Dress to be a celebrity

Huan Ling rushed to work overnight, and the next day calculated the balance of land plots and tax payables in those fish-scale books.Song Shimi sealed the evidence and hid it on his body, and returned to Wuping with Minzhuang Pegasus.When he arrived at the county government office, he asked Song County magistrate to issue an edict, and called a painter in the class to worship in the county. He enlarged the two fish scale books for him in proportion, and painted them on the wall with red and blue ink. big paper.

The blue pen draws the original picture on the fish scale book, and the red pen outlines the shape of the extra land occupied by the Wang family. Even people who don’t understand arithmetic can see the difference at a glance—it is actually more than the land that should be on the Wang family’s account. Nearly doubled.

How rampant!

County magistrate Song wrote the arrest ticket on the spot, and Song Shi led Kuaishou, backed by a hundred strong men, to arrest the head of the Wang family and several of his sons who were rampant and had committed many crimes.There are also family members who privately reported by the masses, who were overly coerced and killed when they invaded the fields, who committed crimes in the countryside, embezzled property in the name of the royal family, and raped women.

The large and spacious lobby is full of people kneeling, and there is almost nowhere to put their feet.

The Patriarch of the Wang family and his two nephews are well-known as birth officers, and there are several others who have donated to become supervisors.These people rely on the students to go to the hall and do not worship, and the county government cannot support them with the law of punishment. The uncles and nephews stood upright in front of the hall, and said arrogantly to the county magistrate Song: "My lord locked me up for no reason. I have a reputation for merit." Wouldn’t it be contrary to the imperial court’s ambition to treat scholars with courtesy?”

"If it's really for no reason, what am I going to do to you! Something happened to your Wang family!" County Magistrate Song sneered, waved his hands, and ordered the audience: "Read it!"

Then some scribes came up to the hall to recite the complaint that they received when they measured the fields in the Song Dynasty and rewritten it into the correct format after the event: "The petitioner Tian Advertisement: Wang Chun, who is in charge of the Wang family, wants to rent the Tian family from generation to generation. The farmer transferred the land to other people, but the Guang family refused to allow it. In the spring, the evil young men in the village beat up the father, son and brother of Guang, robbed the crops, and destroyed the farm tools, so that the Tian family could not pay the rent and was forced to withdraw the tenant. He sued Song Shixing, the main hall master of the county. .”

County magistrate Song patted the gavel, lowered his face, and said majesticly: "Pull the irrelevant people to the corridor for trial, and bring the plaintiff to court!"

After a while, two government servants carried the sufferer Tian Guang to the hall.Tian Guang's legs were a little lame, so he knelt down on the ground when he went to the hall, weeping and cursing, kowtowing and begging County Magistrate Song to make decisions for him.

But Wang Chun is a dedicated steward, not a member of the Wang family with a reputation, and there are no rules that cannot be played.County magistrate Song intended to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys, so he threw down a bunch of white-headed sticks and shouted loudly: "Ten sticks first, then ten blows!"

The guards rushed up like tigers and wolves, grabbed him and beat him ten times, and then beat him with a stick made of Hsinchu, until the bases of his fingers were swollen, and he was wailing miserably.

The executioner shouted: "Don't howl, if you howl again, you will be considered a roaring court, and you will be knocked fifteen more!"

County magistrate Song has been quite good at adjudicating cases since he took office. He has a majestic face when he goes to court, and he will be beaten hard when he should be hit. He is not the usual kind-hearted little old man. .The steward, Wang Chun, was beaten until his legs were weak, but he felt that the Wang family could still protect him if he refused to admit it, so he would rather endure the torture, crying loudly.

In fact, there is no serious grievance in this case. It was tried once when the previous county magistrate was there, and there are all witnesses and material evidence.It was inconvenient for them to visit the new case due to confidentiality, so they all picked out the incriminating evidence from the old files, but because of the power of the Wang family, they were given a light sentence, and the plaintiff and witnesses were called, and today happened to be tried in court.

At that time, the former county magistrate succumbed to the power of the Wang family, and took the initiative to excuse his family members, and lightly made the case file into a mistake in the dispute. Only a few households and family members of the Wang family were punished, and each person was fined a few knives. up.When he came to County Magistrate Song, he went with the goal of bringing down the Wang family. He didn't need paper or money, as long as he pleaded guilty.

