There is a space for passenger planes in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 20 Picking up hard persimmons and pinching them
  "Sir, today is the last time the tax payment deadline was specified. So far, no big gentry family has come to pay taxes, not even asking." Su Shunian said with a sad face.

"Oh, these big households are working together. Who owes the most taxes?" Lin Feng asked.

"It's the Liu family in Dabao Town, with 8000 acres of registered land. This year, they owe a total of 1100 taels of summer taxes and 160 taels of payment. Over the years, they owe about 1800 taels of taxes, totaling more than 3000 taels." Su Shunian replied.

"Okay, then let's go to the Liu family in Dabao Town to collect taxes first." Lin Feng said casually.

"Sir, the Liu family is not easy to mess with. I heard that their second master is a guard of the Yulin Guards. He has hundreds of soldiers in his hands, but he is a tough one." Su Shunnian said worriedly.

"You have to pick the persimmons hard, otherwise how can you deter other big households? What's wrong with his family having a garrison? Those soldiers are not his private soldiers. When will military households be able to take care of the county government's affairs?"

Lin Feng said with great disdain. The Ming Dynasty always relied on civil servants to control military affairs. At most, military attachés only made small moves in private, so how could they interfere in the affairs of the county government.

"Sir, it's better to play it safe." Su Shunnian still didn't dare to offend the Liu family.

"Okay, don't worry about this. Just finish the paperwork for the Liu family's tax debt." Lin Feng interrupted impatiently when he saw how timid he was.

"Yes!" Su Shunnian didn't dare to be verbose.

After sending away the timid Su Shunnian, Lin Feng called Jiang Yin from the execution room and Luo Jingyuan from the arrest squad.

"Have the evidence against Liu Shangjin of the Liu family been fixed?" Lin Feng asked.

"Sir, the evidence is conclusive, no problem." After Lin Feng let Jiang Yin go, he is now very active in his work.

"This scumbag has committed a heinous crime, and we will definitely bring him to justice." Luo Jingyuan read the file and hated Liu Shangjin deeply.

According to the records, in the autumn of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Liu Shangjin fell in love with the daughter of the Li family on Rulin Street, so he worked with the executioner Feng Jingui to defraud the Li family of all their property in the name of colluding with bandits. They also raped and humiliated the Li family’s wife and daughter in person, and finally returned They were tortured to death.

Li Changji, the eldest son of Li, escaped the disaster because he was doing business abroad. When he heard about the family tragedy, he appealed many times. However, Ding Dianshi expelled him from the Yamen on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence and he was suspected of false accusation.

The tragedy of the Li family is really sad for those who listen to it and sheds tears for those who listen to it. Even if there is no tax collection matter, Lin Feng is determined to seek justice for them. The basic bottom line of an official must be met.

"Okay, we will come to arrest Liu Shangjin tomorrow. The arrest team must arrange manpower to prevent leakage of information. The execution room will continue to collect illegal and disciplinary matters from other wealthy families." Lin Feng arranged.

"Yes!" the two of them said.

The next day, the Liu family in Dabao Town.

"Is Mr. Liu here? Mr. Li from the Nanxiang family wants to invite him for a drink." In order to prevent the Liu family from resisting arrest, a yamen officer from the arrest squad pretended to be Mr. Liu's fair-weather friend and called the door.

"My young master is here, please wait a moment." The concierge didn't know and thought that a friend was really inviting him to drink, so he told the truth.

"Come in!" Since he was confirmed to be at home, there was no problem in arresting him. Luo Jingyuan, the leader of the arresting team on the side, gave the order, and several government officials rushed in to arrest Liu Shangjin.

"Come quickly, there's a robber in the house!" The concierge shouted at the top of his lungs when he saw that the situation was not going well.

Luo Jingyuan stepped forward and swept the concierge down, then tied him up. However, the alarm sound from the concierge had already spread, and several strong men with weapons came out of the Liu family's inner house and started fighting with the government officials without saying a word. The arresting team officials were obviously no match for them, and they were quickly at a disadvantage. Lin Feng, who was following behind, saw this and asked Fang Tiezhu to bring three groups of Zhuang Ban Yamen servants in to provide support. Fortunately, he had predicted in advance that the other party might resist, so he specially brought Zhuang Ban Yamen servants over for support.

