"Hang this man's head, hang it on the flagpole, and display it to the public, so that the world will know what happens to an official who harms the people and harms the people!" Wang Wenshu ordered to the left and right.
There were people following him, but they still looked confused and didn't know what was going on.
They were all frightened!
Henan County is located at the most important point in the world and has the advantage of both water and land. Since ancient times, it has been the most prosperous country in China and has the most wealth in the world.
For many years, the Han court's treatment of Henan County was mainly to appease and win over.
Unexpectedly, he came to Zhidu first and killed everyone and shed blood.
Now another angel has arrived, and from the looks of it, he is also going to start a killing spree.
How innocent is this Henan County!
Wang Wenshu looked at the Henan County officials who looked a little dull and snorted.
Those people hurriedly started working as if they were struck by lightning.
Wang Wenshu, however, held the tip of the sword that was still dripping with blood, walked down the road step by step, walked down the field, and came to Ren Wu, who was so frightened that he was kneeling on the ground and did not even dare to move. He looked at her with an inhumane look.
He glanced at the other party and said: "You are not allowed to use your power to bully others or act as an aid to others. I will not let you go!"
As he spoke, he pierced the opponent's chest with a sword, and then kicked him into the soil of the field.
The people in the fields were all frightened.
One by one, they lowered their heads in the dirt, not even daring to make a sound.
Wang Wenshu also sighed when he saw it.
These people have been tortured by the Ren family for too long and too deeply.
Just like the pebbles in the stream, all the edges and sharp points have been lost.
If we were in Guanzhong, such a situation would be almost impossible to happen!
It is impossible for the farmers in Guanzhong to be tortured like this and driven like pigs and dogs.
Not even domestic slaves!
On the surface, Wang Wenshu looked compassionate. He said in a very sad tone: "The emperor's Jiazi edict last year, I studied it day and night, and repeatedly understood the holy meaning from it. I am stupid, but although I understood the holy meaning, it is not your majesty's.
One in ten thousand. But I also know..."
Wang Wenshu raised the corpse of Ren Wu and said loudly: "All the people in the world are your Majesty's subjects! The common people in the world are all your Majesty's brothers and sisters! How dare you, the ruthless people and tyrannical gentry, deceive your Majesty's brothers and sisters?"
"The Wei family of North Korea killed seven out of ten Han subjects. Your Majesty sent out the heavenly troops to punish them severely! You are even more powerful than the North Korean guards..."
The accompanying officials from Henan County cut their heads one after another to express that they were "extremely ashamed."
There was no other way, so the angel carried out last year's Jiazi edict.
The content of the Jiazi Edict, after more than half a year of fermentation, especially with the fall of Wei's Korea as the theoretical basis, has now become a must-read edict for every official.
You may not understand etiquette and music, you may not understand the law, you may not even know the profession. People are too busy to deal with things.
But if you can’t memorize this Jiazi’s edict, you will have to memorize it thoroughly.
Then you are guilty.
You can go home and farm!
Half a year after it was promulgated, the entire Han Dynasty bureaucracy, through layer-by-layer pressure and level-by-level supervision, had forcefully instilled the spirit of the Emperor's Jiazi Edict into the brains of every official with unprecedented efficiency.
Under the current situation, the Emperor's Jiazi Edict and the famous edicts of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen formed the ideological and theoretical basis of the Han Dynasty's political power.
Seeing the appearance of the Henan County officials, Wang Wenshu felt a little happy.
This time, he was ordered to come to Henan County to solve the problem of the Ren family.
Of course he will do it beautifully and turn this case into a solid case.
But after coming to Henan County and asking to see the county governor Zhidu, Wang Wenshu discovered that this matter was not as easy as he first imagined.
The Ren family dominated Xuanqu County for sixty or seventy years and became deeply entrenched.
The entire bureaucracy and the entire social class in Xuanqu County are almost entirely controlled by the Ren family.
Moreover, the Ren family is not an ordinary powerful businessman.
In fact, in addition to the fact that the Ren family prospered by reselling the grain reserves from the official warehouses of the Qin State when they started, the Ren family has been based on land since its ancestors.
The Ren family continued to annex land, keep slaves, and at the same time made good friends with nobles and officials.
A huge protective umbrella has been woven in Henan County.
