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Chapter 669: Giving you a chance is useless

The county magistrate was destroyed and the governor of the family was wiped out.

Under three trees, why not?

The prime minister yelled and asked, and Zhishi Shiwai, who had been a bad commander, fainted with fright. He was really frightened. In front of Wu Huaiyu, the favored and powerful prime minister, not to mention Li Jing'an was just a Zhishi Shiwai County Lieutenant, even the current county captain couldn't bear it.

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In the county, not to mention the county magistrate who can easily destroy a family, even the county captain can do this. And when the prime minister wants to kill a small powerful, it is as easy as crushing an ant.

The Li family was in chaos.

However, when Wu Huaiyu came today, he certainly did not simply want to kill Yuan Li. Otherwise, there would be no need for him to take action. The intervention of Sanyuan County Recorder Zhao Lichun would be enough.

After a while,

Li Jing'an, the old man outside, woke up,

Wu Huaiyu was drinking tea leisurely. During the short period of time, Li's sons were already panicking and did anything.

When the old man heard this, his blood surged, his vision went dark and he fainted again.

Huaiyu made another pot of tea and continued chatting with his sons.

When the old man woke up again, he felt as if he were in mourning. He had no energy at all and was very decadent. This old Jianghu knew that he was now a piece of meat on Wu Huaiyu's chopping board, and was ready to be slaughtered by him.

"I would like to dedicate all the unreported fields in Sanyuan to my husband, as well as the Nianya on the Qinghe River and the oil mill next to it."

Wu Huaiyu ignored him.

"There is still a thousand acres of land in Jingyang County, which is also dedicated to my husband."

Li Jing's heart is bleeding. The fields hidden in Sanyuan County are mainly the "Sangzaoyuan" of 1,000 acres in Qinghe Township, and several acres of land in other townships.

This time, I was forced to take out 3,000 acres of land.

Sip the tea and put down the cup.

"Exceptor Li, do you think I, Wu Huaiyu, am a greedy subordinate in the government office? I came here specifically for your land and property?"

"Even now, you still don't know where the mistake is?"

"Please teach me a lesson and I will change it."

"There will be leniency for those who confess, you should confess truthfully first," Huaiyu called Fan Zhiheng, "You and Fan Si Huzuo should re-report the money and food for your family, slaves, livestock, farm, house, shop, and don't hide anything anymore."

"I confess, I confess everything, it's absolutely true."

Li Jingan felt as if his spine had been slapped, and he quickly agreed.

Huaiyu was drinking tea nearby, Li Yuanwai reported honestly, and Fan Zhiheng registered in person.

Soon, re-registration is completed,

Mr. Li from Xiaoli Village used to have 700 acres of land under his household, mostly registered middle and lower fields, but now he voluntarily reports that he has 800 acres, all of which are well-watered fields.

The four hundred acres of mulberry and jujube orchards actually amount to one thousand and forty acres, forty acres of mulberry orchards, and the remaining one thousand acres of irrigated farmland.

There are also several pieces of land in Dongxiang, Qinghe Township, Jingxiang, etc., totaling a thousand acres.

This is only the land in Sanyuan County, there are about 3,000 acres of land in other counties.

One by one, I dare not hide anything.

In fact, Fan Zhiheng showed him some report materials first, which clearly recorded his family's property, property, and property, and he couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.

"Where's the money, silk, food and cloth? Where's the loan?"

Fan Zhiheng asked again.

Li Jing'an just hesitated for a moment and answered honestly. When he saw the things Fan Zhiheng took out, he knew that Mr. Wu was well prepared today. At this time, apart from taking the initiative to lie down and expose his belly to beg for mercy like that local dog, he could not do anything else.

There is no other way.

"When Li Zheng is appointed, he will be in charge of business records and household registration, and he will be able to collect records and make books." Wu Huaiyu's eyes were as bright as lightning, "Where is Li Zheng in Qinghe Township?"

Li Houwen walked out with his arms and legs quivering, and knelt down in front of Wu Huaiyu.

The face is earthy.

