Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 404

Chapter 404

Xu Zhiqian's confusion is completely understandable.

In the court, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi fought fiercely, but when they left the imperial city, they all ran to find Zhang Fei.

This phenomenon is very strange.

But the answer is just as Zhang Fei said, who would refuse an excellent free labor.

Although he thinks that he has already sat at the poker table, he is the only one who thinks so. In the eyes of everyone, there are only two protagonists in the world today, namely Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.

He's just a great waiter.

And what he provided was only technical support. Since his status and his age were not enough for his political ideas to be exposed, this scene was not so weird.

If the method of equal defeat is just a small test of Wang Anshi's sword and opened the prelude to the reform, then the method of enlistment is Wang Anshi's official start of the war.

When the law of equal loss was first promulgated, Sima Guang was still persuading everyone to read it. Apart from a few words with Wang Anshi in private, he did not publicly oppose Wang Anshi on a formal occasion.

At that time, it was mainly Fan Chunren and Su Shi who opposed it, and they were both demoted as a result.

This is only because the equalization method only involves the tribute system and the crackdown on some profiteers. Wang Anshi is still able to stand on the technical and moral levels.

But as soon as the recruitment law came out, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo expressed their views directly.

We do not agree.

Because this law involves the people of the world.

But how to stop it, Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo came to Fu Bi at the same time.

Can it be stopped by legislation?

"Right now, that's not possible."

Fu Bi glanced at Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Although the "Song Xingtong" also includes some tax law regulations, it is impossible for the government to allow it. We amend the tax law, because it will Conflict with the government's decree."

You really think too much about this, how could the emperor give up the tax power.

In theory, the tax law should also belong to the third division and the Zhongshu sect, and definitely belong to the imperial government decree.

This is not within the purview of the Legislative Council.

Sima Guang said: "According to the concept of the rule of law, the law is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people. Can legislation provide protection for the people?"

Fu Bi pondered a little, "We can only modify the penalty for tax evasion, but this cannot be easily modified. If the judiciary fails to deter the people, then many people will evade taxes without fear, which will increase the burden on the government."

Wen Yanbo frowned and said, "So, neither the judiciary nor legislation can stop Wang Jiefu from acting recklessly?"

Fu Bi stroked his beard, "What I can think of right now is to divide tax-exempt households through legislation."

"Tax-free household?"

Sima Guang and Wen Yanbo said in unison.

Fu Bi nodded: "In the past, tax-free households were classified according to the household level, but the concept of the legal system is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of individuals, and there is no hierarchy, so human life belongs to the legitimate rights and interests of individuals.

If a person's income is only enough to survive, in this case, if they are still required to pay taxes, it will be a violation of their legitimate rights and interests.

Moreover, most of the officials in history forced the people to rebel, that is, they exhausted their resources and collected taxes forcibly, so that the people were driven to a dead end, which caused turmoil, which seriously harmed the interests of the country and the monarch.

Based on this, we have sufficient reasons to legislate on this. "

Sima Guang nodded and said: "I still remember Zhang San's first class, he drew the line of legal system and Confucian law on the top, and the line of legal system is below it, as long as it doesn't touch If you touch the line of the law of the legal system, the law of the legal system will have no right to interfere with the law of Confucianism and Legalism."

Fu Bi laughed and said, "It seems that Zhang San's education method is even more impressive."

Wen Yanbo said: "But what Wang Jiefu mentioned in the article also has its reasons. The disadvantages of the labor law make the people prefer to self-mutilate their bodies, but also to obtain the status of the fifth-class households to avoid the yamen service, which makes the people less motivated to farm. , the poor households are more than one year. If there are tax-exempt households, I am afraid that this situation will become more severe."

Fu Bi said: "This can only set the tax-free households low enough. I don't even think Wang Jiefu will break through this bottom line. This can only prevent officials from exploiting the people."

Sima Guang said: "However, the determination of tax-exempt households will also bring a lot of burden to the government."

Fu Bi said: "This can only be implemented in cooperation with the public security law. The law of the legal system only gives the people the power to protect their legitimate rights and interests, but this power must be better implemented under the public security law."

Sima Guang said in distress: "But this public security law must be implemented by people. I must let those officials with good moral character and like-mindedness implement the law of the rule of law, such as Fan Chunren and Su Shi. The judiciary was changed to the Public Procuratorate Law.

At present, most of the local governments are run by officials, and those officials do not receive salaries. Continuing to let them implement the public prosecutor's law will only ruin the public prosecutor's law. "

He is also really suffering. In fact, many officials in the court have questioned him. Your judicial reform has been changed for a long time, and there are only two pilot projects outside, one in Dengzhou and one in Yangzhou.

And you only sent two prosecutors there.

Can this oversee the New Deal?

In fact, the specific framework of the Public Prosecution Law has already been formed, coupled with the law of the legal system, it will be like a tiger with wings added.

But Sima Guang is a very traditional Confucian school. He attaches great importance to the moral aspect of officials, and he is really cautious about employing people.

Fu Bi nodded and said, "That's right. One of the reasons why the police can succeed is that they can get a stable income and don't need to exploit the people to maintain their own livelihood."

Speaking of this, he comforted Sima Guang again: "Take your time, lest the gain outweigh the loss."

Xiangguo Temple.

I saw a white-bearded old monk in a red cassock walking quickly towards a vegetable garden in the northwest corner.

