Chapter 378: Purge

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Xu Xian is still not used to being bowed down to, especially Mrs. Chen's splendid kneeling in front of him, which always makes him feel that something is wrong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but even if she knelt, she raised her chest and raised her head, and did not show a groveling attitude, not like Chen Lun who respectfully put her head on the ground.

However, Xu Xian knew in his heart that if he wanted to repay his kindness, he was afraid that Mrs. Chen would be ten times stronger than Chen Lun, but she was not used to flattery.

Xu Xianrang asked them to get up, and asked with a smile, "Have you found a place to live?"

Chen Lun hurriedly said: "Thanks to the grace of the adults, I have found it, and it is not far from the county office." "Thirty taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family to spend a year or two.

Mrs. Chen also followed with a reserved thanks, but she couldn't help but think that Chen Lun's cold attitude last night, even if she swore that she was not humiliated, he just smiled dryly and didn't believe it. Then the two lived in separate rooms, and there was no more speech. She was bitter in her heart, but she was helpless, and suddenly understood that his letter of resignation turned out to be sincere.

Xu Xian said: "You make a document first, and then help them write a paper!" It is not easy to find a person who can read and write in this poor country.

Chen Lun happily responded and thanked him again and again.

A small table was set up outside the county office, so that everyone could line up in a long line, and Chen Lun would write a complaint for it.

Xu Xian returned to the hall and said to the group of officials: "You are doing things under Feng Zhihu, and it is indispensable to work for the tiger, but you are also forced to do helpless. As long as it is not a heinous crime, if you say it now, the official can deal with it lightly, if you wait until someone comes to sue you, then the only way to punish the crime is to punish it, as the so-called 'confess is lenient, and resistance is severe'. ”

Everyone who said it trembled all over, and even if they didn't do many bad things, they would always have some oil and water. But the bustling scene outside the gate, if they were really sued, they would all see the ruthlessness of the county magistrate.

When even a servant came out and said that he had received some bribes, but they were all pieces of silver, and he also helped Bao Jiaotou to threaten anyone.

Xu Xian ordered someone to beat him with ten boards, and then said: "Okay, recognizing mistakes is the first step to correct mistakes." From today onwards, you are a headcatcher. "When the water is clear, there are no fish, and he is not as incorruptible as Xuehairui.

The catch is happy, the top ten boards just now were all played by their own people, but they hurt some flesh and skin, which Cheng wanted to be the head catcher, and quickly knelt down: "Thank you, sir!"

The others catch fast, but they only hate themselves for being slow. Other arresters and even a group of small officials also confessed, and Xu Xian also gave a slight punishment. Of course, he knew that there were many untruths among them, because when he concentrated a little, the minds of the people spontaneously floated into his minds, and most of them were recalling their own sins. It felt like it wasn't so much a spell as it was an innate ability to read the voices of other people's minds.

But Xu Xian is not in a hurry, the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, good and evil come to an end, and finally retribution.

When the people outside the yamen saw this, they were even more overjoyed.

An old woman came to the hall with a paper that had not yet dried and knelt down, and before she could explain anything, she cried and fell to the ground: "My little hairy son died so bitterly!"

It was also a loss that there was a pleading, and the head catcher presented the pleadings to Xu Xian, and Xu Xian was furious when he saw it: "Where is the tax collector?"

The tax collector hurriedly knelt down in the hall: "My lord!"

Xu Xian squinted his eyes and said, "You forcibly took this old woman's ploughing cow and killed his eight-year-old son?"

The tax collector shouted: "My lord, the villain is wronged, it is this Diao people who resist taxes and do not pay, and the villain leads his cattle, and his child was also kicked to death by the ox, and the villain is also very sad." ”

The old woman cried and shouted: "It's obvious that you kicked him, Xiao Maozi didn't let you lead the cow, so you kicked him down, hit him on the stone, and never got up again, my lord is my master!"

Xu Xian held back his anger and said, "What kind of tax is she resisting?"

"Is it a bandit tax?"

"What kind of tax is this, why haven't I heard of this tax in this dynasty!"

"Yes...... It was set by the county lord, in order to raise funds to attack the surrounding bandits. ”

"Then you will go and accompany the county lord!"

The tax collector said: "My lord, the villain is wronged, that child is really not killed by me, it is this Diao people who deliberately slander me." Then he said to the old woman, "You say that I killed your child, but who can testify?" If there is no evidence, it is a false accusation...... "He was so clever that the old woman was illiterate, how to argue with him, and after a while she was speechless, just crying vigorously.

"My lord, you have seen it, it is obvious that this Diao people are slandering the villain, don't be fooled!"

If it was an ordinary official, he might have to distinguish it carefully, so as not to wronged a good person, but Xu Xian only said: "Go to the big punishment!" The tax collector's ghostly thoughts were clear in his eyes, he didn't want to rely on any wisdom to judge the case when he sat here, since the ancient harsh punishment and torture to extract confessions were so useful, then let these people have a good taste of it.

The tax collector was punished, but he confessed in a short time and was also imprisoned. In this way, the papers were presented one by one, and in Xu Xian's opinion, they were simply bloodstained, and they were beaten to death by Bao Jiaotou on the street because of his carelessness. A wife and daughter were humiliated by Feng County, and there was no way to file a complaint, so they committed suicide by hanging a beam.

