Chapter 106

"Freeloading?"

Wu Zhao frowned, instantly bewildered.

Shangguan Wan'er and Liu Yuer's beautiful eyes also flashed with confusion.

Although they didn't understand what this term meant, seeing Gao Yang speak like this, and thinking of Gao Yang's vicious schemes, they felt it definitely wasn't anything good.

"What is the meaning of 'freeloading'?" Wu Zhao asked, puzzled.

"Your subject will give Your Majesty a hypothesis, and you will understand."

Gao Yang's gaze looked at Qing'er. "Let's take your subject and Qing'er as an example. Suppose your subject and Qing'er agree on five hundred taels for one night."

When Qing'er heard this, she hurriedly waved her hands in panic. "Lord Gao, fifty taels is enough. You are giving too much; this is already inflating the price."

Gao Yang had black lines on his face. "If this official says you are worth five hundred taels, you are worth five hundred taels. Never mind five hundred taels, even five thousand taels a night is no problem, anyway, this official doesn't intend to pay."

"Afterward, if I take out the paper money burned for the dead to settle the bill, may I ask Your Majesty, is your subject breaking the law?"

Once these words were spoken.

Wu Zhao widened her eyes.

Finish playing and not pay?

Using paper money to fool people?

Liu Yuer and Qing'er looked at Gao Yang in disbelief upon hearing this.

Is there such a shameless person in the world?

How black must this heart be!!!

Even the woman who only sold art and not her body, playing the zither, changed her tune abruptly upon hearing this, clearly surprised and hitting the wrong string.

Unlike the others, Gao Changwen's eyes suddenly lit up, looking straight at Gao Yang.

Before Gao Yang could speak, Shangguan Wan'er spoke first. "That is naturally a crime!"

"Since it is not a transaction, Qing'er can completely report you to the government and accuse you of rape. In my Da Qian, raping a woman is a capital crime!"

Gao Yang smiled and said, "Shangguan, you are wrong. Qing'er and I agreed on five hundred taels of silver to reach a transaction, which did not violate Qing'er's will; I just used paper money to pay. How can this be rape?"

Shangguan Wan'er was speechless.

The words were rough but the reasoning was not; even if reported to the government, this wouldn't count as rape.

Shangguan Wan'er's eyes turned, and she spoke again. "Paper money is money used for the dead. You use paper money as silver; a crime of counterfeit currency is enough for you to drink a pot."

Gao Yang continued to smile. "Counterfeit currency must circulate in the market and disturb the credit of Da Qian's currency, causing harm, for the crime to be established. But paper money is money used for the dead; how can it disturb the credit of Da Qian's currency?"

"This crime of counterfeit currency is naturally not established!"

Wu Zhao's mouth twitched, and she said gloomily, "Gao Yang, you seem to know the laws of Da Qian very well."

Gao Yang said modestly, "Your Majesty is too kind; your subject only knows a little, not worth mentioning."

"Understanding the law should be the duty of every Da Qian person."

During the seven days in Linjiang, he was bored, so he flipped through the laws of Da Qian.

Especially the definitions of major crimes, he read them no less than ten times.

This almost became his personal habit; as the saying goes, hooligans are not scary, what's scary is when hooligans are educated.

Law is something that can be unused, but must be understood.

Now, he had the laws of Da Qian at his fingertips.

Shangguan Wan'er gritted her teeth; she still didn't believe Gao Yang could really get it for free.

How could this be possible!

She thought about it and soon sneered. "Agreeing on five hundred taels of silver but settling with paper money, this fraud can't be escaped!"

"This crime is not small!"

Gao Changwen nodded repeatedly; he also thought so. Since the agreement was five hundred taels, and he took out paper money.

The crime of fraud is hard to escape!

But he looked at Gao Yang full of expectation.

This question was very important to him.

Gao Yang looked at Shangguan Wan'er and spread his hands. "Shangguan, according to the laws of Da Qian, fraud is fraud, so it must be convicted based on the value of the defrauded property."

"Years ago, the various schools of thought of the seven kingdoms contended, and this included the Legalist school. The laws of the seven kingdoms could not be separated from the Legalist school, but since it was a school, it was accompanied by different collisions of viewpoints."

"The law will eventually be perfected in disputes. Regarding the crime of fraud, regarding property, it is mainly divided into two factions, which your subject will call the positive and negative factions. The positive faction insists that property must be something protected by law, which is obviously not suitable. But if the negative faction is adopted, it is obviously not suitable, because this will lead to no upper limit for the law!" ===== CHAPTER 108 =====