Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 593 The Controversy of the Three Laws ([-])

Fan Zhen's question made the faces of many officials present change slightly, and there was a hint of nervousness in their expressions.

Yuan Jiang just shook her head calmly and said, "I'm sorry, Yuan doesn't quite understand why Mr. Fan asked such a question?"

Fan Zhen pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Shicai Scholar Yuan kept saying that the court would abolish the Green Crop Law because of this? But I don't know why Scholar Yuan made that decision?"

All eyes were on Yuan Jiang.

In fact, everyone knows the answer, that is, you can’t make money.

Regarding this point, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo have been yelling in the court for a long time, but they will not go outside to publicize the quarrel in this nest. After all, this is just a struggle within the ruling class, but now the outside But they are all common people, so, can this be said?

The people outside the courtyard were still looking at the flowers in a fog, a little confused, but the officials were nervous and uneasy.

The window paper is about to be torn!

Chen Qi couldn't help whispering: "If you continue to ask questions like this, the majesty of the court will disappear."

Su Zhe glanced at Zhang Fei, and said with a smile, "This is all learning from President Zhang."

Chen Qi was taken aback, thinking, this is indeed Zhang San's style.

In the past, Zhang Fei often pulled out the officials' underpants in court and asked some questions that officials could not answer.

Wang Shen glanced at Su Zhe and asked curiously, "The Chief Prosecutor doesn't seem to be worried at all?"

Su Zhe just smiled and said, "The matter has come to this, what's the use of worrying."

He had expected this scene before the fight.

Fan Zhen's complaint was not about whether the government had the right to prohibit them from agreeing on interest, because he knew in his heart that the government certainly had the right to prohibit it, and it was impossible to fight on this point.

He is suing the government for arrogating power and amassing wealth. He must expose the other party's black information and guide the government's behavior towards guilt.

On the contrary, Li Min and the others have to prove that the ban is legal and reasonable. Since their own side is legal and reasonable, then the other party must be wrong, and he must attack the other party.

This lawsuit is bound to hurt each other.

Yuan Jiang glanced at Fan Zhen and saw his resolute face, knowing that this test would not be easy.

In fact, before that, he had expected that Fan Zhen might attack on this point, just to see how deep the question was. Now it seems that he just wanted to pierce the window paper.

Yuan Jiang could only answer truthfully: "Because the role of the Green Crop Law is not only to benefit the people, but also to improve the country's finances. , Mr. Fan should also know about it."

Fan Zhen continued to ask: "That is to say, as long as the imperial court fails to make a profit, even if it can benefit the people, it will definitely be abolished?"

Yuan Jiang pondered a little, and explained: "The Qingmiao Law promulgated by the imperial court is mainly to solve the harm of high profits, but it also absorbed the disadvantages of the Changping Warehouse Law. Before the Changping Warehouse Law provided interest-free loans, but once the government's finances are tight , it becomes unsustainable, and the young crop method provides interest-bearing loans, so that it can be guaranteed to continue to operate.

Then if the folks really have lower interest rates to lend to the people, and the usury is no longer rampant, then for the court, the Young Crop Law naturally does not need to exist, and this is what the court would like to see.

But the purpose of the other party's agreement on interest in the patriarchal clan is not to help the people, but to destroy the Green Crop Law. As long as the Green Crop Law does not exist, there will be no way to check and balance usury. They are so rampant and openly hostile to the government, how can the government remain indifferent. "

His response was clear, simple, and clearly prepared, after all, he had thought in advance that the other party would attack him.

This immediately moved many people, and many people outside the courtyard could not help but nod their heads.

After all, it was not the imperial court that lent usury before, but the big landlords.

And those squires couldn't help being disappointed, they didn't overwhelm him.

But Fan Zhen was not discouraged, and smiled and said: "Scholar Yuan keeps emphasizing that the squires use the patriarchal law to agree on interest, but they use monopoly techniques to destroy the Young Crop Law. , then will the promotion of Changping Division benefit from it? Or, will more people come to promote Changping Division to borrow money?"

