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Chapter 147 Killing Corrupt Officials
Five hundred bandits did not want to let Xiao Zijie and Kong Ze go, and Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie didn't want to let Huang Batian go either.

The two sides began to confront each other again.

Near noon, when everyone was feeling tired, officers and soldiers from Shuzhou arrived, and the leader was none other than Qiu Tong, the general judge of Shuzhou.

This time, Qiu Tong led a total of [-] soldiers, and most of them carried bows and crossbows.

In the past, these bandits had already run away.

Because bandits are not the enemy of a well-equipped regular army at all.

But this group of people was quite loyal, and none of them left because of Huang Batian, and quickly approached the Earth Temple, almost all of them surrounded the entrance of the Earth Temple.

Seeing this movement, Xiao Zijie and Kong Ze naturally quickly walked out of the Earth Temple and came to the door.

At this moment, Qiu Tong, who was sitting on a tall horse, saw them.

"It turned out to be those two boys!" Qiu Tong couldn't help being overjoyed.

Last night, he received a report from the villagers that a large number of bandits had gathered here. He thought that someone was about to rebel, so he led his troops to rush over overnight. He never thought that he would meet Xiao Zijie and Kong Ze.

These two sons, one is Wen Xiang's son, the other is the wealth minister's son, Qiu Tong can't let them have any accidents.

"Listen to the people inside, quickly let go of the two prefects, or I will attack by force!"

The robbers looked bitter.

put?How do they put it?
Now they are the ones who are facing the enemy from both sides, and it is not true that they retreat, nor do they not retreat.

A middle-aged bandit said to Kong Ze, who was seven or eight meters away, "You... If you let our boss go now, we will leave immediately!"

"No, you can't leave. You have to stand here for at least an hour. Let's run first, or I will kill your boss!" Kong Ze said very seriously.

"what?"

The bandit couldn't help but bewildered.

"You... Aren't you also officials? Why... why do you want to escape?"

Xiao Zijie straightened his chest and said, "We...we still have important things to do!"

Even if Qiu Tong pardons them for escape from prison, they will never go back with Qiu Tong.

Both of them are people who care about face, and they haven't collected the criminal evidence of those magistrates yet, if they go back, they will lose face.

They came to Shuzhou to make contributions, not to ask their father to wipe their ass after they did something wrong.

Immediately, Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie released Huang Batian from the beam.

As soon as the two of them took out the rag from Huang Batian's mouth, the guy shouted loudly: "You two villains, if you have the ability to fight with me, you can't be considered a hero if you use such insidious tricks! want……"

Before Huang Batian finished speaking, Kong Ze stuffed the rag into his mouth again, and then put the big knife on his neck.

"Now, we're going to take you out of here and let you go when you're safe. If you don't cooperate, you'll be killed directly!" Kong Ze said in a cold voice. He who had been on the battlefield spoke with an air of murderous look.

The tightly bound Huang Batian didn't dare to move at all.

Soon, the bandits gave way to a passage, allowing Kong Ze, Xiao Zijie and Huang Batian to escape forward.

And although they can't beat the officers and soldiers, they still have a lot of ghost ideas.

A group of people fled around, fighting on their own, so that the officers and soldiers knew where to chase.

When Qiu Tong discovered that Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie were no longer in the Earth Temple, they had already run away.

Qiu Tong was naturally able to guess what the two of them were thinking, and immediately ordered to hunt down these bandits with all their strength, creating the best investigation environment for Xiao Zijie and Kong Ze.

In one day, five hundred bandits were arrested and more than 200 people were arrested.

The most unlucky one was Huang Batian.

Around noon, he was tied to a big tree near the main road by Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie, but before his accomplices came to rescue him, he was caught by Qiu Tong.

It took dozens of soldiers about a quarter of an hour to completely capture him and then escort him to the state prison.

According to the crimes he has committed so far, it may be difficult for him to get out in this life.

Kong Ze and Xiao Zijie disappeared completely.

Four days later, Shen Tuyi, the commander of the forbidden army, led [-] forbidden troops to Shuzhou, and announced Zhao Yan's oracle.

Pan Wenyue and Qiu Tong immediately began to sentence according to the laws of Dazhou.

Under the absolute suppression of the [-] imperial guards, any resistance would be futile.

In just one day, Pan Wenyue announced the decision to punish officials from various prefectures and counties.

The ten magistrates suspected of corrupting ink were executed.

Of the 86 county magistrates suspected of corrupting ink, 26 were beheaded, 40 were exiled to Qiongzhou, and 20 were demoted to common people.

This kind of punishment almost dismounted all the officials in Shuzhou.

But this is not because the laws of Da Zhou are too strict, nor is Pan Wenyue's sentence too heavy, but because the crimes committed by these officials are indeed heinous and too numerous to write down.

After the verdict was announced, the people of Shuzhou cheered happily, and all praised His Majesty's sagehood. Those officials who thought they could escape but were arrested could only hope that they could live a few more days.

This time, more than 30 people were beheaded and killed, and they were basically of the scholar-bureaucrat class.

This has never happened in the history of Dazhou.

The news quickly reached the ears of the scholars in Changdan City. When these people heard that His Majesty was going to kill so many scholar-bureaucrats and officials, they couldn't help being a little scared.

These people used to be role models in their hearts.

Some scholars secretly speculate that His Majesty is deliberately targeting the scholar-bureaucrat class, and wants to emphasize the national policy of suppressing literature.

Especially those scholars who were seventeen or eighteen years old and had not yet achieved fame, under the guidance of some officials, began to write petitions and began to sit in front of the tribute courtyard, hoping that the emperor would deal with them lightly.

For a while, Changdan City was full of uproar, and even a large number of memorials on Zhao Yanlong's case appeared.

Most of what they said was that Zhao Yan's sentence was too severe, and the ten emperors in the past all treated the scholar-bureaucrat class favorably.

Faced with these memorials, Zhao Yan basically relied on Xiao Jingye to block them. For the wishes of these scholars and the pleadings of some officials, Zhao Yan didn't even read them.

Over the years, the weakest part of the Great Zhou was not that the army was weak, but that the king's temperament was too weak.

If he wants to achieve national reform, he must show his attitude fully.

At the same time, Yang Hong and Xiao Zijie finally returned to the Shuzhou government office, and they still looked proud.

Because through on-site visits, they found some evidence that Shuzhou officials were greedy for ink and fish and meat for the common people.

Pan Wenyue took a closer look, and immediately added three more officials to death, and the number of people exiled in Qiongzhou became 50 people.

After the news spread to Changdan City, the majority of scholars and some officials saw that the sentence had become more severe, and they couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts, and they dared not make any further remarks about the reduction of sentence. Some older officials even resigned directly, preparing to retire Returned home.

(End of this chapter)