Listening to the name, you know that He Wenkui's parents expect their children to be able to get ahead and become civil officials by virtue of the imperial examination.

This is also the consistent practice of many local tyrant landlords. When he was rich, he tried his best to let his children go to school, and then completed the advancement from a local tyrant to a squire.

But He Wenkui completely lived up to this name, not to mention that he had no talent for learning, it is said that when he was 12 years old, he killed the master who taught him, if it weren't for He Wenkui's parents to hide this matter at a sky-high price, He Wenkui had been directly killed by his father.

In these years, there is no law on the protection of minors, so there is still a certain degree of tolerance in the law towards children, but such a thing as beating one's own teacher to death is absolutely a deception of the teacher and the ancestors, and the whole society will kill the child.

However, the He family was rich, and after all, they still suppressed the matter.

I also formed a rather bad influence on He Wenkui, that is, let him know the charm and omnipotence of money, and He Wenkui began to completely go to a crooked and evil way.

Now, decades later, He Wenkui is more than 40 years old, and the entire He family has grown more than 10 times in his hands, and the land in his hands has reached tens of thousands of acres, and there are tens of thousands of tenants to cultivate for his He family and pay rent for him and his family.

But the way for the He family to make a fortune was not farming, but mining, and it was still a black mine.

As we all know, China has always been a very silver-scarce country, and the number of silver mines in the country is very small, far below the average. However, China is a country with a silver standard, and the value of silver as a currency in daily circulation is obvious.

And almost the entire people in Chuzhou know that He Wenkui has a silver mine in his hands.

This silver mine is not big, the annual silver output is only about 30,000 taels, after all, if it is big, it is not a local bully like He Wenkui who can stand.

No one knows how He Wenkui found such a cornucopia by shit luck, anyway, about 20 years ago, He Wenkui discovered this silver mine, and then mined it privately.

Of course, if it was only a private silver mine, Zhang Ruofei would not be interested in coming here to seek justice, after all, the silver mine was not opened by Zhang Ruofei. And if He Wenkui manages it properly and uses the money he earns to appease the people around him, he can even be regarded as a good person who has made a difference.

However, He Wenkui's methods are outrageous.

Because it is a black mine, He Wenkui did not dare to blatantly recruit miners, but it was impossible to mine silver without manpower, so He Wenkui used the most bottomless means.

At the beginning, He Wenkui used a trick to deceive, deceiving those ordinary people who had no land to cultivate, saying that they could rent their fields. When these people dragged their families to He Wenkui's territory, they were naturally greeted by silver mines instead of fields.

Similarly, because the silver mine is a black mine, it was hidden by He Wenkui. Therefore, He Wenkui can not take into account any human laws in the silver mine, nor do he have to pay any remuneration, and use all the people who have deceived him as slaves, and force them to work with whips every day.

At the same time, for the sake of these slaves not being able to rebel, He Wenkui never gave them enough food to eat, so that everyone was in a half-full state, and at the same time there were shackles on their feet, so they were powerless to resist.

And this state of life is naturally unbearable for human beings, and getting sick is a matter of course.

He Wenkui's black mine, of course, can't invite any doctors to come over to see people, and he is even more reluctant to pay for medical treatment.

When someone is sick, he throws himself into the shack and survives on his own.

If you stay up and get better, then continue to mine. If they die of illness, they dig a pit and bury it, and it is said that more than 100 people die in the mine every year.

He Wenkui abused people's lives like this, and the people who were deceived at the beginning were quickly consumed. And everyone is not a fool, those people who were recruited by He Wenkui finally disappeared, and the relatives knelt at the door of the county government and kowtowed to find their relatives, plus the news that He Wenkui had a black silver mine came out later, and the fool would go to He Wenkui as a tenant.

He Wenkui also has a way, since he can't recruit people locally, he will go to other places to recruit, and he went to several nearby counties and deceived a batch of unlucky people, but soon these unlucky people also died, and He Wenkui's notoriety spread almost all over Chuzhou, and no one dared to be a tenant for He Wenkui anymore.

He Wenkui found that he couldn't recruit people through normal channels, so he simply started to rob them directly, what beggars on the street, passing merchants, or some single-family households who don't have much contact with the outside world, etc., anyway, the thugs who raised them crazily robbed people in the entire Chuzhou to become black miners.

According to Zhang Ruofei's estimates, in the past 20 years, I am afraid that at least thousands of people have died in He Wenkui's black silver mine, and such a bully has naturally become Zhang Ruofei's first target.

Since you want to be chivalrous and righteous and do the right thing for the sky, who will He Wenkui do if you don't do him first?

Zhang Ruofei slowly walked into Shanyang County, which is obviously the county seat, but the streets are a little depressed, and the streets are full of notices posted by the He family to recruit tenants, and they only charge 20% of the rent.

However, the pedestrians around them walked briskly past these notices as if they had seen ghosts, and they didn't dare to take a second look.

Zhang Ruofei found a noodle stall and sat down, ordered a bowl of noodles, and then asked the boss directly, "Boss, did you He Wenkui from Shanyang County deceive and rob many people to go to his house to do black work, and finally all died on the black silver mine." ”

"Bang dang!" The bowl in the boss's hand was so frightened that it fell directly to the ground, shattered in an instant, and then looked at Zhang Ruofei in horror and said, "Guest officer, what nonsense are you talking about, there has never been such a thing, you must not talk nonsense, I don't know anything!" ”

"Looks like it is!" Zhang Ruofei nodded, then took out a small notebook from his arms, and turned the first page, all of which were written in He Wenkui's name.

I only heard Zhang Ruofei say to himself, "The in-situ investigation has ended, the facts are clear, the evidence is conclusive, and there are local fathers and villagers to testify, this He Wenkui is indeed a heinous crime, and he should be killed immediately, and he will do the right thing for heaven!" ”

After Zhang Ruofei finished speaking, he directly drew a cross on He Wenkui's name, and it seemed that he had made up his killing intent.

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......In the tea stall dozens of meters away from this noodle stall, a guy wearing a scholar's shirt and a scholar's dress couldn't help but squirt out the tea in his mouth.

"This guy, when he arrived in Shanyang County, he just said a word to a boss, and this boss completely denied it, he actually had the face to say that the facts are clear and the evidence is conclusive?" This person's expression was very strange and he complained: "This way of investigating the case, even our embroidery guards don't dare to do this!" ”

That's right, this scholar who drinks tea is the master of embroidery sent by Mao Yi to protect Zhang Ruofei, and he has already entered the peak realm of the day after tomorrow.