After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 440 Migration
In the next few days, Haijiao heard news about Lintong from Xie Wenzai one after another. Even two friends, Zhou Yijun and Tang Meng, heard some rumors and mentioned it to him in private.

In recent years, a large area of ​​manor in Lintong has fallen into the hands of unfamiliar new owners from other places. At first glance, it seems that they are not under the name of one person, but in fact, the manors are basically managed by a group of people. They secretly colluded with the local magistrate and did not associate with the local wealthy families. They only said to the outside world that they were buying new properties for Shanxi's wealthy people. But in fact, all the people in the group spoke with Beijing accents, whether it was their food tastes or their behavior habits. None of them have anything to do with Shanxi.

Although this group of people currently only operates this large industry and uses the profits to support a group of unidentified desperadoes, overall, it is not a success. After all, Lintong County is very close to Chang'an, and there are many people traveling between the two places. If a large number of well-trained armed personnel appear in the large estate, the local tenant villagers will become suspicious even if other wealthy families do not say anything.

Previously, a large number of spies placed by the Sun family in areas around Chang'an came to Chang'an to kidnap Jin Jiashu, but now almost all of them were imprisoned in the Dusi Yamen prison. According to the results of the Dusi Yamen's interrogation of them, they had received orders from their superiors and planned to increase their manpower and recruit more fierce desperadoes to the manor for training in preparation for being summoned by the master of the capital in the future. In addition, they were also ordered to purchase as many fields and build as many houses as possible. It did not have to be in the area around Chang'an. It was also possible to be far away from Chang'an, but it needed to be as large a piece of fertile land as possible and to make life as convenient as possible. , to ensure that it can be self-sufficient, but not too close to the guard posts other than Chang'an Vanguard.

This last one was no longer included after Du Boqin was arrested at the end of last year. This group of Sun family's minions were arrested too early, and they did not have time to get follow-up instructions from the Sun family in the capital, so it is not clear whether the main family will change the direction of property purchase. However, several leaders with slightly less power all agreed that it was impossible for the Sun family to give up this large industry. The Sun family has invested too much in Shaanxi's land industry over the years. If they give up, their vitality will definitely be greatly damaged.

What's more, the Sun family has actually secretly moved some members of their hometown to Shaanxi and placed them in these industries. The Sun family can give up their land, but can they still abandon their clan members?
Tu Rong had to ask the town official to send someone to investigate around Lintong and confirmed that a new "Sunjiazhuang" had indeed been built there. There were nearly a hundred residents in the village. Although there were no outstanding leaders, according to nearby military and civilian observations Judging from the situation, these people do not do business on weekdays, do not study very seriously, and only practice martial arts for three days fishing and two days drying nets. However, they speak loudly, live a prosperous and comfortable life, and support many nursing homes. Servants, even if they are just foreigners who have recently moved here, are not something ordinary people can offend at will.

Under the protection of the Lintong County Magistrate, these Sun family members quietly settled down in the local area. Some of them took the county examination and successfully passed it. Unexpectedly, no news reached the ears of the Zhou family in Chang'an. , it really makes people sweat.

The Duke of Zhen Guo found out that the Lintong County Magistrate was sent by the imperial court. He was born with the same Jinshi family and was not related to the Sun family. However, it was obvious that he had joined the Sun family a long time ago and was quietly arranged by the Sun family to a small county near Chang'an. Come to be an official. This is probably because he does not behave out of line in his daily life. Whether it is dealing with government affairs or interpersonal interactions, he is very well-behaved. He is not offensive or rude to the Zhou family, nor does he look down on military officers in the name of a scholar. The attitude of the northwest frontier army was even friendlier than that of the Chang'an prefect, so no one thought there was anything wrong with him. If the Shaanxi Dusi had not arrested enough people this time and were willing to confess honestly, I am afraid that this county magistrate would not arouse anyone's suspicion if he was promoted to the position of prefect in Shaanxi.

Even the experienced Zhenguo Gong couldn't help but be secretly shocked when he received this information.

Neither the Lintong County Magistrate nor the Sun family members who moved to Lintong were involved in the Sun family's conspiracy against the northwest frontier army, and they even had little contact with the Sun family's informants and minions sent to Shaanxi. If they hadn't caught Sun Yongbai's confidants and interrogated them severely, they would never have discovered that there were relatives of their enemies under their noses. In a few years, the Sun family will continue to buy land and real estate in Shaanxi, continue to move their clan members here, and will become a large local family in Shaanxi. If the Sun family uses its power in the court to arrange for these clan members to serve in official positions, it will only take ten or twenty years, and even the Zhou family will not be able to easily shake the foundation of their family in Shaanxi.

Fortunately, Sun Yonglu was a loser. He had been running the Northwest Frontier Army for many years but could not control military power. Fortunately, Du Boqin was arrested early and could no longer hide among the Chang'an vanguard to provide internal support for the Sun family. Otherwise, with their protection from above, not to mention the imperial examination career, I am afraid that the military positions in the company will also be taken over by the Sun family members.

The Duke of Zhen Guo could control the personnel appointments of the northwest frontier army, but he could not prevent the Sun family from opening an account in Shaanxi and taking the imperial examination to join the army. As time goes by, wouldn’t it mean that even the Zhou family’s influence in their hometown will be taken away by the Sun family?
Duke Zhen Guo did not continue to speculate, but simply gave the information to Tu Rong, and sent another copy to the clan members and the Tang family.

Tu Rong still had things to do, so he ignored these things for the time being. Anyway, as long as the emperor ordered the Sun family to be raided, no matter how many fields and houses he owned, they would be used by the officials. Without the support of Sun Ge Lao in the court, these mediocre people The Sun family members can't make a difference and are not worthy of attention at all.

Tang Jiaming seemed to be calm on the surface, but in fact he immediately used his connections among relatives and friends to secretly send a message to the old in-laws in Lintong. Aren't they just a few members of the Sun family with no official positions? How could powerful relatives who were accustomed to arrogance live peacefully in a foreign land? He may have done many bad things that violated national laws in private! As long as others pay attention, sooner or later they will find reasons to arrest their people, ransack their homes, and confiscate their property.

Even if you can't find a reason, it doesn't matter. Didn’t they claim to have migrated from Shanxi? Someone from the Tang family went to work in Shanxi, and it was just in time to check the place of origin claimed by the Sun family. As long as we found evidence of their fraud, we could follow the clues and find them and arrest them in the government. With a criminal record, no matter how talented a member of the Sun family is, they can never imagine that they can rely on the power of the Sun family to become an official or join the army!

And the Lintong County Magistrate, who pretended to be loyal and honest, turned out to be a traitor! I don’t know how many shameful things such people have done behind the scenes, and they should be exposed properly, so that these evil officials will not be allowed to occupy the position of official in the court and harm the people!
The old man of the Tang family has been very angry ever since he heard about the confession of the Sun family's minions and found out that his grandson was also on the list of people they planned to murder. In addition, the Sun family used Mrs. Ma to install two nuns as eyes and ears in their house, which made the Sun family's hands fall into the hands of the Sun family. He was already thinking about finding an opportunity to take revenge and return. Now that he had the opportunity and the Zhou family's acquiescence, how could he let it go?

Because of the mistakes they had made, the Tang family had to let the family members abandon their century-old foundation in Chang'an and disperse to other places to pursue their future. How could thieves like the Sun family occupy the great land around Chang'an, under the nose of their northwest frontier army? What about being domineering and arrogant underneath?
(End of this chapter)