Four hundred and fortieth chapters tax war (twenty)
Zhang Fei has been involved in several lawsuits and has always relied on details to win.
Xu Zun also warned them many times that details are still details.
Su Che and the others also thought that they had been meticulous enough and there would be no problem with the evidence, but... But in the end, Zhang Feixi was still not as good as Zhang Feixi.
This seemingly irrefutable evidence is highly controversial.
What’s more interesting is that the two methods used are exactly the same. The government regarded civilian fields as wasteland and confiscated them according to the law. Zhao Wenzheng regarded the government’s pastures as wasteland, and then sent people to “reclamate them” according to the law.
”, and finally took it as his own.
According to the evidence provided by Zhang Fei, it is impossible to determine whether this land is wasteland, official land, or civilian land. So why should the procuratorate sue people for encroaching on official land.
In addition, the procuratorate is a national institution and represents the government, and the accounts in their hands are provided by the government. If they know that the accounts provided by the government are problematic and still decide, the consequences will be very serious.
There is no law at all.
When Zhang Fei and Su Che returned to their seats, the people sitting there had already gotten their answer from Su Che's face.
This crime is probably very difficult to convict.
But Su Che was not discouraged, because there was another crime, which was selling illegal salt.
Once convicted of this crime, the sentence can be very serious, and even the death penalty can be imposed. Although the death penalty does not apply to the Grand Master, as long as it is successful, it does not matter whether the first two crimes are committed or not.
If you can't escape this crime, no matter how beautifully you defended it before, it will be of no use.
They are all dead ends.
On Zhang Fei's side, Xu Zhiqian was sorting out the essay, but instead of becoming relaxed, his expression became more serious, as if they were at a disadvantage.
When placing the compiled essay in front of Zhang Fei, Xu Zhiqian still couldn't help but ask: "Is your trick really feasible?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said: "If I am very sure that I will be convicted of this crime, then I will have to charge Governor Zhao 30,000 guan instead of 20,000 guan."
After making some repairs, Su Che asked Wang Hongjin to come to the hall.
When Wang Hongjin sat in the dock, Su Zhe asked: "Wang Hongjin, according to our investigation, you sold more than 3,000 bushels of smuggled salt to Xuzhou last year. I wonder if you can plead guilty?"
"I object!"
Zhang Fei immediately stood up and said, "I think Prosecutor Su's question is misleading."
Zeng Gong asked curiously: "Misleading?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Wang Hongjin only transported three thousand tons of good medicine to Xuzhou last year, not private salt."
"Good medicine?"
Zeng Gong said in shock.
The procuratorate shouldn't make this mistake by mistaking medicine for salt, right?
Zhang Fei nodded and said: "Yes, it is a life-saving medicine."
Zeng Gong couldn't help but look at Su Che.
For a time, there was a loud discussion inside and outside the hospital.
Is it another blatant false accusation?
Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others also looked at each other in confusion.
Officials are very clear about land occupation, but they don't know the details of illegal salt sales. This can't be wrong.
Nor should it!
Some officials also knew that Zhao Wenzheng was selling illegal salt.
"quiet!"
Zeng Gong slapped the crowd and shouted in a deep voice.
Sitting Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "It's impossible, it's definitely private salt, not a good medicine. We have witnesses to prove it. At the same time, the accounts of Wang Hongjin and Zhao Wenzheng also contain salt."
Zhang Fei said: "The account is indeed written with salt, because the name of this good medicine is salt."
"...?"
this....
There was a sudden silence in the courtyard, and everyone stared blankly at Zhang Fei.
Even if you call a deer a horse, you are not as cruel as you!
Can you still argue like this?
Why didn't you say it was silver?
"Asshole!"
Zeng Gong immediately became furious and said, "This is unreasonable, you dare to tease this prefect by calling a deer a horse.
"
Xu Zhiqian blushed and lowered her head. When Zhang Fei told her, she was confused. You are not defending, you are simply toying with everyone.
Zhang Fei said seriously: "I will never dare to tease the magistrate. I have witnesses who can prove that it is good medicine and not private salt."
Are there any witnesses?
Simply outrageous!
Zeng Gong temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart and said: "Call the witness."
But I saw a man in his forties limping up to the hall, and this man's neck was obviously swollen.
When Su Che saw this neck, he immediately had an ominous premonition.
"The villain Xu Shengzi has met the prefect."
"sit down."
Zeng Gong pointed to the witness box.
"The villain obeys your orders."
Xu Shengzi went directly to the witness box and sat down. He had no choice, after all, he was disabled.
Zhang Fei stood up and said, "Uncle Xu, where are you from?"
Xu Shengzi replied: "I am from Luoxiang, Ge County, Xuzhou."
Zhang Fei said: "Can I take the liberty to ask, is your neck naturally so big, or...?"
Xu Shengzi immediately replied: "It's because I had a serious illness the year before last and my neck became so big."
Zhang Fei asked: "I don't know what the disease is?"
Xu Shengzi said: "In my hometown, it is called big neck disease."
Zhang Fei nodded and asked, "I wonder why you got this disease?"
Someone at the door rushed to answer: "I all know this. If you eat without salt, you will get this big neck disease."
Xu Shengzi nodded repeatedly, "That little brother is right, he got this disease just because he didn't have salt to eat."
Zhang Fei asked: "Why do you have no salt to eat?"
