marquis of jingan

Chapter 376 Take off the tiger skin!

On the eighth day of December in the seventh year of Hongde, a farmer surnamed Zhang beat drums at the gate of Jiangdu County Yamen to complain.

The content of the lawsuit is that the Fan family in Jiangdu was rich and unkind, and in April of the third year with Hongde, they forcibly bought nearly ten acres of fertile land from his family at a low price of ten taels of silver per mu, and forced his family to draw a painting on the land deed. circle, and at that time, the servant of the Fan family even beat someone.

Afterwards, the farmer surnamed Zhang went to the yamen to complain repeatedly, but nothing happened. The last time he was so angry that he went to the magistrate's yamen to file a complaint.

As a result, the prefect's yamen brought the case back to the county yamen, and the officials in charge of the county yamen directly ordered the farmer to be beaten up and kicked out.

In the next few years, the family had no way to ask for help, and was even beaten by the servants of the Fan family. The man in the family had a broken leg, and lived in fear.

But now, this somewhat lame man walked to the gate of the county government office again, and with all his might, beat the drums to express his grievances.

Because he had heard that Zhang Xianzun of Jiangdu County was a young official with an upright spirit and was not afraid of offending others.

Therefore, he mustered up his courage again and sounded the drum of grievances.

Soon, the Jiangdu county government accepted the case, and the county lord personally tried the case, ordered people to go to Fan's house, and called the person who bought Zhang's Liangtian at that time.

This person's surname is Fan, and his name is Fan Jingting, who is a collateral branch of the Fan family. Over the years, he has used the banner of the Fan family to commit crimes. After the case, this Fan Jingting had an arrogant attitude and refused to admit it.

However, under a series of interrogation methods by the county lord, Fan Jingting had no choice but to kneel down in front of the stick, and admitted that he had taken a fancy to the Zhang family's nine-acre paddy field and bought it for only 100 taels of silver. .

At this point, the case is closed.

The county master was ruthless and punished Fan Jingting to return the Zhang family's property, and the Zhang family returned Fan Jingting's 100 taels of silver, but from the 100 taels of silver, the income from the ten mu of paddy fields over the past three and a half years had to be deducted. In the end, the Zhang family only had to return Fan Jingting Less than 80 taels of silver.

Because Fan Jingting bullied the good people, the county lord fined him [-] boards. The yamen servants didn't dare to neglect, the board fell down hard, and the ass of this young man from the Fan family was spanked, and finally he was carried back by several Fan family members. home.

At first, everyone thought that this was just an ordinary case.

And only on the ninth day of November the next day, someone came to sue the Fan family and robbed them of their property!
This time it was three people.

The amount of land that they had embezzled was astonishing. Together, the three of them bought nearly 20 mu of land by Fan Jiaqiang. Although the price they sold for the land reached [-] taels of silver per mu, the price was far lower than the market price at that time. .

For example, in the seventh year of Hongde, the price of an acre of Yongye land in Jiangdu should be around 40 taels, and some fertile fields can be sold for more than 40 taels of silver.

And the paddy fields that these three people were forcibly bought were all the best fields.

The three are three brothers, and the property was passed down from their fathers. They were bought by Fan Jiaqiang in the second year of Hongde and have not been returned to this day.

The Jiangdu County Government still accepted the case.

The county lord mercilessly passed on the parties involved in the Fan family, and confronted the three brothers of the Zhu family. The three brothers quarreled with the members of the Fan family for a long time in the courtroom. In the end, only the county lord pronounced a verdict, announcing that the transaction was invalid. The family returned the land of the three Zhu brothers, and the three Zhu brothers returned the silver taels used by the Fan family to buy the land.

Just when the case was about to be finalized, a Fan family member with some silver hair came to the court.

It was the fourth fan chain of the Fan family.

Fan Lian first bowed his hands to Zhang Xianzun, then bowed his head and said: "Master Xianzun, there are the names of these three buyers on this land deed, as well as their fingerprints, and witnesses such as the head of the village and the chief of the county were also present one by one. This land deed also has the seal of the government house in Jiangdu County, which is a red deed approved by the yamen, and now just because the price of buying land is a little lower, the county lord does not approve of this land deed?"

Fan Lian looked at Zhang Jian silently, and said slowly: "If this logic is followed, there will be no land deeds that will be useful in that day!"

