"boom!"
There was a sound of the jail tree, and County Lord Luanming, who was squatting in the court hall, shouted: "Bring the prisoner to the wife Dai Lin."
"Stop wearing it, stop wearing it, Mr. Magistrate"
The landlord Lao Dai, who had gone through the detailed explanation in the back hall, saw the villagers on the third floor and the third floor outside the official office, and the words they cursed at him. He immediately understood that these villagers were most likely to be deceived by him to beat him. A fellow villager of the young workers.
Recalling what County Magistrate Su said about the public verdict and the significance of the public verdict as a model, Lao Dai suddenly panicked. As soon as Luan Ming County Chief clapped the alarm bell, Lao Dai directly used his own cultivation to squeeze through the crowd and straightened up slightly. His stomach jumped directly to the government hall and he cried:
"Master County Magistrate! The common people are guilty! I should not be greedy for the loss of money, and I have given my sincerity to the fellow villagers! I really deserve to die!"
Seeing that the situation was as Su Yan expected, Lao Dai now completely believed what Su Yan said, and followed Su Yan's words and jumped to the court and burst into tears, frantically confessing to the magistrates in the court.
Because the verdict was announced publicly, Su Yan, Zhou You, County Lord Luanming, Feng Shiqi, and Qing Ya were all present. They all put on blue silver embroidered court clothes and sat in the courtroom.
"Tell me what you did."
Su Yan waved to the yamen officer in front of the door and brought the young man who sued the landlord Lao Dai and Lao Dai's wife and daughter. He also caught the litigant who wanted to pretend to be dead and brought him to the hall.
"Master, you have to make decisions for the common people!"
As soon as the young people arrived at the hall, they angrily began to tell what happened. Lao Dai's coquettish concubine seduced them into farming in Lao Dai's fields. They plowed several acres a day to grow sugar cane and sugar beets for Lao Dai. As a result, more than a dozen young people had to work less than half of the time. In a few months, the farming is about to be completed, and it will be time to bring the beauty back home.
Lao Dai jumped out and tried to get rid of him with a few taels of silver. How could they endure it? They agreed that whoever plowed more fields would be able to marry into Dai's family.
The young man said so, and other young people also yelled at the Dai family for not doing anything about human affairs.
Let the concubine lure people back to work for free.
Ask your daughter to bring someone back to marry you.
In the end, it was only a few taels of silver, and Lao Dai even threatened the young people, saying that they had broken the law, and that spying on married women and untouched girls were all violations of Xia Yu's laws.
After the case went through, Su Yan and the others had already understood that it was actually a normal process for the plaintiff and defendant to appeal the case in court until the two parties and the people outside the court were almost at each other's throats.
County Lord Luanming turned on the Gaoling wood again, slapped it on the table hard, causing a burst of harsh sound waves, and forcibly calmed down the arguments in the courtroom, and said:
"The case has been cleared up by this officer. Now do the Dai family lawyers and Dai Changji have anything else to say?"
"He's the mastermind!"
The lawsuit stick didn't even think about directly identifying Lao Dai, and opened his mouth to pick him off, but Lao Dai was no joke and also opened his mouth to identify the lawsuit stick. It was this guy who was familiar with Xia Yu's law and sold him the idea, saying that he would let himself go You can earn hundreds of kilograms of spiritual stones every year.
"Do the prisoner Dai Changji and his wife and concubines plead guilty?" Su Yan asked.
"Dai Mou pleads guilty! But the grassroots want to make amends and donate to the government to repair the garden landscape so that people can smell the fragrance of flowers when they open them, improve people's livelihood and protect the scorching sun in midsummer, and want to give young people who are really hurt They compensated three times the wages and also wanted to distribute clothes to the people."
Lao Dai Guangsu confessed and, as Su Yan said, voluntarily spent money to build facilities to benefit the people.
Su Yan looked at Sui Gun, who quickly began to take out some money to quell the people's complaints so that the county magistrate wouldn't push him out to block the gun.
"Sentence!"
After the county magistrates temporarily returned to the back hall to discuss, Feng Shiqi took out a piece of paper and pronounced the verdict loudly:
"Dai Changji and his wife and concubines used fraud to trick young people into working for free. Because of their frank and sincere confession and their willingness to spend their property to repair people's livelihood facilities, the following judgment was made. Dai Changji must pay three times the amount of compensation to the victims in addition to compensation. Workers' compensation, because his despicable behavior caused public resentment, he was punished by being paraded naked around the city, and was imprisoned."
