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Sitting in the sedan chair, Wu Weiye shook rhythmically, full of thoughts.

The last time he came back to Luoyang, Wu Weiye encountered the biggest setback in his life.He will never forget that day in Prince Fu's Mansion, the original poetic and picturesque monarch and ministers had fun together, but in an instant it brought him a catastrophe.Today, he has forgotten what Luoyang was like a year ago, but he can often think of the stern and majestic face of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

This method of completely crushing people and then piling them up is really too cruel.

Wu Weiye still has lingering fears when he thinks about it.

But later he became the magistrate and really came into contact with common affairs, especially this time in Huaiqing Mansion where he fought against the evil gentry, which really made people grow a lot.At least looking back, I took the crown prince's decree as a child's play that day and didn't take it to heart. This was simply self-inflicted.If it wasn't for Donggong's proper employment, it would not be too much to be pushed out to be beheaded.

Wu Weiye thought of his unbearable past, and the scene of those evil gentry kneeling in front of him appeared in his mind, and he was still a little excited.He didn't know how Shen Jiaxian would deal with these people, and he didn't want to know, the thought of dead people still made him a little uncomfortable.

"My lord, Luoyang is ahead." The accompanying Uncle Zhong pointed to the brick-clad city wall ahead, with joy in his calm voice.

Traveling these days is not an easy job.

Especially for his age, traveling in winter is really too painful.

But only from the perspective of mental state, Zhong Bo is much more energetic than Wu Weiye.

Wu Weiye opened the sedan chair curtain, saw the towering city wall of Luoyang, and looked at the people passing by outside the city, all of them were frightened, and felt a little regretful.Somehow, I remembered the phrase "the rise and fall of Luoyang is the time when the world is in chaos".

But the sadness soon dissipated.Wu Weiye saw several official plaques erected at the gate of the city, on which the official name of Liao Xing, the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture, was clearly written.Although he and Liao Xing are not close friends.But at this moment, it was like meeting an old friend again, and he hurriedly ordered people to catch up.

"Hello, Liao Longzhi. His Royal Highness has an order: officials at all levels are not allowed to sing gongs, raise placards, and shout to disturb the people. You know what you should do if you break the law!" Wu Weiye stepped forward and shouted, a layer of excited red tide appeared on his face.

Does Liao Xing look like a magistrate at this moment?Wearing a blue Taoist robe, he was sitting on a saddle at a small stall at the gate of the city, blowing on the noodle soup, as if he had been reincarnated from starvation, and he looked afraid of being scalded.It's ridiculous.

Hearing Wu Weiye's voice, Liao Xing turned his head, still did not put down the chipped pottery bowl in his hand, and said, "Brother Meicun, why don't you have a bowl? This mutton soup is really delicious!"

Wu Weiye smelled the smell of mutton soup, shook his head and said, "You can't eat the smell of mutton."

"Master, there's donkey broth here!" The peddler who set up the stall looked at Wu Weiye with a smile on his face, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth: "Here is a bowl, nourishing qi, nourishing blood, nourishing yin, strengthening yang, calming the nerves and eliminating troubles." You are rising every step of the way!"

Wu Weiye almost couldn't help laughing.Seeing Liao Xing waving at him, he simply walked over, but felt that sitting on a horse saddle was really indecent, so he just stood there and asked the peddler to serve him a bowl of donkey meat soup.He brought it to his lips.After blowing on the scallions on it, I felt the aroma was tangy and not too fishy. When I was about to drink it, I heard Liao Xing hissing loudly, and finally couldn't help laughing, and couldn't drink any more.

"Go and ask my family, and give them what you want to drink, and they'll pay you back." Wu Weiye said to the peddler.

The peddler saw the crowds there, at least a dozen or so, and was overjoyed. He said, "My lord, you are truly a bodhisattva! Buddhas and bodhisattvas will bless you for generations to come!"

Liao Xing put down the bowl, with a layer of suet on his mouth, he shook his head and said: "Oh, it's a rich family after all, tsk tsk, it just makes me a hard-hearted person."

The division between the north and the south of Ming Dynasty is almost like two countries.The north side is more conservative and pays great attention to respect and inferiority. Even if the Liao family is generous to the servants, they will not let the servants eat with the main family.People who are more particular about it can't even use pots and stoves at the same time.

The atmosphere in the south is much more open. Qian Qianyi married Liu Rushi in broad daylight according to the treatment of a regular wife, but it was nothing more than a boatload of broken bricks and tiles.If it was in the north, maybe even the boat was overturned.As for the family, the treatment of servants is much higher than that of their counterparts in the north. Some housewives even let concubines and even personal maids eat at the same table with them.

Although Wu Weiye is much more pedantic than Liao Xing, his living habits are more enlightened than Liao Xing.

"Where did you get your official badge?" Wu Weiye was still more concerned about these badges representing identity.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gave it a special order." Liao Xing said proudly.

"Why are you allowed to use it alone?" Wu Weiye was even more surprised.

"Because Kaifeng Mansion has been completely ruled in just thirteen days." Liao Xing pretended to be calm: "The "Emperor Ming Bulletin" has already sent interviewers to collect materials. It will be in these two issues, and there will be a large page Special article."

