Chapter 3: The Vicious Han King
There was a prince in Lingnan, who was still the emperor's biological son, not an exiled king of the opposite sex, which surprised the people of Lingnan very much.
This Lingnan has been a place of exile since ancient times, and the people who come to Lingnan have committed serious crimes or angered the emperor, but no good people will come to Lingnan. Besides, no prince, that is, the emperor's own son, has ever come to Lingnan.
This King of Han is the first prince to come to Lingnan, which is really unusual!
The people of Lingnan felt that although the king of Han was the emperor's own son, he was not favored when he heard it, so he was disliked by the emperor and rushed to Lingnan.
The king of Han is really pitiful, the dignified prince did not commit a major crime, nor did he do anything wrong, but he was ruthlessly exiled to Lingnan by the emperor Laozi.
The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was really ruthless, as the saying goes, the tiger poison does not eat the child, the emperor is more ruthless than the tiger in the Lingnan mountains, and even exiled his own son to Lingnan to die.
Before Zhao Yao arrived in Lingnan, various rumors about him were spreading in various states in Lingnan. Both the people of Lingnan and the officials are very curious about Zhao Yao, the prince who came to Lingnan to send him to death.
Regarding why Zhao Yao was not liked by the emperor, the common people in Lingnan speculated one after another, saying that Zhao Yao's mother was not favored, so the emperor hated his youngest son. It is said that Zhao Yao is ugly and disgusted by the emperor. It is also said that Zhao Yao's birth is unknown, so it will make the emperor hateful. There are various theories, but I don't know who took the lead in saying that Zhao Yao is an ominous person who will bring disaster to the people around him. When he comes to Lingnan, it will definitely bring great disasters to Lingnan.
The people of Lingnan are already living very hard, and if another ominous prince comes and makes their lives even more miserable, then they must not let the Han King come to Lingnan.
Many people ran to Yamen, begging the local officials to help them play the imperial court and not let the Han king come to Lingnan to kill them.
Lingnan officials were pleased with the result, but only when they were beaming. Merchants from other places told the people of Lingnan that the King of Han was not an ominous person as rumored, on the contrary, the King of Han was auspicious, and he did a lot of good things, so that the people in many places had enough to eat and live a good life.
They told the people of Lingnan that the Han kings had made new paper, printing, quyuan ploughs, new looms, and other things for the benefit of the people at a very young age. The most important thing is that the rice they are planting now is all handed over by the Han king to Annam and Siam.
The imperial court has long promoted good things such as quyuan plows and new textile machines made by the Han king to various places, and does not want the people's money, and Lingnan is no exception. It's just that the officials in Lingnan are corrupt and don't give these good things to the people for free. If the people want to use it, they have to pay a high price.
Naturally, the common people of Lingnan did not know about these things, and they were skeptical of the words of foreign businessmen. The officials in Lingnan told them not to believe the words of foreign merchants, and they also slandered foreign merchants as Han kings, deliberately trying to confuse them.
Of course, the people of Lingnan believed the words of the officials, even if they had been treating them harshly, compared to the words of foreign merchants.
The imperial court soon learned that the Lingnan officials had deceived the upper authorities and sent a messenger to deal with the matter.
Qin Cha first went to Taichuan Mansion to investigate, and sure enough, he found that the officials had concealed the fact that the imperial court had promoted things such as quyuan plows and new textile machines for free and rented them to the people at high prices. The officials of Taichuan Mansion were purged from top to bottom, and these officials dared to slander the Ten Princes in addition to these things, and the emperor directly ordered those officials to correct the law on the spot.
Just a few months before Zhao Yao came to Lingnan, the ground at the entrance of the vegetable market in Taichuan Prefecture was stained red with blood. This is the first time since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty that Lingnan affairs have been strictly controlled.
The people of Lingnan learned that everything that the foreign businessmen had said before was true, and they were very dissatisfied with the officials in Lingnan, who had been deceived and bullied for so long.
Qincha told the people of Lingnan that the emperor asked the ten princes to come to Lingnan, first, because he valued the ten princes, and second, the emperor wanted the ten princes to benefit Lingnan.
Originally, the people who had heard the rumors opposed Zhao Yao's coming to Lingnan, but since the officials of Taichuan Mansion were beheaded, they waited for Zhao Yao's arrival every day.
After the officials of Taichuan Mansion were purged by the imperial court, the things that Zhao Yao had done for the imperial court and the people over the years began to spread in Lingnan. In the teahouses of various states in Lingnan, the storyteller talked about Zhao Yao's affairs vividly, and said that Zhao Yao, the ten princes, was about to become a powerful person with three heads and six arms.
