I'm really not doing business

Chapter 553 I am Tiqi, how could I lie to others?

There are 604 polders in Baoding Prefecture, and there are 604 polder owners. Lin Fucheng listed the situation of these 604 polder owners in detail.

Zhu Yijun had a complete version of the interview in his hand. Lin Fucheng could not write about the government-forced rebellion, so he could only list it all. The reason why he wrote it down in a small notebook was to prevent himself from forgetting, and this small notebook was transferred to Huang In the hands of the young master.

Zhu Yijun gave it to Cui Min, the internal eunuch, and asked Cui Min to conduct some data analysis. The internal eunuch was originally in charge of accounting, so doing data analysis was part of his job... right?

After several months of Tiqi's investigation and supplementation, these 604 Wei main households were finally classified.

Cui Min, the internal money eunuch, divided them into four categories.

First of all, there are 230 polder households whose crimes are so heinous that even under the extremely tolerant Ming law, they can make enough compost.

The book in Zhu Yijun's hand has detailed records of how these 230 village owners started their business, how they became village owners, what kind of bad habits they have, how they harshly criticize those in the village, and what their current situation is.

The Yan family in Qizhou is just one of them, just one thing.

Of the 230 heinous companies, only about 30 do not have gambling houses, or Tiqi has not investigated the gambling houses belonging to them. The remaining 200 families all operate gambling houses in the city. They operate gambling houses, and they themselves I also particularly like gambling.

Chen Mo followed Lin Fucheng to Qizhou, Baoding, and of course he knew that the folk customs here were strong. Chen Mo had five years of experience as a tyrant at Yuanhou, and he also participated in Wang Rulong's battle to regain Kaipingwei. After Chen Mo took the order, he would do a good job In order to prepare for a war, in his opinion, this is counterinsurgency.

It seems that the ratio of 114 households to 604 households is only 18.8%, but the population base of Ming Dynasty is here. The ratio of nearly 230%, plus the wavering households, is definitely enough to stabilize the country.

Fuya brothels mainly buy Yangzhou thin horses, Datong aunts, West Lake boat girls, and Taishan aunts. Among them, Yangzhou thin horses are the most expensive and rarest, and Datong aunts have the most.

The remaining 114 households can be regarded as rural gentry, and these people are not poor. They regard their own polder as their own home. It is unacceptable for them that their hometown is in a mess. , and more than 114 of these 70 households have strong men serving as elite soldiers in the capital camp. This is the basic foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the good family.

For example, these potato seedlings were distributed to the people in all twenty-eight households. These are the potato seedlings given by the emperor to the people. The Ming Emperor was a student of Zhang Juzheng who must retaliate against his will. Rumor has it that His Majesty’s mind is smaller than a needle. Liyang, Jiangsu A wealthy household annexed the wasteland cultivated by Ma Yilong. Later, Gao Qiyu went to Liyang, Jiangsu and ordered it to be returned.

The gambling house is the biggest means of annexation in the entire Baoding Prefecture, and it is also a tool for fighting against each other.

Disrespecting the court's orders and His Majesty's imperial decree, this is no longer a virtuous gentry, not even an evil gentry, or even an ordinary bandit, but a bandit!

Zhu Yijun proved that this was not a rumor.

Chen Mo rested at the Jintai Horse Station on the Guandao Post Road until the early morning of the next day. After Chen Mo had regained his energy, he was ready to move on.

Green rice money means when the rice is still green, and the common people have no surplus grain in their homes, and even the grain they grow has been eaten up, they have no choice but to borrow money from wealthy families. As long as you borrow money, you basically can't escape. From a farmer to a tenant, from a tenant to a refugee.

Chen Mo, the Fusi of the North Town of the Ming Dynasty, was sentenced to death for thousands of households. He appointed Tiqi and planned to go to Qizhou to fulfill His Majesty's holy mandate. While ransacking the Yan family's house in Qizhou, he also investigated the criminals.

