Judge of the Song Dynasty

Li Guozhong and his colleagues had predicted in advance that Zhang Fei would certainly engage them in debate over legal principles—specifically, how to allocate responsibility for the accident caused by street encroachment.

This was the crux of the case and what everyone was most concerned about, but fortunately there were no specific regulations on this matter.

Without regulations, precedents became extremely crucial.

Therefore, they had Gu Ji arrange for people to retrieve many cases from the Court of Judicial Review and the Ministry of Punishments for analysis.

They prepared lengthy arguments to debate with Zhang Fei.

Just thinking about it was exciting.

Because regardless of who won, it would be of great reference value and might even enter the history books.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Fei immediately called eyewitnesses and didn’t debate this issue with them at all.

Wang Anshi stroked his beard and said, “Could I have guessed wrong?”