Huang An looked at the group of autumn grasshoppers in front of him, waved his hands casually, then turned around and left, continuing to work on his own affairs.
Zhang Sui'an, Ma Shan and the others watched Huang An's leaving figure and sighed softly in unison, their faces full of melancholy, and they felt exhausted mentally and physically.
The fate of the Li family made them feel sad and sad.
Huang An's coldness and his falling out after the cashier made them even more frightened.
They found that they couldn't understand what Huang An meant at all.
This person is too thoughtful and acts completely illogically.
It's like he came from another world, completely different from these people.
For a moment, they didn't know what the cold-faced Huang An was thinking.
Is it possible that we really want to take action against so many people from such aristocratic families?
"Maybe, maybe Mr. Huang is in a bad mood after hearing about the Li family's crimes?"
Zhang Sui'an said something.
It seemed that he could only find this reason to convince himself.
Convince others by the way.
"That should be the case. The Li family is really abominable! Fortunately, my children are not so heartless."
"The Li family has left such a big mess. Mr. Huang and City Master Zhao must be very short of men..."
"..."
Zhang Sui'an's words opened up a new topic of conversation.
Everyone scolded the Li family to vent their fears.
By the way, increase your confidence in yourself.
The only reason they think they are safe is because Huang An and Zhao Yan don't have many available people.
Managing Feng'an City requires the assistance of powerful local families like them.
This is their only support.
Not long after, they came back together in twos and threes.
After some discussion, comforting and cheering each other up, smiles reappeared on their faces.
Although the smile was awkward and fake, I was finally able to smile.
However, what they don't know is that this is the only support left by Huang An for them.
Huang An understands very well the principle of fighting a trapped beast and surviving after being put to death.
There are many warriors under him, including fifteen bronze-skin warriors.
The quality is very high, but it is limited by the lack of people.
Therefore, it is impossible to attack these aristocratic families on a large scale at the same time.
Instead of confronting someone head-on and tearing their skin apart, it is better to figure it out slowly.
And this requires planning.
It is not advisable to force people into a desperate situation. It is better to leave them with a visible escape route.
With a way out, they will not fight and resist desperately, but will choose to avoid it.
Step by step, you gradually fall into the trap hidden behind the road of survival.
When meeting Zhang Sui'an and others, Huang An had already deliberately exposed the shortcomings of himself and Zhao Yan's lack of capable subordinates.
What he said at that time was, "In two months, the people from the three hundred households under my command will return to Youzhou City."
This sentence means that Huang An deliberately made these people think that he and Senior Sister Zhao have something to ask for from them.
Now it seems that this move was very successful.
He has sent two people, Ruan Tianzong and Wang Zhengye, to inquire about people who are not born in aristocratic families but who are studying in the city to settle accounts.
This strategy can solve the problem of shortage of manpower.
The small city of Feng'an has a population of 300,000 people.
There are probably a lot of children from poor families, so Huang An is not worried about not having enough manpower.
His only worry was that he would not be able to find enough manpower in a short period of time.
Fortunately, he has adopted various methods to search for talents.
For example, Meng Yun was serving porridge outside the Zhao Family Martial Arts School.
He even personally took action and poached Ding Zhi's capable general Xue Chao.
The cultivation of talents never happens overnight.
It is especially difficult for someone like Huang An, who has relatively high requirements for the abilities and moral standards of his subordinates.
He could only rely on the mass base of Feng'an City.
Early the next morning, it was six o'clock in the morning, and it was not long before dawn.
The public trial has not yet begun, but more people have already crowded inside and outside the square to watch the excitement.
The number of people is much greater than yesterday.
Huang An even estimated that even the villagers outside the city might have arrived.
As a last resort, he sent people to hire more than a thousand people from the people watching the excitement to act as temporary order-maintaining personnel.
He also quickly made arrangements to expand the number of handymen working in the kitchen, seizing the time to cook soup to relieve the heat and pancakes to fill his stomach.
At today's public trial, the number of Li family criminals who were sentenced to death and should be executed in public reached fifteen.
Fifteen heads are completely useless.
The people are definitely dissatisfied.
It is really because of the crimes committed by the Li family that people are so angry.
In addition, there are loose "Da Ming Laws" that allow some Li family members to escape being beheaded in public.
The family of a bronze-skinned warrior is indeed privileged.
Although it is not explicitly stated in the "Laws of the Ming Dynasty", it is stipulated that if a warrior kills someone, he can spend money to eliminate the crime.
Just kill fifteen people. The people are not satisfied, and Huang An is not satisfied either.
When practicing martial arts and doing things, what you need is a happy mind.
If these people don't die, he will feel unhappy.
So, yesterday's scene reappeared.
Huang An persuaded Luo Feiyao, who was getting weaker and weaker, with a few words.
Once again, on the grounds that the Li family supported gangsters, and even themselves were gangsters, killing people and robbing wealth, a total of thirty people from the Li family who had committed the most heinous crimes were beheaded in public.
Today, a total of forty-five heads were chopped off!
Where in the world is there a bloodless revolution?
Huang An's move was an invisible revolution.
Revolutionize the family and the fate of the landlord class.
The blood mixed into a stream, and the strong smell of blood could be easily smelled by most of the people in the square.
