The people of Dengzhou who were enjoying the carnival, under the leadership of their Liu Qingtian, quickly swept away the Xianjia, a senior fellow villager who joined the Zhongyi Society in the city.
Search your home!
Legally search your home.
Liu Qingtian is the judge of Dengzhou.
When there was no Zhizhou in Dengzhou and Tongzhi, who was originally in charge of Dengzhou affairs, disappeared, he, the judge, was the highest official in Dengzhou, and those who listened to him were those who listened to the court.
I have to say that Tongzhi disappeared at the right time.
Of course, he really disappeared.
Because the local fighting was intensifying, he was afraid of being punished by the court, and he was afraid of being targeted by the local gentry. Moreover, in this situation, if he stayed, he would still have to tangle with the Zhongyi Society. In this case, he might as well run away! In short, he
The local official who was still holding on was defeated by the changes in the situation, but his escape made Liu Wen the highest local official in Dengzhou.
Then Liu Qingtian, who was taught the art of dragon-slaying at Wutaishan University, took to the field like a duck to water.
The first step was to lead the common people to raid the gentry's homes.
The second step is to hold a public trial in the state government office as a local official of the imperial court, so that the people can expose the crimes of these elders and sages, not only the current ones, but also the past ones, including those of his family elders, and then open the door of the state government office.
Let all the people listen.
The third part directly divides the fields.
After the property is confiscated, of course the property will be lost. After the property is lost, these properties will become official land, and the official land will be decided by the local officials.
The tenants who originally farmed continued to farm, and until the court formulated the latest system, they temporarily paid taxes according to the official land tax...
What, tax-free this year?
Ah, then you don’t have to pay anything for the time being.
No gentry can stand up to this. It doesn’t matter whether you are a powerful local, a scholar, or a bandit collaborator in the mountains. In front of the people of Hezhou who support Liu Qingtian like a carnival, they are all scum. It only took half a month.
Within a short period of time, Liu Wen completed control of Dengzhou. The intensifying armed fighting disappeared. The Zhongyi Society, which had still imagined that it could control the local area, was swept away. Order was restored in all subordinate counties, and then Liu Qingtian personally led the people to start
Clear land everywhere.
As for the land of Tie Xuan's family, it has long been unclear.
Besides, he took the initiative to implement the public land law.
Of course you have to lead by example.
At the same time, Li Xin of Xiangyang also completed his implicated property raids on the Xiangyang gentry...
It's just a connection.
The gentry he captured were tortured and bitten randomly.
Those bitten out were taken to prison and tortured severely.
Then continue to bite more.
He is a promotion official.
In the Ming Dynasty, even the prefect could interrogate officials, and even the governor could impeach...
Yuan Keli, the famous governor of Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, made his name when Governor Yingtian framed the Suzhou prefect.
Li Xin, as if possessed by the soul of Zhu Yuanzhang in prison, quickly made Xiangyang Mansion burst into tears. A large number of gentry, regardless of whether they were really guilty or were bitten out by relatives and friends who could not bear the torture, joined the ranks of ruining their families, fully
Let people see what it means to be a magistrate who ruins his family and destroys his family.
However, they also received impeachments from officials at all levels in Huguang and Henan provinces...
Wuchang.
Huguang Chief Envoy Department.
"this?"
Zheng Ci couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the impeachment memorial in his hand.
"You still have a childlike innocence!"
He said immediately.
Opposite him was the Councilor of the Huguang Chief Envoy Department. Li Zhigang, a native of Songjiang who was currently in charge of the Huguang Chief Envoy Department, looked at him silently. Li Zhigang's real name was Gang, but he only used the word "Gang". He was a good friend of Xie Jin. He was the first to propose that Zhu Di move the capital.
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"Otherwise, so what? Does Yanjia have any good ideas?"
The inspector Huang Xin said.
He is a native of Pengze, Jiangxi, and started his career as a censor, Ren Yushi, a student of Etai.
"As a public servant, what should we do? Do we need to make it clear?
Good strategy?
Is this a good solution?
The government under the jurisdiction of Huguang pushed officials to create unjust imprisonments, and the victims complained to the prosecutor's office, and the public prosecutor ordered them to go to Huicheng and bring them to justice in accordance with the law. Isn't it a public duty? Why should I ask someone what to do? It's not that I don't know what to do, but I don't dare.
Right? Don’t forget, gentlemen, Yang Feng doesn’t need to implement the public land law now. He also knows that he can’t do it now, but he can cannibalize it.
One prefecture by one prefecture, little by little.
What do those unscrupulous people know? They will listen to anyone who offers them benefits.
Yang Feng gave them benefits, and they listened to Yang Feng.
