According to the guards guarding the city gates, the Jinyi Guards sent horses from each of the 100 households outside the city to enter the city again.

The Jinyi guards guarding in front of the Yandao Yamen rode with strong bows and crossbows, knives, guns and spears, and used shields as cover to firmly block the exits on both sides of the Yandao Yamen.

The Yandao Yamen dispatched thousands of salt soldiers to guard the surroundings of the Yandao Yamen, and the two sides were tense.

At this time, the Yangzhou prefect Yamen and the commander of the guard army stood up to mediate for the two sides, hoping that both sides would strike their own troops.

Yang Xiaoyu took the opportunity of cleaning up the Yandao Yamen to improve his personal prestige!

If he said that he cleaned up Li Ming in order to gain a foothold in Qianhusuo, then this time he cleaned up the Yandao Yamen in order to gain a firm foothold in Yangzhou City.

Yang Xiaoyu's goal was achieved, and when Shen Mingda gathered a group of officials to mediate, Yang Xiaoyu borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, gave the quasi-father-in-law a face, and withdrew the Jinyi Wei Ti of the Yandao Yamen, and at the same time, he also withdrew the Ti Cai of the patrol of the streets.

This move made some officials with unclean butts rejoice.

However, the matter was not over, at the end of July, Yang Xiaoyu sent a challenge to the Wei Commander on the grounds that there were too many unknown people on the street, asking the Wei army to clear the street and impose a curfew on Yangzhou City.

The prosperity of Yangzhou lies in its special geographical location, the scenery is charming at night, the river lights in the city are blooming, and the lights of thousands of homes are bright, a prosperous scene.

If the guards imposed a curfew, they would offend many noble and prominent people.

The commander of the guard is not stupid, he can't afford to offend the dignitaries and nobles, and he can't afford to offend the Jinyi guard, so he has to not offend both sides, and send the guards to patrol the streets to implement a curfew. But they turned a deaf ear to the people who came and went on the streets, ignoring them, and allowed them to make noise in the streets after the curfew.

This move made Yang Xiaoyu smile a little bitterly, and he sent his subordinates to the Wei Command Department three times a day to urge the guards to strengthen patrols, and not to let the people move around after the curfew.

However, each time the guard responded too far from the guard's discipline. Disobeying the order, the number of people is too small to enforce a curfew in the whole city, please ask the cavalry sent by the Jinyi Wei Qianhu to assist from the side.

Although there are thousands of horses in Yangzhou Jinyi Wei Thousand Households, most of the people and horses are scattered outside the city, and there are less than 500 horses in the city, how to patrol the streets?

Moreover, Yangzhou has a vast area and many people, with only 500 horses. Patrolling both streets is slightly inadequate, how can you patrol the whole city?

Moreover, Yang Xiaoyu also guessed that the guard had ulterior motives, the implementation of the curfew would cause dissatisfaction among the officials and gentry in the city, and the reputation of Jinyiwei was not very good, if Jinyiwei came forward to implement the curfew, it would undoubtedly offend a large group of bureaucrats and rich gentry.

And the guard is only responsible for assisting the Jinyi Guards in enforcing the curfew, and they don't have to carry any infamy. There is no need to offend any bureaucrats.

It can be met that the commander of the guard has a good calculation. Don't offend people on both sides, let your east wind blow, I won't move at all, see what you can do to me?

The curfew was finally over!

Yang Xiaoyu originally imposed a curfew, not entirely against the guard, he wanted to take the opportunity of the curfew. An unidentified figure in Yangzhou was investigated, and some Jiangyang thieves were found out from it, and they were killed to make an example of each other, and the public security in Yangzhou was cleaned up, and at the same time. It is also to clean up some guards who have embezzled military salaries and give food and clothing to the guards at the bottom.

Early August.

The hot summer slowly passed, and the land south of the Yangtze River ushered in early autumn.

The season of flowers is gone, all kinds of flowers slowly wither, until they wither, the green leaves turn yellow, and the leaves fall with the wind when the breeze blows.

Yangzhou Jinyi Wei Thousand Households Hall.

Cao Tai was dressed in a flying fish suit, his face was dusty, and he stood on the left side with an embroidered spring knife in his hand.

On the main seat, Yang Xiaoyu took the official document of the Zhenfu Division and read it several times, and finally closed the official document, sighed, and said: "Jinyiwei commanded the envoy to reward 50,000 silver from thousands of households, and the silver will be sent in a few days. ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Cao Tai bowed his hand and said: "My lord, the Zhenfu Division will let you deal with the Ling family's family by yourself, and the deputy town envoy will tell your subordinates to tell your lordship a word, please take the laws of the imperial court as the criterion, and you must not abolish the public for personal reasons." ”

Yang Xiaoyu nodded, during this time he checked a number of laws, President Ling committed the crime of colluding with the thief, and he should be sentenced to death according to the law, and the men of his family should be registered as lowly and the women should be registered in the church, which means that the generation of men is slaves, and the generations of women are prostitutes.

This is already the lightest punishment, if it is an iron-faced and selfless person to sentence, the men of the three clans of the Ling family should be sentenced to death, and the women of the direct family should also be sentenced to death.

Yang Xiaoyu thought for a moment, and then ordered that the sons of the Ling family were sent to the horse farm as slaves, the two sons were escorted to the vegetable market for execution, and all the women of the Ling family were sent to the Jiaofang Division.

This is already his most merciful judgment, if the sentence is lighter, the people who command the envoy of the Jinyi Guard will suspect that he has something to do with the Ling family, so they will guard him everywhere, which will be unfavorable to his career! If the Ling family is sentenced to death, some officials in Zhejiang should scold him for being ruthless.

Therefore, this kind of judgment is not light or heavy.

