Chapter 163 The Fall of the Family
The head of the Zhang family saw that his aunt was involved in the matter on his wife, so he was angry and shouted: "Nonsense, how can you bite Mrs. ”
Bai Ziyu ignored him, and then asked, "Where is Mrs. Zhang?" ”
Mrs. Zhang was helped by the maid to step forward, this is a woman in her forties, her face is calm and self-assured, although the situation is unfavorable, she is not panicked, but she is worthy of being the housewife of the family.
Bai Ziyu knew that this woman was not easy to deal with, but she didn't disturb her train of thought, but asked, "Did Aunt Yuan deliver the title deed to you?" ”
Mrs. Zhang replied lightly: "I handed it over, saying that it was my birthday and honoring me." ”
Bai Ziyu sneered, and then asked, "When you received the title deed, didn't you ask her where she came from?" ”
"The subordinate helped collect it, and I didn't ask at the time?" Mrs. Zhang's expression was very calm, as if everything was a trivial matter, and it had really happened, but everyone present knew in their hearts that it was really a ghost.
Yun Yuhong took out a stack of paperwork from the clever ghost, and snorted coldly: "You can quibble, this turned out from your bedside." You have received a lot of gifts for your birthday, and they are all newly divided cultivated land, and the most coincidental thing is that the Zhang family used to have land, connected to a piece of land. ”
Yun Yuhong threw the paperwork on the table and said angrily: "Look at it, you are so deceitful, deceiving the government, and occupying the land, where do you put my father's will, where do you put my father's love for the people, and where do you put these poor people." Now that the facts are in front of us, and we are still arguing with clever words, are we all fools? ”
Mrs. Zhang was frightened and couldn't answer for a while.
Yun Yuhong turned his head and instructed the guards: "The facts are already there, there is no need to re-interrogate, come here, put the Zhang family in prison, confiscate the property of the Zhang family, and at noon tomorrow, all those involved in the land sale will be executed, and the others will be sent to serve in the bitter cold land." ”
Mrs. Zhang was anxious and shouted, "Ghost King, you are gracious!" Listen to me. ”
The head of the Zhang family was also anxious, and shouted: "Ghost King, you can't do this to me, the Zhang family is one of the top ten families, you move the Zhang family, you have to think about the consequences." ”
It's just that the guards' movements are very fast, and the first ones they take down are the head of the Zhang family and Mrs. Zhang, and it is useless for others to shout and shout, these people are Yun Yuhong's personal entourage, and when they saw Yun Yuhong, they were really angry, and their movements were naturally very fast.
The others were also taken aback, especially those who also did tricks, they were a little scared, once the ghost king found out, would they also follow in the footsteps of the Zhang family? Of course, the top ten families are in the same spirit, and the Zhang family is like this, they should also think of ideas, otherwise they will be the next to be cut, but they will ask the ghost king for mercy together, or will it be hard again? Several heads of the family looked at each other and made a look, meaning not to speak first, and then discuss countermeasures when they go back.
Yun Yuhong looked at Grand Prince Liu and said: "Lord Liu, if there is such a problem with the officials under you, you can't escape the blame, so leave the errand in your hand to Mr. Ning first, and you can rest for a few days first." ”
Liu Dagongzi's face was disgraced, and the ghost king entrusted him with a heavy task and let him fully preside over the distribution of land, but he, he was negligent in control, and such a big mistake really made him shameless, and naturally he had nothing to say.
Yun Yuhong looked at the other family masters, and said to the clever ghosts and unlucky ghosts: "Since the heads of the family are here, just wait for two days and then go back, the stamens, calyx, the two of you will each bring someone to check the directory, if there is no problem with these families, call their family members to pick them up, if there is a problem, it will be handled like the Zhang family." ”
The family immediately exploded, and one of the family heads shouted: "Ghost King, we have not made a mistake, and you have no reason to detain us." The other cried out, "Devil King, tell me what your purpose is, and you can't do this to us." ”
Yun Yuhong looked at the heads of the family coldly, let them make noise but didn't speak, but this cold gaze was like a basin of cold water, and it was splashed on everyone's heads, and there were a few people who could be justified when they did bad things, so under Yun Yuhong's gaze, these people gradually lost their voices.
Bai Ziyu stood up and said, "If there is a problem, the Ghost King will find out, and you can only stay for two more days to clear your suspicions." Those who are afraid must have ghosts in their hearts. I'll take care of this myself. If you are afraid of favoritism on the part of the Ghost King, then we will have a public trial as we do today, so that everyone can come and watch, and everyone will argue in public about the merits. ”
The voices of the families were a little quieter, and there was no room for turning back when they were really tried in public. At this time, the heads of the family began to regret that they shouldn't have taken advantage of this, this was not the original Jade Snow Country, and the Ghost King and Prime Minister Bai were not as easy to fool as the former monarch. One wrong step can lead to the destruction of a century-old foundation.
