Hushu Guan Township Office, built not far from the Zhongwu Society and Yan Huang Dao Society, is a small two-entry courtyard, and the door is hung with the sign of "Changzhou County Hushu Guan Township Office".

At this time, there were many people around the edge of the township office. Even the people who were worshipping at the nearby Taoist shrine were attracted to it, and in the end, they couldn't get through.

"What's going on?"

"What's the matter? Wang 13 of Gubai Village disobeyed the king's order, burned the baby girl, and broke the law. He and his wife have been sent to the township office by the village government. ”

"And this? The Holy King has given the king's order, and he still dares to do it? Besides, it's not that you can't feed now. ”

Everyone talked a lot, tiptoed, stretched their necks to look inside, and sure enough, they found a pair of men and women about thirty years old, who were pale and tied up with flowers.

On the podium in front of the door, Xiangzheng Wang Hu held a Tang knife at his waist, and pointed to the notice platform with his right arm, which had lost one hand, and spoke to the surrounding villagers.

Wang Hu is a Jurchen, the second batch of Jurchen immigrants. Before that, he was the commander of the cavalry of the Tang Army, ten cavalry commanders, and the lower samurai. Last year, when Meiling fought against Zhang Hongfan, he lost a hand, retired from the army, and was appointed as the Zhengjipin Township Zheng, in charge of 1,600 households in the township.

"Behold, the king's edict has been on the notice stand for nineteen days! It has also been posted on the notice desks of each village office for 18 days! The official, the female envoy, the village masa, and the sergeant have all preached repeatedly! No one doesn't know! The court will not punish without teaching, but it is not allowed to pretend to be deaf and dumb! ”

"Wang Thirteen, do you dare to quibble and not know? Don't you know what the blind know? No matter how much you quibble, it's useless, and the king's law will not allow you! Otherwise, what is the use of king's law! ”

"Everyone said, now there are so many men who have no daughters to marry, the king divides the land and grants land, abolishes the poll tax, and helps everyone raise their daughters, should they kill female babies again?"

Wang Hu said loudly. Although he has lost one hand, he is still full of energy and might.

"No!" The crowd was so emotional that many even started crying.

"It shouldn't be! I also drowned my daughter the year before last! If the Holy King had come two years earlier, I wouldn't have done that! ”

"There are so many people who have broken the incense! Can you still kill a baby girl? No!! ”

"King Thirteen! You killed four of your own flesh and blood! This one is still burned alive, you are evil! ”

When Wang 13 heard these words, he quibbled to himself: "Township officials! The grass people really don't know! Also, that little cub is not my daughter, it's a water ghost who has come to ask for his life! ”

"Shut up!" A middle-aged woman wearing a ten-rank official uniform also came to the podium. She is Han E, the envoy of Gubai Village.

"How dare you say you don't know! A notice of the king's order was posted on the notice table in Gubai Village, I knew that your wife was about to give birth, and I went to your house to preach and warn you again and again. Do you dare to quibble! The Holy King's order is like a mountain, and you have to pay for your life! Han E was furious.

Wang 13 actually opened his eyes and said nonsense! His moral character can be imagined.

According to the system, the village women must be married and have children, have a good reputation, and can be literate. Han E is such a person. She was originally just the daughter of a village pedant, but because she had read a little book, she became a female official.

The women's envoy is in charge of the childbirth of rural women, maintains the dignity of women, regulates women's morality and appearance, and also manages women's work such as weaving.

Wang Thirteen's lady howled and cried, shouting to the heavens and the earth: "Township officials, women's envoys, I really don't know that he burned children!" After I gave birth, I fell asleep, and as soon as I opened my eyes, I smelled the burnt meat, oh my God! ”

Wang 13 suddenly said: "You also know! It's still yours to come up with the idea! Where did you sleep! ”

What the?

The woman glared at Wang 13 like a ghost: "You are crazy! I don't know! When I wake up, you'll burn the baby to death!" Woo woo, my son! Wang 13, before giving birth to a child, I said that if I had another daughter, we would raise it, but you... Whining! ”

Everyone was in an uproar, and they all couldn't believe it. Wang 13 actually bit his wife on the spot!