Under the pretext of extinguishing the crime, the property and land of the gentry were divided, and those unruly people were devoted to him. A unruly person in Xiangyang Prefecture was devoted to him, and that was tens of thousands of soldiers. Look at this Liu Wen
What he did was only half a month. At most, he brought 40,000 young men with him, and he became as big as a rogue bandit. He had just taken these young men to divide the land of the gentry, and now what did he want these people to do?
Listen to him, then one day Yang Feng sends the same minions in Nanyang Mansion, and the latter will also imitate them in Nanyang Mansion. If the gentry in Nanyang Mansion dare to resist, will Liu Wen bring tens of thousands of young people to destroy them?
Then Nanyang Mansion could not escape from his clutches.
If Li Xin succeeds in Xiangyang and Yang Feng sends a minion to the Anlu Mansion, will the Anlu gentry still be able to resist?
How many years will it take for Huguang to fall?
If Huguang falls, how many years will it take for Jiangxi to fall?
The Duke does not dare to do so at this time. The next day, Yang Feng and his minions will lead the unruly people to divide the Duke's family property and the Duke's land. Don't regret it."
Zheng Ci said.
Huang Xin was silent.
"I don't want to say anything else. I am just a commoner now, just wandering around the rivers and lakes. I just don't make you laugh at me again in ten years."
Zheng Ci said.
"It is true that someone can be imprisoned according to the inspection, but what is the use? At most, it is still just impeachment. Yang Feng has to let go of the imperial edict after all. After all, the imperial court is in his hands. Unless we disown this imperial court, otherwise
No matter what, he has the final say."
Huang Xin said.
"no matter what?"
Zheng Ci laughed again.
"Gongzhen means no matter what, you still don't dare to do anything?
Yang Feng can indeed release people by decree.
But the man is in the prison of the Procuratorate in Huguang. It is up to the public to decide whether to release him or not. Yang Feng asked the public to release him according to the imperial edict. Wouldn't the public accuse him of new crimes and continue to report him? If a good man is in prison, there is no telling what will happen.
He was killed on the spot, and it was not up to Gong to decide how many days he would live after he was put into prison. In particular, in the prison of the Huguang Procuratorate, there were no prisoners who died violently, or prisoners who committed suicide out of fear of crime.
Don't you understand this?
Do you not understand or do you dare not?”
Zheng Ci said sarcastically.
Huang Xin was silent again.
Of course he knew very well that all these things could be done.
He is an envoy.
If a victim came to accuse the Xiangyang Prefecture official of being beaten and persecuting innocent people on fabricated charges, then he, the prosecutor, had the right to summon him to the provincial capital to confront him. Li Xin could immediately capture him when he arrived, and then impeach Yang Feng for his crimes.
He definitely couldn't ignore his cronies, and he would definitely ask him to be released with an imperial edict in the end, but he immediately found out new crimes and continued to impeach Li Xin. He entangled him like this several times, and locked Li Xin in jail for several months.
It was a sudden death. Of course veterans like Huang Xin understand this operation. He has been working as an inspector for many years. What doesn't he understand? But the problem is the consequences of doing this...
He became an open enemy to Yang Feng.
He was dismissed from his post in anger by Yang Feng, and Yang Feng even accused him of a crime and arrested him.
Intellectually he can't control it.
But……
What Zheng Ci said is correct.
Yang Feng is just playing cannibalism. He doesn't have enough minions, and the number of troops he controls is not enough to suppress the world's resistance. After all, in theory, he is just a foreign envoy, and the army belongs to the Ming Dynasty. Once the world rebels, especially those who
If the vassal princes join again, the troops controlled by the imperial court may not all listen to him.
They are the Zhu family's army, not his army.
But he can nibble away.
One prefecture, one state, little by little.
The people in these prefectures and prefectures where the land is divided are truly loyal to him, and they will fight for him when necessary.
That's not fighting for him either.
Instead, they fight to defend their assigned fields.
When this encroachment reaches a certain level, when he has cultivated enough minions and the number of people loyal to him is enough, it is just an order to completely destroy the world of the gentry. At that time, countless Li Xin, Liu Wen,
He will take the millions of people who have been allocated fields to accomplish everything he wants to do.
This is inevitable.
People like Huang Xin know it very well, and it won't take a few years.
Wutaishan University graduates thousands of people a year, and it is still expanding. It will open a second one. For insurance and to take care of the north, this Wutaishan University is planning to open in Taiyuan. Therefore, Yang Feng’s talent training ability will double in five years at most.
Several times, it is not a problem to graduate three or four thousand a year. At that time, all the officials in the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty will become his minions. So it only takes five years to stand up to the sky, and in five years, even if he builds two such houses in one year,
In five years, the population of a province has been established as a basis, and there is Shanxi in the north, as well as border towns such as Liaodong and Huining that he controls.
