Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 434 Tax War (8)

Chapter 434 Tax War ([-])

After all, this ginger is still old and spicy.

Wen Yanbo's seemingly insignificant proposal, but its role should not be underestimated.

At least this can give them a reason to appease the officials below.

If it is said that the tax department took all the face and face, it may also provoke a more violent counterattack.

Wen Yanbo's governing style can be summed up in one word - stable.

Moreover, the abolition of the title of Royal Tax Police is also conducive to the emperor's neutral position.

Zhao Xu also adopted their suggestions and expressed respect for Zuo Ting's judgment on the grounds that it was inconvenient to interfere with the judiciary.

Did not say support.

At the same time, the Zhengshitang officially issued a decree, giving a clear distinction to all judicial upstarts.

In fact, the higher-level officials of various departments already have formal titles and powers.

The key is the expansion of the police station by [-] police officers.

Wang Anshi's previous strategy was to recruit them to the police station first, and then divide them up, and use these auxiliary police officers to carry out the affairs of officials in various departments. change.

But how to divide, Wang Anshi did not say at that time.

Because he didn't know that so many things would happen in such a short period of time.

Not to mention the common people, those tax policemen and court policemen themselves are not very clear about their relationship with the police station, because they are all transferred from the auxiliary police, and their identities are not clear.

This time Zhengshitang distinguished their relationship.

Police officers from different departments are not affiliated with each other.

Once transferred from the police station to another department, it will no longer belong to the police station.

In this decree, the titles of the police officers of various departments are very clearly written, tax police, court police, prosecutors and royal police.

It was not clearly stated, but it was not clearly stipulated at the time, but it was clear at a glance that only the police were named "royal".

In other words, there is no Royal Tax Police.

This political signal is very obvious, combined with Zhao Xu's statement.

In short, I am not biased towards either side.

Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang also took this matter to appease the officials below. People like Qin Biao have bad deeds and are unreasonable. We can't speak for you, but we still prevent the tax police from calling them The title of "royal" prevents them from doing whatever they want.

It's hard for the officials below to say anything.

As for this judgment, there are many discussions in the market. Generally speaking, most of the common people still support this judgment. The door of their house is like a piece of paper. If you want to use siege equipment, you can only say that you are dead. .

The key point is that they were very dissatisfied with the previous officials, and they supported the tax police.

The rich are of course against it.

However, this objection belongs to the objection, and some people are still frightened.

Immediately, many people went to the office, saying that they had accidentally omitted some income when declaring at that time, and they were willing to make up for it, hoping that the office could help them fight for it and avoid being punished.

"so much?"

Holding the ledger in his hand, Zhang Fei looked at Fan Li in surprise.

Fan Li sighed: "Who would have known that the tax department's methods are so powerful, so when it was declared at the beginning, it will be more or less less reported."

Zhang Fei said: "I'm not referring to the tax department, but these bastards, who even kept us secret."

Most of these people are clients of the firm.

Fan Li immediately said: "That's also to blame, you said we can't help with false reports, they have no choice but to not report. But other bookstores are trying to cover up for customers, so many big landlords ran to Li's house .”

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "The customers we target are different. They are people who help evade taxes, and we help people who pay more taxes. If we also help those big landlords calculate taxes, there will be conflicts among customers. What then?"

Fan Li nodded and said: "I understand that. In fact, we earn more than them. After all, we have more customers. It's just that this matter is not easy to please. After all, the government still wants to collect more taxes. They help people Hiding taxes will not offend the government, but if we help people report the truth, we will offend the government instead."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "I never thought that Yuanwai could understand so thoroughly."

Fan Li said: "I'm doing all this, can I not understand, the officials who were urging taxes before, never gave us a good face when they saw our people."

"You can make a lot of money by doing what others can't do."

Zhang Fei handed back the accounts in his hand to Fan Li, "You sent a letter to talk to the tax department, saying that it was their first declaration and there were some omissions. I hope the tax department can handle it leniently. I don't think the problem should be big. Even if there is a fine, it can't be too much, after all, they didn't hide much."

Fan Li nodded and said, "I'll ask Zhengwen to take a trip after I've sorted it out later."

Zhang Fei asked again: "Does the Li family also have a lot of taxpayers?"

Fan Li said: "A lot of people have gone there recently, but as far as I know, it's not to pay taxes."

Zhang Fei nodded: "As expected."

