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Chapter 73 Controlling Shen County
"Boom!" With a sound, the wooden board on the ground was smashed by the head and there was a dull sound, and the villain fell down with blood spurting from his neck.

"Ah!" The nearby villains were splashed with blood, screamed, and wanted to retreat, but the back was blocked, so they could only bite the bullet, shout loudly, and pointed their knives at Feng Yao. cut to.

It was just a few ruffians, Feng Yaojian blocked every stab, and another villain fell to the ground and died.

Zhang Shi, He Tong, and He Tie also swarmed up, and the villains were no match for how many opponents. In just a moment, they killed all the villains blocking the door, and nearly ten corpses were lying at the door. , coupled with the turbulent blood flowing all over the ground, the rest of the villains were stunned and looked at Feng Yao and the others in disbelief.

"Who are you?" The rest of the villains no longer had the previous fierce aura, but started to back away in fear.

Zhao Yu, Zhao Si, and Zhao Yinhong seemed to be taken aback by fright, and looked at the corpse lying on the door in shock!It was the existence that made them feel like a nightmare before, but now they were killed like a few insignificant ants!Zhao Yinhong's eyes became brighter, and she stared blankly at the group of strangers led by her father and younger brother.

Seeing this scene, the old bustard of the trick shop was taken aback, but quickly calmed down, and shouted loudly: "Quickly go and notify the government! Find Mr. Liu! Someone has rebelled!"

A teapot ran out of the door in response, but flew back in a blink of an eye, but what flew back was not a whole person, but a severed head, which flew directly to the center of the lobby, fell to the ground with a thud, and then rolled all the way At the foot of the old bustard, it stopped. The head of the man whose teapot was cut off happened to face up. Although the head was cut off, he did not die immediately. The head stared at the old bustard with wide eyes, opened its mouth a few times, This is how to die.

"Looking for the government? We are from the government!"

At this time, Chen Ren had already led dozens of miscellaneous soldiers and rushed in through the gate.

The old bustard trembled all over, his face turned pale, and he asked tremblingly, "Who are you, from the government? Why, why have I never seen it before?"

Chen Ren ignored the old bustard's words, at this time he had already found Feng Yao standing on the second floor.

"My lord, my subordinates have completely surrounded this place, please show me!" Chen Ren bowed and knelt in the direction where Feng Yao was standing.

Feng Yao nodded, and said: "First kill all these villains, and then arrest all the people in this hall. If there are any resisters, they will be killed!"

"Obey!" Chen Ren stood up and shouted: "Kill these thieves who dare to offend the Lord!"

All the handymen were ordered to step forward, and beheaded all the dozen or so villains who thought they had escaped to the ground.

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Summer June 23

The weather has become very hot. It has not rained in Shen County for more than ten days. The dry and hot weather is very conducive to harvesting wheat. Most of the wheat fields outside the city have been harvested, but there are still many Haven't had time to harvest yet.

This kind of sunny weather is very rare, and it is a good time to rush to harvest wheat, but this year is different from previous years.

The big news that one by one came to the county is being spread among the tenants.

"I heard that our Runan County has a new prefect, and the county magistrate has been sent to prison as soon as he came to our Shen County!"

"What's the matter, you don't know yet, the Fan family, the most powerful in Shen County, died overnight thousands of people, not only the head of the Fan family died, but also anyone with the surname Fan will be killed !"

"You're wrong! My uncle's family name is Fan, so why wasn't he killed? Besides, it's impossible to kill thousands of people! If such a big thing happened, wouldn't everyone rebel?"

"If you don't believe me, it's okay. Since we are all in the same family, you advise you not to talk nonsense. Do you know that there is a child in the old Wang's family who lives next to my house. Now as long as he is disobedient , their family used the name of the new prefect to scare him, don't say it! It really works!"

"Why don't we stop harvesting wheat today, and everyone went to the city to watch the murder. I also heard that many people from Fan's family and the county magistrate's family who had a festival went to the city to seek justice today!"

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The name of Feng Yao, the new prefect of Runan County, spread throughout Shen County overnight.

The Qing Dynasty was seized and all properties were confiscated. More than 40 women who were forced to sell to the Qing Dynasty were found. These women gave them a certain amount of money and food one by one, and ordered their family members to come and get it back, but there are still more than 20 women. Four women were homeless, Feng Yao ordered his subordinates to gather these women to take care of them. Of course, these women were not raised for nothing, but had other ideas, but no specific plan was announced for the time being.

The old bustard and some of the most sinful big teapots were imprisoned and all their property was confiscated.

For this item alone, 630 taels of gold and more than 4000 taels of silver were confiscated, as well as jewelry that could be converted into 5000 taels of silver, and countless other grains and cloths. During the period, there were 850 male and female servants!
Lu Fan reported later that he confiscated 35 Fan Rui's shops, more than 800 houses, nearly 140 mu of real estate, 15 million taels of gold, silver and jewelry, [-] shi of various grains, and nearly [-] servants.

I have to say that it was fortunate that Fan's family was taken away vigorously at that time, otherwise, once Fan's family was given a little more time, it could immediately pull out nearly [-] troops capable of fighting!
Earlier, Chen Ren led the fifty miscellaneous servants to encourage the civilians to redress their grievances, which played a great role. In just one hour after dawn, Feng Yao raised his account, and there were more than 40 cases of suing the county magistrate Liu Zhi and the Fan family. , even if he had expected the degree of darkness, Feng Yao was still so angry that the veins on his forehead popped up after reading these related unjust cases,...

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The entire county town of Shen County shook!People took to the streets one after another to celebrate the arrival of spring in Dian County. Although there are still very few people who dare not go out with ghosts in their hearts, from the general point of view, the people of Dian County welcome the prefect Feng Yao and support the Lord Feng. One male took the initiative to send one to the army, and those whose families had surplus food also donated their surplus food to the army.

Feng Yao announced in his capacity as the prefect that the tax in Shen County was halved that year, and there were civilian households who joined the army, and each household with less than two males aged 55 to [-] would be exempted from all taxes for ten years, which was equal to the ten-year tax reduction for two people. Half!

As soon as this regulation came out, the whole county rejoiced, and all the soldiers who belonged to Liu Zhi in Shen County all pledged their loyalty to Feng Yao!

Feng Yao selected [-] elite soldiers and [-] miscellaneous servants from the original garrison soldiers. The rest of the elderly, infirm, or wounded were all given money and food to go home to work in agriculture. Allocate corresponding houses, fields and servants one by one.

On June 24, the overall situation in Shen County was basically determined. Feng Yao added 5000 elite soldiers and [-] miscellaneous soldiers, plus the [-] miscellaneous servants and [-] elite soldiers brought from Yangzhou. Up to [-], including [-] elite soldiers and [-] handymen, and this number is constantly increasing, because every morning and evening there are strong men who come from nearby to join the army.

(End of this chapter)