looked at Lord Qincha, who had been waiting for a long time, and turned out to be so young, but Zhao Xiaoxi, who had already changed into a military uniform. It also has a little more heroic and murderous atmosphere, and a little less of the gentle and generous feeling of civil officials. But no matter what, looking at the general of the forbidden army and the prefect, and giving up the main seat to Zhao Xiaoxi, the people knew that this was the minister of the imperial court.

After listening to Cao Zhen's introduction to the city, Zhao Xiaoxi glanced at the prefect of Mingzhou with a little meaning, which made his forehead sweat, but he did not point out that he was afraid of the Zhu family's power in Mingzhou. It's just that as soon as the imperial decree arrives, such a gutsless prefect Zhao Xiaoxi will definitely suggest that the imperial court transfer him or simply dismiss him from his official position.

After listening to the introduction, Zhao Xiaoxi quickly got up from his seat and came to the people who looked up in front of the stage and said: "This official is the history of Jiangnan supervision ordered by the Holy Lord, and is responsible for investigating and handling the case of salt tax in Jiangnan. As for the salt price that you were worried about before, this official can clearly tell you that the salt price in Mingzhou will only fall in the future, not rise.

All of this is just a rumor created by the Zhu family. There is only one purpose, that is, to make Mingzhou City a mess again, and his Zhu family will benefit from it in the end. As for why the official said this, I believe that when you have met a few people, you will understand why the official has only arrived now, and why he said that all this was done by the Zhu family. Bring the prisoners in! ”

With Zhao Xiaoxi's order, Zhu Shichang, who had been interrogated on the ship before, and several backbones of the scimitar pirate group were pushed to the high platform together. Although these people planned to bow their heads, the forbidden army who was escorted directly kicked and knelt on the ground, grabbed their hair and let them show their faces clearly to the people in the audience.

Looking at these faces that many people in Mingzhou know, Zhao Xiaoxi said very calmly: "I believe that you don't need to be introduced by this official, you all recognize who they are." These villains, who wandered through the waters of Mingzhou, burned, killed and plundered countless people, were captured by this official who personally led the imperial court navy to the open sea last night. I believe that many people will ask, why are these Zhu family members here? ”

After a pause, Zhao Xiaoxi quickly said: "The reason is very simple, because this pirate team itself was organized by the Zhu family. This is also the reason why, for many years, in addition to the Zhu family's fleet, which can easily carry out shipping, other merchants will encounter pirates as soon as the merchant ship goes to sea, and this third child of the Zhu family is the leader of this pirate group.

Now you still think that the head of the Zhu family is a great good person, shouldn't the imperial court encircle him? Although he Zhu Laoshi's name is good, he is an out-and-out wolf in sheep's clothing, and the pirate attacks that have appeared in Mingzhou over the years have been planned and organized by the Zhu family.

There is only one purpose behind it, that is, to raise thieves and respect themselves, so that everyone feels that with the Zhu family, there is no need to worry about the attack of pirates. What do you think should be done about this kind of hypocrite? ”

A word stirred up a thousand waves, and the people, realizing that they had been deceived, quickly shouted: "Kill him!" ”

Looking at the angry people, Zhu Shichang understood at this moment why Zhao Xiaoxi didn't kill him on the spot. It was originally intended to expose him to the people of Mingzhou, and completely let the Zhu family fall from the altar of savior in the hearts of the people of Mingzhou, and become the target of everyone's shouting. This hand will completely cut off the Zhu family's extravagant hope of making a comeback in Mingzhou.

Raising his hand to appease the angry public opinion, Zhao Xiaoxi continued: "This official knows that based on these words alone, many people will feel that this official has wronged the Zhu family. Then this official will let you meet again, a few people I believe you also know. They told it in person, what is the face of this Zhu family, and everyone will not think that I have no evidence, and I will deny the entire Zhu family with just a few Zhu family members. ”

After clapping their hands, soon a few young and middle-aged people who looked yellow and thin walked onto the high platform, and soon more people recognized them. When several of them were the children of merchants in the city who had been kidnapped by pirates, they listened to the nightmare accounts of these rescued hostages, and soon the common people who had thought that this young Qincha was too arbitrary no longer had any good feelings for the Zhu family.

Even came to see the lively people, the families of these meat tickets, and saw the return of their relatives they were looking forward to every day. finally understood why the pirates wanted such a high ransom, and why the Zhu family learned about it. He was very enthusiastic, saying that he could lend them money and redeem them first. It turned out that all this was just to annex their family business.

After reuniting these hostages with their excited relatives, Zhao Xiaoxi quickly said, "General Cao! ”

'The end will be! ’

The general personally led the team to arrest the head of the Zhu family and all the members of the family, except for the female dependents. Those who dare to resist will be killed. Blockade the whole city, arrest all the Zhu family's cronies, and return the people of Mingzhou to a bright future. ’

'Order! ’

After waiting for the order, Cao Zhen quickly led a team of cavalry to gallop towards the surrounded Zhu family. The Zhu family, who was already surrounded like ants on a hot pot, also knew that this was troublesome. Just when they were going to fight and organize the dead soldiers and family members of the family to spread a hole from the encirclement of the forbidden army and send some family members out.

