Chapter 53: Assassination
In addition to these opiums, a lot of munitions were brought in one after another, and finally a secret room was found in the bedroom, and a large number of correspondence was found, several of which were written by Sun Ren to bandits, asking them to help deal with some peasant households, as for other tricks, bribing officials, and harming the good, there are even more, now the evidence is conclusive, Sun Ren suddenly drooped his head, and had to admit the crime of assassinating the tax supervisor.
Qiao Yu saw that it was almost dawn, so he asked Sun Ren and Zhou Heizi to be arrested, and came to Lu Wanqing again, and said with a smile: "Miss Lu, now that the evidence is conclusive, you should have an acquaintance with who is the heinous person!" β
"Hmph, Sun Ren is a villain, you are not a good thing, your behavior is not legal at all, the evidence you find cannot be counted, and you can't get legal results without a legal process!"
Qiao Yu nodded: "Don't you see that Miss Lu still knows some about Western laws?" But right now, in the Qing Dynasty, the result is much more important than the process! β
Although Lu Wanqing didn't admit it, but she had no confidence in her heart, judging from the evidence she found, Sun Ren was indeed a bully, and there were a lot of murders on her body, she only had a feeling of being deceived, and she was extremely uncomfortable, so she also bowed her head and was silent, at this time, a chaotic sound came from outside Sunjiazhuang, and a team of people arrived in a panic, led by a short and fat official, it was the local county commander Guo Tai, he heard that a team of troops had entered Sunjiazhuang, and he had a very good relationship with Sun Ren. This didn't come to the rescue immediately, as soon as he entered Sunjiazhuang, Guo Tai shouted loudly: "Which thing that doesn't have long eyes dares to embarrass Brother Sun, don't you want to die, don't you release people quickly!" β
Just when Guo Tai shouted loudly, several cold muzzles had been aimed at Guo Tai, Guo Tai still had a lot of servants behind him, but these people were full of rice buckets, and when they saw that the other party was an elite sergeant, they immediately lost their temper, and unconsciously stepped back, leaving Guo Tai alone in front.
As soon as Qiao Yu heard that the magistrate was coming, he thought that he was just going to settle accounts with him, Sun Ren did a lot of evil things in collusion with him, and he wanted to kill chickens and monkeys, a bully was far from enough, and it was a little shocking to take a county sacrifice flag, Qiao Yu asked Guo Tai to bring him to himself.
As soon as Guo Tai saw that the other party was a strict regular army, he was immediately a little scared, it stands to reason that he is a magistrate and belongs to the civilian system, and the other party is a military attachΓ©, and the two systems can't control themselves at all, but now the world is in chaos, and people are really going to kill themselves, and there is nowhere to reason, so when they see Qiao Yu, they give salutes again and again.
"This lord, the lower official doesn't know that you are doing an errand here, how much you have offended, please don't blame me, I'll get out!"
"Slow down, Guo County's order, I've found a few letters in the Sun family now, take a look!" Saying that, he threw a few letters exchanged between Guo Tai and Sun Ren in front of him, Guo Tai naturally knew what he had done, and cold sweat suddenly flowed down, and the fat all over his body trembled uncontrollably.
"To tell you the truth, I will hand you over to Niu Chuanshan and let him convict you according to the law, if you are lucky, I will kill you now, just say that it was killed by the chaotic party, you can't even leave a whole corpse capital, you can do it yourself!"
As soon as Guo Tai heard this, he immediately collapsed to the ground, like a dead dog, "Please spare my life, I was forced by Sun Ren, please be merciful!" β
"Sun Ren's private tax card, you are three or seven accounts, you took the big head, how did you become persecuted, if there is such a good thing, you will also come to persecute me, I tell you that the tax supervisor sent by the Yucheng Chamber of Commerce You dare to disobey the yang and yin, if it weren't for your secret support, a Zhou Heizi would not be able to assassinate successfully, greedy for money, dereliction of duty, murder, harm to the people, these charges are enough to cut off your dog's head, take them away for me!"
Immediately the soldiers tied up Guo Tai, together with Sun Ren and Zhou Heizi taken away, and went directly to the Dazu County Ya, at this time the people of Dazu County were also alarmed, the county order and the largest landlord Sun Ren were all arrested by a group of soldiers, it was definitely a lot of news, and immediately the county Ya was surrounded, and the mentality of liking to watch the excitement was not weaker than that of later generations.
Qiao Yu asked people to search the backyard of the county government, and also found a lot of evidence of Guo Tai's illegality, and put all this evidence in front of the people of Dazu, and then asked Guo Tai, Sun Ren, and Zhou Heizi to confess their crimes.
