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Chapter 245 Lawyer

"It's okay, Shen'er. In fact, any regulations and measures are made by people are flawed after all. This is why good laws can still become tools for exploiting the people in the hands of corrupt officials! The so-called policies and countermeasures are at the top. Since the matter is approaching, you can use the 'countermeasures' we have agreed on to deal with them. In two days, the project of dredging the West Lake dike will be basically completed. The rest is nothing more than finishing work such as planting trees and planting flowers. This has used so many wing soldiers and is transformed into engineering soldiers on the spot, which is called "Hangzhou Engineering Group" to the outside world!" Although Wang Jinghui and Li Shen were in the same mood, they did not expect that his stinky mouth would come from whatever he said. No matter how things happened, it would be useless. If even his own stubbornness was messed up, what should Li Shen do?!

"Teacher, the students thought they would rather turn all of the ten thousand troops into engineers first, and draw two thousand from them to form an escort agency similar to Chuzhou, which would be more secure!" Li Shen said from the side.

"Haha, Shen'er's idea is wrong. At least the escort agency will definitely make money!" Wang Jinghui said with a smile. He saw Li Shen's little progress. In the past, he had also consciously trained him. Now he is the top scorer in the new Song Dynasty, so he should learn to walk by himself. Although Li Shen is stable under his wings, he is still a puppet after all, which is what Wang Jinghui is happy to see.

The news that the Farmland Water Conservancy Law will be trialed on Liangzhe Road was published in the second issue of the just-issued Hangzhou Business Daily, and there is a detailed explanation of the Farmland Water Conservancy Law by the Hangzhou Prefect. Speaking of this "Hangzhou Business Daily", it definitely has nothing to do with Wang Jinghui. This was issued by the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce. If there is any relationship between the two, it is nothing more than that Hangzhou merchants were inspired to see the "Mirror of Songs" run by Wang Jinghui.

Although the Hangzhou Business Daily has only been released for two issues, it is operated by the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and even the newspaper distribution is jointly undertaken by the Hangzhou printing giants Chu, Yan and Qian. In the past, these three printing giants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were undoubtedly the first in the printing industry in the Song Dynasty. However, Wang Jinghui's Commercial Press quickly grew stronger in a very short time with the consultation between the north and the south with the Yangtze River as the boundary.

Although these three former printing overlords of the Song Dynasty dared to oppose Wang Jinghui now, they were still worried about Commercial Press. Although the business of Commercial Press did not penetrate into Jiangnan, the "Mirror of Song Dynasty" and "Mei Xue" were directly distributed by Commercial Press in Jiangnan, which made these Jiangnan colleagues particularly eye-catching.

After the establishment of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, the three giants came to Manager Li and expressed their idea of ​​running a newspaper, hoping that Manager Li could first vent his anger with the prince consort and test the prince consort's words. What they did not expect was that Wang Jinghui did not only oppose them running a newspaper, and also invited representatives from these three companies to their homes to discuss the newspaper matters.

Wang Jinghui had high expectations for the newspaper. Although he was the only one in the Song Dynasty. The Ming Mirror of the Song Dynasty, he still hoped that the Song Dynasty would have more newspapers. After the printing merchants in Hangzhou came to test his words, he immediately realized that this would be an opportunity - the merchants in Hangzhou were short of money. They had extremely strong influence locally and Liangzhe Road, and they were fully capable of running a newspaper.

In view of the special circumstances here, Wang Jinghui suggested that when they run newspapers, they tend to be commercial in content, which is only in line with Hangzhou's increasingly prosperous business style, and is also to form a good business cycle - to ensure the survival of newspapers through advertising.

The representatives of the three managers' management lit up after hearing this - Hangzhou's geographical location is far away from Kaifeng, the political center of Bian, and the path is not as strong as that of Commercial Press. If you take the same path as the "Ming Mirror of the Song Dynasty", you will inevitably be at a disadvantage. Moreover, everyone can afford to play political places, and their businessmen must be more cautious, not to talk about state affairs, avoiding reefs. If you take the path of commercialization, Hangzhou has this foundation, and if it is done well, it will open a new path, which will also avoid a collision with the son-in-law's "Ming Mirror of the Song Dynasty". Both sides will make good fortune and take their own needs. This is a beautiful thing!

The three representatives had a low status in the group they belonged to. But they had not yet reached the point of making a decision immediately. Some of Wang Jinghui's suggestions were very pertinent. After their retelling, the three real landlords decided to run a newspaper after they discussed it once. The second newspaper of the Song Dynasty, "Hangzhou Business Daily", was born. "Hangzhou Business Daily" was funded by the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and each company could pay to publish advertisements as needed. Although the circulation was relatively small, only two or three thousand copies, the cost was low and it could be passed. The most important thing was that the newspaper had found the right way. The Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce had great expectations for this, which also regained the regret of Jiangnan's lack of newspapers.

