Chapter 107: A Big Deal
At this time, the two family members brought by Gu Youcai had also been taken down by their own soldiers, overturned to the ground, took their swords, and pressed them to the ground, and someone stepped on their necks, so that they couldn't even say half a word, and they couldn't even make a voice begging for mercy.
The governor of Jiaozhou and other officials also stepped forward at this time, surrounded him, and began to listen to the confession of Gu Zhong lying on the ground.
It turns out that this Gu Youcai is really not a thing, this guy not only controls the sale of illicit salt in a large area, but also keeps a lot of domestic slaves, and has a team dedicated to selling illicit salt for him, with more than 200 people, who usually hide in the surrounding area, and their identities are some loud horse robbers.
And Gu Youcai also works part-time as a trafficker, over the years, there are often young women or girls missing in the Jiaozhou City area, in fact, they were secretly kidnapped by this gang, and then sold to the Nanzhili area, making a lot of silver, and he himself ruined the Qingbai of many innocent women.
Seeing that the rebels were coming to attack Jiaozhou, he was afraid that the rebels would be interested in his family wealth, and in a hurry, he actually thought of simply secretly joining the rebels and sending someone to contact the rebels.
However, he was unlucky, and on the way back, the people he sent were inadvertently discovered by the people of the Yu family army who were active in this area, so he secretly arrested this Gu Zhong and sent him back to Fushan.
On the way, I happened to meet Yu Xiaotian leading the troops over, and tortured and interrogated Gu Zhong along the way, this Gu Zhong couldn't survive, couldn't die, he couldn't stand it, so he had to confess Gu Youcai, which made Yu Xiaotian seize the handle, and after arriving here, there was such a drama.
After hearing this, the officials of Zhizhou and Jiaozhou all broke out in a cold sweat, and almost jumped over and kicked this Gu Youcai to death on the spot, this Gu Youcai is too fucking bastard, in order to keep his family wealth, he actually wants to sell the entire Jiaozhou City, today fortunately he was bumped into by Yu Xiaotian's subordinates and broke his conspiracy, otherwise, if the rebels come to attack Jiaozhou City one day, this Gu Youcai asked his subordinates to put on makeup and act as an internal response in the city, so how can Jiaozhou City not be broken?
Thinking of this, these officials and gentry all hated this Gu Youcai very much, and they all felt cold behind their backs, breaking out in a cold sweat, and they felt scared when they thought about it, if it weren't for Yu Xiaotian, they would really be unlucky if they didn't get it in the future, once the city of Jiaozhou was broken, they all became the fat sheep in the hands of the rebels, and they didn't know how to die.
Today, Yu Xiaotian took down this Gu Youcai, which is simply too correct, and this matter is next, Lord Nazhizhou was furious, and ordered to torture and interrogate the other two Gu Youcai's family members, and the two family members saw that the matter was exposed, so they did not carry it to the end, and nodded and confessed to the matter.
So Gu Youcai's charges were immediately confirmed, and Zhizhou trembled with anger, pointing at Gu Youcai who almost forgot Sven, and scolded him.
Yu Xiaotian said to Zhizhou with a smile: "My lord, this time I saved the entire Jiaozhou City by accident, so there is a reluctant request in the next, can you hand over this Gujiazhuang to the next as a military station?" You must know that in this Gu Jiazhuang, there are many family members surnamed Gu and Yan Ding, who may not be caught! It's better to hand it over to the next disposal as well! ”
This Jiaozhou Zhizhou only cared about secretly rejoicing at this time, and without thinking much about it, he nodded and agreed, but proposed to ask this Gu Youcai to interrogate him in person and convict him, and he must be cut by a thousand knives!
Yu Xiaotian immediately agreed, handed over Gu Youcai to the Jiaozhou government for disposal, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the cavalry to rush to Gujiazhuang immediately and start the operation.
In fact, when he came over this time, he had already made up his mind to take Gujiazhuang, and at this time, the cavalry had already passed in advance and surrounded Gujiazhuang, and then he waited for Yu Xiaotian to give an order and send additional personnel to take Gujiazhuang.
With Jiaozhou Zhizhou personally agreed, then Yu Xiaotian to take Gujiazhuang can be said to be reasonable and legitimate, that afternoon, the Gu family members in Gujiazhuang were forced to open the village door in a daze, and were tied up by Yu Jiajun and sent to Jiaozhou City, but he secretly left a hand, detained some of the younger women, and sent them to the camp of Fushan, and the next step was to transfer back to Taiwan Island, women! Now they are so lacking! It would be a pity to hand it over to the government and turn around as an official prostitute! Hehe! Let's keep it for themselves!
And at this time, Jiaozhou Zhizhou remembered that there must be a lot of money and grain hidden in Gujiazhuang, he didn't check it for a while, and actually forgot this, this time Gujiazhuang was taken by Yu Xiaotian, it was all equal to all cheap Yu Xiaotian, I don't know how much silver Yu Xiaotian wants to make this time, in short, this business seems that they didn't take advantage of it, but if you want to let Yu Xiaotian spit out these goods, it is estimated that it will be difficult.
