The yamen servants used water and fire sticks to hit people on the legs.
Aim at the calf bone, exhale and swing it over, making a click sound.
It sounds horrifying, but if the government officials were merciful, it might just be a cracked bone and not necessarily a disability.
Chang Sen's men, on the other hand, used waist knives with scabbards.
Aim at the offender's knee or ankle bones and chop them down hard.
So just after hearing a click, the beaten prisoner couldn't even scream, and passed out directly due to the severe pain.
There was silence in the lobby of the Chief Justice. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the prisoners who were usually aloof. At this moment, the legs and feet were strangely hanging on the flesh...
The bones were completely broken, only held together by skin and flesh....
Not everyone can withstand this kind of torture, just like when Chang Sen's soldiers raised their swords with a grim smile at Qian Dayong, the head of the Shipping Department.
Qian Dayong suddenly shouted, "Master Hou, I have something to say. There is something hidden in this case! I have something to say!"
"Stop!" Chang Sen waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately retreated.
Then Chang Sen turned his head again, looked at Yan Zheng, and sneered, "What's so difficult about this? If you stick two sticks down, he will pour the beans into the bamboo tube himself."
Then, he turned his head again, smiled at Qian Dayong and said, "Tell me, tell me whatever you have hidden! As promised, I will spare your life!"
"Thank you so much, Mr. Hou!" Qian Dayong kept kowtowing and said with a cold sweat on his face, "Actually, the case of a Shachuan citizen who fell into the water and died is not that it cannot be saved, but that it cannot be saved..."
Fiercely, Bai Buyi struggled beside him and roared, "Qian Dayong, don't be so careless!"
"Master Hou, it's all him!" Qian Dayong pointed out Bai BuYi and said indignantly, "In recent years, he and his brother-in-law, the prefect, have coerced and lured the Shipping Department, renting out the ship's ships to help merchants transport goods.
Then, in the name of sending sand, they smuggled and evaded taxes..."
"Qian Dayong, you are so slanderous...!"
"Hit!" Chang Sen roared.
Chang Sen's personal soldier's sheathed waist knife, the pointed copper sheath, was aimed at the fat man's ankle bone and he stamped down hard.
Click!
The fat white man's body swayed, and then he curled up, opened his mouth wide, and rolled on the ground as if he couldn't breathe. He couldn't help but twitch.
"Say, what's going on?" Chang Sen asked again.
Qian Dayong's eyelids were twitching, and Bai Buyi's miserable condition made his body tremble like chaff.
"Yes, yes..." He opened his mouth and said intermittently, "The reason why we can't save it is because we are afraid that others will know about the inclusion in the sand ship..."
"Did you see it?" Chang Sen turned his head proudly and smiled smugly at the wide-eyed Yan Zheng, "Look, not only are human lives being disregarded, but there is also smuggling and tax evasion?"
Yan Zheng's back felt faintly cold, but he felt happy in his heart.
Fortunately he didn't go to trial!
Throwing human lives under the covers has affected countless people.
Now it has been revealed that it was involved in smuggling, and it involves countless people.
~
"Go on!" Chang Sen continued loudly.
Qian Dayong nodded with difficulty, "Yes! In recent years, the Wuchang magistrate, together with his brother-in-law, is Bai Buyi. There are also commanders of the Military and Horse Department, the Criminal Department, the Shipbuilding Department, and the Engineering and Manufacturing Department.
Intimidation and inducement!”
"Everyone who was disobedient was fired and replaced with someone who was obedient! Then... the Engineering and Construction Department dredged waterways, strengthened embankments, built city official roads, drained water, etc. every year, they had to go through
They nodded."
"Take the sand dredging boats as an example. The imperial court originally asked the state capitals to buy and sell from merchants on their own. But here in Wuchang, you have ordered the conscription of civilians to dig sand."
"In this way, there is sand, and they can also report the expenses to the court and eat both sides!"
Chang Sen stroked his beard and his eyes wandered for a long time before he understood what Qian Dayong meant.
"Oh, you mean, these corrupt officials asked the people to dig sand to supply to the Engineering Department, and then told the court that they bought it?"
"Yes, yes!" Qian Dayong said hurriedly.
