After the words fell, there was silence again inside and outside the temporary gathering hall. Half of the people's eyes were red, and veins were pulsing on the surface of their clenched fists.
Anyone who has children does not hope that they will have a good future.
However, the Yan family of Qingzhou sold them to a foreign country as slaves and maidservants.
It would be fine if the young men and women Yan sold were all homeless orphans, and everyone wouldn’t be so angry. However, most of the young men and women sold by Yan are literate!
In other words, even the children of well-to-do families may become the prey of the Yan and Yang families at any time. How many of the officers and soldiers present have a family background that exceeds that of Liu Xiucai?
"Do you dare to go to Bianliang with me and say what you just said again in front of the officials?" After seven or eight breaths, Ding Wei finally took the lead to calm down and looked into Yan Wuyou's eyes and asked.
"Dare you, boss, if you give the common people this opportunity, go and file a complaint. The common people will be grateful!" Yan Wuyou was completely prepared, gritted his teeth, and responded loudly.
"Do you know that if you falsely accuse an official, you will be found guilty? If what you say today is even half-truthful, the corresponding charges will fall on you!" Ding Wei nodded and continued to remind.
"If ordinary people falsely accuse the Yan family, ordinary people are willing to go to the eighteenth level of hell!" Yan Wuyou answered firmly without even thinking about it.
"Han Tixing, ask someone to take him down. Keep an eye on him and don't make any mistakes!" Ding Wei thought for a while, turned his face to Han Qing, and whispered.
Han Qing nodded lightly, and then ordered Li Yu to take Yan Wuyou down and protect him closely.
"Haicang Branch of the Chunyang Sect will not fly away on his own. Fighting early and late is the same. You just said that there are hundreds of young men and women locked up in the same place." Yan Wuyou's figure appeared as he watched.
After leaving the door, Ding Wei took a deep breath and solemnly proposed to Han Qing, "I will risk my life and lead my troops to follow you. I, I..."
Taking another deep breath, his body trembled slightly with anger, "I also have grandchildren in my family, who are the same age as the Liu brothers and sisters."
It's not that he has overflowing sympathy. Having reached his level as an official, he no longer knows what sympathy is.
With his current power and status, his grandchildren don't have to worry about being captured by thieves and sold into slavery in foreign countries.
However, the Ding family he belongs to is not considered a wealthy family by any means.
At present, his sons can rely on his connections and influence to become officials one after another. One day he goes to Hexi, or fails in the power struggle, behind his back the Ding family will inevitably be quickly beaten back to their original shape.
By then, even if his granddaughter and grandson have grown up, his great-grandson and great-granddaughter can only be regarded as children from ordinary wealthy families, and their family status will not be much better than that of the Liu brothers and sisters.
If a second Yan family happens to appear near his hometown, the consequences can be imagined!
"Thank you Ding Shuzhi!" Compared to Ding Wei's furious reaction, Han Qing's reaction was much calmer. He first offered his hand to the other party, and then suggested softly, "The black village where thieves used to imprison young men and women is in
It is near Denglai Navy Camp. It is about 230 miles away from here. In order to prevent the thieves from jumping over the wall in a hurry, we should let the brothers rest here for a night to build up their strength, and then quietly pounce on them!"
"Yeah!" Ding said that he once led troops to suppress bandits and knew the truth that "a strong crossbow cannot penetrate the Lu's silk". And since Du Yuhou of the Yang family had the courage to use the navy's ships to traffic people, after his crime was exposed, he was indeed
There is also the possibility of inciting the navy officers and soldiers to rebel. Therefore, I hesitated for a while and nodded lightly.
Seeing that Ding Wei had reached an agreement with him, Han Qing immediately arranged for the generals to gather their troops and set up camp to rest with the Shanzhai Juyi Hall as the core.
Ding said that he was very worried and watched him silently. After he had almost arranged the affairs of the general, he cleared his throat and said in a very low voice: "Yan, the Yang family is selling people and plundering the people."
The sin of slaves is so serious that even if the nine clans are exterminated, it is not an exaggeration. However, the former emperor had a will not to kill the scholar-bureaucrats after all. Today's officials are also good-natured. If these two families adopt the strategy of cutting off the strong men's wrists, whatever happens
I'm worried about leaving a few members of the clan to shoulder all the blame, alas——"
As he spoke, he looked around, the worry on his face clearly visible.
"Indeed!" Han Qing heard something in Ding Wei's words and nodded gently. Then, he waved his hand and ordered all the cronies around him to retreat, leaving only himself and Ding Wei alone.
"I'm worried that if you don't kill the snake, you will suffer from it sooner or later." Seeing that there were no outsiders in the Juyi Hall, the worry on Ding Wei's face quickly turned into fierceness, "If this kind of family continues to stay in the world,
It is the disgrace of the Song Dynasty! I wish I could uproot it immediately, crush its bones and spread it into ashes, so that it will never have the opportunity to harm others!"
