The Song Dynasty Criminal Code stipulates three no-beatings: no beating for the elderly, no beating for women, and no beating for night. This means that the punishment is not to be carried out against the elderly, not to the women, not at night...... We all know that there were "all evils" in the Song Dynasty, but if the "three nos" are still implemented now, perhaps a lot of all evils will be reduced.

The plaintiff and defendant in this case are all old men, and they belong to the category that cannot be increased, so no matter how the case is decided, it is a headache. Because no one can beat it.

The fine, the two old men relied on the old man and resolutely refused to pay it - who would dare to punish them? Who can punish them? Respecting the old and loving the young is one of the Chinese traditions, which belongs to filial piety, who dares to risk the world's disapproval and embarrass the two old men?

Because of this situation, Qin Guan flashed, leaving this "cow gnawing seedling case" for Zhao Xing to deal with.

can make Zhao Xing sad to death!

The Song Dynasty was a patriarchal society, and there was a big clan behind each of the two old men, and due to the civil contradictions between the clans, such as grabbing water and feng shui, the two clans had already accumulated countless grudges. This time, Ning Laohan deliberately herded cattle into Xu Laohan's field, on the surface, the two old men were in a lawsuit, but behind it was a conflict between the two clans. These two old men went to court, and the two clans outside the court were seriously opposed, and they were waiting for the verdict to be noisy......

Zhao Xing asked in the hall: "Whose cow?" ”

Ning Laohan replied: "My cow! ”

Zhao Xing asked, "Who made the mistake?" ”

Ning Laohan replied: "The mistake made by the cow is not me!" ”

Zhao Xing simply: "Okay, kill the cow!" Ning Laohan jumped to his feet: "Faint official, can the Great Song Dynasty criminal law control the cow?" ”

Zhao Xing replied: "Ah, you also know that you can't control the cow - you must know." The criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty governs people. You are the owner of the cow! The management happens to be the wrong owner, the cow makes a mistake and can't be responsible, it's good, the master bears! Now the official verdict: sentence Ning Laohan to gnaw away the seedlings in Zhao Laohan's field, and then compensate Zhao Laohan for the value of the output of the acres of land that year. ”

"Dog officer!" Ning Laohan scolded: "My cow only gnawed a few seedlings on him, but he Xu Laothief asked me to compensate for the production of the entire field, you dog official actually helped him, there is no heavenly reason!" ”

Zhao Xing replied: "I'm a dog officer, I know this." Don't you have to shout so loudly? When the cattle enter the field, the responsibility lies with you, and the punishment is based on the principle of compensation for the damage. As long as you are optimistic about your own cattle, how can there be such a lawsuit? ”

There was a commotion outside the hall. The people shouted in unison: "Dog officer! ”

Zhao Xing was furious: "I can't cure the old man, and I can't cure a few of you young people - I don't know that our family is nicknamed Zhao Laohu, and people can't be provoked, come here, detain the troublemakers outside the hall, and treat them for the crime of roaring in the court and obstructing the official office...... What the. Not having this sin? Seize first! Is it guilty of gathering a crowd to make trouble? Resisting the detention of the government and arresting with weapons is guilty! Let's do it first! ”

Facao Maopeng was a little embarrassed. The criminal armed force in Hangzhou consisted of 15 foot archers and 45 bowers in three shifts...... There are 300 young people of the two races outside the hall. This is usually the case. Local officials like to calm things down, but Zhao Xing insisted on doing it, he was a little scared!

But he forgot that Su Shi was the top military and political leader in Hangzhou, and Zhao Xing had served as a judge for the Mizhou regiment. After Zhao Xing retired from Mizhou, there were still one hundred and eighty people who came to follow, in addition. Zhao Xingguang's family has three hundred. If you want to say who is the biggest bully in Hangzhou, Zhao Xing said that he is second. No one dares to say first.

Knowing that the Ningxu and Xu clans have to make some trivial things to embarrass the magistrate every year, and by the way, after causing the public security situation in Hangzhou to deteriorate, Zhao Xing hid his family in the yamen early......

