Chapter 149: Dictatorship of all kinds of dissatisfaction
It's a pity that Wang Xian has practiced...
Looking at the thick pile of files, he was not daunted. After all, he had been acting as an agent for history in Fuyang County for a while, so he was naturally familiar with the business and would not have nowhere to start.
He also wanted to show off his skills and let this group of people know that the reputation of "the first official in Jiangnan" was not in vain. He used the skills of registering and reviewing the account books, and in just one meal, he browsed the case file from beginning to end and picked out today's
There were more than a dozen files to be processed, and he glanced at the stunned Zheng Sixing: "The imperial court clearly stipulates that scribes should pile up files in order of priority and submit them in categories. You can't even meet the most basic requirements. I see a problem with the execution room.
It’s huge!”
Zheng Sixing is not very afraid of Wang Xian, because all economic and political officials are appointed by the Ministry of Personnel. Even the county boss can only recommend his dismissal. Wang Xian is just a classic historian, and his fate cannot be determined. Of course, if Wang Xian cannot be suppressed,
As for Xian, as his immediate boss, it takes him only a few minutes to put on his shoes.
Zheng Sixing had no choice but to deal with it carefully. He glanced at his men lying on the ground and said, "It's not usually like this..."
"Don't be afraid. How can I punish you without teaching?" Wang Xian said calmly: "We'll see what happens tomorrow." He slightly curled his fingers and tapped the file on the table and said: "Since today's trial has been scheduled, let's go
Call the plaintiff and defendant to Xiya.
"Yes." Zheng Sixin responded, then led the people out to the yamen, and said to the people waiting there: "The second master has an order, please come to the west yamen to come to the hall." He said loudly and called the names.
Call out the parties involved in today's court hearing and take them into Xiya.
Zheng Sixing went in to report, and when he came out, he called the person involved in the first case to come in. An old woman with a dark face and a young woman with a bitter face entered the Hall of Classics and History.
At this time, a group of subordinate officials who had been punished for copying had moved to the back hall. In the hall of classics and history, there were the clerks of the execution room who took notes, and the clerks who held water and fire sticks. Wang Xian was sitting in the hall, although it was not as solemn as when the elder was ascending to the hall, but still
It can make ordinary people breathless
The two of them knelt down in the hall, and Wang Xian asked in a deep voice: "Is this the Han Zhao family or the Han Lin family?"
The two hurriedly said yes, and Wang Xian asked again: "Mr. Han Zhao, why are you suing Mr. Han Lin?"
"I am accusing my daughter-in-law of being unfilial." Mrs. Han Zhao was the old woman. She cried sadly after hearing this: "My life is miserable, my son died early, and no one can control this unfilial daughter-in-law..."
"Quiet!" Wang Xian slapped the awakening wood and said in a deep voice: "I asked you to speak, but I didn't ask you to cry!"
"Yes..." The old woman said sadly: "After my husband and my son died, my daughter-in-law and I lived together at home. She thought I was a drag on me when I was old. She said cold words to me all day long and only gave me money.
She eats chaffy vegetables, but she secretly eats white rice, and big fish and meat." Then she started crying again: "Please make the decision for me, please help me teach this evil daughter-in-law a lesson!"
The old woman's white hair was scattered, her back was bent, and she couldn't stop crying. She was very pitiful. But her daughter-in-law was also blushing, her hands and feet were shaking, and she was crying. She was very pitiful. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seemed to be competing in the court to see who could cry harder. Look,
All the slaves laughed secretly, and the court was in a mess...
"Quiet!" Wang Xian slapped him awake, but he couldn't laugh. There is a saying that it is difficult for an upright official to decide whether there are household matters. Who is right and who is wrong?
The judgment is that when it comes to filial piety, the country governs the world with filial piety. If I wrong my mother-in-law, I will inevitably provoke material criticism. But if I wrong my daughter-in-law, I am afraid that as soon as I take office, I will be labeled as a confused official by the people.
After thinking for a moment, Wang Xian calmly asked the old woman: "You said that your daughter-in-law abused you, what did you eat this morning? What did she eat?"
"Back to the old man, I ate brown rice with pickles, and she ate white rice and meat." The old woman said angrily.
"Really?" Wang Xian looked at Han Lin and saw that she was supposed to be a beauty, but she was obviously sallow, thin and malnourished.
Han Lin shook his head and said miserably: "It's true that a civilian woman feeds her mother-in-law brown rice with pickles, but that's because her family is poor and can't afford white rice or meat..."
"Then what did you eat?" Wang Xian asked.
"I only ate some wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger..." Han Lin said sadly.
"Nonsense, you clearly ate everything behind my back!" the old woman said angrily, "Now you're pretending to be pitiful."
"Daughter-in-law didn't lie to you..." Han Lin cried, "I'm just afraid that you will always feel sad when you see her, wuwu..."
"What do I have to be sad about?" the old woman muttered.
"Okay, okay, old man, please calm down." Wang Xianhe Yan Yuese said to the old woman: "I haven't eaten enough this morning, so I must be very angry. You go outside and wait for a while. I will ask someone to cook something for you. Once we are full, we
No matter how good you are, talk about it."
When the old woman saw that the eldest man was going to treat a guest to a meal, she felt proud and went down. Her daughter-in-law had no choice but to go down.
"Next." Wang Xian threw the file aside and picked up another one.
Zheng Sixing looked on with cold eyes. Seeing that Wang Xian had not broken his penis, he laughed in his heart and said, why is the first official in Jiangnan not so incompetent?
