It didn't matter if the action was successful. Now that the action failed, Wang Shuochen knew that he could never admit that he had done this, otherwise no one would be able to save him.
Although the Tiger-Character Banner is a bandit, the officials of the bandits are also officials, and killing them will still kill people.
At this time, he felt more regret in his heart. If he had known that the matter would not succeed, he should not have been bewitched by Xing Dachun and sent people to intercept and kill Huang Shi'an outside the garrison mansion.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world. All he can do now is bite him to death and refuse to admit it.
"Humph, murdering officials is only one of the charges." Huang Shi'an snorted coldly and continued, "In addition to murdering officials, there is also your collusion with Xing Dachun and embezzlement of property confiscated by Xu Yang and Li San's family. Either of these two crimes is It can kill you."
"Nonsense, I didn't, you are trying to incriminate me." Wang Shuochen shouted excitedly.
Huang Shi'an looked at Wang Shuochen coldly and said: "Do you think the Wang family suddenly added so much land and property that the Yamen couldn't find out? Xu Yang and Li's family only confiscated less than fifty acres of land. You think everyone else is a fool. ?"
Wang Shuochen, who was standing in the crowd, looked pale and uncertain.
Three-quarters of Xu Yang and Li San's family wealth were privately divided between him and others, of which he took the lion's share, and the remaining quarter was confiscated and handed over to the Tiger Flag.
Even so, this quarter is a significant amount of money.
It's just that he withheld some more land and didn't give too much to the Tiger Flag.
At that time, the Tiger Banner army that captured Lingqiu City did not stay in Lingqiu for too long. They were in a hurry to leave for Yuzhou. They did not have much time to clean up the belongings of Xu Yang and Li San's family, otherwise he would not have dared to intercept so much privately. thing.
"What? Don't you say you are innocent?" Huang Shi'an said sarcastically.
Wang Shuochen stared at Huang Shi'an and said: "I have served Dongzhu Liu, I have done things for the Tiger Flag, you can't kill me, I have to see Dongzhu Liu, at the worst, I will return the things that Xu Yang and Li San's family had you."
"It is clearly written in the Ming Law that if an official embezzles sixty taels, he will be stripped and stuffed with grass. You have stolen so many things, and you have already lost more than one sixty taels. Do you think that as long as you return them, everything will be fine? Is that really the case? Ming Taizu would not kill so many corrupt officials." Huang Shi'an sneered.
He could feel that Wang Shuochen was afraid.
Unfortunately, it was too late. When Wang Shuochen chose to take the lead in fighting against the Tiger Flag's land distribution policy, his fate had already been decided, not to mention that he had done so many things to harm the Tiger Flag.
"You, you want to kill me?" Wang Shuochen's eyes narrowed.
He never thought that Tiger Character Banner would kill him. He had always thought that he had done so many things for Tiger Character Flag and that he and Tiger Character Flag were his own people. He even thought about succeeding Guo Binchang as the Lingqiu County Magistrate. .
Huang Shian said in a calm tone: "Don't worry, you won't die for the time being. I will write out your story exactly and send it to Datong Town for review by the proprietor. Whether you live or die is up to the proprietor."
If it were an ordinary big businessman, he would kill without hesitation, but Wang Shuochen was a bit special after all. He was the director of the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce. Even if he wanted to kill, he had to inform Liu Heng in Datong Town in advance.
"Dongzhu Liu will not kill me. I have done things for Dongzhu Liu. When we dealt with the Xu family, I was the first to stand with Dongzhu Liu. Later, when the Chamber of Commerce was established, I was the first to stand up and support." Wang Shuochen shouted.
He thought that considering the things he had done for the Tiger Flag, Liu Heng would not look at the monk or the Buddha, and would not do anything to him easily, otherwise he would not work for the Tiger Flag in the future.
"Keep this man alone and don't let him die." Huang Shi'an pointed his finger at Wang Shuochen and told the Tiger Flag soldiers who were guarding him.
After saying that, he rode back to Yang Jiachen.
As for whether Wang Shuochen can survive, he is not worried at all, because Wang Shuochen is dead. After doing so many things, his boss will never let Wang Shuochen go.
The Wang family, young and old, as well as servants and maids, all rushed from the house to the street.
When the last group of soldiers came out from Wang's house, they carried several corpses out together.
The corpses were all those of the Wang family.
After the tiger-character flag soldiers entered the Wang family, they encountered some resistance. Those who dared to resist were not polite at all and were killed on the spot.
"Leave a small team to escort all the Wang family members to prison. The others will search the houses one by one and arrest people according to the names on the list." Huang Shi'an ordered the soldiers to continue arresting people.
All the squires and large households who colluded with Wang Shuochen and opposed the Huzi Banner's land allocation policy had a special list, and each household was clearly written down.
For such a family, Huang Shian has no intention of letting anyone go.
These people dare to secretly collude and go against the yamen. They will not accept the rule of the Tiger Flag in the future. This time they will be cleaned up at once.
Moreover, each of these large squire families not only has a large amount of land, but also has considerable wealth.
The Tiger Character Banner is using troops everywhere, and money and food are being consumed like water. However, Datong has just been included under the Tiger Character Banner's rule and cannot yet provide taxes for the Tiger Character Banner.
Now, by confiscating the properties of the wealthy rural gentry, not only can a large amount of land be obtained for free, but the confiscated money can also be used to redeem land from those honest and obedient wealthy gentry households, thus alleviating the financial pressure on the Tiger Flag.
After checking the Wang family, Huang Shian handed over the next task of checking other wealthy squire households to Yang Jiachen. He returned to the county government office with the team that escorted the Wang family to the prison.
The manpower that searched the large gentry households in Lingqiu City was all from the garrison office, and not a single police officer or servant from the county government was used.
It took three days to check all the big households on the list, and no one was locked up in jail.
Later, the prison could not accommodate so many people, so the ordinary servants and maids who had passed the interrogation were released, and only the squires themselves and their families, as well as the confidants of the wealthy squire families, were imprisoned in the prison.
Three days later, a reply came to the official letter sent to Datong Town.
When he received the reply, Huang Shi'an was having a meeting with a group of government officials sent by the Tiger Flag.
"According to the proprietor's request, when you return, you will form peasant associations in each village and village, and let each peasant association divide the land in its own village and village. As government officials, you must also participate to prevent corruption from happening. ." Huang Shian said to the people in front of him.
After clearing out a group of large gentry households that hindered the land distribution policy, Lingqiu finally began to carry out land distribution.
At the end of the meeting, the government officials from the three towns in Lingqiu left the county government together.
The only people left in the houyamen were those who were on errands in the county yamen.
"My lord, what did the proprietor say in his reply?" Yang Jiachen asked Huang Shi'an as soon as the meeting was over.
Because I was in a meeting when I sent the reply, only Huang Shian read the content.
