Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 173: Trade justice

The southern suburbs.

By the creek, a young man in short brown clothes was squatting under a big tree, looking at the small piece of paper in his hand, in a daze.

"Brother Luo! Brother Luo!"

Hearing a few shouts, the man turned his head and saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy running towards this side.

"Brother Luo, have you paid your taxes?"

The dumb boy came under the big tree and asked the older man.

During this period, in the village, the only thing discussed was to complain to each other.

The man called Brother Luo looked at him blankly, first nodded, then shook his head.

The stunned boy asked again: "Did I hand it in, or did I not?"

Luo Ge replied: "Pass...Pain."

The dumb boy hurriedly asked: "How much more did you pay?"

He didn't ask how much he paid, but how much he paid more. It can be seen that paying more taxes is the national condition.

Due to the lack of currency among the people, the conversion of the summer tax is very tricky.

Luo Ge shook his head and said, "No...not much."

There was a hint of joy and disbelief in his tone.

"How's that possible? Didn't you say yesterday that you didn't have any copper coins at home, and the official post has changed, can you not ask you to pay more?"

"True...really."

Brother Luo nodded straightly: "I really didn't... didn't pay too much, I... I only paid four buckets of rice this time."

"What? Four fights?"

The stunned boy exclaimed: "How is this possible? Even if the official does not use the discount to ask for more money from you, we still have to bear the tax on the public land. After all the taxes are calculated, your family will have to pay four dollars." A hundred dollars, four buckets of rice can only be sold for two hundred dollars at most at present, why don’t you ask for less money.”

The regular tax in the Song Dynasty was not too much. The summer tax was only about five and a half yuan per mu of land, but there were various conversions in the middle, and at the same time, it had to bear the tax on the official land and the loss fee. It is normal for zero to be three or four times more.

Luo Ge said confidently: "But my family only has this little field, and it is enough to pay three buckets of rice. I still pay an extra bucket of rice."

The stunned boy said: "But it's always been like this, so it's possible that the official has shown mercy."

"That's not true."

Brother Luo shook his head, and handed the small piece of paper in his hand to the stunned boy.

The dumb boy took it and took a look, "What is this?"

"Business card."

"What is a business card."

"I...I don't know."

Luo Ge shook his head and said: "Just now the official wanted all the food from my family, at this time a man named Erbi Zhang San came, the official seemed very scared when he saw this person, and didn't say a word The words ran away, and the ear pen Zhang San told me that if the government charged us more money, we would go to him, and he could guarantee that I would not pay more.

After the ear pen Zhang San left, the official came to urge him to pay more, and I... I couldn't give him all the food, so I said I found the ear pen Zhang San In the end, the official sent me only four buckets of rice. "

It turned out that after Zhang Fei left, the official came back immediately, and he lost face just now, and he had to earn it back, so he became more vicious, and Luo Ge was also forced to report Zhang San's name.

As a result, the official was discouraged. He charged such a little extra money so that he would not go to jail. Therefore, he only counted the tax of the official land. Anyway, there was only one household. How did he know that Zhang Fei was going to do this? buy and sell.

"Who is this ear pen Zhang San? Is Ren Di powerful?" The dumb boy was startled when he heard it.

Luo Ge nodded.

The dumb boy said: "Then I also want to ask him for help, brother Luo, do you know where to find him?"

Luo Ge pointed to the small piece of paper in his hand and said, "This business card has his address written on it, but unfortunately I can't read."

"I can't read! What should I do?"

"How about, let's ask Mr. Lu, he is literate."

"Walking around."

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Actually, Zhang Fei came back not for publicity, but more for inspection, or to explore the way, to see how the Song Dynasty collected taxes, and to put it bluntly, to see how they exploited .

This small business card is not distributed much, that is, more than ten cards.

Back in the city, they did not go home directly, but went to Bianjing Law Firm again. When they arrived at the store, it happened to be off work. Going home, Zhang Fei came to work overtime.

The back hall.

One hundred small business cards per person.

Every two people are in charge of an area, one old and one young, and they go door to door every day to distribute this small business card.

"Sanlang, can your method work?"

An old tea eater named Huang Mang asked.

Our tea eaters are scholars after all, and they all sit and go to work. Let's go to the countryside to hand out this small business card. Doesn't this lower our pattern a bit?

The key point is that those farmers don't know a single word, so what's the use of sending this thing to them.

Zhang Fei asked: "Mr. Huang got a lot of money last month, right?"

Huang Mang hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "We are all thanks to Saburo."

Zhang Fei asked again: "What did you just say?"

"Nothing! Nothing!" Huang Man shook his head.

Zhang Fei nodded, and glanced at him: "I don't object to everyone raising doubts, but you have to raise reasonable doubts. I went out for a day today, and you sat in the shop drinking tea, and then questioned me. Is it useful? Go run for a month, and then come talk to me about whether it is useful."

The entire back hall was silent.

Even the censor is afraid, can they not be afraid?

Zhang Fei asked again: "Is there anything you don't know about my arrangement?"

Everyone looked at each other two by two, hesitant to speak.

