Wang Tian and Bai Sheng entered from the North City Gate, which was the shortest distance from the county government office and went straight to the back gate of the county government office.
There were also a dozen thugs blocking the back door, and Wang Tian shouted: "Arrest them. Anyone who dares to resist arrest or escape will be killed on the spot!"
It is true that the county magistrate only has the power of final adjudication of the cane punishment, but he blocked the county office for most of the day and was not unjustly charged with rebellion, let alone resisted arrest.
Dozens of young men from the village were on horseback trying to surround the rogues.
Upon seeing this, the gangster ran away immediately. Bai Sheng chased after him and shot one of the escaping gangsters in the back.
The rest of the young men didn't know how to be afraid, especially the security chief and deputy security chief inside. They were usually responsible for defending the village, and they had more or less seen blood. They immediately led their respective villagers and killed them when they caught up.
, leaving no room for action.
Wang Tian felt chills in his back. He just ordered people to be arrested, but in the blink of an eye, more than ten gangsters were beaten to death on the spot.
The folk customs here are so fierce!
Not only are there many thieves, but good people are also difficult to deal with.
In ordinary times, taxation can only be done by borrowing the power of the wealthy families and holding high the banner of the imperial court to oppress good people.
Especially for buying money, the tax targets are all landlords, so it is difficult for the government to collect the full amount. Often the wealthy families are asked to express their stance first, to guide the other landlords to give money and grain, and then reduce or exempt half of the money and buying money for the rich families.
Later, I was too lazy to pretend, and there were always one or two wealthy families in each county. The county magistrate applied to the court for special approval and the purchase price was halved, and it gradually became a practice.
It takes great courage for local officials on Jingdong Road to dare to attack wealthy families.
"You go around to the gate of the county government office, and I will report to the prefect through the back gate!" Wang Tian ordered.
Bai Sheng nodded: "Okay!"
Wang Tian entered through the back door on horseback, passed through the backyard of the county government office, and went straight to the lobby of the county government office: "Prefect, I have honored my duty and brought back more than sixty people, all of whom can be used on horseback."
"Thanks for your hard work."
Zhu Ming stood up and carried the chair out, sat down again when he was outside the door, and asked: "Who is the leader? Come forward and talk!"
Gao Huaguang took a few steps forward: "I'm the leader."
Ju Ming asked: "What do you want to do?"
Gao Huaguang said: "Sun Dutou abides by the law and loves the people, but he was arrested yesterday. I want to be fair and ask the prefect to let Sun Dutou go."
"You don't even have to pretend? Are you going to let me go?" Zhu Ming was really shocked.
How unscrupulous!
This is equivalent to not giving him any face, not even leaving a step. He just pointed at Zhizhou's nose and ordered Zhizhou to be honest and obedient.
"Da da da da!"
Ju Ming had already heard the sound of horse hooves, and it was Bai Sheng who was leading people around.
Gao Huaguang naturally heard the sound and subconsciously turned his head to look. Suddenly he caught a glimpse of a bright light from the corner of his eye. Before he could react, his head flew high and blood spurted out from his neck like a fountain.
The leader of the Xianyi Club, the underworld boss in Leize County, died without any warning.
Moreover, Ju Ming had quick hands and a sharp sword. After cutting off his head with one sword, Gao Huaguang's headless body continued to stand for a second before falling down.
Zhu Ming raised his sword and shouted angrily: "Gao Huaguang, the leader of the Xianyi Society, gathered bandits and attacked the county government office with the intention of conspiring to rebel. Now that Gao Huaguang has rectified the law, if you continue to resist stubbornly, you will all be punished as rebels!"
"Killing people!"
"Brother Gao is dead, run away!"
"Kill the dog officer and avenge Brother Gao!"
Most of the two to three hundred people at the scene were members of the lower levels of the underworld, and there were even rogue gangsters brought in temporarily to make up for their losses.
In their eyes, Gaohua light is the sky.
We broke the news, and the Sun family is still protecting us. We have people in the court.
Zhizhou, county magistrate, and county magistrate are nothing like that?
In the third year of Xianping reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, thieves started a rebellion in Puzhou. Wang Shouxin, the governor of Puzhou, and Wang Zhaodu, the supervisor of the rebellion, were directly kidnapped by the thieves who sneaked into the city. If the riot got bigger, wouldn't it have been settled?
