my days with tyrants

Chapter 323 Blackmail people, right?

After confirming that they couldn't bear it any longer, the princes of Dagon Dagon calmed down instead.

Even if you fight, you can't be in the capital.

After all, they couldn't beat Yang Feng.

On the contrary, they are still fueling the flames, publicizing the public land law with great fanfare, as if it will be implemented immediately.

Then the gentry everywhere went crazy.

The Dengzhou gentry who got the news, a group of old men over [-] years old, were carried to the ancestral hall of Tie Xuan's family by their children and grandchildren, and a barrel of gunpowder was directly stuffed into it, and they trembled with the sound of the explosion. At the Tie family's ancestral grave, during this period, a fellow villager Xian died on the ancestral grave of Tie Xuan's family because of his anger and exhaustion.

The poor Tie family was originally considered one of the most prestigious families in the region, but in the face of this kind of public anger, they can only hide behind closed doors.

As for local officials...

What can they do?
They are all old men in their [-]s, and they didn't commit rebellion or murder, so they can neither be arrested nor tried.

Really can't judge.

Whoever tries at this age is guilty.

Of course, they can only sit back and watch the Tie family suffer.

Besides, the magistrate of Dengzhou had resigned in the first place, and he is just acting as an agent of the same magistrate.

Then the next day, the gentry from neighboring states and counties also charged forward with old men who were over eighty years old, and dug up the grave of the Tie family ancestors that had already been dug up, smashing the bones and scum, and even pouring dung into it as if to vent their anger. .

As for the Tie family...

The Tie family was attacked by bandits the night before.

I don't know where it came from, anyway, the bandits entered his home at night, not only killed a dozen people, but also lit a fire. Fortunately, because of their family background, there are still some brothers from the same family in Dengzhou who can take refuge, so part escaped.But on the second day, these fellow brothers did not dare to take them in anymore, so they had to abandon their homes and flee to Jinan, and kept their identities incognito for the sake of confidentiality.But it was of no use, because the gentry along the way were all sharpening their knives, and in the end, the entire clan ran to Jinan, and there were less than ten people in total.

Of course, the tragedy of the Tie family was caused by his loyalty, and Her Majesty the Empress will not let the tears of loyal ministers flow in vain.

So continue to promote him.

But at this time, the provincial level is the secretary of the political envoy, and the chief envoy is already the highest.

Ambassador Yang suggested that each commissioner should add an official post to take charge of the overall situation, so that local affairs can be dealt with more efficiently, and this official post should have the ability to make decisions on the fly, and even mobilize the army when necessary.

Just call the governor!
Not counting magistrates.

Instead, as a foreign mission of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the capital censor replaced the governor of the region.

Of course, Shangfang Sword definitely does not have it.

But for the crime of local officials, including the generals of the guard, as long as the evidence is solid, they can be arrested first and then reported. In order to ensure that the governor can do this, the governor can be assigned a [-] soldiers.These soldiers were of course transferred from the Shenji Battalion, and for the [-] Shenji Battalion, except for orders from the capital, only the governor could mobilize them.

This proposal immediately became an imperial decree, so Tie Xuan was promoted from the governor of Shandong to the governor of Shandong, the right deputy capital censor.

As soon as the imperial decree came out, the world looked sideways.

What a holy family this is!

It has reached the point of setting up an official position for him alone.

This is all in exchange for his memorial to trouble the world.

Traitor!

Disastrous traitor to the country!

It can be said that every time he was promoted, every favor was obtained by selling the gentry, so the local gentry, who had nowhere to vent their anger, had to continue digging his ancestral grave.

Every day there is an endless stream of gentry from all over the country, and some even make a special trip from Huguang.

It didn't take long to plan until there was only a puddle left.

Moreover, the Shandong gentry even tried to assassinate him, so it is really necessary to look at the Sanbai Fubiao Shenji Battalion in this way, otherwise, even if he could escape once, he would not be able to escape the continuous assassinations of the gentry.But he escaped, but it was difficult for his family to escape. One of his sons was accidentally shot to death with a poisoned arrow when he went out, and his daughter was kidnapped and disappeared. There were rumors that he was sold on a merchant ship.

But he was promoted again.

In order to make up for the pain of losing his son, Princess Hanshan gave him the crown prince Shaofu.

Then it led to the escalation of the Henan gentry's revenge against him...

"This is a bit troublesome!"

Yang Feng looked at the urgent report in front of him with a pure face.

The chief envoy of Henan hastened to report that the gentry in Dengzhou and several surrounding counties had conflicts with his brothers because of Tie Xuan's incident, and there were armed fights in Dengzhou, and there were also minor incidents in several other counties and counties. Fighting with weapons on a large scale, the local gentry are uniting to expel his brothers, who, although they resisted vigorously, are ultimately outnumbered.

