"Xu Xiao, you have harmed my entire Zhu family, I am going to kill you, kill you!"
"God damn Xu Xiao, you and I, the Zhu family of Qiantang, are at odds with each other until death!"
"Xu Xiao, you acted wantonly and framed the Zhu family. You will not die a good death, you will not die a good death!"
"The entire Zhu family will not let you go even if they become ghosts."
Zhu Zhen was killed, and all the Zhu family members were imprisoned. Xu Zongwen was in a state of uneasiness. He had not slept well for several days. Every time he closed his eyes, he could see the figures of the people in Zhu's mansion and the constant abuse and curses that day. !
The problem is that he didn't kill anyone else besides Zhu Zhen!
No one is dead! Where does the evil spirit come from to pursue you in your dreams and demand your life?
Very speechless.
Qian Tang ordered Ding Tai to be the coercion of Qian Tang's case of destroying embankments and flooding fields, and was also the only breakthrough in the case. Without the account books he handed over, Xu Zongwen would not have been able to obtain the evidence to arrest Zhu's family.
However, killing is to establish prestige, and arresting people is also to establish prestige. There are hundreds of people in the Zhu family, and there will definitely be no less than one of them who committed the crime, so he will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, he will carefully screen them!
Guo Shang opened the door and met Xu Zongwen's eyes as he stood up to get dressed. "General, the heads of the gentry family in Qiantang are all outside the government office asking to see them. General, do you want to see them or not?"
"It's human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages! Besides, if someone creates such a big scene, they will naturally want to see it." Xu Zongwen changed his clothes and continued: "But not now, let him wait for an hour and wait. I filled the Five Zang Temples before going to negotiate power and money deals with those people."
"General, I forgot my belt!" Just as Xu Zongwen was about to open the door, Guo Shang took a black silk leather belt embroidered with landscape shapes from the shelf and caught up and handed it over.
Xu Zongwen sighed and smiled self-deprecatingly: "I was so sleepy that I almost made a fool of myself."
"The general's affairs are complicated and complicated. These trivial matters are all the errands of the maids. The general has to do it himself. It is common for him to become unfamiliar for a while." Guo Shang smiled slightly and saw Xu Zongwen fiddling with it for a long time before he stepped forward to take action.
"try harder!"
"Harder!"
"Oh no! You can't get up like this, Sir. This belt is too strenuous."
There are three and four outside the door...
"It's also my fault. After returning to Jiankang for a month and being away from the war, my body became bloated..."
"What your Majesty said, what's wrong with being a manly man? He looks bigger, stronger, and more masculine."
Xu Zongwen and Guo Shang left the bedroom one after another and went to the government office hall to have dinner and discuss the next step in disaster relief.
"The 50,000 shi of grain allocated by the civil servants will soon be exhausted. The general's report will not be answered for a while, and the grain ship from Jiankang will not arrive so quickly. We have just set up the tent, if it is missing Food, this hard-won situation may not be stable!" Guo Shang frowned slightly.
Yesterday Liu Yu came to urge for food and said that the disarmament from Jiankang was already very dissatisfied with the gruel. They had to strengthen the dikes every day, drain the rivers from the fields, and cut down wood from Wulin Mountain to build houses for the people. They ate less and consumed more. I can’t even keep up with the strength!
Xu Zongwen was sipping rice porridge and chewing steamed buns, and said unclearly: "Zijin, don't worry, use all the food left in the county government granary first. If it doesn't work and raid Zhu's mansion, I won't believe there will be no food." !Have you read the account books that Ding Tai handed over? Most of the hundreds of thousands of shi of food in Qiantang County were used, but in fact not much went into the hands of the victims! It seems that Zhu's greed is not a small amount !”
As he spoke, Xu Zongwen stretched out his fingers and gestured. According to his prediction, Zhu Zhen Tanmo had at least 30,000 shi of food.
"In addition, the Zhu family is originally from the Qiantang family. I dare not say there are hundreds of thousands in stock. There must be hundreds of thousands, right?"
Guo Shang nodded repeatedly, "What the general said is absolutely true! The nobles in these places have always been unscrupulous and have a very good ability to make money. Major events such as disaster relief are opportunities for them to make a fortune, as well as building bridges, dams, droughts, etc. For floods, as long as the court allocates food and funds, most of it goes into their pockets."
