On July 21, it had been ten days since Li Zhi destroyed the Three Kings Daily. Shandong Daily made a lot of corrective reports in an effort to eliminate the negative effects of the rumors spread by the Three Kings Daily on Li Zhi.
Fortunately, "Three Kings Daily" only published the rumor for more than ten days before it was stopped. After ten days of repeated propaganda by "Shandong Daily", the people who were originally suspicious of Li Zhi gradually changed their views.
Next, "Shandong Daily" concentrated its firepower and began to promote the benefits of the "Tianjin Public Tribunal" in Shandong.
If Li Zhi wants to control Shandong, he not only needs to collect taxes in Shandong. Commercial taxes and land taxes are of course very important interests, but at the same time, Li Zhi also needs to obtain judicial power in Shandong. Only by controlling the criminal litigation in Shandong Province
With the power of adjudication, Li Zhi could truly expand his power to Shandong.
Judicial power is the prerequisite for various matters such as controlling public opinion, collecting taxes, running industries, and even running schools. Without judicial power, what if local officials directly embezzle Li Zhi's property during the lawsuit? What if the officials make things difficult for those who support Li Zhi?
What to do? Only by abolishing the power of civil servants in Shandong to adjudicate lawsuits can Li Zhi truly establish a fair and just social order in Shandong and flex his muscles.
Of course, Li Zhi's Tianjin Public Court was not only a tool for Li Zhi's rule, but also a strong pillar for Li Zhi to establish a fair and just social order for the people.
In the late Ming Dynasty, officialdom was corrupt, and local officials were often influenced by power and favor in handling cases. In such a social atmosphere, real ordinary people were easily bullied by the powerful. There was no convincing protection of property rights in the entire society. Those with power,
You can litigate and rob the weak of their property. Skilled craftsmen must spend a lot of money to bribe those in power to survive.
In such a social atmosphere, only government and business can develop. Efficient and advanced production methods and productivity are made difficult by the unfair social order, and they will fall apart and return to the starting point within a short time.
Li Zhi's Jinguo Public Court gave the people and businessmen a fair and equitable social environment. Under the protection of the court, farmers could fertilize their fields without worrying about powerful people taking over their good land, craftsmen and workshop owners.
You can rest assured to improve production and no longer worry about the encroachment of powerful people. Even small traders can put more goods on their own carts and no longer worry about blackmail by green-skinned rogues.
Therefore, the first thing Li Zhi wanted to build in Shandong was the court.
"Shandong Daily" went into full gear and began to introduce the benefits of courts. The social chaos before the courts in Tianjin and the order after the courts were repeatedly reported. After the establishment of social order, people's property is safer and people are safer. Public security
Things have gotten better, social production has expanded, and people have become richer.
After the courts were established in Tianjin, some classic cases were published and publicized in various places by "Shandong Daily".
On this day, in a teahouse in Jinan, a newspaper reader held a newspaper and read aloud:
"Before there were courts, Tianjin was in chaos and everything was up for grabs. Song Ning, a small oil seller in Jinghai County, Tianjin, was honest and fair in his business. His business was good and he lived a well-off life. But because of his beautiful wife, he was raped by a Jinghai County official.
Thousands of households are worried about her. These thousands of households want to bankrupt Song Ning, seize Song Ning's wife to be a concubine, and bribe the government servants to go to Song Ning's shop every day to cause trouble."
"Song Ning was so worried that he abandoned his family's shop and fled to the Acropolis of Tianjin to take refuge. He worked as a cook in a restaurant owned by relatives and friends, and became extremely poor. One of his sons and one daughter died of illness one after another due to lack of food and clothing."
When the guests in the teahouse heard this, they had no reaction. In the late Ming Dynasty, officialdom was no more corrupt than in the early Ming Dynasty. The social order was very chaotic, and any good thing would be remembered. Marrying a beautiful wife is very eye-catching and has no power.
Ordinary people who have a beautiful wife will have trouble sooner or later.
Everyone is not surprised by what happened to Song Ning and is used to it.
However, when the article in the newspaper was written here, the topic changed. The newspaper reader read: "However, in the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Duke of Jin opened a court in Tianjin. The judges were honest and fair, eradicated evil and suppressed the powerful, and social order was gradually established. Song Ning
Having been forced into desperation, he took the Qianhu who murdered him to court with a try attitude."
"Who knew that the court acted impartially and actually ruled in Song Ning's favor, arrested a thousand households and fined them fifty with a stick, and sentenced another thousand households to compensate Song Ning one hundred and twenty taels of silver. Only then did Song Ning realize that Tianjin had changed a lot, and brought him
Song Ning returned to Jinghai County with his wife to run an oil shop again, and now he has become the best oil shop businessman in Jinghai. In March of this year, Song Ning's wife gave birth to another son for him."
After hearing the ending of the story, the tea guests in the teahouse were very surprised. It was a notorious scandal for a powerful man to seize a wife. But in the late Ming Dynasty, no one cared about such things. The tea guests were all ordinary people.
, who doesn’t want to see an end to this chaos? Unexpectedly, in Tianjin, the people of Tianjin have already enjoyed such a just social order.
Everyone looked at each other for a while, feeling a little sad.
Suddenly someone shouted loudly: "Okay! Jin Guogong's court is great. When can we have such a court in Shandong?"
Everyone looked at the shouting tea guests, but no one spoke.
The reader flicked the newspaper and read again: "The wealthy man is desperate and the court will protect his family property for his heirs."
"Zhao Ji Pottery, a Tianjin pottery merchant, has been running the 'Zhao Ji Pottery Store' for thirty-six years, and his business has spread all over Tianjin. Zhao Ji pottery is made of solid materials, fine workmanship, and high quality. People like it very much. It is a famous merchant in Tianjin, and its products even spread far and wide.
He was sold in Gyeonggi Province. Zhao Fenting accumulated thousands of taels of goods from 21 branches. Before his death, he was very worried that his property would be divided up by traitors after his death. He was worried that his two sons would not be able to inherit the family property, so he could only force his two sons to obtain honors. Two
My son has studied hard for more than ten years, but he has never been able to pass the examination."
"Zhao Fenting passed away in despair. Before the first seven days passed, his two sons immediately ushered in relatives and friends who snatched the family property. Sixteen shops were occupied in a few days, and the 'Zhao Ji Pottery Shop' suddenly collapsed.
However, by this time the Tianjin Public Court had become famous, and the two sons of the Zhao family took the robbers to court and finally won a complete victory."
"In the end, all the Zhao family's property was recovered, and the Zhao family's descendants were able to continue to employ workers to run the family's 'Zhao Ji Pottery Shop'."
Hearing this, the tea drinkers in the teahouse all cheered loudly. Zhao Ji Pottery is a famous commercial product in Tianjin, and some people in Jinan have heard of it. The old business of Zhao Ji Pottery Shop has been passed down, and Zhao Ji Pottery is not the only one who has benefited.
The two sons in the family are citizens of Tianjin.
An old man dressed as a businessman stood up tremblingly, his face flushed with excitement, and loudly said: "If the court of Jin Guogong protects private property, I, Jiang Jianshen, will be the first to support Jin Guogong in bringing the court to Shandong!"
Everyone looked at each other and secretly thought that this was Jiang Jianshen, a famous silk and satin merchant in Jinan City. Now the merchants have begun to support Jin Guogong?
