Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 780 How Can You Talk About a Comeback From a Desperate Failure

Chapter 785
Zheng Yi's eyes were full of anger and surprise, and only then did he realize why Ran Ming knew the matter so clearly.Although Zheng Liujin was not a child of the Duyang Zheng family, he was a family slave of the Zheng family.

Zheng Liujin's surname was not Zheng originally, but his ancestor's surname was Liu.Zheng Liujin's father was Zheng Yi's entourage, and Zheng Liujin's younger sister was Zheng Yi's favorite concubine.Zheng Yi never hid anything from Zheng Liujin. At this moment, Zheng Yi showed a man-eating gaze, pointed at Zheng Liujin and said, "You, you...you actually betrayed this old man."

Ran Ming shouted: "What are you, is there anyone willing to testify!"

Wang Meng said: "Zheng Yi's head accountant, Zheng Weisheng, and his youngest son, Zheng Rui, are willing to testify. They all testified to Zheng Yi's crimes of violating the order and persecuting the people. The fingerprints of the confession are already in the document."

Ran Ming looked at Zheng Yi and said, "Do you still need Zheng Weisheng and Zheng Rui to testify in court?"

It wasn't until this time that Zheng Yi could argue that he was indisputable, and he bowed his head and pleaded guilty.Ran Ming said, "Where is Facao?"

"Wei Chen is here!"

Ran Ming said: "Zheng Yizhi's trip, according to the criminal law of our Great Wei, what crime should he be charged with?"

Fa Cao said: "It should be cut according to the law."

Ran Ming didn't really care about the evidence.All he cares about is a process.In ancient times, the decision of a case was often based on the preferences of the chief official, and there were too many loopholes that the law could take advantage of.Coupled with those Spring and Autumn strokes, guilty can also be judged innocent.In fact, what Ran Ming cares most about is the trial process. In the public hall, there will be nowhere to hide the conspiracy.

Including Zheng Yi, Duyang county magistrate Li Jin, county magistrate Hao Quanren, and Zheng Yi's accomplices, the case was voted on together.The temporarily selected jury consisted of 120 seven people. Four huge boxes were placed in front of Ran Ming. If the ink pad was printed and the fingerprints were pressed, he would be considered guilty. If he did not press the fingerprints, he would be considered innocent.The 120 seven people present put their pieces of paper into the baskets one by one.

After nearly a quarter of an hour of collection.

A large blackboard was erected in the square, with the words Guilty and Not Guilty written on it.21 villagers were temporarily elected and asked to monitor the votes.In the place of sin, one vote is one stroke, and five votes are written together as a righteous character, and the number of votes is clear at a glance.In the final ballot, 160 three people chose to abstain, and the remaining 960 four people were elected as guilty.

Those who abstained either had something to do with Zheng Yi, or they were masters who accepted death.These people all think that punishment is not as good as a doctor, and courtesy is not as good as a commoner.Zheng Yi is a crime, and he cannot be punished directly by law like ordinary people, but can choose to redeem.Pay for your sins with money.Of course, this is not the point anymore. The point is that more than half of them have been convicted.If found guilty, it must be punished accordingly.Zheng Yizhi's crime, the crime of deceiving the emperor, is enough to get a knife.

After the public trial of Zheng Yi, Gan Chuo followed.In fact, Gan Chuo is definitely more conscientious than Zheng Yi. Although he is also greedy, he has not made a name for himself.Instead, take advantage of the opportunity to collect the usury loans released last year. If you have no money, you don't have to sell your sons and daughters, but use your land to pay off the debt.

During the public trial of Gan Chuo, from the private withholding of the tax exemption decree, to the normal collection of taxes, through the hands of people, how much food was collected, who sold it to, and how much property he got, there were clear testimony, and Gan Chuo did not deny it. , He knew that like Zheng Yi, there would be no good end. Zheng Yi would definitely be beheaded, and his son would be sent to the Western Regions, and his family property would be confiscated.

In view of Gan Chuo's better attitude of pleading guilty, at the end of the vote, Gan Chuo's sentence was much lighter.The ancestral house has been preserved. Although the floating money is stolen, at least the youngest son can get some real estate, and his livelihood will not be a problem in the future.

In Sishui County, Lu County, south of Taiyi Mountain, there is a beautiful town called Shengquan Town.There are many springs like a forest, and it is said that "there are 72 famous springs, eighteen big springs, and as many small springs as a cow's hair", enjoying the reputation of "China's spring town".The main ones are: Spring Forest Spring Group, including Pearl Spring, Xiangshui Spring, Xibo Spring, Black Tiger Spring, Hongshi Spring Spring and Baotu Spring Spring.Shengquan Town is Yang Yun's lair. At this time, he built a Wubao with more than 1000 people.However, since most of the young and strong were dying in battle, those left behind were old and weak women and children.Since Ran Zhi escaped from Yecheng, he took Ran Zhi to live in seclusion here.

