In the past few days, a curfew has been enforced in the city of Zhangzhou, and the Ming soldiers have been registering from house to house, and some Qing soldiers who have taken off their uniforms and hid have also been arrested. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and some banner men and Qing army officers were all arrested one after another.

After ten days of rectification, there are almost no fish in the city that have slipped through the net. The Chinese New Year is approaching, and the curfew has finally been lifted as the fish that have slipped through the net have been caught one by one.

Liu Dequan is an honest local vendor, who gets up early every day to grind soy milk to make tofu, and the tofu brains he makes are sold to others for breakfast, and the rest is made into tofu and dried tofu for sale. Although his craftsmanship is very good and his business is also good, none of the splashes, officials, tolerances, and white servants in the city are easy to mess with, Liu Dequan works hard, only enough to barely feed a family, and it is impossible to make a fortune.

"It's almost the New Year, and the curfew has been lifted!" There were Ming soldiers in the city, beating gongs and shouting all the way.

In the past few days, despite the curfew, the city has been cleaned cleanly, and some of the new government officials, under the leadership of the government officials who surrendered to the Ming army, have been cleaning every day and transporting garbage out of the city. There were also a large number of craftsmen from the Ming army who entered the city to carry out construction in the city.

It is said that the officials who woke up were all retired soldiers.

There is also a new tolerance in the city, which Liu Dequan has never seen before: it is a person wearing a dark blue uniform, the clothes look like the uniform of a soldier, wearing a dark blue hat, but the word "chengguan" is written on his arm. Liu Dequan didn't know what this chengguan was for.

But the chengguan took the initiative to find him and asked Liu Dequan to pay a management fee of five copper plates a day, and they issued Liu Dequan a business license.

If what the city management said is true, then the management fee of these five copper plates is worth the money, before Liu Dequan was extorted every day at least fifteen or sixteen copper plates to more than thirty copper plates, and sometimes even more than 100 copper plates were extorted in one day! That's a penny! So much money was extorted, and it hurts to think about it.

"Poor master, I handed over five copper plates, will I really not come?" Liu Dequan asked tremblingly. Since it was the people from the government who received the money, the people from the government would not come to extort it. But what about the splashes on the streets? Can the government guarantee that the skin will not come to the door?

You must know that the splash skin is actually a family with tolerance, and the splash skin in every block has a tolerance as their backstage, so the splash skin comes to the door to extort, and the tolerance will not care at all.

The chengguan smiled and said: "Don't worry, the old man, you paid the money, and no one dared to come to the door!" ”

The phenomenon of splashing skin, Wang Xinyu can't completely eliminate these gangsters at present, but he has changed the skins that plague the people on weekdays by strengthening the method of arresting the officials quickly, and then through the method of rectifying the ruffians and snakes, and those who have the ability to join the big gangs, and those who are not able to be eliminated and sent to Nanyang for mining.

As for those big gangs, they are actually related to the Heaven and Earth Society, and there are strict gang rules in the gang, and they are not allowed to oppress ordinary people, so they can only find those big entertainment venues to collect protection money.

At the same time as the government yamen, government officials, tolerances and splashes were rectified, the Qiongzhou army also built roads and infrastructure in the city.

The dilapidated bluestone pavement has been dug up, and some ditches have been dug into the ground for unknown purposes. On the main road of the city, craftsmen and people are digging large tunnels.

Liu Dequan didn't know what those tunnels were for, and why he dug such a big tunnel.

Some people say it's a sewer that drains the city's waste water out of the city.

"Sewers? Need a sewer that big? It's a tunnel that can be accessed from outside the city. Liu Dequan was very surprised.

A craftsman told Liu Dequan: "If the sewer is not big enough, it will not be able to drain the water, especially if it rains heavily, the city will be flooded." With such a large sewer, even if the Jiulong River floods, it will not be so easy to flood the city. ”

"Will there be a big flood in the Jiulong River?" Liu Dequan felt very strange, "Aren't your people repairing the river embankment?" How high have they already been built? ”

"Our prince cares about the people and does things for the people, so we naturally want to avoid floods. But there are unforeseen circumstances, and if the water of the Jiulong River is too big, the city will also be flooded. The craftsman said.

"The prince is indeed a good prince!" Liu Dequan sighed.

At this moment, an officer came up: "Those who come to buy tofu must be used in the army, and the craftsmen and people who build roads must also eat it." Rest assured, I will give you silver, white flowers! ”

The officer bought all the tofu from Liu Dequan in one go, leaving half a tael of silver.

"It's time to call it a day early!" Liu Dequan began to close the stall.

"It's time for a public trial!" There were people shouting on the street.

"Public trial?" Liu Dequan was stunned.

On the main road, there were neatly dressed Ming soldiers, in front of them were two big men holding wooden signs to open the road, and behind them were a group of soldiers with waist knives on their waists. In the middle of the procession, more than 100 prisoner carts marched slowly.

When the first prisoner car passed, among the ordinary people watching the excitement on the side of the road, someone suddenly shouted: "Isn't that the Governor of the Tartars, Li Shutai?" ”

"Li Shutai is still the forehead of the Tartar Imperial Court!" Another citizen said.

