Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 201: Fish and Bear’s Paw

Sima Guang is very frugal by nature, and he hates extravagance and waste. If he doesn't travel far, he usually doesn't take a carriage. Even if the weather is very hot, he still walks home.

He returned slowly to his small house.

The old servant who had been following him since his hometown greeted him immediately.

"Master Junshi is back."

"Huh. Huh?"

Sima Guang nodded, and suddenly turned his head to look at those old servants, "What did you call me just now?"

The old servant said: "Your real gentleman."

Sima Guang wondered, "Who made you call that?"

The old servant said awkwardly: "Mr. Xiao Su told me that you have been promoted to deputy prime minister, but you can no longer be called a scholar."

For a long time, this old servant has always respected him as Junshi Xiucai, but he didn't know that Sima Guang had been promoted to be a political advisor.

It's outrageous!

Sima Guang lowered his eyebrows and asked, "Su Zizhan?"

The old servant nodded.

Sima Guang asked again: "When did he come here?"

The old servant said: "He just came, and now he is reading in the room."

"I'll find him."

Sima Guang went straight to the study.

This Sima Guang is the same as Wang Anshi, with the basic necessities of ordinary citizens. This small house is not as good as promised, but his salary is not low. Where is the money spent? Collect books.

In the past, Su Shi often went to his house or Ouyang Xiu's house to borrow books.

When he came to the study, Sima Guang asked Su Shi, "Su Zizhan, why did you teach my servant badly?"

Su Shi was taken aback for a moment, then realized it immediately, and said with a smile: "Mr. Sima, you are too indifferent to fame and fortune. When you are promoted to be a political adviser, even the old servants at home don't know about it, and you always call yourself a scholar." , if people hear it, I’m afraid they will make fun of you.”

"You really meddle in your own business."

Sima Guang glared at Su Shi, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "You came just in time, I have a problem that bothers me."

Su Shi asked: "What's the problem?"

Sima Guang asked, "Do you think it's easier to keep morality or to obey the law?"

Without thinking about it, Su Shi said, "Of course it is easy to keep morality."

Sima Guang let out a sigh: "If you don't pay back the money, it's immoral, but it's not necessarily illegal. How can it be easy to keep morals."

Su Shi said with a smile: "Whether it is illegal or not, it can be judged by its own laws, but it is often difficult to judge whether it is virtuous or not."

Sima Guang pondered a little, and sighed: "That's what happened!"

Su Shi asked: "Why did Mr. Sima ask such a question?"

"Just ask."

Sima Guang waved his hand, then changed the subject and said, "Are you coming to my house today to borrow books?"

Su Shi smiled and said, "That's not true."

Sima Guang asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Su Shi smiled and said, "I'm here to recommend myself."

"Self-recommendation?"

Sima Guang was stunned for a moment, and said, "You want to go to the Criminal Court?"

Su Shi nodded.

Sima Guang asked, "Why?"

Su Shi said seriously: "To tell you the truth, I was inspired by the previous lawsuit."

Sima Guang cheered up, "Really? I would like to hear more about it."

Su Shi sighed: "In the court, Wei Yushan made it clear that everyone evades taxes. If he does not steal, he is a fool. Everyone does not abide by the existing laws. It is useless to talk about reforms." Meaning.”

Sima Guang nodded and said: "You are right, it seems that we are really aiming too high!"

Why we talk about morality but not law?

As far as normal logic is concerned, morality is actually a higher state, and the law is the bottom line. You must first keep the bottom line before you can talk about morality.

But the reality is to erase the bottom line and only talk about morality, which is deceiving oneself and others.

The reason is that it violates morality and is just education. For example, what you did is wrong, so don't do it next time.

There is a lot of wiggle room here.

If you violate the law, you will be punished, and the scope of maneuver is very small.

You just don't dare to punish, that's why you talk about moral education.

If hiding wealth from the people is based on morality, it is actually based on compromise.

In other words, you know that you can't control them at all, so if wealth is controlled in their hands, you will not get stable results.

From the avenue to the simplicity.

In fact, the truth is very simple, you just can't do it, so you use some tall things to cover up this fact.

It is impossible to succeed if you leave the facts behind.

Su Shi also discovered this problem. If everyone does not abide by the law, the reform is just a pure conflict of interests. You must first abide by the law before you can talk about the gains and losses of this reform.

......

As for Zhang Fei, he is an ordinary person, so he wouldn't dwell too much on this issue. After Sima Guang left, he began to check the accounts of the store.

To describe it in one word, it is horrible.

That is, I made a little money from Ma Tianhao and the others before, but I didn't have much income after that.

However, the cost is getting bigger and bigger.

Just as Fan Li entered the hall, Zhang Fei asked: "Outside Fan, our store's income is really going from bad to worse, and it's not going to work like this."

Fan Li sighed: "There is no other way."

"What are you talking about?"

Zhang Fei said unhappily: "They can't find a lawsuit to fight, now we are so famous."

Fan Li said: "Because we are too famous, this lawsuit is not easy to accept."

Zhang Fei asked: "How do you say that?"

Fan Li opened his mouth first, and then said: "You wait first."

Speaking, he found a document from the file room and handed it to Zhang Fei, "Take a look at this lawsuit."

Zhang Fei took it, opened it and looked at it, the lawsuit is very simple, it is No. 1 Tianshui Lane, an old lady passed away, and there was a dispute over the real estate left by her.

This old woman has a son who has always lived in the west of the city. He is in the business of silk and satin, but he has never taken care of his mother who is sick in bed. , gave the house to the neighbor aunt.