The compound is divided into two parts, the east and west. Counting the gardens and landscape, it covers an area of ​​5,000 acres, but Yan's buildings are only inside the polder wall. At a rough look, it only covers 50 acres. The east and west parts of the compound , separated by the middle gate. In front of the gate are two large stone lions squatting. Behind the stone lions are three animal-headed gates, with a gate in the middle and corner gates on both sides.

Some village owners have suffered losses. Their sons were killed by bandits and they were unable to retaliate. If there was a fire at home, it seems that everyone is a troublesome person who wants to harm me. Others are falling down the class, losing everything in gambling houses and all their ancestral graves. No longer have the ability to continue to be domineering.

Coming from gambling houses, there are many losers who lose their wives, children and children;

Where do prostitutes come from? The 230 families who committed the most heinous crime of forcing good girls into prostitution all had rogues, and every household had rogue dealers. The source of their 'supply' was extremely wide.

In addition to gambling houses and banks, there are prostitutes. The operation of brothels is systematic. Usually several brothels share a brothel. Most of them are in county towns. Only the Yan family in Qizhou can be called powerful. Only wealthy and wealthy families are qualified to open a brothel in Fucheng, and there are four brothels in Baoding Prefecture.

People just live their lives, and they are not too harsh. Although they complain about the imperial decrees, they still implement them. It's just that the implementation is not in place. When the father-in-law is cleared, he conceals some information, when he sends out potato seedlings, he secretly deducts some money, and he doesn't gamble. People who dare to gamble big and put out money are afraid that the poor and hardworking people will not be able to make it, and they are not as shameless and shameless as those who are extremely guilty. People who do not want to be forced will have their families broken up and their families destroyed. Every drink and a peck, the cause and effect cycle.

When another family saw this situation, they immediately bought Gao Liji back as a gimmick. For a time, the two families became very popular.

Chen Mo set out at dawn in the morning and arrived at the Yan family compound in Qizhou at just noon.

There were two villagers who lost everything in their family through gambling and lost their wives and children to others.

Xiaoyao Yiwen was published in the morning, and Chen Mo set off in the afternoon. They rode a total of 600 taels, with three horses per person. They traveled day and night to Qizhou. Thanks to the smooth roads, it only took a day and a half. Chen Mo The Tiqi led by them came to the border of Qizhou.

Finally, there are mergers and sales caused by natural and man-made disasters. Some village owners may not have any people, but they still raise people. When disaster comes, people will naturally sell their sons and daughters. People pull rice carts and use the rice. Changed.

The gate was not open, and everyone had to use the corner door to enter and exit. The polder wall was the focus of Chen Mo's observation. This kind of polder wall with a military nature was actually difficult to break through, and it was very likely to cause heavy casualties. Because Tiqi traveled quickly, he did not bring much with him. Lots of heavy firearms.

The entire business of forcing girls into prostitution is run in a systematic manner. Ren Yaxing found the source of goods, selected the good-looking ones, and sold them to prostitutes in the county. The bad-looking ones were sold to poor families to be wives. They called it a blind date. , the prostitutes in the county sent the best girls to the brothels of the government offices.

With the emperor's order and leading the most elite Tiqi in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Mo, who was sentenced to a thousand households, actually decided to sneak attack on a rural gentry in Qizhou. This was not a difficult decision for Chen Mo to make.

There are also money-lending banks and rice banks. Those who cannot repay the money can only use their family members to pay off the debt;

Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty, the tyrant who was still imprisoned at the Meridian Gate before his wedding! The makers of the four major cases, the Confucius Mansion in Yanzhou, all had their people executed by the Ming Emperor! Such a violent emperor has nothing to fear from the village owners!

Some were afraid, mainly because the whole process of clearing up the cadastre in the imperial court showed that the administrative power of the court was recovering. In addition, Anda Khan had declined, and the Ming army became more and more powerful. In short, after much consideration, he closed down his gambling houses and people. In Yaxing, people are becoming more and more cautious about only placing money and food. Some are even timid and don't even dare to come to the door to press for rent.

Using the emperor's good governance to make money, isn't this the same as putting one's nine tribes in front of the Lord of Hell?

