Chapter 26: A dead horse seeking medical treatment
"Ms. Xu, if you had a mirror right now, you would know how insulting your expression is right now."
Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian, whose red lips were slightly open and squinting at him, and said rather depressedly.
Xu Zhiqian closed her red lips and asked: "You...you are not talking about yourself, are you?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "This is my impression after arriving at Erbi Hutong. Are there any questions?"
Xu Zhiqian couldn't open her eyes and tell lies, saying that Zhang Fei was uglier than those people, and she didn't dare to ignore Zhang Fei's achievements. After all, this man dared to surrender for the crime of deceiving the emperor. Normal people really couldn't compare.
Said: "They don't have money to treat you."
Zhang Fei shrugged and said calmly: "There is no way. I am born with a strong sense of justice. I uphold justice and never accept money. I am even willing to repay. You can go back and ask your father about this." p>
Xu Zhiqian frowned slightly and asked doubtfully: "But if you don't make money, how can you move out of my house as soon as possible?"
"Wow...!"
Zhang Fei was very surprised and said: "I just discovered that the two of us are kindred spirits, warm-hearted and philanthropic. I thought Madam Xu would put aside her prejudice against me."
Xu Zhiqian immediately said: "I have no prejudice against you, I just don't like strangers living in my house."
"That's it!"
Zhang Fei coughed: "Actually... while helping them, I am also helping myself to earn a living."
Xu Zhiqian said: "How do you say this?"
"Fame!"
Zhang Fei said: "I think in our industry, reputation is the most important thing."
Xu Zhiqian said: "You are very famous now."
Zhang Fei said depressedly: "Yes. I am very famous now, but who would hire someone who has offended the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Court of Punishment?"
This kind of Erbi people has never appeared before.
As long as you are not stupid, you will not do this.
Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but joked: "Then you plan to change your name?"
"That's not necessary." Zhang Fei smiled and shook his head: "As long as I can prove that I can still win the lawsuit, then people will naturally put aside their concerns about me.
Moreover, helping the strong to bully the weak is not considered a skill. All I need to do is open my mouth. If I can help the weak resist the exploitation of the strong, then I can show my ability and become more famous.
Once I become famous, people will naturally come to me to file lawsuits, and I will naturally have a livelihood."
I knew it was not that simple. Xu Zhiqian secretly despised Zhang Fei, but said: "You explained to me so patiently, do you need my help?"
"Ms. Xu is really smart as ice and snow."
Zhang Fei snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "Although I want to help them, they don't know my existence, and I don't know their situation. And Madam Xu, you often teach them the law, so you must know a lot of them.
I hope Mrs. Xu can tell them that if they have needs, they can come to me, everything is free, and I will try my best to help them fight for their own interests."
Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei suspiciously.
To be honest, she didn't trust Zhang Fei at all. No matter how good Zhang Fei said, she still felt that this guy was full of evil.
It can be seen that the first impression is extremely important.
Zhang Fei naturally knew it in his heart, so he added: "I know Madam Xu doesn't trust me, but why don't Madam Xu think about it, first of all, those villagers have nothing worth worrying about; secondly, what will happen to those villagers when they are oppressed by the big landlords?"
It's usually very miserable, and no Erbi person is willing to help them. To say the least, even if I'm cheating them, they have nothing. The result will not change, but if I really help them
may be able to help them tide over the difficulties."
Xu Zhiqian thought for a while and said, "Aren't you afraid of offending those powerful people?"
Zhang Fei said disdainfully: "Can a powerful person be more powerful than a bachelor of Sima?"
Seeing his proud look, Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but think to herself, Sima University Scholar is a gentleman, and if you follow the rules of a villain like you, if you really use power to suppress you, I'm afraid you would have lost your head a long time ago. What is there to be proud of?<
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Zhang Fei saw that her expression was uncertain and she was silent, so he asked: "Ms. Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Zhiqian was startled for a moment, and suddenly thought of something, and said: "Speaking of this lawsuit, I remembered something."
Zhang Fei asked anxiously: "What's the matter?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "It's about a contract dispute."
Zhang Fei's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said excitedly: "Contract dispute?"
"Yeah."
