Chapter 237: Tell the whole county
The breeze blew, and the smell of blood that permeated the execution platform began to waft wantonly into the array where the battalions under the stage had assembled. Li Yanzhi looked at the four bloody human heads tied to the big rope erected next to the camp general's platform, fluttering with the flags in the wind, and the fear or hideousness of the four heads before death was reflected in the eyes of the onlookers in the battalions below through the dim gaze of each head. Everyone is unbearable and palpitating.
Li Yanzhi saw that the purpose of showing the public had been achieved, and his heart was quite impressive. However, looking at the four bloody human heads under Daxu, he couldn't be happy. Now as soon as he takes office, these bloody heads can be said to have burned the first fire after taking office. Now even Zhou Xing, a general who has nothing to do with this matter and has worked hard, is still afraid to see him again. However, Li Yanzhi himself didn't want to do this. Four bloody human heads, behind them are four families. They may have elderly parents who are waiting to be raised, and young children who are waiting to be fed. However, after committing such a big crime, Li Yanzhi was determined to forgive them.
After the four convicts had been dealt with, Li Yanzhi and Zhou Xing met again, and emphasized military discipline and other chores in a clichΓ©, so Li Yanzhi led his troops to leave the camp and return to the county government. For Zhou Xing, he only talked about military discipline and nothing else, because Li Yanzhi really didn't want to order the execution of these comrades. Even today, these four people are not greedy after all, but they have been ambushed, what are they trying to do?
After returning to the county government, Li Yanzhi lay down in front of the table and wrote hard, writing official documents and notices about the crimes committed by these four people and the military law execution, and sent a copy of the report to the county government, and the notices were sent to the officers to paste all over the county to follow suit. Let the people and the soldiers in those battalions know what happens when they commit corruption!
After writing the notice, Li Yanzhi picked up a thick stack of booklets on the bookcase. The books are all confiscated Fan's family property. Liu Jiwu took the results of the statistical accounting of the two scribes, and the wealth of the shopkeeper Fan was no less than a million dollars! It simply made Li Yanzhi speechless. Even if the county government gathers the strength of a county, has the best political and commercial resources and handicraftsmen, the most optimized labor ratio and a very efficient assembly operation mode, the materials obtained in this year and a half are only two or three million dollars. If it is considered pure profit, I am afraid it is still not as good as the family wealth accumulated by this shopkeeper Fan.
Li Yanzhi looked at those detailed accounts one by one, snorted coldly in his heart, and secretly thought, I don't know how much money this shopkeeper Fan has earned, and his family assets are so rich. So much so that at a certain moment, Li Yanzhi even had the idea of cutting it off with a knife, and then confiscating all the family assets. In this way, almost all problems are solved.
However, reason quickly stopped Li Yanzhi from such unrealistic ideas. In the past, he was in the army, dealing with a bunch of rough men, and he didn't have so many scruples in his actions. However, now that he is temporarily in charge of the affairs of a county, he has the livelihood of thousands of families in his hands, and he has shrunk his actions. In this position, there are more aspects to consider, but only then do I understand that everything is not so simple.
Li Yanzhi was in distress, but saw Qin Dayong walking in from outside the hall, still holding a bowl of soup cakes in both hands. When he saw him, he said: "Sima hasn't eaten yet, the dinner made by the room today is soup cakes, Sima will be busy after eating." β
When Li Yanzhi saw Qin Dayong, he was moved for a while. This Qin Dayong has also followed him from the beginning, and his loyalty can be completely undoubted. Although he acted recklessly, he was not as good as Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian. It is still inferior to Cui Yang and Zhang Xing. However, Li Yanzhi thought that he probably had too many scruples and complicated a simple question for no reason, and when he saw Qin Dayong at this time, he thought of asking his opinion.
