Wang Jin and Bai Sheng entered from the north city gate, which was the closest distance from the county ya, and went straight to the back gate of the county ya.

There were also more than a dozen splashes blocked at the back door, and Wang Jin shouted: "Arrest people, those who dare to resist arrest or escape will be killed on the spot!" ”

It is true that the county magistrate only has the right to make the final judgment of the cane, but he blocked the county government for most of the day, and he was not unjustly charged with rebellion, not to mention that he dared to resist arrest.

Dozens of young people in the village rode horses to surround those splashes.

Seeing this, Splashy immediately slipped away, and Bai Sheng chased after him with a shot that hit the back of an escaped thug.

The rest of the young people didn't know to be afraid, especially the chief and deputy chief of the security inside, who were usually responsible for defending the village, and they had more or less seen blood. immediately took their respective villagers, chased them and killed them, leaving no room for action.

Wang Jin's vest was cold, he just let people be arrested, but in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen gangsters were killed on the spot.

The folk customs here are too fierce!

Not only are there many thieves, but the good people are not easy to mess with.

In peacetime, taxes can only be levied by borrowing the power of the big clans and holding high the banner of the imperial court to oppress the good.

In particular, when it comes to buying money, the landlords are all taxed, and it is difficult for the government to collect the full amount. It is often for the big clans to express their stance first, guide the rest of the landlords to give money and grain, and then reduce half of the big clans' and buy money.

Later, they were too lazy to pretend, and there were always one or two big clans in each county, and the county officials applied to the imperial court, and the special approval and purchase money were halved, and gradually formed a practice.

The magistrate of Jingdong Road, it takes great courage to dare to attack the big clan.

"You go around to the gate of the county government, and I will report to the Taishou from the back door!" Wang Jin ordered.

Bai Sheng nodded: "Okay!" ”

Wang Jin rode in through the back door, passed through the backyard of the county government, and went straight to the county government hall: "Taishou, the lower official is fortunate not to disgrace his life, and he brought back more than 60 people, all of whom are available on horseback." ”

"Good work."

Zhu Ming got up and went out with the chair, sat down again when he got out of the door, and asked, "Who led the way?" Come forward and speak! ”

Gao Huaguang took a few steps forward: "I'm the head." ”

Zhu Ming asked, "What do you want to do?" ”

Gao Huaguang said: "Sun Dutou abides by the law and loves the people, but he was arrested yesterday. If I want to say something fair, please let Sun Dutou go. ”

"You don't even pretend? Just let people go? Zhu Ming was really shocked.

Unscrupulous!

This is equivalent to not giving any face, not even a single step. almost pointed at Zhizhou's nose and ordered Zhizhou to be honest and obedient.

"Dada-da-da!"

Zhu Ming had already heard the sound of horses' hooves, and it was Bai Sheng who had led people around.

Gao Huaguang naturally heard the sound and subconsciously turned his head to look. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a bright light out of the corner of his eye, and before he could react, his head flew high, and his neck spurted a column of blood like a fountain.

The head of the Fresh Clothes Society, the underworld boss of Razor County, died without warning.

Moreover, Zhu Ming's hand was fast and sharp, and after cutting off his head with a sword, Gao Huaguang's headless corpse continued to stand for a second before falling.

Zhu Ming held his sword and shouted angrily: "Gao Huaguang, the head of the Xianyi Society, gathered bandits, attacked the county government, and intended to rebel." Now that Gao Huaguang has corrected the law, if you resist stubbornly, you will be punished with rebellion! ”

"Murder!"

"Brother Gao is dead, run!"

"Kill the dog officer and avenge Big Brother Gao!"

There were two or three hundred people at the scene, most of whom belonged to the bottom of the underworld, and there were even hooligans who were temporarily brought in to fill the number.

In their eyes, Gao Huaguang is the sky.

stabbed the sky, and the Sun family is covered, we have someone in the court.

Zhizhou, Zhixian, and county orders are a fart?

In the third year of Song Zhenzong's Xianping, Puzhou thieves rebelled. The king of Puzhou, the governor of Puzhou, kept his word, and put down the rebellion, Wang Zhaodu, was directly tied up by thieves who sneaked into the city. If you make a big fuss, isn't it a matter of recruiting peace?

