Gu Zhengchen believes that in officialdom issues, battles of wits and courage, and willingness to accept defeat, each has a bottom line.
But people from Quanzhou Prefecture sent a snake to tell Gu Zhengchen: Wake up, there is no bottom line, we have no bottom line, and those who offend us and disobey us can either walk standing up or lying down.
play hard!
Extremely dark and extremely bold!
All this was beyond Gu Zhengchen's expectation. The struggle situation in Quanzhou Prefecture was much more severe than he expected!
Gu Zhengchen put on his official uniform, picked up his official hat, put it on his head slowly and seriously, and said in a deep voice: "It's dawn, it's time to settle accounts!"
Li Chengyi could feel Gu Zhengchen's fierce momentum and followed him solemnly. Zhang Pei and Xiao Cheng, dressed in government uniforms and holding water and fire sticks, followed Gu Zhengchen.
Huang Ke, Lin Wei and Qian Bang stayed at the government office.
Wei Jingzhi carried a heavy wooden box on his back and followed Gu Zhengchen and others out of the government office. After walking less than a hundred steps on Fuqian Street, Gu Zhengchen stopped.
When the people along the street saw the government officials coming, they were so frightened that they stopped doing business and simply packed up their stalls and ran away. Some shopkeepers also hurriedly told their clerks to close their doors.
Naturally, there are also some good people, all of them are scared and curious.
Gu Zhengchen stopped in front of a large house, looked up at the word "Yang Mansion", and slightly moved his mouth: "Bring two chairs and two tables. I want to solve the case on the street."
Zhang Pei and Xiao Cheng walked away, and soon found chairs and tables.
The chair was placed outside the gate of Yang Mansion. Gu Zhengchen sat on the chair with one hand on the table, his back to the gate of Yang Mansion, facing the road in front of the door, and said in a deep voice: "It is said that merchants Zhou Honglai and Zhang Xun, private households Huang Er, Lin Shiyi.”
Wei Jingzhi looked at the main door of Yang Mansion, his mouth dry. Obviously, this is the plan to get Yang Baiju to have surgery.
It's just that these two temporary government officials and one official in the ceremonial room can really handle the case?
Don't say anything else, just ask, where are you going to find these people?
When the government office handles a case, the government officials will find the person in advance and ask him or her to wait outside the government office in advance. If you suddenly go to the street, you will suddenly have to pass on someone or a ghost.
Damn it!
Wei Jingzhi's expression was a little dull, but four people, Zhou Honglai, Zhang Xun, Huang Er, and Lin Shiyi, actually came. Seeing this scene, Wei Jingzhi had no choice but to pick up a pen and prepare to record it. The prefect brought him out just to be a scribe...
"It's you!"
When Zhou Honglai, Huang Er and others saw Gu Zhengchen, they were immediately shocked.
"This is the prefect!"
Zhang Pei shouted sharply.
Zhou Honglai, Huang Er and others quickly knelt down and saluted.
Gu Zhengchen said in a deep voice: "Earlier, I submitted myself in Jinjiang City. You lamented to me repeatedly, saying that the Yang Mansion occupied your home, and showed me the land deed. I checked the land deed record in the mansion. Here, It is indeed the ancestral home of your four families. Why did it become Yang Tongpan’s residence? Please explain clearly!"
Zhou Hong came to see Gu Zhengchen and wanted to make the decision for himself. He gritted his teeth and shouted: "The magistrate is above, please make the decision for the common people. The big house here is actually the ancestral home of four of our families. In the fourth year of Hongwu, Yang Baiju took the opportunity of a fire in the government office to judge the house. You, lived in my house temporarily. Later, he wanted to take possession of the house as his own for various reasons. When I refused, he said that I had failed to pay commercial taxes and had to compensate the government for the loss of 3,000 guan. "
"My family is a cloth shop, and even the entire shop cannot be sold for 3,000 guan a year. The imperial business tax is low. According to this tax, the shop needs to sell at least 90,000 guan a year! I dare to ask the prefect, Let alone the commercially depressed Jinjiang and Quanzhou prefectures, even Jinling, which cloth shop can make 90,000 yuan a year? This has never happened in ancient times!"
Zhou Honglai was truly aggrieved.
Cloth making is not a luxury item, and ordinary people would come here to buy cloth all day long. He must be slapped with such a big label, saying that he evaded taxes and harmed the court.
Zhou Honglai was very distressed: "There was nothing we could do. In order to avoid the disaster, we had to move out and let Yang Tongpan live in the house."
Gu Zhengchen asked in a deep voice: "Since Yang Tongpan occupies your house, why didn't he ask for your land deed?"
Zhou Honglai choked up.
Huang Er smiled sadly: "Yang Tongpan said that we voluntarily gave up and let him live here in order to honor him. Once we take back the land deed, it will become a robbery of people's houses!"
Lin Shiyi immediately shouted, with a fierce look on his face: "I have become a bitch to accept guests, and I also set up an archway to show my aloofness! Damn you, a corrupt official who has harmed countless people, and is so hypocritical. Not only did he seize my home, he actually dared to attack my wife, and he refused to let me say anything afterwards, otherwise he would have us appear at the bottom of the sea!"
Zhang Xun complained: "The common people were maritime merchants in the previous dynasty and accumulated some property, but Yang Tongfan actually called me a pirate for my family's property and threw me directly into the dungeon! If he hadn't given up everything The family property may never see the light of day!”
Gu Zhengchen looked at Wei Jingzhi: "Have you remembered everything?"
