Qian Song

Chapter 67

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The city gates of Suzhou were opened wide, and tens of thousands of Huben troops, led by the Suzhou Rebel Army led by Shi Sheng, poured into the city.

Seeing this scene, Li Cun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it has been planned well before, and the officials, gentry and nobles of Suzhou, such as Zhu Xi, have also fallen into Li Cun's scheme and are discussing to collect Li Cun's extortion, but there is no 100% in this world, especially in an uprising. If you are not careful, you will lose everything.

Fortunately, Shi Sheng lived up to Li Cun's expectations of him and led people to open the gate of Suzhou.

Not long after, Wu Desi's secret agent who was in charge of contacting Shi Sheng led Shi Sheng to meet Li Cun.

Shi Sheng was short, fat and strong, with strong bones and tendons, and he walked vigorously.

As far as Li Cun knows, Shi Sheng was originally born in a wealthy family, but because of a very beautiful Taihu stone in his home, he was persecuted by officials of the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau headed by Zhu Xi, and finally the Shi family went bankrupt. At that time, Shi Sheng's father was also assassinated to match Salmonella Island, and he died without a life.

Because of this, Shi Sheng hated the dim Zhao Song Dynasty to death, and devoted himself to overthrowing the dark rule of the Zhao Song Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that Shi Sheng risked his life and led a group of people who wanted to overthrow the dark rule of the Zhao and Song Dynasty like him to help the Huben Army open the gate of Suzhou overnight.

After seeing Li Cun, Shi Sheng didn't talk nonsense, and directly bowed to the ground: "I beg the governor to borrow a soldier from the villain, and the villain wants to capture that villain Zhu Man alive, and cut him into pieces in order to repay Suzhou." 20 years of human suffering!"

Hearing this, Li Cun simply lent the rear guards to Shi Sheng.

After Shi Sheng entered the city with his personal guards, he went straight to Sun Laoqiao.

Who would have thought that Shi Sheng was a step too late in his haste, and Zhu Qian had already escaped from the city through another city gate with many officials, gentry and nobles.

Shi Sheng hated him so much that he wanted to massacre Zhu Chong's father Zhu Chong and one or two thousand members of Zhu's family.

But Shi Sheng's actions were stopped by Zhang Goudan, who came with him, and Zhang Goudan said to Shi Sheng: "It's not my Huben army's work to kill people without asking indiscriminately. I know that the Zhu family really deserves to be killed. After the public trial, we can kill them in a fair and just manner."

Shi Sheng was naturally unwilling, but Zhang Goudan was the acting commander of the rear guard, even if he was unwilling, so what?

Afterwards, all of Zhu's family, young and old, were arrested, awaiting the upcoming public trial.

At the same time, Zhang Shi also personally led people to search Zhu's house.

I don't know if I don't check it. After the investigation, Li Cun was shocked.

In the Zhu family, the land deeds were as many as 30 mu, gold, silver, jewelry and other properties (not counting antique calligraphy and paintings and other treasures that are difficult to calculate the value of) roughly calculated to be no less than 2000 million silk, no less than 20 pieces of silk, and grain. There are more than 40 shi, more than 3000 sets of excellent soldiers, more than [-] good horses, and tens of thousands of livestock of various kinds. There are hundreds of wives, concubines, and maidservants for Zhu Miao alone. There were a thousand of them, and even the slaves of the Zhu family were dressed in brocade clothes and gold belts.

Hearing such an exaggerated number, Li Cun even had the idea of ​​"Did Zhang Shi make a mistake?"

You know, before Li Cun asked the people in Suzhou City for 100 ingots of gold, [-] ingots of silver, [-] pieces of silk, [-] sets of armor, [-] horses, [-] heads of cattle, sheep, pigs, donkeys and mules, and [-] yuan of grain. Wan Shi, that was completely insincere blackmail.

Who would have thought that the entire city of Suzhou would not be needed at all, only the Zhu family, except for a slight shortage of food and armor, could not only fully take out Li Cun's blackmail, but also have a lot of surplus money.

Li Cunzhen was a little afraid: "If Zhu Xi agrees to my terms, will I fight Suzhou City? Or Suzhou City? Or Suzhou City?"

Because there were too many things copied from Zhu's house, so much that Li Cun's strength had grown a lot, so that Li Cun, who didn't plan to go to the city, couldn't help but go to the city himself. Went to Zhu's house to have a look.

Looking at it this way, Li Cun, who had been bombarded by the information explosion of later generations, couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

Purple pillars and golden beams, gold bricks and jade tiles, are extremely luxurious in the world.

This Zhu family is not just a family, it is clearly a small palace.

It is not an exaggeration to say that even if Li Cun ascended the throne in the Zhu family and proclaimed himself emperor, it would be enough.

Li Cun didn't know who had heard such a passage: gold belt, silver belt, Zhao family world Zhu family bad.

It was only now that Li Cun had a deep understanding of the meaning of this sentence.