The county lord said calmly: "In the second year of Hongde, the land price in Jiangdu was around 35 taels of silver. How can there be any reason to buy land for 15 taels of silver?"

Fan Lian looked up at the county magistrate.

"Master County, our family is willing to buy it, and their family is willing to sell it, which is reasonable. When will the yamen have to control the land price?"

The three brothers of the Zhu family knelt in the courtroom, weeping loudly: "Master Xian, the Fan family came to beat us five years ago. My old father was so angry because he was forced to buy the land. Please learn from Master Xian!"

After finishing speaking, the third brother of the Zhu family knelt down on the ground and cried: "Master County, my three brothers were all wounded five years ago. This is known to the neighbors and villagers. You can send someone to investigate. Now My family shouldn't take advantage of the Fan family, as long as the Fan family returns the land, we three brothers will refund the money back then."

Zhang Xianzun looked at Fan Lian indifferently, and asked, "What's the opinion of the Fan family?"

"Impossible!"

Fan Lian gritted his teeth and said, "The deal has been set for five years. If the contract can be changed by relying on the nonsense of these three thugs, then where is the law? The country will be in chaos immediately!"

The boss of the Zhu family thumped, knelt down on the ground, took out a few certificates from his arms, held them in his hands, and shouted: "Master County, the three of my brothers have sued the Fan family several times over the past five years, and there is nowhere to go." , This is the certificate we handed over a few years ago, the old father was so worried about these fields that he died in depression, please let the county lord make the decision!"

The three brothers knelt in the hall and kowtowed.

The magistrate of the county narrowed his eyes, reached out and patted the gavel.

"The ins and outs of this case, the county will find someone to find out, and the case will be retried in two days!"

"Retire!"

On the night of the retreat, the county magistrate sent a dozen or so yamen to guard the gate of the Zhu family's house, and sure enough, they squatted down to the Fan family who had come to do "peaceful affairs". In the prison.

Then, without waiting for two days, the Jiangdu county government re-opened early the next morning to hear the case of land occupation.

The Fan family was sentenced to return the land of the three brothers of the Zhu family, and the three brothers of the Zhu family returned the money paid by the Fan family to buy the land.

In two days, two land dispute cases were resolved in a row, and it spread all over Jiangdu.

There was a rumor in Jiangdu City that the county lord was the grandson of the prime minister, he was not afraid of the powerful, he was upright, and he could go to the yamen to sue for any unfair things.

Ever since, on the morning of the third day, a dozen or so people went to the yamen gate to complain.

Most of them are lawsuits related to the Fan family, and the smaller half are other lawsuits.

The magistrate of the county can't do it all by himself, so he ordered the people in the execution room to take over all these cases without any failure.

Among the dozen or so cases, one case was not a property dispute, but a case involving a person who was beaten and disabled by the Fan family eight years ago.

The county lord personally accepted the case of disability and announced that the trial would start on another day.

That night, the county lord, who had been busy all day, finally returned to the back office. In the back office, a young scholar waited for him with a table of wine and food.

Zhang Xianzun walked over with a smile, sat opposite to the young scholar, and said with a smile: "Ziheng's move is brilliant, there is no one sufferer, and more sufferers have come!"

Shen Yi raised his wine glass, touched the county magistrate, and said with a faint smile, "It's the Fan family's homework. As long as you take off the tiger skins on them, countless people will come to sue them."

He looked at Zhang Jian and sighed: "I just didn't want to involve the senior brother, but now I still have to trouble the senior brother."

"No trouble, no trouble."

Zhang Jian took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "As an official, it is natural to benefit one party. This is my job as the county magistrate. Besides, it is not a bad thing for me."

He smiled and said: "Now in Jiangdu City, some people already call you brother Zhang Qingtian, so when you leave office next year, you might be able to be a million people's umbrella for brother. After returning to Jiankang, you will have more face!"

Shen Yi picked up the wine glass, stood up and toasted Zhang Jian.

"Senior brother, don't talk about other younger brothers, everything is in the wine!"

Zhang Jian also stood up, and the two brothers toasted to each other.

"Our brothers, the days to come will still be long."

　Yesterday, a brother pointed out that Shen Zhang knew the daughter of the Chen family. I looked back and found that he should have known him, and it has been revised. The content of that part was written half a year ago, and the characters are not too important. Just forgot, sorry sorry!
　　
　
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