Someone said: "The old man of the Tartar is now a prisoner!" It's also retribution! Li Shutai has never done a good thing in Zhangzhou, but he has done a lot of bad things! ”

At this time, Li Shutai's clothes were in tatters, and the pigtails on his head were hanging from the wooden beams on the top of the prisoner car, and there was a foul smell all over his body. When Li Shutai's prisoner car passed, the common people let out an earth-shattering roar, and rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, stones, and saliva rained down.

In the back of a prisoner car, the escort was Huang Wu, the puppet of Qinghai Chenggong.

After this Huang Wu was captured, he was sent to Wang Xinyu's Chinese army tent by the Ming army, Huang Wu knelt down on the spot, slapped himself desperately, cried bitterly, and said that he regretted that he should not betray King Yanping back then, saying that he knew that he was wrong, and was willing to sincerely repent, abandon the darkness and surrender to the Ming.

Wang Xinyu replied with the words "go die".

As for how to execute Huang Wu, a big traitor with the same name as Shi Lang, Wang Xinyu discussed with several generals for a long time.

In fact, Huang Wu's fame back then was far above Shi Lang, Huang Wu had already been crowned, and Shi Lang had not yet been knighted. Later, in real history, the wise and martial General Shi Lang recovered Taiwan, and the equally wise and martial Kang Mazi sealed Shi Lang a wait.

It is precisely because Shi Lang extinguished the last mantle of the Han people, and because of the braided drama to Shi Lang's praise of virtue, so in the minds of later people, Shi Lang's fame is greater than that of Huang Wu. But at this time, Shi Lang was idle in Beijing, and Huang Xigon took care of Shi Lang in the face of distant relatives, and Shi Lang barely survived in the capital. And Huang Wu was already the title of duke at this time.

In the end, Wang Xinyu decided to treat Huang Wu with the treatment given to Gao Jinku back then, and nailed it into the chrysanthemum with a wooden stake sharpened on his head, and slowly enjoyed it for a few days before dying.

In the prisoner car behind Huang Wu, there are Huang Wu's sons Huang Fangdu, Huang Fangming, Huang Fangsheng, Huang Fangyou, and Huang Wu's henchmen Su Mao and Su Ming.

On the more than 100 prisoner carts that followed, there were cronies who were loyal to Li Shutai, Huang Wu's cronies and followers, bannermen who resolutely refused to surrender, bannermen who ran horses in enclosures and committed numerous crimes, and some gentry who were extremely angry with the people for committing crimes.

The team escorting the prisoners went out of the city, and Liu Dequan also followed the team out of the city.

In an open field outside the city, the judgment platform has already been set up, and there is a sea of people around, all of whom are watching the excitement. There was also a large vat above the judgment table; There are more than a dozen wooden stakes next to the large jar that appear to have been used to tie people. Beneath the judgment seat was a stake with a sharpened head, about a foot high, and on either side of the stake were two thinner stakes, one and a half feet high, which seemed to be used to hold something in place.

After the convoy arrived at the judgment platform, Li Shutai and Huang Wu, as well as more than a dozen of the most heinous criminals, were escorted to the top of the judgment platform, and the rest of the prisoners were placed under the judgment platform.

The public trial meeting began, and the venue was crowded with people, crowding the surrounding flat land, and even the river embankment and the distant high ground were full of people.

"Kill them! Kill them! The surrounding people let out angry roars.

The first to judge are those who do evil, fish the people, and harm the local tyrants and gentry in the township. Wang Xinyu mobilized the common people to expose these people, and let the people come to power to expose their accumulated crimes. Since the land and property had already been divided among the people who had been arrested in the villages, and the common people knew that these people would die, no common people would fear reprisals at this time, so they all came to the stage to expose their crimes.

Wang Xinyu waved his pen, and these local tyrants and inferior gentry were all sentenced and decided.

Next, a group of confidants of Huang Wu and Li Shutai began to be tried, and these people were also sentenced to be executed.

"Su Mao, Ling Chi! Su Ming, Ling Chi! Wang Xinyu read the names of Huang Wu's two generals again.

These two Qing army generals, who were also Zheng Jiajun generals, betrayed Zheng's army at the instigation of Huang Wu, surrendered to the Qing army, and offered Haicheng, causing Zheng Chenggong to lose a large number of grain, grass, materials and gunpowder weapons.

"Spare your life! The prince spares his life! The villains were all deceived by Huang Wu, a thief! When Su Ming heard that Ling Chi was executed, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged bitterly.

"Regret now? It's late! Wang Xinyu looked at Su Ming coldly.

Next, Huang Wu's sons were all sentenced to death by Ling Chi.

In real history, during the rebellion of the three feudatories, Huang Wu was wiped out because he desperately resisted Geng Jingzhong. Now that Huang Wu is in the hands of Wang Xinyu, he will naturally not let his family go, and he will be punished by the three clans.

Even Huang Wu's son was sentenced to death by Ling Chi, and Huang Wu realized that he would be sentenced to a heavier sentence. He looked at the large vat on the stage and the wooden stake under the stage, and his heart was uneasy, not knowing which thing would be waiting for him to enjoy. (To be continued.) )