Li Xing looked at the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, shook his head, and said: "Big brother, this Son of Heaven is really cunning, we want to enforce the law, so he will take the silver from the bottom of the kettle." www.biquge.info In this way, wouldn't we have to pay out of our own pockets to maintain law and order for the people of Tianjin and Shandong. ”

Han Jinxin arched his hand and said: "Grandpa Guo, if today's son trained 80,000 recruits in Beijing and various towns, spent a lot of money to buy artillery from the Portuguese, and gathered craftsmen to build Lu Mi guns, the cost is very huge. If we want to enforce the law, the Son of Heaven will directly ask for money, which shows that the court is short of money. ”

Li Zhi nodded and asked Cui Changwu, "How many policemen do you need to maintain law and order in Tianjin and Shandong?" How much silver do you need in a year? ”

Cui Changwu replied: "In order to maintain order in the two places, at least 13,000 policemen must be employed, and if both are given the treatment of Fanjiazhuang workers, it will cost 550,000 silver a year." The Son of Heaven has left us only 200,000 taels of silver, and we will take out 350,000 taels of silver a year. ”

Li Zhi groaned and said, "Three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver is not unbearable. ”

Li Xing said: "Big brother, I've heard people say that being an official makes money. Being an official like you is spending your own money, which is really boring. ”

Cui Changwu said with a smile: "Second general, these three hundred and fifty thousand are not expensive. You must know that Tianjin and Shandong have so many official positions, and in the past, those civil officials spent money to run for official positions, and they didn't know how much money they had to spend to run for the official position of prefect and governor. We took all the law enforcement powers of the two places at once, and it only took 350,000 a year. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Well, we bought the law enforcement power in Tianjin and Shandong for the price of 50,000 taels of silver every Chinese New Year's Eve." In this way, Shandong and Tianjin will completely obey us, and the magistrates appointed by the imperial court will not have the slightest power to interfere with the civil order. ”

Li Xing said: "They can also run schools to promote Confucianism. ”

Li Zhi said: "Li Xing, you are the chief of the police station. In the future, the social order in Shandong and Tianjin will depend on you to maintain it. ”

"With the power to enforce the law, in fact, the administrative power of the government is in our hands. You must carefully select officials and manage urban planning, road planning, and all kinds of construction work. ”

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On May 30, the entrance of the vegetable market in the north of Jinan Prefecture was crowded, and the people learned from the newspaper that the traitor who was going to be beheaded today to assassinate the Duke of Jinguo came to the entrance of the vegetable market to watch the excitement.

You Yipeng and Zhan Kejian knelt on the execution table with their backs in their backs, and behind the two of them were five assassins, all of whom were going to be shot together today.

The people knew that they were all traitors who were against the Duke of Jinguo, and they were very angry. They picked up the broken stones next to the entrance of the vegetable market, rotten vegetables and fruits, and threw them at the seven people kneeling on the stage.

Jin Guogong single-handedly saved more than 10 million hungry people in Shandong, and now his prestige in Shandong is in full swing. How dare these traitors assassinate the Duke of Jinguo, who is dedicated to the people? If these people are allowed to succeed, the people of Shandong will really not be able to cry.

Since the implantation of Jin Guogong Li in Shandong, the life of the people of Shandong has been getting better, and it is getting stronger day by day. If this development continues, the lives of the people of Shandong will be on par with Tianjin.

Tianjin people have really lived a good life over the years. With the continuous construction of water conservancy facilities in Tianjin, the per capita cultivated area of Tianjin has been expanding. The peasants' incomes first skyrocketed by the average flat land endowment, and then increased with the increase in the cultivated area. Commerce and trade have continued to flourish, and the average monthly income level in the towns has risen to one or two or eight cents, while prices have been stable for a long time.

The lives of the people of Tianjin now even surpass those of Jiangnan.

If the Duke of Jin Guogong is assassinated by these traitors, those corrupt civil officials in Shandong will make a comeback. To put it mildly, if all the dirty things done by those civil officials are made public, nine out of ten should be killed. If these corrupt officials are allowed to rule again, Shandong will surely be as famine and thieves as Henan, Shaanxi, and Huguang.

In troubled times, people's lives are as cheap as dogs, if it weren't for the Duke of Jinguo sitting in Shandong, I don't know how many people would die in famine and war.

These people assassinated Jin Guogong, damn it, they should be cut by a thousand knives.

Zhan Kejian, the prefect of Jinan on the stage, had an embarrassed face and kept dodging the things thrown by the people.

You Yipeng, the leader of the Wen Society, burst into tears, and the stones thrown by the people hit him on the head, but he didn't hide. In that way, it was as if he was extremely remorseful for what he had done.

Li Zhi walked to the execution table and looked at the seven condemned prisoners.

Originally, Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, should also kneel here, but the Son of Heaven said that he saved the life of this prince. Li Zhi blasted Zhu Youshu out of the palace, and Zhu Youshu didn't dare to stay in Jinan for a long time, so he fled to the capital overnight. Now that he has been demoted to a concubine, he has lost his income, and he doesn't know what to live on in the future.

But that's not what Li Zhi thinks about.

Li Zhi walked to the execution ground and shouted to the onlookers: "These seven people conspired to assassinate Bengong!" ”

"Kill!"

"Kill them!"

"Raid the house! Raid the house! ”

The people were ignited by Li Zhi's words and shouted to kill. Many people even demanded that the homes of the condemned prisoners be raided, and they obviously hated the traitors who dared to assassinate Li Zhi.

Li Zhi nodded, feeling that he didn't have to say anything. Nowadays, more and more people come to the teahouse to listen to the newspaper, and the people can easily get all kinds of information and understand their various administrative actions.

"Execution!"

Zhan Kejian looked at Li Zhi, his face pale.

Li Zhi saw his eyes rolling, and went up to ask.

"Zhan Kejian, you conspired to assassinate your father, and you deserve death. Now that death is on the verge of death, what else do you have to say? ”

Zhan Kejian's body trembled, and he couldn't say a complete sentence, and said word by word: "Could it be that scholars, Confucianism, in the future, Confucianism, and the sage's micro-words, will be abandoned?" ”

Li Zhi smiled, and with a wave of his hand, a rifleman stepped up and pressed it against Zhan Kejian's head. A shot rang out, the back of Zhan Kejian's head bloomed, and the eyes of this four-grade civil official turned over and fell forward, dead on the torture platform in the middle of summer.

Li Zhi looked at the five assassins, and Boss Huang was glanced at by Li Zhi, and when his eyes opened, he fainted in fright. The executing soldier was stunned, lifted him up and slapped him a few times, but he never woke him up.

Liu Lao Er looked at Li Zhi in a daze, speechless. He originally thought that if he confessed to King De, Li Zhi would spare him to die, but he didn't expect that he would be shot in the end.

The five soldiers pressed their rifles against the back of the five assassins' heads and crackled the trigger. The five Assassins screamed and convulsed, and were killed in one fell swoop.

Finally, there is You Yipeng, the leader of the Wen Society.

You Yipeng shed more and more tears, almost crying, he saw Li Zhi standing in the distance, so he kowtowed to the Tiger Ben Division soldiers who were executed behind him and begged for mercy: "Don't kill me, I am willing to hand over all the family property, just to avoid death." ”

This You Yipeng was completely panicked before he died, and actually begged for mercy from the soldiers who were executed. How can an executed soldier have the right to be exempted from the death penalty? The GI snorted coldly and fired a shot at his chest.

A huge blood flower appeared on You Yipeng's chest, and he fell on the torture table with a scream, convulsing constantly in a pool of blood. As more and more blood was lost, he gradually stopped pumping and died.