The fairies in the brothels are not all from Baoding Prefecture. For example, in the ninth year of Wanli, the Yan family of Qizhou bought three red-haired girls from Songjiang Prefecture, and they immediately became the largest brothel in Baoding Prefecture. Rare things are more valuable. , a red-haired prostitute who is relatively rare in Songjiang Prefecture, and has never been seen in Baoding Prefecture.

In addition to these 230 households that committed extremely serious crimes, there are another households that reformed after the Wanli Reform, or to be precise, after the Qingtian Period. There are many reasons for reforming.

In addition to gambling houses, there are also money banks.

Each of the 230 Wei main households has a money bank and a rice bank. In the countryside, they mainly borrow rice and grow grain. In this process, the Yaxian County Office of Daming Prefecture sent potato seedlings, which also became their conspiracy. It is a sharp tool, and due to disease degradation, potato seedlings need to be cured (passivated at 40° high temperature) and pinched to raise seedlings in the breeding room.

With the help of gambling houses, loan sharks, dental shops, prostitutes and brothels, etc., the owners of the village completed the annexation, and the annexation of the local land could reach more than 80%. The high concentration of the means of production has brought about a relationship of strong personal dependence, so the tenants face There is no way to object to the owners of the polder asking them to compost people.

In addition to committing serious crimes and reforming, there are 230 living people in the household.

The Yan family compound is three miles outside Qizhou City. This is not because the Yan family has no ability to buy land in the city, but because there are 35 people in Qizhou City, a mixed crowd. Living in the city makes life convenient, but some things are not so convenient. For example, curfew, blatant violation of the ban is to step on the face of the imperial officials, such as plague, once the plague breaks out in the city, the water will be drawn from the water house, and the plague will definitely spread.

What surprised Chen Mo was that the capital city was in turmoil, and the ground in Qizhou was quiet, as if nothing had happened. The speed of information transmission these days is indeed very slow, also because the court responded too quickly. Originally It was only when he was ready that Lin Fucheng published it, which was naturally extremely fast.

Did Zhu Yijun's performance not be ruthless enough? Of course not, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The Ming Emperor lives in the ninth heaven and is a heavenly being. Why should these polders be afraid? They have been doing this for so many years, so many of the village owners have done this!

The very least Xu Jie could do was to serve as a fig leaf for Huishan Tang. People and gods were outraged by Huishan Tang's abandoned baby tower, but at least Xu Jie raised all the children who were not deformed. Although the purpose was to sell, he still found a Way to survive.

When Chen Mo arrived, he did not attack easily, nor did he take out the imperial edict and directly knock on the door. Instead, he used a telescope to observe the Yan family compound.

Chen Mo could actually wait for the governor of Baoding to bring over the artillery, but after careful observation, Chen Mo decided to launch a sneak attack.

When he was working as a tyrant in the grassland, he even made a sneak attack on the happy roe deer in order to survive.

The sneak attack on the roe deer on the grassland was to save energy. The sneak attack on Yan's mansion now was also to reduce casualties and conduct a frontal assault. While it was easy for the opponent to defend, it was also possible for the opponent to fight to the death and resist to the death. In order to defend against the polder wall that the captives had invaded, This is what Chen Mo must consider. It is Chen Mo's decision to use a sneak attack to control the opponent's door.

The invasion was already a thing of the 29th year of Jiajing. Thirty-three years have passed so far. Tuman Khan's invasion in the first year of Longqing was mainly in Jimen and Zunhua areas, and it also affected a few Tianjin guards. It did not affect Baoding Prefecture.

After a long period of peace, the Yan family's door in Qizhou is wide open. There is no defense at all. The front door is not particularly lively. This is a mansion, not a gambling house. The Yan family's business is not done in the mansion, most of it is in Qizhou. in town.

The two Tiqiu dressed up in disguise, wearing tops and trousers, and headed towards the gate of the Yan family in Qizhou in a carefree manner.

These two Tiqi are both from Duntai Yuanhou. It is a necessary skill to disguise themselves and sneak into the prison camp to collect information. The two Tiqi are obviously not worthy of entering the gate of Yan Mansion. Soon the two Tiqi There was some verbal conflict with the concierge, and he was kicked out by several servants.

