Taiyuan is one of the important places in the Three Jin Dynasties, and its importance is second only to Datong, the nine-sided city. Naturally, the attention of the Dragon Guards is indispensable.
What's more, the status of Prince Dai's Mansion is special. At the beginning, the Dragon Guards paid a lot of attention to the people in Prince Dai's Mansion.
But by coincidence, there is also a strange Jin Prince's Mansion in Taiyuan Mansion, which has not been peaceful in the past hundred years.
The first generation of Jin kings competed with Emperor Taizong for the throne. The second generation of Jin kings got involved in the rebellion in Prince Ning's mansion. The third generation of Jin kings were even more ruthless. They once colluded with Wala to lure the bandits into the pass, intending to fish in the water, and finally made the Taishang Emperor Unable to bear it anymore, he sent a glass of poisonous wine to the underworld to serve the great ancestor.
With Prince Jin's Palace in front of him, Prince Dai's always behaved himself and acted like a model for the clan.
The acting king, Liu Min, had no major problems except that he was a bit lustful. Princess Lu, whether it was taking care of the palace or raising children, she could be regarded as a model of women.
The Lu family had never done anything like suppressing a concubine or squeezing concubines. The Crown Prince Liu Kan, when the common people in Taiyuan City talk about the Crown Prince, they don’t praise him as a humble gentleman...
Of course, there are a few people in the Prince's Palace who undermine the royal family's reputation for coercion, such as those dandy princes and grandsons, but they have never done anything outrageous.
Generally speaking, the reputation of Prince Dai's Mansion was neither good nor bad. The Dragon Guards slowly put down their vigilance against Prince Dai's Mansion, and instead focused their main attention on Datong and Shanxi merchants.
However, one thing has always been a worry for Zhu Jiangming of Qianhu, that is, there is a record in the archives from his early years that the acting princess Lu seemed to have an affair with her father Lu Huan.
And after secret investigation by his confidants, the truth of this matter is at least 80%. However, because there was no evidence, Zhu Jiangming did not have the courage to report it to the capital. After all, Lu was the daughter-in-law of the royal family, and he could not afford to be charged with making irresponsible remarks about the princess.
Until Jia Cong raided Taiyuan, conducted a secret investigation of Dai Wangfu, and found out that Liu Kan, the eldest son of Daiwangfu, had committed countless crimes...
Grandpa Tian, the Qianhu Station of Longjing Guard Taiyuan Prefecture is finished this time!
Such a crime happened under their noses. As the emperor's eyes and ears, the Dragon Guards had no news at all. Just one charge of dereliction of duty was enough to be dismissed from office.
In order to reduce his guilt, Zhu Jiangming gritted his teeth and dug out the old files from his early years from the archives that were about to become ashes, sorted them out and sent them to Jia Cong.
The Pingyang Lu family is the only remaining blood lineage of the direct branch of the Qiwang Fanyang Lu family from the fifth surname at that time.
Although after the suppression of Empress Wu and the massacre in the chaotic times of the late Tang Dynasty, the Lu family no longer had the strength of a thousand-year-old family, but they were still emaciated camels after all. In the land of the Three Jin Dynasties and even in the north of the country, the power of the Lu family in Pingyang was still Very strong.
Lu Huan was one of the most famous Confucian scholars in the North, and Pingyang Academy was a gathering place for talents from the Three Jin Dynasties. Every year, students would pass the Jinshi examination.
There are more than ten sons and nephews in his family who are officials in the court. For example, Lu Zilin, the young minister of Taichang Temple, is Lu Huan's grandson, and he is already ranked in the fourth rank at a young age.
Moreover, the Lu family is very wealthy. With Shanxi as its base, the Lu family controls more than 50% of the grain trade in Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, western North Zhili, and northern Henan.
Moreover, due to the convenient location, the Lu family also controls 30% of Datong's border trade, and at least one million silver is sent to Pingyang Prefecture every year.
The Lu family does not belong to the eight major Shanxi merchant families, and even has a tense relationship with the eight Shanxi merchant families, and conflicts between the two parties occur from time to time.
