Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 128 Prudence
"What is piracy? What is fake fan?"

Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei curiously.

Zhang Fei explained: "Piracy means that those collections of poetry and poetry you bought were printed into books without Mr. Su's permission, and then sold to others for direct or related benefits.

As for the meaning of fake fans, just like you, it is because of people like you that piracy becomes profitable, but Mr. Su's interests and reputation have suffered losses. "

Xu Zhiqian quibbled: "Although what you said is reasonable, Mr. Su's reputation and interests have not been damaged!"

Zhang Fei snorted, "Why not? Let me ask you, are there any poems in the anthology you bought that were not written by Mr. Su?"

Xu Zhiqian nodded and said: "There will be a few songs, not like those written by Mr. Su."

"It's called flooding."

Zhang Fei also explained: "Those who are knowledgeable will naturally know that this is not written by Mr. Su, but those who don't know will think that those poor poems are also written by Mr. Su. Doesn't this damage Mr. Su's reputation?
As for profit, the poems written by Mr. Su are sold by others, but Mr. Su doesn't get any money. If this is not a violation of Mr. Su's interests, what is it?You are the accomplices. "

The more Xu Zhiqian listened, the more embarrassed she seemed to feel that she was wrong, her cheeks flushed slightly, "I don't want to, but... But Mr. Su himself doesn't sell poetry collections, he only buys the pirated editions you mentioned."

"This is the problem." Zhang Fei said: "This requires an honest and kind businessman to help great talents like Mr. Su, sell their poetry collections, and hand over part of the profits to Mr. Su and the others."

Xu Zhiqian asked: "An upright and kind businessman?"

"What kind of look is this? This is not an antonym."

"Pfft!"

Xu Zhiqian smiled, "Although it's not an antonym, it's similar. How can there be such a businessman."

Isn't it stupid who prints books and distributes the author's money?

If you want to divide the money, it means that the cost will increase, and the selling price will also have to increase, at least much higher than those pirated copies. How can this be sold!
"Isn't it right in front of you?"

"you?"

"That's right! Am I not upright and kind enough?" Zhang Fei shrugged and said with a smile, "Look at the lawsuits I've fought."

Xu Zhiqian asked in surprise, "You want to do this business?"

"I have this idea." Zhang Fei nodded.

Xu Zhiqian said, "Are you going to change your career?"

"Of course not." Zhang Fei shook his head angrily, and said, "Didn't we mention the issue of public opinion when we took the historian case before? If I don't break their absolute monopoly on public opinion, it will be very important to us in the future." Unfavorable, if you are not careful, you may be sued by them."

Xu Zhiqian's eyes lit up, "You want to use printing to interrupt their control over public opinion."

Zhang Fei nodded.

Xu Zhiqian pondered for a while, then shook her head and said, "This is unlikely."

"Why?" Zhang Fei asked.

Xu Zhiqian said: "Because the imperial court can control it, for example, books about astronomy and geography are prohibited from being printed by the people, and books such as the art of war are also not allowed to be printed. You want to use this to break their monopoly on public opinion , how could they let you succeed."

Zhang Fei asked curiously, "Why are these books banned from printing?"

Xu Zhiqian said: "Because these books may endanger the safety of the country. For example, astronomy books are about celestial phenomena, so how can they be easily snooped on? As for geography, if they are sold to Liao and Xixia, the consequences will be unimaginable. Needless to say, the books on the art of war .”

"I see."

Zhang Fei nodded slightly.

Xu Zhiqian said again: "If you say too much, you will lose it. What's more, if you write it on paper, it is an ironclad proof. If you plan to use printed books to control public opinion, you will easily be accused by them."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "So I don't plan to change my career, I must provide legal protection for my printed books."

Xu Zhiqian shook her head and said, "I'm afraid it's also difficult."

Speech crime is originally a pocket crime. The key is that the validity of speech is permanent. Not breaking the law at this moment does not mean not breaking the law ten years later. If the situation changes, the opponent can turn over the old score.

"No matter how difficult it is, you have to try it. After all, we only have one mouth, and no matter how much we can say, we can't say as much as they have so many mouths."

As he said that, Zhang Fei raised the pirated anthology, "Let's start with this anthology of poetry. If I can guarantee that their anthology of poetry will not be pirated, then we can also try to protect my reading materials from breaking the law."

In fact, he had thought about using printing to break the monopoly of public opinion by scholar-bureaucrats, but he was also a little worried about it. After all, this was a feudal era.

If it is not done well, it will set itself on fire.

Zhang Fei was also very cautious, trying to do it step by step.

Xu Zhiqian asked in surprise, "How do you guarantee it?"

"Of course it's a lawsuit!"

After speaking, Zhang Fei took out the contract signed with Su Shi and handed it to Xu Zhiqian.

After Xu Zhiqian took it, she looked at it for a while, and suddenly said excitedly, "It's Mr. Su's handwriting."

Zhang Fei asked in surprise, "You know all the handwriting?"