When the voice calmed down, Zhao Xing continued to judge: "Ning Laohan, I won't let you suffer." That field has a total of ten acres, you eat all the seedlings of ten acres, the seedlings belong to you, and then you fully compensate Xu Laohan, how about it? ”

Ning Laohan was unsettled, Xu Laohan was very dissatisfied, jumped up and asked: "Dog official, his cattle ate my seedlings, and they should have compensated me for the land, but now you let him take away the seedlings, what should I do? ”

"I'm a dog official - it's rare for you to agree with Ning Laohan on this point, so this official won't care about you. Listen, the cow belongs to you, since Ning Laohan can't teach the cow, the cow will be trained by you for a year, and the cow will be different from now after a year, such as losing fat, or dying, or fat, or shedding, in short, if there is a little difference, you will compensate! ”

"God, this is a cow, it is clearly an ancestor...... My lord, I won't tell you", Xu Laohan slyly found the trap set by Zhao Xing: "This cow is a year old, and its teeth are different from this year, how can I make it exactly the same?" ”

"Don't tell me, that's not good, Ning Laohan doesn't want to!" Zhao Xing's face was so sad that his face was twisted together.

People are old and fine, and Ning Laohan is not stupid, so he immediately asked cautiously: "My lord, you just said that I should gnaw all the seedlings, but you sentenced my cattle to Xu Laohan, how do I gnaw it, you will not let my old man gnaw with his teeth!" ”

"Wonderful, that's exactly what this official meant! Didn't you say that the criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty can't control the cow, and the official can't punish the cow, so punish you! The cow will be raised by him for a year, you go and gnaw up the seedlings in the field, and you will come to the yamen tomorrow to hand over the order, and the three classes of yamen will look at the point, and no one else will be allowed to destroy the seedlings of Xu Laohan's house! ”

"Dog officer, how can you judge the case like this, the old man won't sue!" Ning Laohan was furious.

"You've decided?" Zhao Xingding asked.

"The old man won't sue!" Xu Laohan also scolded angrily.

"That's right", Zhao Xing slapped the table and shouted: "What's the matter, a few seedlings will also go to court, how much administrative resources are you wasted, go, get home for me, and solve this kind of thing by yourself in the future...... If you want to talk about river crabs, you know? ”

"Administrative ...... Words, river crabs, I don't understand! It's just that, my lord, the old man can't wait, the old man's son and nephew ......"

"Waiting", Zhao Xing waved his hand impatiently: "It's okay to gather a crowd to besiege the official mansion and cut off your head for the crime of treason." You don't tell me, this official is in a good mood today, and he will show the public in front of the flail until tonight. Go back and discipline well - look at your children, they have all slipped to the brink of rebellion, and if you don't teach them, it's a big crime for the Zhu clan! ”

Xu Laohan took the criminal, meaning the cow, and glared at Ning Laohan fiercely, and the two old men angrily rushed to the side to discuss the issue of mutual compensation. Outside the lobby, there were 300 strong men with blue noses and swollen faces, and Zhao Xing led the people in the yamen to deal with the case leisurely. There were 300 people at the door to show the public, and the people who came in were honest one by one, lest they provoke Zhao Xing......

Several cases have been dealt with, and it is still early. Fa Cao Mao Peng led people to execute the verdict, the guards were busy accepting the lawsuit, and Zhao Xing was idle and walked around the palace with a teacup. While moving his body, he observed the layout of the government office, and at the same time chatted with the officials about family life, Gao Yu followed by his side, and his demeanor was also very leisurely.

Gao Yu has taken some young people of the Cheng clan to learn to accept the lawsuit in the past few days, and he can be regarded as a lawyer. Hangzhou has been plagued by disasters one after another. He received red envelopes and confiscated much money, but the Cheng family followed Zhao Xing to run the sea trade, and a little strange thing leaked out of the seam in his hand. It's already a rarity. The children followed him. The thank-you gift he gave him a beautiful and stealing pleasure for several nights.

Gao Yu lived in Zhao Xing's castle, and his life was taken care of by these young people, and the thank you gifts sent by the Cheng clan were sent to the capital to be sold through Zhao Xing's loach stack, each of which was enough to pay for a year or two. This kind of life made Gao Yu very happy, so he spared no effort to teach those Cheng people, and even took it. He is a little disdainful of receiving red envelopes. thinks that he can't afford to lose that person with a small amount of money. So. Others rushed to take the case, and he leisurely stood by and watched.