Yuan Jiang nodded and said, "Of course the Green Crop Law will be better implemented."

Fan Zhen asked again: "Will the promotion of Changping Division benefit from it?"

Yuan Jiang hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes."

Fan Zhendao: "Since the government will benefit from this, how can Bachelor Yuan explain that the government is not adopting the monopoly technique by doing so. After restricting the low interest rates of the people, the government will adjust the interest to five cents or even higher. , to amass wealth?"

Many officials broke out in a cold sweat immediately.

God!Can this also be asked?

However, Su Zhe's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself, it's no wonder it's Fan Xueshi, so it turned out that he just feinted before, and this was the killer move, good question!

He once argued with Lu Huiqing on this issue in the Department of Regulations of the Second Mansion. You can agree on two points, but you can also agree on twenty points.

And he predicted that this would definitely happen, because Wang Anshi's fundamental purpose was to make money. If he borrowed money normally and didn't make much money, he would definitely use tricks.

"I object."

Li Min immediately stood up and said, "This is entirely the other party's wishful thinking."

Fan Zhen immediately said: "My question is based on the reason why Yuan Xueshi prohibits low-interest lending in the patriarchal clan, not some conjecture. If my question is not valid, then the reason why the government also prohibits it will also be invalid."

Zhang Fei thought for a while, and said: "The objection is invalid. The witness must answer this."

This question really caught Yuan Jiang by surprise, because the government's monopoly is completely legal and there is no reason to say it, but it seems a little inappropriate to say it here, after all, they are now fighting for the moral high ground, pondering A little, can only avoid the important and say lightly: "The government did not prohibit low interest rates, but only prohibited the interest agreed by the patriarchal clan."

Fan Zhendao: "But the squires only restrained the landlords in their own villages, and did not restrict the people to borrow money in the villages, but the government couldn't tolerate it, and the government thought that the squires were playing monopoly by doing this. The two-point benefit of the law comes first, and the five-point agreement they agreed to come later, but the government has benefited greatly from this ban, so how can the government guarantee that this prohibition is not a monopoly technique?"

Yuan Jiang said: "Because the imperial court has express regulations."

As soon as the words came out, boos suddenly sounded outside the courtyard.

Yuan Jiang was very embarrassed.

The common people are very, very clear about this matter. If you want to talk about the technique of monopoly, whoever has played the game before the imperial court has something to do with the rules.

Straight mother thief, I have always paid much more than the stipulated money.

You tell me the rules?

At this time, they have also suddenly realized that you said that the squires are playing monopoly, how can you prove that you are not playing monopoly?
You are more ruthless than them!
"quiet!"

Zhang Fei knocked on the gavel, stopped the people, and then said to Fan Zhen: "Mr. Fan, you can continue."

"Thank you!"

Fan Zhen nodded slightly, and said to Yuan Jiang: "I heard that Bachelor Yuan just came to Hezhong Mansion, and he filed a lawsuit about salt money?"

Yuan Jiang fainted when she heard it.

"I object."

Li Min got up again and said, "This question has nothing to do with this case?"

Fan Zhen said unhurriedly: "I will prove later that this question is closely related to this case."

Zhang Fei said: "The objection is invalid."

Li Min sat down depressed.

In desperation, Yuan Jiang could only nod slightly.

Fan Zhendao: "May I ask how many salt banknotes are sold each year, and how much salt is exchanged for each salt banknote? Is there a clear regulation from the imperial court?"

Yuan Jiang nodded.

Fan Zhendao: "But as far as I know, I believe Bachelor Yuan also knows that in fact, salt ponds in various places have not followed the regulations. Why is that?"

Many salt officials present were shocked, they were shot while lying down!
They sneaked a glance at Zhang Fei guilty, and felt a little relieved seeing Zhang Fei's expressionless face.

"Uh, cough." Yuan Jiang said vaguely: "There are many reasons for this, and it will not be clear for a while."

This cannot be explained.