But no one would doubt the wealth and power of the Lu family. Some people once said that Shanxi merchants are the richest people in Shanxi on the surface, but the Lu family is the real king of Shanxi...
Of course, these are not what Jia Cong wants to focus on now.
Rich or not, they are all paper tigers in the face of the Great Xia Forbidden Army.
What he is focusing on now is the relationship between Lu Huan and the Lu family of the Dai Wangfu. The incestuous relationship between father and daughter is so fucking shocking!
She was the royal wife, something Lu Huan could get his hands on? If this matter is verified, it goes without saying that the Lu family's reputation will be ruined, and all nine tribes will have to go to the underworld to report it.
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Jia Cong now regrets not bringing a helper when he came. As more and more clues were sent by the Dragon Guards, the documents and confessions on the desk almost gave him a myocardial infarction...
This group of people is truly the best of beasts, worse than beasts.
Liu Kan and others were taken over by Zhu Jiangming's people, and it took only one night for the best interrogators from Qianhu Station to find out most of the crimes of these beasts.
These six little girls kidnapped from Baoding Mansion are just one of the victims. In the past twenty years, similar incidents have occurred almost every few days.
The number of young children and girls who died in their hands ranged from thousands to hundreds, and this did not include those who were imprisoned and suffered a life worse than death.
"Where is this Yan Qingxiang? Have you caught him?"
Zhu Jiangming could feel that Jia Cong, who was sitting behind the desk, was exuding murderous aura. When he heard the inquiry, he quickly bowed and reported: "Back to my uncle, Yan Qingxiang is dead. On the second day of the first lunar month, news came from Zhending Mansion that Yan Qingxiang died. On the way back to Taiyuan, most of the body was eaten by wild dogs, and his identity was finally found from the road guide he carried with him."
Jia Cong sneered: "It's a coincidence that he died as soon as he was found."
"What the uncle said is that the general also feels that something is fishy, and people are already keeping an eye on the Yan family."
After Zhu Jiangming said this, Jia Cong did not respond. He just looked through the confession sent by Long Jinwei indifferently.
According to the clues in the confession, Liu Kan and other descendants of princes and second-generation officials would never do anything personally.
Those young children and girls were secretly manipulated by the gentry and wealthy businessmen of Shanxi, and were sent to Taiyuan from thousands of miles away for the enjoyment of Liu Kan and others.
They also built a sinful garden for these beasts, named it Daiyuan under the name of Prince Dai's Mansion.
And it’s not just the Dai Garden. There are almost a dozen similar gardens surrounding Taiyuan City, each of which represents the blood and tears of dozens or hundreds of innocent children and girls.
The more Jia Cong read, the more angry and disgusted he felt. As he looked at the confessions in front of him, he seemed to be able to hear the cries of hundreds of innocent souls and feel the cries and resentment of those women before they died.
"Someone is coming..."
With a bang, the door was pushed open, and the guard on duty strode in. He clasped his fists and said, "The general is here!"
Jia Cong untied the majestic imperial gold order with the dragon's head from his waist, and ordered in a cold voice: "Take this order and my uncle's handwriting, and quickly go to Datong to find General Feng Tang, the commander-in-chief of Datong, and mobilize 10,000 elite cavalry to enter the pass. Seven days later, , I want to clear the clouds and see the sun, so that the people of Taiyuan Prefecture can see a truly clear and sunny sky!"
"Uncle, you must not..."
Zhu Jiangming was horrified. Before he could stop him, he saw his own soldiers respectfully accepting the golden order. He clasped his fists and replied, "The general has received your order. In seven days, he will lead his troops into the pass and arrive at the gate of Taiyuan Prefecture!"
Jia Cong ignored Zhu Jiangming, who was sweating profusely, and wrote a simple handwritten letter as soon as he picked up his pen.
The handwriting did not include the reason for the troop transfer or what happened. It was just a sentence: He, Jia Cong, wanted to kill people. He wanted to kill a lot of people, but he didn't have enough manpower...
Zhu Jiangming also saw the content of the handwriting, and his eyes almost popped out.