Among them, the most sued the dead Bao Jiaotou, but there were several life lawsuits, followed by Feng Xiancheng. Most of the small officials in the hall were the minions and lackeys of the Feng family, and they were swept away by Xu Xian in a short time. And there are so many papers, none of them are sued by Feng Zhihong, at most they are sued by the housekeeper of Feng Mansion for forcibly occupying their own farmland.

Xu Xian relied on his heart, he didn't need to observe words and emotions at all, if he confessed, he would be punished. By noon, it was done, and the prison was filled with sinners. It's just that many criminals are hiding in the Feng Mansion outside the city, and they don't have time to be arrested, and there are some bandits in the Wuthering Mountains.

The bandits here are extremely serious, hiding in the mountains, and they will go down the mountains to plunder at every opportunity. Although Feng Xiancheng said that he wanted to collect taxes and govern it, but the more he was governed, the more bandits would be, and this errand naturally fell to Xu Xian now, but he already had a plan in his heart.

In Feng's mansion, Feng Zhihong ordered people to tear off all the poems of Xu Xian on the wall and tear them to pieces, only to calm the anger in his heart a little, he didn't expect Xu Xian to be so bold, and he was determined to be an enemy of him, presumably yesterday that day was only to save Chen Lun.

Sitting back on the Taishi's chair, he asked the person who came to report the news: "The officials are all people who have been favored by us, how can they listen to Xu Xian's orders!" His original greatest confidence was that the county government was full of their people, no matter what Xu Xian wanted to do, he didn't want to escape their eyes, but he didn't expect the situation to reverse in a moment.

"Master, that Xu Xian is extremely powerful, as soon as he speaks, no one dares not to listen. ”

Zhang Dean on the side shouted: "Master, that Xu Xian knows magic, I was suddenly involuntary at the beginning, and I fell to this point." ”

"Spells, spells, just a few strange techniques, dare to show off in Lingnan!" An Long's generation has many witches, Feng Zhihong has seen a lot, and he has also seen some wizards, it is indeed a good ghost trick. But at most, it can only quietly harm people, but it can't be on the stage, as long as you find the deity, a dozen guards can rush up and kill it.

"Xu Xian, Xu Xian, since you are so ignorant of lifting, don't blame Feng for being ruthless! Zhang De'an, Xu Xian asked you to go over and show my brother the injury, what do you think?"

Zhang Dean was shocked and said: "Master, don't do it, I have a big enmity with Xu Xian and that Chen Lun, if I go, it will definitely be a dead end!"

"Then I will give you a way to live, you take this letter, immediately go to the Poison Dragon Mountain, hand it over to their village master, and persuade him to go down the mountain to get rid of Xu Xian, you are eloquent, and this matter is being used by you. ”

"The villain doesn't know the owner of the village, so it's more appropriate for the housekeeper to go. Zhang Dean hurriedly refused, this mountain in Lingnan is no better than the mountain in the south of the Yangtze River, among which there are countless fierce beasts and poisonous insects, and there are many fierce barbarians, and they lost their lives by accident. Therefore, the residents of Anlong County can only be wronged and cannot leave this place.

Feng Zhihong said: "I have other tasks to give to the housekeeper, he wants to go deeper into the mountains, to the barbarian stockade, he knows spells, don't I know people who know spells? What? Do you want to exchange with him? or don't you want to?"

Zhang Dean saw Feng Zhihong's increasingly cold face, did not dare to refuse anymore, and reluctantly accepted the task. He didn't know that it was precisely because of this that Xu Xian decided to wait a little longer, after all, it was easier to wait for the thieves to fall into the net than to attack the bandits.

Feng Zhihong sent another group of people to leave Fucheng to invite the prefect, but he refused to risk his life to enter Anlong County to save Feng Xiancheng.

How did he know that his actions, in Xu Xian's eyes, were like watching fire from the shore, and Xu Xian was also about to meet this prefect, if he was also a heinous person, then find a way to get rid of it or indulge it, so as not to make himself unhappy behind his back in the future.

At noon, when Xu Xian tried all the cases, some people had already begun to shout at him, Xu Xian naturally didn't dare to accept it, and asked everyone to return home first, and when the case was understood, give them an explanation.

Xu Xian looked back at the four big words "Mirror Hanging" above his head, and felt that it was commensurate at this time. Then he took out the merit jade plaque and looked at it, but he was taken aback, when the case was just being tried, he felt that the merit jade plaque flashed again and again, but he didn't expect that there would be so many. Yesterday, it was less than a million merits, but in just half a day, it has become more than three million. He couldn't help but sigh, sure enough, he was still an official position, and it was easy to accumulate merit.

However, this is also the unjust case that has been squeezed here for many years, and it was cleared by Xu Xian, and more importantly, Xu Xian does not have the slightest desire for fame and fortune in his heart, and he does these things purely with a spirit in his heart. If you have the intention of fighting for power or profit, or selling your fame, it would be good to get one-tenth of the merit.

(To be continued)