Yang Jun returned to Lucheng County with 500 soldiers at midnight the next day. He ordered the soldiers to take a rest outside the city while he sneaked into the city first.
They must first grasp the evidence that Fei Yang secretly communicated with Zhu Tao. Both the Counselor Hall and the King of Jin are currently strictly prohibited from using liaison with the enemy as an excuse to frame businessmen and ordinary people. Once found out, they will be severely punished.
Therefore, if Han Yu wants to attack the Fei family, he must have tangible witnesses and material evidence. The witnesses include not only the Zhang family and the Gao family, but more importantly, the people involved. If the person sent by Zhu Tao, the person named Peng Lu, can be caught, then the person will be
Evidence is all there is, followed by physical evidence, and the best physical evidence is letters and the like.
Yang Jun sneaked into Fei's house at midnight with five or six soldiers who were highly skilled in martial arts. After all, the Fei family was just a large local family and would not be as heavily guarded as a wealthy family. They first found the housekeeper of Fei's house, whose surname was Mao.
He was woken up from his sleep and found a gleaming knife on his neck. He was so frightened that he almost wet the bed.
"Who...are you?" Butler Mao asked in a trembling voice.
"Stop talking nonsense, where does Peng Lu live?" a deep voice asked.
As soon as Butler Mao hesitated, the force of the knife increased, and blood started to flow from his neck. Butler Mao was so frightened that he kept saying: "He lives in the second room in the east courtyard, and the whole east courtyard...
.He lives alone!”
Butler Mao was quickly tied up and his mouth was gagged with socks.
Several men in black quickly found the second room in the east courtyard. Sure enough, as the housekeeper said, the other rooms were padlocked from the outside. Only this room was locked from the inside. There was faint snoring from inside. Several men in black gently
Pry open the window and climb in...
Yang Jun sneaked into Fei Yang's inner study. He hung a layer of opaque black cloth on the window, lit a small lantern, and quickly rummaged around the room. The furnishings in the room were relatively simple, with only a desk and a table.
There was only a bookcase, but both the desk and the bookcase were searched, and there was no letter he was looking for.
At this time, Yang Jun's eyes fell on the corner of the desk. There was a small box there. At first he thought it was an incense burner, but he soon discovered that it was not an incense burner, but a copper box with a small gold lock on it.
'Click!' Yang Jun broke the lock and opened the box. Inside was a thick stack of letters, tied up with silk tape. The first letter was a letter written by Zhu Tao to him. Yang Jun looked at the date of the letter.
, this is very important, the date is December last year, Zhu Tao has been driven to Liaodong, this is proof that Fei Yang colluded with Zhu Tao.
Yang Jun took the letter and left quickly...
Before dawn, five hundred soldiers surrounded the Fei family. At this time, Fei Yang was also woken up. He got up, put on his clothes and asked, "What happened?"
The chief steward said tremblingly: "Someone sneaked into the house last night, and Peng Lu, who lives in the east courtyard, has disappeared!"
Fei Yang was shocked and asked hurriedly: "Did you leave a note?"
"Nothing was left? He must have been kidnapped."
'Being kidnapped?'
Fei Yang felt fear in his heart, who could have done this?
At this time, he suddenly thought of something, turned around and hurried to his study. He quickly walked to the desk and squatted down. His heart suddenly became cold. He saw that the small lock on the copper box had been broken and thrown aside.
"Brother, this is incredible!"
Brother Fei Hong crawled in and shouted in a horrified voice: "There are many troops coming outside and surrounding our house."
"Boom!" There was a dull banging sound from the front yard. This was the sound coming from the door. Someone was banging on the door.
Fei Yang slowly stood up, his face turned pale, this time the Fei family was in doom.
...........
Half an hour later, more than twenty men of the Fei family were escorted out of the mansion by soldiers with their heads down. There was a sea of people outside the mansion. Thousands of county residents came to watch the excitement. The county residents were talking a lot. Someone had already informed them that the Fei family had colluded.
Zhu Tao's rebellion attempted to cooperate with the inside and outside to seize Lucheng County.
The Fei family had a good reputation in Lucheng County, and some old men wanted to intercede on their behalf, but they heard that they were colluding with Zhu Tao, so no one dared to come forward.
The Gao family and the Miao family were also there. They watched the Fei family being taken away with mixed emotions. On the one hand, they let out a lot of anger, but on the other hand, he was also worried that the Fei family would be unlucky and their lives would not be the same.
It's better, after all, many of their interests are closely related.
Although it was the first time for Han Yu to deal with this kind of thing, he was very determined. If he wanted to gain a foothold in Lucheng and straighten out all the matters in the Yantian, he had to get rid of the Fei family or drive away the Fei family. This was his
The only chance is that if he fails to seize this opportunity, he will end up resigning in despair like his two predecessors.