Fan Zhendao: "But the fact is that the government didn't follow the rules, right?"

Yuan Jiang hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

The people know this in their hearts, and no matter how they explain it, it is just sophistry.

Fan Zhen asked again: "Then how can Bachelor Yuan guarantee that the government will not raise the interest rate after the government prohibits private low-interest loans?"

Yuan Jiang fell silent.

After a while, Zhang Fei looked at Yuan Jiang and said, "I also invite witnesses to answer this question."

Yuan Jiang was forced to have no choice but to say: "I really can't guarantee this."

If he said he could guarantee it, Fan Zhen could find 1 facts to prove that he couldn't guarantee it at all.

Because Yuan Jiang has been an official for so many years, what county officials, magistrates, transit envoys, etc., don't these places have this phenomenon?
He couldn't stop it either.

The fact is that it cannot be stopped.

The Four Little King Kongs shook their heads when they heard that!
This is embarrassing!

Fan Zhen said, "I'm done asking."

The corner of Yuan Jiang's mouth twitched a few times. At this moment, he also understood why Wang Anshi didn't want to sit here when he was beaten to death.

What a torment!
At the same time, there were boos outside the courtyard.

Many squires couldn't help being secretly excited when they saw the sullen faces of the people, and silently applauded Fan Zhen.

But officials such as Cai Yanqing feel very anxious. If you do this, not to mention the reputation of the imperial court, other monopoly projects may also be attacked!
Do you want to continue the trial?

But Wei Yingfang and the others were secretly excited. They were very happy to see this scene. Although they were also officials, only in this way would they provoke a violent counterattack from the reformers. The dispute, not the outcome of the lawsuit.

Qiu Zhengwen whispered: "This Grand Scholar is very powerful."

Lu Bangxing said: "Aren't you talking nonsense, can a scholar of the Imperial Academy be an ordinary person?"

Li Min said: "It seems that we can no longer continue to ask Bachelor Yuan, otherwise, it will be too easy to be caught by the other party, and we will be able to attack instead of defend."

Qiu Zhengwen and Lu Bangxing nodded at the same time.

The window paper has been pierced, and if you continue to ask Yuan Jiang, it is too easy to be counterattacked by the other party. The government has more shit on the ass than anyone else, and it is impossible to argue.

Suddenly heard a few bang bang bang, Zhang Fei lowered his eyebrows and shouted: "Silence! Be quiet!"

After the courtyard became quiet, Zhang Fei looked at Li Min, "Does the defense have any questions?"

Li Min said: "We have no problem for now."

Zhang Fei looked at Fan Zhen again, and saw that Fan Zhen shook his head, indicating that there was no problem, so he said to Yuan Jiang, "Thank you, Bachelor Yuan, for testifying in court. Now, Bachelor Yuan can go down and have a rest."

Yuan Jiang stood up slowly, but her body still swayed slightly, and under the sympathetic eyes of everyone, she walked down the court in a slow pace.

Next, Li Min called witnesses.

Also an old acquaintance, it was Liang Youyi.

When the old man came up, he just glanced at Zhang Fei secretly, trying not to look straight at him, for fear that he couldn't help it again, and fell out with him, to compete with Zhang Fei in this court, it was like lighting a lamp in a hut.

Li Min stood up and bowed to Liang Youyi first.

Liang Youyi just glanced at him slightly.

Li Min didn't care too much. After all, there are too many class differences. He pretended to glance at the copywriting, and then asked: "According to our investigation, Mr. Liang contributed money, energy, and advice to the interest rate regulation according to the patriarchal clan system in various townships." , do not know if?"

Liang Youyi nodded and said, "You are right when you say that."

Qiu Zhengwen reminded in a low voice: "His ambiguous tone is not conducive to our subsequent questions."

Li Min nodded slightly, and then asked gently: "Mr. Liang, please answer in a positive tone, yes or no."

Liang Youyi glanced at him slightly dissatisfied, and then said confidently: "Yes."

A magnanimous look, for the country and the people.