The people who came to the office were small shopkeepers and small landlords. Although some reported their income according to the facts, many of them also concealed some income. They declared their income according to the tax collection standard of Sinong Temple. If you have less income of more than a dozen, and you have income that is not easy to investigate, you can be downgraded to one level. Of course, it is a little underreporting.

But now that the tax department has become famous in one battle, they are so scared that they rush to make up for it. After all, they don't have any big backers behind them.

However, the big landlords hardly moved.

Just as Fan Li went out with the account book, Fan Zheng walked in.

"Fan Da, why are you here?"

Zhang Fei looked at Fan Zheng who had just entered in a little surprise.

Fan Zheng said with a smile: "Third brother is very clever, he should be able to guess why I came here, right?"

Zhang Fei thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I can't guess."

"Unexpectedly, there are things that the third brother can't guess."

"There are too many."

Zhang Fei asked again: "What is it?"

Fan Zhengdao: "It's about the charity foundation. Didn't we want to donate a sum of money to buy police uniforms for the auxiliary police?"

Zhang Fei nodded.

Fan Zhengdao: "At that time, the tax police and the royal police were not separated, and we did not distinguish between them, but now many people say that they cannot donate a penny to the tax department."

"So that's what happened." Zhang Fei nodded with a smile and said, "Everything is done according to the rules. If everyone is unwilling to donate, then don't donate."

Fan Zheng said again: "At the same time, we also received some donations, totaling more than 8000 pens, and they requested that all be donated to the Royal Police."

"what?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Is that an exaggeration?"

Fan Zheng was stunned for a moment, "Did third brother not read yesterday's Fengyue Bao?"

Zhang Fei said unhappily: "The Fengyue News is simply trying to gain fame. It talks about the love affair between talented scholars and courtesans, but it doesn't talk about things in the boudoir, so I'm not interested in reading it."

Fan Zheng asked curiously: "Can things in the boudoir be reported?"

Zhang Fei blinked and asked, "Can't you?"

Fan Zhengdao: "Third brother should know more about legal matters than me, right?"

Zhang Fei said: "I don't know, and I didn't intend to do it."

So you asked Fu Shichun to do it?

Fan Zheng laughed dryly, and said again: "Third Brother is right, Brother Xiaochun's Fengyue News often reported what happened in some restaurants, and in the past two days, when the yamen went to drink in my Baifanlou, there were incidents with people. dispute.

The reason is that some people think that the Ya Nei and the tax police are in collusion, but the Ya Nei said that the royal police have nothing to do with the tax police, and that the police station sued the tax department to the imperial court. It's just that you are too powerful, third brother, which led to the failure of the lawsuit .

And Ya Nei will also say that the Royal Police will protect the property of the people and prevent the tax police from doing whatever they want.And this controversy was finally published in Feng Yue Bao. I think it was because of this that someone donated to the police station. "

Zhang Fei blinked, "Is this deliberately arranged by the Yamen?"

".?"

Fan Zheng hesitated for a while, and said embarrassingly, "How did the third brother know?"

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Because I told him that the royal police can check and balance the tax police."

Suddenly I heard singing from outside, "Sorrow is fake, tears are real!"

The voice is very arrogant!

It really means that Cao Cao and Cao Cao are here.

The corner of Zhang Fei's mouth twitched, "This guy won't even let go of my classic songs."

After a while, I saw Cao Dongdong humming a ditty he heard from Zhang Fei, and he walked in triumphantly. When he saw Fan Zheng, he immediately said: "Fan Da, you are indeed here."

He jumped forward a few steps and said excitedly: "I heard that many people donate to our Royal Police, right?"

Fan Zheng nodded.

Cao Dongdong immediately said: "Hurry up and bring the money, it happens that my police station is very short of money."

"Wait!"

Zhang Fei said: "Ya Nei, I came up with this idea, you actually cheap Fengyue Bao, not my news paper?"

Cao Dongdong was stunned, and hehe said: "I was planning to find you before, but Brother Xiaochun said that it's not good for you to help the tax department to file a lawsuit. After a play, the effect is good, and someone immediately donated money to my police station, fortunately I didn't look for you at the beginning."

Fan Zheng said with a smile: "Recently, Fengyue has indeed sold better than Celebrity and News."

Zhang Fei snorted, "That's just because I don't have time to be distracted now, otherwise, his Fengyue Newspaper would have closed down long ago."

