Hanging a squire on a tree to show off to the public was extremely extreme. Since the officials saw it, they naturally couldn't stand by and watch. Wang Xijue gave an order, and Gan Hong ran towards the big locust tree with a few soldiers.
They planned to free Mr. Jia from the tree and bring him to Wang Xijue and others for questioning.
The movement on the official road here has long attracted the attention of those cultivators in the fields. When Gan Hong led his people to the big locust tree, several men who had just been pulling the plow in the field dropped their plows and came over.
One person clasped his fists and saluted Gan Hong and said: "Lu Hu, the chief commander of Kanyu camp, please tell me about this brother's name."
"Mr. Bai?" Gan Hong was stunned. The group of people in front of him were all wearing plain clothes, barefoot, and covered in mud. The leader actually claimed to be Mr. Bai. The Kanyu Camp was not a guard army, so why did they do it?
Farm work coming? However, Gan Hong looked carefully and saw a bit of military temperament in the other party, which was not something ordinary farmers could pretend to be.
"I am here with Gan Hong, the commander-in-chief of Xiajing Camp, who has been ordered to escort the imperial envoy to Runing." Gan Hong quickly introduced himself. After all, we are all soldiers, so the necessary politeness is unavoidable.
Lu Hu looked at the people on the official road and exclaimed: "It turns out that the imperial envoy has arrived, but I was rude to him. Mr. Gan Bai, please wait a moment while I pretend to be here."
As he said this, he said hello, and everyone quickly wiped the muddy water on their hands and bodies with towels, and then ran towards a pile of military uniforms lying aside, preparing to change and go see the imperial envoy.
Gan Hong pointed at the man hanging on the tree and asked Lu Hu: "May I ask Mr. Lu, is this the man you hung up?"
Lu Hu was busy putting on his military uniform. When he heard Gan Hong's words, he turned his head and glanced at it, and said lightly: "Yes, this is the landlord of the village. His name is Jia Zhenggui. He resisted the spring plowing order and did not allow the villagers to plow. He obeyed my house guard.
The general ordered us to hang him here as a warning to others."
Gan Hong felt a chill in his heart. He knew what it meant to take someone's life lightly. For such a landlord to be hanged immediately, Su Hao was so domineering.
"Mr. Lu Bai, Grand Scholar Wang has ordered us to rescue this person and take him for questioning. Please do it for your convenience." Gan Hong asked Lu Hu. Since he knew that Jia Zhenggui was being hanged by Lu Hu and others,
If he wants to put Jia Zhenggui down, he must inform Lu Hu. This is also the general rule of thumb.
Lu Hu didn't have any objections to Gan Hong's request. He nodded casually and said: "Mr. Gan Bai, please do it. In fact, even if you don't come, we will have to let him go after four hours today. We will wait until tomorrow."
Just hang it."
Bull! Gan Hong praised secretly in his heart. He led the people to the locust tree and saw clearly this time. It turned out that Jia Zhenggui was hung in a mesh bag. There was no need to worry about being hanged. But
, in this warm and cold season, hanging in the wild for several hours is enough for him. Look at his face. His nose and tears have been smeared all over his face, and his hair is disheveled. He must be more embarrassed.
Embarrassed.
"Master, please spare your life, I will never dare to do this again."
Seeing some soldiers approaching, Jia Zhenggui cried and begged for mercy. He was already dizzy from the wind and couldn't figure out where the soldiers in front of him came from. He thought they were also from Kanyu camp.
"Let me ask you, why are you hanging here?" Gan Hong is not a reckless person. He has gone out with court officials to handle cases many times and has quite a bit of experience. Seeing that the other party did not understand his origins, he
He simply pretended to be naive in order to trick the other party into telling the truth.
Sure enough, Jia Zhenggui did not dare to hide anything and said frankly: "The villain misunderstood the traitor's words, participated in the plowing strike, and instigated the servants to beat the farmer who was driving the plow, so he was hanged here."
"Then tell me, why do you want to stop farming?" Gan Hong continued to ask.
Jia Zhenggui didn't know what was going on, thinking that the other party wanted to make a self-examination, so he said: "This is all the intention of the county magistrate. He asked the county magistrate Liu Captou to come and tell the people that he wanted everyone to stop farming together and force the surname to be Su...
Ah, no, I am forcing Mr. Su to submit. Liu Captou also said that as long as everyone persists for a few days, the people in Beijing..."
Speaking of this, Jia Zhenggui suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He looked at Gan Hong intently, then struggled to raise his head and glanced at the official road. He saw the flags and official sedans there, and suddenly understood. He asked eagerly
Said: "Master Jun, you...are not from Kanyu Camp?"
"A certain family is from Beijing." Gan Hong had heard what he wanted to know and no longer concealed it.
"Master Qingtian, help me!" Jia Zhenggui cried loudly as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw: "I want to see the imperial envoy, and the common people want to see the imperial envoy to complain!"
"Jia Zhenggui, what are you howling for?" Lu Hu had already changed into his military uniform. When he heard Jia Zhenggui making a fuss, he scolded him angrily.
Jia Zhenggui subconsciously shrank his neck, obviously because he was afraid of being punished by Lu Hu and the others these days. Gan Hong found it funny and asked him: "Master Jia, didn't you just say that you were hanged because of the strike?
, why did you change your story as soon as you turned around?"
