Chapter 51: The Dust Settles
Looking at the Zhang family disciples who rushed over, Zhao Hua frowned slightly, slowly raised his right hand, and the sergeant standing in front dodged to both sides, revealing the crossbowmen and archers who were waiting in battle behind. The fastest and most stable update is to see the latest chapter of Perfect World.
Since the last time he wiped out Wang San's gang of water bandits, Li Yuntian had added fifty new hard bows to the Inspection Division, which made the Inspection Division have fifty crossbowmen and fifty archers, which could provide sufficient long-range kill.
Seeing this, Zhang An gritted his teeth, did not stop, and continued to rush forward.
For him, it's not just as simple as losing his property, he has a life in his hands, once he is found out, he will be unable to escape death, it is better to save the Zhang Youde brothers, maybe there is a glimmer of life.
Zhao Hua wanted to use those crossbowmen and archers to scare away the children of the Zhang family, but seeing that they were still rushing over, he shook his head helplessly and suddenly put down his right hand.
In an instant, arrows rained down, and Zhang An and the others who were running in front were immediately shot into hedgehogs.
The crossbowmen and archers took turns shooting arrows in an orderly manner, and the children of the Zhang family soon fell in large numbers, and the wounded man lay on the ground wailing in pain, and his voice was extremely sad.
Those children of the Zhang family show off their power on weekdays, and it's okay to bully the ordinary people, where have they encountered this kind of life-and-death battle, the rest of the people were immediately frightened, hurriedly retreated, and fled back to the Zhang family's compound with a bang, and slammed the door.
If it weren't for Zhang Hua not letting the crossbowmen and archers chase after him, I'm afraid more people would have been killed.
Under Zhao Hua's order, the sergeant of the Inspection Division rushed over and smashed open the gate of Zhang's Mansion with the knocking wood that had been prepared for a long time, and now he is here to seal it, but he will not politely knock on the door and enter.
"Inspector Zhao, for the sake of our past feelings, let them live." Zhao Hua entered the courtyard surrounded by the sergeants, and the thin and tall clan elders led several clan elders of the Zhang family to greet him, and knelt in front of him.
Behind the tall and thin elders, the children of the Zhang family who were carrying swords were bloodless and trembling, looking extremely frightened, obviously frightened by the scene just now.
And according to their previous actions of attacking the officers and soldiers with weapons, Zhang Hua could have ordered them to be killed, and it would be a great achievement at that time.
"Those who descend will not die!" Zhao Hua glanced at the tall and thin clan elder expressionlessly, and said in a deep voice to those children of the Zhang family, he also has some friendship with the Zhang family, and the villagers have not wanted to kill too much for many years.
Bang dang, bang dang......
As soon as Zhao Hua's words fell, those children of the Zhang family threw away the weapons in their hands in a panic, who could take care of the others at this time. The update is the fastest and most stable
"The magistrate of the county has an order, if there is any illegal behavior during the seizure, it will be severely punished." Under Zhao Hua's strict order, the sergeants of the Inspection Division rushed to the courtyards everywhere.
For a while, Zhangfu's chickens and dogs jumped, crying and shouting, all rooms were sealed, men, women and children were driven to the front yard, and they gathered together in the dark.
After counting the number of people at the scene, Zhao Hua asked his sergeants to escort these people from the Zhang family to the prison of the Inspection Department.
On the road, the people in the town crowded on the side of the street to watch the excitement, pointing and discussing at the Zhang family who were hanging their heads, who would have thought that the Zhang family, who was showing off their martial arts in Baishui Town, would also become a prisoner one day?
With the seizure of Zhang's mansion, the people of Hukou County set off a craze to go to the county government to sue the Zhang family, some involving human life, some commercial disputes, and some of the Zhang family's bullying or forcible seizure.
Not only did the Zhang family encounter unprecedented trouble, but the county government was also turned upside down, Yang Yungui led people to begin to check the accounts of the six rooms of the county government, especially the grain payment of last year's autumn tax was the focus of the investigation, because Li Yuntian handed over Zhang Youde to collect the autumn tax, which made it a strict corruption situation, and at this time it just gave Zhang Youde and Zhang Youde's men a heavy blow.
This investigation does not matter, Yang Yungui found that there were many false accounts in the sixth room of the county government, involving huge funds, so Li Yuntian reported to Jiujiang Mansion, and Jiujiang Mansion sent people to investigate.
At the same time, there was also good news that the Poyang Lake bandit Wang San was arrested after being reported by someone and was captured by Li Manshan and his people from a country hut.
This incident caused a shock in the prefecture and county along Poyang Lake, and no one could have imagined that Li Yuntian could capture Wang San alive, which also made those water bandits in Poyang Lake very jealous of him.
Li Yuntian spent the whole month of June busy, and the affairs of the Zhang family and the county government caused the Jiujiang Prefecture and Jiangxi to send personnel to supervise the handling of the case, first, to show the importance of these two major cases, and second, to share some credit from them.
Looking at the whole of Jiangxi, it is difficult to have such a big case as the evil of the Zhang family in Hukou County and the corruption of the county government, and there are two cases at one time, and the major yamen naturally want to come over and get involved.
This is also why Li Yuntian said that the bigger the case, the better, and the bigger the case, the greater the credit, the more people who receive the credit, and the more solid the case will be.
Once someone wants to come and find trouble, then without Li Yuntian doing anything, the people above will naturally push the other party back.
Because the two cases are of great importance, the Jiangxi Inspector Du Peng personally sat in the town to supervise the handling, which was also something that Li Yuntian could not ask for, and at that time he would have to convey the two cases to the court through Du Peng's mouth, so that the civil and military officials would know that there was a magistrate in Hukou County who had cracked two major cases in a row.
