Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

  Chapter 90 Torture officials! Pay no taxes or die! (seeking subscription)

Da da!

Da da!

  Under the setting sun, Huang Degong rode his horse and held a gun, came to Shen Yongjia and other officials and gentry, and sneered: "I actually expect my own bravery to fight against our Xichang soldiers and horses, and I am beyond my control!"

   As he spoke, Huang Degong also picked up the square scarf on Shen Yongjia's head with the tip of his spear.

  Shen Yong Jiaqiang calmed down and said: "Don't dare to hide from the superiors. They are indeed thieves, not village braves. Our Changzhou scholars and people have suffered from them for a long time. Please investigate clearly!"

"Let's take it as if you are telling the truth. After all, my Xichang is also a soldier of the imperial court, not a rogue, but now I wish I were a rogue, so that I can poke a few holes in each of you to eliminate the pain in your chest. gas!"

   "Damn it, that is, Lao Tzu Xichang wants to bring cannons and guns. If ordinary officials came to collect taxes, you would have let your hometown brave kill them all! Isn't it?"

   "It's a pity that I was hungry and killed the Tartars for you back then, but you refused to pay half a bucket of tax and food! What a bunch of wolf-hearted people!"

  Huang Degong scolded these officials and gentry.

   But Shen Yongjia and other officials and gentry did not dare to show their grandeur.

   "Where does the former Chief Assistant Shen Changzhou's family live?"

  Huang Degong then asked.

  These officials and gentry all glanced at Shen Yongjia.

   Shen Yongjia replied: "I really don't know."

   "You locals don't know where your local nobles live?"

  Huang Degong asked a question, and said: "I don't know, then copy your home!"

   "No, we know, we just didn't dare to say at first, he is Shen Gong Zhongzi!"

  A squire named Song Jiutong hurriedly pointed at Shen Yongjia.

   Shen Yongjia was furious, and looked at Song Jiutong: "Song Jiutong! How dare you betray the lord? If it wasn't for Lao Tzu's Shen family's help, would you be able to become an official?"

  Song Jiutong bowed his head and remained silent.

  Huang Degong pointed a gun at Shen Yongjia: "Lead the way!"

"yes!"

   Shen Yongjia agreed honestly, then got up, and brought Huang Degong to his mansion.

  At this time, Huang Degong suddenly saw a raging fire burning next to a large house in front of him.

  Huang Degong was shocked, and hurriedly asked Shen Yongjia: "What's going on?"

  Shen Yongjia secretly laughed, thinking: "The people in the mansion must have known about it, and lit a big fire according to the agreement, so that these people in Xichang think that their food has been burned."

  After thinking this way, Shen Yongjia made a painful and anxious look on purpose and said, "It seems that the grain depot in the Han Mansion has run out of water!"

   "Bastard! What a cunning gentry!"

  Huang Degong lashed Shen Yongjia's face with a whip, cursed, and ordered: "Tie him up to me!"

"yes!"

  Then, Huang Degong and the Xichang Official School escorted Shen Yongjia to Shen's house.

  By the time Huang Degong arrived at Shen's house, the Shen's grain depot had been burned down to a rubble field, and even the houses around were also set ablaze.

   "Fire first!"

   Huang Degong saw this and ordered.

"yes!"

  So, the Xichang Official School first helped the nearby people to save their lives.

  Shen Yongjia and his son Shen Shaofang, who had already appeared outside the gate, looked at each other and sneered, triumphantly.

   After the fire was brought under control, Huang Degong led his troops to Shen's house.

  Shen Shaofang and other members of the Shen family were also submissive, and they all prostrated themselves outside the gate: "Welcome to your job!"

   Then, Shen Yongjia pretended to be sad and said: "The house slaves are not careful, and the grain depot is leaking. Now I am afraid it will be difficult to pay taxes and grains. I hope that Master Pang will be lenient!"

   "Grandpa Pang, please be accommodating!"

  Shen Shaofang also begged with other Shen family members, but she still couldn't help laughing secretly, unable to hide her joy that the trick was successful.

   "The commander-in-chief is right. You cannot underestimate how shameless you people are. You must be judged with the greatest malice."

   As he spoke, Huang Degong spread his hands: "Sure enough! I figured out a way to burn the granary!"

  Huang Degong sighed after speaking: "It's really shameless!"

"Grandpa, please! It's really not that my Shen family doesn't want to pay the tax. Our Shen family doesn't want to do this either. Now that the food and fodder are all burned, our Shen family has to borrow food to survive! Woooo !"

