Golden Summoner
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When Wang Qi was being beaten, the people around spread the word, and more and more people gathered around to watch the excitement. In the blink of an eye, thousands of people gathered at the gate of Daozhou City.
After being hit hundreds of times, that Wang Qi's back was smashed, blood was coming from his mouth and nose, and he didn't make any more sound, just like a piece of rotten meat.
The beating officer stopped, and the secretary of the governor's mansion joined the army to check, and then tremblingly reported to Xia Pingan, "My lord, Wang Qi has been killed..."
"Drag people down..." Xia Pingan ordered.
……
"Qingtian, Qingtian is here, Master Qingtian is here..." When the surrounding people saw this scene, an old man exclaimed excitedly.
"Master Inspector, please make the decision for us..." Countless people began to shout.
"My lord, my child was also taken away by them..." Among the crowd of onlookers, someone knelt down again, "Please, my lord, save my poor child..."
"My lord, save us Daozhou people, our Daozhou people are too miserable..." More and more Daozhou people knelt down at the gate of the city, crying...
Chapter 197 I'm Not Alone
Those officials and attendants who came to welcome Xia Ping'an in the governor's mansion did not expect that Xia Ping'an would dare to kill people as soon as he arrived in Daozhou, and he would kill him in public. With so many people gathered, Xia Ping'an will make the people of Daozhou City so excited.
The black crowd knelt on the ground, asking Xia Pingan to make decisions for them.
The people of Daozhou have suffered from a harsh government for a long time, and finally ushered in an official who dared to make decisions for the people. Everyone was excited.
"Everyone get up..." Xia Pingan looked at the dark masses of people kneeling on the ground around him, walked directly to the carriage and stood on the carriage hill so that everyone could see him and hear him say, "I am Yangcheng Since he is the governor of Daozhou, he will never allow anyone in my Daozhou to harm the people of Daozhou. If you have any grievances, you can tell me, and I will make the decision for everyone!"
Hearing what Xia Pingan said, the people surrounding the city gate became more and more restless.
A white-haired old man stood up tremblingly, cupped his hands at Xia Ping'an, and said, "My lord, the hardest thing for us people in Daozhou is to pay tribute to the imperial court. From Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty to today , In the past 100 years, I don’t know how many people in Daozhou have their families ruined and their wives separated. Whose relatives, friends, and ancestors have never encountered such a thing.
Ordinary people's families live in trepidation. If anyone is pregnant with a child, they dare not let others know, or they can only quietly flee to another country, because they are afraid that the child born will be captured by the government and become a dwarf to pay tribute. For the court, the officials in the yamen are like wolves and tigers. Every year, they go to various places in Daozhou to check the household records. When they see those children from poor families, they are taken away in the name of the government. The enemy, disrespecting the Son of Heaven, every year in our Daozhou, there are at least a dozen or dozens of families separated from each other, and as many as hundreds of households. The worst thing in the world is this. Please also ask the Lord to be the master for the people of my Daozhou! "
"Last year, the tofu maker next door to ours was the Qian family. Because the child was taken away, the mother-in-law of the Qian family threw herself into a well. The men of the Qian family have gone crazy. It's too miserable..." Someone next to him said.
"That's right, all the pregnant women in our village ran to the mountains and lived in wooden houses in the mountains, so they didn't dare to go back to the village..."
"The woman in Fangyuan Hutong is the one who became crazy after her child was snatched away. She wants to breastfeed anyone she sees..."
The surrounding Daozhou people began to talk.
So many families every year?Xia Ping'an's heart trembled slightly...
Although he already knew that the people in Daozhou were miserable, and some children of the people would be taken away by the government and trained as dwarves to pay tribute to the court, but Xia Pingan did not expect that the people in Daozhou would be so miserable, and so many families suffered every year.
This is the true state of the Daozhou people living in the so-called "Great Tang Dynasty". For these people in Daozhou City, they can't feel the "Great Tang Dynasty". The biggest hope of the people is that the children in the family will not be snatched away and turned into dwarves.
However, such human tragedies happened again and again in Daozhou, and it became something tacitly condoned by officials in Daozhou.
"Children from poor families will be taken away by officials, but what about children from rich families?" Xia Pingan asked directly.
"Rich people are also trembling. When officials come to check the household population, they can only manage with gold and silver, and serve them with delicious food. Only in this way can they save their children from disaster. Poor families have no money to manage, so they can only do whatever they want. Let the government take the child away!" The old man replied.
"Where did those people take the children of the common people in Daozhou?" Xia Pingan asked.
