civilwarnovels Chapter 449 Tax War (23)
Chapter 449 Tax War (23)
Chapter 449 Tax War (23)
Although the whole matter was planned by Zhao Xu and Zhang Fei, they are not sure about the final verdict.
Because this is a classic proposition in legal circles, bad law is illegal and bad law is also law.
It has been fought for hundreds of years all over the world.
The natural law school insists that "evil law is illegal", while the analytical law school insists that "evil law is also law".
When Zhang Fei was in college, he also participated in a debate contest on this proposition.
Even ordinary people, in fact, often argue. Although they may not know what evil laws are illegal and evil laws are also laws, they will express different opinions on a certain case. The views are often divided into two points, evil laws and illegal laws and evil laws. Also law.
The same is true now, the case was originally one-sided, and almost all supported the heavy sentence of Zhao Wenzheng.
But now the point of view has become divided again. One faction supports the sentence of Zhao Wenzheng for selling illegal salt, but the other faction supports that Zhao Wenzheng is selling medicine, not illegal salt.
Whether it is a street tea shop or a big restaurant, they are all arguing about this issue.
Often at such moments, it depends on the judge's thinking.
Zeng Gong also actively sent people to investigate the whole story.
Kaifeng House.
"Reporting to Prefect Zeng, after our search and investigation over the past few days, we have probably learned the whole story."
"What's going on?"
Zeng Gong hurriedly asked Huang Gui.
Huang Guidao: "The cause of the whole thing has to be explained by the State Salt Law. Did the prefect Zeng know that during the Qingli period, Fan Xiang was in charge of the Northwest Salt Administration?"
Zeng Gong nodded and said: "I don't know. In the past, military supplies were exchanged for salt banknotes, food, cloth, etc., but the valuation of the real objects was difficult to be fair, so Fan Xiang changed to a businessman to buy salt banknotes from the border state army for money, and then went to Salt ponds are exchanged for salt, and the state army buys military supplies with the money paid by salt merchants.”
Huang Guidao: "The overall output of Jieyan is very stable, roughly around 35 seats per year. When Fan Xiang presided over the local salt administration, the salt bills never exceeded this amount. Today, the annual salt banknotes have reached 43 seats.
This led to a gradual reduction in the price of salt banknotes. Some salt merchants who resell salt banknotes exchanged salt with Xiezhou Salt Pond. However, because Xiezhou Salt Pond could not produce more, the local salt officials thought of a way. They knew that salt households would steal The habit of hiding private salt, so people were sent to clear those salt households, which directly led to conflicts between local salt households and salt officials, which actually reduced the amount of salt in Jiezhou a lot. "
Zeng Gong sighed: "In order to profit from salt, the government has always bought salt from salt households at extremely low prices, so salt households seek their livelihood by hiding salt."
"Yes."
Huang Gui nodded, and said again: "But this indirectly led to the fact that Xuzhou salt merchants did not get enough salt back then. At that time, the price of salt in Xuzhou once rose to 75 yuan per catty. Salt merchants could only sell good salt at a high price. They are sold to the rich, but in the countryside, they are mixed with bad salt and soil dregs, and each catty is no less than [-] yuan. The rural households are unwilling to buy it, and they can't afford it.
This caused the salt merchants to increase the travel expenses in vain, so the salt merchants stopped going. This indeed caused no one to sell salt in many places in Xuzhou at that time for half a year, and many people died of illness as a result.
Afterwards, all kinds of private salt entered Xuzhou, and Wang Hongjin was just one of them. However, since the official salt recovered last year, those legal salt merchants wanted to drive out the private salt, but because the private salt was only 45 yuan, and the official salt was at least [-] yuan. It costs [-] Wen, and there is no way to drive it away, so some people suspect that it is the evidence provided by the local salt merchant to the tax department. "
Zeng Gong nodded, and asked again: "Has the procuratorate found any evidence that Wang Hongjin sold illegal salt to other places?"