Under this protective umbrella, even Zhidu tried to attack the Ren family several times, but they always tried to avoid it.
It's not fear, it's worry.
Who do you care about?
The prime minister of the current dynasty, the Marquis of Changping Zhou Yafu!
The Ren family was a powerful hegemon in Henan, and his ancestor served as the Daocang official of the Qin governor at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
He took control of Qin's huge reserve granary in Henan County.
He also has considerable strength, so all parties in the world must make friends with him.
During this process, it is said that the Ren family became involved with Zhou Bo, the late Jiangwu Marquis.
That's it, Zhou Bo is already dead. No matter how deep the relationship is, the relationship with Zhou Yafu, a bastard, is not that big. It's just a personal relationship at most.
However, the other person cannot be ignored.
When the female calls, she waits in the pavilion for a long time.
This is a woman.
A woman in her seventies, full of legend!
From the moment she was born, she has been enveloped in an aura of divinity.
The day she was born happened to be the autumn of the 26th year of Qin Shihuang. In that year, Qin destroyed Yan, Dai, Qi, and the world returned to Qin. Qin Shihuang was overjoyed and issued an edict to collect auspicious signs from the world as auspiciousness for his great cause of unification.
Xu negative appeared under such circumstances.
His father, Xu Wang, was the magistrate of Wencheng County, Henei County, Qin Dynasty at that time. It is said that when Xu Negi was born, he held a jade pendant in his hand, and there was a faint pattern of King Wen's Bagua on the jade pendant.
More importantly, he was able to speak within a hundred days of his birth.
Truly a born god!
Even the first emperor of Qin was alarmed and issued an edict to give the Xu family a hundred yi of gold.
Xu Wang therefore named his daughter Mo Fu, Mo Fu is the king, Mo Fu is the country.
However, more than ten years later, when the world was in chaos at the end of Qin, Xu Mofu changed his identity and became Xu Fu.
And the Xu family, relying on Xu Fu's reputation, became the overlord of Wencheng County.
This situation was very common in the late Qin Dynasty.
When Qin collapsed, officials and generals from all over the country chose to defend themselves with troops and closed their doors to claim kingship and hegemony.
And the fate of these people is naturally not that good.
Only a few people, such as Wu Bing and Zhao Tuo, could die a good death with heroic figures.
The Xu family is not a hero, and there is no one who is like a hero.
In the autumn of the third year of Qin II, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu began a competition to see who could enter Guanzhong first.
Wencheng County, where the Xu family was located, happened to be on the marching route of the Han army.
Liu Bang, who led a buggy lineup like Zhou Bo, Xiao He, and Cao Shen, had occasional setbacks along the way. For example, he suffered a heavy loss from the Qin army in Luoyangdong, but overall, the progress was smooth, at least much faster than Xiang Yu.
As for the Xu family, besides surrendering in Nancheng, what other options do they have?
Of course, because the Xu family surrendered quickly, they still reaped some benefits during the enfeoffment in the early Han Dynasty.
Emperor Gao personally appointed Xu Fu as the Marquis of Ming Female Pavilion.
When Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was in power, he also granted the title of Marquis of Shangluo to Xu Fu's husband Fei Yue.
They are all Guanneihou who are second only to the Lieutenants.
In this Han family, they are also among the top local tycoons.
Rumor has it that Xu Fu had a favor with the Empress Dowager Bo, so Emperor Taizong granted him the title of husband.
There are also rumors that Xu Fu was once kind to Zhou Yafu, the prime minister of the dynasty. It is said that when Zhou Yafu was in poverty, it was Xu Fu who helped him.
There are even rumors in the market that when Jinshang was staying at his residence, Xu Fu was invited by Yuan Ang. When he came to Chang'an and saw Jinshang, he was shocked and said: This son has the air of a master.
All kinds of legends, rumors, and things were mixed together, making Xu Negi vaguely become the number one person in the world of magic sticks in the Han Dynasty.
Countless ministers and nobles are proud to be allowed to speak and comment in person, and they do not hesitate to pay a lot of money for this.
If it weren't for the fact that there is a divine dragon among the people, whose whereabouts are elusive and even more mysterious, Sima Ji Zhu, this Xu Fu would have become the queen of the fortune-telling world.
