Zhang Fei won several lawsuits by relying on details.
Xu Zun had also reminded them many times that details are details.
Su Zhe and his team also thought that they had been meticulous enough and that there would be no problem with the evidence, but... after all, it was still not as meticulous as Zhang Fei.
This seemingly irrefutable evidence is subject to huge controversy.
What’s even more interesting is that the two used exactly the same means: the government regarded the people’s fields as wasteland and confiscated them according to the law, while Zhao Wenzhen regarded the government’s pastures as wasteland, and then sent people to “reclaim” them according to the law, and finally took them for himself.
According to the evidence provided by Zhang Fei, it is currently unclear whether this piece of land is wasteland, government land, or private land. So on what basis does the procuratorate sue others for encroaching on government land?
In addition, the procuratorate is a state institution and represents the government, and the accounts in their hands are provided by the government. If they know that the accounts provided by the government are problematic and still make judgments, the consequences will be very serious, and there will be no law at all.
When Zhang Fei and Su Che returned to their seats, the people present had already gotten the answer from Su Che's face.
This crime is probably difficult to convict.
But Su Che was not discouraged because there was another charge, which was selling contraband salt.
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Once this crime is convicted, the sentence can be very severe, even punishable by death. Although the death penalty does not apply to grandmasters, as long as the case is successful, it does not matter whether the first two crimes are committed or not.
If you can't escape this charge, no matter how beautiful your previous defense is, it will be of no avail.
It's a dead end.
On the other hand, on Zhang Fei's side, Xu Zhiqian was sorting out the documents, but her expression did not become relaxed, but became more solemn, as if they were at a disadvantage.
When Xu Zhiqian put the organized documents in front of Zhang Fei, she couldn't help but ask, "Does your trick really work?"
Zhang Fei smiled and said, "If I am absolutely sure that I can get this charge, then I will have to take 30,000 strings of cash from Governor Zhao instead of 20,000 strings of cash."
After a brief adjustment, Su Che asked Wang Hongjin to come to the classroom.
When Wang Hongjin sat in the dock, Su Che asked, "Wang Hongjin, according to our investigation, you sold more than 3,000 buckets of private salt to Xuzhou last year. Do you plead guilty?"
"I object!"
Zhang Fei immediately stood up and said, "I think the way Prosecutor Su asked is misleading."
Zeng Gong asked curiously, "Misleading?"
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Wang Hongjin only transported 3,000 buckets of good medicine to Xuzhou last year, not smuggled salt."
"Good medicine?"
Zeng Gong said in astonishment.
The procuratorate should not make the mistake of mistaking medicine for salt, right?
Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Yes, it is a life-saving medicine."
Zeng Gong couldn't help but look at Su Che.
For a while, there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the courtyard.
Is this another naked false accusation?
Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others also looked at each other in bewilderment.
The officials were well aware of the land occupation, but they had no idea about the details of the illegal salt trafficking. This couldn't be a mistake.
That shouldn’t be the case!
Some officials also knew that Zhao Wenzhen was selling illegal salt.
"quiet!"
Zeng Gong slammed the gavel and shouted in a deep voice.
Qi Ji, who was sitting, couldn't help but say, "Impossible, it's definitely private salt, not a good medicine. We have witnesses to prove it. At the same time, Wang Hongjin and Zhao Wenzheng's accounts also say salt."
Zhang Fei said: "It is indeed written in the account that it is salt, because the name of this good medicine is salt."
"......?"
this....
The courtyard suddenly fell silent, and everyone was staring at Zhang Fei in a daze.
Calling a horse a deer is not as cruel as you!
Can you still argue like this?
Why didn't you say it was silver?
"Asshole!"
Zeng Gong was immediately furious, "How dare you use the trick of calling a deer a horse to tease this prefect.
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Xu Zhiqian blushed and lowered her head. When Zhang Fei told her that, she was confused. This is not a defense, you are just playing with everyone.
Zhang Fei said seriously: "I would never dare to tease the prefect. I have witnesses who can prove that it is good medicine, not private salt."
Are there any witnesses?
It's outrageous!
Zeng Gong suppressed his anger for the time being and said, "Call the witness."
But a man in his forties limped into the hall, and his neck was obviously swollen.
When Su Che saw this neck, he immediately had an ominous premonition.
"I, Xu Shengzi, have met the prefect."
"Sit down."
Zeng Gong pointed to the witness stand.
"I obey your command."
Xu Shengzi went straight to the witness stand and sat down. He had no choice since he was disabled.
Zhang Fei stood up and asked, "Uncle Xu, where are you from?"
Xu Shengzi replied, "I am from Luoxiang, Changge County, Xuzhou."
Zhang Fei said: "May I ask, is your neck naturally this big, or...?"
Xu Shengzi immediately replied: "It's because I had a serious illness two years ago, and my neck became so big."
Zhang Fei asked, "What disease is it?"
Xu Shengzi said, "In my hometown, it's called big neck disease."
Zhang Fei nodded and asked, "I wonder why you got this disease?"
Someone at the door answered quickly: "I know this. If you don't eat salt, you will get goiter."
Xu Shengzi nodded repeatedly, "That young man is right, it is because of the lack of salt that this disease occurred."
Zhang Fei asked: "Why do you have no salt to eat?"
Xu Shengzi sighed, "We used to have this, but two years ago the price of salt more than doubled, and it was mixed with a lot of dirt. We couldn't afford it, and we couldn't eat it. Later, the salt merchants stopped selling to us, and we had no salt to eat."
