Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 199 0194 [Killing Blood]

Wang Tian and Bai Sheng entered through the North City Gate, the closest distance to the county government office, and went straight to the back door of the county government office.

The back door was also blocked by more than a dozen rogues, Wang Tian shouted: "Arrest people, and those who dare to resist arrest or run away will be killed on the spot!"

It is true that the county magistrate only has the power of final judgment on the punishment of staff, but he has blocked the county government for a long time, and it is not wrong to charge him with rebellion, let alone dare to resist arrest.

Dozens of villages are young and strong, trying to surround those rogues on horseback.

When Poppi saw this, he immediately ran away, and Bai Sheng chased after him and shot him in the back of a fleeing gangster.

The rest of the young and strong don't know to be afraid, especially the security chief and deputy security chief inside. They are usually responsible for defending the village, and they have more or less seen blood.Immediately take their own villagers, and kill them as soon as they catch up, leaving no room for attack.

Wang Tian felt chills in his vest, he was just asking to arrest people, but in a blink of an eye, more than a dozen gangsters were beaten to death on the spot.

The folk customs here are too aggressive!
Not only are there many thieves, but also good people are not easy to mess with.

To collect taxes at ordinary times, we can only borrow the power of the great clan, hold high the banner of the imperial court, and oppress the good.

Especially with buying money, the tax targets are all landlords, and it is difficult for the government to collect in full.Often the big clans are asked to express their views first, and the rest of the landlords are guided to give money and food, and then half of the big clan's and purchase money is reduced or exempted.

Later, I didn't bother to pretend, and there were always one or two big families in each county, and the county magistrate applied to the court, and the special approval and purchase money were halved, and gradually formed a practice.

It takes a lot of courage for the local officials on Jingdong Road to dare to attack the big clan.

"Go around to the gate of the county government office, and I will report to the prefect through the back door!" Wang Tian ordered.

Bai Sheng nodded: "Okay!"

Wang Tian rode in through the back door on horseback, passed through the backyard of the county government office, and went straight to the lobby of the county government office: "The prefect, fortunately, I did not disgrace my order, and brought back more than 60 people, all of whom can ride horses."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Zhu Ming got up and went out with the top chair, and sat down again at the door, and asked, "Who is in charge? Come forward and talk!"

Gao Huaguang took a few steps forward: "I took the lead."

Zhu Ming asked, "What do you want to do?"

Gao Huaguang said: "Sun Dutou abides by the law and loves the people, but he was arrested yesterday. I want to be fair and ask the prefect to let Sun Dutou go."

"You don't even pretend? Just let him go?" Zhu Ming was really shocked.

Unscrupulous!
This is tantamount to not giving any face, not even leaving a step.He almost pointed at Zhizhou's nose and ordered Zhizhou to be obedient.

"Da da da da!"

Zhu Ming had already heard the sound of horseshoes, it was Bai Sheng who brought people around.

Gao Huaguang naturally heard the voice, and subconsciously turned his head to look.Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a bright light out of the corner of his eye, but before he could react, his head flew high, and blood spurted out from his neck like a fountain.

The head of the Fresh Clothes Society, the boss of the underworld in Lei Ze County, just died without warning.

Moreover, Zhu Ming had a sharp sword in his hand. After cutting off his head with one sword, Gao Huaguang's headless corpse continued to stand for a second before falling down.

Zhu Ming raised his sword and shouted angrily: "Gao Huaguang, the head of the Xianyi Society, gathered bandits and stormed the county government, intending to rebel. Now that Gao Huaguang has been executed, if you continue to resist, you will be punished as rebellion!"

"Murder!"

"Brother Gao is dead, run!"

"Kill the dog officer and avenge Brother Gao!"

Most of the two to 300 people at the scene belonged to the lower-level members of the underworld, and there were even hooligans who were temporarily brought in to make up the number.

In their eyes, Gaohuaguang is the sky.

The sky has been pierced, and the Sun family is covering it. We have people in the court.

Are prefectures, county magistrates, and magistrates count as farts?

In the third year of Song Zhenzong's Xianping period, bandits in Puzhou rebelled.Wang Shouxin, the magistrate of Puzhou, and Wang Zhaodu, the superintendent of the pacification army, were directly tied up by thieves who sneaked into the city.If it gets bigger, isn't it a matter of recruiting security?

