Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 291 Driving in the Gutter

In fact, relatively speaking, there were relatively few corrupt officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was mainly due to the fact that their own welfare was very good.

Secondly, it is very important not to suppress land mergers, because high officials have many privileges. They can legally purchase a lot of land without paying taxes. It is difficult for ordinary landlords to play against them.

In the end, business is prosperous, and business-minded officials are all wealthy.

Therefore, judging whether officials in the Northern Song Dynasty have money does not depend on the size of the official position, but on business acumen and desire for wealth.

Prime Ministers like Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo, and Zhao Bian didn't have much money in their families. It's not that they don't know how to make money, but they are not interested in these things.

They are not even willing to take advantage of what the imperial court gave them for free.

However, Gu Ji, who is in charge of Taifu Temple affairs, is really rich. In terms of official position, he is not very high, and Taifu Temple is currently in charge of some sacrificial supplies, and it is not a super oil and water department.

But Gu Ji's family is very rich.

Because his family was originally a family of officials and officials, and they were engaged in many businesses, such as silk and satin, wine, sugar, grain and so on.

These people are the most opposed to reform, because they have played through the current system, and their interests come from it. Of course, they are unwilling to make changes.

At noon that day, a luxurious carriage slowly stopped in front of the gate of Gu Mansion.

I saw that the old housekeeper came out immediately with two servants and four maidservants, carefully helping Gu Ji get off the carriage.

Entering the hall, tea and candied fruit are readily available.

Gu Ji took a sip of tea and suddenly remembered something, "That's right! Have you got our license plate yet?"

The elder Zhai replied: "Currently, the number of places at the General Police Station has not been relaxed. In addition, the young master asked what kind of license plate he wanted, so the villain didn't ask about it."

Gu Ji was stunned for a moment, "What kind of license plate number?"

The old man replied: "For example, consecutive numbers, such as one, two, three, four, or the same number, such as four threes, four twos. Moreover, the engraving process and paint of this beautiful number are different from ordinary license plates. The villain also feels that the status of the master is so noble, but he can't be the same as the common people."

Gu Ji nodded slightly, "That's right, but that side has always been unwilling to relax the quota. Not only did they not give us privileges, but they also let those merchants be ahead of us. It's really disrespectful and unreasonable."

The old man asked cautiously: "Master, do we still want this pretty name?"

Gu Ji pondered for a while, and said: "Let Qing'er handle this matter, anyway, this does not prevent us from exerting pressure on the Zhengshitang."

"Yes, the villain remembers."

The old man said again: "By the way, our shop in Embroidery Lane was hit by someone this morning, and it happened that the other party was a carriage transporting paint, and a lot of embroidery was lost."

Gu Ji frowned when he heard that, looked at the old man, and said dissatisfiedly: "Just let them deal with this trivial matter, is it worth asking the old man?"

The old man hurriedly explained: "But master, it was the policeman's carriage that hit our shop."

"Patrol?"

Gu Ji was taken aback.

The old man nodded.

Gu Ji pondered for a while and asked, "What's the situation now?"

Zhai Lao said: "Currently, shopkeeper Gu is still negotiating with them in the Inspection Department, and the result is not clear yet."

Gu Ji frowned, "They put up warning signs and overpass regulations everywhere, but now something happened to them themselves, so we can't let them go easily."

He stroked his beard, and then ordered: "Go and have a look, no matter what the situation is, tell shopkeeper Gu not to agree."

"Yes."

Inspection Department of the left compartment.

Since the General Police Department has just been established, it is still in the process of construction, and has not yet been officially listed, so for now, the patrol police are still staying in the military patrol shop.

"No reason!"

Cao Dongdong slammed the table.

Gu Yiyuan, the shopkeeper of Ten Miles of Spring Breeze, trembled suddenly, and said tremblingly: "Yanei, the villain is innocent, it was your carriage that hit the villain's shop."

Cao Dongdong glanced at him, "What are you afraid of, I'm not talking about you."

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at the trembling patrolman next to him, "How did you drive the car? You didn't go on the road, and ran to other people's shops. This yamen's face is completely humiliated."

The patrolman said: "Forgive me, I can't blame me for this. It was a corner, and I happened to meet a carriage. I couldn't avoid it, so I bumped into it."

"Are you still quibbling?"

Cao Dongdong glared at him angrily.

The patrolman bowed his head.

Cao Dongdong asked Na Gu Yiyuan again: "How do you want to deal with it?"

Gu Yiyuan tremblingly said: "Yamenei, you see, I also do things for others, those good embroidery are all ruined now, if we don't pay us, we can't explain to the proprietor."

"Are you still going to lose money?"

Cao Dongdong's eyes bulged, and he was aggressive, "It's not a big deal, just apologize."

"what?"

Everyone in Gu Yiyuan is stupid, you can pay me money, and I can apologize to you, "I'm afraid this is not acceptable."

"What did you say?"

