Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 422 Big Fish

Chapter 422 Big Fish

seriously.

Han Jiang really didn't believe it.

Why did we have to count households so much before? Isn’t it because those things are easy to check, you can see them at a glance, every household has them, and when the country has no money, you can ask for more.

Of course, houses, fields, carriages and horses are also easy to check, but the problem is that most common people don't have these.

According to Zhang Fei, if you check them, you have to check their income.

But income is really not that easy to investigate.

"This is impossible."

Han Jiang shook her head, "For example, for the laborers on the dock, they move the money every day, and there is no contract certificate. How can we check?"

"I don't know about it, and the tax department didn't explain it to me. But..." Zhang Fei changed the subject, and said, "But people are going to the pier to move things, so I guess they don't have much money to pay taxes."

Han Jiang's expression froze, and she said again: "I'm just making an analogy. It's not easy to check the income of these common people."

Zhang Fei said: "If you want to investigate a person, you can find it very quickly. After all, the income is to make money from others. It is impossible for a huge tax department not to find out. If the household is reasonable, I believe that the common people I wouldn’t take that risk either.”

Han Jiang frowned, then turned her head to look at Wang Anshi.

Wang Anshi didn't have any clue at the moment, this self-declaration really messed up his overall plan.

If it is calculated based on income, and then shared equally, will it eventually be concentrated on the heads of official households and wealthy households?

Of course, he also wants to collect more taxes from these people. In his eyes, the national finance is the first priority, but if he collects too much, the reformers will turn against him.

If no one supports his reform, Zhao Xu will not be able to suppress it.

After thinking about it, Wang Anshi said: "Zihua, anyway, we are still making statistics, let's discuss it after we figure it out."

Han Jiang nodded, and he can only nod now.

In fact, he has the right to veto and declare independently, which he has no control over, because this is the responsibility of the Taxation Department, but the method of statistics should not be collected by the Taxation Department, but by Sinong Temple, which is a government order.

But the matter has come to this point, if he wants to stop suddenly before the result comes out, he will have to bear the responsibility.

"You go out first!"

Han Jiang lowered her eyebrows and said to Zhang Fei.

"Yes, the subordinate retire."

Zhang Fei bowed his hands and turned around to go out.

Sima Guang also stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Zihua, Jiefu, I have something to do with my family, so I'll take my leave first."

Han Jiang got up and bowed her hands back.

After Sima Guang left, Han Jiang said to Wang Anshi: "Jiefu, such a plan will definitely cause dissatisfaction among many people, and this will not be conducive to the implementation of the new law."

Wang Anshi sighed: "I also thought of this, but the matter has come to this point, there is nothing I can do about it, I just wanted to use the police station to rectify it, and now it is useless to talk about it.

Tomorrow, many people will definitely ask us what kind of algorithm this is. Let's reassure them first, saying that this is just statistics and will not target anyone. "

Han Jiang nodded: "That's the only way."

But as he said that, he said again: "But with such a calculation method, plus the expenditure from the police station, I guess it will be very difficult to get less money!"

Wang Anshi frowned: "Although that brat looks a little reckless, but judging from the results, he has always grasped his limits. He probably wouldn't think of a way to make me in a dilemma."

"Stinky boy!"

Over there, Sima Guang chased after Zhang Fei as soon as he was out of the house, "You are harming Jiefu! The dignitaries, seeing your calculation, it is clear that it is aimed at them. They will definitely try their best to stop Wang Jiefu, and even Many officials who supported Wang Jiefu before may change their minds."

Zhang Fei asked with a smile: "Why is Bachelor Sima worrying about Bachelor Wang?"

"Isn't this what you kid planned?"

Sima Guang snorted, "Your strategy is not only closely related to Wang Jiefu's new policy, but also closely related to judicial reform. If we are not careful, we will fall into it."

Zhang Fei said: "Scholar Sima, please rest assured that the final result will not hurt them, but there will definitely be people who will be dissatisfied with this and challenge the tax department. This is also a part of judicial reform. These dignitaries are useless, so what's the point?"