Tiqi did it on purpose. The concierge and servants were cursing. They thought they had driven away the gangsters who came to ask for reward money, so they returned to the house talking and laughing.

At this time, two teams of 20 Tiqi had already approached the gate from both sides amidst the noise. After the concierge and the servants returned to the house, these 20 Tiqi suddenly rushed forward and pinned the concierge down. on the ground.

The reason for the acting was to ensure that the servants would not come to the concierge's position in a short period of time and issue a warning. Obviously, the Tiqi's actions were very successful. After the gate was successfully controlled, the Tiqi began to enter the house, and they caught everyone by surprise. .

The Tiqi led by Chen Mo divided into three teams of thirty people into twenty groups. They started from the gate and began to attack the Yan family mansion. The armored Tiqi were well-trained and cooperated with each other effortlessly. , took control of the entire Yan family compound, and controlled everyone without any casualties.

"Who are you? Go, go, you can break into this place? Tell the kitchen to have dinner later at noon today." Yan Chongyi had just finished smoking the opium, and he was a little dizzy. Looking at Chen Mo's unfamiliar face, he was slightly wary. , but he didn’t take it to heart. There were many poor coolies who wanted to kill him, but none of them succeeded. Chen Mo and Tiqi had already rushed in front of Yan Chongyi. Yan Chongyi didn't even know that he was being visited by a bad visitor.

The Yan family has a big business, but whenever someone plots against the Yan family, they will always know the news in advance, even if it is a bandit, even if it is the court, so Yan Chongyi just treats it as a servant who barged in front of him, and he also treats the noise outside. The servants were noisy and didn't take it seriously.

As long as Yan Chongyi didn't smoke opium, he could tell who the person was from his clothes and armor, but he couldn't care less. He was puffing away, drunk and dreaming.

Chen Mo looked at the study. There were various strange stones, antiques, teapots, and two potted plants on the museum shelves. It was very unique. The bookshelves on both sides of the study were filled with books. The windows of the study were bright and clean, and even made of glass. , but judging from their neatness, the Yan family never reads these books.

Chen Mo has seen His Majesty's study. His Majesty's study is a bit messy.

It’s not that the maids and eunuchs were disrespectful, but that the emperor refused to clean up the items, which looked messy to others, but in Zhu Yijun’s eyes, every item was where it should be.

Once tidied up, Zhu Yijun would not be able to find what he needed. Even if the eunuchs were waiting in front of him, he would have to look for it. Therefore, the imperial desk in the imperial study room seemed messy, and some books still had floating stamps on them. It is a study room in normal use.

Obviously this study room and these books are just for show.

There was another bed in the study, and Yan Chongyi was lying on that bed, puffing away. He was so anxious that he couldn't even wait for time to drive Chen Mo away. Opposite Yan Chongyi was Yan Youli. This opium ball was Yan Youli spent a lot of money to buy it in Songjiang Prefecture. In the ninth year of Wanli, Yan Youli came into contact with this thing for the first time when he went to Songjiang Prefecture to buy Hongmao Fan.

The two maids trembled under Tiqi's sharp knife. They were waiting for the Yan family and his son to finish smoking the opium, and then served them wholeheartedly. However, before the father and son finished smoking, Tiqi came.

The opium seller told Yan Youli that this stuff could aphrodisiac, and Yan Youli immediately bought five opium balls. In fact, this stuff didn't aphrodisiac, it was just a gimmick.

Chen Mo was not in a hurry and carefully looked at the furnishings in the study, waiting for the Tiqi to take control of the entire compound.

Capture the thief first. Capture the king first. When he saw Yan Chongyi and Yan Youli gathering together, Chen Mo knew that the emperor's mission had been completed this time.

Chen Mo stood outside the study and looked at the father and son looking like they were enjoying themselves. He knew that the Yan family would have been defeated even if they had not suffered this fate. Chen Mo had also seen many ponds in Fusi, Beizhen. Retribution, no one who comes into contact with this thing will end well.

