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It is also because they feel that on the ground in Guangdong, they have a stake in them from the political envoys, the envoys to the inspectors, the envoys to the command, and the yamen of the prefectures and counties, and Shen Xi has nothing to do with them even if he is the governor of the three provinces.

Chen Huaijing is experienced in the world, and feels that Shen Xi's difficulties are not to worry about, and he can resolve the crisis in front of him.

Coming out of the yamen of the temporary governor of the post house, Shen Xi did not take the official sedan chair, but rode a horse.

In the end, the salt class lifting division is the oil and water yamen, even if it is just a deputy lifter, it is also by sedan chair. Shen Xi calculated slightly, if these people take the seventh-grade sedan chair, a year's sedan chair may not be enough to support the sedan chair man, thinking that when he was still a five-rank Hanlin official, he only took a carriage in the capital at most, and the small officials in these places actually have a sedan chair to sit on, which is really more popular than the dead.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Unlike local officials who go out on patrol, praise guides, and government officials beat gongs and drums to open the way, Shen Xi is more like a military general who leads troops to battle.

There are soldiers in front of them shouting five and six to let the people avoid, and there are also guards on the left and right and behind them to protect them, which looks majestic. It's not that Shen Xi has to play official power, but he has to give the people from the Yanjiao Promotion Division and the Political Envoy Department Yamen to get off the horse first, so that they know that I am not an ordinary civil official, I am the governor of the three provinces with military power, you better take it easy with me.

The warehouses that Shen Xi sent people to seize this time were basically outside Guangzhou.

Since the official salt has to be transported to various places, it will naturally not enter the city of Guangzhou, because the official salt needs to pay a city gate tax to enter the city, and it can be stored outside the city to pay less taxes, not to mention, it is far more convenient and faster to transport it by water than by land.

It is rare for the government to make such a big move, and even the people want to know what the new governor is going to do, and the officers and soldiers are followed by a large number of people.

Guangzhou City has a long history, the Tang Dynasty has formed the "threefold" pattern of Yacheng, Zicheng and Luocheng, the Southern Han Dynasty planned the capital Guangzhou as a palace city, an imperial city and a Guocheng, the Song Dynasty expanded the east city in the east of the sub-city, and five years later in order to protect the emerging western business district and foreign settlements, the west city was expanded, forming a three-city pattern. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Liangzu, the Marquis of Yongjia, built the city of Guangzhou, combined with the three cities of the Song and Yuan dynasties as one city, and then further expanded the urban area, renovated the old city, and expanded to the north and east, and added the outer city, forming a city wall with a circumference of about 20 miles.

During the Hongzhi period, the south of the Pearl River and the current Xiguan area is still a Ze country, the river is vast, and there is the taste of salt brine in the river water, so the common people call the Pearl River Zhuhai again. Out of the city gate, there was an ocean in front of them, and it didn't take long for the group to come to the area of the warehouse near the port, and at this time the officers and soldiers had surrounded all the three surrounding warehouses, and the shopkeeper and the men of the warehouse were taken down together.

Surrounded by officers and soldiers, Shen Xi jumped off the horse, and after Chen Huaijing and others got off the sedan chair, they also came forward one after another with questions.

“…… Lord Shen, more than 10,000 packages of salt were seized in the warehouse, and thousands of packages of salt have been loaded onto the ship, and they have also been seized by the Municipal Shipping Department! The exact number is being counted. ”

A hundred households who were in charge of seizing the warehouse came over to say.

Chen Huaijing's face is very ugly, this time not only supervised the action of the yamen, but even the Guangzhou City Bo Lifting Division was also "embarrassed" with Shen Xi, in the past, the Salt Lifting Division in order to facilitate the production of salt, had given a lot of benefits to the City Lifting Division, and the salt merchants also had a lot of filial piety every year.

Shen Xi sighed: "A bag of salt, almost fifty catties, ten thousand packs...... Wait a minute, Chen Tiju, the official's arithmetic is not very good, you do the math, how much is this 10,000 bags of salt? ”

At this time, the area around the warehouse was already surrounded by people, and Chen Huaijing knew that he couldn't hide if he wanted to, so he had to salute and say: "Lord Hui, 10,000 bags of salt is 2,500 small leads." ”

Shen Xi nodded and said: "It's still Chen Tiju who is more good at settling accounts, plus a few thousand packs, even if it is 20,000 packs of salt, it should be 5,000 small salts, compared to the 160,000 small salts of the Guangdong Salt Class Lifting Division this summer, it's still not much." Come on, bring the official in to check! ”

Shen Xi walked in front, Tang Yin followed closely as Shen Xi's staff, and before Chen Huaijing followed, he gave his fellow travelers a look, indicating that he must not admit that these salts came from the Salt Raising Division.

