Volume 2 A Light Walks in the Night Chapter 122 The Storm Descends (3)
Pang Ling's heart gradually sank when he heard this, and his face became more and more ugly.
The murder that happened at the dock and involved the cultivator's murder was handled by both the Jingzhao Mansion and the Governor's Mansion.
How to grasp this case in the hands of Jingzhao Mansion, so that the follow-up plot of Zhao's case will also enter Jingzhao Mansion logically, they have detailed arrangements and plans.
It is not possible to fight hard, and the two sides will quarrel and only alarm the upper echelons in the end. At that time, Zhao Xuanji and Xu Minglang will have their own opinions, and they will always fight in front of the emperor.
If Zhao Xuanji has a tough attitude, according to the current civil and military situation, Xu Minglang will not be able to suppress people with his power and make a decision in one word.
Although the argument continues, Xu Minglang may win, but as long as the two sides argue for a few days, the Zhao family, who finds that something is wrong, will have time to deal with and arrange.
Since the problem cannot be solved perfectly by fighting at the top, it can only start from the bottom. Using public sentiment and public opinion to influence the ownership of a case is undoubtedly the quickest and most appropriate.
As long as the people are surging and do not trust the Governor's Mansion, Jingzhao Mansion will be able to "conform to the people's will" and take the case over as a matter of course.
Just like when the Liu case broke out, Jingzhao Yin Pangsheng could not disobey in broad daylight in the face of the will of the people.
In any case, "parent officials" and "making decisions for the people" are all banners on the table.
So Pang Sheng, Pang Ling and others made arrangements early.
Not only did they lead the battlefield of today's battle from the cargo ship to the dock, exposing them to the public's eyes.
While fighting, he shouted loudly and accused Zhao of bullying and murder, establishing the tone of this murder in the hearts of onlookers.
Personnel were also arranged, and after the arrival of the official mission, they spoke out to guide everyone's ideological understanding and emotional position.
Everything went smoothly.
Especially after Zhao Ning personally brought people to the scene, Pang Ling was even more secretly happy, he thought that as long as he said Zhao Ning's identity, the crowd would no longer trust the Duwei Mansion.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Ning just said something seemingly impassioned, and he actually reversed the will of the crowd!
This made their two-month setup seem to be useless.
Why is this so?
Pang Ling's brows furrowed.
The collapse of the Goshawk Gang and the White Clothes Society, what is the matter with this group of dock ants, is it possible that the daughter of a relative in every family has been rescued?
The Liu family is gone, how much does it have to do with this group of people? The officials of Jingzhao Mansion, why are they not as good as the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion?
The Duwei Mansion has only straightened its waist for a few days?Is the dedication and kindness of the Jingzhao Mansion over the years so forgotten by this group of wolf-hearted grass people?
Outrageous!
Pang Ling, the son of a wealthy family who lives in rich and noble clouds, can't figure out how the hearts of these low-level people grow, let alone the scene in front of him.
He was not reconciled, so he immediately took a few steps forward, stood in front of Zhao Ning's side, and shouted loudly to the crowd without anger: "If the people of the Zhao family dare to kill people in public at the dock, Zhao Ning will dare to torture them in the Governor's Mansion to extract confessions!"
"How can he have a reason not to help his own family? When the people of the boat line enter the Duwei Mansion, they will enter the Longtan Tiger's Den, and there will inevitably be no bones left! What is the difference between believing in him and believing in murderers?!"
He said these words in a thousand words, and many people were calmed.
Seeing that many people became hesitant again, Pang Lian was overjoyed in his heart, and felt a sense of relief that "children can be taught", and felt that he should not have secretly scolded these people in the market for being fools.
So Pang Ling was in a good mood and continued: "What you should believe is Jingzhao Mansion!"
"The officials and officials of Jingzhao Mansion have governed this place for 100 years, not sheltering from the wind and rain to maintain order, arresting murderers, working hard to punish evil and promote good, investigating and prosecuting lawlessness, and paying a lot of blood and sweat for your peace and contentment.
"But we have never asked you for anything, we have never asked you to repay it, so can you not trust us?
"This official guarantees the credibility of Jingzhao Mansion, and Jingzhao Mansion will definitely handle this case impartially and make everyone satisfied!"
With that, the anger on Pang Li's face was gone, replaced by a kind smile, his eyes looking at the crowd expectantly, waiting for a satisfactory reaction.
Compared with lip service, Mendi Toshihiko will be afraid and lose to the disciples of Jiangmen?
No one will feel that they are hateful.
As an official, it is easier for you to feel that your errand is to contribute to the country and the people, and it is easier for you to feel good about yourself.
Of course, Pang Ling also has confidence in the prestige of the government in the people.
Now it is a peaceful and prosperous era, and it is not the end of the dynasty, he believes that the government is supported by all the people, and Jingzhao Mansion has a status in the hearts of the people.
However, the reaction of the crowd made the smile on Pang Ling's face gradually stiffen and became difficult to maintain.
The people who had already begun to doubt and were inclined to be persuaded by him, after listening to his remarks about Jingzhao Mansion, were silent, and their faces looked very strange.
