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Chapter 55: Three families were sentenced and prepared to move

Because there were a hundred rebels armed with weapons and wearing cloth armor guarding the wooden platform. Although the townspeople were furious, they did not rush to the wooden platform to attack the Zhang family.

When the townspeople were tired of shouting and their voices became quieter, Liu Sheng continued to speak.

"The Zhang family really deserves to be killed!" Liu Sheng's words were sonorous and powerful. "The head of the family, Zhang Dezhao, monopolized food, hoarded it, and starved to death of countless people.

Zhang Debiao is even more of a beast. He actually collaborated with Chu Wangcheng, General Liu Xicai, and the Cao family to lure refugees to a valley five miles south of the town to starve to death, and then robbed the corpses to engage in a business that destroyed human relations and was unscrupulous! "

Upon hearing this, many townspeople turned pale at first, and then became even more angry.

There were rumors in the town that there was something wrong with Cao's meat.

Many people are dubious, and naturally don't buy when they have a choice. But later, when the food is more expensive and the meat is cheaper, they inevitably buy some, hoping that the gossip is just an unbelievable rumor.

Now that they heard Liu Sheng confirming this matter, some people couldn't help but feel sick when they remembered that they had eaten Cao's meat.

Those who are more angry want to go on stage and beat Zhang Debiao to death right now!

At this time, Liu Sheng also continued with anger: "Based on the two things I just said, it would not be an exaggeration for these two people to die a hundred times!

Most of them have done other evil things on weekdays, but our rebels have limited time and cannot investigate in detail.

Fellow Minggang folks, if you know anything, you can tell it on the spot, and our rebel army will kill them in a while, which can be regarded as helping the folks to vent their bad anger! "

When the mood was in place, there was no need for anyone arranged by Liu Sheng to come forward. A middle-aged man pointed at Zhang Debiao and said: "This beast took a fancy to my daughter-in-law who had only been married to my family for a month, so he assigned the gangsters in the town to snatch her away." , and let the archers accuse my son of stealing.

My son and daughter-in-law entered their inspection department’s Yamen and never came out again, wuwuwu..."

As he said this, the middle-aged man thought of his dead son, daughter-in-law, and the grievances he had suffered in the past, and couldn't help crying on the spot.

The other townspeople were infected by this emotion and didn't care about anything.

A young man stood up, pointed at Zhang Dezhao and said: "This old guy learned that my family had a calligraphy from the Song Dynasty, so he sent someone to buy it for a low price of a hundred taels of silver, and made my father angry to death!

I wanted to go to Zhoucheng to appeal, but he sent someone to break one of my legs and made me bedridden for several months.Afterwards, they threatened the lives of my family members so that I would not dare to file a lawsuit again! "

Subsequently, more and more people came forward and not only pointed out the evil done by Zhang Dezhao and Zhang Debiao, but also began to accuse other men of the Zhang family.

In the end, only three of the thirteen adult men in the Zhang family had no one to blame.

These three people are all the children of Zhang Dezhao's concubines, and they are all under 20 years old. I don't know whether it is because their status in the Zhang family is not high enough, they are too young to do evil, or they are really not evil by nature.

Liu Sheng saw that there was no one in Zhang's family who complained about injustice. They just kept kowtowing to him and begging for mercy. He didn't bother to find out whether the accusations made by the townspeople were true or false.

After all, this is the first public trial of the rebels, and time is tight, so we can't be too particular.

So, when no townspeople came forward to testify, Liu Sheng said: "It seems that except for Zhang Dezhao's three concubines, all the other men in the Zhang family have committed serious crimes.

We, the rebels, are pressed for time, so we won’t make any fancy judgments.Now, as the temporary judge of the rebel public trial, I announce that Zhang Dezhao and Zhang Debiao are sentenced to be beheaded!Zhang Dehui and eight others were hanged! "

After speaking, Liu Sheng waved his hand, and ten big men selected from the rebels immediately came out.

Two of them slashed off the necks of Zhang Dezhao and Zhang Debiao with a swing of their swords.

The remaining eight people were strangled to death on the spot with ropes.

Seeing this, the three grandsons of the Zhang family were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground and even became incontinent.

Liu Sheng glanced at them and said: "As for Zhang Jinzhou and the other three, since no one has accused them of committing evil acts, our rebel army will release them after leaving Minggang."

After saying that, he signaled the Italian army to drag the three Zhang family concubines who could not stand up off the wooden platform.

At this time, some of the townspeople who had just testified against the Zhang family could not help but regret that they did not fabricate a few charges so that the three Zhang family concubines could also be beheaded by the rebels.

But they were worried that after the rebels left, they would be retaliated by these three people.

