Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 140: Entering the Grassland for the First Time (1)

In the courtroom, Xu Qing started with a sentence, and two small officials put more than 60 files next to Xu Qing.Two large wooden trays were piled up sharply and full.Xu Qing caressed those files, then cupped his hands to the four county magistrates who were also in the hall:
"Everyone, here are the lawsuits accumulated by the people of this state who have leapfrogged their petitions. There are four counties in Cangzhou. These lawsuits were accumulated before you took office. This time I called you here to deal with these trivial matters at a low cost..."

The four said in unison: "I would like to follow the order of the governor."

Without further ado, Xu Qing found a file. Since Xu Qing had read these files twice and was familiar with them, he read them at a glance, and said to the official of the torture chamber:
"Bring up Nanpi County's bitter advocates three and Li Si..." After a while, two commoners came down from the hall, knelt down, and said: "The villain Zhang San and Li Si pay their respects to their parents and masters."

Seemingly ignoring the two sufferers, Xu Qing continued to pick up a file and read it, and asked, "What evidence do you have for saying that your neighbor Li Si robbed your wooden warehouse?"

Zhang San immediately opened his mouth to tell about the case, while Xu Qing listened, he continued to pick up the file in his hand and browse quickly, looking for a clever solution.After Zhang San finished talking about the case, Li Si was about to argue, but Xu Qing stopped and asked, "What do you two use this wooden warehouse for?"

Zhang Sandao: "Pack rapeseed."

Li Sidao: "Pretend millet."

After the two finished speaking, Xu Qing said without hesitation: "I don't know the truth of what you two said, wait for me to try Mu Cang for the first trial. Bring Mu Cang up and hit twenty big boards!"

When everyone heard this, they were shocked at first, and then laughed secretly in their hearts.The prison official was also stunned, and reminded: "My lord, Mu... Mu Cang is not a human..."

"How could I not know? Bring it up and hit the board!" Xu Qing said without doubt.

Three or two yamen servants lifted the wooden warehouse up, picked up water and fire sticks and hit the wooden warehouse cracklingly with a few boards. All the people present were curious, what is the governor doing?

I saw Xu Qing staring at the dossier intently, and he didn't even look at the strange show in the hall.After hitting twenty sticks, Xu Qing asked, "What's in the warehouse?"

The yamen servant under the hall stepped forward to take a look, and reported back: "There are rapeseeds in the warehouse..."

"Okay, the case is settled, Mu Cang awarded to Zhang San."

At this time, everyone has realized that the purpose of beating the wooden warehouse is to knock out the traps in the gaps in the wooden warehouse, so as to identify its owner.Seeing that Xu Qing came up with this method in a blink of an eye, he couldn't help shouting in admiration.

There is another case in Xu Qing's hands. Wang Wu had a son who was adopted by the Zhao family in the early years. Now, Wang Wu wants to take his son back.

Wang Wu said that the kindness of life is greater than the kindness of nurturing, so he should let his son recognize his ancestors and return to the clan, while Zhao Liu said that the kindness of nurturing is greater than the kindness of being born, and the kindness of nurturing for more than ten years has already turned clear water into thick blood, so he should return his son to the Zhao family, and This son doesn't know Wang Wu anymore, and he doesn't want to recognize this sudden biological father.

After explaining their grievances, the two refused to accept each other. At first they blamed each other, and then they actually quarreled in the hall.Xu Qing frowned, and shouted: "Come here! First drag these two people down with sixty sticks."

The yamen servants made a gesture to pull the two of them down, Wang Wu and Zhao Liu were frightened and fell silent, they knelt down and said, "My lord, please forgive me..."

Xu Qing made a stop gesture, the yamen servant saw him, and retreated, Xu Qing then said: "According to the ancient law, adoptive children can only be within the five vassals of the clan, if anyone adopts a child with a different surname, send them away, Those who raise them all have sixty sticks."

Wang Wu and Zhao Liu were all terrified when they heard this, and they knelt down together and said: "This little man doesn't know, please forgive my old parents and make a judgment for the two of us. As long as we are not punished by the stick, we will listen to everything."

Xu Qing continued to look through the remaining files at the moment, and at the same time sentenced in his mouth: "Returning to the family in the case, the surname is difficult to mess up. Zhao Liu adopted a child with a different surname. In terms of kindness and kindness, the sentence belongs to Wang Wu..." Wang Wu and Zhao Liu looked at each other and could only accept the sentence.

As for the four county magistrates next to him, they once again gave Xu Qing a big "convincing".Especially Zhan Zeng, others don't know the risk of this case. As a senior official, he knows it well.The case of contending for sons is a matter of ethics and is very difficult to judge. If one fails to be scolded by the common people, the censor will be held accountable if he hears about it.

But Xu Qing settled the two with one sentence, and the case was more reasonable and reasonable, and it was even rarer to make a decision in a moment, which had to be extremely admired.

Everyone read the judgment in Xu Qing's handwriting, their eyes could not stop, their mouths trembled, and they listened to the judgment with their ears. There was nothing wrong with the judgment.Any difficult case came to Xu Qing's mouth, and he could explain it in a few words.

Even if the defendant is a bandit who has disappeared, or a family member who has run away, Xu Qing can appease the plaintiff and sentence him to a result that the plaintiff can accept.

Both kindness and power are applied, and there is a degree of relaxation.However, after Xu Qing tried each case, the common people who heard the sentence were all convinced and kowtowed and left.

Zhan Zeng and others can only be surprised, Xu Cishi is really a genius!The case of Pang Tong in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is nothing more than that...

