I am Li Shen and Li Shimin, the free kings of the Tang Dynasty

Di Renjie has been in Japan in charge of the affairs of Prince Ji's Mansion, although Di Renjie never told Di Zhixun what he was doing.

But Di Zhixun vaguely felt that his son must be helping Prince Ji's Mansion do something big.

His son is being trained under King Ji and will surely achieve something in the future.

He is already old, it doesn't matter whether he gets promoted or not.

"Wannian County, I have a case here, and according to the rules, I should go to your Wannian County Court for trial.

But you have also heard that I have been under house arrest by His Majesty, and there is His Majesty's oral order. If I go out, I will be disobeying the order.

So I have to trouble you, Wannian County, to come to the palace to conduct the trial."

Li Shen specifically mentioned that he was under house arrest, which was a reason.

A reason not to be impeached by others.

The Wannian County magistrate at that time privately listened to the order given by the censor Wang Wei, which made Li Shimin very angry.

Li Shencai would never make the same mistake.

Wannian County is one of the two county magistrates in Chang'an City. He is responsible for managing half of Chang'an City. He has more than a thousand constables and bad guys under his command.

The importance is self-evident and cannot be compared to other ordinary county magistrates.

When Di Zhixun heard Prince Ji asking him to try the case, he frowned. It was a big taboo to try cases in Prince Ji's mansion.

I kept muttering in my heart, "You are such an ancestor. Don't you know that you can't set up a court privately? And you still asked me to come."

But now he is on King Ji's side, so he has to bear with it even if he makes a mistake.

"Your Highness Prince Ji, I wonder what case this is and whether it needs to be reported to the Dali Temple or the Ministry of Justice."

"No, no, no, Your Majesty, there is no need for this, right?"

Report it to the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice? This is overdoing it. Usually, only murder cases are reported to the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice.

Wang Zhengli on the side quickly waved his hand and said to Li Shen.

“Don’t misunderstand Wannian County. I didn’t ask you to come here to set up a court to try a case. If you set up a court privately, even I will be punished.

This king has called you here just to ask you about the law."

Li Shen is not a fool. If Di Zhixun makes the penalty.

Tomorrow an imperial censor will impeach me, saying that Prince Ji colluded with the Wannian County Magistrate, set up a private court, and abused private punishment.

By then, not only would Di Zhixun be implicated, but I would probably get beaten again.

After hearing what King Ji said, Di Zhixun felt relieved. As long as he didn't have to judge the case, everything would be fine.

Prince Ji was knowledgeable and studious, so there was nothing wrong in asking him about the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

"Then please let me know, Your Highness Prince Ji."

Dickson bowed and asked.

"They are just ordinary people. How should they be punished for beating someone so badly that he was seriously injured?"

"Will there be a fight?"

"No."

After receiving the hint, Di Zhixun pondered for a moment and raised his head to salute:

"Your Majesty, Prince Ji, according to the law, if someone strikes someone with his hands or feet without causing any injury, he shall be flogged forty times, and if he is injured, he shall be caned sixty times.

If someone beats and injures someone without any intention of fighting, he shall be charged with the crime of assault and injury of the highest degree.

Seeing blood is a wound."

Di Zhixun didn't know what Prince Ji Li Shen meant, nor did he know who was going to be punished.

King Ji did not give a diagram. This law is very flexible and has different severity levels for insiders and outsiders.

Helplessly, Di Zhixun could only recite the Zhenguan Code.

After hearing this, Li Shen understood the general idea. If he was not injured, he would be beaten with forty bamboo sticks. If he was injured, he would be beaten with sixty boards.

If it is not caused by a fight, that is, it is not a mutual fight, but if you unilaterally beat others, the crime will be aggravated, that is, seventy strokes of the cane.

Shit! Seventy strokes of the cane, why not beat Wang Wanqing to death?

"Your Highness Prince Ji, please have mercy on me. Your Highness Prince Ji, please have mercy on me."

Upon hearing that he was going to be caned, Wang Zhengli fell to his knees with a thud.

There are many types of caning, which can be a board or a stick, and can be used to hit the legs, buttocks, or back.

There are some subtleties involved.

After seventy strokes of the cane, there was no chance that Wang Wanqing would be alive.

Before he came out, his father and elder brother specifically told him that it was okay to suffer a little, but he must save Wang Wanqing's life.

Li Shen didn't say anything, he was also thinking about this problem. If he killed Wang Wanqing, he would become enemies with the Wang family of Langya.

Besides, although Wang Wanqing was arrogant and domineering, bullying others and injuring Heizi, her crime did not deserve the death penalty.

If I beat her to death, wouldn't I also be a bad person? I'm not the protagonist of those awesome novels.

He could kill someone with just a single step on their foot.

Seeing that Prince Ji didn't say anything, Wang Zhengli became even more unsure. In his opinion, it was normal for a prince to kill someone because of anger.

"Your Majesty, please show mercy. My family is willing to pay 20,000 guan, no, 30,000 guan as compensation. I hope Your Majesty will show mercy.

I can give Wanqing a lighter sentence."

Wang Zhengli was really anxious, so he added another 10,000 strings of cash just to buy Wang Wanqing's life.

Ten thousand strings of cash, ten million coins, what a huge sum of money.

The ancients often said "rich as a tycoon" to describe a person who was rich, but it was not just a random statement.

Before Li Shen came into being, there were almost no businessmen with enormous wealth in the Tang Dynasty except for the aristocratic families.

It was after Li Shen established the Chamber of Commerce that he began to provide protection for ordinary businessmen, which is why there are so many big businessmen today.

Even so, ten thousand strings of cash is not a small amount.

However, Li Shen was not satisfied. He had already sent people to investigate the Wang family of Langya, as they had been passed down for thousands of years.

Although the family is in decline now, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, so there is still some wealth.

If we don't hurt them and kill them to scare the monkeys, how can we restore peace and order to the Tang Dynasty?

Let those families who take advantage of their power to bully others be more restrained and not oppress the people too much.

"Lord Wang, right? Do you think a mere 30,000 strings of cash can offset the wrath of my master?

Do you know that in order to deal with your Wang family, we have invested more than 30,000 strings of cash in the past two months?

I don’t think you have any sincerity at all.”

Who is Wang Hongfu? From Li Shen's expression, we can tell that Prince Ji thinks the amount is too little, and Prince Ji also said that it is enough to punish him, but he cannot really beat him to death.

Otherwise, why would we need to go through so much trouble? Wouldn't it be better to just kill him?

As the first servant of King Ji, he naturally had to step forward and do things that were inconvenient for his master when he was inconvenient.

Wang Hongfu, the chief treasurer of the Prince Ji's Mansion, is a legend in the business world, or a lucky son.

Of course Wang Zhengli knew him, or rather, he was very familiar with him.

However, there is still a lot of discrimination against merchants in the circle of literati and poets. After all, merchants are of low status.

Even if others are wearing gold and silver, eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks, and surrounded by beautiful women, these literati will only say that they are full of money and lack elegance.

But it did not affect Wang Hongfu's status in Chang'an City at all.

Whether it was scholars, merchants, common people, or nobles, they all knew that Wang Hongfu represented the Ji Palace.

Standing behind Wang Hongfu is Prince Ji.

"Your Highness Prince Ji, I don't know... I don't know..."

What he wanted to ask was how much money would be needed to keep Wang Wanqing safe.