It was under the protection of the Hunan Army that Hunan Province was able to withdraw from the mud of the people's hearts and the ancient roads that did not exist, and restored public order.

For the people, the Hunan army and the Eight Banners Battalion are not the same thing at all, the Eight Banners Battalion is the minions of the former government, except for carrying the cage and walking the birds, they can't even hold a knife steadily, and they may not be sincere in protecting the territory and the people.

These Xiangyong are different, they are all natives of Hunan Province, when the Xiangyong regiment training camp was formed, these young men also wanted to make a contribution to their hometown before joining the Hunan army, otherwise, they could follow the relationship of which relatives to go to the mountains to be bandits, and when the time came, they would have everything to drink wine and eat meat, gold, silver and jewelry.

They would rather take a meager salary than join the sincere heart of the Hunan army, and indeed the world can learn from the people, and this is, in the eyes of the people, their soldiers.

In themselves, compared with the bandits, they are already living a hard life, and if someone wants to rob them even of this idea, it is conceivable that the reaction of the people will be that they will be angry and angry.

These military salaries are related to their monthly salaries, although this money is not too much, but it is not too little, and the theft means that January is in vain, and many people have to support their families.

Putting aside these practical factors, daring to take the salary of the Hunan army is almost equivalent to wrestling with Xiang Yong, if the culprit is allowed to go unpunished, it will not be a loss for Xiang Yong's face.

After the incident, the Xiangyong officers and soldiers up and down Yueyang City were furious, and the case involved in the silver was a big case, and the trial bureau had to pay attention to it, and took the security soldiers to investigate the cause of the theft of the money.

According to the coolies who pressed the ships at that time, these military pay ships were transported from other places, originally to go ashore from Yueyang, and were escorted to Shacheng, Huifu, but when these boats arrived at Dongting Lake, the escort boats suddenly tossed around, and the ships were placed with extremely heavy silver taels.

After the incident, the Yueyang government also sent water ghosts to salvage it, but nothing was found, so it was determined that these military pay ships were missing.

Where the ship went, and how it disappeared into the lake, is still unknown.

If the ship sinks in other places, forget it, these ships are sinking near Chiba Island, there is a road is a melon field and plum, it is not clear, Chiba Island itself is the nest of the water bandit camp, and the missing is silver, or the ship sunk in Dongting Lake, if there is no participation of the Dongting water bandits, this is unreasonable.

The trial bureau would rather kill by mistake than let go, since it smelled the smell of silver theft, how could it let go of this biggest suspicion.

In their opinion, the Dongting water bandits were originally bandits in Dongting Lake, and it was customary to rob past boats, and the government had been lax in recent years, and many Dongting water people had come ashore to live, but the thieves' hearts must not die, and if the silver really entered their pockets, they would not have to worry about eating and drinking.

However, the problem also arises, just by that time, it has been more than 20 years since the Dongting water bandits came ashore, Chiba Island has long been abandoned, and the bandit village is empty, and no one can be found at all.

So what to do?

The trial bureau has been given an ultimatum by the provincial government officials, and it must decide the case within a time limit and give an explanation to the whole people and the whole army, and they have finally found clues, even if there is really suspense, they are not willing to let it go.

Fortunately, when the Dongting boat people went ashore, in order to obtain the documents, they needed to register the books with the government, and they got the books from the government, and whether they were Dongting bandits or boat owners, they were all arrested and put into the trial bureau.

These people have been ashore for twenty or thirty years, and they have all turned into ordinary people, either by the government to cultivate and weave for a living, or by relying on a body of force to become a dart master, a martial artist, a bitterman, or a boat fishing and hunting for a living, no matter what the livelihood is, it has nothing to do with the bandits who rob their homes and houses.

As mentioned earlier, the trial bureau is nicknamed the head shaving bureau, and good people have to take off their skins when they enter, and these Dongting boat people themselves have a history of robbing homes and houses, so there is another layer of criminal suspicion here in the trial bureau, how can they be treated well.

As soon as you enter prison, the words are to invite you to ask about the situation, but those master documents are full of energy, and fool you into the confession and detention, if some boat people can't react, and the words have the meaning of robbing the official silver, they will immediately be condemned by the trial bureau as a party and severely tortured.

At this time, if you want to say that you did not participate in the robbery of official silver, it will become a quibble of words and deeds, but you will be beaten more and more fiercely, and some people will not be able to stand the torture in the end, so they have to confess and ask for death, and this confession will become evidence of confession.

Do you think the trial bureau will be fine if they get this confession?

That's too naïve, in the eyes of the trial bureau, such a big thing as robbing the official bank must not be done by one person, probably there are also accomplices, since these people have pleaded guilty to the law, then continue to investigate from their relatives and friends.

As a result, the Audit Bureau used a fake confession to implicate nearly 100 Dongting boat people, all of whom were young and middle-aged people who were supposed to start a family and stand up to the sky, but they were locked up on a trumped-up charge, and they had to cry out day and night.

When the trial bureau arrested them, they did not intend to let them out, and even used the means of inducing confessions, as long as you admit that some Dongting boat people robbed the official boat, you can be released, if you don't say so, then you can only continue to be locked up in the trial bureau.

In order to get out, they had to fabricate confessions of the boat people robbing the official silver in order to get rid of the crime.

When the boat people in the trial bureau shouted grievances, the other boat people in Yueyang City finally realized that something was wrong and began to run around for these imprisoned boat people, trying to exonerate them from their crimes.

It's just that there is a notoriety of water bandits, and seeing that the trial bureau is detaining hundreds of people, the official ship is indeed missing in Chiba Island, and the melon field Li Xia has long been unable to clarify, and the common people have already thought that some water bandits have robbed the official boat, and shouting injustice is just to cover up the crime, and even the people have petitioned to clear the case as soon as possible.

The trial bureau originally wanted to arrest some people to take the blame, but seeing that the trouble was getting bigger and bigger, it was inevitable that they would be coerced by public opinion, and it was already difficult to ride a tiger, and then releasing these boat people at this time would inevitably cause turmoil, so they simply condemned all the boat people who confessed to their guilt as robbers, quickly decided the case, and hanged them at the entrance of the vegetable market.

In this way, about 100 boat people were hanged at the entrance of the vegetable market.

The trial bureau only knows that the case will be concluded as soon as possible, but it does not know the aftermath of this incident, which has a more far-reaching impact than the unjust, false and wrongly decided case.

After those young and middle-aged people were hanged, their families could not accept this ending, and most of them committed suicide by jumping into the lake to show their will, and more than 1,000 people were killed and injured, ten times more than the hanged by the government.

Some people died, but not completely......