Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 248 Operation
As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm, and the success of Baifan Building is inseparable from the efforts of the Fan family and his son.

Although Fan Yong was ready to hand over the power, he couldn't change it. He got up early and went to the restaurant to inspect it, to see how the cleaning was going, to see if the bartender was dressed neatly, and so on.

"Last night, Ya Nei and Xiaoyi came to look for Hai'er, saying that they were planning to do charity with Zhang Sanlang."

Fan Zheng said while following Fan Yong upstairs.

"For charity?" Fan Yong almost stepped on the ground, stopped, looked at his son, and said with a smile: "The two of them do charity?"

Fan Zheng nodded.

Fan Yong laughed, and asked casually, "Are they looking for you to donate some money?"

Fan Zheng nodded first, then said, "More than a little money."

Fan Yong asked, "How much?"

Fan Zhengdao: "They and Zhang San donated [-] guan."

Fan Yong exclaimed: "Is there so much? Are they rich?"

Fan Zheng said in a low voice: "It is said that in the last lawsuit, they sat in the dark and made a lot of money."

Fan Yong nodded, and said again: "We can't donate so much, so you can donate fifty pennies, just to make sense of it."

Fan Zhengdao: "They donated more than that."

Fan Yong was shocked again, "More than that? How much is that?"

Fan Zhengdao: "The Ma family and the Cao family will each donate [-] hectares of land."

Fan Yong turned his head and looked at Fan Zheng in shock.

No matter how much money is donated to charity, it is still reasonable, donating land, this sounds tricky!

Fan Zheng said again: "It is said that there is no need to pay taxes."

Fan Yong raised his eyebrows and was about to say something when the shopkeeper suddenly ran up and gasped, "Master, Master, just now someone sent a batch of tabloids outside the door, asking if we want it?"

How could Fan Yong be in the mood to talk about these things at this time, he turned his head and stared: "You also come to ask me about such trivial matters?"

The shopkeeper said: "But the contents of this tabloid..."

After hearing this, Fan Zheng immediately said, "Bring it to me to have a look."

The shopkeeper immediately handed over the tabloid.

After Fan Zheng looked at it, his face was startled, "This."

Fan Yong hurriedly asked: "What did you say?"

Fan Zhengdao: "Xu Sishi proposed to take back the privileges of situation households at the Criminal Court."

"what?"

Fan Yong couldn't help but turn pale with shock.

Early this morning, a group of anonymous tabloids suddenly appeared in various tea shops, wine shops, and bun stalls in Bianliang City.

Its explosive content quickly aroused heated discussions.

It turned out that the contents of the tabloid actually disclosed the contents of a secret meeting of the Trial Court.

The content is about how to revise the tenancy contract law, which is actually quite normal, but there is one point that is particularly sensitive, that is, Xu Zun strongly recommends linking local governance with the privileges of status households.

If they dare to use tenants to threaten the court again, they will directly take back their privileges.

And at the meeting, there were heated discussions.

This moment detonated public opinion.

If you do this, it will be like digging out the roots of civil servants and generals.

Except for monks and Taoists, most of the privileged households are either those generals or retired veterans, and they are all retired from the court, and many of them are even meritorious for the founding of the country. If this is linked to local governance, it is almost It can be said that the court can take it back at will.

This kind of thing can only be given, not taken back.

Today, Zhang Fei was the same as before. In the early morning, he went out with Xu Zhiqian to Bianjing Law Firm.

Inside the carriage, Attorney Xu asked Zhang Daer very "modestly" what to do with this charity.

She also has a rather twisted temper. She has been thinking hard at home for two days, but she can't figure it out. How can this charity be divided into operations?
How can it be done?

Today I have to pester Zhang Fei to find out.

"Donate research and development?"

Xu Zhiqian said with a look of astonishment.

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "A perfect law is better than a thousand lawsuits. A good medicine is better than curing a thousand patients. A well-designed agricultural tool can also help farmers all over the world. It's the best way."

Xu Zhiqian thought for a while, "Although what you said is reasonable, it is rare to find good medicine blindly. Maybe you have been busy for a long time and spent a lot of money, but it has no effect, and it will arouse everyone's suspicion."

Zhang Fei said: "You are right, so my donation will be divided into two parts. The first one is to help those people who are in crisis. Anyway, it is a principle that the emergency is not the poor.

And the second is to donate to some yamen involved in the research and development of weapons, medicine, and agricultural tools of the imperial court. The money is spent on the imperial court. Can the imperial court doubt me? "

Xu Zhiqian was surprised and said, "You still donate to the imperial court?"

Zhang Fei said: "If I don't donate to the imperial court, what am I going to use to persuade Grand Master Wang?"

Xu Zhiqian pondered and said: "I'm afraid that the money donated to the imperial court will not be used for research and development as you said, and it may be spent on officials' drinking tables."

Zhang Fei said: "Of course we must try our best to avoid this, the money will not pass through their hands, and will be used directly on those craftsmen."

Xu Zhiqian said, "How is this possible?"

Zhang Fei said: "This is what we need to discuss with the imperial court. This matter is not as simple as you imagine."

Xu Zhiqian fell silent.

This was something she hadn't thought about at all, and she even wondered, is this doing charity?
The key point is that she is not very interested in this kind of donation.

Her charity is the kind of weeding out the strong and helping the weak.

Arriving at Bianjing Law Firm, just as he got off the carriage, Fan Li came out in a hurry, "Sanlang, Mrs. Xu, you are here, something is wrong."

Everyone in Zhang Fei was dumbfounded, "What's wrong?"

Fan Li shook out a tabloid, "Look quickly, this is the tabloid I just wanted from the tea shop next door."

