The scholars looked down on the merchants, and so did the imperial court, so the imperial court levied very little taxes on the peasants, but very heavy taxes on the merchants. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The situation did not improve until the time of the Song Dynasty.

Although the Song dynasty was weak, it was the richest dynasty in all of China, and it had nothing to do with encouraging business.

At present, Li Shimin does not object to some people doing business, but the general policy guidelines still have the intention of suppressing businessmen.

The imperial court is like this, and Di Zhixun, who is a scholar and an official, naturally looks down on businessmen even more.

And because of this, Tang Zhou said these words to Di Zhixun, but Di Zhixun didn't think so, and quickly diverted the topic and took Tang Zhou and them to play elsewhere.

The group had a lot of fun, and they didn't go back to Yongzhou City until it was getting late.

Entering Yongzhou City, the officials sent finally had news.

"My lord, after our investigation, we found that a person named Sun Yu had a very bad relationship with Chen San, it is said that this Chen San is not a good stubble, and often scatters his cattle, so that his cattle eat Sun Yu's crops, so the two of them have a lot of trouble."

Hearing this, Di Zhixun's face was a little unsightly, because the words of the official had clearly pointed out that this Sun Yu was suspicious, and judging from the conflict between the two of them, Sun Yu was very likely to cut off the tongue of Chen San's cow because the cattle of the Chen San family ate their crops.

But he clearly believed that Liu Da was the one who cut the cow's tongue.

He glanced at Tang Zhou and said, "Little Marquis, what do you think should be done in this situation now?" ”

Tang Zhou said: "Just send someone to arrest that Sun Yu and ask him." ”

"What if he doesn't admit it?"

"I have my own way to get him to admit it, you just go and arrest it."

Di Zhixun hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded, and then ordered someone to arrest Sun Yu.

Sun Yu is thin and weak, giving people a very coarse feeling, he is the kind of person who is easy to be bullied, he went up to the lobby, and knelt down with a plop, but he didn't speak after he knelt down, just looked at Di Zhixon with a pair of very timid eyes.

Seeing that Sun Yu was such a person, Di Zhixun didn't believe that he would be the one who cut off the cow's tongue, and said, "I heard that you had a holiday with that Chen Shan?" ”

Sun Yu nodded and didn't explain much.

Di Zhixun frowned slightly, and then asked, "What are you celebrating the festival?" ”

Sun Yu was asked, so he continued to answer: "Then Chen Shan put his cattle in my family's field and ruined my crops a lot, I reasoned with him, but he did it with me, and he bullied me. ”

"So you cut off the tongue of his cow?"

Sun Yu showed a cowardly look again and said, "No." ”

Di Zhixun glanced at Tang Zhou, Tang Zhou waved his hand, and said, "Come on, since this Sun Yu refuses to tell the truth, let's play the twenty boards first." ”

As soon as he heard that Tang Zhou was going to be tortured, Di Zhixun was stunned, and said: "Little Hou Ye, this is a little inappropriate, using torture to extract confessions is unconvincing, didn't you like torture before?" ”

Tang Zhou shrugged: "I have a choice in using torture, and I don't mind using torture like Sun Yu." ”

After all, Tang Zhou wanted the officials to do it, so Sun Yu saw that these officials really wanted to do it, and immediately panicked, if he was beaten because of this, it would be really not cost-effective.

So, just as the official came to do it, he suddenly shouted: "Spare your life, spare your life, I will say everything, say everything." ”

Di Zhixun looked at Sun Yu, with a trace of anger in his eyes, you didn't say it just now, but now you are going to torture you, but you open your mouth, such a person is really too treacherous.

"Say, what the hell is going on?"

"Back to adults, that Chen Shan bullied me as an honest man, often let his cattle come to my field to eat crops, I was angry and reasoned with him, but he was still unreasonable, and even started to do something with me, I saw him like this, and I was resentful, so I found an opportunity to cut off the tongue of his cow."

"But what proof is there for what you say?"

"The cow's tongue is still in my house, and the adults will send someone to find it."

Di Zhixun waved his hand to ask the official to find it, and after a while, the official rushed back, and really found the boiled beef tongue in Sun Yu's house, half of the beef tongue was eaten, and half of it was not eaten, thinking that Sun Yu was going to keep it for next time.

The beef tongue is very large and delicious, and since it is cut, there is no reason to throw it away.

Now that everyone has obtained the stolen goods, Sun Yu has admitted his crime again, then the cow tongue case can be regarded as broken, so Di Zhixun began to pronounce the verdict, Liu Da was acquitted, Sun Yu cut Chen Shan's cow tongue, it is really guilty, but Chen Shan connived at his own cattle to eat other people's crops, it is also inappropriate, the two of them each beat the five major teams, and the Guanfu Ya was imprisoned for five days.

Di Zhixon is not good at handling cases, but he is very experienced in dealing with this aspect, and no one is dissatisfied with his trial like this.

After the cow tongue case was solved, Di Zhixun said: "It's still the little marquis who is powerful, but how does the little marquis know that the person who cut the cow tongue must be Sun Yu, and he will tell everything if he scares him with torture?" ”

Tang Zhou said: "At the beginning, Master Ben didn't know that the person who cut the cow's tongue must be Sun Yu, but I knew that as long as he was tortured, it would be clear whether he was the one who cut the cow's tongue." Cutting the tongue of a cow is not a particularly big deal, but it is possible to cripple a person by beating 20 boards, is it a serious matter of being beaten and disabled, or is it a few days of imprisonment for admitting the crime? ”

As soon as Tang Zhou said this, Di Zhixun said again and again that if there were two punishments to choose, smart people would like to choose the lighter, so although Sun Yu looked weak and incompetent, he was not a fool, he naturally didn't like to be beaten and disabled, at that time, did he admit that there was any difference between admitting it and not?

Of course, this situation is based on the small crime, if the crime is very large, such as homicide or something, the prisoner would rather be punished than admit the crime.

In many cases, it is necessary to analyze the case on a case-by-case basis.

After the Niu Tongue case was resolved, Tang Zhou and Li Hu played in Yongzhou City for a few more days, and they were purely playing in the past few days, and there was nothing annoying about them, so after playing for a few days, Tang Zhou and they returned to Liuzhou City.

And just a month or two after Tang Zhou and the others returned to Liuzhou City, Chang'an was already in early summer, and Tang Zhou's name was frequently mentioned in Chang'an City again.

In two months, Chang'an, the capital, has gathered scholars from all over the country, and after these scholars came to Chang'an City, they began to sing and harmonize with each other.

At this time in previous years, those scholars who came to Chang'an, the capital to take the exam, did not dare to be so obvious, because Chang'an City had Tang Zhou, the first genius of the Tang Dynasty, who would dare to be arrogant?

But this year is different, so these scholars seem to be very active, but just when they are active, from the mouths of some scholars, the two enlightenment books "Hundred Family Names" and "Three Character Classics" made by Tang Zhou suddenly became popular in Chang'an, the capital, and even those who think they are talented want to get a few such books to read.