Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 37

After Xu Zhiqian and Wang Ye left, Zhang Fei did not leave immediately, but sat alone in the hall, secretly tasting the remaining delicious food and wine.

In fact, he is not the kind of person who has extremely high demands on material things, but the life of the Xu family is really too peaceful, every day is light tea and light food, which really suffocates him, but he has no complaints about it , I am just grateful, because both Xu Zun and Xu Zhiqian are like this.

Again, don't worry about scarcity but inequality.

It's rare to be a little oily today, so don't reserve more.

While enjoying it, Zhang Fei quickly put down his chopsticks when he heard the sound of light footsteps, and wiped his mouth again.

After a while, Xu Zhiqian came into the hall, seeming to be thinking about something, and didn't notice Zhang Fei's small movements.

"Boyfriend?" Zhang Fei asked with a smile.

"Boy friend?"

Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei suspiciously.

Zhang Fei hurriedly explained: "Oh! It means the old friend is good."

"What did you say?" Xu Zhiqian immediately glared at Zhang Fei angrily.

"No no no, how do you say this, oh, childhood sweetheart, childhood sweetheart." Zhang Fei also realized that he had said something wrong, and was so anxious that he broke out in sweat.

Xu Zhiqian glared at him: "Stop talking nonsense! You, a disciple, can only think of obscene and dirty things."

Childhood sweetheart?childhood sweetheart?Also nasty, dirty?Is it because I am ignorant and do not understand ancient Chinese, or you are fooling me.Zhang Fei also felt aggrieved, and said: "Just asking, why are you so angry?"

Xu Zhiqian said in a hurry: "If you didn't live in our house, could he come here?"

Yes!After Wang Ye finished talking with me just now, he left immediately, could it be?Zhang Fei suddenly took a breath of air: "Are you jealous? No! Hey, hey, I'd rather you think I'm an apprentice and dirty than you think I like men, or that I have Men like me."

I'm a straight man of steel, no one wants to break me.

"You are truly hopeless."

Xu Zhiqian's face was blushing, and as soon as she flicked her long sleeves, she turned around and wanted to leave.

"Wait."

Zhang Fei stopped her suddenly, and said: "You woman is really duplicity. You always blame me for living in your house, but you want to keep me behind your back. What are you thinking?"

Xu Zhiqian turned around and said angrily, "When am I going to keep you in our house?"

Wow!Why is it so fierce? Is that what happened, or the menopause arrived early.Zhang Fei said: "You said you asked Qingmei to help me find a house, but I asked Qingmei, but you never told her."

Did I ever say that?Xu Zhiqian blinked, and suddenly remembered that she seemed to have really said this sentence, but it was just to tease Zhang Fei at that time, casually speaking, how could she let her maid help Zhang Fei find a house, she rolled her eyes and said: "If you don't give me money, how can I find it for you?"

But obviously lack of confidence.

Zhang Fei said unhappily: "What kind of money will I give you now, you have to find the right one first, and I will pay after I have gone to see it!"

Xu Zhiqian raised the corner of her mouth, revealing a sarcastic smile.

Zhang Fei frowned and said, "What are you laughing at?"

Xu Zhiqian sarcastically said: "Go back and read Song Xingtong carefully, Er Bi."

After saying that, she left directly.

Read Song Xingtong?

You tell me, a person from Erbi, to read Song Xingtong?

What a shame!

Zhang Fei was angry.

Regardless of the delicious food and wine on the table, he immediately went back to the house and turned Song Xingtong angrily.

result.

It's a little embarrassing!

"What the hell?"

Zhang Fei said in disbelief: "Fang Ya must buy this house, otherwise he will be treated as a thief. Wow, this is too exaggerated! It's really shameless to ask for money!"

I have to say that the Northern Song Dynasty government is really good at making money. There are so many miscellaneous taxes that you can’t remember. How could the Northern Song Dynasty government give up on the eternal business of house trading.

Definitely have to pay deed tax.

But there is no banking system at present, so someone needs to supervise this matter, and this power is delegated to the people. The court stipulates that all house transactions must go through Fang Ya, and all procedures must be handled by Fang Ya. To put it bluntly, Fang Ya In fact, they are non-staff personnel of the government.

No matter how many people buy or sell houses, the government only asks Fang Ya for money.

If you don't give the money, you will be treated as a thief. You must know that in ancient times, the crackdown on thieves was very severe, and the punishment was also very severe.

If it is light, it will be imprisoned, if it is serious, it will be exiled, and acupuncture and whip chrysanthemum are all easy.

