Chapter 2187 Flower War (ninety-five)

"How?"

   About 10 p.m., Bonaparte opened the door and walked in, then closed the door again.

   "Which one are you asking about?" She raised the book in her hand, "Is this still a meeting?"

   "Which one do you want to talk about?" He came to her and sat down next to her.

"Remember the 1692 International Congress of Wizards I told you about?" she smirked, "The same thing didn't happen, no dobots running under the table, no protesting centaurs. "

   "Sounds great, how is your book?"

  Georgiana looked at him suspiciously, why was he in such a good mood?

   "You won't stop until you finish reading, right? What's interesting?"

   She briefly recounted the plot he missed, and then added, "After I finish reading this book, I'm going to go out to bask in the sun, and if I go on like this, I'll become a nerd."

She tactfully said, in fact, what she wanted to say was that she would turn into an old bat, the wizard who has been experimenting with potions in the cellar, studying black magic, and having an aquiline nose all the year round, because her skin is pale because she has not been exposed to the sun all the time, and she needs her. Reminders will go to the stage to watch the Quidditch match.

   "You already are, didn't you say you should finish the book before attending the meeting? You should make them wait, instead of threatening you to attend, you attend."

   "I just don't want to offend the boatman while on the boat." She sighed "Would you like to continue reading with me or..."

   He stood up without waiting for her to finish, as if abandoning her.

   "You think this book is boring?" she said to his back.

   "When I want to see it, I'll let you read it to me." He smiled and said, "Even if you've read it once."

   She didn't understand what it meant.

   Then he hummed a tone-deaf song and went to read a book he was interested in.

  The early 19th century did not enter the electrical age, and the lighting was still candles. She felt as if she was back in the Hogwarts lounge, just without the slapstick and partying people.

   So she turned her gaze back to the book.

The predecessor always left some trivial and troublesome things. Just like when the Admiral left Guangzhou, he left a lot of unresolved issues. The former Governor of Nanhe also left some unsolved cases, one of which was within the Yamen members. dispute.

   In the second year of Jiaqing, the scale of the White Lotus Revolt became larger and larger. Among them, a group of bandits traveled down the river from Fengjie and reached the "Chu Realm". The bandits responded badly along the way, and even had a plan to attack the "Chang Yingcang" in Qingjiangpu.

Chang Yingcang was outside the city wall of Huai'an. Although there was a grain service on duty, once this national-level grain warehouse fell into the hands of the White Lotus Sect, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, he led the internal minister of the guards and the bandit general to lead the Sichuan army, and together with the Beifu soldiers led by the Zhenjiang general army. It pursued and suppressed the main force, and after the main force was dispersed, the rest were broken into pieces, dressed up as ordinary people and operated in the urban and rural areas of the "Chu Realm".

  The job of the Governor of the South River is to clean up the river and prevent the dam from breaching. It has nothing to do with bandit suppression or arrest, but manpower is needed for dredging or repairing dams, so some white lotus cultivators mixed in among the canal workers.

The workers who do this work are very mobile. Many times they are victims of "relief for work", and it is difficult to verify their identities. Moreover, these white lotus believers not only use the canal to cover up their identities, but also wait for opportunities to destroy them. The materials used to repair the dam were ignited, causing great losses.

  The river governor had to cooperate with the governors of Jiangsu and AH to screen the river workers.

   The AH governor at that time was still Min Eyuan, the AH governor who wrote a memorial and spared Li Shiyao's death. Officials also have an assessment mechanism. If they fail to solve a case, they will definitely be punished. If they catch someone, they will be rewarded. A county magistrate plus Yanglian silver, the total is only more than 1,000 taels of silver. It is conceivable to know what the personal income of the officials and more yamen is.

The amount of court fees charged by the yamen is one of the important factors affecting whether people decide to sue the dispute. For example, a case has a total of 10 taels of silver, and no one will pay 10 taels of court fees, even if one person pays 5 taels. Yes, the officers handling the case will also get 2 to 4 taels of the case fee. However, the officers would encourage the people to file lawsuits. The case fee is one of the important incomes of the county government officials. Lu Jianzeng first served as the county magistrate in Hongya, Sichuan, where the law and order were chaotic and the lawsuits and prisons continued, not only for the common people. Fortunately, the magistrates have to deal with a lot of cases.

