Crossing Wu Dalang starts from selling cakes

Chapter 555 Apprehended and brought to justice!

"Really? Don't bother Mr. Wang, I caught some of those assassins back!"

Wu Zhi glanced behind him: "Come on, bring it up!"

"Yes!"

Behind Wu Zhi, a group of officers and soldiers brought over several tied assassin leaders. These people had bruised noses and swollen faces, and they had been tortured along the way.

All confessed.

"Who ordered it?" Wu Zhi looked at these people.

Several people knelt on the ground and pointed at Wang He one by one: "It is Wang Zhizhou, even if he ordered us to assassinate Wu Xiang, we have no choice but to do so, Wu Xiang."

Hearing this, Wang He's face was full of panic: "Mr. Wu, they lied. The subordinates never ordered the assassination of Mr. Wu, and how dare the subordinates have such courage. Mr. Wu should not listen to them, they are framing !"

"Framed?"

Wu Zhi didn't want to talk nonsense: "Come here, arrest Wang He, put him in a prison, and confiscate his house by the way, and count the books and property."

"Yes!"

A group of people immediately entered the mansion to make a fuss, and the servants, wives and concubines inside were all controlled.

"Wu Xiang, I am wronged, I am wronged by the lower officials!" Mr. Wang kept shouting that he was wronged.

Wu Zhi gave Song Jiang an order: "You send someone to force a confession. This Zhizhou has caused a lot of troubles in the south. If he is dishonest, you are welcome."

"Don't worry, Prime Minister Wu, leave this matter to me!" Song Jiang immediately took people to interrogate.

There were so many people coming and going in and out of the palace that many people outside were watching.

"What's going on, Mr. Wang seems to have been taken away!"

"I heard that the prime minister of Song Dynasty is here!"

"Is that the martial minister?"

"Well, I saw it just now, but there are a lot of them, and we can't get close to them. It must be that the things they committed were known by the higher-ups. Minister Wu is here to uphold justice for us!"

"If that's the case, God has opened his eyes, no, I'm going to file a complaint with Prime Minister Wu!"

"I also want to sue. All my food has been taken away. This bastard deserves it!"

"Go, let's go together!"

Wu Zhi drank a cup of tea in the mansion, but he was not in a hurry.

All the people under him went to arrest the officials.

Hearing the commotion outside, Wu Zhi let them in.

Suddenly a group of people knelt on the ground.

"Master Qingtian, you have to decide for us!"

"Say something slowly, the truth will definitely seek justice for you!"

"Thank you, Minister Wu. We want to sue the local magistrate. He took bribes, oppressed the people, and collected the people's food for taxation. Even last year's food, they also found an excuse to forcibly rob it!"

"This is a big corrupt official who doesn't treat us ordinary people like human beings!"

Lu Zhishen said: "In that case, why don't you file a complaint?"

"My lord, we thought about suing, but the south is full of their people. We go to sue. As long as they hear that they are from the jurisdiction of the state, they will ignore them and even drive us out. We have nowhere to sue. !"

"If Prime Minister Wu hadn't come today, we still don't know what to do. My family only has a few days of food left, and the city has even run out of food. The common people are begging everywhere. It's too miserable!"

"Yes, Prime Minister Wu, you want to be the master for us, and you must punish these people severely!"

Wu Zhi nodded: "Don't worry, everyone, the truth is that I came here to deal with corrupt officials. Wang He has been arrested, and I will give you an explanation soon. If you have no food, you can come to the prefecture to get it first!"

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"

When the people heard Wu Zhi's words, they cried bitterly, and even asked the child's wife next to him to kowtow to Wu Zhi.

Call God to open his eyes, let Wu Xiang come to inspect the situation here and avenge them.

Wu Zhi is really not talking about it, there is a lot of food in Wang He's mansion, Wu Zhi will review the situation of the people, if it is true, those who really have no food at home will give them a batch to eat first, and then the matter will be reviewed clearly, They will recover the food they have been looted before.

Of course, Wu Zhi doesn't need to use the tax, because the local officials have a lot of food and land, which is enough to make up for the shortfall of the common people this time and there is still a surplus.

At this moment, the mansion has started to distribute food.

Many people talked about it, and the men, women and children in the streets of the whole city gathered together, which was a little unbelievable.

"It's not fooling us, is it?"

"Before we went to sue the officials, those people fooled us like this, and the result was nothing."

"Hehe, it depends on who they are. Officials in the south are all officials and officials protect each other, but Minister Wu is the prime minister of Song Dynasty. He came to check the situation here. Of course it is true. Didn't you see that everyone has started to receive food? Others I don't believe in people, but I absolutely believe in Wu Xiang!"

"Well, that makes sense!"

"Wu Xiang is the Qingtian master of our Song Dynasty! That's great!"

"Good officer!"

Many people got food and did not have to go hungry.

Seeing the distressed appearance of these people, Wu Zhi sighed deeply. Even though the Central Plains had started to plant Chaoyouqian and the grain was several times more than in previous years, this situation could not be avoided.

Originally, the people wanted to live a good life, but they couldn't stand the bad intentions of these officials. They managed to save up some food and felt that they were living a good life. As a result, Wang He made such a fuss and robbed them of their things.

Therefore, whether the officials manage well is the prerequisite for the people to live a good life.