But after all, Gao Yu was the person brought by Su Shi, and Zhao Xing was the first time to learn about criminal law, so all the local cases had to be summarized by him in the end. So, the elegant Gao Yu gradually began to have a reputation for being honest, and he gave all the red envelopes he received to his subordinates, so that he could win a good reputation among his subordinates, so he went all the way, and many people quietly nodded to him to say hello.

After turning around, Gao Yu saw Zhao Xing's idleness, so he chatted and gossiped: "Liren, I heard that you are transporting fruit trees and seeds to Changzhou, saying that you are planning to prepare for drought, do you think there will be a drought in Hangzhou next year?" ”

Zhao Xing looked at the sky, shook his head and said, "I don't know, no one can say for sure this weather, it's really rare to have been dry for two years in a row." ”

After breathing a sigh of relief, Zhao Xing continued: "I heard that there has also been a major drought in Europe, and from last year to this year, except for some lowlands, farmers have not harvested. Now the grain is the most expensive there, and the goods are not sold at a price. ”

Gao Yu vaguely knew something about Zhao Xing, and he asked sideways: "I heard that your concubine Chen has a fief in Jiaozhi, and the Nanyang piece is rich in products, and the rice is ripe three times a year, and no one will starve you if you are hungry." ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "It's hard to say!" I heard that there is also a severe drought in Tianzhu this year, and the water in the Ganges River is much shallower, and many wells have dried up. This Tianzhu is a granary of the world, Europe is dry, generally purchase Tianzhu grain, if Tianzhu is also not harvested, then the scarcity of food in the future, I am afraid it will be unbelievable. ”

Gao Yu was also a little worried when he heard this: "When will this famine be a head...... I heard that the imperial court is preparing to mint ten coins in the new coinage, but it has been discussed for a long time, and now that there are disasters and famines everywhere, I am afraid that the time is not right. ”

The reason why Gao Yu mentioned "being ten dollars" was because he knew that this was Zhao Xing's idea. Fan Yi had put forward this idea at the end of last year, but a year later, the imperial court rejected all other places except for the idea of minting gold coins.

Zhao Xing had already seen the gold medal gold collar last year, but because the decision of "being ten coins" could not be made, the imperial court could not decide on the exchange rate of the new currency, so he did not implement the gold medal gold collar.

However, since the beginning of this year, Zhao Xing's banking industry has achieved rapid development, Israelis are born bankers, Zhao Xing just put forward an idea, and then took advantage of his position to help them open a few points in Mizhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and Tokyo Bianliang City, these Israelis immediately like parasitic vines, relying on Zhao Xingdi's logistics industry, rapid development. Now they have opened banks in Cochin and Wa and Goryeo, and have become a multinational settlement institution.

No business is faster than printing money, just relying on money interest, Zhao Xing has made a lot of profits, which makes his net worth more and more rich, Gao Yu knows a little bit of the inside story, and now he heard that even Zhao Xing, a rich man who is unimaginably rich, has also begun to think about storing grain, he can't help but feel a chill down his spine, and can't help asking: "Leaving people, is the situation really serious?" I was still thinking just now that Hangzhou is fertile. It's a big loss to grow sweet potatoes on this land, and it's only cost-effective to grow rice, isn't it ......?"

Zhao Xing suddenly cut off Gao Yu's words and asked, "How about you collecting red envelopes recently?" ”

Gao Yu smiled calmly: "I don't care very much about those red envelopes, I gave them all the small money that the officials spared." ”

Gao Yu still wanted to continue the topic just now, but Zhao Xing jumped the topic again and said with emotion: "How much is enough?" The money given to them by the imperial court is not thin, charcoal salary. Saving money, rewarding money, money for clothes, money for carriages and horses, these money add up, it is enough to feed a family of twenty, why do you still want money? How much is enough? ”

Gao Yu smiled awkwardly. He couldn't answer.

At this time, the tradition and modern times are called "the unspoken rules of officialdom", a common man has studied hard for several years, and finally "got ahead" - that is, how to gain the respect of others when he becomes an official, and people who study hard think that the most respected thing is money. If others don't stuff him with money, he thinks it's disrespectful, so. No matter how good his salary is. It is still necessary to receive the "respect" of a few copper plates and a few copper plates from the people in filial piety.

