Daming: After self-explosive time travel, Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed

Chapter 163 Is This the Prince of the Ming Dynasty?
Hengyang City, this is a pioneer city.

As an avant-garde outpost guarding the capital of Jinling, it is almost the last buffer line of defense when a large army comes to attack Jinling.

At this time, outside the Hengyang county government office, after receiving the prince's handwritten letter from the capital.

King Zhu of Zhou handed it directly to the county magistrate of Hengyang who was sitting beside him and the old god was there.

"County magistrate, this is a handwritten letter from the capital, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, with the Crown Prince's seal on it as evidence! How? Can I lead the troops out now?"

After seeing the other party accepting the handwritten letter, Zhu Xi directly took the saber that came from the ground beside him while speaking.

The smile on the corner of his mouth was not concealed at all.

Early this morning, outside the Yamen of Hengyang city government was surrounded by the common people.

And Zhu Huan's first reaction after learning about this was to directly lead troops to surround these people first.

However, when the county magistrate of Hengyang City heard about this, he rushed to Zhu Huan's mansion and threatened him with death.

If Zhu Huan dared to lead troops to suppress the people, he would die directly in front of Zhu Huan.

He has seen Zhu Wei's methods of suppressing others before.

The firecracker speeds up the knife, wherever it goes, it is invincible, but anyone who resists is almost spared.

If Zhu Wei were to lead soldiers to suppress those common people, there would be rivers of blood flowing outside the government office of Hengyang.

This Hengyang county magistrate is also a real person. In order to perform his duties, he insisted on threatening his own life and stopped Zhu Xi in his mansion for a whole morning.

"His Royal Highness King Zhou, although there is a handwritten letter from the prince, I still have to remind you that the old officials in the village are out of your control when you suppress the tyrants, but those are innocent people, and they have not overstepped. If His Highness insists on bloodbath, then The old minister made a mistake in governing, he should be the first to be punished!"

"Your Highness, please think again!"

The old county magistrate originally thought that after reporting this matter, the imperial court would come forward to stop King Zhou's atrocities!

But when he saw the handwritten letter sent by the prince, he found that it actually said the four characters Ren Ta Shi Wei.

His old face, which was originally calm and calm, suddenly showed a heavy look.

He never dreamed that the reply from the capital would be in such four characters.

This was really beyond his expectation.

"Don't worry, the old county magistrate. I, Zhu Wei, am not a bloodthirsty person. I explained it to you very clearly. I am not going to suppress the people. Why don't you believe me?"

Zhu Huan looked at this extremely stubborn old man, he just wanted to open his Tianling Gai now, so that he could see what was going on in his mind.

Ever since he heard that the people had surrounded the Hengyang government office in the morning, he thought about taking people to deal with it.

As a result, he was dragged abruptly by the old county magistrate for a whole morning.

He didn't even think about it, if he, Zhu Wei, was really a cruel and bloodthirsty person.

Can he hold himself back?

He's going to die, just let him die.

Why talk so much to him?

"His Royal Highness Zhou, I don't know if you are a bloodthirsty veteran, but you don't follow rules at all. This is an indisputable fact!"

After hearing Zhu Wei's explanation of his behavior, the old county magistrate still just shook his head contemptuously.

After Zhu Huan came to Hengyang City, he led people directly and killed them in a hurry.

There are not a few people who ransacked their homes and confiscated their properties.

The storeroom of the Zhou Wangfu's mansion that was temporarily recruited has been filled with all kinds of money, silver, silk and satin.

Some of them have even been moved to the guest room for temporary storage.

The grain he had confiscated during this time had filled up three granaries.

The big prison was almost full of people.

However, nine out of ten of these people who were arrested and sent to prisons and ransacked their homes were directly taken down by Zhu Xi without review.

How could the old county magistrate not worry about such a means of overstepping the law?
If he went to face those common people and was contradicted a little bit, he would be beheaded on the spot.

Then the whole Hengyang city should be turned into a mess immediately?

"At an extraordinary time, it is natural to use extraordinary means. Hey, forget it, you come with me, and you will understand later."

Zhu Huan actually admired the old county magistrate of Hengyang City.

After he came to Hengyang, the first thing he did was to take the lead in checking the family status of the Hengyang county magistrate.

With a low salary, he not only supports the yamen servants, but sometimes he has to help the poor neighbors around him.

