At dawn, the heavy rain in summer fell like a pour, making everything around it invisible.

This heavy rain in late summer and early autumn seemed to be crying for the sudden decline of the Yimen Fan of Yanggu. The wind and rain were blowing, forming a diagonal line in the world, passing by white. A fog evaporated from the vast land, covering Fanjiazhuang, which had been recovered by Baoding of the Ximen family, and everything around it was shrouded in darkness.

At this time, Wu Haogu had already sat in the lobby of the Fan Family's scepter office with Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong, and was investigating the incident of the Fan family's children joining Liangshan.

The so-called Punishment Staff Hall is where Fan Jiayimen lynched people - lynching is common for the wealthy families of the Song Dynasty. Not only the Yanggu Yimen Fan You, but also the Wu Haogu’s own clan Baibo Yimen Wu, but also the local tyrants like Ximen Qing’s Yanggu Ximen family, all of whom have lynching.

For example, the various "military laws" used by the Ximen family to restrain Baoding from Ximen Zhuang are actually lynching!

Although the Fan Family Yimen did not have lynchings to govern the army, they would also be subjected to severe lynchings to people in the clan and customers (tenants) controlled by the Yimen Fan Family!

Of course, you won’t be beheaded. Yanggu Yimen’s style is not as cruel as the Ximen family. At most, they will beat the person seriously and then die.

In addition, the Yimen Fan family also has the punishment measures to keep the black prison and not give food! Moreover, there have been many incidents of starving people to death.

Most of the people who were beaten to death by the Fan family of Yanggu Yimen were not the Fan family, but the Fan family’s customers, or tenants. They either failed to pay the rent in time, or they could not pay the loan from the Fan family, or stole the Fan family’s things, and were arrested by the Fan family’s clan to Fanjiazhuang for rectification.

The "righteousness" of the Fan family in Yimen is said in the Shilin of Yunzhou. For the Fan family's client, how can the Fan family have any kindness? It is simply a master who is extremely mean and stingy, and it is a door of unrighteousness.

In contrast, the Ximen family is very loyal to their customers. Not only does it charge much less rent than other companies, but it will also be free of rent and interest or even open warehouses to release grain in the year of disaster! Moreover, the Ximen family does not lend money to its customers, and the interest collected by lending money to customers will never exceed 10% (annual profit).

For customers who really can't pay the debt, pay the rent, and have no one to serve as thugs, at most, they will seize the tenant and never commit lynching to kill people. The lynching of the Ximen family is only used for the thugs who are in charge of Ximenzhuang and the thugs who work hard for the Ximen family outside Yanggu County.

The reason for this is not that the people of the Ximen family are all Virgins, but that the Ximen family does not care about the benefits of the land at all. Their purpose of investing in land is to control the population, and the purpose of controlling the population is to raise loyal thugs.

Only with the loyal thugs can the smuggling students of the Ximen family continue to do it.

These are all valuable experiences! A family that can control thugs and private soldiers with land can form a much more reliable relationship than hiring!

To put it aside, the land revolution in the later Red Dynasty was actually a similar route - the key is not to divide the fields, but to control the grassroots by dividing the fields and grasp the masses firmly.

Ximen Qing, a female player, can use hundreds of Ximen family Baoding to such a level, relying on this kind of control of both kindness and power. The Baoding under his command are all obedient, so of course it is easy to command.

These Baoding, who obeyed the orders and obeyed the commands, did not stop acting because of the heavy rain. They are now scattering everywhere and "catching the thief" in the rain. In fact, they are not thieves, but Fan family and Fan family customers who were scared away by the sudden arrival of Baoding of the Ximen family - they were ravaged by the heroes of Liangshan. They all became frightened birds. Seeing a large group of people coming in line with torches, they fled one after another, leaving only a mess of Fanjiazhuang.

Not long after Wu Haogu and others sat in the Fan family's Punishment Staff Hall, many "thieves" were caught one after another. County Magistrate Shi borrowed the venue of the Fan family's Punishment Staff Hall to go to the hall to ask about the case. As soon as he asked, he actually heard a very surprising situation.

"What a secret? There are many people from the Fan family who are thieves? Don't talk nonsense, the Fan family is a family of great scholars and officials!"

"Xiao Di dared not deceive Ming Mansion. There are indeed several men from the Fan family who followed the Liangshan bandits, including Fan Jiu Xiucai..."

"Yes, Xiao Di also saw Fan Jiuxiucai walking with his own eyes with the big boss of Liangshan with his mother and son, and talking and laughing!"

"It's true, I've seen it too! There are indeed many people from the Fan family who are following the thief!"

There were several ragged farmers standing in the hall, most of whom were customers living near Fanjiazhuang, and one of them was a servant of the Fan family. Now they all swear to expose someone in the Fan family to follow the thief!

"Mingfu," Zhang Kegong stroked his beard and frowned and said to Shi Guozhong: "This matter is a bit strange. Could it be that the Liangshan bandits tied up the Fan family to the mountain?"

"Do you want to tie the meat ticket?" Wu Haogu suddenly interrupted, "Does the Fan family have a lot of money?"

