Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 438: Tax war (12)

This public security law sounds easy, and it is also in line with the political philosophy of the Song Dynasty. It is necessary to prevent things, control them, and check and balance each other. However, it will definitely take a long, long time to adapt to the actual implementation.

Before, the procuratorate had been led away by the tax department, and they had no independent thinking at all. Their minds were all on the lawsuit.

But in fact, litigation is only secondary, and their power still lies in the prosecution.

The procuratorate should be a very independent department.

Fortunately, due to the constant incidents during this period, all kinds of eucalyptus emerged one after another, Su Zhe and the other prosecutors gradually became proficient.

They began to realize that the procuratorate is actually a powerful existence, not someone's vassal.

It's just that compared to the imperial court and the police station, the procuratorate is the last to wake up.

Bianjing Law Firm.

"You two, why don't you come to me today?"

Zhang Fei looked at Wang Anshi and Han Jiang in surprise.

Han Jiang said: "We are here to tell you that even though the fines and supplements have been collected these days, and another 10,000 yuan has been collected, it is still difficult to maintain the financial expenditure of the police station, and it can last for a month at most. The subsidy for Shangsanya will not exceed two months.

Furthermore, due to the dismissal of the former government officials, some transportation and storage tasks are temporarily difficult to perform, and many government officials are complaining to us. "

Actually, how long has passed, is there such a hurry?

Not necessarily.

Those officials are deliberately looking for something to put pressure on Si Nong Temple, those dignitaries don't have a lake, it has to be finance.

They will definitely put pressure on each other financially.

Wang Anshi said: "Although the tax department has performed very well, it is not a long-term solution. As far as I know, other counties are currently delaying the self-declaration of the tax department on the grounds of agricultural affairs. It's too late."

Zhang Fei couldn't help but said depressedly: "Zhang San has the guts to say one more thing. Now the two sides are competing for internal strength. This master's fight, the outcome is only a hair's breadth away. At such a critical moment, the two of you come out like this, it's really true." It hurts morale too much."

"What moment of truth?"

Wang Anshi excitedly said: "Now the other party can't even talk about skin damage. If it goes on like this, there is no chance of winning. You are usually so clever, why can't you even pay for this?"

Han Jiang also said: "You seem to put the decrees upside down. Usually, the decrees are first implemented and then supervised by the decrees, but you only care about the decrees and ignore the decrees. How can this be successful."

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "The lesson for you two is that I understand, but please rest assured you two, I will find a way to make up for the money."

Wang Anshi and Han Jiang looked at each other.

Wang Anshi said again: "Don't rely on the officials, the matter has come to this point, if you want to use the state's finances to fill this hole, it is almost impossible."

Why did they accept punishment so easily? It’s a bet that you have no money to pay your salary, and you can’t spend it. If the emperor wanted to make a small fuss for the police station, no one would agree. At that time, the Legislative Council promulgated a new law.

We were arrested and we both confessed.

But if the state finances additionally subsidize the police station, it is cheating, and they will definitely obstruct it.

If the state subsidizes, the law of enlistment must fail.

Zhang Fei nodded: "Understood."

Wang Anshi inspected Zhang Fei a little, and said: "If you really can't hold on, you have to tell me first."

Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said, "I will never implicate Bachelor Wang."

Seeing that he could still laugh, Wang Anshi was a little relieved. This matter made him very anxious, because it was directly related to his New Deal.

But the problem is that at present, although the taxation department has won many battles, they can't see the hope of victory.

Actually, the two of them came here not to attack Zhang Fei, but to remind Zhang Fei.

Don't get carried away.

You are at a disadvantage right now.

You must know that it is only in Kaifeng and Xiangfu. Although the tax police and the royal police have gone to other counties, they have been delayed there. It happens to be spring, and farmers are busy with farm work and have no time to declare.

Food is the most important thing for the people here, and agriculture and mulberry are more important than anything else. The date of this declaration is constantly being postponed.

But everyone knows that they are looking at the direction of the wind. It can even be said that they are concentrating their efforts on blocking the tax department in Kaifeng and Xiangfu counties.

Liu Ping was fined more than 1,000 guan, but in fact Liu Ping only needs to pay taxes, and they help Liu Ping pay for the rest. They don't even need Liu Ping to pay for ear pens.

Of course Liu Ping doesn't care.

They are very united.

The essence of this struggle is ultimately fiscal, not judicial.

The purpose of the recruitment law is to collect money to go forward, and their purpose is not to pay this money.

However, the criterion for winning or losing is not the confiscation, but whether the tax department can receive the full amount of money.

Han Jiang also saw some of Zhang Fei's motives, that is, to make the public prosecutor legally powerful, but the premise is that there must be financial support, and those tax police are not here to generate electricity for love.

After Han Jiang and Wang Anshi left, Zhang Fei found Li Bao.

