Staying in Nanjing, Suzhou, two important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the wind and clouds changed color in an instant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Suzhou City, Wu County Ya.

Zha Jizuo had just ordered someone to open the gate of the county government early in the morning, and hung a notice board with a copy of the family list at the door. The two officials yawned and hung the sign with a mahogany frame and a oak bottom at the door, and were about to turn around and go to the teahouse at the corner of the street to wash their faces and eat breakfast, when they felt something strange behind them. When I looked back, I was surprised.

Behind him, more than 200 people had already gathered. Many of them were covered in thick clothes, and they knew at a glance that they had come to the yamen since last night.

"You, what are you going to do?!" Seeing so many people quietly appearing at the yamen, the voices of the officials changed. Suzhou has a tradition of resisting taxes, smashing the yamen at every turn, and there was a similar incident more than 20 years ago, and after that incident, there were people who wrote articles to praise the virtues of those who resisted taxes.

"Don't mess around! There's a sentry stationed in our yamen! The young officer's voice trembled, but he was still intimidating.

There was an immediate uproar in the crowd, but in the eyes of the old servants, these people were noisy, but they were not here to make trouble.

"Don't be noisy! Talk about it slowly! ”

"We're here for this business."

In the crowd, an old man separated the crowd and walked up to the two officials, pointing to a few postings on the billboard. It was covered with cinnabar with a large seal the size of a cow's hoof, which was conspicuous on the snow-white one-foot-two-wide and three-foot-long list paper. Patrol the Imperial History! Suzhou Mansion Judgment! Wu County Governor! Any one of them can easily force a family to death.

After Zha Jizuo took office in Suzhou, he immediately put out his responsibilities and authority as the inspector of the imperial history, the general judgment of Suzhou, and the magistrate of Wu County. Murderously announced to Sergeant Wu that this official was specially appointed by the emperor in order to implement the new policy of money and grain and collect money and grain. Therefore, what the official has to do is to check the acres of land, verify the shopkeepers, and collect money and grain taxes.

Published together with this high-sounding official article, it is this person who combines three positions, holds a battalion of soldiers and horses in his hands, and holds the authority to kill people, which is the reward and reporting regulations issued by Lord Cha, who is also afraid of three points when he sees it.

"Whoever is involved in a case, a family member who does not produce a slave or a maid is guilty of the same crime as the master, and the slave or concubine or daughter who denounces the case may be rewarded with gold and silver or entered a training class in accordance with the regulations, and later rewarded with an official position. Inferior slaves, land, houses, gold and silver. ”

"If the owner doesn't want to die, report more than three people in the same case! You can avoid death! ”

The relevant clauses of the reward for reporting spread at an explosive speed in Suzhou Prefecture in an instant, as if they had grown wings.

Zha Jizuo is very clever in combining the cleanup of the people involved in the "Shun case" with the raid of homes and the clearing of the arrears of money and grain. In any case, most of the officials and gentry involved in the Shun case were also large households with money and grain. Moreover, with the clause of Shun Case, it is only natural to clean them up. They could not incite the people to revolt in the name of resisting the court's expropriation and tyranny.

Even if it is a mess, Zha Jizuo is not afraid. He also wished that someone would jump out first and challenge his authority as a special official of the imperial court. In this way, he could make that battalion of Guangxi wolf soldiers take the opportunity to bloody Suzhou. Let's let the general see our thunder methods! It is best that when these people are inciting the mob to make trouble, Lord Tacha can still be slightly injured, which can show that he is loyal to the king, does not fail in his mission, and lives up to the spirit entrusted by the general.

However, the gentry in Suzhou are also accustomed to bullying the weak and fearing the hard. Seeing that Zha Jizuo drove into Suzhou with a large team of men and horses in a murderous manner, he did not have the momentum of previous years.

"Humph! Sue Empty Head! Sure enough, it's Su Empty! ”

Zha Jizuo scolded in the Haining dialect, which was regarded as firing a map cannon.