"The Fan family is very poor!" Ximen Qing said, "Everyone in Yanggu County knows that 'a bowl of rice, no oil', is talking about the Fan family in Yanggu."

Zhang Kegong snorted, and was about to scold Ximen Qing, who was talking nonsense. Wu Haogu said coldly: "It doesn't matter if the Fan family has no money. I, Wu Haogu, have money. If Liangshan tied meat tickets, I will pay for the Fan family to redeem people. However, what if Liangshan didn't tie meat tickets, but the Fan family was a thief? This matter... is not easy to deal with!"

Liangshan must not dare to take Wu Haogu's Qian, so the Fan family cannot take off the hat of the thief, at least not at the moment.

"What's wrong with it?" Shi Guozhong, the confused magistrate, smiled at this time, "The Fan family is not the Yi Sect that the emperor has granted. Some people follow the thief and disband the door so that they will not involve too much and mislead the future of so many good children of the Fan family. This is the ultimate truth!"

This county magistrate Shi is really a nerdy official! Zhang Kegongxin said: I don’t know if a Jinshi can be compared with the interests of the Yimen clan?

No! If the Yimen is dispersed, the population and hidden fields controlled by the Fan family will return to the control of the Yanggu County Government. There will be tens of thousands of acres of taxable land and thousands of male people in one go. At a time, they will be able to collect at least tens of thousands of taxes a year. The magistrate Shi Da will have the political achievements, and the officials will naturally be promoted.

Is this old magistrate really a nerd or pretending to be confused?

"It's still the thoughts of Shi Magistrate Shi!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The Fan family has a large population, and it's not surprising that there are a few bad horses. It would be bad if the Fan family missed the imperial examination for so many scholars in the Fan family for the sake of a few thieves.

Now it’s almost time to test the test. I think it’s better to disperse the Fan Family’s Yi Sect earlier so that the children of the Fan Family can catch up with this test the test.”

"By the way!" Shi Zhixian smiled, touching his white beard, "The saying of Yimen is all in the hearts of the people. As long as the Fan family is loyal and righteous, they will be divided into the family or the Yimen. Otherwise, there will be nothing good for the country and the family."

The Fan family is going to be divided, isn’t the Ximen family the only one dominant?

Zhang Kegong thought this in his heart, but he couldn't refute Shi Guozhong. Because the foundation of the Fan family of Yimen was the imperial examination, which was different from the Ximen family that fought and killed. If the imperial examination was not possible, there would be no Fan family of Yimen.

Just as Mr. Zhang was lamenting in his heart for the collapse of the Fan Family Yimen Sect, several Ximen family's Baoding had already brought Fan Kaishan and Fan Zhiwen, who were soaked in the rain. One of the Ximen family's Baoding was holding a black cloud sword in his hand.

"Report to my elder sister, I found the two of them who claimed to be Mr. Fan and Mr. Fan Shisan, but they were still carrying a long sword."

The long sword was handed over to Ximen Qing. Ximen Qing touched the sword, looked at the miserable Fan family father and son, and then got up and bowed: "Officer Fan, Thirteenth Brother, you are looking for you, sit down quickly, please sit down quickly."

The two fathers and sons of the Fan family looked at each other, sighed at the same time, and then sat down on the two old chairs. I don’t know if it was because of a sudden change in the house, Fan Shisan’s scholar suddenly couldn’t help crying loudly.

Wu Haogu watched the father and son coldly. His father was about 60 years old and very thin, like a bamboo pole, with a demeanor of living for a long time. Even now he is in a down-and-out position, he still sits there majestic. His son is also tall and tall, with zero twenties, high forehead, and a little prominent eyeball, looking like a nerd.

"Thirteen scholars, don't cry, don't cry." County Magistrate Shi advised warmly, "A real man doesn't cry easily, but he just lost some external things and nothing is great."

Zhang Kegong also said: "Yes, there is a golden house in the book. As long as you don't lose your knowledge, you will have everything you can get after a Jinshi next year."

"The eighth commander of the Black Cloud Long Sword City... Yang Xingmi's tooth army in Huainan?" Brother Zhao Zhong suddenly shouted loudly at this time, "Is this sword inherited from your Fan family, right?"

Old Man Fan looked at the iron tower-like man Zhao Zhong and the black cloud sword he held gently with one hand, and suddenly thought to himself: Our ancestors must be like this general, a strong man.

Thinking of this, Old Man Fan sighed: "Yes, my ancestors were the teeth generals of King Yang Wu, and later became generals in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It's a pity that their descendants were unworthy and forgot their ancestors' martial arts, so they ended up now."

County Magistrate Shi hurriedly comforted: "This is a bad saying for the general, how can the descendants of the Fan family be unworthy? They are just poor, rich and powerful... If they want to cultivate both civil and military affairs, they cannot gather thousands of clans and live together for a hundred years."

The cost of a thousand men who are both civil and military is something that a landlord family like the Fan family cannot afford. Perhaps only a general like the Pan family can afford it. However, the Pan family's combat power is not much stronger than that of the Fan family. If the Pan family were all like Brother Zhao Zhong, could the Song Dynasty's official family still sleep?
Chapter completed!