Huang Gui shook his head and said: "No. Moreover, Wang Hongjin also insisted that all his salt comes from a private salt dealer in Qingzhou, named Li Yuan, but he has not been found yet, and he has been selling private salt for a year or two. The sale was mainly from the year before last to last year, which happened to be the period when Xuzhou was short of salt. Although the procuratorate believes that Wang Hongjin sold private salt, it was definitely not in the past two years, and the previous salt profit accounts were just destroyed by him. But the procuratorate was only suspicious and did not find any evidence."
Li Kai hummed: "There are only a few people in the procuratorate, and all their evidence comes from the tax department, and the really powerful one is actually the tax department."
Zeng Gong nodded and looked at Zeng Gong again.
Huang Guidao: "The procuratorate has also negotiated with the tax department, but the tax department said that they have done everything they can, and they have no more evidence."
Zeng Gong nodded and said, "I see."
Huang Gui added: "There is one more thing. Xie Huacun, who testified before the court, and the rest of the people who provided evidence have entrusted Bianjing Law Firm to file a lawsuit with the imperial court, hoping to get his family's land back. "
Zeng Gong asked: "Can the imperial court make a judgment?"
"not yet."
Huang Gui shook his head and said, "However, Court Chief Lu sent someone to look for me, saying that the other party's evidence is convincing. After the trial, the imperial court will most likely return the land to Xie Huacun and others."
"This Erbi really has some tricks!"
Zeng Gong sighed, and asked Huang Gui again: "Boss Huang, you go to the procuratorate again and ask if they have found any new evidence?"
Huang Guidao: "In fact, the lower officials have already asked, but as Li Tongpan said, the procuratorate's means of verification are very scarce, and they said that it is difficult to find more evidence."
Due to the current limited technology, verification is actually very difficult. It took the tax department a whole year to obtain these empirical evidence.
They did not have much previous evidence, and it was difficult to find it.
If the tax department does not provide new evidence, the procuratorate can only stare blankly. This also wakes up the procuratorate, thinking that it is better to set up its own investigation department and not completely rely on the tax department, after all, it is not an affiliation relationship.
Three days later.
Zeng Gong called Zhang Fei and Su Zhe to Kaifeng Mansion.
"After the trial by the judge, the judge decided to sentence Wang Hongjin to the crime of falsely reporting property and tax evasion. Since there is no direct evidence to prove that Zhao Wenzheng knew about it and the property was not in his name, he will not be prosecuted for the relevant crimes. And Occupying official land, because the evidence provided by the procuratorate is controversial, and because the imperial court is trying a related case, so I decided to transfer the case to the imperial court for trial together. As for the crime of selling illegal salt?"
Zeng Gong glanced at Zhang Fei suddenly, "After investigating the cause of the matter, I found that Wang Hongjin was not selling illegal salt, but drugs, and we will not hold him accountable."
Zhang Fei immediately cupped his hands and said, "Prefect Zeng is really clear."
Su Zhe was very disappointed, and said very dissatisfied: "If the prefect Zeng sentenced him like this, it will have a very bad impact. Those who sell private salt will also be exonerated with this crime."
Zeng Gong said: "If you can't buy a grain of salt within half a year, then salt is a life-saving medicine for you. As for the bad effects, I think there is nothing worse than the bad effects of not being able to buy salt." , it is the imperial court that should reflect, not the smugglers.”
Su Zhe remained silent, and his dissatisfaction was vividly expressed on the paper.
Zeng Gong then said to Zhang Fei: "I will sentence Wang Hongjin to a hundred sticks, seven years in prison, send him to Qiongzhou, and confiscate all his property involved in tax evasion."
In fact, it is all, because Wang Hongjin has never paid taxes.
Zhang Fei immediately said: "Prefect Zeng, according to the laws of our dynasty, at most one-third of the property involved in tax evasion can only be fined and confiscated. Qin Biao and the others also sentenced like this before."
Su Zhe immediately glared at Zhang Fei.
