Zhao Jun rubbed his temples with both hands and said, "I will re-assess the supervisory responsibilities of each county in Jingji Road and ensure that supervision is in place. You can go now."
"yes."
Several people left the Constitutional Court.
Not long after they left, the last regular meeting of the Constitutional Yuan of the year was held.
In fact, basically everything that needs to be said has been said.
This meeting is about some trivial matters approaching the end of the year, such as this year's Bianliang Festival, the palace dinner, and the welfare of officials.
Everyone in the meeting room had finished discussing trivial matters. Lu Yijian glanced around and said, "Does anyone have anything else to add? If not, then that's the end-of-year schedule for this year. We should be able to adjourn."
"etc."
At this moment, Zhao Jun suddenly said, "I have something more important to say."
"What is it?"
Everyone sat around the conference table and turned to look at Zhao Jun in confusion.
Zhao Jun looked around at everyone, tapped the table, and said, "This matter is about public security and criminal justice. I think the Constitutional Court should take this issue seriously."
"But Hanlong, didn't you say that this matter should be given a lower priority than the focus of national development?"
Yan Shu wondered, "Now that the Song Dynasty is making rapid progress and productivity is rising, the people across the country have more food and are well fed and well clothed. Isn't that more important?"
"Yes, this matter is indeed the most important. But what I mean is that there is no need to escalate it to the government. The Constitutional Court still has to be concerned with public security and criminal justice issues."
Zhao Jun said frankly: "We can't just focus on the overall development direction and ignore the feelings of individuals. Moreover, these individuals are not a small number, and when added up, they add up to a huge number. They are an important group of people that we cannot ignore."
"The most important thing is that if we don't address it now, there will be more similar problems in the future. For example, next year we will open a large number of iron and coal mines and enter the era of large-scale steel production. Then, it is inevitable that iron and coal tycoons will violently monopolize the industries."
He suddenly laughed, turned his head and looked at the people on both sides. "I remember that in ancient times, septic tanks needed to be cleaned and carried outside the city to be sold to farmers for farming, so the job of dung carrier has always existed in ancient times. Some lawless people took control of this industry and became dung tyrants. Zhao Gou was the biggest dung tyrant in the Southern Song Dynasty."
"Forehead"
Everyone looked at each other in surprise, wondering, besides selling out the country, Wanyan Gou actually has this hobby?
It's truly an anecdote for all time.
"But these matters are naturally handled by local authorities. There are so many things going on in the country. If the Constitutional Council gets involved in everything, then even if we, the Prime Ministers, were divided into eight parts, we wouldn't be able to handle it."
Lu Yijian spread his hands and said.
This is the truth.
Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "You still don't understand the core issue."
"What's the problem?"
“We have neglected the people.”
"You mean we should listen to what the common people have to say?"
Wang Zeng said.
"good."
Zhao Jun nodded. "How far are we from the common people? Do you think that above the common people is the county government, the county magistrate? Above the county magistrate is the state government, the prefect? And above the prefect is the road official, the transport commissioner? You are wrong."
He tapped the table with his index finger and said, "You're totally wrong!"
"On a daily basis, ordinary people would never see a county magistrate. The village head or township official might be the highest-ranking official they would ever meet. Above the county magistrate, there was still a chance to reach the state government, but the barriers between them were as vast as a mountain."
"You don't know that in our later generations, there were several TV series that were well-received about cracking down on gangs and corruption, namely "Kuang Biao", "Sweeping Black Storm" and "In the Name of the People".
"Among these TV series, the evil forces in "Kuang Biu" only dominate one city, and the umbrella behind them is just the city hall."
"In 'Sweeping Black Storm,' the umbrella behind the scenes was only a deputy provincial governor. Apart from the provincial level involved in 'In the Name of the People,' the umbrellas behind many evil forces below them are at the county, department, or municipal level."
"You should know by now that in the administrative planning of the Song Dynasty, a state is basically equivalent to a city in our later generations, and a road is basically equivalent to a province in our later generations."
"In other words, if this applies to our Great Song Dynasty, a few county officials would completely control the power of life and death over the entire county. A few state officials could support a powerful and evil force entrenched in the state capital, exploiting, abusing, and oppressing the people."
"Although it's difficult for officials to act openly after the independence of the public security, procuratorial and judicial organs, it's easy for them to abuse their power and help criminals cover up their crimes."
"So they've just changed their methods to oppress the people. Why were there sayings in ancient times about county magistrates who destroyed families and prefects who wiped out entire clans? It's because they've silenced the people's voices. Their evil deeds are shrouded in layers of secrecy, preventing us, the people above us, from seeing what's happening below."
“Maybe you would say there is a lot of regulation now.”
"But whether it's the Censorate or the Imperial City Administration, there have been times when they neglected their duties, perfunctorily handled their work, or even simply went along with them, colluding with them and protecting each other."
"We cannot ignore the voices of every citizen, nor can we expect all sins to be openly exposed before me like they were a few days ago."
"Because by that time, the evil forces had basically grown stronger, and countless innocent people had been subjected to their violence, coercion, humiliation and oppression."
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