Although Wang Chun had a strong mind, he was not as strong as the large and small boards, shovels, bars and other instruments of torture that were newly made in the county more than half a year ago.

Under the hall, there was a yamen servant who spread the words from the hall, and the people listening to the lawsuit around the county yamen knew that the new county magistrate of Song Dynasty dared to move the Wang family and was able to move the Wang family. Stewards of the family...

They can also try to sue.

Amidst the screams of the stewards of the Wang family and the wailing of the sufferers, several yamen servants came out of the corner gate carrying a large roll of paper, cleared away the people surrounding the yamen, slowly unfolded the picture, and pasted it on the right side of the county yamen. The long brick wall.

Song Shi walked out behind them, holding a pointer made of a slender bamboo branch in his right hand. The servants unfolded the picture completely, pasted it on the wall with paste, and raised their hands to touch the tip of the whip on a red and blue spot on the picture. The blank space drawn by two circles: "The blue line is the land registered in the county and should be owned by the Wang family; the red line is the land that his family illegally occupied. The county lord has found out that the five generations of the Wang family have invaded the county for decades. The total land in Lili is 56 hectares, 280 mu, [-] cents and [-] cents... and relying on his grandfather's official status, he has been in arrears with taxes for many years, and only one item of grain tax is owed. So far, there are [-], [-], [-], [-] cents and [-] cents...

"Dingkou in a county pays one, two, five, three cents, and six per cent of tax for his family. Because the Wang family owes taxes, the head of the village and the head of grain are chased for it. For example, there are seven people who have both legs broken and can't walk well...Because they shielded their servants from escaping the corvee, the rest of the people aged 60 to 30 years old have an extra six days of corvee every year for [-] years..."

The blame was not on him, and many people who watched the excitement thought that Wang's family affairs had nothing to do with him, but the newly appointed county magistrate had a quarrel with the Wang family and wanted to extract money from his family through lawsuits.But when I heard about these farmers who lost their homes and were beaten into disabilities because of the hidden land of the Wang family in the Song Times, and heard about the extra taxes and corvee that I had paid for the Wang family over the years, my heart suddenly fell in my heart, and I could no longer take this matter seriously. It's fun to do nothing.

Seeing their reaction, Song Shi was secretly satisfied, and smiled slightly at the map on the wall: These landlords still want to deal with him?He came from an era in history when he had the experience of "beating local tyrants and dividing the land".Not to mention that he has learned the magic weapon Maogai for several years, just a few experiences in anti-Japanese dramas are enough to tear these local tyrants and evil gentry apart.

Holding the bamboo branch with one hand, like holding a beloved Italian cannon, he tapped a few times on the blueprint, briefly silenced the surrounding voices, and said loudly: "The owner of the royal family, Wang Qin, has privately occupied the imperial land and owed taxes. He paid thousands of dollars to cover his disciple's escape from military service, and even his family members who committed numerous bloody crimes. He has violated the law of the country and has no means of escape, let alone cover those who harm others! Who ever told the Wang family to invade the land? Masters, servants and servants who persecute you, from this time today, I will write pleadings for you in the Song Dynasty, and I will definitely ask you to seek justice!"

Everyone was frightened by his words and fell silent for a while. In the strange silence, an even more astonishing sound suddenly broke out:

"Being generous, the younger ones will sue for grievances!"

"The younger one is the family member of the tenth li chief in the north of the city. He has suffered a lot from the Wang family. I beg Mr. Song to uphold justice for the younger ones!"

"There was a shop in Xiao's home and he took it away. I begged the servant to write a certificate for Xiao!"

The plaintiffs pushed forward like a tidal wave, crowding a few rural eunuchs and gentlemen who had heard about the arrest of the Wang family and planned to enter the government office to give gifts to the Wang family, and drove them far away, so that these people could see for a while what it means to truly support the people. .

The situation is so bad that it can be seen that the Song family and his son are determined to take the life of the Wang family, and they will not be able to persuade them to go in again.I'm afraid that the Song family also holds their criminal evidence in their hands, just waiting for them to throw themselves into the net - even if there is no evidence, with this method of inciting the people, wouldn't it be possible to find countless people by just drawing a picture and saying a few words at will? Enemy sues them and puts them in jail?

