People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 79 Tell me about the law? When I took Teacher Luo’s class, you were not even born yet! !

Will he really give this money to Taizhou Wei?

Bah, I won’t even take out a tael of silver.

The people of the Feng family could just let the prefect bury them hastily, or even throw them into a mass grave.

Taizhou Wei still wants money?
It would be a good thing if I didn’t kill you.

All this money must be collected to appease the people. Then Chen Han came up with the idea of ​​​​the Feng family's 120,000 acres of land...

After Chen Han asked the wealthy businessman to donate money, he immediately set his sights on the remaining 120,000 acres of land of the Feng family.

This is a big deal and must not be ignored.

So he said, "More than three hundred members of the Feng family were killed by Japanese pirates. It is really heartbreaking.

But people cannot be resurrected, so what to do with the remaining property is a question.

All the gold and silver treasures in the manor have been robbed by Japanese pirates, leaving only 120,000 acres of land and more than 20 shops. "

When it comes to 120,000 acres of land, the people hate it with all their teeth.

Originally, Zhejiang has a saying of "seven mountains, one water and two fields" since ancient times.

That is to say, there are very few plains in these places, and most of them are mountains.

The common people have very little farmland, so many people are forced to work as weavers, do small businesses and the like.

Under this situation, the big landowners and gentry took advantage of the annual famine years to annex land from the people at low prices.

Take the Feng family as an example, buying properties in Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Taizhou and other places.

It covers an area of ​​120,000 acres, which only a few hundred households of ordinary people can own.

Chen Han said: "There are nearly 60,000 acres in Taizhou alone. What should be done with these fields?"

As soon as Chen Han finished speaking, someone in the crowd shouted, "Replying to your lord, the Feng family is not dead yet. I am Feng Tiande, the third master of the Feng family."

As soon as Feng Tiande stood up, he immediately looked at the chief envoy: "Nephew, the third uncle is back. What's going on with our old Feng family?"

In fact, he has been watching from the side.

After everyone in his family died, he felt a little secretly happy in his heart.

The reason why he was sent to another place was because he was a disorderly person and was good at eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, so he was sent to another place by the Feng family.

He knew that he had no inheritance rights in the family. From now on, after his father passed away, it would be his eldest brother who would inherit the family's property, and he would only be allocated a small amount of property in a remote place.

But he didn't expect that he was not at Old Feng's house, so he escaped a disaster.

He also just received the news in the past two days and hurried back.

As soon as he heard that his family still had so much property that had not been taken away, he immediately stood up.

He knelt on the ground and said to Chen Han: "Sir, I am the third eldest son of the Feng family. Everyone can testify that my nephew is the chief envoy of Zhejiang."

When Zhao Mengan saw this third uncle, his eyes were full of disgust.

The reason why he felt that he had the right to dispose of the Feng family's property was because this third uncle was idle and not doing his job properly.

Using the power of the chief envoy, he could even kill him secretly, and then say that Feng Tiande died outside, and it would be logical for him to take possession of all the Feng family's property.

But he suddenly appeared from the crowd, which made it difficult for Zhao Mengan to handle.

If Zhao Meng'an dies in the future and he inherits the property, everyone will say that he destroyed the last roots of the Feng family.

However, as soon as Feng Tiande came out, the people nearby started talking about it. Chen Han heard the discussion and stood a step forward: "Folks, if you have anything to say, you can say it here. I will make the decision for you."

After some people hesitated for a while, they finally stood up and said, "Sir, you are a good official. You have been thinking about us since you came. You also thought about strengthening Taizhou City and giving the Taizhou Guards more military pay to guard Taizhou City." .

But if the land is given to this person, it will be even worse than the Feng family before. "

Chen Han asked: "How to say?"

The people behind them all said:
"The Feng family is not a thing. They bully men and dominate women. The eldest and second son of the Feng family are not a thing, but the most useless thing is the third child. He only eats, drinks, whores and gambles. Just to occupy, there are only seven or eight civilian women.

Two or three of the people he killed over the years even teamed up with smuggling ships outside to sell young girls to Nanyang as prostitutes.

He could do such a thing, it was so unconscionable.

If he hadn't had a nephew who was an official, and if his family hadn't been rich and powerful, would this kind of person still be alive? "

Chen Han stared at the youngest son of the Feng family and asked, "Can you admit these things?"

Feng Laosan is worthy of being a gangster. Even though he knows that contradicting Chen Han at this time may not bring good results, he still has to fight for the 120,000 acres of land and his family's more than 20 shops.

So he said shamelessly: "Sir, what the people said are just one-sided words. What evidence do they have to prove that I did those things?

You are an imperial envoy sent by the imperial court. You cannot listen to their words.

Those 120,000 acres of land are my family's property. My old family members are all dead. I am the only heir to the Feng family.

You can't confiscate the victim's Feng family property, right?

There is no such provision in Ming law. "

Chen Han laughed when he heard him telling him about the laws of the Ming Dynasty, so he asked the chief envoy next to him. "Master Zhao, this is a member of your old Feng family, what do you say?"

Zhao Meng'an stepped forward and pretended to be respectful, but in fact he said in a subtle way: "Master Tai Tai, the lower officials are in charge of the finance of a province. There is indeed no record in the Ming Dynasty law that the property of the victim can be confiscated without conviction. , it stands to reason that Feng Tiande has the right to inherit."

Feng Laosan heard his nephew say something for him and cast a grateful look at him.

But Zhao Mengan was very disgusted.

He let Feng Tiande inherit the land as a temporary measure.

Chen Han laughed loudly when he heard this, "We are indeed a family. The Feng family has not been convicted because there was no investigation.

But after I came to Taizhou, I didn't do anything.

Someone, bring over the fish scale book and the tax account book of Taizhou Prefecture! "

After hearing this, the Taizhou prefect turned pale with fright.

He didn't know how these two things got into Chen Han's hands.

Jin Yiwei handed the things to Chen Han. Chen Han turned to the marked page, pointed to the fish scale book on it and said, "I won't care about other prefectures for the time being, let's talk about Taizhou Prefecture.

As you said, the Feng family has 63,400 acres of six-cent land, but what is recorded in this fish scale book is only a mere 3,243 acres of nine-cent land.

In other words, the remaining 50,000 acres of land were recorded in other people's names to evade taxes, right? "

Then Chen Han turned to the tax account books of Taizhou Prefecture, "I have looked through the tax records of the past three years and found that the Feng family's tax amount is almost zero.

Even if the Feng family produces two talented people, they can be exempted from taxes on three thousand acres of land.

But the remaining 50,000 acres are neither in the name of the Feng family nor among the tax-free quota. Where have these land taxes gone over the years?
Zhao Meng'an and the prefect of Taizhou, why don't you give an explanation to this capital? "

Zhao Mengan felt chills all over. He said this several times and was speechless...

(End of this chapter)