His tone didn't fluctuate much, just like he was chatting casually, as if he had seen through everything.
Maybe it's because I'm used to this kind of thing.
Very normal.
Zhang Fei asked again: "Does that mean everyone has no salt to eat?"
Xu Shengzi said: "At that time, many people in our village had no salt to eat. They could only use the water from the pond or the blood of the prey to make brine to eat as salt. At that time, many people got this goiter, their whole body was swollen, their eyes bulged out, and some even died."
"Anyone else died?"
Zhang Fei pretended to be surprised.
Xu Shengzi said: "I know of seven or eight of them."
Zhang Fei asked curiously again: "Then why are you guys okay again?"
Xu Shengzi said: "Of course it was because someone came to sell salt later, and we ate the salt, and naturally we got better slowly."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Fei asked in confusion: "Where do you get the money to sell salt? Isn't it said that no one can afford it?"
"In fact, the price of salt sold by the salt merchants later was not cheap, but at least we farmers could still afford it, and it was much better than the previous salt. There was no soil residue mixed in it, and one pound of it could last for many days."
"I see."
Zhang Fei nodded, "If this person didn't come to sell salt, what do you think would happen?"
"We might die of illness. In fact, if we don't die of illness, we will die of starvation. Many people are too sick to work on the farm."
Xu Shengzi shook his head and sighed, without any sadness, only the helplessness of trying to find joy in suffering.
"Then can we say that this salt is a good medicine and saved your lives?"
"sure."
"Thanks!"
Zhang Fei said to Zeng Gong, "I have finished asking questions."
Su Che stood up and asked, "Excuse me, Uncle Xu, did the salt dealer tell you that he was selling salt or medicine?"
"Of course, a salt dealer is talking about selling salt." Xu Shengzi looked at Su Che in confusion.
There were sporadic laughter outside the door.
Su Che asked again: "Are you buying salt or medicine?"
Xu Shengzi scratched his head and said, "Of course we buy salt."
Su Che said to Zeng Gong, "I have finished asking questions."
Zeng Gong first had Xu Shengzi taken away, and then asked Zhang Fei: "Your witnesses all say that this is salt, what else do you have to say?"
Zhang Fei replied: "I think that to define an object, we should not only look at what it is, but also its purpose. Just last year, a murder occurred in Bianjing City. The murderer was a fireman who smashed the other person to death with an iron pot. In the confession at the time, the iron pot was defined as a murder weapon, so it was illegal. The judiciary obviously judged it based on the purpose of the iron pot, not what it is. As we all know, an iron pot is not a weapon.
According to our investigation, the price of salt in Xuzhou doubled two years ago, so that many rural farmers could not afford to buy salt, resulting in no one going there to sell salt, which led to many cases of goiter. It was Governor Zhao who asked Wang Hongjin to sell salt to the local area and cure the goiter of the local people. This can definitely be understood as selling drugs. "
Qi Ji was amused by Zhang Fei's sophistry and jokingly asked, "Now that he has recovered from his illness, why are you still selling him?"
Zhang Fei looked down at Wen An and said seriously, "We have consulted many doctors and learned that this medicine needs to be taken for a long time."
“Puff!”
Xu Zhiqian couldn't help laughing and quickly buried her head.
Go down.
It turned out that the document was just the location for selling illegal salt.
But Zhang Fei could speak as if it were true.
Zeng Gong frowned and said to Zhang Fei: "If what you said is true, I'm afraid that all salt smugglers in the world can be acquitted in this way."
Zhang Fei said: "If the situation is the same as that of Governor Zhao, it is certainly not illegal. Imagine if the court decided to stop selling official salt for three years and did not amend the salt law, causing people all over the world to get sick, and all the prescriptions prescribed by doctors all contain salt, then are these doctors selling private salt or selling medicine?"
Qi Ji couldn't help but ask, "You are making up stories. Why would the imperial court prohibit the sale of official salt?"
Zhang Fei said, "Let me put it another way. If the imperial court stipulates that salt costs five strings of coins per pound, many people cannot afford it and end up getting sick. If the doctor prescribes salt and sells it to the patient at the price of ordinary medicine, is that selling salt or selling medicine?"
Qi Ji remained silent.
Zhang Fei looked around and said loudly: "Don't ignore the fact that when Governor Zhao ordered Wang Hongjin to sell salt to Xuzhou, many places in the area were seriously short of salt. Why did this happen?
It was because the Xuzhou government suddenly raised the price of salt at that time, so that salt dealers had to sell the salt they obtained from the government at a high price in order to make a profit. However, due to the high price, many villagers were unable to buy salt, and the salt dealers saw that there was no profit in these areas, so they simply stopped selling in these places.
But as we all know, salt is the same as food. Without salt, people will immediately become ill and may not survive. It is said that human life is of paramount importance, and the law should not be higher than human life. According to historical records, any law that is higher than human life is an evil law and no one will obey it.
Based on this, how to judge whether it is private salt or medicine is actually very simple. If ordinary people who work hard can afford the salt they need for life, then salt other than official salt is private salt and is illegal. But if ordinary people cannot afford the salt they need for life, then salt other than official salt is medicine and is legal. "
Su Che looked at Qi Ji and asked, "Did Wang Hongjin sell all his private salt to Xuzhou?"
Qi Ji said: "All the smuggled salt we found was sold to Xuzhou."
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