Wang Yue looked at Chen Hongmiao and said: "Chen Hongmi, don't quibble, this incident has been investigated clearly, and you are also one of the masterminds." ”

"Not only did you fight taxes this time, but you also helped the gentry occupy the land in Suzhou, and you also had more than a dozen lives in lawsuits. And you teamed up with the Zhou family to use the Caoyun official ship to resell Su Gang to Jiannu, is there anything wrong? even concealed the tax from the imperial court and filled his pockets, so that Suzhou, the land of fish and rice, could not complete the national tax, which is really a big joke in the world! ”

Chen Hongmi looked at Li Zhi dumbfounded, he didn't expect that in such a short period of time, so much evidence of his crimes would be found, any one of them would be enough to kill his head, tears slowly flowed from his eyes, and he kowtowed desperately on the ground.

"I've been convicted of my humble duties, and my humble duties have been confused for a while, please be gracious!"

Wang Yue didn't bother to look at Chen Hongmi again, and turned his head to look at Zhou Benshen, who was sentenced to Suzhou by the general judge, Zhou Benshen saw that Wang Yue had already checked Chen Hongmi, and he didn't have much hope for his own situation, so he simply bowed his head and said nothing.

Wang Yue gestured to Li Chuanxin next to him with his eyes, Li Chuanxin took out a booklet, turned a few pages and read on the spot: "After investigation, Suzhou General Judge (Executive Deputy Mayor) Zhou Benshen, Chongzhen for eight years to Chongzhen for ten years, together with his uncle Zhou Zhenglin, annexed a total of 33 merchants, 33 merchants lost their business sources, most of the merchants died, three of them committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river, and one hanged himself. ”

"In the ninth year of Chongzhen, after days of heavy rain, Yangcheng Lake flooded, flooding the fertile land, and after the lake receded, Zhou Benshen teamed up with Chang Dengfeng, the magistrate of Kunshan, to occupy 3,000 acres of fertile land by the lake on the grounds that those fertile fields were terra nullius, and turned all the landed farmers by the lake into tenants."

"In the spring of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Zhou Benshen sent someone to injure Shen Ning, a small citizen in Suzhou, and Shen Ning died soon after, and then Zhou Benshen married Shen Ning's wife as a concubine."

"Chongzhen Eleventh Year ,.........!"

The more Zhou Benshen listened, the more frightened he became, like falling into an ice cave, and finally his body collapsed to the ground.

Wang Yue waved his hand, and after asking Chen Hongmi and Zhou Benshen to be taken down, he said to Li Chuanxin: "Director Li, you continue to interrogate, and strive to get all the conclusive evidence of these people's corruption and perversion of the law within three days." ”

Li Chuanxin stood up and saluted: "Commander, don't worry, I have my own means to let them all speak on their own!" Hand over the evidence to us one by one, one by one. ”

On the one hand, he dealt with the officials and gentry who organized and planned, and on the other hand, Wang Yue also organized forces to transfer grain and other materials to Suzhou Prefecture, in fact, Zhou Zhenglin and other gentry giants also obtained a lot of food.

With the cooperation of the chengguan, the staff of the trading company and the young men selected from the original refugees pulled grain trucks into Suzhou.

The seized shops were temporarily turned into grain stores, and each grain store was guarded by soldiers of the Tiance Army.

"Sell grain, sell grain, everyone come and buy grain, the market price is three percent lower than in the past, it is absolutely good and cheap, and the goods are worth it."

Led by the housewives, everyone flocked to buy food and goods, and everyone was smiling.

The profiteers of the dog day have raised prices to dozens of times higher these days, and there is no market for prices. Everyone is usually miserable, and they have to be careful to buy rice and salt, and they don't have to live anymore because of their boycott and price hikes. It's easy to have cheap and easy-to-use grain and rice goods to arrive, how can you buy more and prevent problems before they happen?

"Don't worry, there is plenty of food and rice, everyone has it, take your time, everyone queue up......!"

This scene happened all over Suzhou Prefecture, where there was an abundant supply of cheap goods, and the hearts of the people everywhere suddenly settled.

There is a proverb in the West that violence does not solve all problems, but it can solve most problems.

After Wang Yue's slaughter, the merchants finally trembled and resumed the market, and now the situation is stronger than people.

On October 30, tens of thousands of people poured out of the streets of Suzhou, and tens of thousands of citizens flocked to the eastern part of the city, because they had been informed a few days ago that today was the day of the execution of the culprit who disturbed the law and order in Suzhou.

Today's execution is not an ordinary person, not only Zhou Zhenglin, the largest gentry in Suzhou, but also officials such as the prefect of Suzhou, the general judge, and the prefect of Kunshan, which is a rare spectacle in a century.

Wu Zhi, the eunuch of the prison army, had already heard the news and rushed from Shanghai, but unfortunately he couldn't do anything, and Wang Yue was not something he could control.

A high-power megaphone has been set up on the platform, and Wang Yue is wearing the governor's crimson official robe today, and he bows to the people around him on the stage, and the scene calms down.

After that, he said into the microphone: "Fathers and fellow villagers should all know that there is a very strange phenomenon in the tax system of this dynasty, that is, only the poor are taxed, and those gentry with good land do not have to pay taxes, and those rich merchants and magnates are even more exempt. After so many years, the poorer the poorer the richer, the richer the richer, which is also the main reason why the world is full of smoke. ”

In fact, everyone understands this truth, why no one has come forward to say a fair word? Are all the princes above the court deaf and blind? Of course not! ”

"Because they are the beneficiaries of this policy, they also represent a special group of scholars, and that is the scholars, who are those who have made a name for themselves. As the first condition of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, that is, scholars, they enjoy the country's tax exemption policy, of course, they will not give up easily, and even intensify, unwilling to bear the slightest obligation for the country. ”

In fact, the reasons and circumstances are very complicated, and Wang Yue is simply making a publicity.

He paused for a moment, and then said: "Since this official is the governor of Yingtian, he must do something practical for the local people and change this malpractice in the Yingtian area from now on." From now on, all land taxes and forced labor in the Yingtian area will be exempted, and only commercial circulation management fees will be levied, and government workers must pay wages, and if the wages are too low, the villagers can refuse to work. ”

As soon as Wang Yue's words fell, the people present immediately cheered. Most of them know the notices on the street, but in fact, they still seem to believe it or not, and the concept of farming and paying taxes for thousands of years cannot be changed for a while. But Wang Yue personally promised that they finally believed that it was true.

Many people shouted excitedly, "Well done Lord Wang!" ”

"Lord Wang is really a reborn parent!"

"Okay!"

Wang Yue pressed his hands weakly, and after the scene calmed down, he said: "The management fee collected by the city management will be used to subsidize the grain tax of the imperial court, and the rest will be used for the construction of bridges and roads in Suzhou. But those officials and gentry were unwilling, they jumped out and did everything possible to obstruct their officials' plans, and the villagers said, what should be done with these people? ”