Although the Farmland Water Conservancy Law has no close ties with business, the Hangzhou prefect personally asked them to promote the new laws and regulations, so how could they dare to give this face? Moreover, the new laws and regulations are very involved. In this issue of the Hangzhou Business Daily, it is said that sales can be pushed up.

A few days later, the main project of dredging West Lake was basically completed. The Hangzhou Xiangjun Escort Bureau was established first, with more than 2,000 people. They still hold the military products of the Xiangjun. The specifications and systems were completely established by the Chuzhou Xiangjun Escort Bureau. Because Hangzhou is the center of the southern route of the Royal Marine Transport of the Song Dynasty, trade promotes commerce to prosperity. The amount of goods and goods in the middle is huge. In order to ensure safety, choosing an escort agency is the best choice. Although the Xiangjun Escort Bureau was transformed from the Xiangjun army, its personal quality may not be as high as those old escort agencies before, but because they hold escort equipment, which is possessed by ordinary escort agencies, and the fees are low, it is welcomed by the owners of the sales lands of Hangzhou. Due to the developed economy, the transaction of bodyguards can be eaten by one, and all escort agencies have their own customer base, so it did not cause fierce competition.

In addition to more than 1,000 people, the remaining eight thousand brigades had to continue to finish the project. The others were all incorporated into the Hangzhou engineering firm. The engineering firm established by the Xiangjun did not immediately enter the market, so Li Shen took these people to build bridges and roads first. If the Hangzhou merchants want to seek the greatest benefit on the 50,000 acres of land, they must do their best to develop the third-class land. There are fewer houses, roads, and bridges in the middle. So many projects can be solved by farmers who hire slack farming time in a short time. Just as the more than 7,000 acres of land, the army has temporarily had work to do.

Especially when Wang Jinghui designed and developed the 50,000 acres of land by the West Lake, he clearly used cement as the main building material. For this reason, the Xiangjun Engineering Company specially established a cement production workshop that started at the same time with 500 people. There are also firing red bricks to replace the blue bricks that are widely used to meet the demand for raw materials. Wang Jinghui's idea made cement usher in the first large-scale application of cement in this era. For a time, the surrounding area of ​​West Lake was in full swing, and the clean and hard cement pavement extended from Hangzhou City to the "Economic Development Zone" of Hangzhou Merchant Land. After Li Shen inspected the application of cement and red bricks, he ordered the construction of water conservancy, roads and bridges on the boundary under his rule. Although the Xiangjun Engineering Company once again expanded the scale of the workshop, the cement and red bricks produced were still in demand for supply. The profit of this Xiangjun Engineering Company was confirmed to be made.

After receiving the imperial decree that the court would be trialing the Farmland Water Conservancy Law on Liangzhe Road, Li Shen did not rush to implement this method. Anyway, it is now the rice harvest season for all regions, and even if it is necessary to build water conservancy, it will be half a month later. Taking advantage of this time, the Jiangnan supplementary issue of "Hangzhou Business Daily" and "Da Song Ming Mirror" have introduced the various provisions of the Farmland Water Conservancy Law in a long and detailed manner, and even printed many brochures to promote it.

What surprised Wang Jinghui the most was that there were special schools to learn the laws of the court in this era! He and Li Shen had such a big fanfare to promote the Three Water Conservancy Law of the Farmland, but they didn’t have any good intentions. They just wanted the people to measure the impact of the Farmland Water Conservancy Law on their lives. At that time, the Xiangjun Engineering Company would collect money and make some ideological preparations when it was officially operated. Unexpectedly, some schools had printed the Farmland Water Conservancy Law into booklets. They specifically asked people to learn the above provisions, which opened Wang Jinghui’s eyes.

In the era when Confucianism unified the world, it was extremely normal for schools to specialize in studying the laws of the court. This was because the "no lawsuits" that Confucianism yearned for. This school that is in line with the academic trend is in opposition to the Confucian tradition - specifically cultivating figures like lawyers to help others sue! After careful understanding, Wang Jinghui realized that these "law colleges" were obvious after a long time of trouble. Although the government had repeatedly searched, it still blocked the existence of such schools.

Manager Li has seen many strange things in his business. After asking him for advice, Wang Jinghui realized that Hangzhou was nothing in front of him. The most awesome place was Jiangxi. Such schools were like bamboo shoots after a rain. Even a school could gather hundreds of people to learn the law, and there were mock debates. The scene was spectacular!

"Is it right?!" Wang Jinghui said with a secret smile in his heart. This was what Manager Li saw with his own eyes when he was young. He completely believed in Manager Li's words, but this was a bit outrageous. The Song Dynasty was the most prosperous era of Confucianism. In such an era where Confucianism believed in "no litigation" and there were so many original "fast colleges for lawyers" that were too funny.

Wang Jinghui knew that one of the school of hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was a school. Deng Xi and Gongsun Long were the most prominent figures in this school. Among them, Deng Xi gathered to give lectures, specializing in learning and spreading legal knowledge, and suing others. Deng Xi is probably the originator of the Chinese lawyers born and raised in China. As for later generations in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and even after the reform and opening up, they were basically educated and grew up with Western legal education. Although they were also fellow lawyers, they were far from the origin.

