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Seeing Jia Jun looking flustered, Jia Shijie did not look proud. Instead, he took out the detention order, search warrant and other documents with a serious face.

"Jia Jun, after testimony from many people, you are suspected of bribing officials, conspiring to hinder the implementation of the New Deal, gathering crowds to fight against the government, tax evasion and other illegal and criminal activities. Please go to the Supervision Bureau for interrogation."

Jia Shijie's words contained the word "please", but in reality it was just a notice.

Therefore, after he finished speaking, he waved his hand regardless of Jia Jun's reaction.

Two patrol officers assisting in the case immediately stepped forward to grab Jia Jun and take him outside.

Afterwards, the Supervision Bureau and the Patrol Bureau launched a blanket search of the Jia family's mansion - mainly searching for evidence such as account books, letters and other crimes that may involve the Jia family's crimes.

At the same time, soldiers from the Ningguo County Security Battalion temporarily sealed off the Jia family mansion.

Until the Jia family's case is resolved, no one from the Jia family's direct lineage is allowed in or out.

The daily necessities needed in the house can only be purchased by the garrison.

As for the supplies purchased by the garrison, the prices were two or three times higher than what they usually bought, but the quality was much worse, so there was nothing they could do about it.

After all, although the quality of the current local garrison is much better than that of the former Ming government army, it is still much worse than the two capital garrison, standing army, and personal guard army.

It is normal for all the soldiers in the battalion to earn some extra money within the military laws and regulations.

Not long after the Jia family was investigated, several large landowners and gentry families in Ningguo County, including the Xue family and Wang family, were also investigated one after another.

For a time, the gentry and landowners in Ningguo County were frightened, and no one dared to use secret means to hinder the work team from clearing land and conducting a population census.

In addition, the work team continued to preach and set an example when going to the countryside. They did not take anything away from the masses, even paying local market prices for meals. Sometimes they even helped the poor people within their ability, and soon they won the support of the vast number of rural people. recognition and support from the wild masses.

In this way, the Qingtian Order and Census Order were implemented in an orderly manner in Ningguo County...

half a month later.

The work team has completed more than half of its tasks in Ningguo County.

The cases involving corrupt officials such as Lin Pinsheng and Song Ren, as well as those involving Jia Jun and others who conspired to obstruct the implementation of the New Deal were all investigated and the trials were completed.

There is only one final step left, which is the review above.

Because, in order to implement the New Deal, the imperial court gave considerable power to the work teams and local inspection bureaus.

However, if the power is too great, if the task force leader does not grasp it well, it will sometimes cause other problems.

For example, the leaders of the work teams used their power for personal gain, or blindly pursued the efficiency of implementing the New Deal, resulting in some unjust, false and wrong cases, etc.

In order to prevent the New Deal from becoming harmful to the people like Wang Anshi and Xining's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty, the court would conduct multiple trials for some major cases before finally determining the results.

On this day, the circuit trial court dispatched by the three departments of the Ningguo Prefecture Supervision Bureau, the Criminal Trial Bureau, and the Patrol Bureau came to Ningguo County and conducted the second round of trials on the cases of Lin Pinsheng, Song Ren, Jia Jun, and others.

In the county court.

Lin Pinsheng, Song Ren, Jia Jun and others wore gray prison uniforms and shackled their hands to undergo the second round of trial together.

Because they all knew what they had done and knew that the government had conclusive evidence, they did not have any hope for the outcome of the second round of trials and were all dejected.

as predicted.

"After review by our Ningguo Prefecture Circuit Court, the evidence of Lin Pinsheng, Song Ren, and Jia Jun's crimes... is conclusive, so the original verdict of the Ningguo County Court is upheld."

"Lin Pinsheng, Song Ren, Jia Jun... and other principal criminals were exiled to Dongfan Island as hard labor for the local government for twenty to thirty years, and most of their family property was confiscated." "Accomplices were exiled to Liaoxi Province as hard labor for the government for ten years. It ranges from 20 years to 20 years, and part of the family property is confiscated.”

According to the original verdict of the Ningguo Trial Office, there were dozens of landowners and officials, large and small, and dozens of families involved in Ningguo County who obstructed the implementation of the New Deal.

Only a handful of criminals involved in murders were sentenced to be beheaded.

Most of them were exiled to various places as hard labor. The farthest ones were naturally in Dongfan Island and Liaoxi, while the nearest ones were working as hard labor locally.

But the total number of people involved is hundreds!
As for the money and assets obtained from the confiscation of homes and fines, the total value is as high as hundreds of thousands of silver dollars!
It should be noted that this is only the result of a major case involving obstruction of the New Deal in one county in Ningguo.

Ningguo Prefecture covers six counties: Xuancheng, Nanling, Taiping, Jingde, Jingxian and Ningguo.

In almost every county, gentry and landowners tried to obstruct the New Deal, and were eventually arrested and tried.

The same is true when zooming in on Nanzhili, which has twelve state capitals.

The number of people eventually deported, as well as the confiscated money and assets, will probably be a rather astonishing number!

···
In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed since the Qingtian Order and the Census Order made the world famous with their imperial edicts.

The autumn harvest is over.

The implementation of the New Deal in the southern and northern Zhili Provinces has also achieved phased results.

this day.

The steering group and inspection team responsible for implementing the New Deal in Nanzhili returned to Nanjing and reported the work progress to Liu Sheng in Tianxin Hall.

Following the custom of Da'ei court officials, Fang Zhenru took the written report and read it in front of Liu Sheng.

"Through the unremitting efforts of various work teams in Southern Zhili, as of October 30, the fifth year of Qianyuan, the twelve prefectures in Southern Zhili have basically completed land clearing, census and other tasks."

"Next, what we are going to do is the second phase of the New Deal. We will replace various working teams and inspect the implementation and specific implementation of the New Deal in various localities..."

Liu Sheng knows very well that many times good policies vary from person to person and place in specific implementation, and eventually go wrong, fail to achieve the expected results, or become policies that harm the people.

Therefore, the second stage of the New Deal is to let each work team go to other places to inspect the work of other work teams.

And it is repeated replacement and inspection.

This is also one of the important reasons why each work team conscientiously implements the New Deal wherever it goes and does not dare to violate laws and disciplines due to selfish desires.

Of course, the second and third work teams that subsequently arrive in a place also have the task of testing the effectiveness of the land clearing order and census order in that place.

If there are any mistakes or omissions somewhere, the task force can make them up in time.

Finally, this is also a good opportunity for each work team to learn from each other and sum up their experiences.

Only by summing up enough experience and lessons and cultivating a large number of capable officials who are good at clearing fields and conducting censuses can the order of clearing fields and census orders be implemented across the country in a few years...
After Fang Zhenru, Chen Zilong, and Sun Chao asked the steering group to report their work, Liu Sheng asked them some questions and asked them to leave.

Then the inspection team Yang Weizhi, Zhang Youtian and Xu Yixian reported their work.

The process is similar, but the focus is different.

The steering group focuses on the progress and effects of the implementation of the New Deal, while the inspection team focuses on the reactions of local officials and people, as well as the good or bad behavior of each work team in the process of implementing the New Deal.

After the inspection team finished their report and exited the Tianxin Palace, Liu Sheng couldn't help but flip through a memorial on the imperial case and began to think... (End of this chapter)