Han Shizu

Chapter 202
For Shi Hongzhao's initiative, Liu Chengyou was somewhat surprised.Originally thought that it would take some talking to achieve the goal, but Shi Hongzhao took the initiative to accept the assignment without realizing it.For this, Liu Chengyou is naturally extremely happy.

"Okay, Shi Qing is worthy of being a pillar of the imperial court. The country is strong, not shy away from evil, brave to do things, and dare to take responsibility. I will leave this matter to Shi Qing with full authority!" A string of compliments came from Liu Chengyou even more slickly. Mouth spit out.

"A group of traitors, moths of the country, I can handle them at will, and punish them." Shi Hongzhao waved his hand, his tone was irritable.

"I'm relieved to have Shi Qing in charge!" Liu Chengyou nodded and said, "I'll send Wu De to assist Shi Qing."

"No need!" As soon as Liu Chengyou finished speaking, Shi Hongzhao flatly refused: "It is enough to have a minister."

Shi Hongzhao dared to open a dyeing workshop just to give him some color.Liu Chengyou couldn't see any reaction to his arrogance, and he still said calmly: "Don't misunderstand Shi Qing, I have no other intentions. It's just that the little officials in Wu Desi have gained some early detectives and have their assistance. Thinking about it, I can avoid wasting Shi Qing's unnecessary energy."

After Liu Chengyou comforted him carefully, Shi Hongzhao nodded his head, and left in a hurry.Judging by his posture, there must be a big commotion.

Asking Shi Hongzhao to deal with this matter can't be regarded as having no good intentions, but just letting the right person do the right thing.Liu Chengyou didn't explain how to deal with it, and let Shi Hongzhao do everything. With Shi Hongzhao's usual rough and tough style of handling things, one can imagine what the next scene will be like.

After leaving the palace, he got the list from Li Shaoyou, and for Shi Hongzhao, things were easy.He directly summoned the Forbidden Army of the Fourth Battalion, and under Liu Chengyou's instruction, Ma Quanyi, who was in charge of the troops, also sent troops to support them.Regardless of whether Shi Hongzhao is still the commander of the guards and horse infantry, the No. 1 senior general of the Imperial Army, but after leaving Tokyo, he can't mobilize the accompanying troops at all.

Soon, under the arrangement of Shi Hongzhao, more than [-] forbidden troops followed the list with great fanfare, came to the door, arrested people, and ransacked the house.Such a big commotion caused everyone in Xijing to look sideways. If it wasn't for the imperial army being ordered to strictly maintain order in the city, they might have thought there was another mutiny.

It was later known that Shi Dushuai received a report that an official Xungui violated the law and discipline, causing harm to one party. After verification, it was confirmed to be true, so he sent troops to enforce the law.
Such reasons are simply full of loopholes.If they commit crimes, they have their own censor platforms in prefectures, prefectures and counties, why bother to manage military affairs, and directly send troops to arrest and enforce the law. Since it is unreasonable and also inconsistent with the rules.However, the current Han Dynasty is not very disciplined, especially when Shi Hongzhao takes the lead in enforcing the law.

Within three days, more than forty officials and powerful officials were taken down in Xijing City, and none of them slipped through the net on the list.Before being sent to prison, he was remanded to Luoyang City, where his crimes were publicly announced and his crimes detailed.
It can be found that most of these people are old ministers and officials, and they are the kind of people with a very bad reputation and excessive greed.It seems that Shi Hongzhao's purge action is justified.

However, people's hearts immediately floated in Xijing, especially for those survivors from the previous dynasty.Because if they introspect, they will find that they are no better than those arrested.

Take the people in the city, and send troops to seize the land and manors in Guinea, and most importantly, release the peasants.
After some sharp actions, the city of Xijing was full of complaints, and the nobility and bureaucrats were all in danger.Some officials directly asked to see Liu Chengyou, wanting to accuse Shi Hongzhao of "doing evil" and impeach him, but unfortunately, where could he meet Liu Chengyou.

And this "rectification movement", in the hands of Shi Hongzhao, has gradually tended to expand. Not only the people on the list, but the rise of house raids, he began to set his sights on other hot spots. its goal.

"Shi Dushuai, most of the corrupt officials on the list have already been questioned. It's time to stop. Enough is enough." In the prison, Li Shaoyou found Shi Hongzhao who was interrogating the prisoner, and said to him seriously.

Glancing at the bloody prisoner, Shi Hongzhao's style was as strong as ever.

"Enough is enough?" Receiving his persuasion, Shi Hongzhao was stunned for a moment, and then glared at Li Shaoyou: "The dregs of the country, who harmed the country and the government, perverted the law and harmed the people, I wish I could get rid of them all, how can we stop? There is no need to talk too much, but just watch me wipe out these scourges for the country."

Li Shaoyou's expression darkened immediately, and he asked in a deep voice: "Could it be that the commander-in-chief still wants to take down all the officials in Xijing? If it makes the public angry, it will expand the situation and lead to unrest in the court." Steady, how will it end then!"

Hearing this, Shi Hongzhao was also angry, and retorted: "Do I need you to remind me of how I behave? What is your intention in defending those national thieves? Could it be that you are colluding with them?"

As he said that, Shi Hongzhao looked at Li Shaoyou with some "suspiciousness".

