, Zhang Juzheng expressed his support for his work on behalf of the cabinet and asked him to do it. Only at the end of the letter, he put it in a tactful tone, but he also had to take care of the old prime minister's life. He should not force it too much, which would damage the old prime minister's face.

Hai Rui just pretended that he didn't see this last paragraph and took the letter, and smiled at Wang Xijue beside him and said, "Tomorrow, we can finally get to the topic!"

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The next morning, the soldiers from the Governor's yamen went to Taiping Bridge with a summons and asked to detain two stewards of Xu Cheng and Xu Yuan, who were in charge of Xu's mansion, to return to the yamen to question and try the case of villagers suing the two for forcing the land to seize the people.

The two of them kept the official accountant steady, and on the excuse of changing clothes at the back, they slipped away from the back door and ran to Xu Ke's mansion to hide.

The officials failed to get the person, so they had to go back dejectedly. However, Hai Rui did not cancel the trial on that day. In the absence of the defendant, he still opened a court to investigate the case. More than 400 people who were infringed on their property were all in court for accusation. Many of them were full of evidence and evidence. They could be tried in absent without him coming.

The bad deeds of the two defendants Xu Cheng and Xu Yuan have also been exposed more and more, but they relied on the protection of the Xu family and openly escaped from court for trial. Such stupid behavior is tantamount to putting them and the Xu family on the crater and becoming the targets of the restless Songjiang people.

Because the case became more complicated, Hai Rui did not pronounce the verdict in court. However, the subsequent development of the situation was beyond everyone's expectations... The angry Songjiang people surrounded the three Xu family's palaces, some asked to hand over two villains, some asked the Xu family to withdraw from the land, and some just joined in the fun, wanting to taste the taste of bullying the former prime minister.

As a senior, Xu Jie naturally had to maintain the demeanor of famous scholars, strictly prohibit his children, servants and people, and not have conflicts or harm them. But what he felt in his heart was evident from the poems he wrote in the past few days. The poem says: "In the past, the emperor always called him the Lord, but today he troubled the king to scold his name. Huma and cow were all illusions, yellow flowers and white wine and love.' The loss and sourness of the paper is soaked in the back of the paper.

He thought that the people would be fine after a few days of riots. Who knew that the people in Songjiang had reached a point of boiling with the open and secret support of all aspects. For several days, every day, the people in the Xu family could not move forward, and even their lives would be a problem.

Xu Jie could no longer ‘Tao Qing’, he ordered Xu Fan to find Zhong Zhenji, hoping that the Songjiang Prefect can restore order and protect his normal life. Zhong Zhenji replied with a wry smile: "I really don't want to hide it. Now Songjiang Prefecture is completely controlled by the Governor's Office. I, as the governor, are just a decoration."

Finally, when the Governor's Office sent the eighth summons, the troubled Mr. Xu, who was unbearable, asked Xu Fan to hand over two evil slaves.

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