"The great rat, the great rat, has no food for me." Xu Zongwen borrowed a sentence from the Book of Songs and suddenly sighed.
How many of these nobles have clean butts?
The silverfish of the country, the silverfish of the country!
"You can take my handwriting later and send someone to the granary to pick up the grain. I can handle the nobles and gentry here by myself!"
Xu Zongwen finished eating, put down his bamboo chopsticks, stood up and was about to leave, but suddenly stopped and called out to Guo Shang who was walking out: "Zijin, you'd better go to Shouyu and ask for the handwriting! My hands are very dirty. inconvenient."
Guo Shang snickered and responded: "No! I'll go find Brother Keeper right now."
Half an hour later, Xu Zongwen packed up and ordered the door of Qian Tang's official office to be opened and invited all the heads of the noble families in.
Surprisingly, the heads of the gentry family who had been left out all morning did not complain at all. They all went to the hall to pay homage to Xu Zongwen.
"We have met the envoy!" The heads of more than twenty noble families, big and small, bowed respectfully to Xu Zongwen, neatly and even their movements were exactly the same!
Zhu Zhen was beheaded in public at the Qiantang Embankment. Zhu Shou's family, including hundreds of men, women, old and young, plus servants and maids, were imprisoned for interrogation. As soon as the news came out, the whole city was immediately uproar!
Xu Zongwen's unprecedented tough tactics must be a great shock to the nobles who are used to living a stable life!
At the same time, this is also a signal!
The imperial court wanted to take money from the Tang gentry for surgery because of this flood!
Therefore, yesterday night, the heads of several major gentry families invited the local gentry in Qiantang to meet secretly. After everyone unanimously discussed, they decided that this time they would surrender to Xu Zongwen, and in order to save the clan, they were willing to use their food to help the victims survive this winter...
"Oops! What are you doing, family heads? You really upset Xu, please sit down quickly!" Xu Zongwen pretended to get up from his seat, but was stopped by the family heads.
"I dare not bother you so much! Your Majesty, please take a seat, we can do it ourselves!" Several family masters stretched out their hands to stop them.
Xu Zongwen sat down, looked at the family heads and sighed. Seeing that everyone turned their eyes to him, Xu Zongwen said in an apologetic tone: "It's all because there have been too many errands on the embankment in the past two days. Xu was just three o'clock yesterday. I fell asleep, and I have slept till now. The people below are also ignorant of etiquette. If they knew that the heads of the family were arriving, they would have pulled Xu up from the bed to greet you no matter what!"
Xu Zongwen played the role of the smiling tiger quite well, which made the heads of the gentry families below complain in their hearts, but they did not dare to say it outright, so they could only echo a few words.
With a smile on my face, my heart is full of shit...
The head of the Shen family in Qiantang continued to explain his purpose: "This time there was a flood in Qiantang, and the people suffered. Fortunately, the imperial court sent a young and promising Shangguan like you to come to relieve the disaster and save the people from the fire... We and the gentry and gentry put it together. We also decided to donate some food each. Although it is not much, it is still a show of friendship to the landlord! I will share the worries of the court and solve the problems for the envoy. I hope the envoy will not blame me for waiting for the time to donate food too late..."
"Oh, what did the old master say? You are the representatives of the imperial court at the local level. Every move you make is seen and heard by the people. With your example, I believe that the hard days of the people will soon be over. of."
"Then let's talk about how much food you are going to provide first?" Xu Zongwen opened the skylight and spoke clearly. He was not ambiguous at all and got straight to the point.
When the heads of the noble families saw that Xu Zongwen could still speak, their expressions relaxed a lot.
After all, he is a young man, so he can get by with some food, so it’s easy to handle!
"Our twenty-four families are willing to contribute 200 dan each to support Shijun in rescuing the victims to meet their urgent needs."
Xu Zongwen: Four thousand shi of grain, that’s all? You really treat me like a beggar!
"Did Xu hear you right? It's just less than five thousand shi of grain?" Xu Zongwen stood up, and all the family heads swallowed their saliva, and then they couldn't sit still...