Who knew that Wang Thirteen shocked everyone with his words again, "My father lit the fire!" Infanticide, my dad helped! ”

When Wang Thirteen's father heard this, he trembled with anger, "Brute, you brute!" Although the old man knows, he has helped you light the fire! Lao Tzu advised you not to do it, but you didn't listen! ”

Old man Wang did persuade his son, but Wang 13 insisted on killing, and he had no choice but to care.

But his son said that if he lit the fire, he was a murderer.

Why did Wang 13 do this?

Is he crazy?

Of course not.

Wang 13 is the kind of person who is ruthless and cunning. He hadn't read a book, but he knew what the law meant by not holding the people accountable. In his opinion, if he was the only one who killed infants, he would definitely be put to death.

But if you pull the lady and father in together, it will be three people. Three lives, most of the government will not kill just because of a female cub.

Then it is possible to escape the life.

Her mother did not know at the time, and although his father knew, he did not participate in infanticide. But he still has to pull the whole family in.

Even, even if he is killed, he doesn't want his wife to live and remarry someone else.

To live together, to die together. These words were originally very moving, but they can be used for Wang Thirteen, which is another matter.

"Someone!" Xiangzheng Wang Hu was also impatient, "Take the baby's body and witnesses, and take it to the county office!" ”

"No!" Sheriff Zhang Suo took three sergeants and a few village warriors, took the three members of the Wang family and stuffed them into the carriage.

Immediately afterwards, the carriage drove towards Changzhou County under the guidance of everyone.

"Let's disperse!" Wang Hu said, "Wang 13 is a lesson, don't disobey the king's law again, otherwise no one will be able to save you!" ”

Suddenly, a man stepped forward and said: "Township official, my family was born with a girl the day before yesterday, how to receive this raising money?" ”

Wang Hu said with a smile: "Take the child to the village office to register and press two seals, one parent's fingerprint and one child's handprint. The village office will then be handed over to the township office, and finally handed over to the county office, and the county government will allocate the money. At most, you'll be able to get your money in two months. ”

"However, I warn you. Every year, the county government will send people to the countryside to verify, if it is fraudulent and counterfeit, it is a crime of deception, once it is verified, it will be three years of hard labor. ”

"Xie Xiangzhengguan." The man said, "Don't dare to deceive." ”

When they heard this, they dispersed together. But today's news is like wings, flying towards the surrounding countryside.

Wang Shisan's family arrived at the county government and were first detained in the police hall.

The Tang State did not have a garrison in the county seat, and the main thing to maintain the law and order of a county was the county police hall.

The previous Capture Service has been abolished and replaced by police sergeants who have been trained or retired from the military. The officers are either from Haidong or retired samurai.

There were 100 sergeants in a county police hall, equipped with leather armor, and 30 war horses. Each township police station is the dispatch agency of the county police hall. Basically, half of the 100 sergeants are in the countryside, and most of them are in the county seats.

Coupled with the security envoys of the villages, as well as the village warriors and retired samurai, it is enough to maintain the law and order of a county.

Only when there is a large number of thieves and rebellion, the Tang army stationed in the county will be dispatched.

"County lieutenant, this is the case of infanticide in Hushuguan, please take a look." Zhang Suo, the sergeant of the Hushuguan Police Station, handed a document to the county lieutenant who was working.

The county lieutenant frowned, looked at the paperwork, and snorted coldly: "The king's order has been given, and he dares to commit a crime against the wind, so daring!" ”

He raised his head to reveal a pair of sharp eyes, two flutes appeared on the cheeks, and his voice was murderous, "Did you arrest anyone?" ”

Zhang Suo nodded, "Caught it, it's outside." ”

"What about the evidence?" The county lieutenant asked again.

"Witnesses, children's bones, all there."

The county lieutenant read the document again, then laid out a piece of paper, wrote a few lines of words, and then stamped the official seal.

Then he called a sergeant, sealed his paperwork with the infanticide form, waxed it, and finally ordered, "Send it to the prosecutor's office and make up an arrest warrant." ”

"No!" The sergeant went out in a hurry and went to the prosecutor's office to make up the arrest warrant.

"Let's go, go interrogate the suspect!" The county lieutenant stood up, picked up the Tang knife, and helped the gauze hat on his head.