Usually relying on Mr. Li as his backer, this guy is also used to being domineering in the countryside. He often does all kinds of things, including cheating and extortion from ordinary people and merchants.

The actual accounting is the draft of the household registration. The court attaches great importance to this matter. If there is dereliction of duty, the person who fails to do so will be sentenced to up to three years in prison. If the account is deliberately falsified, the crime will be increased.

If there are other illegal acts such as corruption, multiple crimes will be punished.

Li Houwen kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"What crime should Li Houwen be guilty of in the case of Zhao Lu?"

"The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that those who leave their household will be apprenticed to their parents for one year. If they leave their household and increase in age, they will be apprenticed for one year, and the crime will be punished for three years. Those who are not aware of the increase or decrease will be punished with forty whippings, and the crime will be terminated.

After three years of apprenticeship, if you know anything about it, everyone will follow the rules of the family."

"Li Houwen is an upright person in Xili, Qinghe Township, Sanyuan County. He has been deceitful and deceitful. The circumstances are egregious and the consequences are serious. He will serve as an apprentice for three years."

Imprisonment in the Tang Dynasty was one of the five punishments, and the main punishment was reform through labor.

Male prisoners in the Gyeonggi area are usually sent to the East and West Tufang in Chang'an, and then sent to work as supervisors, grow vegetables in Sinong Temple, or engage in construction work. Female prisoners are usually sewing, dyeing and weaving in Shaofu Prison.

Or help in the kitchen,

Being an apprentice for three years is not a bad thing, but you can't take it at face value.

But this is just Li Houwen's punishment for Li Yuan's family's hand-wringing as a liangzheng. In fact, most of Xili's hand-holding is questionable, which is serious.

Furthermore, now that people are asked to report their own land, Li Zheng is also responsible for supervision and verification, and Li Houwen has once again committed serious dereliction of duty.

If all crimes are punished together and the circumstances are particularly serious, then it is not just as simple as three years in prison.

Penalty level five, with a maximum of three years.

"First, remove Li Houwen from his position and give him a hundred sticks, and then imprison him."

One hundred sticks in public,

The reason why he was imprisoned instead of immediately sentenced to prison was because we needed to continue to collect evidence of his crime.

As for Mr. Li, he should be jailed first. He is the head of the household. He would have been in prison for three years just for leaking the truth, not to mention concealing the property.

With Wu Huaiyu's authority, he could kill these people directly with his stick, but Wu Huaiyu was not here to kill people.

Liu Rengui personally took Zhao Lichun, Fan Zhiheng and others to start an inventory of Li's wife's home, sealing it first and then investigating it.

Li Houwen was beaten half to death, put into a prison cart with shackles, and taken to Longqiao County Prison.

Liu Rengui was a ruthless man and very efficient in his work. If Wu Huaiyu hadn't kept slowing down, he could have uprooted Yuanwai Li's family immediately.

Li Houwen was only an upright person. When he was a county lieutenant, he dared to kill even a fifth-rank commander.

For several days, a large group of people was stationed in Xiaoli Village.

The whole country was shaken.

Liu Rengui issued a notice to collect clues about the Li family's illegal activities, such as seizing private land, extortion, loan sharking, etc.

Let the villagers report it. If it is found to be true, the land and population that have been occupied and seized will be returned.

Now Shili Baxiang is even more excited. Indeed, many people have borrowed money from the Li family in the past. Their interest rates are particularly high, and they always like to play tricks, and then force everyone to pay off their land and houses at a low price, and even use their wives and daughters to pay off their debts. How many people have borrowed money from the Li family?

Broken home.

The worst thing is that the Li family also has an underground casino. They like to deliberately lure people into gambling, and even cheat them out of money. Then they make loan sharks in the casino, and finally deceive people into high debts, and then use IOUs to seize people's houses and land.

They even have to lower the prices for land, houses, livestock, etc.

Not to mention that every time there was a famine, Mr. Li’s family took the opportunity to plunder.

Why is it that all the land in Xiaoli Village belongs to Mr. Li's family? It's because they are so vicious that they won't even let the grass around the nest be spared.

