The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Shuzi

Chapter 229
The magistrate's yamen in Hanzhong Fucheng.

As soon as Fang Guanglufu, the prefect, was captured by Jia Jing's two soldiers, he kept struggling there.

He shouted in his mouth: "Jia Jing, I am a majestic fourth-rank magistrate, you are not qualified to imprison me!"

A trace of disgust flashed in Jia Jing's eyes, "In Yurou Township, accepting bribes, these two alone are enough to send you to Caishikou. Now that you are dying, you still don't know how to repent!"

With a cold snort, he ordered the soldiers next to him, "Tell him to shut up!"

Hearing Jia Jing's order, a soldier immediately let go and took a step back. Then, amid Fang Guanglu's frightened face, the hard and thick copper-clad scabbard slammed on Fang Guanglu's mouth.

In an instant, blood and tears flowed, front teeth flew everywhere...

"It's over, it's definitely broken!"

Fang Guanglu and the three wealthy businessmen under the hall had such a thought in their minds.

In ancient times, the selection of officials had always been based on "body, speech, writing, and judgment" as the primary conditions. Now that most of Fang Guanglu's teeth have been knocked out by Jia Jing's personal soldiers, he may leak his words in the future. Don't even think about career prospects.

And Jia Jing's behavior of knocking out Fang Guanglu's teeth at the slightest disagreement also caused the hearts of the three wealthy businessmen to jump heavily.

Ruthless!
People like Jia Jing in front of me are the real ruthless people face to face!

After all, that would directly ruin Fang Guanglu's career in the future...

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After dealing with Fang Guanglu, the magistrate of Hanzhong who blatantly contradicted him, Jia Jing set his sights on the three wealthy businessmen in the hall.

The latter's heart skipped a beat.

After witnessing Jia Jing's ruthlessness, how could these three rich businessmen still be as slick as they were just now?
They all kowtowed in the hall and begged for mercy.

But at this moment, how could Jia Jing have time to chat with the three of them?

There are so many disaster victims outside the city waiting for their own relief!
What's more, these three people are just the three typical cases that Jia Jing picked out from the investigation of the shadow assassins, so what is it worth wasting my thoughts on?
"Detain all three of them and lock them up!" Jia Jing ordered.

"Yes!"

This time, even the guards on one side hurriedly took orders.

They really can't afford to offend this lord in front of them!
Jia Jing first pointed to the many servants next to him, "Go and seal up all the shops of the three of them, and take all the rice noodles in them to the porridge shed outside the city!"

He picked out two more clever servants, "You two, spread the meaning of the governor! It is said that the governor has ordered that the merchants have two hours to sell all the raised prices. Downgrade and go back, if there are any shops that dare to sell rice noodles at sky-high prices, let them weigh the consequences themselves!"

"Yes!"

Many servants took orders and left.

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outside the city.

It didn't take long to hear that porridge sheds were going to be built, and there were countless thatched porridge sheds outside Hanzhong City, which were spontaneously erected by the victims.

Then, watching the cartloads of grain being pulled from Fucheng to the porridge shed outside, many emaciated victims burst into appalling cheers.

It didn't take long for the aroma of rice to permeate from the porridge sheds.

In the entire camp for the victims, there was an aura of hope.

However, there are also pairs of eyes in the dark, watching the disaster victims' gratitude to the Great Zhou court because of the relief, the anger in their hearts can't help igniting.

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At this time, Shenjing also received the notes from Jia Jing and Lin Ruhai.

Especially after seeing signs of large-scale activities of the White Lotus Sect in Guanzhong reported in the booklet, everyone was shocked.

Emperor Hongde directly issued an imperial decree, saying: "Since ancient times, the people have been so stupid and easily deceived. They strongly believed in the words of Maitreya, the demon of the white lotus, who was reborn, and hoped that he would govern the world and relieve his suffering. That's why they gathered as a party to burn incense.

However, as soon as the demonic words were done, the murderous scheme was carried out. The Bailian demon burned the city, killed the scholars, and poisoned the living beings.
Specially ordered Marquis Jia Jing of Zhaowu to act cheaply along the way, if he encounters a white lotus monster on the way, he must be punished..."

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Hanzhong Fucheng.

A rather remote courtyard.

Although the small courtyard is inconspicuous, there is an extremely spacious secret room under the ground of this small courtyard.

This is the largest stronghold of the White Lotus Sect in Hanzhong Fucheng!
In the secret room at this moment, an old oil lamp was placed on the table, and the whole secret room was dimly illuminated by the big flame.

The leader was sitting by the table, the dim light shone on his face, making his face even more gloomy.

"The chief rudder has already given us an order. No matter what, we must take advantage of this drought to set off a wave of uprisings to overthrow the Great Zhou as soon as possible. Let's figure it out together and see where we should start in the future!"

Hearing the words of the leader, everyone below was a little embarrassed.

A man said worriedly: "But now the people from the imperial court to help the victims have arrived. Those victims are mothers if they have milk. The imperial court only feeds them a few meals of rice porridge, which makes our hard work for many days come to naught. It's difficult to imagine the freedom of preaching and developing believers in the past!"

Everyone sighed when they heard the words.

In the secret room, there was silence.

After a long time, the leader clenched his fist and hammered it on the table in front of him, "At worst, let's go down, go to each village, and slowly pull people in. When there are more people, they will gather together and form a tower of sand." , great things can be accomplished!"

"But the governor thinks that your method is not very good!"

Outside the secret room, Jia Jing's voice came in, causing the Bailian sect inside to panic and make noise.

The shadow of the tree of names.

As a figure like the god of war in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jia Jing just stood there, and the heavy pressure had already changed the expressions of everyone in the White Lotus Sect inside.

Listening to the movement in the secret room, Jia Jing asked again: "Did you come out by yourself, or did the governor order people to attack and arrest you one by one?
If there are any of you who repent and surrender in time, this governor can forgive me and give you a chance to make meritorious deeds! "

Still no one answered in the secret room.

Even the movement in it gradually became smaller.

Seeing this, Jia Jing seemed to have thought of something, her complexion couldn't help but swung her right hand heavily.

"Break the door open!"

Afterwards, several heavy armored soldiers joined forces, and the door of the secret room in front was slammed open.

In the secret room, many followers of the White Lotus Sect were already lying on the ground crookedly.

Judging by their purple faces and foaming at the mouth, they all obviously committed suicide by taking poison.

The leader sat at the table, looked at the group of soldiers rushing in at the door and Jia Jing who was walking at the end, his face was full of ridicule, "Jia Jing's bastard, you should give up your desire to persuade me to surrender! Those who wait for the Holy Cult will never betray the Son of God!!"

While speaking, strands of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Obviously, he also took poison.

Hearing the sarcasm, Jia Jing didn't answer, but glanced around the corpses all over the ground with a sinking face, and then his eyes moved, "But this may not be the case!"

After all, Jia Jing stepped forward and kicked a "corpse" on the calf.

Hearing "Ai Yao", a cry of pain popped out from the mouth of the corpse.

Hearing this cry of pain, the eyes of the person headed by the table suddenly widened, and he raised his hand, just about to say something, but the next moment, a mouthful of blood spewed out, and the person fell down heavily.

But it is death.

(End of this chapter)