Chapter 296: One hand covers the sky

That night, after reading the list, Li Yan went to the yamen of Qingzhou Mansion overnight.

Early in the morning of the second day, the aftermath of the Spring Festival had not yet dissipated, and the man of a ready-to-wear shop opened the door of the store in a huff to prepare for the day's business.

But before this yawn was finished, he saw many officers and soldiers running back and forth with knives and guns, and the man felt strange, and even the movements in his hands stopped.

In the end, the shopkeeper came out and asked a few words, followed the gesture of the guy, and finally looked surprised and strange.

"Peng!"

A group of officers and soldiers walked to the door of a house under the gaze of passers-by on the road, and the man who looked like a sentry directly kicked the door with his foot and shouted:

"Open the door! Open the door! ”

"It's coming~, who is it?"

Soon, a housekeeper-like person in the courtyard came out and opened the door in a thin coat, and when he looked up, he saw that there were more than a dozen heavily armed officers and soldiers outside, and he was immediately startled.

Before he could speak, the chief in front of the door pushed him away and walked straight into the main hall, and looked around, the maids and servants did not know why, they were all facing each other, and some were whispering.

"What happened to the hell, how did so many officers and soldiers come?"

"Who knows....."

Nashi Chang pulled out the steel knife and shouted:

"Seal off this mansion and search me!"

"Yes!"

The Shandong soldiers clenched their fists neatly, followed the fish through, and broke directly into the inner house past the servants in the house, turning the inside upside down.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a big belly ran out, and it was obvious that he had just been woken up, only to hear him roar angrily:

"Who are you, what royal law did my Ge family violate!?"

"yes!"

A woman also ran out in disheveled clothes, and when she saw this scene, she pointed to the officers and soldiers who broke into her boudoir indiscriminately, and said:

"In the past, even Liu Zeqing treated my Ge family with great courtesy, you, you..."

At first, the sentry officer of the Shandong army stood still despite the clever insults of the two, and it was not until the woman said this sentence that she looked over her eyes and snorted coldly:

"Someone has revealed that your Ge family has been writing a lot of letters to the sea recently, and they may have had an affair with the Japanese robbers, so naturally they should search for it!"

The old man of the Ge family glanced at his wife with hatred of iron and steel, and said in his heart What are you doing with this at this juncture, after hearing the words of the sentinel, he immediately put aside his prejudice against his wife, waved his hand and said:

"What are you talking about, when did my Ge family have a letter to go to sea!?"

And the woman was panicked, "Military master, military master, our Ge family still has some leftovers, if you want gold and silver..."

Before he finished speaking, the sentry waved his hand violently, and said without moving his head:

"Not necessarily! I still don't like your money! ”

Just then, a soldier hurried up, bowed his head and offered a letter that he had found out of nowhere, and said:

"Sentinel, I found a letter from the Messenger!"

"This can't be!!"

Hearing this, the old man of the Ge family suddenly shouted, and the sentry officer took the letter, turned around and glanced at the old man of the Ge family, and shouted:

"The house is sealed, and everyone is taken away!"

The old man of the Ge family never dreamed that they would search for the letters of the Tong Wei in his study, and when he saw the officers and soldiers approaching step by step, he immediately panicked, and waved his hand again and again:

"No, the letter is not mine, someone must have framed me and framed me! It must be like this, don't! ”

"Take it away!"

......

The guy in the ready-to-wear shop said "Huh", at first he was still thinking about what the officers and soldiers were going to do in Ge's mansion in a rage, but he didn't think that he had arrested all sixteen members of Master Ge's family.

"Good catch.."

"Hey, look at the old man Bai over there, too, has been arrested!"

Four of the big families in Rizhao City were sealed outside their homes this morning, and there were soldiers of the Shandong Army outside the door to guard them to the death, and in addition, there were also many scoundrels who fought alone and were caught and thrown together.

The county government immediately released a notice, and at this time the people in the city knew that these people were all thieves from the Tongwu and the White Lotus Sect, and there was a clear text on the notice, and the evidence of the crime was found in the house of these thieves, and they would be beheaded at three o'clock at noon.

"Tongwa!"

"Kill, kill!"

The people suddenly felt hateful, these big men still couldn't see themselves living a good life, and always wanted to take away their fields, thanks to the protection of the Shandong army!

It was also on the same day that the Shandong soldiers blocked all the main roads in and out of the north of the city, saying that they were going to conduct several days of hard training in preparation for the whole army's large-scale training after a month.

Compared with the importance of Fang Cai's incident, this news seems to be a small fight, and not many people pay too much attention to it.

In the old house of the Liu family in the north of the city, sixty percent of the Shandong soldiers in Rizhao City gathered here, and they did not train, but demolished the house with a hammer and shovel.

Dong Wang, the officer of the main barracks, took the soldiers into battle in person, and put aside the drills and training in the past few days, and the biggest thing was to dismantle the tiles of Liu's house.

The soldiers smashed whatever they saw, but they didn't leave anything in Liu's house, and when they encountered some harder objects, they put gunpowder underneath to explode, anyway, now Li Yan is already out of the way, no matter what movement is big, the reason has been released, and if you don't want to arouse suspicion, you must raze Liu's house to the ground in the shortest possible time.

At that time, all the news about the unexplained deaths of Liu Zeqing and more than a dozen people in the Liu Mansion will become a thing of the past, and even if Di Renjie is reborn, he will not find out the slightest.

......

Soon, the news spread throughout Shandong.

It is said that the Ge family in Rizhao and others secretly exchanged letters with the Wakou, the remnants of the Wenxiang Sect, and the White Lotus Sect, and the letters were later seized by the county government officials and handed over to the prefect's yamen.

The prefect of Qingzhou had already communicated with Li Yan in advance, and Wang Zheng was talking with the help inside and out, and the charges of these families could not be said as much as they wanted, which directly proved that this statement was true, and the crime of collaborating with thieves and disrupting the party was confirmed.

These people had been beheaded in public on the first day they were found, and the people of Rizhao had nothing to say, and even felt very happy.

Because these people who were confiscated were either landlords or scoundrels who had nothing to do and talked crazy, and it was too late for them to be happy when these people were killed, so how could they doubt it.

In fact, the minds of these people could not be simpler, land cultivation is still secondary, the most important thing is to be able to eat enough food without starving to death and freezing to death.

The common people all know that this kind of life now depends on the Shandong Army's unsparing efforts to attack the gentry landlords and peaceful places, even if a few people have doubts, they will not say much, who is willing to ruin their good life.

Liu Yunzhong, as the supervising army, still needs to be asked about this matter, and after thinking about it, he finally reported it to Beizhili lightly.

Emperor Chongzhen had a lot of opportunities, and he didn't care about the affairs of a small county town in Rizhao at all, and in the end, it was Wang Chengen's father-in-law who was selfless, and symbolically sent a few eunuchs to check here.

Wang Chengen was a symbolic send, but they didn't know that they were going to investigate seriously so that they could show their hands in front of the emperor, but when they arrived, they realized that there was really no way to investigate.

Anything relevant has been finalized, and the corpses of those who were killed have begun to decompose, even if they have the heart to ask the people, but then again, although the people are simple and old, they are not stupid, and they should not understand what to say.

Not to mention the county officials and the prefect's yamen, they have long colluded with Li Yan, no matter how they ask, it is the same result, and the information they get from several checks is exactly the same.

In the end, these little eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Prison felt that they couldn't come in vain, and after receiving some money, they also reported it according to Li Yan's statement, and now the matter between Liu Zeqing and the Liu family is really over.