Under the horrified eyes of the students, Li Zhi's soldiers did not care whether they had evidence or not. They went up to arrest people based on the information obtained by Han Jinxin's investigation. They first arrested people in the guard room of Fanjiazhuang's official hall and then interrogated them carefully. If they were guilty, they would be executed, and if they were not guilty, they would be executed.
Release. Almost all the leading students were the children of the great gentry. According to the intelligence, these people all had dirty business in their families, and they were all arrested by Li Zhi in one fell swoop.
Not only that, the homes of three county magistrates were also attacked.
All the yamen of the three county magistrates were rushed in by Li Zhi's soldiers. Li Zhi's soldiers arrested the relatives who were helping the magistrate with his business and took them back to Fanjiazhuang for interrogation. In front of Li Zhi's soldiers who looked like tigers and wolves, the county yamen
It seems like a tea house and brothel that everyone can enter. How can these parents have any official authority?
The three county magistrates all looked ashen. Losing their authority was not a big deal. The county magistrates were worried about their relatives, fearing that Li Zhi would actually kill their relatives after getting the evidence.
According to General Longhu's current strength, once the county magistrate's family is found guilty of corruption and bending the law, even if General Longhu kills their family members, the emperor will probably not punish General Longhu Zuo Liangyu's troops to plunder the local area.
No one cares about robbing women. Li Zhi's soldiers are stronger than Zuo Liangyu. What's the point of killing a few businessmen with solid evidence of crime?
On the contrary, what the emperor now lacks is money to suppress thieves. If Li Zhi offends the world and collects money for the emperor, the emperor will like Li Zhi even more.
If Li Zhi interrogates and produces evidence, the county magistrates will lose not only their relatives, but also their business and even their official positions.
Now that Li Zhi was openly retaliating, the three county magistrates knew that they had incited students and businessmen to anger Li Zhi. The three people estimated that as long as they shut up, their family members who were captured by Li Zhi would be fine. The three county magistrates
For fear of getting angry again, he would suddenly become as silent as a cicada and dare not go out of the Yamen to incite the students.
The rest of the students suddenly lost their backbone when they saw that the key members had been taken away and the county magistrate had not left the yamen.
Without a leader, these scholars became frightened after making trouble for a while, fearing that General Longhu would come to arrest them again. The prestigious scholars were especially afraid, and they quickly made up excuses and fled home. When the other scholars saw that all the key members had fled,
, also knew that the situation was not right, so they all fled in the end.
Without the support of students, the merchants who went on strike were all uneasy, wondering how Li Zhi would deal with them.
Li Zhi's method of dealing with these merchants on strike was quite simple.
Li Zhi mobilized merchants from Fanjiazhuang to support the three counties, and asked the merchants from Fanjiazhuang to transport grains, oils and vegetables to sell in the three counties. They sold the goods at a price slightly higher than the market price and stabilized the local market. With Fanjiazhuang bringing affordable goods,
The lives of the people in the three counties were not affected by the strike, and their emotions stabilized.
Fanjiazhuang merchants in the three counties are doing brisk business and are so busy that they can't even collect cash. Each of the merchants just wants to go on strike for a few more days.
Now, it would be meaningless for the merchants on strike to continue the strike. The strike would just give business to the merchants in Fanjiazhuang.
The power of General Longhu is too powerful. In terms of the army, he has the ever-victorious Tiger Division, in terms of politics, he has the favor of the emperor, and in terms of business, he has the prosperous Fanjiazhuang. Regardless of military, political and business affairs, all the officials in Tianjin have nothing to do with Li Zhi.
, all tricks were easily resolved by Li Zhi.
Moreover, Li Zhi threatened to deal with Dong Nu carefully if he did not open the door in three days. This was so terrifying that the merchants in the three counties had to weigh it carefully.
Just one day later, the businesses in the three counties that were on strike opened their doors one after another. First, small businesses with little capital opened their doors in the morning, and then in the afternoon, large stores with huge profits and huge profits reluctantly opened their doors.
The so-called market strike and school strike dissipated in just three days.
Every store opened, and Li Zhi's tax accountant led soldiers from the Huben Division to check accounts and collect taxes one by one. For small businesses without accounts, small traders were asked to file their own taxes, and then after a period of time, the accountant was asked to sit in the store for a day to estimate sales.
Um, check whether the taxes reported by small traders are correct. If there is too much discrepancy, you will be fined! But if there is any uncooperation, the shop will be sealed on the spot and will never be allowed to open again.
Since shops in the three counties had a history of going on strike to resist taxes, Li Zhi asked the tax commission to calculate carefully so that these merchants could not escape even a penny of tax.
In front of the tiger-like tiger warriors, the officials and merchants of the three counties could only tremble and could only pay taxes obediently.
According to accounting estimates, these three counties, including Fanjiazhuang and Li Zhi, can collect commercial taxes of 62,000 taels throughout the year. This is a considerable amount of income.
On the other hand, Li Zhi has to deal with the criminals arrested during the market strike and school strike.
These people are the vanguard of the market and school strikes, and Li Zhi is not ready to let them go easily. While Li Zhi interrogated these criminals in detail in the squad room, he asked Han Jinxin to collect more information and evidence outside, trying to arrest these people.
Check properly.
These scholars who were captured by Li Zhi were all descendants of wealthy gentry families and had deep local roots. The business gentry quickly calmed down and found various connections to save them. Throughout late January, Li Zhi's
Officials from all over Tianjin kept coming and going at the gate of the General's Mansion, and the threshold of the General's Mansion was almost broken. Almost all officials who had a relationship with Li Zhi came to Fanjiazhuang to intercede for the arrested students.
To these officials, Li Zhi would always serve them a cup of tea and conduct official business. As for the children of the evil gentry and the officials' families who obstructed him from collecting business taxes, Li Zhi would check to see if they had done any bad things. If they really had not done any bad things, he would
Let him go. If he has done something evil, he will be punished.
This market strike and school strike is also a good opportunity for Li Zhi to clean up the officialdom of Tianjin West Road. Killing a group of evil gentry children who bully the market will also make the water on Tianjin West Road clearer.
On January 25, Tianjin Governor Zha Dengbei finally came. He visited Li Zhi to intercede for Song Daoming, the two-pronged military commander of Tianjin, and also interceded for Song Jinyu, the son of Bingbei.
Li Zhi and Cha Denbe were acquaintances, and they greeted him in the second hall. Now that Li Zhi was famous all over the world, Cha Denbe did not dare to show off in front of Li Zhi. Li Zhi had just made a gesture of kneeling down to worship Cha Denbe.
Deng Bei quickly went up to help Li Zhi up.
"Why does the general need such a great gift?"
At the end of last year, there was news in Tianjin official circles that Li Zhi had a quarrel with Song Daoming because he did not kneel down. As a result, in January this year, Li Zhi led his troops to arrest Dongnu Xizuo in the Bingbei Mansion, and made the Bingbei family bear a serious crime.
.The coincidence of timing here makes people scared just thinking about it. Who in Tianjin dares to ask Li Zhi to kneel down?
The two sat down in the second hall. Chadenbei took a sip of tea and said: "General Longhu, this Song Jinyu is weak and ignorant, and he was deceived when he married that Yuwan. General, why don't you sell your face to me?"
Let Song Jinyu go and don't mention this matter again."