It has little to do with money. For ordinary people, two thousand taels of opiate balls are indeed ridiculously expensive, but for some powerful and powerful people, they can still afford it.

The main reason is that opium balls have a physiological destructive effect on people. Once the head of a family is infected, he becomes like a man possessed. He is irritable and impatient, has no patience, and is indifferent to things other than opium balls. Such a person cannot be the head of a family.

The Tiqi closed the door and imprisoned the people in different categories. The 600 people in this mansion were not very crowded. After searching like digging three feet into the ground to make sure that no fish had slipped through the net, the Tiqi started The interrogation was completed without any delay.

The courtyard has two courtyards, the east and the west. They are arranged in four rows of quadrangle courtyards, each with three entrances. All quadrangle courtyards are connected from front to back and connected from left to right. From south to north, there are Donghua Hall, Shangli Hall, Zunyi Hall, and West Flower Hall at the end. Beyond the polder wall on the east side is a huge garden.

The reason for closing the door was to prevent Li Anren, the magistrate of Qizhou.

In Tiqi's eyes, local officials are not trustworthy, especially when the Yan family in Qizhou caused sores like compost, but the local officials in Qizhou turned a blind eye.

This shows that the Qizhou area is very likely to have colluded with the Yan family. Therefore, if the door is closed, even if the Qizhou magistrate leads the Yamen to attack, they can still wait for reinforcements from Baoding Prefecture.

When Chen Mo took control of the Yan Mansion, the Ming Dynasty's capital camp had just set out. Even Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, was in the same camp as the Yan family. Chen Mo was sure to hold on until the Ming Dynasty's capital camp arrived.

Chen Mo waited outside the study. He waited until the smoke inside was not so strong. Then he took two Tiqi, covered their mouths and noses, dragged the two people who looked like dead fish out of the study, and tied them up. Afterwards, stuff their socks into their mouths.

The two men kept mumbling and had no idea what they were talking about. Chen Mo got upset and blocked their mouths.

"Qianhu, maybe Qianhu should go and take a look in person." A Tiqiu said with a solemn expression.

The interrogation has already begun. According to the confessions of the henchmen in the mansion, there is evidence that the Tiqiu want in the house. It is in the three wing rooms in the backyard. The Tiqiu soldiers went to the three wing rooms and found armor, bows and arrows, long and short soldiers, and fire weapons. Guns and gunpowder were all prohibited items, but the original purpose of building the polder wall was to enable the people to build earth as a polder and build weapons for self-defense.

These are all within the scope of repairing weapons for self-defense. Later, when the world became peaceful, they could be fooled if they were not destroyed in time.

But in the three wing rooms, the Tiqi discovered something else.

When Chen Mo arrived, he found a cellar behind an empty cabinet. It was dark in the cellar. When the cellar door was opened, it was full of stench. The smell of decay and feces could be smelled from a distance, except for the torches of the Tiqi. The fire was flickering. From the flickering fire, Chen Mo saw a purgatory on earth. There were a total of twelve cells with several people in them. There were corpses in the cellar, and they already stinked.

"The Commandment Hall." A Tiqiu said with a serious face. There were both men and women here. If someone in the house disobeyed, he would be thrown in and locked up for two days. After he came out, he would naturally become more obedient. The Commandment Hall was the place where people were disciplined.

This is very conclusive evidence that the polder owners were abusing lynching.

"Bring everyone out." Chen Mo exhaled.

Fusi Yamen in the North Town of the Ming Dynasty is not as complete with torture instruments as here, and it is not as scary as here. The five poisonous punishments of Fusi in Beizhen are world-famous. After the five punishments of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, no one will open their mouth and confess honestly.

However, because the Emperor of Ming Dynasty often went to Beizhen Fusi Yamen to meet criminals, Beizhen Fusi often came for inspection, and the gloominess of Beizhen Fusi had long been wiped away by the general cleaning.

Moreover, those five poison punishments can no longer be used.

It was very unlucky to make it bloody, and His Majesty went there often, so it couldn't be unlucky. Later, in the Fusi Yamen of Beizhen, there was no punishment at all. The criminals who did not confess honestly were all taken to the room in the prison. Look at that room. Zhang Siwei naturally explained everything, even the matter of peeping at his neighbor's bath when he was six years old.

