Judge of the Song Dynasty

Zhang Fei didn’t like chasing down payments—he only liked issuing fines. After calculating each household’s debt, he would issue them a tax bill and let them take it to pay their taxes themselves.

They could choose not to go.

Then they’d have to go to court.

This would increase the income for the pen-in-caps.

By now, those powerful families were truly at their wit’s end. After all, Zhang Fei held the legal high ground, and they would certainly lose if they went to court.

But they weren’t rushing to pay either.

Looking back, the key to Zhang Fei’s success lay in how he had the common people in his grasp. But the problem was that if you tore down people’s sheds, you had to provide some compensation.

The General Police Bureau had made promises too.

Imperial Avenue alone wouldn’t be enough.