Zhang Fei said: "If it is clear, if there is a problem at that time, you will be responsible for it yourself."

Qiu Zhengwen raised his hands tremblingly, and said, "Third brother, there are so many things about tax overpayment. Even if we get a deal, we...we can't be too busy!"

Almost everyone nodded.

This business cannot be done!

This lawsuit may not be finished from the beginning of the year to the end of the year!

"The key is not to make money!" Another person whispered.

Zhang Fei said: "I have observed today that the court collects more taxes, and there are only a few tricks back and forth. I believe you should know better than me. Therefore, we can divide this situation into several categories, and from each category , choose a representative one to litigate, as long as we can win, we will be able to set an example and break the law, and the rest of the matter will be much easier to handle without too much effort.

After you finish counting, I will divide you into several groups, one group is responsible for one type, if you still can't win, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation. "

Fan Li on the side said: "Sanlang, it's the government that collects the money, and we're going to sue the government again, can the government let us win?"

Zhang Fei said: "I will take responsibility for this."

No one questioned this sentence, the third brother is really responsible for it.

Fan Li opened his mouth, then glanced at the other people with ear pens, and closed his mouth again.

Zhang Fei said again: "As for making money or not, let's use the middle price of the tax price as the calculation, which is 100 Wen per household per year. , but if you think about it, ten households are worth one penny, ten thousand households are one thousand pennies, and one hundred thousand households are ten thousand pennies.”

A person named Wenfeng said: "One hundred... one hundred thousand households? Can we find so many?"

Zhang Fei said: "As long as we can prove it, we can help them exempt from the extra tax money, let alone 100,000 households, 200,000 households are possible."

Huang Mang asked again: "How many people are needed to calculate taxes?"

They ask if they are making money, because they think the cost is too high, and their remuneration is not low.

Zhang Fei sighed: "You really don't have the brains to do business. This is a once-and-for-all business. They are all farmers, and property changes are not frequent.

If we can give the government a certain deterrent, can the government ask them for more money? But don't those farmers dare not cooperate with us? In this way, although we have 100,000 households, we may only have to file a few lawsuits in a year. This money is earned lying down. "

Everyone's eyes lit up.

That's what happened.

One hundred thousand households sounds terrible, but if it can be achieved, the government will not dare to collect more taxes.

Even Xu Zhiqian, who was at the side, couldn't say a word of rebuttal to this kind of profiteering behavior.

One hundred Wen is only an intermediate price, mainly for those upper-middle-class households. One hundred Wen a year is really not much for them.

But the key is whether there is a lawsuit or not. You have to pay this money every year, because you have to calculate taxes every year, and if you calculate taxes, you don’t buy or sell land, and it doesn’t change.

But like first-class households, Zhang Fei has divided them into several classes. The highest-level first-class households cost about ten yuan a year, or at least ten yuan.

Because the first-class households include some big landlords and small landlords, their fields change more frequently. This price is only the agricultural tax, and the commercial tax is calculated separately.

Of course, for now, this price is only set, and it is estimated that no big landlord will come to him to calculate taxes for the time being.

Since the money is not a problem, then there is no problem for everyone.

Keep trying.

Hurry up to find customers, after all, they are getting a commission, and all of them seem to have been beaten.

At the end of the conference room, Zhang Fei suddenly said to Qiu Zhengwen: "Zhengwen, you go to the Kaifeng county government office tomorrow and help me sue one person."

Qiu Zhengwen hurriedly asked: "What lawsuit?"

Zhang Fei took out a pleading paper and handed it to him, saying: "There is a rogue who molested Mrs. Xu and beat me."

Xu Zhiqian was very embarrassed to hear that, she gave Zhang Fei a blank look, and said you just say you, why did you drag me into it.

The people who had just got up and were about to leave all stopped and looked back at Zhang Fei.

Seeing everyone's opinion, Zhang Fei hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I'm fine, he just pushed me."

Who cares about you.

We just want to know which idiot is so short-sighted and dares to provoke Zhang San.

Have you never heard the story of Zhang San and Sinong?

Qiu Zhengwen looked at the pleadings, nodded and said: "I see, I will go tomorrow morning."

After they went out, Fan Li said: "Sanlang, do you have to think carefully about this matter?"

Zhang Fei said: "I know what you are worried about, but you need to understand that the law is a tool for us to make money. Any behavior that does not obey the law will hinder us from making money. Cutting off people's money is like killing parents. Therefore, we have a sworn hatred against this kind of behavior.”

Fan Li immediately said: "Then if we do this, it can be regarded as cutting off the money of those officials. Can they let us go?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "But there is only so much money. If we want to earn more, they have to earn less. Do you think we earn better, or they earn better?"

Fan Li said: "The truth is such a truth, but the question is, can this be done?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Isn't that what business is all about?"

Is this a business? This is simply fatal! If it was someone else, Fan Li would have to spray him **** head. Is he tired of working, but it was Zhang San, and asked again: "But this person has been sent out, what should we do in our shop?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Don't worry about that, there will be a group of talents who will come to our store to help, and it's still the kind that doesn't need money."