When they came to the gate of the vegetable garden, two young novice monks at the gate immediately bowed to the Buddha, "Abbot."

This white-bearded old monk is Huiming, the abbot of Xiangguo Temple.

Huiming said, "Is there a place to stop arguing?"

The two young novice monks looked at each other, and then at Huiming.

Huiming closed his eyes and sighed: "The old monk will come again in a quarter of an hour."

"Yes."

As soon as Huiming left, a young novice turned back and entered the vegetable garden.

After a while, I saw a sedan chair hurrying out of the courtyard.

Not long after the sedan chair left, Huiming came to the vegetable garden again.

I saw a big monk with fat head, big ears, big arms, round waist, and a flushed face standing in the courtyard, clasped his hands together, "Zhi Zheng has seen the abbot."

This person is Master Lu Bin Lu.

Huiming looked at Lu Bin and asked, "Are you still awake?"

Lu Bin immediately said: "Sober up. In the host room, please."

Standing in the courtyard, Huiming could smell the smell of wine, "Forget it, let's talk here. Do you know why this old monk is so anxious to find you?"

Lu Bin hesitated for a while, "The recruitment law."

Huiming asked again: "What do you think?"

Lu Bin wiped the sweat from his brow, "Abbot, I don't think the money is too much, so why should I have a conflict with Wang Jiefu?"

Huiming lowered his eyebrows and remained silent.

Lu Bin scratched his bald head, and said, "It's about to be a time of shortage, and the people are in short supply of food. Usually, the price of food will rise at this time.

If we lower the price of grain and sell it, we will harvest a lot of copper coins in a short period of time. If we can cooperate with other big landlords to reduce the price, then the copper coins in the village will become scarce. When the imperial court collects the exemption money, it is inevitable There will be problems. "

Huiming said: "I will leave this matter to you."

"Yes."

"I'm leaving first."

"Abbot, walk slowly."

Huiming walked to the door, and suddenly turned around, "You should stop messing around in the courtyard in broad daylight, it's not good for people to see."

Lu Bin nodded and said, "Yes."

After Huiming left, Lu Bin scratched his bald head anxiously, "I've already hid in this temple, but I still can't do without these shitty things. Sigh."

As he spoke, he shouted out again: "Yunyun! Yunyun!"

I saw a little novice come in, "What is the master's order?"

Lu Bin said: "Hurry up and call that woman back, I'm very angry today."

"Yes."

Outer city, west of the city.

In a large courtyard, only crackling sounds could be heard from inside.

This house was the ominous place where Zhang Fei rented it to live in, but was ambushed by Wang Wenshan.

Now it has become the accounting department of Bianjing Law Firm. After all, the inner city is very expensive, so the accounting department can only be moved to the outer city.

Although it is a law firm, the accounting department has become the core department of the firm, because the most profitable business of the firm is tax calculation.

Now there are more than a hundred people.

Among them, [-]% of them were dug out from the government.

"Yu Jiang met Saburo, Fan Yuanwai."

But I saw a middle-aged man about 40 years old come to the hall and saluted Zhang Fei and Fan Li who were sitting in the front seat.

"Mr. Yu, please sit down."

Zhang Fei stretched out his hand to guide the seat beside him.

"Thank you."

Yu Jiang was sitting upright, his sitting posture was exactly the same as Sima Guang's.

Zhang Fei asked: "I heard that Mr. Yu served as a prison officer in Kaifeng County before?"

Yu Jiang nodded: "Exactly."

Zhang Fei asked again: "I don't know what kind of affairs Mr. Yu is in charge of?"

Yu Jiang said: "Before I stepped down, I was in charge of judging the ranks of households in the Yali."

Zhang Fei asked curiously: "I heard that the escorts who do this job are all very rich. Why did Mr. Yu come to my place?"

A level judgment may be directly related to the life and death of the people. This kind of thing is very profitable, especially in Kaifeng Mansion, drinking some soup can make you feel nourished.

Yu Jiangdao: "I just don't want to join forces with those people, so I'm rejected by those people, so I choose to work here."

Zhang Fei chuckled, "Mr. Yu, have you thought about revenge?"

Yu Jiang froze for a moment, shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it."

Zhang Fei said: "What if I give Mr. Yu a chance to take revenge?"

Yu Jiang said: "I am just different from them, and we don't conspire with each other, but we have no grievances. Moreover, they don't get salary. If they don't do this, how can we make a living? I won't do illegal things either."

Zhang Fei said with a chuckle: "If breaking the law becomes a habit, then being legal becomes breaking the law."

Yu Jiang looked at Zhang Fei in confusion.

Zhang Fei said: "You should know that the imperial court is going to promulgate the recruitment law recently."

Yu Jiang nodded.

Nowadays, reading newspapers has become an indispensable entertainment in the life of literati.

Zhang Fei added: "At that time, the imperial court will re-evaluate the household registration level of the people. Mr. Yu should know that there are many tricks in this rating, and our firm will also carry out business in this area to ensure that the people get a fair evaluation.

At that time, I will set up a special team to handle this matter. I plan to let Mr. Yu be the team leader. I wonder if Mr. Yu is willing? "

Yu Jiang frowned and said, "I am willing, but if I do this, will I offend many people?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "I don't want to offend them, I want to eliminate them."

(End of this chapter)