Xiao Jiading turned his eyes and knew what was going on. It must be Du Erniu's grandfather Du Dayin who told him about buying a house. This village official came to give gifts in this name.

A house worth 120 yuan is equivalent to RMB 600,000! Now it only costs 50,000 yuan, less than one-tenth of the price. This is too cost-effective, right? It would be a fool if you don’t buy it!

Wait! Xiao Jiading thought to himself, why did he sell him a house at such a cheap price? Is it because he has Tang Lin behind him? Although it is said that he is Tang Lin's confidant outside, he actually knows nothing about what Tang Lin is, and he doesn't even know who he is. Faced with such a mentor, he has to figure out his "thousand-mile horse" before making a move. If he is a corrupt official, then there will be no big problem to buy this low-priced house with greed for cheapness. If he is a clean official, he hates evil and hates corruption, he is afraid that he will kick himself away immediately when he knows it, and even step on it. In that case, his bright future will be ruined.

If a son makes a mistake, he will lose everything. He cannot make such a foolish move. He is greedy for small gains and may suffer a big loss. As long as he climbs the big tree of Tang Lin, he is still worried that there is no "money future" ahead?

Thinking of this, he looked at Luxiangzheng again. His small township actually had such a large mansion, and he could sell it to himself almost as much as he gave it to him. It shows how rich this township is. He can't afford to rely on the work and food and silver in a foreign country to death. I am afraid that he may have been greedy for a lot of money and ointment! Such a person gives you money, but I am afraid that he will get benefits from you immediately, and the disaster will not be far away.

Thinking of this, Xiao Jiading immediately looked stern and said with a righteous and stern voice: "Tell you, I am a clean person, not greedy or corrupt, don't do this in front of me!" After that, he was about to leave with his hands behind his back.

Lu Xiang was obviously stunned for a moment, his face turned a little red, his eyes turned, and he quickly caught up and smiled: "If Xiao Zhiyi thinks it is expensive, it can be less."

When Xiao Jiading heard this, he obviously thought that he was pretending to be a stubborn person and wanted to lower the price, so he stopped. His face was as cold as a frost. He imitated the way senior government officials gave reports in modern movies, and said earnestly: "It is not necessary to do these evil ways! Comrade!" After that, he snorted heavily and walked away with great strides.

Lu Xiangzheng and Lu Shujian were stunned. Naturally, they could not understand the meaning of the word "comrade" behind Xiao Jiading and looked at each other.

Xiao Jiading was a little painful as he walked in. Damn, he watched the 500,000 and 600,000 flew away with just a few wings. It was really unhappy to be a clean official.

He thought again and again, the reason why he was unhappy was that he was too poor. If he had wealth now, would he still care about his little money? After all, he was still poor!

It seems that how to make money must be put on the agenda. Make money as soon as possible to make yourself rich. But how to make money, you can’t make friends with poetry anymore, right? Then you won’t make a lot of money and it will easily give people the impression of being arrogant.

Growing chili peppers? Of course, he will make money. He is very sure of this, but firstly, there is no place to plant them now, and secondly, there must be a process for others to like to eat chili peppers. This process is probably not short. - Receiving new things always requires courage and time, so I am afraid that it will not be more reliable than making money in a short period of time.

After thinking about it all the way, I didn't think of any good idea. Xiao Jiading returned to the county magistrate's signing room. Did the county magistrate still come? There was only Shutong Wenyan in the room. Xiao Jiading said: "Go to the chief clerk, find out all the files of the case handled by Wu Haidong, and take the verdict inside to me."

The cases handled by the yamen criminal room are submitted for approval and submitted for execution, and the case files must be archived. The archive management of this file is the principal of the yamen.

Wen Yan agreed and was about to go out, but was stopped by Xiao Jiading and whispered: "No one should tell me about this."

"yes!"

After Wen Yan left, Xiao Jiading began to look at the new case. He no longer wanted to look at the previous verdict because he was afraid of finding something wrong in it, so he was in a dilemma. It would be better not to look at it, and he was not upset. Anyway, he had seen some of it and knew it a little.

The first case he picked up, and looked carefully, couldn't help but frown again. The case was very simple. Someone rode his horse past the criminal's house. For some reason, the horse was shocked and rushed into the field, trampling the green rice into a mess. The criminal was a shrew, and immediately stopped him and asked him to pay a lot of money. The man said it was not that expensive, but the criminal blocked the way and rolled around the ground. The man had an urgent matter and had to give it to her. After returning, he felt that he was too unjust, so he went to the yamen to file a complaint. As a result, after investigation by the officer, the trampled green rice was far less worth the money. The money he asked for was converted into five pieces of silk. So the servant arrested the criminal and returned to the yamen to the yamen for the crime of being a dirty man.

