The eldest son of Quan Er quickly rushed to Jingyang City with dozens of Baojie troops and brought the prisoners back.

The benefits of the canal workers should be divided into several parts, one is the imperial court, the second is the main households, and the third is the common people and sergeants.

The imperial court does not plan to buy official land, it is still a beneficiary group, but it has become very invisible, one is grain, no matter who is handed over to plant, the imperial court will get food. The second is taxation, in this regard, it is best to hand it over to the common people, who dare not hide their fields, and they dare not evade taxes. The third is the income, if it is best to hand over the income to the sergeant, these fertile land is distributed to the sergeant, the court does not expect to levy taxes, but can be exempted from the original grain cloth, this expenditure is not small, a person has to have more than a dozen expenses a year. No matter how much taxes are paid, it is impossible for ordinary people to pay more than a dozen taxes.

But what is the imperial court?

In the eyes of some scholars, this court is this country, including the rich and the poor, and even the Tibetan barbarians.

But in the eyes of some scholars, this court is all powerful and powerful. The rest of the people are damned, so there is a saying that the peddlers and pawns can't even wear silk.

Therefore, Wang Ju's approach may not be liked by all scholars.

However, the sergeant will like it.

But this field should be divided into three, six, nine and so on.

Those close to the water, far away from the water, if they are high, they will be waterlogged, and they will be thin and fat.

But before the drain work began, the powerful began to encroach, and the whole circle was better, so how did Sergeant Baojie think.

Therefore, Wang Ju's tough attitude was supported by almost all the soldiers.

These people pushed the prisoner all the way through.

Wang Ju interrogated in this simple cell, first took the prisoners together, interrogated them overnight, and first asked: "What crime should you be guilty of attacking and slandering your own officials, spreading rumors, and inciting sabotage of the canal works?" ”

Dozens of servants from various houses denied it together.

The second eldest son took out a pamphlet, and read out those words one by one.

They were instructed by the master's family, of course, they were talking nonsense, and many people did not know the seriousness of what they said, and according to these words, Wang Juding's charges of inciting and sabotaging the canal workers could basically be established.

Still don't admit it.

"The evidence is conclusive, and I dare to quibble, drag it down, and I will be flogged fifty times."

After a beating, they had to admit it one by one, and obediently confessed, Huang Liang took a few literate soldiers to write a confession on the side, wrote the confession, and asked them to press their handprints.

Here's the proof.

Wang Ju said again: "You know what the crime is for destroying the canal workers, and you should be beheaded according to the law." ”

He's not necessarily joking, saying it's really clicking.

"The official gave you a chance, who gave you the permission to do this?"

Money is valuable, faith is more valuable, if it is life, both can be thrown away.

This beat and frightened, and all the criminals confessed one by one.

If it is not strict according to the confession they confessed, Guan Jian Huang Liang took a few sergeants to have a selective record, and after the record was recorded, then asked, these people said in their hearts, why does it seem to be different from what we confessed? But it was indeed what they had said, so they had to press the handprint again.

They are small shrimps, Wang Ju was not embarrassed, and took them to the back cell, Wang Ju shouted again: "The second eldest son, Huang Commander, you take a battalion of soldiers to arrest people." ”

Only nine people were arrested, but considering that these nine people were all strong, they let them take a whole battalion of soldiers and horses to arrest people.

At dawn the next day, nine squires were brought in again, including that Zeng Yuanwai, and that Lu Yuanwai of Lu Jiayuan.

Wang Ju asked Huang Liang to read the confession of the servant they had sent.

Several people's faces were dark, and someone said, "Ming Gong, you can't wronged us." ”

Someone said, "You're trying to frame us." ”

"Flog!"

Let's talk about it with fifty lashes first.

After the flogging, one by one he was pulled aside for interrogation, and those servants were brought to confront him, and he immediately slapped his mouth as soon as he was cunning, and one of them surnamed Peng roared: "My son is also a magistrate." ”

"Your nephew is the magistrate of the county, and he should take the lead in maintaining order in the township, but he knows the law and breaks the law, takes the lead in fanning the flames, destroys the canal workers, and gets 50 lashes."

Except for the nine members, who was not used to being pampered, after this beating, they had to press their handprints one by one.

Enough is enough.

Wang Ju said: "Second eldest son, go and call Hou Zhixian." ”

After a long time, Hou Ke hurried over on his old horse, Wang Ju handed over the confession and said: "Hou Zhixian, these people are the gentry of the township, but they fanned the flames and bewitched everyone to destroy the canal workers, what crime should they be guilty of?" ”

"Hou Zhixian, no."

"Are you not the one who commanded these wicked servants to slander and slander?"

"Yes, no." It was they who gave it, and they just let these servants slander Wang Ju, not to sabotage the drains. However, after Wang Ju wrote the confession in this abbreviated way, the whole confession changed its nature. How they discern it.

