Thousands of people gathered at the construction site to prevent the victims who were providing work-for-work relief from digging the reservoir. The Linqing prefect, Linxi county magistrate, and the transport army in the Linqing river section did not dare to control it for fear of provoking a civil uprising - Water Transport Coordinator Liang Xi,
The transport troops from Jining are being transferred over, and they are obviously ready to use force to suppress them at any time.
Wang Yuan hurried back and cursed: "What do you do, Zhizhou? You have been told to guard against someone taking the opportunity to cause trouble!"
Malun cried bitterly: "Master Wang, you can't take precautions. There are people with ulterior motives who are secretly spreading rumors to cause trouble, saying that the reservoir has a radius of hundreds of miles and will be used for flood discharge in the future. The people on both sides of the river have all their land confiscated.
Everyone is registered as a Yunjun. Linqing Prefecture has such a large territory and the rumors are so insidious, how can we prevent it?"
"Then have you found out who is spreading rumors and causing trouble?" Wang Yuan asked again.
Ma Lun still looked like he was unlucky: "Thousands of people have gathered together, and I dare not act rashly. I am afraid that if I don't pay attention, a civil uprising will be triggered."
"Trash!" Wang Yuan wanted to kill this man with a knife.
Eunuch Li Xing sneered: "Who else could it be? It's just the instigation of the Lu, Liu, and Xing families. They have the most fertile land occupied."
Xingtai, who had already become a disciple of Wang Yuan, quickly defended himself: "Sir, it can never be my Xing family!"
Shen Fucong has returned to Jining. As the Jining Prefecture Magistrate, he cannot leave the jurisdiction for a long time and is only here to deliver news.
Wang Yangming also didn't come for the time being. His father Wang Hua was seriously ill and couldn't leave for a while.
For the reservoir excavation project, Wang Yuan could only leave it to his eldest disciple Wang Wensu to supervise the construction and ask the officials in Linqing Prefecture to fully cooperate.
It was obvious that Wang Wensu could not be restrained, and those officials always acted in a submissive manner.
In addition, Wang Yuan's project budget was detailed and he asked his disciples to check the accounts every day, which did not leave too much room for officials to be dirty. As a result, these guys were very inactive in doing things.
Thousands of people gathered to make trouble, but the officials actually watched the fun, and even the magistrate couldn't command them!
Wang Yuan rode a fast horse to the construction site and found that thousands of people, supporting the elderly and the young, actually built shacks to live on the construction site. Anyway, it was the off-farming season, and they had nothing to do at home, so they just stayed at the construction site.
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"Sir, this disciple has a great responsibility!" Wang Wensu blamed himself extremely.
Wang Yuan comforted him: "It's not easy for you either. You're almost fifty years old and you're still blowing cold wind on the construction site all day long. You've never taken care of such a big thing before, and you don't have many people under your command."
The project is divided into several parts. The largest number of people are digging the reservoir, and disciple Wang Wensu is in charge.
In addition, some people dug canals to connect the reservoir and the river, and disciple Bao Chaozhen was in charge.
Gunshui Dam has the highest professional demand, and the old eunuch Li Xing is in charge.
The governor of the state, Ma Lun, was responsible for logistics, contacting and appeasing the local government.
In addition, Liang Xi sent two hundred transport troops over to help maintain public order, and the remaining transport troops were responsible for transporting grain northward by land.
Wang Yuan summoned all 200 Yuan troops and said to Wang Wensu: "Order to start work!"
The workers were all victims of disasters who received work-for-relief. They would work for anyone who gave them food. But that was all. When faced with the mob's troubles, they all chose to hide far away.
At this moment, Wang Wensu ordered the work to start. As soon as the victims picked up their hoes and poles, thousands of troublemakers came out of their shacks.
Wang Yuan rode alone, stood in front of thousands of people, and shouted: "The leader, come out and speak!"
No one answered, they just formed a human wall silently.
Wang Yuan sneered: "Liang Xi, the water transport officer, has gone to Jining to mobilize the transport troops. Within two days, the officers and soldiers will arrive, but they will have to speak with knives!"
Hearing this, the wall of people formed a panic.
Wang Yuan added: "My name is Wang Yuan, and people in the world call me 'Wang Erlang'. The rebels call me 'The Number One Killer'. Last year, with two hundred cavalry, I dared to charge into tens of thousands of rebels and kill them."
The heads are rolling in. Are there thousands of you people enough for me to kill?"
A person's name, a tree's shadow.
These people were even more panicked, and some were already planning to escape.
Wang Yuan said: "You came to make trouble because you just believed the rumors. Chief Wang (Wang Wensu) has explained it countless times, but you can't listen. I won't explain anymore and will wait here for a while. Officers of the Yun Army,
Follow me to Lu’s house!”
Ma Lun hurriedly asked: "Why did Wang Xueshi lead his troops to the Lu family?"
Wang Yuan laughed and said: "To confuse people with evil words, of course it is to confiscate the house!"
Ma Lun was shocked: "It may not be the Lu family who is spreading rumors and causing trouble, it could be someone else."
Wang Yuan said disdainfully: "I don't care about it so much, why should I slowly arrest people for interrogation? If the construction period is delayed for one day, how much food will be consumed. If it is not completed before the water rises in spring, it will be even more troublesome then!"
Among the three major families occupied by the land, the Liu family has a general who is quite powerful in the local guard station. The Xing family has an Imperial College Supervisor and a scholar who has become a disciple of Wang Yuan. It is difficult for these two families to take action, so then
Take the Lu family directly, who told them to only know how to farm and do business?
Moreover, it would not be unfair to copy any of these three major families.
