"I didn't say it, it was your daughter. But don't worry, this official is not that kind of person. Zheng Lang said.

"I, I ......"

"Think about it, the official won't force you."

The little lady of the Wu family bowed down and said, "The little woman wronged the Zheng Governor just now. ”

"It's okay, I'm not afraid that others will wronged me."

The little lady of the Wu family blushed, fell to the ground and said, "What the little woman said counts." ”

"Hugh is talking nonsense, didn't you hear what Futong sentenced just now, although the threshold of my house is broken, it is very high." Zheng Lang turned his head to the official and said, "You call Shi Jie." ”

The two officials braved a heavy rain and rushed out.

Han Jiang asked: "Governor Zheng, I have a problem, you gave them the deed shares of overseas mineral deposits, as well as bamboo paper, and others, and the income is quite large, why are you not satisfied?" ”

"Hanzhi County, how many people are there in the country? There are more than 10 million households registered in the household department, and there are hidden households, many barbarians and Yi people are not in the household register, and the actual population has faintly exceeded the Tang Tianbao period. The Salt Institute said that the annual output of salt is 4 million stones, and the average amount of salt is only 200 catties per stone, and this amount of salt is only enough to pickle pickles, but we have salt for pickles, and there is salt for stir-frying, where did it come from? ”

Fu Bi smiled dumbly, this metaphor is wonderful.

"The situation is far worse than you think. Regardless of the private salt passing through Hangzhou, there will be at least 300,000 stones of private salt from the local area a year, and this alone can lose more than 1 million yuan a year. Considering the laws of the imperial court, not all large officials participated, only the officials of the salt prison, relevant merchants, large households with backgrounds, big pavilion households, and some shipmen who did not want to die, and their wealth was more concentrated. I gave profits, but for this group, the benefits I gave were still less, how do you say to put an end to it? ”

"The human heart is too greedy."

"No, people will be greedy, some people are greedy for wealth, some people are greedy for beauty, they are greedy for talent, they are greedy for fame, you and Lu Zhixian are greedy for political achievements. It has nothing to do with greed, even if it is greedy, the court is greedy, if the court is not monopolized, like the early Tang Dynasty, will there be a phenomenon of private salt? I implemented brine selection in Taiping Prefecture, which was selected by the government and was not promoted to the people, why? Salt is too expensive, and it takes at least 20 catties of salt to choose a seed, so that the concentration of salt water can reach the goal of selection, but the most inferior coarse salt in Taiping Prefecture costs 30 yuan a catty, how many people are willing to do it? Not only salt, but also tea, wine, alum and incense are smuggled. The profit is too thick, and there must be many people who stretch out their hands. Count it a little less, six million stones a year, throw away the money to the pavilion households, transportation costs, official salaries, and a pound of salt can also bring an income of twenty wen to the imperial court, so salt alone will bring more than 30 million yuan to the imperial court, but how much does the imperial court get? ”

Han Jiang couldn't answer.

"Therefore, I sent an edict to Shi Jie to come over, only check the big pavilion households, without the big pavilion households, there will be one less important bridge, but it will only reduce the amount of private salt, it will not be eliminated, and it will not be eliminated by killing 100,000 people. If you want to put an end to it, unless the imperial court cancels the monopoly, do you think it is impossible? ”

Han Jiang couldn't answer again.

"Not only Hangzhou, but also two Zhejiang, this profit has been woven into a huge network, and we only have a few officials, as well as Shi Jie. But what about them? The transshipment envoy of the two Zhejiang provinces is our boss. The officials of the salt prison, we have insufficient jurisdiction. Below there are more big households, big pavilion households, smuggled salt dealers, colluding officials, boatmen and pawns. So they should stop salt, and it would be fine. Many officials in the salt field definitely don't want us to investigate, and the big pavilion households are even more panicked, and there is also the support of the transfer envoy above. Even if there are small pavilion households who are unwilling to participate, in this context, do they dare to open salt? The trouble was big, saying that I was making trouble with Shi Jie, and the officials forced the people to be angry, and I heard that some people organized pavilions to sign a letter of protest, although it was a big trouble, but the law did not blame the public. I won't be transferred, Shijie can be transferred, Shijie is transferred, what should I do? But they also thought wrong, I still have a power. ”

"The Imperial Court?"