Sima Guang pondered for a while, then nodded: "Of course I understand this, but don't overdo it."

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I know."

If it were someone else, whether it was Sima Guang or Wang Anshi, they would stop it, because politics has never been rational, and the essence of politics is still interests.

If this offends everyone, it won't work for anyone.

Although Wang Anshi brought the government households in, he still guaranteed that the government households would only pay half of the payment. Even so, many people objected. No one can bear this contrast.

This is playing with fire.

But judging from Zhang Fei's previous deeds, he is not that kind of reckless man, he is very measured. Based on this, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi felt that they should wait and see.

After all, it is only tax calculation now, and the right to determine tax is still in their hands.

The result was just as they expected.

Only on the second day, both the royal family and the officials began to complain.

You, Wang Anshi, are lying.

Your article is clearly written, and it is clear that what we officials pay is called the service tax, and those who want to serve are the ones who pay the exemption tax.

Based on this, the service tax has to be halved.

It is unreasonable to calculate this way. The law stipulates that we do not have to serve in the military, but you ask us to pay.

Now that you have such an algorithm, a large number of people will not have to pay taxes, so the cost of employment will be shared equally among a small number of people. Not to mention those second and third class households can't afford it, and we officials can't afford it either. !

Wang Anshi had expected it a long time ago, so he could only explain to them that it is only statistics at present, and your accusations are groundless and completely imaginary. Who told you that with this tax calculation method, the people do not have to pay taxes.

who said it?

You call, I will ask him.

Although many officials believed that Wang Anshi was just trying to reason, they really had no good way to refute it.

Because what Wang Anshi said is also true, and it is just statistics at present.

Don't BB if you don't understand.

Compared with the complaints from the official circles, it is a different scene in the public.

The citizens were also very nervous at first, but at the end of the day, they found that this matter was completely different from what they had imagined. The royal police were only asking about property that we did not have.

How dare you!

The next day, the common people were very enthusiastic to declare on their own, for fear that after passing through this village, there would be no such shop.

It's going very fast.

The most important thing is to let those auxiliary police officers get a very good training. They just applied for the job and encountered such a cumbersome job. They immediately followed the brothers to maintain order, and soon realized that the royal police and the former officials service difference.

The enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the people also touched their dignity.

The same thing is done by the Royal Police, and it is so easy, comfortable, and reasonable. Of course, the people's favor for the Royal Police has doubled.

On the third day of the tax calculation in the city, the police station officially counted the rural households.

This is the tax calculation platform that relies entirely on Bianjing Law Firm.

Last year, the Bianjing Law Firm expanded on a large scale, and those Erbis had already hired people to calculate taxes. Relying on Zhang Fei's prestige, every extra client brought him an extra income.

It has been rolled out in the countryside.

Baima Township, Luomapo.

I saw a long queue in front of a house.

This house belonged to Geng Ming. In order to repay Zhang Fei's kindness in redressing his grievances, he took the initiative to lend his house to the Royal Police as their headquarters.

At present, the Royal Police has relatively few strongholds in the countryside, and only manages public areas, because no matter in the township or village, there are Lizheng and household heads.

"Brother Geng, how are you doing?"

Zhang Fei asked: "Then Wei Yushan didn't bother you again, did he?"

Geng Ming hurriedly said: "Thanks to benefactor's concern, everything is fine with Geng, and Wei Yushan has never looked for Geng in the future."

"That's good!"

Zhang Fei nodded, and said again: "What do you think of this recruitment law?"

Geng Ming immediately said: "Of course I support it. If I can pay taxes and be exempted from military service in the future, then it can be regarded as an end to one of my worries. It's just..."

Zhang Fei asked, "Just what?"

Geng Mingdao: "It's just that we, the upper-class households who have no power and power, are more supportive, and other rural households are not so supportive."

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

Geng Mingdao: "Many villagers, serving in the military means patrolling the villages. They just try their best. If there are no special circumstances, they will not delay the family's farm work too much. But if they are asked to pay to be exempted from military service, most of them are unwilling."

Zhang Fei nodded.

"Sanlang! Brother Geng!"

Suddenly, an excited cry was heard.

