15. Eradicate the Corrupt Officials
At this time, the whole Chenggu county was in the sky, the thick clouds drooped, and soon the fine raindrops fell on the dust, raising a mist of mist.
On the main hall of the public hall, the curtain swayed in the wind and rain, Gao Yue still sat there coldly, his fingers pulled out a bamboo stick, and with the ticking sound of the water leak in the corner of the hall, he inserted it on it, indicating that the time had come.
I don't know when there was a column of archers in the middle of the scenes, holding sharp blades in their hands, controlling this place to the death.
Huang Wenyu was half-kneeling on the ground like an elk pinned down by the claws of a tiger and leopard, feeling the style on his back be cold.
At this time, the other county officials didn't know it, and more than a dozen of them rushed inside, but as soon as they stepped in, they saw this posture, and they were so frightened that their knees took root, and they knelt down in front of Xingyuan Yin Gaoyue with a puff.
They grinned with Huang Yanya, very painful, raised their eyes and looked at the tall Yin who was like a god and Buddha in the hall, but the county commander Li Yu was not there at all!
At this moment, Gao Yue suddenly held out a book of this Micang Road labor in his hand, and after turning the title page, he reported a name: "Gaoming Mansion." ”
As soon as he heard this, more than a dozen officials below Huang Wenyu changed color and were shocked, each of them looked at me, I looked at you, their tongues were stiff, and they didn't know where to come from.
But Gao Yue laughed, and continued to select a few names in the business trip book and read them out in public: "Li Langjun, become a mouse, Zhang Po Bag." ”
The officials trembled with fear in their teeth.
"Summoning these husbands to Ben Yin." Gao Yue demanded.
At this time, hundreds of husbands were sheltering from the rain under the porch outside the gate of the public house, which should be very easy to summon.
But the officials below were just trembling.
Gao Yue sneered, and said, "Gao Ming Mansion, Li Langjun, Zhang Pobao, Cheng Mouse-this poor department book is compiled, isn't it ridiculing Ben Yin and Chenggu County Ling Li Ji?" ”
"Don't dare, don't dare." The heads of the officials knocked loudly to the sky.
"Dare enough?" Gao Yue's tone was still cold.
In the courtyard of the public house, the rain slowly began to heavily.
Li Jian and his wife Ge Shi sat behind the curtain, Li Wei was heartbroken, and whispered to his wife, I usually think Huang Wenyu is dressed in simple clothes and is warm-hearted, so I handed over all the books to him to take care of, who would have thought that he would deceive me so much in the past two or three years!
Seeing that Huang Wenyu pretended to be dead, Gao Yue threw down the errand book and directly asked the ten archers to go out and check according to the names on the book.
Within half an hour, ten archers reported back with a poor book, saying that the names on the books did not match the names of the men and women who were enlisted: five hundred, but in fact less than three hundred matched.
"What about the other two hundred?" Gao Yue asked.
The famous archers who took the lead carried the flag, and those who said that they didn't match their names were all drawn with a red pen.
Then it was lively, and Gao Yue asked the archers to pick up people according to the names drawn by the red pen.
At dusk, dozens of people were taken and knelt down in the hall.
Just ask, they are either local tyrants and wealthy families in Chenggu County, or relatives and clans of the officials in the county.
"Obviously, he is in the errand book and should be served, but why is it that someone else is responsible for it, but he is at home at home? Huang Wenyu, as the county lieutenant historian, is bullying most of these people who are illiterate, aren't you? Gao Yue said sharply.
Huang Wenyu gritted his teeth and pretended to be dead, but only kowtowed and insisted that the errand book was compiled according to the instructions of the county order and according to the household accounting book hidden in the county party hall.
"The dog officer doesn't know how to die?" Gao Yue pointed to one of the rich men, called the archer to hit the spine, and asked why he was deserting.
Where was the rich man willing to be punished with a cane, so he shouted, "Da Yin Da Yin, we paid Huang Zuoshi the money for the substitute service, and if he collects the money, he should exempt us from the errand and hire someone else to replace him!" ”
As soon as this remark came out, the other rich people should be reconciled.