The chief officer of the Cheung Chau Police Hall is called the county police captain, referred to as the county lieutenant. The county lieutenant is a positive eight-grade and is subject to the county order. Today's county lieutenant is called Hong Mian, a police chief in Luoning City in the Haidong era, and Cui Xiuning's last batch of police students.

Since then, the sergeant has been mainly produced by the Sergeant Academy, and the semester is half a year, and the trainees are all from the military. Private applicants cannot apply directly. Therefore, the military and police of the Tang State are one family, but the division of labor is different.

Cui Xiuning has been in Haidong for several years, and most of the people he has trained are agents, and he has personally trained more than 200 police sergeants. Although Hong Mian is the last batch, he is a protégé of the queen after all, and his future can be imagined.

That's why he was assigned to a place like Cheung Chau County to be a county lieutenant.

Cheung Chau County is a large county in Wuzhong, and the gender ratio is seriously imbalanced, and the law and order situation in the county is very poor. Although a large number of bandits and bandits have been exterminated, and the resistance of the Hao clan has also been suppressed, vicious cases such as murder and forcible annihilation still appear from time to time.

In particular, cases of torture and abduction and trafficking of women have emerged one after another.

But Hong Milling really understands. Through the criminal investigation techniques he learned from Cui Xiuning, he has solved 14 major cases in one year, and has won the reputation of the detective of Cheung Chau.

It is said that he is about to be promoted to the lieutenant of Gusu County, and he is responsible for the important task of the police hall of a county.

"The county lieutenant wants to interrogate him personally? What a big case? ”

The other sergeants in the police hall saw Hong Mi and Zhang Suo enter the interrogation room, and they all knew that there was a big crime.

After all, the county police hall is not a police officer of Hong Miao, as long as there are major cases, he will personally take action.

"What case? It's infanticide! ”

"No wonder, the king's order dared to commit a crime against the wind, it was not only murder, but also resisting the king's order."

Hong Mo carried the Tang knife upside down and entered the dark interrogation room. Very skillfully sat in the inquisitor's position.

Zhang Suo and another sergeant on record sat on either side of him.

Two whale oil lamps had been lit and placed at the other end of the table, illuminating this end very brightly. But the inquisitor's side was very dim, and he could only see the outlines of the three people clearly, and he couldn't look down on his faces.

"Take Wang Liu's clan first!" Hong Milling ordered.

Soon, in the midst of crying and crying, a woman who had been changed into shackles was carried in by two female police sergeants.

Then, two female sergeants pressed her to a chair, one on the left and one on the right. The oil lamp suddenly illuminated Wang Liu's face clearly.

"Woo woo, wronged... Woooooo "The first time Wang Liu came to this kind of place, he was so frightened that he was about to be paralyzed, his face was extremely frightened, and his body trembled like a swing.

In the dim darkness across the table, an indifferent but slow voice came: "You, what's your name?" How old is this year? Well? ”

The voice was obviously under a kind of pressure, but strangely it could make her attention focus instantly, and it was replaced by a kind of sobriety under fear.

"Liu Erniang, a slave from Gubai Village, Hushuguan, is twenty-seven this year."

"Who are you, Wang Thirteen? Well? ”

"It's a slave husband."

The dark voice on the other side continued: "Liu Erniang, why do you want to kill infants? Why disobey the king? Aren't you afraid of torture? Well? ”

Liu Erniang was obviously scared, but she was sober to death, especially the last "um" when the other party spoke, which seemed to hammer him and her heart.

"The slave family didn't kill infants, the slave family really didn't know about it at the time......" Liu Erniang said the matter with a pale face.

The other party seemed to nod and suddenly asked, "Your husband killed four daughters, and you didn't know about it?" ”

Liu Erniang said without thinking: "The first three know, but I really don't know this time." ”

Hong Mo asked while observing Liu Erniang's expression, and then said to Zhang Suo: "Show her." ”

Zhang Suo nodded, took out a thing wrapped in linen from the bag, walked to Liu Erniang, and slowly opened it.

Liu Erniang's eyes widened wider and wider, her body trembled even more, and when she finally saw the charred black thing that burned to the size of a fist, she suddenly let out a terrible wail.