Not only that, after Wang San was arrested, Li Yuntian wrote a recital to Emperor Yongle in the name of the resumption, which was regarded as officially ending the matter of the water bandits in Baishui Town, and at the same time, this was also to deepen Emperor Yongle's impression of him.
Emperor Yongle had already forgotten about this matter, so Yang Shiqi not only handed over Li Yuntian's recital, but also inadvertently "casually" mentioned the two major cases that were investigated by Li Yuntian in Jiangxi.
After reading Li Yuntian's recital, Emperor Yongle smiled slightly, and didn't say anything, just asked the chamberlain beside him to write down Li Yuntian's name, and then flipped through the following recital.
Seeing this, Yang Shiqi's eyes couldn't help but flash a hint of joy, this seemingly small move showed that Emperor Yongle had begun to pay attention to Li Yuntian, and the information related to Li Yuntian would be collected and stored by the inner servants to make a book, so that it would be convenient for Emperor Yongle to consult at that time.
In mid-July, the curtain finally came down on the two major cases in Hukou County, which were called the Hukou Zhang case because there were Zhang Youde in the two major cases.
Including the Zhang Youde brothers, a total of more than 30 people were sentenced to death and more than 100 people were exiled in the Hukou Zhang case, which can be described as the largest case in Hukou County and even Jiujiang Prefecture.
The death sentence has already been reported to the Criminal Department by the Jiangxi Provincial Prosecutor's Department, and judging from the current situation, the Criminal Department is likely to sentence Zhang Youde and others to be executed.
In other words, Zhang Youde, who has been in Hukou County for 20 years, will be beheaded at the autumn of this year.
In the Hukou Zhang case, more than half of the criminals were members of the Zhang clan, which made the Zhang family suffer a devastating blow in Hukou County, and its clansmen moved to other places one after another, gradually returning to the insipid, and being forgotten by the people of Hukou County.
Because of the seriousness of the case, Zhang Youde and other criminals sentenced to death will be detained from the Hukou County Prison to the high-security government prison, where they will wait for the Ministry of Criminal Justice to approve the death sentence, and then be beheaded at the execution ground in Jiujiang City.
The night before Zhang Youde left the Hukou County Prison, in a side room of the prison, Li Yuntian sat solemnly at a square table full of wine and food.
After a short time, the cell boss brought into the room Zhang Youde, who was disheveled, haggard, and glazed-eyed, with heavy shackles on his hands and feet, and made a rattling sound with every step.
Seeing Li Yuntian, Zhang Youde's cloudy eyes lit up, and he looked very surprised, as if he didn't expect Li Yuntian to come to see him.
Unlike Qin Yi and Feng Hu, who have been repaired to an inhuman shape, although Zhang Youde is not in good spirits, he has no injuries on his body and has not been tortured.
First, he knew that the general trend was gone, and he happily confessed to the crime, and secondly, Li Yuntian did not let the cell boss particularly "take care" of him, as long as Zhang Youde did not do anything dangerous to his family, he was still willing to respect Zhang Youde, a person who could not be called an opponent.
"Open his handcuffs." Li Yuntian glanced at Zhang Youde and ordered the cell boss in a deep voice.
The cell boss hesitated, let people open Zhang Youde's handcuffs, and then took the person away with humor.
Now Li Yuntian has become the out-and-out master of the county government of Hukou County, and after taking down Zhang Youde, the officials of the county government and the officials of the third class are all afraid of his three points.
"Sit." Li Yuntian stretched out his hand to Zhang Youde, pointed to the seat opposite and made a gesture of please.
"Is Lord Prefectural here to see the Reservoir Dog?" After Zhang Youde sat down, he looked at Li Yuntian mockingly, his eyes full of hatred.
"This official is here to see you off." Li Yuntian ignored Zhang Youde's ridicule, picked up the wine jug and poured him a glass of wine, poured another glass for himself, looked at him expressionlessly and said, "Anyway, you did a lot of things for this official during that time, and you can be regarded as having the friendship of master and servant." ”
As he spoke, Li Yuntian picked up the wine glass and raised it to Zhang Youde, Zhang Youde hesitated, took the wine glass and drank it all, and put the wine glass on the table heavily.
"Do you know why this official is cruel to you?" Li Yuntian immediately finished drinking the wine in the cup and asked quietly.
"You...... Do you know about the green calyx? Zhang Youde was slightly stunned, feeling that Li Yuntian had something to say, and then he thought of something, and looked at Li Yuntian with a surprised face.
Since he was held in solitary confinement after being arrested, he had not seen Qin Yi and Feng Hu, so he naturally did not know that Li Yuntian already knew about Qin Yi's attempt to rape Green Calyx.
"It's just one of them." Li Yuntian put the wine glass in his hand on the table, his eyes flashed coldly, and he said in a deep voice, "First, you shouldn't try to manipulate this official, you must know that this official is the respect of a county, you have committed a big taboo; Second, you should not collude with water bandits to kill the people, this is an unforgivable capital crime, and it is intolerable to heaven; Third, the green calyx is the personal maid of the official, how can others be allowed to blaspheme? ”
"If there is only one, the official will not let you go, let alone three." After finishing speaking, Li Yuntian got up and stood up, glanced at Zhang Youde, who was like ashes, walked towards the door, and said as he walked, "Everyone knows each other, and the official will let you go on the road clearly." ”
The cell boss guarding the door saw Li Yuntian come out, nodded and sent him out of the prison.
In the room, Zhang Youde sat on a chair, his eyes were full of complicated looks, with remorse, chagrin and grievance, and at the same time strong unwillingness.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, it's too late to say a qiē now, the era when Hukou County belongs to him has passed, and a new chapter will be opened.