"With so many cows, it seems that Brother Ma, your business is really profitable."

Luo Cheng looked at the newly built cowshed with so many cows, and smiled at Ma Lao Dao.

Liu Sanniang said, "Brother, you don't know how profitable it is to slaughter cattle, a cow can only be bought for three or four thousand yuan, and slaughtering and selling meat, but you can get two or three hundred catties of meat, do you know how much beef is sold for a catty now?" Fifty Wen! A cow can sell for 120,000 yuan! ”

"Not only that, the beef alone can be sold for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and there is also cowhide horn and cow tendon, which is also a good thing." Luo Cheng asked with a smile.

Ma Liansheng said, "The thing is a good thing, but this thing is strictly controlled by the government, so it is not easy to sell." Our brother is also worried that he can't find a buyer. ”

"I do know somebody, he's more well-connected. If you'd like to do it, Brother Ma, I can take him to see him someday. ”

When Ma Liansheng heard that there was still this way, he said happily at the moment, "Then thank you for this brother, if the matter is done, you will be indispensable for your benefits." ”

"It's easy to say, I really envy you, Brother Ma, you can find such a good deal, just selling meat is four or five times more profitable, even if you slaughter one head on this day, there will be no less than 20,000 yuan in income, which is more profitable than robbery."

"It sees, but where is there really so much money. You have to do it everywhere, otherwise the trading will be stable. Ma Liansheng also said a little proudly.

"I have a question, this official and private cattle and horses, they are all specially registered, this cattle has a cattle account, who has a cow, what coat color, and how old are they are registered. Brother Ma, where can you buy so many cattle? ”

Ma Liansheng laughed, "Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths, there is always a way." ”

Luo Cheng already understood that this guy's so-called way was just stealing. The Great Sui attached great importance to cattle farming, and the government set up a special cattle account to register the number of cattle farming. The cow has a calf to be registered, and the cow is sick and dies to be written off.

And even if the cow dies of old age, sickness, it must not be slaughtered privately, and it must be reported to the official to slaughter.

Therefore, it can be said that a cattle account is very tightly controlled. Occasionally slaughtering a cow privately and bribing the people in the yamen can also get rid of it, but if you say slaughter it every day, it will be difficult.

Seeing that Ma Liansheng refused to say more in this regard, Luo Cheng changed the topic and said that he wanted to go and see the cowhide horn and beef tendon stored at his house, saying that he would see the quantity and quality, and then he would tell his friend. As soon as Ma Liansheng heard about it, he immediately took Luo Cheng and them to a firewood house in the corner of the courtyard.

There are a lot of straw for feeding the cows, and when you open the door and walk in, you can smell a big fishy smell. When I got closer, there was a lot of cowhide, horns, tendons and other things.

These things have been processed simply, and a rough count shows that there are at least hundreds of cowhides.

This means that although the Ma brothers have not been doing this cattle slaughter business for a long time, they have already slaughtered hundreds of cattle.

This is really a big case, if nothing else, just these cowhides can decapitate these brothers.

Cowhide horn and tendon have always been the armament materials controlled by the imperial court, and they are important materials for making armor and bows, which are forbidden for ordinary people to have.

Not to mention trading privately.

The Ma brothers just did this cattle slaughter business, and the beef is easy to sell, but there is no way to sell this cowhide and the like, so they can only be roughly processed and piled up here for the time being.

"It's a lot, but it's not handled well, and the quality is a little poor."

"We don't understand it, we just deal with it casually."

"It's a pity, the quality is not enough, and the price is much worse." Luo Cheng also pretended to look pity.

"As long as you help us find a market, brother, we are willing to make the price cheaper."

confirmed the news they needed, Luo Cheng and the others didn't stay long, let Sanniang leave some deposits, and then a few people said goodbye and left.

I walked out of the village gate and walked out for a while.

Over there, a large group of soldiers is on standby.

"Fifth brother, have you found out?" Duvowe stepped forward and asked.

"Well, it's basically been found out, this Ma family brother is bold enough, they not only slaughtered cattle privately, but also stole cattle and slaughtered them, and stole a lot. His family had accumulated hundreds of cowhides, which was enough to prove that they had slaughtered hundreds of cows privately, and there were more than a dozen cows in his cowshed, which were all stolen. ”

"It's time to do it."

Du Fuwei suddenly pulled out his machete and said excitedly, "Damn, catch a big fish." ”

"Fifth brother, what I don't know is that this Ma family brother stole so many cattle, why didn't he hear a report?"

"It is estimated that it was stolen in a foreign country and county."

"Let's do it!"

Du Fuwei immediately waved his hand to his brothers, "Follow me!" ”

In the law of the great cause and the stable storehouse, the law clearly stipulates that the slaughter of cattle is divided into homicide, manslaughter, and theft, and the fundamental circumstances are different, and each has corresponding legal consequences.

If you kill an official, a private cow or a horse, you will be imprisoned for one and a half years, and you will have to compensate for economic losses.

If you kill your own cattle and horses, you will have a cow in vain.

It is the same as killing the cattle and horses of relatives.

But if it's just a manslaughter, don't sit and pay for the price reduction.

And if you steal official cattle and horses and kill them, you will be imprisoned for at least two and a half years. The reason is that horses and cattle are used by the military, so they are different from the rest of the animals.

Stealing and slaughtering a cow was punishable by two and a half years in prison plus compensation, which was already a very heavy punishment in the Sui Dynasty. You must know that after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the law was amended, and many corporal punishments were abolished and many punishments were commuted.

Take the prison sentence as an example, the minimum sentence is half a year, the maximum is three years, a total of five degrees.

The sentence of imprisonment is the deprivation of personal liberty, and at the same time forced labor, which is equivalent to a prisoner in a labor camp. The maximum convict of re-education through labor is only three years, which seems to be very light, but in ancient times, the conditions for imprisonment were poor, the food and clothing were not good, and the labor intensity was high, and the life would be lost after a long time. What's more, in fact, the ancients were not long in prison.

At every turn, the imperial court has to grant amnesty to the world, on average, once a year and a half, and the ordinary prison sentence is often less than two years, and the pardon is returned home before it expires.

However, there are also some crimes that are unforgivable, first of all, the heinous crimes such as rebellion, which cannot be pardoned.

In addition, there are several crimes that are not among the ten heinous, but they are also unforgivable.

This is murder and arson, robbery, slaughtering cattle to make money, and conspiring to make poison.

The slaughter of cattle and the minting of copper coins are as unforgivable as murder and arson, drug production and robbery. Even if the sentence is not heavy, you have to sit honestly for a few years if you are sentenced to a few years, and don't think about coming out early for a day.

Of course, such as the Ma brothers, not only stole and killed cultivated cattle, but also a particularly large number, and the circumstances were particularly bad. If the sentence is severe, it is completely enough to behead him, even if it is light, at least it is an exile, this exile is much more serious than a prison sentence, even if it is a thousand miles away, don't think about coming back.