People are old, but they have no children.

It is said that his sons, daughters and wives starved to death in the famine.

For this kind of old man, Zhu Wei still admires him from the bottom of his heart.

That's why he was coerced by the other party's threats.

After Zhu Huan left the mansion, the Fire Gun Army, the Infantry Guards, and the Cavalry Guards all moved immediately.

When they saw King Zhou's guard marching out again, the common people and merchants along the way were frightened and quickly moved out of the way.

Since Zhou Wang arrived in Hengyang, his actions are almost known throughout the city.

It's just because after he came, he was busy ransacking the house and arresting all kinds of village tyrants and villains.

This also made him unable to rectify his name for a while.

But at this time, Zhu Wei didn't care about these things.

Because he knew very well that he was just cleaning up now.

Once the pickled things are cleaned up, everything that follows will slowly get better.

"Surround everyone!"

When Zhu Xi brought people outside the government office in Hengyang City, seeing the people kneeling on the ground, he directly ordered the guards to surround everyone in the middle.

And those people who were just here to complain, when they saw the shining spears and black firecrackers of Zhu Wei's guards at this time.

Hundreds of people couldn't help commotion for a while.

It's just that before they could make a move, Zhu Wei had already jumped off the horse.

Then, he took over a wooden loudspeaker from his entourage.

This thing was also prepared by Chu Ze in advance.

"Everyone, folks! Don't get excited, so many people gather together, it's easy to be trampled. Everyone obeys my order, get up slowly, and then squat down on the spot!"

"Now, I will count to three, and then everyone will get up together. I am Zhou Wang Zhu Huan of Daming. I am definitely not here today to trouble you, but to solve your problems!"

"All soldiers, put away your weapons, do not accidentally injure civilians, and all civilians must not riot. Now: one, two, three, get up!"

With the blessing of the loudspeaker, Zhu Xi's already loud voice, coupled with the shining weapons in the hands of the surrounding soldiers, instantly became the best tool to maintain order.

And after Zhu Huan's slogan sounded, the people who had come to complain about their grievances, under Zhu Huan's command, slowly stood up from the ground.

And after seeing this, Zhu Lu couldn't help showing a slight smile at the corner of his mouth.

"Now, everyone listens to my orders and squats down slowly. Now that you have so many people crowded together, if there is a riot, someone will be trampled to death innocently. So remember, this is for your safety. Without my order , don’t get up without authorization, otherwise, for the safety of most people, I will order him to be shot!”

"Remember, I'm not joking with you!"

The scene, which was originally quiet because of the sudden appearance of soldiers, suddenly became a little chaotic again because of Zhu Xi's sentence of shooting.

However, after discovering this sign, Zhu Huan hurriedly picked up the loudspeaker and shouted again.

"Give me peace if you don't want to die!"

This angry reprimand immediately made all the people shut their mouths at the same time.

All of them looked at Zhu Xi with horror on their faces.

The reputation of the Zhou King's brutality has now been completely spread in Hengyang City.

Killing people without blinking an eye is not enough to describe him.

But at this time, after hearing that Zhu Sui had suddenly lost his temper, these ordinary people who had never seen anything in the world dared to move again.

All tremblingly, they looked at the soldiers who had surrounded them.

His face was full of remorse and horror.

Originally, they came to complain outside the government office, thinking that the law does not blame the public.

But when they were really surrounded by soldiers, fear still rose slowly from the bottom of their hearts.

"His Royal Highness, that's not what you told me before you came!"

After King Zhou suppressed everyone forcefully, the old county magistrate of Hengyang City came out of the carriage panting.

When he saw the people directly surrounded by soldiers, he couldn't help rushing to Zhu Lu's side anxiously.

"Mr. Chu, I respect your devotion to your duties! But at this time, please don't make trouble. I will naturally abide by what I promised, but I also have responsibilities, so please cooperate."

Seeing the Hengyang county magistrate who came rushing anxiously, Zhu Wei glanced at him coldly, and then turned his gaze again to the common people squatting on the ground.

"Come on... bring things up!"

Under Zhu Huan's order, several soldiers moved the table quickly and came to Zhu Huan, and then someone brought a stack of thick booklets.

After everything was ready to be in place, Zhu Huan gave the subordinates next to him a look.

After the understanding subordinate nodded, he stood in front of the temporary table, took the loudspeaker from Zhu Huan's hand, picked up a booklet and began to read.

