Iron blood Suiming

At the beginning, the common people didn't understand it, but when they understood it, the people in the whole Jinan Prefecture were shocked.Yesterday, when the prices of various stores rose, the people immediately panicked, especially the people who had no land and relied on money to buy food. The increase in grain, oil, rice, noodles and salt would make the people tremble.

Yesterday afternoon, when the prices of various shops increased, it immediately attracted a wave of panic buying from the common people, but the prices of each shop went up, and the purchase of things was restricted instead.If you want to buy rice, you can only buy [-] catties at a time, and you won't sell any extra catties.And the guys said that the price has to go up, and if Jinan Mansion is sealed off, it will have to be multiplied at least several times in the end.

Many people were so anxious that their hearts were burning. Although each family had food for a few days, they could only eat it for a few days. No one had so much money to buy more food for storage.People buy as much as they earn, and it is impossible to save some money.

So most of the people are ready to join the battle with the whole family, and will continue to line up tomorrow.But I didn't expect that it would take so long. Lingshanwei's soldiers were all over the city to arrest people, and all of them were shop owners who raised prices.Seeing the entire families of those gentry and wealthy merchants being captured by Lingshanwei soldiers, the common people applauded and said, the governor is really a good official who loves the people, and this is to make decisions for our people.

The common people thought that Li Jianguo had the entire family of these gentry and rich merchants arrested in order to force them to lower their prices, so all of them were beaming with joy.

After two hours of chaos, 53 gentry and rich merchants with a total of 630 six people were arrested and sent to the Chasi Yamen to wait for trial, and none of them escaped.

More than 200 servants who resisted arrest were beaten to death alone. The soldiers of the Lingshan Guard brutally loaded the corpses into the car and transported them away. The blood was still wet dripping down the car. It was scary to watch.In order to prevent the owner from being at home, his family property will be stolen by servants and maids.For each household, ten soldiers were left to guard the [-]th household to prevent property loss.

"Boom, boom."

"Listen, people from all households. Governor Li has an order. The procurator will immediately start a trial for violating the order, raising prices arbitrarily, and disrupting people's livelihood. If anyone is willing to watch the trial, he can immediately go to the procuratorate. Si Yamen."

"Boom, boom."

"Everyone..."

Every street, every alley.There are yachamen who shouted all over the world with gongs, informing the people to go to watch the trial.After a while, the gate of the Procuratorate of Tixing was full of onlookers.On the third floor of the Deyue Tower facing the yamen of the procuratorate for punishment, Master Kong and Master Wang sat on a table by the window, looking at the 630 people who were bound and kneeling at the gate of the procuratorate for criminal punishment.There was also the pitiful cry of grievances that kept shouting, which made Master Wang break out in a cold sweat.

Master Wang tremblingly said: "Master Kong, thanks to you. If you hadn't helped me, now my whole family is here too."

Master Kong's complexion was not good-looking, and he said lightly: "I can't take credit for this. It is your good fortune to escape this calamity. This Li Guo is really cruel. As long as he is in Shandong for a day, we have to go around. "

Master Wang nodded again and again, and said: "What you said is that you have to go around. Mr. Kong. You said, the new wounded governor will really kill all these people and their families?"

Master Kong tapped his finger on the table and said, "It's hard to say, it's okay to kill, beat, let go, or lock up. What I'm most afraid of now is that he really dares to kill so many people." gone."

Master Wang sighed, and said: "The Ming Dynasty is really unlucky, why did such a evil star appear in Ludi, and we will have a hard time in the future."

Before he could finish his sentence, nearly [-] yamen servants came out of the yamen of the procuratorate to set up a hall on the spot in the reserved space.

Master Kong took a deep breath, and said: "The show is on, Master Wang, if the governor really kills all the gentry and wealthy businessmen, you can choose to join Mr. Li Guoli, follow him, and you will not lose money. If he hadn't killed all the gentry and rich businessmen, you just wait and see what happens, and do your business honestly, and you won't lose money."

Master Wang seemed to understand but half understood, opened his old eyes and said, "Okay, Mr. Kong, I will listen to you."

