Chapter 309 Uphold integrity and obey the emperor’s orders
Jushu outside heard this with emotion: This is for the pigs, and he has to sacrifice his own life. If the people are gone, what do we need the pigs for?
Your Majesty just wants people to raise pigs so that every household can eat meat. If the people lose their lives because of this, how can it make Your Majesty sad?
So Jushou immediately asked someone to record the incident.
He walked in personally. When the couple saw that he was wearing black official uniforms, they knew that a high official was coming, and they immediately came to greet him: "I've seen the official."
The two of them were restrained, and Jushou said with a pleasant look: "You feed the pigs, but in the end you don't eat the meat and sell it directly?"
The old woman immediately became excited: "My son cannot afford a wife because he is short of money. Once these six pigs are sold, maybe it will be enough to marry him!"
The old man sighed: "My lord, rich households everywhere are keeping the price of pork very low. In order to keep the price down, they have been saying that pork is cheap and worthless, but this old woman has gone crazy.
, If you don’t eat it yourself, you feed the sweet potatoes to the pigs. I’m afraid that after half a year of hard work, you will only be able to sell them for a few pennies. By then, you won’t make any money, and you will be mad to death.”
Jushou frowned: "Don't you know that the imperial court will buy pigs at a high price?"
The old couple looked confused: "The county magistrate didn't say anything?"
Jushou immediately understood that the county magistrate wanted to suppress the news, and in the end he bought it at a low price, sold it to the court at a high price, and made a lot of money with those wealthy families!
"His heart is to be punished!" Jushou was immediately furious, and then thought that maybe it was not like this in this place!
Then Jushou left without saying a word and went straight back to Xuchang and Zhao Feng to report.
After Zhao Feng heard this, his face immediately darkened, and he thought to himself, no wonder the country's fortunes will not increase if this move continues. It turns out that this is the problem. If the government is not rectified, the Wei Empire will be hollowed out by these moths!
"It is proposed that feeding pigs and denying food to people is not allowed in any place. If anyone dies of starvation, the pigs will be confiscated! Secondly, anyone in any place who dares to fail to convey the imperial order will be dealt with strictly!"
Zhao Feng thought for a while and said: "Jushou, I order you to uphold integrity and go to various places with Gongsun Zan. Anyone who fails to inform the people of the news will have the local county magistrate imprisoned. In serious cases, he can be executed on the spot.
The common people are angry! In addition, arrange for Xian Liang to take office as soon as possible!"
Jushou immediately cheered up and said, "I obey your order!"
Holding the knot means that the emperor has arrived and his power is supreme. In serious cases, ministers who have been sent abroad can be killed on the spot.
It is precisely because of this supreme right that the choices of those who uphold integrity are extremely harsh.
Jushu had already had murderous intentions towards those corrupt officials, and now that he had the identity of being a chastity official, he was even more powerful, and he entered Luoyang again that day.
Luoyang Ling was a member of the Wang family in Bingzhou. He was a distant relative of Wang Yun in the past. He was born into a wealthy family and belonged to the upper class.
After Jushou arrived in Luoyang, he first arrested the Luoyang order and detained him in the market. Many people came to watch. He also asked Gongsun Zan to close the city gate so that Luoyang could only enter and exit.
Soon, he saw many people gathered around, and he said loudly: "I am an envoy of the imperial court, and I am here to handle the case on behalf of the emperor. The emperor ordered Qiu Hou to spend a lot of money to purchase pork, and the Luoyang order deceived the people in an attempt to withhold money. It is a capital crime."
Certainly!"
"Just elders, who knows who this person is colluding with, please also point out that I will strictly deal with it this time and will not tolerate it in order to wipe out the corrupt habits of the officialdom. If you want to tell me, you can come secretly at night. Of course,
I can also send you to settle in Xudu, so you don’t have to worry about retaliation from now on!"
Jushou gave the order, and then there was no movement around.
However, he was not discouraged.
It's daytime now, even if I'm not afraid of retaliation, I still feel embarrassed.
Reporting this kind of thing is usually done secretly.
That night, Jushou stayed at the post house. It was extremely dark around the post house. Only soldiers stood at the corner of the street, each holding a stack of black cloth.
Soon, people appeared on the street one after another. Each of these people was hiding their whereabouts, like thieves.
However, they all walked towards the post house and came directly in front of the guards.
"I want to see Lord Jushou!"
The guards immediately said: "If you are worried about being discovered, you can cover yourself with this cloth."
So, each visitor covered himself in cloth, with only his two eyes exposed, followed the guards, went in one after another, and interviewed Jushou one by one to report.
Jushou personally inquired about this matter and wrote down all the people mentioned one by one while asking.
After daybreak, Jushuo's eyes were red and he was still circling the names of those people.
His face was stern, and his eyes were filled with cold light: "These nobles have vast hectares of fertile land, thousands of tenants, countless cattle and sheep, and numerous shops. They have so much money that they can't spend it all in their lifetimes, yet they continue to exploit the people. Damn it."
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Then Jushou shouted loudly: "Where is General Gongsun!"
Gongsun Zan came in quickly: "Sir, what are your orders?"
Jushou held the roster and stood up: "Take some people with me to hunt down these rats from house to house! I want to get rid of these greedy and useless people for Your Majesty, so that the people of Wei will no longer have to live such a hard life!"
Gongsun Zan immediately went down and gathered 3,000 elite soldiers, all fully armed, and followed Jushou, searching and arresting him from house to house.
Soon, the people on the list who had been circled by Ju Shou were picked out one by one and gathered in the street.
"My ancestor is Emperor Guangwu, and my father was once the governor of Hanzhou! My family has relatives and friends all over the world. Jushou, you'd better be smarter and dare to touch me? Those people will make big moves soon. When the time comes, the emperor will calm down our anger.
, will kill your whole family!"
"My eldest brother is a general of the imperial court, Jushou, you can't afford to offend me!"
These people all yelled loudly. Although they were tied up, there was no fear or regret on their faces!
Seeing this scene, the Luoyang order's original worries immediately disappeared, and instead showed a sinister smile: "Jushou, it's easy for you to catch us, but how to release us, I'm afraid it will be difficult. You are just kneeling down and kowtow, I'm afraid there are some powerful people."
I won’t accept it. You and your family will definitely pay the price for today’s recklessness!”
Jushou said nothing, but his eyes became even colder.
At this time, more and more people were gathering around, with three floors inside and three floors outside, and everyone showed angry looks.
In the crowd, the low-pitched words gradually turned into the high-pitched roar of electronic voices!
"Shameless greed!"
"A worthy death!"
"Unforgivable!"
"Uprooted!"
The voice gradually became louder, and some people even threw clods of dirt in the crowd to hit these black sheep.
"Bastard! Who dares to hit you, your grandfather! Stand up and let me remember your face!"
However, in that crowd, the people standing in front of them had been firmly blocking the people behind!
In fact, as the nobles cursed, the people behind them smashed them with much greater force. After a while, many nobles were beaten with bloody heads, but Gongsun Zan signaled the soldiers to turn around and use their armor to avoid the people.
of soil.
"Jushou! Send us away quickly!"
"Our bodies, which are so precious, have been bullied by unruly people! Jushou, you have done a great sin!"
However, Jushou seemed not to hear these words at all and just looked at them coldly.