Yun Yuhong was tired after a busy day, and was helped into the carriage by Bai Ziyu to go back to rest. But Bai Ziyu stayed with everyone. found a larger courtyard nearby, and Bai Ziyu set up a public government hall here, informing Shili and Eight Villages, so that all the people could come and watch. As long as the cultivators do not match the list or cannot get the title deed, they will send everyone here, and Bai Ziyu and Mr. Ning will take turns to try them.
Bai Ziyu is still good to the heads of the family, at least a chair is arranged for everyone in the hall, food is served when he is hungry, tea is served when he is drunk, and he can sleep crookedly if he wants to. However, how could these people still have the heart to eat and sleep, since the clever ghost sent someone to send the first farmer, they have been in a state of fear.
Jiang Ruizhen also sat quietly with everyone, looked at the eldest prince Cao sitting on the side, and the two smiled bitterly at each other. Jiang Ruizhen's grandfather, the head of the Luo family, just said to him in private: "Ruizhen, you have to help your grandfather and help the Luo family." "It seems that the Luo family is also involved in this matter.
And the grandfather of the Duan family, the eldest prince of Cao, said to him: "Yuan Qi, how many soldiers and horses do you still have in your hands that can be mobilized?" "Grand Prince Cao was so frightened that he could still rebel for the sake of his grandfather Duan's family? What did he think of his Cao family?
The two of them sat there like pins and needles, and looking at the farmers who were sent one after another, the two of them were also secretly shocked: what are these people thinking, the ghost king is so easy to fool in their eyes? No wonder the ghost king didn't wait to see them as soon as he came, he was really greedy and didn't swallow elephants. From this point of view, these people did not really hand over the land, but changed their names and received them in their hearts, and they also took a compensation for nothing. This pit of money has been pit on the imperial court, and it is not an exaggeration for the ghost king to really cut them down.
Fortunately, Bai Ziyu didn't let the two of them wait too long, and the clever ghost and the unlucky ghost soon came to the word, there was no problem with the Cao and Jiang families, and the two of them could go first. The two of them immediately got up, hugged their fists to the others, and immediately turned around and left, leaving the Luo family master and the Duan family master to call behind them, but they didn't hear them at all.
It was already very late, and the two were walking on the way back to Beijing, and the eldest prince Cao asked: "General, what do you think of this, can the ghost king really destroy these people?" ”
"Why can't it, what are the ghost kings afraid of them, when they instigated the ministers to resign, the ghost kings didn't say a word, most of the things stopped at that time, and the ghost king didn't bow his head, now they still have any capital to negotiate with the ghost king?" Jiang Ruizhen frowned and said, he could already guess what the ghost king was doing, but he couldn't watch his grandfather's family being killed, and his heart was also entangled.
Grand Master Cao slapped his palm, "Why are these people so stupid, they are not honest when they just provoked the ghost king, this is looking for their own death, but, general, you really don't care about them?" Where is your grandfather? ”
Jiang Ruizhen bowed his head and was silent, of course he couldn't ignore the Luo family, but he didn't know the specific situation, so there was no way for a while.
This sleepless trial ended the next night, and six of the top ten families were involved in the case, and the Luo family and the Yi family did not participate in it. The Luo family is also a family of military generals, although it is not as famous as Jiang Cao's family, but there are still some military generals, although some of the descendants of the family have been revised, but there are many who want to develop in the army, so the effort is not in the accumulation of wealth.
The reason why the Yi family does not participate in this matter is simpler, the children of the Yi family are all learning literature, the Yi family is known for its poetry and book heirlooms, and it is destined to be the way of Wenchen, so it is bent on entering Beijing to develop, so what to do with the land, how to mix the children and grandchildren in the officialdom after leaving a pigtail, so this time it escaped.
Other families are not very good, Yun Yuhong's words are still very effective, once the evidence of the five families is conclusive, then they should arrest people, and they should copy their homes, and they are not ambiguous at all. In the past, the top ten famous families in Qiongcheng were reduced by more than half overnight, but the people did not feel panicked at all, but beat gongs and drums to celebrate warmly. The six great families fell, but they really got the cultivated land, and their future lives were settled.
Yun Yuhong really cut down all the people of the Zhang family, and the law field that day could really be called a river of blood. The Zhang family is not only involved in the steward, aunt, but also in the side branches, which can be said to be really involved. After this incident, the Zhang family was completely defeated.
The other five families were finally spared death on the plea of the Jiang family and the Cao family, but the family property was confiscated, and all the people were sent to serve in the border pass to atone for their sins. For a time, these families also became divided and went to the road of decline.
Of course, the matter of defrauding the territory is not over, Bai Ziyu specially arranged people to go to various places to make secret visits, once the problems were found, all the problems were dealt with seriously, and for a time many rich households who were cheating were arrested, and the law of land redivision was truly implemented, and the problem of Yuxue's shortage of cultivated land for nearly 50 years was temporarily solved.