Xu Shengzi sighed: "This originally existed, but two years ago the price of salt suddenly more than doubled, and it was mixed with a lot of dirt. We couldn't afford it, and we couldn't eat it. Later, the salt dealer
If it doesn’t sell to us, we won’t have any salt to eat.”
His tone didn't fluctuate much, just like a regular chatter, as if he had seen through everything.
Maybe it's because I'm used to this kind of thing.
very normal.
Zhang Fei asked again: "Does this mean that everyone has no salt to eat?"
Xu Shengzi said: "At that time, many people in our village did not have salt to eat. They could only use puddle water or the blood of prey to make some brine to eat as salt. At that time, many people suffered from this big neck disease, with edema all over the body and bulging eyes.
, and some people even died.”
"Anyone else die?"
Zhang Fei pretended to be surprised.
Xu Shengzi said: "I know about seven or eight of them."
Zhang Fei asked curiously: "Then why are you getting better again?"
Xu Shengzi said: "Of course it's because someone came to sell salt later. Then if we eat salt, we will naturally get better."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Fei asked doubtfully: "Then where do you get the money to sell salt? Don't you mean that everyone can't afford it?"
"Actually, the price of the salt sold by the merchants later was not cheap, but at least we farmers could afford it, and it was much better than the previous salt. There was no dirt or debris in it, and you could eat a pound of it.
A few days."
"I see."
Zhang Fei nodded, "If this person didn't come to sell salt, what do you think the result would be?"
"We may die of illness. In fact, if we don't die of illness, we will starve to death. Many people are too sick to farm."
Xu Shengzi shook his head and sighed. There was no sadness, only the helplessness of enjoying hardships.
"Can we say that this salt is a good medicine that saved your lives?"
"sure."
"Thanks!"
Zhang Fei said to Zeng Gong: "I'm done asking."
Su Che stood up and asked, "Uncle Xu, did the salt seller tell you that he was selling salt or medicine?"
"Of course the person who sells salt means selling salt." Xu Shengzi looked at Su Zhe inexplicably.
Sporadic laughter sounded outside the door.
Su Che asked again: "Are you buying salt or medicine?"
Xu Shengzi scratched his head and said, "Of course we are buying salt."
Su Che said to Zeng Gong, "I'm done asking."
Zeng Gong first asked someone to take Xu Shengzi down, and then asked Zhang Fei: "Your witnesses all said it was salt, what else do you have to say?"
Zhang Fei replied: "I think how to define an object should not just look at what it is, but also its use. Just last year, a murder occurred in Bianjing City. The murderer was a fireman who used an iron pot to cook the object.
The other party was smashed to death, and in the confession at the time, the iron pot was defined as a murder weapon, so it was illegal. The judiciary clearly judged based on the purpose of the iron pot, not what it was. As we all know, the iron pot is not a weapon
.
According to our investigation, the price of salt in Xuzhou doubled two years ago, so that many farmers in rural areas could not afford salt. As a result, no one went there to sell salt. As a result, there were many big neck diseases at that time.
Governor Zhao asked Wang Hongjin to sell salt to the local area and cured the local people's big neck disease. This can definitely be understood as selling drugs."
Qi Ji was amused by Zhang Fei's sophistry, and joked: "Now that my illness is cured, why are you still selling it?"
Zhang Fei lowered his head and glanced at the article, and said seriously: "We visited mostly doctors and learned that this kind of medicine needs to be taken for a long time."
"Pfft!"
Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but laugh out loud and quickly buried her head.
It turned out that the article was just a place where illegal salt was sold.
But Zhang Fei can say it as if it is true.
Zeng Gong frowned and said to Zhang Fei: "If it's as you said, I'm afraid all the selfish people in the world can get away with this."
Zhang Fei said: "If the situation is like Governor Zhao, of course it is not illegal. Just imagine, if the imperial court decides to stop selling official salt for three years and does not amend the salt law, everyone in the world becomes sick, and all the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in the world are
Salt, are these doctors selling private salt or medicine?"
Qi Ji couldn't help but said: "You are arrogant. Why did the imperial court ban the sale of official salt?"
Zhang Fei said: "Then let me put it another way. If the court stipulates five guans per kilogram of salt, many people cannot afford it and end up getting sick. The doctor prescribes salt and sells it to the patients at the price of ordinary medicines.
Are you selling salt or medicine?"
Qi Ji fell silent.
Zhang Fei looked around and said loudly: "Don't ignore the fact that when Governor Zhao ordered Wang Hongjin to sell salt to Xuzhou, there was a serious shortage of salt in many places there. Why did this happen?
It was because the Xuzhou government suddenly raised the price of salt that the salt sellers had to sell the salt they got from the government at a high price in order to make profits. Because the price was too high, many villagers were unable to buy salt, and
As a result, salt sellers see that these areas are unprofitable and simply stop selling in these areas.
But as we all know, salt is the same as grain. If there is a lack of salt, the person will immediately suffer from diseases and may not survive. The right way is that human life is of paramount importance, and the law should not be higher than human life. According to historical records, anything higher than human life
The laws are all evil and no one will abide by them.
Based on this point, how to determine whether it is private salt or medicine? It is actually very simple. That is, ordinary people who work hard can afford the salt they need for life, so salt other than official salt is private salt and is illegal.
But if the common people cannot afford the salt they need for life, then salt other than official salt is medicine and is legal."
Su Che looked at Qi Ji and asked, "Did all Wang Hongjin's private salt be sold to Xuzhou?"
Qi Ji said: "The illegal salt we found was all sold to Xuzhou."