"Tom tom tom..." The shocking big drum kept beating. Amidst the sound of the drum, Guan Ming, dressed in the uniform of a procurator for the third-rank punishment, walked up to the court majesticly. He was about to take his seat when he heard the sound of a gong. There were two flags appearing first, Guan Ming was startled, and shouted: "Governor Li is here, kneel down quickly to meet him." He hurriedly ran to the case and knelt down on the ground. They were all so frightened that they knelt down to meet him, not daring to raise their heads.

I only heard the sound of gongs approaching slowly. It was thirteen gongs.Some daring peeps saw the evasion card, the quiet card, the official title card, iron chains, wooden sticks, black sheath whips, gourds, tail guns, black fans, yellow umbrellas, etc. coming out one by one, and some understanding people thought to themselves: " This is the governor's guard of honor, and a thief is a thief, and he doesn't even know how to use a guard of honor." But if you let him jump up and call Li Guo a traitor, you use the guard of honor wrongly, and you wouldn't dare to kill eight generations of his ancestors.

Li Jianguo didn't take a sedan chair, but rode a horse to the front of the hall slowly, and the soldiers who opened the way shouted: "Governor Li Daren is here."

Li Jianguo jumped off his horse, wearing a newly made governor's uniform, he was extremely majestic, he stepped forward, Guan Ming and others hurriedly bowed to the ground to salute.Li Kaiguo waved his hand and said, "Guan Ming, I came here just to hear the trial, you will be promoted."

Said that the soldiers moved a chair, and asked Li Kaiguo to sit on the left.Guan Ming responded loudly, and immediately got up and went up to the hall.Countless people peeked at Li Kaiguo, and saw that he was not yet thirty, and he looked upright, wearing an official uniform, and looked full of official authority. The one to the left, the glory of the chief judge Guan Ming was completely suppressed by him. up.

Amidst the prestige of the hall, some people commented in a low voice: "Our Lord Governor is really young."

"Yeah, he's too young. I don't know if he dares to really offend the gentry."

"Definitely dare. If not, why would the governor raid the house and fill the house with people? This is a deadly offense. Even if these gentry are acquitted now, it will be a death feud."

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Li Jianguo silently listened to the voices of the common people that he should not have heard, smiled sinisterly, and then looked at the six members of 630 who looked at him with hatred.

After Tang Wei finished shouting, Guan Ming slammed the table and shouted: "Bring all the prisoners from Cao, Liu, Li, and Zhao to the court."

Immediately, more than 100 government servants rushed into the crowd of tightly bound prisoners.According to the list, there are a total of 83 members of the four families. From the old man to the newborn baby, everyone mourns and cries, which is unspeakable.

As soon as Mr. Cao entered the court, he yelled: "Why are you arresting my whole family? Why are you arresting my whole family?" He led the three masters Liu, Li, and Zhao to follow suit, and his sons also yelled. It was a mess.

Guan Ming was furious, immediately dropped the fire stick, and shouted: "Roar to the court. Twenty slaps." Immediately, a large team of government servants came out, holding torture tools, and lashed at the crowd of shouters.At this time, Li Jianguo was still watching in the hall, no one dared to show mercy, and the twenty blows were all over.At least dozens of big teeth were removed.

After the draw, the hall suddenly fell silent.The men from Cao, Liu, Li, and Zhao's families only cared about enduring the pain.I dare not open my mouth to speak again.

Guan Ming snorted, and said to the person beside him, "Is the prisoner checked correctly?"

"That's right, my lord. There are a total of 83 members of the four families, all of whom are in the hall."

Guan Ming slapped the gavel suddenly, and shouted: "Cao, Liu, Li, and Zhao, you four are in Jinan Prefecture. There are 83 stores in total. Since yesterday, the prices of the items sold in your store have increased by [-]% .Can you admit it?"

Cao, Liu, Li, and Zhao shouted together: "It's absolutely nothing, we didn't raise the price." They had wounds on their mouths, but it was a matter of life and death. Instead, they endured the severe pain and said clearly, Will never admit it now.

Guan Ming said angrily: "Okay, if you really didn't pay the price, I will release you according to the law. Ruoer, as long as there is a shop that violates the order of my governor, the whole family will be killed. Come on, tell the names of the shops of these four big families." Read it for all the people to listen to, as long as ten people come forward to testify that you wait for the store to raise prices, don't blame this official for being ruthless."

