Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 141 The Wind Rises

"Kuanfu, why did you stop me just now?"

After leaving the Chuigong Hall, Tang Jie spoke to Wen Yan excitedly.

Wen Yanbo sighed: "If I could stop you, I wouldn't stop you. Your Majesty didn't declare Zhang San to win the lawsuit at that time, it was already a great deal of face to us."

Tang Jie's old face was full of annoyance and embarrassment, "It's also my fault that I'm useless to wait, and I can't compete with a person with a pen."

Wen Yanbo comforted: "It's settled, it's okay, we can still rely on this edict to persuade the officials."

"Prevent things in order to control them", in the final analysis, it is still a pocket method, it depends on how you can argue.

Tang Jie sighed: "Then Wang Anshi will definitely make a big fuss about it."

The law of the ancestors was originally a great weapon to curb Wang Anshi's reform, but now it may provide support for Wang Anshi.

This is where that lawsuit hurts the most.

Everyone can use the pocket method.

Wen Yanbo smiled wryly: "There is no other way."

It is impossible not to pay the price for that lawsuit.

The person standing opposite is not a good man or a believer!
This is actually not surprising to them.

Although they expected that it was impossible for Zhao Xu to directly judge Zhang Fei to win at that time, they also knew that Zhang Fei's discussion of the ancestral law was very beneficial to the emperor.

It is very likely that the emperor still wants to set the law of the ancestors.

Leaving aside the emperor's personal interests, the previous ancestral law is a roadblock to the new law!
Therefore, before starting the reform, this roadblock must be removed.

Otherwise, every word in the new law may violate the law of the ancestors.

"If you lose, you have to admit it. How old are you, and you still want to play naughty."

Wang Anshi, who came out later, just teased Sima Guang.

"I don't want to argue with you today."

After speaking, Sima Guang quickened his pace.

Wang Anshi immediately chased after him, "Wait a minute, I still have something to talk to you about."

Sima Guang snorted, "I have nothing to talk to you about."

"You got it! You got it!"

Wang Anshi directly pulled Sima Guang's sleeve.

Sima Guang was terrified, "What a shame you are talking about, let go quickly."

Wang Anshi just held on, "I really have something serious to talk to you about."

"You let go first."

"Relax and don't go."

"Wang Jiefu!"

"Okay, okay, I'll let go first."

Wang Anshi let go of his hands and asked, "How do you plan to judge the Yan family's case?"

Sima Guang was taken aback for a moment, and replied cautiously: "You have already said that you have broken the law by quoting the law, but you still ask?"

Wang Anshi said: "If you break the law, all the bookstores in the capital will be sued. You can't punish all the bookstores to those authors."

Sima Guang said: "I have thought about it myself."

Wang Anshi said: "Just wait a little longer."

"Wait for what?"

"I will immediately ask His Majesty to legislate on this matter."

"This is a judicial matter, you also want to take care of it?" Sima Guang said angrily.

Wang Anshi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I am establishing a tax law. Didn't I just say that if you want to print a book in the future, you must obtain the author's consent, and the bookstore can pay the remuneration in exchange for the author's consent. I will suggest to Your Majesty, Levy the deed tax in this regard, so as to protect the rights and interests of authors.

If you wait for me to promulgate this tax law, then you will be able to punish according to law, or make those booksellers pay money to authors, or not allow printing. "

He is trying to draw a clear line with me. He doesn't care about judicial matters, but I can't interfere with his financial reforms.Sima Guang looked at Wang Anshi suspiciously, "Is this your idea?"

Wang Anshi asked, "How do you know it wasn't my idea?"

Sima Guang snorted, "If it's up to you, I'm afraid the imperial court will seal it by itself."

Wang Anshi was a little embarrassed, and coughed: "I won't hide it from you, this is Zhang San's idea for me."

"I know."

Sima Guang looked at him with contempt.

Wang Anshi said: "Do you agree?"

Sima Guang asked, "How much tax do you plan to collect?"

"[-]%." Wang Anshi said: "It is collected from the author, so that the price of the book will not increase too much."

Not much.Sima Guang suddenly asked: "It seems that you are ready."

Wang Anshi chuckled.

Sima Guang nodded helplessly: "Okay! I'll wait for you."

Wang Anshi was obviously trying to test him, and he was also guarding against him. You can carry out judicial reform, but the tax law must not be included in the judicial system. He was very worried that Sima Guang would use this case to establish a tax law. very big.

If Sima Guang refused to agree, he would definitely interfere in the judiciary.

And Sima Guang knew that he had no right to reform the tax law. After all, the emperor did not support him, so he could only agree to Wang Anshi.

Our well water does not violate the river water.

This heart is also uneasy, and finally it is coming.

