In the litigation system of the Ming Dynasty, the final decision was completed in the form of a step-by-step lawsuit.

Logically speaking, if there is a dispute between the people, the first thing to do is to mediate with Lijia, and in the city, Fangjia will mediate, and in the nearby city, it will be mediated.

If mediation is not possible, it can be sued to the county government in the form of administrative litigation.

The Ming Dynasty did not have a two-instance final adjudication system, as long as the losing party felt that the lawsuit was unfair, it could "appeal" step by step, and according to reason, the lawsuit could reach the heavens and be decided by the emperor.

However, most of the civil lawsuits have been stopped at the time of mediation, and only a small number of people have gone to the yamen, unless they have been wronged as traitors, or their own family members have been harmed by others, and corrupt officials are rampant in the township, and the aggrieved people may not be relentless.

During the time of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shouliu, an ordinary person in Changshu County, and others, because they were oppressed by the local official Gu Ying, tied Gu Ying up angrily, and escorted Gu Ying to Nanjing for questioning with the "Great Message" on his head. In the end, Chen Shouliu and others were not only rewarded with silver money, but also exempted from three years of forced labor.

Although logically speaking, this case of property dispute should be reported from the county government, but the chamber of commerce itself has a lot of relations with the prefect's yamen, and even the prefect An Rusheng also hopes to make money and political achievements through the chamber of commerce.

In these years, there are people in the yamen who are easy to do, and An Rusheng will not offend Hui Niang even if he thinks about his purse, after all, Hui Niang often sends people to send money for dredging.

When Shen Xi told the detailed plan, Hui Niang was still a little worried: "Xiaolang, we are just a small people, and the prefect's yamen is high, so let's not provoke it." Besides, Yang's Pharmacy is the ancestral property of the Yang family, and even if we win the lawsuit in the end, we will still be poked in the backbone by the people when we turn back. ”

Shen Xi nodded, these days, many things are not solved by legal principles. Rather, it depends on human affection, and the rule of man is greater than the rule of law.

Just like this case, the "Da Ming Law" is indeed a reasonable contract for the protection of the people, but because it involves ancestral property. There will be many problems, and what Hui Niang is worried about is that, as those litigants said, not only will she lose the lawsuit in the end, but she will also be sentenced to cane.

But in fact, Shen Xi knew it. In this case, when the two parties signed a contract, the government will most likely negotiate through mediation, and finally order the Yang family to take out the silver and redeem the ancestral property.

"Aunt, you don't have to worry about losing the lawsuit at all, we are invincible in this lawsuit. If you take the way of the prefect's yamen, it will be more convenient, and the Yang family will get the prescription for the medicine. will use all kinds of means to put pressure on us, just to make you give in without a fight. If you insist, and resolutely inform the government yamen, the Yang family will be timid and will take the initiative to come over to negotiate with us. ”

Shen Xi wanted Hui Niang to show an attitude, originally I wanted to calm things down, but your Yang family is too pressing, I want to fight you to the end.

The Yang family is now unforgiving, thinking that with the support of public opinion, they can be lawless, and even want to get a prescription for the medicine and sit back and enjoy it.

As long as Hui Niang has a tough attitude. The Yang family must be panicked, the obvious matter, in terms of power, how can the Yang family be compared with Hui Niang, who is the president of the Chamber of Commerce?

And the Chamber of Commerce has a relationship in the prefect's yamen. As long as this lawsuit enters the prefect's yamen, the Yang family will definitely lose the lawsuit.

The next day, according to Shen Xi's proposal, Hui Niang went to find someone to write a pleading, and at the same time announced that she would go through the door of the prefect's yamen to make a counter-accusation.

If it is a lawsuit, it must be handled in the same yamen. But Hui Niang started another lawsuit, suing the Yang family for forgetting her righteousness, and after making money, she not only forcibly occupied the pharmaceutical factory, but also violated the contract and owed 160 taels of silver in profit dividends.

Originally, the outside world thought that Hui Niang would definitely suffer a dumb loss in this case and obediently reconcile with the Yang family, but who knew that Hui Niang did the opposite and actually made the case even bigger.

In these years, whoever has an arrogant attitude is the uncle, before public opinion overwhelmingly supported the Yang family, but after Hui Niang's announcement of the prefect's yamen against the Yang family, and then after a round of public opinion rebellion planned by Shen Xi, the Yang family turned from the righteous side of the competition for ancestral property to a villain who forgot his righteousness.

In just a few days, Yang's Pharmacy was temporarily closed under public opinion, because it was no longer patients and family members who went to Yang's Pharmacy every day to seek medical advice, but many deliberately went to make trouble, including the ruffians sent by Shen Xi and Song Xiaocheng.

In the past, the Chamber of Commerce had little power in Fucheng, and it was only swallowed when it was bullied, but now the gangs on both sides of the water and drought are under the jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce, and your little Yang family dares to fight against the Chamber of Commerce, and can talk to you about fists, why should I reason with you?

However, Shen Xi was also worried that Hui Niang was kind-hearted and did not agree to use these tricks, so Shen Xi could only secretly discuss with Song Xiaocheng and ask him to send people, and the people he found pretended to be indignant and went to support the "onlookers" of the Chamber of Commerce.

Now Song Xiaocheng, with the help of Shen Xi, has lived in the original Shen family's courtyard with Su Lian, he doesn't have to pay rent, he can live as long as he wants, and if he wants to have a son in the future, he can go to school to study for free. Shen Xi asked him to do things, he didn't say half a "no", and he did things without ambiguity.

As the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Hui Niang could have directly driven Yang's Pharmacy out of the Chamber of Commerce, but Hui Niang was very generous in this matter, I just didn't drive you away, see what face you have left.