"Son! O my son! Evil-King Thirteen!! ”

The woman's screams were like ghosts, and her expression became hideous.

Wang 13 always wanted a son, and when she gave birth to a daughter, Wang 13 drowned one, and connected to drown three. Every time she gave birth to her daughter, Wang 13 punched and kicked her and scolded her, and she could only accept it. She not only hated her stomach for not being angry, but also resented Wang Shisan's cruelty.

How difficult it is to conceive in October...... That's your own flesh!

This time, the king made an order, and she felt that the child was safe, and even if she was still a daughter, she would be able to survive. But who would have thought that he was still dead, he was burned alive!

This is to break the bones and scatter ashes!

At this moment, Hong Mo said coldly: "Do you think you have done evil? So why conspire to burn her? Well!? ”

"I didn't! I didn't! It's all done by Wang Thirteen!! Woooooo Liu Erniang was hysterical, tears welled up, and she collapsed.

Hong Milling almost got it. He said to a female sergeant: "Liu Erniang was weak after giving birth, and she suffered a big change, you take care of it, give her some honey and brown sugar, and then she will be able to go to the Dharma Hall." Take it with you. ”

"No." Two female sergeants set up Liu Erniang and took her back to the detention cell.

Next, the old man Wang was interrogated.

Although Old Man Wang is old, where has he passed through this world? The three souls he bluffed went to two and a half souls, and he didn't dare to hide it in the slightest, so he told the matter again.

He wanted to carry all the charges off, but Hong Mian made him accept his fate with one sentence: "Your son Wang 13 burned his own daughter, the evidence is conclusive and irrefutable, he will definitely die." ”

This case is actually very simple, if it weren't for disobeying the king's order, Hong Mo would not have tried it in person.

Interrogating Old Man Wang, Hong Milling has determined that the burning and killing of the baby girl was actually done by Wang Shisan alone.

His father is an insider, and he does not report it.

As for Liu Erniang, from her confession and witness testimony, as well as Old Man Wang's confession, she was indeed asleep at the time, and she was unaware.

Finally, Wang 13 was arraigned.

Wang Shisan, a vicious man, was already scared when he was brought in because of his weak heart and fear.

He had been encouraging himself before, and planned to insist that his father and mother also killed babies together, so as to reduce his responsibility. But under the fear, his brain is a mess, and his words are full of loopholes.

"Take it down!" Hong Mo waved his hand in disgust and ordered: "This case will be transferred to the procuratorate immediately, and the procuratorate will be asked to prosecute!" ”

The prosecutor's action was also very fast, and the next day a public prosecution was filed, and the case was transferred to the court on charges of burning the baby girl and disobeying the king's order.

Because the evidence was conclusive and undoubted, the court convicted Wang 13 of burning and killing a female baby on the spot, and was convicted of disobeying the king's order, and was sentenced to beheading according to the system.

As an insider, Old Man Wang did not stop it at the time, did not report the case afterwards, and was guilty of harboring and punished with hard labor.

Liu Erniang was asleep at the time and was acquitted.

When Wang 13 heard that he had really been sentenced to be cut in the waist, he was so frightened that he was paralyzed into a snake with his bones removed, and the mud was generally on the ground, his face was like earth, and he couldn't say anything in his mouth.

The trial of the court was completed and submitted to Xu Dagong, the commander of Cheung Chau County. Xu Dagong immediately ordered to convene the procuratorate, the law hall, and the police hall to sort out the case.

"I've seen the county magistrate!" In the county hall, the chief officials of the three halls were all present, and they saw Xu Dagong, who entered with a Han sword, and saluted together.

Xu Dagong, who was dressed in a seven-grade blue official uniform, untied the Han sword and hung it on the back of the case, and then sat down without hurrying.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the case of Wang 13 burning and killing female babies has already been seen by this official. Today, the official presided over the review of the three halls, and after finding no loopholes, it was submitted to Gusu County. ”

Xu Da said publicly.

Xu Dagong was the first batch of immigrants from Haidong and the first batch of village officials. A few years ago in Haidong, he was only in charge of more than 100 households, but at this time he was in charge of more than 20,000 households.