These tributes are marked with various names, such as "charcoal respect", "festival respect", and "annual respect" - otherwise, it is not enough to reflect their hard work!

Zhao Xing jumped the topic again, and said: "Okay, if they want money, I'll let them get enough at a time - I didn't plan to do this originally, but now it seems that I have to do it." of the folks. How easy is it to collect the people's respect? Call all the officials. I have something to tell them. ”

When the officials heard that Zhao Xing was going to find them some money, they rushed over one after another. Originally, the officials in Hangzhou worked in three shifts, but at this moment they arrived very completely, and even the officials on the night shift arrived.

Looking at a team of officials who did not fall, Zhao Xing had to sigh, the temptation of money was really irresistible, in the Song Dynasty, under this kind of communication situation, those officials who were not on duty at home actually rushed to the scene in less than an hour, beyond the bad traffic restrictions.

"You have all heard, recently my Song Dynasty has popped up everywhere in the glass workshop, now, glass sales are very prosperous, I have a glass formula in my hand, so I will find a way for everyone.

As far as I know, there are two master craftsmen in the Mizhou regimental training, who can fiddle with the glass, and Lord Zhizhou (Su Shi) also served as the commander of the soldiers and horses on the West Road of Zhejiang and Hangzhou, so I used the official seal of Lord Zhizhou to transfer these two glassmakers from Mizhou to Hangzhou, and these two glassmakers were the masters to open the glass workshop belonging to my Hangzhou government.

I calculated that it would take about 10,000 yuan to start a medium-sized glass workshop, in addition to the space and manpower. For the site, I heard that Hangzhou's job fields are very rich, and each person has dozens of hectares, or even hundreds of hectares. Let's take out ten acres of land and build a workshop. Hangzhou is located in a port, and the materials used in glass can be shipped directly by sea, and goods can be sold everywhere through the Grand Canal.

Therefore, we invested 10,000 yuan, accounting for 50% of the share capital, and the Hangzhou regiment trained out the prison city camp, and used the sturdy prisoners in the Hangzhou prison as labor to build a glass factory, counting 20% of the shares, and the government government out of the official field, accounting for 10 shares. Two glass masters, each with a 10% share.

This glass workshop uses official fields and group training, and it has to be counted as the official property of the government. This matter is planned by me, and I am out of 5,000 yuan, which is considered to be 25% of the shares. The remaining 5,000 guan is counted as 25% of the shares, that is, 5,000 guan funds, which are subscribed by officials and officials at all levels of the county government. How much money each person pays, you will measure your financial resources, a copper plate is a lot, and a thousand yuan is not much. But how much money will be paid, and we will distribute dividends according to the share at that time......

In addition, all of you have handed over your duties and fields, and I plan to try to plant some new species, but there is a profit every year, and I will share the account with you three or seven, and I will three and you seven. I have to take out four points out of seven points and distribute them to the farmer, so the final account sharing method is three for you and me, a total of six points, and we and the farmer divide the account between four and six......"

Zhao Xing briefly explained the few new words he just said, and then left it for everyone to think about, and walked to the side with Gao Yu to drink tea and chat.

He originally thought that the huge amount of 5,000 guan would make people suspicious, but he didn't expect that the temptation of glass was really great, and after everyone heard that it was to make this kind of magical thing, after a while, the amount of 5,000 guan was fully subscribed, and after some disputes, the final result of the discussion was still handled in the traditional Chinese way - according to the rank, the distribution of shares.

Glass has always been a high-tech thing in China, even in modern times. Crystal clear leaded glass, also known as "artificial crystal", is not sold at the price of glass, but by the price of jewelry.

This year, more than a dozen glass workshops emerged in the Great Song Dynasty, and their products eventually followed the high-end route of jewelry, and did not become as popular as Zhao Xing expected. Therefore, after thinking about it, Zhao Xing felt that it was necessary to thin the windfall profits of glass, and it was gradually moving towards civilianization......

Not long ago. His donation of glassware was strongly opposed by Su Shi, which also made him realize this, so. He simply used the power of the government to make glass, a Paleolithic technology, completely cheap, so that it was affordable for the common people.

There was an official kiln in the Song Dynasty, but there was no official glass workshop, and what Zhao Xing wanted to do here was the first official glass workshop in the Great Song Dynasty, this time. He tied together all the incumbent officials in Hangzhou to form a close-knit interest group.