Feng Tang didn't know who this young man wanted to kill, but he knew. That was an official under the Shanxi Chief Envoy Division, ranging from the second-rank right chief envoy, to the third-rank prosecutor of punishment, to the fifth-rank Taiyuan Prefecture Tongzhi...
A rough calculation showed that there were as many as thirty officials involved in the case, all of whom were imperial officials.
Grandpa Tian, you don’t dare to act like this, otherwise Shanxi will be in chaos?
When he saw that his soldiers had collected the golden order and the handwritten letter and were about to go out, he quickly blocked the door and stopped him with his hand: "Uncle, you are really my uncle, you don't dare to do this! You have secretly mobilized 10,000 border troops to enter the pass, and you still have to go Killing an imperial official is the same crime as treason..."
The stopped soldier looked helplessly at Jia Cong, only to see that Jia Cong was still looking coldly at the confessions on the table without even raising his head.
"I, Jia Cong, have mobilized 10,000 troops, but the Ministry of War doesn't even have the guts to ask a question. It's just a matter of killing a few beasts. Who has an opinion? Who dares to have an opinion?"
"Including Liu Kan, in seven days, I will publicly try his crimes in front of the people of Taiyuan Prefecture, and punish him accordingly. If he refuses to accept it, let him come to Taiyuan to find me!"
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Zhu Jiangming had been living in trepidation these days. He wanted to spread the news to the capital, but Jia Congming threatened him. No one was allowed to spread the news until the case was clearly investigated.
Moreover, he had to obey Jia Cong's orders obediently and block the communication between the inside and outside of Taiyuan Mansion. Even the pigeons and mice in Taiyuan Mansion were not allowed to escape.
Liu Min has returned to Prince Dai's Mansion, and with him are Jia Cong's soldiers.
Princess Lu was detained by the Imperial Army. Jia Cong could not interrogate Princess Lu's crime. It involved royal secrets. Jia Cong had already sent the news secretly to the capital and asked the emperor to send someone from Zongzheng Temple.
Everything seemed to be normal in Prince Dai's Mansion, but Taiyuan Mansion had long since turned into a mess. More than a dozen officials who were celebrating the New Year's Day were missing. The officials in the city sent a large number of manpower to search everywhere.
But soon they discovered something unusual. Taiyuan Mansion seemed to be isolated. No one they sent to search outside the city came back.
Jia Cong has not been idle these days. The Long Guards have dug out more and more secrets from Liu Kan and others. More than 20 secret strongholds have been discovered.
This group of beasts used their cleverness for evil purposes. Knowing that the city was easily exposed, they built more than 20 large and small forts and villas near Taiyuan, hiding hundreds of girls and girls, all of whom were kidnapped from everywhere. A woman from a good family.
The imperial army brought by Jia Cong followed the clues and attacked everywhere day and night, breaking through every evil Wubao compound and rescuing the poor people who had been ruined.
But was the rescue really successful?
No!
Almost all of the more than 900 poor people who were rescued committed suicide after seeing the light of day again.
Only more than fifty girls, aged no more than six or seven years old and ignorant of the world, survived, but they also suffered endless suffering. They huddled in the corner of the house, clinging to each other for warmth, and not letting anyone get close.
Jia Cong stood at the door of the room, looking distressedly at the girls hiding in the corner and under the table, not daring to take a step closer.
His hand tightly held the jade handle of the Yanling knife, suppressing his anger.
Before the time is up, when the army arrives, he will send all those beasts and those who support these beasts to the guillotine and cut them into pieces with a thousand cuts!
Zhu Jiangming felt like the past few days were like years, because Jia Cong's dissatisfaction with him became visibly stronger.
Such a sinful thing happened under the eyes of the Dragon Guard, and thousands of households like him, the Dragon Guard, could not escape the blame.
Jia Cong has made it clear to him that after the case is settled, he, Zhu Jiangming, had better take the initiative to go to Beizhen Fusi to plead guilty. If not, he will not mind having another loser who neglects his duty on the guillotine.
Zhu Jiangming thought about running away or asking his boss to help him speak, but he gave up in the end.