"Is it?"

Cao Dongdong looked at Zhang Fei strangely.

Zhang Fei said: "When I'm done with this matter, I'll go and tell Xiaochun, who the hell is the overlord of the newspaper industry."

Just at this time, a royal policeman walked in quickly, seeing Cao Dongdong, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Deputy superintendent."

Cao Dongdong saw that his expression was different, so he immediately stepped forward, the two exchanged in a low voice for a while, Cao Dongdong turned his head and said: "I have something to deal with, so I will take my leave first."

After that, he left in a hurry.

Zhang Fei and Fan Zheng glanced at each other, realizing that something might happen.

Soon, they will know.

It turned out that at dawn today, the tax department attacked again and raided a big landlord named Liu in Xiangfu County. The situation was even more serious than the first time. It is said that there was a fight between the two sides, and five people were injured on the other side. It is not known if anyone died.

Tax Division.

"Sanlang is here!"

"Li Xingshou?"

When Zhang Fei rushed to the tax department, he happened to meet Li Guozhong and others, "Why are you here?"

Li Guozhong said: "I am employed by Yuanwai Liu, and I will accompany him to surrender."

"Surrender?"

"Ok!"

Li Guozhong said: "When the tax department raided Liu's house, Mr. Liu happened to come to the city to invite our bookstore to help him communicate with the tax department, re-declare his financial affairs, and pay back taxes. How could this happen."

Zhang Fei said with a half-smile, "What a coincidence."

Li Guozhong hurriedly said: "This is not a coincidence. The previous lawsuit by Saburo really deterred many people. Recently, many people have come to your office and want to pay back taxes."

Zhang Fei didn't make a sound.

Li Guozhong glanced at him, and said in a low voice: "Sanlang, there is no way for the tax department to go on like this. The owner is not here, and the servants dare not let the tax police into the hospital easily. It is understandable that they want to notify the owner. The tax police broke in directly, injured five family servants of the Liu family, and arrested 24 people, is this a bit too much?"

When Zhang Fei was about to answer, Li He came over suddenly, cupped his hands and said, "Zhang Sanlang."

"Siwu Li!"

Zhang Fei bowed his hands back and said to Li Guozhong, "Excuse me first."

After entering the house with Li He, Zhang Fei asked, "Li Siwu, what's going on?"

Li He said: "The thing is like this. A few days ago we found that Liu Ping in Xiangfu County had concealed [-] hectares of land, so we decided to raid Liu's house at dawn. Since Liu Ping has a good reputation in the village, there is no one like him. Qin Biao was so domineering before, so we didn't break the door directly this time, but explained our purpose to the servants of the Liu family.

However, we were provoked and obstructed by the servants of the other party. Someone even attacked our tax police with stones from behind. So we used force to break in. They even resisted for a while. We shot and wounded two of them and three others. , And all the servants were arrested and brought to justice.

But when they came to the Tax Department, the servants said that they told the tax policeman that Liu Ping was not at home, and they dared not make decisions without authorization. They let the tax policeman in, saying that they had to inform Liu Ping first, and then the tax policemen broke into the door directly. And also beat them. "

Zhang Fei said, "Are there any witnesses?"

Li He said: "Our tax police didn't notice anyone around at that time."

Zhang Fei nodded, and then asked, "Evidence about Liu Ping's tax evasion?"

Li He said: "The evidence is solid."

Just at this time, a tax policeman entered the house and whispered something in Li He's ear.

"I see."

Li He nodded, and said to Zhang Fei: "Just now Liu Ping said that he came to the city this time because he wanted to pay back taxes."

"Just now Li Xingshou already told me."

Zhang Fei nodded, and asked again: "What do Li Siwu think?"

Li He said: "This matter is out of my control, and it doesn't matter how I look at it."

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Siwu Li really has a personality. All right, you can do everything as usual and leave the rest to me. Oh, tell the tax police that as long as they enforce the law impartially, there is no need to worry about it."

After going out, he ran into Su Zhe who had just arrived.

"Wow, your procuratorate came so quickly?"

"Not as fast as you." Su Zhe said.

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "To make money, you have to be one step ahead."

Su Zhe said: "But money is not easy to earn."

Zhang Fei whispered: "This is obviously a trap."

Su Zhe just smiled at this, "Excuse me."

(End of this chapter)