After Liu Hong returned to his residence, he immediately called Zhou Cong, the inspector of Qianhu. After the two discussed for a long time, they checked the yellow book.
"This matter is not easy to investigate." Liu Hong sighed and played with his precious tea cup.
"Sir, it seems to me that it is easy to investigate. This kind of thing cannot be done by ordinary officials and gentry."
Of course Liu Hong thought of it, but he didn't have any rules in mind.
"You mean it was done by an official, and a high-ranking official. But now Governor Li has said that we cannot make this matter a big deal. We have no evidence. We are very passive. Moreover, I also feel that the decree will arrive soon. This matter is still You want us to investigate.”
"Sir, we can only start from the bottom and explore a little bit. As long as we find a big fish, no one behind it can escape. We might as well go to the cell for interrogation first. We have a charter in mind."
"Okay, let's go now." After saying that, Liu Hong put his precious tea cup in his arms, and then went to the Luoyang Mansion Prison with Zhao Cong.
There are dozens of people in this prison who give money to other people, and they can be regarded as the spokespersons of the people behind it.
The new tax system that has caused a lot of fuss at the top, in the eyes of the people below, is just a whim of the officials and has nothing to do with the people below. When others asked them not to farm the land with money, they didn't think too much about it. , just want to make more money.
But the wheat gradually grew taller, and things gradually started to go wrong.
First came Li Zheng, then the county government, and finally the senior officials in the government and officials from the capital came.
Only these people felt that something was wrong.
The government officials investigated who had given the money, and the people did not dare to hide it. The lobbyists in the village were immediately exposed.
The government officials didn't waste any time and immediately took control of everything. They didn't even enter the prison cells in the county and went directly to Fucheng.
This also caused some panic among the people who did not farm.
The people we arrest now are paid. Will we arrest those who don’t farm in the future?
Deep inside the Luoyang Mansion Prison, where death row prisoners were originally held, was requisitioned by the Jinyi Guards to detain these common people.
A total of sixty-eight people from Luoyang Mansion participated in the liaison, and they are all in this prison now.
At first, these people still had the energy to cry out their grievances. For two days in a row, except for the government servants who delivered meals, they could no longer see anyone else. No one listened to them even though they shouted loudly. At that time, they became more honest.
"Tell me, will our heads be chopped off?" A middle-aged man touched the person next to him and said.
The people around him seemed more shrewd, and he shook his head: "We are all honest farmers and people of the Ming Dynasty. Although we have made some mistakes now, I have seen that the mistakes will not lead to death, so it should be fine. Take care of it for a few days and then let it go.”
"You bastard, you are still talking nonsense. Where is this place? Didn't you listen to the officer who delivered the meal? This is the death row in Luoyang. Maybe we are all the queens who want to be executed. Nothing has happened yet. Let's go to sleep in our dreams." After the burly man heard what the shrewd man said, he immediately stood up and retorted.
"Zhang Laosi, don't scare everyone here again. What can happen? I've seen it. We can go home within two or three months. The land is ours. From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to now, I haven't heard anything about it. But you will be beheaded for not farming. Also, don’t point fingers at me. You came to my house to ask me about this in the middle of the night. Originally, I always found people in the village, but you just wanted to make more money. Go ahead and go to your mother-in-law's house to find someone to join you."
"Damn it, you obviously asked me to go there..." The burly man said as he came up and grabbed the shrewd man's neck and pulled him up.
Then all the men stood up and hurriedly came to dissuade him.
During the tearing and tearing, everyone heard the sound of the outermost cell door being opened, and someone was coming.
Then everyone dispersed, crawled to their positions, stretched out their hands, and shouted: "I have been wronged, sir, please let me go."
"Sir, I can't die. I still have an old mother to support at home."
Liu Hong had always dealt with officials and did not have many opportunities to deal with ordinary people. He frowned and walked in the cell, looking at these people who were complaining about injustice, and felt inexplicably irritable.
He glanced at the hundred households behind him.
On the instruction of the hundreds of households, the Jin Yiwei dispersed and went to the door of each cell to yell at the common people to shut up.
After some tossing, the cell finally became quiet.
After the world calms down.
Liu Hong took out his own teacup from his arms, while Inspector Qianhu Zhou Cong looked at it and frowned, thinking in his mind: "These are ordinary people, do you still want to show off in front of them? Show off." , these common people can’t understand it either.”
Liu Hong played with the tea cup and said, "Everyone, I asked you to come here to cooperate with the imperial court in investigating a matter. As for what matter to investigate, you must have an idea in your mind."
"Food, it is the foundation of a country and the foundation of the people. You have made a mistake. For the sake of small profits in front of you, you went to your friends and relatives and asked them not to grow food. You took the money in vain. It seems that you have taken advantage of it. It’s cheap, but how could steamed buns fall out of the sky for no reason, or white-flour steamed buns? You’ve been taken advantage of.”
"The money they give you is not to buy your land for a year, but to buy your life."
After Liu Hong finished speaking, these people began to panic and buy their lives. Did they really want to be beheaded?
"We know we were wrong, can you give us another chance, sir?"
"That's right, sir, we are all honest people, and our ancestors have been farmers for three generations. We have never made any mistakes in our lives. We cannot be beheaded just because of this one time."
"Sir, who will take care of my mother? If the government takes care of me, I will die here without having to pay the executioner, and I will be left with a whole body."
What Liu Hong heard was that his head was spinning, and the Jin Yiwei began to smash the cell door with a knife to stop the people's voices. However, these people heard that they were really going to be beheaded, and they were no longer afraid.
With the commotion, Liu Hong frowned more and more, and his heart became more and more irritable. He raised his left hand high and suddenly smashed his tea cup to the ground. With a crisp sound, the exquisite porcelain instantly cracked.
And this voice also made the people's voices quieter.
Liu Hong, Zhou Cong, a group of royal guards, and even some common people were looking at the porcelain pieces on the ground.
One common man touched another common man and said, "Looking at the thing in his hand, it seems to be worth a lot of money."
"It seems that we are really going to die this time, and such a good thing will be buried with us."
And Liu Hong looked at his beloved tea cup, saved money and money, and worked for two years to buy this treasure from the official kiln...
He feels distressed, he blames himself, there is no need to show prestige, impulsiveness is the devil...
But when Liu Hong saw Inspector Qianhu Zhou Cong looking at him, he could only put away the pain on his face, and then said in what he thought was a calm tone: "Whoever dares to make a loud noise is like this …”
But his tone, which he thought was calm, was actually trembling.
Zhou Cong wanted to laugh, but he didn't dare to laugh out loud. He could only hold it back. Now the adults had to save money and follow the trend again.
The other Jin Yiwei also shouted in their hearts that Commander Tongzhi was really upright. In order to stabilize the situation, he spent so much money to buy the tea cup and smashed it at will. He is indeed the leader of our Jin Yiwei. This is very Jin Yiwei and very powerful.
The common people gulped and spit after hearing this, and did not dare to say anything more...
This high-ranking official is somewhat abnormal. If he violates taboos, there is no guarantee that he will not be dragged out and executed now...
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