Chapter Twenty-Eight: Heaven and Water as the Boundary

Looking at Liu Gouwa's gloomy smile, Zhang Dagui's expression was worried, and he snorted: "My lord, these few unwarranted ...... are groundless."

"Treat the enemy like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, especially this kind of bully who mutilates his neighbors and occupies other people's property, and he must do whatever it takes to treat others in his own way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" Liu Gouwa said with a smile, and then gave Zhang Dagui a reassurance, and said: "The state festival makes Lord Hao aim to rectify the rule of officials in the state, and this official is appointed by Lord Hao to serve as the official of Songcheng, and has the right to deal with the old backlog of cases, unjust, false and wrongful cases, and submit them directly to the state government." The shopkeeper Zhang only has to file a joint complaint, and this official will definitely uphold justice for you. ”

The next day, Zhang Dagui contacted more than a dozen nearby villagers and neighbors to jointly sue the Li family, using improper means such as deception, inducement, gambling and other improper means to seize the land of the villagers. Because Zhang sued Li for bribing county officials, the county ordered Zhou Fuan to be suspected of taking major bribes, and the state government ordered Liu Gouwa to know the supervision and make a jury trial to show justice. Of course, this is the result of Liu Gouwa's operation in the state capital, and Hao Dongqing is also happy to see it, and he is gracious to push the boat along the river.

Zhou Fuan and the Li family have been entrenched in Songcheng for many years, they are not right, they are covered with, and the people's grievances are great, and now Liu Gouwa stands up to ask for the people's life, adding fuel to the fire, and all kinds of dissatisfaction that has been dormant suddenly boiled, and the farmers and merchants who sued the Li family and other families together with Zhang Dagui gradually increased, and a long queue formed in front of the yamen.

At the beginning, Zhou Fuan also played the official authority of the county order, intending to intimidate these people who complained, but Liu Gouwa had the sword of the state festival envoy on his head, and after the next sneering stop, Zhou Fuan had to sit back in his seat angrily, retry the case, glared at Zhang Dagui, and asked: "Zhang Dagui, do you question the official's judgment that the Zhang family and the Li family are unfair in fighting for land, is there any evidence?" ”

Liu Gouwa picked up the tea cup in front of her, blew lightly, and said tepidly to Zhou Fuan: "Lord Zhou, please pay attention to your attitude and control your emotions, you are now representing the government, presiding over justice, and impartiality is our criterion for officials." Since she wanted to tear her face, Liu Gouwa lost no time in giving Zhou Fu'an eye medicine.

Zhou Fuan snorted and said, "I don't need Lord Liu to remind me, the official naturally knows, but he is just annoyed that he framed the official for accepting bribes for no reason and tarnished the official's innocence." ”

"This official is not the same, he was framed by someone who jointly wrote a letter, the clear person is self-purifying, and justice is at ease in the hearts of the people, why should Lord Zhou be angry." Liu Gouwa said with a smile when she heard this.

Zhang Dagui saw that Liu Gouwa intended to maintain it, and couldn't help but be emboldened, and reported loudly: "My lord, the mountainous land that the Li family forcibly occupied was originally the land of our Zhang family's ancestors, and the ancestral property on the genealogy also marked the size of the address, and there are still the handprints of the villagers on the old account book, but the last time the adults rejected these evidences on the grounds that they were old and could not be traced and verified, and the land was awarded to the Li family with Tianshui as the boundary, which is really unconvincing." "Heaven and water are bounded by rain, and the natural flow of water divides the mountain or land into two halves, and the mountain or land that is close to it belongs to which side.

"Uncle I asked you, your Zhang family said that the mountain land in Xishan was demarcated by your genealogy, did you explain where that land is in Xishan, whether it is on the mountain or under the mountain, or the back of the mountain?" A high-spirited young man from the Li family who came to respond to the lawsuit asked Zhang Dagui loudly, Li Zong, the patriarch of the Li family, was in his old age, standing tremblingly among the Li clansmen, looking at his grandson and questioning Zhang Dagui, he couldn't help but stroke his beard and nod slightly.

"Our Zhang family is in Dongcheng, naturally all the clan land is in the east, except for the land at the foot of the mountain, the other land in the east of Xishan is mostly stone land that cannot be cultivated, what proof is needed." Zhang Dagui said confidently.

"That maybe, your Zhang family is farming in the stone field, and the harvest is not good, so the land is wasted, but we accuse the Li family of occupying your Zhang family's good land." The young man of the Li family once again came out of the family crowd and argued.

"Why is it a gravel field? Our Zhang family rented out the land tenants a few years ago, and the harvest was not bad, and I still have the account book of rent collection as evidence, all according to the fingerprints. Zhang Dagui was angrily questioned by the young man of the Li family, took out the old account book, raised the account book, and said angrily.

"Is it the old toothless ledger again, who knows which dynasty and which generation and where the rent is recorded in it?" The young man of the Li family looked at the account book in Zhang Dagui's hand and said with a disdainful smile.

"You, what nonsense are you talking about......" Zhang Dagui was red-faced and red-eared by the young man of the Li family, and he didn't choose what to say, standing in front of the yatang with the account book in his hand, in a dilemma.