Cao Dongdong glanced sideways, as if, if you say it again, you won't be able to get out of this door.

If it were a serious official, Gu Yiyuan would dare to say a few words, but this Cao Dongdong was very nervous and moody.

"Ya Nei!"

Zhang Fei on the side suddenly said: "We have to pay for this money."

Cao Dongdong squinted at him, hesitated for a while, "I'll leave it to you."

Zhang Fei immediately said to Gu Yiyuan: "Master Gu, we can compensate, but we have to pay at the cost price, not the market price.

In addition, we must sign a settlement agreement, and at the same time, you must also explain to the outside world that we have compensated you in full, but we did not say that we forced you, or anything.what do you think? "

This is much better than what Gu Yiyuan expected. The government has destroyed your goods, and you can still compensate them in full. This is really nothing to say, but he was just about to nod in agreement.

I only heard someone shouting outside: "Is the shopkeeper Gu in there?"

Cao Dongdong frowned and said, "Who?"

Ma Xiaoyi ran in, "A clerk in his store said he needed something urgent."

Gu Yiyuan's expression changed slightly, and he said: "Yanei, villain, go and have a look first."

Cao Dongdong nodded and said, "You go."

After Gu Yiyuan left, Cao Dongdong immediately whispered to Zhang Fei: "He really won't agree?"

"Don't worry, he can't decide this matter, and it doesn't matter whether he agrees or not."

Zhang Fei chuckled, "The Gu family is not short of these few dollars. Is there anything more worthwhile than using these few dollars to disgust us?"

Cao Dongdong was still a little apprehensive, after all, Gu Yiyuan's expression just now made him a little flustered, and said: "If the other party agrees, then we'll be busy for nothing."

"Don't worry!" Zhang Fei laughed.

Ma Xiaoyi whispered: "Third Brother, why don't we just sue directly."

Zhang Fei said: "In that case, it may appear to others as a bully, and you must not give this impression to the common people."

After a while, Gu Yiyuan came back to the hall again, cupped his hands towards Cao Dongdong and said, "Yannei, the villain can't be the master of this matter, you have to go back and ask the proprietor."

Cao Dongdong wondered: "You can't even decide on such a small matter?"

Gu Yiyuan said embarrassingly: "This business does not belong to villains, villains can't make decisions!"

Cao Dongdong waved his hands impatiently and said, "Okay, okay, go back and discuss it quickly, it's best to give me an answer today, otherwise, be careful that this office will change its mind."

"Yes Yes Yes."

Gu Yiyuan left the inspection department, did not go back to the store, but went directly to Gu's house.

"Returning to the master, Cao Yanei was a little reluctant to lose money at first, so it was Zhang San who came out and said a few words."

"Zhang San?"

Gu Ji immediately asked, "What did Zhang San say?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "Zhang San said that they have to pay for the money, but he demanded that they can only pay at the cost price, and also asked us to explain to the public that the police station paid us the full amount and did not force us."

Gu Ji smiled when he heard the words, and asked again: "How much is our cargo lost?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "All the goods placed under the shed have been destroyed, but the severity is different. If we count them all, it will cost about seventy or eighty guan, but if the other party cares about it, even if we pay [-] guan, we will not pay for it." Lost."

Gu Ji asked, "Do you count the cost price or the market price?"

"Of course it's the cost price. If it's the market price, it's okay to lose a hundred guan."

"Only a hundred pennies?"

Gu Ji frowned, and suddenly asked, "Did you hit anyone?"

Gu Yiyuan hurriedly said: "Speaking of which, it's really lucky that the guy at the door just came to help in the room and didn't bump into anyone."

"what a pity."

Gu Ji showed a look of regret, and said again: "Go and count, if you count too much, you can't let go of a little loss. In short, try every means to count more money for the old man."

"Master, this."

"Don't you understand?"

"Yes, I know the little one." Gu Yiyuan nodded repeatedly.

Seeing his anxious face, Gu Ji frowned unavoidably, pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "You are not good at this kind of thing, you go to the Li Shi Lane to find Li's family, let them talk, if you lose a penny, I will also sue them .”

"Yes."

After hearing this, Gu Yiyuan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Go ahead and do it."

"The villain will leave."

After Gu Yiyuan left, the old man said: "Master, this will make things worse."

"The old man just wants to make things big."

Gu Ji snorted: "He Zhang San used to deal with Wang Wenshan and Wang Hong, didn't it all rely on this lawsuit to make things worse and force the court to calm down.

Recently, their head office issued various traffic regulations, but they themselves overturned the car first, hum, this time the old man wants to deal with him in his own way. "

The next day.

Inspection Department.

"Three hundred strings?"

Cao Dongdong slapped the indemnity bill on the table angrily, "If you haven't done embroidery in this yamen, how can it be worth three hundred guan for just that little thing?"

Ma Xiaoyi chimed in and said: "Brother is right, we are going to do embroidery business, what can we do for you, in my opinion, that little bit of embroidery and satin is only worth a few dozen pennies."