So much so that those men who were mixed in the crowd raised their arms and shouted, taking the lead in shouting that they believed in Jingzhaofu's behavior, and how funny they could see without getting the slightest response.
The people recalled the bits and pieces of their lives.
Soon, they had an idea.
"I still believe in Zhao Gongzi and the Duwei Mansion. ”
"Yes, I'd rather believe in the Duwei Mansion than in the Jingzhao Mansion!"
"Let's go to the Governor's Mansion and see how this case is being heard. ”
"If the Governor's Mansion tortures to extract a confession, we will never agree!"
"A person like Zhao Gongzi shouldn't be tortured to extract a confession, right?"
"Just check it out!"
Listening to most of the people in the crowd saying such words, Pang Ling only felt that he couldn't lift it in his chest, and then his face turned red, and he had the urge to spray these fools on the spot.
Can't you understand people's words? What the official said is that Zhao Ning will protect the people, and he said that Jingzhao Mansion has paid a lot for the people!
Why is this the result again? The official didn't touch the Jingzhao Mansion and didn't praise the Duwei Mansion! Don't these little people have any brains?
Zhao Ning glanced at Pang Ling, and said lightly: "Huge man, this official wants to take the people related to the murder case back to the Governor's Mansion to try the case." If you are all right, get out of the way, and don't get in the way or get in the way of your business. ”
Hearing this, Pang Ning was angry, his teeth creaked, and he couldn't wait to swallow Zhao Ning alive!
Zhao Ning saw that Pang Ling was not moving, so he pulled him aside, and then beckoned the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion to leave.
He knew what Pang Ling was thinking, and understood the other party's grief and incomprehension. That was also his mental activity.
In the previous life, when the national war broke out, although there were righteous soldiers like Youpinlou who sacrificed their lives to go to the country, not all the people were contributing to the war.
Especially in the middle and late stages of the war, it was difficult for the army to even recruit people and ensure the transportation of grain. Countless people would rather flee with their families to avoid the war than help the king and defend their homeland.
There are many reasons for this, but the most important one is that the imperial court and the government have lost the support of the people.
At that time, the princes in the court and the Jiangmen family who fought bloodily day and night did not understand this very much.
They all believe that under the prosperity of the Great Qi, the country is rich and the people are sufficient, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the country is in trouble, so it is reasonable for the whole country to work together to resist the enemy.
Why is the people's loyalty to defending their homes and the country much lower than expected?
It was also in the late stage of the war that Zhao Ning figured out the reason. There are many reasons, but the most important point is that the powerful and the government exploit and oppress the people too much.
If the people do not support the government, they will naturally not help the court, and if the people hate the government, they will hope to change the dynasty.
At that time, someone once said: If the country does not love me, how can I love the country?
This country does not refer to the state, but to the imperial court and the imperial dynasty.
The officials of Jingzhao Mansion, when they eat and drink when they patrol the streets, they always pay on credit. Accounts on credit will naturally not be repaid.
If someone sues the government, the official will pay some money to settle the account, and then the shop will soon be searched and sealed by the government for various crimes.
The official also colluded with the gangsters in the market, and tacitly accepted that the Goshawk Gang and the White Clothes would charge protection fees and share the profits.
The gangsters in the market have killed and disabled people, and the government has secretly blessed them, and the bitter master has no way to ask for help, and he will be retaliated against.
In order to shake off his prestige, to cover up his dereliction of duty, and to prove that he has done things for the country and the people, the officials of Jingzhao Mansion will beat and drive away the most vulnerable and incapable group - the old scavengers, saying that they pollute the neighborhood environment.
As for the beggars on the streets, who are dirtier than the scavengers, they don't care. Because the beggars have leaders, and the leaders will give them money.
And so on and so forth.
No matter how splendid and colorful this prosperous world is, it is also the powerful, the rich, not the low-level people.
For the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation, the people at the bottom still have to work hard, dare not get sick, dare not have accidents. They also have to bow their eyebrows in front of the officials, endure humiliation and steal their lives.
Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.
Pang Lin couldn't touch these.
In the previous life, Zhao Ning didn't realize these at first, what they saw was only the tax revenue that increased year by year on the official documents of the government, and the official articles written by the officials themselves about "harmony between the government and the people" and "prosperity in the prosperous era".
So Pang Ling is destined not to understand the scene in front of him.
He thought that if they planned and arranged well-planned actions, they could use public sentiment and public opinion to make Zhao Ning and the Governor's Mansion helpless.
But in fact, they have never listened carefully to and understood the real public sentiment and public opinion.
In the current Great Qi Dynasty, among the princes, ministers, and family magnates, only Zhao Ning can have a timely, accurate, and comprehensive insight into the crisis under the prosperous era through the skin of the prosperous era.
Because he is born again.
Pang Ling and others spent two months on the layout, and they thought they would be able to succeed, but they didn't know that Zhao Ning had already started to act when he came back from Daizhou last year. When the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion began to replace the Jingzhao Mansion and took to the streets in an all-round way, taking over the inspections of various places, it was also the time when Zhao Ning established his peerless authority in the Duwei Mansion.