To say that Ran Zhi is also a ruthless person, in order not to let others recognize him, he actually burned his face with fire, and his cheeks were covered with hideous scars, which looked very scary.I'm afraid, at this time, even his biological mother, Empress Dong, would not be able to recognize him when she came to him.

When Ran Ming volunteered to investigate the case of tax infringement, Ran Zhi excitedly said to Yang Yun after getting the news: "Unexpectedly, the opportunity came so fast, Ran Ming shouldn't have jumped into that vortex, he is already a prince, if you want What is the use of credit, neither far-sightedness nor balance! Severely punish the Heluo gentry, Heluo will be in chaos, and the sky will die! General Yang, our chance has come."

Ran Zhi's plan is not too complicated. He wants to use the Heluo gentry to muddy the water in the Heluo area. Because the eastern part of Yuzhou borders Xuzhou, the state of Jin, all the marshals and common landlords were recruited by Ran Zhi. One piece, he has a lot of influence.

As Ran Min's hard-working successor, Ran Zhi naturally knows what Ran Min thinks.Ran Min didn't want to fight Han compatriots, not because he couldn't beat them, but because he didn't want to fight them at all.Therefore, he aimed at Ran Min's weakness and relied on the refugee commander to achieve his qualifications to advance to the Jin Kingdom.

Ran Zhi is the emperor of Wei, even if he is a deposed emperor, there are too many things that can be used in him.If Sima Dan was not a fool, he would use his brains on Ran Zhi.

But Ran Zhi didn't understand the nature of the gentry's tyranny, which is a role that bullies the weak and fears the hard.Even the Ran family is considered powerful in fact, but why didn't Ran Min rebel when Shi Hu was alive?Because Ran Min also knew that when Shi Hu was alive, with Shi Hu's control over the army, he had no hope of success at all, so he chose to hibernate.

Now the Heluo gentry is also the same. On the surface, Ran Ming went south, but he only brought [-] troops, a sixth battalion of the infantry. If we only count the combat power, the army Heluo can organize can definitely wipe out the infantry. Sixth Battalion.But then the consequences are very serious.Shi Yue's headquarters is in the east, Xie Ai is in the west, Zhang Wen is still in the south, and the elite of the Wei state who are still stationed in Yecheng in the north, Ran Min's old background, this is an army of tens of thousands, as long as the gentry and powerful gentry dare to rebel, it will be given to them. Ran Min was an excuse to kill them all.

Even if it is death, they dare not oppose it.Zheng Yi died, but his descendants were not killed. As long as the incense continues, the momentary honor and disgrace is nothing.

It can be said that after experiencing failure, Ran Zhi has become good at nourishing energy. He cooks tea and reads every day, and teaches children in Shengzhuquan Town to read in his free time.He also saw the benefits of Ran Ming's own cultivation of talents.Ran Zhi, who thought he was no less educated than Ran Ming, also embarked on this path.

But after Ran Zhi's disfigurement, his face was too scary.At the beginning, Ran Zhi was resisted by all the students, but gradually these students found that this teacher is very powerful.There are not many students of Ran Zhi in Shengquan Town, only a mere hundred or so, but there are only four of them who were accepted by Ran Zhi as his disciples.First disciple Luo Yuhu, second younger brother Fang Yucheng.The third disciple is called Yang Yukun, and Yang Yukun is the youngest son of Yang Yun.The fourth disciple Pei Yugang.Pei Yugang is Pei Bi's youngest son.Just six years old this year.

Of course, these poor disciples didn't even have names, they were all named by Ran Zhi, and they were also the four famous Ran family scholars later on.

Ran's family education is not famous for martial arts. In fact, the ancestor is Ran You, one of the ten philosophers of Confucianism. The field he is best at is precisely internal affairs.However, it's not that Ran Zhi doesn't understand the art of war, it's just that he is not as good as Ran Ming.In Ran Zhi's teaching, he seems to have never thought about Ran Ming's contradictions. He used "Thousand Characters", "Hundred Surnames", and "Disciples Regulations" as enlightenment textbooks. In terms of martial arts, he also adopted the strategy of imitating Ran Min. .

At the beginning, there was the sound of reading aloud in Shengquan Town, and even the sound of string and bamboo playing the zither.This is not a paradise, nor is it a closed place. Naturally, people come here from time to time, and the reputation of Ran Zhi in Shengquan Town is slowly spreading. No matter who it is, they will bow and salute when they see Ran Zhi, and say respectfully Say "Mr. Ziyi".

Entering October is also the season of late autumn. The cold current in Siberia made the town of Shengquan go from autumn to severe winter overnight.The town of Holy Spring is not a major commercial town, and there are few people in the originally depressed town.

