"How to sentence him? It must be severe! Lao Cai's behavior is a provocation! His behavior is so bad that he should be used as an example to give him a harsh sentence to warn those who want to use this to cheat!"
After listening to Zhou You and County Chief Luanming's explanation, although Su Yan admired the landlord Lao Cai for his wit and knowing how to study Xia Yu's laws and find loopholes to benefit himself, Su Yan still felt that the sentence should be harsh.
Young men who spy on married women should be paraded in the street; married women who lie about being widowed to seduce young and strong men should be sentenced to cane punishment; and the daughters of wealthy landlords must be sentenced to fraud and receive large fines!
Because Xia Yu's law is the bottom line, and as a county magistrate, who is also a parent official, he not only needs to consider the legal matters, but also the public opinion turmoil caused by the incident of landlord Lao Cai.
Now that Xia Yu's Law has just been implemented, you guy just gave me a loophole, right?
After calculating the cost of fraud and the cost of hiring tenant farmers, he came up with such a bad idea. It was not a loss anyway. Su Yan felt that if there was no heavy sentence, this matter would definitely arouse some careful thoughts of other big landowners and use deception to defraud. The young men went to work in their own fields.
Anyway, the cost of breaking the law and violating discipline is low. After the revelation of the incident, the government agencies imposed heavy fines, which means no profit or loss. As long as the deception is successful once, it will be a bloody profit.
It's very fun to earn money without conscience.
"We think so too, but the real problem lies here. We must give them heavy sentences to demonstrate the rigor of our Xia Yu laws."
County Lord Luanming had no choice but to say: "But Lao Cai's concubine took the initiative to take all the responsibilities and plucked all the landowner's wealth. We stayed up most of the night just to find the right law and pluck all the landowner's wealth." The landlords and wealthy people were also dragged out and sentenced severely."
They had similar ideas to Su Yan and believed that this case should be judged as a model.
In addition to the laws promulgated by Emperor Wusheng, Xia Yu also had some local laws. As a parent official, the county magistrate not only had to impose punishments according to the laws, but also needed to be considerate of the people's sentiments and pay attention to local laws, and make a decision based on all factors. To pronounce a sentence is not to say that he will be killed with a stick.
Otherwise, if public dissatisfaction boils over and the Demon Suppressor is summoned, the county magistrate will be tried more severely, and a person who knows the law and breaks the law will be slapped on his head, and he will die without knowing how.
Hmm. Humane law enforcement, if you don’t have humanity, the people may invite more brutal demon-suppressing officers to kill the previous county magistrate on the spot and make way for the lieutenant.
"What we are worried about now is that everyone with a clear eye can see that it is the landlord Lao Cai who instigated his concubine to commit the crime, but there is no evidence that can be used to sentence us!" Zhou You said with a look of displeasure on his face: "If it doesn't work, we can just detain him. It would be nice to give him a good beating to stop public dissatisfaction."
After hearing this, Su Yan pondered for a long time and said, "In fact, we don't need to charge him with anything. I will come directly to check his account books and pay taxes."
"No, no, no, of course I know that a guy like him must be cautious in doing things, but we don't need to find any charges. We can just let the government officials come to check his account books when we have nothing to do. When checking the accounts, let all the workers in his house and the tenant farmers stopped what they were doing."
"It takes three days to conduct a small inspection, and five days to conduct a major inspection. It doesn't matter whether we find something or not. Just treat it as a summer vacation for our government officials to drink tea and eat fruits."
Su Yan couldn't help but sneer as he spoke. As Xia Yu's official office in the flower area, it used to have little power due to clan autonomy, but now the flower official office is different from the past. You can check it when you ask, and you don't even need to show it. What evidence comes.
Going against the government? Can you single out the 300,000 Red King's illegally expanded Red King's army, or can you kick Emperor Wusheng off his throne?
"Before going to court tomorrow, let's have a word with that old man. We don't want our official office to go to his house every day to check his account books and use photo crystals to record his happiness with his wives and concubines at night. Let him admit it honestly. Commit those crimes, sit in jail for three to five months, and then pay a fine of spiritual stones to get out of jail."
"Are you being mean?" A black line appeared on County Lord Luanming's forehead: "Aren't you afraid that he will sue?"
Su Yan waved his hand and said, "It's okay. If the landlord, Lao Cai, really files a complaint, I'm familiar with the Minister of Punishment."
"Pfft. Hahahaha."
Zhou You couldn't help but burst out laughing. He thought Su Yan had some way to make the landlord voluntarily admit all the crimes and not go to the main city of Xia Yu to sue afterwards. It turned out that this was the solution.
This time, it’s really a case of bad guys getting their own way, and local gangsters encounter gangsters in the mountains and forests.
"Now that the problem has been solved, don't read those shabby books. When you go to court, you will be judged according to the current situation. If the landlord is dishonest and mischievous, I will also go to his house to make trouble with him."
County Lord Luanming closed the book. Without some tricks to deal with these treacherous people, it would be very difficult to find a flaw and drag him to the court for trial.
