Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 325 Huizhou Out of Phase (Part [-])
"Teaching? Why did the teaching respond to this kind of thing? What about their county magistrate?"

Facing Gao Wushi's question, Liang Wu immediately showed a smile, and praised: "Your brother is really smart, this question can be regarded as a sharp hit!"

Gao Wushi smiled and didn't reply.Thinking that Mr. Gao was also the top secretary in the county back then, he usually handles most of the official affairs of the county party committee. Hasn't the ability to "grasp the clues and grasp the key points" been replaced long ago?

It's just that in this life, after all, he hasn't personally been to the yamen at the level of the county government. He doesn't know how much it is different from later generations, so he can only ask about this level.

After Liang Wu praised him, he immediately replied: "The reason why the Shenwen of Jixi County was responded by the Jiaoyu is actually a reflection of Jixi County's attitude towards this matter: what they mean is that this so-called Huizhou The Rendingsijuan case itself is not a legal issue, but a moral issue."

Gao Pragmatic couldn't understand this sentence. He frowned and said, "Tax burden sharing is a moral issue? Why do you say that?"

"Tax burden sharing itself can't be a moral issue, and Jixi County refers to something else." Liang Wu waved to the master standing beside him, and then continued to talk to Gao Wushi: "Brother Yu, here is the article about Jixi County Shen Wen, you must understand after reading it."

Master Zhang hurriedly bowed and handed Gao Wushi a piece of paper. Gao Wushi took it and looked at it carefully, and found that this teaching was indeed worthy of a scholar. There are not many, but the blade and pen hide the machine front, which can be regarded as quite a means.

At the beginning of the article, Yang Jiaoyu also chanted a political slogan. It can be seen that those who can roll in the officialdom are not too low in political consciousness-"For the sake of kindness, obey the national code and the government's annals, all grants to save the side, and Su is suffering."

After shouting the slogan, the painting style changed suddenly. First, he scolded Shuai Jiamo for "disrupting the national system and oppressing the subordinates". The prime minister is a troublemaker.

After scolding for a long time, Yang Jiaoyu finally got to the point.First of all, he admitted Shuai Jiamo's discovery that today's "Ren Ding Silk" is indeed the "Xia Tax Raw Silk" at the beginning of the country.However, he also explained that according to the records of the government records, the imperial court found that She County owed Xia Mai 780 shi, and ordered them to pay the summer tax for raw silk, a total of [-] pieces to the Nanjing shipping warehouse.So the root cause of this incident was originally caused by She County's own mistakes, and it has nothing to do with other counties.

Then he said that this tax has been paid for more than 170 years, and no one has ever protested.Until the 14th year of Jiajing, Cheng Peng and Wang Xiang, two troublesome people from Shexian County, went to complain. She County pays separately.So for more than 30 years, the weather was calm and everyone lived in peace.Who would have thought that there would be another lawsuit, Shuai Jiamo, ignoring the wise decision of his superiors, and wanting to stir up trouble.

Gao Yushi majored in law back then, so when he saw this place, his first reaction was: If Daming followed the case law, then this case could indeed be decided according to the judgment of Feng Shiyong, the former prefect of Huizhou. How to bloom a lotus with the tongue is also versatile.

But the problem is that although the Chinese dynasties are rooted in the rule of society by individuals, if we look at it from the perspective of jurisprudence, it has always been written law rather than case law.

The so-called case law refers to the legal system implemented by the Anglo-Americans in later generations. Judges can judge cases based on the judgments of previous judges on the same or similar cases.

Statutory law is also called continental law system, Chinese law system, etc., such as France and China are representatives of it. Its characteristic is that no matter what the case is, as a judge, it is necessary to select items according to the laws and regulations that are being implemented, and to correspond one by one. Judgment is up to you. The previous cases have nothing to do with the case at hand. You can only judge the case according to the current laws and regulations.

In 536 BC, Zichan, who was in charge of the state of Zheng, "cast the punishment book on the tripod as the common law of the country", which was the first activity in Chinese history to officially announce the statutory law.

Therefore, although Yang Jiaoyu's article is good, Gao Yushi believes that it is untenable from a theoretical point of view.

Because Gao Yushi had already discussed this matter with Gao Gong in detail before, and he remembered that Shuai Jiamo had already figured it out very clearly.According to the discount rate during the Longqing period, the 780 pieces of raw silk converted into wheat was 480 shi, which did not match the [-] shi in arrears from She County.Even according to the discount rate in the Hongwu period, it is impossible to make that much difference.

It can be seen that although Yang Jiaoyu's knowledge is good, he is a liberal arts student after all, and I'm afraid he didn't understand this numerical account.

But it doesn't matter, because although the ability of liberal arts students to calculate accounts is questionable, their ability to sensationalize is beyond doubt.

Yang Jiaoyu said emotionally in the article: "Our Jixi is a county with a radius of only 24 miles. The land is barren and the people are poor. The annual grain is less than seven hundred stones; The food can be more than 220 shi. With such a huge gap, there are still such wolf-hearted people as Shuai Jiamo, who wants to transfer the burden of the upper county to the lower county! Is there any reason?"

It's not too late. After he finished crying, he added a "suggestion" with no deep meaning, saying, "It is still accepted as usual, so that the common people will not worry about the sudden change of the common people, and it will be convenient for the government and the people."

When Gao Wushi saw this, he immediately understood: what Yang Jiaoyu said earlier can actually be regarded as nonsense, but the real literary eye is here.

Don’t look at this sentence that looks humble, but in fact it is a hidden threat. Just read it backwards, and the meaning is very clear: If you don’t collect taxes as they are, it will inevitably cause civil uprisings. Oh, it's inconvenient!
You must know that although this threat came from the mouth of the representative of Jixi, it is actually the consensus of the five counties behind it.In other words, if this matter fails to have a satisfactory result in the end, it will cause chaos in the entire Huizhou Prefecture.

Next year is the pilgrimage year, prefect Duan, you have to figure it out on your own.

Gao Wushi stretched out his fingers and flicked the manuscript paper in his hand, half-closed his eyes and said: "Senior Brother Liang, this Yang Jiaoyu...is well aware of the true meaning of officialdom, and this method of threatening Shangguan with a civil uprising is very slippery. Well." He said, without waiting for Liang Wu to speak, he said to himself: "I guess, after reading this Shen Wen, the Huizhou government must have understood it, and there is no more to say?"

Liang Wu was taken aback, looked at Gao Yushi as if looking at a monster, and then subconsciously glanced at Master Zhang next to him, then swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said dryly: "Gao Shi reads you...you are really astute."

Well, this scares me so much that even my virtuous brother dare not call out.

(End of this chapter)