At this time, Xu Jian walked into the official room and handed a pigeon letter to Han Yu, "This is a letter from His Highness the King of Jin to you!"
Han Yu was refreshed. He was waiting for a letter from His Highness King Jin!
Xu Jian sent an eagle letter to Chang'an the day before yesterday. The reply came today. He quickly opened the letter and read it carefully. There were only a few simple sentences in it, "Take Fei Yang and his witnesses and material evidence to Chang'an, confiscate his family property, and start salt field production as soon as possible."
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Han Yu's heart became brighter and he knew what to do.
An hour later, Han Yu came to the Fei family and saw Fei Cheng, the head of the Fei family, who was under house arrest. The eldest son was taken away and the family men were detained. He seemed to be ten years older. At this time, Fei's heart was full of fear. Is the Fei family going to do it?
Do you want to completely destroy it in your own hands?
"How does Magistrate Han plan to punish my Fei family?" Philadelphia asked in a hoarse voice.
Han Yu said coldly: "The salt fields and real estate of the Fei family will be confiscated and used as officials. As for the Fei family, I will give you two choices. The first way is that all the Fei family's men over fifteen and under fifty will be exiled to Lingnan."
Year; the second way is that the government does not need to pursue the Fei family, except Fei Yang, but there are additional conditions."
"What conditions?" Philadelphia suddenly raised his head, with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"The conditions are very simple. The Fei family will move away from Cangzhou with Xinruan. I don't care where you go? But you must leave Cangzhou."
Fei Cheng nodded slowly, "Let me think about it!"
"I'll give you two days to make your own choice."
After Han Yu finished speaking, he turned around and left. In fact, Fei Cheng had no choice. He closed his eyes and thought for a while. The Fei family still had a mansion in Hejian County, Yingzhou. He could move the family to Hejian County and then live in Hejian County.
Purchase land there and develop it.
Fei Cheng let out a long sigh. He had been hunting geese all his life, but his eyes were pecked by small geese. This new county magistrate, Han Yu, was very ruthless. He really made a mistake.
.........
Early the next morning, Fei Cheng informed Han Yu that he had accepted the second plan. At this time, Fei Yang and witness Peng Lu had already taken the salt boat to Chang'an.
All the more than two dozen Fei family members were released and asked to leave Lucheng County before dark. At noon, about a hundred people from the Fei family left Lucheng County in more than thirty ox carts and headed to Lucheng County.
Yingzhou Hejian County.
As more than thirty ox carts disappeared into the distance, the Fei family finally came to an end in Lucheng County.
At this time, Han Yu summoned the heads of the Gao family and the Miao family to discuss the matter. He came up with a solution. At that time, Zhu Tao forcibly requisitioned or purchased at a low price about 30,000 acres of salt fields from the people. Later, Zhu Tao came up with it through Li Bin, the governor of Cangzhou.
Twenty thousand acres of salt and iron were awarded to three families. Han Yu believed that the private grant of twenty thousand acres of salt and iron was illegal, so the twenty thousand acres of salt fields must be taken back to the government. The government also provided another ten thousand acres of salt fields, and together with the twenty thousand acres of salt fields, returned them to the government.
People of Lucheng County.
After Han Yu forcefully suppressed the Fei family, both the Gao family and the Miao family were frightened. They both realized that the Fei family was actually destroyed on the 20,000 acres of salt fields. If they did not accept it, they would become public enemies of the entire county.
In desperation, the two family heads had no choice but to accept Han Yu's plan.
When the news came, the city was filled with excitement, and the people beat gongs and drums to celebrate the return of their property.
Next, Han Yu reached a profit-sharing agreement with the Cangzhou Prefectural Government and the Hebei Salt and Iron Bureau. The county government was responsible for organizing the salt workers to dry the salt. The Salt and Iron Bureau would purchase sea salt at a price of ten cents per dou, minus three cents from the ten cents.
In terms of wages and benefits, the local government received seven cents per dou, the county government received four cents, and the state government received three cents. The sea salt produced in private salt fields was also purchased by the Salt and Iron Administration at the same price of ten cents per dou.
After sorting out the interests of all parties, large-scale salt mining began in the lower salt fields of Lucheng County.
Two months later, the situation in Lucheng County had completely stabilized. Yang Jun, two staff members, dozens of soldiers and the county magistrate Han Yu reluctantly said goodbye. They left Lucheng County and returned to the capital.
Not long after the Fei family was driven out of Lucheng County, the joint shipyards of the Dugu family and the Dou family also formally signed a land sale agreement to acquire 500 acres of land on the south bank of the Zhang River at a price of two guan per mu.
It was sold to the Dugu family and the Dou family, and the Zhangshui Shipbuilding Workshop began to operate.