Chapter Ninety-Six: Corrupt Officials
Zhao Jiao didn't know what was going on outside, it was pitch black, she only heard bursts of shouts, and even occasionally heard the sound of knives and sticks, and the chaos was probably not far from her.
I stayed up until dawn, and I didn't wait for Cai Dacheng, and I hurriedly asked Huangshan, what happened?
"Madame, rest assured! The gang of thugs who besieged the government office last night has been cleared and the leaders have been hanged.
Now I'm busy with the aftermath, and I want to come back after a meeting. ”
After a while, it was late afternoon, and Cai Dacheng came back with blood stained all over his body.
"Don't be afraid! No matter how powerful they are, they don't dare to resist the court in person, so they dare to act secretly, my body is all bloody, and I am not injured! Cai Dacheng saw that her face turned pale with fright, and hurriedly comforted her.
Zhao Jiao pressed her heart at this time.
The next day, Cai Dacheng was busy again, and he didn't see anyone for several days.
At this time, in the Yizhou Mansion, all the officials of the original government have been arrested and put into the government prison, and now they are standing under the hall as a government officer, it is Zhu Quan, Huang Shan and a group of guards.
Cai Dacheng sat in the main hall, and Liu Xiangshan, the former governor, had put on a flail and a lock, kneeling under the hall.
And with him, there is also a white fat official, who was formerly known as Wei Xunwen in Yizhou.
"Liu Xiangshan, when the imperial court recommended you as the governor of Yizhou, it was hoped that you could lead the officials under your rule to help the people rebuild their homes and solve the suffering of floods, so as to avoid their displacement due to disasters, so that they can survive the disaster year safely.
But what about you? has been in office for two years, but he is so unworthy!
The people of Yizhou not only have to endure the hardships of flooding, but also have to bear all kinds of persecution caused by your incompetence: rampant banditry, excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and extortion, you can really do it!
You have read the Book of the Divine Word for so many years, but you have ignored thousands of people, what a vain and innocent death!
Come, put him in prison, and pronounce the sentence in public on a later day!
As for you, Wei Xunwen! Cai Dacheng gritted his teeth and said,
"You're a fucking dog!
Animals know how to protect their young, their kind, but what about you? ”
Wei Xunwen knelt silently, not resisting or asking, he knew that he would definitely die.
"Bring it on!" Cai Dacheng scolded, and the guards immediately brought up a group of people.
"Humph! Can't you do it? I'll show you this time!
I think they have ruined a lot of people because of your status!
Come on! Split that old thing's five horses! ”
With his order, five guards immediately came up, holding five ropes, tied the limbs and neck of the short and fat old man respectively, and then pulled out the door.
But after a cup of tea, there was the neighing of horses outside, followed by a scream, and then only the guards faintly heard, "Take that leg with ......"
Wei Xunwen's face turned pale, he didn't expect Cai Dacheng to be so cruel and kill his father when he came up, and he didn't expect that the family members who had been transferred by him would actually be found by him!
"Come on! I heard that this mother-in-law has done all the bad things? Enjoying bullying your subordinates all day long?
Give her some sweetness first, and pull out the fingers of her toes one by one!
Doesn't she just like to pull out people's nails and cut out people's tongues? Give her all the enjoyment! ”
Mrs. Wei takes pleasure in pulling people's nails and cutting people's tongues for fun, but when it is her turn, she trembles with fright, keeps begging for mercy, and asks her son for help from time to time.
But the guards didn't stop with her plea for help, but five people came up, one pressed one limb, and the rest held the torture instrument, first put the five fingers of his right hand inside, clamped and pulled hard, and it was useless!
After that, he pulled out his nails again, making Mrs. Wei miserable and howling non-stop, fainting, waking up and dizzy!
Although Wei Xunwen is brutal and unkind, he is a rare filial son.
His father died tragically, and his mother was humiliated and tortured in front of him, he was extremely sad and angry, raised his head, and stared at Cai Dacheng with his fierce eyes, "You will have retribution!" ”
"I don't know if there will be retribution for the time being, but it is true that your father and mother suffered retribution because of your unkindness!
But don't worry, that's the appetizer! Compared with your Wei family, it can be regarded as a small thing!
Go on! The next one is his son, I heard that it is four generations of single transmission! ”
As Cai Dacheng's words fell, another scream resounded through the sky, and Mrs. Wei woke up in pain, accompanied by the abolition of her left hand!
She immediately cried and scolded her son for not saving him when he saw death!
This is a typical bullying of the soft and afraid of the hard, and she didn't dare to come to the guards and Cai Dacheng, so she could only find her son who could bully and abuse, but she was gagged by the guards, and then she fainted, because she couldn't use her three-inch tongue to scold people in the future......
And other family members were so frightened that they were trembling, and there were not a few who peed their pants on the spot.
"Stop... Stop...! I know I'm full of evil, and it's up to you to dispose of it!
But please let my family go, if you can let go, I will confess, and I will know everything! ”
For the sake of his son, as well as for his mother and other family members, Wei Xunwen finally lowered his head and fell to the ground.
"Humph! Then it's up to you to be honest or not!
If what you've told me doesn't work, you've heard of my methods! ”
Cai Dacheng glanced at Zhu Quan, who understood, and with a wave of his hand, the guards stepped forward and dragged all the Wei family members down.
"The criminal minister was originally the current Quzhou Governor Taiwang as a student of the people......" Wei Xunwen slowly said the list of officials related to him and the evidence of collusion, hoping that Cai Dacheng would open up the net - let his only son go.
Wei Xunwen's family is a rich man, when he was ten years old, his father donated a five-entry house and one hundred acres of fertile land to the Wang family, who was a person-upper, and the fertile land was also attached to the second-entry grange, and the entire donation was close to three thousand taels.
Why donate so much? Just looking for a master to study? In the final analysis, it's not a troubled world!
Since ancient times, the status of merchants has not been high.
Most famous masters, for the sake of reputation, do not accept the sons of merchants like Wei Xunwen who are full of copper smell at all, and they can't even borrow ordinary disciples.
But the Wei family is eager to change their court, because if they don't change their identities, it won't be long before they will be bullied and bankrupt!
In the troubled times, all kinds of bullying and exploitation, harsh government and taxes are like cattle hairs, and if you earn a hundred taels, you have to accompany them out for ninety taels, and you have to keep half of the money earned in the end, which can be used for emergency relief at any time.
It can be imagined how badly the Wei family was bullied at that time!
Wang Weimin himself was not a scholar with a noble character, and for the sake of money, he reluctantly accepted Wei Xunwen.
Unexpectedly, this Wei Xingwen is still a little clever.
The brain is congenitally smart, good at meeting left and right, and he has a good reading attitude and can draw inferences from one another, and in less than a year, he was accepted as a personal disciple by Wang Weimin.
The Wang family was not wealthy, but because of the Wei family's donation, they had the money to continue studying.
When Wang Weimin was thirty years old, he was admitted to the Jinshi, and since then he has entered the ranks of officials, and his identity has also taken a big step.
Wei Xunwen also followed the rising tide, Tongsheng, Xiucai, Juren, Master, and County Order......
Step by step, he followed the master and embarked on a career and became the spokesperson of Wang Weimin to the outside world.
And he also lives up to the trust of Wang for the people, every term, regardless of the size of the position, he can always quickly gain a firm foothold, and he does not forget Wang Weimin, everything is based on his horse.
This made Wang Weimin satisfied in his heart, and Wei Xunwen became his confidant from then on, and sometimes his words were more effective than Wang Weimin's son.
This situation lasted until two years ago, when Wang Weimin became the governor of Quzhou and became the supreme governor of a state.