As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm. The success of Bailun Tower is inseparable from the efforts of the Fan family and his sons.
Although Fan Yong was ready to hand over power, he couldn't change himself. He got up early and went to the restaurant to inspect the house to see how the cleaning was, to see if the bartender was neatly dressed, etc.
"Ya Nei and Xiao Yi came to see the child last night and said that they were going to do charity work with Zhang Sanlang."
Fan Zheng said as he followed Fan Yong upstairs.
"Doing charity?" Fan Yong almost missed the step, stopped, looked at his son, and said with a smile: "Are they two doing charity?"
Fan Zheng nodded.
Fan Yong smiled and asked casually: "Are they asking you to donate some money?"
Fan Zheng nodded first, and then said: "It's more than a little money."
Fan Yong asked: "How much?"
Fan Zhengdao: "They and Zhang San donated 20,000 yuan."
Fan Yong exclaimed: "So many? Are they getting rich?"
Fan Zheng said in a low voice: "It is said that in the last lawsuit, they were secretly taking over and made a lot of money."
Fan Yong nodded and said: "We can't donate so much, so just donate fifty guan, just to show your appreciation."
Fan Zhengdao: "They donated more than that."
Fan Yong was shocked again, "It's more than that? How much is that?"
Fan Zhengdao: "The Ma family and the Cao family will each donate twenty hectares of land."
Fan Yong tilted his head and looked at Fan Zheng in shock.
Donating any amount of money to charity is still reasonable, but donating land sounds fishy!
Fan Zheng added: "It is said that there is no need to pay taxes."
Fan Yong raised his eyebrows and was about to say something when the shopkeeper suddenly ran up and gasped: "Master, master, someone just delivered a batch of tabloids outside the door and asked if we want them?"
How could Fan Yong be in the mood to talk about this at this time? He turned around and glared: "You want to ask me about such a trivial matter?"
The shopkeeper said: "But the content of this tabloid."
After Fan Zheng heard this, he immediately said: "Bring it to me and see."
The shopkeeper immediately handed over the tabloid.
After Fan Zheng looked at it, his expression was startled, "This."
Fan Yong asked quickly: "What did you say?"
Fan Zhengdao: "Xu Sishi proposed in the trial court to take back the privileges of the situation households."
"ah?"
Fan Yong couldn't help being shocked.
Early this morning, a group of unknown tabloids suddenly appeared in various tea shops, wine shops, and steamed bun stalls in Bianliang City.
The content was so explosive that it quickly aroused heated discussions.
It turned out that the contents of the tabloid actually disclosed the contents of a confidential meeting of the Criminal Court.
The content is about how to amend the Tenancy Law, which is actually normal, but one point is particularly sensitive, that is, Xu Zun strongly suggested linking local governance with the privileges of local households.
If they dare to use tenants to threaten the court again, their privileges will be taken back directly.
And there was a heated discussion at the meeting.
This moment sparked public opinion.
If you do this, it will be like digging up the roots of civil servants and military officers.
Except for monks and Taoists, most of the privileged households are either those from general families or retired officials, and they are all retired from the imperial court. Many of them even contributed to the founding of the country. If this is linked to local governance, it is almost
It can be said that the court can take it back at will.
This kind of thing can only be given and cannot be taken back.
Today, Zhang Fei went out with Xu Zhiqian early in the morning, as usual, to the Bianjing Law Firm.
In the carriage, Lawyer Xu very "humbly" asked Zhang Dayerbi for advice on how to do this charity.
She also has a rather naughty temper. She spent two days at home thinking hard, but she still couldn't figure out why this charity was an operation?
How can it be done?
Today I have to pester Zhang Fei and ask for clarification.
“Donate to R&D?”
Xu Zhiqian said with a look of astonishment.
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "A perfect law is better than a thousand lawsuits. A good medicine is better than treating a thousand patients. A well-designed farm tool can also help farmers all over the world. This is how it works."
This is the way to the highest good.”
Xu Zhiqian thought for a while, "Although what you said makes sense, good medicine is hard to come by. Maybe you have been busy for a long time and spent a lot of money, but it has no effect and will arouse everyone's suspicion.
"
Zhang Fei said: "You are right, so my donation will be divided into two parts. The first is to specifically help those people who are in crisis. Anyway, the principle is to help the urgent and not the poor.
And the second one is donating money to some yamen involved in the research and development of weapons, medicine, and agricultural tools to the imperial court. All the money is spent on the imperial court, can the imperial court doubt me?"
Xu Zhiqian asked in surprise: "You still donate to the imperial court?"
Zhang Fei said: "If I don't donate to the imperial court, how can I convince the great scholar Wang?"
Xu Zhiqian pondered: "I'm afraid the money donated to the imperial court will not be used for the research and development you mentioned. It may be spent on the official's drinking table."
Zhang Fei said: "Of course we must try our best to avoid this. The money will not pass through their hands and be used directly on the heads of those craftsmen."
Xu Zhiqian said: "How is this possible?"
Zhang Fei said: "This is what we need to discuss with the court. This matter is not as simple as you think."
Xu Zhiqian fell silent.
This was something she had never thought about at all. She even wondered if this was charity?
The key is that she is not very interested in this kind of donation.
Her charity is to help the strong and the weak.
When he arrived at the Bianjing Law Firm, as soon as he got off the carriage, Fan Li hurried out and said, "Sanlang, Madam Xu, you are here, something serious is going to happen."
Everyone in Zhang Fei was confused, "What's the big deal?"
Fan Li pulled out a tabloid and said, "Look, this is the tabloid I just ordered from the tea shop next door."
Zhang Fei took it and took a look and exclaimed: "Father-in-law."
