Zhang Weixian looked at his grandfather embarrassedly, it was nothing to be scolded, since he was a child, he has long been used to being scolded. It's just that he didn't expect his grandfather to give such an idea, and he was a little hesitant to tell Song Qian.

"Okay, you just tell the girls of the Song family as I say, and it's up to them whether they listen or not." Zhang Rong waved his hand and said.

"The child got it!" Zhang Weixian agreed, nodded and said.

Zhang Rong nodded and said, "Okay, you go!" A bunch of careless stuff! After saying this, Zhang Rong stood up and left, looking excited.

When the sun rose, many people gathered at the gate of the Cangzhou Yamen, and everyone came to see the trial.

The people of Dongchang and Jinyiwei are also there, and today they are the ones who serve as officials. On the left and right sides of the lobby, there are chairs and tables, which are auditoriums. As time passed, the entrance of the county office became more and more lively.

When the sun had risen completely, the group walked into the lobby from behind the yamen.

Headed by Sun Piyang, the left deputy of the Imperial Palace, behind Sun Piyang are Wang Yongji and Cao Yikui, and behind are Wang Zhong and Xing Shangzhi. After the five people entered, Sun Piyang sat on the interrogation bench, and the other four people sat on the jury seat.

Yao Renji, the governor of Cangzhou, had been waiting here for a long time, sitting in the back row with other Cangzhou officials.

"Ascension!"

Sun Piyang did not hesitate, and directly patted the shocked wood and said loudly.

The brocade guards on both sides slammed the wind and fire sticks in their hands vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Mighty!" ”

The shout fell, and Sun Piyang opened his mouth and said, "Take the human trafficker Zhao Cheng!" ”

"Bring someone to commit Zhao Cheng!"

After the shouting, a man in his forties was brought up, knelt down and kowtowed to Sun Piyang, and then knelt quietly to the side.

"Human trafficker Zhao Cheng, where are the people? What do you do for a living? Sun Piyang didn't look up at Zhao Cheng either, he was flipping through it with a stack of papers in his hand, as if he was looking at something important. The entire hall was unusually quiet, and everyone was waiting for Zhao Cheng to speak.

"Go back to the big master, the small Zhao Cheng, the Cangzhou people, the small one is the cloth shop." Zhao Cheng hurriedly spoke.

Sun Piyang nodded: "Zhao Cheng, since you are a cloth shop, why were you arrested?" ”

"Back to the adults, the little ones were arrested because of buying and selling illicit salt." Zhao Cheng hurriedly spoke.

Sun Piyang raised his head and glanced at Zhao Cheng, and then said, "Then tell me how you bought and sold illicit salt." When I arrested you yesterday, I searched 500 catties of salt in the cellar in the backyard of your shop. ”

"Back to adults, the small business of private salt is also forced to be helpless!" Zhao Cheng said with a crying voice.

"The small one was originally an open cloth shop, and once a batch of variegated cloth was put on, and it was lost fifteen hundred silver, and the small one really couldn't be turned, so I pondered looking for someone to borrow some silver." Zhao Cheng knelt there and said, "At this time, Zhou Lin, the steward of the Zhou family, found the villain. ”

"He said that he was willing to lend money to the villain, and the interest was only three points, and the small one thought that the interest was not high, so he borrowed money."

"When the little one put on the cloth and was ready to return to its original capital, the warehouse was on fire, and all the goods of a thousand taels of silver were burned down. At this time, Zhou Lin, the steward of the Zhou family, came and urged him to lend the villain eight hundred taels of silver. ”

"How can the villain have the money to pay back!" Zhao Cheng cried when he said this: "But the Zhou family said that it is natural to repay the debt, if they don't pay back, they will take away the villain's shop, and if it is not enough, they will take away the villain's house and land." ”

Zhao Cheng said this, crying and saying, "The villain can't help it!" Without shops, houses and land, what will our family eat! ”

"Zhou Lin, the steward of the Zhou family, told Xiao that he had a profitable business, which was to sell salt in the Zhou family." Zhao Cheng said with a wry smile: "The little one knows that the Zhou family is a salt merchant, and selling salt is also a profitable business, and he still thinks that this is the kindness of the Zhou family." ”

"But after buying and selling a few times, the villain knows that these are not official salt at all, but private salt, adults, villains are also forced to be helpless!"

Sun Piyang nodded and said, "Sign, draw!" After the signing and painting were completed, Sun Piyang said directly: "Lead someone to commit Li San!" ”

As a personal trafficker was brought up, sixteen people confessed to their crimes, and the sixteen confessed a total of four people from the Zhou family, including Zhou Cang, the warehouse manager, Zhou Lin, the outer court manager, and Zhou Quan, the Zhou family's account man, and the last one was Zhou Lian, the Zhou family's nursing home.

"According to the "Great Ming Law", whoever sells illicit salt will be punished with a hundred rods and three years. This official Nian was mostly coerced by the Zhou family, so he convicted you of the crime of buying and selling illegal salt, and frustrated the salt law, so you can be convinced? ”

"Go back to my lord, I'll take it seriously!"

Sun Piyang nodded and said: "According to the provisions of the "Da Ming Law": 'Anyone who is frustrated with the salt law, the buyer and the seller, will have eighty rods each, and the tooth guarantee will be reduced by one grade, and the price of salt will be merged into the official. ', you are all eighty. ”

"All the profits from the sale of illicit salt will be confiscated, and another fine of 500 taels of silver, can you have any objections?"

"Back to my lord, no!" Sixteen people hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, it's really a big master!" ”

Sun Piyang was shocked, and said loudly: "This official doesn't need to be praised, this official only hopes that you, remember today's events, don't be a traitor again, if you commit it again, whether it is this official or the Ming law, I will definitely not spare you." ”

"Yes, my lord, we will remember!" Sixteen people hurriedly kowtowed.

Sun Piyang said loudly to the people standing outside: "Does anyone have doubts? ”

Now no one spoke, sixteen people confessed, and everyone copied salt from their homes, thousands of catties more, hundreds of catties less, how can you question it? Even if it's questioning, you can't question it!

Yao Renji's face was like earth, his body trembled violently, and he was in a cold sweat.

He never thought that Sun Piyang was arresting the Zhou family's subordinates, and they were all full of human and material evidence, Yao Renji really wanted to ask Sun Piyang, how did you catch it so accurately? I don't know, so many people, could it be that there are traitors in the Zhou family?

Sun Piyang didn't care how Yao Renji didn't think about it, he held his breath yesterday, and today it's finally time to get angry.

"Yao Zhizhou, I don't know if you have doubts about the official's punishment?" Sun Piyang sat in the public court, looked at Yao Renji, and said in a lengthened official voice: "If Yao Zhizhou feels that the official's punishment is unfair, he might as well say it." ”

Wang Zhong and Xing Shangzhi looked at each other and smiled, and both said that civil officials should be careful and hold grudges, and this is indeed the case today.

"Back to Lord Sun, there is no doubt about the lower officials!" Yao Renji hurriedly stood up and said, this is already the lightest punishment, if you change the sentence to a hundred rods and three years in prison, then you must not be scolded to death.