Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 446 Tax War (2)

Chapter 446 Tax War (Twenty)

Zhang Fei has filed lawsuits several times, all of which rely on details to win.

Xu Zun has repeatedly told them that details are still details.

And Su Zhe and the others also thought that they had done enough detail, no matter how the evidence could not go wrong, but in the end, no one else Zhang Fei was careful.

This seemingly ironclad evidence has huge controversy.

What's more interesting is that the methods used by the two are exactly the same. The government regards the civilian land as wasteland and confiscates the government according to the law, while Zhao Wenzheng regards the government's pasture as wasteland, and then sends people to "reclaim land" according to the law. ", and finally took it as his own.

According to the evidence provided by Zhang Fei, it is uncertain whether this piece of land is wasteland, official land, or private land, so why should the procuratorate sue people for occupying official land.

In addition, the procuratorate is a state agency and represents the government, and the accounts in their hands are provided by the government. If they know that the accounts provided by the government are problematic and they still have to be sentenced, the consequences will be very serious. There is no law at all.

When Zhang Fei and Su Zhe returned to their seats, the people sitting there had already got the answer from Su Zhe's face.

This charge is estimated to be very difficult to judge.

But Su Zhe was not discouraged, because there was another crime, which was selling illegal salt.

Once this crime is convicted, the sentence can be very severe, and even the death penalty can be imposed. Although the death penalty is not applicable to the Grand Master, as long as it is successful, whether or not the first two charges are not important.

If you can't escape this crime, no matter how beautifully you argued before, it won't help.

It's all a dead end.

On the other hand, on Zhang Fei's side, Xu Zhiqian was sorting out the copywriting, but instead of relaxing, her expression became more dignified, as if they were at a disadvantage.

When putting the finished copy in front of Zhang Fei, Xu Zhiqian couldn't help asking: "Can your trick really work?"

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "If I am sure that I can win this crime, then I have to charge Governor Zhao [-] guan, not [-] guan."

After making some adjustments, Su Zhe asked Wang Hongjin to be passed on to the hall.

When Wang Hongjin sat in the dock, Su Zhe asked, "Wang Hongjin, according to our investigation, you sold more than [-] buckets of private salt to Xuzhou last year. I wonder if you can plead guilty?"

"I object!"

Zhang Fei immediately stood up and said, "I think Su's questioning method is misleading."

Zeng Gong asked curiously, "Misleading?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Wang Hong only transported [-] buckets of good medicine to Xuzhou in the past year, not private salt."

"Good medicine?"

Zeng Gong said in astonishment.

The procuratorate shouldn't make the mistake of treating medicine as salt, right?

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "That's right, it's a life-saving medicine."

Zeng Gong couldn't help looking at Su Zhe.

For a while, there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the courtyard.

Is it another blatant false accusation?

Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others also looked at each other in blank dismay.

Regarding land occupation, the officials are very clear in their hearts, but they don't know the specifics of the sale of private salt, so it can't be a mistake.

It shouldn't be either!

Some officials knew about Zhao Wenzheng's sale of private salt.

"quiet!"

Zeng Gong slapped the gavel and shouted in a deep voice.

Sitting Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "Impossible, it's definitely private salt, not a good medicine, we have witnesses to prove it, and at the same time, the accounts of Wang Hongjin and Zhao Wenzheng are also written as salt."

Zhang Fei said: "The accounts are indeed written as salt, because the name of this good medicine is called salt."

".?"

This..

The courtyard was suddenly silent, and everyone stared blankly at Zhang Fei.

Pointing at a deer as a horse is not as ruthless as you!

Can you still argue like that?

Why don't you say it's silver?

"Bastard!"

Zeng Gong was furious at once, "It's unreasonable, how dare you use the trick of pretending to be a horse to tease the prefect..."

Xu Zhiqian blushed and lowered her head. When Zhang Fei told her, she was in a daze. You are not defending, you are simply playing tricks on everyone.

But Zhang Fei said seriously: "I will never dare to tease the magistrate, I have someone who can prove that it is good medicine, not private salt."

And witnesses?

Just outrageous!

Zeng Gong suppressed the anger in his heart for the time being, and said: "The witness."

But I saw a man in his forties coming to the hall with a limp, and the man's neck was obviously swollen.

When Su Che saw the neck, he immediately had an ominous premonition.

"The villain Xu Shengzi has met the magistrate."

"sit down."

Zeng Gong pointed to the witness stand.

"Little man obeys."

But Xu Shengzi went directly to the witness stand and sat down. He had no choice but to have a disability after all.

Zhang Fei stood up, "Uncle Xu, where are you from?"

Xu Shengzi replied: "I am from Luo Township, Changge County, Xuzhou."

Zhang Fei said: "May I take the liberty to ask, is your neck naturally so big, or...?"

Xu Shengzi immediately replied, "It's because I had a serious illness the year before last, and my neck became so big."

Zhang Fei asked: "I don't know what disease?"

Xu Shengzi said: "In my village it's called big neck disease."

Zhang Fei nodded and asked again: "I don't know why you got this disease?"

A person at the door rushed to answer: "I know this, if you don't eat salt, you will get this big neck disease."

Xu Shengzi nodded again and again, "The little brother is right, it is because there is no salt to eat that he got this disease."

Zhang Fei asked, "Why do you have no salt to eat?"