There have been hundreds of casualties.

And the fighting is still spreading.

It even has the potential to affect the whole of Henan.

"Ambassador, what's the trouble? If you fight with weapons in the local area, you can go to the police station to suppress it."

Zhang Xianzong said calmly.

Based on his understanding of Yang Feng, of course it is clear that Tie Xuan was cheated by Yang Feng.

The more Tie Xuan is promoted, the more the gentry will be stimulated to retaliate against his clan. After his clan has been retaliated against, the gentry without a target will have nowhere to vent their anger, and it will inevitably spread outward.After all, there was a conflict between them and the local gentry, and now the furious local gentry took this opportunity to expel them.Originally, this problem was easy to solve, as long as the gentry dug his ancestral grave, he could directly dispatch troops to catch a few to deter them. Henan is not the place where gentry are strong in Jiangxi and Zhejiang.The current population of Henan will not allow the gentry to have much ability, after all, their population is not as good as that of Shanxi.

But Yang Feng didn't.

He didn't care about what happened in Dengzhou and just promoted Tie Xuan.

While letting those gentry persecute his clan.

While promoting him, it stimulated the anger of those gentry.

This is to play him to death!

Looking at it now, it is obvious that they are not just running to kill him, but to kill his entire group.

"That's a big deal. This kind of thing is a matter for the chief envoy and the inspector. It's not about bandits. Rebellion and other needs are directed by the envoy. It's just civil war. It's not commonplace, it happens everywhere. Let's do it, Let the Metropolitan Procuratorate choose a censor to go there, even if it is an imperial envoy, let him go to Dengzhou to appease, I remember there is a man named Liu Shi'e, let him go to appease him!"

Yang Feng said.

appease it!
This guy is from Shanyin, Zhejiang.

Now the entire Confucian family in eastern Zhejiang regards Guangzhou as the city of light.

After all, overseas trade is allowed there, and Confucian scholars are respected.

For the gentry in eastern Zhejiang, one of them is enough to be regarded as a holy master, let alone both, as long as officials from the eastern Zhejiang area are appeased, he promises that the more appeased, the more chaotic.

Zhang Xianzong didn't say anything more, Yang Feng's real purpose was already obvious, he didn't need to waste his words on it, besides, he wasn't interested in caring about those victims, with the fighting power of the Henan gentry, it wouldn't be impossible to solve even this.Although he really couldn't figure out what purpose Tie Xuan had submitted for that memorial, but since that memorial was published, he was already an enemy of the gentry, and what he encountered now was just inevitable.

Public land law!
Isn't this driving the world's gentry crazy?
He and Tie Xuan are also old acquaintances, he really didn't expect Tie Xuan to be so brave, more importantly, Tie Xuan's family is also a landlord, with such a memorial from the landlord, this is not just brave.

Simply amazing.

"Let the rumors spread that Tie Xuan has already passed the secret paper. Please use Dengzhou as a pilot for the public land law, and implement it in the whole of Henan within three years."

Yang Feng lay on the window looking at Zhang Xianzong's back, and then said to the little princess.

"Looking at what happened in Dengzhou, I'm afraid these gentry really won't shrink back."

said the little princess.

"It is impossible to back down. There is no room for backing down in this kind of thing. This is a war."

Yang Feng said.

This was only the beginning, and he had to continue to provoke the gentry until they couldn't bear it anymore and really raised the banner of rebellion against him.

And right now.

In the north of Xiangyang, Luyan Station.

Xinke Jinshi Liu Wen was standing in front of the post station suspiciously, looking at a strange team in front of him.

These people all speak with a Xiangyang accent, and they should have returned to Xiangyang from Xinye. Although most of them are young and middle-aged, there are more than a dozen shoulders in the middle. The deputy, who was about to die, hummed on it.And those young and strong are holding all kinds of cold weapons, but some of them are carrying shovels and the like. There are about 200 people in total.

"My lord, what are these?"

He asked the postman next to him suspiciously.

"The person who went to Dengzhou to smash the Tie family's ancestral grave was Tie Xuan, the governor of Shandong. He gave a memorial to the court, asking the queen to issue a decree to implement the public land law, to take over the land from all over the world, and to follow Shanxi's example and change all of them into public land. Farmers do not have to pay taxes, but only pay rent to the court.

This suddenly angered the gentry everywhere

It was said that he was a traitorous official who brought disaster to the country and the people, and the Dengzhou gentry took the lead in digging his ancestral grave.

