Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 24
Looking up at Li Yan who was wearing a golden python robe, the third leader was stunned for a moment. He was tied up and knelt down on the ground and said, "Xiaomin is guilty!"

Li Yan turned around and said to the people: "Fathers and folks! This criminal kneeling on the ground, surnamed Cai Mingzhong, is from Caijia Village, Shazhou. His family has been soldiers for generations, and his father and brother died fighting for our Tang Dynasty, but you know Why did he become a bandit?"

After hearing what Li Yan had said, Cai Zhong, the third master, immediately let go of the momentum he had raised his head, especially when he heard Li Yan mentioning his father and brother, he pressed his head tightly to the ground in embarrassment.

The people below shouted: "A born thief!"

"Unfortunate family!"

"This kid is born rebellious!"

Li Yan raised his hand to signal the people to calm down, and he continued:

"Cai Zhong's father and brother are both dead. Not only did the Guazhou tax collector not waive his family's rent, but he also let his father and brother not die in battle to make up for his family's waived rent. Cai Zhong, let me ask you, is this serious? ?”

Cai Zhong immediately said loudly: "Go back to King Jianning! The grass people who are about to die, every sentence is true. Your Highness can ask the sinner's neighbors and villagers, and they can all prove it!"

Li Yan said: "Okay! Folks, does anyone know this person?"

The old man in the front row shouted: "I know Cai Zhong!"

Li Yan immediately asked the tooth soldiers to help the old man up, and the old man said loudly: "Cai Zhong's father and brother both died fighting for the country, but the widowed mother was forced by the tax collectors to pay the rent of his family for 30 years. In the end, the Cai family sold Yong. Yetian and Shoutian failed to fill the hole, and Cai's mother was imprisoned by tax collectors and hanged herself in the prison, Cai Zhong was cast as a bandit."

This time, the people no longer cheered, but went silent collectively.

Ordinary people with no power and power live in the shadow of tax collectors.

Since the Tianbao period, the collection of the second grain in the spring and autumn every year has caused many ordinary families to be destroyed.

More and more ordinary people have to sell their ancestral properties, or they can only survive by committing themselves to the big households in the city.

In recent years, more and more people have sold their fields and bodies into slavery. The common people have more or less witnessed what happened to Cai Zhong.

After knowing that this bandit had such a past, the common people were no longer as excited as before.

It turned out that the bandits were just poor people who couldn't survive. The atmosphere in the originally jubilant practice field became cohesive, and the atmosphere was extremely oppressive.

Li Yan said to Cai Zhong: "Cai Zhong, are you guilty?"

Cai Zhong knelt on the ground and said, "The grassroots are guilty!"

Li Yan said: "It's good to know the crime. The laws of the Tang Dynasty are strict. You killed people, robbed goods, and made fake money privately. These are all unforgivable crimes listed in the "Tang Law Discussion"!"

Cai Zhong just bowed his head and burst into tears.

Li Yan said again: "The lonely king also asked people to investigate. The father and brother of the Cai family died in battle, and the widowed mother was exploited by the tax collectors and hanged herself. It is true. Come here! Get that tax collector who forged the book and forced the old mother of the Cai family to death." Bring it on!"

All I saw was a white and fat tax collector dressed as an official, being escorted up by two strong dental soldiers.

Seeing this tax collector who forced his mother to death, Cai Zhong's eyes were full of hatred.

Otherwise, Cai Zhong would rush forward and fight the tax collector desperately with the yamen guards behind him.

Li Yan pointed to the tax collector and said: "The elders in the audience, those who have been exploited by this beast, raise your hands."

The people below look at me and I look at you, and gradually some people start to raise their hands.

Then more and more people raised their hands. Among the hundreds of onlookers, nearly 20 people raised their hands.

The tax collector shouted with a pale face: "Your Highness! I am wronged by the humble position! I am wronged!"

At this time Zhou Hao came out, holding another volume in his hand, and said to the tax collector:

"Wu Ming, the governor of Guazhou's governor's office taxed Cao Shuiding. In the fourth year of Tianbao, Cai Zhong's family in Caijia Village, his father and brother died in battle. Wu Ming accused Cai's father and brother of being alive and hid in Dingkou, and ordered Cai Zhong's mother to pay 30 years of rent. .”

"Later, Cai's mother sold the Cai family's Yongye land to Wu Ming's wife and brother, but still failed to make up the vacancy. After Qiu Hou was arrested by Wu Ming and sent to prison, he hanged himself in prison the next day."

"There are twelve statements made by the neighbors of Cai's village, all of which were signed and pledged as evidence. There is also a record of Tianbao's four-year Ding tax, and the property record that the Cai family resold as evidence. The evidence is convincing!"

Zhou Hao read out Wu Ming's other crimes, and all the people came forward to testify, and the noise in the execution ground became louder again.

"Behead! Behead!"

"Cut this dog thief!"

Wu Ming's face was pale with fright, Zhang Mian, the governor of Guazhou, who sat under the supervisor's seat, covered his cheek with his official robe, feeling ashamed.

Li Yan continued to say to Cai Zhong, the third master of Dashuixia:

"Killing for money, forging fake money, Cai Zhong, you violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and your crime is unforgivable."

Cai Zhong knelt on the ground and said convincingly, "Cao Min pleaded guilty."

Li Yan said again: "Your Cai family is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and the family is ruined. It is the Tang Dynasty who is sorry for the Cai family, and the lonely king who is sorry for the Cai family!"