His eldest son was sent to the horse farm as a slave, which can be regarded as leaving a bloodline for the Ling family, so that there will be no successors.

After the order was passed down, the Jinyi Guard's Tiqi escorted the women and children of the Ling family to the prefect's yamen to hand over the registration.

Ling Lu is a woman, when she joined the Teaching Workshop Division, Yang Xiaoyu spent two dollars to buy the little officials of the government yamen, and made a little action to let Ling Lu's name be listed in the teaching workshop, but she was hooked off in just a few days and restored her status as a beloved.

The same is true of the Li family, her name is included in the teaching workshop, and she is still in Yang Xiaoyu's mansion, and the teaching workshop registration is also hooked by the officials who Yang Xiaoyu bought.

Mingyue is the maidservant of the Ling Mansion, and it doesn't matter if she sends it to the Jiaofang Division or not!

The official document of the Zhenfu Division rewarded Yangzhou Jinyi Wei Thousand Households, but Yang Xiaoyu's reward was not mentioned.

Yang Xiaoyu knew that the credit for catching the remnants of the White Lotus was not enough to make him promoted again, and when he made great contributions next time, the combination of the two merits would definitely enable him to take another step forward.

On this day, the autumn is high and cool, with blue sky and white clouds.

Yang Xiaoyu was dressed in a unicorn official uniform, wearing a black gauze hat, black cloth and white-edged boots, and a light embroidered spring knife hanging from his waist, and was hurrying towards the backyard.

When he arrived in the small courtyard, Yang Xiaoyu did not delay and went straight into the room on the side.

This room is Ling Lu's boudoir, which is elegant and clean, and spotless.

Yang Xiaoyu walked in the door and looked at Ling Lu's back in a pale yellow dress.

He sympathized with Ling Lu very much, the loss of his father, the loss of his relatives, and the loss of his status as a high-ranking eldest lady in a few months, these were piled up on her at once, and it was hard to imagine the suffering that Ling Lu had suffered during these days.

"Are you going?" Yang Xiaoyu was silent for a moment, looked at Ling Lu's slightly haggard back, and asked slowly.

Ling Lu, who had been in a daze in front of the window for a long time, heard this, her eyes regained their brilliance, turned to look at Yang Xiaoyu, and laughed at herself: "He is the concubine's brother, he is going to be punished, how can the concubine not give him a ride." ”

Yang Xiaoyu nodded and said in a deep voice: "You clean up, the official is waiting for you outside!" With that, he turned around and strode away.

Today is the day of the beheading of Ling Ergongzi, and Yang Xiaoyu personally supervised the beheading.

Outside the house.

A spacious carriage stopped in front of the house, surrounded by more than twenty guards.

Chen Yingren rode a tall horse, wore a flying fish suit, and waited behind the carriage with his subordinates.

After Yang Xiaoyu came out, he got into the carriage directly, and after a long time, Ling Lu, who was dressed in a plain white dress, walked into the carriage.

The carriage slowly turned and purred, the atmosphere in the car was abnormal, and the silence could be heard, and after a while, Yang Xiaoyu said in a deep voice: "You are watching in the car, you are not allowed to go down!" ”

"The concubine knows!" Ling Lu's eyes were sad, her eyes were slightly red, and she answered softly.

Yang Xiaoyu sighed secretly, and immediately closed his eyes to recuperate!

There are a lot of people gathered in Yangzhou vegetable market, they are not here to see Ling Ergongzi, the reason why they are here is to see the excitement.

In this era of lack of entertainment, the execution of prisoners by the government has always been regarded as the biggest event by the common people.

Early in the morning, the people of Yangzhou rushed to the vegetable market in groups, there was no sadness on their faces, and most of them were looking at the lively posture.

The streets were crowded with people, and the people dragged their families and mouths, waiting for the next murderous show.

The two sides of the street were vacant enough for two carriages to pass side by side, and at the edge of the street, every five steps, a brocade rider stood with a sword.

On a prisoner car, Ling Ergongzi was dressed in prison clothes, his hands and feet were chained, and he stood on the car and endured the people's fingers.

What's more, some people threw this rotten egg and smashed it at Ling Ergongzi.

The scene was chaotic, the noise flooded the vegetable market, and the noise was earth-shattering.

Yang Xiaoyu's carriage stopped in front of the vegetable market, he stepped down from the carriage, and led a group of subordinates to the prison to behead the stage.

Not far from the prison beheading platform, Ling Ergongzi knelt on the ground, and the executioner stood behind him.

"Slash!"

Yang Xiaoyu didn't have the slightest kindness of a woman, took out an arrow, and threw it down.

"Click!"

The executioner slashed at Ling Ergongzi's neck with a big knife in his hand, only to hear the sound of bones breaking, and then a bloody human head rolled a few steps down the torture platform.

Watching the lively people silent, the scene was unusually quiet.

I don't know how long later, the people made a loud noise for a while, and the noise enveloped the area around the vegetable market.

Yang Xiaoyu made Ling Ergongzi's body restrain and put it into the coffin prepared in advance.

On the beheading platform, a woman in Yang Xiaoyu's carriage could be seen lifting the curtain, covering her mouth and crying.

beheaded the second son of Ling, and the affairs of the Ling family came to an end.

Yang Xiaoyu returned to the carriage and ordered the coachman to drive away without a trace of color.

Ling Lu in the car couldn't cry, and her tears were like a vast ocean.

"This official has sent your eldest brother to the horse farm as a slave, and after a while, he will send someone to bring him to Yangzhou, and then your brothers and sisters can be reunited!" Yang Xiaoyu didn't know how to comfort Ling Lu, so she could only pick happy events to talk about. (To be continued......)