Dragon Soul in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 48

Zhu Gan didn't know that Lu Xiangsheng guessed the scheme he had painstakingly concocted by relying on a small amount of information. At this time, he was leading people to dig graves, and wanted to take a look at these pretending ghosts in Texas city. Man, what the hell is going on underground.

After digging through the subsidence under the city gate, tunnels extending in all directions are spread out like spider webs. Unexpectedly, they are only separated by a wall from the corridor of King Sulu's tomb. The people who built these tunnels must have a terrifying conspiracy.

However, this also solved the haunted sound of Dezhou City, which is the sound from the underground, passing through these corridors, and turning into various sounds. will always exist.

After solving a big puzzle, Zhu Gan opened the interrogation again, but the location of the interrogation was no longer the magistrate's government office, but in the center of the busy city. This time, he was not as polite as last time. First, Sheng Yulin The person at the head played dozens of big boards, and then he recruited everything honestly. He did forcefully bought a few acres of Shi Awang's field, but this was not his idea, but the people below made their own opinions. He is also the master of suffering, scolding who is so wicked, and hanging Shi Awang's wife at the gate of his house.

When Zhu Gan saw Sheng Yulin and the others' submissive appearance, he felt contemptuous in his heart, knocked the gavel, and said loudly: "First sign and draw the pledge, and then we will talk about your crime of allowing your subordinates to loot the city of Dezhou this time."

Although the common people were puzzled by the action of the red-clothed army's interrogation at the entrance of the downtown area, they went to watch the excitement with anxiety, only to realize that it was not just the Shi Awang case that was being interrogated, but it turned out to be an excuse. There are also those who don't know, who are tied up and thrown aside, extremely embarrassed.

It also made the onlookers breathe a sigh of relief, but they didn't know how to judge those guys who killed thousands of knives. They can clearly remember what happened that day. When they entered their homes, they would snatch good things, and almost all the women in the house would be ruined if they had any good looks.

If it wasn't for the red-clothed soldiers to put martial law here, these victims would have rushed forward and tore the culprits to pieces.

Sheng Yulin smiled lightly, raised his head, and laughed angrily: "Dog thief, I am doing it for righteousness, so what if I die, they die honorably, they die for righteousness, this is what they do for righteousness." An opportunity for ancestors to accumulate virtue."

Zhu Qian was very angry, he didn't expect this guy to be so shameless, and he dared to talk hard, immediately grabbed the token on the case table, threw it down, and said in a cold voice: "There is no need for trial, this guy has already pleaded guilty, instigated and war crimes. Cut it off for me."

Two red-clothed soldiers stepped forward, grabbed Sheng Yulin's shoulders, and dragged them to the outside of the arena, only to hear Sheng Yulin yell loudly: "Everyone who gets the thieves will be punished, today you kill me alone, tomorrow When the heavenly army of the imperial court arrives, they will definitely execute Er and other rebellious officials and nine clans."

You have to be stubborn when you are about to die, maybe in the future you will become a loyal minister who died for the country in the history books, but now in the eyes of the people, you are an unforgivable devil, but obviously the history books don’t care what the people think, but now I do.

Looking at Sen Leng's blade, Sheng Yulin wanted to beg for mercy, but when the words came to his lips, the knife had already been swung down, and a big head was rushed to the sky by the blood in his cavity, and he opened his mouth and widened his eyes , I don't know whether it is unwillingness or just wanting to speak, right and wrong merits and demerits will be judged by future generations.

Regarding Zhu Gan's so-called war crimes, few people know what it is, but they welcome the killing of Sheng Yulin. The headless corpse punched and kicked, and the haters even bit off his flesh. Obviously, their hatred urgently needs such extreme methods to vent their hearts, so as to make them feel at ease.

After the crowd drove away, looking at Sheng Yulin's mutilated body, those Cheng family children in the square felt chills all over their bodies. They didn't expect that it was just a spur of the moment. Will they end up like this today?