At this time, the second pair of defendants came in again. They were a businessman wearing a Liuhe hat and a Songjiang dark calico jacket with a sly smile on his face, and a countryman wearing a felt hat and short clothes. The two of them were lying on their stomachs.
Everyone in the hall shouted: "Please make the decision for the common people!"
Wang Xian asked the two of them to get up and let the countryman speak first. The countryman said: "Tell the lord, the villain went to the city to sell vegetables the day before yesterday and accidentally crushed a chicken in Boss Zheng's house. Boss Zheng grabbed it
I refused to let him go, and had to pay him all the money! When Xiaomin refused, he had me arrested and put in front of an official, and I was forced to squat in a wooden house for two days..."
"A little chicken, you need a lot of money?" Wang Xian looked at Boss Zheng and said: "Are you too dark?"
"Your Majesty, my chick is a selected high-quality laying hen. When it grows up, it will be able to lay eggs for at least three years." Boss Zheng said calmly: "Now he has killed my chicken.
, the villain said that he lost a thousand eggs and an old hen. Now the villain is not a chicken, as long as he pays for the eggs, he is already kind..."
Erhei and Shuaihui looked at each other after hearing this, wondering why it was such a weird case? They were obviously deliberately trying to create problems for the adults!
Wang Xian seemed to agree with Boss Zheng's statement and said: "If you put it this way, the amount of compensation is not excessive." Then he turned to the countryman and said: "You should compensate others for their losses and cannot deny it."
Seeing that Wang Xian favored the rich, the country man burst into tears and said, "It's not that the common people don't want to compensate, it's that they really can't afford it."
"Let's write an IOU first." Wang Xian said calmly, and ordered the scribe to write it for him on the spot.
At this time, even those Zaoli couldn't stand it any longer and thought to themselves: Why is Wang Dianshi so stupid? He is obviously an accomplice to blackmail.
The country people were honest, so they had no choice but to write the IOU with a sad face. Boss Zheng happily accepted it and was about to resign when Wang Xian stopped him and said, "Wait a minute."
"What are your orders, sir?" Boss Zheng had to stop.
"This account has only been settled half way. Why are you leaving?" Wang Xian looked at him with a half-smile and said, "We still have to calculate the second half... Do your chickens need feed?"
"Of course I have to eat. I feed him three times a day, all with millet." Boss Zheng couldn't help bragging.
"How much do you need to feed in a day?" Wang Xian asked again.
"You need to eat two taels a day, and you will need one more tael after laying eggs..." Boss Zheng felt something was wrong, and his voice became smaller and smaller.
"Very good, three taels a day, that's seventy-two kilograms a year." In the Ming Dynasty, one kilogram was equal to sixteen taels. Wang Xian calculated the account for him: "In three years, it's two hundred and sixteen kilograms. The price of millet in this county
how many?"
"Sir, we don't produce millet in the south, and it costs ten cents to buy a pound." Zheng Sixing said softly.
"Very good, the total is 2,160 Wen for feed money," Wang Xian said, looking at Boss Zheng and said, "Now that he has compensated you for a thousand eggs, you should also use the money you saved.
It is only fair and reasonable to give him the feed money."
"Ah..." Boss Zheng opened his mouth and said, "Don't I have to ask him for more than 1,100 yuan?"
"That's right." Wang Xian nodded.
"How can you settle accounts like this?" Boss Zheng said in dissatisfaction: "If I raise chickens like this, I won't have to pay for it."
"Yes, raising chickens is risky. The cost needs to be reduced. Don't use millet in the future." Wang Xian said calmly: "You are a rich man, you can't make an IOU, pay someone 1,100 yuan, and then get out."
Boss Zheng shouted that it was unfair, but Wang Xian slapped him hard and said: "You are so bold and cunning, you dare to oppress good people, corrupt people's morals, disobey discipline, and roar in court! Come here, give me twenty punishments with the cane, and come out again
yamen!"
"Here!" The servants looked at him and responded loudly, then pushed Boss Zheng down again.
After the countryman thanked him profusely, Wang Xian asked outside: "Have you eaten?"
"Eat!" Ling Xiao, who was disguised as a man in the yard, replied crisply.
"Did you vomit?" Wang Xian asked again.
"Spitted up." Lingxiao said with an unbearable smile.
"Go out and take a look!" Wang Xian led everyone to the yard, and saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law vomiting, and one of them vomited on the ground.
Lingxiao patted the backs of the two of them, comforting them and comforting them: "It's okay, it's okay, just spit it out and it will be fine."
"What did you add to the noodles?" Zheng Sixing and his friends were shocked.
"It's just an emetic." Wang Xian said calmly, "Let's see what they eat in the morning."
"..." Zheng Sixing and the others found that compared to Wang Dianshi, they were really full of integrity.
I went to check and saw that besides the noodles, my mother-in-law vomited out rice and pickles, while my daughter-in-law vomited out vegetables and radishes...
"Confused old woman." Wang Xian sneered and said to the ashamed-looking old woman: "I was born in the midst of blessings but don't know how blessed I am. Why don't I apologize to my daughter-in-law?!"
"Yes." The old woman turned to her daughter-in-law and muttered: "Good boy, my mother is blind and I don't dare to doubt you randomly. You are really a filial child..."
The daughter-in-law also cried and apologized: "My daughter-in-law is usually too cruel to her mother-in-law, so she makes her think wildly..." The mother-in-law held her head and cried, and the barrier disappeared.