"The Imperial Court? Except for His Majesty...... "Zheng Lang doesn't want to answer, in fact, whether he can't check the illegal salt has little to do with the common people, Zheng Lang cares about the life of small pavilions, and he has not been very interested in private salt. It's not going to get up, and it's not going to come this far. As for the imperial court, it can't be counted on, if it weren't for a few powerful fathers and fathers-in-law, and even the imperial court issued an edict to summon Shi Jie back. Said: "Not the imperial court." This force is also in Hangzhou, and the support given to us by the imperial court is only the law and the system. The other party is powerful, and there are many people who benefit from illegal salt, but there are more people who do not benefit from illegal salt, but I have opened up overseas mineral deposits, that is, I do not recall to the capital, and I am constrained by two transshipment envoys everywhere, and they are greedy, what do you think about those deed shares? Their land was returned to me as a lake and stream, and distributed to the poor people, and their money was sent to the imperial court. And how do they do it? ”

It is impossible to get these lands and money back from the imperial court, only to help Zheng Lang tide over this crisis.

Han Jiang's eyes lit up.

But it's only one aspect.

Since last year, Zheng Lang has been laying out, and that force is what he really relies on, but he can't say it.

Zheng Lang said to Si'er: "Go to the back and call Zhang Daliang and Yi'er out." ”

"Zhang Dashanren?" Wu Qi Nanhu asked.

"Hmm."

Zhang Daliang sailed in his early years and accumulated a lot of money, but it had nothing to do with private salt. This time, he took out nearly 100,000 yuan of property, which also belonged to one of the forces that Zheng Lang said. Not only Zhang Daliang, but others helped one after another, but it was done secretly, and few people knew. I came to watch Yi Niang tonight, anyway, it was his "righteous daughter", I had to do something just now, and Suo asked Zhang Daliang to stay in the backyard to watch more than a dozen first rows.

The two brought out, and Zheng Lang said to them, "Sit." ”

The two sat down, and Zheng Lang said again: "Yang Bawang, you take a few people and catch the two rats on the west side of the street." ”

It's not a real mouse, but tonight's arrangement is also very important to Zheng Lang. Some must be broken, such as the two new tenants diagonally opposite, at least they can't bring back the news that Wu Qinan is alive.

Yang Bawang led the order to go out.

Zheng Lang looked at Yi Niang and said, "This official plays a tune, you listen to it and see if you can hear what kind of tune it is." ”

"Slaves don't dare."

"It's okay, today I was dealing with a lot of things I didn't want to do, and I met a group of laypeople, a laywoman, and a master who didn't open his mind, and just wanted to play the piano, talk about the piano, and calm his mind." As he spoke, he began to stroke the strings.

It's not a messy mess just now, as the hands dance on the strings, a set of wonderful strings burst out, but when you listen to it again, it is very mellow and quaint. If you really think like this, Zheng Lang will be mad, this song is played well, it is to seek ups and downs in plainness, mellow and majestic in simplicity, not to seek plainness in ups and downs.

The result is that the song expresses multiple scenes, the first two days are brewing snow, and the winter is dark, but it is very quiet, so the music is slow and light, but in the slow and light, the astringent charm must be played. The third section is snowy, so there are a lot of syncopations and floating points, as well as rapid overtones. In the fourth and fifth sections, the snow has cleared, and the rhythm has changed again.

Hearing this, Yi Niang was sitting on her lap.

Below to the sixth stage, a strong north wind blew through the Qionglin, causing the dead branches covered with thick ice and snow to blow wildly, and from time to time snowflakes fell. Therefore, there are many double-stricken, double-collision methods, sometimes increasing the treble, and using five or six times in a row to express the fierceness of the north wind. The difficulty and cumbersomeness of fingering are also rare in all guqin songs.

At the end of the song, Yi Niang stroked her palm and said: "Wonderful, blowing wind, wonderful, snowfall." ”

The essence is also in the sixth paragraph.

Zheng Lang was a little smug and asked, "You are also wonderful, can you play?" ”

"The slave bullet in the middle is not good."

Zheng Lang smiled and closed his eyes.

Fu Bi asked Yi Niang in a low voice: "What tune?" ”

"Changqing."

As soon as you hear the name, Fubi will know. This piece is very famous, and it is called Ji Kang's four lanes together with the short Qing, long side, and short side, and there is also Cai Yong's Cai's five lanes, You Chun, Lushui, Secluded, Sitting Sorrowful, Qiu Si, once used as a condition for Emperor Yang of Sui to choose the music in the six arts, you must be able to play nine lanes, and you will be hired. The Song Dynasty did not test the six arts, so the nine alleys were gradually forgotten by people.

It is elegant to be able to play and listen, and it is not in the way if you can't play.

