"call out--"
After worshiping the nine-tailed fox stone statue in front of the government office, the government office returned to its normal work routine. The government officials went to the backyard martial arts field for morning exercises. After practicing, they sat in a row in the cafeteria waiting for breakfast.
Su Yan and Zhou You stood in front of the official office, talking leisurely, and then saw a group of people from the Dai family, a wealthy landlord, coming to the door with a hired litigator.
As a landlord in the flower area, he still has some privileges. Before the county magistrate pronounces his guilt, he and his family do not need to be detained in a cell to await trial and can go home.
The government is not afraid that if Lao Dai's family escapes, their fields and property will be confiscated.
Thanks to Xia Yu's law-abiding nature, most of the violations of law and discipline can be settled with spirit stones.
After Su Yan saw Lao Dai's family, he whistled at him to attract Lao Dai's attention.
"Hey, Magistrate Su, I'm disrespectful."
When the landlord Lao Dai saw Su Yan, he was slightly stunned, then with a smile on his face he raised his hands and bowed his head to say hello.
When Su Yan and Zhou You first came to Flower City, they often went to the countryside to inspect the farming situation. The land in the Flower District was basically owned by landlords and real estate owned by some clans. After going back and forth, Su Yan and Zhou You basically saw everything in the Flower District. Most landowners have old wealth.
Although I can’t say that we are particularly familiar with each other, we can still say hello when we meet.
"Old Dai! You said you were the cause of this matter."
Su Yan did not speak in front of the door. He raised his hand and gestured to Lao Dai to move into the inner hall to talk:
"We have decided to use your case as a model for public sentencing."
The landlord Lao Dai was stunned when he heard this and said: "Whatever you said, Magistrate Su, I didn't break the law! My wife is committing fraud at best. I understand that she paid Xia Yu three times the fine based on her actual profits." .”
If illegal gains in Xia Yu are discovered, a fine of three to five times will be paid to Xia Yu.
Lao Dai had already calculated everything, and he signaled to his wife to trick a dozen people into helping in the fields. The wages of the helpers were less than half a tael of silver a day, and three times a day and a tael of silver.
Compared with the past renting out fields to tenant farmers, the income he received far exceeded Xia Yu's fine.
The worst he could do was pay some fines and save his wife from being tortured with a cane and jailed.
"No, no, no, you don't understand what a model is or what a fair judgment is."
Su Yan raised his hand to interrupt Lao Dai, pointed to his regular clothes and said: "I haven't changed into the county magistrate's clothes yet, so I will explain to you a little bit. The so-called model and the meaning of public judgment are to be strict and severe. Appearing in certain incidents that may cause public outrage."
"No matter whether it is Xia Yu's law or local law, in some cases it cannot be compared with the will of the people, and what we pay attention to now is humaneness. Even if it is a trivial matter like picking up a copper coin, as long as it arouses public outrage, no matter how big or small it is You deserve the death penalty!"
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An exclamation point popped up on the litigator's head, and he raised his finger and pointed at himself.
"As a litigator, if you know the law and break the law, you will be punished with an additional penalty and beheaded in front of the market!" Zhou You raised his hand and patted the litigator on the shoulder, saying: "You should write a suicide note before the public sentencing meeting begins! To prevent family members from fighting over family property after death."
Litigation stick: "."
That's outrageous. Did you do this the right way? Even the lawyer was cut down too?
"County Magistrate Su Su, are you kidding me? If you were short of money, could you just say it? You wouldn't escalate a trivial matter to such a high level to pronounce a sentence, right?" Lao Dai panicked when he saw Su Yan's unfaithful look. , but still calmed down and prepared to negotiate terms.
"Do you know the historical background of the public trial?" Su Yan shook his head and said, "The background of the public trial can be traced back to the time when His Majesty Wusheng Emperor came to the throne and established the Demon Suppression Department with the function of inspecting the powerful officials of the Xia Yu Dynasty."
"Once the county magistrate of a certain place fails to govern and arouses people's resentment, it will lead to an investigation by the Demon Suppression Division. If anything is discovered by the Demon Suppression Division, the person who comes to be dismembered in front of the vegetable market will be replaced by our local county magistrate. Yes. Parents who are unfavorable to the government and act as parents must be put to death, otherwise the common people will not be resentful."