Li Min asked: "I don't know what is the purpose of Mr. Liang's hard work?"

Liang Youyi immediately said righteously: "Naturally, it is for the benefit of the villagers. Is there any need to ask?"

Li Min asked: "It seems that Mr. Liang is always willing to do good things in the village?"

Fan Zhen frowned, and was about to stand up, shouting objection, to remind Liang Youyi.Unexpectedly, Liang Youyi didn't give him this opportunity at all, and said directly: "It's not about being kind and charitable, but I usually follow the example of my ancestors and help the villagers who come to ask for help."

Li Min nodded and asked, "We need financial support to help the villagers. How many fields does Mr. Liang have in his family?"

"I object."

After all, Fan Zhen knew his destiny, so he got up slowly, not as quick as Li Min. This time he hurriedly shouted first, and then slowly stood up, "What the other party asked has nothing to do with this case."

Zhang Fei nodded, and said to Li Min: "Defense, this question involves the witness's private property. Unless you can provide sufficient reasons, otherwise, the witness does not need to answer."

Lu Bangxing said in a low voice: "Don't ask these questions, just ask usury directly. This old man is easy to deal with, so don't let him go easily."

Li Min nodded and said to Zhang Fei: "I take back the question just now."

Afterwards, he said to Liang Youyi quite seriously: "Just now Mr. Liang said that the reason why the interest rate is agreed on in the patriarchal clan is to benefit the villagers, and he must be against usury."

Liang Youyi nodded and said, "That's natural."

Li Min took out a contract, "This is a debt loan contract signed between your Liang family and a commoner in the village. Please read it over, Mr. Liang."

Immediately, a court policeman came up and handed the contract in quadruplicate to Zhang Fei, Fan Zhen, Su Zhe and Liang Youyi respectively.

When Fan Zhen saw it, his expression changed slightly. He glanced at Liang Youyi and shook his head secretly.

The interest on this, calculated visually, reached [-]%.

Liang Youyi looked at it, panicked, and immediately asked, "Where did you get this?"

Li Min ignored him and continued to ask: "Is the seal above your Liang family's?"

Liang Youyi's gaze was a little dodgy, "I don't. I don't really know."

Li Min immediately said to Zhang Fei: "Chief judge, it is very simple to verify the authenticity of this contract. You only need to compare the seal of their Liang family with the contract signed by their Liang family before, and you can know the authenticity. Even the emperor The court can investigate the land on the contract and who owns it at present."

"I object." Fan Zhen immediately said, "I don't know how this question has anything to do with this case?"

Li Min hurriedly said: "What is the original intention of them to stipulate the interest in the patriarchal system is the key to this case."

"invalid objection!"

Zhang Fei looked at Liang Youyi, "Mr. Liang, please confirm carefully, is this from the contract of your Liang family?"

Liang Youyi looked at it pretendingly again, nodded and said, "It is from the old man's family. But the old man doesn't know, because the family affairs are managed by dogs."

Li Mindao: "In this contract, the interest agreed upon by us has more than doubled the principal after our calculations. It is definitely a usury. May I ask Mr. Liang if he agrees with this approach?"

There was an uproar outside the courtyard.

Liang Youyi immediately said: "Of course the old man disagrees, but the old man is old and his energy is limited, so he can't manage so many things. However, after returning home today, the old man will find out this matter immediately."

When it comes to the back, it looks like killing relatives with righteousness.

Li Min asked again: "As far as we know, the Liang family obtained at least 350 acres of land with high-interest loans last year. Does Mr. Liang know?"

Liang Youyi seemed very impatient and said: "The old man has already said that the old man is not in charge of the affairs of this family, so how can he know that, you don't want to wrong the old man."

Li Min was not discouraged by this, and continued to ask: "Then Mr. Liang, does Mr. Liang know how many concubines he has?"

Fan Zhen just wanted to protest, but Liang Youyi said first: "You bastard! This is my private matter, what does it have to do with you? You are here to avenge your own personal revenge."

Public revenge?Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, he couldn't be insinuating at me, could he?Then I really want to avenge myself.

