One of them was the shopkeeper brought by Zhou Da from Tang Dynasty.
Although Zhou Da is greedy and stingy, he is still quite good to him as the shopkeeper.
It's not that he really values friendship, but in this restaurant, the waiters can be changed at any time.
But the shopkeeper can’t be changed frequently, right?
What you need most is someone you can trust.
Therefore, I usually treat him very well as the shopkeeper.
The other one is the aboriginal people who work with the stones.
After Shitou's death, the reason why Shitou's family and tribe knew so quickly was because he informed him.
This person's name is Mu Mu.
Next, Li Min asked two people one after another.
During the inquiry process, the shopkeeper of the Zhou family naturally favored his boss.
As for the aboriginal wood, they naturally prefer the stone of the deceased.
However, the difference between the two statements is actually not that big. It is just that they are biased in their subjective feelings.
In fact, Shi Shi's death was really an accident, and Zhou Da did not intend to kill him.
Next, Li Min asked Shi Shi's parents: "Plaintiff, I wonder if you have anything else to say?"
Shitou's father cried and cried: "City Lord, our Shitou is an honest and hard-working family. But the boss of this family, Zhou Da, still bullies him like this. He is really worse than a pig or a dog!"
"My son died, and I only have one wish, which is to let this Zhou Da pay for my son with his life!"
After hearing the statement from Shitou's parents, Li Min couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
In this case, there is actually not much doubt, and the facts are clear.
The most important thing is how to close the case.
After thinking for a moment, Li Min began to make a judgment.
"In this case, Zhou Da, the owner of Zhoujia Restaurant, deducted the stone wages from the hired workers. As a result, the two had a quarrel and then a fight."
"The hired worker Shitou started the beating first. During the process, Zhou Da accidentally pushed the stone against the wall. As a result, Shitou's head hit the wall and he died on the spot."
"In this case, Zhou Da, the owner of Zhoujia Restaurant, is guilty of manslaughter. However, in view of the fact that he had no active intention to kill, and after the case occurred, he worked hard to rescue and there was no excuse. The verdict is as follows:
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"Zhou Da deducted wages and caused the death of the employee Shitou. He must compensate Shitou's parents 357,000 yuan."
"Zhou Da was sentenced to eight years in prison for negligent injury. This is the result of this sentence. If there is any objection to this sentence, the city lord will form a special conference hall to discuss this case."
"At the same time, Huaxia City will form a labor bureau in the near future. Next time there is a case of deducting wages or other phenomena, you can go to the labor bureau to file a complaint. As long as the labor bureau finds the facts are clear, it will severely punish the employer."
"From now on, all employers must go to the Labor Bureau to sign a labor contract when recruiting employees. If anyone is found to have failed to sign a labor contract with the employer, he or she will be severely punished."
The trial of this case ends here.
The outcome of City Lord Li Min's trial was beyond almost everyone's expectations.
Almost everyone felt that the city lord's punishment was too light.
Isn’t this clearly towards the Tang people?
But if you think about it carefully, the city lord's punishment is actually quite reasonable.
Because in this case, Zhou Da did not intend to kill Shi Shi in his subjective will.
On the contrary, it was Shitou who made the move first. When Zhou Da was resisting, he accidentally pushed Shitou away, and then accidentally caused Shitou's death.
From this point of view, this penalty is too severe for Zhou Da.
This is completely self-defense!
But then again, if he hadn't deliberately withheld wages and delayed wages, Shitou wouldn't have been forced to take action.
Taken together, the city lord's punishment is really fair and just.
Some people are satisfied with this penalty result, and some people are not satisfied.
There are also some people who decisively chose to leave Huaxia City because of this case.
For example, Shitou's parents and some of his relatives.
After receiving the compensation, I chose to leave this sad place.
But more people still agree with this penalty result.
Many Aboriginal people are not necessarily concerned about the case itself.
But it depends on whether the city lord treats them fairly and treats them equally like the Tang people.
In this case, it can be said that the city lord did not treat the aborigines with any preferential treatment at all.
But in fact, there is no target at all.
The city lord treats both parties fairly.
This attitude actually made those aboriginal people really feel relieved.
Because, if the city lord intends to treat them preferentially, they may not really feel at ease.
This case seems to be just a small episode in Huaxia City.
