Chapter 317: I Am Present
Besides, he said, "Oh, Lord Prefect, are you sure you know how to read?" ”
Xiang Huaixing was furious, but he endured it, no matter how hard he was backstage, it was Qin Cha who was standing in front of him, and those officials wanted to shout: Bold, this is what they are used to shouting, but seeing the hundred guards next to him holding the hilt of the knife and ready to kill at any time, they can only wilt like frosted eggplant.
"Look at these four words, do you know them?" Besides, he pulled out the scepter on his back and asked Xiang Huaixing to read the four words: If I am here.
"Weichen Xiang Huaixing knocked on the emperor, long live the emperor." Xiang Huaixing didn't say a word, a horse lay directly on the ground, and then plopped and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and after a while, his forehead was already bleeding. This head is really hardworking, and it's not a little false at all.
As soon as he did this, the officials and catchers behind him also prostrated on the ground and bowed down.
The shouting shopkeepers next to him were all stunned, frightened, and they all lay on the ground, and the chickens kept kowtowing like rice.
If I am not here for fun, seeing the four words on this scepter is like seeing the emperor himself, and as long as these four words are revealed, he will become the incarnation of the emperor.
Why is it said that only when you see these four words can you see the emperor, this is because ordinary people have never seen the scepter, most of the functions of the scepter have been replaced by the seal, and the representative of the emperor's authority is generally the sword of Shang Fang.
"Wei Chen confronts the angel, and the sin deserves death." Xiang Huaixing's snot and tears came out, and he couldn't cry.
He hated this in his heart, why didn't he tell him that Qin Cha had such a big killing weapon in his hand, if he knew earlier, he would have eaten 10,000 bear heart leopard gall bladders, and he wouldn't dare to play any tricks with Qin Cha.
He was the first person to be found by the powerful family, and he was also asked to make some stumbling blocks for the situation, causing the influence of buying and selling along the way, bullying others, acting recklessly, and harassing the people.
Those powerful families were still making their own calculations, but they didn't know that they had been awarded the Shang Fang Sword by the emperor, and they carried a scepter with the words "I am here" with them.
"Since you know about the state's top-secret aircraft business, I'm sorry, I have to wronged you to follow Ben Qin on a trip, and this envoy can only let you come back when you reach the border pass. You will hand over the ribbon and official business to the government agent in a moment. Besides.
"Wechen obeys." Xiang Huaixing really felt that he was more wronged than Dou E at this time, he was framed, and he was framed by his backer.
Moreover, he immediately reiterated that all the shopkeepers and a group of men were requisitioned, let them sweep away the goods in the store, and also took the trouble to ask them to write down the list of goods, saying that they would go to Beijing Jinyiwei to collect the payment for the goods in the future.
These shopkeepers are eager to die headlong, they don't have nothing to do, it's purely the birthday guy who eats arsenic, and he is slow to die.
Needless to say, these shops are all branches of those powerful families here, and they jumped out to respond to the instructions from above, and where ordinary small businessmen have the courage to resist the Qincha, even the master of the prefect's yamen can make them kneel. These shopkeepers thought that the proprietors were all bigwigs of the imperial court, and they were not afraid of any chagrin at all, not to mention the help of the prefect who was the same party.
I didn't expect to show something like a stick casually, and it scared the prefect directly. The prefects are like this, let alone them.
These shopkeepers and men, as well as those servants who are quick to catch are requisitioned, and they are honorably a forceful man, carrying goods very hard, but there are a hundred guards next to them, ready to cut people at any time, who dares to be passive and slack off?
"It would be nice if the front could all cooperate like this." Besides, looking at the truckloads of goods, I thought with great satisfaction.
These powerful families can be said to be assisted by God, and this time they have saved thousands of taels of silver, and these goods are sold outside the plug and then buy goods and sell them back, and they can be multiplied several times as soon as they are poured inside and out, and this transaction is really cool.
"Is it really good to do that?" Zuo Ling felt that it was a bit excessive, which was equivalent to taking other people's things for nothing, and letting people take labor.
"What's wrong, the army is on the march, and there is a shortage of food and grass for a while, of course you have the right to requisition materials and strength on the spot." Besides, Zhen Zhen said.
"Then how did you requisition all the prefects?" Zuo Ling smiled bitterly.
"He knew a state secret that he shouldn't know, and in order not to leak it, he had to take him with him until he didn't need to keep it secret anymore."
Zuo Ling was speechless, anyway, it makes sense no matter what he says, he should reform the name and call it reasonable.
If it is a diplomatic envoy, it generally does not have the right to requisition all kinds of materials and manpower, but the army has the right to do so, and it is not that it does not pay for the goods, but just asks you to go to Beijing to get it. Of course, these people didn't dare to go to Beijing Jinyiwei to ask for money, so they really didn't want to find a place.
Besides, he didn't mean to bully them, he was aware that those powerful families were making trouble, and if he didn't give them some color, there would be more chaos in the future.
