In fact, the imperial court was not the beneficiary of this trial. After all, this verdict would definitely arouse the hostility of more people. You must know that the previous matricide case, the imperial court still won the praise of many gentry.
After all, there was no interest in that case.
Nowadays, the public security organs and the judiciary are not on a stable footing, which is why Zhang Fei wants to give them all a wide berth without going into details, just to prevent them from uniting as one and jumping over the wall in a hurry.
This is very troublesome.
You still have to leave some room. Although this fight is inevitable, try not to end up together. This is not good for anyone.
But there is no doubt that Yuan Jiang is definitely the biggest beneficiary of this trial.
He was here to preside over the salt ceremony, but his past experience had told him that this was not easy to do, and it was also an offending job.
For example, Fan Xiang, although he got the support of Bao Zheng to implement the Salt Law, he was eventually demoted because of something. The reason is that these people will remember that this gentleman will take revenge. It is not too late in ten years, as long as you commit a crime. If anything happens, they will go crazy to impeach.
Xue Xiang is also following Fan Xiang's old path and is often impeached. It is difficult for them, officials who handle finance, to be flawless.
Well now, Zhang Fei offended everyone in this trial, and at the same time gave Yuan Jiang an excellent opportunity to rectify the Salt Law.
In the current situation, even if Yuan Jiang doesn't come, the salt policy will definitely have to be rectified.
We can no longer be as unscrupulous as before.
After all, politics and law are separated.
Yuan Jiang was so happy that she died.
Such a big gift, simply...!
"Putting aside the salt policy, President Zhang's judgment is really amazing. Yuan Mou is ashamed of himself!" Yuan Jiang said sincerely.
Zhang Fei smiled slightly and said: "Bachelor Yuan has received the award."
Yuan Jiang saw that there was no joy on Zhang Fei's face, but a polite smile, and immediately explained: "I am not complimenting President Zhang because this judgment is in my favor. To be honest with President Zhang, I have actually encountered similar situations. case, but I can only show mercy outside the law and omit punishment, which is both unconvincing and harmful to Shiotou."
When he was the county magistrate in Haimen, there were many local salt households who were forced to sell private salt. He actually knew that those salt households were in a difficult situation, but if they were not punished, the private salt would overflow and the finances would be in ruins. question.
It can be seen that he has the same philosophy as Zhang Fei on this issue.
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "But I can only judge whether a salt household is legal or not, but I cannot judge whether they have enough food and clothing. Whether this situation can be improved depends on Bachelor Yuan."
The system has a big reason why Shio households are living so hard.
"President Zhang, please don't say that."
Yuan Jiang raised his hand and said: "Back then, Fan Xiang came here to preside over the Salt Law. The first time he came here was as the Deputy Transport Envoy to carry out reforms, but he soon fell short. The second time he came here as the Director of Punishment and Prison. This reform used judicial power to preside over the Salt Law. Although it was impeached, it was successful in the end. It can be seen that this decree and the judiciary are indispensable!"
That little look in his eyes made him want to tell Zhang Fei directly that we should continue to cooperate.
This Yuan Jiang is a relatively enlightened person, and he also strongly supports Wang Anshi's reform.
Zhang Fei has a clear mind, and he also needs help now. He nodded and said: "Within my authority, I will try my best to cooperate with Bachelor Yuan."
"Okay, okay!"
Yuan Jiang nodded.
Zhang Fei added: "Scholar Yuan must have just arrived, and it just so happens that I can take care of him."
Yuan Jiang hesitated a little and whispered: "President Zhang, we still can't get too close for now."
Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, then!"
Yuan Jiang immediately stood up and said, "Yuan will leave first."
"Bachelor Yuan, walk slowly."
"Where's the side door?"
"Ah? Oh, this is Bachelor Yuan, please."
Zhang Fei and Xu Zhiqian walked to the door. Looking at Yuan Jiang's brisk pace, Zhang Fei couldn't help but said: "I will be the bad guy, and you will be the good guy. You are really careful!"
Xu Zhiqian asked: "Then why did you agree?"
Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said, "Because we can't be such good people."
"That's not true." Xu Zhiqian said with a smile: "As far as Huang Tong is concerned, we are good people!"