Yes.

coming soon.

Not to mention that Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi were impatient to wait, even the opposition had no patience to wait.

They are already kneeling on the execution ground, but the guillotine has not fallen for a long time, and the onlookers are uncomfortable watching it!
Zhao Xu first officially promulgated the law of ancestors.

And he played very well this time, he directly engraved Taizong's edict on the stone tablet, and then stood it in front of the gate of the imperial city.

The imperial edict was promulgated yesterday, and the stele is here today.

Apparently it was prepared long ago.

Can the ministers not understand what is going on?

can only say.

You little emperor is cruel enough!

But whoever made them lose the lawsuit, they can only swallow the bitter fruit with tears.

But everyone knows that the best is yet to come.

Sure enough, on the second day after the stele was erected, Zhao Xu officially announced that he would carry out reforms aimed at the country's maladministration.

This came up as a blockbuster.

The courtiers were all dumbfounded.

Especially the officials of the third division headed by Jixiang Tang Jie.

Establish three divisions and regulations?
Then what are our three divisions?
Who is real?
Wang Anshi quickly told them who was the real third division.

On the day this edict was promulgated, Wang Anshi promulgated the Royalty Law in the name of the Three Divisions and Regulations Division.

The law will be summarized in the deed law, that is, the tax is collected by deed.

Also on the same day, the right-hand man under the Kaifeng mansion filed a lawsuit against Yan Jidao and gave his own verdict.

It was determined that Sanluzhai was illegal.

And interpretation is conventional judgment.

That's the way the Kaifeng government judged, and my small court can only judge like this.

But the verdict went back to Kaifeng Prefecture for review.

The Kaifeng government also issued amendments and explanations for the judgment of Youxianggong, mainly in three points. First, the act of printing other people's works for profit without the author's permission will be regarded as illegal.

There are still many manuscripts in contemporary times.

But the regulations only state "printing". In other words, hand-copying is allowed, even if you copy and sell it.

It can be seen that this method is specifically for printing.

Second, the protection period is 50 years after the author's death. If you want to print the poems of Li Bai and Du Fu, it does not violate this regulation.

The third is the matter of specific compensation, which is set at a fine of [-] pennies. After all, this business is not a kind of sudden profit at present, and the fine cannot be set too high.

However, it was not fully implemented in Bianjing until seven days later.

This gives the printing workshop a buffer time.

Of course, Sanluzhai was not sentenced to Yan Jidao.

And ordered Sanluzhai to immediately stop printing and selling any collection of poems about Yan Shu. If they want to continue selling, they must obtain the authorization of the Yan family.

This decree and this case were implemented at the same time, and the copyright law came naturally.

Of course Sima Guang would not stand up and cooperate with Wang Anshi himself.

Lu Gongzhuo was his mutual friend with Wang Anshi, and also supported Wang Anshi's reform, so Sima Guang asked Lu Gongzhuo to cooperate with Wang Anshi.

Many literati and scholar-bureaucrats were very excited about this.

But the officials of the third division were all stupid.

You promulgate tax laws, we don't know anything about it.

It can be seen that the regulations on the establishment of the three divisions are above their three divisions!

The roof of the imperial city was scolded immediately.

This is really shameless.

Many people never thought that Wang Anshi would do such a thing.

Of course, some people thought of it.

at dusk.

"Mr. Wen is really good at predicting things, he really did this." Sima Guang sighed.

At the beginning, Wen Yanbo saw that the reform was imminent, but Wang Anshi did not rectify the administration of officials for a long time, which was unreasonable. The only explanation was that Wang Anshi planned to bypass the whole system.

Wen Yanbo said with a wry smile: "But I didn't expect him to be so ruthless. He directly promulgated the tax law without the discussion of the second government and the third department. Although this tax law is trivial, it shows the power of this department! The laws of the ancestors must be promulgated first. It can be said that there are three divisions in this system, and each of them is trampling on the laws of the ancestors."

The ancestral system is to divide the powers of affairs. You are good, monopolizing the power is completely the opposite.

Sima Guang was also very worried, but he still tried to persuade him: "After all, this is only temporary. The key is the new law. We don't know the details yet. Duke Wen still needs to be patient. Don't be impulsive!"

Wen Yanbo glanced at him, and sighed: "Of course I know, but even if I don't play the memorial, I can't stop the censors and admonishers below from making the memorial. Someone must have made the memorial to impeach Wang Anshi."

This Yushitai is a very strange department. Yushi Zhongcheng can't stop the Yushi playing below, and Yushi Zhongcheng himself is often impeached.

After speaking, Wen Yanbo glanced at Sima Guang again, and said, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to fight that Wang Anshi in the courtroom, so as to avoid party disputes?"