Fang Tiezhu rushed forward with an iron rod weighing thirty to forty pounds. With his brute strength, he quickly defeated several strong men in the Lin family. The government officials rushed forward and took control of the entire Liu family.

After a while, the head of the Liu family, Liu Pengsheng, the housekeeper Liu Sanjin, and his son Liu Shangjin were all escorted out.

"Master Liu, I heard that you are very busy and it is not easy to meet you." Lin Feng said sarcastically.

"Liu Xiancheng, we are all from the same county. There is no need to do things so cruelly. If you don't pay the maximum penalty tax in time, if you mess up like this, I will definitely go to the state capital to sue you.

My second brother is on guard duty at Yulin Guard, and today you also beat up several of his servants. I advise you to let us father and son go immediately, otherwise you will know the consequences. "Although Liu Pengsheng was arrested, he still looked indifferent and awesome.

"It seems that our Master Liu is quite knowledgeable about the law and knows the consequences of tax resistance, so he glorifies open tax resistance as failure to pay taxes on time." Lin Feng mocked.

"My Liu family has always cooperated in paying taxes, but it's just that the cash flow has been difficult recently. Can't you just delay it for a little bit? You guys are here to arrest people, but you are abusing your power. I will definitely file a lawsuit."

Since Liu Pengsheng dares not to pay taxes, he still has something to rely on. He believes that as long as he insists that it is not that he is not refusing to pay, but that he has no money to pay it later, no one can do anything to him based on his connections.

"Who said we are here to catch people with tax arrears? Your son brutally murdered everyone in the Li family in Fugu. You shielded the criminals and violently resisted arrest. The procedures for arresting you are complete. There is no problem at all. If you want to sue, feel free to sue." Lin Feng He said with a smile, and at the same time took out the documents for arresting Lin Shangjin.

As soon as Liu Pengsheng finished listening, he realized that this murder case and tax arrears were completely different things. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was common for large households to owe taxes, and the court could not punish them severely. However, this murder had to be paid with life, and there was no point in being arrested and beaten to death.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, we are willing to pay the tax back. No, double the tax. Please let the dog go." Although Liu Pengsheng is awesome, he is not stupid, and he immediately said softly.

"It's too late. Take them under custody and follow me to search for evidence of Liu Shangjin's murder case. Remember not to take anything else, so as not to give others clues. We are servants of the imperial court, not bandits." After Lin Feng finished speaking, he took the lead and entered Liu's house. .

This Liu family is different from the houses of Zhao Guangqing and other petty officials that were previously raided. The house covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, and the houses, yards, and gardens inside are very complicated. It took a long time to find the Lin family warehouse.

Needless to say, Lin Feng found an excuse and went in first. Good guy, there are boxes of gold and silver piled densely in the warehouse, worth at least one to twenty thousand taels.

Lin Feng naturally had nothing to be polite about. When he opened the space, he immediately collected it. He collected nearly half of the gold and silver before he stopped. When he came out, he took out the empty box and put it back. After all, this is not a house raid, so we can't do it too obviously.

The others searched for a long time and found one piece of obscene clothing each belonging to the Li family's mother and daughter, with their names written on it. It turns out that Liu Shangjin also has a habit of collecting the intimate clothes of women he raped as trophies, and he has collected a whole box.

Lin Feng took out the incriminating evidence he found, leaving all other property untouched, and asked the Liu family's mistress to stamp it. This evidence must be solid. Liu Shangjin was then arrested as a murder suspect, and Liu Pengsheng was also arrested on charges of harboring and resisting arrest with force.

At the same time, it was announced that the Liu family owed 3000 taels of tax, with a penalty interest of 1000 taels, and ordered the Liu family to make up the payment immediately, otherwise the first-class penalty would be increased for tax resistance.

The head of the Liu family and his son were both arrested. The mistress of the Liu family, a woman, had already panicked and quickly asked the housekeeper Liu Sanjin to withdraw money to pay back taxes and seek leniency.

Su Shunian from the household personally completed the tax payment documents and handed them over to the Liu family. He was so happy that he was almost awarded a plaque for the advanced taxpayers. Then he escorted 4000 taels of tax silver back to the county government office. The tax collection task was completed in one go. half.

　The small county magistrate defeated the local snake.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)