At dawn, the summer rain poured down like a pour, making everything around it invisible.

This heavy rain in late summer and early autumn seemed to be crying for the sudden decline of Yanggu Yimenfan, and the wind and rain swept through the sky and the earth in a diagonal line, and swept across the white. A rain and mist rose from the vast land, shrouding Fanjiazhuang and everything around it, which had been recovered by the Baoding of the Ximen family, in obscurity.

At this time, Wu Haogu had already sat in the lobby of the Fan family's Yimen with Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong, and was investigating the matter of the Fan family's children colluding with bandits to Liangshan.

The so-called torture rod hall is the place where the Fan family's righteous family lynched people - lynching was common for the big families of the Song Dynasty. Not only Yanggu Yimen Fan, Wu Haogu's own clan Bai Bo Yimen Wu, but also local tyrants like Ximen Qing's Yanggu Ximen family, all have lynching.

For example, the various "military laws" used by the Ximen family to restrain Ximen Zhuang Baoding are actually lynching!

Although the Fan family did not have the lynching of the army, they would also lynch the people in the clan, as well as the customers (tenants) controlled by the Fan family!

Of course, you won't kill your head. Yanggu Yimen Fan is not as cruel as the Ximen family, and the most they can do is beat people to serious injuries and then die.

In addition, the punishment of not giving food in the black prison is also available in the Yimen Fan family! Moreover, there have been many incidents of people starving to death.

Most of the people who were beaten to death and starved to death by the Fan family of Yanggu Yimen were not members of the Fan family, but customers of the Fan family, that is, tenants. They either didn't pay the rent in time, or they couldn't pay back the loan sharks they owed to the Fan family, or they stole the things of the Fan family and were caught by the Fan family's clansmen and put into the Fan family village for rectification.

The "righteousness" of the Fan family is said in Yunzhou Shilin, for the customer door of the Fan family, how can the Fan family have a little kindness at all? It is simply a master who is mean and stingy to the extreme, and it is the door of injustice.

In contrast, Simon's family is righteous enough for customers, not only does it collect much less rent than other families, but it will also be rent-free and interest-free and even open a warehouse to release grain in disaster years! Moreover, Simon does not lend usury to its customers, and the interest charged for lending money to customers will never exceed 10% (annual interest).

For customers who really can't pay off their debts, can't pay their rent, and have no one to act as a guarantor, at most, they are tenants, and they have never lynched people to death. The lynching of the Ximen family was only used on the guards of the Ximen Zhuang Dubao and the thugs who worked for the Ximen family outside Yanggu County.

The reason why this is so is not that everyone in the Simon family is a virgin, but that the Simon family does not care about the income of the land at all. The purpose of their investment in land is to control the population, and the purpose of population control is to support loyal thugs.

With loyal thugs, the smugglers of the Simon family can continue.

These are valuable experiences! The family that can control the thug's private soldier with land can form a much more reliable relationship than hiring!

As an aside, the agrarian revolution of the later Red Dynasty was actually along a similar line - the key was not to divide the land, but to control the grassroots through the division of the land and firmly grasp the masses.

Ximen Qingjie is a female streamer, and she can use hundreds of Ximen family guards to such an extent, relying on this kind of control of grace and power. The guards under him are all consciously obedient, and of course they are easy to command.

These Baoding, who obeyed orders and listened to commands, did not stop their actions because of the heavy rain, and are now scattering in all directions, braving the rain to "catch thieves". In fact, it was not a thief, but the Fan family and the Fan family customers who were scared away by the sudden arrival of the Ximen family Baoding - they were ravaged by the heroes of Liangshan, and they all became frightened birds, and when they saw a large group of people coming in line with torches, they fled one after another, leaving only the messy Fanjiazhuang.

Wu Haogu and others didn't sit long in the Fan family's torture staff hall, and many "thieves" were arrested one after another. Shi Zhixian borrowed the venue of the Fan family's torture rod hall to raise the court to ask about the case. As a result, when I asked, I actually heard a very surprising situation.

"What's the hell? There are many people in the Fan family who are thieves? You don't say nonsense, the Fan family is a family of dignified doctors! ”

"Xiao Di didn't dare to deceive the Ming Mansion, there were indeed several Lang Jun in the Fan family who followed the Liangshan thieves, and among them Fan Jiuxiu was ......"

"Yes, Xiao Di also saw Fan Jiuxiu walking with his mother and son with the big boss of Liangshan, and he was still talking and laughing!"

"It's true, Xiao Di has also seen it! There are indeed many thieves in the Fan family! ”

There were several ragged peasants standing in the hall, most of them customers who lived near Fanjiazhuang, and one was a servant of the Fan family. Now they are all swearing to expose that there are thieves in the Fan family!

"Ming Mansion," Zhang Kegong stroked his beard, frowned and said to Shi Guozhong: "This matter is a little strange, isn't it the Liangshan thief who tied up the Fan family to go up the mountain?" ”

"Tie up the meat ticket?" Wu Haogu suddenly interjected and asked, "The Fan family has a lot of money?" ”

"The Fan family is very poor!" Ximen Qingdao, "Everyone in Yanggu County knows that 'a bowl of rice, no oil and water' is talking about the Yanggu Fan family." ”

Zhang Kegong snorted, and just wanted to open his mouth to reprimand Ximen Qing, who was talking nonsense, Wu Haogu said coldly: "It doesn't matter if the Fan family has no money, what I have is money in Wu Haogu, if Liangshan ties up the meat ticket, I will pay for the Fan family to ransom people." However, what if Liang Shan did not tie the meat ticket, but the Fan family was a thief? This is the ...... It's not easy! ”

Wu Haogu's Qian Liangshan definitely didn't dare to ask for it, so the Fan family couldn't take off the hat of a thief, at least not for now.