The people of Suzhou have a long-standing nickname called "Su Kongtou". The nickname of "Su Kongtou" (mainly referring to Suzhou men who grew up in the city) can be said to have a long history, and its main characteristics are: 1. Specializing in eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and having fun with others; Second, the mouth is not firm, and it is easy to talk big; 3. Never fulfill what you promised to others. There is also another metaphor: "strong on the outside and dry on the inside", people who only seek the appearance and are empty inside. Wu Yan has a saying that "Su is empty, Hangzhou is iron". The name of "Su Kongtou" is similar to the nickname of Yangzhou people "Yang Xuzi": one Su and one Yang, one emptiness and one emptiness, all of which exaggerate the flashy side of the Jiangnan atmosphere. The original meaning of "short" is to lie. Suzhou is fake, and loves to report false prices. Cheng Zhanlu, a writer of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School in Suzhou in modern times, had a deep insight into the vulnerability of "Su Empty Head", he was saddened by it, and he also choked his wrist for it, and worked hard to write a poem "Empty Head Yard": "Empty Head Empty Head, out of Suzhou." Suzhou is short, and the name is Kyushu. He wears silk on his body, and he eats oil in his mouth. In fact, the family members waited for it, and it was not more than 108,000. When he went out, he lightly furrowed the horse and flirted with his son. When I got started, I shrank my hands and feet, and the cotton tire went through several degrees of spring and autumn. The white copper lock of the gold-painted chest is just empty inside. Empty short, empty when will it stop? ”

Another classic joke in ancient times: a person who first went to Suzhou, or taught it: "Wu people are used to empty heads, if you go to buy goods, he asks for two taels, and has to pay one or two." Even when he talks to someone, he says two words, and he has to listen to one sentence. "When he came to Su, he first used the method of buying goods to test the results. Later, I met a person and asked his surname, and replied: "The surname is Lu." The person said: "It must be the third old official." Then he asked, "How many houses are there?" He said, "Five." The person said: "It turned out to be two rooms and one cloth." Then he asked, "Who else is in the house?" He said, "Only one room." He said, "It is still with men." ”

It's okay, didn't you adopt the passive resistance method of grinding hard and not opposing non-cooperation to confront your own officials? Well, I'll go to the door first and see what you should do!

After a little search on the legally published contact maps and talismans of the "List of Gentlemen", an official from Suzhou became the first target of Zha Jizuo: he served in Hanlin in Beijing, and he was also a person who had a good basis for rebellion after Li Zicheng conquered Beijing, and there were many relatives in the family, and some people who were officials in the court. And it is notorious in the township, occupying more than 10,000 acres of fertile land, mountains and forests, tea gardens, silk stacks, mulberry gardens, and dozens of large ships travel between Nanjing and Shanghai. It can be regarded as a local rich man. However, since the apocalypse, he has never handed over a penny of food.

All right! and made him the sacrifice of the banner of his own officials!

In front of everyone's eyes, the mansion of the Hanlin Pan family at the foot of Huqiu Mountain was surrounded by the wolf-like Guangxi soldiers. More than 200 Guangxi wolf soldiers with swords, guns and guns naturally aroused many idlers' onlookers, and when they saw that they surrounded Hanlin Pan's house, the news immediately spread far and wide. More people came to watch.

Everyone knows that although the Hanlin Pan family is known as the scholarly family of Shili, there are nearly 200 evil slaves in the house, complete with knives and guns.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers ate the leopard's gall and dared to besiege the Hanlin Mansion, the sun came out in the west, and everyone in the mansion was shocked and angry.

Led by a butler wearing a cocoon silk robe and carrying a sword in his hand, a group of family members rushed out of the mansion, each armed with spears, big swords, iron rulers, and daggers. Before they could speak, the Guangxi military sentry officer who led the team raised the official document in his hand and shouted in a stiff Chinese language: "Today, Cha Pan is ungrateful, he is involved in the Shun case, the evidence is conclusive, and he has been ordered to deprive the soldier of his status, arrest his family and bring him to justice, and confiscate his family property into the official!" You can't wait for the mantis arm to be used as a car to help the abuse, so as not to end up in a different place! ”

The butler was shocked and angry, and shouted, "What a bold dog thief, and don't look anywhere, this is the Hanlin Pan Mansion!" My master has a lot of prestige in Jiangnan Shilin, and some of them helped the same family in the same year, even if they are caught in the thieves, they must return safely! You and other rats are just officials of a group of sesame mung beans, daring. ”

"This official is the official of sesame mung beans, but he is a special official of the emperor, which can make you turn into powder in an instant!" Zha Jizuo waited for this kind of person who resisted, even if he came out of the crowd, standing in front of the team and facing each other coldly.