"This..." Jia Zhenggui just remembered that he had said too much just now, and it was not easy to change his words now. He hesitated and said: "What I just said was all because of them..."
Lu Hu walked to the tree, pulled the knot, and the net bag containing Jia Zhenggui fell to the ground with a bang, causing Jia Zhenggui to scream. Lu Hu walked over, kicked Jia Zhenggui with his feet, and said: "
Come out and go see the imperial envoy with the master from Jingying. Let me tell you, what we, Su Guard, have done can withstand anyone's investigation, and you can't turn over the confession. If you tell the truth, you will suffer a little pain.
If you still dare to confuse right and wrong, after the imperial envoy finds out the matter, all of you will be dead. When you go before the Lord of Hell, don't say I didn't warn you."
Gan Hong's men took Jia Zhenggui out of his net bag. Lu Hu and others were also dressed neatly. They got together and escorted Jia Zhenggui to the official road.
"Lv Hu, the general manager of Kanyu Camp, kowtow to Grand Scholar Wang, Grand Scholar Wang, and Minister Wu..." Lu Hu led his subordinates and kowtowed to the senior officials one by one. There was no way, they were all members of the Central Committee.
Even though he is a high-ranking official, his subordinates must kowtow no matter what.
Gan Hong stood aside and introduced the identities of Lu Hu and others to Wang Xijue and others in a low voice. Wang Xijue waved his hand and said to Lu Hu and others: "No need to be polite, everyone get up and talk."
The impulsive step of getting off the sedan chair to look at the scenery turned into on-site handling of the case. The followers quickly set up folding soft stools for Wang Xijue, Wang Jiaping and others to sit down, and set up a temporary camp on the official road.
"Since you are a sergeant in the survey camp, why do you go to the countryside to pull plows for others?" Wang Jiaping asked. Just now when he saw young men pulling plows in the field, he felt something was wrong. How could anyone have such a plow?
There were so many young guys. Only now did I realize that the people pulling the plows were actually soldiers from Kanyu Camp.
Lu Hu replied: "We followed Su Shoubei's general order to go to the prefectures and counties to encourage farmers to plow in the spring. Farmers here have always been poor. Most families have no cattle and insufficient labor. Su Shoubei said that we are surveying the camp.
We are the people's soldiers. When we encounter people in trouble, we should help them, so we pull the plows for these farmers."
"The people's soldiers... this is an interesting statement." Wang Xijue nodded. The officials standing behind him either nodded slightly in praise or curled their lips in disdain. Wu Boxing's face was so dark that he had to stand up.
He scolded Su Hao for trying to please others.
Lu Hu continued: "Actually, Mr. Jia's family originally had more than a dozen cattle. But this old man, in order to make things difficult for us, Su Shou, went so far as to frantically injure the feet of more than a dozen cattle. Let these
Even cattle cannot go to the fields to work. My lords, do you think such evil gentry should be hung up in public?"
"Is this true?" Wang Jiaping turned to look at Jia Zhenggui and asked in a deep voice.
"This..." Jia Zhenggui didn't know what to say. It's impossible to hide things like hurting cattle. Others only need to go to his cattle shed to see the injuries on the cattle's feet.
, are all man-made, the wounds are not big, and these cattle will not be permanently disabled, but in order to avoid wound infection, they will definitely not be able to go to the fields in the short term. More than a dozen cattle have such wounds, if it is not intentional
, then damn it.
"You bastard!" From Jia Zhenggui's expression, Wang Jiaping also knew that what Lu Hu said was true. He was born in a poor rural intellectual family. He also did farm work when he was a child and had a deep understanding of rural life. He heard that Jia Zhenggui
In order to stop plowing, he even harmed the cattle, and he couldn't help but feel angry.
Next to Wang Jiaping, there was a clerk who was responsible for recording. There was a small inkstone in front of him. Wang Jiaping was so angry that he picked up the inkstone and threw it towards Jia Zhenggui. The inkstone hit Jia Zhenggui on the head without any bias.
, for a while blood flowed down Jia Zhenggui's forehead accompanied by Mo Han, turning him into a big painted face.
"During spring plowing time, farmers value cattle more than human lives. You dare to hurt the cattle. It is an unforgivable crime! Come on!"
"Here!" Gan Hong stood up with his hand on his waist knife. Jia Zhenggui was so frightened that he knelt down with a cry. Who knew that this high-ranking official from the capital had such a big temper? He clearly meant to kill someone.
.
"Uncle Zhong, calm down." Wang Xijue quickly held Wang Jiaping down. Well, all the officials in the court said that Wang Xijue was Su Hao's backer, and they were afraid that he would favor Su Hao after arriving in Runing. Who knew that this Wang Jiaping was better than him?
Wang Xijue was even more extreme. As soon as he entered the Runing Mansion, he didn't even see Liu Qichang's face. He first wanted to kill a landlord who stopped farming. If this matter spread, Liu Qichang would not be frightened to death.
"Take him into custody first, and then deal with it after the case is found out." Wang Xijue ordered Gan Hong.
"I have the order!" Gan Hong agreed, and told his men to come forward and tie up Jia Zhenggui. Several of his soldiers were also from farmers. When they heard that Jia Zhenggui had hurt the cattle, they were all very angry and started to attack.
It was a little heavier when it hit him, causing Jia Zhenggui to scream in agony.