Complaints have been soaked in blood since ancient times!
Why is it so difficult to file a complaint? Because since China had an emperor, unification has become the mainstream, and China is so big that one emperor cannot manage it, so he must need help.
The Qin Dynasty was divided into prefectures and counties, but in the Han Dynasty, the governance of the country was divided equally between the royal family and the aristocratic families. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the civilian landlord class began to rise, forming a huge bureaucratic class to cooperate with the emperor to govern the world.
This world is not just for the emperor alone. The emperor is just the biggest spider in the huge web of rule, and the officials and these little spiders form a bureaucratic class.
A huge grid is placed on the heads of the people. Only this can ensure the stability of the order of the empire!
The so-called stability of social order in the feudal era was actually nothing more than cruel suppression to prevent you from rebelling!
Why is it so difficult to be a high-ranking civilian official? Because the bureaucracy is a group that does not allow civilians to disrupt the existing balance.
In fact, not all officials are bad people. Why don’t many good officials not allow people to sue them? Doesn't it mean that he doesn't hate corrupt officials?
Actually no, honest officials hate corrupt officials more than the common people!
But he had no choice, because he knew very well that it didn't matter if a few corrupt officials died. This bureaucratic class didn't care about the life or death of one or two little spiders.
But they will not allow anyone to challenge their order. In other words, if you, the people, can guarantee that you can kill a corrupt official without destroying the web, then honest officials will help you.
But is it that easy? Whenever a spider is picked off, a piece of spider will be involved, and then a huge hole will be opened in the spider web.
And once this hole appears, it proves that at a certain stage, the bureaucratic class cannot effectively control social stability!
This is what they fear most, so since ancient times people have been severely suppressed when they complained to officials.
Complaints are the most serious matter among the people. The destruction of the spider web is very terrifying. You are going to jump over the entire bureaucratic class and become enemies of the bureaucrats all over the world!
Once this hole is torn open, a lot of variables will appear!
A group of spiders died, do you have new spiders to fill the gap? How good is the web-weaving ability of the newly replenished spider?
If this new spider is not as good at weaving webs as the greedy spiders of the past, there will be a power vacuum for a period of time.
Taking advantage of this gap, will some demons and ghosts appear among the people, and attack them in groups to make this hole even bigger?
These unpredictable unknowns are what officials are most afraid of. In fact, they don't care about the life and death of slaves like Guang Liang. Their death and the death of their whole family are indifferent to the entire bureaucracy.
But you can't tear apart this management network that maintains order in the empire!
But today Xin Jian tore this net apart so forcefully, stirring up all the mud hidden under the water.
In the Capital Iron Works, there were ten general managers in total, and their overbearing behavior was revealed one by one by Xin Jian!
Plop, plop, plop... The stewards knelt on the dirt floor one by one, trembling all over, but their mouths were still very stubborn. They refused to admit their guilt, and they were all crying out for injustice.
Especially Guang Liang, this was the manager Xin Jian had the most contact with, and he was also the one who suffered the most artillery fire. At this moment, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and his eyes kept looking at his master.
His master, Prince Zheng Chengzhi, was also frightened. As a senior official in the empire, of course he knew how powerful the Chinese were, but he had always thought that the most powerful of the Chinese were the elite officials.
The Four Heavenly Kings are powerful, Xiang Ying, Cai Bixia and the others are also powerful, but today he finally learned that an ordinary blue-collar Chinese worker can be so powerful.
You are too brave to complain like this in front of the emperor? The business of the food tycoon, the coal tyrant, the wine tyrant, the gambling tyrant... and even the flower tyrant, etc. were overturned.
This is a person who overturned a whole table full of people, and all the cups and plates were thrown to the ground!
Zai Chun's face was livid. He regretted coming to the iron factory to inspect today. He originally thought that he would lead the Queen Mother and the ministers to relax at the end of the first month and show off for himself.
Even the three uncles who were imprisoned were brought up. They wanted to show off their power, but they ended up being very shameless!
At this moment, Zai Chun felt that his back was burning. Yixin and Yixuan's eyes were burning on him like torches, and he could hear the mocking voices.
"You...what you said is true?" Zai Chun asked in a low voice.
Before Xin Jian and others could answer, the kneeling head of the 10th Route Army rushed to speak, "No! It's all fake...Long live Lord, don't listen to his words!"
"It's fake, it's all fake... The slaves are wronged!"
Guang Liang yelled, "Xin Jian! You go to the flower shack to find a woman and let me mock you. Are you going to retaliate against me like this?"
"I admit that the coal in this ironworks is a bit expensive, but it has never cost more than ten cents per pound... The forty cents you said is slander!"
Guang Liang was yelling at his neck. Many of Guang Liang's thugs behind the crowd heard him, and soon many more thugs dispersed into the depths of the iron factory.
"Fathers and fellow countrymen! You judge...Have I, Guangliang, ever treated you badly? Yes, I was indeed a bit harsh when enforcing the law and did not give you face..."
"But you can't accuse me unfairly! To be fair, how much does a pound of coal in our ironworks cost this winter?"
Amid the roar, the people who were kneeling in the dust did not dare to speak. Guang Liang angrily picked up one and pushed it in front of the emperor, "Niu Laosan, tell me... how much does the coal your family buy cost per pound?"
Niu Lao San seemed to be a kind person at first sight. He was so frightened that his calves were spinning, "Ten... ten ten ten..."
"Hey... everyone heard it! Is it Shiwen? This is what the people themselves said!"
"Your Majesty! There is indeed a reason why the price of coal in the Capital Iron Works is higher than that in the city... Your Majesty will understand it as soon as I tell you!"
"The Capital Iron Works brings together 100,000 people a year, and this is what 100,000 people eat, drink, and eat... The supply of materials in the Capital was definitely not enough before!"
"Just this year, we have placed many orders with Shanxi to purchase coal, but Shanxi's coal has to be carried out manually from the ground!"
"Production cannot be increased in one and a half years! Therefore, the overall supply of coal in Jingshi exceeds demand!"
"The capital is home to the imperial court's nobles, civil and military officials, as well as envoys from various countries, including kind-hearted people... We can't cut off the capital's coal-fired power just because of an iron factory!"
"So the limited output is supplied to the city! If the capital iron factory doesn't have enough supply, the price will naturally increase. That's why the price is ten cents per pound!"
"It's not just coal, it's the same reason for other daily necessities. There's too much demand and the supply can't be supplied for a while, so the price goes up!"
"For such a small matter, this Xin Jiangong is seeking personal revenge and fabricating lies to deceive His Majesty! Where is the price he said? There is none at all!"
"Do you think..." Guang Liang shouted viciously to the people kneeling around him. These people were so frightened that they trembled all over and nodded subconsciously.
"No...that's right...the steward is right...it's just...it's ten cents!"
With a bang, all the ministers went crazy!
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