Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 446: Tax War (20)

Zhang Fei has fought lawsuits several times, but he always relied on details to win.

Xu Zun has repeatedly told them that details are still details.

As for Su Zhe and the others, they also thought that they had done enough detail, no matter how hard the evidence was, there would be no problem with it, but... But in the end, there was still no one like Zhang Fei.

This seemingly ironclad evidence is controversial.

What's more interesting is that the methods used by the two are exactly the same. The government regards the civilian land as wasteland and confiscates the government according to the law, while Zhao Wenzheng regards the government's pasture as wasteland, and then sends people to Go to "reclamation", and finally take it as your own.

According to the evidence provided by Zhang Fei, it is uncertain whether this piece of land is wasteland, official land, or private land, so why should the procuratorate sue people for encroaching on official land.

In addition, the procuratorate is a state agency and represents the government, and the accounts in their hands are provided by the government. If they know that the accounts provided by the government are problematic and they still have to be sentenced, the consequences will be very serious. , there will be no law at all.

When Zhang Fei and Su Zhe returned to their seats, the people sitting there had already got the answer from Su Zhe's face.

It is estimated that this crime will be difficult to be sentenced.

But Su Zhe was not discouraged, because there was another crime, which was selling illegal salt.

Once this crime is convicted, it can be severely punished, and even the death penalty can be imposed. Although the death penalty is not applicable to Grandmasters, as long as it succeeds, it doesn't matter whether you have the first two crimes or not.

If you can't escape this crime, no matter how beautifully you defended it before, it will be of no avail.

It's a dead end.

On Zhang Fei's side, Xu Zhiqian was sorting out the documents, but instead of relaxing, her expression became more serious, as if they were at a disadvantage.

When she put the organized documents in front of Zhang Fei, Xu Zhiqian couldn't help asking: "Can your trick really work?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "If I am sure that I will win this charge, then I will have to charge Governor Zhao 30,000 guan, not 20,000 guan."

After making some adjustments, Su Zhe asked Wang Hongjin to be passed on to the hall.

When Wang Hongjin sat in the dock, Su Zhe asked: "Wang Hongjin, according to our investigation, you sold more than 3,000 dou of private salt to Xuzhou last year. I wonder if you can plead guilty?"

"I object!"

Zhang Fei immediately stood up and said, "I think Su's questioning method is misleading."

Zeng Gong asked curiously: "Misleading?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Wang Hong only transported 3,000 buckets of good medicine to Xuzhou last year, not private salt."

"Good medicine?"

Zeng Gong said in astonishment.

The procuratorate shouldn't make such a mistake by treating medicine as salt, right?

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Yes, it is a life-saving medicine."

Zeng Gong couldn't help looking at Su Zhe.

There was a lot of discussion inside and outside the courtyard for a while.

Could it be another blatant false accusation?

Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others also looked at each other in blank dismay.

The officials are very clear about land occupation, but they don't know the details of the sale of private salt, so it can't be a mistake.

Nor should it be!

Some officials know about Zhao Wenzheng's sale of private salt.

"Silence!"

Zeng Gong patted the gavel and shouted in a deep voice.

Sitting Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "Impossible, it's definitely private salt, not a good medicine, we have witnesses to prove it, and at the same time, the accounts of Wang Hongjin and Zhao Wenzheng are also written as salt."

Zhang Fei said: "The account is indeed written as salt, because the name of this good medicine is called salt."

"...?"

This....

There was no sound in the courtyard, and everyone stared blankly at Zhang Fei.

It's not as ruthless as you!

Can you still argue like this?

Why don't you say it's silver?

"Bastard!"

Zeng Gong was furious immediately, "It's unreasonable, how dare you use tricks to tease the prefect.

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Xu Zhiqian blushed and lowered her head. When Zhang Fei told her, she was dumbfounded. You are not defending, you are just playing with everyone.

On the other hand, Zhang Fei said solemnly: "I will never dare to tease the magistrate. I have evidence to prove that it is good medicine, not private salt."

Any witnesses?

It's outrageous!

Zeng Gong suppressed the anger in his heart for the time being, and said: "The witness."

But I saw a man in his forties limping to the hall, and the man's neck was obviously swollen.

When Su Che saw the neck, he immediately had an ominous premonition.

"The villain Xu Shengzi has met the magistrate."

"Sit down."

Zeng Gong pointed to the witness stand.

"The villain obeys."

Xu Shengzi went directly to the witness stand and sat down. He had no choice but to have a disability after all.

Zhang Fei stood up, "Uncle Xu, where are you from?"

Xu Shengzi replied: "I am from Luo Township, Changge County, Xuzhou."

Zhang Fei said: "May I take the liberty to ask, is your neck naturally so big, or...?"

Xu Shengzi replied immediately: "It's because I had a serious illness the year before last, and my neck became so big."

Zhang Fei asked: "I don't know what disease?"

Xu Shengzi said: "In my village it is called a big neck disease."

Zhang Fei nodded and asked again: "I don't know why you got this disease?"

A person at the door rushed to answer: "I know this. If you don't eat salt, you will get this big neck disease."

Xu Shengzi nodded again and again, "The little brother is right, he got this disease because he didn't have salt to eat."

Zhang Fei asked: "Why do you have no salt to eat?"

