On the fourth day of September, in a large courtyard in Jinghai Guard Castle.

The large courtyard was completely newly built, and there was no idle large mansion in Jinghai Guard Fort. It was decided to set up a prison officer under the command of the garrison office. After opening a court, Qin Zhao asked someone to work overtime to build the courtyard as the location of the court.

There is a big drum outside the court. If the people of Xiangshan County come here to complain, they can beat the drum and make trouble.

At this time, there were already a crowd inside and outside the court. I don’t know how many people were crowded outside the main hall of the large courtyard to watch Qin Zhao personally examine the first case in Xiangshan County.

It is said that it is the first case, but it is really worthy of its reputation. Because how to trial and how to judge this case directly determines the grain harvest of tens of thousands of people in Xiangshan County.

The eight juren and their sons and their families in Xiangshan County were all crowded outside the court lobby, huts and satin, and shabby people.

However, at this time, the juren was all focused on the plaintiff and defendant kneeling in the lobby, and he did not care whether the people around him were sweating or whether they were insulting their manners.

If Qin Zhao overturns all the contributions at once and asks the contributions to take the fields back, then how can the gentleman of the juren have a little bit of accommodation?

It was not until 9 o'clock in the morning that Qin Zhao officially came to the court. He walked onto the judge's seat in his third-rank red official robe and sat down. Looking at the court lobby where the heads were shaking and the surroundings were densely surrounded, Qin Zhao smiled and nodded.

He knocked on the gavel, and Qin Zhao asked, "Who is kneeling in the hall?"

The villagers kneeling on the ground shivered in fear and said stammeringly: "Xiao... Xiaomin is Feng Chuanwen, a villager from Batou Village. Special... I came to sue Xue Juren and refused to stop my offer, and still forced Xiaomin to pay the land rent to him!"

Qin Zhao nodded and looked at Xue Juren standing next to him.

"Who is standing?"

"Return to the garrison, the youngest one is Xue Li, a juren living in Xiangshan County. This time he is the defendant."

Qin Zhao frowned and shouted, "Why don't you kneel!"

Xue Juren was stunned and said, "If you have eyes on the national law code and have the status of a student, you can see the county magistrate and not kneel down."

Qin Ning next to Qin Zhao shouted angrily: "The thief is a thief. Can the county magistrate compete with the guard master? The county magistrate is a small official of the seventh rank, and the guard master is a third rank court official!"

The juren still had to argue, but Qin Ning suddenly widened his eyes and shouted angrily: "Kneel down!"

Qin Ning was also a general who had been on the battlefield. His angry shout seemed murderous. Xue Li's heart trembled when he was Qin Ning's angry shout, and he knelt on the ground without warning.

Xue Li was really shocked. After kneeling down, she still crawled on the ground. It took a long time to lift her upper body up.

Qin Zhao looked at Xue Li, turned around and said to the plaintiff: "Feng Chuanwen, do you say you are donating land to Xue Li's office, can there be evidence, witness?"

Feng Chuanwen looked up and said, "Shoujie, my family donated five acres of land to Xue Juren's family eleven years ago. Everyone in the village knows this. The whole village is my witness. If you want evidence, there is a land deed passed down from my family."

Qin Zhao waved his hand and said, "Get the land deed!"

Feng Chuanwen took out a land deed from his arms and handed it to the servant who was doing odd jobs in the hall. The servant handed over the land deed to Qin Zhao.

The land deed was very sloppy, and it reads: "On May 21, 21st year of Wanli, Lin Dazhuang, the author of the deed, had no money to pay grain, and was protecting the five acres of paddy fields under his name, Feng Liao, the author of the township. The land was forty feet south of Batou Village, and to the vegetable field of Wang Dadan's house in the north. There was a ridge of the field. The south ended at the hillside, the east ended at the Laolao River, and the west ended at the water-carrying road. The price of the field was 131 taels, and it was paid in one go."

Below the land deed, there is the hand seal of Lin Dazhuang, the letter of Feng Liao, the letter of Feng Liao, the letter of the left side. Then the signature of the middle-aged man Lin De and Ding Gui is signed.

The land deed is kept very carefully, but because it is in the year, it is still very old and feels like it will be torn apart by accident.

Feng Chuanwen knelt on the ground and said, "Governor, this is the land deed preserved in the hands of my ancestors."

The land deeds in the Ming Dynasty were written by the land seller to the land buyer. A land deed was kept by the land buyer and used as a certificate of land ownership. The land deed was actually a contract and receipt, which was different from the real estate certificates in later generations.

