The first Taoist priest of the Tang Dynasty

His younger brother was about to be tried by the public, so he was naturally anxious like an ant in the crowd.

But when the two were discussing the countermeasures, there was a loud 'bang', and the gate of his Wang's house was smashed open.

The person who smashed the Wang's house was Lu Lindong of the Tongjun Mansion.

At this time, he was rushing in with a dozen soldiers, and when he saw Wang Yu and the two, he smiled and said, "Haha, Wang Yu, Wang De, you are safe here."

"General Lu, why are you doing this? I, Mr. Wang, have never offended General Lu. Why did General Lu break into my house? Destroy the gate of my house?" Wang Yu was a little startled, but he had the courage to angrily reprimand Lu Lindong.

"Let's talk about some things when you get to the public trial venue, take them away." Lu Lindong didn't bother to explain, waved to the soldiers, turned and left.

At this time, the same is true for the Zheng family.

Zheng Feng, the head of the Zheng family, was also led by a group of soldiers to the public trial just like Wang Yu, but he was very loud along the way.

No one has the right to do anything to him even if he is from the Zheng family.

No one expected that the principals of Zheng and Wang's family were only arrested on the day of the public trial, which made the people along the street who were about to go to the public trial to watch the excitement clap their hands even more.

Speaking of which, the principals of these two families could have chosen to escape, but they did not expect that these two people really thought that Zhong Wen would not dare to touch them.

In fact, when Zhong Wenxin was about to touch Zheng Wang's family, he had already sent someone to keep an eye on the principals of these two families. Even if these two wanted to escape, Zhong Wen could still catch them. .

When all the members of King Zheng's family were sent to the public trial venue, everyone had already started to piss their shit off.

Why?

Because one side of the public trial venue has already set up a execution ground.

Several executioners held a big knife and stood there quietly, waiting for the execution after the public trial.

At this time, Wang Yu and Zheng Feng, who were being escorted, collapsed to the ground when they saw such a battle.

There are more and more people around, so many people start to need Yamen to maintain order.

"Today is the day of our public trial in Lizhou. All the criminals have been escorted to the public trial venue. Please be quiet, and don't disturb the public trial venue." Zheng Zhi stood on the presiding trial platform and shouted to the noisy people who were discussing.

As soon as Zheng Zhi's words fell, the people who were watching the excitement immediately fell silent, waiting for the public trial.

Zhong Wen saw that the people were quiet and there were no voices of discussion, so he stood up and walked to the center of the public trial platform.

"The people in our Lizhou are hardworking people, but I never thought that the King Zheng's family was using the name of the people to steal the benefits of the people. After investigation, the King Zheng's family killed dozens of people in our Lizhou. Hundreds of people are disabled, hundreds of people are injured, how can such a disaster be done to human beings? Today, Lizhou will eliminate these two major disasters for the people and make decisions for the people." Zhong Wen shouted loudly.

When the onlookers watched the bustling people, they heard Zhong Wen's words, and they started talking with a "boom".

At this time, Zhong Wen nodded to Zhang Cheng, the lieutenant general of the Commanding Army Mansion not far away.

Following this, members of the victim's family members were put into the public trial venue by Zhang Cheng.

As soon as the victim's family members entered the meeting place, they went straight to the members of King Zheng's family who were kneeling there, and some family members even threw stones at those people.

"I beat you to death, and I want to avenge my mother."

"Old man, today is your karma, and my father's revenge can finally be avenged, woo woo..."

"Father, you have a spirit in the sky, take a good look, your revenge will be avenged today, ah..."

"Aniang, it's useless, I have been unable to avenge you, today the governor's public trial will avenge you."

"..."

The scene got a little out of control.

But all the officials present were not officials, even if those people were killed, they would not care.

"Ah~~, help, help."

"Boss, help me."

"..."

The victim's family members use as much strength as they have.

Punching and kicking won't work, it's just biting with your teeth.

At this time, the center of the public trial venue was already in chaos.

Among the members of King Zheng's family, several people had their heads beaten to death, and quite a few even had their ears bitten off.

awful.

miserable.

very miserable.