But it has far-reaching significance to Huaxia City.
This case can be regarded as setting a tone.
When encountering such cases in the future, the city lord's penalty will be a benchmark and a reference.
In fact, in Li Min's view, the penalty imposed on Zhou Da was still too severe.
If he were punished according to the punishments of later generations, it would be estimated that he would be sentenced to up to six or seven years.
If we could hire a good lawyer or get the forgiveness of the victim's family, we wouldn't even be punished for so many years.
But in this era, Li Min can only impose penalties like this.
Otherwise, I'm afraid some indigenous people will really cause trouble.
In the end, I had no choice but to make this decision.
The subsequent change brought about by this incident was that there was an additional labor bureau in Huaxia City.
There is labor arbitration.
Next, all employing units must sign labor contracts with their employees.
At the same time, Huaxia City also introduced labor laws.
Labor laws are posted in conspicuous places in the city.
Even the TV stations specifically broadcast this.
The contents of labor laws are basically all aimed at domestic workers in disadvantaged groups.
This made the aborigines very moved.
Because most of them are servants.
Only a small number of people have become bosses.
However, even the bosses among them highly praised the labor law introduced by the city lord.
The introduction of the labor law and the emergence of the Labor Bureau completely relieved the aborigines.
In recent years, with the continuous expansion of Huaxia City.
As more and more people do business, they will sometimes encounter such rogue employers.
Deliberately deducting their wages, or simply cheating.
They lied with open eyes and said that they had already been paid for wages that were clearly not paid.
Many times, they are forced to endure it.
Because this kind of thing is difficult to explain clearly.
What's more, they don't know where to go to reason.
It is precisely because of these reasons that many aborigines still have barriers to Huaxia City.
But after the emergence of the Labor Bureau, these aborigines' sense of belonging to Huaxia City has been greatly enhanced.
They felt that many businessmen in Huaxia City might be discriminating against them.
But Li Min, the lord of Huaxia City, did not discriminate against them.
On the contrary, we treat them all equally.
Now, more and more aborigines are learning Chinese.
Even, their education for newborns.
In addition to teaching them their own language, they will also be taught Chinese at the same time.
Language learning ability is strongest in infants and young children.
They don't want their children to lose at the starting line.
Here, if you don't know Chinese, your future life may be more difficult.
There are more aborigines who want to learn to write Chinese characters.
But they found that Chinese characters were too difficult to learn.
They feel that being able to learn to speak Chinese characters is their limit.
With such complicated Chinese characters, they may not be able to learn even a few words in their lifetime.
Chinese characters, I'm afraid, have no chance with them.
In this case, Li Min, the city lord of Huaxia City, once again introduced simplified Chinese characters for these aborigines.
Li Min simplified the original strokes of Chinese characters.
Although simplified Chinese characters are still very difficult for these aborigines to learn.
But the difficulty of learning has been reduced by at least ten times.
The introduction of simplified characters has triggered a wave of learning climax for aborigines to learn Chinese characters.
But regarding the prince's move, even Shangguan Yi didn't understand what was going on.
For this matter, Shangguan Yi also visited Li Min.
"Your Majesty, why are you introducing simplified characters? Wei Chen feels that simplified characters are of no use at all."
Li Min smiled slightly and then asked: "Prime Minister Shangguan, why do you think that simplifying Chinese characters is of no use?"
Shangguan Yi couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, look! We Tang people don't know these simplified characters. What's the use of these aborigines after they learn the simplified characters?"
"Who are they writing for? No one can understand it except themselves! It's still difficult for us to communicate! So, simplified characters are really of no use!"
Li Min smiled slightly, and then asked Shangguan Yi: "Prime Minister Shangguan, I have never learned these simplified characters, but now I am writing an article written in simplified characters. See if you can understand it."
After that, Li Min picked up his pen, quickly wrote an article in simplified Chinese characters and vernacular, and then handed it to Shangguan Yi.
After Shangguan Yi took it, he looked at it carefully.
Simplified characters are not simplified randomly.
In fact, it is to simplify the original character and its radicals.
There is a context for this.
A smart person like Shangguan Yi quickly figured out the principle of simplified characters.
Therefore, even though I was guessing and confused, after reading the entire article, I found that there was not much obstacle.
