Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 328

"Kill the dog! Divide the fields! Be the King of Qi!"

"kill--"

On the second day of March in the eighth year of the Apocalypse, along with the backlog of anger, farmer Liu Si gathered hundreds of victims and planted flags to revolt in Luochuan County.

The rebel army used knives and weapons to attack Luochuan County with the ambition of painting their faces with ink.

The soldiers and horses of Luochuan County were stationed on the city wall, and Han Chao, the magistrate of the county, climbed up the city wall to watch. After finding that the so-called "rebels" were only a few hundred people, he began to mock.

However, only farmer Liu Si shouted: "Who dares to kill the county magistrate?"

Then the acquaintance of Bing Ma Si responded: "I dare to kill!"

Afterwards, the gates of the city were opened wide, and Liu Si led the crowd into the county seat, skinned Han Chao, the magistrate, and filled them with grass, and opened the official storehouse to help the victims. The number of rebels expanded to ten thousand...

The Shaanxi civil uprising broke out, and the cabinet immediately held a meeting.

"The civil uprising in Luochuan County, what do you guys think of this matter?"

As soon as the meeting was held, Gu Bingqian clarified the matter, but many officials did not take it seriously.

To put it bluntly, five years before the apocalypse, rebellions of this scale of ten thousand people were not uncommon. For this kind of rebellion, if they can be appeased, they will be appeased, and if they cannot be appeased, they will be suppressed.

"When all the counties heard what happened in Luochuan County, they all sent troops to try to persuade them to surrender, but Liu Si and other bandits in Luochuan County all refused."

Zhu Xieyuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, opened his mouth, but said: "After Liu Si and the others conquered Luochuan County, they did not send troops to the surrounding area. It is obvious that something is tricky."

Zhu Xieyuan obviously sensed that something was wrong, but he was unwilling to join the King Qi Party and suffered exclusion within the Zhejiang Party, so his words didn't have much effect.

"Hmph! Surrender and don't surrender, but don't reverse, I think they want to separate one side!"

A member of the military department of the Chu Party spoke to the bad guys, and Yao Zongwen of the Zhejiang Party also said:

"The disaster victims are greedy, don't know how to sympathize with the court, and dare to rebel and kill officials, so send troops to suppress it!"

"Fuck your mother's fart!"

"Who……"

Yao Zongwen had just finished speaking, when a scolding voice with a very high amount of "mother" sounded. Yao Zongwen blushed when he heard the words, and turned his head to scold with enthusiasm, but saw Zhu Youjian who walked into the Lord's Hall aggressively .

"King Qi is a thousand years old..."

Seeing that it was Zhu Youjian who came, everyone stood up and bowed, and Gu Bingqian even gave up his position as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Zhu Youjian sat on the seat unceremoniously, and cursed at the people who were clamoring for suppression just now:

"The people's uprising in Luochuan County, have any of you investigated why?"

"Could it be that the common people revolted because they were greedy? Since they are greedy, why didn't the first thing they do was rob the government treasury, but go straight to the official warehouse?"

"I didn't even figure out the matter, just talking nonsense here, sending troops to suppress it at every turn, do you want things to get worse?!"

Zhu Youjian's soulful questioning and stern voice silenced more than forty officials in the cabinet's main hall, and Zhu Youjian became even more angry when he saw it.

"What you said just now is pretty good, but now you're dumb when you're asked?!"

"Your Highness, calm down..." Gu Bingqian bowed and took the lead to persuade Zhu Youjian, and Zhu Youjian said to Bi Ziyan:

"I have given Sun Chuanting the right to kill first and then play, and ordered him to go north with Gongweiying and Xi'an Cangliang [-] stones, and the Ministry of Households made a book."

"The next official takes orders..." As soon as Bi Ziyan heard Zhu Youjian's words, he immediately understood why the civil uprising broke out in Luochuan County.

He knew Zhu Youjian very well. If it was a religious rebellion, Zhu Youjian would not even bother to say it, and would directly send troops to suppress it.

