Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 456 Gathering Evidence
In the county government of Gushu County, two admonition officials are checking the data in the mountain of materials in the county government. One admonishment official reports the count, and the other admonishment official is responsible for recording.

"Complete Records of Land Deeds No. 30 in four volumes, in April of the third year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Zhao Ruinian purchased 3000 two hundred and forty-four acres of land in the east of Zhangcun, and the title of the title is Gu Qi 44."

Zhao Ruinian is Zhao Qian's father. It took two admonishers three days to find evidence of the Zhao family's purchase of land from the land deed records. Eighty percent, the lie that the land of the Zhao family came from the Taizu will be broken without attacking.

"The following is the tax payment situation of the year. In the three years of Dazhong Xiangfu, the actual land tax paid by the Zhao family was zero."

The expressions of the two admonishers are very solemn. They have counted for 30 years. The land tax paid by the Zhao family over the years is not even as good as that of a small farmer with only a hundred acres of fertile land. Moreover, the children of the Zhao family have no record of hard labor. The circumstances are so serious that they can only Use the word 'shocking' to describe it.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and an admonisher went to open the door. The governor of Gushu County stood at the door holding a heavy stack of documents, "This is the land tax record for 20 years from the first year of Qingli to this year. , all the information you want is here."

"Thank you! Thank you!"

The admonisher took the heavy document and asked again: "Is there any news about our Liu admonishment?"

"At noon, County Magistrate Xie sent a message saying that Liu Jiansi will be back in the evening."

"I see, please pour me some more hot tea."

The Yasi nodded and went out, a pot of hot tea was delivered in a moment, the two admonishers closed the door, and continued to start their statistics.

It has been three days since Liu Chu arrived in Gushu County with three admonishers. They split into two groups. Liu Chu took an admonisher to investigate the Zhao family's usurpation and raising a private army. At the same time, he also learned about farming cattle The case of mutual aid groups.

The other two admonishers were responsible for collecting documents and records of the Zhao family's land deed and land tax in the county government.

After three days of visits and on-the-spot observations, Liu Chu basically confirmed the fact that the private army in the report letter was true. They saw with their own eyes at least [-] Zhuang Ding training collectively, using spears, and some Zhuang Ding dressed in leather. Armor, at least several hundred crossbows.

Perhaps the Zhao family didn't think it was an army, but in fact, this Zhuang Ding team fully fit the characteristics of an army, with an organized leader and a large number of prohibited soldiers.

At this time, Xie Wensheng, the county magistrate, accompanied Liu and Chu with several yamen servants to the north of Zhao's Manor, that is, behind the manor. There is a low mountain about twenty feet high. A short hill was built.

The dwarf mountain is called Jingshan, and it does not belong to the Zhao family. Of course, the Zhao family has always wanted to incorporate this Jingshan into their estate, but the owner of Jingshan is also a family of meritorious service. They are unwilling to sell it, and the Zhao family cannot force it to buy.

Xie Wensheng has been here several times and is very familiar with this place. This low mountain is the best reference point to visually determine whether the height of the Zhao family ancestral hall is illegal. Two years ago, Xie Wensheng really worked hard to measure the height of the ancestral hall.

Zhao's ancestral hall is located in the northernmost part of the manor, close to Jingshan Mountain, with a small river in front of it, and it is also surrounded by mountains and rivers, and its Fengshui is very good.

The crowd followed a path up the mountain, and when they reached the middle of the mountain, Xie Wensheng pointed to a big rock on the mountainside and said, "Please look at that big rock, Liu Jiansi. That big rock is called Shizhang Stone, which means that its height from the ground is exactly Ten feet, we asked someone to measure it, and the bottom of the boulder is exactly ten feet from the ground."

Liu Chu nodded and stood directly next to the boulder. From the side of the boulder, he could indeed clearly see the ancestral hall of the Zhao family about a hundred steps away. However, Liu Chu can think that this is not a coincidence, but that the height of Zhao's ancestral hall is built according to ten feet.This is at least two feet higher than the Guide Hall in Songcheng County.

Liu Chu shook his head secretly. He was shocked by the boldness of the Zhao family. You must know that the Guide Hall is in a sense the symbol of the ancestral hall of the Zhao family. Tianfu, such unscrupulous arrogance, is simply extremely arrogant.

"How long has this ancestral hall been built?" Liu Chu asked.

"In the second year of Qingli, the old ancestral hall caught fire and was burned down. The patriarch at that time, Zhao Ruinian, asked the emperor for instructions and rebuilt the ancestral hall. The current ancestral hall has been built for almost 18 years."

"You mean, you have asked the officials for instructions?" Liu Chu discovered the key problem.

Xie Wensheng nodded, "I checked the county annals in the second year of Qingli. The Zhao family did ask the emperor for instructions, but it was very vague. It was just a sentence: 'Rebuild after the request, and it will be completed next year'."