In such a scene, even the onlookers were silent, watching the biting and scratching.

After a long time, Zhong Wen nodded to Zhang Cheng again.

Immediately, the Yacha officers and men rushed to the venue and began to pull the victim's family members aside.

"I won't go into details about what these people have committed. After the announcement is posted, everyone can go and see what the King Zheng and his family have done. Also, if the clans from all over the world don't want to follow They are the same, I hope you will go to the yamen to surrender on your own, if you don’t surrender, you will end up like them.” Zhong Wen saw the family members of the recipients being pulled away, and shouted loudly again.

After finishing speaking, Zhong Wen looked around the public trial venue, then returned to his seat and sat down, nodding towards Zheng Zhi.

Receiving Zhong Wen's signal, Zheng Zhi hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Execution."

"Forgive your life, spare your life."

"My royal family will not let you go, absolutely will not let you go."

"My Zheng family will avenge me."

"..."

As soon as they heard the word "execution", the members of King Zheng's family were already shrouded in fear.

Wang Yu and the two principals even yelled that the Zheng and Wang families would avenge them.

However, their words can't scare Zhong Wen and the others, even if Zheng and Wang's family really want to make trouble, then let's make trouble, as long as anyone dares to come to Lizhou to make trouble, Zhong Wen believes that he will never return.

The prisoners were brought to the place of execution one by one.

The executioners could no longer bear the sword in their hands. After waiting for so long, it was finally their turn.

Raise the knife up and wave it hard.

"Pop" sound.

Heads fall.

The people who were frightened to wait and see did not dare to look directly.

Even some children who came to watch out of curiosity covered their mouths in fright, turned their heads away, and dared not watch any more.

Chapter 5 Thirteen: Zhong Wen Went to the Salt Field

The public trial is over.

Besides Lizhou City, this large-scale public trial was also going on in the other six counties at the same time.

The effect of the public trial cannot be expressed in words.

Because after the public trial, the perpetrators of the local clans have already surrendered themselves to the county government.

It's just that the result of surrendering himself is to use money and food to pay for the crime.

Zhong Wen didn't think about suppressing all the local clans, because Zhong Wen knew that the local clans were too big and too many, and according to the current situation in Lizhou, it was impossible to truly ban the local clans.

If things get serious, if the local clans really unite, it will definitely be a chaos.

Zhong Wen is not stupid, of course he knows how to choose.

After five days, what should be prepared is almost ready.

The personnel who were recruited to the Salt Team are now ready to go and gather at the wharf in the west of Lizhou City.

"Today I will personally take you to the salt land. It may be a bit difficult when you arrive at the place. I hope you will be mentally prepared. If this is done, you will become the success of my Lizhou. At that time, I will personally write a letter Your Majesty, I will gain fame for you." Zhong Wen waved and shouted to the 100 people gathered.

"In addition, this journey is at least two thousand miles away, and it will take at least two months. I hope you can persevere to the end. Don't drive, Zheng, can the food be arranged? Don't let the first batch The staff are hungry." Zhong Wen continued.

"Inspector Zhong, the food is ready, the horses and other things are also ready, we can set off." Zheng Zhi replied.

Going [-] miles away, naturally we need to prepare a lot of things.

And these logistics matters also fell on Zheng Zhi's head, and he took care of everything.

Zheng Zhi was also very concerned about the matter of Yandi, and he did a good job in logistics, at least in Zhong Wen's eyes, it was not bad.

Moreover, this trip to the hinterland of Tuguhun was still led by Zhong Wen himself. If something went wrong, Zheng Zhina had to be careful with his official hat.

At this time, Lizhou's table salt was also in short supply, and the Lizhou business group could only buy it from the outside and then sell it to alleviate the salt shortage in Lizhou.

When the Wang's Salt Shop collapsed, although some people wanted to snatch the market for buying and selling salt, the market was too big, and they were powerless.

Moreover, the salt produced by the salt wells in Rongzhou Gongjing (Zigong) County rarely came to Lizhou.

