With an overwhelming advantage, the two counterinsurgency forces, with the cooperation of the garrisons of various counties, only took two or three days to stubbornly resist the gentry and wealthy families who refused to accept punishment, and sealed up important property. A few days later, as a large number of evidence and bitter masters set off under the escort of the Ming army, the few criminal officers and their assistants who temporarily borrowed the territory and signboards of the prefect's yamen to carry out prison work also began to usher in the first batch of work.

Before returning to Fucheng, Chen Wen conducted a separate examination in Dongyang County for the part of the rebels who had just been captured, did not participate in the massacre of the villages around the coolie camp, and had a good attitude of admitting guilt, and was willing to expose and report other rebels, but they were directly imprisoned, and when the trial was over, they continued their coolie life with a certain number of years of punishment. As for those who are tainted with blood debts, depending on the situation, from Ling Chi, dismemberment, hanging, beheading, to tens, dozens, or even hundreds of years of hard labor, this will be their future fate.

It is the easiest to kill directly, but in recent years, the population of Jinhua Mansion has decreased sharply, and increasing forced labor will only lead to the rise of bandits, which is not conducive to governance, so it is more beneficial for Chen Wencai to let them die in various projects instead of the people in the coolie camp. Of course, those who excel can be rewarded with food, rest, or a reduction in the number of years of departure, and they must always be given a little hope to extract more surplus value.

The work was completed during Chen Wen's stay in Dongyang County, where the death row prisoners were transported to Fucheng and the rest sent to the rebuilt coolie camp, with only the direct beheading of the group that originally belonged to the Pak Tat Army in Luochengyan to deter potential opponents.

Back in Fucheng, due to Chen Wenling's late Ma Jinbao and the devastating offensive of the counterinsurgency in the counties, a large number of gentry and wealthy families rushed to see him, and expressed their loyalty in various ways, so as to prevent the enraged Chen Wen from seeing it as colluding with the Manchus or Cao Conglong's rebellion.

Grain, grass, gold and silver, cloth, all kinds of raw materials, deeds of sale of domestic slaves, etc., etc., and even sent their own sons and daughters to serve in the army as hostages. What's more, when they heard that Chen Wen had not yet married a wife and concubine, they all started to think about it. For a time, there was no resistance to the implementation of the large-scale loans for the aftermath, and even the large-scale loans for requisition, which were still being vigorously criticized and almost ignored not long ago, became lively, and finally made up for the economic losses suffered by Chen Wen to a certain extent.

However, this is not enough!

When Chen Wen defeated Cao Conglong again and captured him alive, Han Qizheng, who had restored the position of Tongzhi of Jinhua Mansion, took the criminal officers jointly selected by Chen Wen and Sun Yu to start the public trial, and the location was chosen in the government office.

The cases that need to be tried are mainly divided into two parts, the first is the rebellion, and the second is the area occupied by the regimental training.

Cao Conglong's identity is not suitable for trial, but Chen Wen never let him go, so the part about the rebellion starts from the subtleties, pouring out all the crimes committed by those participants in the rebellion, and finally pointing at Cao Conglong. The area occupied by the group training is ranked according to the degree of damage caused, so as to increase the severity of the punishment.

Before Chen Wen returned to Fucheng, the interrogation of low-level officials, craftsmen, soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion and other people who participated in the rebellion in Fucheng had already ended. Several rooms were piled up with incriminating evidence, and by the day after Chen Wen returned to Fucheng, the interrogation had entered the next stage.

Today's interrogation is for several key officials of the former Ordnance Department, who rebelled earlier and caused great harm, and the officials and craftsmen below have also provided a large amount of human and material evidence for crimes such as concealing the production of weapons, providing equipment for the rebels, interfering with technological changes, and even shelling arsenals, and today we will use those who have obtained more confessions from them to further restore the whole process of the rebellion.

The first to be escorted up was a civilian officer of the Ordnance Division, Chen Wen knew him very early, when he was training on Dalan Mountain, the training facilities needed were installed by this civilian official with craftsmen and people, and then the original Construction Division was reorganized into the Ordnance Division, and he began to be in charge of the affairs of the Ordnance Division's wood workshop, which has always been very good. Such a capable person failed to continue to contribute his strength to the cause of fighting the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but participated in the rebellion, which really made Chen Wen feel a little wasteful.

The civil official was escorted up, and when he saw Chen Wen who came to watch, he went up and scolded him, and reprimanded Lu Wenlong for the crime of murdering the first two prison guards, and even added the so-called crime of murdering the third prison army, as for the crimes of disrespecting the decree, destroying the ancestral system, and plotting to accumulate wealth, Cao Conglong pressed on Chen Wen and said it one by one. It's just that after seeing that Chen Wen didn't react at all, and didn't even sneer at the very least, the civilian official pointed the finger at Han Qizheng, who was the presiding judge, and denounced his immoral behavior of "betraying the revolution and acting for the tiger".

Unlike Chen Wen, Han Qizheng did participate in the rebellion, but because he was not a hardcore supporter of the rebellion, Chen Wen also needed him to balance the civilian faction so that he would not pursue it. But at this moment, seeing the person in front of him mercilessly revealing the old man's bottom, Han Qizheng was furious, and he was stunned and beat this civil official to the ground.

When he woke up with cold water, the civil official lost his desire to vent, confessed to a series of crimes against the rebellion, but refused to slander others, and even described the rebellion as a righteous act to set things right.

Finding that he really couldn't ask anything, Han Qizheng had to summon the next prisoner, but the next few had this attitude, as if the better.

These people made Han Qizheng scratch his head very much, but Chen Wen looked at it with great interest, and seemed to think of something through this. However, with the increase in the number of summonses, there has also begun to be a phenomenon of crumbling others in order to reduce the sentence, and it is increasing.

This situation is normal, greedy for life and afraid of death is human nature, and everyone has parents, wives and children, even if they don't think about themselves, wives and children can bear to leave behind, but Confucianism's admiration for filial piety has always affected these scholars, and the torture of their hearts is really not small when they are in danger of their parents, and part of it is to hope that their parents can be pardoned by cooperating.

Born in modern times, Chen Wen is very dissatisfied with the system of one person guilty and the whole family is connected. However, the repercussions of this rebellion were so bad and so severe that it was impossible not to implicate their families, and Tran decided to compromise the tradition in order to serve as a wake-up call to potential and future opponents.

After watching for a whole morning, Chen Wen found that he could not see too many details that he did not understand for the time being, so he left the government and went to the yamen, the former governor of Zhejiang, because Cao Conglong was held there in solitary confinement.

Even if this prison soldier who did not do good deeds could not be executed without authorization, the torture of appropriate means was necessary, otherwise it would be difficult to solve the hatred in Chen Wen's heart. (To be continued.) )