"You deserve it too!"

Where would the housekeeper put Zha Jizuo, a lucky villain from a good background, in his eyes, and with a wave of the sword in his hand, more than a dozen family members pounced on him, ready to add Zha Jizuo with fists and kicks. to show the majesty of our Pan family.

"Resist the holy decree with the intention of harming this official! Kill! ”

"Bang bang bang!"

The loud sound of the firebolt sounded, and dozens of already loaded firebolts were aimed at the family in front of him and pulled the plate.

Blood mist ****, screams constantly. The family members fell to the ground and convulsed and groaned like a typhoon blowing through the rice fields. The butler was shot several times and staggered backwards and flew out. When he fell on the bluestone steps, he was already angry, but his eyes were wide open, staring at the sky, and his face was full of disbelief.

"Ahh

"Ahh

The family members who were lucky enough to escape this round of bullets shouted in unison. When have they ever seen such a scene? Generally, when the brand of the Hanlin family is revealed, the other party does not say that he is three points less arrogant and flees from the wind. When have you ever seen such a thing, and you didn't listen to the cruel words from your side at all, so you came up directly and bombarded it with a firecracker?

"Fire!"

The sentinel's cold, somewhat excited command sounded again. They have already had orders, and performing such a task is equivalent to combat, and it can also make military achievements! In the eyes of these Guangxi men, the combat effectiveness of these families in front of them is not as strong as the sisters in the family.

There was another roar of firecrackers, and another group of people screamed and were knocked to the ground.

"Kill!"

The first column of firecrackers rushed forward with their guns, and pounced on those guys who were standing at the door and were so frightened by these two rounds of firecrackers that they had lost their ability to react, and in an instant there was another scream at the gate, and blood splashed.

This scene shocked the onlookers.

This is the Hanlin family! This Lord Cha said that he copied it? Not only raided the house, but also openly killed people at the gate? This is too bold, isn't it? And those Guangxi barbarians, their hands are too ruthless, right? I just stabbed the person with a two-foot-long stab face to face!

"You guys! You guys!..... The old lady of the Pan family, who was helped out by two big girls in the room and rushed to the second gate in the face of the flow of people, looked at the family servants who knelt in a courtyard, and her beard trembled with anger, and her hands and feet trembled. He pointed his finger at Zha Jizuo and asked loudly: "It's that Xiao'er is caught in the thief, and it is difficult to distinguish innocence for a while, why do you have to work so hard to force each other?" Among my sons and nephews, there are many famous people! It is an old man, and he is also a person who has a meritorious name and returns to his hometown! "Old lady Pan's original intention was to use words to suspend Zha Jizuo's action first, and then invite him to a place like a flower hall or study to talk about the conditions and climb the friendship. Strive to make this a big thing a small thing. However, I don't want the person in front of me to be an unfriendly person.

"You don't say that the official has forgotten. There are a lot of people in your family who are educated, and there are also many people who are famous! Come! A sinister smile appeared on Zha Jizuo's face.

The scribe next to him immediately walked up to him with a pen and paper in his hand.

"This official will make a note, you will fill in the blank documents given to us by the imperial court with your name and surname, and deprive his nephews and brothers of their fame! Because of the Shun case, the three generations of children and grandchildren are not allowed to conduct scientific examinations! ”

deprived of fame, three generations of children and grandchildren are not allowed to take the imperial examination, doesn't this turn the Pan family, a big family of poetry and rites, into a pariah like a drummer and a prostitute? The old lady of the Pan family saw darkness in front of her eyes, and fell to the ground.

The Nanyue Army is also familiar with the matter of raiding homes and arresting people. After taking control of the entire mansion, the people in the Hanlin family were divided into family members, and the superior servants, the middle servants, and the inferior servants were imprisoned separately.

Those high-class servants with dignity and positions are naturally the first choice for our Lord Cha.