Fan Zhen hurriedly shouted: "I object."

Zhang Fei couldn't help but frowned and looked at Li Min again, "Defense, what does this issue have to do with this case?"

Li Min hurriedly explained to Zhang Fei: "Returning to President Zhang, according to my investigation, Mr. Liang has twelve concubines in total, seven of whom are paid off by means of loan sharks. Therefore, we believe that Mr. Liang is not right. Know nothing about it.”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar.

"Really?" Zhang Fei asked, "Do you have evidence?"

"some."

Li Min immediately presented the evidence in quadruplicate to them.

After Zhang Fei looked at it, he asked Liang Youyi again: "Mr. Liang, do you know all this?"

Liang Youyi's face was flushed, and he thought to himself, where did these bastards get these evidences, could there be a mole in the family.Now he is in a bad mood, he can't say that they are all Gouzi's concubines, the old man just sleeps in occasionally, and if he avoids the seriousness, he says lightly: "The old man doesn't understand what this has to do with this case?"

Li Mindao: "Mr. Liang said just now that the reason why the patriarchal law is used to agree on interest is to oppose usury and benefit the villagers, but from the facts, your Liang family has benefited from usury many times, including Mr. Liang himself. I don't know. How does old Mr. Liang explain everything?"

Liang Youyi was already sweating profusely, and the corners of his mouth were twitching. How could he know that the other party would attack him from this angle.

In previous trials, Er Bi had very few appearances, and he had never seen such a scene where he was about to see blood when he drew his sword.

Since you can't explain it, then pretend to be deaf and dumb!
Seeing that Liang Youyi couldn't let go, Li Min began to pretend to be dead again, so he said: "The reason why Mr. Liang is keen to agree on interest based on the patriarchal system is because the Green Crop Law will seriously harm the interests of the Liang family, so Mr. Liang came up with this method. To destroy the Young Crop Law, this is your true purpose."

"I object." Fan Zhen hurriedly raised his hand and shouted.

Li Min sat down, "I'm done asking."

Play dead?

This is useless in the imperial court, after all, a lawsuit is not a debate, but to convince the judge, Li Min's goal has been achieved.

This is not difficult to see from the expressions of the jury assistants, they all looked at Liang Youyi with disdain.

Zhang Fei looked at Fan Zhen again and said, "Mr. Fan, do you have any questions?"

Fan Zhen glanced at Liang Youyi, who seemed to be ten years old again, and couldn't help sighing secretly, then shook his head and said, "I don't have anything to ask."

At this time, Ma Xiaoyi suddenly came to the court and said, "To President Zhang, a witness suddenly passed out."

Zhang Fei asked: "Who?"

Ma Xiaoyi said: "Xu Qingnian."

Hearing this, Zhang Fei couldn't help but glance at Fan Zhen, who looked slightly embarrassed.

But there is no other way, you are so ruthless in attacking, picking on the weakness, who would dare to come up here!

After thinking for a while, Zhang Fei glanced at the sky again, "It's getting late, the trial will be here in the morning, and the trial will continue in the afternoon, and the court will be adjourned."

　The return of half blood, this time really cost me half my life!Once upon a time, I thought I was chosen by God to be a worker, but I still won the bid. NO.15 went straight to 39 at night. I have never had such a high fever in my life. Everyone was twitching. In the end, I called a friend and drove. I was sent to the hospital, and after two days of taking ibuprofen children's version, the fever slowly subsided, but when I coughed, my head felt like a pinprick, and my throat was super sore, which lasted until the day before yesterday.

At present, the sense of smell and taste have not recovered, and there are nasal congestion, cough, muscle soreness, especially cough, and now the cough is still very severe.Moreover, his whole body was still limp, and he couldn't exert any strength, so he just wanted to lie down all day long.

Originally, I planned to fully recover and update again, but at present, it may take a week and a half to fully recover.So, I decided to start today, restore the update first, update it every day, and look for the status first, but try to keep it within [-] words.

　
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