Chapter 115, Bad Roots (Two Chapters in One)
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Jiang Chang's house, backyard, study.
Under the orange candle flame, Jiang Chang crouched on a few cases and worked hard to write, and after a while, he wrote a large number of small characters, and a young man who looked like a scholar stood quietly with his eyes half-closed.
At this time, Fang Gu's gloomy tone sounded in his mind: "What are you doing?"
"As you can see, even if the Jiang family is wiped out, I will never let you have a good time! Do you think I really believed your pretext two years ago? You're underestimating me! You are stabilizing me, why am I not stabilizing you? ”
Jiang Chang kept writing, sneered in his mouth, and then a sad color appeared in his eyes:
"The imperial court has sent officials to take over five times, how could I not know that the imperial court is going to take action against the Jiang family? can really let the people of the court sit firmly in the county guard, and they will lose their name and fundamentals, that is, let them collect and fabricate criminal evidence, and the Jiang family will be slaughtered!
I don't know that resisting the imperial court is a dead end, but I can't help it! You forced me! Where am I the protagonist of the first issue, I am clearly an outcast! O outcast!
In the past eight months, I have let my children go out under various names, but they have been sent back for various reasons, I know that this Qixia County is a predicament and a dead end, in this case, why might I pull you out, maybe you can still leave a bloodline.
I know that you can take the body, but the only thing you can take is some untouchable, who is a red natal qi. ”
After Jiang Chang finished speaking, he finished writing, he immediately stuffed the envelope into the bamboo tube, solemnly handed it to the young man, and then his knees weakened, knelt on the ground, and begged the young man: "Virtuous son-in-law, the Jiang family will please you, I don't regret dying, but I must leave a blood for the Jiang family!"
At this time, Fang Gu in his mind said leisurely: "I'm curious, aren't you curious at all, why did your virtuous son-in-law look at you talking to himself, but he didn't have any doubts at all, and even ...... What about burning the letter? ”
Jiang Chang knelt on the ground, his face was terrified and stiff, time seemed to freeze at this moment, a cool breath came out of his bones, and in a moment, his body was like falling into an ice cave, without the slightest problem, and his heartbeat seemed to have slowed down a lot.
He stared blankly at the precious green clouds on the feet of his "virtuous son-in-law";
watched the bamboo tube containing the letter be opened and thrown on the ground, touching the ground and making a crisp sound, bounced up, and fell again, and then rolled aside;
Watching the precious paper turn into black ash, wrapped in a wisp of green smoke and fall to the ground, shattered and scattered, he looked at the black ash, as if he saw himself.
He slowly raised his head and saw that the young man was smiling at him quietly, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said, "Are you happy?" Surprised? Isn't that surprising? Father-in-law! ”
When Fang Gu heard this, his face turned dark, and he opened his mouth to kneel.
When Jiang Chang heard this, his throat suddenly smelled of blood, and he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, he fell to the ground, his heart was sad, and he said angrily: "Father lied to me!" Brother lied to me! You're lying to me too, everyone is lying to me!
Brothers work together, and their profits are broken? My life is up to me, not heaven? Fair competition? It's all a lie! It's all a lie! It's all a lie!
I regret it! I should have accepted my fate, I should have accepted my fate, I accepted my fate, I wouldn't be where I am today! Father! The ancestors of the Jiang family! I have no shame to see you! I'm ashamed of you! It's all my fault, my fault! ”
Jiang Chang howled and cried, smelling tears and seeing sadness.
"Jiang Chang, after a year of hunting, the Jiang family took advantage of the cleaning of Qixia County to enclose land, I advised you not to exceed 10,000 acres, right? The result? You didn't listen, the Jiang family is dominant. Why do you think the imperial court sent people to Qixia County instead of going to other places?
In the fourth year of Hunting Ding, the locust plague in Qingzhou, I asked you to give porridge in front of Huaxu Temple in various counties of Qixia County, you didn't listen, saying that if you give porridge, those untouchables will only work at ease, but in fact, how many people have become tenants and slaves of your Jiang family?
During the nine years of Hunting, how many times did I persuade the Jiang family to restrain themselves and take out part of the land to resettle the displaced people who appeared after the Yellow River flood, but you sent people to drive them away, saying that it would affect public order.
There are many more, let me ask, the emperor is not targeting your Jiang family, who is he targeting?