"I'm also planning to come to you." Li Bao said.

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Is the procuratorate taking action?"

Li Bao was surprised: "Your father-in-law told you."

"To avoid suspicion, my father-in-law rarely lives at home recently."

Zhang Fei shook his head guiltily, and said, "However, the procuratorate has not filed a lawsuit for a long time, and the matter of Wang Xueshi and Han Si is in a hurry, but the situation of these five households is worse than that of Qin Biao. It's simpler and there are no additional conflicts, obviously they are investigating other things."

Li Bao nodded and said, "That's right, they are already secretly investigating the evidence of Xu Yu's illegal sale of salt. Do you want to proceed to the next step?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Arrest Wang Hongjin and bring him to justice."

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Before the first five households were prosecuted, the Tax Department attacked again and arrested five households under the pretext of falsely reporting property.

Zhao Mansion.

"Master, news came from Xiangfu County this morning that Jin'er was also arrested by the tax department."

Wang Qing, the housekeeper next to Zhao Wenzheng, said worriedly.

Zhao Wenzheng said with a smile: "Don't worry, in fact, after Liu Ping was arrested, I knew that Hong Jin might also go in, and I sent someone to tell him, anyway, as much as the tax department said, In addition, I will let Li Guozhong and the others defend Hong Jin."

The wind is light and the clouds are calm.

Wang Hongjin made a false report of his property, which was arranged by him, and it was a false report on purpose. The elders like them should set an example, so that the big landlords below will follow.

As long as everyone works together and advances and retreats together, the Inland Revenue Department has no chance of winning.

Nowadays, the tax department is frequently attacking, which makes them very happy. They also have people in Sinong Temple, and they know that the finances of Sinong Temple are about to fail.

You guys are jumping over the wall in a hurry.

Giving you a thousand coins is just a drop in the bucket, how many households can you check in two months.

Before the key point, none of the five households has sued yet.

Take your time.

Let's see who dies first.

However, they all miss one point.

This is not a war between the Taxation Department and them, but a war between the entire Public Security Bureau and them.

Actually, they also realized before that the Public Prosecution Law is the enemy, but because of the previous two times, the Taxation Department stole the limelight, while the Procuratorate and the Imperial Court were relatively neutral.

As a result, they only focused on the tax department, who was the villain, and ignored the procuratorate.

Procuratorate, as the name suggests, is not a passive department at all, it is only responsible for prosecution, and they can conduct investigations and investigations themselves.

The inspectors inside are all transferred by the auxiliary police. Although they are not from the Fourth Army like the tax police, they are all relatively professional people, including a large number of old officials. They are all detectives. good hand.

......

Li Guozhong is now the legal spokesperson for the rich and powerful. Although he didn't take advantage of the previous few fights, the result still met their expectations.

After all, the final judgment is still relatively light.

Now Li Guozhong and the others go to the tax department every day.

Li Guozhong just came to the Taxation Department today, and happened to meet Su Zhe, "Hey! Prosecutor Su, it's great to meet you."

Su Zhe glanced at him and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "There is nothing important, I just want to ask why the procuratorate has not prosecuted Xu Yu and the others for so long. They have already pleaded guilty."

Speaking of which, he apologized and said with a smile: "Of course, I also know that the procuratorate had to be busy with Chen Xiaoer's lawsuit earlier. Just give as much as you want, and let them go home first, this member Xu is not in good health. I don’t know what Su’s prosecution thinks?”

Su Zhe shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid it won't work. I came here today to take Xu Yu to the procuratorate for investigation."

Li Guozhong was stunned for a moment, "Post...to the procuratorate? This...is this for...why?"

Su Zhe hesitated for a moment, and said: "Anyway, the evidence is solid now, and I'm not afraid to tell you that when we examined Xu Yu's income, we found that they were selling private salt."

"Huh?"

Li Guozhong couldn't help being taken aback, "Smuggling private salt? No! I...I just talked to Li Siwu just now, and they didn't mention it!"

Su Zhe said: "The tax department is not aware of this matter, and it has nothing to do with them."

Li Guozhong frowned and said: "Also... that is to say, this... is what your procuratorate wants to investigate?"

Su Zhe nodded.

At this moment, Li He came over, "Su's prosecution is here."

Su Zhe took out an official document, handed it to Li He, and said, "Siwu Li, we are here under orders to take these people to the procuratorate for trial."

Li He took the official document and looked at it, "Okay, I'll get someone to arrange it right away. But I would like to trouble you, the procuratorate, to settle the false tax declaration first, otherwise, our tax department can't hold so much people."

Su Zhe hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "After I go back, I will talk to Master Xu about it."

Hearing the words, Li Guozhong knew that something was wrong, so he rushed back immediately.

Almost at the same time.