Wang Jinghui knew that although this school was among the "hundred schools", it was not as prominent as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and other schools that have passed down through the ages. If later generations had not read special works, they might have known that there was still a school of school, which was entirely due to their own terrifying memory and the spirit of "reading without books" that made him know what he had known before. At the same time, the development of the school of school was that there were many destinies. Although in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Deng Xi of the family was still killed by the ruling son, because litigation activities were compatible with society.

In fact, learning is a theory similar to Western logic. Whether it is the dead Deng Xi, the remaining Gongsun Long, Hui Shi and even Mo Zi, learning was once developed to a very high level with their efforts. However, what Wang Jinghui regrets is that this theory with a very scientific spirit was also attacked by both Confucian and Taoist schools at the same time.

In ancient China, when a lawsuit was held, the first thing to do was to submit a complaint to the government office and state the case. Since most ordinary people were literate and could not use words to express the case, they had to ask those who had certain legal knowledge and understood the basic procedures of litigation and their absurdity to help. At that time, if no one who understood the law provided help, guidance and negotiation, it would be difficult for ordinary people to conduct litigation. Although Wang Jinghui saw in later costume TV series, there were scenes where few people blocked the road and beat drums to complain, according to the requirements of the ancient litigation system, complaints should be written first.

Abuse. Without abuse, the case will be accepted. However, it is not easy to write a plaque recognized by officials. Even if the case is accepted, it is tantamount to the countryside and the people of the city who "have never held a single position of guarding the order, never knew the face of the clerk, could argue, and write in his hand", which is tantamount to the sky. Therefore, it became normal for ordinary people to seek help from others when conducting lawsuits. Over time, these people who specialize in helping others to litigate are relatively separated from society and become a special industry. This is the "lawyer".

Deng Xi's quilt and son killed seems to indicate the bumpy fate of his disciples and grandchildren over thousands of years. Lawyers are often people who have a down-and-out career and have a low social evaluation in order to survive. They are also recognized by law. Lawyers are illegal and strictly prohibited by the government. Once found out, they will be punished. Using punishment to eliminate punishment and pursuing no lawsuit is one of the basic spiritual attributes of the traditional Chinese litigation culture. The activities of the litigationists are exactly contrary to the rulers' concept of calming things and pursuing courtesy and pursuing no lawsuits. Therefore, rulers in ancient China strictly prohibit the agent activities of litigators, and call litigators "skeletons", believing that they are "provoking words and making mistakes" and believe that they often "really "represent" with their eloquent tongues.

To be wrong, to be right, to be right, and to be unduly wrong." The rulers felt at ease with the situation where litigators controlled the litigation, and the government hated litigation. It can be imagined. Therefore, in this era, for "litigationists" who encouraged and encouraged others to initiate lawsuits or wrote litigation on their behalf, they only launched public opinion to criticize them, and even set up special articles to crack down on them. This was over. Wang Jinghui learned that for writing books that engraved and taught litigation, "according to the example of obscene words, one hundred sticks, and three thousand miles of water." Litigants were recognized by the state and had no legal rights. They could not only sign the litigation, but also directly participated in litigation. They belonged to the "underground" profession. This also determined that their social status was very low and there was no political way out.

The low status of the lawyer really shocked Wang Jinghui, especially when he was a teenager in his previous life, he had watched the movies that Stephen Chow said, and the glorious images of lawyers in many Hong Kong and Taiwan films. He even had the idea of ​​learning the law as a lawyer to seek justice for the people. However, at this time, the facts told him that the status of the "lawyer" in this era was only far higher than that of the wise and skilled officials. From this perspective, there was a possibility of losing his head at any time, which greatly subverted his ideal of "doing the world with a sharp word and washing away the people's grievances." Later lawyers all tried to add the word "big" in front of them, but now lawyers are simply open and open book shops as cover. Even these schools are afraid of the government to copy and confiscate, and even Jiangxi, the most popular "flash class for lawyers" in the mouth of Manager Li.

Wang Jinghui was silent. He thought of the reforms launched by Old Man Wang in history. Although the motive was good, the corrupt officials and political speculators in the middle took this opportunity to oppress the people. No wonder only the ministers' memorials said, "The people will beg for the new laws." There was no phenomenon of increasing litigation cases. It turned out that the "lawyers" of this era had long been cleaned up by them.

Although the Song Dynasty established the country through article education, in this era, only a small number of people were able to study and receive education, and compared with the vast population base, it was simply proportional to the vast population base. Even the entire big family was able to provide a few people with education. With such educational conditions, if the rights and interests of the people were violated, they would be punished. Although the lawyers had some good behaviors in bribery, this was much better than not. In academics, Wang Jinghui was a Confucian scholar, although the scholars were among the scholars.
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