Not long after, Han Jinxin jogged to the second hall of the General's Mansion.
"Han Jinxin has met the General!"
"Han Jinxin, do you know the Liu family, the censor of Jinghai County?"
"The younger one knows that his family has a thousand acres of fertile land by the Crescent River."
"How can he get so much land from a mere official?"
"In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, there was a flood in Jinghai County. The Crescent River burst its banks and flooded all the fields by the river. After the flood receded, the Liu family colluded with the county magistrate at the time and occupied thousands of fertile fields on the grounds that they were terra nullius.
Mu of fertile farmland by the river turned all the farmers with land by the river into tenant farmers of his family."
Li Zhi sneered and said, "Okay! The Liu family has dirty butts! You go collect evidence and sort out the dirty things about the Liu family. No matter how much money you spend, you must get it done!"
Han Jinxin nodded and said: "My subordinates have orders!"
Han Jinxin worked very efficiently. Twenty days later, Han Jinxin returned to Li Zhi and presented the Liu family's criminal evidence collected in the past twenty days to Li Zhi.
This Liu family is very dirty. His family was originally a poor family, but after his second son Liu Bingchuan became an official, he got out of control. Not only did he rely on his power to seize a thousand acres of dry land from the common people, but he also cooperated with the government officials to coerce, induce, defraud and suppress, and annexed nearby areas.
There are more than a dozen shops in Longshui Town, which monopolize various businesses such as grain and cloth in Longshui Town.
Just because their property was robbed by the Liu family, three civilians hanged themselves.
The Liu family relied on their power to look very ugly. Han Jinxin found a lot of evidence after a little collecting. Han Jinxin found these civilians who were oppressed by the Liu family and spent 200 taels of silver to buy them.
Various original contracts and land deeds occupied by the family but useless. These first-hand information all point to one fact: the Liu family bullies the market, bullies the villagers, illegally annexes riverside land worth fifteen thousand taels, and bullies the village every year.
Profit of several thousand taels.
This is a big evil gentry.
After receiving evidence of the Liu family's evil deeds, Li Zhi watched it repeatedly and was very happy.
"Tell Zhong Feng to bring a thousand soldiers, and follow me to get people from the Liu family!"
Li Zhi rode a big horse, asked his servants to hold flags and five-square flags, and led a thousand soldiers to Liu's house in Jinghai County to pick up people!
When they arrived at the Liu family's yard, the Liu family closed the door and refused to open it. The door was very heavy and covered with iron sheets and copper nails, so most people couldn't kick it open.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to bring a ladder and climbed in from the courtyard wall.
Halfway through the climb, the servants in the yard actually shot arrows at Li Zhi's soldiers, forcing the soldiers climbing down the wall. Li Zhi became furious and told the soldiers to fire at will!
The soldiers found twenty more ladders and climbed them with loaded rifles.
Twenty-one soldiers climbed up the wall at the same time and shot into the yard at the same time, suppressing several archers in the yard. After the gunfire sounded, only screams were heard in the yard, and several Liu family servants fell to the ground.
There was no life left in the pool of blood. Seeing the fierce firepower, the rest of the Liu family fled into the back yard in panic.
The Liu family wanted to sneak out through the back door, but when they opened the back door, they saw a dense number of Fanjiazhuang soldiers standing guard, surrounding the entire yard. The Liu family, who had shown off their power yesterday, were now unable to fly.
The soldiers who climbed the ladder climbed into the yard and opened the gate of the house, allowing the soldiers behind to enter the Liu family compound.
Li Zhi led 200 soldiers into the courtyard and massacred people in various courtyards. After killing several Liu family servants who resisted, Li Zhi's 200 soldiers rushed to the last one to enter the courtyard and killed the Liu family.
The old man and Liu Yushi's eldest brother and third brother were all arrested.
Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, was detained by the soldiers. He coughed violently several times and then said loudly: "Li Zhi, do you dare to take me? Do you have any royal law in your eyes? The governor of Tianjin and the Minister of Rites have both sent you a message, you
Aren't you afraid of offending them?"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Even if I offend them, what can they do to me?"
Liu Jianshen's eldest son roared: "Li Zhi, don't be arrogant, my second brother Liu Bingchuan will not let you go!"
"A small censor is not in the eyes of this official." After a pause, Li Zhi said: "You annexed thousands of acres of fertile land from poor farmers, annexed more than a dozen small merchants' shops, and caused three people to commit suicide in despair. The evidence is conclusive.
It's irrefutable. I have a hundred reasons to kill you, but you still dare to speak harshly?"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Liu Jianshen and his eldest son looked at each other with panic expressions. This was not the first time that Li Zhi committed suicide by private execution. Last time, he executed three family members of the county magistrate in the county seat. But the three county magistrates were young and were killed.
He was unable to resist even after killing his family members. But the censorship was different. The censor was very powerful, and Liu Bingchuan was ranked among the top tier Qingliu people. He was always respected by the people. The Liu family did not expect that Li Zhi would not take Qingliu seriously. Even Liu Bingchuan's family also did not think so.
Dare to come in.
Liu Jianshen coughed for a while, raised his head and said: "Li Zhi, General Li, let us go, we will let you build the canals, and we will not interfere with you anymore!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "It's too late, I want a head on your neck now to establish your authority!"
When Liu Jianshen heard this, his face turned pale and his whole body started to tremble.
In the land of Tianjin West Road, Li Zhi did not allow the existence of hostile forces. As long as Li Zhi found a reason, he would dare to kill people and execute him. In the face of the strength of Li Zhi's tiger warrior, the rules seemed pale and the power seemed weak.
The servants who injured Li Zhi's tenant farmers could not be spared. Li Zhi tied up all the servants. Li Zhi arrested more than 30 people at Liu's house and locked them all in a wing of Liu's house. He sent soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition.
Stay outside.
Next, Li Zhi began to raid Liu Jianshen's home. The Liu family had begun to bully the village since Liu Bingchuan became an official. In the past ten years, they had collected a lot of property. Li Zhi searched various yards for a day and found 70,000 taels worth of property.
Silver's various properties. In addition to the farmland by the river worth more than 10,000 taels, the family of this seventh-rank censor family actually has property worth 90,000 taels.
Han Jinxin said that the Liu family was originally poor, but the accumulation of money by the Liu family in the past ten years is truly astonishing.
Pearls, ivory, spices, silk and glass porcelain were copied and piled in the yard. They were piled all over the floor. Liu Jian saw that all his treasures were searched out by Li Zhi's soldiers, who looked like tigers and wolves, and closed his eyes in despair.
Li Zhi planned to hand over the proceeds from the confiscated houses to the emperor so that the emperor could make a fortune.
After catching the Liu family, Li Zhi planned to hold an execution meeting in Longshui Town.
Han Jinxin has found all the original landowners of the dry fields by the river. Except for the three self-cultivated farmers, the other two hundred farmers were invited by Li Zhi to observe the execution meeting. In addition, the small businessmen whose stores were occupied by the Liu family were also invited.
Come here. Li Zhi will return their property to them on the spot.
On May 2nd, Li Zhi took all six adult men and servants of the Liu family to the entrance of the wet market in Longshui Town, so that the people who had been oppressed by the Liu family could see the final fate of the Liu family.