If these people search for people's fat and people's anointing like this, not to mention Chaoyou Qianhao, even Chaoyou Wanhao will not be able to withstand the greed of these people.

Fortunately, Wu Zhi came over and it will be resolved soon.

Not long after, Wu Zhi's men searched extensively, and soon found out Wang He's family background.

Some things were hidden deep underground in the small house, even in the beams of the house. If Wu Zhi hadn't ransacked the house more than once, it really couldn't be found quickly.

Boxes of gold, silver, banknotes, and many land deeds, land properties, commercial facade title deeds, etc. are piled up in the courtyard.

If you don't read it, you don't know. After reading it, Wu Zhi knows that Wang He is so rich.

There are more than 4 mu of fertile land alone, and there is no tax, and the annual grain harvest is all his own.

In addition, there are other officials honoring his gifts and wealth, all of which are recorded.

There are more than 30 houses, many of which are in the more prosperous central areas in the south, and he also has three large houses in Bianjing City.

Wu Zhi's people made a conservative estimate. Based on the calculation of silver taels, the total value is at least about 900 million taels.

"Good guy, a Zhizhou actually embezzled so much money, this is not a small amount!"

If it is all calculated in paper money, it will be two billion.

After all, it is a prefecture of a large area, and the money collected here for so many years can't be spent by ordinary people in dozens of lifetimes.

Wu Zhi: "It's cheap to be an official. It's like this on almost eight floors. It's rare to get it to such an excessive level!"

Wu Zhi knew that Wang He was a big cancer.

It's definitely over this time.

Due to the accounts, property records, and many people suing, most of the fertile land was snatched by Wang He with his own power.

He even forcibly got some houses into his own hands.

After Wu Zhi counted these things, he went to the cell.

The dark prison cell was dirty and smelly. Wu Zhi entered it, walked to the place where Wang He was, and found that he was hung up with blood streaks all over his body, and he was severely beaten.

Song Jiang saw Wu Zhi coming, and quickly bowed: "Mr. Wu, you are here!"

"How are things going?"

"My lord, Wang He has confessed to all his crimes. He sent the assassin, and he was also the one who came up with the southern tax."

Wang He couldn't bear the torture. He had never been treated like this in half his life. With Wu Zhi coming, he knew that he would be found out sooner or later, so there was no point in hiding it.

Not only that, but he also confessed to many officials who participated in the taxation work with him last time.

Wu Zhi looked at a list, secretly thinking that this thing is good, so that he can grab it directly to save him trouble.

Of course, Wu Zhi will not follow the list completely, because Wang He may drag a group of people into the water when he is dying. In case there are honest officials among them, he will harm good people by doing it indiscriminately.

Wu Zhi ordered all these people to be arrested in the Yamen mansion and interrogated one by one.

But all those with problems were arrested, and some of them were upright officials who were wronged by Wang He. After Wu Zhi found out, he released them on the spot.

This month, Wu Zhi was dealing with these matters in the south.

He went back and forth from place to place, counting their fertile fields and wealth all the way. Many of the fertile fields could not be explained clearly. Wu Zhi knew with his toes that they occupied the people.

So pay it all.

Wu Zhi collected the criminal evidence of these people, and then escorted them all to the execution platform in the city.

Tears filled the eyes of the people around, they were so excited!

Yes, these people are shouting like crazy!

Only the people whose food and wealth have been ruthlessly robbed by officers and soldiers know how much they hate these officials in their hearts!
It was a kind of hatred that wanted to drink his blood and gnaw his flesh!
Originally, they thought this was the end of the matter, they had to compromise, but Prime Minister Wu came to review and settle the matter.

Southern officials were all arrested by Wu Zhi, and there were at least 30 people gathered on the execution platform.

Many of them are magistrates, parents and officials in various places, and magistrates.

On weekdays, they are high and powerful, and they are like emperors in one place. Who would have thought that they would have today.

The people threw some trivial things at them one after another, their eyes were blood red, both excited and frustrated.

It was only at this moment that he vented.

"Kill him, kill him!"

"These lawless and corrupt officials! Finally, retribution!"

These common people kept shouting.

The fat headed and big-eared Wang He Zhizhou was kneeling on the stage at the moment, his face was ashen, all the things in his house were turned upside down by Wu Zhi, those buried in the ground, those hidden on the beams, and the corners of the walls were all found. come out.

Even some things hidden in other houses could not escape Wu Zhi's search.

The charges were very clear, and each of them made him overwhelmed.

Fortunately, officials in the Song Dynasty generally did not sentence them to death, at most they sent them out. Although many of them had such a bleak and tragic ending, at least they would not die.

An official next to him knelt on the ground and turned his head with difficulty: "Master Wang, this is the end, can we still live?"

"Ha ha!"

Wang He turned his head and knelt on the ground, his neck was clamped by a wooden plank. He said, "Don't worry! We are officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Our grades are not low. At most, we are allotted. We cannot die. After all, we are not few!"

"That's right! It's just that it ended up like this, hey..." Many officials know that it is useless to regret it at this point.

At this time, Wang He suddenly said loudly: "Mr. Wu, what do you mean by detaining us here? We are all Song officials, even if we committed a crime, we shouldn't be here!"

At this moment, Wang He knew that he was done anyway, and started to question Wu Zhi.

(End of this chapter)