Hearing this, Cao, Liu, Li, and Zhao's four families all turned pale. They didn't expect that Guan Ming would do this. Isn't it easy to find ten people?

On the sidelines, he immediately read out the names of 83 shops to the people, and just when he read the name of the first shop, 'Dayuan Oil Factory', dozens of people shouted: "The price has increased, the price of this oil factory has increased!" gone."

Guan Ming was taken aback, he thought that the common people would not dare to come forward, and he planned to wait until the name of the shop was finished, and then use some means to provoke the common people to come forward to testify. Unexpectedly, the common people in Shandong are so strong, there are dozens of people in the first place To testify, he immediately ordered someone to bring him to the court.

Dozens of people came to the hall, and Master Cao immediately shouted: "Ye Fucheng, you have a grudge against my master. Mr. Guan, he has a grudge against me. The testimony of him and his disciples cannot be counted."

Guan Ming nodded, and asked Ye Fucheng, "Do you really have a grudge against him?"

Ye Fucheng knelt down on the ground with dozens of apprentices, and said: "My lord, the villain does have a grudge against him, but he did increase the price of the oil shop by [-]% yesterday."

Guan Ming shook his head and said, "Since you admit that you have a grudge, your testimony cannot be counted. Go to court."

Ye Fucheng stood up and said: "My lord, the testimony of a villain cannot be counted, but the villain can let the common people who dare not speak come out to testify, please allow me."

Guan Ming was amazed and said: "Okay, I will allow you to try." Master Cao shouted: "No, no." But it can be stopped there.

Ye Fucheng walked in front of the crowd, and before he opened his mouth, dozens of people shouted in the crowd: "Brother Ye San, I would like to testify." He walked out of the crowd while speaking.Dozens of ordinary people had just taken two steps, and hundreds of ordinary people shouted: "Brother Ye, I am willing to testify." In a blink of an eye, hundreds of ordinary people came out and knelt down in the hall.

Ye Fucheng laughed loudly, and said: "Master Cao, I have a grudge against you. These people have no grudge against you. Some of them are your neighbors and some are your shop assistants. You know many of them. They come out to testify, and you are convinced." Yes or no?"

Master Cao pointed at these people, his hands trembling like eighty-year-olds, and shouted: "You... you... are so poisonous."

Li Jianguo, who was sitting on the sidelines listening to the trial, looked at Ye Fucheng with incomparable dignity in his eyes, and shouted, "Ye Fucheng, why do they call you third brother?"

When Ye Fucheng heard Li Kaiguo's question, he didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly knelt down on the ground, saying: "Little people are three, and they are easy to fight against injustices on weekdays. Some people who have received small favors are called the third brother of the villain."

Li Jianguo asked a person next to him, "Is there any information about Ye Fucheng?" The secretary at the side took out a booklet, flipped through it, and read: "Ye Fucheng, male, 33 years old, from Jinan, is the leader of the local labor gang , on weekdays, he is good at fighting for justice, and he is known as Ye Sange. There is no record of bad deeds."

When Ye Fucheng heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't expect that the government actually had his information.He didn't know that this booklet was left by the Jinyi Guard of Jinan Prefecture, but was confiscated by the Lingshan Guard.The above records the detailed situation of the big and small forces in Jinan Prefecture, and can quickly understand the snakes, insects, rats and ants in Jinan City.

Li Jianguo smiled slightly, and said: "Since Jin Yiwei's record does not contain your bad deeds, then your testimony is credible. Guan Ming, you continue the trial."

Guan Ming knows.What Li Jianguo did was to erect majesty.really.Seeing that Li Jianguo was able to produce information about a commoner at will, all the commoners and officials present felt that Li Jianguo was mysterious, and they were a little more afraid.

Guan Ming said: "Yes, my lord. As a matter of fact, you will simply read out the names of all the 140 shops and let the people listen. Those shops have raised prices. Come, bring the rest of the prisoners." The yamen servants were ordered to bring all the other 500 people to the court.

He quickly finished reading the names of 140 seven shops, and he read each name.Many people fell to their knees and shouted: "I will testify that the price of this store has indeed increased."

