Chapter 107: Punishing the Sky (Third update, thanks to the leader ‘KK who doesn’t get fat’)
Seeing Huang Gui's face, the cell leader was really glad that he didn't beat him.
Quickly untie this kid and send him away!
If you can't beat me next time, don't send me here.
Save everyone the embarrassment.
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"The common people have met Lu Zhifu and Li Tongpan."
Arriving at the back hall of Kaifeng Mansion, Zhang Fei bowed respectfully to Mr. Lu, and Li Kaixing bowed to him.
Lu Gongzhu immediately glared at him, "Zhang San, are you full and have nothing to do, so you deliberately use us for entertainment?"
But his tone was helpless in every possible way.
"Young people don't dare." Zhang Fei said truthfully.
"Don't you dare?"
Mr. Lu hesitated for a moment, stood up, pointed at Zhang Fei and said: "I know you want to complain about your lovely wife, so you can just discuss the matter. This is not the first time you have complained. But you have to be new and different.
, grandstanding and suing the court, even a lunatic would not be able to do such a thing."
Zhang Fei argued rationally: "I'm not just doing it for my wife, I'm also doing it for myself, because I may also suffer from this. In addition, does Magistrate Lu think that the court is really not at fault in this matter? Or does Magistrate Lu think that
, even if the court is at fault, it should not be said by the mouths of ordinary people. This is all the matter of the ministers. But the problem is, if you ministers delay for a day, countless people will suffer. Why can't the prefect understand?
We are little people."
Lu Gongzhu was so shocked by Zhang Fei that he didn't know how to refute him for a moment.
really!
He does think so, and he is also opposed to the current service system, but he does also believe that this matter belongs to the authority of their ministers and is not something that the common people can discuss.
But having said that, it is not officials like them who are harmed, but the people of the world. The people are also anxious, so of course the officials are not anxious.
Li Kai suddenly said: "As a person with an ear pen, you should be familiar with the law. Who told you that you can sue the court, and who told you that you can use the laws of your ancestors as an excuse?"
Zhang Fei said: "First of all, the court has no express regulations and does not allow lawsuits against the court. Secondly, the edicts of Taizu Taizong are legally binding, and the same is true for civilians. Failure to comply with the edicts is a death penalty."
Li Kai was speechless.
You are cruel!
Mr. Lu sat down and sighed, "We don't know yet whether suing the court violates the laws of the court, so we can only temporarily detain you.
But I also want to advise you, if you really want to speak justice to the people of the world, then you should work hard and strive to become an official in the court. If you are so unruly and reckless, sooner or later something will happen."
He also knew that many people in the DPRK recommended Zhang Fei as an official.
If you can't be a high official, it won't be a big problem for you to be a small official.
Zhang Fei saluted and said, "Thank you so much, Magistrate Lu, for telling me this. The people will definitely remember it in their hearts."
Mr. Lu waved his hand and said: "Take him down!"
After Zhang Fei was taken away, Li Kai complained: "Actually, he has this mouth. We can't control whether he complains or not. The key is that he always comes to our Kaifeng Mansion. If we really talk about this,
, it’s not something our Kaifeng Mansion can accept!”
Lu Gongzhu sighed: "So now we can only wait for the outcome of the court's deliberations on this matter."
...
Du Branch.
"I have made inquiries clearly. There should be nothing wrong with this matter. It is really possible that Mr. Zhang San will engage in tax calculation."
Judge Shen Huai of Duzhi said filial piety.
On his left sat Tang Ji, the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Revenue, "But we must not let that kid succeed. How can we let him, a common man, get involved in the country's financial power? How unbecoming is this?"
Sitting on the right was Du Xiu, the judge of the Salt and Iron Department, who worried: "But the problem is, how can we stop him? He just offered to help people calculate taxes. This is neither illegal nor against the rules. What can he say?
Think about the people and share the worries of the government."
The Ministry of Revenue, Duzhi, and Salt and Iron are collectively known as the three departments, which belong to the central finance department and are in charge of the national finance.
But on the first day at work, they started talking about a man with a sharp ear.
They heard that Zhang Fei was going to start a tax calculation business, which made them a little uneasy.
If Zhang Fei really did it, they would have to be careful at all times. If they charge an extra penny, they might be sued.
This is not a sale, but a power.
That's why they felt fearful and uneasy.
Shen Huaixiao said thoughtfully: "At the end of last year, many officials in the DPRK recommended Zhang San to be an official in the DPRK, but the results have not yet been confirmed. How about we help out and bring the boy to the DPRK to give him a chance?"
It will be good for everyone if he is given an official position and stops making trouble outside! He is just a piece of rubble, so we don’t have to fight with him. Then isn’t that what Wang Sinong will lose?"
Tang Ji and Du Xiu looked at each other and nodded.
This guy is really a headache.
At this moment, an official walked into the hall and whispered a few words in Shen Huaixiao's ear.
"What?"
Shen Huaixiao stood up in shock.
Tang Ji asked: "What happened?"
Shen Huai said filially: "That boy went to Kaifeng Mansion again to complain."
"This is the first day that Kaifeng Mansion opens its doors!" Tang Jiren was stunned.
Du Xiu asked: "Who is he suing?"
"Court."
"ah?"
This...this is a shame!
Kill him!
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Fan’s Bookstore!
"In whose name did he, he, he, he sue?"
Fan Li tugged tightly on the sleeve of a man with ear pens, and asked in a trembling voice with tears in his eyes.
The man with the ear pen replied: "According to the rules, he...he can only sue in the name of our bookstore!"
Siluke
"Ah...!" Fan Li screamed, closed his eyes, and passed out.