Wei Jingzhi nodded repeatedly and handed the call sheet to Gu Zhengchen. Gu Zhengchen glanced at it a few times and asked Zhou Honglai, Huang Er and others to sign it. Then he looked at the people watching and shouted sternly: "I am Gu Zhengchen, the prefect of Quanzhou. Today we advocate for the people, respond to the people's difficulties, relieve the people's difficulties, and end the people's suffering!"
"Yang Baiju was sentenced by the government office for occupying other people's houses by force. There are government government land deeds and his personal land deeds as evidence. I visited and got witness from the people. The facts are clear now. The government officials opened the door of the government and seized all the property, but there were some who stopped it. , they will all be regarded as fighting against the government, and they will be arrested without mercy!"
"Got the order!"
Xiao Cheng and Zhang Pei took big steps and kicked open the ajar door.
Wei Jingzhi swallowed and couldn't believe that Gu Zhengchen directly arrested people with the help of two government officials.
This kind of strength is really terrifying.
But it was indeed true that Yang Baiju occupied a private house. As a local, Wei Jingzhi knew about this. But after all, Yang Baiju is the general judge, and his job is to deal with litigation. No matter how hard you sue, will you still fall into his hands? Not to mention the complaint, no one even paid attention to the paper when it was handed in.
The people looked at this scene and applauded one after another.
In the house, Yang Baiju was lying on the bed. Ouch, he had been hit by so many boards that it was difficult to get out of bed. It was heartbreaking pain to move.
Facing the housekeeper Yang Wang who came over in a hurry, Yang Baiju gritted his teeth: "Why, was the man named Gu killed by a snake?"
Yang Wang's face turned pale and he said eagerly: "No, he's not dead. He's just outside the gate, seems to be reviewing the case..."
"What?"
Yang Baiju raised his head and scratched the wound, his face turned ferocious.
Yang Wang didn't know what was going on. Maybe the smell of the snake nest in the magistrate's house was weak. The snake could no longer smell the smell there and wandered off halfway.
Yang Baiju urged Yang Wang to watch so he could know what Gu Zhengchen wanted to do.
When Yang Wang ran over again, his breath was unstable and his face was pale: "Prefect Gu wants to seal this house, and the government officials have already rushed in..."
"That's unreasonable!"
Yang Baiju clenched his fists and shouted through gritted teeth: "Go and ask that guy named Gu to come over. I'm going to give him a theory. There is no evidence and no charges. Why would you send a government official to break into my house!"
Just as Yang Wang was about to go out, he saw Xiao Cheng face to face.
Xiao Cheng looked at Yang Baiju coldly: "How many crimes you are guilty of, the prefect will decide based on facts, physical evidence, witness, etc. Now, you need to go out of the mansion to confront others face to face. Make your choice and go on your own. I’ll carry you there!”
Yang Baiju wanted to scold Xiao Cheng to death.
My butt was smashed and my legs couldn’t use any strength. How could I walk?
It’s over, he was lifted up.
Yang Baiju was in excruciating pain, and Niang Xipi's Xiao Cheng was shaking deliberately. You didn't know how to find a door panel or something, and the injury that had just healed a little was torn open again!
Yang Baiju's eldest son, Yang Qianlou, saw that something was wrong, so he immediately took a sum of money and climbed out of the wall, preparing to escape.
But as soon as he landed, before he took two steps, he saw a man holding a bow and arrow.
"I can give you money and let me go!"
Yang Qianlou took out a silver ingot from the package.
call out!
The arrow flew, piercing Yang Qianlou's cheek and hitting the wall!
Yang Qianlou was almost scared to death and collapsed on the ground. The package was spread out and pieces of silver ingots were scattered on the ground.
Qin Song pulled out the arrow and snorted coldly: "After taking your money, how can I follow Gu to command Qian and do military exploits in the future? A group of guys who don't know life or death dare to go against him!"
Mei Hong walked over from the corner, glanced at Yang Qianlou, and said to Qin Song: "No one else ran out, we can withdraw. If we stay too long, we might be noticed."
Qin Song nodded slightly, raised his foot and kicked Yang Qianlou's ankle, causing Yang Qianlou to scream in agony.
"You got it by jumping over the wall. If you dare to run away, I will shoot you!"
Qin Song threatened and led Mei Hong out of the alleyway.
Although Xiao Cheng and Zhang Pei are just two government servants, their work efficiency is not bad at all, and they also know how to order people. In the Yang Mansion, many servants became "helpers", moving boxes one after another from the house to the door. Even the housekeeper Yang Wang was arrested.
Box after box of silver ingots is dazzling.
The people who were watching couldn't help but talk about it after seeing it.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Yang Baiju lying on the ground, walked to a box, picked up a silver ingot, and said coldly: "Yang Tongpan, can you explain to me why there are so many silver ingots in your house? At least it's more than five thousand taels. With your salary, you won't be able to reach this amount in ten years."
Yang Baili was trembling all over and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. This was painful and scary.
Gu Zhengchen's method was too direct. He interrogated the person on the street and ordered people to break into the house to look for evidence directly!
The white silver cannot tell a lie.
When Gu Zhengchen saw that Yang Baili was silent, he threw the silver ingot back and said in a deep voice: "Yang Baiju, you forcefully occupied other people's houses, robbed people's property during the day, embezzled huge amounts of property, raped women, and exploited businessmen. Now you are guilty of these crimes , basically all the witnesses and physical evidence are complete, what else can you say?”
Yang Baiju snorted disdainfully: "How long do you think you can stay in Quanzhou Mansion if you convict me? Gu Zhengchen, I'm not afraid to tell you that you are dead! Today I won't admit to any crime, so what do you think? What can I do?".??m
Gu Zhengchen's eyes became cold, he shook his head slightly and said to Yang Baiju, "What can I do to you? I can kill you!"
