Chapter 305 Questions

The matter of stopping salt caused a little shock to the court, but it would not really treat it as a riot or rebellion. It was the first time that it had happened, but many similar things happened, such as water conservancy, obstructing the demolition of fields and returning lakes, and building dams, which seriously led to the flood of rivers and lakes. Some people even hired people to dig up river embankments to get the benefits of water lotus roots.

However, the court was very dissatisfied with the fact that such a thing happened in Hangzhou and affected other areas of Liangzhe.

However, only Jiang Jun wrote the book, and did not see Zheng Lang's book. The court kept observing and did not give a conclusion.

Until the market strike...

The impact of the strike on the country will not be very bad, but it will continue to affect Liangzhe and will not be resolved for another month or two, and no one can predict the consequences.

The court finally began negotiations.

Many ministers of the court knew the right and wrong of both sides. It was not the slaughter of salt or market, but the product of the disagreement between the two sides. The two transshipment envoys must have made mistakes, and Zheng Lang was not good, and he was aggressive, and he could not escape the following. Small things turned into big things. Once you check private salt, many things will inevitably happen, and you also understand, but if you want to check, Shi Jie is also the salt envoy you recommended, and you must control the degree, otherwise you will also have a responsibility.

Whether it is a face-to-face or behind it, as a legitimate scholar-official in the Song Dynasty, many people have realized the meaning of taking it from the people to the people. Later, Wang Anshi's reform has many opponents. Although the reform was fierce, it led to many disadvantages. In addition, Wang Anshi's reform was a kind of profit to collect the people's wealth and to the country. Many ministers also opposed this practice. The salt franchise was formed in the late Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was even more excessive and had many disadvantages. Therefore, many ministers illiterately regarded it as a deformed national government for competing for profit with the people. It was just that the state cost too much and no minister dared to say it was suspended. Zheng Lang's extensive investigation of private salt did not meet the views of these ministers. Moreover, the people in Hangzhou signed the signature to invite Zheng Lang to take office, including some people suppressed by Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang's approach was not very good.

Zhao Zhen himself disliked being a place where the imperial court made money and was extremely riotous, even if the officials did not embezzle half a penny.

More people don’t understand why Zheng Lang deliberately provoked Jiang Jun.

There is no need for this. Han Jiang beat Jiang Yanei to a beat, so why do you still have to fight?

However, it cannot be said.

Zheng Lang's book is very rational. Many ministers read it carefully several times, and many ministers even moved it to their own ruling policies. It is impossible to do what they think like themselves, so they waited for Zheng Lang's book to be heard.

This led to no results in the court's negotiations.

Zhao Zhen was very depressed and issued an edict asking Zheng Lang to write a secret memorial. It is hard to say what arrangements are there, but I can tell me, will I still betray you? Why didn't I report to Beijing?

While waiting, Jiang Jun's book was submitted one after another.

The so-called evil person complains first, which is just used to describe him.

The appeals jointly submitted to the court with the various pavilions were undoubtedly a sarcasm for Zheng Lang. However, the market strike had not yet come badly, and there was no place to kill prisoners.

When Jiang Jun's book arrived in the capital, it caused a noise.

The Song Dynasty's attitude towards criminal prisons was to be cautious, but Qin Hui's brother-in-law did not count. Most of the Southern Song Dynasty, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, even in the era of Emperor Huizong of Song, had a meticulous attitude towards criminal prisons, just to prevent unjust, false and wrong cases. It was this attitude that there were no large-scale cool cases in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, which was unique in the entire Chinese history.

To achieve this, various systems were set up, and the degree of perfection was far greater than that of the later Ming and Qing dynasties, and some aspects were even more perfect than many countries in modern history. Especially the death penalty.

Zheng Lang's precedent was very bad, and it was very bad.

As soon as the book arrived in the capital, it immediately attracted many impeachment memorials.

At this time, Zheng Lang's memorial came late.

The memorial is divided into two parts, part of which is a secret memorial, written to Zhao Zhen.

Zhao Zhen did not mention it, Zheng Lang also wanted to write it, for the sake of the country, and for the sake of the country it was equivalent to Zhao Zhen, but Zhao Zhen had to read it, which was not considered a misunderstanding. Part of it was a public memorial and handed over to the Secretariat.

This memorial is also very detailed, including the cause of the incident. I killed someone. Not only these twenty people, but also the second batch of twenty people raised it, which was frightened. Most of them confessed, and six others were hesitant. After all, their boss was sitting next to him. He asked Zheng Lang to drag him out to behead him.

This trick is easy to use. Twenty-six people were covered with blood and almost answered questions. Even if they asked how many concubines he had raised and how many sexual intercourse he had done in a month, they would answer. Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge opposed it, but someone confessed why they dared to do this. It was the officials of the Salt Supervision and the Salt Warehouse that they would protect them. Zheng Lang asked them to bombard them out.