Na Qiji came to Xiangfu County with several inspectors and a team of royal police.

The magistrate of Xiangfu County didn't even know Qi Ji, a small character, so he asked, "Who are you?"

Qi Ji cupped his hands and bowed: "If you go back to Pangzhi County, I will be Qi Ji, the prosecutor of the Procuratorate. He was ordered to come here today to investigate a case and need to obtain the official account books of Xiangfu County."

Pang Zhixian said: "Why do you transfer the county's official land account books? Who gave you the power?"

Qi Ji said neither humble nor overbearing: "Our procuratorate can exercise procuratorial power over the government, and I hope that Pang Zhi County can cooperate with us."

"If the magistrate is not worthy...!"

Before I finished speaking, I saw a yamen servant quickly approaching Pang Zhixian and whispered in his ear: "The magistrate, there are more than a hundred royal policemen outside."

Pang Zhixian's expression changed, and he said to Qi Ji: "You are just here to get an account book, you don't want to send so many people here? What do you want to do?"

Qi Ji replied: "Because this is an extremely important evidence and cannot be lost, the Chief Prosecutor Xu specifically asked the police station to send someone to **** it."

After all, Pang Zhi County is the county magistrate of Chi County, how could he be easily frightened by them, he said to himself: "I have never heard that the procuratorate has such power, I have to ask the higher authorities first."

Qi Ji thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Pangzhi County can ask the higher authorities for clarification, but in the process, our people must take good care of the account books. I'm afraid I will be implicated in it too."

"What did you say?" Pang Zhixian asked with deep brows.

Qi Ji said: "Sorry!"

Pangzhi County struggled for a while, thinking that it is not a good thing to have more than a hundred royal policemen here. The key point is that he has just taken office not long ago, and he does not know the situation. If he is really involved, it would be too wrong. So he said: "I can hand over the account books to you, but I will definitely report this matter to the higher authorities according to the facts."

Qi Ji cupped his hands and said, "Thank you Pangzhi County for your accommodation."

The implication is that you can just ask, we are not false at all.

......

The sudden action of the procuratorate caught the officials of the DPRK and China by surprise, and there was chaos for a while.

But they didn't realize it for a while, thinking that it was the tax department's tricks, and scolded the tax department for not paying attention to martial arts. Guantian.

This will kill you.

Because when the Legislative Council promulgated the new tax law and reduced the penalty, it was mainly aimed at the exemption tax, which was very clear, and these illegal acts were not included.

......

Meng Mansion.

Censor Pei Wen quickly walked into the hall and said to the people sitting there: "I just received news that the procuratorate has sent people to the county government of Xiangfu County, the county government of Kaifeng County, and the third department to collect Evidence. Moreover, this is indeed an order from the procuratorate, and has nothing to do with the tax department."

"I don't believe that this has nothing to do with the tax department. This is clearly a conspiracy. They just want to use this to force us to pay taxes."

Meng Gansheng said angrily.

Pei Wen hesitated for a moment, and said: "This is indeed related to the tax department. This is something we ignored before. Where did the tax department get the evidence? I also went to Xu's house to ask. It is very hidden and not many people know about it, but it is clearly written in the income provided by the tax department, and it is precisely because of this that the procuratorate can see the problem."

Xie Yun wondered: "Why didn't the Xu family find out at that time?"

Pei Wen sighed: "It's because everyone was staring at the exemption tax at the time, and the tax department's declaration this time checked the income, not the same as the previous government, which checked only property, such as selling private salt. If the income is not checked , I couldn’t find it at all. In fact, the Qin family’s income was also problematic before, but the procuratorate didn’t find out, and the tax department didn’t care about it, so it didn’t report it at that time.”

Xie Yun stomped her feet angrily: "I knew something would go wrong."

The people sitting here also suddenly realized what the problem was. They still seriously underestimated the ability of the tax department.

These incomes are originally shady, and the tax department was able to find them.

Be aware that it is very difficult to check income nowadays because of the lack of deeds.

But they never thought that the Taxation Department made the layout a year in advance, and held the black information of dozens of households in their hands, and the investigation was also clear.

At this time, Zhao Wenzheng came to the house again.

Meng Gansheng hurriedly asked: "Governor Zhao, what's the situation in court?"

Zhao Wenzheng first collapsed on the chair, resting his forehead with one hand, and said weakly: "The evidence from the procuratorate is solid, and the higher authorities support the procuratorate. No one dares to speak for Xu Yu."

He is also in a panic now, and his horse boy Wang Hongjin has also been brought in. It is not yet known how much evidence the tax department has and whether the procuratorate will notice it again.

They also realized that they not only underestimated the tax department, but also the procuratorate. In fact, the tax department only wants money. If you pay the tax, they will ignore you, but the procuratorate is here to kill you. , Whether you pay or not has nothing to do with them.