But now the sky has fallen.

There were about twenty or thirty diehards, picking up sticks and rushing towards Zhu Ming, shouting that they wanted to avenge the boss. The remaining more than 200 people dispersed in a hurry, for fear that they would also be arrested and beheaded.

Scattered so neatly, there is also a reason why Bai Sheng rushed with cavalry.

There were countless people nearby who were watching the excitement, and they were also frightened and fled at this moment. Because Bai Sheng has already rushed over, as long as he is blocking the road, no matter what his identity is, even ordinary people will be killed.

Of course, there is also a sense of proportion.

Those who don't have weapons in their hands are basically just driving.

"Kneel by the road and don't kill, kneel by the road and don't kill!" Bai Sheng shouted as he rushed.

The little minions were killed by Bai Sheng and fled, but the more than 20 diehards lost their minds and rushed straight to Zhu Ming. They didn't bring sharp blades, they just held sticks, and they rushed up in no order, just wanting to beat Zhu Ming to death.

Zhu Ming threw the chair to Deng Chun, and Deng Chun carried the folded chair and swept away thousands of troops.

A few sticks hit Deng Chun, but he ignored it, and only smashed the chair.

The four male sumo wrestlers married by the Zheng family also rushed up to protect their masters at this moment. Sumo in the Song Dynasty was not the Japanese kind of sumo, but more like a free fighting with wrestling as the main thing and striking as the supplement. They were the figures of Mongolian wrestlers, who rushed up with sticks and grabbed people, grabbed their sleeves and beat them with straps.

"Quickly protect Taishou!"

Cao Yuangui and Wang Jin were already stupid, they didn't expect Zhu Ming to be so iron-fisted, and after reacting, they ordered the archers to help.

Many archers hesitated, and only a few people stepped forward to fight.

Without their help at all, Zhu Ming was holding a sword, and under the cover of Deng Chun and the sumo wrestler, he almost knocked down one with one sword.

Only three people were killed, and more than 20 hardliners couldn't bear it. He no longer wanted to avenge the boss, turned around and slipped away, and was cut down by Zhu Ming with a sword, and all the rest chose to kneel and beg for mercy.

Bai Sheng couldn't command those young men, so he could only play freely at the moment.

It is often a security chief, with four or five young men, riding a horse to chase and cut down those who are unwilling to kneel on the ground.

After a pursuit, counting the dead at the back gate of the county government, 258 people were captured in this battle and 35 people were killed on the spot. After a brief identification, more than 40 onlookers were ordered to be acquitted by Zhu Ming. There are also a few unlucky people who have been killed by mistake, so you can really only consider yourself unlucky.

"Is Taishou injured?" Cao Yuangui and Wang Jin hurriedly asked.

Zhu Ming was covered in blood, but it was all other people's blood, he glared at those archers who were watching from the wall, and sneered: "Taishou was attacked by thieves, but you turned a deaf ear, and there must be collusion with thieves." Immediately put down your weapons and be arrested in prison pending trial! ”

Li Bao and Wei Dian had already entered the city, and together with Bai Sheng, they led the young men on horseback and surrounded those archers.

"It's too sparing!"

"We were also forced, how dare we go against the Sun family?"

"Taishou Kaien!"

The archers were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and Zhizhou was too ruthless, they were really afraid.

The magistrate of Jingdong Road, the imperial court acquiesced in the use of illegal means. According to Su Shi's statement, it is "to take the outline and ignore the minor mistakes", as long as the thieves can be punished, it doesn't matter if the procedure is violated.

And there is also a way to sit together. The thieves themselves would not be assigned to Hebei, fearing that they would escape back, and would be sent directly to Guangnan. The thief's family (close relatives in the house) is assigned to be arranged and managed 500 miles away. If anyone denounces a thief, half of the thief's family is rewarded to the whistleblower.

Zhu Ming asked: "Since you are persecuted, are you willing to make meritorious contributions?" ”

"Yes, yes!" The archers nodded busily.

Zhu Ming said: "Interrogate these archers and thieves separately, and confess the testimony of the troubled place of the Sun family!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Yuangui and Wang Jin received the order.