After Liu Sheng gave the public trial process and sentencing standards last night, Yang Heqing also had similar concerns, saying things like "cutting the grass requires eradicating the root" and "cannot let go of the wolf cub."This is what Liu Sheng replied at the time.

"When Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, conquered the world, there must have been many families and people killed because of the Ming army. Were all those people killed?

Besides, if the Zhang family is killed regardless of whether they have done evil or not, what is the point of a public trial?
Finally, these three Zhang family concubines were not valued in the Zhang family and may not inherit much property.Although he has lost his gold and silver, he may inherit more than 5000 acres of farmland. Maybe he not only does not hate the rebels, but is grateful for them.

Even if they really hate the Rebels, it doesn't matter.In the future, if the rebel army grows stronger and fights for territory in the world, more families will be destroyed. It is impossible to kill every family every time without missing a single one.

As long as the rebels are strong enough to win the hearts and minds of the people and even conquer the world, those who hate the rebels will either not dare to come out. Even if they do come out, they will be dealt with by the rebels. There is nothing to fear. "

Yang Heqing was convinced by these words, and the red lady was also full of praise.

The Red Lady had previously agreed not to kill the three Zhang family concubines purely because she was kind-hearted and did not want to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

As for the three grandsons of the Zhang family, they were raised by the Zhang family's filthy money and food. Whether they are innocent or not, everyone has their own opinion...
After the public trial of the Zhang family, Liu Sheng asked the red lady to take his place, and tried the Cao family and the Fan family in turn.

Under the testimony of the townspeople, the dozen men of the Cao family were all evildoers. In addition, the things the Cao family did were too unscrupulous, so they were all sentenced to be beheaded by the red lady.

The Fan family only had two sons, Fan Yongcheng. The eldest son was killed when the Red Lady broke into the Fan family mansion. The younger son was a bully and bully. This time, under the testimony of the townspeople, he was also sentenced to death by the Red Lady.

It is said that Fan Yongcheng's eldest daughter-in-law went to her hometown in Shanxi with her two children two months ago. The rebels were beyond reach, so they had to forget it.

After the public trial of the men of Zhang, Cao, and Fan families, Liu Sheng asked the matchmaker to take charge of the distribution of rice grains.

Because of the previous public trial, most of the townspeople consciously became allies with the rebels. In addition, they were frightened by hundreds of rebel infantry, so they all obeyed the rebels' command and lined up to receive food.

Many people did not expect that the rebels would actually distribute food. They came empty-handed and could not get five measures of food, so they hurried back to get sacks.

Five buckets of grain is equivalent to half a stone, and can be packed into half a sack.

The news that the rebels had indeed distributed food quickly spread throughout Minggang Town, causing some timid and suspicious townspeople to come over with household stickers.

There were also some people living here, or those who had lost their household stickers, who came to find out what was going on. They thought of the propaganda of the rebels that their families would follow the rebels to reclaim wasteland in the mountains, and they would at least have to eat two meals a day.

Although the hoarding Zhang family was wiped out by the rebels, the famine continued. As for the Ming Dynasty court and government, the people had long given up hope.

It is estimated that it will take at least a month to restore the food market in Runan by the private sector.

Even if it recovers, under a severe famine, food prices are estimated to be at least several times, or even ten times, that of normal years.

If there are bold grain merchants to monopolize the grain trade and hoard it, the price will be dozens of times higher.

Although most people may not be able to think clearly about the reason and speculate on future changes, they can also have a vague premonition that Minggang is no longer suitable to stay.

Therefore, there are quite a lot of people in the town who are willing to join the rebels with their families.

Liu Sheng returned to the Zhang family mansion and took care of two other major events——

"We are going to that treasure land to reclaim wasteland. What we are most in need of are all kinds of craftsmen, especially blacksmiths. It would be better if we could find craftsmen who know how to prospect and open roads for iron smelting.

Therefore, we must take away all kinds of craftsmen in Minggang Town by force, regardless of whether they want to or not. "

After hearing this, Yang Heqing said, "Does Master Liu want me to do this?"

Liu Sheng shook his head, "I will handle this matter, but once it starts, the rebels will not have enough manpower in the town. In addition, food must be transported to Tianmu Mountain as soon as possible.

Therefore, you have to send people to the Refugee Valley and ask them to organize a group of young and strong men and women to come to the South Street entrance of the town to listen.Other refugees will also be transferred in batches to facilitate our deployment of manpower. "

Yang Heqing nodded, "I understand, I'll send someone to take care of it right away."

After Yang Heqing went out, Liu Sheng asked Ma Jinshui to call Ma Jinliang, Ma Gui, Zhang Ao and Li Niu over.

(End of this chapter)