The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 131 The Gentleman's Revenge ([-])

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The monk's face instantly turned pale as frost.

"My lord, this is a forgery, this must be a forgery."

Shopkeeper Wu also echoed: "Yes, this must be a forgery!"

Xu Guan glanced at them coldly and said: "You haven't even read the content of this handwriting, and you just open your mouth and say that this handwriting is a forgery, is it really easy to deceive if you are an official?"

Xie Shen watched the development of the situation coldly.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, because temple land could be exempted from paying taxes, many big landlords and gentry put their family land under the name of temples to avoid paying taxes.However, this kind of family often does not have any clan members who have achieved fame, because as long as there are scholars in the family who have achieved fame, they can also be exempted from taxes, and there is no need to do anything extra.

Big families like the Zhuhu Sun family, Shangtang Wang family, and Simen Xie family have many well-known scholars in the family, so they can definitely be exempted from taxes.However, wealthy businessmen like shopkeeper Wu and Tan Fang had no choice but to cooperate with Ciyun Temple because they had no fame.

It was not uncommon in the late Ming Dynasty to entrust farmland to temples in order to exempt them from taxes, and it was basically because the people did not raise officials and did not investigate.But in the Hongzhi Dynasty, this was definitely a big enough case to cause a sensation in the local area.

You must know that both Tan Fang and Wu shopkeeper started their business by doing business and accumulated a lot of original wealth.

Tan Fang was even adopted as an adopted son by Li Guang, and Li Guang was a well-known corrupt official, a person who could make Eunuch Li right, not to mention rich as an enemy, must also be wealthy.

What such merchants want to do most after they get rich is to acquire and merge the fields of many farmers.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are at the bottom.

Now that he has started a low-level business, there is no need to think about studying and getting a good reputation.It is not yet the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to sell officials and nobles.As for the second-ranked farmer, he became the target of all wealthy businessmen.

You don't need anything else to buy land, just silver.As long as enough money is given, the fields and acres can be changed to these wealthy merchants.We must know that the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy is very fragile. Once there is any natural or man-made disaster, the first unlucky and bankrupt farmers are those farmers who have no ability to resist disasters.

Over time, these wealthy merchants hoarded a large amount of land in their hands, completing the transformation from wealthy merchants to big landlords.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, the identity of the big landlord was often not independent, but often combined with another layer of identity.Either wealthy merchants or wealthy gentry class.

People are greedy, and merchants are naturally more so.

They are not satisfied with having a large area of ​​land, and they have to find ways to avoid paying taxes.

It can be said that the failure to collect taxes in the late Ming Dynasty was largely due to this default tax avoidance method.Anyway, it was the Emperor Zhu's family who cheated, and these gentry classes just turned a blind eye.

Xie Shen painstakingly studied the history of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally hated this kind of behavior.It's just that he really didn't expect that such a thing would actually happen to him, and it would happen to his enemies and enemies.

Really answered that sentence, it's not that friends don't get together!

Xu Guan is an upright and upright official, so naturally he doesn't intend to tolerate this kind of thing.

He slapped the gavel and said sharply: "Wu Cheng, Tan Fang, you two colluded with Ciyun Temple in order to evade paying the imperial taxes and taxes, and lied about putting the farmland under the name of Ciyun Temple, it is really intolerable. Come on, let me and the official beat each of them sixty times! As for the monks in charge of land deeds in Ciyun Temple, it is abominable to evade taxes for others. These monks will also be beaten sixty times Daban! Although the three evil slaves of the Tan Mansion acted according to orders, they also committed murderous acts, and each was punished with [-] boards!"

These yamen servants are all confidantes of County Magistrate Wu, and they looked at County Magistrate Wu one after another.

"What are you doing in a daze, Mr. Xu has orders, why don't you carry out the execution!"

Up to now, Magistrate Wu can't control so much anymore.In line with the mentality that a dead fellow Taoist would never die a poor daoist, he could only obey Xu Guan's punishment for no reason.If he spoke for Tan Fang, he might even have to get involved.

Anyway, it was Xu Guan who ordered Tan Fang to be blamed. If the injustice has a head and a debtor, even if Eunuch Li really pursued it, he would go to the old man Xu Guan instead of himself.

Those yamen servants got the approval of Wu county magistrate, so they naturally didn't hesitate any longer. The shopkeeper Wu, several monks and three evil slaves were already kneeling in the hall, and they were directly kicked to the ground by the yamen servants.Tan Fang was even more miserable. She was still sitting on the chair, but now she was picked up by two yamen servants and dragged to the hall like a dead dog.

Several people lined up and lay down in the hall. Before they could call for help, they heard the sound of the board crashing down.

"Oh, it hurts so much, it hurts so much."

Tan Fang pampered her all day long, never had she suffered from such pain, she immediately cried out in pain.

Shopkeeper Wu is also delicate and tender, and was beaten by two yamen servants to the point of crying for his father and mother.On the contrary, several monks and three evil servants only let out a few muffled grunts, saving their dignity a little.

"Master Xu, you can't hit me, my godfather is Li Guang!"

In the blink of an eye, Tan Fang had played more than 20 boards, and under the pain, Tan Fang stumbled out of tricks and moved out of Li Guang.

Eunuch Li was notorious in the capital, how could Xu Guan, the left servant of the Ministry of Industry, not know?It's good that Tan Fang didn't mention Li Guang. When he said this, Xu Guan sneered and said, "Eunuch Li? Did he also teach you this method?"

Tan Fang realized that she had made a slip of the tongue this time, so she quickly kept her mouth shut.

Xu Guan said coldly: "You and that Wu Cheng also planned to kidnap Xie's maidservant. Although they failed, it is still hateful."

After a short pause, Xu Guan continued: "Punish the two crimes together, and the two will be punished with an additional [-] boards!"

This is the [-]th board, even a man with a strong body may not be able to stand it.You must know that although the boards of ordinary county government offices are made of moso bamboo, they are not comparable to court rods, but if they are actually hit with fifty or sixty boards, they can kill people.

Tan Fang and Wu Cheng were so frightened that their faces were ashen, and they quickly pleaded with Xu Guan, expressing their willingness to make up all the taxes owed in these years.

But Xu Guan couldn't rub the sand in his eyes, saying that he had to pay back the taxes owed, and this punishment cannot be avoided!
After playing thirty boards, the three evil servants of the Tan family could barely stand up.After playing sixty boards, those monks were already half dead.Tan Fang and shopkeeper Wu still couldn't escape from Shengtian, and they almost passed out after being beaten by Maozhu Daban.

Xie Shen thought in his heart that the abbot of Ciyun Temple escaped with a serious illness, otherwise he might have been shot in the county government at his age.

His character is the most defensive, and it is absolutely unbearable for his maid to be robbed in the street.

Now that Tan Fang and shopkeeper Wu have been severely punished by the Ming law, Xie Shen is naturally very happy.As for the monks from Ciyun Temple who were brought out, Xie Shen could only say that it was their own fault.

After the eighty boards were played, Tan Fang had passed out, and shopkeeper Wu was also dying.

Xu Guan watched coldly, seeing Magistrate Wu's face ashen, he asked loudly: "I don't know if Magistrate Wu thinks it's okay to punish me like this?"

A late Ming book is recommended.

"The journey of the traverser to become an army in the late Ming Dynasty!" - "Daming 1629"

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