Cheng Jiao was so frightened that he peed his pants. When he saw Zhu Qian's cold eyes looking at him, he howled loudly, knelt down and crawled shamelessly towards Zhu Gan: "My lord, I was wrong, I deserve to die! Sheng's gossip confuses the crowd, and I've eaten lard too, so I'm damned, please forgive me! I don't dare anymore, I wish to be your cow and horse for the rest of my life, please forgive me!"

Looking at Cheng Jiao who was streaming with tears and snot, feces and smell flying everywhere, I just felt sick for a while. What else can such a dude do besides playing tricks on others? At least the guy surnamed Sheng can still threaten himself stubbornly. A few words, a burst of nausea for no reason.

He raised the gavel fiercely, and made Cheng Jiao calm down with a bang, but he looked at him with a look of panic, Zhu Gan ignored him, but looked at the other members of the Cheng family and said, "Do you have any?" What can I explain? I have explained clearly, and I will give you a good time. Of course, if you want to make atonement, it is still possible, it depends on your attitude. "

Several members of the Cheng family looked ashamed, only the boss, Cheng Shaogeng, could maintain a little bit of clarity. Thinking about leading people into the empty treasury, he felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart, and now he has become a prisoner. , it can calm down a bit.

Looking up at Zhu Gan, I saw that this picture was younger than myself, but had a tough and upright heroic spirit. I have to say that such a person is easy to be envied. If it was normal, I would definitely be friends with him and discuss According to history, but now that I have been reduced to a prisoner, I feel a little more self-pity: "You are a beautiful woman, but why are you a thief, how can the court feel sorry for you..."

Zhu Gan looked at Cheng Shaogeng's eloquent citations, telling what happened to the Red Army, and suddenly felt a sense of sadness in his heart. You will never understand what you want, or maybe it is loneliness, so he immediately slapped the gavel and interrupted Cheng Shaogeng. Words: "Okay, stop talking nonsense and talk about something practical! Can you make amends? If not, then I will give you a happy one. If you can, then come up with something."

A little brother of the Cheng family immediately shouted loudly: "Yes! My family has several granaries and has hidden some silver. We are willing to use them to make atonement."

Snapped!Zhu Gan couldn't care about such influence, so he slapped the gavel with excitement, stood up and said loudly: "Okay! I will take you into custody temporarily, the dead are gone, and the living must be taken care of first. Casualties."

Zhu Gan didn't know exactly how much money or food the Cheng family had saved. I'm afraid the money would not be less than a million. As the saying goes, the magistrate was cleared for three years, and a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. However, there are a few people who can get out of the mud without being stained. Although Cheng Shao is an upright person, he never said that he doesn't love money anymore. Just like Zhang Juzheng's so-called pillar of Ming Dynasty Zhongxing, he is not only greedy but also extremely greedy.

This may also be Zhu Gan's real purpose after learning of his other identity, he would rather jump out of the chess game and reopen the Chaos Heaven.

The people still had resentment at first, but Zhu Gan’s words that the dead are gone, and the living should be taken care of first, calmed down their anger a lot, so what if they were killed, the dead will not be resurrected, and the living will not be resurrected. damage will not be reduced.

Looking at the people who were tied up, Zhu Gan waved his hand, and the red-clothed soldiers stepped forward and tore the rags from their mouths, slapped the gavel, and asked angrily, "Say, who are you? The Cao Gang, or the White Lotus Sect, or other forces."

These people are the leaders of the thieves who were caught by grabbing and biting each other, but Zhu Gan knew very well that none of the big fish were caught here.

When the tomb of King Sulu collapsed in front, he suspected that someone was pretending to be a ghost and wanted to make trouble in the name of ghosts and gods, so he planned to use his tricks, transported a few large boxes from the tomb of King Sulu, deliberately ostentatiously passed through the streets, and left The ruts are very deep, and those who don't know the truth will definitely think that it is full of gold and silver.

The bait was cast, but the big fish did not take the bait, only a few small thieves were caught, and then they had to let it go. This also became Zhu Gan's confusion. He has never figured out why those people didn't take the bait until today Unravel the mystery.

