1056. Seizure of illicit salt

The tax collector smiled and pointed to the grain being loaded and comforted the fifth Qi with a smile, but the fifth Qi was stunned when he looked at the river with a sad face, and then turned his head in shock, grabbed the tax collector's shoulder and asked, "Where do you say this is the merchant ship?" ”

The tax collector was stunned, and then replied, "Zheng, Zheng family." After that, he glanced down at the book that had just been registered, and added: "One hundred stone wheat of the Zheng family of Longmen."

Fifth Qi's face changed drastically, and then he laughed, turned around and shouted: "Come on, surround this Zheng family's merchant ship."

Fifth Qi ordered, and those officials and hundreds of sergeants quickly came over and surrounded the Zheng family's merchant ships and the convoy.

Zheng Chengye was shocked, and hurriedly calmed down and stepped forward to greet him, "My lord, I am Zheng Chengye, the steward of the Zheng family's caravan, I don't know why the adults surrounded us?" At the same time, Zheng Chengye's heart was also beating violently, but don't make any trouble.

There are more than ten packets of private salt in this hundred stone grain, which can't stand the check, as long as you check a little, you can find out, and every time you can fool around with Zheng's prestige in the past, so you don't do any camouflage, just simply bag it and then be with the other party of the grain, as long as you touch it or even smell it, you can find it out, how can Zheng Chengye not panic.

Fifth Qi stared at Zheng Chengye, his face had calmed down, and asked, "Where are you from?" Is that the Zheng family again? ”

Zheng Chengye didn't know that the Zheng family in Longmen was gone now, so he immediately replied: "Lord Hui, I am from the Zheng family of Longmen in Jiangzhou, and I belong to the Anyuan Hall branch of the Zheng family in Xingyang." Zheng Chengye also deliberately lifted out the Zheng family in Xingyang, thinking about whether this fifth Qi could be examined by the Zheng family's prestige.

But what Zheng Chengye didn't expect was that after the fifth Qi heard the words, he was ecstatic, this was simply the credit sent to the door, and immediately shouted: "Take down all the people of the Zheng family in Longmen, and strictly inspect this batch of grain, there must be prohibited goods among them."

A group of tax collectors were also shocked when they heard this, but they didn't dare to disobey, Ma slipped forward to check, Zheng Chengye was anxious when he saw this, and wanted to stop it, but he was tightly pressed by the sergeant who stepped forward in the blink of an eye, and he had to look at the tax collector with round eyes to check.

Sure enough, within a moment of incense, a tax collector screamed in the pile of grain piled up on a hill.

"Salt, there is salt?"

"Ah, it's really salt, big, big, adult, they sell smuggled and smuggled salt."

The tax collectors were also shocked, this is not a trivial matter, illegal salt is the first class of crime among prohibited goods, which is more fearful than selling and selling good people.

Especially the tax collector who had received Zheng Chengye's money bag before saw that there was private salt in the sack that was demolished in the north, and immediately turned pale, and the one who covered his chest for a while, and the tax collector sweated profusely on his forehead.

But fortunately, Fifth Qi now has no time to pursue his hasty inspection, and when he looked at the bags of private salt found out, he was also angry and happy, and immediately shouted: "Take them to Dali Temple and hand them over to Dali Shaoqing Sun." After that, he pointed to the private salt and grain and ordered, "All the games are in the yamen."

After that, he led the sergeant to escort Zheng Chengye and others to Dali Temple.

After the fifth Qi left, the dock was in an uproar.

"Ah, Steward Liu, you said that this person from the Zheng family dared to sell smuggled salt, this guts is too fat."

"No, it's not like it's asking for money and not brains."

"This Longmen Zheng family is a branch of the Zheng family, and it has always been arrogant, this time it can be regarded as planting, is it not good...... Xingyang Zheng will also be involved."

"Alas, you say, is the Zheng family involved?"

"Shhhh

"Huh? Seems to be, the fifth adult is too godly......".

Although the fifth Qi is gone, there are really a lot of hot comments about him. The fifth Qi came to the wharf to intercept the Zheng family's merchant ships, of course, they knew that there was illicit salt in them, but ordinary traders didn't know about it.

It is rumored that in the end, it is rumored that the fifth Qi in the Duzhi Lang can pinch and calculate, not only can arithmetic, but also divination, the traders who come and go continue to spread, the more widely spread, the name of the fifth Qi is also more and more loud, so that when the fifth Qi served in the degree branch, these traders are much more honest, tax evasion and deduction, entrainment of goods, sale of prohibited goods and other illegal things have decreased sharply, the market atmosphere is shocked, and it is said that it is a good story for the time being.

The fifth Qi sent Zheng Chengye and others to Dali Temple, and Sun Fujia, the young secretary of Dali Temple, was also surprised, and admired, and said straightly: "The fifth lang is only half a day and is dirty, and he will definitely be rewarded by the saint."

Indeed, in the eyes of scribes such as Sun Fujia, it is better to get a reward of 100 gold than to be praised by a saint, after all, a praise from the Son of Heaven will go down in history and will be passed down in history.

Fifth Qi was also very happy, but there was still a trace of clarity, and he waved his hand and said humbly: "Sun Shaoqing has won the award, but this time it is the fault of my branch division, fortunately the sage Tianwei and the prince are wise, so they did not make a big mistake and were able to capture it in one fell swoop."

Sun Fujia stuffed this group of people into the edict prison of Dali Temple without hesitation or gentleness, and it was also death row, Sun Fujia also knew that these people were doomed, even if the Tang Dynasty had the law of "five repetitions" of the death penalty, but this by no means means that the court would not kill, after all, there is a word called unforgivable crimes, and some crimes cannot be forgiven.

There is a strict law called the ten heinous crimes, of which ten kinds of felonies are unforgivable, in the former Sui period, Yang Guang officially incorporated the ten evils into the code, the ten felonies are rebellion, great rebellion, rebellion, surrender, evil rebellion, inmorality, disrespect, unfilial piety, injustice, civil strife and other ten felonies, Yang Guang incorporated these ten felonies into the code, to the Tang Dynasty, this law was also used.

Although Li Shimin believes that the law should not be too heavy, and sets up five repetitions of the death penalty, but it is not the same as abolishing the death penalty, but it is more cautious, and it needs to be petitioned five times in Beijing and three times outside before the emperor can approve the death penalty.

Li Shimin was looking at Li Jing's military report in the Liangyi Palace, Li Jing's military report indicated that "the Turks are dead, and the rest of the army is either attached to Xue Yantuo, or flees to the west, and more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians are ......", Li Jing is asking the imperial court to introduce a strategy for reettling the Turkic soldiers and civilians as soon as possible, otherwise these more than 300,000 people are really difficult to resettle, after all, the army is more than 100,000 people, and they have to be responsible for clearing the grasslands and guarding the people, which is really a bit overwhelming.

When Li Shimin was about to convene his ministers to discuss, the chamberlain reported, "The fifth Qi in Duzhilang asks to see."