"Those children who were taken away are in Changyun Villa outside the city!"
"Where are all the children?"
"Yes, all the children are there. They trained those snatched children to become dwarves in Changyun Villa!"
"Where is Changyun Villa?"
"My lord, Changyun Villa is on Changyun Mountain five miles away from here!"
Xia Pingan looked around for a week and said loudly, "Okay, when I first came to Daozhou today, I will go to Changyun Villa to see what kind of dragon pool and tiger's lair that Changyun Villa is. It dares to devour the flesh and blood of countless people in Daozhou every year. All the yamen servants, lead the way, let's go to Changyun Villa to have a look!"
"My lord, we know where the Changyun Villa is, and we will show you the way!"
The surrounding people jumped up enthusiastically.
Xia Pingan ordered Zheng Ti and Xue Yue to bring the woman who blocked the road and complained to the carriage, while he walked and turned in the same direction as the people, instead of going back to the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, he went directly to Changyun Villa outside the city. go.
The officials who greeted Xia Pingan at the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, seeing this situation, had no choice but to follow Xia Pingan to Changyun Villa.
The team was mighty, and the people in the team were all excited, but the officials who followed Xia Ping'an all the way had a premonition that something big was going to happen in Daozhou City today.
Where the team passed along the way, those Daozhou people who saw the team knew that Xia Ping'an was going to Changyun Villa, and they all joined in. Many people directly took hoes, sickles, sticks and other things, and went with Xia Ping'an In Changyun Villa, there are more and more people in the whole team, and in the end, there are thousands of people, which is quite spectacular.
The journey of more than five miles was actually less than three kilometers, and after walking for more than half an hour, Changyun Villa had already appeared in front of Xia Ping'an.
It was a manor covering an area of several tens of mu, lined with green trees, with tall courtyard walls and a rather large scale.
The people in Changyun Villa have already got the news. When Xia Ping'an came to the outside of Changyun Villa in a mighty manner, there were already people waiting for Xia Ping'an's arrival on the road outside Changyun Villa.
A man in his 50s, dressed in fancy dress, silk clothes and a cap, and dozens of strong men with swords, guns and sticks, stood guard at the intersection.
Seeing so many people coming at once, the man's face changed slightly, and the Zhuang Ding behind the man was also a little agitated, but the man was still calm, turned his head and stared fiercely, and the agitated Zhuang Ding calmed down down.
The man stared at Xia Pingan who was leading the crowd all the way, a smile appeared on his face, and he spoke preemptively.
"I heard that Mr. Yang is going to Daozhou to take office today. I don't know why Mr. Yang brought so many people to my Changyun Villa. I just want to find a time to visit you at the governor's mansion?"
The man smiled and said to Xia Pingan, with a cute and sensible appearance, but he was not so polite to the common people who came here with Xia Pingan, but in a blink of an eye, the man came to a face-changing game , with a stern look on his face, his eyes flickering coldly, and he yelled at the ordinary people unceremoniously and domineeringly, "Why are you untouchables here? Don't you know that our Changyun Villa is an important place in Daozhou City? Is it the place responsible for paying tribute to the imperial court? His Majesty in Chang'an City is still waiting for the tribute from Changyun Villa. Paying tribute is the most important thing in our Daozhou City. It is an opportunity for our Daozhou City to express its loyalty to the imperial court and His Majesty. Daozhou City’s tribute, do you deserve it? Do you want to rebel, get out of here! If you dare to make trouble, be careful to let your untouchable families be destroyed, no one can protect you!”
That man was as imposing as a wolf and a tiger. Many of the people who followed Xia Ping'an were scared back a few steps by that man, and all of them looked at Xia Ping'an.
Xia Pingan narrowed his eyes and looked at the man. What the man said to the people just now was actually for himself and threatened him.
"Who are you?" Xia Pingan asked directly.
As soon as the man turned his face away, he looked at Xia Ping'an with a smile again, and cupped his hands at Xia Ping'an, "Master Yang, I am Zhuang Chao, the owner of Changyun Villa, a squire from Daozhou City, Also the head of the village here, our farmer has taken root in this Daozhou City for more than ten generations, and has been loyal to the emperor and the people from generation to generation. Today, when the adults come to me, I don’t know if they are bewitched by villains. Our Changyun Villa has never violated laws and regulations. thing!"
"Oh, is that so, how did I hear that there are many kidnapped children in Daozhou City hiding in your Changyun Villa?" Xia Pingan asked.