The two turned their heads to look, and saw Wei Yushan walking over brazenly.

Geng Ming's eyes sparkled, he cupped his hands towards Zhang Fei and said, "Grandfather, Geng has some things to attend to, so I'm sorry."

Zhang Fei nodded.

Geng Ming snorted angrily, and left immediately.

Now that this place is being used by the Royal Police, he can't stop Wei Yushan from coming!

Wei Yushan came over, glanced at Geng Ming's back, and sighed: "It seems that brother Geng is still angry with me!"

Zhang Fei was overjoyed, "Mr. Wei, if he is not angry, is he still a human being?"

Wei Yushan immediately said: "You can't say that. I lost a lot of money when Sanlang appealed for his grievances in the lawsuit, and I didn't care about it with Saburo. To be a man, you should be more open-minded. How tiring it is to care about every detail! "

Zhang Fei was speechless, and said again: "Couldn't Mr. Wei come here to declare?"

Wei Yushan immediately said: "How can I cause trouble for the Royal Police? I have already hired your firm to help me with tax calculations. Don't Saburo know?"

Your old man's heart is really big enough, I let you lose so much money, it's embarrassing, he can still do business with me, he is a talent!Zhang Fei said: "Sorry, I seldom take care of things in the store recently."

"That's right, that's right, I almost forgot to congratulate Saburo on becoming the youngest doctor in Song Dynasty." Wei Yushan cupped his hands.

Zhang Fei cupped his hands and said, "Thank you! Thank you!"

After getting close, Wei Yushan suddenly looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Sanlang, not everyone in Baima Township supports the Royal Police as much as I do."

Zhang Fei asked: "Is someone hiding property?"

Wei Yushan nodded.

This old man is very shady. Last time he suffered a big loss, he didn't say it, but he remembered it in his heart, but he didn't want to take revenge on Zhang Fei. He was really scared. If Fei suffered a big loss, then no one should laugh at anyone else.

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "That's none of my business."

Wei Yushan was taken aback, "Aren't you doing your business?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "That's right! I'm only employed by the police station, and I'm only here to arrange statistics. As for whether they come or not, it's not our business."

Wei Yushan asked: "Who cares about that?"

Suddenly he heard a yell, "Li Feng, Luo Shou."

I saw Cao Dongdong striding in, with a fierce look on his face.

Two more royal police officers responded, "Deputy superintendent."

"You come with me."

"Yes!"

"Wait!"

Zhang Fei hurriedly called Cao Dongdong who was aggressive, "What's the matter?"

Cao Dongdong snorted angrily: "I just received the news that someone from Qinjiazhuang over there threatened and urged the villagers not to report."

Wei Yushan's eyes moved a few times, and he whispered: "It must be that Qin Guang did it."

Cao Dongdong glanced at him immediately and asked, "How do you know?"

Wei Yushan said: "Qin Guang is the biggest landlord in the Qin Family Village, no one else dares to threaten the villagers except him."

"is it?"

Cao Dongdong sneered, "This yamen wants to see who Qin Guang is, who dares to oppose our royal police."

"Wait!"

Zhang Fei grabbed Cao Dongdong, "Yanei, do you understand what self-declaration is?"

"Of course I understand."

Cao Dongdong said: "Now they don't understand, I have to teach them."

Zhang Fei said: "We are here only to be in charge of statistics, whether they come or not is their own business, it is not in our control."

Cao Dongdong said: "If we don't care about this, then what do we care about? That guy is playing tricks under the nose of this yamen, he obviously doesn't pay attention to us."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Yanei, if you go to him now, it is nothing more than letting them declare. What else can you do? You are helping him. If he doesn't come, he will face prosecution, fines, Even going to jail, it will eventually fall into our hands, that would be great!"

Cao Dongdong blinked, nodded and said: "It makes sense, I can't go to them in this office."

Wei Yushan on the side was breaking out in cold sweat when he heard that, Zhang Sanlang was still the same Zhang Sanlang, he was really a smiling tiger, and he was still so ruthless in his strikes.

