Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Zhou Shixiang returned from Jinxia North and stayed in Fuzhou for three days to listen to the report of the acting Fuzhou governor and Fuzhou prefect Gui Yongzhi. Afterwards, he set off on the third day of March and entered Zhejiang from Funing Prefecture. When they arrived in Shouning County, Funing Prefecture, two or three villagers suddenly stopped the road and complained, claiming that the government did not recognize them as "robbers" and asked His Royal Highness King Qi to make the call for them.

Zhou Shixiang was very surprised, because the word "robbery household" can be understood by just hearing the name, so it is definitely not a good name. If ordinary people are called "robbers", it is as ugly as swearing. It stands to reason that the villagers should keep their distance from the word "robbery household", for fear of angering them, but I don't know why these villagers acted in the opposite way, and asked His Royal Highness King Qi to be the master for them and restore their "robbery". Account" identity.

Being called a "robber", not only for himself, but also for his descendants, how crazy is this person to do such absurd and utterly stupid things?

Is it possible that there are still people in this world who are willing to bear the name of "robbers"? Are you willing to be treated like thieves by yourself and your children and grandchildren?

When things go wrong, there must be demons!

Zhou Shixiang felt that this matter was not simple, there must be something unspeakable behind it, and it was the first time that he had encountered this kind of "blocking the road and calling for injustice", so he attached great importance to it, and specially called the Military Intelligence Division to Shouning County. Environmental investigation, be sure to find out about the "robbery".

After the Ministry of Military Intelligence was ordered to conduct a thorough investigation, it quickly reported the cause of the incident.

Sure enough, the water behind this "robber" was really deep, which made Zhou Shixiang both stunned and ridiculous.

It turned out that after the Qing army entered Fujian in the second year of Longwu, the social order in Fujian was in chaos. Seven of the ten households in Shouning County were robbers. The officials appointed by the Qing court did not dare to arrest them, but they could not allow them to make trouble for the robbers. So the magistrate at that time spent a lot of money to appease these thieves and called them "thieves". In order for these "robbers" to live in the townships and stop wandering around in chaos and affecting the local political performance, the magistrates and their officials deliberately attract these "robbers", or give them exemptions, or give them during festivals and holidays. They distribute money and food to keep thieves "honest".

Every year, the Shouning County Government distributes a certain amount of money and grain to the thieves, as well as subsidies for other agricultural tools and seeds. Every year on the eve of the Chinese New Year, the thieves will receive an additional pork subsidy of a small amount. Officials of all sizes in the county also visit the thieves on a regular basis, and they are basically responsive to their requests. Even the children of the robbers who take the Tongsheng and Xiucai exams, the school officials in the county will give special care. For example, if there were 20 Tongsheng students in the county's examination and examination, half of them must be children of robbers. In addition, the officials of the Sixth Household in the county and the new recruits of the errand assistant office also opened the door to the thieves. All kinds of measures are only to make these thieves stop being thieves, or to say that the local officials try to please the thieves in every possible way, just asking them not to cause trouble and affect the promotion of officials.

In the opinion of the officials in Shouning, as long as the robbers get the benefits of the government, they will definitely be grateful to Dade, and they will become good people again in the future. It won't take long for Shouning to have no more thieves, and all of them will be replaced by good people. Never thought that things backfired. The officials in Shouning didn't know that they benefited the robbers, but at the same time they planted a curse on the good people in Shouning County, and it was also the government that planted a nail that could never be nailed down.

These robbers in Shouning have no remorse at all. They used the government's fear that they would be robbers again, and changed their ways to make trouble and gather, just to get more benefits from the government.

In the beginning, only a few rogues from the robbers dared to do this. Later, it was discovered that these rogues had done it successfully. After the government did not treat them, all the robbers did it, and none of them were as Shouning officials hoped as a good citizen. Shouning's robbery disaster is getting worse and worse, and the thieves who have tasted the sweetness become more and more greedy.

Not only did the Shouning government take care of robbery households in terms of money, grain, taxation, children's reading and imperial examinations, but also in other areas.

In Shouning, there are "robbers" who have disputes with the people of good families. In order to calm things down and prevent the "robbers" from causing chaos, the government must deliberately protect the "robbers". Over time, all the people in the county knew the benefits of being a "robber", so the person who filed the lawsuit would pretend to call himself a robber, and the other party tried his best to prove that he was not a robber.

There are also many good people who were not robbers who were bullied by the robbers. As a result, the government did not help them, but forced them to lose money and land, and even those who were clearly the bitter masters were thrown into prison, while the robbers who bullied them were in Get out with impunity.

Do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequity.

When obeying the law and abiding by the government did not get the support of the government, but was able to be supported by the government because of misbehavior, the atmosphere of Shouning County was very bad. As far as litigation is concerned, as long as the Shouning county government tries the case, the first trial will definitely not be the twists and turns of the case. It's not a thief, it's really to check the files. Because as long as one party is a robber, then it must be the robber who suffers a loss~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Both parties are robbers, then it must be the county government that takes out the real money collected from the good people. Buy them "satisfied".

Shouning's "robbery" problem is really serious, so serious that the people who were denied being a robber, in order to fight for their "legitimate rights and interests", even stopped the carriage of His Royal Highness King Qi of Daming, and came to his old man to complain.

A thick stack of files was placed in front of Zhou Shixiang, which contained the large and small case files of the Shouning County Yap for more than ten years, as well as the household register of the money and grain issued to the robbers over the years.

"It's better to call someone a thief after death than not be a thief while you're alive."

This sentence circulated by Shouning made Zhou Shixiang laugh and cry, and at the same time he had to think about the lack of legal system and the reasons for the artificial inequality reflected behind this problem.

The reason why robbers are rampant in Shouning, the reason why people are not ashamed, but everyone fights to do it, is not the selfishness and evil of human nature, but the inaction of officials.

Because of fear, officials treat thieves as their ancestors, and these thieves will forever be the ancestors of officials and law-abiding people.

How serious is the robbery?

A joke from the MI Division is a good illustration of this problem. It is said that in the 12th year of Shunzhi, the daughter of Ren Mou, the magistrate of Shouning County, was bewitched by a fox spirit, so Ren Zhixian asked a Taoist priest from Maoshan to catch the fox spirit in a bottle and roast it with fire. As a result, the fox shouted loudly in the bottle: "Don't burn it, I am a robber!" After hearing this, the Taoist priest Maoshan still tried to burn it. But the county magistrate seemed to be giving people a cramp, so frightened that he hurriedly ordered the fox to be released, saying that the thieves couldn't burn it, and it couldn't be provoked. Burning this robber will attract a bunch of robbers. How can he, a small magistrate of the county, live in peace.