Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 201 The Fish and the Bear's Paw
Sima Guang is very frugal by nature, and he hates extravagance and waste. If he doesn't travel far, he usually doesn't take a carriage. Even if the weather is very hot, he still walks home.

Slowly back to his small house.

The old servant who had been following him since his hometown greeted him immediately.

"Master Junshi is back."

"Uh-huh?"

Sima Guang nodded, and suddenly turned his head to look at those old servants, "What did you call me just now?"

The old servant said: "Your real gentleman."

Sima Guang wondered, "Who told you to call it that?"

The old servant said awkwardly: "Mr. Xiao Su told me that you have already been promoted to deputy prime minister, but you can no longer be called a scholar."

All along, this old servant respectfully called him Junshi Xiucai, and he didn't know that Sima Guang had been promoted to be a political advisor.

It's outrageous!
Sima Guang lowered his eyebrows and asked, "Su Zizhan?"

The old servant nodded.

Sima Guang asked again, "When did he come here?"

The old servant said: "He just came, and now he is reading in the house."

"I'll go find him."

Sima Guang went straight to the study.

This Sima Guang is the same as Wang Anshi. He has the same food, clothing, housing and transportation as ordinary citizens. Even this small house is not as good as promised, but his salary is not low. Where is the money spent?

In the past, Su Shi often went to his house or Ouyang Xiu's house to borrow books.

When he came to the study, Sima Guang asked Su Shi, "Su Zizhan, why did you teach my servant badly?"

Su Shi was taken aback for a moment, then realized it immediately, and said with a smile: "Mr. Sima, you are too indifferent to fame and fortune. You are promoted to be a political advisor, and even the old servants at home don't know about it. You are always calling yourself a scholar. If people hear it, they will probably laugh at Mr. Xiang.”

"You really meddle in your own business."

Sima Guang glared at Su Shi, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "You came just in time, I have a problem that bothers me."

Su Shi asked, "What's the problem?"

Sima Guang asked, "Do you think it's easier to obey morality or obey the law?"

Without even thinking about it, Su Shi said, "Of course it's easy to keep morals."

Sima Guang snorted: "If you don't pay back the money you owe, although it is immoral, it doesn't necessarily break the law. How can it be easy to keep morals?"

Su Shi laughed and said: "Whether it is illegal or not, it can be judged by its own laws, but it is often difficult to judge whether it is virtuous or not."

Sima Guang pondered for a while, then sighed, "That's what happened!"

Su Shi asked: "Why did Mr. Sima ask such a question?"

"Ask whatever you want."

Sima Guang waved his hand, then changed the subject and said, "Are you coming to my house today to borrow books?"

Su Shi smiled and said, "That's not true."

Sima Guang asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Su Shi smiled and said, "I'm here to recommend myself."

"Mao Sui recommended himself?"

Sima Guang was taken aback, and said, "You want to go to the Criminal Court?"

Su Shi nodded.

Sima Guang asked, "Why?"

Su Shi said seriously: "To tell you the truth, I was inspired by the previous lawsuit."

Sima Guang lifted his spirits, "Really? I would like to hear more about it."

Su Shi sighed: "In the court, Wei Yushan made it very clear that everyone evades taxes. If he doesn't steal, he is a fool. Everyone doesn't abide by the existing laws. Talking about reform is meaningless."

Sima Guang nodded and said, "You're right, it seems that we really set our sights too high!"

Why talk about morality but not law is not because morality is superior to law, but to compromise.

In terms of normal logic, morality is actually a higher state, and the law is the bottom line, and we must first keep the bottom line before we can talk about morality.

But the reality is to erase the bottom line and only talk about morality. This is deceiving oneself and others.

The reason is that it violates morality and is just education. For example, what you did is wrong, so don’t do it next time.

There is a lot of wiggle room here.

If you violate the law, you will be punished, and the scope of maneuver is very small.

You just don’t dare to punish, that’s why you talk about moral education.

If hiding wealth from the people is based on morality, it is actually based on compromise.

In other words, you know that you can't control them at all, so if wealth is controlled in their hands, no stable results can be obtained.

Avenue to Jane.

In fact, the truth is very simple, you just can't do it, so you use some tall things to cover up this fact.

It is impossible to succeed if you leave the facts aside.

Su Shi also discovered this problem. If everyone does not abide by the law, the reform is just a pure conflict of interests. First of all, we must abide by the law before we can talk about the gains and losses of this reform.

After all, Zhang Fei is an ordinary person, so he wouldn't worry too much about this issue. After Sima Guang left, he began to check the accounts of the store.

To describe it in one word, it's horrible.

It's just that I made a little money from Ma Tianhao and the others before, but I didn't have much income after that.

However, the cost is increasing.

Just as Fan Li entered the hall, Zhang Fei asked: "Mr. Fan, our store's income is really going from bad to worse. It won't work if it keeps going like this."

Fan Li sighed, "There is no other way."

"What are you talking about?"

Zhang Fei said unhappily: "Can't they find a lawsuit to fight, now we are so famous."

Fan Li said: "Because we are too famous, this lawsuit is not easy to accept."

Zhang Fei asked: "How do you say that?"

Fan Li opened his mouth first, and then said: "You wait first."

As he spoke, he found a document from the file room and handed it to Zhang Fei, "Look at this lawsuit."

Zhang Fei took it, opened it, and looked at it. The lawsuit was very simple. An old lady passed away in No. [-] Tianshui Lane, and there was a dispute over the property she left behind.

The old woman has a son who has always lived in the west of the city. He is in the silk business, but he has never taken care of his mother who is sick in bed. It is a neighbor who sells cooking cakes who has been taking care of the old woman. The house was given to the neighbor's aunt.

