Chapter 21 Scraping the Ground
As soon as Zhu Dachang's words fell, he saw that the Void Daoist and Yang Dazhu jumped out and said, "Nonsense, when have I ever done something like you that damages yin and morality."
At this time, Yang Dazhu kowtowed to Xiao Zheng and said: "My lord, do you know, this Li Sanqing and this Xiang Zhu Dachang are the first few gangsters on the streets of Yangzhou, the two of them turned out to be cousins and are not doing business, Li Sanqing's original name is Li Ergou, where is he a Taoist priest." They just watched the rise of Taoism in the past few years, so they took advantage of opportunism and cheated people out of money under the Taoist sect.
"Yo, there's still this matter, let's expose each other" Xiao Zheng became interested.
As soon as he saw that the old bottom was revealed, Zhu Dachang also scolded the two: "You two are waste, don't you also steal chickens and dogs in Yangzhou City before." If you hadn't encouraged us to enter the Dao Gate, why would we have ended up today? Don't think you didn't know how much money you collected the last time you went to worship! You two used to be monks, phew! ”
"Then there is no need to interrogate, then the three of them will be thrown in together to see Jiaoshen and Gu God," Xiao Zheng said with a smile.
"My lord, spare your life!" After hearing this, the three of them turned pale with fright, and all knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.
When the three of them lost their strength, Xiao Zheng said: "The three of you, there is still a way to keep you alive, but you have to listen to me."
"My lord, you said that as long as you spare the villain's life, the villain will arrange everything."
Xiao Zheng turned his head and said to these wizards and Taoists: "Listen, you temples are ** Jiao God and Gu God, from today onwards, these three people will lead the team, and all the temples and Taoist temples will be bulldozed, and you three will lead the team." If you dare to hide the temple property and hide it without reporting it, Lao Tzu will throw him into this pool. After the level is completed, you will be punished to clean the streets and pits of Yangzhou City for three years."
"You guys, do you understand?" Turning his head to look at the three of them, he asked.
"Ruoyi, you go and follow them to dismantle, get me all the valuable things in the temple back, and Lao Tzu will show you what it means to scrape the ground."
"Don't worry, Brother Xiao, I'm the best at demolishing the house" Gong Yi Ruoyi was already idle after he came, but he was very happy when he heard about it, and he was busy responding.
Called Xu Jingzong over and said: "Old Xu, send someone to tell the surrounding people, if there are any more gossipes to confuse the people and dare to encourage the people to worship the Jiao God and Gu God, throw them all in this pond." At the same time, on behalf of the government, I, Xiao Zheng, promised the people: eliminate the Jiao disaster within one year, eliminate the water Gu within three years, and if it can't be completed, I Xiao will stand at the head of Yangzhou City and learn how to bark for the people."
How could the dignified governor of Jiangnan Province say this so unreliable, what kind of decree is this, Xu Jingzong blinked when he heard it.
"As I said, don't change it, go quickly!" I saw Xu Jingzong's thoughts.
As soon as the decree came out, all the onlookers understood what was going on, what Jiao gods and Gu gods were sacrificed to, purely to show the magic sticks that cleaned up these scourges to the people.
When Xiao Zheng led the people through the crowd of onlookers, all the people burst into enthusiastic cheers, "Your Excellency is wise! "Thank you for eliminating harm for the people!" Everywhere he went, applause was mixed with cheers. Some of the sergeants were also trembling with excitement, feeling for the first time what it was like to be loved by the people.
"Gong Xiao is a good means, this old man believes that you can get rid of it, but this old man of water Gu looks at how you treat it, this thing can't be seen or touched," Ji Chun said next to Xiao Zheng with a smile.
"What kind of water Gu, some are cured, they don't know that Lao Tzu's medical skills still want to stump me, it's nothing more than schistosomiasis, I don't believe that it can't be cured."
After Xiao Zheng's efforts, those witches and gods were almost extinct, and some Taoist temples were no longer gone.
"Brother Xiao, in the past 20 days, these temples have been demolished, don't you say, you have found a lot of good things, there are more than 10,000 copper coins alone, and there are also a lot of gold nuggets and silver cakes. It has been reported that this false Taoist priest and Yang Dazhu still have a murder case, and now it has been transferred to Lord Xu to deal with."
"My lord, this is the confession of the false Taoist priest and Yang Dazhu, as well as the testimony and evidence of other people, the lower official did not punish him, and the case has been concluded and will be sentenced according to my Tang law" This guy learned Xiao Zheng's style of doing things very quickly.
"Good job, since I'm Xiao scraping the ground, then I'll use their money to get rid of Jiao, go and call Zheng Xuanli over, prepare to prepare, catch Jiao!"
After waiting for a long time, I saw Zheng Xuanli wearing a water suit and walking over.
"What are you doing here?" Xiao Zheng looked at his dress and said.
"My lord, don't you want to catch Jiao? He must have gone into the water, so the villain wore a water suit."
"You idiot! How many times has Lao Tzu told you, why didn't you understand, who told you to catch these things and go into the water, and besides, these things are yellow copper coins in Lao Tzu's eyes."
"Huh? My lord, can this harmful thing still be sold for money? ”
"It's a baby, it can sell for a lot of money."
"How many years has this thing been raging in the lake, and we have also suffered from it, to tell you the truth, we have been bitten or bitten by this thing every year on several islands, and there are still fewer Jiaojiao in this place where we stay, and the deeper we go, the more this thing is."
"Let's go, Lao Tzu will tell you a way to catch this thing, it's all money, it's all mine."
When he got outside, Xiao Zheng asked Zheng Xuanli to find a sturdy bamboo pole more than two zhang long, and after opening the middle, he wore a rope to make a live buckle with a diameter of more than three feet, and then put an iron hoop on the end of the rope buckle
He handed the bamboo pole to Zheng Xuanli and said, "Let's go again tomorrow morning, this method will work."
The next day he brought three boats to the river again, this time with a few fewer crocodiles than the last time he had seen them.
Zheng Xuanli dragged ropes and bamboo poles and rowed a small boat to the shore, and more than a dozen Xuanjia soldiers on the boat stared at the river with strong bows and crossbows.
I saw Ji Chun smile and said, "No need, the old man is going to protect him."
After speaking, he threw a bamboo pole on the boat to the water, and the person rose from the boat, landed on the bamboo pole on the water, and then jumped to the shore, and immediately won the applause of the whole boat.
"This old guy is just showing off," Xiao Zheng said jealously as he looked at him.
"You can do it, you can jump down too," Gong Ruoyi said from the side.
"You fucking like to watch Lao Tzu make a fool of himself? Get lost! ”
Zheng Xuanli cautiously approached a lone crocodile, first threw a piece of raw meat to it, and put the rope noose down.
The crocodile crawled over after smelling the meat a few times, and when its mouth just reached the inside of the rope sleeve, Zheng Xuanli picked up the bamboo pole, and as soon as the rope was closed, the lasso tightly strangled the crocodile's mouth.
"Pull hard!" Zheng Xuanli shouted at the boat.
"Come on!" On the other boat, Li Tai and Xiao Changning jumped to their feet and applauded.
More than a dozen men quickly dragged the crocodile to the wooden shelf of the boat, suspended in the air, and the crocodile was still writhing desperately.
"Don't go over! It's dangerous to let its tail sweep back, let it run out of strength and then tie it up," Xiao Zheng shouted loudly.