On September 5th, the General Military Mansion welcomed a group of special guests.
The officials from various places who had left in the anti-tax movement returned to Tianjin and paid a collective visit to Xing Guobo Li Zhi.
After the princes stopped attacking Li Zhi in the court, the local officials in Tianjin returned to Tianjin one by one. But they did not come to visit Li Zhi immediately at that time, but were waiting to see the direction of the court. Anyway, they hid from the wind and waves.
It's been a few months, and I don't care if I hide for a few more days.
Until Li Zhi published the "Tianjin Daily", these civil servants could not sit still and came to visit Li Zhi one after another.
In the second hall of the General Military Mansion, all the officials from Tianjin's prefectures and counties were gathered together, but Li Zhi arrived late and never showed up. The twenty magistrates and two prefectures were a little flustered, whispering to each other in low voices.
"If we hang up the seal and leave, will Uncle Xing Guo hate us?"
"No way. We are civil servants after all, and we have our own difficulties as civil servants. Will Uncle Xing Guo be considerate of me?"
"I don't think it's good. Uncle Xing Guo hasn't come yet..."
"Xing Guobo's newspapers swept across Tianjin. If Xing Guobo is dissatisfied with us, he will publish an article in the newspaper..."
The officials were feeling uneasy when they saw a bodyguard walking into the second hall and shouting loudly: "Uncle Xingguo is here!"
The civil servants looked at each other, and in the end, Cangzhou Zhizhou took the lead. Twenty-two local officials knelt on the ground to welcome Uncle Xing Guo.
According to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, civil servants did not have the tradition of kneeling to military attaches. Even if the civil servants were from the fifth-grade magistrate to the seventh-grade county magistrate, even such a low-level official would have his own way in front of high-ranking military attachés.
A civil servant will not kneel down in obeisance.
But when it comes to Li Zhi, there is no need to talk about the style of civil servants. Li Zhi kills civil servants just like killing chickens and dogs. He has killed more than a dozen civil servants directly and indirectly. In Tianjin, this area is three-quarters of an acre.
On the ground, which civil servant dares to show off in front of Li Zhi? Who can't stand his head?
What's even more frightening is that Li Zhi took control of Tianjin's public opinion as soon as the "Tianjin Daily" was published. Now teahouses in various prefectures and counties in Tianjin have followed suit and hired newspaper-reading boys to read Li Zhi's newspapers.
He learned about world affairs through newspapers every day, and his emotions and thoughts were greatly guided by Li Zhi's newspapers.
Li Zhi already had powerful Jinyiwei spies on his staff, who were very familiar with the dirty things done by Tianjin civil servants. Now that he is controlling Tianjin's public opinion, if he wants to smear anyone in the future, he only needs to publish the civil servants' scandals in the newspapers.
The future of the civil service is completely over. When the time comes, will you sue Li Zhi for defamation? What Li Zhi said is true! Where can you go to reason?
These gentlemen with Jinshi background all know how terrible public opinion can be. Now let alone kneel down and worship Li Zhi, even if they are asked to kowtow to Li Zhi and beg for mercy, they can do it.
When Li Zhi walked into the second hall, he saw people kneeling on the ground and only saw dozens of black gauze hats.
Li Zhi sneered, sat on the main seat swaggeringly, and said calmly: "Everyone, get up."
The county magistrates and prefecture magistrates got up from the ground, took out gift lists one after another, and gave gifts to Li Zhi to calm down his anger. Li Zhi looked at the gift lists, and there were hundreds of taels of wealth on them. These local officials could not say no to the offer.
Generous.
Seeing that the civil servants had finished delivering the gift lists, the magistrate of Cangzhou took the lead and said, "I came to your uncle's house this time to apologize to him."
"When my uncle was collecting taxes from the gentry in Tianjin, we were afraid of the verbal and written criticism from the civil servants all over the world, so we didn't dare to help him collect taxes, so we left one by one with our seals. This approach was really courageous and foolhardy. Now he is collecting taxes.
We have successfully completed the tax matter and won a great victory. I am here to confess my sins to the uncle and ask him to forgive me for getting out of the way."
After hearing what Cangzhou Zhizhou said, Li Zhi said nothing.
Cui Changwu, who was sitting on the left side of Li Zhi, smiled and said, "What you said seems to be that you support my uncle in collecting taxes."
Cangzhou Zhizhou Zhengse said: "Cui Qianhu Mingjian, uncle Mingjian, uncle collects taxes from the gentry in Tianjin, blocks tax evasion channels, revitalizes the country's finances, benefits the country and the people, we fully support the uncle. Now uncle
The tax collection is a success, we are all happy and cheering together, how can we have any objection at all?"
Li Zhi was speechless when he heard the Zhizhou's shameless words.
These civil servants were overwhelmed by the wind. Now that Li Zhi had collected the tax, the officials in the court had also shut up and did not dare to attack Li Zhi again. These civil servants immediately said that they all supported tax collection. If Li Zhi
If the planting fails, they will naturally oppose tax collection.
Li Zhi was too lazy to talk nonsense with these civil servants and knocked on the table.
Cui Changwu sat on the left side of Li Zhi and said loudly: "Since you are all here at the General Military Mansion, you can save yourself the trouble of sending people to inform me one by one. My uncle has something important to announce, please listen carefully!"
The civil servants were stunned, not knowing what big event Li Zhi was going to announce, and they all became nervous.
Cui Changwu said loudly: "From now on, my uncle will set up 'Xingguobo Court' in every state and county for the people of each county to use for litigation. It will be set up in Hejian Prefecture, Baodi County of Shuntian Prefecture, and Luanzhou of Yongping Prefecture."
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"From now on, if the judgments of lawsuits in various prefectures and magistrates' yamen are different from the rulings of Xing Guobo Court, the Xing Guobo Court shall prevail!"
After hearing Cui Changwu's words, the faces of the local supervisors turned pale.
Their taxation rights have been deprived by Li Zhi, and Li Zhi is now depriving them of their judicial rights. Although Li Zhi did not directly say that he would not allow people to go to the yamen to file lawsuits, since everything is subject to the Xingguo Bo court, who can
Are you going to go to the Yamen to argue? Naturally, you go directly to the Xing Guobo Court, which has the final power to pronounce judgment.
Without taxation and the power to adjudicate lawsuits, what would they have left as magistrates of prefectures and counties? Li Zhi wanted to completely ignore them.
The so-called magistrate who destroys the family and the county magistrate who wipes out the family! The power to judge lawsuits is the greatest power of the local chief. Without the power to judge lawsuits, how can they get money? Who will honor them? What else will they do in the future? Just immerse themselves in it.
Construction and water conservancy? Li Zhi wants to change them from a parent official to an empty frame with no power?
The faces of the local officials present turned red and white, looking very ugly.
This time, Li Zhi hit these civil servants with a stick again. The local officials signed a seal to boycott Li Zhi's taxation. Is this how Li Zhi retaliates against the local officials?
Moreover, the power to adjudicate lawsuits is different from collecting taxes from the gentry. The latter is a declaration of war on the scholars of the world. Behind the gentry in Tianjin are the scholars of the world. The former is just a struggle for power. Although the world is big, no one will stand up.
Help officials from all over Tianjin and challenge the powerful Li Zhi.