Zhu Ming said to the scribes and officials: "Are you willing to make meritorious contributions? ”

These officials are too deeply involved with the local clans, but Zhizhou is both arresting and killing, so they can only cooperate hard.

The chief bookkeeper, Geng Dingchen, trembled with fright, and Zhizhou only let the scribes, soap officials, and archers make meritorious contributions, and only gave instructions to the county magistrate and the county order, which seemed to have completely forgotten him.

If it is confirmed that he colluded with thieves, as a civil official, he will definitely be able to save his life, but what future is there in the future? He just wants to cling to the Cai Party, but he is not the real Cai Party, and no one will stand up to protect him at that time.

Geng Dingchen gritted his teeth and said: "Too conservative, the lower officials want to report the illegal things of the Sun family." There is also the Sun family who humiliated the county officials, threatened with their lives, and forced them to marry their nieces! ”

"Master Geng's righteous killing of relatives is really rare, let's go and interrogate the thieves together." Zhu Ming smiled with satisfaction.

All the county officials who were literate participated in the interrogation, and the trial was conducted separately and cross-tried.

The interrogation was extremely fast, and it took only one day and one night to complete the trial of more than 200 prisoners. The guys bit each other, saying that they were forced to blame the dead. There are also people who confess all kinds of illegal acts of the Sun family in order to make meritorious contributions, and confess that they colluded with a certain official.

Zhu Ming slept well, and then went to the prison in person, spending six hours and going through all the confessions.

Then he called the officials, the scribes, the soap officers, and the archers, and placed two braziers at their feet.

Zhu Ming picked up a few confessions and looked at the chief bookkeeper Geng Dingchen with a smile.

Geng Dingchen was apprehensive in his heart, anxious and waiting for his arrival.

"These confessions, at first glance, are fake, does Master Geng think so?" Zhu Ming asked.

Geng Dingchen said: "Too guarded and discerning. ”

Zhu Ming threw the confession into the brazier, Geng Dingchen watched the paper burn to ashes, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, his legs were weak and he couldn't stand up straight.

Zhu Ming glanced at those officials again, and everywhere his eyes passed, everyone didn't dare to gasp.

One by one, they were thrown into the brazier and burned.

In the end, less than one-tenth of those remained, and Zhu Ming handed it to Cao Yuangui and said, "Arrest someone." ”

Cao Yuangui took it and took a closer look, and then shouted: "Charge Si Sun Guang, corrupt the law, collude with bandits, bully men and women, arrest immediately!" ”

"Take it!" Wei Dian has officially made the capital.

Cao Yuangui also said: "The scholar Qian Heqian, corrupt the law, collude with bandits, and be arrested immediately!" ”

"Take it!" Wei Dian shouted again.

This is to purge the forces of the Qian and Sun families in the county government, but they will not be dealt with all, and some officials will have to be left to do things. As long as they are not deeply involved and are not core members, not only are they not to blame for the past, but they can also be promoted.

The archers also dealt with some, and Zhu Ming asked the remaining archers to make meritorious contributions to the guilty officials' families. To put it bluntly, they have offended the Qian and Sun families, and they can only follow the government in the future.

As long as the knife is hard enough and there is room for it, it can be struck, divided, and pulled together in an instant, and the iron plate can be smashed to pieces.

After Zhu Ming left the county jail, Cao Yuangui said with emotion: "Taishou is really not afraid of making things bigger, this time, dozens of people have been killed." I'm afraid that in the end, there will be hundreds of exiles. With such a big case, the state court has no choice but to make decisions, and it will inevitably alarm the Criminal Division. ”

Wang Jin said excitedly: "No matter what, it's very refreshing." The officials and clans of this county treat us as mud bodhisattvas, and most of them pay miscellaneous taxes, most of which go into their pockets. Who are we county officials? We're watchdogs! It's better to be a dog for these young people, than to be a dog for Taishou. ”

Cao Yuangui said: "Beware of thieves sneaking into the county seat and setting fire!" ”

"Yes, the Sun Qian family may be jumping off the wall in a hurry!" Wang Zhen is colorful.

(End of chapter)