It didn't take long, but seeing the mountain-high dossiers next to Xu Qing's case, dissolving like ice and snow, and the last few volumes left, Xu Qing looked up and saw that it was still early.The people outside the door were already stunned, their legs were already numb, and they refused to move a step.

After the trial of the last case, all the people knelt down and shouted:

"Long live, Lord Qingtian!"

Xu Qing smiled, shook his head and said in his heart that fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the word "Long Live" was not reserved for the emperor, otherwise something serious would happen.

The trial of the case is over, but the influence of the trial case continues to spread.With the caravans going out from Cangzhou, the story of "Cangzhou governor's daily trial of hundreds of cases" was vividly spread to all parts of Hebei.Moreover, the farther it spreads, the more legendary it becomes. It is said that Xu Qing descended from the stars, can go up to the heavens, go down to search for the underworld, three thousand ghosts under his command inspect the world, and eight hundred immortals tour the Qingming Festival.

Otherwise, how can one be judged for one break, and one be sentenced for one obedience?
The people praised Xu Qing highly, so naturally some people were unhappy.After Liu Mo heard the report from one of his subordinates, he slapped the pen on the table heavily:
"Huh, a little boy with yellow hair dares to play with the criminal law, which is simply disrupting the local education!"

Liu Mo is the second assistant official who belongs to Zhengyin, so the so-called injustice is not right, and he is also aggrieved.I wanted to take advantage of the opening three times to earn some fame and prove myself, but I didn't expect that Xu Qing would steal the limelight, and no one would think of his credit at all.

It's fine if he didn't gain the limelight, and his "grave digging" behavior offended many subordinates, but he really lost his wife and lost his army.It annoyed him so much...

The master is upset, so the dog will naturally come up with a crooked idea to appease the master: "Master Liu, do you want to send a message..."

What he meant was to issue an article blaming Xu Qing.If a piece of blame is placed on ordinary people, it may be difficult to get promoted, political stains...

"Hey~ he did something practical, I was the one who brought it up first, if I blame him for not being careful, I will make my colleagues in southern Hebei laugh at me." Liu Mo is also an old man in the officialdom. Based on this incident, Xu Qing has a great reputation in the hearts of the people now.

Gouzi failed at one plan, and made another plan: "The situation in Youbei has become tense, the number of soldiers has increased, and the salt is already insufficient. The share allocated by the higher authorities is quite large. Since Governor Xu is so capable..."

Liu Mo narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking: "You mean..."

Gouzi followed the words above, and continued: "You can ask Governor Xu to handle this matter. The above only needs five thousand catties, and we can ask him for ten thousand catties. In this way..."

Liu Mo's eyes lit up when he heard this, he asked for [-] catties, and paid [-] catties, and the other [-] catties fell into his hands, and [-] catties of salt, that is a treasure, Liu Mo asked again: "But can he get it together? Is there too much salt?"

"My lord doesn't know, there is a salt mountain in the border of Cangzhou! If you don't get it all together, it's just for you, my lord..."

"There's a mountain of salt?! That's just right...he can learn from Pang Tong in judging cases. Let's see if he can learn from Zhuge Liang in borrowing arrows!" Liu Mo said viciously.The share of [-] catties of salt is really difficult to fulfill in Liu Mo's hands. There are salt mountains in Cangzhou. If you don't shirk it to Xu Qing, who else can you do it to?
Ten thousand catties of white salt!Five days!Let's see how Xu Qing borrowed it!
In the past, the output of Yanshan was no more than [-] catties a day, and the sales volume could not be expanded, so the stock in Cangzhou was only [-] catties.According to this data, four thousand catties can't be collected in five days!
If they don't make it all together, it means dereliction of duty, and if they are dereliction of duty, they will be punished. In this way, Liu Mo will have the opportunity to borrow Xu Qing's position.Liu Mo's order was justified and reasonable, and Xu Qing was powerless to refuse.

The words of the county magistrate who broke the family and the governor who killed the family were also confirmed by the same Xu Qing.Of course, the premise is that Xu Qing is really as ordinary as Liu Mo thought.

But isn't Xu Qing the difficult task of offering salt this day as easy as collecting [-] catties of mud?
The production of sea salt has already entered the stage of mass production, with a daily output of [-] jin, which has been being saved.Why save?One is that he doesn't want to compete with the Huang family for profit, and the other is that he owes Li Yuan salt, so he must find a way to save it up and pay it back, right?

After the Cangzhou caravan increased, Xu Qing released some to stabilize the salt price, and now there are more than 6000 catties in the warehouse.Adding the production of Yanshan, Xu Qingbai got [-]%, [-] catties, and it only takes one day of planning to get it all together.

The question is, does the salt that Xu Qing sent this time count as Li Yuan's account?

That's exactly what Xu Qing thought when he received the document from Liu Mo.After struggling for a long time, the person who sent the letter asked Xu Qing to write back, saying that if Xu Qing had any difficulties, he could ask him to report to the deputy manager.

Xu Qing smiled secretly, putting [-] catties of salt in other places would be a deadly move, if the rewards were useful, they wouldn't all be apportioned on him at all.

I also don't know why this deputy chief executive, who has never masked his face, treats Xu Qing like this.

In short, Xu Qing had to accept this matter if he wanted to, and he had to accept it if he didn't want to.Xu Qing pondered for a while, and said to the person who asked for a reply:

"You report back to Mr. Liu, just say that [-] catties of salt is fine, and I will deliver it within three days..."

"What? Three days?"

"The military situation is changing rapidly. The front line is short of salt. There is no room for delay. If the salt is not available in three days, I will resign immediately!"

(End of this chapter)