Zhou Shixiang returned from Jinxia and stayed in Fuzhou for three days to listen to the report of Gui Yongzhi, the acting governor of Fuzhou and the prefect of Fuzhou.
Then he set off on the third day of March and entered Zhejiang from Funing Prefecture.
When they arrived in Shouning County, Funing Prefecture, some local people from Ersan Township suddenly blocked the road and complained, claiming that the government did not recognize them as "thieves" and asked His Royal Highness King Qi to make decisions for them.
Zhou Shixiang was very surprised, because the word "thief" is not a good name just by listening to the name.
If ordinary people are called "thieves", it is as ugly as scolding people.
It stands to reason that the villagers should stay away from the word "thief", for fear of getting into trouble, but they don't know why these villagers do the opposite, and want His Royal Highness King Qi to make decisions for them and restore their status as "thieves".
Voluntarily being called a "thief", not only himself, but also his children and grandchildren, how crazy is this person to do such a ridiculous and stupid thing Could it be that there are still people in this world who are willing to bear the name of "thieves" and are willing to treat themselves and their children and grandchildren as thieves 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 he had encountered this kind of "obstruction and injustice", so he attached great importance to it and specially called the Military Intelligence Department to investigate the border of Shouning County, and be sure to investigate the matter of "stealing households".
After being ordered to conduct a thorough investigation, the Military Intelligence Department quickly reported the cause of the incident.
Sure enough, the water behind this "thief" is really deep, which makes Zhou Shixiang both stunned and ridiculous.
It turned out that after the Qing army entered Fujian in the second year of Longwu, Fujian's social order was in chaos.
Seven out of ten families of the people in Shouning County were thieves, and the officials appointed by the Qing court did not dare to arrest them, but they could not be allowed to make trouble for the thieves.
So the magistrate spent a lot of money to appease these thieves and called them "thieves".
In order for these "thieves" to live in peace in the township, no longer wandering around and causing chaos and affecting the local political performance, the magistrate and his officials deliberately wooed these "thieves", either exempted them from taxes, or distributed money and grain to them during the New Year's holidays, so as to make the thieves "honest".
Every year, the Shouning County Government has to distribute a certain amount of money and grain to the thieves, and other agricultural tools and seeds are also subsidized.
Every year on New Year's Eve, the thieves will receive an additional pork subsidy of a small amount.
Officials of all sizes in the county also visit the thieves from time to time, and they basically respond to their demands.
Even the children of the thieves will take the test for children and show talents, and the school officials of the county will give special care.
For example, if there were 20 children in the county's examination that year, half of them must have been children of thieves.
In addition, the new recruits in the county's sixth room clerks and idle assistants have also opened the door to thieves.
All kinds of measures are just to make these thieves stop being thieves, or to say that the local government is doing everything possible to curry favor with the thieves, just begging them not to make trouble and affect the promotion of officials.
In the eyes of Shouning officials, as long as the thieves get the benefits of the government, they will be grateful to Dade and will be good people again in the future.
In this way, it will not take long for Shouning to have no more thieves, and instead they are all good citizens.
Who would have thought that it backfired, and the officials of Shouning did not know that while they were benefiting the thieves, they planted a curse for those good people in Shouning County, and it was also a nail that the government planted that could never be nailed.
These thieves in Shouning did not have the slightest remorse, they took advantage of the government's fear that they would be thieves again, and changed their methods to make trouble and gather, just to get more benefits from the government.
At first, only a few of the rogue elements in the thieves dared to do this, but later it was found that these rogue elements succeeded in doing it, and the government did not do anything to them, all the thieves did this, and none of them became good citizens as the Shouning officials hoped.
The scourge of Shouning's thieves is getting more and more intense, and the thieves who have tasted the sweetness have become more and more greedy one by one.
Not only in terms of money and food, taxes, children's study and examination, and the Shouning government has taken care of the thieves, but also in other aspects.
However, there are disputes between "thieves" and the people of good families in Shouning, and the government will deliberately protect the "thieves" in order to calm things and prevent "thieves" from causing chaos.
Over time, everyone in the county knew the benefits of being a "thief", so the person who fought the lawsuit pretended to be a thief at every turn, while the other party tried his best to prove that he was not a thief.
There are also many good people who were not thieves who were bullied by thieves, but the government did not help them, but forced them to pay money and land, and even they were arrested and put in prison even when they were obviously bitter masters, while the thieves who bullied them were at large outside.
Do not suffer from few, but suffer from unevenness.
When the law-abiding government does not get the support of the government, but the government can support the lawlessness, the atmosphere in Shouning County is very bad.
In terms of litigation alone, as long as the Shouning County Ya Hall hears the case, the first trial is definitely not the twists and turns of the case, but the two parties in the hall first argue whether the other party is a "thief", and the county government really checks the file in order to find out who is not a thief.
Because as long as one party is a thief, then it must not be the one who steals the household.
Both parties are thieves, so it must be the county government that takes out the real money collected from the good people to buy them "satisfied".
Shouning's "theft" problem is really serious, so serious that those people who were denied being thieves actually stopped the carriage and horses of His Royal Highness King Daming Qi in order to fight for their "legitimate rights and interests", and complained to his old man.
A thick stack of case files was placed in front of Zhou Shixiang, which contained the large and small case files of the Shouning County Government in the past ten years, as well as the money and grain household registers issued to the thieves over the years.
"It is better to call a man a thief after death than not to be a thief in life."
Shou Ning's sentence made Zhou Shixiang cry and laugh at the same time, and he had to think about the lack of legal system and the reasons for the artificial inequality reflected behind this problem.
The reason why thieves are rampant in Shouning, and the reason why they are not ashamed, but why everyone is fighting for it, is not the selfishness and evil of human nature, but the inaction of officials.
Because they are afraid of things, the officials treat the thieves as if they were ancestors, and then these thieves will forever become the ancestors of the government and the law-abiding people.
How serious the theft is A joke from the Military Intelligence Department illustrates the point.
It is said that in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, the daughter of Ren of Ningzhi County was bewitched by a fox spirit, so Ren Zhixian went to ask a Maoshan Taoist priest to catch this fox spirit into a bottle and roast it with fire.
As a result, the fox shouted loudly in the bottle: "Don't burn, I'm a thief" When the Taoist priest heard this, how to pay attention to it, he still had to burn it.
But Ren Zhixian seemed to make people cramp their muscles, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly asked someone to release the fox, saying that the thieves couldn't burn it and couldn't be provoked.
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If you burn this thief, it will attract a bunch of thieves, how can he, a small magistrate, live in peace. oshow7 t1706231537: