Huguang pressed the prosecutor Gao Yifei to sit behind the case in the main hall of the prosecutor in official clothes, and gently took a red pen to draw a hook on the list of criminals, these thirteen people are all the culprits of obstructing the river embankment project, and they have been arrested by the government and brought to justice.

According to the work of the procuratorate, it is slightly different from the work of the previous procuratorate, not only to supervise hundreds of officials, but also to be responsible for civil and criminal cases under the system, since the imperial court resumed its rule over Huguang, the social order has become better and better, the economic momentum has developed rapidly, everything is so harmonious and orderly, as the work of Gao Yifei is relatively leisurely, but after the start of the river embankment project, the voice of discord has also come out.

The construction of the embankment is a hundred-year plan, sloppy, not every inch of the embankment must be carefully constructed with the best stones, along the land on both sides of the embankment is forbidden to cultivate, to build a shelter belt, during the construction of the requisition of houses along the way as a resting place for officials, excavation of diversion nullah for future flood discharge, which inevitably touches the interests of the local people.

To say that these ordinary people in Huguang are really not level, they have no political consciousness to give up their small family to take care of everyone, the imperial court is not building water conservancy for them, so that they can give up a little land, just like asking them to die, this is not just a few hundred acres of land expropriated, and a big mess has come, in Honghu County, upstream of Wuhan, there is such a thing: a local gang of vicious ruffians and villains instigated the masses who did not know the truth to besiege the officials who were carrying out normal land requisition duties, burned down three carriages, killed two officials, injured more than 10 officials and contractors, and officials have always adopted an attitude of tolerance and restraint, although there are iron rulers, steel knives and other sharp weapons in their hands, but they have not been used。 The rioters burned the local embankment construction headquarters, injured dozens of staff, and robbed tens of thousands of taels of silver, which directly led to the suspension of the embankment project, causing immeasurable economic losses and extremely bad social impact.

Due to the seriousness of the case, almost to the extent of a civil uprising, the local county government did not dare to deal with the report, and according to the prosecutor, Gao Yifei was furious, and personally rushed to Honghu County by boat, regardless of the fatigue of the journey, personally rushed to the scene of the incident, and directly went deep into the masses to understand the situation; Visited the Yamen and the vast number of officers and soldiers. After leaving the scene, immediately organize a meeting to listen to the report on the handling of the incident; Convene local yamen, garrisons, river patrols, contractors and other relevant officials to listen to the situation report; More than 30 chiefs and chiefs of seven townships and villages along the river and lake in Honghu County were invited to hold a forum to understand the situation and listen to opinions. At the forum, the vast number of security chiefs and chiefs enthusiastically expressed their deep sorrow over the incident, saying that the criminal acts of beating, smashing, and burning have seriously damaged the image of Honghu County and even Huguang, undermined the good economic and social development situation of Honghu County, and undermined the excellent situation of stability and unity in the whole province and the whole country. They have demanded that the imperial court severely crack down on a handful of criminals with ulterior motives and maintain social stability and harmony.

Mr. Gao pointed out that the Honghu smashing and looting incident was an incident that was instigated and used by people with ulterior motives, and even directly intervened and participated in by members of the underworld forces. The circumstances were egregious, the damage was serious, causing great property and economic losses, and affecting the stability of the country. Although now that the criminals have escaped, some of the stolen goods have been recovered, but we must not be accommodating dividends, and we must be tough to deal with Diao Min's court! He stressed that it is necessary to make a strict distinction between the participants in this incident, to give priority to criticism and education to bystanders and co-ordinators, and to strike hard at those who organize, plot, and commit violence, and must never be soft-hearted, and strive to build a safe Honghu County and create a good environment for the construction of river embankments and the construction of drainage nullahs.

Under the coordination of the inspector, the local garrison dispatched 500 men and horses, cooperated with the county officials, raided the village overnight, and successfully arrested the 72 underworld leaders who organized this evil incident that day, and then escorted them to the provincial capital, and the local people had no time to react, and after the leader was arrested, the group of dragons could no longer make trouble. The land that should be requisitioned has to be requisitioned, and the houses that should be demolished have to be demolished.

Gao Yifei was very proud of successfully extinguishing an infant civil uprising, he worked overtime to interrogate the criminals, sentenced 13 of the 72 criminals to beheading, and the others were all sentenced to 3,000 miles in exile.

After the matter was dealt with, Gao Yifei put down the red pen, picked up the tea bowl, blew the heat, and released the life of the officials very leisurely, the whole Huguang is basically his Gao Yifei is dominant, who doesn't know that he is about to ascend to the position of the governor, the political envoy and the commander have to look at their own faces, as for the current governor He Tengjiao is shouldering the heavy task of changing the land and returning to the Qincha, he is very busy, he has no time and no strength to manage the officials of his Donglin family, which is not the younger generation who has dealings with him, this is the careful arrangement made by the DPRK and the central government to consolidate his position。

From the vice-capital, Yushi, and Huguang according to the inspector, and then the governor of Huguang, this path has long been set, just to open up the relationship, go to the door, the silver two is not a few, if it were not for the brother-in-law Ma Yungao, who has a lot of money, it is difficult to stand out from many competitors, to say that this brother-in-law is really a talent loss business, never done it, just say that the river embankment project in his phase is a thankless deal in the eyes of others, and under his operation, it can become a fat and oily fragrant bait.

Ma Yun's successful operation is inseparable from his rich connections, if there is no Gao Yifei, the brother-in-law, who covers Lin Ruhai, the prospective father-in-law, with one eye and one eye closed. Those old friends in the Ministry of Industry helped to run, just one Ma Yun couldn't do it at all, and the silver from the river embankment project was given to these networks behind the scenes to do errands, so that they could earn a million taels of almost a penny, and they didn't have to work, there were secondary contractors, normal land requisition, and the Yamen came forward to negotiate and cause trouble, and there were judges, brothers-in-law, who should be killed, and those who should be killed were those who should be killed, and someone entered Beijing to complain, and they were not afraid of the yamen in the capital, and there were acquaintances everywhere, whether it was the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, or the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Jin Yiwei or something is open, let them sue and won't win.

The rules of the Ming Dynasty, officials in different places can not bring their families, this is in line with Gao Yifei's intentions, Huguang is rich in local beauties, plus refugees and many people who can't afford to raise their daughters, some people can buy a teenage girl for a casual seventy or eighty taels of silver, Gao has bought no less than ten maids after taking office, including many beautiful girls, so the life of Gao is very nourishing, is the so-called night as a groom.

Gao Yifei's son Kaohsiung was transferred from the capital by him and arranged to train in the Yamen of the Imperial History of the Patrol River, for young people, it is more suitable to be a royal history than to be a county official, easy to produce results, easy to be promoted, and through the cooperation with his uncle Ma Yun, he can also learn a lot of skills and build a lot of relationships, which is very beneficial to his son's future. What does this world depend on? In the final analysis, it is still a relationship, and it has nothing to do with the rise of the mob, what is there to climb high, and the miserable fall is the word prepared for these people, just say that Liu Ziguang, the most powerful Zhenwu Marquis in the limelight in the past two years, although one person is above 10,000 people, he is the prince, Shaobao, and the first-class marquis, and when he is a concubine or something, the dazzling halo is a big stack, but he climbed too fast, too high, the foundation is really unstable, except for his own Nanchang and Beiyang sailors, there are very few civil officials who really support him, there are no rich network resources, there is no way out just by virtue of personal relations with the emperor, sooner or later, one day the Zhenwu Marquis will fall from the clouds, Gao Yifei is convinced of this。

The official documents dealing with the 72 criminals have been sealed with fire paint and handed over to the messenger for the record with the Criminal Department, and the notices with the same contents have also been engraved and printed in thousands of copies, which have been widely posted in Huguang, especially in the prefectures and counties along the river, so as to achieve the role of making an example of one by one, and the river embankment project must not be affected in the slightest, and this is not because it has a bearing on the life and death of the common people, but because it has a bearing on the interests of many people.

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Zhao Wen in the capital, accompanied by the Peng sisters and Liu Xiaomei, went shopping, they took a four-horse horse-drawn four-wheeled luxury carriage, the four of them sat opposite each other, through the screen window, you can see the bustling street scene outside, the carriage is surrounded by 30 people, and hundreds of good hands wear civilian clothes to guard nearby, if the ladies want to go to which store to buy or taste snacks, someone will clear the scene in advance, and there will be no conflicts between the characters who are not eye-opening.

The prosperity of Nanjing is different from the prosperity of Xinbianjing, Zhao Wen's eyes are full of familiar and unfamiliar feelings, like a foreign country and like an old country, she was lying on the window to watch, and suddenly a group of onlookers on the street attracted her attention: "Hey, what are those people looking at?" Any fun tricks? ”

Hearing that Zhao Wen was interested, Peng Jingrong nodded to the leader of the guards who was always waiting to be sent outside, and the leader immediately brought seven or eight people over to coax the crowd to disperse so that the ladies in the carriage could take a look.

It turned out that a big girl who was watched by the onlookers who sold herself to bury her father was dressed in tattered clothes, and her body was dirty, only her little face was quite clean, and she could see a little bit of beauty, so she would be watched by everyone. The woman placed a rotten wooden board in front of her, and wrote four words with lime cut from the corner of the wall: Sell yourself to bury your father.

It is really shocking that such a thing as selling oneself to bury one's father appeared in such a harmonious capital, Zhao Wen frowned, and proposed to go over to ask what happened, the three women were also very curious, so the carriage stopped, the guards separated a road, and the four women came to the poor woman, Peng Jingrong asked: "Who is this girl?" Why did he fall into the capital and sell himself to bury his father? ”

When the woman heard someone asking, she raised her head, left two lines of tears on her face, and said: "The little woman is a person from Honghu County, Yueyang Prefecture, Huguang, who went to Beijing with her father to complain, and didn't want her father to die tragically at the entrance of the criminal department, so she sold herself to bury her father, and sent her father to her father, and I didn't dare to sue anymore, so I begged a few grandmothers to buy me." ”

The onlookers saw that Peng Jingrong and the other four were well-dressed and full of style, and they were all high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the ladies and ladies of the noble families all persuaded them to buy this girl, so as not to fall into the hands of bad people and fall into the dust, wouldn't it be a scourge for such a filial daughter.

Peng Jingrong was wondering why the complainant could die at the entrance of the criminal department, Zhao Wen had already started to uncover the straw mat covering the dead man, and saw an old man in thin clothes, covered with terrifying holes, his eyes were still open, and he seemed to be dead.

Peng Jingrong gasped and asked, "Ling Zun actually went to the Nail Board of the Criminal Department?" ”