Basically, I understand it.
Moreover, this article is to answer his questions.
It turns out that the simplified Chinese characters introduced by the emperor were not entirely targeted at the aborigines.
It turns out that the emperor is planning to popularize simplified Chinese characters throughout Huaxia City, or in other words, within Huaxia Kingdom.
Seeing this, Shangguan Yi's first thought was that this was unfilial to his ancestors.
Chinese characters are a treasure left by our ancestors. How can we change them casually?
But Shangguan Yi immediately thought that in ancient times, all the characters used were wedge-shaped characters.
I don’t know how many times more complicated it is than the current fonts.
But later, it was simplified because it was too troublesome.
Later fonts also underwent many simplifications.
My ancestors also did this kind of thing.
In later generations, it was also passed down as a good story.
So, now that the emperor has simplified the fonts, is there any problem?
Li Min then said: "Prime Minister Shangguan, don't you think that there are still too few literate people among our people?"
"If we want to develop people's wisdom, we must make more people read and write. However, it is too difficult to write Chinese characters now. Which articles are really difficult to understand."
"It's so obscure! What's its meaning? So, I'm going to introduce simplified characters to promote the habit of writing in vernacular."
"Slowly, let all the people become literate."
After listening to Li Min's words, Shangguan Yi couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
He was thinking about whether what the emperor told him could be realized.
At the beginning, Shangguan Yi felt that this matter must be difficult and the resistance would be great.
But soon he stopped laughing.
This is the Golden State, this is Huaxia City, this is not the Tang Dynasty.
There are no opponents from aristocratic families here, and there are also no stubborn scholars here.
Those who followed the emperor to Huaxia City were all students who graduated from Yizhou University.
How could they oppose the emperor's new policy?
If the emperor can really accomplish these two things, then it will be really possible for Huaxia to make everyone literate, right?
If you can really reach that stage, you will really surpass all the sages!
This is a great achievement that has not been accomplished by many wise men from ancient times to the present!
Thinking of this, Shangguan Yi couldn't help but said to Li Min: "Your Majesty, let your subordinates promote this matter."
If the government of Huaxia City promotes this matter, it will be very easy to promote it.
And Li Min said: "This matter does not need to be promoted by the government for the time being, just let it take its own course."
In fact, whether this kind of thing is promoted by the government or not, the impact will not be big.
If it is promoted by the government, it may encounter some resistance.
After all, nostalgia is actually an instinct for most people.
And left to their own development, the simplified Chinese characters will be much simpler than the fonts they use now.
But the common people below don’t care about cultural inheritance!
As long as it is simple and practical, Li Min believes that simplified Chinese characters will be widely spread among the people soon.
And as long as the people below get used to it, it will be a matter of course for them to implement simplified Chinese characters.
And if simplified Chinese characters are implemented now, let alone those officials.
Even those literate people may have objections if they are asked to abandon the fonts they have used for many years and learn new simplified characters.
Seeing Li Min's objection, Shangguan Yi thought for a moment and immediately figured out the key and stopped insisting.
The entire Huaxia City is still developing rapidly.
And whether it is Shangguan Yi or Wu Meiniang, they have endless government affairs to deal with every day.
However, they enjoyed it very much and enjoyed it.
Li Min, on the other hand, made arrangements for them and then returned to Datang again.
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After returning to the Tang Dynasty, Li Min organized a film tour abroad.
This is not the first time that a movie has been broadcast in countries other than the Tang Dynasty.
Power stations are currently only available in Datang.
Although Datang's technology attracted talents from countless surrounding countries.
However, as Li Min expected, after these talents were cultivated, most of them chose to stay in Datang.
Because the knowledge they have learned is too advanced, if they start from scratch after returning to their country, it will be difficult for them to see results in their lifetime.
Of course, not everyone chooses to stay.
There are also some people who choose to return to China to engage in education and scientific research.
This has also caused the technological level of neighboring countries to be in the process of rapid development.
However, compared with the Tang Dynasty, their speed is really not worth mentioning.
The two cannot be compared at all.
Of course, there are also various talents in these countries.
These talents can actually stand out in some fields.
The achievements that made the scientists of Tang Dynasty pay attention to them.
Then, most of these talents were bribed by Datang.
