Great Lawyer

Chapter 630 Restoration of Laws ([-])

"It doesn't matter whether a merchant is good or bad, it's just about human nature."

Daren Wang said: "They don't care if the punishment is light. If you catch him once out of ten times, he will be fined twice as much. However, he still has seven times. After the conversion, he still makes money."

"Next time, they will only get worse." Daren Wang said: "As for the market price, the imperial court has set the price for the materials needed by the people since ancient times. This is the responsibility of the people. Otherwise, after the vicious competition, the people will suffer. .”

Stipulating prices is another revised law. Except for the rigid regulations on the price of salt, the ancestors did not implement uniform prices for the rest of the goods.

"My lord," Du Jiuyan replied, "this matter needs to be looked at from the outside. You can't just look at the tax. If you only look at the amount of the tax, of course the law should be changed. Not only will you be punished, but you will also be punished a thousand times and a hundred times." Punishment, I support it."

Lord Wang frowned.

"But the purpose of taxation is still the country's society and development. Under your severe punishment, what will the merchants do?" Du Jiuyan looked at him.

"Government and business colluded, he escaped ten times, as long as he contributed tax money twice, he could earn tax evasion money five times. This result is bound to happen, because they want to make money because of such a heavy punishment, they can only go sideways , Corrupt officials and profiteers work hand in hand, and the result is that not only will the tax not increase, but it will decrease.”

"As a result of this item, you can go through the tax accounts of the household department. It doesn't take much, just go back 30 years."

Du Jiuyan said: "Secondly, if they take a wrong approach, then most of them will be bankrupt once they are arrested. The court forces him to have nowhere to go, and he will stand up and resist."

"Take a boat to raise soldiers, kill people to kill people, escort water pirates... This has risen from taxation to law and order. Now the imperial court will inevitably send more people to maintain it. The manpower and material resources spent will be far higher than the amount of fines."

"The harm outweighs the benefit." Du Jiuyan said, "This is the result."

Lord Wang looked at Miao Zheng from the Ministry of Punishment.

Miao Zheng has always been a good guy, he doesn't rely on both sides, he is neither close to Lu Zhangzhi nor has an affair with Ren Yanhui, but now that Mr. Wang gave him a hint, he can only come up.

"Princess," Miao Zheng, Mr. Wang and Liu Yushixue called Princess Du Jiuyan instead of her name, "The increase in cases has nothing to do with tax revenue. Heavy codes are not one of them. The penalties for many crimes are very severe.”

"So, there is no direct cause and effect between the two."

Du Jiuyan and Miao Zheng clasped their hands together, and said, "My lord, I have never read the files of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, nor have I gone to the government office to look them up. But looking at Baoqing Mansion and Shaoyang, there are cases in the past few decades. Thirty cases."

"Most of them jumped the wall because of the heavy punishment of the law, and they had nowhere to go."

"What I mean is not not to punish, but to have a degree of severity." Du Jiuyan said: "Especially for merchants, they are looking for profits, so leaving them a profit is enough to appease them, but you want to punish them. Forced to fight with swords and swords, and to say something inappropriate, you are forcing a good man into prostitution!"

Miao Zheng frowned. He began to think about the case data collected by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, but he couldn't think of it for a while. There is no way to use powerful data to return Du Jiuyan here.

"If you don't believe me, you can check the statistics of tax-related cases of the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the past 60 years." Du Jiuyan said: "Even if you don't look at it, I can conclude that the results will only be worse than before. "

Go to stats now?Miao Zheng hesitated, but Zhao Yu said, "Send someone to fetch it."

Miao Zheng had no choice but to ask someone to pick it up. After a while, the clerk of the Ministry of Punishment brought up a box.Under the leadership of Miao Zheng, the presence of the Criminal Department and the four people who were summoned surrounded the box and opened it.

In the hall, buzzing people began to discuss.

For nearly half an hour, Miao Zheng looked at Mr. Wang with a somewhat embarrassed expression.

"How?" Sir Wang asked.

Zhao Yu also said, "What was the result?"

"It hasn't been 60 years, but after Chenghua revised the laws and regulations, there were indeed... many cases of taxation becoming criminal." Miao Zheng said.

"Even the Ministry of War has added a department to the Municipal Shipping Department to accompany the Municipal Shipping Department to check and collect ship taxes."

These, no one will deliberately count, Du Jiuyan does not say, he will never remember to look at these.

After all, no one really drinks tea leisurely, even if they drink tea leisurely, they will not look for such meaningless things to do.

Mr. Wang's complexion was a little ugly.

"If you don't believe me, I suggest to find out the taxation of the shipping line after the Ministry of Household Affairs revised the regulations." Du Jiuyan said: "Not only ships, but everything that involves this article, you can look it up."

"One item of taxation will never increase because of the revision and increase the punishment."

Everyone went to see Master Su of the Ministry of Finance.

Master Su is Lu Zhangzhi's protégé, without even thinking about it, he went out and ordered his regular attendant to go back to work.

After a while, the Ministry of Finance dug out files from many years ago.

The files of the Ministry of Household Affairs must be much more than those of the Ministry of Punishment, so they are piled up all over the floor, and more than a dozen people are checking them. When they are tired from squatting, everyone sits on the ground and checks them bit by bit, while the clerk takes notes beside them.