She agreed very much with this verdict and couldn't be more satisfied.
Zhang Fei put his arm around her slender and soft waist and said, "Madam is so happy, she probably won't let me sleep alone tonight."
Xu Zhiqian rolled her eyes at him and asked slightly uneasily, "You won't blame me, will you?"
"Won't!"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Madam, you are doing it for the best after all!"
Xu Zhiqian hummed softly: "You can be sarcastic, I really do it for your own good."
Zhang Fei shook his head and said sincerely: "That's not true."
"real?"
Xu Zhiqian glanced sideways at him.
Ever since she met Zhang Fei, she had become accustomed to each other's various yin and yang auras.
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I have no great ambitions. I just want to be rich and content. Without my wife's encouragement, I might not be where I am today."
Xu Zhiqian frowned slightly and said suspiciously: "Really?"
Zhang Fei nodded.
As a trainee lawyer, he only sees houses, money, and women. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with litigating for rich people. In his opinion, this is normal!
He didn't have much feelings about his family, country, and world, because at that time, it was not his turn to worry about it. Living a good life was the best contribution to the country.
It was really Xu Zhiqian who talked about it every day. Although he was very resistant at one time, but for some reason, he also began to restrain this desire. When Li Guozhong grabbed these lawsuits, he did not fight.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be lying, Xu Zhiqian happily hugged Zhang Fei's arm and said happily: "Your words are enough."
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Should we give some rewards?"
Xu Zhiqian glanced at him and said angrily: "What do you want?"
Zhang Fei twisted his body and said, "You see I'm not comfortable with the sweat. Please take a bath with me."
Xu Zhiqian's cheeks suddenly felt dizzy, she let go of Zhang Fei and walked forward.
Zhang Fei said depressedly: "Is this request too much?"
Xu Zhiqian turned back and glared at him, "I asked Qingmei to boil the water."
police station.
"Please check carefully and see if there are any missing parts?"
Ma Xiaoyi put a bag of salt and more than a hundred dollars on the table, and spoke to Huang Tong's family.
Huang Tong, his wife, and his wife's brother looked intently at the money and salt, then at Ma Xiaoyi and the other royal policemen, and remained speechless.
Can I still get back the property that fell into the government?
Huang Tong and his wife really couldn't believe it.
For them, being alive is actually considered good. Although Zhang Fei said so in court, they did not have any hope for it because it was impossible!
Who knows, the Royal Police brought him directly to pick it up.
If you don't take it, the police station won't be able to close the case.
Ma Xiaoyi said: "Don't just look at us. Check it out quickly. If there is no problem, just put a fingerprint on it, and you can take your money and salt and leave."
It was Huang Tong's wife who reacted first, opened her arms, hugged the money and salt tightly, and cried with joy: "No less! No less! No less."
Ma Xiaoyi said: "Then just press your fingerprints here."
"Why!"
Huang Tong pressed his fingerprint on a list.
At this time, there were more than a hundred people standing outside the police station, all of them looking forward to it.
A white-faced young man came forward and asked, "What are you looking at?"
An uncle said: "We're seeing if Huang Tong can get the money and salt back from the police station."
"What's there to see here? I can definitely get it back." The white-faced young man scratched his nose and said indifferently.
The uncle said: "How do you know? It's good to be alive, and you can get your money back. I don't believe it."
A young man next to me said: "Even if we can retreat, we can only retreat by 30% at most. It is impossible to retreat completely."
The white-faced young man snorted: "You don't understand this. The royal police are different from the previous government officials. The royal police protect the people for the officials. Since Huang Tong is not guilty, he must have withdrawn. Do you dare to bet? , if you lose ten cents at a time, if you lose a penny, consider me a loser.”
"really?"
The white-faced young man didn't waste any words. He showed his money bag and saw that it was all filled with money. "Can you afford the compensation?"
"Okay! I'll deposit ten coins."
"I'll stake one penny."
"I'll deposit five cents."
Everyone took out their money one after another. The white-faced young man waved his hand and said, "Don't rush to pay for it yet. Let's do the math together later."
"OK."
When everyone saw him saying this, they were not afraid that he would default on his debt.
