Datang: Dad, I really didn't want to rebel!

Chapter 43
Chapter 56
Overnight, the Xie family, which was entrenched in Yingzhou and other places, collapsed instantly.

There were more than 300 people from Xie's family plus servants. Li Chengqian didn't do anything to them, but asked people to collect their crimes.

As long as there is a crime, it will be punished according to the crime.

At dawn the next day, countless people gathered in the busy city of Qianzhou.

In addition to the people of Qianzhou, there are several other states.

They all wanted to see if Li Chengqian really wanted to kill Xie Hua!
That's Xie Hua, the eldest son of Xie, the Xie family has been domineering for so many years, and it has already been deeply rooted.

The people have an instinctive fear of them, and even regard them as authorities.

Now that someone finally took action against the Xie family, they were overjoyed, but at the same time they couldn't believe it.

Who knows if the Governor is just talking, what if it's just a show?

Therefore, it was because of curiosity in their hearts that the common people came to the downtown area of ​​Qianzhou one after another, wanting to witness the authenticity of the matter.

In the busy city, there is a temporary elevated platform built of wood.

Soon, a group of guards ran over from the street, and they were still escorting several people.

When they saw the leader being escorted, the people suddenly became noisy.

Because they recognized that this person was Xie Hua, the young master of the Xie family!

"This beast!"

"He was finally caught!"

Many people's eyes filled with tears. The Xie family's misdeeds over the years have harmed many people. They have complained a long time ago, but because of the power of the Xie family, they dare not resist.

Now that Xie Hua was arrested, he gave the common people a bad breath.

But what surprised them even more was that there were still a few guards escorting the four of them.

"This is Xie Yuanshen!"

"Oh, this is not Xie Longyu and Xie Chengjian..."

"There is also Wuzhou County Magistrate Wang Xuan!"

At this moment, the official uniforms of Xie Yuanshen and the others had been stripped off, and they were replaced with ochre-colored prison uniforms mixed with reddish brown and black.

The hair of the four was disheveled, their faces were ashen, and they were no longer as majestic as before.

Soon, the four of them were brought up to the high platform by the guards and knelt on the ground side by side with Xie Hua.

After a while, Li Chengqian, accompanied by the officials of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, slowly walked up to the high platform.

Looking at the dense crowd of people below, he cleared his throat and said loudly: "Fellow folks, the five people kneeling at my feet must be familiar to you, right?"

The common people chattered, and their words were full of hatred for the Xie family.

"Everyone, they are members of the Xie family. In the past, they committed crimes and oppressed the people, and they should be punished according to their crimes. Today... the governor will punish them on the spot!"

Hearing these words, the people instantly became quiet and stared straight at Li Chengqian.

"Come on, bring the ghost knife." Li Chengqian shouted.

"Cough cough..."

Chen Cang next to him coughed lightly, and whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, you are thinking too much, there is no ghost knife here."

"... "

Li Chengqian glared at him, "Don't talk so much, just bring a knife!"

"Here!"

Chen Cang nodded, then winked at the guard.

A guard understood and immediately handed over the sword.

Without saying a word, Li Chengqian took the sword and walked to Xie Hua on the far left.

The five members of the Xie family were all pinned down on the ground, unable to move, their mouths were all stuffed, and they couldn't even speak.

However, this did not hinder the fear in their hearts. The five people yelled "Woooooooooooooooooooooo", their eyes were staring like bull's eyes, and the eyeballs were almost popping out.

The people's breathing slowed down a lot, and their eyes were fixed on Li Chengqian's movements. It wasn't until he swung his sword that the people cheered.

The big knife swung down, and the head fell to the ground!
A human head fell down from the high platform, and then a column of blood spurted out.

"Woooooooo..."

Seeing Xie Hua's body separated, Xie Yuanshen and the others became even more frightened.

The four of them twisted violently, and the guards almost didn't hold back.

Four more knives went down, and the four heads rolled down one after another.

Blood stained the high platform red, and even Li Chengqian had a lot of blood on his body, but he didn't care. After returning the sword to the guards, he continued to speak to the people.

Only then did the people realize that the Xie family, who had been doing evil for decades, had finally fallen!
Tens of thousands of people knelt down one after another, shouting "Long live the governor!"

This title is really a bit outrageous. In today's world, only the emperor is qualified to call him "Long Live".

However, the common people are very vague about this concept. Anyway, whoever treats them well will live to "Long Live".

Looking at the very sincere people, Li Chengqian couldn't help grinning.

Most of these people are not from Qianzhou, but from Yingzhou and other places.

Because although the Xie family is deeply rooted, the military and political power in Qianzhou has always been firmly in Shen Liang's hands, and the Xie family's hand has not reached here.

Therefore, the people of Qianzhou were rarely harmed by Xie's family.

The series of things Li Chengqian did before won the hearts of the people in Qianzhou, but the people outside Qianzhou only had a good impression of Li Chengqian.

Asking the political box and reclaiming wasteland, these two things were extended to the Kyushu under the jurisdiction of Qianzhou, which did make those people have a good impression of Li Chengqian, but when it comes to returning home, there is still a gap.

But now, Li Chengqian has uprooted the Xie family, and all the minions of the Xie family in the four prefectures of Yingzhou, Zangzhou, Shizhou, and Wuzhou have been cleaned up.

This is the best thing for the people of the four states.

So now, the people of the four prefectures have turned their hearts, and like the people of Qianzhou, they support Li Chengqian.

But Xie's family was destroyed, and the Governor's office of the four states was vacant, and Li Chengqian investigated, and there were still a few good officials in the four states.

So Li Chengqian directly promoted them to be new governors regardless of how low their grades were.

This made other people look at it, and they were very envious and jealous.

Because one of them is just a young master, without even a rank, but now he has directly become the governor, that is definitely a water ghost promoted to a city god!

It was obviously too late to regret, and now they could only do things carefully, lest Li Chengqian would clean them up.

After all, they had helped the Xie family do many bad things in the past. If Li Chengqian really wanted to settle the score, they would not be able to escape the death penalty.

Fortunately, Li Chengqian only cleaned up a few important people, but he ignored the others.

There are too few talents in Qianzhou now. If everyone is really killed, there will be no one to handle the government affairs of the governor's office in those states.

Coupled with the fact that so many people were killed this time, I believe those officials would not dare to commit crimes anymore.

...

Before we knew it, it was November.

In half a month, with the mining of coal mines, cement plants and steel plants have started production.

However, since the steelmaking plant has no electricity and everything is done manually, the efficiency is naturally not very fast.

The smelted steel will be sent to the Ordnance Department, and the craftsmen of the Ordnance Department will make briquette furnaces.

In half a month, thousands of briquette stoves have been manufactured. As the craftsmen become more skilled, more briquette stoves are manufactured every day.

In addition to the briquette stove, there are naturally briquettes and chimneys.

Behind the Arms Department, Li Chengqian specially designated a piece of land and stipulated that Zhechong Mansion guards were not allowed to trespass.

In that field, it is specially used to dry the briquettes and chimneys, and dry them...

(End of this chapter)