Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"Your Majesty, my minister..."

Zhao Ning interrupted him and said: "Liu Sixian just said that he should be sent to death row. I thought it would be better to execute him on the spot. Someone come here and chop him up."

Several imperial guards came up, but before everyone came back to their senses, they saw that Xie Zhongren was dragged aside, on the grass, and had his head chopped off.

Everyone's face suddenly changed with fright.

Before, Xie Zhongren was still in transit to discuss the matter of Xintian, but now his head is gone.

I have heard for a long time that Zhao Guan's family kills people without blinking an eye, but they never expected that they would execute Tongzhi on the spot just after they arrived and before they entered the city.

Liu Shu's body was also trembling, but he forced himself to remain calm and said loudly, "Your Majesty is wise, such treacherous ministers and thieves should have been killed a long time ago!"

The rest of the people also followed suit.

Only then did Zhao Ning walk towards the city under the crowd.

At this time, for some reason, a large cloud of dark clouds floated in the originally cloudless sky.

The midsummer weather in the south is like a scumbag's heart and a woman's face, which can change at will.

Another gust of wind came from the Yangtze River in the south, and the vendors in the distance speeded up.

Apparently, a storm was coming.

The imperial guards first entered the city to clear the way, and then Zhao Guan's family temporarily stayed in the transfer office.

When Zhao Guan's family entered the city, the lightning flashed a snow-white cold light in the thick layer of clouds, and a moment later the thunder exploded and slanted down.

The residents in the city went home one after another, and the roadside stalls also put away to find shelter from the rain.

When Zhao Ning arrived at the gate of the transfer office, it happened to be raining heavily.

Tang Ke immediately ordered someone to go in and clean it up.

Zhao Ning was not in a hurry, he sat down, picked up the records of Xintian on the table before, and looked at them with great interest.

Everyone stood in front, not daring to speak out.

"The 500 acres of Xintian in Gong'an County are all written under the name of this He Song." Zhao Ning picked up the document in his hand, which had the official seal of the Tongsan Yamen on it, "Where is the Tongsan?"

The general judge Li Kui came out: "The minister is here."

"Is this the record of the Tongju Yamen about Xintian?"

"Yes."

Zhao Ning picked up another document and said: "But on this document, this He Song's field is only 50 mu, and the other 450 mu is allocated to other nine households. This is a document from the Shicao Yamen. Shicao joined the army. Woolen cloth?"

Sergeant Cao joined the army Wang Kai's heart froze, and he came out and said, "Your Majesty, I'm here."

"You wrote these?"

"It was reported by the officials below."

"Is this your official seal stamped on it?"

"Yes Yes……"

"And here, in Songzi County, why did 100 mu of new land belong to the same person? This is a document from the Tongju Yamen, and the 100 mu of land was distributed to two households in the Shicao Canjun Yamen. Both parties checked No, who should I trust?"

Wang Kai said: "Your Majesty, these are all calculated by the officials below."

"What do you mean, you only need their statistics, and you sign and seal with your eyes closed?"

"No... not."

"Tang Ke."

"The minister is here."

"Such a simple mistake, why is it still put in the transfer office?"

Tang Ke said: "Your Majesty, this happened last time. Later, I sent people to investigate. The documents of the Shicao Yamen are indeed correct, and there is no phenomenon of merged fields."

"Then the people in charge of the yamen made a mistake in the records?"

Li Kui, the general judge, said quickly: "Your Majesty, I have recorded the truth and there is absolutely no falsehood."

Zhao Guanjia took a glance and said, "Liu Sixian, where do you think the problem is?"

Liu Shu replied: "It is difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood, and we should not make a hasty conclusion, otherwise it will disturb people's hearts and inevitably hurt the confidence of grassroots officials. Therefore, we still need time to investigate."

However, Zhao Ning took out the account book in the Jingmen Army and said, "I have something to say, please listen to it."

I have a showdown, I want to kill you!

Chapter 509 Thunder Fury! (Second more)

Liu Shu said, "Please make it clear, Your Majesty."

"I think that the root of these problems is not about soldiers joining the army, let alone passing judgments."

Zhao Guanjia's words stunned everyone for a moment.

He continued: "Today's problem lies in the collusion between the landlords and gentry and local officials. The officials take the lead in merging land for profit. How can they strictly investigate and deal with merging land?"

Before anyone spoke, Zhao Guan's family ordered someone to give the bill to Tang Ke, and said: "This book was given to me by Gao Shunlin, the capital of the Jingmen Army, and the copy I found from Liu Tong was bought by the Jingmen Army. from Xintian."

Everyone's hearts froze.

I only heard Zhao Guanjia say again: "According to the above list, arrest all of them, and don't let any one go!"

Tang Ke was shocked when he saw the bill.

Because in this list, there are officials present.

For example, the scholar Cao joined the army and Wang Kai was among them.

"What are you doing in a daze?" Zhao Ning glanced at Tang Ke, "Grab the nearest one first! Right here, name it!"

Tang Ke took a deep breath and began to roll the roll. The first name was: Wang Kai!

When Wang Kai heard this, he quickly shouted, "I'm wronged! Your Majesty! I'm wronged!"

Zhao Guanjia slapped the table angrily and said: "Shut up! You dare to cry for injustice! This account book is the personal account book that Liu Tong and Gao Shunlin recorded privately! Why did he put your name in it!"

He glanced at Tang Ke, and said coldly, "Continue reading!"

Tang Ke started to read again, and officials were named one by one.

In the end, when I read it, there were fifteen officials, big and small, who were all involved in the Jingmen army's acquisition of Xintian, but all of them exceeded fifty acres.

However, in the field registration records of the transfer department, there are no such merged new fields.