The people of Lingnan are looking forward to Zhao Yao's arrival more and more, but the officials in Lingnan do not want the King of Han to come to Lingnan.
The fate of the officials of Taichuan Prefecture did not make them afraid, on the contrary, they made them more determined to get rid of the Han King. These people are used to showing off their power in Lingnan, and they feel that they are the heavens of Lingnan, how can they allow the King of Han to step on their heads. Besides, when the king of Han comes, their financial route will be cut off.
Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents. The officials in Lingnan naturally regarded Zhao Yao, who had parachuted into Lingnan, as a blood enemy who had to be killed.
The officials of the Swamp Mansion learned that Zhao Yao wanted to press the palace to them, but of course they were unwilling. When the Han Palace, they did everything possible to block and destroy, causing Zhao Yao to go to the Swamp Mansion, and his palace had not yet been built.
Zhao Yao has been in the swamp mansion for ten days. During these ten days, Zhao Yao was very busy because he did a lot of things. In the first two days of his arrival at the Swamp Mansion, he only asked the workers to continue building his palace and did nothing else.
Seeing that he had not done anything, the officials of the swamp mansion thought that he had no courage and that he was useless, and planned to bully him again, but on the third day, the king of Han began to exert his might.
On the third day of Zhao Yao's arrival, he began to liquidate the officials of the Swamp Mansion.
Before he came to the Swamp Mansion, he asked Zheng Qian to investigate and collect the criminal evidence of the officials of the Swamp Mansion.
Human and physical evidence gathered, and the officials of the Swamp Mansion not only did not admit it, but also shouted with Zhao Yao.
After Zhao Yao pronounced their guilt, on the second day, the fourth day after he arrived in the Swamp Mansion, he personally beheaded all the officials of the Swamp Mansion and their families.
The officials of the swamp province were all guilty, and none of them were innocent. Not only that, but their families have also done a lot of hurtful things in the Swamp Mansion. According to the law of the Great Zhou, it is natural that all of them are beheaded.
Zhao Yao knew that the Swamp Mansion was clamoring with him, thinking that he would not be able to punish the public. It's a pity that the officials of the swamp mansion don't understand Zhao Yao's temperament, and the law doesn't blame the public for not working here in Zhao Yao.
The officials of the swamp province and his family members combined numbered several hundred, and they would definitely not be able to cut them all in one day. Zhao Yao cut one or two hundred people every day, from morning to night, and in front of the people of the entire swamp mansion.
Of course, the old and weak women and children in the families of these officials were not beheaded, but their fate was also very miserable. The elderly, the women, and the children were all exiled to the Qiongzhou Prefecture, which was not very far from Lingnan.
In addition to Lingnan, a place of exile, the Great Zhou also had Qiongzhou and Dian Prefecture. These two places are even more remote and wild than Lingnan. Exile to Lingnan, there is still three layers of survival possibility, but exile to Qiongzhou and Dian Zhou, there is only one layer of hope of survival.
It took three days of beheading to dispose of all the officials of the Swamp House and his families, slaves, and accomplices.
The people of the swamp mansion didn't expect King Han to be so ruthless. Seeing that King Han arrived in the swamp mansion before, he didn't do anything, and let the officials bully, they thought that King Han was a cowardly and fearful person, but they didn't expect King Han to kill on a large scale.
At the time of the execution, Zhao Yao asked his subordinates to announce everyone's crime. The people were furious when they heard this, and before the executioner cut off their heads, they took stones or vegetables in their hands and threw them at the officials kneeling on the torture platform.
Although the people think that the king of Han is ruthless, they think that the king of Han has done the right thing. When they saw the heads of those dog officials who ate people and did not spit out bones, they felt very relieved.
The officials of the other state capitals didn't expect the King of Han to be so fierce that he actually killed all the officials of the swamp mansion and left no one behind! They were frightened by Zhao Yao's methods and viciousness, and for a while they were a little cringe, not daring to be as unscrupulous as before.
After cutting down the officials of the Swamp Mansion, Zhao Yao began to send people to attack several tribes in the Swamp Mansion. The Tusi of these tribes have colluded with the officials and have done a lot of unconscionable things. In addition, many people in these tribes have also done a lot of things to bully and kill the people, and none of these people will let go.
The people who attacked several tribes were all people whom Zhao Yao had started training more than ten years ago, and then they were severely trained by He Lianfang, and then they were sent to work elsewhere. Over the years, they have completely become the sharpest knife in Zhao Yao's hands.
