Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1776
"We can take this opportunity to completely ban the people and horses of Guandi Temple." Mu Min is in charge of security. According to the standards she upholds, this is already a major security case, and it will at least alarm the provincial department. "Although our police force Insufficient, you can mobilize the national army. Centrally ban and contain all Doukou inside and outside the city..."

"No, our task now is not to ban the people of Guandi Temple." Lin Baiguang was also a little eager to try, but now he has calmed down, "The people of Guandi Temple seem to be powerful, but they themselves have no economic ideas and A gang of evil forces with no political intentions. It is a group of rogue proletarians who use money to act as thugs. Letting them continue to dance for a few days will not affect the overall situation. If we ban them and contain them now, these tens of thousands of people will burden us Just carry it on your back. Young and middle-aged beggars can certainly be sent to labor reform, but there are still a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled who have to be resettled."

These old, weak, sick, and disabled not only need to provide them with food and clothing for a long time, but also to allow them to "support themselves" in the end, but also set up facilities such as "workshops for the poor" and "freshmen farms", equipped with a large number of management and caregivers.This is a heavy burden for the newly-born Guangzhou Municipal Government, which lacks both "people" and "money".

"But unless they are eliminated, it will be difficult for the public security in Guangzhou to improve fundamentally." Mu Min said, "Among the various public security and petty criminal cases in the city, the Guandi Temple has the highest proportion of people involved. Pickpocketing, trafficking in stolen goods, and human trafficking , Tomb robbery... almost all of them are involved with this gang."

"So we are going to be strict this time, and it is also a warning to the people of Guandi Temple. Tell them to restrain themselves." Lin Baiguang said, "We have to treat the teeth first."

In the end, the death of a few grain merchants was harmless to the rule of the Senate, but it gave them an excellent excuse to clean up their dental business.

Although the dental practice is notorious, it is impossible to grasp for a while what crimes they commit crimes that can be punished.Now they took the initiative to charge them with a justifiable crime.

Severe crackdown on tooth shops is not only because they have monopolized the rice and grain trade, which poses a potential threat to the Senate's next currency issuance, but also gives a warning to various forces in the city: don't mess around at will and abuse violence. .

It is not new in Guangzhou City that people and horses from Guandi Temple stormed guild halls and business travelers to fight.Even the Chaoshan merchants who were victimized this time have done many similar things.In the medieval society, due to the imperfect state machinery and the poor governance ability of the government, there was a general tendency to abuse violence.In a central commercial city like Guangzhou, businessmen fought for the wharf and wealth; gentry and wealthy citizens hired a large number of gangsters to fight for personal grievances or lawsuits.In addition to the people of Guandi Temple, Danhu on the Pearl River, Chaoshan people in the city, and Hakka groups widely participated in the fight.It is exactly the same as the "fighting" that is rampant in the Jiangnan area.Moreover, because this kind of fight is also mixed with the unique local concept of regional disputes, it makes the fight more intense.

"We're going to be serious and strict this time. We'll kill everyone. It will help them understand what a legal society is." Lin Baiguang said.

Just as Mu Min was about to speak, someone came to report: "Director Lin, Director Mu, someone came to the gate of the city hall to surrender. They said that he was the mastermind who stormed the Haiyang Guild Hall today."

"Surrender?" Mu Min was surprised.

Lin Baiguang nodded and said, "Understood, transfer the person who surrendered to the city police station."

"Old Lin, what's going on?"

"This is the person who topped the bag." Lin Baiguang smiled. "In my opinion, you don't even need to be interrogated. You bought it with money. If you want to kill, you have to find out. You don't want to tell the truth. Can't hear it—they don't even know."

Mu Min already understood.When she returned to the city police station, the cell bosses she had retained came to complain: "There are so many people arrested, the cell can't fit", "Everyone smashed the cell door to eat, don't shit and piss all over the floor", " I don't know what to do."

The city police station was originally the yamen of Lingnan Road. Unlike the yamen of the prefectures and counties, which have prisons, they just used the empty yard to set up a temporary detention center.Because no one willing to be a prisoner could be recruited, and Lingao itself lacked professional guards, we had to temporarily retain a few former prison leaders as guards, and the white horse team guarded outside.

"...This group of beggars don't have anything to live on. When they enter the prison, they will have free gruel to eat. It's a waste to catch it." The cell boss chattered, and couldn't help looking at Mu Min's expression. , "...there are too many people inside now, I'm afraid it's easy to spread the plague when it's hot, so I ask the chief to make a decision and send them down as soon as possible..."

Mu Min smiled and said: "My Senate is rich all over the world, so what if I give them a few meals of gruel. As for shit and pee, I can clean up whatever you do. I heard that you used to be called the 'king of Hades'. The Nanhai county prison is an 'eighteen floors of hell', why, can't a few little devils be cured?"

In the past, the government rarely caught beggars: the prison bosses couldn't squeeze out the oil and water, and they had to work hard.At this time, a total of more than 40 beggars were caught and came in, so I felt that the Australians were "messy".

