Chapter 165: Luo Sheng
Cai Yong told Zhang Chong that this letter was sent out by the county order when he was sent out by sending Dongdong. In the letter, the death of Guo Si has become a different appearance, and even the behavior of Ying County Ling himself in this eucalyptus is excusable.
The first is Wen Yu's narration of Guo's local tyrant Meng Qi. Although Meng Qi is the first pride of Guo's wall, but in fact, there is very little land in Guo's wall, and their family mainly relies on the medicinal herb shop in Yingxian County to live, although the family is well-off, but it is kind to the people, not only has not lent money, but also often helps some households in the wall who can't afford to take medicine. So the reputation in Guo's wall is very good.
Then there is a narrative of the five Zhang brothers. The five Zhang brothers were named after Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji, and Shao. These five brothers are also known as the Five Tigers in Guo's wall, because the brothers are united, hard-working and capable, and have many livestock, so they quickly accumulated a lot of land, so although Guo's wall is the most proud of the Meng family, but the most land is their Zhang family. These five tigers lent money, but they also helped the poor people in the wall, and those who couldn't pay the money and grain taxes from the imperial court came to borrow from him, and their families paid first.
Therefore, although the Meng family and the Zhang family are outsiders, because these two families are either poor and independent, or prosperous people, they have formed a quite prestigious family reputation in Guo's wall. Although the two families have deep pockets and a large number of people, they rarely do anything to bully others. Right now, there are still many residents who are grateful to the two families and thank them for being able to live their own family.
On the contrary, it is Guo Si. Guo Si has been idle since he was a child, and he doesn't do anything to produce, but he is good at taking advantage of his tongue. On weekdays, I go to Tongli's house to eat, and once I am rejected, I speak ill of each other, so my reputation in Guo's wall is very bad.
At that time, after Wenyu found out the situation of these families, he focused on the largest place where Guo Si and Meng Qi were entangled, that is, Guo Si's ten acres of land by the Yingwen water.
According to what he learned from Meng Qi's confession at that time, in the winter of the fourth year of Guanghe, Guo Si owed ten stones to the servant Su and thirteen stones to the tax. At that time, there were only two households with surplus grain on the whole wall, one Zhang and one Meng. At that time, those villagers ordered the Meng family and asked Guo Si to sell the land to the Meng family. At that time, Meng Qi was not in the wall, but in the medicinal herb shop in Yingxian County.
Then the Meng family made up grain for Guo Si, and Guo Si sold the ten acres of land by the Yingwen River to the Meng family for forty stone millet and signed a death deed. After cutting out the twenty-three stones owed by Guo Si, he finally got seventeen stones. Later, Meng Qi returned home, and after knowing this, he privately told Guo Si that he didn't want this land, let Guo Si take it back, and then took the remaining seventeen stone millet back, and finally said that the twenty-three stones that were cushioned before should be owed by Guo Si, and when it depends on his Guo Si's own conscience. Guo Si didn't say anything at that time, and acquiesced.
But later, Guo Si joined the Shijia Army, became a groom, got acquainted with people in the army, and finally sued him for being black, but he Meng Qi was taken away and beaten heavily, and then returned the land.
Seeing this, Zhang Chong was suspicious, didn't this Meng Qi say that he had returned the land? Why did you return it after being beaten now? There are still ten acres of good land, and they were sold for forty stone millet at a low price, how can you look at it, is it a cheap sale, isn't this Meng Qi taking a big advantage? Will he really honestly retreat?
Then Zhang Chong continued to look down, and Wenyu, the commander of Yingxian County, not only had Meng Qi's confession, but also visited the confessions of some people who participated in the public trial of Guo Si at that time.
A claimed that when Ding Yong was recruited in Guanghe five years of Ying County, he and Guo Si formed a team, when Guo Si escaped from the army and joined the Taishan Army, he was affected by this person, suffered a lot, and was arrested in prison, if it wasn't for Guan Yu to beat Ying County, see that he didn't commit a crime, and put him back, he might have died in prison now.
Then there is the confession of Uncle Zhang, he is the eldest brother of the Five Tigers of the Zhang family, according to him, he once paid a stone millet for Guo Si in the first year of Guanghe, which Guo Si later did not admit and has not paid it back so far.
A more important confession is that the two rangers in this wall recorded that they had been matchmakers for Guo Si's sister-in-law, and the dowry obtained from remarriage was a total of ten stones, of which one stone was given to each of the rangers, and the remaining eight stones were left for Guo Si's sister-in-law to keep for herself. Guo Si was not at home at that time, and when he heard this, he made a fuss, until he asked for two stone millets from the husband's family who married Guo Si's sister-in-law, and Guo Si gave up. Even his sister-in-law's dowry is greedy, which shows how bad this person is.
There is also a confession about B on the same wall, which is also a person who was recruited into the army with Guo Si in the fifth year of Guanghe. At that time, because Guo Si ran away alone, he was also arrested, and even his nephew was detained, this baby was almost scared to death because of his timidity, and after a serious illness, he is still not bright.
In addition, there are many confessions, all of which are borrowed from Su and Guo Si will not pay them back. There are also some Guo Si who go to various houses to eat white food and scold if they don't eat.
In short, in a word, Guo Siqi is the evil of Guo Shibi, he is idle, evil with his neighbors, and uses his participation in the Shi family army to be powerful and good in the local area, oppressing the good.