Xu Shengzi sighed: "It was originally available, but suddenly the price of salt more than doubled two years ago, and it was mixed with a lot of dirt, we couldn't afford it, and couldn't eat it. If it is not sold at our place, we will have no salt to eat."

His tone didn't fluctuate too much, just like talking about family affairs, as if he had seen through everything.

Maybe it's because I'm used to it.

very normal.

Zhang Fei asked again: "Does that mean everyone has no salt to eat?"

Xu Shengzi said: "At that time, many people in our village had no salt to eat, so they could only use the puddle water or the blood of prey to make some brine to eat as salt. At that time, many of them had this big neck disease, their whole body was swollen, and their eyes bulged out. , and some even died."

"Anyone else died?"

Zhang Fei pretended to be surprised.

Xu Shengzi said: "I know, but there are seven or eight."

Zhang Fei asked curiously again: "Then why are you all better again?"

Xu Shengzi said: "Of course it's because someone came to sell salt later, so if we eat salt, it will naturally get better."

"is it?"

Zhang Fei asked suspiciously, "Where do you get the money to sell salt? Doesn't it mean that everyone can't afford it?"

"In fact, the price of the merchant who sold salt later was not cheap, but at least we farmers can still afford it, and it is much better than the salt before. Young days."

"I see."

Zhang Fei nodded, "If there is no such person to sell salt, what do you think will happen?"

"We might die of illness. In fact, if we don't die of illness, we will starve to death. Many people are sick and have no energy to farm."

Xu Shengzi shook his head and sighed, there was no sadness, only the helplessness of having fun while suffering.

"So it can be said that this salt is a good medicine that saved your life."

"of course can."

"Thank you!"

Zhang Fei said to Zeng Gong, "I'm done asking."

Su Zhe stood up, "May I ask Uncle Xu, did the salt seller tell you to sell salt or medicine?"

"Salt sellers are of course talking about selling salt." Xu Shengzi looked at Su Che inexplicably.

There were sporadic laughter outside the door.

Su Zhe asked again, "Are you buying salt or medicine?"

Xu Shengzi scratched his head and said, "Of course we are buying salt."

Su Zhe said to Zeng Gong, "I'm done asking."

Zeng Gong asked someone to take Xu Shengzi down first, and then asked Zhang Fei: "Your witnesses say it's salt, what else can you say?"

Zhang Fei replied: "I think how to define a thing should not only look at what it is, but also its use. Just last year, a murder case occurred in Bianjing City. The murderer was a fireman. Stoned to death, but in the confession at the time, the iron pot was defined as a murder weapon, so it was illegal. The judiciary clearly judged based on the purpose of the iron pot, not what it was. As we all know, an iron pot is not a weapon.

According to our research, the price of salt in Xuzhou doubled two years ago, so that many farmers in the countryside could not afford salt. Governor Zhao asked Wang Hongjin to sell salt to the local area and cured the local people's big neck disease. This can definitely be understood as drug trafficking. "

Qi Ji was amused by Zhang Fei's sophistry, and joked: "Now that he is cured, why are you still selling it?"

Zhang Fei lowered his head to look at the copywriting, and said solemnly: "We visited mostly doctors, and we learned that this medicine needs to be taken for a long time."

"Pfft!"

Xu Zhiqian couldn't help laughing out loud immediately, and quickly buried her head down.

It turned out that the copy was just a place to sell private salt.

But Zhang Fei can say it as if it is true.

Zeng Gong frowned and said to Zhang Fei: "If it's as you said, I'm afraid that all the private salt in the world can be exonerated by this."

Zhang Fei said: "If the situation is the same as that of Governor Zhao, of course it is not illegal. Just imagine, if the imperial court decides to stop selling official salt for three years and does not modify the salt law, so that everyone in the world is sick, and the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in the world are all Salt, then are these doctors selling private salt or medicine.”

Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "You are making unreasonable words, why did the imperial court prohibit the sale of official salt?"

Zhang Fei said: "Then let me put it another way. If the imperial court stipulates that salt is five guan for a catty, many people can't afford it, and they all get sick. The medicine that the doctor dismissed was salt, and he sold it to the patients at the price of ordinary medicine. Is it selling salt or selling medicine?"

Qi Ji fell silent.

Zhang Fei looked around and said loudly: "Everyone, don't ignore the fact that when Governor Zhao ordered Wang Hongjin to sell salt to Xuzhou, there was a serious shortage of salt in many places, why did this happen?

It was because the Xuzhou government suddenly raised the price of salt at that time, so that the salt sellers had to sell the salt obtained from the government at a high price in order to make a profit. However, due to the high price, many villagers were unable to buy salt, and As a result, salt sellers see that these areas are unprofitable, so they simply don't sell them in these areas.

But as we all know, this salt is the same as food. If there is a lack of salt, this person will suffer from diseases immediately and may not be able to survive.There is a saying that human life is at stake, and laws should not be higher than human life. According to historical records, any law that is higher than human life is a bad law, and no one will abide by it.

Based on this, how to determine whether it is illegal salt or medicine is actually very simple, that is, ordinary people who work hard can afford the salt needed for life, so salt other than official salt is illegal salt, which is illegal. But if the common people cannot afford the salt needed for life, then salt other than official salt is medicine and is legal. "

Su Zhe looked at Qi Ji and asked, "Did all Wang Hongjin's private salt be sold to Xuzhou?"

Qi Ji said: "All the private salt we found were sold to Xuzhou."

(End of this chapter)