However, a small academy built by the Xiangshui Spring appears to be full of vitality.Since the massive mining and use of coal, earth dragons, fire walls, and warm pits have been built almost everywhere in Wei State.Although the people in Shengquan town are still very poor, they are very generous to the school established by Ran Zhi.Originally, it was only Yang Yun who paid for the construction of more than a dozen green brick and tile houses.But the people nearby all want to give their children a chance to study.

Of course, at this time, Wei Guo's school could not directly serve as an official.However, there is a world of difference between literacy and illiteracy.Even the same waiter, a literate guy, can get half the salary of the shopkeeper.As for being able to read, write, and count, that's even more remarkable.An apprentice accountant didn't get paid in the first year, but from the second year onwards, he began to receive the wages of a plasterer.As long as you finish your studies, a tent can easily earn [-] to [-] yuan a year.

The people in Shengquan Town all want Ran Zhi to teach their children to read and write so that they can earn more money to support their families in the future.But Ran Zhi has his own plan.It is also a sheep-herding management, but among the more than 300 students, Ran Zhi still found a lot of good seedlings.

In terms of knowledge, Ran Zhi is much better than Ran Ming, the bottle of water.Leaving aside Ran Ming's knowledge in later generations, Ran Ming is really not as good as Ran Zhi in learning ancient culture.Despite Ran Ming's illustrious military achievements, in fact his military knowledge is not as much as Ran Zhi's.In terms of military affairs, there are nothing more than four things that are mainly relied on, namely authority, prestige, opportunity and experience.What Ran Zhi lacked was experience.But because Ran Zhi was demoted to the army by Ran Min before, this shortcoming was also made up for.

Especially after Ran Zhi experienced this big defeat, his personality has changed a lot.When it comes to military books and war strategies, Ran's family education is not bad.As early as the period of Gaozu Ran Long, Ran Long was the riding captain of the Jin Dynasty.At this time, Ran's compiled a set of Ran's tactics.Of course, at this time, Ran's art of war is not the so-called strategic art of war, but something at the tactical level.This set of military books was first started by Ran Long to summarize his own experience. The book introduced in detail the forces of the Hu and Han clans, as well as the introduction of the battle formations of each clan.

At this time, Ran's art of war is not considered art of war.A miscellaneous note at best.But in Ran Zhan's period, Ran Zhan continued Ran Long's notes, adding diagrams of the characteristics of various arms such as city attack and defense, field battle formations, knives, shields, spears, spears, spears, bows, crossbows, and cannons, such as how to build a trebuchet , the standard specifications of various weapons and armor.Of course, there are also various tactical experiences of Ran Zhan's military life.

When Ran Long died, Ran Zhan was only 12 years old, and when Ran Zhan died, Ran Min was only 12 years old.Ran's use this method to continue Ran's family education.This big book was not actually published, but was passed down from generation to generation in the form of notes.When Ran Min mastered this inheritance, Ran Min was sorting out his own experience and thoughts, especially the strategic and tactical thinking of the cavalry battle formation.However, it also softened some of the thoughts of later generations brought by Ran Ming, so that Ran's art of war began to achieve great success.

Selection, formation, maneuvering orders, formation orders, edicts, prohibitions, comparisons, camping, drills, expeditions, long soldiers, short soldiers, shields, bow shooting, boxing, banners, sentry guards, horse scriptures, city defense, attacking City, Zhuhu, Astronomy, Geography, etc., a total of 32 subjects, 780 sub-categories.It is also full of pictures and texts. If it is left to future generations, it will be the most comprehensive military information during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.These things were not shown to the public, but as Ran Min's eldest son, Ran Zhi had seen and learned them.Although not fully learned, at least [-]% to [-]% are understood.

Ran Zhi didn't have the opportunity to personally train students before, but he saw that Ran Ming used his knowledge to train talents for his own use.Ran Zhi also moved this thought.The four major apprentices, and more than 30 good seedlings, are Ran Zhi's original team.

Yiqi came on the morning frost, breaking the tranquility of the holy spring town.The knight came with news about He Luo, but this news was not what Ran Zhi wanted.Heluo was not in chaos. Heluo was tried by Ran Ming, more than 20 important officials were executed, and more than 1000 people were exiled to the Western Regions.But Heluo is still calm.The chaos in Heluo that Ran Zhi hoped for did not come.

"Is this God's will?" Ran Zhi murmured, his mouth full of bitterness.And Yang Yun's heart was also full of contradictions, he was a double-faced man right now, even though he was protecting Ran Zhi, it was because it was Wang Meng's order, and he had to obey.But with Ran Zhi, he really has no future at all.

Ran Zhi was already in despair, he was killed and exiled, but He Luo didn't dare to turn against him, and he didn't even make any changes.When did Ran Ming have such a great deterrent power?

(End of this chapter)