Soon, Huang Wenyu's five sons were all escorted by the archers, and when Huang saw his five sons jumping around, the beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down, and his expression was obviously flustered.
"Huang Wenyu, you are a big family in the county and have five sons. According to my Tang dispatch law, the poor and the servitude, first rich and strong, then poor and weak, first more Ding, then less Ding, the family has both Ding, to the month, the family is poor and single, and the month is idle. Your five sons should also serve in the busy farming season, but last time Yuanzhou shipbuilding didn't go, and this time Micang Mountain opened the road. Then in the errand book, you received the money from the rich people. They did not hire people to replace them, but also transcribed their names on them, and within 500 people, they created the false names of 50 Gaoming Mansion, Li Langjun, Zhang Pobao, and Cheng Mouse, and all the money and food for conscription issued to 'them' by the government under them were fished and hunted and embezzled-what is the reason! ”
"Da Yin, I said that there is a mistake in the bad department book, that is due to the situation, you want 500 people in the bad department, and I will find 500 people for you when you get off the job, if there is a problem, there is really nothing to be done about it." Huang Wenyu still denied the quibble, "As for my five sons, why didn't they go to the service, it was really a poor family, and it was not the turn of the two times." ”
"Is your family poor?" Gao Yue laughed with his hands in his hands.
Soon, in front of the short old courtyard of Huang Wenyu in the west of the city, dozens of archers took five steps and a sentry, trapping them to death, and the people of the city who came to watch around were blocked, Gao Yue hung goldfish in purple robes, and there was a halberd and silver rod in front of the horse to open the way, and Huang Wenyu came.
Several archers walked indoors skillfully, raised their mallets, fumbled their way, and soon smashed them at a certain hollow wall in the middle hall of the Yellow House.
When the gavel fell, Huang Wenyu's wife immediately sat down on the ground and let out a howl like killing a pig.
Huang Wenyu's heart was suddenly torn apart.
"Da Yin, this is a sandwich wall." Cai Fengyuan from the horse side said.
Sure enough, when the wall was smashed through, the archers reported stacks of gold and silver artifacts, a pile of grange title deeds, and sections of fine silk ribbons from this side of the street to the end in the exclamations of the people outside the gate.
Gao Yue pointed to these things, "Huang Zuoshi, as a foreign official, you only have rations every month, only clothes every year, and you have saved these hundreds of thousands of belongings in twenty-three years, can you have the help of the gods?" ”
At this time, Huang Wenyu simply scolded, Gao Yue, what kind of character are you? The imperial court raises a big Yin Jieshuai like you, and there are tens of thousands of yuan just for money every year, and you can also use miscellaneous money to fill your own pockets......
"This year's miscellaneous money from Xingyuan and Fengxiang, Ben Yin has donated seventy percent to the need to renovate Xingyuan's post road to Banan, the document book is clear and clear, Ben Yin must have a good supply of men and women who should be served, but the hateful thing is that you are a Xu official, deceiving the upper and lower, blackmailing the rich households, apportioning the poor households, and finally letting the rich households be poor, and the poor households will die, competing for bribes, and sharing the fertilizer together." After speaking, the two archers held up the book again and handed it to Gao Yue, saying that it was found from the wall.
As soon as he saw this book, Huang Wenyu's last psychological line of defense collapsed, and he immediately fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth under Gao Yue's horse's hooves, biting his tongue, bleeding from his mouth, and almost fainting - two powerful archers strangled him with ropes, and then stuffed him with a horse's wooden in his mouth amid the exclamations and cheers of the onlookers.
Gao Yue held up this book and reprimanded angrily: "The county order Li Jian wants to build a new household accounting book and a poor department book, you are obstructing it in every way, both soft and hard, but there is a private book hidden in the wall of your home, which remembers the money of the rich and the labor of the poor clearly, so that you can float, accept, strangle, and fold, I heard that you will also pass on the position of Zuoshi and this book to your son, today Ben Yin will not be your hope - sons, Huang Wenyu's five sons, one by one, will be killed by the cane - this kind of cunning officials who destroy the door and harm people, the whole clan has no good class. ”