Who can compete at that time?
So if he endures it for a day, his strength will grow stronger.
If you want to resist, you must do it early.
But……
If you resist, you will die.
Huang Xin and Li Zhigang looked at each other, and then sighed at the same time.
A few minutes later.
"There's no point in this. It's already like this, and everyone is pretending to be dead. From now on, the knife will be on the neck, and I guess I won't have the guts to resist."
Outside the chief envoy's office, Zheng Gui, the attendant who had been beside Zheng Ci, said somewhat helplessly.
Well, he was sent by Yang Feng, and he actually graduated from Wutaishan University. However, he did not take part in the imperial examination, but was directly selected into the newly established reconnaissance department of Jinyiwei. This was even established secretly, except for the commander of Jinyiwei.
Song Zhong and other major generals are not known to ordinary Jinyiwei. However, this department is at the same level as the Zhenfu Department, so the Jinyiwei has gradually improved. Beiya is dedicated to jailing, targeting civil and military officials, arresting people for interrogation, and it is their job.
The Nanzhen Fu Division is responsible for internal discipline and is responsible for criminal issues within the Jinyi Guards. The Reconnaissance Division is a foreign agent, a full-time intelligence agency, not only for Ming Dynasty's internal intelligence, but also for external intelligence.
"Don't be anxious, they are not in a hurry, why should we be anxious?
Besides, even if they want to do something, they have to prepare it first. Just like Huang Xin, they have to arrange it in advance, and their children and grandchildren have to be sent to Guangzhou first.
Besides, they alone are not enough.
They need the entire Huguang and even other provinces to support them.
The most important thing is to have the support of the army."
Zheng Ci said calmly.
At this moment, a group of cavalry rushed in front and stopped in front of the door. A red-robed general dismounted with his guards. He glanced at Zheng Ci and Zheng Ci with some confusion, but he obviously did not recognize Zheng Ci.
He just looked at it and ignored it, but walked into the Chief Envoy's Yamen with a gloomy look on his face.
A few guards remained outside.
Zheng Gui immediately came over.
"This military master, who is this general just now?"
he asked.
As he spoke, he handed a banknote to the leading guard.
The latter was surprised, but still smiled.
"Our general is the commander of Huguang City, and his surname is Xue Taipeng."
he said.
"It turns out to be Xue Tongzhi, but Xue Tongzhi seems a little angry. We are grain merchants coming to Huguang. Is there another trouble somewhere?"
Zheng Gui said and handed over another one.
The guard took it clearly.
This identity is very reasonable. The biggest fear of selling grain is local unrest. This is not about selling back and selling, and the price of grain will be high if there is chaos. This is a grain-producing area, and the price of grain will be high if there is chaos, but the nature of the grain merchants is completely different.
"It's none of your business. Our general has a piece of land in Xiangyang. Recently, Xiangyang Prefecture promoted officials. Because he was intercepted and killed by local gentry, he is retaliating against the local gentry. He arrested hundreds of gentry in Xiangyang Prefecture and ransacked their homes. Our general's land belongs to him.
The in-laws were in charge, but they were also copied by the official. The son of the in-laws came to ask for help. Although our general has a high official position, he can't control the people. Therefore, he came to Councilor Li and asked the Chief Envoy to take charge of this official. You guys
Food sellers should not go to the north, there has been some chaos in the north recently."
The guard said.
"Thanks!"
Zheng Gui cupped his hands and said.
Then he came back and left quickly with Zheng Ci.
"Li Xin doesn't know that these properties belong to Xue Peng, right?"
Zheng Gui said doubtfully as he walked.
"The young man is somewhat energetic. Taizu has not been doing much in the past few years. It is not just the gentry who are annexing land in the local area. The same is true for the generals in the guards. They just don't dare to show it. But these are no different from the gentry.
In another thirty years, they will all be the same.
But now Huang Xin and Li Zhigang should have the courage, right?"
Zheng Ci said with a deep smile.
He was right.
The next day, Xue Peng's son-in-law went to the Procuratorate to beat drums and complain, claiming that Li Xin, the official of the Xiangyang Prefecture, framed his father, arrested him, and beat him. Then, based on his father's confession, his family property was confiscated.
Divide his family's land.
What a pity for his father, a virtuous old man who built bridges and roads, gave out porridge and medicine, worked hard all his life and was reluctant to eat meat just to save two thousand acres of fertile land, but he was immediately deprived of his membership by this dog official.
Where is the law of heaven!
It’s snowing in June!
In short, he was crying like snow in June in front of the inspector's door.
His cry finally moved Huguang Inspector Huang Xin, who had a strong sense of justice. The latter immediately sent a letter to Xiangyang Prefecture, asking Xiangyang Prefecture to recommend Li Xin to Wuchang to confront him.