This is not just to check the revised regulations, but also to check the comparison between the two sides before the revision.

This situation is unprecedented in history, and it is simply huge.

"How?" Lord Wang asked Lord Su.

Master Su glanced at Du Jiuyan, nodded and said, "What Mr. Du said is not wrong, it is indeed what she said."

"After the revision of the law, the ship tax has fluctuated every year for so many years, but the overall has not increased." Su Daren said: "It has been 91 years since the revision of the law."

It stands to reason that if the situation is stable and the people are rich, the tax revenue must be increasing. For example, after the opening of the Great Zhou Dynasty, every year has increased compared to the previous year.

"My lord," Master Su replied, "It is indeed so."

In the main hall, everyone's complexions were a little ugly.

"Hmm." Zhao Yu nodded and looked at Du Jiuyan, "Do you think this is the result of amending the law?"

Du Jiuyan nodded, "Yes. This is the revised result."

"About the regulations, it's not that I'm praising Taizu's ability, but that the current Taizu's regulations are the ultimate. I have considered all aspects, one point is too heavy, and one point is too light." Du Jiu Yan said: "This week's law, except for a few missing, can be called perfect."

"Therefore, the law must be restored." Du Jiuyan cupped his hands and said to Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu nodded and was about to speak when Daren Wang said, "My lord, if you just recover like this, you will inevitably have to go to war again."

"This is no small matter. It is almost a matter of the whole country, involving too many aspects."

Du Jiuyan cupped his hands and said, "Lord Wang, even if you go to war, you must change."

"Stop the loss in time, Mr. Wang."

"Actually, it doesn't take much. Changes can be seen in the court and China within two years, and the tax revenue will definitely increase in three years." Du Jiuyan said.

Master Wang looked at Du Jiuyan with frowned eyebrows, and wanted to refute her, but when he got to his lips, he felt that it was useless to say it.

Because what she said is too powerful, and this strength is not her words and sentences, but the real data of each year.

"Do you have any objections to this?" Zhao Yu looked at the crowd and asked.

No one speaks.

"Your Majesty," Lu Zhangshang stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "I have seen these revised laws and regulations, and they should indeed be restored."

Zhao Yu nodded.

Ren Yanhui stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, I have no objection to these articles on taxation." He glanced at Du Jiuyan for a moment, "But the other articles, I think, should not be revived."

"Which one?" Zhao Yu asked.

"During the reign of Emperor Renzong, the article about men beating their wives was revised. Women can sue and be sentenced according to the severity of the injury!" Ren Yanhui said: "Throughout the ages, the most difficult thing to decide is housework."

"For example, in this incident of giving away son soup, it is definitely not advisable to kill his wife to vent his anger, but the husband was so depressed that he couldn't control it for a while and beat his wife. This is difficult to tolerate in the law, but it is understandable in logic." Ren Yanhui said: " He was the victim after all."

Liu Yushi said: "That's true. If this kind of housework is also filed in the yamen, then the yamen's cases will pile up, not to mention the investment in manpower and material resources, and unclear litigation is also the main reason."

"If you think this is incomplete, then we encourage women to go to the security chief within their jurisdiction, or to the "elderly" in the village."

"Old man" is a position. Although it is not an official position, it enjoys the authority conferred by the court.

Zhao Yu didn't have any idea about this item. It's not as good as taxation, which is directly related to the revenue of the treasury. He looked at Du Jiuyan and asked lightly, "Tell me."

"Yes." Du Jiuyan looked at Ren Yanhui, Ren Yanhui was startled, and looked at her warily, afraid that she would swear at him again.This woman has a really tricky mouth.

Du Jiuyan didn't scold anyone, but raised his eyebrows at him, and said, "This kind of thing is actually just not on my own head."

"It doesn't matter if you recover or not, it's better to be like this."

Ren Yanhui was startled, but still said: "Then keep it as it is?"

"Okay!" After Du Jiuyan finished speaking, everyone was surprised, because she didn't say that just now, and looking at her style of doing things, since she brought it up, she couldn't easily step back and let it go.

Everyone looked at her, but no one spoke.

"You said you don't need to recover?" Zhao Yu asked her.

Du Jiuyan nodded, "Yes! Let's discuss adding regulations first."

"Add regulations?" Ren Yanhui said: "It's too simple to think."

Du Jiuyan glanced at him, then cupped his hands and said to Zhao Yu, "My lord, is the restoration of the Zhou Law passed?"

"Why don't we pass the merchant's regulations first, let's talk about the rest about women's rights?"

Strike while the iron is hot, lest someone refuses to admit it and continues to object, wasting her saliva.

"En." Zhao Yu looked at the crowd, "A total of eight minor items of these two regulations have been restored. Do you have any objections?"

Ren Yanhui and Elder Lu Ge didn't object, and the others certainly wouldn't.

What's more, what Du Jiuyan said in this regard is indeed quite forceful.

"That's it." Zhao Yu looked at the cabinet members, "This matter will be supervised by Lu Aiqing and Ren Aiqing. On the first day of June, the whole country will issue documents and implement the old law."

Lu Zhangzhi and Ren Yanhui should be.

"My lord," Du Jiuyan cupped his hands and said, "Then go on to the second point?"

Zhao Yu nodded, he knew that this was Du Jiuyan's focus today.

(End of this chapter)