The forbidden army, who had been standing guard for their family, directly entered the Zhu family with an order after Cao Zhen arrived. Seeing that the Zhu family's guards and family members who were gathering to break through the siege, Cao Zhen, who led the troops in to arrest him, directly drew his sword to meet him. killed these Zhu family guards who also resisted desperately, and quickly arrested Zhu Laoshi, Zhu Liye and others.

Except for the female dependents of the Zhu family, who cried and cried, they were rushed to the Zhu family's martial arts field by the forbidden army to wait for processing, and all the men of the Zhu family were arrested. Escorted by the forbidden army, he walked to the noon gate. And the Zhu family, who still didn't know the situation, was still shouting at the people on the roadside that they were wronged, and the officers and soldiers of the court killed innocents indiscriminately and pretended to be pitiful.

But what puzzled the Zhu family was that they were highly respected in the city in the past, but now the people are more gloating about their arrest. There are even many people who have suffered from pirates, and they even spit directly on them, scolding the Zhu family as hypocrites, and they deserve to be raided by the imperial court today.

This situation made the Zhu family feel very puzzled, and when they were escorted to the noon gate, when they looked at Zhu Shichang and the others kneeling on the beheading platform, Zhu Laoshi, who was the head of the family, immediately collapsed. Because he knew that the appearance of this third brother here meant that the century-old foundation of the Zhu family was completely gone.

Looking at Zhu Laoshi, who was paralyzed on the ground, the two guards directly dragged him up and pulled him to the beheading platform. The rest of the men of the Zhu family were also escorted by the forbidden army and knelt on the beheading platform in turn. This kind of crime of the Zhu clan is a scene that the people of Mingzhou have not seen for many years, even if Zhao Xiaoxi looks at a few men of the three generations of the Zhu family who still don't know anything, he can only be secretly ruthless.

In front of the people of Mingzhou City, Zhao Xiaoxi counted several major crimes of the Zhu family, and only one of them was raided and destroyed by selling illicit salt, and no one could provoke it. This law, though cruel, is a common occurrence in such times. Any monarch who wants to control the rule of the imperial power will never tolerate someone putting his hand in his money bag.

Even if Zhao Xiaoxi knows that many of these Zhu family men who are about to be beheaded are still like children. I don't know exactly what's going on, but it's all within the line. Maybe Zhao Xiaoxi can let them go in vain and let them live. But in order to realize the ambition in his heart, the ruthless heart that the monarch must have, Cho Hyo-seok, also needs to adapt.

After announcing the major crimes of the Zhu family, Zhao Xiaoxi instructed the executioners of Mingzhou to begin to execute the execution. Zhu Liye, who didn't pay attention to the bitter complaints, pulled the men of his family to the beheading table one by one, and was beheaded by these executioners to show the public. Turned into a headless corpse, discarded on this bloody noon gate today.

After the Zhu family was killed, the rest of the daughters of the Zhu family and their direct spouses were also in the team of extermination. Some female dependents who are not directly related to them have also been sentenced to the labor camp. In the future, they will become official prostitutes and become the playthings of countless men, and their fate is no better than death. This cruel court law is enough to make the people of Mingzhou City always remember this bloody lesson.

With very clean but cruel methods, he disposed of the Zhu family who had occupied Mingzhou for many years. The shops belonging to the Zhu family were also seized by the government, and the entire Mingzhou was like being rebaptized. In addition to feeling depressed, many people also know that in the future, Mingzhou will truly become a place for fair trade for businessmen, and there will be no domination of the market by the Zhu family.

Knowing that there are some things, Zhao Xiaoxi, who can't just kill them, ordered someone to invite the head of the family who was a merchant in the city that afternoon. Especially those families, the merchant owners who were rescued by him were even more at relatively favorable prices by him. The salt farms and salt numbers in the name of the Zhu family were sold to these merchants in exchange for gold and silver to be handed over to the imperial court.

As for this huge Zhu family house, it was preserved by Zhao Xiaoxi, and soon after there was a big merchant from Fuzhou. Take the title deed of this house and move in and become the new owner of this house. As for how these big dealers, who don't look like a family, get the title deed of this house, no one will ask too much.

In short, the collapse of the Zhu family made Mingzhou a scene of a hundred schools of thought. And those merchants who were happy to take over the salt goods, in order to win over the salt workers of the Zhu family who made salt, the purchase price of salt for these salt workers was also a few pennies higher than that of the Zhu family. Of course, the price of salt they sell, because it is no longer a monopoly, has only decreased but not increased as Zhao Xiaoxi said.

Although the profits are not as large as those of the Zhu family, these new salt merchants also see that the profits from this salt sale are amazing. I also felt that I was lucky to be able to buy this permit from the hands of the Lord, but I didn't dare to default on the government's salt tax at will. The government of Mingzhou felt that the salt tax had increased a lot, and they did not dare to do anything too much to oppress the new salt merchants.

Of course, these are all afterwords, after resorting out the military and political capital of Mingzhou. Zhao Xiaoxi led the army of land and water and returned to Hangzhou again, waiting for the salt merchants who learned the news. What's next!