Gu Yiyuan glanced at Ma Xiaoyi, and murmured in his heart, these dandies are really smart!

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "The yamen please calm down, the account can't be settled like this."

Zhang Fei on the side asked coldly: "Then how should it be calculated?"

Li Guozhong glanced at Zhang Fei, hesitated for a while, and said immediately: "Look, this car has been hit by paint, and it will take a few days to clean it up. I can't do business these days, so the loss must be too much." It has to be counted in.”

Zhang Fei sneered, "Did the paint spill into the store?"

Gu Yiyuan said: "Although it didn't spill into the store, who would want to come in to see what it looks like outside, and it will also hurt the reputation of the store."

"What did you say?"

Cao Dongdong glared angrily.

Gu Yiyuan immediately dared not speak.

Li Guozhong immediately said: "The shopkeeper Gu is telling the truth. Opening the door without cleaning the outside will leave a bad impression on customers. What's more, the price can't be calculated according to the cost price.

Because many of them are embroidery, embroidery takes time, so it must be calculated according to the market price, and these embroidery rights should be sold to your police station.Also, the cleaning fee, as well as the tables where the embroidery is placed, must also be included in the compensation. "

"boom!"

Cao Dongdong slapped the table, jumped up suddenly, and said with a ferocious expression: "It's unreasonable. It's always been blackmailed by my yamen. Cough, how dare you blackmail my yamen. Come on!"

"The yamen please calm down."

Zhang Fei quickly stood up, stopped Cao Dongdong, and said to Li Guozhong: "It is impossible for us to agree to this condition. The most we can agree is to compensate at the market price."

Ma Xiaoyi jumped up and down on the spot, excitedly said: "Third brother, they deceive people too much, how can you promise them?"

Cao Dongdong also pointed at him angrily, "Zhang San, I didn't expect you to be such a moron."

Zhang Fei frowned and said in a low voice: "I also ask the yamen to put the overall situation first, if you let your father know about this..."

"Humph!"

Cao Dongdong turned his head: "Little Ma, let's go, it's really embarrassing."

The two left angrily.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Li Guozhong: "You have also seen it, this is our final condition, and it is impossible to add a penny."

Li Guozhong said very apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I can't afford a penny."

Zhang Fei said: "If we don't agree, what are you going to do?"

Li Guozhong said: "Then we can only appeal."

Zhang Fei sneered, "Appeal? Are you sure you want to do this? I, Zhang San, assure you that after the lawsuit is over, the cost price will be compensated in the end. If there is an extra penny, I, Zhang San, will never go to court to argue."

Li Guozhong said embarrassingly: "I was also entrusted by others, sorry."

A flash of panic flashed in Zhang Fei's eyes, "Why don't you discuss it with your employer again, and we are willing to compensate you at the market price, which is already a very good condition."

Li Guozhong thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll ask."

"It's work."

As soon as Li Guozhong and Gu Yiyuan left, Cao Dongdong and Ma Xiaoyi slipped in again.

"Zhang San, how did we perform just now?" Cao Dongdong asked with a look of embarrassment.

"Wow that's just awesome."

Zhang Fei said: "Yanei, I never thought that your acting skills have reached the point of perfection."

Ma Xiaoyi said: "It goes without saying, brother has to lie to his father, and also to lie to the Queen Mother, the method is sure, but unfortunately I can only lie to my father."

"Ahem!" Cao Dongdong glared at him, then quickly changed the subject and said, "Zhang San, let's take another step back, won't they agree?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Just put your mind at ease, the more we retreat, the less they will agree, and they will definitely bite us to death."

Valley House.

"Zhang San is willing to compensate at the market price?" Gu Ji asked with a little joy.

Li Guozhong nodded and said, "Not bad."

Gu Ji stroked his beard and said, "I don't know what method Li Xingshou used to make them willing to take a step back."

Li Guozhong said: "I didn't use any means. In my opinion, they didn't want to make things big, so they were willing to compromise."

Sure enough, as the old man expected.Gu Ji suddenly looked at Gu Yiyuan and said, "Gu shopkeeper, didn't you tell Li Xingshou what the old man wanted?"

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "The shopkeeper Gu has already told me, but Zhang San is not easy to mess with. If there is a lawsuit, I reckon that at most it will be compensation for the market price, but if the other party plays well, it may be reduced to Cost price, now the other party..."

This person is really ignorant, does this old man care about those dozens of dollars?As long as the reputation of this police station can be tarnished, it doesn't matter if you don't lose money.Gu Ji waved his hand: "Li Xingshou hurry back and write the pleadings."

"Good."

Li Guozhong stood up, bowed his hands and said: "I will take my leave."

Gu Ji asked the old man to see him off, and when they left, Gu Ji sneered, "This time, I want Zhang San to experience the pain of a lawsuit!"

(End of this chapter)