Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 28
Based on Zhang Fei's borrowing of "Song Xing Tong", Xu Zhiqian's expectations for him immediately decreased by a billion points.

Sharpening the gun.

Does this work?

Zhang Fei has indeed studied "Song Xingtong", but he will not be so stupid as to memorize the whole text. Laws and regulations are like dictionaries, and he will look them up when he uses them.

While checking, write down.

If you use it a lot, you will naturally remember it.

I really don’t need to memorize it backwards, just remember the key ones, commonly used ones, and have a general impression of others.

It's the third watch.

Xu Zhiqian, who had been running all day, did not fall asleep early, but sat by the candlelight, resting her chin in one hand. Although there was an open "Song Xingtong" on the table, her eyes were not on the book at all. .

She was really able to memorize it backwards, but she couldn't find a way to get justice for Li Si.

Boom boom boom!
There was a knock on the door.

Xu Zhiqian was startled, and then heard someone outside the door calling softly: "Sister Qian'er."

It was Ome's voice.

"come in."

With a creak, the candle flickered, Xu Zhiqian hurriedly raised her hand to protect the fragile flame, and saw Qingmei enter the room again.

"Sister Qian'er, I went to see it just now. There is still candlelight in Zhang San's room, and he just sent some pastries and tea to him. It seems that he will not sleep for a while."

Xu Zhiqian nodded and said, "It seems that he is not trying to perfunctory me."

Qingmei asked: "Sister Qian'er, do you think he can think of a way?"

Xu Zhiqian sighed quietly: "I am also a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so I don't expect anything from him, but Dad seems to be very optimistic about him, I hope he can find a way."

Zhang Fei's initial strategy was to use Xu Zhiqian to cast a wide net to see if he could catch a big fish, not that he really wanted to uphold justice and do justice for the heavens.

He is very clear that he does not have this ability at present.

For him, the best result is to gain both fame and fortune while weeding out the strong and supporting the weak.

The result is fame and fortune, and the process can be to weed out the strong and support the weak.

It can be seen that he is selective.

Based on this, he shouldn't spend too much effort on this case. After all, Xu Zun has said that this lawsuit is very difficult to fight, and there is almost no possibility of winning.

But people are complicated.

Although Zhang Fei didn't show it, he actually sympathized with Li Si very much in his heart. He felt that Chen Yuteng had gone too far. He had already taken his wife away, but he was still not satisfied and insisted on forcing him to death.

He is willing to work hard to see if he can save it.

But when he read all the laws on lending in "Song Xingtong", he felt even more desperate.

This "Song Xingtong" was completely born out of "Tang Law Shuyi", but due to the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty, many regulations were added in terms of lending, most of which were summarized in "Miscellaneous Orders".

Although most of the regulations are biased towards creditors, they also protect the rights and interests of debtors, and the considerations are considered very detailed. The wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated.

For example, the conversion issue mentioned by Xu Zun before is also clearly stipulated in the law:
"Those who exchange millet and wheat for millet and wheat are allowed to rely on private contracts, and the officials will ignore them."

It means borrowing rice for rice, borrowing money for money, not repaying money in kind, so there is no conversion problem.

The intention was good, but it turned out to be self-defeating, and instead deceived more people.

It can be seen that usury is very difficult to restrain.

Therefore, the interest on private loans is often two or three times the principal. The imperial court also clearly prohibits revolving interest, but in fact it cannot be prohibited at all.

Unless it is the kind of blatant plundering and deception, they can manage it. Generally, they choose to follow the private contract and ignore the official contract.

You all know that the interest rate is very high, if you still want to borrow it, then who can you blame.

Of course, who dares to blame the court.

"Ugh!"

Like a scumbag, Zhang Fei threw "Song Xingtong" on the table, which he had spent the night with, and shook his head: "It seems that some things are hard to succeed with just hard work!"

There was a trace of frustration in his tone.

Apparently he was ready to give up.

If this contract is used in future generations, it will definitely be worth a dozen, but it is almost impossible to fight today.

Stretching, Zhang Fei came to the window and opened it, but saw that the sky in the east had already turned pale, "Ah! It's already dawn. It's been a long time since I worked all night like this."

While moving his arms, he looked into the distance, the cool morning breeze blowing away the tiredness on his face.

"Hey, I'm going to explain it to Mrs. Xu today. There is nothing I can do about it! Oh! I will be ridiculed by her again. What kind of stupid thing am I doing?"

After standing for a while, Zhang Fei suddenly felt a little hungry, so he went back to the table, picked up a piece of pastry and ate it.

"Huh? What is the household marriage law?"

Zhang Fei clearly remembered that he turned to the page of Miscellaneous Orders, turned his head to look at the window, turned his head back, and said to himself: "That's right! I'm still a single dog now. To be able to have one wife and multiple concubines, hehe, you need to understand the current marriage law."

So he picked up "Song Xingtong" on the table, and read it while eating pastries.

But looking at it, his face gradually became serious. He suddenly threw the pastry in his hand aside, and from the documents on the table, he dug out the few copies of the contract and read it.