Seeing this, Li Shaoyou didn't suppress his voice any more, it was obviously unreasonable to reason with Shi Hongzhao.He said directly: "The government has an edict first, so don't blindly affect the officials!"

Unexpectedly, when Liu Chengyou was brought out, Shi Hongzhao still didn't buy it, instead he scolded him even more severely: "The boy is ignorant and rampant, use the officials to suppress me?"

Without waiting for Li Shaoyou to open his mouth, Shi Hongzhao continued: "What should not be spread blindly? It's just nonsense. This commander only knows how to get rid of evil and do everything right! There is no such thing in my edict. Could it be that you are pretending to be the emperor, trying to plot something wrong?"

Hearing Shi Hongzhao's words, Li Shaoyou almost spat out a mouthful of blood. I knew that Shi Hongzhao was arrogant and difficult to control, but I didn't expect it to be so unreasonable. in the eyes.

His expression was uncertain, Shi Hongzhao didn't seem to be in the mood to entangle with him here, he greeted his subordinates, and ordered: "Come on, get him out of here!"

"Shi Hongzhao, don't go too far!" Hearing this, Li Shaoyou said angrily.

Hearing Li Shaoyou call his name directly, Shi Hongzhao yelled and cursed again, and sent Buqu to drive him away forcibly.

After driving away Li Shaoyou, Shi Hongzhao looked calm and didn't care at all.Who is Li Shaoyou, the emperor's favorite minister and playmate, dare to make noise in front of him, Shi Dushuai, talk nonsense, point fingers, he is simply humiliating himself.

He was kicked out in disgrace, and Li Shaoyou was furious.

"You're bullying me too much!" Li Shaoyou scolded angrily, "I know that this person is difficult to control, but I don't know that this person is so difficult to control!"

"Everything." Seeing the boss getting angry, a marriage officer under the subordinate asked in a low voice, and made a suggestion: "Do you want to report it to the officials?"

"That's natural!" Li Shaoyou replied immediately.

"This subordinate immediately prepares his criminal evidence." The marriage officer said.

In the process of handling affairs, Shi Hongzhao has made a lot of money for himself. He has swallowed up a lot of his family property, land, and family.By the way, the wives and daughters were taken away as Ji concubines, mother and daughter received together, tsk tsk. Really, there is no scruple, it was all recorded by Wu Desi's spies.

Stopped by Li Shaoyou, I saw that he had regained his composure, glanced at the direction of the prison, and said: "He is under the orders of the officials this time, these things can't bring him down."

After speaking, Li Shaoyou sneered again: "This bastard is on top of the cauldron, and he still doesn't know it."

"Besides, if he is so arrogant, how long can the officials tolerate him!"

"Then what shall we do now?"

"From now on, keep an eye on Shi Hongzhao, his relatives, and his trilogy, and record all his crimes and indecent behaviors in detail!" Li Shaoyou's eyes flashed a thick shadow of prey.In Li Shaoyou's temperament, there was a bit of revenge, but Shi Hongzhao's bullying him this time really angered him.

"This envoy still has to enter the palace. I really let Shi Hongzhao continue to act recklessly. I'm afraid the officials will come forward at that time, and it will not end well!" After thinking for a while, Li Shaoyou sighed again, mounted his horse and headed for Luoyang Imperial City.

For the result of assigning Shi Hongzhao to take charge of this matter, Liu Chengyou actually made expectations in advance, so he was not too surprised to hear Li Shaoyou's report.This person enforces the law, highlighting a violence, highlighting a ruthless.At the beginning, since Tokyo was in chaos, Liu Zhiyuan ordered the three government departments (Guardian Department, Kaifeng Mansion, and Inspection Department) to rectify. Shi Hongzhao's methods were the most brutal. the price of evil.

Listening to Li Shaoyou's report, Shi Hongzhao wanted to magnify the matter and continue to arrest people and ransack the house, but Liu Chengyou frowned slightly.He really didn't draw a red line for Shi Hongzhao, and let him play freely.But Liu Chengyou's concern is that when Li Shaoyou moved out of him, Shi Hongzhao was still arrogant.
"How did you get it?" Liu Chengyou asked after thinking about it for a while.

"So far, more than [-] hectares of land have been seized, nearly [-] hu of grain have been seized, more than [-] farmers have been released, and the value of money and silk confiscated exceeds [-] min." Li Shaoyou reported, and added calmly: "This is all in secret There may be discrepancies in the records, but the details need to be reported in a form."

"The harvest is not cheap." Liu Chengyou sighed lightly.

Last year, the southern Khitan invaders and their return to the north almost emptied the Central Plains. In just over a year, these nobles, bureaucrats, and tyrants have amassed so much. This amassed effort is obviously in place.

"Officials, Shi Hongzhao's arrogance is difficult to control, and his methods are ruthless. If he continues, he may cause people's hearts to be unstable and the court to be uneasy!" Li Shaoyou carefully advised.

Hearing this, Liu Chengyou pondered for a while and said, "Wait a little longer."

But Liu Chengyou had other plans in mind, Shi Hongzhao did too "excellent", so why not let him incite more hatred?
Right now, Liu Chengyou's edict may make Shi Hongzhao stop and stabilize the situation.However, Liu Chengyou always felt that it was not enough, the emperor had to act at a more appropriate time.

Let the turmoil in Xijing continue for a few more days.

(End of this chapter)