Chapter Ninety-Eight: Forced Treats
Last night was a sleepless night for the forty-six landlords in Lingbao County. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The table of these forty-six rich people all has a gilded red invitation sent by the new county magistrate of Lingbao County overnight, and the red paper and white characters on it are clearly written, and the whole family is sincerely invited to gather in Fumanlou at noon tomorrow, and be sure to arrive on time.
On one side is King Fu's cronies, who were not allowed to attend the appointment last night.
Although King Fu smiled and approached on the surface, these landlords were insiders, and they knew that he was a murderous demon in private, and those landlords who opposed the land accumulated by his ancestors for several generations were hung in his name, allowing him to annex land and exploit it, and he had already sent it to meet Lord Yama.
The forty-six landlords left behind in Lingbao County are all confidants who have the same smell as King Fu and are determined to share the same pants as his boat.
It stands to reason that the landlords of Lingbaoxi County will not hesitate to stand on the side of King Fu, because he gave them the opportunity to get something for nothing.
But when their subordinates closed the door at night, they found that two fierce and vicious servants had come to the door at some point, one on the left and the other on the right, standing on both sides of the gate like a door god. Seeing that the landlords of the Han people were better, and the landlords of the Mongolian officials who were tall and unsmiling were terrified, if they were not wearing the standard clothes of the Ming officials, they would have thought that the sky had changed.
Seeing that noon was coming, there was a landlord surnamed Liu who moved out of the name of King Fu and scare the officials at the door, who knew that the two officials who came from unknown sources did not buy King Fu's account at all, and took all their threatening words as a deaf ear and did not look at the rich man surnamed Liu, looked up at the sun, and the brothers continued to stand at the door talking and laughing, what should they do.
It's just that at noon, the two brothers looked at each other and smiled and immediately changed into murderous faces. The Miao knife in his hand was unsheathed, and the nurses of the rich man's family surnamed Liu did not dare to stop the two of them from holding the steel knife, and the brothers easily walked into the courtyard of Master Liu.
A lean official blocked the door, glanced at Master Liu with the eyes of a dead man, squinted and asked, "It's not too early, Master Liu, do you want to go or not?" ”
Master Liu looked at the bright steel knife on the shoulders of the officer, and his face was already blue with horror, but relying on his close relationship with King Fu, he decided in his heart that this official would not dare to come nonsense, and said with a hard mouth: "Don't go!" Lang Lang Qiankun, Taizu stipulated that county officials are not allowed to go to the countryside if they have nothing to do, and you openly violate Taizu's instructions and do not say anything, and you even dare to openly draw a knife to threaten the lord and me in my home, and there is no royal law. I know that you are tolerance, but I don't know that I think you are a group of robbers! ”
What Master Liu said is called a clean and crisp, and he wants to use his power to win back a game.
The lean servant rubbed the steel knife on the sole of his boot and said with a smile: "Master Liu, you still know that there is a royal law!?" Liuzi, take out the official document in your arms and read it! ”
The official named Liuzi glanced at the old man Liu, who was pretending to be calm, with a playful face, took out an official document from his arms, and read: "Liu Shitong, on April 6 of the first year of Chongzhen, he robbed the thirteen-year-old girl Liu Cai'e, Liu Cai'e did not comply, Liu Shitong held a stick and caused his death, and then worried that the matter would be revealed and cause trouble, and killed his whole family of four. In the second year of Chongzhen, relying on his prestige in the countryside, he forged the title deed and forcibly occupied 196 acres of land of 78 Zhuang people in Liu Gezhuang............ According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, immediately detained, if there is resistance, the county order of Lingbao County will be Guan Shanyue ......"
Liu Shitong, who has a lot of evil deeds, has already spent money to buy the county magistrate of Lingbao County, and King Fu has said hello again, so no one has dared to touch him, and the people dare not speak out, so they have to choose to swallow their anger.
Listening to his evil deeds being made public today, Liu Shitong's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat the size of soybean grains, and he just wanted to defend a few words, only to feel a flash of silver light as fast as lightning, and a piercing coldness on his neck, and he couldn't speak anymore.
The nurses next to them all looked at everything in front of them in amazement, the knife was so fast that they didn't have time to say a word to remind them. Even if they were killed, they couldn't believe that the lean official in front of them didn't even say hello, and slashed off the neck of their old man Liu Shitong with a knife.
A bloody sword erupted, and the lean man quickly dodged to the side, and said expressionlessly: "This scumbag still dares to resist, if I hadn't made a quick move, I'm afraid the two of us would have died in his hands." ”
With a "poof", Liu Shitong, who was desperate for death, covered his neck and stared wide-eyed, and fell to the ground with a surprised face, stirring up a cloud of dust.
The official named Liuzi nodded, stuffed a sharp dagger into Liu Shitong's hand in front of everyone, and said angrily: "Dare to attack tolerance, isn't this a blatant rebellion?" Hey, it's a pity to have such a huge family business! A few of you will go with us to the county government to make personal witnesses, if you don't go, hum, this is your example! After speaking, he pointed at Liu Shitong, who had long been dead on the ground.
Kill people without saying a word, raise a knife, this time, the image of these two servants is even more terrifying, even if those few guards have kung fu in their hands, they are already dumbfounded, how dare they make a mistake. I had to obediently watch the two of them tie up the crying wife and young master and miss one by one, and followed the brothers to the county office with their heads down.
The buttocks of these landlords are not clean, and the other officials concocted the same method, and the eight rich men who smelled the wind was wrong saw the wind and steered, and obediently took their families to the Hongmen banquet, and came to Fumanlou on time and on time.
And the rest of them, except for those who died tragically, were all sent to the prison by Guan Shanyue, and the prison in Lingbao County was overcrowded for a while.
It's just that these eight landlords who are sitting on pins and needles have waited for more than half an hour and haven't seen the face of the new county master, and the more Guan Shanyue doesn't come, the more panicked they become, and they are wondering what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the new county master.
They also knew that more than a dozen landlords had lost their lives, and those who were lucky enough to be alive were also imprisoned by Guan Shanyue, and more than 50 officials downstairs who appeared out of nowhere killed the entire Fuman building.
A few bold landlords cautiously looked down from the window, and then sat back in their seats, sitting there like wooden men without saying a word.
It's just that they have never seen such a treat, how can they escort the guests to the dinner like prisoners, and there is a reason to watch them. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power has not gone to the countryside, and when he comes up, he will offend people thoroughly, is it possible that this new county lord will not need them to govern Lingbao County in the future?
Guan Shanyue was annoyed and anxious, he got up early in the morning today, at that time, looking out through the yamen to see the street in front of the county yamen was still empty, who knew that as soon as he stepped out of the gate, a crossbow arrow shot at his heart, and a group of vicious masked gangsters immediately rushed from both ends of the street, waving the sword in his hand and hitting the county government office without death.
Chen Ergou reacted quickly, and pulled Guan Shanyue to the back of the gate, with a whistle in his mouth, and the anxious commander personally greeted the enemy. Someone dared to openly attack the county government, isn't this anti-heaven, this is worth it.