You are the transshipment officers, but when it comes to you, you must avoid it.

It was also the place where the legal system of the Song Dynasty was progressing. First, the court was divided into departments, the prison was promoted, and the court was prosecuted, and the court was prosecuted, and each had a department, so it was not enough to prevent traitors. It was also divided into two parts: interrogation and inquiries, and the court was divided into two parts: prosecutorial and judicial discussion and judgment. Compared with previous lives, the criminal case was called "paced" by the prison... There is such a thing. In fact, there was no peace in the Song Dynasty in later generations. Not to mention Yue Fei, that was only a few examples. Compared with any dynasty, large-scale unjust cases were considered the most "paced" in the Song Dynasty.

The second is to revise the differences. When a person is asked to revise the confession, he must transfer the confession. If he does not accept the sentence and calls for justice, he must issue the officials to investigate. If he does not recommend the officials, he must not interfere with the officials. The original judge must avoid it. If the original judge is wrong after the original judge is wrong, the original judge must be punished. If the official is wrong after the official is re-referred, it is also wrong, and he will be punished together. It is not enough. Before the judgment, the superior judicial officer has the right to refute the justice, for example, Jiang Jun can refute the Zheng Lang's verdict.

Third, judges avoid it. If there are relatives, hatreds, teachers, colleagues, and senior officials in the same year (the same Jinshi) and superiors and subordinates, including those who are responsible for the case, recruitment and questioning officers, prosecutors, and other referrals, they will avoid it.

The system is very good, but it is not implemented effectively.

These three points once made Zheng Lang very distressed, but now they are used on Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge. Since the prisoner said he was involved with them, even if he was a transshipment officer, there was no obvious evidence, and the two of them could not leave evidence to actively participate in the negotiations of these people, but they also had to avoid it.

This was what happened that day, but in the memorial, Zheng Lang wrote the truth, which was not "randomly" drawn, but was to scare the prisoners so as to suppress the storm as quickly as possible. In fact, the forty people selected were not only the culprits of the crime in the slaughter of the salt market, but also had many bad behaviors in normal times. Without this storm, you can also be killed according to the law. When you draw, you seem casual, but you actually made a mark.

The conviction is riot and rebellion.

It is optional, and it is said that the riot can be forced to do so, but the consequences are serious.

In the memorial, he wrote that by the end of this year, the Northwest will either launch a military rebellion next year. I dare not say it is certain. I have written many times. God knows whether Yuan Hao has received information or not to change the upcoming military operations?

Once troops are used, the court will urgently need a large amount of money and materials. Hangzhou has been very important in the past two years. A battle costs tens of millions of qian, but Hangzhou cannot solve it, but it can solve it millions of qian, and it is also good to have millions of qian when it is critical.

In history, Zhao Zhen once borrowed money from the Northwest due to the shortage of military expenditures in the northwest and did not want to be too harsh on the people, so he borrowed money from the big households. A big household surnamed Li near the capital asked him to borrow more than 200,000 guan, but he did not pay it back. The dog-skinned debt was ripped for a long time. In order to make excuses, Zhao Zhen forced several irrelevant official positions to the big households of the Li family. Besides, the income of several million guan a year was million.

There is another reason I didn't say, and I wrote it in the Secret Memorial. There are three reasons. Even if it is not a riot, it must be quickly resolved with thunder.

If you apologize again, you will dismiss all the official positions he took. It must be dismissed, and it will not be in line with the national system.

In order to kill these twenty-six chicks, I'm so troublesome.

But there are many benefits.

Twenty-six chickens were slaughtered, and all confessions were admitted, and they began to arrest them.

While interrogating, arresting relevant criminals.

The involvement was very wide. After six consecutive days of interrogation, more than 800 people were arrested, including the civilians involved in the case.

But on the second day, Shi Jie's "request" he divided the command of the ban troops and captured Dating households and related salt supervision officials along the Qiantang River to Yuezhou, Mingzhou and Xiuzhou. Some Dating households fled with great information, and most Dating households were arrested on charges of riot and rebellion. They were taken to the ship, and they were asked to look at the heads of twenty-six people, continued to interrogate, and then they received countless confessions. The officials involved were countless, so they handed them back to the states for custody.

Let’s prepare a copy of the oral letters, dear magistrates, please do it yourself.

After all the Dating households were captured, the salt fields could be divided. Zheng Lang had prepared a long time ago. According to the information provided by Zheng Lang, the hidden salt fields were distributed to various small and medium-sized pavilions one by one. There was no threat from officials and Dating households, and many salt fields were obtained, and even usury was gone. The enthusiasm of the small and medium-sized pavilions also increased. They divided the salt fields in the front and opened salt again in the salt field.

In the city of Hangzhou, there was Wu Qinan, a living account book that was found from the homes of various merchants, and the market was terminated immediately.

One kills multiple goals.