Today, the sky is falling.

About 200 or [-] die-hard elements grabbed sticks and charged at Zhu Ming, clamoring to avenge the boss.The remaining more than [-] people immediately dispersed, fearing that they would also be caught and beheaded.

The reason why Bai Sheng came rushing with the cavalry was so neat.

There are countless people watching the excitement nearby, and they are also scared to flee at this moment.Because Bai Sheng has already rushed over, as long as it is blocking the road, no matter what his status is, even ordinary people can be killed.

Of course, keep a sense of proportion.

Those who don't have weapons in their hands are basically just fighting.

"Kneel by the side of the road and don't kill, kneel by the side of the road and don't kill!" Bai Sheng shouted as he charged.

The little minions were killed by Bai Sheng and fled, but the more than 20 diehards lost their minds and rushed straight to Zhu Ming.They didn't bring sharp knives, but just held sticks. They charged in a disorderly manner, just wanting to beat Zhu Ming to death with sticks.

Zhu Ming casually threw the top chair to Deng Chun, and Deng Chun picked up the folded top chair and swept away the army.

A few sticks hit Deng Chun's body, but the guy ignored him and just smashed around with his chair.

The four male sumo wrestlers married by the Zheng family also rushed forward to protect their master.Sumo wrestling in the Song Dynasty was not the Japanese kind of sumo wrestling. It was more like a free fight with wrestling as the main part and beating as the supplementary part.They were the figures of Mongolian wrestlers. They rushed up to grab people with sticks on their shoulders, and they grabbed their sleeves and beat them repeatedly.

"Hurry up and protect the prefect!"

Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian were stupefied. They didn't expect Zhu Ming to be so strong-handed. After realizing it, they ordered the archers to help.

Many archers hesitated, only a few people stepped forward to fight.

Without their help at all, Zhu Ming held a sword, and under the cover of Deng Chun and the sumo wrestlers, he almost knocked down one of them with one blow.

Only three people were killed, and more than 20 hardliners couldn't handle it.He no longer wanted to avenge the boss, turned around and ran away, and Zhu Ming chopped down two more with his sword, and the rest chose to kneel down and beg for mercy.

Bai Sheng can't command those young and strong, so he can only play freely at this moment.

It is often a security chief, with four or five young and strong, riding horses to chase down those who do not want to kneel down and capture them.

After some pursuit, counting the dead at the back door of the county government office, 258 people were captured and 35 people were killed on the spot.After a simple identification, more than 40 onlookers were ordered to be released without charge by Ju Ming.There are still a few unlucky people who were killed by mistake, so they really can only consider themselves unlucky.

"Is the prefect injured?" Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian hurriedly asked.

Zhu Ming was covered in blood, but it was the blood of other people. He glared at the archers who were watching from the sidelines, and said with a sneer, "The eunuch was attacked by thieves, but you and the others ignored it. They must have colluded with the thieves. Put down your weapons immediately and arrest them." Prison awaiting trial!"

Li Bao and Wei Dian had already entered the city, together with Bai Sheng and Qing Zhuang on horseback, they surrounded the archers.

"Excuse me, eunuch!"

"We were also forced, how dare we go against the Sun family?"

"The prefect is merciful!"

The archers were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Zhizhou struck too hard, they were really scared.

The magistrate of Jingdong Road, the imperial court acquiesced in using illegal means.According to Su Shi's statement, it is "responsibility based on the outline and minor faults", as long as the thieves can be punished, it doesn't matter if the procedure is violated.

And there is also the method of sitting together.The thieves themselves would not be sent to Hebei, because they were afraid that they would escape and they would be sent directly to Guangnan.The family members of the thieves (close relatives of the house) will be distributed five hundred miles away.If someone denounces a thief, half of the money from the thief's family will be rewarded to the informant after the report is confirmed.

Zhu Ming shouted, "Since you are being persecuted, are you willing to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds?"

"Yes, yes!" The archers nodded hastily.

Zhu Ming said: "Interrogate these archers and thieves separately, and testify about the troubled places of the Sun family!"