Some of these talents are also unable to refuse the generous conditions offered by Datang.
There are also some talents who can resist the temptation and are only obsessed with research.
But in their country, there is no way to provide them with further research conditions.
For their research, they also had to come to Datang.
Because of the gap in basic conditions and scientific research levels, the surrounding countries are also developing rapidly in science and technology.
But there is still a long way to go before they can independently develop a generator.
I am afraid that it may not be possible to develop it in more than ten years or even decades.
The Tang Dynasty's movies, televisions, and electric lights and telephones attracted countless citizens from neighboring countries.
Many people from neighboring countries secretly came to Datang to work.
Even girls from some countries are proud to marry into the Tang Dynasty.
In order to attract people from neighboring countries, Emperor Li Ke of Tang Dynasty accepted the proposal of King Li Min of Shu.
Several teams are often organized to screen movies in these countries.
Of course, since there is no electricity in their country, they can only provide their own generators to play movies.
This behavior of Datang was widely praised and unanimously recognized by the people of neighboring countries.
These movies are really great.
What they love to watch most, besides martial arts, are some urban movies.
Most of these urban films are based on Chang'an City or Yizhou New City.
Because these two cities are developing the fastest.
Most of the people in these surrounding countries have never been abroad.
When they saw in the movie, these two cities were so prosperous.
Wide streets, tall buildings, beautiful houses, Mercedes-Benz cars, electric lights and telephones and a series of modern products.
It made them full of longing and yearning for life in the Tang Dynasty.
Let them feel that Datang is paradise!
This is also an invasion of their culture.
But this time, Li Min decided to show them the video of Huaxia City.
Li Min believes that the development of Huaxia City will definitely attract them.
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At this time, the cities built by the top ten aristocratic families have gradually entered the formal stage.
With the first batch of materials in place, their people quickly fired green bricks and cement nearby.
The speed of construction has further accelerated.
After the video of the previous construction was passed back to China, the decision-makers of these aristocratic families, after some research.
They suddenly discovered that the Golden State is really big.
It would take several months to travel from their territory to Huaxia City.
Moreover, there is currently no official way.
If the army is dispatched, it will take longer.
The current population of Huaxia City is not large.
In a short period of time, at least within a few decades, the chance of conflict between the two sides is very small.
In fact, why did the Emperor of Tang allow them to come to the Golden State to establish their country?
People from these aristocratic families also made some guesses. After all, they are not stupid.
But they also have an account in their hearts.
The so-called wealth and wealth are found in danger.
Judging from the current situation, the possibility of Li Min attacking them during his lifetime is very small.
As for the next generation, they don’t need to be afraid at all!
What's more, they have ten aristocratic families. Could it be that if the ten aristocratic families join forces, they can't defeat a mere Chinese city?
After a comprehensive investigation, these aristocratic families decided to increase their efforts in construction.
This is the perfect time for their family to build a country.
If they miss this time, they may not be able to wait for the next opportunity.
If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed for it.
And the family's heritage is indeed huge and terrifying.
They continuously transported various supplies to the Golden State.
The speed of their construction is constantly improving.
And as time went by, they also continued to expand outwards.
The initial exchange of 50,000 acres of land was simply not enough for them.
Moreover, they also need large amounts of various minerals.
And the minerals they need are all outside their territory.
Since Huaxia City is so far away from them, they don't have any worries anymore.
Start frantically mining minerals, expanding territory, and constantly reclaiming land.
Next, they will migrate more people here.
They will continue in most of the Tang Dynasty to support the construction here.
In Datang, we only need to leave a small part of our resources.
They decided to put all the focus of construction here.
The speed at which they transport supplies is also extremely crazy.
In addition to normal maintenance of the giant ship, they are not willing to let the giant wheel stand still for almost a moment.
On the one hand, their construction requires a large amount of materials.
On the other hand, their giant ships are all year-round.
We can't let this time go to waste, right?
But the next time the giant ship arrived at Datang Wharf, when they were about to carry supplies to the giant ship, the captain of the giant ship refused them to continue carrying supplies.
People from these aristocratic families were immediately dumbfounded.
"Why? Why can't we move the supplies? We obviously booked it for a year, but the time hasn't come yet, and you haven't maintained it, so why can't it be used? You have to give us a suitable reason!"