Not to mention a few tribes, even in the face of well-trained soldiers, they are not afraid.
Moreover, before they started to deal with these tribes, they had already investigated everything inside and outside these tribes. Within a few days, they had conquered these tribes and captured Tusi alive.
Just after killing the officials of the Swamp Mansion, Zhao Yao began to chop off the heads of the toasts again.
These toasts and their families were completely uprooted, just like the officials. Those who did evil did not spare any of them.
Except for the first two days of his arrival, and the remaining eight days after that, Zhao Yao has been busy cutting off people's heads. In the past few days, the entire Marsh Mansion has been filled with a strong smell of blood.
The people of the swamp house hated the toasts of these tribes and the lackeys of the toasts. They were bullied by the officials, and they were bullied by the toasts, they were already full of resentment, but they were not opponents of the dog officials and the toasts, so they could only endure it in a slur manner. Now, the King of Han is here and has killed them all directly, which is really happy.
The people who have lived in the swamp house for a lifetime, or decades, have been exploited by these people, and now they are finally no longer persecuted by these dog thieves. Many people wept on the spot, not for these dog thieves, but for themselves and their relatives who were killed.
To Zhao Yao, the people of the Swamp Mansion are full of gratitude, because Zhao Yao got rid of the two mountains that had been oppressing them, and also avenged them.
After Zhao Yao disposed of these people in accordance with the law, he told the people of Swamp Province that they would not be persecuted again in the future. They will be able to live a safe and secure life in the future, without having to worry about their lives and the lives of their families. Of course, they can't break the law either. If they broke the laws of the Great Zhou, he would not let them go.
After seeing Zhao Yao's methods, where did the people of Swamp Mansion dare to break the law.
After dealing with the cancer in the swamp mansion, Zhao Yao was about to start construction.
In Marsh House, only the homes of the officials and toasters were magnificent, and the homes of the common people were in tatters. Not only that, but most of the roads in the swamp province are also potholed and very difficult to walk.
There is a great man who said well, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.
Zhao Yao decided to repair the road in the swamp mansion first. As for the wharf in Marsh Province, there is no need to build it for the time being, because in order to facilitate the smuggling of people in Annam and Luzon, those officials forced the people to build wharves.
The wharf in Swamp Mansion is large and spacious, and there is no need for Zhao Yao to expand it for the time being.
It was not enough to rely on Zhao Yao's people to build roads, so Zhao Yao asked the people to build roads. Of course, don't let the people build roads in vain. Although according to the regulations, the people of the Swamp Mansion have to serve the conscription, but as soon as Zhao Yao came to the Swamp Mansion, he asked the people to serve the conscription to build roads, and the people would definitely complain, thinking that Zhao Yao was the same as those dog officials before, so Zhao Yao decided to give the people benefits.
First of all, pay the people. Although the salary is not much, it is full of food. Second, the people were exempted from some taxes and forced labor. Third, it will also reward the people. If the people build roads very well, Zhao Yao will help them build houses.
The property copied from those officials and toasts before shocked He Lianfang and all of them for a hundred years. Zhao Yao had long expected that these people had a lot of property, so he was not too surprised.
The money given to the people for building roads and the money for helping them build houses is naturally paid by the money confiscated. Zhao Yao didn't intend to take the money for himself. One is that he is not short of money. The second is. This money was originally obtained by the people of the village, as well as by smuggling. Since the money was "taken" from the people, it was returned to the people.
The people of Marsh Province couldn't believe that the King of Han was going to pay them and build them houses...... They have never been paid for their work for the government, but have been whipped a lot. Not to mention that the government built them houses, which is simply ...... They were dreaming, how could something so good.
The people didn't believe that Zhao Yao would be so kind, and they felt that there must be a bigger conspiracy behind King Han's doing.
Regarding the people's doubts, Zhao Yao was not surprised. He told the people that he had found a lot of money from those people and that he would not use it himself. However, he will use the money for business, and he will also use it for the benefit of the people.
Before the road was built, Zhao Yao first paid a month's salary to the people who registered.
Seeing that the King of Han really paid the money, the people of the swamp mansion enthusiastically signed up to build the road.
He Lianfang, Zheng Qian and others admired Zhao Yao's strategy of "taking it from the people and using it for the people", which not only allowed the people to actively build roads, but also bought the hearts of the people.
Zhu Yuanzhang killed many officials during his reign, adding up to almost tens of thousands.
Zhao Yao, like the emperor, doesn't eat the law and doesn't blame the public.
Finally, in the new month, continue to ask for a monthly pass!