Chapter 668: Public Trial (5)

Luo Yong's sharp gaze turned to Xue Gan's younger brother Xue Wu, the representative of the Xue family, and angrily reprimanded: "Xue Wu, can your Xue family be guilty? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the land that our Xue family has acquired is all for law-abiding operations, and these accusations against the people are all false accusations, and our Xue family cannot accept them. Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, our Xue family has gained a foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of the Xue family in the past dynasties have been a model of loyalty and patriotism for the benefit of Sangzi Township, and have been repeatedly rewarded by the imperial court and the yamen, and there is a good reputation in the market. Suddenly, accusing our Xue family of encroaching on the peasants' land is simply a crime that wants to be added! Xue Wuyou was fearless, neither humble nor arrogant, and pushed all the charges cleanly.

Xue Wu looked around at everyone and said: "How is our Xue family, all the adults present know it, and ask the princes to be a witness to our Xue family, so as not to let our Xue family be falsely accused for no reason and suffer this injustice!" ”

Xue Wuyan hi Feng, Jiangning County Guard Liu Pingshan and other local officials all became a little embarrassed and embarrassed. Although the Xue family is a family of businessmen, officials and businessmen have always been one, and the interests of the Xue family are actually integrated with the interests of the bureaucrats openly and secretly.

In other words, the Xue family actually controlled the pigtails of many of the officials present. Once the Xue family is forced to be anxious, they may bite out someone.

Liu Pingshan hesitated for a long time, and had to get up and salute Kong Sheng with a reluctant smile: "The king of the county, General Luo, the Xue family is famous in the south of the Yangtze River for being kind and benevolent, law-abiding and good people's home, and I also donated 1,500 yuan for the government to repair the river embankment, and there is still a name and surname on the merit monument. In the opinion of the lower officials, the so-called case of the Xue family's encroachment on the peasants' land must be untrue, and the county king was asked to investigate. ”

Liu Pingshan, the warden of Jiangning County, took the initiative to stand up and speak for the Xue family, and naturally many Jiangnan officials echoed their words. Listening to the pleading of a bureaucrat, Xue Wu was inevitably a little proud, while Luo Yong's face sank and said coldly: "Liu Junshou, Shenlongwei handles the case, and pays attention to a piece of conclusive evidence. The Xue family's crime is not only the case of encroaching on the land of the farmer Lin Er, but in just two days, the Shenlongwei Yamen has been accused of the Xue family's bullying and domination of the market, bullying men and women, and is being investigated one by one. Back to this case, the certified physical evidence is there, and the Xue family still wants to deny it? ”

Liu Pingshan was in awe of Kong Sheng, the king of the county, but he didn't care about Luo Yong. He smiled coldly when he heard this: "General Luo, Shenlongwei is not a local official after all, even if the Xue family really commits a crime, there will naturally be local officials such as me to try and verify it, not to mention, the people involved in this case are also Song Shan, the official of Danyang County, which belongs to my Jiangning County, Shenlongwei Yue Yue arrested my subordinate officials without authorization, is it too much?" ”

Kong Sheng remained strangely silent.

Luo Yong's voice was like iron stone, and he said word by word: "Shenlongwei investigates the world, supervises officials, and even the officials of various ministries in the capital, princes and princes are under the supervision of Shenlongwei, not to mention that it is a local official, Shenlongwei needs to handle the case, and if he is caught, he will be arrested, and there is nothing to talk about." Besides, Shenlongwei acted on the orders of the county king, should he still report to you Jiangning County Guard? ”

Liu Pingshan gasped and was speechless when questioned.

What the hell is Shenlongwei doing, in fact, Liu Pingshan, these Jiangnan officials, are still a little confused, but they don't know why. Luo Yong's words were righteous and stern, which made the Jiangnan officials suddenly realize that if this Shenlongwei really assumed the duties of a detective and supervision official, then it would be a steel knife under the neck of the magistrate.

Kong Sheng lured Shenlongwei to Jiangnan, and also set up Shenlongwei Zhenfu Division in Jiangnan, which is not a good thing.

Liu Pingshan paused, bowed down again and said: "The king of the county, General Luo, the lower officials believe that Shenlongwei is handling the case, and there is no impartiality, since Shenlongwei has verified it, or the Xue family has indeed made some mistakes." However, the Xue family has a big business and many side children, and the person who committed the crime may have been committed by the Xue family under the banner of the Xue family, but it is not known, and General Luo is invited to investigate! ”

Xue Wu's eyes rolled, knowing that Liu Pingshan was still saving the country after all, in order to protect the Xue family. He pushed the boat down the slope and got off the donkey and said: "My lord, there are thousands of people in the Xue family, and it is inevitable that there will be three or two scum who will violate the law of the country, in this way, let our Xue family go back to investigate, if it is really the Xue family's side cause, the Xue family will definitely not tolerate the adulterer, and Xue will personally bind it to Shenlongwei to set the record straight!" ”

Luo Yong subconsciously turned his head to look at Kong Sheng.

Although the evidence of the case committed by the Xue family is conclusive, there is no direct evidence to show that it was committed by the Xue family. If the Xue family shirks the blame to the side department, and randomly finds a few servants to act as scapegoats, I am afraid that Shenlongwei really can't make a move against the Xue family, and it won't damage the foundation of the Xue family.

Luo Yong thinks that Kong Sheng wants to suppress the Xue family, but in fact, what Kong Sheng wants to do is not to destroy the Xue family, but to use the Xue family to open a door to land reform. The top priority now is to order the Xue family to return the land encroached upon by the peasants, and then create a public opinion momentum to promote Kong Sheng's further actions.