Therefore, Zhang Qing, the head of the field division group at that time, believed that although this person was not the original Haoqiang first-class, the harm was comparable and was not tolerated by the villagers. The original Meng Qi did not forcibly occupy Guo Si's land, it was coerced and bought by the villagers at that time, and this family's land was very small, so it should not belong to the object of dividing the land. Therefore, Zhang Qing punished Guo Si, and then beat him to death.
Therefore, he Wenyu determined in the above confession that Guo Si was very resentful of the people, and he did belong to the party to be punished, as for Zhang Qing, the head of the field group, there was only a problem in personal morality, and he should not be entangled with Meng Qi's brother and daughter-in-law, so that the Taishan army could give people a handle in the local field. In addition, Zhang Qing did deal with it in accordance with the regulations of the division of fields, but he acted excessively, so he made a judgment to deprive him of his position.
So far, the above are all the confessions and reasons for the verdict made by Wen Yu of Ying County. The regulations are very clear, that is, Guo Si is indeed very angry, and Zhang Qing only has the problem of personal morality, but does not have to manage people's lives.
After reading this, Zhang Chong sneered in his heart, is this playing Rashomon with him? Okay, then I'll take a good look at these rats and what they are doing with this.
After that, Zhang Chong ordered Hu Bing to call the general of the flying army, and instructed him to send a team of capable flying troops to carry the flag and go to Guo Shibi in Yingxian County to visit the field and investigate in many ways to see who was doing the ghost of Guo Si's death.
Three days later, Meng Fu brought more details about Guo Si's death prepared by several Fei Jun.
The first is about Guo Si and his people, although Guo Si is poor and has three people in his family, but in fact his family has nearly 100 acres of land, of which 60 acres are left by his deceased brother, and his brother is also quite lazy, so most of these fields are barren. Later, after Guo Si took it, he was also abandoned because of laziness. So until now, the whole family lives in the crypt. Now because of Guan Yu's care, his wife and children have been raised by the Taishan Army, and his son has also joined the Lie Child Camp.
Guo Si did participate in the Taishan Army before, which has been confirmed by Tian Xiongzuo, the general of the Tucai Cavalry. In addition, Guo Si did support the policy of the Shi family's army, and he was also grateful for the care of the robes in the army, so as soon as Guo Shibi returned to the wall, he began to oppose Meng Qi, the local tyrant in the wall at that time, and the Zhang Five Tigers, who controlled Guo's social affairs. Therefore, Guo Si made a feud with the latter.
Although the five tigers of the Zhang family have also relieved the poor and solved the difficulties of the villagers in the wall, they have been usurious and exploited more ruthlessly, just because everyone has the power to ask for his family and take his family, so they dare not speak out.
And these have changed since Guo Si came back as a soldier, Guo Si took a group of people to fight with Zhang's five tigers repeatedly, and later with the division of the field by Guan Xiaowei has been almost divided to Guo's wall, this Zhang's five tigers know that if they don't take the initiative to donate soil, they must be on the locust tree when the time comes, so they will donate the soil. After that, sure enough, no one was embarrassed by the Zhang family anymore, after all, the latter did help the villagers.
After that, Zhang Qing took the field group into Guo's wall and lived in Meng Qi's house, Meng Qi and Zhang's in-laws were already standing together. After that, Meng Qi entertained Zhang Qing with honey water and beef, and it was his brother and daughter-in-law who accompanied him. Later, Zhang Qing really pointed the finger at Guo Si at the public trial, Guo Si believed that the Fentian Group belonged to the Taishan Army, and at that time he had received the news that the five tigers of the Zhang family were going to join forces to get him, but Guo Si finally went.
The last thing he said to his family when he went out was:
"Why don't you go, they're all good people."
After that, he was stoned to death on the river beach by Zhang Qing.
According to the words that the flag-bearers came from the households in private, Zhang Qing said three times at that time.
One was that the residents didn't want to come at that time, and Zhang Qing said at that time that the participants would not join Guo Si. Then the households were forced to come, and after they came, they took the Zhang's Five Tigers and the Meng family as the core, bewitched and coerced some people who had grievances with Guo Si, and finally positioned Guo Si as evil at the meeting. In the end, Zhang Qing said that whoever doesn't fight will do it with Guo Si. There was no way to go down, many villagers just beat them with small stones from afar, only Zhang Qing and others smashed some real smashes, and finally smashed Guo Si to death. After Guo Si was killed, Zhang Qing said again that whoever was to be wronged for Guo Si would be guilty of the same crime as him.
The flag-bearers concluded that most of the villagers were coerced by these three sentences of the same crime, but many of them were also because of self-interest, although Guo Si's family was very poor, but in the end there were still 100 acres of land, but it was just abandoned. And now that Guo Si is dead, will the land in his hands be indistinguishable? When the land is distributed to them, with their hard work, they will naturally be able to take good care of Guo Si's idle land.
In addition, under Zhang Qing's grace and power, some Li Hu who had been unhappy with Guo Si stood up and released all the dissatisfaction they had accumulated on weekdays like Guo Si, but they should not have thought of putting Guo Si to death.
Originally, they only expressed their dissatisfaction with Guo Si at the meeting, and more criticism, but they didn't expect Zhang Qing to beat Guo Si into a bad evil according to this, and used the regulations on killing people and thieves and venting people's anger stipulated by the division of fields to kill people and thieves, and stoned Guo Si to death.
At this point, the facts of Zhang Qing's evil deeds are clear and conclusive, and it is unknown whether Wen Yu deliberately concealed and covered it up when he knew that it was so.
All this made Zhang Chong angry, and he called Taishou Cai Yong again.