As for the specific share distribution of the glass workshop, Zhao Xing did not participate in the debate. Of course. He took 25% of the shares at once, and the rest of the officials didn't want him to get involved too much, just because he came up with the idea, the craftsmen were found by him, and the formula was in his hands, so it was not good for everyone to ask him to cut it.

After a heated discussion, the subordinate officials in various localities divided their shares according to their job ranks, because this enterprise has a strong government-run atmosphere. Therefore, Zhao Xing also logically stipulated: once the official retires. They must be forced to sell their shares and then make room for new officials......

This is actually a "clean government convention". Through this government-run welfare institution, he tied up all the local officials in Hangzhou, causing the cost of official corruption to skyrocket—once an official was removed from office for corruption, the shares that were forcibly sold were likely to be taken over by the next official at the floor price.

When the Hangzhou officials were discussing the dividend plan in full swing, Gao Yu pulled Zhao Xing out of the yamen quietly, he led Zhao Xing to a farmland, pointed to the crops everywhere, and continued his question just now: "Leave people, you say, will there be a big drought in Hangzhou next year?" Will this winter be the same as last year, with abnormal rain and snow? ”

There are several keel waterwheels parked at the edge of the field, and the waterwheel is being trampled by several farmers to irrigate the fields, and in the fields next to the water, several farmers are pushing the seedlings and horses to sow winter wheat into the fields.

Zhao Xing knew that the Japanese said that Su Shi was invented, and believed that the keel was the ancestor of the modern industrial conveyor belt, so Su Shi should also be the father of the modern conveyor belt - Chinese historians are very uncomfortable with the Japanese statement, they think that the keel waterwheel is not the place where Su Shi was invented, but because the credibility of Chinese experts is too low, so their words are directly ignored by the Japanese and ignored by the international community.

However, in that controversy, Zhao Xing privately believed that perhaps the Chinese experts lied 99.99 percent, but when it came to the keel waterwheel, it was likely that they were right...... But this is none of Zhao Xing's business, he is not interested in pursuing it. At that time, the Great Song Dynasty did believe that in order to help Hangzhou fight drought, Su Dongpo made epoch-making inventions of two agricultural technologies - "keel waterwheel" and "seedling horse".

Su Shi's invention of the seedling horse has not been handed down to future generations, and even the drawings have not been handed down, but in the Hangzhou County Chronicles and some books of the Song Dynasty, it is recorded that Su Shi saw the people of Hangzhou hunched over when planting seedlings, and was very tired.

Zhao Xing didn't know about the controversy about the seedling horse in later generations, and the seedling horse he saw now was a device similar to a chicken cart: a single wheel, which the farmer pushed in the seedling field, and the device like a chicken head in front of the chicken cart knocked in the mud, each time two sharp beaks were inserted into the mud, always leaving two seedlings on both sides of the wheel.

From a distance, Zhao Xing couldn't see the specific device of the chicken bus clearly, he stood there and muttered: "It should be a hub crawler device, each hub holds a seedling in it, pushes the seedling horse, and the hub sends the seedling to the chicken beak on both sides...... The effect is not too high, and the seedlings have to be divided in advance, and the speed is not even as good as that of hand transplanting, but with this thing, weak laborers such as women and children can also plant seedlings all day long - especially suitable for old men and women who can't bend down. ”

Gao Yu led Zhao Xing to the farmland, originally wanted Zhao Xing to see the rebroadcast situation in Hangzhou, but he didn't expect Zhao Xing to read words at the mechanical devices in the field, he quickly interrupted Zhao Xing's distraction: "Leave people, although the drought this year, but I Hangzhou did not starve to death many people, after the autumn harvest, ten times ten fields have been replanted, unless this winter is still as irregular rain and snow as last year, otherwise, we only need to harvest one season next spring, Hangzhou has no hunger police."

Besides, this year's harvest is not good, it is nothing, Su Gong has already been on the court, please reduce one-third of Hangzhou's grain, about 200,000 stones, plus the grain you transported, to dredge the West Lake with work relief, so that the people can easily survive this winter, no matter how much they harvest in next spring, it will always be enough for them to eat until the end of autumn? Isn't it normal to rain next year? ”