Not surprisingly, the Yang family had no choice but to compromise under strong pressure.

Yang Ling and his wife came forward in person and went to the Chamber of Commerce to apologize to Hui Niang, saying that they would no longer mention the matter of buying the property. But Hui Niang knew that she could no longer continue to cooperate with the Yang family, and the Yang family had betrayed its treachery and violated the most basic principle of honesty and reciprocity among businessmen.

As a result, Hui Niang didn't make a penny, how much silver was bought at the beginning, and how much silver is now sold back, and since then Lu's Pharmacy and Yang's Pharmacy have nothing to do with each other. However, if Yang's Pharmacy sells finished medicines in the future, they can only study the prescriptions themselves, or buy medicines from pharmaceutical factories, but the price is the same as the purchase price of other pharmacies in the city, and there will be no discount.

Since the two sides reached a settlement, Yang's Pharmacy is still cheeky to stay in the Chamber of Commerce, after all, the price of medicinal materials imported by the Chamber of Commerce is nearly 20% cheaper than the price of normal channels, if you withdraw from the Chamber of Commerce, the cost will increase sharply, and Yang's Pharmacy can only wait to close down.

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The matter began on the thirteenth day of the first month, although the lawsuit was in trouble with the government, but in the end, the two sides had reconciled, and by the end of the first month, together with the issue of the shares of Yang's Pharmacy, it was also resolved.

Although it seems that Hui Niang lost money in this lawsuit, but in fact, the main revenue point of Yang's Pharmacy is still in the sale of medicines, and now Lu's Pharmacy's reputation in Fucheng is much higher than that of Yang's Pharmacy, and the two Pharmacy stopped cooperating, which greatly increased the profit of Lu's Pharmacy.

Many of the special drugs for the treatment of incurable diseases produced by the pharmaceutical factory are found by Shen Xi from the ancient prescriptions and the prescriptions of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are also selected by Xie Yuner from the prescriptions handed down by the Xie family, which have remarkable curative effects, and have now become the first choice of drugs for many patients, and are marketed in Fujian and the north and south of the river.

In the past, Yang's pharmacy sold finished medicines at cost price, which was tantamount to competing with pharmaceutical companies for profits, but now Yang's enters these finished medicines and sells them back, but pharmaceutical factories can make a steady profit.

In fact, after throwing away the burden of Yang's pharmacy, Hui Niang and Zhou's profits have increased.

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month, the crisis brought by Yang's pharmacy was successfully resolved, and Hui Niang was much more relaxed, and a hot pot was specially set up at home as a celebration banquet that day. Not only did the Zhou family bring Shen Xi and Lin Dai over, but even Xie Yun'er stayed, and the women and children of the three families got together for the first time after the New Year.

The "hot pot" that Shen Xi originally proposed to eat, after two years of improvement, whether it is in the pot stove, soup base, and ingredients, it has reached the standard of a real hot pot feast. Hui Niang is not the kind of stingy miser, she will never be too mean to herself in terms of food and clothing, and there are often fish and meat on the dinner table at home.

Just like this table of hot pot feast, the soup is a fresh and fragrant white soup made of fine crucian carp and mutton stick bones, and the ingredients are not only mutton and chicken that have been cooked and torn into pieces in advance, but also freshly cut pork, the pot is not boiled, and a few maids and little guys have been gnawing on chicken bones, eating with a mouth full of oil.

"Eat slowly, and no one will rob you."

Hui Niang couldn't help but smile when she saw Xiu'er gobbling up. 、

In other words, no one grabbed it, but after all, there was only one chicken, and there were a lot of people at a table, and there were only a few pieces of meat in each person's bowl. Xiu'er is responsible for doing strength work at home, she and Xiaoyu, a martial artist, and a Wen are all appreciated by Hui Niang, but the other three maids, because they can only help do scattered work, their status at home is average.

Xie Yun'er used chopsticks to clip a piece of mutton from the soup pot and said with a smile: "If you want to say that this hot pot tastes so good, even those dignitaries and nobles in the capital don't eat it like this, this method is really Xiaolang came up with?" ”

Hui Niang smiled: "No, our Xiaolang is so smart, every time I think of it, I am jealous of my sister's good fortune." ”

Zhou pouted: "This bastard boy doesn't learn well all day long, I don't know where he learned these fancy intestines." Han Wa'er...... What about you, eat more, you look at the food you eat on weekdays, you don't eat as much as Dai'er, it's strange to be taller, do you want to be shorter than Dai'er in the future? ”

Shen Xi sighed, he really wanted to explain to his mother the problem of the early and late development of adolescent men and women, but after thinking about it again, why did I say this, isn't it okay to talk back to the spicy old lady and block himself?

"Oh, got it." Shen Xi nibbled on the chicken and replied.

Hui Niang said suddenly: "Sister, I had an idea before, our hot pot has always been eaten at home, and no one else knows, why don't we open a wine shop and specialize in this?" ”

Zhou had doubts: "It's good, it's good, open a wine shop...... Can we handle it? ”

Hui Niang smiled: "We can't manage it, can't we ask someone to come back and take care of it?" It would be better if the father of the sister-in-law of the Xie family could come over and be the shopkeeper, so that the younger sister could get married. ”

Xie Yun'er waved her hand and said, "Why does the shopkeeper always want me to marry?" I'm doing pretty well now, I can't look down on those boys. However, the shopkeeper's wine shop operates hot pot, and I am in favor of it, and if I can, I also want to contribute a share of the money and become a shareholder or something. ”

"That's a good relationship, since my sister and the sister of the Xie family have no opinion, then I'll turn around and Zhang Luo. We can't bury Xiaolang's idea. ”

When Hui Niang said this, she glanced at Shen Xi, with a little charm in her expression. (To be continued.) )