Zhou Fuan sat on the official seat, looked at the angry and excited Zhang Dagui and sneered slightly, neither stopping the dispute between the Zhang and Li families, nor asking for the presentation of evidence. Liu Gouwa laughed in her heart, and a clear-eyed person knew at a glance that the young man of the Li family was arguing with reason, making up nonsense, and Zhou Fuan did not stop correcting it, obviously biased towards the Li family, and couldn't help but say: "Zhang Dagui, you don't need to be excited, you don't need to be reasonable, you can only understand after arguing, whether it is evidence or not, you only know after reading it, your account book is presented, let the official take a look." ”

"Yes, sir." When Zhang Dagui heard this, he immediately understood that the other party intended to provoke him, so that he could make a mess and lose his mind, and he couldn't help but be grateful to Liu Gouwa, and hurriedly lowered the anger in his heart and presented the account book in his hand to Liu Gouwa.

Liu Gouwa took the account book and flipped through it at will, the account book was nothing more than a record of how many acres of mountain farmland the Zhang family leased at such and such time, how much rent was handed over, and then according to the handprint, there was nothing surprising. After Liu Gouwa turned over the account book, closed the account book, looked at Zhou Fuan and said: "Although the account book does not indicate the land address, it is not difficult to find out, just find the tenant who leased this mountain land at that time to prove who belongs to this place." ”

"The Li family is not convinced, even if the Zhang family has cultivated in that mountainous land, but it has been abandoned for many years and has become a borderless land, our Li family has made a land deed with the government, and it has been cultivated in the wasteland, so it cannot be proved that the land still belongs to the Zhang family." The young man of the Li family came out of the family and said dissatisfiedly that the Li family could not quibble to overthrow the Zhang family's ownership of this land, so they had to retreat and dispute over the land deed.

Zhou Fuan, the county magistrate, also said when he heard this: "The imperial court issued an order to persuade farmers to open up wasteland and reclaim wasteland, reward farming, and establish a new contract by the government, doesn't Lord Liu know?" The two of them have their own opinions, each with its own reason, and the official has no choice but to judge Tianshui as the boundary according to the case. ”

"Lord Zhou, the famineland in the agricultural persuasion decree issued by the imperial court refers to the uncultivated terra nullius, and the new deed also refers to the title deed of the unclaimed land without conflict.

"Nonsense." Zhou Fuan's face turned pale, and he said angrily.

"Lord Zhou disregards the facts and does his best to defend the Li family, is it true that Lord Zhou was bribed by the Li family, or is Lord Zhou nepotistic in judgment?" Liu Gouwa looked at Zhou Fuan and said with a cold smile.

Zhou Fuan was so angry by Liu Gouwa's cold words that he smoked, and everyone saw it, but he had to give the land to the Zhang family. The Zhang family's victory in the lawsuit encouraged the landless farmers, and they sued the Li family for how to embezzle their land.

Although Liu Gouwa temporarily added a few unwarranted articles, due to insufficient evidence, it was not judged to be a crime, but through the fact that the Li family skillfully seized the land of various townships and neighbors, true or false, people couldn't help but believe a little in their hearts, looking at the Li family walking in the streets and alleys, they couldn't help but cast suspicious eyes, making the Li family like rats crossing the street, and they shrank when they went out.

After Liu Gouwa made the Li family who led the book to impeach him disgraced, he did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, but took Qian Feng, Wu Qi and others to visit the city one by one to impeach their rich and noble families, declaring that he was not guilty of their past, which attracted their praise. The rich families and nobles can base themselves in Song City, and they are naturally well-informed in the city, and their positions are wavering, knowing that Liu Gouwa is the minions of Hao Dongqing, the envoy of the festival, and they have made the Li family disgraced in the state government, like a rat crossing the street, and they can't stop worrying, even the county commander Zhou Fuan is helpless, and can't help but say that he has to give in under the obscenity of the Li family, and the deputy joint staff impeached Liu Gouwa, and said that he would withdraw the joint letter.

Liu Gouwa never thought that he was a good man and a woman, when he came out of the rich family, he and Qian Feng Wu Qi and other henchmen plotted a conspiracy of various crimes against Zhou Fuan and Xie Da, the head of Luozhi County, everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, one is prosperous, one is lost, Qian Feng Wu Qi and others are also offering advice and advice, providing the unsightly clues of Zhou Fuan and Xie Da that they knew before.

Before Liu Gouwa returned to Yamen, he met Zhang San, who was looking for him everywhere in the city, and Zhang San brought the news that the Little Song City Liquor Factory had moved to the state city. Liu Gouwa knew that the owner of Li Fang was obsessed with the wine shop in Xiao Song City, and he easily refused to give up, and last time he asked Li Da Niu to go to Zhou City to find him to solve the problem of tax increase, and now he moved the wine shop to Zhou City, it must be something happened in Xiao Song City that made it difficult for the wine shop to continue.

Liu Gouwa instructed Qian Feng, Wu Qi and others to go back to the county government first and continue to secretly collect evidence of Zhou Fu'an's crimes, while he and Zhang San returned to the wine shop in the state city to meet the owner of the Li Fang.

When Liu Gouwa returned to the winery, the owner of the winery sat in the courtyard of the winery with a tired face and drank tea, and the various things on the ox cart had not yet been unloaded. When Fang Master Li saw Liu Gouwa, he couldn't help but sigh, as if the whole person had been drained of energy and aged a lot. Liu Gouwa couldn't help but ask with concern, "Uncle Li, what's wrong?" If there's anything, let's solve it together. ”

"Alas" Li Fang Owner sighed again, and then said: "Xiao Song City is simply a hell on earth, the commercial tax is ridiculously high, the food is pitiful, everything is under military control, there are bandits outside, you can't get in, you can't get out." ”

Liu Gouwa heard that there were bandits outside Xiao Song City, and couldn't help asking, "Then how did Uncle Li get out of Xiao Song City?" ”