And this Xuanqu Ren family had a daughter who was married to Fei Wen, the second son of Xu Nie and Fei Yue.
In addition, the daughter of Fei Yue's eldest son married the Guo family, a wealthy family in Hanoi. The Guo family had a daughter who is now the mistress of the Ren family.
These relationships are intricate and intertwined, forming a huge network.
Even Zhidu did not dare to take action.
Because, if the rumors are true, it will offend the prime minister, the servant, and even the emperor.
Without the emperor's order, Zhi could not bear this responsibility.
But Wang Wenshu is different.
Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes!
Others were worried, so they disturbed the Ren family and provoked Xu Negi, who also implicated giants like Yuan An and Zhou Yafu. Moreover, Xu Negi's mysterious aura was also her amulet.
After all, Chinese people are superstitious, and even if they don’t believe in the things that gods and gods talk about, they would rather believe them than believe them.
If it were true, wouldn't it mean that he would be punished by God and have nothing to pray for?
But Wang Wenshu is afraid of eggs!
When he was a ranger, he dug up people's ancestral graves, killed people with a hammer in the wilderness, and even left their bodies in the woods to be bitten by wild dogs.
If there really were ghosts and gods, he would have been dead long ago!
As for Zhou Yafu and Yuan An?
Others were afraid, but Wang Wenshu, who was born in the Embroidery Guard, had no fear at all.
As the emperor's eagle dog, Wang Wenshu looked down on everyone except the emperor.
Not to mention, if Yuan Ang and Zhou Yafu can really be involved, not to mention pulling these two giants down, just using this matter to set off a storm of public opinion will be of great benefit to Wang Wenshu.
At that time, in the eyes of the emperor, he will be a lonely and loyal minister.
In the eyes of public opinion, he is a gentleman who is not afraid of violence or power, who makes decisions for the people and upholds justice.
Just thinking about such a future makes Wang Wenshu feel extremely comfortable!
Therefore, his behavior today is easy to understand.
Everything is for climbing up, everything is for promotion and wealth.
And if you want to climb up, if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you must make achievements and make everyone notice you.
Is there anything more eye-catching than unswervingly carrying out His Majesty's Imperial Edict, eradicating corrupt officials, not fearing power, and being willing to take risks?
As for the dead official?
Who cares what a dead man thinks?
Even if someone wants to blame, I am afraid no one can accuse a loyal minister who is loyal to the emperor and resolutely implements the emperor's will!
only……
Wang Wenshu's eyes turned to the distant south.
"Compared to me, Zhang Tang's is so much taller!"
"He should have arrived in Wancheng by now..."
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As Wang Wenshu thought, Zhang Tang was already outside Wancheng at this moment.
As the new county governor.
Zhang Tang's appointment team is somewhat large.
In addition to the 400 Yulin Guards officers given to him by the emperor, Zhang Tang's in-laws, the Tian family, also prepared for Zhang Tang more than 30 scholars who were dismissed during last year's examination. Although these people were dismissed
However, his professional skills are not bad, and he is more than enough to be a scribe or a clerk.
In addition, there were more than ten Legalist scholars who voluntarily followed Zhang Tang to Nanyang to open up territory.
These people will become Zhang Tang's confidants in Nanyang County in the future.
The Shaofu also sent more than a hundred technical craftsmen to accompany him.
These people will be responsible for establishing basic water conservancy irrigation facilities and waterwheel systems in Nanyang County, and at the same time preparing for the next move of the Shaofu Workshop.
Looking at the city and tall city walls of Nanyang County, Zhang Tang was also very high-spirited.
When he was more than 20 years old, he was appointed as the county governor, and he was appointed as a border official with two thousand stones.
No one can keep their tail up.
But Zhang Tang worked as a county magistrate in Xinfeng County for more than a year and knew that as a people-friendly official, there are two most important things.
The first one is to find out the powerful family under his rule.
The second one is to identify these powerful families, which ones can be cooperated with and which ones must be eradicated.
If you can cooperate, you need to win over them and give them benefits so that they are willing to work hard for you.
Those who cannot cooperate will be killed directly, and all their land and wealth will be confiscated!
In this way, government orders can reach every corner of the grassroots level unimpeded, making it clear to the people. As an official, you have to do what you want to do and what plans you have, and only then can you fully mobilize all manpower and material resources, and unite the entire territory with one heart and one mind.