Yuan Chao has been silently observing the scene. Seeing that the Xue family was so sophistry, and the Jiangnan officials present were so protective of the Xue family, and Kong Sheng was obviously a little "retreating", a sneer couldn't help but rise at the corner of his mouth, and his heart was really an official who protected each other, and there were very few people who could really speak for the people of the world.

Kong Sheng got up slowly, and after walking out of the book case, he stood in the middle of the field, and his majestic gaze turned to Xue Wu: "Shenlongwei accepted eight cases related to the Xue family, which involved the encroachment of fifteen acres and three hundred acres of peasant land. Remember, within three days, if the Xue family delays and resists, Hugh blames this king for being strict in law enforcement and ruthless! ”

"The rest of the cases are probably like this. As long as you return all the land occupied by the peasants to the bitter lord truthfully, and return justice to the people, the king will be the master and will not be held accountable. But from now on, the gentry and officials in the south of the Yangtze River, who dare to disobey the laws of the imperial court and enclose land and annex peasant land in various ways, the principle of this king is to find one and severely punish the other, and never tolerate and nurture adultery. This king is here today, who dares to defy the law, and the consequences will be borne by themselves! ”

Xue Wu's face changed suddenly. He originally thought that it was nothing more than more than 100 acres of land involving the Lin family, the Xue family had a big business, and the return of this land had nothing to do with the overall situation, and the loss was not big, but he didn't expect that Kong Sheng would feel the Xue family's family background so thoroughly, and announced that he would return fifteen acres and three hundred acres of land, which was a huge amount and would hurt the foundation of the Xue family.

Xue Wu didn't dare to call the shots, and he couldn't make the decisions. He immediately shouted and screamed, shouting and complaining. Other families also followed suit, some wept bitterly, some fell to the ground, some sneered and said nothing, and the servants of each family hidden in the crowd also began to add fuel to the fire, the crowd surged, the voices were boiling, and the scene immediately became a pot of porridge.

Luo Yong's face changed, Kong Sheng slowly got up, took two steps forward, and looked around with a deep and majestic gaze at the noisy flow of people who gradually broke through the Shenlong Guard defense line at the scene of the duty division, and a flash of murder in his eyes flashed.

In this year, the most difficult thing to move is the interests of the elite. For Jiangnan Shijia Gate Valve, the biggest and most fundamental interest is land. Kong Sheng wants to make a fuss about land annexation, which is obviously about to shake the foundation of the interests of the family gatekeeper, so their fierce backlash is actually expected by Kong Sheng.

Yang Qi and other local officials from Jiangnan Province and Jiangning County all quietly gathered together with different expressions, ready to evacuate the scene at any time under the escort of their respective servants. Once the situation gets out of hand, they will certainly stand by and watch.

Kong Sheng waved his hand, and a soldier beside him blew the desolate horn trumpet on his back. The sound of the horn was desolate and distant, echoing in mid-air for a long time, and almost in sync with the sound of the military horn, the rumbling of horses' hooves galloped like thunder, the ground under their feet trembled, and the solemn aura in the air rushed to the face.

Smoke and dust rose in front of the temple, and the crowd of onlookers in the spacious alley suddenly parted, and a group of cavalrymen brandished bright silver spears, and two rows of black horses galloped in anger.

It is the Jiangning Iron Cavalry Battalion led by Li Biao and Li Hu who are waiting for the battle!

"Whoever stirs up the court, die!" Li Biao's thunderous roar was stirring in the air, permeating, and the bright silver spear in Li Biao's hand was thrown with all his might, with a roar, it swept over the head of the chaotic flow of people, and was inserted into the flagpole in front of the City God Temple with a buzzing sound!

"Jiangning Iron Cavalry guards the king of the county, and the one who blocks the path will die!" Five hundred iron horsemen galloped forward, rushing to the front without slowing down, if this kind of posture is not avoided in time, it will definitely be trampled to death by the horses' hooves or be rammed to death, the chaotic crowd scattered in panic in the screams one after another, and the leading troublemakers in the middle naturally scattered because of this.

Five hundred iron horsemen roared in, some galloped around the field, forcing the flow of people wrapped in troublemakers to retreat, and some took advantage of the situation to rein the reins, and all the military horses immediately neighed and stopped abruptly on the spot. The galloping formation assembled again in an instant, and the cavalry that circled the field each swung their spears back, and in the blink of an eye, they merged into the formation and disappeared.

The crowd of onlookers was violently smashed away by the long military formation of the Jiangning Iron Cavalry, scattered on both sides of the street and square, and their faces were panicked. And the formation of the five hundred iron cavalry with solemn faces was orderly, whether it was horizontal to the bottom or vertical to the side, it was strictly unified, and the appearance of the army was neat, which made Yang Qi and other local officials in Jiangnan look secretly awe-inspiring.

Five hundred iron horsemen and spears hung on the saddles, and the men and horses were united in silence.

Li Biao and Li Hu turned over and dismounted before the formation, took two steps side by side, bowed down and sang: "The last general Li Biao (Li Hu) escort is late, which makes the county king frightened!" ”

Kong Sheng waved his hand and laughed loudly: "Li Biao, Li Hu, Er and others followed this king to quell the rebellion in Henan, defend Jinggi, and return to the west. Just a Jiangning county town, can it still turn the sky upside down? Sons, don't you think?! ”

"The county king is mighty! The Great General is mighty! Five hundred iron horsemen shouted in response, and the spears in their hands stood as tall as a forest, and the sound shook the sky.