Chapter 97 Xiongzhou City
Official crimes are tried by Dali Temple. The Ministry of Punishment can only send people to participate in the trial and play a supervisory role. However, the officials let the Ministry of Punishment directly handle people.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Punishment has arrested officials very rarely, and none of these officials have been able to escape intact.
In the eyes of the criminal department officials who led the team to capture Feng Deguang, Feng Deguang was finished, and naturally they would not be polite to him.
"My official is Yu Shi Zhongcheng. Even if he wants to be arrested, it will be Dali Temple who will arrest him. Why should the Ministry of Punishments arrest people?" Feng Deguang's wife said angrily.
"Shut up!"
Feng Deguang grabbed his wife and smiled at the official: "Can I say a few words to my wife?"
The official hesitated and said: "Okay. Yes, you can, but you have to do it quickly and not out of the lower official’s sight.”
“Thank you!”
Feng Deguang thanked him, took his wife to the side, and whispered a few words. , then walked back and said with a smile: "Let's go."
"Let's go!"
The officials from the Ministry of Justice did not ask anyone to take Feng Deguang into custody. Instead, they asked two government servants to follow Feng Deguang and took Feng Deguang out of Feng's house.
After Feng Deguang was taken away, Feng Deguang’s wife quickly came to the study and found a mechanism to open the secret room according to Feng Deguang’s words.
Mrs. Feng walked into the secret room and followed the stairs to the bottom. She saw many ancient shelves in the secret room with various treasures placed on them.
In addition, there are some wooden boxes, and I don’t know what’s inside.
Mrs. Feng rummaged through a book shelf without even looking at it. She quickly found the mezzanine, opened it, and got a ledger.
When I opened it, I saw many names written on it.
After getting the account book, Mrs. Feng hurriedly left the secret room, and then according to the list above, she and her son visited each house with gifts.
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Censor Zhongcheng was arrested, and soon the news spread throughout Bianjing.
For the common people, it just adds something to talk about, and few really care.
Let alone a censor Zhongcheng, even if the official family dies, it will not matter much to ordinary people.
But for Bianjing officialdom, it was a thunder.
Some people are happy, some are worried, and some are indifferent.
However, the next day, Zha Zi interceding for Feng Deguang filled the official records like snowflakes.
The official held a piece of paper in his hand, and what was written on it was indeed the home where Mrs. Feng and her son Feng Mingsong visited after Feng Deguang was arrested.
"It seems that Feng Deguang has a wide range of friends. His wife and son only visited a dozen friends, but there were dozens of officials who interceded for him." The official sneered.
Feng Deguang has only been arrested for a long time. Most people don’t even know what Feng Deguang committed, but they plead for him. This is obviously a taboo.
The officials knew without thinking that these people were probably favored by Feng Deguang over the years. They were worried that Feng Deguang would confess them, so they interceded for Feng Deguang this time.
The official picked up a few Zazis at random and looked at them. He even saw the Zazis from the Minister of Dali Temple, saying that the official review should come from Dali Temple, and it was against the rules for the Ministry of Punishment to arrest people.
"Take off all these ties. Anyone who pleads for mercy will be fined one month's salary, and the minister of Dali Temple will be fined half a year's salary!" the official said calmly.
"Yes!" Eunuch Liu responded and asked people to remove all the thorns.
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The person who interceded for Feng Deguang was fined a salary. Not only did he not worry or fear, but he breathed a sigh of relief. They pleaded for Feng Deguang. In addition to worrying that Feng Deguang would confess them, they were actually testing the official's attitude.
The officials have ordered the Ministry of Punishment to arrest them. It is likely that they have already obtained a lot of evidence. The officials may already know about them.
As the saying goes, the law does not punish everyone. These officials all know that many people have bribed Feng Deguang in recent years, and it is impossible for the officials to hold them all accountable.
Now that the officials only fine them one month's salary, it shows that the officials have no intention to investigate further. Otherwise, the officials can completely ignore them and question them one by one after getting the evidence.
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"Your Highness, this is the detailed regulations on how to divide people into acres that I have drawn up based on what Your Highness said. Please take a look at it." Wang Anshi held up a thick Zhazi. said.
Sanshui stepped forward to take it and gave it to Zhao Xing.
Zhao Xing asked Wang Anshi to sit down and began to read.
At first glance, this essay contained tens of thousands of words, which gave Zhao Xing a headache.
However, he still looked at it seriously and had to say that Wang Anshi was really powerful. The system he formulated was very complete. He proposed many things that Zhao Xing had not thought of and formulated preventive measures.
Finally, Wang Anshi also proposed that if we want to implement the practice of dividing the land into acres, we need to count the acres of land in the world.
Zhao Xing pondered for a while after reading it, and said: "The system formulated by Wang Xima is very perfect, and I can't see anything wrong with it for now. However, for every benefit, there will be a disadvantage. If you can't see it, there will be a disadvantage." It doesn't mean it doesn't exist. No matter how hard you think about it, you can improve it. When I become the governor of Kaifeng in the future, I will report it to my father and see if it can be tried out in the entire Kaifeng mansion. Only through practice can we find some omissions that we can't think of. Adjust in time.
Otherwise, if there are any mistakes in the nationwide implementation, the impact will be too great."
Wang Anshi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he praised: "Your Highness is wise to choose a place to try it out. It’s a good idea!”
“Wang Xima has nothing to do. He can also go and understand all aspects of Kaifeng Prefecture, see what the shortcomings are, and formulate improvement methods when he becomes the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture in the future. Let’s try it out,” Zhao Xing said.
"Yes!" Wang Anshi responded and said, "If your highness has no other instructions, I will retire first."
"Yeah." Zhao Xing nodded.
After Wang Anshi left, Zhao Xing continued to look at Zha Zi.
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Xiongzhou City is one of the border cities in the north. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed all year round to defend the Liao Kingdom.
Although it is a border city and located in the north, Xiongzhou City is very lively, not much worse than some big cities in the south.
The reason for this is that there is a Song and Liao mutual market outside the North City of Xiongzhou, and merchants from Song and Liao can trade goods from both countries in the mutual market.
The mutual market is not open every day, but is open regularly.
Therefore, merchants of the Song Dynasty who have been active in the mutual market for a long time usually live in Xiongzhou City.
Sheng Wei and his party arrived at Xiongzhou City after a long journey of more than half a month.
After finding an inn to stay, Sheng Wei came to Fang Zhongrong and said: "General Fang, His Highness said that you can solve the problem of city diversion. Now that we have arrived in Xiongzhou, when can the city diversion be completed?"
The market quotation is the qualification certificate for entering the market. After the government checks the type and quantity of the goods, it will issue a market quotation. Only with the market quotation can merchants enter the market for transactions.
Shiyin is not only a voucher for admission, but the government will also collect taxes based on the quantity recorded on it and the quantity of goods remaining when leaving the venue.
However, what they brought was wine, which could not withstand inspection, let alone be used as a guide for the market.
"Sheng Yuanwai is taking a rest at the inn. I'll go out." Fang Zhongrong said.
Sheng Wei nodded when he heard this and did not ask.
(End of this chapter)