The strange yet existing measurement unit of a house is a bit too scary.

"Bring the portrait." Chen Mo suddenly frowned and asked someone to bring the portrait. After careful confirmation, Chen Mo was sure that this person was the adopted son in the Qizhou composting case, the leader of the Yan family's bastards. Now this adopted son is imprisoned in the prison hall and seems to have suffered a lot.

"Are you Yan Zhixiao?" Chen Mo waved his hand in front of the adopted son. Yan Zhixiao was the name given to the adopted son by the Yan family's father and son.

Yan Zhixiao said feebly: "Yes."

"Why were you imprisoned? Aren't you the one imprisoning others?" Chen Mo asked with a cruel smile. His eyes looked at Yan Zhixiao, not at a living person, but at fertilizer. This is His Majesty. Chen Mo will definitely personally send the Yan family to the compost pit with the specially appointed fertilizer.

Chen Mo was born in poverty and left his hometown. He was bullied by such bullies and was forced to leave his hometown.

Chen Mo surrendered to the army in Xuanfu and became a guest soldier. Later, he was selected as Duntai Yuanhou. Chen Mo also thought about betraying the Ming Dynasty and defecting to Anda Khan. This was the most helpless and last choice for the border people.

However, Chen Mo did not choose that choice in the end. Instead, he chose to fight Beilu to the end. There was no reason why, but he just didn't want to be a dog to Beilu.

Soon Wang Chonggu returned to the Xuan Mansion in embarrassment and blocked the holes in the Xuanda section of the Great Wall. The Ming Dynasty began to prosper.

Chen Mo, Wei Mo’s Mo.

"I was imprisoned in the prison hall because I had an affair with the maid in the young master's room and the young master found out about it." Yan Zhixiao frowned. These people are not bandits, but the legendary Jin Yiwei!
"What about the maid?" Chen Mo asked nonchalantly.

Yan Zhixiao shook his head and said, "She was dragged to be paired with a servant. I don't know what her situation is."

"Very good. He Yan Chongyi is unkind and unjust. Why should you show him filial piety? Explain everything he has done over the years." Chen Mo said with an increasingly kind face: "I forgot to introduce myself. , I am Chen Mo, the governor of Beizhen Fusi, and I can guarantee you that if you explain clearly the situation of Yan and his son, I will keep you safe. "

"Is this true?!" Yan Zhixiao heard that it was Tiqi who was so frightened that his legs went weak.

He was arrogant and domineering in normal times and bullied the poor coolies. Now it was his turn to face the violence of the Ming Dynasty. His legs were shaking and he was sweating. The embroidered spring knife, flying fish suit, riding gun, long and short gun, and tiger squatting Cannons cannot be faked.

When Yan Zhixiao promised to explain clearly and everything was fine, a flame of hope ignited deep in Yan Zhixiao's heart.

Of course Chen Mo lied to him. How could it be possible? When composting, he would definitely use a wooden stick to poke these scum to the bottom.

"Of course, I am Tiqi, how could I lie to others?" Chen Mo did not lie to others. Things like Yan Chongyi, Yan Youli, and Yan Zhixiao were not human beings at all.

The interrogation went very smoothly. With the explanation of Yan Zhixiao, the number one lackey, the Tiqi's raids became more efficient. The Yan Mansion seized a total of 270,000 taels of silver, 1,400 taels of gold, and the city of Qizhou. There are 17 land deeds, 24,000 acres of land, three restaurants, one brothel, seven banks, IOUs totaling 110,000 taels of silver, and various gold, stone and rare objects. Everything will be escorted to the internal fund, and It’s not about buying and discounting on the spot.

These are all industries.

Surprisingly, Chen Mo found 72 personal deeds. These deeds were all re-signed after the imperial court abolished the slave status. They were all brand new deeds, including Yan Zhixiao's.

This is very conclusive evidence that the owners of the polder are disobeying His Majesty’s imperial edict and the imperial decree.

(End of this chapter)