If you want to say that it is difficult, it is indeed more difficult than being a village leader, but if you want to say how much more difficult, it is not necessarily. After more than a year, he is already very familiar with the county government, and he is still doing it well.

In his opinion, the trick to making a county order is four words: be honest.

Other than that, there are not so many ways. It is not difficult to do these four words well. How many big truths are in these four words.

He only knows a thousand words, but he can be a county order, what does he rely on? It depends on the power of the dragon. If you don't do it honestly, you'll be sorry for the king and the mother.

"County magistrate, the reason for this case is ......" First of all, the county lieutenant Hong Mo restated the process of the case.

Then the prosecutor gave the confession and evidence of the case to the witnesses.

Finally, the court also stated the trial process, as well as the evidence presented to the court, and the reasons for the verdict.

Xu Dagong listened and checked the records and evidence again, and the remains of the baby girl were presented again.

At the end, Xu Dagong said: "This official did not find anything wrong, have you found anything wrong?" ”

The presiding officers of the three halls said together that there was nothing wrong with it.

At this time, the county government master recorded in court: "Huaxia 3982, June 12 of the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty. The trial of the case of Wang 13 burning and killing female babies in Gubai Village, Hushuguan Township. The county commander Xu Dagong summoned the county lieutenant Hong Mill...... The four of them thought that there was nothing wrong with it. ”

After the record was completed, the main book said to the county order: "County order officer, the audit record of this case has been completed, please check it and use it after it is correct." ”

Xu Dagong looked at the audit record, it was indeed complete, and there was no alteration, so he took the seal and stamped it.

Then, the presiding officers of the three halls also used their own seals.

Finally, the master took off the Han sword from the sword stand, hung it on his waist again, and left the hall by himself, and sent the record to the county guard yamen through the official post.

Once there is an unjust case, then none of the county magistrates and the chief officials of the three halls can escape.

Three days later, Gusu County received the case file after the trial, and after inspection, it was submitted to the Yangzhou Prefecture Governor's Office.

Three days later, Li Yang, a big spy who had become a pastor in Yangzhou, sent the case to Lin'an Dali Temple (the highest law hall).

After the review and summary of Dali Temple, a list of judgments was sent to the palace before the Li Luo case.

Because it is a homicide, there is no room for sloppiness.

…………

"It's another infanticide case against the wind! There have been fifteen cases in the country! Tang Wang Li Luo handed the latest case to Cui Xiuning with a cold expression.

Cui Xiuning took it and took a look, frowning, "It's really ruthless, burn it alive!" ”

Li Luo sneered, "It's subsidy and torture, and there are still people doing it." Do you really think I'm so good at talking? If you don't kill a few people, you can't make an example! ”

After he finished speaking, he took a pen from the pen holder on the desk, dipped it in cinnabar, and gave instructions one by one.

All the judgments were approved in half, and there was no meaning of leniency at all.

He gave one instruction, and Cui Xiuning inspected one.

It's really a bloody Hades soul hooking pen.

Tang Wang is a group, that is, it is dead.

Fifteen major infanticide cases have been settled.

Twenty-seven were killed!

It is estimated that not only the entire Tang Kingdom, but also the whole world, will be shocked by this incident.

Cui Xiuning said: "These things happened in the countryside, if we didn't grasp the grassroots, we wouldn't know about it at all." ”

Li Luo nodded, "Even in the future, the government will hold the power at the grassroots level, that is, in the thirty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China." Those 30 years were also the time when the mobilization power was at its strongest. ”

Many policies are simply empty words if they do not grasp the grassroots.

The Tang State system, the royal power went to the countryside. The Tang Dynasty merged villages, with 100 to 200 households each, to establish an administrative village. For every 1,000 to 2,000 households, an administrative township is established.

The village has a village office. Set up a village member is ten products, one person is from ten products, one person is from ten products, one person is from ten products, and one person from village teachers is from ten products.

There is a township office in the township. Set up a township chief of one person from the ninth grade, a police station sergeant from the ninth grade, three sergeants from the tenth grade, a female envoy from the ninth grade, and three township school teachers from the tenth grade.

