Yan Tiexia generously admitted the fact of the fight: "A few days ago, the two families fought for water, and they didn't get together to fight, and after the incident, they each had deaths and injuries, and that's it." ”

When the county magistrate heard this, he knew that it was another confused account.

In the Middle Ages, the productive forces were backward, and the peasants did not have the ability to drill wells and repair water conservancy projects, so the villagers attached great importance to that bit of living water.

In this case, the fight for water has almost become the daily life of farmers. Under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the rural armed fights that occurred for this reason were almost every month and every day.

Generally speaking, the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable, and the government has no way to manage this kind of confusion, and it is up to the villagers to take care of themselves. A small number of people who make trouble with the government can only fight with the mud - the peasants in the two townships, who is right and who is wrong?

This kind of thing is also incomprehensible in the Hereafter.

During the drought fight, in order to fight for a little water in the reservoir, there were also incidents of villagers fighting and killing people. And what about the government? The government can only mediate, appease, and convene a coordination meeting of the village chief to discuss the amount of bereavement benefits to the families of the deceased. There are dead people on both sides, who is right and who is wrong? All the people in a township are accomplices, can they all be arrested?

Therefore, after hearing this, the county magistrate looked in the direction of Steward Xu with a relaxed expression.

Steward Xu naturally won't sit idly by, "Yu County Zun, a few days ago, these soldiers deliberately provoked trouble, first cut off the river, and then released poison and smoke to the villagers, and all the tenants in the village were poisoned by him. Now every household in Xujiazhuang has an injury number, women and children crying, the situation is unbearable, and the county respects the crime of abusing the villagers. ”

After the prosecution has finished its case, it is the turn of the defence.

Yan Tiexia called out to hit the sky, "My lord, as the saying goes, kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred." In the battle a few days ago, the smoke from the mulberry garden filled everywhere, and my brothers were also put down a lot. In addition, the men, women and children of Xuzhuang were all like crazy tigers that day, not afraid of death, holding hoes and shovels, and the brothers were not injured old and young, and a few brothers died when they saw it."

When Yan Tiexia said this, his eyes were full of tears, and he looked like he was going to the Fengbo Pavilion.

"Bastard, nonsense!" Steward Xu covered his fingers at this time, jumped to his feet and scolded, "You Qiu Ba designed to ambush the villagers, and if you didn't lose a single soldier, you knocked down all the villagers, and you have to make up for it, it's really not a good man!" ”

"Again!" Steward Xu scolded here and remembered one thing again, "Private port and don't farm, you say, what do you do when you break the river!?" ”

Yan Tiexia once again called out to hit the sky, "Now the price is expensive, brown rice costs one or two silver, and if you don't open some fields to store water and grow grain, you can't survive!" ”

With Yan Tiexia's shouting, the hall and the hall suddenly rolled their eyes - if the private port flowing with gold and silver water is too poor to afford rice, what are you coming to the county government for today?

However, it is not the same in court. The court pays attention to accusations, debates, and the presentation of evidence, and even if the outrageous arguments and claims are, they must be refuted by presenting evidence in accordance with the rules and regulations.

Later, Ehsan, a wealthy London man, forcibly took a girl in his mansion, and then during a court argument, he uttered the famous phrase "I didn't sexually assault her, I just accidentally slipped in".

What about the aftermath? After 30 minutes of lawyers' debate, discussion, and presentation of evidence, the court finally acquitted Ehsan.

In other words, the judge believed that that part of him did accidentally slip into it at that time.

There are tricks every year, and there is no difference between ancient and modern.

Go back to the 17th century Jiading County Ya. The current situation is that unless Steward Xu takes out the income account book of the private port to prove that these Qiu Ba can live well without farming, it is useless to rely on hearsay rumors to "frame" the opponent as a rich man.

In fact, this kind of thing of referring to the deer as a horse, Steward Xu did too much in the first half of his life. The same court, the same prosecution and defense, but it is Steward Xu who usually sells badly. His opponents were some yeoman farmers and small landlords who were about to be embezzled by the Xu family.

After changing to a strong opponent today, Steward Xu found extremely unaccustomed that once he left the support of the official, or in other words, the government only needed to remain neutral, then others could also reverse black and white in front of him, pointing to the deer as the horse Steward Xu At this moment, he finally felt the grief and helplessness of those yeoman farmers.

After complaining about the suffering of high prices and unable to buy grain and rice, Yan Tiexia righteously refuted Steward Xu's false accusation that "not a single soldier was damaged".

Here, Yan Tiexia openly said that the county government could come forward to organize "enthusiastic people from all walks of life" to set up an inspection group to go to the port warehouse to see those poor old beggars with broken tendons and fractures, who were his own soldiers.

There are no 100 of these people, but 1200 is definitely there, so it can be seen that the two sides fought that day, and everyone suffered losses, and there is no such thing as anyone taking advantage.

In addition, if it really can't be done, he can also organize all the "wounded" to come to the county government office on crutches to examine their injuries in order to set the record straight.

When the county heard this, he knew that some people were ready to deal with the aftermath.