But now after Zhu Youjian learned of the incident, the first arrangement he made was to let the Gongwei camp bring food to the north, so the civil uprising in Luochuan County must have been caused by ineffective disaster relief.

Bi Ziyan understood, and Gu Bingqian and the others almost guessed it, and among those who guessed it, some officials of the Chu Party began to sweat coldly on their foreheads.

Wuhe, Han Chao, the magistrate of Luochuan County, was recommended by the Chu Party to go to Luochuan County.

Looking at King Qi's posture, it is obvious that the relief money and food allocated to Luochuan County were most likely eaten by him.

"The six ministries, six divisions, and the cabinet don't have to deal with the affairs of Luochuan County."

"From today onwards, the Supervision Department of Jinyiwei will start to deal with it, accompanied by Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment!"

Zhu Youjian directly decided on Luo Chuan's matter, leaving the officials at a loss as to how to interrupt.

The Jinyiwei Supervision Department's handling also showed that the Nanzhen Fusi was involved.

After all, it's not surprising if you think about it, Nanzhen Fusi is supervised by hundreds of officials, and local supervisors.

At present, Luochuan's ineffective disaster relief has not been reported at all. If it hadn't been for the civil uprising, Zhu Youjian wouldn't even know about it.

From this point of view, I am afraid that there will be a wave of cleaning in Nanzhen Fusi...

The imperial court allocated tens of millions of shi and nearly ten million taels of disaster relief funds. If they were really divided, each victim would be given a few shi of rice and wheat and a few coins.

It's all right now, and the distribution of money and food has not been effective, but it has aroused popular rebellion.

I'm afraid not only the interior of Nanzhen Fusi, but even the officials of the eight disaster-stricken provinces will be severely investigated.

Everyone was thinking about how to protect themselves, and Zhu Youjian also went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to report to Zhu Youxiao.

It's just that when he went to report, Sun Chuanting had actually led the Gongwei battalion of Xi'an Prefecture to the north a day earlier.

Unexpectedly, Liu Si and others in Luochuan County did not continue to attack the surrounding area after the capture of Luochuan County, but stayed in Luochuan County obediently.

When Zhu Youjian's military order was sent urgently from [-] miles away, Sun Chuanting had already led his troops to Jinsuoguan, the northern gate of Shaanxi Province, which was less than [-] miles away from Luochuan County.

"I understand His Highness's military order. This is my handwriting. After reading it, Your Highness should know what's going on in Weibei."

In front of Jinsuo Pass, Sun Chuanting hurriedly bowed to Babaili, and Tang Qi immediately bowed and left when he saw this.

Looking around, the Loess Plateau in the north of Weibei is bare, and there are not a few trees at all.

When the wind blows, sand and gravel fly up, like a small sandstorm.

The Qihe River next to Jinsuo Pass was originally a big river with a width of seven feet and a length of hundreds of miles, but now the river is dry, the river channel is dry and cracked, and there is no trace of river water...

The entire Jinsuoguan had to rely on the well water in the pass for drinking water, and Sun Chuanting probably knew why the people in Weibei rebelled when he came here.

The people of Jinsuoguan are as skinny as a stick, and they are not like Zhu Youjian and they thought. They have surplus food at home.

Sun Chuanting was in Xining last year, so he didn't know what happened in Shaanxi. He didn't return to Shaanxi until February this year.

However, Sun Chuanting asked someone to hang the guard of Jinsuo Pass after only asking about the hungry people in Jinsuo Pass.

The people in Weibei had no food to eat, all because the corrupt officials continued to exploit the people regardless of the imperial court’s decree of exempting them.

Although he didn't go to Luochuan County, Sun Chuanting has already figured out a lot of things when he came to the Weibei Loess Plateau in Jinsuoguan.

The bureaucrats exploited, the gentry tyrants confiscated and robbed by force, and what they did was appalling.

