Once upon a time, there was a county magistrate Ye who was active and liked to visit privately in private in his spare time to understand the people's sentiments. He liked to ask questions when he encountered big and big things. Reading thousands of books is his motto of life.
Recently, during a private visit to Ye County, he learned that the officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion stationed outside the city were corrupt and abused the law, used their power for personal gain, and liked to use all kinds of tricks to oppress the people and extort the people. Anyone who wants to enter the city has to pay for money, which is no different from a bandit. County Magistrate Ye was furious and decided to investigate.
On this day, County Magistrate Ye changed into the clothes of ordinary farmers, rolled up his trousers, wore a straw hat, and carried a load and went out. Soon, County Magistrate Ye saw an old man whipping the butt with a whip. The little donkey screamed. The old man beat and scolded: "You are not honest, and you are asked to cause trouble for me. Today I must beat you to death..."
County Magistrate Ye is also a farmer family. He knows the importance of a donkey to his family. He was curious about what the donkey did to make the old man so angry, so he stepped forward and persuaded: "Old man, please calm down. This mute beast, you can't breathe even if you beat it to death. Besides, if you really beat it to death, won't you lose money?"
When the old man saw someone persuaded him, he happened to have a step down and his anger was half gone, so he whipped hard again, and then said to the donkey, "You are lucky, otherwise you would have to kill your stupid donkey." Then he turned to County Magistrate Ye and said, "I'm not so angry about this stupid donkey. If it weren't for its dishonest, I could get three whips and get a truckload of vegetables!"
County Magistrate Ye was stunned when he heard this and asked quickly, "What's going on? Can you tell me?"
It turned out that this old man rushed to the street to sell radish . When he was turning, his little donkey stepped on the foot of a squad leader of the patrol battalion. Before the old man could compensate, the sergeant snatched the whip, whipped the old man three times, and confiscated a cart of carrots. You said, "Your Magistrate Ye was furious when he heard this. He said, "Old man, you were beaten and confiscated a cart of carrots. I understand why you are so angry. Come with me, I will seek justice for you." When the old man in the farm heard this, he waved his hand and said, "If the people don't fight with the officials, don't go, so as not to cause greater disaster."
magistrate Ye felt a little ashamed after hearing this, but he became more determined to help the old man get justice. After saying that, he held the old man's hand and said, "Old man, believe me, go, where is the soldier? I will argue with him."
magistrate Ye and the other two quickly found the sergeant. The sergeant had just confiscated a carrot of carrots from the old man. He thought that he had made extra money and was proud. When he saw the old man, the person involved, he knew that he was in trouble, so he wanted to drive him away with violence. The sergeant asked ruthlessly: "Old guy, why are you here to do? Have you not been whipped enough?" After that, he picked up the whip and was about to beat him again.
magistrate Ye didn't hit him, and shouted, "Stop! The whip hit my head."
The sergeant said, "You old man are so bold, do you care?"
magistrate Ye said, "I have to care today!" After that, he took out the magistrate's seal he carried with him.
sergeant when the sergeant saw the magistrate's seal, knelt on the ground with a "thump", kowtowed and begged for mercy, "Mr. Magistrate raising his hand, spare me this time, I will definitely change it in the future."
magistrate Ye sank his face and said, "I've hit it." How many whips did the old man have? How many vegetables were confiscated?"
sergeant kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Sir, I beat three whips, confiscated a truckload of vegetables."
magistrate Ye said: "Today, I want to punish the crime. You must apologize to the old man; two, you must return the vegetables to the old man as much as possible. The third thing is - you punish one tael of silver for a whip, and three taels of silver for a whip. Take out three taels of silver for the old man! "
umbrella all praised the prefect for being a clean official. From then on, there has been no phenomenon of officers and soldiers bullying others in the cities under the prefecture of Ye County, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.
