After noon, the fields were full of green wheat seedlings that could not be seen at a glance, and the ridges were full of onlookers, including ordinary people and squires of Changping Prefecture, and all eyes were on one place.

A large number of officials and officials gathered there, and in the middle of the crowd, a young official wearing a crimson official robe and embroidered with mandarin ducks on his patch was clustered.

In front of Wang Shouren are two large local families, the Liu family and the Zhou family.

The sun was shining, and it made people's eyes hurt.

But everyone tried their best to open their eyes to see, Wang Shouren's face was grim, "Benfu asks again, whose family is this sixteen,725 acres of land!" ”

"It's the deputy capital of Beijing, the imperial envoy of Liu Yushi."

"Where's the title deed! Take out the title deed and hand it over to this Fu to see! ”

“.”

The people in front of them were all silent, whether it was the people of the Liu family or the people of the Zhou family, they were all silent, and the atmosphere was deadlocked again, the title deed was there, but the owner of the field written on the title deed was not Liu Yushi, but his Zhou family.

"This land belongs to your Zhou family, but it is just hanging in the name of this Liu family. Your Zhou family has a daughter, married to the Liu family's Liu deputy capital Yushi who was an official in Beijing, and the second class is famous, and there is no need to pay taxes, and your Zhou family, as an in-law, hangs this land in the name of his Liu family, so that there is no need to pay taxes, yes or no? ”

The people of the two families were silent, and the governor did come prepared and found out their details, but so what.

More than 16,000 acres of land, if taxes are paid every year, what kind of amount should it be, how can his Zhou family be willing to be cut like this.

What's more, if you admit this matter, it will be another case of collusion between officials and gentry to conceal the property, and I heard that Wu Xiancheng was beaten to death with a rod last night on this charge.

How can we admit this, how can we recognize it?

Of course, they weren't worried about what the governor would dare to do to them, after all, the background of the two of them was a dignified deputy envoy and a number of high-ranking officials in the court.

Therefore, if they don't admit it, they don't believe that the governor can kill them.

Seeing that the two families were silent, Wang Shouren then asked: "Can't get the title deed?" ”

"My lord, it's not that I can't get it, but the title deed is with my brother."

Hearing this, Wang Shouren smiled, "It turns out that Liu Yushi was an official in Beijing, and he still carried the family deed with him, which is very rare." ”

Seeing him laughing, the people of the Liu family and the Zhou family also laughed, the governor was already soft, and the Liu Yushi of their family was soft, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate was in charge of impeachment, as well as the right to picket hundreds of officials.

As long as he is an official, he is congenitally afraid of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is afraid of the imperial history, not to mention that he is also the deputy imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the number three person in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"My lord doesn't know, my brother is afraid that this title deed will be lost, so he will take it with him."

Just when the atmosphere was happy, Wang Shouren suddenly restrained his smile and shouted: "It's ridiculous! The title deed is in his hands, how is the annual tax of Changping County collected? Or is it that the parents and officials of Changping County also have something to do with you! ”

A group of officials in Changping County were standing here, wanting to see how Wang Shouren would deal with this matter.

After all, these two are different from the Wu County Cheng, these two are the squires with the deepest background in Changping County and even Changping Prefecture.

Standing behind him was the third rank of the court.

But looking at it, I don't want the spearhead to turn to their side.

According to the regulations of the dynasty, when the tax is levied, it needs to be collected in comparison with the land deed, although the gentry's family does not need to pay taxes, but when the tax is collected in the summer and autumn, you still need to take out the land deed, so as to prove that this land is indeed your family.

After all, there is no basis for your words, and you can't touch your lips and say that this land is yours and that it is yours.

But in reality, that's exactly what happened.

Those who have meritorious names, jinshi, or vassal kings, they don't have to pay taxes, and the rest of the people attach the fields to their names, and they really touch their lips up and down, saying that this land is theirs, and that it is theirs. There is no need to take any land deeds to inspect at all.

Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, Huaxia is a place that pays attention to human feelings, rules are dead, people are alive, if everything is done in accordance with the rules and regulations, then you must not offend people everywhere, how can you mix in this system?

But these unspoken things can only be placed in secret, even if everyone knows how to deal with it, even blatantly.

But these things must never be put on the surface, and once they are put on the surface, they will be exposed to a kind of sun called law, called regulation.

It's just that they can't figure out whether this governor really wants to do things to this extent, even if he wants to change the law, it will be the same, and he can get by on face.

"Since there is no title deed to be inspected, the decree is passed on"

As he spoke, Wang Shouren's gaze turned to the clerk's office recorded next to him, "There is no owner here, but barren land, and all the 16,725 acres of land have been handed over to the imperial court, and they are all distributed among the local landless villagers!" ”

Hearing this, the expressions of the people present immediately changed, and the old man of the Zhou family immediately stood up, "Lord Governor, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, why do you need to do this?" Is it really going to be a big deal? ”

When the rest of the people heard this, including the squires who were watching from afar, they all nodded, and when they heard that they would be handed over to the state if they didn't admit it, they were all shocked, and they instantly had a sense of crisis in their hearts, and the governor was really crazy.

"Yes, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, why should the governor do everything?"

Wang Shouren looked at the old man of the Zhou family quietly.

He didn't say anything for a long time, this kind of silence made people feel terrible, and it wasn't until the old man of the Zhou family felt that his heart was infiltrating, and Wang Shouren asked: "Benfu is the governor of the imperial court, what kind of thing are you?" Dare to talk to Ben Fu like this? ”

The tone was very flat, not mixed with any emotion.

But it was this flat tone that said this, and said the sentence what kind of thing you are.

But it made the old man of the Zhou family immediately flushed, and he almost turned his back on it.

The rest of the people were also in an uproar, this master of the Zhou family, who did not respect three points in the entire Changping Prefecture, after all, his son-in-law was the deputy imperial envoy of the capital, and he was a big man who passed through the sky.

"Decay is nothing, but decay"

"But your son-in-law is the deputy envoy of the court." Wang Shouren answered, "You rely on having such a son-in-law, even if you are just a white body, you dare to be presumptuous in front of Ben Fu, isn't that so?" ”

"How is it?"

"No, don't say that the deputy envoy is your son-in-law, that is, your son is the deputy envoy, you Zhou Zongren is still a white body, but just a grass people, how dare you be presumptuous in front of Benfu? Ben Fu thinks of you old, hereby gracious, let you stand here and talk to Ben Fu, if you rely on the old and sell the old, Ben Fu will let you kneel here to reply! ”

Zhou Zongren's face turned pale with anger, and he pointed at Wang Shouren with his finger, but his breath surged to his throat, and he couldn't spit it out if he wanted to, "You"

"If you want to repair a book, let your son-in-law, who served as the deputy imperial envoy, impeach Benfu in the court, although for it, Benfu will follow, listen to it!"

After saying this, Wang Shouren ignored the old man of the Zhou family anymore, and shouted: "Insert cards!" ”

(End of chapter)