Xu Shengzi sighed: "It was originally available, but suddenly the price of salt more than doubled two years ago, and it was mixed with a lot of dirt, we couldn't afford it, and we couldn't eat it. The salt merchants will not sell to us, and we will have no salt to eat."

His tone didn't fluctuate too much, just like chattering, as if he had seen through everything.

Maybe it's because I'm used to this kind of thing.

Very common.

Zhang Fei asked again: "Does that mean everyone has no salt to eat?"

Xu Shengzi said: "At that time, many people in our village had no salt to eat, so they could only use the puddle water or the blood of prey to make some brine and eat it as salt. It bulged out, and some people even died."

"Is there anyone else dead?"

Zhang Fei pretended to be surprised.

Xu Shengzi said: "I know, but there are seven or eight."

Zhang Fei asked curiously again: "Then why are you all better again?"

Xu Shengzi said: "Of course it's because someone came to sell salt later, so if we eat salt, it will naturally get better."

"Really?"

Zhang Fei wondered: "Where do you get the money to sell salt? Doesn't it mean that everyone can't afford it?"

"Actually, the price of the merchant who sold salt was not cheap, but at least we farmers can still afford it, and it is much better than the previous salt. Eat for many days."

"I see."

Zhang Fei nodded, "If there is no such person to sell salt, what do you think will happen?"

"We might die of illness too. In fact, if we don't die of illness, we will starve to death. Many people are sick and have no strength to farm."

Xu Shengzi shook his head and sighed, there was no sadness, only the helplessness of having fun while suffering.

"Can it be said that this salt is a good medicine that saved your life."

"Sure."

"Thank you!"

Zhang Fei said to Zeng Gong: "I'm done asking."

Su Zhe stood up, "Excuse me, Uncle Xu, did the salt seller tell you to sell salt or medicine?"

"Salt sellers are of course selling salt." Xu Shengzi looked at Su Che inexplicably.

There were sporadic laughter outside the door.

Su Zhe asked again: "Are you buying salt or medicine?"

Xu Shengzi scratched his head and said, "Of course we are buying salt."

Su Zhe said to Zeng Gong, "I'm done asking."

Zeng Gong asked someone to take Xu Shengzi down first, and then asked Zhang Fei: "Your witnesses say it's salt, what else can you say?"

Zhang Fei replied: "I think how to define a thing should not only look at what it is, but also its purpose. Just last year, a fatal accident occurred in Bianjing City. The murderer was a fireman. He used The iron pot smashed the opponent to death, and in the confession at the time, the iron pot was defined as a murder weapon, so it was illegal, and the judiciary obviously judged it based on the purpose of the iron pot, not what it was. As we all know, the iron pot It's not a weapon.

According to our research, the price of salt in Xuzhou doubled two years ago, so that many farmers in the countryside could not afford salt. As a result, no one went there to sell salt, so there were many big necks The reason for the disease is that Governor Zhao asked Wang Hongjin to sell salt to the local area and cured the local people's big neck disease. This can definitely be understood as drug trafficking. "

Qi Ji was amused by Zhang Fei's sophistry, and joked: "Now that he is cured, why are you still selling it?"

Zhang Fei lowered his head and glanced at Wen An, and said solemnly: "We are mostly visiting doctors, and we know that this medicine needs to be taken for a long time."

"Puff!"

Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but burst out laughing immediately, and quickly buried her head down.

It turned out that the document was just a place to sell private salt.

But Zhang Fei can speak the truth.

Zeng Gong frowned and said to Zhang Fei: "If it's as you said, I'm afraid that all the private salt in the world can be exonerated by this."

Zhang Fei said: "If the situation is the same as that of Governor Zhao, it is certainly not illegal. Just imagine, if the imperial court decides to stop selling official salt for three years, and does not modify the salt law, causing everyone in the world to be sick. The prescriptions are all salt, so are these doctors selling illegal salt or selling medicine."

Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "You are making unreasonable words, why did the imperial court prohibit the sale of official salt?"

Zhang Fei said: "Let me put it another way. If the imperial court stipulates that salt is five guan for a catty, many people can't afford it, and as a result, they all get sick. The prescription that the doctor dismissed was salt, and it was sold at the price of ordinary medicine." To patients, is it selling salt or selling medicine?"

Qi Ji fell silent.

Zhang Fei looked around, and said loudly: "Everyone, don't ignore the fact that when Governor Zhao ordered Wang Hongjin to sell salt to Xuzhou, many places in the area were seriously short of salt. Why did this happen?

It was because the Xuzhou government suddenly raised the price of salt at that time, so that the salt sellers had to sell the salt they got from the government at a high price in order to make a profit, and because the price was too high, many villagers could not afford to buy it. Salt has also caused salt sellers to see that these areas are not profitable, so they simply do not sell them in these places.

As we all know, this salt is the same as food, if there is a lack of salt, this person will suffer from diseases immediately, and may not be able to survive. There is a saying that human life is at stake, and laws should not be higher than human life. According to historical records, any law that is higher than human life is a bad law, and no one will abide by it.

Based on this point, how to determine whether it is private salt or medicine is actually very simple, that is, ordinary people who work hard can afford the salt needed for life, so salt other than official salt is private salt. It's illegal, but if the people can't afford the salt they need for life, then salt other than official salt is medicine and it's legal. "

Su Zhe looked at Qi Ji and asked, "Did all Wang Hongjin's private salt be sold to Xuzhou?"

Qi Ji said: "The private salt we found was sold to Xuzhou."