As a result, her son thought that the house should be passed on to himself, how could he leave it to his neighbors, so he had to file a lawsuit, so he came to Bianjing Law Firm for help.

After Zhang Fei read it, he said: "This lawsuit is not bad! You can earn a lot of money, are you not sure?"

Fan Li immediately said: "It's really not true, that aunt is a kind and honest person, she can definitely win if she wants to fight, but the fact is that this son is really nothing, he lives in the same city, his mother is sick in bed, but he never It was not until after his death that his family came to hold the funeral. It can be said that it was a funeral, but it was actually occupying the house. As for the house left by the old woman, I estimated that it was worth at least a thousand coins, but It's not a small sum."

Zhang Fei looked at Fan Li wonderingly, and said, "When did you become so conscientious? I remember you were very ruthless before."

Fan Li said unhappily: "In the past, our industry had a bad reputation. Everyone was trying to make money, so it didn't matter. But now, Saburo, you have made the reputation of our Bianjing Law Firm so good that it is difficult for the poor to file lawsuits. If I accept this lawsuit, if I win, it will damage our reputation."

Zhang Fei clicked his tongue: "The purpose of my fame is to use it to make money. If I can't make money, the reputation is of no use. We just need to use legal means and don't have too much psychological burden."

Fan Li said: "If you don't care, then let's take over this lawsuit. The son of that family said that as long as Sanlang you come forward to help him with this lawsuit, he is willing to pay one hundred guan."

"One hundred guan! Then why are you hesitating, of course.!"

Zhang Fei scratched his head suddenly, and looked at the copywriting, "Uh, let me think about it first, can I win?"

Fan Li smiled and said: "I can win this lawsuit. I have a clear stipulation in the court regulations that relatives are above neighbors. It is his family's ancestral house and it is to be passed on to future generations. Even my mother may not be sure about it." There is so much power given to outsiders."

Zhang Fei saw that he was plausible, and said: "Then you help this son, I will help that aunt, let's compare."

Fan Li immediately said: "Then I can't beat it."

"Yes! It can be seen that this is. This is difficult." Zhang Fei said.

Fan Li nodded: "Yes, Saburo is right, it's quite difficult, take your time to think about it, I'll go to work first."

"go Go!"

After Fan Li left, Zhang Fei looked at the copywriting, really tangled up, scratching his cheeks, scratching his head, and said frantically: "Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei, what are you struggling with? You're a lawyer, aren't you? Grand Thief, the purpose of opening a store is to make money, not to help the weak and the strong. Do you need to think about it? You must accept it! This lawsuit is guaranteed to win, am I out of my mind?"

Just at this time, someone suddenly said: "What are you muttering here all by yourself?"

Zhang Fei looked up and saw Xu Zhiqian walking in, blinked, and said truthfully: "I'm studying a lawsuit."

"What lawsuit?"

Xu Zhiqian walked over immediately.

Zhang Fei handed the copy to Xu Zhiqian.

After Xu Zhiqian looked at it, she suddenly looked at Zhang Fei, "You don't want to pick it up, do you?"

Zhang Fei said: "It's not a question of whether you want it or not. Let's open the door to do business. If someone asks for help, we have to answer it!"

Xu Zhiqian said excitedly: "This son is devoid of conscience and hopeless. He lives in a big house in the west of the city, and his mother is sick in bed. Let alone taking care of him, he has visited him in the future, but now for the sake of money, he still wants to slander that kind-hearted man." His aunt deceived his mother with flattering words and plotted against his ancestral house, this is simply abhorrent, if you help him, you will not be helping the evildoers."

Zhang Fei retorted: "The bad guys go to the blacksmith's shop to buy knives, wouldn't the blacksmith sell them to him?"

Xu Zhiqian said: "If you don't know that he is a bad person, then you can be forgiven. If you know, you still sell him a knife, and you are an accomplice."

"You do what you do. You always have a reason anyway. If you have money, you don't want to earn it. Why don't you become a Bodhisattva or a pen? It's really unreasonable. I went to pee. I'm so mad."

Zhang Fei stood up and left angrily.

"It's really unchanging!"

Xu Zhiqian gave him a hard look.

As soon as Zhang Fei left, Fan Li walked in with a smile.

Xu Zhiqian turned her head and stared: "What are you laughing at?"

Fan Li said with a sneer: "Ms. Xu, you really misunderstood Saburo. We can win this lawsuit. If he wants to take it, let us do it quietly. You don't know."

Xu Zhiqian was stunned for a moment, "You mean he deliberately angered me?"

Fan Li hurriedly shook his head and said: "No, I think he just wants you to stop him, so that he can use the slope to get off the donkey."

Xu Zhiqian said: "It's right not to answer, why do you want me to stop him?"

Fan Li said: "The reason why we open a shop is to make money!"

Xu Zhiqian said: "It's enough to use the money, and you can't use it if you earn so much."

Fan Li smiled awkwardly, unable to make a sound.

Xu Zhiqian rolled her eyes and said, "Mr. Fan, you send someone to look for that aunt. Let's help her get back to that house. It's really unreasonable to have to teach that unfilial son a lesson."

Just know it.Fan Li asked in a low voice, "How much do you charge?"

Xu Zhiqian blinked: "Can't you accept it?"

Fan Li said embarrassingly: "Are we opening the door to do business, you..."

Xu Zhiqian thought for a while, and said: "Then let's just charge the head office five hundred Wenguan. I don't think the aunt just took care of the old woman because she was greedy for the house. Let's not ask her too much money."

"Then, it's better not to."

"That would be the best."

".?"

(End of this chapter)