"Although the offender is an accomplice, she is also guilty of disorderly conduct and fraud. She will be jailed for twenty canes."
"The verdict of the young people is as follows. According to Xia Yu's law, whether a deceased husband or wife is required to keep vigil for one year, the young people are subjectively suspected of spying on married women and not having sex with hair-pinned girls. According to Xia Yu's law, they should enclosure the land for three days before the market."
Feng Shiqi announced the verdict of the county magistrates loudly, then looked at the more than 20 people in the audience and said, "Do you have any objections?"
The young people were compensated by Lao Dai and Sui Gun with nine times the market wage. After thinking about it, they realized that the wages here have been almost a year and a half. Although he was unwilling to take the coquettish woman home, if he raised objections again, he might not even get the compensation and donate it all to the government office, so he agreed with the sentence made by the county magistrates.
Lao Dai and Qiubang looked bitter and had no objection.
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In the back hall after the sentencing, the young people were hung with signs saying "I am greedy for married women, I am despicable", and the government officials pressed them to the door of the market, drew a circle in a cool place, put them inside, and ordered them You are not allowed to leave within three days, and the official office will be responsible for three meals. If you cross the line, you will be fined and paraded through the streets for 15 days plus a 15-day enclosure.
Lao Dai and Sui Gun also came to the back hall. The clothes on their bodies were stripped off by the government officials, leaving only their shoes and pants. They put on shackles and had fraud and guilt papers on their chests behind them, preparing to go around the city in a state of embarrassment for a day.
"Hey Lao Dai"
Su Yan walked into the back hall, looked at Lao Dai and the lawsuit stick who had just been shackled, and said, "Next week our Flower Office is going to sell the rental rights of the prosperous shop. Let's see if you are interested in bidding."
The Flower City used to belong to the clans, but now that the clans have collapsed, the ownership of the Flower City belongs to the government.
In the past, clans rented land and asked merchants to pay for renting shops for business.
But now the world has changed. Su Yan now has more than 30 popular shops in his possession. Su Yan added a bidding fee before renting out the land, and the land lease period has also been changed from three years to ten years.
Anyone who wants the lease rights to those popular shops can bid.
As for who rents it and whether it is rented out, the government office has no interest in management, as long as it pays taxes on time.
"Bidding?"
Lao Dai was stunned when he heard this, frowned and said: "Magistrate Su, you are not kind in your actions! There was no such thing as bidding before."
"Before? In the past, for things like yours, the Hua family should have been dragged to the ancestral hall and beaten to death, and your wives, concubines, and daughters should have been sent to be dipped in pig cages. Let's talk about this." Su Yan waved his hand and said, "Now it's open and fair. From now on, One or two spiritual stones started bidding for the ten-year lease rights.”
Bid to obtain the right to lease, and the lease fee must be paid to the government office on time.
Lao Dai felt that Su Yan was robbing, and that the bidding fee was just a cover. It was clearly the county magistrate Su who used a clever pretext to rob the landlords and wealthy businessmen from their pockets, and then put the bidding fees into his own pocket.
"Just tell me whether to rent it or not! After renting it back, as long as you don't do anything illegal, separate a few more rooms and rent the first floor to a fruit and vegetable seller, the second floor to a rouge seller, and the third floor to a madam to increase the turnover rate. Yes, each floor will be more expensive for you to rent."
"The rental price is also low for merchants. Is that true?" Su Yan said, "Then you can make a lot of money just sitting at home, while our official office didn't make any money. It's not a loss. died?"
Lao Dai: "What do you mean, old man? Do you want me to continue to build on the original building?"
In this way, paying an extra bidding fee does not seem like a loss.
Hmm. Whether you want to build an extension or not, you need to submit an application to the government for approval, and then pay a tax and construction fee.
Of course, this was Su Yan's plan, but he didn't say anything to Lao Dai now. He would first coax them into the trap to earn a bidding fee from them, and then slowly trick the rich people into giving up some money.
Nowadays, flowers have been affected by the disaster, and everyone is sad. If you don't fool the landlords and old money into spitting out silver coins, do you still expect the folks in the countryside to have silver coins as tribute to the government?
It is really difficult to be a county magistrate. You have to protect people's livelihood and manage the cleanliness and public security of the city.
These are all silver coins! Do you expect the red king to allocate funds if you don't donate?
After Su Yan returned to the government office, he ignored everything and went to the landlords to draw cakes for them and describe a bright future to them.
The dilapidated thatched huts in the smelly ditch are all said to be riverside manors.
(End of chapter)