The 30 mu of land and the huge wealth that even Li Cun can be shocked by, how many people's anointing and sins are behind it? !

However, in Li Cun's view, the source of all these crimes is Zhao Ji's desire for extravagance and Zhao Ji's love for flowers and stones.

In order to satisfy Zhao Ji's crazy love for exotic flowers and stones, Cai Jing, who wanted power, set up a Fengfeng Bureau in Suzhou, spent a lot of public property, searched for flowers and stones, and transported them by boat from Huaihe River and Bianhe River to Bianliang City in Tokyo, and then That's why Zhu Xie had the opportunity to be so arrogant that he accumulated such a huge amount of wealth through all kinds of bottomless cruel means, and his life was extravagant and corrupt to the extreme.

Just as Liang Hongyu said, what is good at the top must be good at the bottom.

It is said that due to the great disturbance of Zhu Xie, the people in the southeast were living in dire straits. In the end, even Cai Jing couldn't see it. He told Zhao Ji that Hua Shi Gang was too disturbing to the people.

It was only when Zhao Ji spoke that Zhu Xi restrained himself a little.

But soon, Zhu Xi reverted to his old ways, started construction again, built the Taoist temple Shenxiao Temple, and pretended that the Sunlaoqiao area in Suzhou, where he lived, was bestowed by the emperor on the Zhu family, forcing the surrounding [-] households to demolish and relocate within five days.

With Zhao Ji as Zhu Xi's backer, the people didn't even dare to protect themselves, so they had to pack up their things and move away in panic.

Not only that, Zhu's father and son set up a palace ban in the Daxing Garden in Suzhou, and recruited thousands of people as private guards.

Borrowing a sentence from the history books: "Zhu Yu and his father, brother, son and nephew have poisoned the state and county for 20 years."

The next day, when Zhang Shi presided over the public trial of Zhu's family, Li Cun was also present.

When Zhu Chong, who was over [-] years old, was pushed to the public trial stand, Zhang Shi didn't need to say anything, "Kill!", "Kill!", "Kill!" like a landslide and tsunami sounded from the audience...

Compared with Zhu Chong, the public trial of Zhao Ting was just a small scene.

If it weren't for the heavily armed former guard guarding the stage, these red-eyed people might have rushed to the stage and eaten Zhu Chong raw.

Seeing this scene, Li Cun couldn't help looking at Zhu Chong who was so frightened that he couldn't even stand up on the public trial platform.

When Cai Jing was relegated to Hangzhou, he passed through Suzhou. He wanted to build a temple and pavilion, which would cost tens of thousands of dollars. He was worried that no one would supervise the construction, so a monk recommended Zhu Chong.

Zhu Chong seized this excellent opportunity to curry favor with Cai Jing, and exclusively funded and sponsored him. Within a few days, he prepared thousands of pieces of wood, which was appreciated by Cai Jing.

Seeing that Zhao Ji likes exotic flowers and stones, Cai Jing asked Zhu Chong and his father and son Zhu Chong to secretly collect rare treasures from central Zhejiang.

Soon, Zhu Mian transported three exotic boxwoods into the palace garden, which was appreciated by Zhao Ji. From this, Zhu Mian took full charge of the Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau, specializing in tribute collection.

Because of Zhu Xi's hard work, he won the favor of Zhao Ji, and the Zhu family began to prosper.

It can be said that the prosperity of the Zhu family began with Zhu Chong.

It can also be said that the crimes of the Zhu family began with Zhu Chong.

Zhu Chong is good at building gardens on hills, and he is known as "Huayuanzi". He was originally the kind of master that Li Cun valued very much.

Ordinarily, Li Cun would be lenient with such talents, after all, talents are rare.

But when Zhu Chong came here, Li Cun had no intention of pardoning Zhu Chong at all.

Not only that, Li Cun, who has always hated torture, nodded in agreement when Shi Sheng asked him to kill Zhu Chong.

Li Cun didn't watch the bloody scene.

Afterwards, Kong Lengzi told Li Cun that Shi Sheng's sword skills were not good, and he only cut Zhu Chong more than 170 times, and Zhu Chong died without turning into a skeleton at all.

After Zhu Chong died, Shi Sheng threw Zhu Chong's stinky meat into the crowd.

When the people saw it, they scrambled to snatch it, put it in their mouths, and ate it raw to avenge their hatred.

As a modern person, it was really hard for Li Cun to imagine that scene.

"Maybe it's because I haven't experienced the hardships they have experienced. If I have been bullied by the Zhu family for 20 years like them, I might behave crazier than them."

Afterwards, the men of the Zhu family, including the slaves of the Zhu family, were put on trial one by one, and none of them survived.

The public trial of Zhu's family alone dyed the public trial platform blood red, like hell on earth.

However, the people in Suzhou city cheered and danced beside this "hell" with lanterns and festoons, and some even prepared to set up a shrine for Li Cun to worship Li Cun from generation to generation...

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(End of this chapter)