After saying this, everyone was shocked.

Li Yan, the majestic king of the county, even said sorry to a small man in Qianshou, which also stunned everyone in the court.

Li Yan clenched his fists and said, "Two generations of the Cai family died fighting for the Great Tang, but the descendants had to become bandits! Whose fault is this?"

Zhang Mian was also stunned. If the person who said this was an ordinary citizen, Zhang Mian would have had him arrested long ago.

But it turned out to be the majestic King of the Tang Dynasty who said such a thing, so what should I do?
Li Yan continued: "Gao Zu practiced the policy of the government soldiers, granted Yongye land, exempted from rent and mediocrity, in order to let the government soldiers fight for the country without any worries!"

"Taizong once encouraged his soldiers to say, 'Let's fight for the country. After your death, your family will have the government to support you'!"

"But what about now? The meritorious son who died for the country, but his family was ruined by the cunning subordinates! All the Yongye fields in the family have been sold, and they still can't live!"

Li Yan drew out his sword, pointed at Wu Ming, the tax collector, and said, "You dog thief! Is the purpose of granting you an official title to kill Zhongliang?"

Tax collector Wu Ming was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground, his body fat trembling.

Li Yan withdrew his sword and said: "I won't kill you, I'm afraid I will pollute my sword. I have the "Law of the Tang Dynasty" to kill you!"

Li Yan turned around again and said to Cai Zhong:

"The lonely king has already found your nephew, and sent someone to redeem the Cai family's Yongye land. Your Cai family's property has been returned to your nephew."

At this time, a young man aged seventeen or eighteen came up, knelt down to Cai Zhong and said, "Uncle Zhong!"

Cai Zhong shed tears. After his brother died in battle, his sister-in-law returned to her natal family with her nephew and left the Cai family's household registration.

I thought I would never see him again in this life, but I didn't expect that King Jianning would let the Cai family continue the incense.

Cai Zhong burst into tears, and bowed to Li Yan: "Your Highness is very kind, grassroots people have committed great crimes, if there is an afterlife, I am willing to be reborn as a cow and horse, and I will be driven by Your Highness!"

Li Yan was silent for a moment and said: "Tang laws are strict, if the Gu Wang pardons you, the souls of the people who were robbed and torn up by you will not let Gu go."

Cai's uncle and nephew just knelt down and cried, but they didn't ask for mercy to survive.

Li Yan said to the people around the court: "Gu Wang wants to go to Guazhou to look up and re-determine the Ding and Tian registrations! Anyone who hides the fields and hides the Dingkou can vote in the Moli Army barracks." Book exposed!"

"There are treacherous subordinates like Wu Ming who deceive their superiors and confiscate more rents, and they can also come to my Moli army to expose them!"

After saying this, Li Yan sat back on the supervisor's seat again, and said to the swordsman: "It's noon, and all the criminals have proven themselves, let's execute the sentence!"

Holding the ghost-head knife in his hand, Cai Zhong went to the execution ground, and Cai Zhong knelt down to Li Yan, and shouted loudly: "The grass people are convicted, and I will repay the favor of the county king in the next life!"

Then Cai Zhong said to his nephew: "My Cai family's soldiers from generation to generation, your ancestors and your father, all died for the loyalty of the Tang Dynasty. Your uncle is ashamed. He has no face to see his father and brother. After I die, I will throw it in a straw Just go to the mass grave."

Cai Zhong's nephew bowed his head and wept.

Cai Zhong said to Li Yan again: "Your Highness, my Cai family has been loyal for three generations, and my nephew is as loyal as his father. Can he be loyal to His Highness when he grows up?"

Li Yan nodded and said: "The Cai family has served as soldiers for generations, your nephew can join the military mansion and serve the Great Tang."

Cai Zhong kowtowed again and said, "Thank you for your kindness!"

Cai Zhong's uncle and nephew bowed their heads to Li Yan again.

When Cai Zhong's nephew raised his head, he wept again and said to Cai Zhong, "Uncle!"

Cai Zhong closed his eyes and said, "The time of death has come, let's go."

Cai Zhong was escorted by the yamen servants and stepped onto the guillotine.

He closed his eyes and wept, but with a calm and calm face, he bared his neck and said, "Cut it quickly, I'm so reincarnated!"

Seeing the knife and ax go up and down, Cai Zhong's head moved and rolled to the ground with a thud.

Cai Zhong's nephew burst into tears. This time, the people in the execution ground did not cheer, and there was a suffocating silence in the air.

After hearing that King Jianning wanted to make a big claim and re-determine Ding Ji's Tian Ji, the remaining eleven bandits all put on a calm expression.

They kowtowed to Li Yan, and then calmly walked onto the guillotine.

This time, the common people did not applaud. They all understood that these bandits might be ordinary people like them before falling into the grass.

If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't survive, who would become a bandit?
In the heavy atmosphere, Arhan was the last one to go to the guillotine.

This arrogant and domineering food merchant kept begging for mercy in various languages, and even the swordsmen looked at him with contempt.

"Unlucky! After chopping up twelve good men, this thing is going to be chopped up in the end!"

The axeman didn't want to listen to Alhan's noise, so he chopped off his head with a single knife.

At this time, Li Yan said: "Zhou Hao, publish Wu Ming's verdict, and chop it up too!"

"As ordered!"

(End of this chapter)