Xu Zhiqian glanced at him, "It's not unusual, and Mr. Su's handwriting is easy to recognize."

As she spoke, she looked carefully again.

Zhang Fei smiled secretly, she really deserves to be a little girl.I was so ashamed that I didn't recognize Li Qingzhao's handwriting at all.

After a while, Xu Zhiqian raised her head, "It turns out that Mr. Su asked you to file this lawsuit."

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "What do you think?"

Xu Zhiqian pondered a little, and said: "I think this lawsuit is quite easy to fight, easier than any previous lawsuit."

Zhang Fei snorted, "How do you say that?"

Xu Zhiqian said: "Don't you know, many officials in the court are dissatisfied with this phenomenon, and have punished some booksellers for it. If you sue, the court officials will also support you."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "That is to say, as long as Mr. Su responds to the higher authorities, the government will also punish this Ji Juxian."

Xu Zhiqian nodded and said, "This kind of thing has happened before."

Zhang Fei asked: "In this case, why did Mr. Su come to me?"

Xu Zhiqian blinked, "That's right! Why is Mr. Su looking for you?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Look carefully at this contract. Mr. Su's request is not as simple as punishing the gathered talents, but that I can put an end to this phenomenon."

Xu Zhiqian looked carefully again, and then said: "It can only be said that those booksellers violated morals, but they did not violate the laws and regulations. After all, poetry is different from property, so it is difficult to determine whether it is theft. If it is illegal to steal poetry, then Who will dare to recite other people's poems in the future?

In addition, not only these booksellers, but also among other literati, they copied each other's collections of poetry and lyrics. Is this considered illegal?If you just want to win this lawsuit, I don't think it is difficult, but if you want to put an end to such things with laws, it may be difficult, and those literati are unlikely to agree, and they may break the law by then. "

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "You can't give up fairness and justice just because of difficulties. Since doing so is against morality and infringes on the interests of others, then the court should legislate on it."

Xu Zhiqian glanced sideways: "You are just a pen, you can only rely on laws to argue, you have no right to make laws."

Zhang Fei pondered for a while, and said: "I have my own way, now we have to think about how to fight this lawsuit."

Xu Zhiqian pondered for a while, "The best way is to use the theft law to sue. I believe there is no need to go to court. After all, this also involves Mr. Su."

Zhang Fei said: "Then it doesn't make much sense, Mr. Su's request is not to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys."

Xu Zhiqian said: "But if the law of theft is not used to fight, there is no law to sue."

Zhang Fei said: "We have to go back and investigate carefully. If this lawsuit can be settled successfully, it will benefit us a lot. Let's go! Let's go back and study now."

"Now?"

"Yes! Are you okay?"

"No, didn't your store reopen today?"

"So what, you don't have any customers, so what are you doing here?"

".!"

Xu Zhiqian said: "So you don't worry at all."

"There's nothing to rush."

Zhang Fei said: "It's still in the stage of planting trees. I just need to make sure that I'm the one sitting underneath to enjoy the shade. Let's go!"

What else could Xu Zhiqian say, she could only get up and walk outside with him.

"Sanlang, where are you going?"

When I came to the door, I met Fan Li.

Zhang Fei said solemnly: "Big case."

"Big case?"

Fan Li said pleasantly: "But it has something to do with Mr. Nasu."

"Secret!"

Zhang Fei made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "As long as we win this lawsuit, it will be enough for us for three years."

Eat for three years?Ouch hello.Fan Li nodded happily, "Save it! Save it! I will never say more."

Zhang Fei said again: "I'll leave it to you here, I'll go back and study the case first."

"Hey!"

Fan Li nodded, and suddenly said: "Wait a minute, Saburo, this one lawsuit is enough for us for three years, so let's go to court, and don't do this tax calculation, anyway, we can't do it."

Zhang Fei said: "Look at the long-term, do you understand the long-term, anyway, we don't lose anything when it's open."

Fan Li said embarrassingly, "But it's very embarrassing!"

"Can this face be eaten?"

"That's impossible."

"That's all right! I'll go back first."

After saying that, Zhang Fei and Xu Zhiqian went out of the bookstore together, and left Lushi Lane in a carriage.

On the second floor diagonally opposite, two middle-aged men dressed as literati have been watching them leave.

These two people are Shen Huaixiao, the judge of Duzhi, and Tang Ji, the deputy envoy of the household department.

"Look, that kid left so quickly."

Tang Ji smiled proudly.

Shen Huai said filially: "In two days, you arrange people from the Commercial and Taxation Court to visit their shop, and you said that the Commercial and Taxation Court also wants to arrange people to go to their bookstore to calculate taxes."

Tang Ji said: "Why? We can kill him easily now."

Shen Huai filially said: "Unless his tongue can be cut off, otherwise, he will always be a hidden danger. What we are afraid of is not his tax calculation business, but his means of litigation. So the best way is to Bring him over and become one of our own, so that we can get away with it once and for all!"

(End of this chapter)