Zhang Fei took a look and exclaimed, "My lord father-in-law."

When Xu Zhiqian heard it, she reached out and snatched it away. After seeing it, she couldn't help but turn pale with fright.

Fan Li asked, "Is this true?"

Zhang Fei angrily scolded: "Of course it's false. This is a meeting of the Criminal Court. How could it be revealed? Is there no one to control this tabloid? It's really unreasonable."

Beads of sweat dripped from Xu Zhiqian's forehead, she was terrified, "What if it's true?"

Zhang Fei was stunned, "Impossible! Do you think this is like what my father-in-law said?"

Xu Zhiqian didn't make a sound.

Zhang Fei asked Fan Li again: "How many people have read this tabloid so far?"

Fan Li said: "It has already spread throughout the city."

Zhang Fei said: "Then what do you think?"

Fan Li said in a low voice: "Does it need to be said, those common people don't think it's a big deal to watch the excitement, of course they applaud it, but anyone with some status will curse and be very angry."

Xu Zhiqian said: "Zhang San, we have to go back immediately."

Born in an official family, he is quite clear about this kind of thing.

Zhang Fei nodded, and said to Fan Li: "Look at the store first, I'll go back and deal with something."

Fan Li nodded and said, "Go quickly."

Court of Justice.

"Xu Zhongtu, Xu Zhongtu...!"

I saw Gu Ji and a group of veterans rushing aggressively to the court.

Sima Guang, who was having a meeting with everyone, couldn't help being "surprised" when he saw them coming.

"What are you doing?" Sima Guang asked with deep eyebrows.

"It's best if you're all here."

Gu Ji slapped a tabloid on the table, "Is this what you said?"

Sima Guang picked it up and took a look, surprised: "Who spread this?"

Gu Ji immediately said: "It seems that Xu Zhongtu really said that."

Xu Zun's acting skills are naturally beyond doubt, he said with a blank face: "What is it?"

Liu Shu, Qi Hui and others also got up one after another, came to Sima Guang's side, turned their heads to look, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock.

Xu Zun also hurriedly got up and came over, "Scholar Sima, can you let me have a look."

Sima Guang handed the tabloid to Xu Zun.

After Xu Zun finished reading it, his face was full of anger, and he glared at Liu Shu, Qi Hui and others, "You are so despicable, you actually hurt me like this."

Liu Shu said with an innocent face: "It's not what I said."

"Who would have said that." Xu Zun said angrily, "We were the only ones there at the time, so I couldn't have said it myself."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, all of them looked wronged.

Gu Ji rushed forward, "Xu Zhongtu, do you admit that you said that?"

Xu Zundao: "That's not what I said. It's obviously embellishment. Bachelor Sima, you have to say something fair for me."

Sima Guang hurriedly got up, and said to Gu Ji and the others: "Everyone, please be calm and don't be impatient, and listen to my explanation. At that time, we were in a meeting and discussing the amendment of the tenancy contract law. Liu Langzhong thought that this would be unfair to those big landlords. If they dismiss the tenants because of this, it may cause unrest, and Xu Sishi casually suggested that local security and the privileges of the big landlords should be discussed together.”

Gu Ji said excitedly: "That's what I said."

Xu Zun wanted to cry but said without tears: "At that time, there was a meeting to discuss what to do. I just said that casually. Later, everyone objected, so I didn't say anything else."

Both Liu Shu and Qi Hui nodded.

The writing on it is indeed very excessive, and the key point is that it is written with a nose and eyes, but Xu Zunzhen just mentioned one thing.

Sima Guang nodded and said, "Xu Si's matter was really just casually mentioned, and he didn't insist on it at all. We didn't discuss it very intensely, or even discussed it much. This tabloid is pure nonsense."

I was also muttering in my heart, is this really what Zhang San did?That kid is too cruel, to treat his father-in-law like this.

An old doctor sneered and said: "Who knows what you are planning, you wait, I must go to the official's place and refer to you."

After finishing speaking, he waved his big sleeves and left angrily.

Gu Ji and the others also turned and left one after another.

In their view, this is simply adding insult to injury and extremely shameless.

Xu Zun also excitedly said: "You guys are doing this, okay, don't look for me in future meetings."

Also left angrily.

Sima Guang glanced over, "I must find out who did this."

"mean!"

Wang Anshi crumpled the tabloid in his hand, "I never thought they would use this method to deal with Xu Zhongtu."

Lu Huiqing said: "Teacher, this is an excellent opportunity for us. Now the trial court must be in chaos. If we stand up to support Xu Zhongtu's statement, then everyone will take the blame for it. At the same time, Xu Zhongtu's statement is also what the teacher thinks."

Wang Anshi shook his head and said: "No, doing so will harm Xu Zhongtu, and the officials are unlikely to agree."

Lu Huiqing sighed secretly, and did not continue to persuade.

Kaifeng House.

"Well, to tell you the truth, some time ago, I was thinking about when to transfer, but now I really want to leave, but I really don't want to part with it!"

Lu Gong sat on the courtroom, gently stroked the table with his hands, looked around, with a little bit of reluctance in his eyes.

Before finishing speaking, Huang Gui hurried into the hall, "Prefect Lu, something happened, something serious happened."

Lu Gong asked, "What's the big deal?"

Huang Gui hurriedly passed a tabloid, "This is the tabloid that was uploaded this morning."

Mr. Lu took a look, his expression was startled, and he looked up, in a trance, as if there was a boy in a green coat and a hat with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks standing in the hall, and he put the tabloid on the table, "Master Huang, please help me clean it up." After a while, I have to rush to the third division to take up my post."

(End of this chapter)