Li Yuanwai used to be a knight-errant, or a knight-errant at best, or a scoundrel at worst. Later he became a bad guy in Chang'an, half-black and half-white, and became more and more powerful.

Mr. Li has done many evil things, including corruption and bribery, extortion, gambling and loan-lending, bullying his neighbors, occupying government land, etc.

Li Houwen was his nephew, he was also upright and helped Zhou to do evil.

One crime after another was discovered,

This is no longer just as simple as leaking household registration and concealing property, but also occupying official and private land, setting up gambling and even loan sharking, forcing good people to be humble and forcing good people to become prostitutes.

Excessive land occupation,

"Another crime was discovered. In the early years, there was a family named Xiao next to Xiaoli Village. He originally owned a thousand acres of land, which is the mulberry and jujube garden where Li Jing'an is now hiding. Li Jing'an coveted this land and first set up a bet to lure the Xiao family.

My son, I deceived him and lost a lot of money. I took the IOU to collect the debt and wanted the other party to use land to pay it off.

But the Xiao family refused, and finally borrowed money here and there to repay the debt and keep the land. Li Jing'an's plan failed, so he took advantage of the famine in the year to deliberately collude with bandits to attack the Xiao family, robbed a lot of money, and killed

He kidnapped the old man, kidnapped the Xiao family's grandson, and extorted a large sum of money from the Xiao family to ransom him.

The Xiao family couldn't raise the money, so Li Jing'an pretended to be kind and went to help, borrowing a large sum of money to pay the ransom for the Xiao family's son."

"Although the grandson of the Xiao family was released, the old man of the Xiao family died and was robbed of all the family's money. He also borrowed a large sum of money from the Li family at usurious rates.

Afterwards, the thieves were even led by Li Jing'an to rob several times. The Xiao family was defeated and the interest on the high-interest debt could not be paid. In the end, they had to sell the land to pay off the debt. In the end, all the thousand acres of land fell into Li Jing'an's hands.

But Li Jingan didn't let the Xiao family go, and later colluded with bandits to wipe out the Xiao family."

Li Jing'an has done this kind of thing often, and even Li Jing'an's ancestors have a bad reputation for several generations.

Although this kind of thing is relatively secretive, there are still some rumors, but most people don't dare to offend the Li family. But now that Li Jing'an is in prison, and Li Houwen was beaten half to death on the spot, everyone knows that the Li family is finished, so the wall falls and everyone rejects it.

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Let the bullet fly for a while longer.

Wu Huaiyu asked Liu Rengui to distribute the newly discovered evidence every day, so that the matter would continue to ferment.

The Sanyuan pilot project really needs to open up the situation. Although Wu Huaiyu and Li Jing's family took the lead in expressing their stance and took the initiative to pay taxes per mu first, many people below still obeyed.

It is indeed necessary to kill chickens to scare monkeys,

But there is also something to be learned about how to kill, and the pitiful death of the rabbit and the fox will make all the powerful people sympathize with it, and then secretly oppose it.

Therefore, we cannot use leaking people and hiding acres of land as a breakthrough.

We have to start from other aspects,

Mr. Li is not the kind of virtuous country gentry. His family is the kind of evil gentry that has had a vicious reputation for generations. Everyone knows that his family is full of wolves.

Using these as a breakthrough point, if you find out that several generations of the Li family have engaged in gambling and loan sharking, even seduced the yamen servants to force and oppress them, and even collaborated with thieves to kidnap and wipe out the family, then Li will be criticized by thousands of people and reviled by thousands of people.

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Wu Huaiyu's attempt to trick Li Yuanwai became popular among the people and even applauded him.

No matter how Li Yuanwai poured it, if he finally pulled out the carrot and brought up the mud, his crimes would also include leaking household registration, concealing acres of land, and encroaching on fertile land.

After all, it can still have the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys.

"Keep digging,"

"When the material is dug out, it will be dispersed."

"The Yamen side also needs to confirm the witnesses and physical evidence, and everyone in the Li family will be detained for interrogation first."

"I gave him a few chances but he failed. Since he refused to drink wine and was fined with wine, no one can blame him."


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