Just at this time, Ma Xiaoyi came over with three or five auxiliary police officers, only to see that they were still escorting a drunk man.

Cao Dongdong hurriedly asked: "Little Ma, who is this person?"

Ma Xiaoyi said: "Just now this drunk man made trouble at the reporting point below."

"It's just in time! My brother is worried that he has nowhere to vent his anger, so he dragged him to the house!"

Cao Dongdong began to roll up his sleeves.

Ma Xiaoyi winked at Cao Dongdong tacitly, as if to say, how about doubles?

"Wait!"

Zhang Fei patted his arm, "I just said it, why did you forget it?"

After speaking, he asked Ma Xiaoyi again: "Did he conflict with you just now?"

Ma Xiaoyi whispered: "Just push Wu Er."

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "That's enough! We will take him back to the police station and let the procuratorate sue him for treason."

When the drunken man heard that he was going to sue him for rebellion, his red face turned pale with fright, and he shouted very soberly: "You boy wronged me, why did I plot rebellion, you wronged me."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "I, Zhang Daer, never wrong anyone. You attacked the Royal Police, which is called attacking the royal family for short. Isn't that treason? Is it a chivalrous act?"

Wei Yushan's mouth is long enough to stuff several eggs into it.

He was glad that he took the initiative to declare this time, this "abbreviation" is really terrible.

"Assault on the royal family?"

The drunk man was also dumbfounded. He suddenly thumped, fell to his knees, and cried, "The Royal Police, spare your life! The villain is just drunk and impulsive. The villain deserves to die, the villain really deserves to die."

As he spoke, he slapped himself across the face.

After he slapped more than ten times, turning his white face into a red face, Zhang Fei walked over and said, "Stop."

The drunk looked at Zhang Fei with teary eyes.

Zhang Fei said: "Tomorrow, go to the city to report, honestly dig up dung for three days, and also, go and tell the person who ordered you, if this kind of thing happens again in this area, I guarantee that he will either go to Qiongzhou to open up wasteland, or go Build the city wall in the northwest."

"Yes."

The drunk just nodded, then looked at Zhang Fei with a guilty conscience.

Zhang Fei just smiled slightly, "Get lost."

"Thank you Royal Police for your life, thank you Royal Police for your life."

The drunk man saluted several times, then staggered and ran out.

Zhang Fei said to Ma Xiaoyi again: "Xiao Ma, you go and order, we only maintain the order of the reporting point, if anyone dares to report and cause trouble, they will all be taken down, but the affairs of the village should not be bothered."

Ma Xiaoyi nodded in disappointment and said, "Hey! I'll go and give orders now."

After Ma Xiaoyi left, Zhang Fei turned around again, saw Cao Dongdong was stunned, and habitually reached out to pat him on the shoulder, "Yanei!"

"Do not touch me!"

Cao Dongdong turned his head slowly, looked at Zhang Fei and said, "You are attacking the royal family."

"Fuck you."

"ah!"

Cao Dongdong immediately pointed to Zhang Fei and said, "Insult to the royal family. Zhang San, if you dare to disobey my order from now on, I will report you."

"Farewell! Royal Police!"

"Hey hey!"

Cao Dongdong hurriedly grabbed Zhang Fei, and he said, "I just found out today that attacking the Royal Police is rebellion."

Zhang Fei rolled his eyes, and said with a serious face: "Yamei, remember, don't be impulsive, we only maintain the order of the declaration point, and ignore the rest, otherwise, we will fall into the trap of the other party."

Cao Dongdong said unhappily: "Then I'd better go back to the city, this yamen can't stand this kind of uselessness."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "It's up to you."

As he spoke, he called Xu Hao over again and told him a few words.

Compared with the smooth sailing in the city, this village is full of accidents, drunken rogues, and arrogant and unreasonable villagers emerge in endlessly.

After all, there are no bosses above ordinary people in the market, only the law, but the villagers are different. There is a patriarchal clan in the village, and there are Lizheng and household heads.

The strategy of the police station is that we don't care if you come or not, and we don't care if you scold in the village, but if you come to report some trouble, then we will arrest you.