Thinking about this, County Princess Luanming couldn't help but sigh. It was the first time for her to hold a public trial. She also thought about seriously passing the law to judge the landlord and Lao Cai. Unexpectedly, in the end, she would need to use some extraneous tactics.
"Everyone, please go to bed early! Before the public sentencing meeting tomorrow morning, we still need to replace the seat in front of the official office with the nine-tailed fox statue of our Xia Yu."
Flower areas believe in the Holy Spirit and mountain gods. The Holy Spirit is responsible for good weather and the mountain gods are responsible for fertilizing the soil.
In front of the houses of landlords and gentry in the flower area, there will basically be a pair of door pedestals for the Holy Spirit and the Mountain God. Most of the door pedestals are buried in the ground to support the doorposts, revealing the Holy Spirit in the shape of white clouds and the Mountain God in the shape of trees.
In this way, your family and home will be safe, and you can also pray for good weather and good fortune in the coming year.
But in this case, Xia Yu took over all the flowers, and the Holy Mountain God could be placed there, but they could not be placed in front of the official office that symbolized Xia Yu's face. As Xia Yu's official office, it was natural to place two majestic nine-tailed fox statues.
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Su Yan returned to the dormitory, first put Xiao Longnu, who was sleeping as fast as an eel, on the bed, and then went to bed to rest after taking a bath and changing clothes.
Of course, Su Yan still maintained his human form. When he was sleeping in the Moon Rabbit Clan's field, he was bitten by Stable while he was still in the form of a little fox. The swelling lasted for several days, which made Su Yan wary and worried about encountering a crazy person again. Mosquitoes, so they turned into human beings and put on a light garment to sleep.
With the arrival of the Lord of Night, Su Yan slept dreamlessly until the next day.
The Lord of the Night looked at the still-dark sky, glanced outside the door with a puzzled look on his face, and then dived into the void.
"Bang bang bang, brother Su, are you up? We are going to invite the nine-tailed fox stone statue to our door."
Zhou You's shouts sounded outside the door. The auspicious time to install the nine-tailed fox statue was coming, but Su Yan was not seen coming out of the dormitory for a long time. Zhou You took the initiative to knock on the door of Su Yan's dormitory to ask Su Yan to get up. Get ready.
"ah"
Su Yan opened his eyes in confusion, answered Zhou You's call outside the door, yawned and said:
"Whether it's a gold or silver nest, it's still not as comfortable as your own fox's den."
Su Yan slept so comfortably that he didn't even notice that the sky was getting brighter, which almost caused him to forget the important matter of installing the stone statue this morning.
Su Yan washed up briefly, then ran to the door of the government office to watch the placement of the nine-tailed fox statue.
There are tributes placed on the altar in front of the official office, and some incense candles are placed on it. Two stone statues of nine-tailed foxes have been placed in front of the flower official office. The two foxes are sitting on the stone seats in a squatting posture, with the nine-tailed fox behind them. The tail is not tall and erect, but curled up beside him in a more casual and relaxed manner.
The heads of the two nine-tailed foxes were tilted in front of the door, as if they were watching the passers-by passing by the official office.
As a whole, the nine-tailed fox stone statue adopts a lot of curves to deliberately reduce the menacing appearance and body shape of the nine-tailed fox. Instead, everyone can feel the two nine-tailed foxes when they see them. The fox stone statue has a relaxed and leisurely look.
It's like holding a feeling of looking down at the world.
"Come and prepare the incense."
County Lord Luanming picked up the incense candles from the altar and began to distribute incense to the county magistrates and government officials, preparing for everyone to worship together later. This was a simple process of enshrining the nine-tailed fox stone statue.
"I won't use incense anymore."
Su Yan looked at the two two-meter-high stone statues, with a hint of anticipation on his face. He refused the incense candle offered by County Master Luanming, took two steps in three steps, ran to the shoulders of the nine-tailed fox statue, and took a deep breath. One breath.
When the incense on the altar was at its peak, Su Yan opened his mouth fiercely and let out a fox cry:
"Great Xia is reborn, and there is no living emperor!"
At such a perfect moment for fun, Su Yan couldn't hold back his eagerness to give it a try, so he ran to the nine-tailed fox's shoulder and prepared to play a harmless old joke.
County Lord Luanming and Zhou You were stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, they felt that Su Yan's words seemed quite appropriate for the occasion, so they led the government servants to shout out the words Su Yan said while burning incense: Great Xia is rising, and there is no living emperor!
"Great Xia is reborn, and there is no living emperor!"
The nine-tailed fox stone statue is located in front of the official office, which represents Xia Yu's formal inclusion of the Flower District into his sphere of influence.
Woohoo, totally ruined.
Because my skin is relatively fair, I have been misunderstood as a girl many times. Today I have to attend a banquet, so I went to get my hair cut.
Woohoo. I didn’t like how I usually cut it too far, so I went to the newly opened shop in front of my house to get it cut.
Then I became a spirited guy, and it was too late to shave off my hair because I had to rush to attend the banquet. Wow, if I had known this, I might as well have tied my hair up.
The ultimate invincible social death.
(End of chapter)
