The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 576 Eunuch Feng's "Smart Move"

On the same day, Zeng Jian, Feng Kang and others left Fenyi and rushed to Wanzai County, Yuanzhou Prefecture.They have finished all the arrangements, and it will be up to Li Hongcai and others to collect the net later.

In the eastern suburbs of Fenyi County, Li Hongcai led more than 70 county government officials to stand on the land occupied by the Hu family.Opposite them were three thousand members of the Hu clan, all of them shy and imposing, and they didn't take this temporary county magistrate seriously at all.

After a while, a long-bearded man in his fifties came down to Li Hongcai surrounded by several members of the Hu clan, but instead of kneeling in salute, he just bowed his hands and said, "Hu Wei, a grassroots man, has seen Master Li."

Li Hongcai heard Liang Jing talk about the situation of the Hu clan on the way, and knew that this was the patriarch of the Hu clan, and he was quite famous.

He nodded, pointed to the large piece of fertile land beside him and said, "Old Hu should have known that these lands were originally owned by criminal officials, and the imperial court copied them for use as Huangzhuang. Please also hand over the land to the management of Huangzhuang as soon as possible."

An old man next to Hu Wei pretended to be surprised, and shouted: "What is Mr. Li talking about? These more than a hundred people are clearly the people of my Hu clan who worked hard to open up wasteland..."

"It's nonsense," Qin Banming interrupted him immediately, "Although the prisoner's land deeds were destroyed in the flames of war, there are still records of these lands in the county government's field records. The large tracts of fertile land are located, and the two should prove that they are not bad at all.

"There is another point for the common people to testify. These lands have been cultivated decades ago. Why do you talk about pioneering?"

Seeing that Li Hongcai was well prepared, Hu Wei coughed and said pitifully, "Master, you see, even if my people didn't open up the wilderness, they have worked hard for this land for nearly two years. These thousands of people are now pointing at these lands. After eating, you suddenly take it back, how will everyone live in the future?"

Li Hongcai smiled and said: "The purpose of setting up Huangzhuang by the imperial court is to let everyone have food. After the manager of Huangzhuang registers and registers the fields, the Hu clan can come and sign the contract. The land is still planted by you, and each mu is only a year. You need to pay more than 20 catties of brown rice, which is probably much less than the government in your clan.

"Besides, your Hu family village has more than 220 acres of arable land, which is enough for you to live on. Mr. Hu, let the clansmen leave as soon as possible, don't make things difficult for me."

Seeing that the momentum was not good, the old man next to Hu Wei hurriedly turned around to signal to the clansman at the side, and the latter quickly got into the crowd again.

For a moment, the members of the Hu clan seemed to join in to watch the fun, and kept crowding around the yamen servant.Thousands of people crowded like this, and the dozens of yamen servants were immediately dispersed as if they were washed away by the flood.In fact, quite a few of these yamen servants were members of the Hu clan, so they understood what they were doing and shouted, "What are you doing?! Back off!"

This time, the hornet's nest was stabbed, and the crowd suddenly burst into roars, "The official beat someone!"

"The government wants to snatch our land and prevent people from living!"

"Grabbing land and beating people, bullying too much..."

"This is to force the government to rebel against the people..."

Their tactic has been tried and tested repeatedly. Local officials are most afraid of causing civil unrest. The higher-ups send people to investigate. No matter what the cause is, it is basically not surprising that the officials involved will be dismissed from office at least, and jailed or even lost their heads.

In addition, Hu Wei was also ordered by Yuan Pengnian, the censor of Yuan Du, to let him make big troubles, and let the court decide for them.After taking this reassurance pill, Hu Wei could get a lot of benefits in vain, so he mobilized his clansmen to do whatever they want.

A dozen or so loyal yamen servants hurriedly protected Li Hongcai and retreated, persuading: "Master, don't argue with these unruly people for a while. Eight years ago when Fen Yizhi County was appointed, he had a quarrel with the Hu family, and was forced to The mob broke his arm, and later saw that there were too many people involved, so he had to let it go..."

Li Hongcai smiled, "Hmph, I was just afraid they wouldn't make trouble." Then he pretended to be frightened by the mob, and hid in the carriage with the county government officials.

As soon as he got into the car, the members of the Hu clan who were excited just now stopped in their tracks and stared blankly at the hundreds of people who suddenly appeared not far away.

These people tilted their heads and slanted their hips, some of them had their chests open in the cold, and they were carrying sticks or short knives in their hands, all of them were vicious.The leader is Dong Han, the leader of the Flying Whale Gang who has become very popular recently, and beside him is Du Si, the former leader of the Hall of Heroes.

Nearly three hundred villains stood still in front of the Hu clan, Dong Han tapped his palm with the back of his knife, and said coldly: "Listen to me, this Huangzhuang farmer has to pay for 'buying peace', who the hell It’s delaying Lao Tzu’s fortune, hum, let’s ask if the sword will be accepted or not!”

Although the members of the Hu clan don't know what the Flying Whale Gang is about, they are very familiar with the Haohantang.The Hu family has to pay 80 taels of annual money to Du Si every year, and the hero hall helps them solve all kinds of "troubles", but at this time, these "thugs" are on the side of the Flying Whale Gang.

How did they know that in the past seven or eight days, Dong Han had already brought under Fenyi's six big and small gangs including the hero hall, impressively "dominating the underworld".

These unruly people dare to make trouble with the government because they know that officials cherish feathers and dare not touch them.But these gangsters are different, they have always made a living by bullying them, how dare they provoke them? !
Hu Wei saw the men of thousands of clans being forced back again and again by hundreds of gangsters, and remembered the benefits that Yuan Du Yushi had promised him, so he immediately winked at the person in charge beside him.

The latter nodded, got into the crowd and shouted loudly: "There are so many of us, why are we afraid of him?! Come on, the clan pays for the injured!"

As soon as he yelled, the members of the Hu clan immediately plucked up the courage to fight back, but they still didn't dare to fight these fierce spirits.The two sides are so big-eyed and small-eyed.

Li Hongcai couldn't help frowning when he saw this, he turned his head and said, "Eunuch Feng, I didn't expect these troublemakers to be so courageous. I'll see, the police must be dispatched to investigate the chaos..."

They had dispatched [-] police officers to prepare, and they were waiting in the east of the city.

Feng Guangguo chuckled, "Master Li, we are here to do things for the assistant king, and we should try to make trouble for him as little as possible."

"But this..."

"Don't worry, my lord, our family still has a backup."

As he spoke, he winked at a young eunuch outside the car, "Go, let the Zhong family show up."

"Yes, godfather."

Afterwards, a dozen men carrying sticks and looking angry rushed out of the woods not far away. They didn't seem to see the scene of thousands of people fighting in front of them, but rushed straight in front of Hu Wei.

One of them pointed at the nose of the Hu clan chief and said angrily, "That's him!"

"What am I? What are you doing..."

Another young man came up and grabbed Hu Wei by the collar, "Say, where did you take my wife?!"

"What……"

In the carriage, Li Hongcai looked at Feng Guangguo suspiciously.The eunuch smiled triumphantly and said: "The case is a real case in Ji'an Mansion, thanks to the help of several adults in Jinyiwei who mentioned the criminal. The sufferer is also true, and the rest are all arranged by our family in recent days."

(End of this chapter)