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Chapter 94: Toasting, not eating, drinking and punishing

Seeing that the hungry people were quiet, Liu Shengcai continued: "The homeless people will also help, but they must be the first to help. This is the rule of our rebel army!

In addition, please listen carefully to me explaining the rules of queuing - groups of ten households should line up starting from the downstairs of the city gate.

In the same group, the leading household stands at the front, and the other nine households stand at the back facing the city gate.

The second group stood ten steps west of the first group. Like the first group, ten families stood back at once facing the city wall.

In this way, other groups lined up along the city wall to the west!
After everyone in the group received the porridge, they went to the east together and set up camp again in groups.

The same rules apply to serving porridge tomorrow, so the leader of each group must manage each household in the group and avoid causing chaos!

Later I will send people out of the city to maintain order and explain the rules of queuing up to receive porridge.Now, everyone steps back a hundred steps away! "

This time, none of the hungry people dared to disobey, and they all retreated a hundred steps away.

Immediately, Liu Sheng asked 30 pro-Saber players to go out of the city to maintain order and explain the queuing rules.

10 musketeers were placed on the city gate tower, and the remaining 20 musketeers patrolled westward on the city wall. When necessary, they fired to deter those who jumped in line, and even cooperated with the swordsmen to kill those who deliberately caused chaos.

After the 30 knife players left the city, the city gate was closed.

Under the guidance and intimidation of the sword player, the hungry people began to line up according to the rules set by Liu Sheng.

More than half an hour later, the first batch of ten large pots of millet porridge was cooked, and the porridge finally started.

Liu Sheng originally wanted to go outside the south city gate and follow the law.

However, seeing many hungry people coming from the south to the east, and worrying that opening two city gates at the same time would bring too much defensive pressure to the rebels, they changed their minds and only put porridge at the east city gate to feed the hungry people.

While relieving the hungry people, Liu Sheng called Wang Dalu and asked him to lead several county office clerks to register the hungry people.

In order not to delay the donation, only the simplest information is registered.

For example: the name, age and place of birth of the head of the household, the names and ages of other people in the family.

This is all information that can be recorded with just a few questions.

In this way, on the afternoon when the rebels occupied Queshan County, relief for the hungry people outside the city began in an orderly manner...
After the sun goes down.

The money and grain purchased from large households in the city also went into the county government warehouse.

After Liu Sheng checked it in person, he listened to An Jun report the accounts compiled from four groups of official books.

"Reporting to the leader, this time a total of 8000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver have been collected.

Among them, Li Gongzhang's family in the east of the city provided the most money and grain, 1 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver.

Leader, please take a look. This is the specific account of each family’s money and food. "

After Liu Sheng looked through the accounts, he asked: "Is the Li family in the east of the city the richest in the county?"

The officials responsible for collecting grains were also waiting nearby.

Liu Sheng asked, but An Jun didn't know for a moment, so he looked at the group of officials writing.

Li Dianli came over immediately and replied: "Returning to the chief, only the four families of Zhou, Wu, Li and Zheng in the county have more than [-] acres of land.

In terms of wealth, the Li family in the east of the city ranks third or fourth at most. The Zhou family and the Wu family both have more money and food than the Li family, and the Zheng family is not much behind the Li family. "

Liu Sheng looked at the accounts again.

It was found that the Zhou family had only produced 1 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver.

The Wu family only provided one thousand shi of grain and 8000 taels of silver.

The Zheng family provided one thousand shi of grain and 5000 taels of silver.

None of the dozens of companies left on the accounts paid more money and food than these four companies.

Liu Sheng raised his eyes to look at Li Dianli and asked, "Who are the grain stores in the county?"

Li Dianli lowered his head and said: "Back to the leader, the previous owners were the Zhang family and the Zhou family. More than three months ago, the Zhang family temporarily lost their food source and their business shrank, so the Wu family also got involved."

"What is the relationship between the Zhang family in this county and the Zhang family in Minggang?"

"It is said to be a branch of the Zhang family in Minggang."

Hearing this, Liu Sheng closed the account book and asked: "Which house are you a pian official, and what is your name?"

Li Dian lowered his head and said, "Come back to the chief, my name is Li Yunzhong, and I am the household official."

"How much money and food did you collect today?"

"I know more big families, so I collected 6000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver."

Liu Sheng said: "Today's food collection, you barely managed it, but it's not enough to satisfy me.

Tomorrow morning we will go to each big household to collect food again and tell them that if they continue to be stingy with food, I will really not be polite. "

"Yes." Li Yunzhong agreed with a grimace.

Returning to the county government office, Liu Sheng probably made some calculations.

There are indeed more than [-] hungry people outside the city. To feed them for half a year, at least [-] to [-] shi of food are needed.

Therefore, if the officials fail to obtain enough food tomorrow, he will indeed not be polite.

Thinking of this, Liu Sheng said to Ma Jinshui who was accompanying him: "Go and bring the officials of the execution room and the workshop, as well as Luo Dianshi and the money master's book."

"Yes."

Ma Jinshui responded and left with a few soldiers, and soon brought Luo Huaiyu and others.

There is no county magistrate among the two officials of Queshan County Yazuo, only the chief registrar named Qian Yunsheng, who is a civil servant in his 50s.

This man was originally hiding at home, but was confessed by Cai Wending and others, and he was "invited" to the county government by the rebels together with the other six-room clerks who were hiding at home.

Liu Sheng first said to Qian Yunsheng: "Master Qian, please bring the workshop officials and invite all the craftsmen and their families in the county to the county government tomorrow."

Qian Yunsheng was also greedy for life and afraid of death. After hearing this, he nodded first and then said: "Chief Liu, I'm afraid we need some government servants as helpers."

