Every year, the end of the year is a critical period for maintaining stability.
Issues that have accumulated over the year must be resolved; if they can't be resolved at this time, they would have to be carried over to the next year, and as the years pass, time actually flies by rather quickly.
Issues like unfinished buildings, unpaid debts, unpaid wages, and so on, all kinds of troubles tend to erupt at the end of the year because it is our tradition to resolve issues before the New Year, without leaving them unresolved into the new year.
Consequently, the related departments are very busy during this time, trying to resolve disputes in various ways.
Of course, at times like these, some people start to think of Tang Fangjing.
It's just like how many people don't pay attention to the law in normal times and only turn to it when the need to defend their rights arises.
Old Tang is no exception.