The gentry from the surrounding state capitals couldn't help it, and they all got together to go to Dengzhou to dig his family's grave. There have been several waves in the past few days. This is from Xiangyang. They were the first to go there. Because of this incident, there was an armed fight in Zhouzhou, and many people died. They probably also came back quickly because they were afraid of being involved there. "

Yi Cheng gloated and said.

"Does the government care?"

Liu Wen said in astonishment.

"The magistrate of Dengzhou resigned a long time ago, and now Tongzhi is acting on behalf of the state. Tongzhi belongs to Xiangyang. He still has more than 1000 mu of land in his home. He also hates Tie Xuan so much. If he hadn't gone to dig his own head, it would be fine. Benevolence is exhausted.

Besides, this aroused public indignation. Unless the imperial court sent troops to suppress it, Dengzhou alone would not be able to suppress it. "

Yicheng said.

"So where is the law?"

Liu Wen said angrily.

He is a university graduate, a Jinshi in agricultural science, and he is going to Dengzhou to be a judge.

His voice was a little louder, and on the shoulders and shoulders of the past, an old man who had been humming immediately opened his eyes...

"Son, don't talk nonsense."

He said with a cold snort.

"At an advanced age, you should respect the elders, and you should set an example for the younger generation by obeying the law and obeying the law. However, you will humiliate their ancestors and destroy their ancestral tombs with only a memorial from Mr. Tie. You will violate the law in your country, and you will lose your education at home. The younger generation just said Just to be honest. Regardless of whether the Tiegong Memorial is right or wrong, it is his responsibility as a minister. What's more, even if he is guilty, he must be dealt with by the court. There is no reason for lynching and destroying his ancestors' graves. Destroying someone's ancestors' graves is a felony according to the Ming Dynasty. The younger generation is Deng. The state magistrate is now ordered to take office, and he committed crimes in Dengzhou at an advanced age, and Yu Gong's juniors cannot ignore it."

Liu Wen saluted and said.

Then the old guys all opened their eyes.

"It turned out to be an official. I don't know which subject the official is a Jinshi?"

said the old guy.

"Enke, Jinshi of Agricultural Science."

Liu Wen said.

The old guys looked at each other, and the old guy in front of Liu Wen motioned to raise his shoulders and put him down, then he walked out tremblingly and walked in front of Liu Wen.

"So, the official is a disciple of the Son of Heaven?"

He said.

"Don't dare, this junior is indeed a student of the late emperor."

Liu Wen said.

The old guy nodded, then tremblingly leaned in front of Liu Wen, suddenly smiled strangely, and immediately fell to the side...

"Oh, Xinke Scholars beat someone!"

He yelled as he fell.

"A Jinshi beat someone to death."

"Mr. He was beaten to death!"

……

The old guys shouted immediately.

Then they pushed Qing Zhuang forward one after another. Before Qing Zhuang could react, they all stood there in a daze. One of them, Qing Zhuang, was the first to wake up. After making a gesture of wiping his neck, Qing Zhuang immediately swung his stick and rushed forward...

"Kill this dog official to avenge Mrs. He!"

he growled.

Only then did the other young adults wake up, and immediately swarmed up...

"boom!"

Suddenly there was a gunshot.

Everyone stopped in fright. The young man with a stick held up his stick with both hands, and then looked in horror at the flintlock pointing at his forehead. In Liu Wen's hand, the muzzle of another flintlock Still smoking.Behind Liu Wen, several of his entourages had already rushed out, all pulling out their flintlocks and pointing at these young men...

"Mr. He, right? You are very familiar with the way of blackmailing people! You never thought that I would have no means of self-defense when I travel thousands of miles from the capital to Dengzhou to take office? You want to blackmail me and beat you, and then let these people beat you I was beaten to death, and no one else saw it. Wang Yicheng is a local, so he didn't dare to testify that you blackmailed me. In the end, it became me beating an old man.
How quick-witted you are! "

Liu Wen looked at the old guy on the ground and said.

The latter was also dumbfounded, lying there staring at him dumbfounded.

"Ambassador Yang has guessed your tricks a long time ago. In the current situation, do you think I will take the job alone?

wrong.

Those of us who went to the localities to take up positions were actually armed with soldiers. "

Liu Wen said.

And those followers simply took out their pocket cards.

"Life is so big, it's the first time I've seen such a blackmailer, and it's all on Jin Yiwei's head.

Do you know the words above?
Jinyiwei small flag.

You besieged Jinyiwei, which is tantamount to conspiracy, and you are in trouble. "

A follower said with a smile.

The stick in the young and strong hand fell instantly, bounced on the ground, and then hit the old guy, who suddenly twitched, and then collapsed on the ground...

(End of this chapter)