The entire half of the city is all owned by the Wei family, and a commander is so rich!

"yes, yes,"

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"Seal up all the Wei family's shops!"

Zhou Lianggong mended the knife on the side and said:

"Thirty miles east of the city, there is a salt flat, which is the foundation of the Wei family."

Laizhou Wei family, the ancestors in Liu Futong uprising swept the Central Plains, the four uncles and uncles in his clan led their sons and nephews to join the Red Turban Army, rebelled against the rule of Meng Yuan, and later followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the Northern Expedition of Longxing, with Xu Da, Chang Yuchun Northern Expedition, and later the Wei family guarded Shanxi, Xi'an and other places, although it was only one of the ones in Laizhou, but it was still the local officials of Laizhou who could not hold their heads up as military generals!

Even to a certain extent, Laizhou has become the world of the Wei family. A hereditary commander, as a military general, can actually control the place.

Because the Wei family not only controls hundreds of thousands of acres of military land in Laizhou Wei, but also privately sets up salt farms to sell illegal salt, as early as a few decades ago, the Wei family has been controlling the locality, and the magistrates from other places can't play the Wei family at all.

In fact, it is very simple for a local gentry like the Wei family to force out the local officials, as long as they instigate the people to make trouble under the pretext of taxation and land taxation and other issues, and provoke local "popular uprisings", the government can only be forced to give in. For so many years, I don't know how many magistrates have been forced away by the Wei family. Foreign officials are either in the same league as the Wei family, or they are just gray and sloppy.

Zhu Guoqiang sneered:

"In that case, then even the salt works are copied! Privately setting up salt factories and selling illicit salt is another crime of killing heads! ”

Dai Shan's "confession" is actually just a name, a private salt factory...... This is simply a major crime equivalent to complicity in rebellion, and this one crime alone is enough to make the Wei family irreversible!

Moreover, the salt ...... It's really a huge profit!

The surname Wei actually has a salt farm, it's just ...... The Dewang Mansion does not have its own salt farm! Sure enough, it's a wicked gentleman!

"It is true!"

With his hands clasped, Zhou Lianggong sneered:

The surname Wei, you also have today, so that you can call and drink to the official like a slave!

"Lord Shizi, I have copied it, I have copied the evidence of the crime! The Wei family's shop checked that there were no three catties and six taels of Liao ginseng! ”

Three pounds and six taels!

Zhu Guoqiang grinned.

"What does Governor Zhou think?"

Zhou Lianggong hurriedly said.

"The evidence is ironclad!"

The official word has two mouths, and this is true!

As soon as the Wei family's property in the city was copied, the Wei family's house slaves rushed back to report it.

Hearing this, Wei Kun was stunned for a long time.

And his younger brother Wei Fu was even more frightened and couldn't believe it:

"Who gave him the right to copy the general's house, our Wei family is a hereditary commander, how can we say that we will copy it? Where did he get the power to copy our Wei family! ”

The messenger said:

"Second master, I heard that the people in the yamen said that the general said that we were captured, and that all the stores inside and outside our city were also seized, and it was said that the ginseng found in it was evidence of the crime!"

"Ginseng is proof of sin! There are a few merchants in Laizhou City who don't sell ginseng, and selling ginseng is a captive, doesn't it mean that everyone deserves to die! ”

"He, he's revenge, revenge......"

Wei Kun said in annoyance.

"In the past, I only heard that he was a virtuous son, but I never thought that he was so domineering, great, Daming has no royal law?"

Now Wei Kunke really regrets it, he would have donated thousands of stones of grain if he knew it! But it's too late to say anything now!

"Sir, he, they're going to the salt farm......"

"What!"

Hearing that they were going to copy the salt farm, Wei Kun was so shocked that he jumped up directly, it was not only the foundation of the Wei family, but also the death hole of the Wei family!

"Gather the house slaves and follow me!"

Wei Kun hurriedly ordered.

Wei Fu dissuaded.

"Big brother, that's the general of Pingyu, if you bring your family over without permission, it's just an excuse for him!"

Wei Kun said angrily:

"What more excuse does he have? He has a fart excuse for seizing our shop, this German son wants to kill our Wei family!! ”

Unlike the eldest brother, Wei Fu was promoted in the examination, but he did not become an official, and he was usually responsible for the family's business and befriending the gentry of the government, and his mind was much more active than that of the eldest brother. He said.