Although Sun Chuanting knew that there were too many Yanshan students in Weibei, every county in Weibei has Huangdian, but there is Nanzhen Fusi.

It is impossible for Huangdian and Nanzhen Fusi to be ignorant of the local news. With the current situation, I am afraid that they have already colluded with Weibei officials.

Thinking about this clearly, Sun Chuanting looked at the soldiers of the Gongwei battalion gathered in front of Jinsuo Pass, and then turned his head to look at the entrance of Jinsuo Pass.

There was a group of common people looking forward to him, but they were all ragged and unkempt.

Above their heads, on the tower of Jinsuoguan, a group of hanged people stood out.

"The rule of the apocalypse... the prosperity of the apocalypse..."

Sun Chuanting murmured that the people in other places praised the imperial court, but now it seems so ironic...

"Let's go..." Sun Chuanting shook the reins of the horse, immediately put on his official robes, and led the Gongwei camp to the north.

Along the way, from time to time, you can see some elms that have been stripped of bark, and some people kneel in front of the elms, throw the wood pieces into it with a hand-grinding stone mill, grind them into powder, and drink them with some water. .

"About..."

The officials and the people looked at Sun Chuanting with some unbearable: "Didn't the imperial court distribute the army to garrison the fields and the food stamps?"

"If you post it, someone will take it back..." Sun Chuanting's expression was calm, as if he had expected this to happen a long time ago.

It should be said that since he learned about the life of the people in Weibei, he knew what the people in Weibei might have experienced.

Sun Chuanting's army continued to march northward. In Yijun, Zhongbu and other counties, as long as the local officials were confirmed to be exploited, they were hanged or beheaded.

In the opened official granary, grain piled up like a mountain, and some sweet potatoes and potatoes allocated by the court even rotted in the granary, and were not distributed to the people.

The treasury inside the warehouse is full, the food cannot be piled up, and the people outside the warehouse are starving and dying, how ironic...

On the third day of going north, when Sun Chuanting led the troops and arrived in Luochuan County, the gates of Luochuan County were opened before the guard battalion was deployed, and the dense crowd of people walked out led by a dozen shirtless men who had bound themselves out.

"Liu Si, the country rebel, surrendered with a dozen of my brothers. Sun Jinglue, please don't implicate other villagers!"

Liu Si led more than a dozen people to kneel in front of the stone bridge on the moat of Luochuan County, and the people behind him also knelt down one by one, and everyone was numb.

Sun Chuanting asked the officials to bring Liu Si and the others with them. The distance between the two sides was hundreds of steps. If Liu Si and the others falsely surrendered, the Gongwei camp would have enough time to react.

However, the facts have proved that Liu Si did not feign surrender, nor did he attack the county for the purpose of claiming hegemony.

In this way, they were honestly brought to Sun Chuanting by the officials, just like obedient citizens...

"Don't kneel down, let's all untie the rope and stand up and talk, I have something to ask you."

Sun Chuanting dismounted from his horse, his tall stature was in stark contrast to Liu Si and the others.

It should be said that all the generals of the Gongwei Battalion were silent when they saw Liu Si and others.

Liu Si and the others are short in stature, skinny and dark-skinned, just like ordinary old farmers, except that their abdomen is extremely swollen, like a starving ghost in a villain's book.

"Why did the soldiers and horses from other counties come to persuade them to surrender, but you didn't wait to surrender, but I surrendered when I came?"

Sun Chuanting was very puzzled. In his opinion, even if Liu Si and the others wanted to surrender, they should wait until they sent someone to persuade them to surrender, instead of surrendering as soon as they saw them.

Facing his puzzlement, before Liu Si opened his mouth, someone told the truth:
"Sun Jinglue, you and His Royal Highness Qi swept the trap, immigrated to Shibian, and gave us a bunch of mud legs. We will all remember the kindness of you and His Royal Highness Qi."

"Yes! Remember all of them!"