, push hard towards a place.
This set of governing ideas is also the experience and lessons summed up by Legalism after decades of practice in the Han Dynasty.
To sum it up in one word, it is iron fist.
Randomly flipping through the memorials reported to the imperial court by Nanyang County over the years that he and Ning Cheng had discussed along the way, Zhang Tang's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
Ning Cheng is a native of Nanyang County and is Zhang Tang's deputy on this trip.
If what Ning Cheng said is correct.
If Nanyang County does not implement strict laws and regulations, it will be difficult to achieve the same situation as when he took office in Xinfeng Ling.
In fact, even the tasks assigned by the emperor were difficult to complete.
If he could not complete the emperor's mission, Zhang Tang knew that the position of Nanyang County Sheriff might be the pinnacle of his official career.
"Mingfu, Nanyang County officials, and local celebrities are already thirty miles outside Wancheng to welcome the Mingfu to take office..." Ning Cheng's voice came from outside the car.
"Who is here?" Zhang Tang asked calmly.
"Reporting to the Ming Mansion, all the officials, celebrities, gentry, princes, and marquises of Guan Nei are all here!" Ning Cheng said as he handed over several greeting cards.
Apart from the heroes of the Han family, who else after the princes can deliver a greeting card to the governor?
In the early Han Dynasty, there were four feudal lords in Nanyang County.
However, just like the feudal class, over the past fifty or sixty years, some feudal families have lost their country or become extinct due to various reasons.
Among the four heroes of Nanyang County, Nie Yanghou is such a tragedy.
But Zhang Tang doesn't care about these people.
Liehou?
He saw a lot in Chang'an, and even dealt with Pingyang Marquis Cao and Zhang Tang.
It can only be said that the ancestors were heroes, but the descendants are nothing more than that.
However, the superficial article still needs to be done.
Zhang Tang put away the greeting cards and then asked: "Captain Ning, in your opinion, who is more suitable to sacrifice the flag for surgery, the Bao family or the Yang family?"
The Bao family and the Yang family are both powerful in Nanyang. The two families have deep roots in Nanyang County. Most of the subordinate officials in Wancheng have various relationships with these two families.
If they want to be the masters of Nanyang County, the Bao family and the Yang family must use one of them to sacrifice the flag and establish their authority.
Otherwise, no one in the county will know who is really in charge of Nanyang County.
As for the Bao family and the Yang family, they have neither offended Zhang Tang nor expressed any opinions.
If he takes office, the two families may still serve him carefully.
This was out of Zhang Tang's consideration.
For Legalists, how is it okay to not kill anyone when you take office, not to kill a tiger to establish your authority?
Moreover, it would be best to kill a big tiger, a big tiger that would shock the whole county and make them obey you and not dare to have any objections.
Moreover, no matter which one of the Bao family and the Yang family was killed, they both deserved to die.
The sin and blood stained on the hands of these two families is enough for them to die a hundred, a thousand times!
"Of course it's the Bao clan!" Ning Cheng replied categorically: "The Bao clan has been in charge of South Vietnam for more than thirty years. They are all under the wings of the Bao clan from top to bottom. If we don't eradicate the Bao clan, I'm afraid even Wancheng will be destroyed by our order."
Can’t even get out!”
As a minor official, Ning Cheng knew better than anyone how terrifying the Bao clan was that controlled the government officials and lower-level bureaucrats in Nanyang County.
On the contrary, the Yang family, which has always been in the middle and upper class, has some room to win over.
"Good!" Zhang Tang nodded and said noncommittally: "It's the Bao clan. Lieutenant Ning, please go down and have the Yulin guards ready. Follow my orders and take action immediately!"
For Zhang Tang, whether it is the Bao family or the Yang family, they are all the same and must be eradicated.
It's just that one dies first and the other dies last.
If we don't kill the main members of these two families and uproot their power, future government affairs will be hijacked by others.
If you don't kill them and use their heads and crimes to establish your authority, how can you convince the whole county?
Instead of killing them, give their official positions and authority to the cronies accompanying them, where can you find so many official positions and errands to place your own people?
Zhang Tang's thinking is simple and clear, clear and firm. (To be continued.)
