As soon as Xiao Zhihan and the others left, Cheng Sifang completely lost protection, and the officers and soldiers were deeply afraid that Cheng Sifang would also have a good martial arts like Xiao Zhihan and others, and struggled to knock Cheng Sifang to the ground.

Above the county office, Cheng Quartet was tied up with five flowers, and because he was a fellow murderer, he was also shackled and teased. There were not a few people watching the excitement outside the door, and a few short people stood on tiptoe and looked around, wanting to see what punishment this murderer would receive.

The county order was promoted, and the officials lit the killing stick, Cheng Quartet had never seen this kind of battle, and when he first saw it, he was indeed startled, but he was extremely adaptable, and he was not panicked for a moment. Seeing a bowl of tea on the table of the county order, Cheng Quartet said: "Alas, I originally wanted to come here to buy tea to do business, but I didn't expect that the tea was not purchased, but it was planted in the hands of Maizi." Thinking of this, Cheng Sifang couldn't help but laugh to himself.

This laughter aroused the dissatisfaction of everyone present, and the county magistrate said angrily: "Dare to make a fool of the people! Above the court, dare to laugh at will?" Cheng Sifang laughed louder: "Hahaha, I just laughed at my own stupidity, I didn't come to Yuzhou in one fell swoop, how could I encounter such a thing in this small place?"

The county order was about to attack again, and the county next to him persuaded: "My lord, let's try the case first." "There are too many onlookers, and as a parent, the county magistrate needs to set a good example in front of the people. So the county magistrate calmed down and asked, "What's your name?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it, the name Cheng Sifang was nothing special, but the name of Houwangzhai was the first time they had heard of it, and the county magistrate asked: "Houwangzhai? What kind of place is that? Which state and county does it belong to?" Cheng Sifang smiled faintly: "The mountain and small village have been isolated from the world for more than 100 years. The county commander was shocked, and there was a shocking sound: "Nonsense! The soldiers and civilians of the Han Dynasty, where they lived, and what they did, were all recorded in the book, and you were clearly lying in front of the court!"

Cheng Sifang said: "I didn't lie, maybe the county commander is wrong, right?" The county commander sneered: "Will I be mistaken?" He turned his head to the county and said, "Take the file." The county retreated, and after a while, he took several files and put them on the public case.

The county magistrate pointed to the file and said: "These are the records of all the populations and locations of the Han Dynasty, and today I will spend some time looking for the Houwangzhai you mentioned, lest you say that I have wronged you." After that, I looked through it with the county Cheng, and in order to see fairness, I also asked the Quartet to look at it together.

With such a huge number of files, it took a lot of time to read them by three people alone, and the three people read the files from the morning to the evening, and the result surprised Cheng Quartet, there was really no record of Houwangzhai on the file. However, Houwangzhai has also been isolated from the world for more than 100 years, and it is natural that there is no record, Cheng Sifang quickly understood this, only closed his eyes, and sighed at the sky.

The county commander sneered and said: "Hmph, what's the matter, there's no record, right? I also asked you to consult the file together, don't say that I wronged you." Cheng Quartet was speechless, only kneeling in the hall.

"Smack!"

Shocked Tang Mu slapped again, and the county commander shouted: "Cheng Quartet! You are a businessman, and you do your duty to do business, why do you first hurt people, then kill people, and then lie about your origin in the court? Who are you?"

Cheng Sifang knew that it was useless to say anything, but the county order asked, and he also replied: "Cheng Sifang is my name changed after I came out of Houwangzhai, and my original name was Wang Cai." The county magistrate also said: "You can not only lie about your location, but also lie about your name, let me ask you, who registered you in the file?"

At the time of the Han census, all people were to be entered into the file, and it was stipulated that all government-controlled household registrations must be recorded in the household registration one by one according to their names, ages, places of origin, identity, appearance, wealth, and other items for management.

Every person who is registered in the household register has his own calf, and the calf is written on his identity and where he came from, if he is not registered, he is a person who has lost his nationality, and the easiest way for the government to meet a person who has lost his nationality is to enter it into the file. If the person who has lost his nationality violates the royal law, it will be serious, because he does not have a household registration, whether it is a big official or a small official mansion, he can dispose of it at will, even if he is killed and buried, he does not need to report it, anyway, he is a person who has no household registration, and no one knows if he dies. Cheng Sifang has lived in Houwangzhai for a lifetime, and Houwangzhai has been cut off from the outside world for more than 100 years, how can the Han have a record of Cheng Sifang?

When the county magistrate heard Cheng Quartet's question, he thought in his heart that he was a person who had lost his nationality, and asked: "Where is your calf?" Cheng Sifang was stunned again: "Wooden calf?" The county magistrate smiled: "You have no nationality and no calf, and you dare to do business? What a bold man! You obviously want to evade taxes, and your crime will be added to the first degree!"

During the Han Dynasty, merchants had a humble status, and the people were divided into four levels, and the merchants were the lowest people. Among them, when the industry and commerce inspect the population, they must enter it separately from the farmers, and the taxes and treatment are far from those of the farmers. If a person wants to do business, he must be approved, and in order to be approved, he must have a household registration. Many of the petty traders were not merchants, but farmers, and they did not need permission to sell their crops in the market, while those who weaved mats and sold their crafts were divided into "work" and sold their craft without approval. Only businessmen must obtain the approval of the county government to buy and sell, otherwise it is smuggling, and once caught, it is a capital offense.

Now Cheng Sifang is a person who has lost his nationality, is suspected of evading taxes, and is even more a businessman who has not been approved, and all the transactions he does are smuggling.

How did Cheng Sifang know that there were so many rules for doing business outside? Cheng Sifang couldn't answer a word of the county order's question. Seeing that Cheng Quartet did not answer, the county magistrate sneered: "Come on, put this Diao people in prison! Detain him for three or five days, and then execute him after I report it." ”

The sentence of the county order is just a routine, and in the heart of the county order, Cheng Sifang is already a dead man, so he directly says "execute again".

The officials received the order and dragged Cheng Sifang out of the court alive and put him in prison. Seeing this, the masses applauded one after another, only to say that there was one less profiteer in the world. It's funny to say that there was not a single merchant in the crowd.

A man wearing a hat lowered his head and dispersed with the crowd, and said in his heart: "This is really bad, how can they kill people in the bazaar, big brother?" This person is Zhuge Xu Feng, who has not shown his face in the bazaar.