And unlike "White Snow", it does not describe the nobility of snow, but only a winter snow scene, with different times and quaint meanings, but not nobility. Because of the sixth section, it is also one of the most difficult guqin songs to play.

Or play well, pass the sixth paragraph in a foolish way, and replace it with other musical notes...... Zheng Lang closed his eyes, put his hand on the mountain of the guqin, and kept stroking.

Everyone in the room fell silent, thinking about their own thoughts, and from this night on, the decisive battle began.

The rain gradually subsided, and Yang Bawang took a few subordinates to pull two people in brocade robes into the mansion, and said, "Governor Zheng, people have caught it." ”

All looked at these two people, the brocade robe was gorgeous, but it was raining outside, wet and sticking to the body, the skin on the face was white, obviously not doing much rough work in ordinary times, Zheng Lang said: "Escort them down and torture." ”

It's not interrogation, it's torture.

Then he went to the back room, and after a while there came the cry of a ghost and a wolf.

Zheng Lang frowned, and said to Huan'er: "You go in, say to Yang Bawang, and stuff their mouths with a cloth." ”

He turned his head again, looked at Wu Qinan, and shouted: "Master Wu, when are you still obsessed!" ”

…… The strike began.

It's not a workers' strike, a demonstration, and a demand for justice.

Nor is it a real strike.

No matter how bold they are, no one dares to do that. However, it was very convenient, the salt was transported in advance and transported to other states, even in Hangzhou, not in the salt warehouse, after a few days of salt strike, and then the salt warehouse officials shouted that there was no salt in the salt warehouse.

As a result, there is no salt for sale in Hangzhou.

There was salt, but it became a sky-high price, and only three days later, a pound of salt was fried for more than 300 yuan.

On the fourth day, Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge came to the state government.

Coincidentally, almost all the important officials in Hangzhou sat in the public court with Shi Jie. Jiang Jun shouted: "Zheng Lang, Shi Jie, how long are you going to mess around?" ”

"Jiang Transfer, where am I messing around?"

"You're causing trouble!"

"No, are you referring to the interrogation of bribery? Fan Yan accepted a bribe of a few hundred taels of silver, and the imperial court also sent a messenger to deliberately interrogate, this is tens of thousands of yuan, did I do something wrong? Zheng Lang asked with a blank expression.

"Then we'll see!"

"Zhang Zhuan, don't worry, since you're here, just watch a good show."

"What do you want to do?"

"Not what I want to do? Do you sit and watch like a salt strike, starting from Hangzhou and ending with a strike in Zhejiang? ”

"Humph!" Jiang Jun snorted coldly and sat down.

The two of them know it.

Zheng Lang ordered Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi to interrogate the bribery case, and Jiang and Zhang knew that they couldn't do it well. The means of striking salt and the market were used, and Zheng Lang had no way to be good with the two of them. Either the two of them will go, or Shi Jie will go, and it depends on the amount of gold and silver brought back in June is insufficient, and even Zheng Lang will have to leave.

Bring a few dozen people at a moment.

All of them were generals and colonels, and they were all taken in bribes, including the command of the two forbidden soldiers.

There are witnesses and physical evidence, but these will not be recognized by the school.

Because of its emphasis on internal governance, the Song Dynasty can be said to be the dynasty with the most perfect legal system among the feudal dynasties in China. The legislation is perfect, and it is corrected and adjusted from time to time to "keep pace with the times". The system is complete, from the county to the prefecture to the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, there is a complete set of interrogation institutions. The people were allowed to appeal, and even allowed the people to stop the royal driver to sue the royal court, and the Beijing division set up a drum to prevent local officials from colluding and causing unjust, false and wrongful cases. There are also reviews and recitals. Doubtful cases must be reported to the imperial court for judgment, and the judgment continues, and the judge must bear responsibility for his own judgment.

In this way, lest there be unfair judgments by local officials, and there is a set of supervision agencies, such as the general judgment of the state government, the transfer envoy all the way, and the imperial history platform of the court. The final decision on the mystery case is not in Dali Temple, but in Yushitai.

During the trial, the shovel officer first writes the proposed verdict, and then the officials participate in the collective trial, sign the draw, and submit it to the chief for formal judgment. Within the bureaucracy at this level alone, three audits have been formed. The sentence cannot be determined, and the prisoner must be asked whether he or she accepts the sentence, and if not, he or she can appeal. If there is no difference between pleading guilty, the entire case can be "closed". In the course of interrogation, some torture instruments may be used, but the punishment must be approved by the commander, and there are strict regulations on the torture tools, the location and level of the punishment, and they cannot be carried out casually.