When Xu Zhiqian heard this, she reached out and snatched it away. After looking at it, she couldn't help but turn pale with fright.
Fan Li asked: "Is this true?"
Zhang Fei angrily rebuked: "Of course this is false. This is a meeting of the Sentencing Court. How could it be revealed? Isn't there anyone in charge of this tabloid? It's really unreasonable."
There were beads of sweat on Xu Zhiqian's forehead, and she was worried, "What if it's true?"
Zhang Fei was startled, "It's impossible! Do you think this sounds like what my father-in-law said?"
Xu Zhiqian remained silent.
Zhang Fei asked Fan Li again: "How many people have read this tabloid so far?"
Fan Li said: "The news has spread throughout the city."
Zhang Fei said: "Then what do you think?"
Fan Li said in a low voice: "Needless to say, the common people who watched the excitement did not think it was a big deal, and of course they applauded it, but anyone with a certain status would curse and be angry."
Xu Zhiqian said: "Zhang San, we have to go back immediately."
Coming from a family of officials, I am quite aware of this kind of thing.
Zhang Fei nodded and said to Fan Li: "You watch the store first, I'll go back and take care of some things."
Fan Li nodded and said, "You should go quickly."
Court of Trial.
"Xu Zhongtu, Xu Zhongtu!"
I saw Gu Ji and a group of veterans marching to the trial court in a furious manner.
Sima Guang, who was having a meeting with everyone, couldn't help but feel "surprised" when he saw them coming.
"What are you doing?" Sima Guang asked with a frown.
"It would be best if you are all here."
Gu Ji slapped a tabloid on the table, "Is this what you said?"
Sima Guang picked it up and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Who spread this."
Gu Ji immediately said: "It seems that Xu Zhongtu really said this."
Xu Zun's acting skills were naturally unquestionable. He looked confused and said: "What's going on?"
Liu Shu, Qi Hui and others also stood up one after another, came to Sima Guang's side, turned their heads to look, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock.
Xu Zun also hurriedly stood up and came over, "Bachelor Sima, can you let me have a look?"
Sima Guang handed the tabloid to Xu Zun.
After Xu Zun read it, his face suddenly filled with anger and he glared at Liu Shu, Qi Hui and others, "You are so despicable, you actually hurt me like this."
Liu Shu said innocently, "It's not my fault."
"Who could have said that?" Xu Zun said angrily: "There were only a few of us here at the time, so I couldn't have said it myself."
Everyone looked at each other with a look of injustice on their faces.
Gu Ji rushed forward, "Xu Zhongtu, do you admit that you said this?"
Xu Zundao: "That's not what I said. It's obviously filled with jealousy. Bachelor Sima, you have to be fair to me."
Sima Guang hurriedly stood up and said to Gu Ji and others: "Everyone, be patient for a moment and listen to my explanation. At that time, we were meeting to discuss the amendment of the tenant lease law. Liu Langzhong considered that this was unfair to the big landowners.
If they fired the tenants for this reason, it might cause unrest, so Xu Sishi casually suggested that local security should be discussed together with the privileges of the big landowners."
Gu Ji said excitedly: "That's what I said."
Xu Zun was about to cry but said without tears: "We were in a meeting to discuss what to do, so I just said this casually. Later, everyone objected, and I didn't say anything else."
Liu Shu and Qi Hui both nodded.
The writing here is indeed very excessive, and the key point is that it has a nose and eyes, but Xu Zunzhen just mentioned it.
Sima Guang nodded and said: "Xu Sishi just mentioned it casually and didn't insist on it at all. We didn't have a heated discussion, or even much discussion. This tabloid is just talking nonsense."
I was also feeling guilty in my heart, was this really what Zhang San did? That kid was too cruel to treat his father-in-law like this.
An old doctor sneered and said: "Who knows what you are planning, just wait, I will definitely go to the official's house and give you a copy."
After that, he waved his sleeves and left angrily.
Gu Ji and others also turned and left.
In their view, this is simply adding insult to injury and extremely shameless.
Xu Zun also said excitedly: "Okay, if you do this, don't look for me in meetings in the future."
He also left angrily.
Sima Guang glanced at him, "I must find out who did this."
"mean!"
Wang Anshi crumpled the tabloid in his hand and said, "I never expected that they would use this method to deal with Xu Zhongtu."
Lu Huiqing said: "Teacher, this is an excellent opportunity for us. There must be a mess in the trial court now. If we stand up to support Xu Zhongtu's statement, then everyone will be blamed for the trial.
At the head of the Criminal Court. At the same time, isn’t Xu Zhongtu’s statement also what my mentor thought.”
Wang Anshi shook his head and said: "No, doing this will harm Xu Zhongtu, and it is impossible for the officials to agree."
Lu Huiqing sighed secretly and did not continue to persuade.
Kaifeng Mansion.
"To tell you the truth, a while ago, I was planning to transfer my position, but now that I really have to leave, I feel really reluctant to leave!"
Mr. Lu was sitting in the courtroom, gently stroking the table with his hands, looking around with a little reluctance in his eyes.
Before he finished speaking, Huang Gui hurriedly entered the hall and said, "Prefect Lu, something happened, something big happened."
Lu Gongzhu asked: "What big thing?"
Huang Gui hurriedly handed over a tabloid, "This is the tabloid that came out this morning."
Lu Gongzhu took it and looked at it, his face was startled. He looked up and suddenly, it seemed that there was a boy in green clothes and a small hat with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks standing in the hall. He immediately put the tabloid on the table and said, "Master Huang, could you please help me clean it up?"
Soon, I have to rush to the Third Division to take up my post."