There were more than 12,000 tiger army city defense divisions stationed in Yangzhou City, and one of the regiments followed Wan Shun to arrest the most influential gentry in Yangzhou City, while the rest of the Tiger Ben Army personnel began to impose martial law in Yangzhou City.

"Power comes out of the barrel of a gun", the little people in front of the murderous tiger army, suddenly jumped and hid back to their homes, and the bold ones just looked out through the crack in the door.

In fact, they are very grateful to the new prefect Yang Tingjian, because after Yang Tingjian took office, the security of Yangzhou City was unprecedentedly good, and at the same time, countless factories were established, and those idle people in Yangzhou City found a job with a good salary, which undoubtedly made Yangzhou more prosperous.

It can be said that the current Yangzhou people, as long as you are not lazy, the money you earn can not only support your family, but also have a slight surplus, which is unimaginable in the past, the rich Yangzhou City, the same homeless people and beggars everywhere, and now there is no beggar in Yangzhou City, even people who fled from the north.

I heard that all these people were recruited to the seaside to reclaim the wasteland, but can the saline land grow crops? The people of Yangzhou are full of doubts, maybe Wenqu star Yang Tingjian has immortal skills!

Yang Tingjian has only been in Yangzhou City for three months, and there have been such changes, and the hearts of the people can be said that they can tell whether Yang Tingjian is good or bad, and an official like Yang Tingjian is the "Lord of the Blue Sky" they need.

The businessmen in Yangzhou boycotted the market, and these ordinary people also knew the reason, isn't it Yang Tingjian's "official gentry pay grain in one"! In fact, the common people have long been dissatisfied in their hearts, why do those who have money not pay taxes, and they struggle on the verge of death every day, but have to pay heavy taxes. No one can figure it out.

The common people of China have always had "not to suffer from widowhood but to suffer from injustice", and now these wealthy rats, because Yang Tingjian's officials and gentry came to boycott the market, completely using the strike to blackmail Lord Yang Tingjian, and at the same time bringing difficulties to all Yangzhou citizens.

Therefore, the boycott is destined to not be supported by the people of Yangzhou City, and these people all curse these gentry for their black hearts and lack of morality. But he did not vent his dissatisfaction with Yang Tingjian, and the boycott without the support of the people was destined not to collapse under the gun, which was decided when those gentry chose to boycott.

As soon as the city defense division of the Huben Army announced martial law in the whole city, all the people who gathered in the street to make noise disappeared from the street in an instant, and the speed was jaw-dropping.

At this time, the twenty most influential gentry in Yangzhou City were miserable, and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army and the people of Jinyi Weinan Zhenfu Si rushed directly into their homes. In front of the Shenwei musket, whoever dares to resist will be directly beaten into a sieve.

In fact, there are no gentry who dare to resist at all, this time it was Jinyiwei who took the tiger army to arrest people, and those gentry saw Jinyiwei, they immediately became angry, not to mention the horror of Jinyiwei, it was exaggerated by countless literati. What's more, behind Jinyiwei is the emperor. These people ignore Yang Tingjian's other identity, that is, Yang Tingjian is the calmer of Jinyi Weinan's Zhenfu Division.

So my arrest behavior was extremely smooth. The entire family of the twenty most influential gentry was captured and put into the Huachi barracks.

was arrested by Jinyiwei and put in prison, that can be carried to the end, Wan Shun was tortured a little, and the vast majority of the gentry immediately confessed everything, Qian Xiangkun and Wu Zongda's family members were not tortured, but in front of countless confessions. They have only a share of their sins.

Wan Shun arrested the twenty gentry, men, women and children, and then asked the officials to beat gongs and drums all over the city to announce that the matter of the twenty most influential gentry being served in one pot soon became a household name, and then Yang Tingjian immediately issued an order to lift martial law.

Yang Tingjian did not order the gentry to resume the market at all, and those gentry who were not arrested. Hurriedly opened the door to do business. They are really afraid, the family members of the current cabinet slaughterhouse dare to catch them, they are small fish and shrimp, they still do business honestly! Besides, the commercial tax identified by Yang Ting is not expensive, only twenty taxes and one, which is completely within the acceptable range of businessmen.

What's more, the merchants in Yangzhou City now don't have all kinds of showdowns in the past, and the officials who came to collect bribes from time to time are not harassing. In fact, these expenses are more than regular taxes and fees. The vast majority of businessmen are just afraid of the power of the Qian family! I reluctantly followed the strike, but now it's good, people directly served the leading brother a pot, then they are still fighting against the prefect's yamen! That's an ignorant stupid hat.

Yang Tingjian's thunderous means brought down the whole city with a vigorous strike, and it was like lightning, which is the benefit of the gun. The important thing is that Yang Tingjian knows how to retract and release freely, rather than blindly using force, which is not comparable to those pure martial arts.

At the trial the next day, Yangzhou City can be described as an empty port for 10,000 people, and the twenty most influential families were escorted to the yamen of Yangzhou prefect, where they were not allowed to deny it in the face of countless ironclad evidence. Yang Tingjian's verdict also won bursts of applause.

Wu Zongda's family did not participate in the strike and was acquitted, the leading brother Qian Xiangsheng was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and fined 100,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the accomplices were sentenced to three years of hard labor and fined between 10,000 and 50,000 taels of silver.

These twenty arrested gentry thought that they were dead this time, Yang Tingjian's verdict really convinced them, at least Yang Tingjian did not affect their families, let alone touch their seized family property, Bao Qingtian is just like that!

In this case, Qian Xiangsheng immediately added another question, wanting to get a chance to reduce his sentence, that is, he colluded with the pirate Liu Xiang to prepare to attack the news of Tongzhou. (This Tongzhou is not the one next to Jingshi, but is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River.) ）

After Yang Tingjian heard the news, he really commuted Qian Xiangsheng's sentence to three years. Yang Tingjian is worried that he doesn't have a navy soldier! That's where the pirates come to the door, and it's like drowsiness meets a pillow.

Yang Tingjian wants to develop the navy, but he needs a large number of sailors, the children of the good family are good, but to train them to become a qualified ocean-going sailor, it is impossible without a few years of hard work, and at the same time, these children of the good family must go to the sea to fight a few battles, this cycle is too long, Yang Tingjian can't afford to wait! (To be continued......)