Liu Shu said: "Your Majesty, please make it clear."

"I believe that the root of these problems does not lie in the joining of military officials, let alone the general judgement."

Zhao Guanjia's words made everyone confused for a moment.

Just listen to him continue: "Today's problem lies in the collusion between the landlords and gentry and local officials. The officials took the lead in merging farmland for profit, so how can they strictly investigate and deal with the merging of land?"

Before anyone spoke, the Zhao Guan family ordered someone to give the bill to Tang Ke and said: "This account book was given to me by Gao Shunlin, the Marquis of Yu, the capital of Jingmen Army. There was also a copy found from Liu Tong. They were all bought at Jingmen Army."

It’s from Nitta.”

Everyone's hearts froze.

I heard Zhao Guanjia say again: "According to the list above, arrest them all, don't let anyone go!"

Tang Ke was shocked when he saw the bill.

Because among this list, there are officials present.

For example, Wang Kai, a scholar who joined the army, was among them.

"What are you doing standing still?" Zhao Ning glanced at Tang Ke, "Grab the nearest one first! Just call out the name right here!"

Tang Ke took a deep breath and began to call the names. The first name was: Wang Kai!

When Wang Qie heard this, he quickly shouted: "It's unfair! Your Majesty! It's unfair!"

Zhao Guanjia slammed the table angrily and said: "Shut up! How dare you cry out for injustice! This account book is the personal account book recorded privately by Liu Tong and Gao Shunlin! Why did he want to record your name in it!"

He glanced at Tang Ke and said coldly: "Keep reading!"

Tang Ke started reading again, and officials were named one by one.

When I finally thought about it, I found that fifteen officials, big and small, were all involved in the Jingmen Army's acquisition of Xintian, but all of them exceeded fifty acres.

However, these merged new fields do not appear in the field registration records of the Transportation Department Yamen.

Obviously, the people below had done something wrong.

The fifteen officials were escorted out and began to cry out for injustice.

An official shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, you can't punish us based on just one account book, aren't you afraid of people's dissatisfaction? I'm afraid the imperial court's new land reclamation will also be seriously affected..."

"How dare you threaten me!" Zhao Guanjia said with a cold face and his voice echoed in the hall.

The lightning outside illuminated the hall, making it all white, and thunder rolled in, making people's hearts tremble.

Zhao Ning continued angrily: "I went south all the way, and the people howled all over the place! The landlords and squires colluded with the officials, eating people and drinking blood! They did all kinds of evil! The new fields on Jinghu North Road have been opened up to such an extent! If I don't kill him, his head will be rolling, so why go to the court?

How can I explain it to the people of the world when all the ministers in the hall have done it for me?"

Everyone was frightened by the momentum of Zhao Guan's family, and for a while they were silent and did not dare to speak out.

After a moment of silence, the prison chief Liu Shu came out and said: "Your Majesty, anyone who obstructs the development of new fields is defying the imperial court and should be executed immediately!"

Zhao Ning said: "I will give you a chance. Three of you can survive. You go back and collect the evidence you have. The person with the most evidence can survive, in this order! You only have one day today!"

These fifteen people were taken down by the Imperial Guards and returned to their respective homes.

The rest of the people stood there silently.

Naturally, there were not just fifteen officials on that bill, but also large and small landowners, all of whom had asked people to buy their fields.

Zhao Ning said categorically in the simplest words: "Everyone with a name on the list will be arrested and the accounts will be scrutinized. Three out of every fifteen people who have confessed the most will be retained, and the rest will be executed! Their homes will be ransacked!"

"In addition, anyone who has participated in a private fight within half a year will be caught and executed on the spot if the culprit is caught!"

On May 16, the sixth year of Jingkang's reign, Jiangling Mansion was shrouded in a storm.

There seemed to be a big hole in the sky, and heavy rain poured down.

The once bustling streets were deserted.

Not long after, people in restaurants and teahouses on the roadside saw groups of people riding horses and wearing raincoats passing quickly down the street.

At the north gate of Jiangling City, there is a head hanging. It is the head of Xie Zhongren, a former colleague of Jiangling Mansion.

He grinned, his face was washed pale by the rain, and his eyes were already gray, as if he was still staring at the city.

Groups of cavalry rushed out from the city gate. They were ordered to arrest people and the landlords listed in the accounts.

Some landowners lived in the city. Suddenly some cavalry came to the door. They got off their horses and knocked on the door with a cold expression. When the door opened, they filed in.

Some people didn't dare to open the door after seeing it in the crack of the door, so the door was kicked open directly.

The person on the list was dragged out of the house and forcibly taken back to the prefect's Yamen in a storm.

Of all the officials and clerks in the prefecture's yamen, no one dares to desert at this moment. They are all ready to stand guard. As long as one is sent, he will be tried immediately.

In the afternoon, fifteen officers were taken back to their homes to quickly and frantically collect evidence.

The entire Jiangling City has been taken over by the imperial guards, and no one is allowed in or out.

For some reason, today's heavy rain lasted particularly long.

An hour later, several confessions had been delivered to the transfer office.

Another hour passed, it was already evening, and all the confessions of fifteen officials were delivered.

The content of these confessions is much more exciting, and more than thirty officials are involved, whether they are officials from the Transportation Department, the Criminal and Prison Department, the Changping Department and other provincial yamen, or the prefect yamen or the lower county level.

Yes, it's all inside.

Among them was Liu Shu, the prison chief.

Zhao Guanjia looked at Liu Shu coldly and asked: "Liu Sixian, you got a lot!"

Liu Shu was so frightened that all the hairs on his body stood up, and he quickly said: "Your Majesty! This is absolutely unjust. I have never crossed the farm in Zhijiang County!"

"I didn't say it was Zhijiang County, so why do you know it says Zhijiang County?"

"minister……"

Zhao Guanjia waved, and several guards came over, took off Liu Shu's official hat, and then took it off.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I don't dare to do it anymore! Your Majesty, please spare me..."

Tang Ke stood aside, the sweat on his forehead never drying.

Of course he didn't own any land, but he felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable with the way Zhao Guan's family dealt with problems, and there was a sense of oppression in his chest.

"Bring Liu Shu's head to the capitals of various states on Jinghu North Road."

"yes!"

"Send an order to all the prefectures on Jinghu North Road and give them three months to deal with it. Anyone who annexes Xintian without reporting it will be executed by the local prefect!"

Liu Shu's head rolled to the ground in the heavy rain, was wrapped up, and sent out.

It was not just Liu Shu who was executed. Only three of the first batch of fifteen officials survived, and the remaining twelve were all executed.

Moreover, after intensive interrogation in the prefecture's yamen, all the landlords and squires involved in the annexation of new fields were not even imprisoned. After the interrogation, they were dragged to the execution ground.
Chapter completed!