In fact, some cases do not need to go to trial, but the people do not understand the law, and the laws of the Qing Dynasty mixed civil and criminal cases, especially underground gangs and secret association activities, such as arresting a member of the White Lotus Sect, his neighbors It is also necessary to "sit together". According to the slang term, this is called "opening a thief's flower". If the neighbors do not give money to the officers, then they will frame the neighbors for concealing the stolen goods and be arrested as accomplices until they pay the officers to extort money. He will be released later, and the neighbors call this "washing the name of the thief".

   There is also the shed fee, which is the cost of disposing of the corpse in a murder case. If the corpse stinks in the house, the neighbors will also be affected, and the neighbors and the owner of the house will pay this money.

   This money was not received by the Nanhe Governor's Office before, and they also disliked it. The good thing is that a fire from the White Lotus Sect set the warehouse on fire, so that there is no evidence of any loss in the past. The bad thing is that the predecessor made a memorial on the platform, asking the Emperor Jiaqing for permission to increase the price of the river. Tian Fu was levied, and the emperor refuted the "sick people", and then he was dismissed.

   Increased military spending means less money for civil affairs, saving money for dredging the canal, and diverting food to sea. If the Shunzhi Emperor was worried that "pirates" would be mixed into the grain ships in the south of the Yangtze River when he was in power and carried out "anti-Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasty" in Tianjin and Tanggu, then it is estimated that no one would think so in the Jiaqing period. Why would anyone think that way? People who hear this will feel that the person who said this is sick, and this will make the country of the banner people stable.

On the one hand, there is no money, on the other hand, there are old grudges. The people left behind by the predecessor Hetai had fierce conflicts, even to the point of fighting, so one of them sued the other to Hetai, and the previous one did not deal with it. , I left it to the Admiral, no, it's the Governor who solves it here.

In the early 20th century, the United States implemented the prohibition of alcohol, because the grass-roots police agency was corroded, so federal agents were given great powers. President Truman once said, "We don't need the Gestapo or the secret police." At that time, federal agents It has violated the original intention of dealing with criminals, but has used the power at hand to collect celebrity scandals and use it as a handle to blackmail.

   There is also the misdemeanor system in the United States. A small act may not be considered a crime. For example, illegal parking will cause the owner to receive a ticket. When he cannot pay the ticket, he will go to jail and "work" in a private prison.

The police have increased the detection rate, and they can also get some other benefits, but the vicious crime has not decreased. During the Prohibition period, there were many underworld tycoons, and the "famous" "Chicago Typewriter" and "Fiddler", these It was all Georgiana's own thinking. Of course Nick in the 19th century didn't know it, but he recorded the contradictions between the Hedaoyamen and the local yamen, as well as the internal shift "military gates" of the Hedaoyamen.

Hedao Governor Yamen, also known as Hedao Military Gate Office and Du Yingshi Office, it is said that there was a man who was always subject to lawsuits. During the Chinese New Year, he said to his family, "No one can file a lawsuit this year." He also posted a couplet that read "This year Well, there is less bad luck, no lawsuit is allowed", but there is no punctuation, just like the CIS "water is far from the sky, the sky is open, the sky is open, the sky is open and the jade is too shallow." As a result, his son looked at the couplet and said, "This year is very bad. , there must be a lawsuit."

   Even if he is not beaten well, his son's New Year's benefit is gone.

   This is because the Admiral was too busy in Guangzhou, so he was asked to go to the Governor's Mansion in Hedao, right?

   Heshen was dealt with, but the Yin Yin system was settled, but what the new governor encountered was not something that Yin Yin Yin could solve.

   No wonder Bonaparte didn't read this broken book, and Georgiana didn't want to read it either, and she wasn't one of those spectators who "audited" the Paris High Court all day long.

   But she was very curious about how the two groups of people fought. Some fought, some persuaded them, and some coaxed. She has always been a pacifist.

"Wow."

   "What's the matter?" asked Bonaparte.

   "Fight." She was so excited that she looked at the illustration in the book "The official in the yamen sent himself and his own people into a fight."

   "Why are you interested in this kind of thing?"

   "Aren't you interested?"

   He looked at her seriously.

   She stuck out her tongue, forgetting that he was also an "official messenger", he definitely didn't like this kind of scene, he would have known better not to tell him.

   (end of this chapter)