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Chapter 187: No King's Law

Tang Xiaoxian felt that Yu Baien's method was very good. King Qi and the court now attached great importance to restoring production. Officials at all levels have introduced many policies to protect plowing oxen and other production materials. However, local religious people in Songjiang wanted to slaughter plowing oxen privately, and they also wanted to persuade the government to help them relax the law. If Tang Xiaoxian did not deal with this matter strictly, he would be investigated in the future. I am afraid that Tang Xiaoxian would have to be sent to the Ministry of Justice like his ex who sheltered his taxes and refused to pay taxes.

Whether or not the promotion is a trivial matter. Tang Xiaoxian had just changed from a hundred households in the army to the magistrate. Before he could even sit down, he was thinking about promotion. Now he just wanted to avoid any trouble in his own hands. At this moment, Tang Xiaoxian called Ding Master Bo and told the other party about his intention to do the teachings. After hearing this, Ding Master Bo was very frightened and felt uneasy. He was sorry for his relatives. But when he thought that he was an official in the court, not a official in the teachings, he was relieved and actively cooperated with the magistrate Tang. Otherwise, he would not wait for the superior to cause trouble for him, and "currently taking charge" of the magistrate Tang could make him suffer a lot. In addition, the tutors should also beat him up, otherwise they would always carry the master out to suppress him and ask him how safe the official was.

All under the world is the king's land; all the king's ministers are the king's ministers.

Teaching the people is also the people. How can you rely on your own identity and live outside the king's law and not accept the king's transformation? Using this, it is better to teach the people that the laws of the Ming Dynasty are powerful.

Jiading belongs to Songjiang Prefecture. The religious people of Songjiang Prefecture were all thrived by 36 Semi people in the Mongol Yuan period, with about 50,000. The more than 50,000 scholars lived around Baihe Temple, a major temple built by Semi Nasulading, the Western Regions Semi, and built a tomb of the temple. The religious people hardly farmed and only operated various commerce and handicrafts. In the early years, there were the Western Regions in Songjiang Prefecture, so the people also called Songjiang Old City the Buddhist City. Nearly three hundred years after the fall of the Mongol Yuan, the religious people changed their surnames, spoke Chinese language and used Chinese characters, and looked no different from the Han people. However, they always regarded themselves as the scholars and did not regard themselves as Han people. They always used to looking for masters in the teachings rather than official government officials.

Ding Zhubo is an outstanding person among the people. He studied hard since childhood and served as an official at the entrance examination. Naturally, he wanted to make a difference. He asked his relatives to respect him, not to look down on him, and did not want to be implicated by them because of this.

Earlier, when Songjiang cleared its debts, the interests of the people were also damaged. Although the people did not farm, they had a lot of savings. Over the years, they would buy land and rent for local people to farm. Over the years, they evade taxes like local gentry. As long as the debts were cleared, a large number of people were forced to pay a large amount of tax arrears. Many people were dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty and fled to the north. The number of people left behind was still large, and they complained about the changes in the government over the past year. I heard that many people contacted those Han people who were dissatisfied with the government in private, hoping to cause trouble. Asking Ding Ladong to come forward to plead with the government and allow them to slaughter cattle and eat meat, perhaps it was a test. Otherwise, even though the king's law was there, they were not allowed to slaughter oxen privately, how dare these people commit crimes knowingly.

However, although Ding Ladong was a member of the sect, his relationship with the sect became weak after becoming an official, so some insider stories would not be told by him. Tang Xiaoxian also discussed the matter here, and only wanted to punish the sects who violated the law, but did not think deeply about this matter.

Early the next morning, Tang Xiaoxian asked to go to the court to decide the case. Yu Baien was idle and had nothing to do, so he listened to the case in the court as a master.

The yamen runners first brought in a chicken thief, an old criminal. He had been beaten by Tang Xiaoxian before. Seeing that it was this old criminal again, Tang Xiaoxian couldn't help but say angrily: "You thief, you have committed two crimes in the hands of this county, and you still have an old business and don't repent. You are really not afraid of being beaten!"