The prison chief originally wanted to persuade Mu Min to release all the beggars quickly, but he didn't expect to hit such a nail when he opened his mouth.Listening to what the female chief said, if I don't get them done, I won't eat this bowl of rice in the future.

He hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "Director! You are joking, the little one can't afford it. Just suppress the little one!"

But Mu Min didn't speak, and called a corporal: "Take a few people and follow the guards to suppress the prisoners, use all means to restore order, tell the prisoners not to make noise, and at the same time clean up all the excrement and urine on the ground."

The head of the cell went back to the cell—this detention center was originally a courtyard in the yamen, and the main hall was used as a place to work, and the side rooms on both sides were turned upside down and fences were installed to make it a temporary cell.Naturally, more than 40 people cannot be locked up, so these people are scattered in the courtyard.According to the rules, these people had to squat with their heads in their hands, but now they all stood up straight and yelled, with feces and urine flowing on the ground.Several prisoners stood on the steps, holding iron rulers and yelling non-stop.

The head of the prison stood on the steps, put his hands on his hips, and shouted: "Everyone, old and young! This is the prison in Guangzhou Prefecture. As the saying goes, the law of the king is like a furnace..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he was drowned out by strange shouts, and all kinds of foul language flew in together.Don't look at the prison head's so-called "Living King of Hades", it is for ordinary prisoners.With such a large number of people and horses in Guandi Temple, ordinary subordinates cannot afford to provoke them.Lack of confidence, naturally speaking is not loud.

The cell leader was afraid of losing his job, so he shouted at the top of his throat, his face was red and his neck was thick, when a black object suddenly flew out of the crowd, the cell leader could see it clearly, so he quickly jumped to the side, the thing fell to the ground and fell to the ground immediately. The pulpy, smelly, turned out to be a mass of feces.A lot of stinky juice was splashed on the prisoner's body on the steps, and they were all in a panic.There was a roar of laughter in the yard.

The cell boss was in a panic, ashamed and angry, and saw the corporal jump down the steps, raised his gun and stabbed at the beggar who was the closest to the steps and laughed the most.

The bayonet pierced straight in like cutting tofu, and the beggar fell down without even making a sound.Before everyone in the field could react, the soldiers behind all jumped down the steps and raised their bayonet-mounted rifles together. The bright bayonets gleamed in the sun, and the courtyard, which had been full of laughter, suddenly became chaotic, and the prisoners exploded. They fled in all directions like a nest.

"Squat down and hold your head!" With the voice of the corporal, the courtyard that was still in chaos suddenly became deadly quiet.The beggars who just said "the sky should be the quilt and the earth should be the bed, the emperor and I are not afraid" all squatted down obediently and hugged their heads, not even daring to move.

The head of the prison was horrified to see that the Australians killed people like chickens and ducks, killing decisively and suppressing the chaotic scene in a moment, he couldn't help being awed and respected.He was afraid that when the corporal went back and said that Mu Min thought he was "incompetent", he hurriedly shouted again: "Which bastard hit me with shit just now? Get out!"

All the prisoners quickly spread out in all directions, revealing a lone man squatting in panic, with feces and urine stained on his tattered clothes.

The cell boss cursed: "Well, you bastard, I'll see if I don't tell you to eat the shit back later!"

While yelling and cursing, the corporal passed through the crowd, kicked the prisoner to the ground, raised his gun and killed him with a bayonet.

"Report to the chief, the order has been rectified." The corporal reported, "Two rioters were killed during the operation, and there were no casualties on our side."

"Take it easy!" Mu Min nodded, "You've done a good job, let's disband!" Turning to face the pale and dizzy jailer, he said, "You ask the kitchen to prepare some porridge, more water and less rice, so you're not hungry. Just die. Supervise the distribution of one bowl per person."

The cell boss quickly responded, and Mu Min instructed all those who "surrendered" to be taken to the pre-trial room, and she wanted to interrogate them herself.

Someone "surrendered" so soon after the incident. Although she knew it was the top bag, why the mastermind rushed to send someone to top the bag was still a bit hard for her to understand.After all, she still didn't know much about the tricks of the ghosts and ghosts in this large commercial city in the middle ages, and she didn't know much about the ways of the world in this era.

The pre-examination room was located on the original flower hall, and it was redecorated and separated according to the specifications of the old time and space.

Mu Min has already read the records of the preliminary trial. There are six people who turned themselves in, the leader of whom claimed to be a rice merchant.

"Let's bring this rice merchant here first." Mu Min said.

The prisoner was brought there quickly, but he was an old man with gray hair, and he was wearing brand new Taoist robes.He was about to kneel when he came up, but was brought to a chair and sat down, and his hands and feet were shackled, and he couldn't help showing a strange and disturbed expression.Seeing that the official sitting in front of him was actually a woman, he immediately showed a surprised expression.

"What is your name?"

"Back, back, what your lord said, Qiu Kesheng."

"how old are you?"

"55."

Mu Min thought this was old enough, and asked again: "Why did you surrender?"

(End of this chapter)