Although this Jiaozhou Zhizhou was a little unwilling, but at this time he didn't dare to annoy Yu Xiaotian, after all, Yu Xiaotian was equivalent to saving the people in Jiaozhou City, and taking a little cheap was also a reward for him, thinking of this, he didn't mention this matter again, and the case was concluded in two days, Gu Youcai was directly put out, and he was sentenced to death, that is, Ling Chi's punishment, and he was cut off on the street.
When the soldiers and civilians in Jiaozhou City heard this, they all went crazy with anger, and when they learned that they were going to chop Gu Youcai, they ran to spend money to buy a piece of Gu Youcai's meat, and swallowed it alive immediately.
This Gu Youcai can be regarded as following in the footsteps of Yuan Chonghuan, but Yuan Chonghuan's death is still a bit of a loss, but this guy can be said to have died a real honor, and he deserves it, he is a big fat man, and in the end he was stunned by the executioner and cut it into a finger-sized piece of minced meat, which was sold to those excited city people and eaten raw, so that the executioner also made a small fortune.
As for some of the people involved in this matter, they were also executed, and they were immediately beheaded and abandoned the city, and some people who did not commit crimes to death were sent or imprisoned, in short, the Gu family of Gujiazhuang was completely broken at this time.
And the gentry and squires outside the city, looking at the fate of the Gu family, although they also felt relieved, but some of them felt shudder at the same time, after all, although they did not collude with the rebels, they also contacted the rebels in private, especially several large families in the north of the city, and they felt that the general soldier surnamed Yu from Fujian was not easy to mess with.
The next step is to go to Pingdu to quell the rebellion, in case they catch any of their tricks, will they be the next ones to exterminate the clan?
As soon as they thought of this, these big families couldn't sit still, and they also found out from this matter that this surnamed Yu was not a reckless and rough man, but the scouts had already been sent out before the soldiers and horses moved, God knows if he was also staring at them, if they were targeted by him, they would be unlucky.
Yu Xiaotian also saw the psychology of these people, and asked his subordinates to take a list of local big households, and went door to door to ask them for help, for those big gentry who have no ghosts in their hearts, they can naturally ignore it, and it means that they are pulled down a little, but for those who have ghosts in their hearts, the people of the Yu family army who come to ask for help are like ghosts urging them to die.
These people who have ghosts in their hearts naturally don't dare to slack off, for fear that the other party will also catch their handle, and they don't dare to take advantage of it and not give it, so they have to pinch their noses, take out a lot of money and food, take people like grandsons, pull them up in a cart, and send them to Gujiazhuang, which has now been recruited by Yu Xiaotian as a military station.
This time knocked out Gujiazhuang, for Xiaotian, the harvest was so big, so that Yu Xiaotian and his subordinates were a little dumbfounded, they searched in Gujiazhuang, all kinds of hidden silver coins, converted into cash, more than 60,000 taels, it can be seen how much wealth the Gu family has accumulated in the past hundred years, and in addition, in Gujiazhuang, a thousand stones of sea salt have been copied.
Even if these private salts are sold at wholesale prices, they are at least worth a few thousand taels of silver, and as for other silk silks, gold and silver jewelry, not to mention, summed up, excluding Gujiazhuang's real estate, they are worth at least nearly 100,000 taels, and these silvers are enough to give him a few months' salary.
So doing this kind of thing is Yu Xiaotian's favorite thing, such a guy has no psychological burden at all when he kills, and he can still make money, so why not do it?
In fact, the biggest gain from the Gu family this time is not these goods, but this time they have eliminated a huge smuggling network of smuggled salt in the entire Jiaodong area.
And the sale of illicit salt is a trade with huge profits, and the salt lords over there in Nanzhili, which one is not rich? But if Yu Xiaotian rashly wants to insert a lever here and also do private salt trading, it will definitely attract a counterattack from the local Gu family, including those who are not familiar with the place, and it will be quite difficult to open the market.
But he didn't expect that as soon as he arrived here this time, the Gu family himself sent the door and handed a huge handle into his hands, and he didn't know if it was because he was too lucky, or if the Gu family was too unlucky, he couldn't even dream of a good thing, so it smashed on his head.
At the same time of killing the Gu family, Yu Xiaotian did not kill all these people of the Gu family, but selected a few key people who understood the entire illegal salt trafficking channels to stay, as long as they mastered this group of people, then it was equivalent to mastering the network of illegal salt sales in the entire area, and they could take over this network almost effortlessly, and soon they could continue to use this network to make a fortune, and at the same time, they could also use this network to establish an intelligence network here.
This is something that the advance personnel he sent before couldn't do it at all, but this time it was easily solved by him, Yu Xiaotian was in Gujiazhuang, sitting on a Taishi chair, happy to see his teeth and not his eyes, how could he encounter cheap things in this world? Now he was happy.
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