Cai Yong told Zhang Chong that this letter was sent by Ying County Magistrate when he was sent out to send Dong. In the letter, the case of Guo Si's death took on a different look, and even Ying County Magistrate
It makes my behavior in this case excusable.
The first is Wen Yu's account of Meng Qi, a local tycoon of the Guo family. Although Meng Qi was the most powerful person in Guo family, he actually had very little land in Guo family. Their family mainly relied on the medicinal materials store in Ying County.
Although his family was well off, he was good to the people. Not only did he not lend money, but he also often helped some households in his hometown who could not afford medicine. Therefore, his reputation in Guo's Bi was very good.
Then there is a description of the five brothers of the Zhang family. The five brothers of the Zhang family were named in order from Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji, and Shao. These five brothers are also called the Five Tigers in Guo's wall because the brothers are united, hardworking and capable, and their animals
They also had a lot of land, so they quickly accumulated a lot of land. Therefore, although the Meng family was the richest in the Guo family, it was the Zhang family that had the most land. These five tigers had lent money, but they also helped the poor in this family.
Those who were alone and could not afford to pay the court's dues and grain taxes came to borrow money from him, and their families would advance it.
Therefore, although the Meng family and the Zhang family are outsiders, because they either support the poor or have a prosperous population, they have formed a quite prestigious family reputation in the Guo family wall. Although the two families are rich and powerful, they have many people.
It is rare to bully others. Even now, there are still many residents who are grateful to the two families and thank them for being able to support their family.
The opposite is Guo Si. Guo Si has been idle since he was a child, not engaged in production, and he is good at showing off his words. He usually goes to the same house to have food, and if he is rejected, he will say bad things to him, so in the Guo family
Walls have a bad reputation.
At that time, Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, after finding out the situation of these families, focused on the biggest dispute between Guo Si and Meng Qi, which was Guo Si's ten acres of farmland by the Yingwen River.
According to what he learned from Meng Qi's confession at that time, in the winter of the fourth year of Guanghe Period, Guo Si was hanged by the Han court officials and the nearby pavilion chief because he owed ten shi of millet for his servants and thirteen shi of grain for tax.
On the locust tree, he was beaten severely and asked to sell land to raise food. At that time, there were only two households with surplus food in the whole wall, one was the Zhang family and the other was the Meng family. At that time, the village officials ordered the Meng family and asked Guo Si to take over the land.
Sold to the Meng family. Meng Qi was not in Bili at that time, but at the Ying County medicinal material store.
Then the Meng family replenished grain for Guo Si, and Guo Si sold ten acres of land by the Yingwen River to the Meng family for 40 shi of millet, signing a death deed, excluding the 20 ounces that Guo Si owed.
Three shi, he finally got seventeen shi of millet. Later, when Meng Qi returned home and found out about this, he told Guo Si privately that he didn't want the land and asked Guo Si to take it, and then gave the remaining seventeen shi of millet to him.
He took it back, and finally said that the twenty-three stones he had paid earlier should be regarded as owed by Guo Si, and it would all depend on Guo Si's own conscience. At that time, Guo Si didn't say anything and acquiesced.
But later, Guo Si joined the Shi Jiajun, became a horseman, and got acquainted with people in the army. Finally, he was accused of blackmail. Instead, he, Meng Qi, was taken away and beaten severely, and then returned to the land.
Seeing this, Zhang Chong suddenly became suspicious. Didn't Meng Qi say that he had returned the land? Why did he return it only after being beaten? There were still ten acres of good land, so he sold it for forty dan at a low price.
Su, no matter how you look at it, this is a cheap sale. Didn’t Meng Qi take advantage of it? Will he really retire honestly?
Then Zhang Chong read on and found that Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, not only had Meng Qi's confession, but also interviewed the confessions of some people who participated in the public trial of Guo Si at that time.
A claimed that when Ding Yong was recruited from Ying County in the fifth year of Guanghe, he and Guo Si formed a team. After Guo Si deserted the army and joined the Taishan Army, he was implicated by this man, suffered greatly, and was caught in prison.
, If Guan Yu hadn't captured Ying County and released him after seeing that he had not committed any crime, he might have died in prison now.
Then there is the confession of Uncle Zhang, who is the eldest brother of the Five Tigers of the Zhang family. According to him, he once advanced a stone of millet for Guo Si in the first year of Guanghe, but Guo Si later denied it and has not paid it back to this day.
A more important confession was recorded by two rangers in this wall. They had acted as matchmakers for Guo's fourth sister-in-law, and the dowry they received for their remarriage totaled ten shi of millet, of which one was given to each of the rangers, leaving the remaining eight shi.
He married Guo Si's sister-in-law and kept him to himself. Guo Si was not at home at the time. When he heard this, he made a fuss. He didn't give up until he asked for another two shi of millet from the husband's family who married Guo Si's sister-in-law. He even wanted to embezzle his sister-in-law's dowry.
It shows how bad this person is.
There is also a confession about B, who lived in the same room. This was also a man who enlisted in the army with Guo Si in the fifth year of Guanghe. At that time, because Guo Si ran away alone, he was also arrested, and even his nephew was also arrested because of this.
After being detained, this child was almost frightened to death because of his timidity. After suffering a serious illness, he is still not very smart now.
There are many other confessions, some of which were made by Guo Si who borrowed millet and refused to return it. Others were made by Guo Si who went to various houses to eat for free and scolded him if he didn't eat.
In short, in a word, Guo Si is the evil person of the Guo family. He is idle and evil with his neighbors. He uses his experience as a member of the Shi Family Army to dominate the local area and oppress the good people.