Are you still not satisfied?
Zhang Fei also noticed the look in his eyes, but he didn't pay attention to it, what do you know, this is called professionalism.
Zeng Gong said: "Don't you need to calculate the interest? For more than ten years, Wang Hongjin has not paid a penny in taxes, even if he confiscated all his family property, it is not enough to repay it. If there is evidence to prove that Zhao Wenzheng was involved, it may be more than that." a little."
Zhang Fei argued: "But there is no sufficient evidence to prove that Wang Hongjin has not paid a penny in taxes for more than ten years."
Zeng Gong said with a smile: "So I only counted for three years."
Zhang Fei wondered, "Is three years enough?"
"enough!"
Zeng Gong said: "You must know that the more than [-] hectares of land do not belong to him, but the grain of the more than [-] hectares of land belongs to him, so the tax has to be calculated, but when the penalty is imposed, these lands are all If you don’t count it, you can’t take other people’s land as your fine.”
Zhang Fei muttered softly: "Prefect Zeng's algorithm is really unique."
Zeng Gong glanced at him sideways, "What did you say?"
"No, nothing."
Zhang Fei said: "I still maintain my original opinion. Prefect Zeng is really clear and decisive. I admire, admire."
Zeng Gong looked at Su Zhe again.
Su Zhe struggled for a while, but finally nodded. Although he was not satisfied with the verdict, he believed that the procuratorate also had an inescapable responsibility, and they had to pay the price for it.
After agreeing, Zeng Gong let them leave.
"Prefect, I'm afraid this verdict will dissatisfy everyone." Huang Gui whispered.
Zeng Gong nodded and said, "That's right."
After leaving the door, Su Zhe suddenly looked at Zhang Fei, "Aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation?"
Zhang Fei laughed and said: "You officials are not afraid, what am I afraid of, this case has become like this, if the source of this case is traced, the responsibility lies with the government, at best I can only be regarded as icing on the cake, so it is not my turn to leave a bad reputation for thousands of years. "
Su Zhe sized him up, "Aren't you an official now?"
Zhang Fei blinked and coughed: "Then I just haven't been able to get out of the mud. Besides, if we, Erbi, want to pursue justice as our mission, then why do we need your procuratorate?"
Su Zhe gritted his teeth with hatred, and snorted, "You won't be so lucky next time."
Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "If I lose, I will still make money, just a little less."
".!"
Zeng Gong did not ask for instructions, but directly gave the verdict.
As soon as this judgment comes out.
As Huang Gui said, no one is satisfied.
Officials in the DPRK and China believed that Zeng Gong was covering up Zhao Wenzheng. From the beginning to the end, the verdict seemed to have nothing to do with Zhao Wenzheng, especially the crime of selling illegal salt, which was really beaten by Zhang Fei. It can still happen today.
If it wasn't for covering up, it would be unreasonable.
Immediately, many officials went up to impeach Zeng Gong.
But Zhao Wenzheng over there was also dissatisfied, and was so angry that he fell ill in bed.
"It's over. It's over. The old man's fields are all gone. The damn Zeng Zigu didn't leave any for the old man. For more than ten years, this bamboo basket has been empty! No, the old man still has to give Zhang thirty or twenty thousand, ahhh Woohoo!"
Zhao Wenzheng was lying on the bed, clutching his forehead and sobbing.
Wang Qing was also full of grief, his son was basically doomed, but he still comforted him: "Master, let's take it as a way to get rid of the disaster, this man is finally saved."
Zhao Wenzheng sat up in surprise, and said, "That's right, after all, the old man is fine, and this field can still come back in the future."
Wang Qing nodded and said, "Master is right."
"But... But, this is hundreds of thousands! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."
Like a child, Zhao Wenzheng threw himself on the bed again, patted the wooden board, and wailed loudly: "If I knew this, I should have paid the exemption tax at that time, and it was only two or three hundred guan at most, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh "
(End of this chapter)