After the 83 shops finished reading, all the people present fell to their knees and were willing to testify.Cao, Liu, Li, Zhao and other gentry families all collapsed to the ground in fright. They knew that this was retribution.On weekdays, they are gentlemen, and they often do bad things in the Jinan mansion. Bullying men and women, rape, rape and robbery are trivial matters.

These gentry are rich and famous, and there are people in the court. No matter what they do, as long as they spend a little money, with the integrity of Ming officials, what's wrong with it?

The only reason why Li Jianguo wanted to attack the gentry was to win the hearts of the people.He actually understood very well in his heart that such a thing as a gentry is just something that is promoted by others. No matter who it is, with power and money, it is easy to be a gentry.Even if he kills all the current gentry, as long as he finds respectable people in various families, with some money and small rights, he can immediately win out gentry who support him.

That's why he attacked these gentlemen who didn't listen to him so hard.Killing the former governor of Shandong was killing chickens for monkeys, and killing these current gentry is also killing chickens for monkeys. He wants to let the world know that he, Li Jianguo, has the means to punish those who don't listen to him.

Master Kong and Master Wang looked at the kneeling people, both of them were afraid.Master Kong can be sure that if he also participates this time, the reputation of the Kong family will not save the lives of his family.This Li Guo is the most ruthless person in the world, compared to the legendary Zhang Xianzhong who killed people like hemp, Li Guo is even more vicious.

Zhang Xianzhong killed people because he wanted to kill, but Li Guo killed people because he chose to kill people. He not only killed people, but also killed people with his heart.

Kill all the damned people present, kill the hearts of all the people.Although the damned person died in remorse before he died, the people also dedicated their hearts to Li Jianguo and helped Li Jianguo to kill.Both kills are kills, but they have completely different results.

Master Kong looked at Li Jianguo in the distance, and murmured: "A real dragon emerges in troubled times." The Master Wang at the side didn't hear clearly, and asked, "Master Kong, what did you say?" Master Kong shook his head and said: "Come on, if it's as expected, these 600 people will be killed at the entrance of Caishi at noon tomorrow."

Sure enough, Guan Ming's verdict came from outside the building: "You guys blatantly disobeyed the governor's order, disregarded the livelihood of the people, and maliciously increased the price of the things that were sold by 53% without authorization. What you did was no different from killing people. According to the decree, the judge pronounced the sentence, sentencing 630 families including you, a total of [-] six people, to beheading, because the crime is too heinous, it will not wait for the autumn sentence, and will be executed according to the law at Caishikou at noon tomorrow, and we will leave the court.”

Master Wang was shocked when he heard the verdict, and shouted: "The six people in 630, as well as children and babies, just killed them like this? Is this Li Guo still human?"

Master Kong said indifferently: "It's common for those who achieve great things to kill and eat meat, butcher women and babies. Listen to what the people outside think?" There was a loud shout from the people outside : "My lord is wise, your lord governor is a good official..."

Master Wang's eyes were bulging, he couldn't imagine that people could be so cruel, he thought about it, and almost vomited.

Master Kong patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You still have some conscience, which is why you escaped unharmed. You can rest assured to seek refuge in Li Guo. If as expected, before tomorrow's execution, among the 630 six people, Men above the age of 80 and below the age of 15, as well as female family members, will be spared death by the governor's mercy."

Hearing this, Master Wang’s expression was not only displeased, but rather sad, and he sighed: “Master Kong, I just realized that I have lived in the stomach of a dog for more than 40 years. If tomorrow is as you said, I will Just go and seek refuge with the governor, for nothing else but for the lives of my family." Master Kong smiled slightly, went downstairs and walked away.

Master Wang also left with his family. After the two of them left, a person was writing the last stroke in a room next to him. That night, the report written by this person was placed in front of Li Jianguo.

After reading the report, Li Jianguo took a deep breath and murmured: "The Kong family is so powerful. No wonder they can survive for thousands of years." That Master Kong is just an old man, but he guessed his actions completely. Such a person is worthy of his three words 'so powerful'.Li Jianguo also had no intention of recruiting Master Kong to work for him. If such a person is willing to work for him, he does not need to invite him.If you don't want to, even if you invite him, it will be a disaster rather than a blessing. (To be continued..)