People like Zhang Sui'an and Mashan in the audience were restless.
There was fear on his face.
There are even some who are so excited that they are already thinking about telling those bastards in the family to run away as soon as the day is over and they go back in the evening.
At least we have to run out of Feng'an City and survive this most dangerous period.
They felt that Huang An had already killed him.
Especially yesterday evening, they all got the news.
He said that some green-skinned hooligans raised by his family had been captured by two bronze-skinned martial arts masters.
They knew that these people were instructed by Huang An, and they also knew that this was Huang An's intention.
However, they just didn't dare to plead face to face.
They were scared.
The severed head and the stream of blood on the ground are symbols of Huang An's authority.
In just two days, the reputations of Huang An, Zhao Yan, and Luo Feiyao have spread throughout Feng'an City.
Especially Huang An, who planned the public trial with one hand and held an iron sword with the other to personally avenge the people and chop off the heads of the Li family.
His reputation in Feng'an City, including some villages outside the city, became more and more famous.
The public trial has not yet been completed, but more than half of the important task of winning the hearts and minds of the people has been completed.
This is a good start.
On the third day, the weather was gloomy.
But luckily it didn't rain.
The public trial meeting remains the same.
On the high platform, there was no trace of Huang An.
Only Zhao Yan and Luo Feiyao were left to take charge of the overall situation.
The anger of the people, through the rolling heads and trickling blood, has been almost vented.
The head was chopped off on the last day, just like a routine.
Thirty-two were cut down.
Zhao Yan and Luo Feiyao are fully capable of controlling the situation on the field and preventing the frightening chaos like the day before.
Huang An set his goal on how to deal with the Li family's farmland.
Land is the most important thing to the people and also to the aristocratic families.
Land is the source of all property.
In Feng'an City of Ming Dynasty, which is mainly based on farming, farmland is the lifeblood of the people.
For generations, the Li family has used various legitimate and dirty methods to continuously encroach on the land of ordinary people and annex the land.
More than 6,000 acres of cultivated land is definitely a huge wealth.
It's summer now, and the autumn harvest will soon be here.
Huang An must prioritize these farmland matters.
Although the Li family collapsed, there were still no shortage of common people and tenant farmers.
The Li family was outside the city and owned five villages, large and small, through robbery or construction.
These farms are located in the area surrounding the farmland.
Today, these farms are controlled by Huang An.
He had previously arranged for Zhang Shi and Yao Liang to maintain order in the five farms and arrest the Li family members who managed the farms, or the stewards who were loyal to the Li family and worked for the Li family.
In the morning, Zhang Shi sent someone to hand-deliver the statistical booklet of the identity information of the villagers in these farms to Huang An.
There are 612 households in these five farms, with a total population of 3,214.
Among them, 2,211 were tenant farmers who sold themselves to the Li family.
The remaining 1,003 people will soon be sold into slavery.
They were said to be tenant farmers, but in reality they were serfs.
A wealthy family has countless means to turn a normal farming family into a serf family that sells its sons and daughters, or even the whole family is forced to sell.
One generation is a slave, and all generations are slaves.
There will never be any hope of turning around.
There is even no information about these people in the household registration statistics files in the Lord's Mansion of Feng'an City.
Most of them are hidden members of the Li family.
Of course, not all of these 3,214 people now live in farms and work in the fields.
A large part of them went into the city.
They go to the city not to work, nor to work as small traders to earn copper coins to support their families.
Instead, he entered the Li family's mansion and worked as a servant and handyman in the Li family's mansion.
Because it is summer now and farm work is not so busy yet, farmers like them, who have nimble and clever hands and feet, have been put to other uses.
Aristocratic families are even more ruthless than capitalists.
They don't give people a chance to breathe at all.
Huang An immediately handed over to Chao Mu the identity information records of the villagers in the farm, as well as the statistics of the servants and servants who were under guard at the Li family mansion.
He needed Chao Mu's help to sort out all the overlapping people in the two statistical books.
In addition, a file table similar to a household registration book was established for the servants of the Li family, the handymen, and the villagers in the farms outside the city.
This work is very complicated.
If Huang An sent people to do it himself, he would compare the names and places of origin, compare them one by one, eliminate them, and then integrate the statistics.
It will probably take at least two days, and it will probably make your eyes dizzy.
But leaving it to Chao Mu would be easy.
With the help of information technology and artificial intelligence, big data is directly scanned and then compared and sorted by computer.
In just five minutes, Huang An got what he wanted.
A decent stack of registers.
The name, gender, age, disability, marriage, family situation and other basic information of every servant, handyman, and villager are all registered in the register.
The register is made of paper, and the materials are exactly the same as those used to record official documents in Youzhou City.
The handwriting is also exactly the same as Huang An's.
Without even considering the time gap, Huang An could directly hand it over to Senior Sister Zhao and Luo Feiyao.
Huang An took the registration book and the "Suggestions and Detailed Plan for the Development of Li Family Real Estate, Shops, Residences and Other Real Estate" prepared by Chao Mu. After a few hurried instructions, he left directly.
Returning to the warehouse in the backyard of the Li family's mansion, Huang An opened the record book and began to study it directly.