This young man is going crazy, especially after the rescued women commit suicide one by one, this young man's eyes are almost turning blood red.
He is a member of the Qianhu of the Dragon Imperial Guard. Although he is far away from the capital, he is also aware of the tempers of Jia Cong and the Ningrong Jia family.
If Jia Cong really wanted to kill him, he wouldn't be able to escape.
Fortunately, this man still has some sense and knows that there is a bigger black hand behind what happened in Taiyuan Mansion. Long Jinwei is responsible, and he, a thousand households, is responsible, but the crime will not lead to death.
He'd better be obedient and atone for his sins and maybe reduce his guilt...
"Uncle, we have bought coffins from nearby states and counties. After the coffin is installed, should we find a place for burial or wait?"
More than 800 women committed suicide one after another. Zhu Jiangming almost broke his leg just looking for and buying coffins.
Jia Cong was stunned for a moment when he heard this and shook his head: "No, the people of Taiyuan Prefecture have not seen the suffering they have endured. They will let people pretend to be coffins first. When the army arrives, they will carry the coffins into the city. I want them to see it with their own eyes. Let your enemies be judged by the Laws of Great Xia!"
There was no murderous roar, but it sent chills down Zhu Jiangming's spine.
Eight hundred coffins were carried into Taiyuan City, and eight hundred innocent souls demanded their lives from their enemies. It was unknown what the situation would be like. I am afraid that the entire Taiyuan Mansion would be shocked by such a scene.
"As well as the relatives of these women, try to find as many of them as possible. The court will pay for them to be sent home for burial. If they can't be found..."
Almost all of these poor women were kidnapped when they were young. Not many of them could remember the addresses of their families. Most of them lost the memory of their relatives in the hellish suffering.
He lived like a zombie for several years and could not even adapt to life again.
"Go find a land with good feng shui and buy it first."
Jia Cong knew that most of these poor women would never be able to return home. Countless children were lost every year in Guochao. All the county government could do was to record when someone reported a crime.
As for helping with the search, that's not possible at all. This is not a matter of the government not trying its best, but simply not being able to do it.
From a legal point of view, the crime of cheating on others is only a heinous crime and is extremely strict.
According to the provisions of the Daxia Code, a strategy was devised to lure the beloved into being slaves, wives, concubines, and descendants, with a hundred sticks and a three-year apprenticeship.
Those who cheat and sell, that is, those who sell and buy, are guilty of the same crime and are exiled to the army. If there are more than three people being trafficked, or if they are repeat offenders, they will wear a heavy yoke and be exposed to the public for one month, and then they will be sent to the border to do hard labor in the army.
If a prisoner commits a crime three times, he will be sent to a faraway place to be permanently in the army. When the prisoner dies, his descendants will take his place.
Those who harvest and cut children are deliberately cutting and maiming children. Once a trafficker who commits the crime of "harvesting and harvesting" is caught by the government, he will be executed in a hurry according to the law. The persons involved, regardless of the principal and accomplice, will be severely punished for the same crime.
Although the law is strict, and the officials of the dynasty can almost punish them according to the law, this cannot overcome the huge profits from buying a small population and the protection of some beasts.
Jia Cong is sure that these people found now are just abandoned children thrown out by others, and there are deeper hidden hands behind them.
Moreover, these discarded pieces are also bait, inducing him to bite the hook. But Jia Cong didn't hesitate, he wanted to see what the real mastermind was going to do.
Is it disrupting the situation in Shanxi and fishing in troubled waters, or does it have a deeper plan.
No matter what the opponent's real purpose is, Jia Cong only wants to do one thing: no matter what the enemy plans, no matter what bait the opponent throws out, he takes it.
Not to mention the chief envoy or the inspector, he, Jia Cong, wants God to block the gods and kill the gods, and the Buddha to block the Buddha, until there is a clear and sunny day, and the justice of heaven is achieved!
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Thanks to book friends 1340 and Huhuhu Xiaohu for the reward.
This is from last night. I have to go to the hospital during the day and will update again when I get back in the evening.
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