Sima Guang glanced at him, his eyebrows darkened and he began to think.

And after Wang Anshi quarreled with Tang Jie all day, he left the battlefield to Lu Huiqing and went home by himself.

As soon as I got home, I heard my wife's laughter. It turned out that there was a guest at home.

It was none other than Zhang Fei.

"Why did you come here, kid?"

Wang Anshi looked at Zhang Fei suspiciously.

He knows Zhang Fei's character too well, he will go to the Three Treasures Hall for everything!

"I'm here to congratulate Master Wang."

Zhang Fei hurriedly got up to congratulate.

Wang Anshi waved his hands and said, "The work is not done yet, so why should I be happy?"

Mrs. Wang said: "After all, Zhang San also has good intentions."

Wang Anshi glanced at his wife, and was forced to say to Zhang Fei: "Okay, okay, I know what you mean."

Mrs. Wang said again: "Husband, let me pour you a pot of hot tea."

Wang Anshi hurriedly said: "Thank you ma'am, thank you ma'am, I've been arguing with that old man Tang all day today, and I'm done talking."

Mrs. Wang persuaded: "Everyone is a minister in the same hall, so please talk about it if you have something to say."

Wang Anshi groaned: "Ma'am, you don't know something, I don't want to argue with him, I was blocked in the room by him and scolded, there is no way!"

Mrs. Wang shook her head helplessly, "I'll help you pour tea."

After saying that, she said to Zhang Fei: "Zhang San, you stay here for dinner, and I will ask my servants to prepare more dishes."

Zhang Fei hurriedly said: "Thank you Madam for your kindness, but I still have some things to deal with later, so I won't bother Madam."

Mrs. Wang didn't force her to go out of the house.

As soon as Mrs. Wang left, Wang Anshi asked Zhang Fei, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Zhang Fei chuckled: "Scholar Wang should know about the tax-calculated transactions in my small shop."

Wang Anshi nodded.

Zhang Fei said: "Isn't this the royalty law promulgated, but those booksellers and literati may not know how to pay taxes, and the establishment of the three divisions may not be manned enough. Why doesn't Master Wang calculate the royalties and pay them to the government?" small shop."

Wang Anshi's eyes lit up, and he looked at Zhang Fei again, "Be more straightforward."

Zhang Fei said directly: "The third division used power before and threatened those businessmen not to ask me to calculate taxes. If Master Wang can give this tax calculation to the small shop, then the merchants will know who is the real third division. , who should listen to from now on.”

Pointing at Zhang Fei, Wang Anshi laughed and said, "You boy."

Zhang Fei chuckled.

Without thinking too much, Wang Anshi nodded and said, "Okay! I promise you."

"Thank you, Master Wang."

For Wang Anshi, this was really a stroke of genius. The establishment of the third division of the Regulations Division must immediately establish its prestige and credibility. Zhang Fei took the initiative to turn himself into a tree of Shang Yang, so he had no reason to refuse.

Coincidentally, the Third Division had been besieging the Bianjing Law Firm for tax calculations. If he could help Zhang Fei turn it around, then everyone would know who to listen to in the future.

When Mrs. Wang came into the room with tea, she found that Zhang Fei had already left, "Is Zhang San gone?"

Wang Anshi said: "He just talked to me about small things, and left after talking."

After Madam Wang put down the refreshments, she glanced at Wang Anshi and said with a smile, "This Zhang San is really capable of making a fuss, and there are really many ways to make money. I heard that he opened another bookstore."

"Hehe, my cousin is right. This kid has a lot of tricks, one plan after another, sometimes surprising, sometimes frightening."

While talking, Wang Anshi suddenly felt something was wrong, looked at his wife nervously, and said, "Cousin, you didn't sign any contract with him, did you?"

Mrs. Wang quickly praised: "Cousin is really good at predicting things!"

This brat, it's no wonder he walks so fast, it turns out.Wang Anshi said depressedly: "Cousin, our family does not lack this little money, what do you promise him?"

Mrs. Wang said: "I just think that the royalty law was promulgated by you personally, my cousin, and our family should also set an example."

As Wang Anshi's wife, she also has eloquence.

Wang Anshi said awkwardly: "But it is my work after all, you should ask me first anyway."

Mrs. Wang snorted: "I saw that the booksellers who pirated your poems and articles didn't ask you, but my cousin didn't seem to care, so I made my own decision after thinking about it."

Wang Anshi picked up a cup of tea in embarrassment, and wanted to ask his cousin how much he sold it for. If it was too much, he might be suspected of accepting bribes, but he was too embarrassed to say so.

Mrs. Wang didn't know what her cousin was thinking, and she took the initiative to tell her: "One hundred guan a year, for five years, he will also give the Yan family this price."

(End of this chapter)