Wu Weiye was furious when he heard this, and said, "You are slaughtering day and night in Kaifeng, yet you can publish a special article with such great fanfare?"

"Wrong!" Liao Xing raised his eyes and argued while drinking mutton soup: "I killed people who deserved to be killed in Kaifeng, and everyone has evidence of crimes that warrant death. Now you go to Kaifeng to have a look, it's a 'male There is a share, women have a home, widows, widows, lonely, disabled and sick all have something to support'! Hey, I said you sit down and talk, making it look like I am kneeling you."

Hearing Liao Xing's bragging, Wu Weiye used the words and phrases in "Book of Rites" to describe the world of Datong to give himself gold, he couldn't help but spit: "Shameless!"

"Hey, you don't want me to do what you can't do?" Liao Xing was also unhappy.

"When I caught a few criminals in Fuzhi, they would have to stand up to the corner. How can the thirty counties in Kaifeng Prefecture be leveled within thirteen days?" Wu Weiye thought it was just a dream, and sneered: "Thirty counties go away. How long does it take?!"

"I am the magistrate, why do I have to do everything myself?" Liao Xing also stood up, drinking mutton soup and said with a smile: "I just need to send my county magistrate to carry out the government order. As for the stubborn ones, hehe, I'm really sorry, Kaifeng is a country of etiquette and culture, but there really isn't one!"

"How is that possible!" Wu Weiye exclaimed, "Hasn't there never been a local rich family who built a fortress!"

"Hahaha," Liao Xing laughed loudly, "You are right, but Brother Yu, they have already demolished the walls of the village before I arrived in Kaifeng."

"Impossible!" Wu Weiye frowned and said, "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child! Those forts are where their family property is, where they stored food and saved their lives. I'm afraid it's not high enough or thick enough, so there's no reason to tear it down?"

The defensive power and resistance determination of this kind of fort are even greater than that of the county seat.Because those are the lifelines of the rich and powerful families.They don't care about kneeling down to Daming or Dashun, but they will never allow the government, rogues, and local bandits to touch their lives.

"I issued a safety notice before," Liao Xing said sternly, "tell them that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will succeed in sweeping up the rebellion. In the future, Kaifeng will be the heart of the Central Plains. The king will protect the people and there will be no danger of robbers. So, for the outer wall of a village that is higher than three feet, only one layer of bamboo fence is allowed. Those who dare to use rammed earth walls will be regarded as rebels who resisted the heavenly master. .”

"They demolished the wall after reading the notice?" Wu Weiye didn't believe it at all.

"How is that possible!" Liao Xing licked his lips and said, "But what is the guerrilla camp for? His Highness said clearly at the meeting that day that the guerrilla camp is going to open the way for us!"

Using the fighting power of a guerrilla battalion to pull up a village fort in a village is tantamount to killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.Basically, they fired a cannon from a distance, and they surrendered obediently.

You don't even have to actually put the shells in.

"Those innocent people..."

Liao Xing's face darkened: "When Daming arrives in today's fields, who are the innocent people? If these rich and powerful gentry only care about their own families, if they are all killed, there will be innocent people, but if two of the three are killed, there must be someone who slipped through the net."

"I'm not arguing with you," Wu Weiye said again, "You demolished the village wall, how will they resist the local thieves when they come?"

"You don't need to resist." Liao Xing said: "I have avenged them. The local old man even came to the Kaifeng government office to thank him, calling me 'Liao Qingtian'."

Wu Wei is no longer the simple Donggong lecturer back then, he can already see clearly this kind of trick to manipulate people's hearts.

The bandits robbed the people's property, then wiped out the bandits, and ate those "stolen goods" cleanly. This is the first priority.

For the people, the government helped them avenge and settle down.The bandits who deserved a thousand knives were severely punished, and the magistrate was able to see through the sky, and the people depended on him. This was the second most important benefit.

It's like killing two birds with one stone.

Uh, no!

And those who wiped out the bandits.

Those people... Wu Weiye made a good guess: it was the villagers who were captured by the guerrilla camp.

These villagers just don't want to implement a tyranny, so what crime?However, he was thrown into a labor camp by officers and soldiers to do coolies. Naturally, he was full of despair and sorrow.At this time, it was the radiant Master Fu Zun who rescued them from the fire pit and gave them clothes and food.

Given the grace of rebuilding, the master of the house asked them to exterminate the bandits and avenge their fathers and fellow villagers... Isn't this a matter of course?

The seemingly cruel and brutal methods, but the details are interlocking. Even though everyone knows that Kaifeng's "Great Rule" was actually killed, the bones of the dead were enshrined, and Kaifeng's mansion was full of cheers. What's more important than that?

As for the culprit, the "Breaking the Wall Order", can anyone chew out a trace of sin from righteousness and words?

"What's wrong with Yu Province? This is a man-made disaster!" Wu Weiye's face was completely blackened, and he ignored Liao Xing, turning his head and walking towards the sedan chair.

Liao Xing was still holding the bowl, and said loudly behind him: "Dare to ask the second man, you saw a group of crazy and foolish people about to jump off the cliff. If you tried to persuade them but didn't listen, it was watching them jump down and fall into meatloaf." , or stop them with thunder?"