It can't be taken seriously, if these rules are followed, the laws of the Song Dynasty can be said to be a thousand years ahead of China.

But the superficial appearance has to be done.

For example, these generals do not admit to the charges, and now there are human and material evidence, but it is not very complete, and they must be tried again and again. However, Zheng Lang was too lazy to interrogate, so he directly took them into custody and brought them to the capital along with these charges.

If the capital deals with it, he won't ask, if he doesn't deal with it, he won't ask, but he can't continue to do things in Hangzhou.

It was the first batch.

Then more people were escorted in, but Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge stood up angrily and shouted, "Zheng Lang, what do you want to do?" ”

Because the people who were brought in were large and small pavilions, officials of various salt farms and salt warehouses, some large and powerful merchants, and boatmen and pawns, almost more than 200 people.

"Could it be that the two transfer envoys won't even let me try the case in this official?"

Everything is in accordance with the system, and the transfer envoy has the right to supervise, has the right to doubt the case, and even overturns the case that the state government has already pronounced, but it cannot prevent the state government from hearing the case. That's it, it already makes Zheng Lang very uncomfortable.

"Okay, let's see how you judge!" Jiang Jun snorted coldly.

The forbidden soldiers pushed and shoved the prisoners to the ground, and quickly left the court and went outside to be on guard.

Zheng Lang took out the thick file, almost randomly, and pulled out twenty files from it and asked them one by one.

With two envoys in the area, none of the twenty people who were asked answered.

Zheng Lang suddenly said sharply: "Come on, push these people out and abandon the city to ask for beheading!" ”

"You dare!" Zhang Congge and Jiang Jun stood up at the same time and shouted.

Zhang Congge added: "Zheng Lang, you are lawless, can't you rebel!" ”

It's the system again.

The Song Dynasty attached more importance to death penalty cases, not only to have a strict interrogation process, but also to obtain the prisoner's own confession, and to have complete measures when executing. The execution must be public, generally there are two kinds of hanging, and a small number of ethnic punishments, cane killings and abandonment of the city, ethnic punishment is used for the crime of rebellion and rebellion, and the Yi clan has only deterrence, and has hardly been used. Rod-killing is a random stick killing. Abandonment of the market is to be taken to a public place and executed, mostly on corrupt officials, but rarely on corrupt officials.

At the time of execution, family members are allowed to come to say goodbye, and when the prisoner shouts injustice during the execution, he must be retried with a suspended sentence, and don't take it seriously, if that is the case, Yue Fei will not cry out for injustice? However, the two transshipment envoys are sitting here and are on the opposing side, so these procedures must be followed.

There is still time, and it must be at the second hour of the day, and the execution season is generally after the autumn, that is, after the autumn, but in case of special cases, it can also be executed in the winter, and the death penalty must not be carried out in the spring and summer seasons, and the death penalty cannot be carried out on major festivals. It happened to be grinding for a while, and it was not the right time, but the season was not good. Besides, the procedures are not right.

"It's not that I want to rebel, it's that this group of people wants to rebel. Strike the salt today, then strike the market, do you want to strike the government, the army, the country, and the emperor tomorrow? In the case of a rebellion, it is the time to use the heavy code, and people come and drag them outside the yamen to behead them for public display, so as to stop the expansion of the rebellion! ”

"How bold are you?"

"Isn't that so, it's all over the city, what else do you want to do next? I stopped the situation from eroding in time, why did you two stop it again and again, are you their leaders? Pull it down, ask for a chop! ”

The forbidden soldiers outside broke in and dragged the twenty people out.

It was not possible to shout injustice, the executioner walked out with a ghost-headed knife, and a terrible shout came out, and after a while, the executioner held up the heads of twenty people and said: "Governor Zheng, all the criminals will be executed." ”

Looking at the bloody human heads, a stench suddenly came from the public court, and some prisoners were so frightened that they peed their pants.

Zheng Lang clapped his hands, and a person walked out of the back of the hall, it was Wu Qinan.

One of the prisoners let out a "Huh." ”

Zheng Lang said: "Everyone, I didn't expect it, Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. Dare to riot and rebel, do you think you can hide without explaining? ”

Jiang Jun and Zhang Congge also looked at Wu Qinan in surprise, and after meditating again, they suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Zheng Lang continued to draw the file, took out another twenty copies, named the name, didn't bother to read the file, and said, "Not only will you die, but also your family." It's better to be honest and see if the official can be taken lightly. Also, who gave you the courage to do this? ”