Now, the sky has fallen.
There were about twenty or thirty diehards who rushed towards Ju Ming with sticks, shouting that they wanted to avenge the boss. The remaining two hundred or so people dispersed in a hurry, fearing that they would also be caught and beheaded.
The reason why they dispersed so neatly is because Bai Sheng came with his cavalry.
There were countless people watching the excitement nearby, and they were also scared and fled away at this moment. Because Bai Sheng had already rushed over, as long as he blocked the road, no matter what his identity, even ordinary people would be killed.
Of course, keep some sense of proportion.
Those who don't have weapons in their hands are basically just driving and fighting.
"Kneel down by the road and don't kill, kneel by the road and don't kill!" Bai Sheng shouted as he rushed.
The young men were killed by Bai Sheng and fled, but the more than 20 die-hard elements lost their minds and rushed towards Ju Ming. They did not bring sharp blades, but only sticks. They charged without any plan and just wanted to beat Ju Ming to death.
Zhu Ming conveniently threw the top chair to Deng Chun. Deng Chun held the folded top chair and swept across the entire army.
Several sticks were hit on Deng Chun, but the fellow ignored him and just picked up the chair and smashed it randomly.
The four male sumo wrestlers who were married to the Zheng family also rushed to protect their master at this moment. Sumo wrestling in the Song Dynasty was not the Japanese type of sumo wrestling, but more like free fighting that mainly focused on wrestling and supplemented by hitting. They were Mongolian wrestlers
With a tall figure, he rushed forward to grab someone with a stick, grabbed his sleeve, and then threw and beat him.
"Hurry and protect the prefect!"
Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian were dumbfounded. They didn't expect Ju Ming to be so iron-fisted, so they reacted and ordered the archers to help.
Many archers hesitated, but only a few came forward to fight.
Without their help at all, Zhu Ming held a sword and, under the cover of Deng Chun and the sumo wrestlers, almost knocked down one of them with one sword strike.
After only killing three people, more than 20 hard-line elements couldn't hold it anymore. They no longer thought about avenging the boss, so they turned around and ran away. Two more were chopped down by Ju Ming with his sword, and the rest chose to kneel down and beg for mercy.
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Bai Sheng could not command those young men, so he could only use them freely at this moment.
Often a security guard, with four or five young men, would ride on horseback to chase and kill those who refused to kneel down and be captured.
After a chase, including the dead at the back door of the county government, 258 people were captured in this battle, and 35 were killed on the spot. After a simple identification, more than 40 onlookers were released without charge by Ju Ming. There were also a few unlucky guys who were accidentally killed.
, then you really can only admit that you are unlucky.
"Is the prefect injured?" Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian asked quickly.
Ju Ming was covered in blood, but it was other people's blood. He glared at the archers who were watching and sneered: "The prefect was attacked by thieves, but you turned a deaf ear to it. He must be in collusion with the thieves. Put down your weapons immediately and capture him."
Jailed awaiting trial!”
Li Bao and Wei Dian had already entered the city, and together with Bai Sheng and their young horses, they surrounded the archers.
"Prefect, please spare my life!"
"We are also forced, how can we dare to go against the Sun family?"
"Prefect, have mercy!"
The archers were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Zhizhou's attack was too cruel, and they were really scared.
For the local officials on Jingdong Road, the court acquiesced in the use of illegal means. According to Su Shi, it was "responsible for the general outline and minor mistakes ignored." As long as the thieves can be punished, it doesn't matter if they violate the procedures.
And there is a method of even sitting. The thief himself will not be sent to Hebei, for fear that they will escape back, so he will be sent directly to Guangnan. The thief's family (the close relative of the house) will be sent to a supervisor five hundred miles away. If someone reports on the thief, he will be punished.
Afterwards, half of the money in the thief's house is rewarded to the whistleblower.
Ju Ming shouted and asked: "Since you are being persecuted, are you willing to take the punishment and make meritorious service?"
"Yes, yes!" The archers nodded hurriedly.
Ju Ming said: "Interrogate these archers and thieves separately and testify that the Sun family caused trouble in the place!"