When the group arrived at the door of the warehouse, a soldier had already carried a few bags of salt out, and a hundred households said: "Lord Shen, these bags of salt were detained from the three warehouses and the salt boat, please check them!" ”

Shen Xi said: "If you don't stand alone, go and carry a few more bags of salt, and the official also wants to see what the situation of the private salt on the ground in Guangzhou is." ”

Chen Huaijing glanced at the people who were traveling with him.

Shen Xi came up and characterized these salts as "private salt", as if he was secretly helping the salt class to raise the division to cover up, but the salt was seized by Shen Xi, and Shen Xi obviously wouldn't be so kind to excuse them.

The soldiers went to carry dozens of bags of salt out, Shen Xi took out a dagger, walked directly to a bag of salt, stabbed a dagger, and white salt began to spill out of the breach.

There were soldiers with cloth bags below, and Shen Xi stabbed several salt bags one after another, and the salt that came out was all white crystals, and the particles were fine and uniform, without the roughness of private salt.

Shen Xi pinched the salt and tasted it in his mouth, nodded and said, "Yes, it's all good sea salt." Call the storekeeper here! ”

After a while, the three shopkeepers were escorted to Shen Xi, knelt down and kowtowed, "My lord, the villain is wronged." ”

Shen Xi raised his right foot, stepped directly on the salt bag, held the dagger in his hand, and frowned: "The official hasn't asked you yet, what are you shouting about wrongdoing?" Tell me, is the salt in your warehouse official or private? ”

The faces of the three store shopkeepers turned blue, and they would rather not answer, because whether it was official salt or private salt, they were all guilty, but they heard Chen Huaijing shout: "Okay, you profiteers, you dare to smuggle illegal salt, you deserve death!" ”

Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "Chen Tiju can't make a conclusion too early, listen to what the three shopkeepers say." You still don't recruit from the truth? ”

A storekeeper in his fifties immediately kowtowed and said: "Go back to my lord, what is in our warehouse is indeed private salt, please atone for your sins!" ”

Shen Xi put his hand to his ear, made a gesture of raising his ears, and asked: "What this shopkeeper said didn't listen too clearly, you don't say that there are three or four thousand bags of salt in your store, and you say, is it official salt or private salt?" ”

The lesser of two evils, the shopkeeper of the warehouse glanced at Chen Huaijing and said, "Go back to your lordship, it's private salt." ”

"Smack!"

Shen Xi clapped his hands and nodded, "This profiteer on the ground in Guangzhou is really bold and reckless, he dares to blatantly buy and sell illicit salt, and he will ...... it all at once Wait, let the official calculate, these three or four thousand bags of salt, there are almost a thousand small leads. The stove household carried a pound of salt out of the salt field and was sentenced to hanging. Chen Tiju, how should this private smuggling of smuggled salt be judged? ”

Chen Huaijing hesitated for a moment, and saluted respectfully: "Lord Hui, according to the "Da Ming Law", trafficking in illicit salt, one hundred rods, and three years in prison. ”

Shen Xi frowned and said, "The crime is so light? How can you convince the public...... Wait, can there be a provision in the "Da Ming Law" on the amount of illicit salt trafficked, and the amount of conviction should be based on the amount? ”

Chen Huaijing shook his head and said: "No, transporting a catty is no different from transporting a boat." ”

Shen Xi said with some regret: "It seems that Chen Tiju is more familiar with the "Da Ming Law", since this old shopkeeper admits that he is transporting illegal salt, then go over and beat a hundred sticks first, and be sentenced to three years in prison." ”

"Spare your life......"

The shopkeeper was already old and frail, and if he was beaten with a hundred sticks, he would only have half a life left if he didn't die.

But when Shen Xi gave an order, those soldiers didn't understand the mercy of their subordinates, so they directly dragged people away, went to the side, and began to beat them down with sticks without mercy. With each blow, the old shopkeeper snorted in pain, and after fifty blows, he lost even the strength to shout.

Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "The old and the old don't need to be killed at once." Keep half a life, go back and fight again. ”

"Order!"

The soldier dragged the half-dead old shopkeeper back, and everyone present was a little frightened when they saw the bloody flesh on the old shopkeeper's back and buttocks, and wondered what it would be like if these fifty sticks were hit on their backs and buttocks.

Shen Xi looked at the second shopkeeper again, this person was relatively young, only in his thirties, he was white and fat, and he was used to being pampered at a glance. Shen Xi asked with a smile: "What you store in the warehouse, isn't it also private salt?" ”

"Big ...... Back to my lord, is it...... It's private salt, and the villain just transports some salt to eat with food, and asks the adults to atone for their sins. The young shopkeeper was begging Shen Xi for mercy, but his eyes were looking at Chen Huaijing.

Shen Xi actually knew for a long time that this was Chen Huaijing's brother-in-law, and he was also the owner of the three warehouses in the port, and the other two shopkeepers just followed him to eat.

Chen Huaijing opened his mouth and said, "Lord Shen, how about you just let this person pay the silver to atone for his sins?" ”

Shen Xi frowned and asked, "Is he famous?" ”

Chen Huaijing didn't answer, and the young shopkeeper hurriedly said: "My lord, the villain is a member of the eleventh year of Hongzhi, and I ask you to forgive me......

In the Ming Dynasty, all criminals with meritorious names can spend money to redeem prison sentences and cane punishments, just like in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, after the Ministry of Rites and Rites tried the case, Tang Yin, Xu Jing and Cheng Minzheng all spent money to redeem their own prison sentences and cane punishments, which is a kind of preferential treatment of scholars by the imperial court, which belongs to the specific embodiment of "courtesy is not inferior to the courtesy, and the punishment is not to be a doctor".

If the judge is "reasonable", then he can atone for his sin, if the judge just doesn't agree, even if you are a jinshi, you should be beaten or beaten, and you should still be allocated.

As for the mood of the judge, it is usually determined by the amount of silver.

Shen Xi took back the foot that was stepping on the sack, a look of annoyance appeared on his face, his head turned to the side, and shouted: "Drag it out, cut it!" ”

In one sentence, not only did the young shopkeeper be taken aback, but even Chen Huaijing and the people from the Salt Class Lifting Division were also calmed, and the onlookers were also in an uproar.

Seeing that the soldiers were about to drag people away, Chen Huaijing hurriedly came to Shen Xi and said anxiously: "Lord Shen, you can't abuse your power!" ”

Shen Xi frowned and said, "This official has the responsibility of supervising the local salt class, so how can he abuse his power?" ”

Chen Huaijing said: "My lord, this trafficker of illicit salt is only a hundred rods and three years in prison, but you want to directly ask and behead, what is it that is not an abuse of power?" ”

There was silence in the huge venue, and the onlookers all looked at Shen Xi, wanting to hear what the young governor had to say.

The old shopkeeper just now was beaten with fifty sticks, and this young shopkeeper has a meritorious name but wants to be directly beheaded, which is obviously two standards for the same crime.

Shen Xi sneered: "Chen Tiju seems to be very familiar with the "Da Ming Law and Salt Law", so it should be clear that when the crime of trafficking in illicit salt is mentioned in the "Da Ming Law", although there is an article 'Anyone who commits the crime of smuggling salt will be punished with 100 rods and three years in prison', but it was also added later, 'If there is a weapon, the crime will be increased by one degree, and the person who resists arrest will be beheaded'." I'm not wrong, right? ”

Chen Huaijing's face was like earth, he obviously didn't expect that Shen Xi didn't ask him because he didn't know the "Da Ming Law", Shen Xi knew very well, he was just testing him.

"Yes." Chen Huaijing gritted his teeth and said.

Shen Xi said: "This official sent troops to seize the private salt, can this son have private weapons, has he ever resisted arrest?" ”

The hundred households who were responsible for leading the troops to seal the warehouse immediately replied confidently: "Lord Hui, I found a number of weapons in the warehouse, and the tools are all here." When the soldiers surrounded the warehouse, the thieves used to shout wildly, obstructing law enforcement, and once faced each other with blades! Please be careful! ”

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