Xu Zhiqian nodded and asked: "Why are you so happy?"
"No...no!"
Zhang Fei smiled and asked again: "Tell me quickly, what's going on?"
He was filled with joy. It turned out that in later generations there was a kind of lawyer who specialized in helping the poor with lawsuits. However, it was not an assignment, or it could be said that it was an obligation, and it was also for profit.
The target is the rich opposite the poor, or the government.
Zhang Fei offered to help the poor with their lawsuits for free, and this is the path he took.
First of all, he is not willing to be a supplement to the government. The so-called tea-eaters are just officials outside the official establishment. They only earn some hard-earned money and have to rely on others to look at their faces.
Then it is better to go to Dali Temple.
Secondly, this industry has obviously been monopolized by several big bookstores. This is a business problem. How can he attract customers when he is alone? Those businessmen must find these big bookstores, after all, they are stable, and the only one who has not been monopolized by these big bookstores is
The customers of the bookstore monopoly are very ordinary villagers.
Although they cannot afford attorney fees, as long as a property dispute occurs, they can rely on lawsuits to obtain compensation, so that lawyers can make money.
Finally, he also took into account the general environmental factors. Wang Anshi's new law is already on the drawing board. Wang Anshi's new law contains many regulations that will benefit the poor and at the same time crack down on landlords. Among them, the Green Crop Law is aimed at usury and shareholder practices.
It's no use borrowing it, and besides, he has already borrowed it several times.
Xu Zhiqian did not hesitate and immediately informed Zhang Fei of the dispute.
It turns out that this incident happened to a farmer's family in Xiangfu County under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture. The farmer's family had twenty acres of fertile land and married a good wife. The couple lived well, but the farmer suffered from a disease the year before last.
Seriously ill, his wife was forced to borrow ten thousand dollars from a local wealthy gentry for treatment.
Since the farmer has been ill for more than half a year and cannot farm, he can only rely on his wife's needlework to make ends meet, which means he will not be able to repay the money in the coming year.
According to the contract, he had to pay the rich gentry his family's only 20 acres of fertile land. However, those 20 acres of fertile land were their family's ancestral land. The farmer was very reluctant to give up, so he begged the rich gentry to continue.
Extension for half a year.
Unexpectedly, the rich gentleman actually fell in love with his wife and offered to let him use her to pay off his debts. His wife also knew that her husband cherished their ancestral land very much. The key is that if the land was gone, neither husband and wife would be able to survive, so she also volunteered
Use yourself to pay off debts.
In the end, the farmer used his wife to pay off the debt.
Unexpectedly, this year the rich gentleman came to collect debts again.
It turned out that the compensation deed only stated that his wife was only paying off the principal, and did not mention anything about interest. The interest was the bulk of the payment, and it rolled over for another year, so she owed even more.
As a result, the ancestral field was not saved.
After Zhang Fei heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little angry, and immediately said: "This is obviously fraud."
Xu Zhiqian said: "But in this kind of lawsuit, the government only looks at the contract. Although the farmer is illiterate, there are witnesses who read the contract. It's just that the farmer was thinking about his wife at the time and didn't pay much attention to it, so he was
The wealthy gentry was deceived."
Zhang Fei frowned and asked: "Apart from all this, do you think there is anything wrong with this contract from a legal perspective? For example, is the interest in it legal?"
Xu Zhiqian said: "Although our government stipulates that the interest cannot exceed seven cents, because many wealthy businessmen do not just borrow copper coins, and people do not repay them with copper coins, if it is a money transaction, it is difficult to set the price, often resulting in private interest rates as high as two cents."
As much as twice as much. As for the farmer's contract, if it is really converted, it is twice as much, but the government generally ignores it."
Zhang Fei glanced at Xu Zhiqian and thought, she is more proficient in contemporary laws than me and has more experience than me. If she can't find a problem, then this lawsuit cannot be fought!
Xu Zhiqian rolled her eyes and said: "Is there any way you can help this farmer get justice? If you can do it, I will be willing to help you."
It seems that she is planning to kill a horse and become a living doctor! I know that she will not take advantage of me. Zhang Fei thought for a moment and said: "I have to meet the farmer in person to understand the specific process before making a judgment." p>