"Since the Lord can't bear to read out the crime of pacifying the Lord, let the grass people recite it on their behalf."

Hu Ye saw Zhang Yuan sitting in the presiding judge seat without saying a word, and knew that he must have been frightened by his own appearance, so he had to move his mouth.

"Hu Ye, a grass citizen, sued Yongpingwei Zhenfu Si for five crimes of suppressing Zhou Jie."

"First, corruption perverts the law."

"Second, forcibly occupy fertile land."

"Third, the grass cares about human life."

"Fourth, collusion between officials and businessmen."

"Fifth, knowing the law and breaking the law."

As soon as Hu Ye's words fell, the people outside the yamen couldn't stand. They don't know any Da Ming laws, but they all remember what Zhou Jie did every thing Hu Ye said. Now that I think about it, it turns out that Zhou Jie has committed so many crimes, and they all pointed at Zhou Jie and cursed.

Zhou Jie's face at the moment can only be described as a bad one, he never thought that one day someone would sue him in his yamen, and there were so many crimes.

Zhu Di also looked at Hu Ye in surprise, he didn't find Zhou Jie's crimes, Hu Ye had only been in Beiping for less than a month, how could he find out so much?

"Silence! Quiet! Zhang Yuan is worthy of being an envoy, and he must have seen a big scene, so the people outside coaxed together, so he patted the shocked wood vigorously, and then said to Hu Ye, "Do you know that framing the court official is a big crime?" If you can't produce evidence, I can condemn you to death today? ”

"Hehe, framing the court officials?" Hu Ye sneered, and then said loudly to Zhang Yuan: "This matter is very important, the grass people naturally dare not speak falsely, every article written on the form, the grass people have real evidence, and this will be given to the inspector one by one." ”

"First, perverting the law for bribes. Dare to ask the envoy, a five-grade official, how much can he earn in a year? Hu Ye asked.

"Seventeen stones per month." Zhang Yuan replied without hesitation.

"Very good, seventeen stones a month, less than two hundred stones a year, equivalent to less than one hundred taels of silver." Hu Ye roughly calculated, and then said, "Even if it is one hundred taels of silver a year, even if Zhou Jie has been an official in Beiping for thirty years, the total is less than three thousand taels." But adults can go and see how luxurious his house is. Compared with Lord Jin Zhong's house, which is a fourth-grade official, I don't know how much more luxurious, where does the adult think Zhou Jie's money comes from? ”

"Nonsense, my house is left by my ancestors, how can it be greedy, and the ignorant child will not spew blood." Without waiting for Zhang Yuan to answer, Zhou Jie pointed at Hu Ye's nose angrily and said.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou, don't get excited, even if the house is left by your ancestors, your money is not left by your ancestors, right?" Hu Ye smiled slightly, and then suddenly raised his voice, "Just ten days ago, your son Zhou Kai offered a reward of 1,000 taels for my head. Dare to ask Lord Zhou, do you really have so much spare money at home? ”

"Out of nothing!"

Zhou Jie argued.

"Something out of nothing? At that time, your Yongpingwei people were all present, and Zhang Qianhu from Yanshan Beiwei was also present, could they have heard it wrong? Hu Ye asked rhetorically.

Zhou Jie was silent when he heard this.

Hu Ye saw that Zhou Jie was silent, so he turned around and said to Zhang Yuan: "Dare to ask Lord Zhang, you can casually take out a thousand taels to reward the son of a civilian head, will there be a law-abiding father?" He Zhou Jie is not greedy and bends the law, can the family have so much family property for his son to squander? He Zhou Jie is not greedy and perverts the law, his son dares to be so arrogant? He Zhou Jie is not corrupt and perverts the law, and his son dares to levy protection money on the street? ”

"These are all your family's words, how can they be used as evidence." Zhang Yuan looked at Hu Ye and said.

"The family's words naturally do not deserve evidence, but if Master Zhang wants evidence, the people outside the door can do evidence. You can ask how many of them have been persecuted by the four young people of Pingcheng, how many young girls have been ruined by the four young people of Pingcheng, and how much food has gone into the pockets of the four young people of Pingcheng. Hu Ye pointed to the people watching outside, do you want evidence at this time? It's all out there.

"Yes, the four young people in Pingcheng have done a lot of evil, and my daughter just let them spoil it, and she didn't have the face to see the talent jumping into the river and committing suicide." When a woman heard Hu Ye's words, she immediately began to cry.

"It's not easy for an old man to set up a stall, he earns more than a dozen dollars a day, and nearly half of this has to be looted by the four young men in Pingcheng, isn't this a corruption or bending the law?" An old man shouted loudly, in fact, he didn't know what corruption was, but at this time, it would not be wrong to tell the bad deeds of the four young people in Pingcheng.

As a result, the yamen became a vegetable market, and all of them were complaining one after another.

Zhu Di squinted at all this, and felt a chill in his heart, he didn't expect the people of his fiefdom to live so hard. Hu Ye told him before that he didn't believe it much, but now that the people are complaining in front of him, he knows how serious the situation is.

"Silence! Quiet! Zhang Yuan patted the shocking wood again, otherwise the scene would get out of control.

"Dare to ask my lord, what is this evidence?" Hu Ye looked at Zhang Yuan with a smile.

"Hmph, Diao Min's words, how can you take them seriously." Zhou Jie said disdainfully.

"Hehe, I didn't expect these suffering people to become a group of people in the eyes of Lord Zhou. I just don't know if Master Zhang ever thought about how these Diao people lived when he used these Diao people's fertile fields? Hu Ye asked Zhou Jie with a sneer.

"What do you mean?" Zhou Jie was furious.