Li Yanzhi took two bites of the soup cake, and then said as if casually: "The handling of the prisoners in the army is relatively simple. However, this shopkeeper Fan is really a hot potato. I've been meditating for the past few days, and I can't figure out what I'm going to do with this person. β
When Qin Dayong heard this, his eyes widened and he said, "How could Sima be like this? The reselling of military rations surnamed Fan is unforgivable! According to the law, Sima will deal with it. What can others say? β
When Li Yanzhi heard this, he was slightly disappointed. He had already made up his mind that this shopkeeper Fan could not be killed easily. Even if he wanted to kill, he couldn't do it. At that moment, he was a little annoyed and said, "If things could really be so easy, I would have made up my mind a long time ago." How can you still be indecisive in this move, and you will be left to the beak? β
When Qin Dayong heard this, he was also silent for a moment, and then raised his head and said to Li Yanzhi: "If Sima can't make a decision, why don't you send someone to Xin Fujun?" I believe that Xin Fujun acts impartially, and naturally has his own clear judgment. Why should Sima bother with this? β
Li Yanzhi was holding a bowl and pulling soup cakes. At this time, hearing what Qin Dayong said, the hand holding the chopsticks suddenly froze in the air, and after smacking it carefully, what Qin Dayong said was reasonable. I don't know how to deal with this hot potato, so why not hand it over to the county government, and let the government think about how to deal with this person.
If the government deals with this person, then I believe that no matter what the result is, those local scholars will lose their beaks easily. After all, the Xin family is a large local scholar family, and it is also the wife of the first Liangzhou assassin Zhang Liang. Political capital is not abundant. Even if Xin Fei killed the shopkeeper Fan according to the law, those local scholars who were involved with the shopkeeper Fan would never be able to find Xin Peng's head to make trouble. And if Xin Fei thinks that it is still useful to keep him alive, I believe that Xin Fujun can also control this person well.
The matter got a preliminary solution, and Li Yanzhi also moved his fingers, and he ate the soup cake with a bowl. I thought that I had a drink with those prisoners this morning, and I didn't eat much, but now that I have figured out this section, I suddenly feel that my appetite is great. Under hunger, eating is also a little ugly, but there is only one Qin Dayong staring at him in the hall, who laughs at whom!
Pulling the soup cake in the bowl into his stomach three or two times, Li Yanzhi put the bowl on a few cases, then stood up and burped, and exhaled happily. Qin Dayong has been in the army for a long time, and now his eyes are also good, so he hurriedly came over and took down Li Yanzhi's dishes and chopsticks, and then went out of the hall.
Li Yanzhi carefully inspected the pile of books again, and then took a few blank books, and began to extract from the pile of books what he thought was useful.
There is now a preliminary solution. However, if this person is only sent to Xin Fujun to deal with, it will be too embarrassing, and it will also make Xin Taishou feel unhappy. So he copied a large number of materials and other things that he thought Xin Fujun would be interested in from the materials and other materials seized in these books, but there were many entries, and Li Yanzhi wrote until late at night, before estimating that these things written out should have half of the net worth of the shopkeeper Fan, so he closed the book, and prepared to pick out these things and load them into the car according to the map tomorrow, and then send them to Xin Fujun together with the shopkeeper Fan.
Early the next morning, Li Yanzhi got up and sorted out the official documents and other things in the case, and then attached a letter with his opinions on dealing with this person, summoned Liu Jiwu and Tao Heng, and asked him to lead his twenty people to immediately find all the things listed on the list, and then find some big cars to load them, and prepare to send them to the county government early tomorrow morning. Tao Heng did as he said. With more than 20 subordinates, he was busy all day looking for a car and something. Things were also loaded with more than a dozen carts. It is mostly silk and satin, rare utensils, etc.
Li Yanzhi went to the grain shop of the Fan family by himself, and cleared up the things on the dozen or so carts, which were exactly the same as the things he had sorted out, and immediately felt very relaxed, and hurriedly asked them to drive the cars to the county government, and then take a good rest, and set off early tomorrow morning to send these things to the county government.