After a while, I saw Huang Tong's family coming out of the police station, backing up and thanking the royal policeman.
After the Royal Police entered, the people immediately surrounded them.
"Brother Huang, did the Royal Police really return all the money to you?"
"Um!"
The brass couple nodded while choking.
"Not a penny less?"
"No!"
Huang Tong proudly took out a bag of salt and said, "Look! We even have the salt."
The white-faced young man chuckled and said, "Look, I told you there will be a lot of them. The royal police are here to protect our people."
"Young Master is right. I will judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. We are willing to admit defeat."
The people who had just placed their bets handed their money to the white-faced young man.
They were all happy losing this money.
But the white-faced young man said: "That's it! That's all! This money is dirty, I don't care about it, I just don't like it when others say bad things about the Royal Police."
Huang Tong said hurriedly: "What this young master said is true. Although it was the royal police who caught me, they never tortured me. They also gave me two meals a day, but I'm fine."
Everyone was immediately full of praise for the Royal Police.
At this time, a young man said: "Brother Huang, do you still want to sell this salt? My house happens to be out of salt."
The fair-faced young man's expression froze and he said, "This is not good! Selling private salt in front of the police station?"
"What kind of private salt? The president of the court said, this is legal salt."
"Yes, yes, brother Huang, if it's twenty cents, I'll buy some back."
The white-faced young man scratched his head and said, "That's true."
Huang Tong's brother-in-law said: "Brother-in-law, why don't we sell it? If we take this salt back, we won't be able to eat so much!"
Huang Tong nodded and said, "Okay."
In an instant, these six or seven kilograms of salt were sold out.
At this moment, two auxiliary police officers came over, clasped their fists at the white-faced young man and said, "Superintendent Cao."
"Um?"
Superintendent Cao?
Everyone took a step back and looked at the white-faced young man in fear.
This white-faced young man is Cao Dongdong.
It turned out that Cao Dongdong thought that it was our police station that arrested people, but it was the imperial court that released them. This was not good, but he had to gain some reputation, so he sent someone to quickly invite Huang Tong to the police station with great fanfare, and brought Yan and Give him the money back.
Huang Tong was caught by Ma Xiaoyi and had never seen Cao Dongdong.
Cao Dongdong first glanced at the two ignorant auxiliary policemen depressedly, and then said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, fellow citizens, I was just joking with you. Our Royal Police only arrest those who break the law and protect those who abide by the law. As long as you don’t break the law, you don’t need to be afraid.”
Huang Tong and his wife were also very sensible and quickly thanked Cao Dongdong.
The people around him quickly followed suit and started flattering Cao Dongdong.
But in the far corner, there were several middle-aged people wearing satin gowns.
One of them said: "This public prosecutor's method is really extraordinary!"
Another person said: "Protect the people! We salt merchants are also ordinary people, and we also need the protection of the public prosecutor and the law!"
"Brother Duan, what do you think?"
"In this case, the imperial court ruled that the government breached the contract first, so Huang Tong was not considered to be selling illegal salt. However, the government breached the contract more than once. The government originally promised that the salt banknotes would be two hundred kilograms, but now the salt banknotes can only be exchanged for It’s one hundred and twenty pounds.”
"Brother Duan, are you crazy? Can this be the same? In the end, this case was caused by Huang Tong selling illegal salt, and the imperial court only tolerated it. But if we want to sue, we can only sue the government for breach of contract. Those officials will Let us go?"
"After some time, we may not be able to sue, but at this moment, there is still a chance."
"how do I say this?"
"The imperial court caused those salt officials to lose their face, and they will definitely find ways to retaliate. But this salt banknote has nothing to do with those salt officials. It was all done by Deputy Envoy Xue. Even if it is considered to be a full amount, then It is also a loss for the imperial court. When the imperial court is held accountable, those salt officials will be able to shift the responsibility to the imperial court. They will definitely be happy to see us do this.
If you don’t believe it, let’s go directly to Supervisor He and ask. If he allows it, we’ll sue him. How about that? "
"Okay, let's ask first."
"Yes, in the final analysis we are right about this. It is the court that does not trust us first. What are we afraid of?"
(End of chapter)