"Haha!" Chang Sen sneered, "Then let's put it this way, whether it's the Shipbuilding Department or the Engineering and Construction Department, these two yamen are completely rotten, and there are no good people, right?"
"The lower officials have no choice but to do this. The superiors above want to do this. If the lower officials object..." Qian Dayong cried, "Wouldn't it be disobedient to the superior officials?"
"Damn it!!" Chang Sen yelled angrily, "It's all us warriors who are evil, but warriors don't even dare to drink the blood of soldiers! You civil servants have more money-making methods than one! Say, keep talking about smuggling and entrapment!
"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Qian Dayong continued to speak tremblingly, "This Bai Buyi is the tax collector. He later found the villain and said that the Shipping Department and the Engineering and Construction Department went out to fish for sand and it was a thankless task! How about..."
As he spoke, he licked his chapped lips, "Why don't you help the merchants... The tax set by the court is too heavy, it's like 2 out of 10!"
"Then it's better...it's better to let the merchant ships float on the river outside the city instead of entering the city, and then let the shipping department's ships help transfer them."
"He also said that there are no inspections on the comings and goings of sand boats in Xiangyang, so they use sand fishing boats. Half the boat is sand and half is cargo. He and the merchants charge 10% of the tax, which is 10% less than the court's fixed tax..."
"Wait a minute!" Chang Sen asked in confusion, "How does he know that Xiangyang doesn't check the sand ships entering the city by water!"
Qian Dayong trembled, "One is to manage things up and down, and the other is... the gentlemen in Xiangyang also divided the money allowed by the court to buy sand and gravel, but sand and gravel are also needed for building cities and roads, so...
Say hello to Wuchang and send you off from Wuchang..."
"The ship that sank sank because there was too much entrainment and the cabin leaked. If we tried to rescue people and fish out the ship, they would be discovered by outsiders, so we simply refused to save them..."
"Because he was afraid that the matter would be exposed, the prefect ordered that the Xu family not be allowed to file a complaint..."
"Then what's in the boat?" Chang Sen sneered.
Qian Dayong trembled violently, "Tea! Salt! Raw silk...Iron material...Copper material...!"
"Hiss!" Even Chang Sen couldn't help but gasp.
These are all things that are heavily taxed by the imperial court!
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The people watching in the hall seemed to be listening to a fairy tale, with their mouths wide open and their eyes wide open, and they couldn't wait to continue listening.
Zhu Yunxi, who was at the front of the crowd, suddenly remembered a sentence in his mind.
When you suddenly find cockroaches in your home, don’t be surprised. There are already several nests of cockroaches in your home.
Whether it is making money by building a company, or smoothing relationships and smuggling, this is actually not something that can be done by one or two people. It can be done by a group of people, who collude to reach a relationship of interest.
And if it hadn't been for the loss of life, if it hadn't been for so many lives, if it hadn't been for coming to Wuchang on a whim, and meeting Xu Ping'an by accident.
I'm just afraid that this secret will continue and never come out.
Those extremely bad officials are both corrupt and cruel to the people!
~
"Someone is coming!"
At this time, Chang Sen roared again.
"exist!"
"Move two battalions of swordsmen and axemen into the city, kill that bastard craftsman, as well as the Shipping Department, the Punishment Department, the Soldiers and Horses Department... No, send three battalions of soldiers in, and surround me with the prefect's Yamen!"
Chang Sen said loudly, "No one of these rats can escape!"
"yes!"
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"Master Hou!" Suddenly, Yan Zheng spoke tremblingly.
"What?" Chang Sen blew his beard and stared.
"Moving troops into the city?" Yan Zheng trembled, "I advise you to think twice before acting! This... is bound to cause panic..."
"You have harmed the people and enriched your own pockets without causing panic, but I brought in two thousand people and panicked?" Chang Sen sneered, "Don't worry, my soldiers are much more virtuous than you, and they will never dare to harass the people!"
"I didn't mean that," Yan Zheng said again, "You did this...but...?"
Bang!
A gilt gold medal was thrown on the table.
"Look what this is?" Chang Sen sneered.
Yan Zheng trembled, and there were a few big characters written on the sign: "Iron Coupon of the Imperial Alchemy Book"!
This chapter has been completed!