   Shen Yongjia really covered his face and began to cry as he spoke.

  The rest of the Shen family also cried, and they all secretly glanced at Huang Degong.

  At this time, the Changzhou scholars and people who came to save lives due to the fire in Shen’s granary and nearby houses also came here to watch. Seeing Shen’s family crying like this, some soft-hearted scholars began to persuade them.

"Your soldiers in Xichang are different from other officers and soldiers. They even help our common people to survive. It can be seen that they are good officers and soldiers with military discipline. They must also be conscientious. Since their Shen family was burned , it can be regarded as retribution, or forget it."

   "Yes, although the Shen family used to bully our neighbors a lot, but now it's really miserable. Soldiers in Xichang, why don't you give them a favor."

   "Look at them, they are usually lords, but they cry worse than us common people when there was a famine. My heart softens. The soldiers of Xichang should show kindness."

  Shen Yongjia, Shen Shaofang, Shen Shaozhi and other members of the Shen family cried even more when they saw that their neighbors, whom they hadn't looked down on, were pleading for mercy for them.

  Shen Yongjia even wailed and said: "The Shen family has received the country's favor, and should serve the country in case of emergency, but the descendants are not good at housekeeping, and suffer from such misfortune. It will be difficult to see our ancestors in the future! Huh!"

   "Oh, that's terrible!"

   "Yes! The Shen family is miserable this time."

   "Now it's up to the military master of Xichang to show kindness."

  Huang Degong ignored these civilians who sympathized with the Shen family, but directly ordered: "Liu Zongmin, you come and torture them, and the rest guard the main roads around. Anyone who dares to obstruct our West Factory from executing the emperor's mission will be killed!"

"yes!"

  Liu Zongmin, who was searched out from among the refugees by Zhang Gui's order, stood up at this moment, and said with a sneer, "Now it's my turn to torture you!"

  Liu Zongmin’s parents hanged themselves because they couldn’t pay the rent collected by the gentry, and he himself became a refugee because of this. If Zhang Guiti hadn’t rescued him, according to the development of the original history, he would follow Li Zicheng and others to rebel.

   Now, although Liu Zongmin did not rebel, but became an official school of the imperial court, his class hatred for these gentry has long been engraved in his bones.

Therefore, Liu Zongmin ignored the sympathy of those scholars and people outside, nor was he emotional because of the fake crying of these Shen family members here. Instead, after saying this with a smile, he asked people to bring Shen Shaozhi, Shen Shaofang's younger brother, first. He whipped his whip and asked, "How do you plan to pay the taxes and grains your family owes to the imperial court?"

"ah!"

  Shen Shaozhi screamed, and then said angrily: "I don't know!"

boom!

  Liu Zongmin pressed one of Shen Shaozhi's hands to the ground, then picked up the bone and smashed it down: "I really don't know?"

   Shen Shaozhi tremblingly said: "I really don't know!"

  Liu Zongmin simply drew his knife and stabbed Shen Shaozhi in the abdomen: "I tell you that you don't know!"

  Shen Yongjia and Shen Shaofang were all surprised.

Shen Yongjia even yelled directly at Huang Degong: "My servant, our Shen family's food has been burned. You have seen it with your own eyes. Why do you still force us to pay taxes? Now you still torture us like this, and even kill people? How is this different from a cruel official?!"

   "This is the end for refusing to pay taxes! I don't care if your food is burned or not. My West Factory only asks you how to pay the tax and food, and you must see the tax and food paid immediately."

  Huang Degong yelled: "There is no discussion!"

When Shen Yongjia saw this eyeball rolled, he looked directly at the common people outside, and shouted: "Fellow folks, please help me and tell the Shen family about me, don't you also want to see their Xichang forced to pay taxes? Killing people?! Aren’t you afraid that they will force you like this?!”

As Shen Yongjia spoke, he glanced at Huang Degong. Seeing that Huang Degong did not show any intention of compromise, he simply knelt down to these folks and people: "I beg you folks to help me! If my Shen family has offended you in the past , beg for mercy here!"

  Senior hunters often appear in the form of prey. The noble gentry of the Shen family who used to look like earth emperors in Changzhou County all pretended to be aggrieved and innocent like little white rabbits, begging for mercy from the common people outside.

  The common people began to feel dissatisfied with Xichang's approach for a while.

   "Xichang did too much."

   "It's really mean, no matter how you say it, the Shen family is also the chief assistant family."

   "The descendants of the chief assistant can't treat him kindly, let alone people like us."

  (end of this chapter)