Looking at the well-dressed and fat-eating housekeeper and others, Zha Jizuo sneered and said, "Everyone, after a while, this official will arrange a banquet, you eat well, and in the afternoon, I will send you on the road." Anyway, you are all loyal to your master, and there is nothing valuable at home, and there is nothing to worry about about your aunt's wife. ”

When the stewards heard this, they were immediately frightened, where are they like that? is a slave in this house, and he is also the master and master in his own home, standing on the house and lying on the ground, many people still have their own trading shops, where are they willing to die for the Pan family? Hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, shouting for injustice.

Zha Jizuo sneered: "I also know that you are wronged, but I can't tell the difference." None of you tell the master, I have to think that you are all in the same group. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you die, you will have a good reputation of being loyal to your master, and you will be praised for all generations. Then you go to the underworld and see the king of Hades, and Lao Tzu can also sue the official. However, this official is the emperor of the Son of Heaven, and the Lord of Hades will be considerate when he wants to come. You say don't you? ”

A few words rub the ******** of these stewards, on one side is the horror of death, and on the other hand is the joy of life. Take your pick!

Which servant who can be in charge of the accounts is not a human spirit? Think about your own house, silver, ****, and then think about what you have done for the Pan family over the years, carrying a black pot, being beaten and scolded, these people should have made their own choices.

"Your Excellency!" A person in charge of affairs was very flattering, and used a title that did not match Zha Jizuo's current official position, "If we people are lost and turn back, what should the court do?" ”

"They are all children of the imperial court, and they are forcibly coerced and confused for a while, and the imperial court naturally wants to give a way to rehabilitation. Well, there is nothing, that is, you can get out of slavery and give a reward for confiscating family property. All of this depends on the circumstances of the self-report. ”

"My lord! I want to report it! That old man Pan is guilty of a crime! Between the questions and answers with Zha Jizuo, the handicap price code was asked very clearly, and the housekeeper immediately jumped out and became the first person to report. Although these people are dependent on the power of the Pan family for a while, but, as Lai said in "Dream of Red Mansions", "How do you know how the word slave is written?" "The one who relied on everyone was also a face-saving figure in Jia's mansion, and he was able to invite Jia's mother to her family's garden to eat, drink, listen to plays, and play for a day, and his son was also released to be the magistrate. Even Qingwen, one of the big girls around Jia Baoyu, who tore the fan and mended the finch and golden fur, was the character that her maid transferred to Jia's mother. If a decent person like her utters such a bitter sentence, you can imagine what the life of these minions is like.

Now that the court has grace, as long as it is reported, it can make meritorious contributions, not to mention getting rid of slavery, and it can even get a piece of the pie from the confiscated family property, how can such a good thing not work hard? !

At that moment, the shady dirty things of the Pan family were scrambling to report by these people. What colluded with the household secretary, sent money and grain, and evaded the national tax of the imperial grain. What used the banner of Hanlin to walk through various checkpoints to evade taxes, what forcibly nailed piles, seized people's land, and occupied mountains, forests and waters. Many things are handled by these people, so they are naturally familiar with the inside story. It's very easy to report.

Zha Jizuo is also true to his word. He ordered the scribes to record the accusations of these men and to sign them as evidence. Then they joined forces to protect each other, and ordered them to get up and disperse. "The government has news for you in the past few days, you are not allowed to leave Suzhou City, and those who violate it will be punished as fugitives!"

Actually, these words are not necessary. Since these guys jumped out to report their old masters, they naturally want to get more benefits from the imperial court. Let them go, and they won't go!

Suzhou began to "mess up" from Hanlin Pan's house.

Brothers turn against each other, wives and concubines become enemies, and evil slaves are everywhere. These situations frequently appear in the letters and notes of Suzhou readers, which is heartbreaking.

Countless gentlemen's families who originally had wives and concubines and were brothers, friends and brothers, became like this almost overnight.

The concubine's concubine reported that the wife's concubine was rampant and colluded with the anti-party in the case, stole the country's money and grain, and robbed the land of the good people.

Each house and sect is also like fire and water, staring at the head of the family.

That's why so many people line up in front of the yamen early in the morning! I am afraid that I will be too late, and the opportunity to report meritorious service will be robbed by others! (To be continued.) )