"General, some people have come to complain again, should we let them go to the county?"
"Well, send a chief to lead the troops for protection." Zhou Tai said.
Although Zhou Tai has been promoted back to the captain, but in the absence of a higher-ranking officer in the army, of course he is called the general. Who would be so ignorant and call him "Zhou Lieutenant"?
At this time, it was Zhou Tai who was stationed outside the Xu family's territory - hundreds of hectares of fields around him were the property of the Xu family.
In fact, in terms of land, the Xu family is not much wider than Lu Su, but... the Xu family's biggest asset is livestock. The land previously replaced by buffaloes is distributed throughout Wu County and even Kuaiji, adding up to thousands of hectares.
, not weaker than aristocratic families with less accumulation and "poorer", but because they haven't moved to another place yet, they can only collect rent.
"Here!" After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately went to arrange escort.
Since Zhou Tai came to station nearby, he has received many people who came to accuse Xu of his evil deeds.
However, the military regulations clearly state that it is the job of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Punishment to punish corrupt officials and evil-doing nobles. Officers have the responsibility to convey the information and protect the plaintiffs, but they have no right to deal with it directly. Of course, this refers to the situation in the car.
In the "controlled war zone" of Cavalry General Bai Tu, if it is within the sphere of influence of other princes, he can take over the power.
There are three main types of accusations against Xu. The first is destroying the Fuchun Deep Well, the second is robbing the Deep Well, and the third is bullying men and dominating women...The number also decreased in sequence.
There are also some incredible rumors. For example, Xu Gong destroyed the deep well because he disliked the deep well and ruined the Xu family's feng shui. Every time he destroyed a deep well, a pair of boys and girls would be sealed in it. Others said that the Xu family wanted to rob the well.
Shenjing went to feed cattle and horses and slaughtered an entire village. What's more, people from the Xu family were said to be good at witchcraft. After peeling off the cowhide and sewing it on people, they would turn people into cows!
Zhou Tai also wondered who was spreading the rumors, and he was very imaginative...
Zhou Tai believed it at first and dug several deep wells that were damaged, but he found no boys or girls. As for what turns people into cows? I believe you!
It's just that although Zhou Tai doesn't believe it, there are too many people who believe it. Now, almost all the missing children in Fuchun County within the past ten years are blamed on the Xu family. The massacre of the village is even more unreasonable and does not require witnesses -
-Don’t ask, if you ask, they will all be killed, so there is no witness!
Some people even swore that they had seen Xu's cow talking...
Anyway, Zhou Tai didn't find anything, but he didn't have the responsibility to help him refute the rumors, so he left it to them.
As for the people who were really wronged and came to complain to Zhou Tai, he also sent people to Fuchun - the Fuchun order had been captured by the officials amidst the laughter and laughter of the people because of dereliction of duty and colluding with bandits.
Now the joint law enforcement brigade of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Punishment is stationed in Fuchun. If you want to file a complaint, you can definitely go to the county seat.
Zhou Tai waited for several days before it was finally his turn to take action!
A few days ago, the Ministry of Civil Affairs happened to conduct a random inspection on Fuchun's civil affairs, and it happened to focus on the Xu family. Today... several officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs were suspected of being detained by the Xu family. The chief clerk of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who was in charge of this matter, immediately reported to the same people.
Zhou Tai, who happened to be stationed nearby, asked for help.
Suppressing rebellious parties is the duty of the military, and it can exercise power according to the circumstances.
So Zhou Tai immediately sent people to the nearest signal tower to deliver the message, and at the same time led troops to rush into the Xu clan area and surrounded the core residence of the direct descendants and the ancestral temple.
At this time, in Xu's ancestral temple, there were crowds of people outside and chaos. Many young tribesmen were talking angrily. Some were angry at the people outside, while others were angry at the people in the ancestral temple!
Inside the ancestral temple, there were also many elders of the Xu clan, including Xu Gong, and several important stewards and figures serving the imperial court...
From the beginning of the drought, some people in the Xu family had already realized that something was wrong. When the deep wells started to be put into use, they became even more worried.
However, more people are actually worried because their livestock require a lot of water!
The fact is indeed true. There will be no crops in the field for a year. The worst is to wait for relief and become a refugee. As long as you can survive it, next year you will be a good farmer again! But without water for the livestock... you will be completely bankrupt in a few days. Next year, you will be completely bankrupt.
Soaking beef jerky in water will not turn it into a live cow.
Even the modern breeding industry is very risky, let alone the breeding in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, in this situation, most of the core members of the Xu family still think of "cow". It has to be said... that the decline of the Xu family is inevitable.
In recent years, the core of the Xu family's decision-making has begun to be too eager for quick success and quick gains, frequently gambling on the fortune of the family. Xu Gong's position as prefect was quite dangerous. In order to eliminate the influence of the former prefect, the Xu family had already attracted a lot of criticism. Later, he actually
Even supporting Yan Baihu's separatist rule, he dared to be on the front line!
Although in a short period of time, more than ten generations of the Xu family have accumulated profits and power that have rapidly expanded into profit and power, it was also several seemingly successful "gambles" that made the core members of the Xu family become more and more gambling-minded.
Of course, the Xu family is not just throwing eggs at stones. After all, such a big family, even if they are all brainless villains, they will not survive today...
After breaking with Bai Tutong, the direct descendants of the Xu family, headed by Xu Gong, planned a plan to pretend to be brave and foolhardy, making Bai Tu feel that as long as they develop step by step, Xu's cancer can be eradicated sooner or later.
Contact Cao Cao secretly. When Xun You came to Jiangdong before, Xu Gong had private contact with him.
By contacting Cao Cao instead of Yuan Shu, Xu was not completely stupid.
Xu Gong had a very good idea. His main strategy was to send a message to Xudu when nothing happened, advocating that Bai Tu was ambitious, and then ask Cao Cao for an official position, and express his love for the imperial court, which could be used as an internal agent...
If Xu Gong could become an official in the court, not only would he be safe, but Bai Tu would also be less able to attack the Xu family.
However, the "deep well disease" remarks he stirred up among the people before finally harmed him!
During Xun You's trip to Jiangdong, after comprehensive consideration, he decided that Bai Tu was "harmless". Naturally, Cao Cao did not want to deal with the Xu family and did not want to easily offend the "harmless" Bai Tu.
Although Xu Gong still persisted in sending messages to Xu Du, and this time Bai Tu's deep well made him suddenly become the savior of Jiangdong, and his popularity was unparalleled for a while. It seemed "bad intentions" to let the "deep well disease" spread before.
Maybe Cao Cao will really become vigilant?
But... the Xu family has no chance. The Ministry of Civil Affairs accurately conducted a spot check on the Xu family, and the public complaints were completely drawn!
Ever since Zhou Tai led his troops and stationed them nearby in the name of disaster relief, the Xu family had already been in silence.
The attitude of the officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs made them understand that there was no room for maneuver - if they really wanted to be serious, the population and farmland Xu was hiding could make him bankrupt, not to mention there were other things that could not be "redeemed"
The crime...
Finally, on the fourth day after the Ministry of Civil Affairs' thorough investigation began, dozens of unregistered households were discovered in one of Xu's farms, and even... a crossbow was discovered. Officials from the Ministry of Justice from the county,
When he was also holding official documents and wanted to interrogate several Xu clan members suspected of various crimes, Xu Gong had no other choice but to violently resist the law.
Then Zhou Tai quickly came with his troops, and the Xu family was in chaos...