"The government officials who escaped today should be hiding some, right? You can just go find them yourself tomorrow."

When Qian Yunsheng saw Liu Sheng's unkind look, he didn't dare to make any more conditions and had no choice but to agree.

After asking Ma Jinshui to take Qian Yunsheng and several office clerks out, Liu Sheng looked at Luo Dianshi and others.

"Li Dianli of the Household House told me that the four richest families in the county are Zhou Wu and Li Zheng. He said that these four families have tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. But is it true?" The Xingfang Dianli and several clerks were silent for a while. pit.

However, Luo Huaiyu knew that after he led the rebel army into the city, he could not look back. The only way to survive was to join the rebel army.

After hearing this, he said: "Go back to the leader, what Li Dianli said is right."

"Then do you have any evidence that these four families have done evil?"

The people in the execution room still didn't speak.

Luo Huaiyu said: "Chief, my Dianshi is only responsible for arrests and prison matters. The criminal chamber is responsible for all criminal proceedings. They may know something."

The prison warden then spoke, "The chief understands that we only deal with disputes among ordinary people on weekdays, and we really don't know much about the affairs of big families."

"Not sure?" Liu Sheng sneered, "Do you think I'm too easy to talk to? Come here, take the jailer out and beat him until he is willing to talk."

The executioner's face suddenly turned pale after hearing this.

Without waiting for him to say anything, two pro-soldiers grabbed him and dragged him out.

Soon, crackling sounds and screams could be heard outside the hall.

After a few moments, the executioner heard the executioner shout: "I want to say it! Stop beating me, I want to say it~!"

Liu Sheng waved his hand, "Bring people in."

Immediately, the prison clerk and several clerks explained many of the four families' crimes and oppression of good people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, rituals and music collapsed. Large families were rich and powerful, and most of them had dozens of people. It was normal for a few scoundrels to bully men and dominate women.What's more, they buy and sell by force, and put human lives at risk.

On weekdays, these prison officials turn a blind eye to the evil things done by the family members of the wealthy family, either because they are afraid of the power of the wealthy family or because they have received benefits.

But it doesn't mean they don't know.

At this time, under Liu Sheng's coercion, he poured out all the evidence he had and what he had heard and guessed, like beans poured out of a bamboo tube.

Liu Sheng had no time to listen to their details, so he asked Luo Huaiyu to take charge of interrogation and recording, and Ma Jinshui to supervise.

An hour later.

Liu Sheng had dinner and inspected the city defense before returning to the county government office.

Luo Huaiyu came over with the interrogation records.

He said in a slightly flattering tone: "Chief, please read, the crimes of the four families mentioned in the prison book are here."

Liu Sheng flipped through the pages and found that the Zhou family was the most evil. There were so many cases of disregarding human lives in official documents.

Next, it was the Zheng family who loaned money, colluded with the county government offices and prison houses to annex land, and forced several people to death.

As for the Wu family and the Li family, the overall family tradition is acceptable, but there are one or two scum in the family.

Liu Sheng thought for a while, then collected the criminal confessions of the Wu and Li families, and returned the criminal confessions of the Zhou and Zheng families to Luo Huaiyu.

"Tomorrow, take the people from the execution room and find some government officials to collect evidence of the crimes of the Zhou and Zheng families. If there is no physical evidence, find witnesses. The more the better, do you understand?"

"I understand!" Luo Huaiyu nodded.

Although he is a classic historian, he has also suffered from the cowardice of the Zhou and Zheng families in the past few years.

Now that he knew that Liu Sheng was going to operate on the Zhou and Zheng families, he felt quite happy and determined to get the matter done tomorrow.

One is to get rid of the cowardice that he suffered from in the past few years, and the other is to show Liu Sheng his ability.

After the rebel army captured the county today, Liu Sheng took all kinds of actions in a very orderly manner. Not only did he not let the hungry people outside the city come in and destroy the county, he also took control of the order of the entire county immediately.

This shocked Luo Huaiyu.

He felt that Liu Sheng and others might really be able to achieve great things.

Since he can't look back, he might as well show more and try to be trusted by Liu Sheng sooner.

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September 21.

Li Yunzhong's four grain collection teams spent one morning completing the second grain collection from large households in the city.

This time.

The Zhou family provided one thousand shi of grain and 8000 taels of silver.

The Wu family provided one thousand shi of grain and 5000 taels of silver.

The Li family provided 8000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver.

The Zheng family provided 4000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver.

Including the remaining dozens of landowners and wealthy businessmen, a total of 8000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver were confiscated.

"Dozens of large households only produced a total of [-] shi of grain?!"

Liu Sheng seemed furious and threw the account recording the grain collection to Li Yunzhong's official secretary.

"I think these big business owners are offering wine as a penalty instead of toasting! Ma Jinshui!"

Ma Jinshui stood up immediately and said loudly: "Here!"

"Inform Zheng Erli and Hu Dongliu and ask them to bring people to gather in front of the county government office!"

"Yes!"

The four fishing and hunting teams led by Hu Dongliu were previously responsible for cooperating with officials to collect food. They rested near the county government office in the afternoon and quickly gathered as ordered.

After a while, Zheng Erli, who was in charge of patrolling the streets, also arrived with a guard of standing troops.

Liu Sheng came out with dozens of soldiers and ordered: "Zheng Erli led a standing army to surround the Zheng family mansion. Don't let anyone escape before I arrive!"

"As ordered!"

Zheng Erli clasped his fists and accepted the order, then turned around with a roar and lined up with his standing army to run towards the Zheng family mansion.

"Pro-army and fishing and hunting group soldiers, follow me to surround the Zhou family mansion!"

"As ordered!"

Following Liu Sheng's order, more than 200 rebels rushed to the Zhou family mansion!
(End of this chapter)