Since they pretended to be ghosts and wanted to cause chaos, they must be plotting big things, and plotting big things must require gold and silver, and these gold and silver were transported from the tomb of King Sulu.Human nature is sometimes very cheap, and anything is precious only when it is lost, and if they missed the gold and silver, they must be the most wanted in this Texas city, not to mention that they are temporarily able to get it back in Texas city back.

It's not that they don't want to take it back, but they have completely explored the entire Sulu King's tomb, and even dug underground tunnels extending in all directions, knowing that there will be no gold or silver at all, but Zhu Gan didn't know it at the time .

In front of everyone, those few people snorted coldly, quite stubborn, they didn't say anything, and they didn't dare to say it. They didn't want to die, but they had to die. The Cao Gang has strict rules, and they must betray the Cao Gang. Misfortune, especially for wives, children, and children is inevitable. It is impossible to say that a certain big brother in the gang is mixed in with the crowd.

Zhu Gan scanned the crowd with a pair of eyes, suddenly burst into laughter, snapped his fingers, Wang Chengen handed over a large sheet of paper, densely filled with things, Zhu Gan raised the manuscript in his hand, and said triumphantly: "Okay, you guys There are all kinds, I admire such a hero the most, isn’t it because the Cao Gang wants to avenge Tongzhou? I know, and I won’t make it difficult for you, after all, you are also following orders.”

After speaking, the smile on his face became even brighter, and even became a little ambiguous.

The common people looked at each other, not knowing what Zhu Gan was doing, they looked at Zhu Gan from a distance, they couldn't see his real face clearly, it was a little blurry, but they could feel his smile at this time, it must be very wretched.

Picking up the gavel and slapping it hard, he lifted the red cloak behind him, and said loudly: "Retire, the trial will end here today, from now on, only entry and no exit are allowed in Dezhou City, and a curfew will be imposed tonight. Those who take to the streets will be killed without mercy!"

The bosses of the Cao Gang who were mixed in the crowd all had ugly faces at this moment. They really wanted to believe that Zhu Gan's wretched smile just now was just acting, and those little bosses who were caught didn't care about anything. There is no confession, not to mention that they don't know their own information at all, but this is a matter of life, and no sloppy is allowed.

After all, people's hearts are so close, it's hard to say which one just confessed, and he happened to know the information about them. They can't afford to provoke this vicious red army, and they don't want to provoke that evil god again. Obviously they also saw the information about them. Zhu Qian led more than 200 people to kill the crazy move down the city.

No matter how advanced the martial arts are, they are also afraid of kitchen knives, and the older they are, the less courageous they are.

At this time, those people were put in the prison, and Zhu Gan also went to the prison together, but he was not for the Cao Gang, but wanted to visit the members of the Cheng family. After all, he could not kill all the troublemakers. , but he also wants to give the people an explanation.

There are only a few important people in this big prison, it looks empty, walking into the dark and gloomy cell, looking at the Cheng family's juniors, it's really a trick of fate, not long ago, these people were elegant and noble , The elegant and polite appearance is now reduced to a prisoner, like a mouse crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats.

He asked softly: "The whole Dezhou City people are scolding you. The reputation of the Cheng family has been managed with great difficulty, but it was ruined by you all at once. Do you regret it?"

These brothers have long adapted to the dim light. They saw Zhu Gan as soon as he entered the prison, but they never thought about opening his mouth. Cheng Shaogeng glanced at the dazed uncle who was shivering in the corner, and sighed. , stood up and said: "I regret it, I don't regret it, but I never thought that I would lose so badly. The reality is too cruel."

Zhu Gan gradually got used to the darkness, saw clearly the loneliness on Cheng Shaogeng's face, shook his head and said, "You guys are just too stupid and naive. Although people are lambs, as long as they are led by a lion, they will instantly turn into wolves." , you are not wolves, and I am not a lion, so the people are not lambs, tell me! How much can your Cheng family produce."

Cheng Shaogeng really wanted to argue, but he didn't know where he lost, what kind of lamb, lion, wolf, it was just nonsense.