"To be honest, this is what the junior wants!" Han Qing understood that Ding Wei was worried that after the Yang family regained their strength, they would take revenge on the Ding family or the juniors of the Ding family. After thinking about it, she responded in a low voice, "
However, I have a witness here, so Ding Shuzhi might as well listen to what he has to say."
"Huh?" Ding Wei raised his eyebrows, his eyes immediately filled with expectation.
Han Qing smiled and nodded to him, then stood up and walked out of the door, ordering Dou Sha to bring Luo Huaisheng into the Juyi Hall.
As the victim, Luo Huaisheng already knew that the real culprit who ordered his murder and took possession of his wife was Yan Xicheng, the eldest son of Yan Mansion. Therefore, as soon as he entered the door, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed heavily to Han Qing.
, "Thank you for the punishment, so that the grassroots people know the identity of the real culprit who framed me. The grassroots people have written a new lawsuit to accuse Yan Xicheng of murdering the grassroots people and seizing the grassroots wife. Please remind me to continue to uphold justice for the grassroots people!"
After saying that, he knelt straight, took out a piece of paper written in blood from his arms, and raised his hands above his head.
"I have accepted this petition!" Han Qing admired Luo Huaisheng's cleverness and immediately nodded gently, "Come here, bring me the petition!"
Dou Sha agreed, took the complaint and sent it to his desk. Seeing the hope of revenge, Luo Huaisheng kowtowed hard again. Han Qing did not immediately read what was written on the complaint. After thinking about it, he said in a deep voice, "Don't do it first."
Busy thank me. I still have something to ask you to do. How do you know that the real culprit in Zhang Wengong's assassination was not ordered by the Chunyang Cult? Tell me what you said to me before today in front of Envoy Ding Zhuan.
Son, say it again. His position is above mine and he will be able to tell whether what you said is the truth."
"It must be the truth, the truth. The common people dare to use their own heads to vouch for it!" Luo Huaisheng didn't understand Han Qing's intention, but he knew that if he wanted to take revenge, he had to pass Ding Wei's test first. So, he swore an oath first, and then sorted it out.
After thinking about it, he reported loudly: "The two adults already know that the common man was intercepted and killed by someone who hired someone to kill him, so the common man will not be verbose."
"The common man was stabbed and fell into the water. After escaping death, he pretended to be a beggar to find out who wanted to kill the common man. As a result, he met an old brother named Cao among the beggars. He was blind in one eye and also had an eye.
My legs are lame, I can’t grab food from others, and I often go hungry.”
"The common people are soft-hearted, so they often give him the leftovers they ask for. After going back and forth, we have developed some friendship with each other."
"He saw that the grass-roots people were always secretly staring at Yan's house in the city, asking what happened. The grass-roots people couldn't hide it, so they took a gamble and told him their grievances. After he heard it, he told him what he knew
A big secret of my life was also told to the common people..."
It turned out that the disabled beggar named Cao was originally a captain of the Denglai Navy of the Great Song Dynasty. While protecting the Yang family's ship transporting private goods, he encountered pirates and was seriously injured.
But the Yang family didn't care about his loyalty at all. They even sent him out of the military camp with ten coins before he recovered from his injuries.
For a veteran who was missing an eye and had a broken leg, how many days could ten ounces of money last? Soon, the team leader surnamed Cao was destitute and became a beggar.
The officials of Qingzhou disliked the fact that there were too many beggars in the city, which affected their reputation. They often arranged for servants and helpers to search the whole city and throw the caught beggars out of the city to fend for themselves.
The beggars, however, only have the chance to receive alms from kind-hearted people when they beg for food in the east and west markets, restaurants, and near the city gate.
Playing hide and seek with officials over and over again has become one of the survival skills of the beggar surnamed Cao.
One day, he had just used the copper coins he had saved to pass through the gatekeepers and successfully sneaked into the city. However, he happened to see a group of traveling traders walking over from a short distance with disgust on their faces.
And several of them were his former colleagues in the navy!
Those people did not recognize him who had become a beggar, but he could not forget the appearance of those people and the "good" days when he was a soldier and had enough to eat.
Therefore, he immediately wanted to go over there, reveal his identity, and try to see if he could get a few copper coins to buy steamed buns to satisfy his hunger based on his old friendship.
Unexpectedly, before he could get closer, those people actually pulled out weapons and bows and arrows from their bags and launched an attack on an official who was entering the city.
The beggar surnamed Cao was shocked. He immediately turned around decisively and got into the smelly ditch on the roadside.
Later, he learned that the official who was assassinated that day was Zhang Wengong, the right army inspector sent by Kaifeng Prefecture to investigate the case! (Note: Kaifeng Prefecture is responsible for maintaining the security of the imperial city and the capital, and the right army inspector is a fifth-rank official)
, far above the local level. Storytelling Zhan Zhao is actually this kind of position.)