Su Yan shook his head and said: "Everyone cherishes their lives, so there are some unwritten rules in the court. When the county magistrate notices that something is wrong in the area under his jurisdiction, he needs to push some people to appear for a public trial to quell public complaints and anger."
"You also know the situation in our Flower City. We have just experienced a full-scale war. The people have resentments in their hearts because of the loss of property. From King Chi to us, we are all working hard to create jobs and throwing away our money. When you go out and complain about the common people, do you think it’s cheap to build roads and repair them for the common people?”
"It's so cheap. It's more expensive than hiring a monk, and it's even slower than a monk building it!"
A high-level earth element monk can stand up to hundreds of body-refining and qi-refining monks when building a city.
Once the price is divided evenly, the cost of time is actually more cost-effective for high-level monks.
"Old Dai! This time it's really either you or us who die. You said you would do this." Su Yan sighed and said, "After you die, we still have to count your family's account books, and Make sure your tenant farmers and workers in other shops have enough to eat and drink."
Lao Dai asked Su Yan to bluff and scare him, and for a moment he looked at the lawyer he hired with some uncertainty.
The litigator is now extremely panicked. What Su Yan said can be said to be based on classics, and he even described the history of Xia Yu's public verdict and the reasons for it. It is so real that the litigant himself feels a little weak now.
The things Su Yan said were not within the scope of the knowledge of litigants, but some unwritten rules among officials at all levels in the court. How could he, a litigator who had studied for several years, know those things.
But the litigant still calmed down his emotions, looked at Su Yan and asked, "I don't know. Magistrate Su, why did you tell us these things specifically?"
"Because of fear of trouble and lack of silver." Su Yan said matter-of-factly: "It is very difficult for our Xia Yu to be promoted. I may reincarnate several times. Your Majesty is still the Wusheng Emperor, and the Third Division is still the current Third Division." Master, that’s why I want to blackmail you and take advantage of your disaster to earn some tribute and give it to the superiors.”
Lao Dai and the lawsuit stick: "."
Good guy, it turns out you want to take advantage of the situation!
………………
In the inner hall of the government office, Su Yan and the landlord Lao Dai finished discussing the spiritual stone transaction and gave him some pointers.
"Brother Su is the one who was harmed by lying. He told it as if it were the truth."
Looking at the sack of spiritual stones on the ground, Zhou You looked at Su Yan with wonder on his face and said.
"It doesn't matter whether it's a human race or a demon race. Instinctively, there is a factor of seeking benefits and avoiding harm. If I asked Lao Dai to voluntarily plead guilty and be punished, he would definitely not agree. But when I threaten him with killing his whole family, it is obviously easier to plead guilty and be punished. That’s a lot to accept, isn’t it?”
Su Yan smiled and said.
If Su Yan really emphasized the severity of the sentence when the verdict was announced later, using the public's grievances to set the main tone, and ignoring the ethics of some county magistrates, it would not be difficult to sentence the Dai family to death.
But why bother?
The constant imposition of the death penalty will only cause panic among the wealthy businessmen and landowners of Flower City. Once public anger is over, the wealthy businessmen and landowners should prepare to run away. In the end, the financial performance of Flower City will suffer.
Just give Lao Dai a parade, a fine, and donate money to build the Flower City.
The people of Flower City have probably never had the experience of hitting the powerful with rotten eggs, right?
I will inform everyone later so that everyone can experience the feeling of physical Landlords.
"By the way, Brother Zhou, remember to organize the government office brothers to set up stalls to sell throwing objects and guide the people on how to use them. We don't want to give this money to others to spend in vain. We earn it back and build a private fence." Wouldn’t something like that be beautiful?”
Su Yan, who was about to go back to his room to change into his official uniform, looked at Zhou You and said.
"How many taels of silver did you earn?"
"Although I don't care, we are now the head of the county magistrate. If we can make a little bit, it's a little bit! A little bit here and a little bit there adds up to a lot."
Introduction: Haruhiko traveled to the demon Tokyo in the game and started his second life.
His origin is unknown, and he was adopted by his mother's friend, the Inari Shrine shrine maiden.
But he unexpectedly discovers that she is not a human, but a monster.
It doesn't matter, it's not impossible to be beautiful.
But he also realized that his mother's friend was actually someone else.
(End of chapter)