But now is not the time to be stubborn. If the reputation among the people is gone, it will eventually be earned back, but if the life is gone, it will be completely gone. He immediately said: "We can give you all the money, but the premise is that you want Put those servants who were arrested back."

Zhu Gan looked at him with a half-smile, and couldn't help but mocked: "Why, you still want to make a comeback, but I like challenges, so I'll pay you back when the time comes."

Although the red-clothed army must do something, it must be extremely ruthless, but nothing has happened so far, and it is said that the red-clothed army backtracked, so when Zhu Gan personally agreed, Cheng Shaogeng said with joy: "Okay, I am the Cheng family." There is a total of 30 taels of silver in deposit..."

Zhu Gan's complexion immediately sank, this is sending beggars away!You must know that the court was short of silver in the late Ming Dynasty, and the market was also short of silver circulation, but the only thing that was not short of silver was the hidden silver in the cellars of big landlords and big bureaucrats. Han Jing spent 2 taels to buy a champion.

How magnificent!You must know that the annual income in the late Ming Dynasty was only 400 million taels. Compared with 6 million taels, 400 taels of silver is very small, but on average it is a lot. !This is the real Ming Dynasty, rich scholar-officials, poor court, and it is precisely these scholar-officials who master the history books.

What remains in the history books is the dark Jinyiwei and the perverted Dongchang eunuchs. It seems that except for the righteous and unyielding scholar-bureaucrats who dared to offend the sky, the entire Ming Dynasty was in darkness.

Mencius said: Wealth and honor cannot be coddled, poverty and lowliness cannot be moved, and power cannot be subdued.When the Qing army went south, several people committed suicide and died for the martyrdom. There was a piece of grass everywhere, and it fell to whichever side the wind blew. Silver, quickly calm the Quartet.

Since ancient times, scholars should be the backbone of the Chinese clan. Only when they can stand upright between the heaven and the earth can the Chinese clan have backbone. The literati in the Ming Dynasty have been corrupted by privileges and money. Most people who have not suffered His bones are full of shamelessness and slavishness to bully his subordinates and admire his superiors.

Thinking of these things that suddenly came to his mind, Zhu Gan was so angry that he walked away without turning his head and said: "30 taels of silver, very good! The rest of the silver is reserved for you to buy coffins! The Lord gave it to you." You have the opportunity, but if you don't cherish it yourself, the Lord will not accompany you."

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Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, there are fragrant grasses and green sky.In the Buddhist temple, copper bells are ringing, green bricks and green tiles surround green vines.

A carriage went up the ancient road and slowly entered the ancient temple. Listening to the washing bell, a white arm like a lotus root stretched out from the carriage, with slender fingers like green onions. The voice shouted: "Sister Ling'er, do you think there are any heroes in this world?"

Listening to the little girl's words full of resentment, those who didn't know clearly thought it was a concubine in a boudoir, but heard another person's voice with a little pity, her voice was as cold as the clear spring in the mountain stream , but after careful understanding, there is a kind of sweetness: "Isn't your Mr. Qian a hero? Little girl, your eyebrows haven't even grown yet! Just thinking about these things, don't be ashamed."

The voice said indifferently: "What kind of hero is the one surnamed Qian? He has no strength to restrain a chicken. At least he must be like Sister Ling'er. He can go to heaven and earth to be a hero. Lu Jiutai is not bad. He can be literary and capable." Wu, alas! It's a pity that I can only think about it, sister, what about you! Do you have someone you like?"

"Little girl is really shameless, okay, this is a Buddhist holy place, don't discuss matters between men and women, this is disrespectful to the Lord Buddha." Black Raksha Wang Yuling naturally knew about this little girl's weird behavior, and she suffered a lot since she was a child , has already practiced an exquisite heart, it seems that he can see what is on his mind.

Immediately, he raised his plain hand lightly and hit her on the head lightly.

"The young lady in the carriage is probably the concubine of the old Prime Minister Zhou Daodeng."

Before the two got out of the carriage, they heard a frivolous and filthy remark from outside the carriage, which immediately made Hei Luosha's face sink and he wanted to kill someone.