Poor Wang's family, it was originally a family with deep branches and prosperous children among the squires here.

No one noticed that the carriages turned away quietly, and the spirits of the people outside the Yamen were all focused on the interrogation from the Yamen servants at the door, under the huge fish scale map, writing confessions with yin and yang students, and collecting Wang's evidence. Song Shi who was the evidence of the crime.

The yelling and pleading in the yamen were suppressed by the shouts, cursing, and crying of the people outside the yamen.The sound poured into the courtyard, making the students and supervisors who had been relying on their hearts and waiting calmly for Song County Magistrate's release to be a little scared.

These young people couldn't help discussing in a low voice: "Are the Chen and Lin families reliable? Why don't you come to petition for our family?"

"Didn't it mean that the Song family's father and son no longer have the Huan family as their backer, and they will be presumptuous for a few days. How dare they make such a big commotion?"

"Didn't Kun'er go to the province together with Lin's family to sue Old Song for persecuting the squire and stealing property? Why hasn't he come back?"

The Wang family was anxious and annoyed about how to overthrow the Song Dynasty, but news of the suspects and confessions spread one after another in the hall.The stewards who originally relied on the power of the Wang family to dominate the village were all beaten to the brim, and signed the pleadings trembling and moaning.Those family members saw that the old man in charge couldn't survive the torture, and after pleading guilty in front of Mr. Song, they were much more honest and dared not resist.

These people received fewer and fewer punishments, and pleaded guilty faster and faster. Seeing that it was their turn to be tried by the Wang family's unrecognized children, they all burst into tears, holding the names of their famous uncles and brothers. Thighs, desperately begging them to help.

But fame can't save them.

After the trial of the lackeys of the Wang family, Master Song suddenly broke the order of trialing those who had no meritorious reputation first, and shouted loudly: "Bring Yinhu Yintian, the head of the Wang family who helped his children escape household service, Wang Qin, to the court!"

Wang Qin was surprised, but still maintained the calm demeanor of the head of the family. He brushed his clothes, stepped into the lobby slowly, nodded and said, "Student Wang Qin, I have seen the order."

County Magistrate Song stared at him seriously, and shouted: "Wang Qin, 12 years ago, in order to seize the land of your nephew, you and four brothers poisoned your grandnephew with cake bait after the death of your nephew, and forced your nephew and daughter-in-law to remarry. This matter?"

Wang Qin's eyes flickered slightly, and he said calmly: "There is absolutely no such thing! The student grew up reading sage books, how could he kill his nephew and grandson for a few acres of Susukida! He choked while eating cake bait and couldn't be rescued in time. I just died!"

County Magistrate Song snorted coldly: "You didn't kill the man, so you admit that you forced your niece and daughter-in-law to remarry, and didn't allow her step-heir to inherit the incense, and kept the festival for your nephew?"

He pursed his lips slightly, and replied solemnly: "My lord, don't listen to Fan's nonsense! It's her own youth who can't keep the rules. I only allowed her to marry a foreign businessman for the sake of Wang's dignity and her future! My lord listens to the rumors." Aren't you afraid of losing the hearts of the gentry by forcing me, the grandson of Zhongshu, to commit scandal in the Chen family?"

County Magistrate Song snorted, but stopped entangled with the case, and didn't ask the sufferer to testify. Instead, he picked up a pleading paper and asked him to open the canal privately for the purpose of seizing the land, causing several acres of fertile land to be flooded. The murder of several children who were playing by the water.

Wang Qin still categorically denied it, and repeatedly said that the matter had nothing to do with his Wang family, that the canal was opened up by the village scoundrels, and that the child was flooded by himself for fun.

County magistrate Song threw out one case after another, all of which were entrusted by him, the head of the family, to embezzle land and bully the people.Wang Qin calmed down and denied each one. Seeing Mr. Song's expression of being about to throw the red-headed lottery several times and forcing it back, he showed a slight mocking and contemptuous look, and smiled in the hall: "Have you finished the interrogation, sir? The students are here?" There are a few posts, please take a close look at them, how about convicting the students after the boss has finished reading them?"

He took out several greeting cards and letters from his sleeve, all of which were pleading words for the Wang family.The people whose names were written in a flamboyant manner were actually high-ranking officials at the provincial and prefectural levels, as well as several dignified officials from the ministries and institutes.