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Chapter 354: Beheading for public display

Su Zhenhong's death did not cause much trouble. Since the night banquet of the government office, he has been unable to get sick, and the entire government office has been controlled by Chen Sanlang. The greatest significance of Su Zhenhong's life is the role of his reputation. He has long been terminally ill and dying. If he can survive until now, Xiaoyao Fudao can give him a talisman to survive.

Ironically, the next day, the imperial envoy finally arrived and brought the imperial decree to reward the imperial decree. Unfortunately, the man who received the imperial decree was buried.

The imperial envoy was stunned, but in Yongzhou, similar situations were not the case. There was a war, no order, and the rule changed very frequently.

Chen Sanlang drafted another memorial and rewarded the imperial envoy with a considerable sum of money. The imperial envoy embarked on the journey back to Beijing. He only hoped that when he arrived at Laoshan Prefecture next time, Chen Sanlang would not change the person. Otherwise, just running around would cause trouble to death.

The road was not peaceful. The imperial envoy still bypassed from Yangzhou, because the Zhongzhou between Yongzhou had long been blocked by the barbarian army and could not find the path.

In peacetime, the imperial envoy was a very popular job. But now, it would be better to stay in the capital.

In the memorial, Chen Sanlang made a generous speech and stated what happened in Jingxian County. In the end, of course, he was inevitably required to have an official position. As for how the court decides, whether to stand on his side or go to Wenchang in Yuan, it is the matter of the court and the people.

I believe that this matter will not be easily let go, and it may cause a fierce quarrel between the government and the country.

The government and the country are too far away and cannot be taken into account for the time being, so it is more realistic for Chen Sanlang to focus on Laoshan Prefecture first.

In one battle, he defeated the enemy and completely controlled Laoshan Prefecture, but the remnants remained. There were family forces left in the city. Outside the city, the commanders of two counties escaped and led the defeated army to flee back to the county town...

These are all urgent problems to be solved.

Chen Sanlang acted vigorously and immediately enthroned Jiang Caoqi as the general of the expedition, and ordered two thousand troops out of the city to sweep away all opposition forces in the area under the jurisdiction of the city.

Two thousand soldiers, well-equipped, enough to deal with.

However, Chen Wang was a little worried about Jiang Caoqi's departure from the city. After finally reunited his family, he had to go out to fight again. Last night, when he met his daughter and son-in-law, the woman was overjoyed and couldn't help but burst into tears. Thinking about the misfortune of her daughter's family, the family was almost destroyed. Unexpectedly, Chen Wang couldn't help but feel like a knife. If Chen Sanlang hadn't won the favor later, Sanyuan passed the exam and gave her a lot of comfort, I'm afraid she would have ended up depressed.

Last night, Mrs. Chen Wang had a long conversation with her daughter and talked all night. There were many strange things in her conversation. After so long, why didn’t she come to send a letter?

Chen Ermei explained that at first, they fled to Yongzhou. They were unfamiliar with the land. They suffered a lot of hardships, and were afraid that writing a letter would implicate their younger brother... Later, they settled down and developed. They heard about the good news of Chen Sanlang's high school. They originally thought they would return home. But at this time, she was pregnant and had difficulty moving, so she delayed again. She wanted to write letters several times, but she was stranded due to various reasons...

Later, the war broke out.

Listening to the many ups and downs, Chen Wangshi burst into tears again. Chen Ermei was afraid that her mother would cry too much and would hurt her body, so she quickly spoke with Chen Sanlang and advised her to go back to the house to rest.

When family reunion is always mixed with a bit of sadness and joy.

After all, it was a great joy.

Let’s put the family affairs aside for the time being, Chen Sanlang asked Jiang Cao to come out of the city to suppress it, and the handling of the city was handed over to Zhang Bo.

Zhang Bo is a quiet and resolute person, with a certain sense of a general. He has always been prestigious in Laoshan Prefecture and is very popular with the people in charge of the investigation of affairs in the inner city. He has different grudges from several major families, so he naturally will not have any mercy when doing things.

On this day, Chen Sanlang was promoted to the government office and the trial was launched, causing a sensation all over the city.

The prisoners interrogated were mainly the heads of several major families, and the litigants were thousands of people. As long as there were injustice and accusations, they could come to court to speak.

At the end of the day, the crimes of several major families were so hearty that they were hard to describe and could not be described.

After the interrogation, Chen Sanlang was not polite and directly sentenced him to the death.

In this incident, a total of 89 people were beheaded, and the people in the city felt both joyful and encouraging, and also felt trembling inside.

The so-called giving of kindness and power is nothing more than this.

All the property and real estate of several major families were confiscated and owned by the government office. After overnight calculation, there were about one million taels of gold and silver, more than 30,000 mu of land, and countless grains...

Each number is enough to be astonishing. From this we can see how cruel the plunder was during their reign of the capital.

On the other hand, the people in the city were pale and thin, and hungry.

In order to alleviate the famine, Chen Sanlang issued another government order, opening the granary, and each person could receive a bucket of food.

As soon as this order came out, the city was boiling, everyone cheered and was grateful to Chen Sanlang Zaide. Many families even set up Chen Sanlang's longevity sign at home, bowing and burning incense day and night.

Next is the real implementation of the land opening order. As long as there is a landless land without a home, anyone can reclaim it and set the maximum limit according to the population. However, at the same time, it is also limited. In the process of reclaiming land, first-start served as the first principle, and no robbery is allowed. If there is any violation, the right to open the land will be deprived.

In this way, people would never dare to make trouble, and they would honestly seek land for cultivation.

In fact, there is no need to fight, because the war has been in chaos for a long time, and I don’t know how much land is abandoned. In addition, the population has dropped sharply, and every household can get enough land.

To be honest, the people are not very enthusiastic about farming now. They took the fields and did not farm for a long time. This is because everyone is still worried and afraid that after they have planted the fields, they will accidentally defeat Chen Sanlang and replace them. Then the government orders will naturally change again. At that time, hard work will be in vain.

Who is willing to do such a thing?

After all, farming is not a quick thing. Spring and autumn harvest must take a long time. This is also a major cause of large-scale emergence of abandoned farming once wars occur.

Seeing this, Chen Sanlang repeatedly ordered various welfare benefits to encourage and attract the people to enter the fields and start to open up land.

For example: the first batch of ploughers had free seeds and free ploughing tools, and they could rent cattle and horse labor at extremely low prices...

For example, those who actively farm will also receive rewards for the city, including gold, silver, rice and grain, which is quite expensive.

When several families who were rated as "advanced families" really received all kinds of supplies and were widely promoted by the yamen runners, everyone was jealous and rushed out of the house and rushed into the fields.
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