He had long heard that these powerful families regarded the position of the Qin Cha as a bag, but they didn't get it, and of course they would vent their anger on him. He's really not afraid of this, it's too late to welcome.
Moreover, let the guards escort these requisitioned "Lifu" and drive the carriage back to the post house.
When he arrived at the post house, he returned to the small mansion arranged for himself, which was specially designed to receive second-grade and above officials, and of course the chincha could enjoy it.
The shopkeepers were escorted over by the guards, and when they saw them sitting on the top, they immediately knelt down, crying and begging to let them go, and the goods were gone, which was considered to be filial piety to Lord Qincha.
"It's not impossible to let you go, but give me a reason not to kill you." Moreover, holding the scepter, he pointed the heads of several people up and down.
These shopkeepers were so scared that they were about to pee their pants, and they couldn't stand the requisition, so why did they want to kill their heads?
Besides, he smiled and said: "Don't worry, I won't kill you openly, but I will take you all the way to the desert, where you go, I won't kill you, just let people dig a pit and bury you all, whether you can climb out or not depends on your life." When I turned around, I said that you had all absconded, and of course I didn't have time to look for you, so whether you were killed by the Tartars or eaten by wild wolves, the official does not know. If you don't want to end up in this fate, give me a reason not to treat you like this. You only have one chance, so take it yourself. ”
The shopkeeper who refused Zuo Ling to pick up the goods and shouted that Qin Chaqiang bought and sold was completely cowardly, and no matter what happened in the future, he cried and kowtowed: "Boss, this is not our fault, it is all ordered to do it by the above, it is really not about the villains, please ask the lord to be gracious." ”
Besides, he sneered: "I don't blame you, that's my fault?" ”
"No, that's not what the villain meant, please see." The shopkeeper took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to him with both hands.
Besides, after reading it, it was indeed a secret letter, instructing the shopkeeper to deliberately create a farce in order to ruin the reputation of the company, declaring that their family was not afraid of any Qincha at all, even the emperor dared to fight, and told them that the prefect would stand by them.
Besides, he smiled after reading it, nodded and said: "Okay, the person who knows the times is Junjie, you have passed the customs, and I will let you go in front of you." Do you have any good reasons for the others? ”
These shopkeepers also took out a letter and handed it to the moreover, the content is similar, obviously these families are colluding, deliberately trying to give the situation a dismount, and then ruin the reputation of the situation, hoping to put pressure on the court before the situation is released, and replace the situation.
Besides, I was very happy, this is real evidence, every secret letter has the signature of these families, and with this, those powerful families have to take a few lives.
Besides, I never thought that the imperial court was incapable of eliminating a few powerful families, so it was a big deal to come to a big purge, like Zhu Yuanzhang. Seeing the behavior of these powerful families, he felt that Zhu Yuanzhang may not have no legitimate reason for slaughtering heroes at the beginning, and those heroic families were probably really connected together, wanting to rebel or make things difficult for the imperial court, mainly with Lan Yu as the main mastermind.
Of course, it is impossible to carry out a Taizu-style purge now, and it will not work at all. Moreover, thinking like this is the same as Hai Jui's proposal to peel off corrupt officials, which can only fall into a pipe dream, and his understanding of the internal struggles and political patterns of the imperial court is still too superficial.
After interrogating these shopkeepers, he brought the prefect up.
"Lord Xiang, those people just now gave me a sufficient reason to let them go, do you have such a reason?" Besides, he asked as he tapped his palm with a scepter.
"What is the reason, what does Lord Chincha mean by this, do you want to extract a confession?" After the prefect was frightened, he felt that he should fight to the end, otherwise his backer could kill him at any time.
"I said that you are also an official of the imperial court, but you are a dog for any family, are you worthy of this official uniform?" Besides, he sneered.
"Xia Guan doesn't know what the Lord is talking about, Xia Guan is an official appointed by the Holy Lord, even if he is a dog, it is for the Holy Lord, not a family."
"That's good. Someone, search him. "And shout.
Ji Chang led people up, and without saying anything, he held down the prefect of Xiang and began to search his whole body, and sure enough, a letter was found in his boots, which instructed him to reduce the treatment of Qin Cha and his party, and cooperate with several shops to create obstacles to deal with the situation. Once the situation is counterattacked, it is necessary to cause an incident of forced buying and selling by the ministers in the local area, and then report it to the imperial court and impeach the minister.
Moreover, waving the letter, he smiled: "This is the evidence, can you still say that you are not the family's dog?" ”
Xiang Zhifu collapsed to the ground, he knew that he was completely finished.
This secret letter should have been destroyed after reading it, but he kept an eye on it, afraid that his backer would betray him as a scapegoat in the future, so he left the secret letter as a trump card to save his life, and he didn't want it to become ironclad evidence of killing his head at this time.
"Governor Xiang, it seems that you have no reason for me to let you go, so I have to take you all the way to the desert to dig a pit and bury it." Besides, he sighed.