Xin'an County is located northwest of Luoyang City, less than a hundred miles away. It can be said to be under the nose of Luoyang City.
"What happened in Xin'an?" Seeing Li Shuheng's gloomy expression, Hong Chengchou was curious about what happened in Xin'an County that angered the Henan governor.
Li Shuheng threw the Wen Gong sent from Xin'an County to Hong Chengchou and said with a dark face: "See for yourself! This kind of thing happened under your nose."
Hong Chengchou opened the official document and read through it.
Soon, he finished reading the contents, and his face became visibly ugly.
"These people are so courageous. They dare to do anything. They are simply lawless!" Hong Chengchou was furious after reading the official documents from Xin'an County.
In any case, he never expected that there would be places that, under the guise of peasant associations and peasant soldiers, secretly still implemented the past policies of governing the people and controlled the local rule of law.
It turns out that there is a place called Zhengjia Village in the countryside of Xin'an County. Except for a few families with foreign surnames, the entire village is surnamed Zheng.
Although a farmers' association has been established in Zhengjia Village, the farmers' association is still controlled by several clan elders in Zhengjia Village, and the peasant soldiers in Zhengjia Village are mainly thugs from these clans.
On the surface, everything was done in accordance with the requirements of the Tiger Character Banner, and the fields were divided. In fact, the fields were controlled by these senior clansmen.
The hundreds of people in Zhengjia Village who were assigned fields were nominally the owners of these fields, but secretly they were still tenants of other people's families. Even if the fields were assigned, they did not really belong to them.
If the people disobey even a little bit, these thugs acting as peasant soldiers will come out to punish the disobedient people, forcing the people in the entire village to continue to follow the old rules.
"This star really wants to retire"
Except for the addition of a peasant association and some thugs-turned-peasant-soldiers, the village is no different from before.
"Get up first!" Li Shuheng said to the official of Xin'an County who had been kneeling on the ground, and then added, "Take him down to rest first."
"Yes." After the governor's Yamen bowed and saluted, he left with the official from Xin'an County.
Hong Chengchou put the official documents from Xin'an County back on the table in front of Li Shuheng, and said at the same time: "This kind of thing must not be allowed to develop. It should be resolved immediately, otherwise it will be very easy for others to follow suit."
"What suggestions do you have?" Li Shuheng, who had regained his composure, asked Hong Chengchou.
He knew it in his heart.
Hong Chengchou served as chief envoy to consult, and later went to Shaanxi as chief envoy to supervise grain and participate in politics. He was very familiar with and understood local affairs.
That's why Liu Heng sent the other party to help him govern Henan.
Hong Chengchou pursed his lips and thought for a while, then said: "It is impossible for a few village elders to control the Peasants' Association. There must be someone in the Xin'an County Yamen who is covering up this Zhengjia Village, and there are even people in the Yamen who intercepted the complaints from the people of Zhengjia Village. road."
"Yes, it's what I thought." Li Shuheng nodded and said immediately, "Even the magistrate of Xin'an County can't solve this matter. The problem of Xin'an County Government may have become serious."
The people of Zhengjia Village are not fools. They have already received their land, so how can they continue to bear heavy rents and continue to be tenants for others.
Hong Chengchou said: "I will personally go to Xin'an County to solve the problem in Zhengjia Village, and also see what's going on in the Yamen."
He has always been in charge of the affairs of the peasant association and the peasant soldiers.
Now that the Zhengjia Village incident has occurred, even if he does not know about it, he must bear part of the responsibility for it, and once he leaves an impression of incompetence, it will affect his development within the Tiger Flag.
Now that he has taken refuge in the Tiger-Character Banner, how can he be satisfied with just being an envoy?
Before he chose to join the Tiger Banner, he had already participated in politics as the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and was only one step away from becoming the chief envoy.
"Okay, I can rest assured if you go to Xin'an County in person." Li Shuheng said, "Because of the incident in Zhengjia Village, the peasants and soldiers in Xin'an County cannot guarantee whether it is trustworthy. I will bring you a squadron of troops to ensure that Your safety.”
Hong Chengchou was not surprised that Li Shuheng gave him a team of soldiers.
Local clan forces like Zhengjiacun will definitely resort to force if they become desperate.
"To what extent is it appropriate to handle the matter in Zhengjiacun?" Hong Chengchou asked Li Shuheng for his opinion.
After hearing this, Li Shuheng said coldly: "All the elders of Zhengjia Village who participated in this matter will be put on trial in front of the people of Zhengjia Village. Whether they can survive depends on whether they have accumulated bad virtues over the years. As for other matters involved, Personnel, if the problem is serious, you are allowed to be executed publicly, and the accomplices are sent to Shanxi to dig coal.”
He hated the clan elders in Zhengjia Village who openly defied the Tiger Character Banner policy and those who colluded with the clan elders in Zhengjia Village.
These people have made a bad start in Henan under the rule of the Tiger-Character Banner. Once these people get things done, they will directly cut off the Tiger-Character Banner and win the hearts and minds of the people at the bottom. It is very easy for the Tiger-Character Banner to still be very popular in Henan. The fragile public sentiment was completely shattered.
Hong Chengchou received the order and rushed to Xin'an County with more than a hundred Luoyang City defenders.
Since the soldiers and horses were all infantry, he did not arrive at Xin'an County until the next day.
The gate of the government office where the Xin'an County Magistrate works is still the former county government office of Xin'an County.
However, the magistrate of Xin'an County was sent from Shanxi, and before coming to Henan, he served as the county magistrate in Shanxi for more than half a year.
Xin'an County has been captured by the Tiger Banner Army for many days. However, the Tiger Banner Army is not like the armies of other forces, which like to massacre and plunder the people in the city after capturing a city.
The county seat of Xin'an County was not destroyed by the army, so the city regained its previous vitality. There were constant sounds of hawking on the streets and many pedestrians coming and going.
Hong Chengchou rode a tall horse into the county seat of Xin'an County, followed by a group of fully armed soldiers and horses, including several tiger crouching cannons.
When people on the street saw him, they immediately understood that Hong Chengchou was a powerful person, so pedestrians on the street gave way. Some timid people even knelt on both sides of the street.
Just like in the past when people met officials when they were traveling.
It is rare to see officials riding sedan chairs in the Tiger Flag. Almost all local officials in the Tiger Flag mostly ride horses or carriages.
Because riding in a sedan is not practical, riding a horse or riding a carriage is more convenient than riding in a sedan.
More importantly, the Tiger Flag, which is located near the grassland, is not short of livestock.
The Tiger Banner exchanges a large number of livestock from the Mongolian tribes in Mobei and Monan every year through trade on the grasslands, so the Tiger Banner has the conditions to establish a dragoon.
Hong Chengchou had been to Xin'an County for peasant association matters and knew where the Xin'an County government office was.
After entering the city with his troops, he went straight to the Xin'an County Government Office.