"Hou Zhixian, that's it, for the sake of them as squires, let's spare their lives, how about I sentence them to a stab in Tanzhou?"

"Spare your life." The nine screamed together.

The black character flow distribution was already hard, and then it was distributed to Tanzhou, where is it, it is Jinghu South Road, they northerners can still live in the past?

"Zi'an, this sentence is a bit heavy, it's better to let each of them pay some money and food, and give them a chance to make amends."

"It's a bit of a problem to dispense with money and food."

"Hurry up, everyone, what do you think?"

"It's not proper, the second eldest son is going to write a word."

"Oh," the second eldest son of the whole took a few soldiers, brought iron needles, put them in the stove to burn red, and used them to make black characters.

The nine squires watched the iron needles gradually burn red, and the sweat flowed down, and Peng Yuanwai said, "I am willing to give a thousand stone millet." ”

"One thousand stone millet, one hundred yuan of money, the official is begging, not just asking for this hundred yuan, the second eldest son, starting with him."

"Five thousand stones, ah, I can't do it, I still have three thousand stone wheat at home, and I will donate it together, ah, I am willing to donate two thousand yuan, ah, I will donate another three thousand silks."

"Zi'an, it's almost."

"Come on, pull Peng Yuanwai down and lock him up first, if within one day, 5,000 stone millet, 3,000 stone wheat, 2,000 yuan, and 3,000 horses of silk are not donated to the canal storehouse, immediately cut the word, and immediately escort the horse away."

That's it, I've been beaten four times.

Wang Ju stared at Lu Yuanwai again.

What did he hesitate to do, save himself from suffering, Lu Yuanwai had no choice but to promise about a donation.

One by one, they made promises, and finally arrived at Zeng Yuanwai, who knew that it was not good, and said: "Ming Gong, the little one is willing to donate 5,000 stone millet, 5,000 stone wheat, and another 3,000 yuan and 3,000 horses of silk." ”

"Huang, by the way, Hou Zhi County, which state in Guangnan has the heaviest miasma."

"Many areas in Quang Nam are suffering from miasma, such as Chunzhou, Duanzhou, and Fengzhou."

"Then exile Duanzhou."

"Ming Gong, the little one is willing to add another five thousand stone millet."

"Yellow."

"The small one will be five thousand horses of silk."

"Yellow."

"The small one can add another 5,000 yuan, and it can't be added anymore, and the small family property is limited." Zeng Yuan's nickname Tao cried, didn't my mother-in-law scold you a few words, isn't this price big enough?

Sign and draw one by one.

Wang Ju thought for a while and said: "Second eldest son, you go and call Kong Commander, Xiao Commander, Liu Commander, Wang Commander, and Jiao Commander together, and also order them to gather their officers and soldiers, immediately take these signatures, and recover the promised grain, money, and silk together." ”

This time, more than 20,000 yuan and more than 30,000 horses of silk were squeezed out from the heads of the nine powerful people, mainly grain, and more than 80,000 stone of grain were squeezed out. Especially the Zeng family, let Wang Ju almost go bankrupt.

Hou Kechang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Zi'an, this is not the right way after all. ”

"Use it righteously, use it evil, what is the right way, what is the evil way. Look, as soon as the drain workers opened, the court spent money to buy grain, but they couldn't buy it, just forced a few households, and forced out so much grain, these people have bad intentions. ”

"As you say, there is nothing good or bad in the human heart. I'm worried about the plumbers, there is too little labor. ”

These families have a strong foundation, except for the Zeng family, who was punished miserably this time, and the other families suffered losses, but they will not be too strict. It can only be said that the grain storage in their hands was almost forced out at once, but the loss of property was not very large, and the pain was small. The chickens selected after the autumn are called big hurts!

Of course, they won't be so willing, but they don't dare now, they may exert their strength all at once after the autumn.

Wang Ju has a countermeasure, and when the time comes, it will depend on whose means are powerful, but the matter cannot be small, and when the time comes, it will inevitably alarm the court, and if there is a result in his hands, the court will turn a blind eye, and if there is no result in his hands, the court will not spare it.

That's why it's the labor that's the key.

"Hou Zhixian, are there any homeless people around here?"