Sometimes, I really don't understand that you wealthy people, one pariah at a time, one family at a time, are full of exploiting the people for their own benefit and then finding some high-sounding reasons.
You said that you praise Huaxu God, but since you became a county prince, you have never been to Huaxu Temple, today is too busy, tomorrow is too busy, your son is going to Huaxu Temple, you beat him half to death, saying that you don't want him to collide with Huaxu God.
Do you know why, after nine years of hunting, I never said anything to you? Because it's late. ”
"Yes, I beat him half to death at the beginning, I just didn't want him to be like me, every move was under the eyes of others, and then I found the signs and knew that it was not good, but I hoped that he was the same as me......"
The room fell silent, silent again.
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In Qixia County, the 5,000 soldiers and horses entered the city and turned into more than a dozen units to go in different directions, and the remaining 11 counties outside Qixia County also had soldiers and horses entering the city.
One by one, the doors of the houses were kicked open, the soldiers poured in, they were arrested when they saw people, and those who did not obey and resisted immediately hacked to death, and escorted everyone to the county office, and after a while, the county government knelt in front of the black oppression, and there were more than 1,000 people.
A brazier was quickly erected around it, illuminating the world.
All the officials of Qixia County were summoned, and they all looked at the two people on the steps of the county government with trepidation, one of them they recognized, it was the county lieutenant Zhang Ben, and the other was a middle-aged general with a scar in the corner of his eye, who looked not angry and arrogant, dressed in black armor, standing by his sword, as if he would draw his sword and slash at any time.
At this moment, Zhang Ben was reporting to the middle-aged general.
"Well, very good, Your Majesty didn't believe you wrongly, okay! Okay, do a good job, I'm optimistic about you. The middle-aged general patted him on the shoulder and smiled encouragingly.
Zhang Ben was slightly stunned, his heart seemed to be 100,000 alpacas galloping by, if it weren't for the fact that this middle-aged general didn't exist in the network, he almost thought that the person in front of him was the same as him, he felt that there must be something greasy here, and posted this matter on the internal network.
In the end, a person named Guo Jia said: "This is my pot, there is a scar in the corner of his eye, right?" At that time, during the Rebellion of the Six Kings, I once said to him when I was drunk, but I didn't expect him to use it on you after so many years.
Now, he should be in his early fifties, right? I still remember the first time he followed me to King Qi's camp and returned from a night raid with a confused look, but unfortunately, after all, I can't escape the rush of life for a hundred years! ”
"It turned out to be the great god Guo Jia! It's the first time I've come in, do you have any code words between you and him, let me pretend to be a coercive? ”
"People will become, now Langya Pavilion is a taboo, pretending to be forced is risky, don't spoil the big thing." Guo Jia refused, after so many years, pretending to be forced will only be a bad thing, and Langya Mountain, which was used as a disguise, has long been turned upside down, and the corpses have been dug up.
Zhang Ben was a little disappointed, but it's right to think about it, more than ten years have passed, who knows what it will become, so he gave up his plan to pretend to be forced, and asked casually: "Great God, what are you doing now?"
"Don't mention it, here in Siberia, there has been an abnormality on the Hu side recently, and the head of the family asked me to come over, and it took nearly a hundred random times to become the son of a tribal chief."
"Oh, you're busy, god."
Zhang Ben retracted his thoughts, it happened that all the relatives of the Jiang family were escorted, and some of the brainless were still clamoring for their identities, and there were always some people who were fascinated by the glory of the past and couldn't see the situation in time.
Immediately following these relatives, Jiang Chang and a young man were escorted by the soldiers.
"Jiang Chang, are you guilty?" The middle-aged general asked.
"What's the trouble of wanting to add sin?" Jiang Chang said expressionlessly.
The middle-aged general sneered: "I know that you will deny it, look at these people, have you ever seen them?"
Jiang Chang saw it, his face changed greatly, his face was blood-red and he said excitedly: "How is this possible?" Why are you all here? No! I don't know them! ”
"......" The smile that the middle-aged general had just overflowed was swept away in Jiang Chang's exaggerated performance, and for some reason, he always felt that this scene was a little familiar, and he brushed his beard and said secretly: "Why is this taste not right?"
Zhang Ben lowered his head and couldn't bear to look at it directly.