But the big guys from Zhongshu were so amused and laughed and laughed after reading it.

Some bigwigs have already guessed that Zheng Lang was learning the strategy of Zhengzhuang's Gonggong-raising Duan. If he wanted to break this situation, he had to establish his authority. It was not enough to be locked in a cell, and it was wrong to kill people. He had to sit down and watch the situation expand until the market was stopped, and he could only put on a high hat and kill people to establish his authority.

But how do so many prisoners deal with? There is a time difference, and the people are being interrogated while arresting people. After the interrogation, more than a thousand people are in prison. Could it be that all more than a thousand prisoners are executed?

Not only that, a new problem has come. From the confessions of these prisoners, almost all the private salt on the shore was destroyed, but there is also a private salt road on the sea. The leader named Fu Alang, not many people have seen it. He is well-informed and almost the pavilions and households related to him have fled in advance. The amount of private salt smuggled on this route is not as large as the number of canals, but it is not a small number. It has reached this point and the case must be closed. However, Zheng Lang is powerless to ask the court what to do?

The court is also out of reach for the sea and does not know what to do.

The case is still expanding and will soon affect Jiangdong and Huaidong. It is possible to continue investigation. One-third of the officials in the entire officialdom of Liangzhe Road, Jiangnan East Road and Huainan East Road will fall. Anyway, most of the officials in the Salt Supervision Bureau have fallen into the water. What should I do?

...

The big men of the Secretariat were stunned, and Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi were also stunned.

They never dreamed that the case changed and became so complicated. Without mentioning anything else, they investigated one by one, and all the cells were crowded and could not be kept. They had to join forces to find Zheng Lang. The yamen runners said that Zheng Lang and Fu Bi were all in Zheng Mansion and came to Zheng's house again.

The disciples from Zheng's mansion invited them in, and they saw Zheng Lang and Fu Bi playing chess.

Just as Lu Gongbi was about to speak, Zheng Lang said, "Don't speak when watching the chess, don't speak, don't talk, and you'll talk after playing the chess."

Not knowing the leisure and leisure they came, Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang had to sit down and stop talking. After looking at it, Lu Gongbi suddenly started to laugh.

"Why are you laughing?" Zheng Lang asked.

It was because they were both stinky chess and it was hard to say that Lu Gongbi stammered. Fubi said, "Or you should do it for me."

"It's better to obey your orders than respect." Lu Gongbi took over the chess game and did not give Zheng Lang face. He defeated Zheng Lang immediately.

Zheng Lang looked at the chessboard blankly, and the concierge came in again to report: "Last time, the little lady Wu asked to see the prefect Zheng."

"Let her come in."

The young lady of the Wu family brought it in and then fell down.

Zheng Lang said: "At up, don't say anything. After I and Magistrate Lu kill each other for two battles, I will give you an answer."

The little girl pouted, but when she thought of her last experience, she didn't dare to make a sound. She sat obediently in the chair to watch them re-arrange. After walking for more than thirty years, she was anxious to see. The little girl said, "Master Zheng, this should be done like this."

Zheng Lang picked up the chess piece and looked at it. After pondering for a long time, he was placed on the place where Wu Xiaozi pointed.

Lu Gongbi was not angry either. He also heard about the Wu family. He knew that the little girl was cursing Zheng Lang, and he himself wanted to hear how Zheng Lang dealt with the Wu family.

After walking a few more steps, the little girl said again: "Nine Four on the upper left."

Zheng Lang took a short exam for a while, and then obediently landed the chess piece in the upper left nine-fourth position.

Fu Bi said: "Watch the chess without saying anything."

"Brother Fu, I am a gentleman who can't speak for chess. Miss Wu is just a woman, not a gentleman."

Fu Bi was stunned, then laughed and said, "Master Zheng, you have times of shamelessness."

"I am not a 'gent' either, it doesn't matter if I'm shameless."

“…”

Mrs. Wu was full of thought, but when she saw Zheng Lang's other side, she burst into laughter.

A shameless person is invincible. Zheng Lang is not ashamed of helping the young lady of the Wu family. Fu Bi can't imagine that Zheng Lang was killed by Lu Gongbi.

Zheng Lang is not really shameless and does not want to be tortured by Lu Gongbi. He also wants to see the little girl's chess skills. But he himself is not very fond of Go, so he has always been poor in chess skills and does not care much about winning or losing. It was just that something was not easy to discuss in the court, so he joined forces with Fubi to go home. After discussing the chess that Fubi proposed to play. After more than thirty moves, the little lady of the Wu family advised Liuzi on the side. Zheng Lang then raised his head and asked: "Miss Wu, your chess skills seem to be good. Who did you learn from?"

"My father likes to play with others, and I watch it by the side..."

"I see."

The young lady of the Wu family was about to kneel down again, Zheng Lang's face darkened and said, "What did I say just now?"
To be continued...