In this way, the logical line of "villagers fighting with weapons - each has injuries - each goes home to lick his wounds" has been opened.

After discovering that Steward Xu could not come up with new and effective evidence, the county order that had been sitting on pins and needles for half a day quickly sounded the last shocking wood and closed the case of this farce: "Each restrains the subordinates and does not allow further incidents." ”

In this way, when he came to the big county order, he got up and prepared to leave, he had already lost a lot today, and he didn't want to stay in the hall for another second.

However, there is always no shortage of goods who do not know the current affairs. Just when everyone turned around and was about to break up and go home, Steward Xu, who was hit by the huge gap, still refused to give up, spilled in front of the court, and made a lot of noise, intending to drag the game into overtime.

A certain county order, which had already endured to the limit, finally broke out: "Come on, pull this dog down and beat it again for twenty-five boards!" ”

"Honorable Order!"

The matter of the housekeeper of the Xu Mansion being beaten by twenty-five boards in the county government spread at lightning speed at the level of "people with hearts" on the same day.

Although the officials were afraid of offending the Xu family and did not really fight, the fact of hitting the board itself meant that the Xu family lost and was slapped in the face in the first round of the confrontation, which made many "caring people" who learned the news fall into deep contemplation.

And Master Xu Jin, who was sitting in the study and listening to the report, also felt the trickiness of the opponent for the first time. Ignoring the housekeeper who was kneeling on the ground and appealing, Xu Jin put his hands behind his back, walked under the porch, and after pondering for a long time, he sighed lightly, "The enemy is light, it seems that we have to think about it in the long run." ”

In fact, today's episode was originally expected by Xu Jin.

The day before yesterday, when Xu Jin said that he would buy shares, it was tantamount to a showdown. From that moment on, Xu Jin seemed to be calm and light on the surface, but in fact, he and his allies were paying close attention to the movement of the port - involving such a large fortune, it was a high probability event to attract a strong backlash from the other party.

What Xu Jin didn't expect was that Xiong Dao actually organized people to burn the mulberry garden late at night when he received the news as soon as he received the news, and early the next morning, he planned the water cutting weapon fight.

The counterattack came so fiercely and fiercely, which Xu Jin didn't expect at all. Especially the poisonous smoke of the other party, which can wipe out hundreds of tenants without harming a single person, this latest information suddenly made the "land deed alliance" that was ready to go urgently stop.

And the counterattack also indirectly contributed to the alliance's temporary change of mind, from a thunderous blow to Xu Xu Tuzhi - sending people to the county government to report, using the county government to test the opponent, that is, the Xu family was caught off guard The cost of response and temptation is to completely offend the county order.

However, the price is still a bit heavier. Judging from the housekeeper's action of being beaten by the board, the Jiading County Ya, at least the Jiading Zhengtang himself, already realized that his family was used as cannon fodder, so he completely turned his face with the title deed alliance. In the future, if the Xu family wants to make any moves, Jiading County will definitely not come out again, maybe if the benefits of Xiong Dao are enough, it is possible for Jiading County to help secretly.

At the same time, the result of the temptation at a huge cost was also very bad, and another sister Lin Xiong Wencan fell from the sky.

So after Xu Jin stood on the corridor and pondered for a long time, he finally felt the difficulty of the opponent. He even got a premonition from the burning of the mulberry that night, Xiong Dao had been gathering momentum all along, just waiting for him to make a move.

"It's still not expected to be a light enemy." After saying this emotion, Xu Jin immediately returned to the study, summoned a group of people and others to start assigning tasks one by one.

The first one ordered someone to report to the rest of the alliance to see who could talk to Xiong Wencan, so he hurriedly sent someone to Fujian to negotiate and communicate as quickly as possible.

The second order was that the steward would bring grain, rice, and money to Zhuangzi to offer condolences, and announce to the tenants that the whole village was exempt from rent for the past year and this year.

The Xu family's burned manor will undoubtedly become a front-line battlefield for the two sides in the next stage. So when Xu Jin reacted, he hurriedly sent someone to appease. Otherwise, once those tenants who have no livelihood start to flee or quit their tenants, or worse, they are instigated to rebel, it will inevitably make the Xu family more passive.

Article 3 Xu Jin ordered people to go to the alliance to inform them that there will be a tea party in the house tomorrow, and invite all the masters to come and taste tea.

After feeling that his opponent had changed from a hard walnut to an iron ball full of thorns, Xu Jin was now eager to renegotiate with the rest of the alliance and make a strategic plan.

After the three emergency measures were issued, the Xu Mansion began emergency operations. And after receiving the notice from the Xu Mansion, the alliance also said that they would come to the house tomorrow - at this time, they didn't care about the number of appointments to come to the door, saying that tomorrow would be tomorrow.

However, at noon the next day, just as the guests were coming to the door, the messengers from all over the country brought several more bad news, and three new mulberry orchards had been burned last night on the gentry plots around the port. In addition, there are two fish ponds in which all the fish have surfaced this morning, and a fish farmer has hanged himself.

After hearing the news, several old men sitting in the flower hall were stunned on the spot.