When the very simple thoughts were uttered, Sun Chuanting had mixed feelings and felt a sore nose.

"Is the tax in Luochuan County overcharged?"

Sun Chuanting knew that taxes were raised, but he wanted to know how far corrupt officials can go...

It was just his words that made Liu Si and the others look at each other in blank dismay, and finally Liu Si had no choice but to stand up and say:
"Jinglue, we don't know if the tax has been overcharged, and we don't know what tax we need to pay. It's just that the subordinates came to ask us to pay the food, and we paid it."

"How much food do I have to pay each year? What about the land granted by the court?" Sun Chuanting's mood fell into a trough, and Liu Si just replied:
"Every year, the subordinate officials asked us to pay three dou of land tax per mu, and seven dou of rice for fire consumption. The imperial court gave us three mu of land, and each household got more than ten mu of land, but they also had to pay more than ten stone fields. .”

"I can still live on these days, but Tianqi's five years of white disasters, six years of severe droughts, seven years of severe droughts, and eight years of severe droughts this year have long exhausted the grain reserves of every household."

"Since seven years ago, some people have sold the land to the gentry who were approved by the government to buy land, and sold the land to pay taxes. Up to now, there is no land to sell, no food to eat, and the only way to rebel..."

"Didn't the imperial court issue food stamps and ask the Yellow River to be sorted out with labor relief?" the officials couldn't help asking, but Liu Si said:
"General, look at our appearance, do we look like we have food stamps?"

"That's right, the imperial court issued food stamps, but the food stamps were issued only once. The corrupt officials Han Chao and the others saw that Nanzhen Fusi's investigation was not strict, so they began to bribe Nanzhen Fusi Jin Yiwei and Huangdian eunuchs, and finally sent All food stamps will be withheld and replaced with food."

"As for work in lieu of relief, there is no wages for combing the Yellow River. The corrupt official Han Chao said that the imperial court issued corvee. We not only have to bring farm tools to comb, but also need to prepare our own food."

"If Jinglue and the general don't believe it, they can send someone to the county government office to see how many food stamps are piled up in the county government office."

Every word and every word is appalling... Neither Sun Chuanting nor Guan Fumin thought that it has been eight years since the apocalypse, and there are still people who are so rampant.

"His Highness is very concerned about the drought and has sent people to northern Shaanxi many times. Haven't you talked about these things with the officials who passed by?" Guan Fumin Yu Xin couldn't bear to ask.

"We want to say it, but how should we say it?" Liu Si and the others said, tears welling up from their eyes:

"The corrupt official Han Chao and others learned that there was an official inspection in advance, so they distributed food stamps and food ten days in advance, and drove all the men and women in the county to comb the Yellow River, leaving only the old and weak children at home."

"Some officials came to inspect, and they also sent people to follow. Anyone who tried to file a complaint was arrested that night and tortured to death."

"We are so hungry that we can't stand it, otherwise we wouldn't do such a rebellious thing."

What Liu Si said shocked Sun Chuanting. He didn't expect the county magistrates in one place to be so greedy.

Allied with the gentry to forcibly plunder the common people's fields, and regarded the regulations issued by the Qi Wangfu "no trading in military garrison fields" as waste paper.

Imposing taxes on rice consumption, and soliciting rumors about food stamps, what is even more frightening is that they were able to know that the Qi Palace sent people to inspect ten days in advance.

Even Sun Chuanting couldn't know about this kind of method, or he, Sun Chuanting, never thought of doing it like this.

How can they know?Naturally, I learned about it through the people of Huangdian and Jinyiwei.

Among Liu Si and the others, Sun Chuanting only felt that the crimes of Han Chao and the others were unspeakable, and that peeling their skins and filling them with grass was already an advantage to them.

"What are you guilty of..."

After listening to the words of Liu Si and others, Sun Chuanting sighed and felt a little confused for a while, but at this time, the official Fumin asked something that should not be asked:

"Didn't the officials from Yanshan report these people?"

