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Chapter 52 Liu Sheng: I am serious about accepting my younger brother

Liu Sheng said: "The people of Minggang can sentence the Zhang family, and the rebels can naturally do the same.

The Zhang family deliberately hoarded grain and drove up grain prices, causing many people to starve to death. Zhang Dezhao, the head of the family, was first of all guilty of death, and his accomplices were also guilty.

Zhang Debiao, Liu Xicai, and the Cao family coaxed refugees into the valley. In the name of relief, they extorted money, starved the people to death, and even engaged in unethical black-hearted business, which was also a capital crime.

We sentenced Zhang Dezhao and Zhang Debiao to death first and beheaded them on the spot, and then handed over the remaining Zhang family men to the people for trial. No matter how the people sentenced them, it would not affect the overall situation.

As for the Zhang family's grain harvest, we will use part of it to help the poor people in Minggang, and the rest will naturally be used by the rebels.

Anyone who objects is against the rebels and is their enemy.I don’t need to tell you how to deal with the enemy, right? "

Liu Sheng's words made the red lady stare at him for a long time, with surprise and smile in her burning eyes.

She said with a smile: "I didn't expect Village Leader Liu to have such a good eloquence."

Liu Sheng actually didn't think he was eloquent, he was just well-informed, but after hearing the compliment from the red lady, he still said with a little complacency: "If you want to rebel and do big things, you can't do it without a good eloquence."

"So I can only follow Leader Liu?"

"What, you're not going to check whether the treasure land I mentioned is true or not?"

"Of course I still have to go, but I don't think Village Leader Liu is the kind of person who likes to talk big."

Neither of them talked about how to deal with the Zhang family's women and children.

Regardless of whether the women of the Zhang family knew the evil done by the men of the Zhang family, they had all been killed by Liu Xicai's officers and soldiers, and few of them died peacefully.As for the children, naturally they were also in trouble.

Later, Liu Sheng and Lady Hong checked the grains in various grain shops.

These grains are all packed in hemp bags, each weighing about two hundred kilograms. They are mainly rice from the south, followed by wheat, millet, and finally sorghum, soybeans and other miscellaneous grains.

Taking rice and wheat as an example, about 188% of the rice noodles can be obtained after hulling at this time.However, considering that during famine, bran can also be mixed with rice and flour as food, this sack of raw food can be regarded as one stone of food ([-] jin).

Each grain store is fully loaded according to regulations, which is exactly two hundred sacks of grain.

Excluding a few empty grain stores and several underfilled grain stores, the amount of grain stored here is about [-] shi.

Considering that they would transport most of the grain away later, Liu Sheng and Lady Hong had no idea of ​​arranging for anyone to count the specific amount of grain - that was a troublesome task after all, and it would not be too late to count it carefully after it arrived at the destination. .

Coming out of the granary compound, Liu Sheng asked Zhang Ao and other archers, "Are there any close clan members or relatives of the Zhang family among you?"

Zhang Ao smiled bitterly and said: "Even if the people close to the Zhang family are archers, they are also captains, or corps commanders or chiefs in Zhang Debiao's family. How can we people have that blessing?

When it comes to our relationship with the Zhang family, I am probably the closest, but we have already been on five servers, and we only share the same ancestor for eight generations.Most of the others are tenants of the Zhang family. "

Liu Sheng asked again: "How involved were you in Zhang Debiao's collusion with Liu Xicai and the Cao family to destroy the corpses of refugees?"

Zhang Ao and others' expressions changed after hearing this, and they hurriedly said: "We have absolutely no involvement in this unconscionable matter!

Even if they blackmail the refugees and deceive them into going to the valley, it is only a small group of people who are responsible for it. We are usually responsible for patrolling the streets and catching petty thieves. "

The injured Li Niu intervened and said, "Since we found out about that, we have never eaten Cao's meat again."

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "You guys have kept the matter clean. We are all upright heroes who have emerged from the mud and are not stained, right?"

Zhang Ao blushed and said: "We have indeed taken advantage of our status as archers to gain some small advantages on the street, but we have never done anything so sinister!
If your benefactor doesn’t believe it, we are willing to state your name, and you can send someone to ask the neighbors. "

Zhang Ao just said this in a hurry and didn't think Liu Sheng would really bother to check their details.

Unexpectedly, Liu Sheng actually nodded and said, "Okay, come one by one and tell us your name, address, and family members. I will send someone to check when I get back."

While talking, Liu Sheng took out a palm-sized notebook and a pen.

Well, he actually took a fancy to these twenty or so archers and wanted to collect them.

With the group's combat effectiveness at a disadvantage, these twenty or so people were able to retreat to the granary compound and borrow food to temporarily save their lives, which is enough to show that they have certain abilities.