They were able to quickly accumulate land mainly due to years of floods and colluding with the government to seize the land of the victims, causing countless people to lose their homes.
Seeing Wang Yuan leading 200 troops directly to the Lu family to ransack their homes, someone suddenly shouted: "The government is going to kill people. If you kill the Lu family, come back and kill us!"
"hehe."
Wang Yuan sneered when he heard this. Sure enough, it was the Lu family who was behind the scenes.
It is very likely that all three families are involved. However, Wang Yuan only needs to copy the Lu family to settle the matter.
Among the crowd, there were many who were encouraging people to cause trouble.
Wang Yuan did not leave for the time being. He ordered tens of thousands of migrant workers to surround these thousands of people and ordered: "I have to keep an eye on them. If anyone dares to violently resist the law, you can use hoes and poles to suppress them. Kill me after you finish."
You can all take responsibility. If you let them run wild, your future relief food will be gone. Go back to your hometown and eat dirt!"
Wang Yuan asked again: "Among the officials, are there any people from the Lu family?"
The manpower brought by Wang Yuan was not enough, so he had to rely on local officials to do the work. There were more than 20 Linqing officials at the construction site near the reservoir.
Wang Wensu had already registered and recorded: "There are three people with the surname Lu."
"Catch him!" Wang Yuan shouted.
Wang Wensu immediately led Yunjun to arrest the person and quickly brought him to Wang Yuan.
Wang Yuan asked: "Are you all from Linxi Lu family?"
An official was horrified and said: "Xueshi Wang, although my surname is Lu, I am not a descendant of the Linxi Lu family."
"That's none of your business, just step back." Wang Yuan said with a smile.
The remaining two Lu family members didn't know what was going on and knelt there in fear.
Wang Yuan pulled out the sword and said loudly: "This is the sword given to Shang Fang by the emperor. Officials below the sixth rank can be killed first and then played!"
Zhizhou Ma Lun didn't care, he was from the fifth rank. But the Tongzhi and the state magistrate who followed were so frightened that they could be chopped to death on the spot by this sword.
The construction period is tight and must be completed before the spring rains fall. Wang Yuan does not have much time to deal with it slowly.
We must cut through the mess quickly!
Wang Yuan walked up to the two officials named Lu Zao and sighed: "Oh, it's just your bad luck."
The two were horrified. Before they had time to beg for mercy, they saw two sword lights flash past and Wang Yuan had already wiped their necks.
One of them was not dead on the spot. He was holding his throat and struggling, and blood was pouring out from his mouth and between his fingers.
Wang Yuan got on his horse and said to the two hundred soldiers: "Come with me to raid the house!"
Everyone was stunned on the spot, looking stupidly at the dying man, like a chicken that had not been completely killed!
Some of the thousands of people making trouble began to retreat, but not long after, they all left.
Wang Yuan led his troops to the Lu family's ancestral home and found that it was actually an earthen building, which was equivalent to a reduced and simplified version of Wubao.
The ancestors of the Lu family once served as high-ranking officials in the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shandong was in chaos. It is estimated that they relied on this kind of earth building to save the family business.
Wang Yuan shouted: "Everyone in the earth building must come out within a quarter of an hour. Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished as treason!"
Wang Yuan came at full speed. The Lu family hadn't received the news yet, but they didn't dare to open the door directly after seeing the battle.
A middle-aged man hung down from the basket and asked, "Why did Academician Wang lead his troops here?"
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "A few days ago, I came here with good intentions to discuss compensation for the land occupation with you. Since you don't accept the good intentions, and you don't want to drink a toast and eat as a fine, then I can only bring my troops here! Go back.
Tell your family master that if you don't open the door today, tomorrow a large army will attack the building and all of them will be punished for treason. The Yi tribe!"
The middle-aged man smiled apologetically and said, "Xueshi Wang's words are serious. How can our Lu family rebel?"
Wang Yuan said: "That's not certain. I received a report saying that when the rebels passed through the border last year, you sent food to the rebels. Otherwise, why were many counties in Shandong Province invaded by the rebels, and how could the earthen buildings of yours still be there?
All right?"
If you want to impose a crime, why bother?
The middle-aged man had no choice but to go back. After a while, the door of the earth building opened, and the head of the Lu family came out to greet him with a cane.
"Don't open the door, they are going to ransack the house!" Someone rushed back from behind and shouted.
Wang Yuan originally didn't want to kill anyone anymore, but after hearing this, he slashed the head of the Lu clan to death with one sword and shouted: "We will capture them all without mercy. If there is any resistance, we will kill them without mercy!"
Two hundred Yun troops, facing the rebels, could only flee, but now they rushed into the earth building like wolves and tigers.
The military discipline of these transport troops was really bad. Not to mention taking advantage of the opportunity to hide property privately, some actually wanted to insult women. It was only in order that two of them were hacked to death by Wang Yuan with a sword.
The Linxi Lu family, which had flourished since the Yuan Dynasty, collapsed.
The men were sent to guard the border, and the women were sent to the Jiaofangsi. Household slaves with bad deeds were exiled with their masters, but other house slaves were allocated the land and property left by the Lu family.
The various properties combined were equivalent to more than 30,000 taels of silver, not counting the land that Wang Yuan distributed to his slaves.
You can save a lot of project money.
Will Ke Daoyan impeach Wang Yuan for this?
Won't!
Because Wang Yuan is working on the water transport project, and water transport is the foundation of the country, who dares to talk nonsense?
Not to mention that Wang Yuan only raided one family, even if he raided the Xing family and the Liu family together, he would still be guilty of meritorious service!