"What's so hard to do?" Shi Guozhong, a confused magistrate, said with a smile at this time, "The Fan family is not a righteous gate that the emperor has sealed, and some people are thieves, so they scatter the door, so as not to implicate too widely and miss the future of many good children of the Fan family." This Zhongjin sergeant is the last word! ”

This Shi Zhixian is really a nerd official! Zhang Kegong said: I don't know if the Jinshi can be compared with the interests of the Yimen clan?

Wrong! If the Yimen is dispersed, the population and hidden fields controlled by the Fan family will return to the control of the Yanggu County Ya. All of a sudden, there will be tens of thousands of acres of tax-paying fields and thousands of men, and at least tens of thousands of more taxes can be collected a year.

Is this old magistrate a real nerd, or is he pretending to be confused?

"It's still Shi Zhixian who is thoughtful!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The Fan family has a large population, and it is not surprising that there are a few black sheep. If it was for the sake of a few thieves, the Fan family would have mistaken the imperial examination of the Fan family, and it would not be good for many scholars.

Now that it's almost time to send out the test, I think it's better to disperse the Fan family's righteous sect earlier, so that the children of the Fan family can catch up with this test. ”

"Right!" Shi Zhixian touched his white beard and said with a smile, "The righteousness of the door is all in the hearts of the people, as long as everyone in the Fan family is loyal, it is still a righteous family." Otherwise, it will be a mere formality, and it will not be of much benefit to the country or the family. ”

The Fan family is about to be divided, isn't the Ximen family dominant?

Zhang Kegong thought so in his heart, but he couldn't refute Shi Guozhong. Because the foundation of the Yimen Fan family is the imperial examination, which is different from the Ximen family, which fights and kills. If you can't take the imperial examination, there will be no righteous Fan family.

Just when Zhang Kegong was lamenting in his heart for the collapse of the Fan family's righteous gate, several Ximen family guards had already brought Fan Kaishan and Fan Zhiwen, who were soaked in rain, and one of the Ximen family guards was still carrying a black cloud long sword in his hand.

"Sister Yu, I found two people claiming to be Fan Laoguan and Fan Shisanlangjun, but they also carried a long sword."

The long sword was handed over to Ximen Qing, who touched the sword, looked at the embarrassed Fan family father and son, and then got up and saluted: "Fan Daguan, Brother Thirteen, I can be regarded as looking for you, sit down, please sit." ”

The two fathers and sons of the Fan family glanced at each other and sighed at the same time, before sitting down on the two old chairs. I don't know if it's because of the sudden change in the door of the family, Fan Shisanxiu suddenly couldn't help crying.

Wu Haogu watched the father and son coldly, the father was about sixty years old, very thin, like a bamboo pole, with a kind of bearing that had lived on people for a long time, even if he was down now, he still sat there proudly. The son is also tall and thin, twenty hanging zeros, with a high forehead, and his eyes are a little protruding, looking like a nerd.

"Thirteen Xiucai, don't cry, don't cry." Shi Zhixian persuaded Wen Yan at this time, "The man's husband doesn't flick when he has tears, but he just lost some external objects, and there is nothing to worry about." ”

Zhang Kegong also said: "Yes, there is a golden house in the book, as long as the knowledge is not lost, there will be a Jinshi next year." ”

"Black Cloud Long Sword Capital Eighth Commander Fan ...... Huainan Yang Xingmi's tooth army? Brother Zhao Zhong suddenly shouted loudly at this time, "Isn't this sword the ancestral heirloom of your Fan family?" ”

Old man Fan glanced at the tower-like man Zhao Zhongge and the black cloud long sword he was holding lightly in one hand, and suddenly thought in his heart: The ancestor must be the same as this general, a dignified iron man.

Thinking of this, Old Man Fan sighed: "Yes, my ancestor was the general of King Yang Wu, and later he was still a general in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It's a pity that the descendants are not good and forget the martial arts of their ancestors, so they ended up now. ”

Shi Zhixian hurriedly comforted: "The general's words are wrong, where are the descendants of the Fan family?" It's just that the poor are rich and martial...... If you want to cultivate both civil and military, you can't gather thousands of people and live together for a hundred years. ”

The cost of a thousand men learning both civil and military affairs is something that a landlord family like the Fan family can't afford at all, and probably only a general like the Pan family can afford it. However, the combat effectiveness of the Pan family is not much stronger than that of the Fan family, if the Pan family is all like Brother Zhao Zhong, can the Great Song official family still be able to sleep?

At this time, Shi Zhixian said: "Now someone in the Fan family has been coerced into Liangshan, although it is not voluntary, but after all, he is a thief, this righteous Fan...... This official sees, it's better to disperse. After the righteous door is dispersed, your thirteen lang can spend all his heart on learning, and the official can also recommend your thirteen lang to study in Taixue, what do you think? ”