Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 97 Prefect, what are you?
"My lord, they are just people who have been bewitched. Now that they have given up their resistance, let them live." Xu Ruogu said to Wang Ruoyuan.

"They are not soldiers, so how can they surrender? They are thieves, and thieves are not qualified to surrender. The best thieves are dead thieves."

Wang Ruoyuan didn't intend to let these people go. When they took up agricultural tools to besiege the tax card and wanted to get their hands on the taxes and property of the Lijin Bureau, they were not ordinary people, but bandits.

"Besides, don't you want yourself to be promoted to a noble? Even if you don't want to, the brothers behind you still want to."

"Xu Ruogu, how many years older am I than you? Let me warn you as an elder brother. No matter what you do or what you want to do, you'd better not stand in other people's way. Otherwise, even if you have 1 reasons, others will I will also kill you."

Wang Ruoyuan taught Xu Ruogu this way because Xu Ruogu was also a bannerman. Otherwise, Wang Ruoyuan would have killed him directly.

Anyway, he is a fellow Jinshi, appointed by the Holy Majesty to come to Zhenjiang Mansion to be the governor of gold, and to manage the taxation of a mansion's lijin. It's not a big deal to kill someone for no reason, let alone he has a lot of reasons.

"Kill." Seeing that Xu Ruogu had compromised, Wang Ruoyuan ordered the soldiers behind him to go forward and kill these troublemakers.

As the knives of the servants and guards fell, there were shrill screams in this empty field.

And at this time, Shen Jucai rushed over with Jiang Mengyin and the prefect of Zhenjiang belatedly.

What caught Shen Juren's eyes was not the tit-for-tat confrontation between tax officials and mobs he imagined, but mutilated corpses everywhere, and patches of land stained red with blood.

"This, this, who did this." The prefect of Zhenjiang thought that he was pulled over by Shen Juren to mediate the conflict, but he didn't expect to see this scene of hell on earth, and he stood there in shock.

"It must be those tax collectors, God damn it, they killed so many people." Shen Juren was very heartbroken after seeing the corpses scattered all over the place.

His heartache is not the disappearance of so many lives, but his future rent will be less, because his tenants have decreased.

"Master Zhifu, hurry up and arrest them, we can't let them bring disaster to the village and slaughter the people." Shen Juren felt that these tax collectors were cruel and merciless, and it seemed impossible to play soft games with them, so as long as It's getting tough.

"Okay, today I happened to bring two groups of yamen servants to come out quickly, just to arrest them and bring them to justice." The prefect of Zhenjiang originally brought these people to suppress the ground and mediate the conflicts between the tax collectors and the common people. Use it on the tax collectors.

So the prefect of Zhenjiang brought the yamen servants to arrest him, and came to the tax card with Shen Juren, Jiang Mengyin and others.

As soon as they came to the tax card, they saw the tax servants and handymen who were busy cutting off the heads of the thieves and burying the bodies.

"Stand still, don't move."

"I am the official of the fourth-rank imperial court, the Zhenjiang prefect. If you kill someone, do you still want to destroy the corpse?" Seeing the tax servants and the handymen carrying the head and corpse, the Zhenjiang prefect thought they were going to destroy the corpse.

Hearing the words of the magistrate of Zhenjiang, Wang Ruoyuan thought in his heart, it's really funny, we need to destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces when we kill people, it's a ridiculous joke in the world.

Seeing that Shui Ding and the handymen were still unmoved, the prefect of Zhenjiang immediately said, "As the prefect, I order you to stop."

At this time, Wang Ruoyuan came over and said, "These taxpayers are mine, why do you order them?"

"It's just because I'm the official fourth-rank official of the Zhenjiang prefect." The Zhenjiang prefect and Wang Ruoyuan said tit for tat.

"Unfortunately, I'm also a court official of the fourth rank. You don't seem to be older than me." Wang Ruoyuan spread his hands and said with a smile.

The gold governor is an official of the fourth rank, which is at the same level as the local magistrate, just to prevent the local officials from bullying others with their own rank.

"Master Zhifu, don't worry about it so much. These guys kill good people without permission and cause harm to one side. What's the difference between them and the tax inspectors in the Wanli period? Let's arrest them first." At this time, Shen Juren fanned the flames and said.

Hearing Shen Juren say this, Wang Ruoyuan immediately stared at him and said, "I'm talking to the prefect of Zhenjiang, what are you?"

He noticed the square scarf on Shen Juren's head, and only then did he understand the confidence behind his words.

"Don't say that you are a small juren. Even the prefect of Zhenjiang is only qualified to talk to me. In my eyes, what are you?" Wang Ruoyuan continued.

He has the confidence to say this. Zhu Cihong set up the Lijin Bureau, and Zhu Cihong is their biggest backing. With Zhu Cihong's protection, Wang Ruoyuan is not afraid of anything.

"Bold, you, you dare to insult the imperial court officials." The prefect of Zhenjiang blew his beard and stared angrily, but because of Wang Ruoyuan's status as his equal, he didn't dare to touch him.

"I will definitely report your tax collectors' misconduct to the imperial court." The prefect of Zhenjiang threatened, and it seemed that this was the only thing he could do.

"I will also truthfully report to Your Majesty my achievements in Zhenjiang Mansion." Wang Ruoyuan raised his head proudly and said to the Zhenjiang prefect, he didn't take this prefect seriously at all.

After the prefect of Zhenjiang and Shen Juren returned angrily, Wang Ruoyuan sent someone to Yangzhou to report to Zhu Cihong. He is qualified to hand over the paper directly to the emperor.

Zhenjiang Mansion is just below Yangzhou, only a few tens of miles away, and it took only a few hours to hurry up, and Wang Ruoyuan's booklet was handed over to Zhu Cihong's case.

"Hmph, the gentry incited the ignorant people to collude with the government. It's really courageous." After reading Wang Ruoyuan's excerpt, Zhu Cihong fell to the ground angrily.

Seeing this, Liu Bao quickly picked it up, put it on the table, and said, "Long live, calm down, these people are against you, if you kill them all, it's over."

"Well, that's exactly what I mean. I guess the situation in Zhenjiang Prefecture should not be an exception. There should be many more in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

In Wang Ruoyuan's memorial to Zhu Cihong, he mentioned the actions of Shen Juren and the prefect of Zhenjiang, and also wrote about Xu Ruogu's killing of the Shen family's caravan.

In the memorial, Wang Ruoyuan guessed that it was Shen Juren who was responsible, but he was not sure, but this is not important. The key is that Zhu Cixiang also thought that Shen Juren and others were responsible.

"Zhang Chao, take 1000 cavalrymen from the [-]-battalion cavalry of the imperial guards and pro-army army to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Take my warrant and cooperate with Li Wenkui, the supervisor of the Lijin Bureau of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who stay behind in Nandu. Be sure to kill all the traitors."

　Thanks to the book friend Da Qin Wen'an for the reward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)