"There are indeed displaced people in some mountainous areas, and there are also some wandering mountain bandits. However, these people are small in number and do not work, and even if they send people to persuade them to come, they are all unruly people, and they are easy to be used. Zi'an, this method is inappropriate. ”

"Then there is no way to solve this labor. In fact, I am also thinking about a problem, these tens of thousands of stone grains have been received, and the temporary food crisis will be resolved. After autumn, if the wind and rain in Shaanxi are good this year, they can pay money to buy some grain directly from the people, and they will get a lot of new arable land, and they will have to buy cattle and farm tools, and what they lack is not grain, but money. ”

"This old man also thought that the food headache is this year, and it will not be difficult next year. If Zi'an divided it like this, it was mostly handed over to the Baojie soldiers and the people, who did not have the ability to hoard Juqi, and the harvest of more than 10,000 hectares of cultivated land could meet the grain needs of the canal workers with a little raising. Mainly after autumn. ”

In fact, Hou Ke also ignored one of the most important issues, Wang Ju faintly knew, but he didn't know how strict it would be.

…………

Why did Wang Ju use a rod for the first time and a flogging for the second time. In fact, the first crisis was even more serious, and it was not a big problem to be flogged or arrested, even if it was a mismatch, it didn't matter, because there were no deaths.

But at that time, in order to deter, Wang Ju stuck, the six Xu officials, this can be said to be small, considering the actual situation of the drain workers, even if it is stuck, it can be understood.

But it also depends on how you look at it, if you reverse black and white, you can't see the drain workers, and you only ask for six lives.

Now it's for money, so it hurts everyone, so I flogged and pumped it with small thorn strips.

However, the flogging is different.

Zeng was particularly ruthless, and it hurt a little, and Guan Jian's loss this time was too miserable.

His mother-in-law wiped his wounds with concern.

Zeng Yuanwai lay on the bed and scolded her: "How did I marry you, an unconscious woman." ”

The woman threw the towel away, and she was not satisfied: "Blame me, don't you all mumble all day long!" If you don't talk too much, that can give the killer a handle. ”

The faces of the other squires immediately turned unpleasant.

"Mrs. Xu, just say a few words, Brother Zeng, look, what should we do now?" Peng Yuanwaidao.

"What else can I do? 10,000 stone millet, 5,000 stone wheat, 8,000 horses of silk, 8,000 yuan, how much fertile land do I want to buy! Ouch," Zeng Yuanwai wanted to get up, but he was injured, and he screamed in pain, mainly because his heart was dripping blood.

Especially these soldiers and ruffians, his family did not have so much food, so they dragged him, like a dog, one by one, and it took more than a dozen families to gather the food. Not only him, but also several other families are not much better, but now it is good, and the grain storage of all the big families in Jingyang has been squeezed out in a blink of an eye.

But fighting for it, isn't it just fighting for more good land, how much can you fight for, 1,000 mu, or 2,000 mu, even if 2,000 mu, how much is it worth, can it be worth 10,000 yuan?

He was screaming in pain, and the faces of the others were wrinkled like bitter melons.

At this time, the porter came in and said, "Outside the big staff, Zhao Yuan is outside." ”

"Zhao Yuanwai, I'm afraid it was his son's bad idea to blow him away." Zeng Yuanwai's wife Xu said.

"You can save me trouble and let him in."

After a while, Zhao Du's father walked in.

The others hung their faces together and did not greet him.

Zhao Yuanwai also sneered in his heart, you don't know the general trend one by one, don't say that the twenty-year-old Shaanxi Yingtian envoy, just say that the big spring killed six people, nothing happened at all, such a person is also offended by you!

But in Jingyang County, everyone bowed their heads and didn't look up, and they had to make an appearance, and besides, he had something important to do.

Zhao Yuanwai first put the gift on the ground and asked with concern, "How is Brother Zeng's injury?" ”

"Didn't you see that?"

"What's going on?"

"This little bastard, we are going to go to the capital to sue the emperor."

"No."

"What's the matter, your son is hugging someone's thigh."

"Brother Zeng, Brother Peng, you have no conscience when you say this, my son is a scribe in the county, that little commentator has to call my son away, can my son not go, will he be beaten?"

"That's what a killer is."

"Regardless of killing stars, in fact, he also learned by himself."

"That, is that Zhang Zai? I heard that he is a gentle gentleman, how can he teach such a student. ”

"This really has nothing to do with Zhang Zai, and Zhang Zai is indeed a gentleman."

"Who did you learn it from?"

"A dead man."

"Nonsense."

"I really learned from a dead man," Zhao Yuanwai told Cheng Kan about what Cheng Kan did in Yanzhou, and said: "Ding Buling's wife Wan Shi also fought a lawsuit in the capital, and in the end, the matter was settled." Then Cheng Gong reported that the Ding family was gone, and the Niu family was gone. Those two households are also Haoqiang in Yanzhou, and their property is not less than yours. ”

Sue it, if you win, you may not be able to reap the benefits, and maybe the drain will become an unfinished project. If you lose, then just wait for Wang Ju to retaliate even more crazily.

That's the truth.

Everyone was silent.

Peng Yuanwai suddenly asked, "Brother Zhao, you were sent by that kid, right?" ”R1152