Obviously, it was the people below who did the tricks.

The fifteen officials were escorted out, and they began to cry for injustice.

An official shouted: "Your Majesty, you can't punish us with just one account book. You are not afraid of people's disobedience? I am afraid that the imperial court's land reclamation will also be seriously affected..."

"How dare you threaten me!" Zhao Guan's face was cold, and his voice echoed in the hall.

The lightning outside reflected the snow-white inside of the hall, and there was another explosion of thunder rolling in, which made people's hearts tremble.

Zhao Ning continued angrily: "I went all the way south, and the people howled all over the country! Landlords and gentry colluded with officials, eating people and drinking blood! All kinds of evil! The new land on Jinghu North Road has been reclaimed to such an extent! If I don't kill him, why would he go to court? How can you explain to the people of the world!"

Shocked by the aura of Zhao Guan's family, everyone was silent for a while, not daring to speak out.

After a moment of silence, Liu Shu, who was on the sidelines, hurriedly came out and said, "Your Majesty, who obstructs Xintian land reclamation, is fighting against the imperial court and should be executed immediately!"

But Zhao Ning said: "I will give you a chance. Three of you can survive. You go back and collect the evidence you have. The person with the most testimonies can survive. Sort according to this! You only have one day today!"

These 15 people were taken down by the Praetorian Guards and returned to their respective homes.

The rest stood there in silence.

Naturally, there were not only fifteen officials on that bill, but also landlords big and small, who had all entrusted people to buy fields.

Zhao Ning said decisively in the simplest words: "All those with names on them will be arrested, and the accounts will be strictly checked. Out of every 15 people, three who confess the most will be kept, and the rest will be executed! The house will be ransacked!"

"In addition, anyone who has participated in a private fight within half a year, catch the instigator and execute him on the spot!"

On May [-]th in the sixth year of Jingkang, Jiangling Mansion was shrouded in a storm.

There seemed to be a big hole in the sky, and the rain poured down.

The once bustling streets were deserted.

Not long after, people in roadside restaurants and teahouses saw groups of people riding horses and wearing coir raincoats speeding past the street.

At the north gate of Jiangling City, there is a head hanging. It is the head of Xie Zhongren, the former prefect of Jiangling Mansion.

He grinned, his face was washed pale by the rain, and his eyes were already gray, as if he was still watching the city.

Teams of cavalry rushed out from the city gate. They were ordered to arrest people and the landlords on the account.

Some landlords lived in the city, and some cavalry suddenly came to the door. They got off their horses, knocked on the door indifferently, and filed in after the door opened.

Some did not dare to open the door after seeing it in the crack of the door, and the door was directly kicked open.

The man on the list was dragged out of the house and taken back to the magistrate's office by force during the storm.

All the officials and officials in the magistrate's yamen, at this moment, none of them dared to desert, and they were all on guard, and as long as one was sent, they would be interrogated immediately.

In the afternoon, fifteen officials were taken to their homes to collect evidence in a frantic and fast manner.

And the entire Jiangling City has been taken over by the imperial guards, and no one is allowed to enter or leave.

For some reason, today's rainstorm lasted extraordinarily long.

An hour later, several confessions had already been sent to the transfer office.

After another hour, it was already evening, and all the confessions of the fifteen officials were delivered.

The content of these confessions is much more exciting, and more than [-] officials have been involved, whether it is the officials of the provincial yamen such as the Transshipment Department, the Prison Department, and the Changping Department, or the magistrate’s yamen or the county-level officials below. Yes, it's all inside.

Among them is Liu Shu, the secretary of punishment and prison.

Official Zhao stared at Liu Shu coldly, and asked, "Liu Sixian, you got quite a lot!"

Liu Shu was so frightened that the hairs all over his body stood on end. He said quickly, "Your Majesty! This is absolutely unfair. I have never joined the fields in Zhijiang County!"

"I didn't say it was Zhijiang County, why do you know it says Zhijiang County?"

"minister……"

Zhao Guan's family beckoned, and several guards around came over, took off Liu Shu's official hat, and then took it off.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I don't dare anymore! Your Majesty spared me..."

Tang Ke stood aside, the sweat on his forehead never dried.

Of course he didn't have any fields, but he felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable with Zhao Guan's way of handling the problem, and he felt a sense of oppression in his chest.

"Pass the head of Liu Shu to the capitals of the states on Jinghu North Road."

"Yes!"

"I have ordered the prefectures on Jinghu North Road to deal with them within three months. If there are any mergers and acquisitions in Xintian that have not been reported, the local prefects will execute them all!"

Liu Shu's head rolled to the ground in the heavy rain, was wrapped up and sent out.

Liu Shu was not the only one who was executed. Of the first batch of 12 officials, only three survived, and the remaining [-] were all executed.

Moreover, after the intensive interrogation in the magistrate's yamen, all the landlords and squires involved in the annexation of Xintian were not even imprisoned. After the interrogation, they were dragged to the execution ground.

The puddles outside the city turned red.

Chapter 510 The Clever Mrs. Qin (Part [-])

"I don't dare anymore! Help me! Help me!"

On the street, those landlords and gentry dressed in silk and satin looked like pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

They howled and screamed poorly.

The sound alarmed the people in the restaurants on both sides of the street and the residents.

Someone poked his head out and looked this way.

"Isn't that a royal man?"

"That's really a royal official! He is a rich man in Jiangling City. I heard that his daughter married a high official in the city. What's wrong with him?"

"Look quickly, that person seems to be County Lieutenant Li!" A person pointed at the man who couldn't walk and was dragged on the ground and shouted loudly.

"Lixian Lieutenant is usually a big shot, even the bully Liu at the head of the city dare not look at him, what's wrong with him!"