Back to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Chapter 147
Xu Shu smiled slightly, and said: "There is a way, I'm afraid my lord won't be so cruel!"

Feng Yao didn't take it seriously, today can be said to be a massacre, and a batch of beheadings have been launched, can't you be ruthless?

"Yuan Zhi, just tell me!" Feng Yao said.

"My lord, kill his whole family!" Xu Shu whispered over his ear.

Feng Yao was taken aback, looked at Xu Shu, didn't he mean that he killed someone?As for killing the whole family?Besides, although the Li family is not kind, they have no worries with me in recent days and no complaints in the past. I killed his whole family just to make the Zhang family grateful?
"Is there any other way?" Feng Yao looked at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu shook his head, and said: "The Li family is rich, if you just order them to pay a certain amount of money, it will be of no use at all, but it is a drop in the bucket, and the Zhang family just swallowed their anger, so the lord might as well suppress this case and hand it over later. Let the county officials handle it!"

Feng Yao thought it was right. The annual income of ordinary people is only a few strings of money. If the Li family is willing to spend a few hundred taels of silver at once, it will be enough for the Zhang family to spend in several lifetimes. The Li family said, it's not worth mentioning at all, it's not that the Li family is running rampant in Runan County!
Feng Yao seemed to be able to see the contemptuous expression of the Patriarch of the Li family!

"Punish and confiscate all the property of the Li family! Let me see if he dares to mess around in the future!" Feng Yao said angrily in his heart, but immediately thought of another problem. Give up, I'm afraid it will bring endless disasters to myself!He may even ask someone to go to the court to sue himself for breaking the law and arbitrarily adjudicating the case, just to covet the property of his Li family!
When Feng Yao thought of this, he couldn't help but shuddered and fell into a dilemma.

"Yuan Zhi, what if I want to handle this case strictly!" Feng Yao said.

Xu Shudao: "My lord, you can order the county magistrate to supervise the case. The Li family is safe and sound under Liu Pi's rule. They must have contacts with Liu Pi. As long as the investigation continues, the evidence will be seized. As long as there is evidence, they can be given Li Jiaan was accused of treason, so it would be up to the lord to kill him! However, the lord can also arrest all the Li family members for the crime of treason first, as long as the Li family is arrested, the wall will be overthrown by everyone. It is not difficult to obtain evidence!"

Xu Shu was not determined to solve Feng Yao at first, seeing Feng Yao's insistence on wanting to have a happy enmity, so he came up with this plan.

Hearing this, Feng Yao nodded and smiled, "It's not that the military division has no plans, but it's just that I don't know me yet!"

Then Feng Yao's face changed, and he immediately sent an order: "After the news of the Li family-related criminals arrives, they will be taken directly to the prison for further trial!"

He also ordered him to follow the executive order to inform Zhou Cang that the Li family would be confiscated first, and all the criminals would be sent to prison!
At the same time, he ordered his subordinate secretary to draft an official document offering a reward for reporting, ordering the people in the county to report the evil deeds of the Li family.

After finishing the case, it was almost noon, Feng Yao ordered to take a break for a while, and after eating, he continued the trial, and ordered Zhao Wang to prepare more meals, so that the hundred men and women could eat for free.

This move didn't cost much, but the common people cheered and praised the new prefect for being fair, benevolent and compassionate.

Not long after the meal, Feng Yao went on to deal with unfinished business.

At this time, the person Yang Wu brought up again was already a serious criminal, but for Feng Yao, it was relatively easier to deal with serious criminals, because there were not many people who had anything to say after they were killed, but they were pardoned for some serious crimes. , received unanimous praise, Feng Yao couldn't help being in a good mood when he saw the gratitude of those criminals who had nothing to do but were wrongfully imprisoned.

Finally, there are death row prisoners, a total of 22 people. For some heinous criminals, Feng Yao does not want to support them to eat in prison anymore, and directly orders them to be released and beheaded. Some of the criminals who committed revenge or murdered others by mistake, Feng Yao intentionally let them go , wanted to recruit these people into the army and allow them to make meritorious deeds to atone for their crimes, but Feng Yao didn't know these people well, so he could only distinguish from the case files. Give those one hundred people a right on the spot.

Every time Feng Yao pulls out a death row prisoner, he first confirms whether there is any grievance. If there is no grievance and it fits the category that can be forgiven, he asks fifty men and fifty women to raise their hands to vote. If more than half of the people raise their hands and express their willingness to let him live, he will order his subordinates to take him away and turn him into a dead soldier. He can take the crime and make meritorious service on the battlefield. Low nationality, promotion is allowed!

These death row prisoners were originally determined to die, and they were so grateful for such a good opportunity, they all expressed their willingness to die in allegiance.

After all the prisoners were dealt with, the people respected and feared Feng Yao. What they were afraid of was that the new prefect was moody and did not follow the rules. If anyone offended Prefect Feng, the result would be very, very miserable!What I respect is that the new leader is dedicated to the people, puts the people first, listens to the opinions of the people, obeys the wishes of the people, and even gives them temporary power of life and death!For those wicked people who dare not speak out, as long as the people are willing, they can be killed immediately without worrying about their revenge. For those knights who are respected by the people, even if they kill people, as long as the people want them to live, Feng The prefect will also be lenient.

The reason why Feng Yao put the dozens of county officials imprisoned by Liu Bi in the last place is to let all the people understand a principle: from now on, Runan County is Feng Yao's territory, and Feng Yao has the final say. , dare to confront Feng Yao, there is only one result, and that is death!If he is really a good official, Feng Yao will definitely keep it and reuse it. If it is a corrupt official, although Feng Yao does not want to enjoy revenge like killing a prisoner, he will never continue to appoint him!
For the last 56 county officials, Feng Yao didn't have the patience to check whether they were good officials one by one, and it was impossible to give them a chance to try them out for a while!

People's eyes are discerning!Feng Yao wants to use these hundred people to distinguish which county officials can be retained and which ones cannot be retained, and even to investigate their past crimes!

Seeing this, everyone understood Feng Yao's intentions, and the serving civil and military generals couldn't help asking themselves what kind of status they had in the hearts of the people.

Every time a county official was brought up, Feng Yao asked the common people to express their support or not to support staying in office.

There are three grades in total. If more than [-]% do not support it, they will be taken back to prison for retrial later. If about [-]% support it, they will be released to go home in court. They will not be hired. Only the county officials who have reached more than [-]% support , Feng Yao will keep it.

The final result was that a total of more than 30 county officials who could continue to use were obtained. Only five county officials were sent back to prison, and the rest were all released.

Satisfied with this result, Feng Yao announced his resignation, doubled the rewards given to the hundred commoners, and dismissed them all.

Afterwards, Feng Yao immediately gathered all the county officials who could be hired, announced the appointment of a number of civil servants and generals, formally appointed Xu Shu as the military adviser, the general leader was responsible for miscellaneous affairs and advice for Feng Yao, Shi Tao was the county magistrate, and dealt with the county affairs. For all internal official duties, Meng Jian is the master, managing all documents in the army.

(End of this chapter)