When the officials saw this situation, they immediately changed their attitude and began to blame the three departments.
They said that those people who could do such unscrupulous things were no longer literati and did not deserve any preferential treatment.
Also, true scholar-officials should be honest officials and benefit the people, instead of harming the country and causing chaos.
This directly expelled those people from the scholar-official category.
Qian Zhengwei, Zhang Kui and Fan Feng could not withstand such great pressure and finally had to compromise and sentenced the man to death according to the instructions of the Constitutional Yuan.
In this way, the imperial court gained face, Zhao Zhen, Lu Yijian and others were able to give Zhao Jun an explanation, and the people got justice.
At the same time, officials also understood the bottom line of "no punishment for doctors". In the future, they will surely think carefully and restrain themselves before doing things, and will not dare to act as recklessly as before.
For all parties involved, it was a win-win situation. A world where only the officials whose heads were chopped off were injured was considered a success.
Zhao Jun, on the other hand, headed south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
On the day he left, the people of Zhenzhou gathered at the ferry to see him off.
In fact, Zhao Jun didn't do much for the people of Zhenzhou.
Because he visited many places, he spent relatively little time in Zhenzhou. Apart from inspecting the grain transport situation, he worked in the Transport Commissioner's Office and only occasionally visited the countryside.
But even so, many people came to see him off spontaneously, and even if they had never received his favor, they kept calling him "Great Lord".
This is how the world is. If you have stayed in the darkness for too long, and suddenly someone gives you a ray of light, then this ray of light will become your life-saving straw.
In Zhao Jun's own opinion, he did not do anything except investigating some old cases and cracking down on some corrupt officials.
But to the people, he is a benefactor who removed the huge mountain that was weighing on their heads.
This is enough to be remembered.
Amidst this farewell, Zhao Jun's fleet sailed southward in a mighty manner.
After crossing the Yangtze River, you will reach Jiangning Prefecture.
He stayed in Jiangning for a while, and then went to Runzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou and other places to inspect local agriculture and commerce.
And wherever Zhao Jun went, he would set up a government office and welcome all the people to report any illegal activities of the government.
If there is any injustice, he will send someone to deal with it impartially.
However, unless he encountered a case like Guo Chengyou or a major case like the Huainan corruption case, he would transfer the general cases to the local criminal justice department for handling.
Otherwise, if he is allowed to handle everything, what is the point of having a local judicial office? It might as well be abolished.
During my time at the grassroots level, I most often encountered illegal activities by local officials and landlords.
This is Zhao Jun’s favorite thing.
Because he could legitimately raid the homes of some illegal landlords, confiscate their land, and nationalize the land.
Although the problem remains, just as low-rent housing is not necessarily rented by the poor, the state-owned land in the county may not end up in the hands of landless people.
But even if it is divided, the landlords will still use various means to take the land away in the future. It is better to keep these lands in the county government.
As long as the provincial government and the four departments of the road bureau keep the original files and clearly identify which lands are owned by the state, supervision will be possible in the future.
For example, Zhao Jun planned to support Fan Zhongyan in implementing the Qingli New Deal reforms once the situation stabilized. In the future, the Censorate would station offices in every prefecture and conduct monthly inspections. The Criminal Justice Department would also visit the prefectures, providing multiple levels of oversight.
Therefore, once it is discovered that some landlords are trying to seize the land owned by the government, it depends on how sharp Zhao Jun's knife is. Whether the land under their names will also be nationalized will depend on whether Zhao Jun's knife is sharp enough.
By the end of October in the fourth year of Jingyou, Zhao Jun inspected Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road, and then went south to Fujian Road.
He is now famous all over the world. Wherever he goes, he is welcomed wholeheartedly by the people. Common people welcome him with food and drink, and there are even many children's songs.
Such as "Welcome the Magistrate, look forward to the Magistrate, the Magistrate is coming and there will be a clear sky", "The whole city is looking at the Magistrate coming, the greedy officials are scared and their faces turn pale. Kill them as snacks, eat their hearts and livers, and leave the lotus leaves." "If you want the red flowers to bloom, you must wait for the Magistrate to come" and so on.
Especially the second poem, in which the corrupt officials are killed, served as snacks, and even their hearts and livers are eaten. This shows how much the people at the bottom hate the dark politics and corrupt officials at that time.
The appearance of Zhao Jun was like a ray of light in the darkness, giving hope to countless people. It allowed them to see that the mountains that once oppressed them were moved away one by one and cut off one by one by Zhao Jun, making them full of gratitude and love.
People are like this. They are grateful to whoever is good to them.
In contrast, many people in the officialdom were naturally very dissatisfied with Zhao Jun and kept impeaching him to the court. Even if they fabricated facts or made up reasons such as excessive killing, they still hoped to impeach Zhao Jun.
The main reason is that Zhao Jun was not carrying out any reforms. If he carried out reforms, and the decrees were passed down, the grassroots officials would have tens of thousands of ways to turn the original good decrees into bad decrees, harming the people.
But he did not change anything, nor did he issue any decrees. He only investigated corruption and officials' violations of laws and regulations.
These things are legitimate for a superior to do and are not against any rules.
It is also the responsibility of the various criminal justice departments.
For example, Song Ci in "The Chief Justice of the Song Dynasty" is an official of the Criminal Justice Bureau, at the same level as Li Jianzhi, and is responsible for criminal litigation throughout the province.
It’s just that in the past, due to official favoritism, or perhaps the chief judge was simply a corrupt official, everyone turned a blind eye and just laughed it off.
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