In a word, let Sun Chuanting regain his confidence, because although the number of officials in Yanshan is small, they mainly serve as officials of the military and horse department and the Ministry of Punishment, and officials of the Dali Temple in the county government.

With them around, it stands to reason that the corrupt official Han Chao and the others couldn't have gone so far.

However, Liu Si's words immediately made Guan Fumin and Sun Chuanting's hands and feet cold.

"Yes! There are many officials in Yanshan and many adults have learned about our affairs, and then they are going to join the school."

"But that night, several adults who advocated Shangshu disappeared, and we attacked the county because we knew about it!"

For just a moment, Sun Chuanting and Guan Fumin looked at each other subconsciously.

It was obviously late spring, but they felt cold hands and feet.

Disappearing is a nice way of saying it, but it's actually a way of saying it...

Both of them understood that this matter was probably not simply a matter of official corruption. Dare to kill Yanshan officials, this is almost stepping on the face of the Qi Palace.

You must know that Yanshan officials were mainly dispatched to Nanzhili and Zhejiang, but no one in Nanzhili and Zhejiang dared to kill Yanshan officials. Instead, this happened in Weibei, Shaanxi.

"Find! Find the missing Yanshan officials first!"

Sun Chuanting gritted his teeth and opened his mouth, and the officials and civilians immediately bowed in response.

Immediately afterwards, Sun Chuanting said to Liu Si and the others: "What you have done is reasonable, even if His Royal Highness Qi Wang knew it, he would forgive you, then Han Chao should be killed!"

When he said a word, Liu Si and others immediately knelt down, and Sun Chuanting also comforted him:

"I have already ordered people to transport [-] shi of grain from Xi'an Prefecture to the north. When you arrive in four days, you should take the people to share the grain and go home first. Later, the imperial court will send clean and honest officials to take over Luochuan County."

"Thank you Jinglue for not killing me!"

Liu Si and the others slammed their heads heavily, knocking their foreheads full of loess, and after Sun Chuanting helped them up, he ordered someone to settle them properly.

He led troops to take over Luochuan County, and the situation in Luochuan County was the same as what Liu Si and others said.

Soldiers, magistrates, yamen servants, and clerks were not harmed. Only the subordinate officials who worked under Han Chao were hunted down, while the fourteen Yanshan officials who had taken refuge in Han Chao, as well as the eunuchs of the Imperial Store and Jin Yiwei were killed by Liu. Four, they were detained in the dungeon in Luochuan County.

Sitting in the county office, Sun Chuanting looked at the white paper and the ink pen in his hand, not knowing how to write for a moment.

The matter in Weibei is too complicated, not only Nanzhen Fusi is involved, but also Huangdian, local officials, and even Yanshan officials are corrupt and Yanshan officials are killed, and local officials are corrupt...

If this matter is played up, it may become a case even bigger than the "Three Niangzi Case".

How should I write?This is something Sun Chuanting needs to be cautious about.

"Strategy!"

Footsteps could be heard outside the study, and when Sun Chuanting looked up, he saw Guan Fumin walking in, bowing to each other and saying:

"Liu Si and others returned the money looted from Han Chao's gentry's home, totaling more than [-] taels of silver and more than [-] acres of land."

"In addition..." At this point, Guan Fumin hesitated for a moment before continuing:
"The six missing Yanshan officials have been found. Although Han Chao didn't kill them, he locked them in the dungeon and they have been rescued."

"It's easier to handle..." Sun Chuanting breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the six missing Yanshan officials were not dead.

However, the anger in Sun Chuanting's heart was ignited again for the silver and land that the people looted from Han Chao and the gentry's homes.

Luochuan County has only [-] people, and the county's land is only [-] mu, while the military farm should have more than [-] mu of land, but now the gentry have more than [-] mu of land, almost the entire county's land in their hands.

Such corrupt officials and powerful gentry, it is against human nature not to kill them!
Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting also knew how to write this memorial...

(End of this chapter)