The chicken thief was also an old fried dough stick. He knew that he was just stealing chickens, and the government could not kill him. He was just timid and scared, but he thought that he was just beating a board, and he just asked the county master to beat him and he would be fine. Next time he would steal it, he would go far away, so that he would not be able to be in the hands of this Tangxianzun again.

Tang Xiao first saw the thief's eyes flashing. How could he not know his thoughts? The more he thought about it, the more he wrote it. He picked up the red pen and wrote the three words "Chicken Thieves" on the face of the old man, and then took a big shackle and shackled him. He also asked the yamen runner to tie the stolen chicken that the old man stole, with his head back and his tail forward, and shackled him out. Then he left the county gate, and the chicken's butt was shaved, and a throw of shit came out, which flowed from his forehead to his nose, and his beard was dipped in pieces and dripped onto the shackle.

The onlookers outside the county government laughed when they saw this thief's embarrassing look. This was the first time Yu Baien saw Tang Xiao first to decide the case, and he couldn't help but be happy to see him so ingenious.

After shackled the thief, Tang Xiao first asked the master of the sect to take him up. The master was wearing a hat and still didn't know why he was suddenly locked up by the yamen runners. When he arrived in the hall, the master wanted to find Master Ding, but Master Ding was not in the hall.

"mighty!"

The yamen runners started to drink the might of the hall and asked the master to kneel down. The master was unwilling, but he did not dare not to kneel down. As soon as he knelt down, Tang Xiaoxian immediately broke out and angrily scolded the master and the people for being indifferent to the king's laws. After cursing, he threw out the sign and blamed the thirty-pindle boards. He only beat the master to the point of being so thirty. After the matter, he asked the yamen runner to take a big shackle and piled the fifty kilograms of beef on the shackle. The master's face and neck were tightly tied, leaving only two eyes left, and was shown in front of the county.

The scholars outside the yamen were waiting for news that the master was shackled by the government, and they were dissatisfied, but no one dared to stand up, so they watched the master call Dasha and shackled him there. Tang Xiaoxian originally wanted to shackle this master for a few days, so that they could not kill his life, so that they could know what they could do and what they could not do. I didn't expect that the master would die on the third day without shackled him.

This time, the matter was broken. All the scholars always respected the master, but they were not willing to be punished by the government. So, under the connection of the staff of the scholar temple, thousands of religious people rushed from all directions of the county towns in Jiading. They sang gongs and drove away the Han people all the way, not allowing the Han people to open their doors to open their doors. When they saw the meat stall, they also rushed forward and overturned them. They walked along the way, shouting that the government would pay their lives for the master.

During the chaos, some Han gentry and landlords of Jiading who were dissatisfied with the government because of the debts were cleared, and they also joined in, hoping to use this matter to drive Tang Xiao away first. They said to the priests: "You should not give beef, nor should you be guilty of death. This time, you went into the yamen and took out the official surnamed Tang and beat him to death. The law did not blame the public. There were so many people, what could the government do?"

The people of the priests were already intrigued by the Han landlords, and the matter became more and more troubled. At noon, thousands of priests surrounded the county government and were rumored to kill Tang Xiao first.

Tang Xiaoxian was shocked and hurriedly called a few confidant yamen runners to discuss, and then asked Yu Baien what to do.

"This is a gathering of people to make trouble, and using this matter to oppose the court."

Yu Baien was also cruel and gave things a certainty in one word. He said to Tang Xiaoxian: "You are an official of the court, Jiading's parents, and the master of the ecclesiastical have violated the law of the king. It is not wrong for you to judge him to be shackled."

"That's right, but after all, he was killed by shackles." Tang Xiaoxian did not blame Yu Baien for his idea, but felt that no matter what, the master asked him to die by shackles, as if he would not die of sin.
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