"Yes!" Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian took orders.

Zhu Ming then said to the clerks and subordinates: "Would you be willing to take your crimes and make meritorious service?"

These officials are too deeply involved with the local big clan, but Zhizhou is arresting and killing people, so they can only bite the bullet and cooperate.

Geng Dingchen, the chief bookkeeper, was trembling with fright. The magistrate only let civil officials, soap officials, and archers perform crimes and meritorious deeds, and only issued orders to magistrates and county magistrates. It seemed that he was completely forgotten.

So if it is true that he colluded with thieves, he will definitely be able to save his life as a civil servant, but how can he have a future in the future?He just wants to cling to the Cai party, but it is not the real Cai party, and no one will stand up to protect him at that time.

Gritting his teeth, Geng Dingchen bowed his head and said, "The governor, Rong Zhi, is going to report the Sun family's illegal activities. And the Sun family humiliated the county magistrate, threatened his life, and forced his niece to get married!"

"It's really rare for Master Geng to kill relatives righteously. Let's go to interrogate the thieves together." Zhu Ming smiled satisfied.

All literate county government officials will participate in the interrogation, separate trials and cross-trials.

The speed of interrogation was extremely fast, and more than 200 prisoners were interrogated in just one day and one night.Those guys bit each other, saying that they were forced, and put the blame on the dead.There are also people who, in order to cover their crimes and make meritorious deeds, confessed all kinds of illegal activities of the Sun family, and confessed that they colluded with certain officials.

Zhu Ming got a good night's sleep, then went to the prison himself, and spent six hours going through all the confessions.

Then he called the officials, scribes, soap officials and archers, and put two braziers under his feet.

Zhu Ming picked up a few confessions, smiled and looked at the director Geng Dingchen.

Geng Dingchen was apprehensive, anxiously waiting for his release.

"These confessions are fake at first glance, does Mr. Geng think so?" Zhu Ming asked.

Geng Dingchen said: "The eunuch knows clearly."

Zhu Ming threw the confession into the brazier without any hassle. Geng Dingchen watched the paper burn to ashes, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up straight.

Zhu Ming glanced at the officials again, no one dared to breathe heavily wherever his eyes passed.

One after another, they were thrown into the brazier and burned.

In the end, less than one-tenth of them remained. Zhu Ming handed it to Cao Yuangui and said, "Catch them."

Cao Yuangui took it over and inspected it carefully, and then shouted: "Sun Guang, the jailer, corrupted the law, colluded with bandits, bullied men and women, and arrested him immediately!"

"Take it!" Wei Dian has officially made the capital.

Cao Yuangui also said: "Scholar Qian Heqian, who corrupted the law and colluded with bandits, should be arrested immediately!"

"Take it!" Wei Dian shouted again.

This is to cleanse the influence of the Qiansun family in the county government, but it will not deal with all of them, and some officials must be left to do things.As long as the involvement is not deep and you are not a core member, not only will you forget the past, but you can also be promoted because of it.

The archers also dealt with some of them, and Zhu Ming asked the remaining archers to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds to arrest the family members of the guilty officials.To put it bluntly, it is to vote for a certificate. They have offended the Qian and Sun families, and they can only work with the government from now on.

As long as the knife is hard enough and there is enough room, it can strike, divide, pull together, and smash the iron plate into pieces in an instant.

When Zhu Ming left the prison of the county government, Cao Yuangui said with emotion: "The prefect is really not afraid of making things big. Dozens of people have been killed in this attack. I am afraid that there will be hundreds of people who will be exiled in the army. Such a big case, The state court is no longer in control, and it will definitely alert the Criminal Division."

But Wang Tian said excitedly: "No matter what, it's very refreshing. The subordinate officials and the rich in this county treated us as clay bodhisattvas, and paid a lot of miscellaneous taxes. Most of them went into their pockets. How are we county magistrates? We are watchdogs Ah! It’s better to be a dog to the eunuch than to be a dog to these Xiao Xiaoxiao.”

Cao Yuangui said: "Beware of thieves sneaking into the county and setting fire!"

"Yes, Sun and Qian's family may be in a hurry!" Wang Tian said seriously.

(End of this chapter)