Chapter 67: Forcible Seizure
The facts of the cases decided by Chairman Lee this morning are basically the same, and they are almost all assets such as real estate, real estate, and shops of ordinary people who have no power or power, and they are taken by those rich and powerful who are never satisfied, and they use means to seize them by force.
The powerful have a very simple means of forcibly seizing and grabbing, but it is very effective, that is, to put money in print. If those ordinary people can't use it, the Haoqiang will also unite with other forces to artificially hinder the ordinary people, so that they have to use the printing money, so that the wishes of the Haoqiang can be fulfilled soon.
Borrow one hundred taels of silver, and after a month, you will have to repay five hundred taels with interest. How to calculate the interest depends entirely on the mood of the lender Haoqiang at that time.
The first case that Chairman Lee tried today was this, where Seo Tong-myung sued Kim Gyu-jung, a businessman, for forcibly occupying his house.
Regarding this case, Chairman Li does not need to verify it. Kim Gyu-jung was a member of the Peony Society and was very familiar with Chairman Lee.
Kim Gyu-jung is a kind person in the Peony Society, and as a cloth merchant, it is not wrong for a merchant to pursue profits. Jin Gyuzhong, who has been in business all his life, basically has no bad habits, and his favorite thing is to stay alone in the treasury and count copper coins one by one.
In his opinion, the real feeling brought to him by rubbing his fingers on the copper coin was more immersive than shaking on a woman's body.
Kim Gyu-jung also believes in feng shui, because he believes that his ancestors buried it well, and he can now accumulate such a rich wealth. In order to keep these wealth in the Jin family permanently, Kim Gyu-jung has even reached the point of obsession with feng shui, as long as someone makes suggestions to Kim Gyu-jung in feng shui, Kim Gyu-jung will do it regardless of whether he has a theory or not.
Two years ago, Jin Gyu-jung met a high-ranking person, and the master pointed out that Kim Gyu-jung, Xu Tongming's house, which was separated by a wall from the backyard wall of his house, blocked his family's northward wealth.
The master told Jin Guizhong that don't look at his family's cloth village is now booming, the Quartet is short of wealth, and it can't last long after all, and Jin Guizhong's cloth village will have troubles.
The master advised Kim Gyu-jung to either move and find a courtyard with good feng shui. Otherwise, buy the small courtyard of his family's northern wealth, demolish all the buildings in the courtyard, and only plant some flowers and plants that are not more than three feet high.
Jin Guizhong took the words of the master as a guide, and asked his housekeeper to go to Xu Tongming's house to discuss the purchase of a house on the same day. In the past few years, the housekeeper has followed Jin Guizhong in the Peony Club and has not learned anything else, and he is full of domineering to learn.
When the housekeeper entered the door of Xu Tongming's house, he threw a contract to Xu Tongming, and told Xu Tongming the reason why his master wanted to buy his house.
Xu Tongming immediately laughed angrily, not for the ridiculous reason of Jin Guizhong to buy his house, but for the six rooms of his family, the market price is worth six hundred taels of silver, but the contract given by the housekeeper only bids four hundred and fifty taels.
As for why there was a shortage of one hundred and fifty taels of silver, the reason given by the housekeeper was that it would take about one hundred and fifty taels to demolish the building on the ground of the Xu family.
Although Xu Tongming's family is not as big as the Jin family, no matter how rich the Jin family is, they will not give him Xu Tongming's penny in vain, and he Xu Tongming has no need to look up to his Jin family.
Xu Tongming resolutely rejected the contract taken by the housekeeper.
The Jin family and the Xu family have been neighbors for many years, and the housekeeper reported that he gave Xu Tongming a thousand taels of silver, but he refused, not that Xu Tongming didn't want to sell, but that he wanted the lion to open his mouth. Kim Gyu-jung didn't pay much attention to it at first, just slowly figure it out.
However, a few days after the guidance of the master, the business of the Jin family cloth village suddenly encountered some twists and turns, which made Jin Gyuzhong immediately think of the guidance of the master.
It's not realistic to move, and finding a suitable yard is not something that can be found in a while, and Kim Gyu-jung is used to the yard where he lives now. met Jin Guizhong and asked the housekeeper to go to Xu Tongming's house, and asked the housekeeper to give Xu Tongming 1,200 taels of silver.
The housekeeper took a new contract and went to Xu's house again, this time the housekeeper gave six hundred and fifty taels on the contract, but unfortunately Xu Tongming did not lack the fifty taels of silver at all, and he refused the housekeeper again.
When this matter reached Jin Guizhong's ears, it became, and the housekeeper added one hundred taels of silver to Xu Tongming privately, and he gave one thousand three hundred taels to the house with the original market price of six hundred taels, and Xu Tongming was not satisfied.
It's really hard to raise villains and women, Kim Gyu-jung got angry, so he found Chairman Lee. This is a good matter, and Chairman Lee asked Kim Gyu-jung to go to Wang Zhutou.
Xu Tongming's family can live in a house worth six hundred taels of silver, of course, the family conditions are good, Xu Tongming's ancestors have opened a grocery store for three generations, and Xu Tongming is still like this.
Wang Zhutou found Xu Ji's grocery store, found contraband in the grocery store, and arrested Xu Tongming in Min County Prison without saying a word. Xu Tongming could roughly guess what was going on, and he was still very stubborn at first.
But possession of contraband is a serious capital crime, Xu Tongming insisted on two days in prison and was stubborn, passing on the news to let his family find a relationship.
The grocery store was sealed, and the small courtyard of the family's five houses could not be sold under the intervention of Wang Zhutou and others, so the Xu family had no choice but to borrow a hundred taels of seal money.
Just because he borrowed this 100 taels of silver, Xu Tongming was released from prison, but the shop at home is gone, and the home is gone.
In the end, under the introduction of Wang Zhutou, Jin Guizhong bought the small courtyard that was originally Xu Tongming from someone else for 2,600 taels of silver.
Fortunately, there was no personal injury in this incident, and Chairman Li sentenced Kim Gyu-jung to a two-year prison sentence and compensated Xu Tongming with 1,500 taels of silver.
1,500 taels of silver, of which 600 taels are used to compensate for the loss of the Xu family's small courtyard, 400 taels are to compensate for the loss of the sealed Xu Ji grocery store, and the remaining 500 taels are to compensate for the sins suffered by Xu Tongming's family in the past two years.
Regarding the persecution of Xu Tongming's family, Jin Guizhong was only the instigator, and there was also the specific person in charge, Wang Zhutou. Among them, Wang Zhutou benefited the most, not only did he forcibly occupy Xu Ji's grocery store, but even the money given to the Xu family was his.
In the end, he exchanged the one hundred taels of silver for the two thousand six hundred taels of silver in the golden gui.
Wang Zhutou benefited a total of 4,000 taels of silver from this incident, which of course was all stolen money.
Since Wang Zhutou had been inadvertently killed by Xu Xiangnian last night, he had to be exempted from punishment. As for the 4,000 taels of silver he improperly profited, he took out 300 taels to compensate Xu Tongming's family. The remaining 3,700 taels were temporarily confiscated to compensate those who had no indemnifiers.
Not only Xu Tongming's family was satisfied with this punishment, but even Kim Gyu-jung did not complain.
After Chairman Li only finished telling one case, Luo Xingxue couldn't listen to it. "You let this traitor tell me this, just to tell me that you let a group of Diao people override the good subjects of Yu State, which is what you call equality and fairness."