Su Yonglin wanted to find out whether his Kong branch helped his corrupt officials to deal with stolen goods. If he found out, he could justify and increase the punishment, otherwise he would try his best to design charges that were not conducive to his rule of law construction.
As a result, after a wave of investigation, the judicial personnel found out that the Kongzhi family, a branch of the Confucius House, illegally operated private salt.
They found salt-making tools in Kong Zhi’s private manor, full of warehouses, full of private salt, and even resisted judicial personnel to investigate private soldiers
These private soldiers actually took the initiative to attack the judicial personnel who went to investigate, and the soldiers immediately confronted them and killed them. Finally, they found not only salt-making tools and private salt, but also weapons, armor and crossbows hidden in the middle.
This problem is too serious.
Chapter 45 This is not rebellion. What is rebellion?
The first problem Kong faced was the problem of illicit salt.
According to the law, it is still a salt and iron official camp, but the price and quality of the state official camp have been greatly optimized. Ordinary people can definitely afford salt, and they will not eat salt like the people in the Southern Song Dynasty, and they will try their best to find ways to do it.
It can be said that there is no market for smuggling salt in most countries. If someone must engage in smuggling salt more than success and even more than profit, it is of little significance to seriously criticize it once it is discovered by the government.
The only way to make money is to smuggle illicit salt to the Southern Song Dynasty.
The price of salt in the Southern Song Dynasty is extremely high. Many people are eager for low-priced national salt to be transported to the Southern Song Dynasty. The salt department of the court finance department has specially organized more than a dozen salt smuggling teams to do this business. Every month, they can draw high profits from the Southern Song Dynasty to help the court finance.
Su Yonglin subsidized the army by selling national salt to the Southern Song Dynasty a long time ago, and made great financial profits.
The imperial court can earn so many people, and there will be no shortage of such people with vision. Therefore, the business of smuggling private salt people to the Southern Song Dynasty was quietly born, and it was quietly sold at a lower price than the imperial court and competed with the imperial court for this part of the profits.
However, due to the strict inspection of this aspect by the court, it is difficult for this industry to develop and expand, and only a few families with strong family assets can try to enter.
Earlier, Ting vaguely heard that there were some similar news, but never found any clues. I didn’t expect to find out directly this time.
This is a crime of smuggling salt. The Southern Song Dynasty is a capital crime country, and it almost needs to be exiled to remote areas to do hard work, just like the families of corrupt officials
This is a big crime, and Kong’s death penalty is based on it.
As a result, it was even more exciting. They even hid armor and crossbows.
Generally speaking, the feudal dynasty rarely prohibited the people from owning weapons, swords and swords, and it was common for the people of the east and the west not to say that it was rampant.
Don’t say anything about bandits. Even some normal entertainers can own swords. It’s not official that a kitchen knife can chop people up if you really want to fight.
But armor and crossbows are different, and the meaning is completely different.
Armor can enhance defense, crossbows have long-range killing ability, and once they have these two things, dynasties will immediately define rebellion and deal with it immediately, which must not be tolerated.
Su Yonglin was not angry but rejoiced after learning about it.
This time, you Kong Shi took the initiative to put the knife into my hand, and you were still very coquettish. You turned around and showed your ass to provoke me and said that I would definitely not dare to pull your ass with a knife.
Then let’s see if I can open my eyes to you.
Su Yonglin directly ordered Kong’s definition of rebel to be changed from investigation to guilt and liquidation.
Arrest important personnel of Confucius, and control Confucius and Qufu County to quickly criticize and torture the people, and they will be asked about their [Rebellion Plan].
Su Yonglin tortured the Kongzhi family seriously and soon tortured some salt to help them smuggle.
Following the trail, some officials from two coastal states, Dengzhou and Ninghai, and their families confiscated more than 30 smuggling boats, destroyed six smuggling workshops and smashed them. Seven families involved in the incident collected more than 200 million yuan from smuggling.
It can be said that it has gained a lot.
Through this case, the judicial personnel have also mastered another clue of the smuggling salt group, which is said to be larger and is now under investigation.
Yu Kong’s possession of ordnance was the legacy of the melee period.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Su Yonglin issued a ban on armor, crossbows and other important ordnance, which ordered the private family to hand over some ordnance within a time limit to prove their innocence.
If it is found after the time limit, it will be punished as a crime of rebellion and will not be tolerated.
There are also several powerful families in Qianshan East who own ordnance and private soldiers, and all of them were killed by Chai Yang’s soldiers, killing the three families.
Now Kong Shi actually has a branch to do such a thing.
This is not rebellion. What is rebellion?
This is not just a matter of Kong Zhi’s family, but also the whole matter of Kong Zhi. Su Yonglin personally participated in the trial.
Kong Li, a judge meeting, firmly denied Kong’s rebellion, but Su Yonglin had nothing to say when he put the salt-making tools and ordnance found in Kong Zhi’s house in front of him.
"You earn money by smuggling salt, but you also hide armor and crossbows. Tell me what this is not military ordnance?"
Su Yonglin, this belongs to playing dumb with white.
Kong Zhi may have done this in order to make his salt smuggling operation smoother and escape the pursuit of officers and men at the crucial moment, and there is no intention of rebellion.
I really want to rebel. These dozens of armor and crossbows really don’t send any games.
However, according to the law, this matter is regarded as rebellion regardless of whether it is necessary or not, and there is nothing to say.