"The rich gentry of Hengyang City, Liu Zhuqian, bought and sold 21 mu of land in Daliu Village by force, respectively, three mu of fertile land from Zhao Si's family in Daliu Village. When they forced the purchase, they occupied Zhao Si's wife and daughter and broke one of Zhao Si's legs. , Zhao Si’s wife and daughter committed suicide by jumping into the river. Daliu Village’s Wang Sanjiu’s family has three acres of land, and Niu Erdan’s family’s paddy field.”

"In addition to Daliu Village, it also seized 37 acres of land in Xiaogegou Village, [-] acres of forest farm in Mushan Village, and three fish ponds in Yuhe Village."

"The wealthy gentry in Hengyang City, Tan Xinghao, opened a brothel and a casino. Using the casino as a lure, many people were lured into gambling debts, sold their properties, and sold their wives and daughters to pay off debts. At the same time, they also trafficked people"

"Hengyang rich gentry"

Following Zhu Wei's entourage, the thick and loud voice gradually read out the cases they interrogated and recorded, and gradually spread to the ears of the people below.

The originally restless crowd fell into silence at this time.

And some of the common people who were hiding in the dark and watching, gradually came out boldly at this time.

All of them listened attentively to the reading outside the yamen.

The thick stack of booklets was read by four or five people backwards, and it took a full hour to finish the reading.

And when the last booklet was read out, Zhu Wei took over the loudspeaker and asked his hands to rest.

After wiping the drool on the loudspeaker with a handkerchief soaked in spirits, Zhu Lu looked at the people gathered below again.

"I know, I, Zhu Wei, have a bad reputation recently because after I took over Hengyang City, I have been leading teams to attack everywhere. So there are rumors that I, the prince, came to Hengyang City to kill, burn and rob! "

"However, the ones I read just now are the ones I, Zhu Lu, killed! But I dare to ask everyone, is there anything wrong with me, Zhu Lu, killing these people?"

"Don't they deserve to die?"

"The world belongs to my Great Ming. In this world, there is still the king's law! There is also the law of heaven, justice!"

"These people are all evil people! As the prince of Daming, I, Zhu Wei, am here for the people of Daming, not for these villains who only know how to oppress the village!"

"I killed these people in order to give the world a bright future!"

"Of course, some people may say that I have taken over the property and land of these people. Now I can tell everyone responsibly that I have taken over the land!"

"And I won't return it to the original owner, because after I return it to them, they won't be able to keep the land. It was taken by bullies today, and I can get it back for them, but tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? What if I'm gone? Well? I don't know?"

"So, I will not return these lands to them. From now on, these lands will all belong to the Hengyang City Government! The imperial court will be the master of these lands"

"And now, what I have to do is to lease these lands to these landless people in the name of the imperial court. Remember, it is leased to you. From now on, you can plant the imperial court's land with peace of mind and pay the rent every year. , and you don’t need to worry about the rest.”

"For the lease of these lands, I will have someone write down the title deed later. The lease time is: forever!"

"As long as there are still people in your family alive, then these lands will be leased to you all the time."

"And if anyone dares to take advantage of your land, you will give it to them. I will see if there is any bully who dares to come to the Daming government office to ask for the title deed!"

"Now, I will go to notify all the victims who have been read out earlier. If there are survivors in the family, they can come to my government office to report."

"Those who have grievances can also come to my government office to complain!"

"Those who are afraid that they will not be able to keep their land can also take the initiative to come to the government office to hand it in, and then sign a lease!"

"I, Zhu Wei, will be here to watch everyone every day for the next ten days. Anyone who has any questions can come to me and ask. If there is any violation of what I said today, I, Zhu Wei, will be beaten five times and die a terrible death!"

"You are the people of my Ming Dynasty, and my court of the Ming Dynasty is your backer!"

"Those who violated the law and discipline that were previously selected will be beheaded in the court three days later!"

"The money and food seized will be given priority to compensate those victims. It can be regarded as my little compensation for what they have suffered."

"It was my court's negligence that caused him to suffer misfortune. I, Zhu Lu, am here to apologize for the deceased!"

After Zhu Xi finished what he wanted to say, under the watchful eyes of all the onlookers, he knelt down silently on one knee.

This move, not to mention the people who were dumbfounded.

Even the soldiers around were dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)