Jiang Chang also seemed to realize it, coughed twice, and seemed to alleviate the sequelae of the exhaustion just now, and then sneered: "Hehe, it's just a group of untouchables, the general wants me to do what I did just now, right?" That may disappoint you, General, I am Qixia Juncheng, and they are not qualified to know me. ”
The middle-aged general nodded slowly, and said secretly in his heart: "That's right." It's just that why does it always feel a little worse? On the surface, he sneered: "Ben has long expected that you will not be caught."
He turned to those officials and said: "The Jiang family, with the intention of rebellion, has repeatedly expelled the imperial court to take over the officials by despicable means, the crime is unforgivable, you don't quickly count the Jiang family's crimes, and make a mistake, otherwise the axe will be added, don't say anything unprepared!"
When he said these words, there was a thought in his mind, I don't know if when Mr. Guo was appointed, he didn't think of them today, and he was sad when he said it, although he had only followed Mr. Guo for a few years, Mr. Guo left him with too much shock.
Don't say it unexpectedly, just tell these officials, let them be honest, don't wait for the axe to add to the body, blame him for not reminding them, and not giving them a chance.
And those officials looked at each other, and at this moment, the young man beside Jiang Chang suddenly said: "General, I have a list of his eyes and ears, as well as evidence of his crime of forcing those imperial court to take over the county guards, and he has let his heirs escape to Yangzhou through the secret passage." In fact, I hated it early on. ”
The middle-aged general was a little surprised, and then said with great appreciation: "Not bad! is my loyal minister, so you will take the position of the county leader! Do a good job, Ben will be optimistic about you. What about you? Have you figured it out? The last sentence was naturally addressed to those officials.
At this time, these officials were still unclear, and hurriedly expressed their loyalty, bitterly Chen Jiang's many major crimes, even if they didn't, they also fabricated criminal evidence, and in the end, there was actually a crime of Jiang's conscription to build a wine pond meat forest, which was eye-opening.
The next day, all the Jiang family's property was confiscated, and all the clansmen were killed, except for Jiang Chang's youngest son, who was not in the secret passage, nor in Qixia County, as if he suddenly disappeared, and then, the middle-aged general, in the name of covering up the crime, cleaned up all the wealthy families of more than 2,000 acres of land in Qixia County, and then gave the acres to the tenants at a low price and on credit.
And the county code of Qixia County is the one who was expelled before.
In the end, the protagonist of the first issue only lasted for 26 years, but the benefits brought by these 26 years are obvious, the entire Qixia County is under control, even if a new county guard comes, it is useless, it has been deeply rooted, from the county liecao, the main book, the county order, to the county Cheng, the county lieutenant and other 152 officials, all of them are Ji Xi's people.
A total of 300 people supervised all sides, although many people died, but it was just a surface, and the emperor only weakened Haoqiang, and did not dare to really clean the entire Qixia County, which would cause the sensitive nerves of other Haoqiang.
And the other states, it seems to be very powerful, but there is not enough protection, and it is okay not to make any money, as long as you deal with the ruffians and the bandits that pop up from time to time. But if it reaches the point of tea, paper, wine, salt, sugar, and paper, it is heaven and earth, and there is only one way to hand over the secret recipe and offer the family wealth, unless there is a hard enough backstage.
Especially Jingnan, once it is discovered, it will be a failure, unlike Qixia County, even if it is a few hundred years later, it will still be firmly held in his hands. It's a pity that there was originally hope to get closer to the state, even if it couldn't be an official, it took root.
"It's a pity." Ji Xi said expressionlessly: "Haoqiang's inferior roots! The plan can't catch up with the changes.,Choose the protagonist of the second phase.,At present, from the beginning of the dynasty to the present.,But 56 years.,It's still early from the troubled times.,At present, politics is still clear.,Mainly Wenzhi.。
It is best to choose someone who is in the middle of the road, is about 12 years old, and has suffered hardships. ”
"Yes."
"By the way, what's going on over there with the Hu people?" Ji Xi wondered.
"Two years ago, there were many Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, and the information was insufficient to deduce, so they sent the Immortals to investigate. In addition, the unification of the north has been completed, but there is a problem with the handover, and the man's son is in rebellion at the moment and does not agree to hand over the power to others. ”
"......" Ji Xi was also a little speechless, it is estimated that after this fight, even if the territory does not shrink, it will be greatly damaged.
"After selection, the list of qualified protagonists for the second phase is as follows."
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Ask for small dried fish.