"He opened Lushun with the general of Pingping, it stands to reason that no matter how long his hand is, he can't reach out to Shandong to copy our Wei family, even if our Wei family commits something, naturally there is a court accountable, where is his turn? He overstepped his authority like this, and he was not afraid of being investigated by the court? ”

"Imperial court, second brother, you are confused in reading, that kid even dared to ask Taizu to kill the lord in Nanjing, besides, it's us."

Wei Kun said angrily.

"He wants our lives, if we stretch out our necks and let him cut them, the court will not speak for us at that time, now use knives and guns to push them back, and then go to the court to fight a lawsuit!"

Maybe Wei Kun didn't seem to be in the middle of the move, but he saw the problem more accurately than the second child.

"Sir, they're going to the salt works!"

"Good, good!"

Wei Kun, who was trembling with anger, said angrily.

"Okay, you general! Since this is the case, then Wei will fight with you to break the net! Come on, recruit the family, I have to give him some color for the general to see ......"

Wei Fu felt that if his countermeasures were a little weak, General Pingyu would definitely swallow the Wei family, but if he ran into it, when the time came, the court would definitely come forward and make peace with him.

……

Laizhou Wei's military land has been occupied by the Wei family, except for the hereditary thousands of households, hundreds of households or something, most people don't have a few acres of land left at all.

The local military families either fled or were tenant farmers of the Wei family.

The residents near the salt works are all military households, one is counted as one, and every family is a tenant farmer of the Wei family!

When Zhu Guoqiang only took 300 soldiers to the salt field. As soon as I arrived here, I was surrounded by those military households, including many old and weak women and children.

The military fields of the military households were obviously occupied by the Wei family, and it stands to reason that the Wei family should be their enemies, but when Zhu Guoqiang brought the troops over, they actually took the initiative to stand up to protect the Wei family.

Because they have to follow the Wei family to beg for food, they have to plant the Wei family's land, they have to work in the Wei family's salt farm, and they have to sell illegal salt for the Wei family, and they have no way to live if the Wei family falls.

Three hundred soldiers raised their muskets and pointed them at the poor soldiers.

Zhu Guoqiang turned his head and asked Zhou Lianggong.

"Governor Zhou, do you think I dare to order fire?"

Do you dare?

Zhou Lianggong really didn't dare to say it, he hadn't heard the rumors that De Shizi was easy to kill, and he was really afraid that this master would kill countless people with a convulsion, and then something big would happen, so he hurriedly persuaded:

"General, such people are stupid, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as them."

With a cold face, Zhu Guoqiang shouted:

"Reload!"

What did the Pingyu army rely on to run rampant? It is the iron military discipline, and with an order, the three hundred soldiers immediately moved in a neat line to load their ammunition,

"Raise your gun!"

The officer ordered on his own.

The musket was raised again, this time reloaded, and the bayonet on the muzzle was pointed straight at the soldiers.

Seeing this, the military households all subconsciously retreated.

"Those who dare to stop the Pingyu army will be killed without mercy!"

When those soldiers heard this, they looked at each other and hesitated to make a way, they may have been incited to make trouble more than once, but that was because ...... The government doesn't dare to kill people, this Pingyu army, but they really dare to kill!

Just when Zhu Guoqiang was about to order someone to rush to the salt field, he heard someone shouting loudly on the other side.

"Who dares to break in!"

I saw Wei Kun wearing a military general's robe and leading more than 100 fast horses to gallop.

"Line up!"

Zhu Guoqiang gave an order, and a hundred musketeers immediately formed a horizontal formation, with their guns pointed forward.

Stopping a hundred steps away with more than a hundred slaves, and after learning that the general actually came in person, Wei Kun's heart was cold, and he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and then went straight forward and bowed.

"Xiaguan Laizhou Wei commanded Wei Kun to see the general! I didn't know that the general arrived, and I missed the welcome, so I asked the general to forgive me. ”

Zhu Guoqiang, who was riding on the mount, looked at Wei Kun coldly and sneered.

"Commander Wei is so powerful!"

"The lower officials don't dare!"

Wei Kun kowtowed again.

Zhu Guoqiang sneered.

"General Ben wants to go over, you dare to stop me?"

"The general wants to go over, and the subordinate naturally doesn't dare!"

Seeing that the atmosphere over there was getting more and more tense, Wei Fu, who came with him, hurriedly whispered.

"Li joins the army, can you take a step to speak?"