Looking at it, he was overjoyed, and said: "Yes! This official has political laws, and the people follow private contracts. It is aimed at civil disputes, but if I can break into criminal disputes, then this iron law will not be violated. Since I broke it, it seems that I am still experienced, but I didn't think of this, I really shouldn't!"

at dusk.

Xu Zhiqian stood on the corridor, looked at Zhang Fei's room from a distance, and asked Qingmei beside him, "Has he never come out?"

Qingmei shook her head and said: "But I asked Uncle Rong who just brought dinner to his room, Uncle Rong said that Zhang San was still reading, so he didn't talk to him."

Xu Zhiqian twitched the corner of her mouth, and said depressedly: "He didn't know how to ask me for help, and even said to cooperate with me."

Zhang Fei didn't go out for a day, and Xu Zhiqian tossed and turned on the bed. Seeing that it was dawn, she got up, washed up, and hurried to the front yard without thinking about breakfast. When she was in the small courtyard, she hesitated in front of the courtyard gate.

She wanted to knock on Zhang Fei's door several times, but she was embarrassed, she was a lady, and she ran to knock on the man's door early in the morning, what was it like.

"Sister Qian'er."

"what?"

Xu Zhiqian was startled, turned her head to look, saw that it was Uncle Rong, and hurriedly asked: "Uncle Rong, are you here to deliver food to Zhang San?"

Uncle Rong shook his head and said: "Zhang Sanlang just had breakfast, and now he is taking a walk with the master in the front yard."

When Xu Zhiqian heard this, she immediately walked to the front yard.

Seeing Zhang Fei talking and laughing happily with his father in the courtyard, he was overjoyed, did he think of a way.

"Morning, Daddy!"

Xu Zhiqian walked over and greeted Xu Zun.

Zhang Fei took the initiative to say hello very tactfully: "Good morning, Mrs. Xu."

"morning!"

Xu Zhiqian glanced at Zhang Fei, pretending to be relaxed and asked: "Have you figured out a solution?"

Zhang Fei first glanced at Xu Zun, then laughed at himself and said, "It's been two days of messing around."

Xu Zhiqian said: "How do you say that?"

Zhang Fei said: "Because there is no need to go to court at all, just ask Li Si to sue the officials."

Xu Zhiqian was confused and said, "I still don't understand."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "The reason why this lawsuit is difficult to fight is that everyone is doing it like this, and the people really need to borrow money, and the imperial court has no way to solve this problem, so naturally it cannot intervene.

But now it is different. Now the imperial court is preparing for the reform, that is to say, this situation will be improved. At this moment, the imperial court needs some cases to fully prove the rationality of the reform.

Now it depends on who dares to sue, whoever sues will win.In fact, I was able to win that lawsuit before, and the situation between the DPRK and China also helped me a lot. "

Xu Zhiqian understood it, and she also knew that Wang Anshi was responsible for bringing this case to Bianjing, but she didn't quite believe it was so simple!
So she looked at Xu Zun.

Xu Zun stroked his beard and said, "Father can't guarantee whether it will be successful, but the court does have plans to implement the new law recently, and your Uncle Wang has also mentioned the issue of private debt many times."

Xu Zhiqian's face brightened, she had no doubts about her father, and said: "Then I let Li Si go to sue the officials?"

"tell!"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Sue immediately, if you don't win, I will guarantee compensation."

Seeing that Zhang Fei was full of confidence and that Xu Zunshu was silent, Xu Zhiqian felt relieved, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send someone to contact Li Si."

Xu Zundao: "Qian'er, don't worry, you should eat your breakfast first."

"Know it!"

The sound has come from afar.

Xu Zun shook his head helplessly.

Looking at Xu Zhiqian's hurrying back, Zhang Fei frowned suddenly, and said, "Grandmother, Ling Qianjin can show the utmost care to a farmer she doesn't know, why is she so mean to me?"

Xu Zun hummed: "Why do you treat you like this, don't you know in your heart?"

Zhang Fei said embarrassingly: "That's really just a misunderstanding."

Xu Zundao: "Whether you misunderstood or not is actually not important. The important thing is that you have to understand that a person's reputation is like the embankment of thousands of miles. It takes years or even decades to build it. But if you don't pay attention, little A small ant hole can cause a dike of a thousand miles to collapse."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Thank you for your teaching, actually, I understand the truth, but I think being a gentleman is too tiring, and it's not suitable for me."

Xu Zun asked: "Then you want to be a villain?"

Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "I just want to be an ordinary person with flesh and blood."

Xu Zun stroked his beard: "It's okay to be casual, suave and open-minded, but you have to remember, if you dare to make mistakes in big right and wrong, then I will be the first to spare you."

Zhang Fei hesitated for a moment, then said solemnly: "I can promise my benefactor on this point."

"Listen first." Xu Zun smiled, and suddenly said in a low voice: "By the way, if you can't win this lawsuit, you'll be the one to watch it."

The corner of Zhang Fei's mouth raised: "Don't worry, benefactor, I will definitely win."

(End of this chapter)