Although accidents continue, due to the particularity of self-declaration, the Royal Police will not launch an attack, and will not escort the people to declare, whether you like it or not.

Those who wanted to make trouble, seeing that the royal police were all as stable as old dogs, could only give up in resentment.

So generally the overall situation is relatively stable.

But it is also conceivable what will happen if it is not self-declared.

This village is the most difficult to conquer. The imperial power does not go down to the county, and the police may not be able to do it. This is still in the capital. After all, it is the territory of the dragon. If it goes out of the capital, the situation will be more complicated.

Of course, those landlords who clamored not to come, in fact, had entrusted Li Guozhong and the others to make statistics in private, so they would not be so stupid as to be the first birds.

The general routine is that when something goes wrong first, they will start to speak out and speak out, and pull sideways.

It's a pity that they couldn't succeed!

After staying in the village for a few days, seeing that everything was going on in an orderly manner, Zhang Fei went back to the city.

new house.

But I saw several big men moving tables and chairs into the hall.

"Saburo, are you still satisfied?"

Li Bao asked Zhang Fei who was sitting on a big bench.

The furniture in this new house was all made by Li Bao. If he wants to develop his eyeliner, he must make friends. What better way to make friends than doing business.

"Good! Good! That's what I want."

Zhang Fei stood up and told Li Sidao: "Li Si, tell people to move to the backyard."

"Hey."

"Isn't this placed in the hall?" Li Bao asked curiously.

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "My father-in-law is not used to this chair."

This bench is just a wooden sofa. Sitting on it must be uncomfortable. Xu Zun and Xu Lingxiao would definitely not sit on it.

After Li Si and the others went out, Zhang Fei asked Li Bao, "Is it so fast? I haven't finished counting here yet."

Li Bao said with a smile: "They just want to test our tax department on purpose."

Zhang Fei asked: "Who?"

Li Bao said: "There is a big fish among them."

"How big?"

"This man's name is Wang Hongjin. His father is the old man of Governor Zhao's house in Zongzheng Temple. His family has never owned anything, and through lending money, he became a wealthy landlord in Xiangfu County. We suspect that all the land in his family belongs to Governor Zhao. But He only declared [-] mu of land."

"Governor Zhao?"

"This Governor Zhao is the cousin of Emperor Zhenzong."

".?"

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, then said in a bad mood: "Brother Leopard, are you floating?"

Li Bao hurriedly said, "I just told you about this."

Zhang Fei said: "Forget it!"

Li Bao nodded.

After Li Bao left, Zhang Fei frowned suddenly, thinking, it's strange, Li Bao is a member of the official family, how could he want to use the royal relatives to make an example of others.

After returning home, Zhang Fei asked Xu Zun, "Father-in-law, do you know about the clan affairs?"

Xu Zun was surprised, "Why do you ask this?"

Zhang Fei snorted: "Didn't I do the statistics recently, I found that many clans are very rich."

Xu Zun sighed, and said in a low voice, "At present, the clan is also a problem."

Zhang Fei asked, "What's the problem?"

Xu Zundao: "Although in the "Da Xun" Taizu was worried that the clan's population would be too large, which would increase the burden on the country's finances, so he inherited the Tang system, and the descendants outside the five clothes should be sent to places outside the capital, and the salary grants should be stopped. , Divide the land into acres so that it can stand on its own, and it will no longer appear in the royal family tree.

However, this is the case, and now there are thousands of clans in Tokyo, and the monthly expenses of supporting these clans have reached as much as [-] guan.Not to mention those rewards during the holidays. "

Zhang Fei frowned and said, "Has a minister mentioned it?"

Xu Zun thought for a while, "The ministers have talked about it in private, but they didn't tell the officials."

Royal Palace.

"A lowly position sees an official."

A guard cupped his fists and saluted.

Zhao Xu asked: "How to say?"

The guard said: "According to Li Bao's report, Zhang San doesn't seem to want to implicate the emperor's relatives."

"Why is he so timid this time?"

Zhao Xu smiled, "Make arrangements, I want to see Zhang San."

"Honestly obey orders."

(End of this chapter)