"My lord, please be merciful and let Sun Yuanwai go, Sun Yuanwai is a good person!"
As soon as Qiao Yu saw that someone actually pleaded for Sun Ren, he asked his subordinates to bring in a few ordinary people, and these people had to kowtow, Qiao Yu hurriedly stopped, Qiao Yu would never put on a bad face for ordinary people, and asked with a smile: "Old man, why do you want to intercede for Sun Ren, please tell me!" β
"Lord Qiyu, Sun Yuanwai usually repairs bridges and roads, and takes the initiative to give porridge every winter, which is a rare act of kindness, maybe he has done something wrong, Xiaomin said something that should not be said, now the world is like this, if you don't have a conscience, I'm afraid you can't live, you just spare him!"
Qiao Yu saw that these ordinary people might have received the benefits of Sun Ren, so he stood up to intercede at this time, it seems that the common people are still too easily deceived, a little favor is enough to make them deeply moved, Qiao Yu turned his head and said to Sun Ren: "Sun Ren, you didn't expect it, there are still people who stand up to intercede for you, don't you feel sorry now!" Are you worthy of these simple folks? Sun Ren naturally knew what Qiao Yu was referring to, and buried his face in his chest.
"Old man, what you said is good, but what I want to tell you is that everyone has been deceived by Sun Ren, for example, you said that he repaired bridges and roads, and gave porridge to save people, but you don't know that it is because of him that the salt you usually eat is more expensive than elsewhere, the reason is very simple is that Sun Ren privately set up a few tax cards and collected centigold, and he alone will earn tens of thousands of taels more in a year, and then take out dozens of taels to do some so-called good things, and he teamed up with Guo Tai and these dog officials to wantonly increase your tax burden, When you can't afford it, he comes out of the hypocrisy to lend you money at a very high interest, once you can't pay it back, your land will belong to him, relying on this means his grandson's land is expanding rapidly, and he has a good reputation, in addition, if he likes someone's land, he will also collude with thieves to kidnap secretly, he will also be kind enough to help you ransom people, but in the end you can only become a tenant of his family, such things are innumerable, this official has found the correspondence, you can take a look, Don't be deceived by his mask of hypocrisy! β
These ordinary people were immediately stunned, this kind of thing often happens, but they have never thought about it from a different angle, only when Sun Ren is still a good person, how do they know that now after being pierced by Qiao Yu this mask, a wave of anger rushed to the top beam, several young people even punched and kicked directly, eager to kill this harmful smiling tiger, the people outside the yamen were also excited, I didn't expect this Sun Ren to be such a bastard, it was really a pity to die.
"Folks, Sun Ren and Zhou Heizi are murdered, they have committed a capital crime, and now they are shot on the spot, the family property that the Sun family has taken will be returned to everyone later, Guo Tai, as a county commander, is more responsible, I will personally escort it back to Yucheng and hand it over to Lord Daotai to deal with, and this dog official must be severely punished!"
After Qiao Yu confessed, he left someone to deal with the Sun family's property, executed Sun Ren and Zhou Heizi on the spot, and then took the army and pressed Guo Tai to return directly to Yucheng, the people of Dazu saw that the two evils were full of cheers, it seems that this army is indeed for the common people to eliminate harm, and also firmly remember Qiao Yu's name, in the crowd is also mixed with that Guo Tai's nephew Guo Er, that kick almost killed him, I wanted to complain to my uncle, how do I know that my uncle has been arrested, this kid was immediately scared and urinated, Get out of Dazu County.
"Miss Lu, you've watched all this excitement, why are you still following!"
"My family is in southern Sichuan, you killed my uncle, and now I don't even have a place to stay, don't you care?"
Qiao Yu was stunned for a while, this is also a reason: "Miss Lu, you can ride a horse, right?" Lu Wanqing nodded.
"Okay, give you a horse and we will go to Yucheng first, and then send you home!"
Lu Wanqing's riding skills are good, ride steadily, and follow behind Qiao Yu, "Reporter Lu, you are bold enough, aren't you afraid of being left by me in this wilderness, how dare you follow us?" β
"I already know who you are, you have set up a lot of factories in Yucheng, and you have studied abroad, and no one who does big things will be embarrassed by our little girl!"
"It seems that you are not simple, you are not an ordinary lady!"
"That's natural!" As he spoke, the team walked to a valley with mountains on both sides, and suddenly Qiao Yu noticed that a head flashed behind a mountain rock, and then a black object was thrown over!