The draft verdict of the clerk in the punishment room was to be sentenced to fifty as a result of the crime of being accused of being a stolen property. The stolen goods were returned to the original owner and submitted to Xiao Jiading.

Tang Luli's crime of stolen goods is very strange. There is no corresponding crime in modern criminal law. It is similar to unjust gains in civil law, which means that there is no legal or contractual reason and he has obtained property that he should not be obtained. Just like in this case, the shrew's young woman was stepped on by a horse and is a victim of infringement and should be compensated, but she asked for more than the actual loss, and the excess part is stolen goods. She will be punished by punishment.

Tang Lu also used criminal punishment to deal with many civil acts, and the crime of stolen goods is one of them. The maximum sentence can be sentenced to three years of imprisonment!

There is no problem with the characterization of the case. The problem is that according to the provisions of the Tang Law, as long as the other party does not use violent intimidation and other means to force the other party to pay more than the loss, but the two parties privately reach an agreement of extra compensation, and both parties will be punished for both the extra compensation. The person who gives the money must reduce the fifth-level punishment according to the person who accepts it, and the person who gives it will be 10 times in this case. At the same time, the extra money is stolen money and will not be earned by the official.

Specifically for this case, there are two places where the handling errors are handled. One is that the person who asked for is punished by the person who was not arrested. The other is that the person who gave the money is handled by the handling of the stolen money. The judgment is to return the original owner, and according to the Tang Dynasty law, there should be no official income.

Xiao Jiading did not make any changes directly. He wanted to exchange opinions with the clerks below as much as possible to let them know how to deal with such cases in the future. At the same time, he also asked the servant to catch the person who gave the money and spank him.

So, he stood up and was about to go to the torture room, but suddenly he stopped again, and then he thought about the case. Isn’t this case just an unjust gain? If it were in modern times, the amount of compensation could be negotiated and determined, and it would be nothing to accompany more and pay less. Of course, too much compensation would be unfair. In addition, how could such unjust gain be confiscated? It should be returned to the original owner. Now, he has to change the originally reasonable judgment to an unjust judgment that conforms to the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Is it necessary?

He sat down again and then thought about what to do about this case.

It is easier to deal with stolen money. He remembered that the provisions for confiscation of stolen money were stipulated in the "Tang Law Commentary", and this thing was only issued two years later. Therefore, there is no clear regulation on whether to be fined or not. This judgment cannot be said to be illegal. But what should I do about this? The "Yonghui Law" has clearly stipulated: "Assign the person to the person, reduce the fifth grade." That is to say, the fifth grade punishment must be reduced to the person who gives money. What should I do? I really need to arrest this poor person and spank him?

He slowly read the verdict again, but had no clue. He turned the "Yonghui Law" to the part of the crime of stolen goods. The article stipulates as follows: "Anyone who commits stolen goods will be beaten twenty per foot, one more foot, one more foot; ten more foot is one year in vain..." Seeing this, he couldn't help but lit up his eyes and he felt a scheming in his heart.

He stood up, came to the torture room with the verdict, called the clerk who was in charge of the case, handed him the verdict, and asked, "You said in the verdict, the criminal is worth five pieces of silk, right?"

"yes."

"Where is the price of the volume being dirty?"

"Come on our Yizhou."

"Well, how much does silk cost in Yizhou?"

"Six hundred and seventy pieces per piece."

"What about the capital?"

"Six hundred texts per piece."

"Where is Jiangnan?"

"Five hundred texts per piece."

"How do you know that it's so detailed?"

The clerk smiled and said, "I have a relative who happens to be a silk business. I often hear him talk, so I know."

"Where are the cheapest and most expensive silk in the country?"

"The cheapest one is Jiangnan, and the most expensive ones are Henan and our Jiannan."

"Didn't the court say that the silk price is calculated according to which place? Or is it a unified regulation?"

"No."

"Since there isn't, then you estimate it according to the price of the most expensive place. Is this appropriate?"

"This..." The clerk scratched his head embarrassedly, "It used to be done this."

"Well! I'll ask you again, is this stolen money that exceeds the amount of loss just worth five horses?"

"No, it's a little bit."

“How much difference?”

"It looks less than one horse."

"That means, there are not five horses?"

"yes!"

Xiao Jiading immediately looked stern and said, "It's as much as you want. How can you add more yourself?"

The clerk was very embarrassed and hurriedly said, "Yes! Then I'll change it now and apply for approval again."

Xiao Jiading smiled at the corner of his mouth: "There are fewer stolen goods, can't this punishment be so much?"

"Yes, forty whip should be sentenced to."
Chapter completed!