Chapter 218: Arrest the Liu family
It didn't take long for Han Jinxin to trot to the second hall of the General's Mansion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Han Jinxin has seen the general!"
"Han Jinxin, do you know the Liu family, the governor of Jinghai County?"
"The little one knows that his family has a thousand acres of fertile land by the Crescent River."
"He's a word official, where did he get so many fields?"
"In the third year of Chongzhen, Jinghai County was flooded, and the Crescent River burst its embankment and flooded all the fields by the river. After the flood receded, the Liu family colluded with the county decree at that time to occupy thousands of acres of fertile land by the river on the grounds that the fertile land was terra nullius, turning all the landed farmers along the river into tenant farmers of his family. ”
Li Zhi sneered and said, "Okay! This Liu family's butt is not clean! You go to collect evidence, sort out the dirty things of the Liu family, and no matter how much money you spend, you have to do it! ”
Han Jinxin nodded and said, "The subordinates have orders!" ”
Han Jinxin is very efficient. Twenty days later, Han Jinxin returned to Li Zhi and presented the evidence of the Liu family's crimes collected in the past 20 days to Li Zhi.
This Liu family's butt is very unclean. His family was originally a poor family, but after the second son Liu Bingchuan became an official, he was out of control, not only relying on power to rob the small people of 1,000 acres of dry land, but also coercing and inducing fraud and suppression, swallowing more than a dozen shops in nearby Longshui Town, monopolizing various businesses such as grain and cloth in Longshui Town.
Just because they were robbed of property by the Liu family, there were three civilians who hanged themselves.
This Liu family relied on their power and looked very ugly, and Han Jinxin found a lot of evidence after a little collection - Han Jinxin found these civilians who were oppressed by the Liu family, and spent 200 taels of silver to buy all kinds of original contracts and land deeds that they had before, but now they are useless because they are occupied by the Liu family. These first-hand information all point to a fact: the Liu family bullied the market, oppressed the villagers, illegally annexed 15,000 taels of riverside land, and made a profit of several thousand taels a year by bullying the township.
This is a big bad gentleman.
got the evidence of the Liu family's evil, Li Zhi watched it repeatedly and was very happy.
"Tell Zhong Feng to bring a thousand soldiers, and follow me to Liu's house to get people!"
Li Zhi rode a big horse, asked the family to hold the flag and the five-party flag, and led a thousand soldiers to walk to Liu's house in Jinghai County, and came to get people!
When they arrived at the courtyard of Liu's house, the Liu family closed the door and did not open. The gate was very heavy, covered with iron and copper nails, and ordinary people could not kick it open.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to bring ladders and climbed in from the courtyard wall.
Halfway through the climb, the housekeepers in the courtyard actually shot arrows at Li Zhi's soldiers, forcing the soldiers who climbed the wall down. Li Zhi was furious and let the soldiers open fire at will!
The soldiers found twenty more ladders and climbed them with loaded rifles.
Twenty-one soldiers climbed the wall at the same time and shot at the courtyard at the same time, suppressing several archers in the courtyard. After the gunshots rang out, only a scream was heard in the courtyard, and several members of the Liu family fell in a pool of blood, lifeless. The rest of the Liu family saw that the fire was so fierce here, and fled to the back yard in a panic.
The Liu family wanted to slip out of the back door, but when they opened the back door, they saw that the dense Fanjiazhuang soldiers were already standing there guarding, surrounding the entire courtyard. The Liu family, who was still showing off their martial arts yesterday, is already difficult to fly at this time.
The soldiers who climbed the ladder to enter the door climbed into the courtyard to open the gate of the house, and let the soldiers behind them enter the Liu family compound.
Li Zhi led 200 soldiers into the compound and took people in various courtyards. After killing a few more stubborn Liu family members, Li Zhi's 200 soldiers rushed to the last courtyard and arrested the old man of the Liu family, Liu Yushi's eldest brother and third brother.
Liu Jianshen, the head of the Liu family, was detained by the soldiers, coughed violently a few times, and then said loudly: "Li Zhi, you dare to take me?" Do you have a royal law in your eyes? The governor of Tianjin and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites have both sent you a message, aren't you afraid of offending them? ”
Li Zhi smiled: "Even if I offend them, what can they do with me?" ”
Liu Jianshen's eldest son roared and said, "Li Zhi, don't be arrogant, my second brother Liu Bingchuan won't let you go!" ”
"A little imperial history, it's not in the eyes of my own official." After a pause, Li Zhi said: "You have annexed thousands of acres of fertile land of poor peasants, and more than a dozen shops of small traders, causing three people to commit suicide in despair, the evidence is conclusive and irrefutable, I have a hundred reasons to kill you, and you still dare to be hard-mouthed?" ”
Hearing Li Zhi's words, Liu Jianshen and his eldest son glanced at each other, looking flustered. It is not the first time that Li Zhi has killed people by self-punishment, and last time he executed three county commanders' family members in the county seat. But the three county magistrates were small, and the family members who were killed were powerless to resist. The patrol of the imperial history is different, the imperial history is powerful, and Liu Bingchuan is ranked in the clear stream and is known to be popular. The Liu family couldn't imagine that Li Zhi didn't take Qingliu so seriously, and even Liu Bingchuan's family dared to come in.
Liu Jianshen coughed for a while, raised his head and said, "Li Zhi, General Li, you let us go, we will let you repair the canal, and we won't interfere with you again!" ”
Li Zhi said with a smile: "It's too late, I want you to stand on your neck now!" ”
When Liu Jianshen heard this, his face turned white and he trembled.
On the land of Tianjin West Road, Li Zhi did not allow the existence of hostile forces. As long as Li Zhi finds the handle, he will dare to kill and execute. In front of Li Zhihu's strength, the rules seem pale and the power is weak.
Those who injured Li Zhi's tenant farmers could not be spared, and Li Zhi tied up all these tenants. Li Zhi arrested more than 30 people at Liu's house, imprisoned them all in a wing of Liu's house, and sent soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition to guard outside.
Next, Li Zhi began to raid Liu Jianshen's home. The Liu family has been bullying the township since Liu Bingchuan became an official, and the property collected in the past ten years is really a lot, Li Zhi searched in various courtyards for a day, and found various properties worth 70,000 taels of silver. Coupled with the riverside dry fields worth more than 10,000 taels of silver, the family of this Zhengqipin Yushi family actually has a property worth 90,000 taels of silver.
Han Jinxin said that the Liu family was originally poor, and the accumulation of the Liu family in the past ten years was really amazing.
Pearls, ivory, spices, silks, and glass porcelain were copied out and piled up in the courtyard, piled up on the ground, and Liu Jianshen closed his eyes in despair when he saw that his treasures were all searched by Li Zhi's soldiers like tigers and wolves.
Li Zhi was ready to hand over the proceeds of these seizures to the Son of Heaven and let the Son of Heaven make a fortune.
After seizing the handle of the Liu family, Li Zhi wanted to hold an execution meeting in Langshui Town.
Han Jinxin has already found all the original landlords of the dry fields by the river. Except for the three yeoman farmers who committed suicide, the other 200 peasants were all invited by Li Zhi to observe the execution meeting. In addition, the small businessmen who were occupied by the Liu family were also invited. Lee Sik will return their property to them on the spot.
On May 2, Li Zhi escorted all the six adult men and family members of the Liu family to the gate of the vegetable market in Langshui Town, so that the people who had been bullied by the Liu family could see the final fate of the Liu family. (To be continued.) )