He allowed the Governor's Mansion to make money and water, but only against the big merchants with a lot of money, and never allowed them to reach out to small shops and low-level civilians.
To this end, he dealt with one capital head, four team leaders, and a large number of government soldiers. These people were all expelled from the Governor's Mansion after he obtained the consent of the Governor Shi Xuan, without exception.
If he hadn't dealt with the case of Pingkangfang, destroyed the White Clothes Society and the Goshawk Gang, came forward to bring down the Liu family, and completely suppressed the Jingzhao Mansion, he had a deep authority in the Duwei Mansion, and he would not have been able to do this by relying on the family's momentum alone.
Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, the soldiers of the Duwei Mansion are trustworthy, especially with the comparison of the officials of the Jingzhao Mansion, this trust is established very quickly.
Pang Li's mention of "doing things for the people" before Jingzhao Mansion only reminded the people of the unbearable affairs of the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, so as to recall the benefits brought to them by the Governor's Mansion and become more trusting of the Governor's Mansion.
"Zhao Ning, this matter is not over, you don't want to take the culprit away!"
Pang Lingtie stopped in front of Zhao Ning with a blushing face, gritting his teeth and revealing a fierce look, "I don't know what you did, but I will never give you the case!
Zhao Ning suddenly smiled.
Laughing inexplicably, laughing weirdly.
Pang Lin really didn't know what he had done.
Mo said that he was just a Ponzi junior, a six-grade official, even if he was Pang Qingde, the head of the Pang family, even if he was the prime minister Xu Minglang, how could he really know what he had done?
They only knew that Zhao Ning's annihilation of the White Clothes Society, the overthrow of the Liu family, and the invigoration of the Duwei Mansion were a struggle for power.
How could they have thought that those were just the first link of Zhao Ning's plan, and what he really wanted to do in the second stage was to reverse the overall situation of the Great Qi government losing the support of the people and being hated by the common people!
He wants to rebuild the support of the people of Great Qi for the Great Qi Dynasty!
Only in this way, after the outbreak of the national war, can the Great Qi be able to work with one heart and one mind to defeat the strongest Tianyuan army that has never appeared in this world!
This is his fundamental intention to bring down the crime-ridden family and powerful ministers, and let the Governor's Mansion do not commit any crimes against the low-level people!
Today, Zhao Ning is to change the official atmosphere and the relationship between the government and the people in the Governor's Mansion and Yanping City, and tomorrow he will do this on a broader land.
It wasn't until the rulers of the Great Qi Dynasty took on a new look, and most of the people at the bottom were willing to fight for the country because their lives were still happy, not too much torment, and he was sure to completely defeat Beihu!
Only by defeating Beihu can he preserve this country - the country, not the imperial court, not the emperor, but the hundreds of millions of Li people on the mountains and rivers, a beautiful home to live and work in peace and contentment.
Preserve this country, so that she will no longer have ten rooms and nine empty rooms, no longer broken families, no longer white bones exposed in the wild, and no chickens crowing for thousands of miles.
Only in this way, the Zhao family is the Zhao family.
"You and I are not on the same level at all, one in the sky and one on the ground, the world you see, what you are doing, what you are pursuing, there is a difference between cloud and mud. ”
Facing Pang Ling, who was blocking the road, Zhao Ning said this sentence indifferently.
There is no sonorous tone, no words, no high-spirited tone to express your emotions, calmly like saying that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, which is a worldly truth that does not need to be emphasized at all.
At the same time, without waiting for Pang Ling, whose eyes were on fire, to speak, Zhao Ning had already clenched his fist with his right hand, and the thunder attacked, and it hit the opponent's lower abdomen with a bang!
The strength was so great that it directly made Pang Ling's back arch like a shrimp, his feet off the ground, and a mouthful of blood spit out on the spot!
Immediately afterwards, he grabbed Pang Ning's hair and pulled it violently, and at the same time bent his right leg, slamming the other party's face on his knee, Zhao Ning, who was expressionless, was still not shocked in his eyes:
"I don't need your understanding, and you can't. But if you dare to stand in my way, I will have to show you what cruelty is. ”
There was a heavy and muffled sound again, and there was the click of bone cracking, Pang Ling's body suddenly became soft, and his arms drooped.
Zhao Ning didn't look at Pang Li, whose face was full of blood and his teeth were falling out and his nose was collapsed, and he casually threw this Toshihiko Mendi, who was unconscious by him twice before he could react, and threw it on the ground like garbage.
Then his cold gaze swept over the faces of the officials of Jingzhao Mansion like a knife, and only one word came out of his mouth: "Get out!"
When the officials came into contact with Zhao Ning's wolf-like gaze, they couldn't help but take two steps back. The coercion that Zhao Ning showed at this moment was as heavy as a killing god!
It's as if he has died countless living people in his hands, and has experienced countless mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, and the next moment he will be like the king of Hades, pulling them all closer to hell!
This murderous aura made their hearts tremble and they were terrified.
There was silence for a while.
Except for Pang Ning, who was lying on the ground like a dead pig, everyone looked at Zhao Ning in fear, and they didn't dare to breathe.