The ear pens in the bookstore are also in danger of everyone.
I was wondering if I should go back quickly, pack my bags and run away.
.....
This situation is really shocking!
The entire imperial city was shaken.
Sue the court?
Can this be sued?
How to report this?
The ancestral method?
What ancestral method?
Most officials are confused.
They don't know if this is illegal or not, and they don't know what the ancestral law is.
But they soon realized that no matter whether it was illegal or not, they had to break the law. They immediately asked the Kaifeng Mansion to arrest Zhang Fei for questioning. Some officials even demanded that Zhang Fei be sentenced to death for treason.
This case must not be opened.
Otherwise, no one would sue the court every day.
After all, the imperial court did bad things...ahem...
It’s hard to describe in one word.
Anyway, all in all, in short, Zhang Fei must not be allowed to succeed.
The little emperor Zhao Xu was also dumbfounded. As an emperor, he didn't know that a lawsuit could be played like this.
But it was very noisy down there.
So Zhao Xu quickly held a meeting of the highest think tank in the Hanlin Academy.
They also include Privy Councilor Chen Shengzhi, Prime Minister Tang Jie, Yushi Zhongcheng Lu Jie, and Kaifeng Prefecture Magistrate Lu Gongzu, etc.
At the meeting, Mr. Lu first explained the reason for this incident in detail.
It also includes the triangular relationship between Gao Wenyin, Zhang Fei and Shi Dalang.
"If that's the case, Zhang Fei didn't make a mistake in his accusation!" Wang Anshi said soothingly.
Zhao Xu glanced at the idol and asked, "What do you say?"
Wang Anshi immediately said: "Reporting to your Majesty, the battle in Yaqian has been troubled by our court for many years, and there are countless cases indicating that this battle caused countless people to live in dire straits, and their families were destroyed at every turn. However, the court has yet to make a decision.
Determined to solve this problem.
Now the people have suffered unjust injustice. This is definitely the fault of the court. Now the people are forced to come to complain. Shouldn’t the court reflect on itself? I suggest that Zhang San should be given a chance to argue. If Zhang San said
It’s reasonable, and the court should reform its ways.”
As soon as these words came out, Lu Hui and others despised Wang Anshi.
He really knows how to use topics to his advantage!
Zhao Xu suddenly reacted, his eyes flashing with joy, this... this seemed to be a divine assist!
Suppressing the joy in his heart, he nodded, but before he could speak, Lu Jie rushed to say: "What is an unjust injustice? I also agree that the Yaqian campaign did have many shortcomings and should be corrected. But since it is a lawsuit,
Then we must abide by the laws of our court and not mess with the laws. The court has express regulations that if public property is damaged or lost during the escort, the government officials must compensate. To say that it is an unjust injustice would be an exaggeration."
Many ministers nodded in agreement.
Even if there are problems with this law, it is still the law, regardless of whether it is a good law or a bad law. If the person you know wants to file a complaint, it must be in accordance with the law.
"good!"
Sima Guang suddenly said: "What Lu Zhongcheng said makes sense!" After that, he asked Lu Gongzhu: "I wonder what regulations Zhang San sued the court for?"
Mr. Lu was stunned for a moment. Didn't you hear clearly what I just said? Then he said, "I am suing the court for violating the laws of my ancestors."
"The method of our ancestors?"
Sima Guang took a breath of cold air, frowned, and asked again: "But I don't know which ancestral law it is?"
Wang Anshi glanced at Sima Guang and cursed secretly, "You old fox, you really can't bear any loss."
Lu Gongzhu truthfully said: "He is based on Taizong's edict. It has been twenty years since the emperor started his business. Things have been prevented and things have to be controlled. The disciplines have been established and things have their own order. I respect it and do not dare to go beyond it."
.'Come and sue the court."
Zhao Xu asked Hu Tu again, "What does this have to do with this?"
Lu Gong wrote: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know the reason."
Sima Guang immediately said: "Your Majesty, if Zhang Sanzhen is suing the court based on the laws of his ancestors, I think this is not inappropriate and reasonable, and the court must treat it with caution. After all, the laws of our ancestors cannot be violated. I also suggest that the court should be prosecuted."
Zhang Fei is given a chance to argue. If he is talking nonsense, then convicting him will make people convinced."
Um?
Everyone else looked at Sima Guang in surprise.
This...when did these two old guys get together?
Zhao Xu nodded slightly, then glanced at him, "What do you think?"
The rest of the people looked at each other.
These two old guys had already said it, and they could only nod in agreement if they could say anything else.
After all, the two of them represent the two main camps of the imperial court.
Zhao Xu looked at Wang Anshi, then at Sima Guang, thought for a long time, and finally decided that Wang Anshi and Sima Guang would preside over the trial, and officials from the Yushitai, the Court of Justice, the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and Kaifeng Prefecture would serve as jury members.
The original plan was to have the trial in Kaifeng Mansion. After all, Zhang Fei went to Kaifeng Mansion to file a lawsuit, but Mr. Lu refused to agree, saying that the small government was poor and could not afford such a big trial.
Last year, the Kaifeng Mansion was already controversial because of Zhang Fei. He was not a human being inside and outside, but this case was even more sensitive. He had never tried this kind of case before. He would never take advantage of it, because he also knew that it was not him who made the decision.
Why should I take the blame?
In the end, Zhao Xu decided to put it on trial in Dali Temple.
In fact, it should also be placed in Dali Temple. After all, Kaifeng Prefecture is a state capital and is really not qualified to try this case. Only the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple are qualified to try it.
The Court of Punishment is reviewing the judgment of Dali Temple. If Dali Temple does not review the case, it is difficult for the Court of Punishment to intervene.