"Hmph, Lord Zhang, this is the second article I want to sue Zhou Jie, forcibly occupy the fertile land." After Hu Ye glared at Zhou Jie angrily, he stepped forward, took out a slip from his arms, and then asked the official to hand it to Zhang Yuan.

"Lord Zhang, the Ming Law stipulates that the land of the five rank officials shall not exceed 50,000 mu, which is equivalent to the land of 1,000 military households. But this week, Zhou Jie's fertile land has reached 500,000 mu, where did this extra ten times come from? Could it be that they took the initiative to appear under Zhou Jie's name? Or did their owners take the initiative to give it to Lord Zhou? ”

"You ......" Zhou Jie was surprised, even he didn't know how much land he had, but he didn't expect Hu Ye to know so clearly.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou doesn't need to refute, whether you have these fields or not, find someone to check and verify. As for the source of your land, I won't say, but everyone must know it. Hu Ye looked at Zhou Jie, who was thunderous, and was not afraid at all.

"Some of them are people who have some relationship with Zhou Jie, and they are deliberately attached to Zhou Jie's name, but most of them are forcibly seized by Zhou Jie through various despicable means. You may want to ask, the private land pays three liters of tax per mu, and the official land pays five liters of tax per mu. ”

Hu Ye smiled mysteriously and continued, "Don't forget, the taxes of the Mintian are paid to the state treasury, while the taxes of the Guantian are paid to the landowners. That is to say, if the land is handed over to the imperial court, and if it is attached to Zhou Jie's name, the tax will be handed over to Zhou Jie and become Zhou Jie's quasi-property. Then Zhou Jie divided the account in five or five, so that the people who were attached to Guantian only needed to hand over two liters of Liuhe's grain, and they would pay less than the grain of Sihe if they were not attached, this kind of win-win thing, naturally many people wanted to do it. ”

"You talk nonsense, it's not five or five cents, it's three or seven cents, they just need to hand over two liters to me." Zhou Jie retorted solemnly.

"Hehe, Lord Zhou has finally shown his feet." Hu Ye's treacherous smile finally made the meticulous Zhou Jie panic.

Zhou Jie knew that he was speechless, so he quickly kept silent.

But Hu Ye's attack has just begun, and there will be a steady stream of attacks next.

But the people of Beiping are loyal to the imperial court, and they would rather pay an extra liter of taxes to the imperial court than two liters to corrupt officials like Zhou Jie. So Zhou Jie used all kinds of despicable means to do everything to put all kinds of charges on the people who were unwilling to incorporate the fields into his name, so that they could forcibly occupy their land. ”

"This is going to talk about the third article I sued Zhou Jie, which is to disregard people's lives!" Hu Ye said loudly.

"I sent someone to check, of the 500,000 mu of fertile land under Zhou Jie's name, 50,000 mu is his due land, and 400,000 mu is the land that is voluntarily or forced to be merged into Zhou Jie's name. There are still 50,000 acres that Zhou Jie obtained from persecuting the people! Hu Ye pointed at Zhou Jie and began a stormy attack.

"Nonsense." Zhou Jie scolded, and then said to Zhang Yuan, "According to the envoy, this Diao Min has repeatedly roared at the court and insulted the officials of the imperial court. should be put in prison and punished. ”

"Hmph, Lord Zhou, do you dare to say that I roared in court? Your voice is louder than mine, and you curse more than me, why aren't you roaring in court? Shouldn't you be an idiot to make it a priest? Hu Ye looked at Zhou Jie, provoking the relationship between the two of them.

Sure enough, when Zhang Yuan heard this, he felt that Hu Ye had some truth in what he said, and Zhou Jie's attitude was indeed worse than Hu Ye's, and motioned for Hu Ye to continue.

"50,000 acres of fertile land! How many families have lost their capital to survive! The Ming Law stipulates that if a household farms 50 acres, 50,000 acres is the land of 1,000 households. Zhou Jieqiang grabbed it, and 1,000 families were displaced, and some starved to death and became lonely ghosts. Some fled and became starving refugees. Others fled to Cyprus and became captives of the Mongols. Dare to ask the envoy, what is this not a careless human life? Hu Ye asked loudly.

Hearing this, the scolding of the people outside the yamen was endless, and they finally knew that someone in weishenme had committed a crime inexplicably before, and it turned out that Zhou Jie had secretly instructed them to aim for the field in their hands.

So the people who had things in their hands began to throw things at Zhou Jie, including fritters that they had just bought in the morning, as well as hot buns, and some even took off their shoes and threw them at Zhou Jie. However, the accuracy was not good, and Hu Ye next to him was almost killed.

Compared with the anger of the people, Zhu Di is much more restrained, but the violent green tendons in his hands show the anger in his heart at the moment.

It turned out that his own people had become the object of Zhou Jie's profit, and it turned out that so many displaced people were not caused by natural disasters. When Zhu Di thought that there were still many officials like Zhou Jie in Beiping, the murderous spirit in his heart suddenly increased. Zheng Er next to him was scared, he had never seen Zhu Di so angry.

"What? Lord Zhou can't say anything. If Lord Zhou is not convinced, you can find someone to measure your land now, and I will bear any discrepancies. Hu Ye looked at Zhou Jie coldly.

Zhou Jie was silent, knowing that it was useless to refute at the moment, since Hu Ye dared to be so sure, it meant that Hu Ye was prepared, and it seemed that he was going to be planted in Hu Ye's hands today.

"Very good, since Lord Zhou has no objection, then we will move on to the next one, collusion between officials and businessmen!"

Hu Ye said and took out a copy from his arms and asked the official to bring it to Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan looked at this state, his eyes widened, and he wondered if his eyes were wrong.