"Yes!" Cao Yuangui and Wang Tian accepted the order.
Zhu Ming then said to the civil servants and subordinate officials: "You guys are willing to take the blame and make meritorious service?"
These officials were too closely involved with the local wealthy families, but Zhizhou was arresting and killing people, so they had no choice but to cooperate.
Geng Dingchen, the chief registrar, was so frightened that he was trembling all over. The magistrate only asked the civil servants, officials, and archers to perform meritorious service, and only issued orders to the magistrate and county magistrate. He seemed to have been completely forgotten.
If it were proven that he colluded with thieves, he would definitely be able to save his life as a civil servant, but where would he have a future? He just wanted to cling to the Cai Party, not the real Cai Party, and no one would stand up to protect him.
Geng Dingchen gritted his teeth and bowed his head: "Prefect Rong, I want to report the Sun family's illegal activities. And the Sun family humiliated the county magistrate, threatened my life, and forced me to marry my niece!"
"It's rare for Master Geng to annihilate relatives for justice. Let's go and interrogate the thieves together." Zhu Ming smiled with satisfaction.
All literate county government officials will participate in the interrogation, separate trials and cross-trials.
The interrogation was extremely fast, and it took only one day and one night to complete the trial of more than two hundred prisoners. Those guys were biting each other, saying that they were forced to do so, and blaming the dead man for their crimes. Some people also confessed in order to make meritorious deeds.
Various illegal activities of the Sun family were revealed, and they were accused of colluding with certain officials.
Ju Ming had a good sleep, then went to the prison in person and spent six hours going through all the confessions.
Then he called the officials, civil servants, civil servants, and archers, and placed two braziers at his feet.
Zhu Ming picked up several confessions and looked at the chief registrar Geng Dingchen with a smile.
Geng Dingchen felt anxious and uneasy, waiting for his fate.
"These confessions are fake at first glance. Does Mr. Geng think so?" Zhu Ming asked.
Geng Dingchen said: "The prefect knows everything clearly."
Zhu Ming threw the confession into the brazier. Geng Dingchen watched the paper burn to ashes and finally breathed a sigh of relief. His legs were so weak that he could not stand up straight.
Zhu Ming glanced at the officials again. Wherever his eyes passed, no one dared to breathe heavily.
One confession after another was thrown into the brazier and burned.
In the end, less than one-tenth of them were left. Ju Ming handed it to Cao Yuangui and said: "Arrest them."
Cao Yuangui took it and inspected it carefully, and then shouted: "Sun Guang, the prisoner, is corrupt and perverting the law, colluding with bandits, bullying men and dominating women, arrest him immediately!"
"Take it!" Wei Dian has officially become the head general.
Cao Yuangui added: "The calligrapher Qian Heqian is corrupt, perverts the law, and colludes with bandits. We must arrest him immediately!"
"Take it!" Wei Dian shouted again.
This is to cleanse the power of the Qian and Sun families in the county government, but it will not deal with them all. Some officials must be left to work. As long as they are not deeply involved and are not core members, not only can they forget the blame, but they can also be promoted.
The archers also dealt with some of them, and Ju Ming asked the remaining archers to perform meritorious service and arrest the families of the guilty officials. To put it bluntly, it was to submit a warrant. They had offended the Qian and Sun families, and they could only work with the government from now on.
As long as the knife is hard enough and leaves enough room, it can strike, divide, pull together, and smash an iron plate into pieces in an instant.
After Ju Ming left the county prison, Cao Yuangui said with emotion: "The governor is really not afraid of making things bigger. He has killed dozens of people this time. I am afraid that there will be hundreds of people who will be exiled in the end. For such a big case,
The prefectural court can no longer decide, so it will definitely alert the punishment department."
Wang Tian said excitedly: "No matter what, I am very happy. The subordinate officials and the big families in this county treat us as clay Buddhas and impose excessive taxes, which mostly goes into their pockets. How can we be county officials? We are watchdogs.
Ah! It’s better to be a dog to these young men than to be a dog to the prefect.”
Cao Yuangui said: "Beware of thieves sneaking into the county and setting fire to it!"
"Yes, Sun Qian and his family may be desperate!" Wang Tian said sternly.