So although the land was given to Xue Juren, Feng Chuanwen still kept his own land deed.

After reading the land deed, Qin Zhao nodded and asked, "Xue Li, can you admit the Feng family's land dedication."

Xue Li replied: "Student admits it!"

Qin Zhao said: "Now my official has sorted out the land tax in Xiangshan County and stopped giving, so that you can return the land to Feng Chuanwen, you are willing."

Xue Li knelt on the ground and said loudly: "There is no such reason!"

"The offer was a land sale between Feng Chuanwen and me. The land deed was written in black and white. Now the land deed has been brought by the student, and the guard can see it at any time. Since Feng Chuanwen did not collect cash at that time and gave the land to the student, the student had the property rights of the land in terms of law. It is my kindness and righteousness for me to give Feng Chuanwen to the plunder. I don't rent the seeds for Feng Chuanwen to others. It is my freedom to say that I can just return it."

Hearing Xue Li's words, the seven Xiangshan County Juren and their families outside shouted together: "Good words!"

"That's the reason!"

"We need to talk about legal principles in everything, and this is the legal principles."

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "You think you have occupied the law and I can't let you return the land you have offered?"

Xue Li knelt on the ground and said, "Shoujie, you are not afraid of traveling all over the world if you have reason. When you open a yamen to investigate cases, you must talk about the word "reason" in everything, otherwise what kind of style will it become?"

The family members of the Juren outside were clamoring loudly again: "Good words!"

"Article must be used to judge a case!"

Qin Zhao beat the gavel.

Xue Li was so scared that she shivered.

People from the Juren outside dared not shout loudly anymore.

Qin Zhao shouted loudly: "Feng Chuanwen, why did you give your land to Xue Juren?"

Feng Chuanwen's face turned pale and he didn't dare to speak.

Qin Zhao angrily slapped the aggro again and shouted: "Tell me honestly!"

Feng Chuanwen was immediately scared to tears, and knelt on the ground and said, "The guard is here, the little one is right, to be honest, the little one is just giving it to avoid the land tax."

Qin Zhao slapped the gavel again.

"Xue Li! Have you paid land taxes for Feng Chuanwen's fields in these eleven years?"

Xue Li's face turned pale and she couldn't speak.

He is a juren and has never paid a penny of land and tax in the past ten years. This is common sense. He can tell if he arrests the accountants in the county government office and asks him.

Qin Zhao sneered.

"The land contribution that occurred in order to avoid land taxes is illegal! This official sentenced that this contribution eleven years ago was invalid!"

"Come on! Take the land deed in Xue Li's arms and dispose of it."

"Xue Li and Feng Chuanwen joined forces to deceive the county magistrate and evade taxes, each of whom was 20 sticks!"

When Feng Chuanwen heard Qin Zhao's words, he was overjoyed, while Xue Li fell into the ice cave and was stunned.

It doesn’t matter if Feng Chuanwen was beaten for twenty boards. At worst, he could lie on the bed for a few days. But Qin Zhao took the land back. After taking it back, he only had to pay two or three-dollar rent every year!

Now I really have to live a good life.

Seeing the garrison judge this, the people around the periphery were all happy. Since the first case of dedication was judged like this, the other cases of dedication will definitely be the same in the future. This means that all the people who contributed land can get their land back with the land deed.

Xue Lize's face was snow-white and he suddenly lost his blood.

Behind him, the fifteen Juren were as bloodless as their families.

Qin Zhao ruled that the original offer was an illegal act and the land deed was invalid, which is indeed a legal saying. Because of the contract formulated for illegal acts, the judge has the right to determine that the contract is invalid. Otherwise, wouldn’t the laws in the world protect illegal acts and become the protective umbrella for criminals?

But in this way, the juren will lose all their land.

And we have to solve the problem privately with the tenant farmers who donated the land, and we cannot make trouble in the yamen. If we really enter the yamen of the yamen, our butt will be opened and flowers will be opened!

If a tenant farmer comes, he will beat the board once. How many boards will be beaten by eight juren? They will be beaten to death.

It's a bolt from the blue, it's really a bolt from the blue!

It is like a loss of a family, and you can't say a word.

It took a long time before a juren reacted. He pulled the juren Wang Yuan and whispered: "Let's go! Let's go to the prefect tomorrow!"

The people of Xiangshan County ignored the dismay of the juren, and hundreds of people knelt down outside the lobby.

"Blue Sky!"

"Blue Sky!"
Chapter completed!