Not long after the founding of the Republic of China, the bureaucrats represented the interests of the landowners and capitalists. Zhang Minghong was a big landowner, so he naturally felt that the county head of Sucheng would help him.
Although the county head of Su Cheng was different from the previous county heads.
Su Cheng calmly looked at Zhang Minghong and asked,""Tell me, how do you want to deal with this?"
When Zhang Minghong heard that, he was immediately excited. He said excitedly,"Zheng Lin, this kind of unruly person, owes me rent. It's only right and proper for him to give me all the valuable things in his house to offset the rent and pay back the debt!”
"Secondly, this kind of unruly person who injured me should be sentenced to jail for eight to ten years according to law!”
"Mr. County Head, you should help me!”
Su Cheng turned to Zheng Lin and asked,""What request do you have?"
Zheng Lin, a small farmer, had never seen such a scene before. He said in a trembling voice,"I don't have any requests for this Magistrate!”
"I just want the rent to be cheaper!”
"And I didn't mean to hurt Landlord Zhang. He wanted to snatch my daughter away.”
"How old is your daughter?"
"16 years old."
"How much is Zhang Minghong's rent?" Su Cheng asked again.”
Zheng Lin: " Five yuan and 20 dan of grain a year. This year's harvest isn't good. I've already given you four yuan and 18 dan of grain!”
Five dollars was definitely not a small sum of money in 1927.
The purchasing power was very strong.
Not only that, there was also 20 dan of grain!
This was definitely a very high rent.
This was simply exploitation!
Su Cheng turned to Zhang Minghong and said,"Zhang Minghong, Zhang Minghong, you really want to kill me!”
"He's already paid so much rent, and you're still forcing him to death?”
"I hereby announce that the four dollars and 18 dan of grain that Zheng Lin paid are enough to pay the rent. You are not allowed to force any more rent!”
Hearing this, Zhang Minghong immediately became anxious and said,"We agreed on 20 stones of grain and five dollars for this county head!”
"He hasn't given us enough yet. How can we just let it go? My rent isn't too high. It's very reasonable!”
"If they rent our land, they naturally have to pay rent. If they don't pay rent, what are we going to eat and drink?”
"Isn't the rent high?" Su Cheng asked seriously. You're really forcing the commoners to their deaths!”
"I said, let's forget about the rent. If you still want to use the rent to cause trouble, Detective Ma, arrest Zhang Minghong immediately!”
"Yes!" Ryan replied loudly.
Zhang Minghong was anxious, but he didn't dare to say anything when he saw Su Cheng's serious expression.
He knew that Su Cheng was ruthless enough to kill people like the Destiny Gang and Zhou Wanhao.
Farmer Zheng Lin was a little stunned. He looked at Su Cheng in disbelief. He did not expect the county head Su Cheng to help a small farmer like him.
This county head was different!
Zhang Minghong looked at Su Cheng and pointed at his head."Then what if my head was injured by him?”
"You officials have to stand up for me, right?”
"Make the decision?" Su Cheng said seriously. What decision?"
"You wanted to snatch his daughter and you were beaten up. This is called self-defense!”
"Even if Zheng Lin beat you to death at that time, you deserved it. Zheng Lin was innocent and did it in self-defense. He doesn't have to take any responsibility!”
Self-defense?
This was the first time Ryan, Zhang Minghong, Zheng Lin, and the others had heard of this term.
In this era where the legal system of the Republic of China was not perfect, the term self-defense did not appear.
Self-defense was an act of stopping the illegal invasion of the person who was carrying out the illegal invasion. It was self-defense and did not bear criminal responsibility for causing damage to the illegal invader.
Zhang Minghong wanted to snatch Zheng Lin's 16-year-old daughter. Zheng Lin injured Zhang Minghong during the conflict, so it was naturally self-defense.
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