Therefore, Zhang Qing, the head of the field division group at that time, determined that although this man was not the first-class powerful man, he was equally harmful and was no longer tolerated by the villagers. However, the original Meng Qi did not occupy Guo Si's land, but was the villager at that time.
The officials forced him to buy it, and the family had very little land, so he should not be among those to be divided. Therefore, Zhang Qing punished Guo Si, and then accidentally beat him to death.
Therefore, Wen Yu concluded from the above confession that Guo Si had great resentment among the people and was indeed the party that needed to be punished. As for Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group, he only had problems with his personal ethics and he should not have any relationship with Meng Qi.
His brother-in-law and his sister-in-law were entangled, which caused the Taishan Army to hand over the local land allocation. In addition, Zhang Qing did follow the land allocation regulations, but acted excessively, so he made a judgment to deprive him of his position.
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So far, the above are all the confessions and reasons for the judgment made by Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu. The regulations are very clear, that is, Guo Si is indeed a person with great anger among the people, and Zhang Qing only has personal ethics issues, and does not care about human life.
After reading this, Zhang Chong sneered in his heart, are you here to play Rashomon with him? Okay, then I will investigate these rats and their involvement in this matter.
After that, Zhang Chong ordered the general of the flying army to call Meng Ju, and asked him to send a team of capable flying troops to carry the flag and go to Guo's wall in Ying County to conduct an on-the-spot visit and investigate in various ways to find out about the death of Guo Si.
Who is responsible for this case?
Three days later, Meng Ju brought more details about the death case of Guo Si prepared by several flying troops.
The first one is about Guo Si. Although Guo Si is poor and has three people in his family, his family actually owns nearly a hundred acres of land, of which sixty acres were left behind by his deceased brother. His brother was also quite lazy, so
Most of these fields were barren. Later, after Guo Si took over, he abandoned them because of laziness. So the whole family still lives in the cave. Now, because of Guan Yu's care, his wife and children have been raised by the Taishan Army, and his son has also joined
Arrive at Liebao camp.
Guo Si did join the Taishan Army before, which has been confirmed by Tian Xiong, the Tuqi Shijiang. In addition, Guo Si does support the policies of the Shi Jia Army, and he is also grateful for the care of the soldiers in the army, so once Guo Si
Bi began to oppose Meng Qi, a local tycoon in Bi at that time, and the Five Tigers of the Zhang family who controlled Guo's Bi society. Therefore, Guo Si became enemies with the latter.
Although the Five Tigers of the Zhang family helped the poor and solved the difficulties of the villagers in the wall, their loan sharking and exploitation were even more severe, just because everyone was begging for his family and taking advantage of his family's power, so
I dare to be angry but dare not speak.
But these things changed after Guo Si came back from serving as a soldier. Guo Si led a group of people to fight against the Five Tigers of Zhang family repeatedly. Later, as Guan Xiaowei divided the fields, they had almost reached Guo's wall. The Five Tigers of Zhang family knew that they would not be able to fight again.
They took the initiative to donate soil, and when the time came, they would be hanging on the locust tree, so they donated the soil. After that, no one was in trouble with Zhang anymore, after all, the latter had indeed helped the villagers.
After that, Zhang Qing took the field-dividing team into Guo's wall and lived in Meng Qi's home. Meng Qi and Zhang were related by marriage and were already together. Afterwards, Meng Qi entertained Zhang Qing with honey water and beef, and his companions were
His sister-in-law. Later, Zhang Qing actually pointed the finger at Guo Si at the public trial. Because Guo Si believed that the field division group belonged to the Taishan Army, he had already received reports from the villagers that the Zhang Five Tigers were going to join forces.
He heard the news, but Guo Si finally went.
The last thing he said to his family when he went out was:
"Why don't you go? They are all good people."
Afterwards, he was beaten to death on the river beach by Zhang Qing.
According to what the flag bearers secretly heard from the households, Zhang Qing mentioned that he was in charge three times at that time.
One is that the local households did not want to come at that time. At that time, Zhang Qing said that if there were no participants, he would organize it with Guo Si. Then the local households were forced to come. After they came, the five tigers of the Zhang family and the Meng family were the core.
, bewitched and coerced some people who had grievances against Guo Si, and finally positioned Guo Si as a bad person at the meeting. Finally, Zhang Qing said that anyone who didn’t want to be beaten would be punished with Guo Si. There was no way to do it, and many people in the countryside were just far away.
They were beaten blindly with small stones from a distance, but Zhang Qing waited for some to hit him hard, and finally beat Guo Si to death. After beating Guo Si to death, Zhang Qing said that anyone who complained for Guo Si would be guilty of the same crime as him.
The flag bearers concluded that most villagers were held hostage by these three sentences, but many of them were also motivated by self-interest. Although Guo Si's family was very poor, they still had a hundred acres of land, and they just abandoned it. And now Guo Si
If he dies, will the land in his hands not be divided? When the land is divided into their hands later, with their diligence, they will naturally be able to take good care of Guo Si's idle fields.
In addition, under Zhang Qing's kindness and power, some people who had had dissatisfaction with Guo Si came forward to release all their accumulated dissatisfaction to Guo Si. It is certain, but they probably did not intend to put Guo Si to death.
They originally only expressed their dissatisfaction with Guo Si at the meeting, and it was more of a criticism. However, Zhang Qing did not expect that Zhang Qing would use this to beat Guo Si as a bad evil, and use the rules of dividing the fields to kill civilian thieves.
, the regulations that vented public anger killed Guo Si.
At this point, the fact that Zhang Qing committed evil is clear and conclusive. It is unknown whether Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, deliberately concealed and protected him despite knowing this.
All this made Zhang Chong furious, and he called the prefect Cai Yong again.