Chapter 402: Greed
"No!" Lord Xiancheng suddenly waved his hand, a little excited.
It seemed that he was excited for a long time, and then he calmed down and said: "Classmate Chen, what you said is very right! As the people of the Great Song Dynasty, we will never be like those good people in the Liang and Wei Kingdoms, who watched the country slide into decline, but did not dare to say a word! Chen said that there are still many things that need to be improved in the tax law of the Great Song Dynasty, and I agree with what you said, and I also believe that all the fathers and villagers here have also suffered greatly. So I decided to wait for this case later, so I went to the court with the county lord and asked the household department to revise a better tax law as soon as possible. Saying that, the county patted Chen Letian on the shoulder and said, "Classmate Chen, thank you for reminding me." ”
Chen Letian was dumbfounded when he heard this, and after reacting, he hurriedly said: "My lord, we are all people of the Great Song Dynasty, and we should share the worries of the country and the people, otherwise I am not worthy of the identity of a student of this academy." ”
In fact, I was thinking in my heart, you old treacherous and cunning, you can really speak. Originally, I was ready to respond to you, but I didn't expect your brain to turn so fast, and you climbed up the pole, and as a result, you stood on the moral high ground, which is really admirable.
The official of the tax department is surnamed Zhang, and he is not very old, only in his early thirties. Although this age is not very old, he has actually been in the position of a junior official in the tax department for more than ten years, and he is definitely an old man in the tax department.
This person's family background is actually good, although his parents died early, but they finally left him the position of tax department, and also left him a lot of family property. Although it is not considered rich and expensive, it can still be counted as a small rich family. However, this person is not good in the eyes of his neighbors, and often bullies his neighbors. Although it is not an act of killing and plundering wives, it has always done a lot of things that make the neighbors dare not speak out.
This time on the list of twenty people, it is also in the catastrophe, and the neighbors who don't have to go out to work early in the morning don't have to go to the field to farm, they all come to see the excitement.
What could be happier than watching an enemy be brought to justice? Or they are not enemies, but they always have a cloud above their heads, so that they can't eat and sleep at ease. Now it's okay, retribution is coming, neighbors
It's like a great good thing, and everyone's face is filled with joy like the New Year.
These twenty people were all carefully selected by Chen Letian. It's very representative. Their arrest involved almost every class and every level of people in Bazhong City, from top to bottom.
There is the topmost canonical history, and there are the lowest jailers. There are those who often deal with merchants, and there are those who often deal with farmers. There are those who are often with scholars, and there are also those who often mingle with the three religions and nine streams.
Anyway, it can be said to be all-encompassing.
The reason why Chen Letian chose this way was to let these twenty people be streamlined. It is found in all classes and neighborhoods of Bazhong City, and only in this way can this complaint be able to impress the people of the city.
If you only sue the high-ranking officials, the people will feel very far away from them, or they will not have any personal feelings.
If you only sue the small officials who deal with the people, then the middle level and the scholars don't feel very much.
Only by taking into account all the people as much as possible, from top to bottom, from east to west, can we mobilize all the people as much as possible.
The people believe that seeing is believing, and the people feel it most really.
What the people need is to feel that these people are closely related to them, so they have to fulfill their responsibilities. From top to bottom, from big to small, all the people who collude with the Iron Head Gang are neighbors, officials, etc., who usually look up and don't look down, so that they can touch the hearts of the people.
The sages have said that the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. Why is it so easy to say? It is precisely because many times the puppets do not really feel that the rise and fall of the world is related to them. Most people will think that when the sky falls, there is a tall man on top, what does it matter to me. You princes will fight each other, and it is you who will lose and win miserable satisfaction, and it has nothing to do with our ordinary people.
And once the people feel that they are related to themselves, they will take the initiative to move, without the need for others to spur and remind, and will naturally take responsibility.
Chen Letian took advantage of this and carefully selected twenty people.
Now, to this tax officer. A family that was already well-off, but still colluded with the bandits, and the gold and silver at home were probably no less than three thousand taels.
The dazzling gold and silver made the people scold again. However, the people only scolded for a moment, and they were stopped by the county again. After all, this is a public court outside, and people are not allowed to casually make a dirty noise.
The little official surnamed Zhang was like ashes at this time, and he had already knelt on the ground.
Chen Letian stepped forward, patted Zhang Xiaoyi's shoulder, half-squatted down and whispered: "You, you are too greedy, you can get enough money to spend, no matter how much silver you have, as long as you don't come in the right way, you can't spend it before you die, or even before your son dies." Behold, what is the difference between burying it and not having it?"
Zhang Xiaoyan didn't dare to look at Chen Letian, he didn't know where this person was, the only thing he knew was that in the last case of the Wang family, Ying Sheng and Liu Xiangshi in the next city were better than Hou and Liu Xiangshi, their efforts allowed the soul of the Wang family girl to rest in peace, and the parents of the Wang family girl got due compensation. He thought that Liu Daming was very powerful, and that's all.
I heard that this person's name is Chen Letian, and he is also from the capital, and I heard that he is their leader. Zhang Xiaoyan was very frightened in his heart, this person even knew where his family's money was, and he also knew that his family was well-off, he felt that this Chen Letian might have known everything about him for a long time. He didn't seem to be wearing any clothes in front of Chen Letian. So when Chen Letian talked to him, he was even more scared. Trembling, not daring to say a word.
"Man's greed is always endless. Chen Letian stood up, as if muttering to himself, and as if he was saying something to the county.
The county said: "People who have no bottom line and no sense of responsibility will have endless greed, don't read, don't study, don't increase their knowledge, you can only be like this forever." By his own animal nature, he listened to the evil thoughts in his heart, and finally slowly fell into the abyss of evil, and finally he could not extricate himself, and after death, he was beaten down to eighteen layers of hell, and suffered endless and endless suffering!"
Chen Letian thought to himself, this county Cheng is also very powerful when he scolds people, it seems that the mouth of a scholar, as long as he understands a little brain, he is still very powerful when he scolds people.