"Your Majesty, the Turks and Jurchen barbarians have caused rebellion, and all the land deeds among the common people have been destroyed in the war. But Your Majesty, our Pan family is a famous family in Zhuo County, and we are related by marriage to many wealthy families in Youzhou. I will never deceive Your Majesty!"
Yang Gao smiled coldly and didn't take Pan Xing's threatening words seriously at all. Youzhou had suffered a lot of turmoil, and some of the wealthy families who survived were really clean. Yang Gao hasn't settled accounts with them yet, so how can he take them seriously?
"Since there is no land deed, how can you win trust with your empty words?"
Yang Gao said coldly: "Those people who were allocated the land were all refugees who were homeless when the Turkic barbarians invaded Youzhou, and many of their relatives died fighting against the Turks. You want to use my land without any evidence." The reward is in your name, what do you want?"
"Your Majesty, all the wealthy people here are from Youzhou. How can you harm our interests for the sake of those untouchables? Your Majesty, are you not afraid of losing face? Your Majesty!"
Per Xing said with a heartbroken look on his face: "The common people have passed the age of knowing their destiny, and they should enjoy their lives at home and not be involved in worldly affairs, but the common people really don't want to see Your Majesty being forced into ignorance by treacherous sycophants, and the country will be in ruins, Your Majesty! "
"Your Majesty, please think twice. Please give us back our acres of land, subsidize our losses, and do not take advantage of the people!" A large group of squire and wealthy families behind him knelt down on the ground and shouted loudly.
"Face, do you still know face?"
Yang Gao smiled coldly and looked at Jia Xu, the commander of the Jin Yiwei behind him. When the latter nodded slowly, he immediately said coldly: "Jia Aiqing, let me tell you about the good things these people have done!"
Jia Xu walked forward without changing his expression, reached out and took out the document passed down by Jin Yiwei, and read slowly: "Pan Xing, in the seventh year of Daye, he served as the Prime Minister of Changping County. During his tenure, he purchased 150 acres of land for his hometown. , forcing seven innocent villagers to death.
In the second year of Longxing's reign, the Turks rebelled against Youzhou and marched to Changping. Pan Xing was greedy for life and feared death. He assassinated the county magistrate Guo Fu and the county lieutenant Zhang Yong who organized the villagers to resist. He surrendered to the Turks in Kaicheng and praised Temujin as a human master, worthy of taking over the Central Plains and unifying the world!
In August of the second year of Longxing, Pan Xing instructed his evil servants to seize thirty-seven innocent women and send them to the Turkic camp to please the Turkic barbarians.
In the first month of the third year of Longxing's reign, Pan Xing secretly visited and learned about the Zhou Shang headquarters of the Changping rebel army, and then led the Turks to attack, resulting in the death of all more than 1,700 rebels in his unit.
After His Majesty defeated the Turks in Zhuo County, Pan Xing secretly sent more than 200 stones of food to the Turk camp, and uttered wild words, saying that Your Majesty was cruel and unkind. If His Majesty took over Youzhou, it would be a disaster for the Youzhou family. Life under Temujin! "
Pan Xing broke into a cold sweat as he listened. Every time Jia Xu read a sentence, he shuddered. Finally, he couldn't hold it in any longer. He jumped up and was about to pounce on Jia Xu: "This is a slander, Your Majesty. This is a slander against the common people." !”
Several soldiers did not hesitate to push the shameless old man to the ground. Jia Xu looked at him expressionlessly, raised his hands and said to Yang Gao: "Your Majesty, Pan Xing's charges are all true. With the testimony of his Pan family servants, and the ministers have also interrogated many Turkic prisoners of war who were stationed in Changping, the evidence is conclusive!"
Yang Gao nodded slowly, turned to look at Pan Xing, and said coldly: "Okay, that's great! I have never seen such a shameless person. Come, capture this traitor, confiscate his home and exterminate his clan. , to comfort the people of Youzhou!"
"Your Majesty, please spare your life! Your Majesty, please spare your life!"
Yang Gao's imperial guards could no longer listen any longer. As soon as Yang Gao opened his mouth, several soldiers dragged the already weakened Per Xing down like a dead dog without saying a word.
"And you!"
Yang Gao stared fiercely at the wealthy squire family behind him, and said coldly: "Jia Aiqing, I will leave this group of people to you. The Jinyi Guards will investigate them carefully. Anyone who is greedy for money, harms the people, or colludes with the barbarians will be counted. Kill them all!"
Jia Xu bowed and said: "I obey the order!"
"Your Majesty, have mercy!"
"Your Majesty, please spare my life!"
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The expressions of those wealthy squires all changed greatly, and they hurriedly begged for mercy, but the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army paid no attention to them. They quickly captured them during their struggle, and dragged them all into prison.
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"I almost forgot."
Returning to the palace, Yang Gao said in a deep voice: "Turkic and Jurchen barbarians invaded Youzhou. Many thieves forgot their ancestors and helped these barbarians to harm our people in the Sui Dynasty. After the barbarians retreated, these people were reluctant to part with their family property. Maybe they would return it." Stay in Youzhou and pass on the decree, ordering all counties to cooperate with Yushitai Jinyiwei to investigate and deal with them in detail. Not a single one of these traitors and traitors will be left alive!
By the way, encourage people everywhere to report the crimes of traitors. It is these civilians who have suffered the most from the barbarian invaders. They will never let go of these evil thieves who work with the tigers to persecute their relatives. "
"Wei Chen obeys the order!"
Fang Xuanling, Liu Bowen and others raised their hands and said.
Soon, a massive purge of traitors was launched in Youzhou. Countless people went to the local county government to expose the traitors. Those traitors who thought they had escaped had their homes confiscated and were imprisoned after their crimes were verified. People from all over the country They were celebrating endlessly and shouting that our emperor is wise, while those traitors and traitors were in panic all day long.
"Dad, it's not good. Those untouchables went to the county government and exposed our previous delivery of food to the Turks, and also reported that Wu County Cheng had shielded us before. Now that Wu County Cheng has been imprisoned, the government will send people to check us. Home!”
Before he finished speaking, there was a bang, the door had been knocked open, and hundreds of armed soldiers rushed into the house. The squire and his son who were speaking were so frightened that they sat on the ground on the spot.
A guard wearing a flying fish suit and a spring knife embroidered on his waist strode forward, glanced at the father and son coldly, and said: "After investigation, Zhang's father and son were Turks from the third year of Longxing to the fourth year of Longxing. We raised two thousand dan of food and robbed six women. The evidence was conclusive and we captured them all."
The sergeants on both sides immediately put the two men in shackles. Several officials with abacus and account books led dozens of people into the Zhang family's warehouse and counted and sealed the Zhang family's unfavorable income over the years.
The villagers who came around after hearing the news couldn't help crying with joy when they saw Zhang and his son being shackled, and they cursed angrily: "Thieves who bully others, you are here too!"
"The old man remembers clearly that the daughter of the village head Sun's family was forcibly taken into the house by his youngest son, and she disappeared within a few days!"
"I also remember that more than half a year ago, it was their father and son who brought the Turks down to collect food and robbed us of the last bit of rations. In the end, seven or eight people in our village starved to death due to lack of food!"
"Kill them, kill them!"
The roars of curses and killings around them made the Zhang family and his son turn pale with fear. Scenes like this were constantly staged in Youzhou. Yang Gao used a large amount of gold, silver and grain obtained from ransacking homes to rebuild in various parts of Youzhou and help the people restore their homes. Although The government offices in various places are full of people, but the territory of Youzhou is booming.