It can be seen that if there are ten villages in a township, there are 49 officials who eat imperial grain. The annual expenditure is 1,000 Tang Yuan (silver dollars). There are now more than 3,800 townships in the Tang Kingdom, and this expenditure is less than 4 million Tang Yuan.

Even if the world is unified, the expenditure of rural officials will only be 10 million Tang Yuan. At that time, the annual income of the Tang State should be between 80 million and 100 million yuan.

Finances are not going to collapse.

The imperial power went to the countryside, and the Qin and Han dynasties could do it, why couldn't the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties do it?

It's definitely not that there is no money. Don't forget, not to mention the benefits of the imperial power going to the countryside, at least you can collect a lot more taxes that you have escaped. The overcharged national tax may be more than just the amount of money spent. From a financial point of view alone, it may not be a loss but a profit.

The scholars of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties were so shrewd that it was impossible not to know this.

Then there is only one reason.

Reluctant to do it.

The imperial power does not go to the countryside, so the power of the countryside is controlled by these gentry clans. Of course, they will resolutely oppose the imperial power going to the countryside. This cake of the gentry is something that even strong Tartar chieftains like Kang Mazi and Qianlong dare not touch.

Yongzheng, the only commendable man of the Manchu emperors, only made a paving into the mu, and the fire consumption was returned to the public and the land was changed. That's it, he was also hacked into a crow.

He wanted to go to the countryside with imperial power, but he didn't dare to touch it.

But Li Luo did it hard.

Why is Li Luo able to do it?

Because he's ruthless enough. This proletarian-born man was more ruthless than the Manchus, and his force was stronger than the Manchus. It's just that his ruthlessness is aimed at the gentry and the strong. He is not afraid of not having the support of the gentry, he has his own talent training system.

It has been more than a year since the Tang army recovered Jiangnan, and the rural power has been consolidated. The wild emperors who were entrenched in the countryside before were either confiscated after being suppressed, or obediently cooperated and became small and medium-sized landlords.

Except for the freshly baked nobles of the Tang Kingdom, there were no big landlords in the Tang Kingdom.

This is also the reason why the big landlords of the Song State and the Liang State have suddenly uncharacteristically supported the Song State and the Liang State recently.

According to intelligence, the landlords of Liang and Song have taken the initiative to donate money and grain, and even train village warriors.

The wealthy families of Liang Guo, from the initial hostility to Xiao Liang, to effective cooperation, have now become full support!

They were scared.

Afraid of Li Luo and Tang Guo, the fire of the "revolution" will be burned to Liang State.

Li Luo didn't stop it.

Don't be afraid of them jumping.

It's ridiculous, but they helped Xiao Liang get through the food crisis, so that Xiao Liang began to resume production and recuperate.

Everything is for the destruction of Tang!

It's all forced by Li Luo!

In the words of a later manifesto: "A ghost... All the reactionary forces of old Europe have united! ”

…………

On June 28, the exchange between the Tang and Yuan sides was completed.

The 200,000 head of cattle on the north bank of the Yangtze River were all transported to the south of the Yangtze River. The captives below the king of Yunnan and five million taels of silver were also transported to Jiangbei.

The war horses of Tamna Island were transported to Goryeo for handover.

Li Luo and Kublai Khan each took what they needed, and they successfully reached a deal.

For a time, the Jinling area on the south bank of the Yangtze River was full of cow barking. When the magistrates saw the oxen, they all raised their heads in celebration and rejoiced.

The king is really powerful, and he can ask the Tartars for a cow!

And the happiest should be none other than Wen Tianxiang.

His wife and daughter, who had suffered in the Yuan Palace for seven years, have been sent back to Jiangnan.

"Captain!" A samurai on duty at the military division palace came to Wen Tianxiang's Taiwei Festival Hall, "Captain Qiqi, someone from the Ministry of Rites said that the lady and the little ladies have been sent back by the Tartars. The Ministry of Rites sent someone to send his wife home. ”

What the?

Although he had long known that his wife and daughter would be replaced by the king, Wen Tianxiang was still overjoyed when he heard the news.

As soon as the man put the pen on the table, he hurriedly left the military master's mansion and rode a horse straight to the mansion.

PS: It's time tonight, good night friends! All fire support! Crab crab!

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