The academy is not on the busiest main street in the capital, and there were not many passers-by at the entrance. After Wang Wu shouted a few times, the people passing by began to gather here.
Soon, even the people on the main street were attracted here, and the entrance to Baichuan Academy was crowded with people.
The common people who came late stood on the outside of the crowd and looked inside with their feet up.
"What happened in there?"
"What's going on? Why is there an extra table at the entrance of the academy?"
"Why is Capt. Li here?"
"Captain Li is coming to trouble the academy again?"
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After everyone came forward to inquire, they learned that Li Mu was not here to cause trouble for the academy this time, but to redress the grievances of the people and uphold justice.
For the people of Shendu, the government is full of mystery and fear. There is a popular saying among the people, "The yamen gate opens to the south. If you have a reason but no money, don't come in." Yamen has never been a place to uphold justice for the people, and many people who have been wronged have entered the yamen.
, but instead add injustice to injustice.
The procedure of going to the Yamen to report a crime is cumbersome, and there is a high possibility that it will not lead to good results.
Over time, the people no longer trust the yamen and would rather suffer injustice than go to the yamen to report the crime.
But at the entrance of Baichuan Academy, Capt. Li, who had done justice to the people many times, was sitting behind the table. Words like "yamen" and "reporting the crime" seemed to make him no longer distant from the people.
All this stemmed from the serious environment of the yamen and became a familiar scene to the people on the street. More importantly, they had trust in Li Mu.
The common people were afraid when facing the officials, but Capt. Li patrolled the streets all day, and most of the people had greeted him and talked to him. Just seeing his face made them feel more friendly.
For a time, the people passing by complained about their grievances, while those who were not wronged stood aside and watched the excitement.
A man bravely stepped forward and said: "Captain Li, the shopkeeper of the butcher shop in the west of the city owes the poor people two taels of silver, but now he refuses to admit it. Can the Yamen help me collect the debt?"
Li Mu looked at Deputy Chief Sun and said, "Old Sun, go take a look with him."
Deputy Chief Sun has the state of concentration and is more than capable of handling such civil disputes.
Deputy Chief Sun bowed his hands to Li Mu and left with the man.
Everyone stood aside and watched for a while, realizing that Capt. Li really wanted to bring justice to the people of Shendu. Some people who did have grievances stopped waiting and started to step forward boldly.
"Captain Li, my family's property has been usurped..."
"Captain Li, my chicken was stolen yesterday..."
"Captain Li, a student from Baichuan Academy, once violated my daughter..."
"Students from Baichuan Academy are still borrowing wine from my wine shop and not paying it back..."
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Li Mu asked Wang Wu and others to handle the case of land embezzlement and chicken theft, and said to the last two people: "Come on, you two, tell us your grievances in detail..."
A middle-aged man said angrily: "The daughter of a grassroots man was once drunk by a college student and cheated out of her body. Now she can't get married. She sheds tears every day at home..."
The shopkeeper said: "I can testify that students from the three major academies often hang out with women and go to inns and restaurants..."
In a few days, Li Mu's table moved from the entrance of Baichuan Academy to the street in front of Qingyun Academy and the teahouse opposite Wanjuan Academy.
Through people's voluntary reports and his investigation and visits, Li Mu discovered that Wei Bin, Jiang Zhe and others were definitely not special cases of Baichuan Academy.
Although these students do not bully the common people by virtue of their status as academy students, they are keen on seducing women, and have even formed a certain trend.
They also compare each other.
Compare who has achieved the most virginity in a month, who can get to know a stranger and have sex the fastest, and the winner can also get certain benefits from the loser.
The academy is the cradle of cultivating officials for the court, and the status of academy students naturally increases with the tide.
College students are the future pillars of the imperial court. They should be personable, full of knowledge, and have unlimited future. Such men are the best choice for women to choose a spouse.
With their status as academy students, they can easily meet all kinds of women.
In the beginning, a man and a woman just talk about love affairs and ideals. Soon, they will talk about bed.
Some of the women did this voluntarily.
They hope that they can find a good son-in-law, and when he enters the officialdom, they can become an official's wife, and from then on, they can live a life of fine clothes and fine food, and have a worry-free life.
But everyone knows that these academy students just want to defraud their emotions and bodies.
For this type of scumbag, we can only condemn them morally, but cannot punish them legally.
Men love women, you love me and I love you. I can only blame those women for not seeing clearly the true colors of scumbag men. They have to bear the consequences of their own decisions.
If the women don't want to, students like Wei Bin Jiangzhe will resort to violent means, or get them drunk or knocked unconscious to achieve their goals.
This kind of thing is not new to academy students.
Not all women will have sex with them in a short period of time. Some people with an urgent temper will rape or stun the women to take away their bodies.
After the incident was exposed, many of the victimized women and their families did not dare to offend the academy and could only swallow their anger.
Such a shopkeeper, who brought the academy students to the Ministry of Punishment, not only failed, but he himself was threatened.
Today, Li Mu has gained the trust of the people in Shendu. In just three days, he has received dozens of reports about academy students forcibly assaulting women.
Considering that there are still women whose families are concerned about their appearance or are afraid of the academy and do not dare to come forward, this number will only be higher.
This involves not only Baichuan Academy, but also Qingyun Academy and Wanjuan Academy.
Only Bailu Academy, due to its closed management and extremely strict requirements for students, has not had a single similar incident.
This is not an academy that trains talents for the imperial court. It is clearly the cradle of rapists.
Even though the number of these students is less than one-tenth of the academy's students and cannot represent the entire academy, it is shocking that one out of every ten students has committed a crime against a woman.
It’s hard to imagine what would happen if such a person became an official in the future.
Li Mu also didn't know how many such "talents" the three major academies had provided to the imperial court over the years.
No wonder there are officials like the magistrate of Yang County. The three major academies are so ridiculous. I am afraid that among the thirty-six counties and hundreds of counties, there is more than one "Yang County", and hundreds of county magistrates, there is more than one "Yang County".
"Yang County Magistrate".
Ziwei Palace.
The morning court had just begun, and a figure stood out in the corner, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I have this memorial."
The Queen's voice came from behind the curtain: "What does Li Aiqing want to report?"
Li Mu asked Shangguan Li to hand over a memorial and said in a deep voice: "I have recently found out that dozens of students from Baichuan, Qingyun, and Wanjuan, the three major academies, have violated nearly a hundred women in half a year. It is simply shocking.
I don’t know whether the existence of the academy is to cultivate heroes for the imperial court or to cultivate criminals for the Zhou Dynasty..."
After a while, the queen asked the young female officer to hand over the fold and said, "Everyone, please take a look."
In the Ziwei Hall, Li Mu's excerpts began to be circulated from front to back.
All the officials who saw this were silent.
Within the curtain, the Queen held a piece of paper sandwiched in the memorial in her hand, and her majestic voice was cold, ringing in the ears of the officials: "This is the pillar of the imperial court that the Academy said, this is the future.
Officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty, I finally understand. The trouble that worries the Great Zhou Dynasty is not in the demon clan or the ghost realm, but in the academy. It is in this court. The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty all come from the academy. If the academy is bad, the Great Zhou Dynasty will be bad.
If all the academies are destroyed, the people of the thirty-six counties will no longer trust the imperial court, lose the support of the people, and lose their power of mind. How will the Great Zhou Dynasty continue..."