However, Zhong Wen already told Zheng Zhi to hurry up and send people to Fuyi to negotiate.

There are more than a dozen salt wells in Gongjing County, and most of the well salt produced is sent to Chang'an and Luoyang.

Moreover, these dozens of salt wells belong to the imperial court.

Of course, in addition to these dozens of salt wells, there are also many small salt wells, which are controlled by the local clan and the government.

Among them, half of the small salt wells are controlled by the royal family.

Well salt, in this era, can be said to be the best table salt, and ordinary people have no chance to taste well salt.

The mining of public well salt has a history of more than 2000 years, so later generations also call it the Millennium Salt Capital.

Well salt, Zhong Wen didn't think about mining it in the past, because even if he took a look at the situation there, he probably couldn't meet the amount of salt used in Lizhou.

Moreover, the production of well salt there is already low, and the price is expensive.

Zhong Wen asked Zheng Zhi to send someone there, just to delay the consumption of salt in Lizhou.

As long as he finds a salt-producing land in the hinterland of Tuguhun, it must be able to greatly reduce the amount of salt used in Lizhou.

Moreover, it may be possible to produce and sell a large number of them, which will become the biggest source of profit for the Lizhou business group.

"Let's go." At this moment, after getting Zheng Zhi's response, Zhong Wen shouted loudly to everyone.

Everyone in the salt team started to board the ship, led by Zhang Cheng, the deputy general of the Tongjun Mansion.

After everyone boarded the boat, a dozen or so boats set off and headed for the upper reaches of the Jialing River.

Things in Lizhou will continue as usual.

As for Xiao Hua, Zhong Wen had already sent her back to Longquan Village, and even the little granddaughter of Wu Manshan, the head of Wugou Village, was brought to Longquan Temple.

In a few days, Zhong Wen finished his affairs, and then he thought about leading the team to Tuyuhun to find a place to produce salt.

On this trip, the place Zhong Wen was going to was naturally the largest salt-producing area in China, the Chaerhan Salt Lake.

Because, Zhong Wen only knew this one salt-producing area, and Zhong Wen didn't remember many other places in his previous life, but the Chaerhan Salt Lake was remembered in his heart.

Zhong Wen and the others will go directly to Gudaoshui, a tributary of the upper reaches of Jialing River, and finally disembark at Huanghua County, and then pass Dashan Pass to Chencang.

The destination, of course, is Lanzhou City.

In the end, the place to run to is naturally the direction of Qinghai Lake.

A few days later, Zhong Wen and his party finally disembarked in Huanghua County.

A few more days later, the group passed the Dasan Pass, arrived at Chencang, and changed to a boat again.

Fortunately, Zhong Wen and the others brought a lot of money with them for this trip, otherwise, they might not even be able to hire a boat.

After more than half a month, Zhong Wen and his party could be said to have passed the test. On a certain afternoon, they finally arrived at the city of Lanzhou.

"Inspector Zhong, the food we brought has decreased, we have to replenish it in Lanzhou City." Zhang Cheng suggested to Zhong Wen.

"My suggestion is only appropriate supplies, because we will arrive in Shancheng (Xining) in two days, and we will resupply after we arrive in Shancheng. Also, there are not enough horses. When we get to Shancheng, we need some horses for transportation. Otherwise, you won't be able to take it after getting out of Tuyuhun." Zhong Wen had his own thoughts.

For the time being, he will stay in Lanzhou City for one night. As for the supplies, Zhong Wen doesn't want to take more things all the way to Shancheng.

Because, when you arrive at Shancheng, you will basically reach the border between Tang and Tuguhun, and then you will reach the border of Tuguhun.

"Inspector Zhong, after traveling for so many days, everyone is exhausted. Do you think it's better to rest for a day or two so that you can recharge your batteries?" Zhang Cheng continued to suggest.

Speaking of which, he, Zhang Cheng, was also tired.

Starting from Lizhou, I walked two sections of waterway, which is not bad.

However, when you don't go by water, you have to ride a horse, and others have to walk, so it's very tiring.