The fact that more than half of the wounded did not surrender showed that their bones were not soft and their minds were relatively clear. They knew that the Fan family and the officers and soldiers would not survive if they surrendered.

Liu Sheng's men were already small, but he was about to conquer the Red Lady's rebel army. Even if the refugees were not included, the Red Lady's rebel army had more than 300 people.Therefore, it is not a bad thing to take advantage of the opportunity to recruit dozens more subordinates.

Zhang Ao became a little worried when he saw Liu Sheng coming for real.

It is true that he himself and Li Niu and others who were familiar with him had not done any serious evil, but there were several people among the twenty or so people that he was not that familiar with.

But the words were out of his mouth, and he couldn't take them back, so he had to bite the bullet and report his situation to Liu Sheng first...

While recording the situation of Zhang Ao and others, Liu Sheng called Shi Jincai and Ma Jinshui over to listen.

Neither of them could read a few big characters, but they should be able to roughly memorize the information from these people.

After the recording was completed, Liu Sheng asked the two men to take five other riders and escort Zhang Ao to verify the information about these archers and inquire about their reputations.

Wang Laowu and Yang Kuiwu asked him to send people five miles away from the official road of Beijiekou to notify Ma Jinliang and others to come to Minggang Town.

Just after Liu Sheng finished dealing with the archers, Yang Heqing came over.

"Master Liu, Madam Red told me about the public trial of the Zhang family. I was wondering if it would waste too much time?

We may not have enough time to transport food. If we waste more time on the Zhang family, it will be bad if the officers and soldiers surround them here. "

After hearing this, Liu Sheng pondered for a moment and said, "The public trial of the Zhang family will not take much time, only one or two hours is enough.

It's hard to say how long it will take to transport food. It depends on how many mules, horses and carts can be collected.

But there is no need to worry - Minggang is under the jurisdiction of Xinyang Prefecture, but it is more than 100 miles away from the prefecture city. It is slightly closer to the two county towns of Queshan and Zhenyang, but it is also nearly a hundred miles away.

You have fought against the officers and soldiers of Xinyang Prefecture. How many days do you think it will take at the earliest from them to get the news and then to send troops? "

After hearing this, Yang Heqing thought of the virtues of the officials and soldiers in Xinyang Prefecture. He couldn't help but touch the back of his head and said, "It will take three days at the earliest, right?"

Based on Yang Heqing's understanding of Xinyang Prefecture's officers and soldiers, it was possible to march up to forty or fifty miles a day, or only thirty miles.So counting the time it took for the news to spread and the official to react, three days was really the fastest.

Liu Sheng smiled when he heard this, patted Yang Heqing on the shoulder and said, "Three days are enough for us to transport a lot of food."

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After Lady Hong told Yang Heqing about the public trial of the Zhang family, she dispatched a hundred rebel infantry to prepare for patrolling the streets.

On the one hand, it is to hunt down gangsters and gangsters who take advantage of the chaos, maintain order, and give positive publicity to the rebels - this is the experience accumulated by Red Lady after conquering several market towns.

On the other hand, the Cao family was arrested.

After leaving the Zhang family mansion, Lady Hong found that the streets were even more chaotic than when the rebels entered.

Many families were busy packing their things, hoping to escape before the rebels took control of the entire town.

Some local gangsters, hooligans, etc. took the opportunity to break into houses, rob, and insult women, and they specifically picked on honest people or those with small families.

The red lady hated the evil and immediately ordered: "Everyone will work separately and arrest those who murder, rob and insult women along the street. If they are caught, they will be beheaded in the street!"

"Yes!"

These infantrymen have at least experienced three battles with the Red Lady in Xingji, Refugee Valley, and Minggang Town, and they already look like serious rebels.

After receiving the order at this time, he followed the pace of the red lady and quickly killed the troublemakers on the street.

For a time, the young people were so frightened that they all ran away, shrinking their heads and not daring to come out to cause trouble again.

As the red lady led the troops past, the street quickly became quiet.

After leaving the Zhang family's mansion, she walked north and walked most of the north-south main street. When she came to the Cao family's mansion, she found that the Cao family was noisily packing up their belongings and loading their car.

Some nursing staff were nervously guarding in front of a few carriages, but when they saw the rebels approaching, they immediately dispersed.

The main entrance of Cao's house is wide open, which saves the trouble of the Red Lady attacking.

So she gave an order, and the rebel army was divided into two parts. One part went to block the back door or patrol outside the courtyard wall; the other part rushed into the mansion and arrested the men of the Cao family.

The Red Lady plans to put the Zhang family on trial tomorrow, and then the Cao family.Those who have committed crimes will not be spared!
(End of this chapter)