"So how tall is the ancestral hall?"

"Five feet and five feet, there are records in the county government, covering an area of ​​twelve acres, and now it covers an area of ​​twenty acres."

This is interesting, actually asked for instructions before re-building, this gives people an illusion, it seems that the height of the Hall of Guide was approved by the emperor, it is probably this illusion that made all the previous officials think that it was approved by the emperor, so everyone I don't care about it.

But Liu Chu knew very well that no matter how lenient the officials were, they would never allow the ancestral hall of the courtiers to exceed the height of Guide Hall. The Zhao family must have concealed the height of the ancestral hall.

But it can also be seen from this that the Zhao family is very aware of what it means to build this ten-foot ancestral hall, and the Zhao family is crazy to want their children and grandchildren to prosper.

It is estimated that they thought this was Gushu County, and the distance between the two buildings was more than 100 miles. It was difficult to compare the heights, and it was difficult to be found. That's why they built the ancestral hall in Gushu County instead of Songcheng County.

Then again, if the battle for the throne did not involve Zhao Qian holding [-] troops in Yingtian Mansion, the imperial court would really not pay attention to the Zhao family's ancestral hall. I'm sure they won't be investigated, but it can only be said that they were unlucky to meet Fan Ning, a formidable guy, and deal with Zhao Qian from this unique angle.

Liu Chu then asked his admonisher to draw a comparison map of Zhao's ancestral hall and Jingshan, which will be used as evidence for the impeachment of the Zhao family.

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At the same time, the battle for the commander-in-chief in Songcheng County also reached its climax.

In order to show his allegiance to Zhang Yaozuo, Zhao Qian did not hesitate to use the army to fight against the Yingtian government office.

There are seventeen Zhang's grain shops in Songcheng County, all of which were sealed up by the Songcheng County government the day before and sealed, but early this morning, groups of soldiers appeared on the streets of Songcheng County.

Soldiers tore off the seals on the grain shops and stood guard in front of the grain shops to prevent the government from posting the strips again. Every grain shop reopened, but no one came to buy rice. The price is 35%, from [-] Wen for a Doumi to [-] Wen for a Doumi.

Zhang Xing finally found out that it was the army standing guard that made the people uneasy. A shopkeeper gave him an idea to introduce festive gongs and lions to cover up the army's killing.

Zhang Xing adopted the plan, and soon, gongs and drums were beating in front of each grain store, firecrackers burst into bursts, and lion dance teams flew up and down, which attracted the attention of a large number of people. Stimulated by a series of measures, Zhang's grain store Finally, there was a flow of customers.

The news soon spread to the government office. In the official room, Wang Anshi was very angry, and said to Fan Ning, "He actually used the army to tear up the seal of the government and openly confront the government. Is this Zhao Qian crazy?"

Sun Xuance, the aide next to him, said: "According to the information we have received, Zhang Yaozuo's nephew Zhang Xing is currently in Songcheng County. It is estimated that Zhang Xing put pressure on Zhao Qian, and Zhao Qian used the army to fight us regardless of the consequences."

Fan Ning sneered with his hands behind his back and said, "This is called self-inflicted crime, I hope they will be more crazy."

Wang Anshi suggested: "We should negotiate with Shuai Si and order them to withdraw their troops, otherwise we will report the matter directly to the Privy Council."

"No need!"

Fan Ning rejected Wang Anshi's suggestion, "Zhao Qian is not a three-year-old child. He is very aware of the consequences of using the army to confront Ying Tianfu. I have formally notified the Transshipment Envoy and the Criminal Prosecution Division and asked them to report the matter to the court. Tianfu will also complain to the Privy Council."

"Your Majesty, is this making things worse?" Hou Wen, the county magistrate, whispered from the side.

"I don't think things are big enough."

Fan Ning smiled and said, "Since Zhang's family sells rice for twenty cents a bucket, where can such a good thing be found? Houzhi County, please send out government servants to mobilize people from door to door to buy rice from Zhang's grain store for twenty cents a bucket , I believe there will be a wave of rice grabbing in Songcheng County, I want to see how the Zhang family ends!"

Hou Wen suddenly understood, and he said happily, "This is a good idea. If Zhang's Grain Shop can't cash it out, then the brand will really be smashed."

Wang Anshi secretly shook his head at the side, this method of fighting poison with poison was thanks to Fan Ning's idea.

Hou Wen left in a hurry, and Fan Ning went back to his official room without showing any signs of expression, and found Zhu Long's four guards.

Fan Ning said with a smile: "I'll find something for you to do. You go to the river to pick up some bags of dry sand, pretend to be people who buy rice, and find a way to sneak into Zhang's grain storehouse."

(End of this chapter)