Everyone says that owing usury is terrible, but after all, usury belongs to the private sector, and you can still hide it. If you run away, you will owe money to the government, haha, hurry up and buy a coffin!
Zhang Fei, who had lingering fears, quickly started to review.

If it fell on the top of this house, it would be really... well, it seems that it is not very wronged, who can escape this hurdle!

Not long after Zhang Fei returned to the house, Xu Zun came back home from the outside. After looking around for a while, he saw Xu Zhiqian sitting on the swing under the big tree, so he walked over, "Qian'er, the official family is gone?"

Xu Zhiqian also didn't get up to salute, she looked at Xu Zun depressedly, and complained: "Father, how could you let me, a woman, entertain the official family? It's really unreasonable!"

She also held back her anger, and suddenly told her that the emperor was coming, and she had to entertain her, but it didn't scare her to death, and she was really trembling when she spoke just now.

This time, Xu Zun didn't shake his body, but explained in a low voice: "Daddy doesn't want to, this is all ordered by the government. If Daddy sits here, how can he and Zhang San talk freely? Daddy himself has to Looking forward and backward, I'm afraid that that kid will see something, and your brother is not at home, and you are alone in this house, so I can only let you go."

Xu Zhiqian wondered: "But why did the officials come to our house to meet an ordinary person? This really puzzles my daughter."

"Nothing unusual?"

Xu Zun glanced at Xu Zhiqian, and said in a bad mood: "When he went back to Kaifeng Mansion, the court was full of quarrels, even more noisy than those censors. Have you ever seen such a person like Erbi? He is an official. Can you not be curious?"

"Arguing upside down?" Xu Zhiqian asked suspiciously: "Then does Chen Yuteng have such great ability?"

"It has nothing to do with him."

Xu Zun waved his hand and said: "The key lies in the timing. Now Wang Jiefu has been preparing for the reform. For him, this case is like sending charcoal in the snow. He used this to criticize the disaster of private borrowing in the court and demanded that Chen Yuteng be severely punished. Li Si and Zeng were treated with leniency.

But it was also opposed by many people. Many officials believed that Zhang San was just playing word games, and the government should ignore it. "

Xu Zhiqian stood up excitedly, and said: "If you want to talk about this word game, Chen Yuteng was the first to play it. Why don't they talk about it?"

"Why didn't you say that?"

Xu Zun sighed: "This is the difficulty of this case. For example, the Sima University scholar and the prefect of Lu all know that Zhang San is just treating him in his own way, not to mention that Wang Jiefu tried his best to protect Li Si, Li Si and others. Mrs. Zeng, in fact, they themselves don’t want to punish Li Si and Mrs. Zeng, but they also don’t agree with Wang Jiefu’s theory, they don’t follow the law, but if they don’t deal with it together, there is no other way to solve it, so it has been delayed until now.”

Xu Zhiqian lowered her eyebrows and thought for a moment, then said, "If Chen Yuteng admits his mistake on his own initiative and is willing to make compensation to Li Si as a sign of reconciliation, can it be resolved?"

Xu Zun stroked his beard and said: "The people follow the private contract, and the officials ignore it."

Xu Zhiqian asked, "How much will I have to pay?"

Xu Zun shook his head and said, "Then I don't know."

Xu Zhiqian muttered to herself: "Anyway, it won't be less than one hundred guan."

"What did you say?"

"It's nothing."

Xu Zun didn't care, and suddenly asked Xu Zhiqian: "That's right! How is the conversation between the official family and Zhang San?"

Xu Zhiqian pursed her lips and said: "The officials seem to like Zhang San very much, and even have the idea of ​​letting him enter the court as an official."

"Really?" Xu Zundao: "What did Zhang San say to make the officials so happy?"

Xu Zhiqian probably told Xu Zun about the conversation just now.

"I see."

Xu Zun nodded thoughtfully.

Xu Zhiqian snorted softly: "Actually, Zhang San's theory is not a high-level theory. I really don't understand why the officials are so happy."

"What is a high theory?"

Xu Zun shook his head with a smile, and said: "Zhang San's argument not only points out the root of the problem, but also points out the solution, and it's nothing more than that!"

Xu Zhiqian said: "But discussions similar to this one have been mentioned by many high officials in the court."

Xu Zun sighed: "But it's not as thorough as Zhang San's. Most of the officials in the court also talked about the disaster of high profits. However, the disaster of high profits is just trying to hide it, and it is a burden on the people."

Xu Zhiqian was startled, and suddenly realized, thinking, it seems that person really has some skills.But he said: "It's not that they don't know, but they pretend not to know."

Xu Zun laughed and said: "Therefore, we should solve it with the legal system."

(End of this chapter)