As a result, her son thought that the house should be passed on to him, how could he leave it to his neighbors, so he had to file a lawsuit, so he came to Bianjing Law Firm for help.

After Zhang Fei read it, he said: "This lawsuit is not bad! You can earn a lot of money, are you not sure?"

Fan Li immediately said: "It's really not true. That aunt is a kind and honest person. If she wants to fight, she will definitely win, but the fact is that this son is really nothing. He lives in the same city and his mother is sick in bed. But he never came to take care of him. It was not until after his death that his family came to hold the funeral. It can be said that the funeral was held, but in fact it was occupying the house. As for the house left by the old woman, I estimated that it was worth at least a thousand Yes, it’s not a small sum.”

Zhang Fei looked at Fan Li wonderingly, and said, "When did you become so conscientious, I remember you were very ruthless before."

Fan Li said unhappily: "In the past, our industry had a bad reputation. Everyone was trying to make money, so it didn't matter. But now... Now, Saburo, you have made our Bianjing Law Firm's reputation so good, I don’t even charge for the lawsuit for the poor, if I accept this lawsuit, if I win, it won’t damage our reputation.”

Zhang Fei clicked his tongue: "The purpose of my fame is to use it to make money. If I can't make money, the reputation is of no use. We just need to use legal means and don't have too much psychological burden. "

Fan Li said: "If you don't care, then let's take over this lawsuit. The son of that household said that as long as Sanlang you come forward to help him with this lawsuit, he is willing to pay one hundred guan."

"One hundred guan! Then why are you hesitating, of course...!"

Zhang Fei suddenly scratched his head, looked at Wen Yu, "Uh... I'll think about it first, can I win?"

Fan Li smiled and said: "I can win this lawsuit. There is a clear stipulation in my court's laws and regulations that relatives are above neighbors, and that is his family's ancestral house, which is to be passed on to future generations. Mother They don’t necessarily have such a great power to give to outsiders.”

Looking at his eloquence, Zhang Fei said: "Then you help this son, and I help that aunt, let's compare."

Fan Li immediately said: "Then I can't beat you."

"Yes! It can be seen that this is... this is difficult." Zhang Fei said.

Fan Li nodded: "Yes, Saburo is right, it is quite difficult, you take your time to think about it, I will go to work first."

"Go! Go!"

After Fan Li left, Zhang Fei looked at Wen Yu, feeling really entangled, scratching his cheeks, scratching his head, and said frantically: "Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei, what are you struggling with? What the **** are you? Lawyers, not grand robbers, opened a shop to make money, not to help the weak, so there is no need to think about it, you must accept it! This lawsuit is guaranteed to win, am I out of my mind?"

Just at this time, someone suddenly said: "What are you doing here alone?"

Zhang Fei looked up and saw Xu Zhiqian walking in, blinked, and said truthfully: "I'm studying a lawsuit."

"What lawsuit?"

Xu Zhiqian walked over immediately.

Zhang Fei handed the text to Xu Zhiqian.

After Xu Zhiqian looked at it, she suddenly looked at Zhang Fei, "You don't want to pick it up, do you?"

Zhang Fei said: "It's not a question of whether you want it or not. Let's open the door to do business. If someone asks for help, you have to answer it!"

Xu Zhiqian said excitedly: "This son is devoid of conscience and hopeless. He lives in a big house in the west of the city, and his mother is sick in bed. Let alone taking care of him, he has visited him in the future. But now, for money, he actually And to slander that kind-hearted aunt who lied to his mother with flattering words and conspired against his ancestral house, this is simply abhorrent, if you help him, you will not be helping the evildoers."

Zhang Fei retorted: "The bad guys go to the blacksmith's shop to buy knives, wouldn't the blacksmith sell them to him?"

Xu Zhiqian said: "If you don't know that he is a bad person, then you can be forgiven. If you know, you still sell him a knife, and you are an accomplice."

"You... do it, do it, you always make sense anyway, if you have money, you don't let it earn, why don't you become a Bodhisattva, what kind of ear pen is it, it's really unreasonable. I'm going to pee. I'm so mad. Already."

Zhang Fei stood up and left angrily.

"It's really hard to change!"

Xu Zhiqian gave him a hard look.

As soon as Zhang Fei left, Fan Li walked in with a smile.

Xu Zhiqian turned her head and stared: "What are you laughing at?"

Fan Li sneered and said: "Miss Xu, you really misunderstood Saburo, we can win this lawsuit, if he wants to take it, let us fight quietly, you don't know."

Xu Zhiqian was stunned for a moment, "You mean he deliberately angered me?"

Fan Li hurriedly shook his head and said: "No, I think he just wants you to stop him, so that he can use the **** to get off the donkey."

Xu Zhiqian said: "It's right not to answer, why do you want me to stop him?"

Fan Li said: "We opened the shop to make money after all!"

Xu Zhiqian said: "Just enough money is enough, and you can't use it if you earn so much."

Fan Li smiled awkwardly, not making a sound.

Xu Zhiqian rolled her eyes and said, "Mr. Fan, you send someone to find that aunt. Let's help her get back to that house. You have to teach that unfilial son a lesson. It's really unreasonable."

I know it is. Fan Li asked in a low voice, "How much do you charge?"

Xu Zhiqian blinked: "Can't you accept it?"

Fan Li said awkwardly: "We are opening the door to do business after all, you..."

Xu Zhiqian thought for a while, and said: "Then...then let's charge five hundred Wen...the general money will be fine. I don't think that aunt just took care of the old woman because she was greedy for that house, so let's Don't ask her too much money."

"...Then, it's better not to."

"That's the best."

"...?"