Zhuang Chao looked serious, "What do you mean by this, my lord? The children in my Changyun Villa are all tributes. They are to train and train the dwarves and opera figurines of the city to represent Daozhou as tribute to the court. How do you call it hiding? My lord is like this today. It is really chilling to slander our Changyun Villa. The last time he visited our Changyun Villa, he encouraged us to do our best to complete the important task of paying tribute assigned by the court. If we no longer train and train those dwarves The terracotta figurines delayed the important event of paying tribute in Daozhou City, and the imperial court and observations made you blame it, can you take this responsibility?"
"What a clever and eloquent mouth, actually threatening this official!" Xia Pingan laughed loudly, his face turned cold, "You can be as eloquent as you like, but you can reverse the court's legal system with a few words. The county's contributions are all produced from the local land, and the price is the quasi-silk. The tribute should not exceed fifty horses, and the official goods will be used to fill the market. The tribute is very small, and the goods are easy to supply. Hey. Adding to this, the rent and tax are also discounted. Don’t ask for subjects. The children in your Changyun Villa are all privately plundered. How can they be regarded as tributes? Kill you? If the imperial court and the observers want to blame you, just come, I dare to risk my life to impeach Pei Yanling, how can I be afraid of your intimidation! You colluded with Wang Qi, hid and plundered children, a heinous crime, deserve to die... "
Zhuang Chao's expression changed, and just as he was about to say something, Xia Ping'an had quick eyes and quick hands, grabbed the Tang knife on Xue Yue's waist, and slashed out.
Under the watchful eyes of the officials of Daozhou Governor's Mansion and thousands of people around him, Xia Ping'an's sword cut directly across Zhuang Chao's neck. It just fell off the neck and rolled on the ground...
Chapter 198 The Tragedy
Zhuang Chao had been beheaded by Xia Pingan all the time, his eyes were still wide open, as if he couldn't believe that the newly appointed governor of Daozhou dared to kill him.
The blood on the neck of the headless body spurted out a foot high, and after shaking twice, it fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Seeing this scene, the Zhuang Ding who held swords and sticks in Changyun Villa completely pissed.
The officials in the governor's mansion were also very frightened. They thought that Xia Pingan was demoted to Daozhou as an admonishing doctor and was just a civil servant. How could he have thought that Xia Pingan was decisive in killing and attacking the generals.
Before the Governor's Mansion returned, Xia Pingan had already beheaded two people on the way.
This new governor, dared to work hard with the prime minister in the court. I heard that the prince and the students of the Imperial College pleaded with His Majesty to save him from death, but he was even more difficult to provoke when he arrived. It is definitely not something that ordinary people can fool.
A Zhuang Ding shook his hand, and the stick in his hand fell to the ground. His face was pale, and he knelt down on the ground, "Don't, don't, don't kill me..."
Seeing that some Zhuang Ding threw the guy in his hand, the other Zhuang Ding followed suit one by one, quickly threw the guy in his hand on the ground, and knelt down one by one to beg for mercy.
This assassin even beheaded the owner of Changyun Villa, and to kill a small shrimp like them, one sentence is enough.
"The chief culprit has been punished, and it is none of your business..." Xia Pingan threw the bloody Tang Dao to Xue Yue who was also stunned, and then said loudly to the people around, "You guys lead me the way , go to Zhuangzi to see where are the children who were robbed. The officials of the governor's mansion went in with me to rescue the children who were robbed. in and out..."
Hearing Xia Ping'an's words all the time, the worried old fritters in the governor's mansion suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The governor said that the chief culprit has been punished, and he will not be held accountable, so he is not going to continue this matter in Daozhou Expanding the investigation to them, if you really want to investigate, this matter involves too much, the governor even took them in to "rescue the robbed children", it was treating them as his own and giving them a chance to make meritorious deeds.
Of course, if you follow Lord Inspector to go in and "rescue the children who were robbed", then the basis for assassinating the Lord today is enough to kill one person with a sword and one person with a sword, which means that everyone agrees that those children were "privately robbed". Above all, all the officials in the Governor's Mansion must speak with one voice, advance and retreat together, perform meritorious service and bear responsibility together.
Those who dare not go in with them, might become the second Wang Qi, and under the current situation, Lord Inspector also considered asking all the government officials to guard the gate of Changyun Villa to prevent those common people from entering. After arriving at the villa, he was instigated by people to loot property, smashed, looted and burned, which got out of hand.
This kind of governor made all the officials in the governor's mansion respect and fear, and they never dared to think about it again.
Seeing Xia Pingan walking towards the gate of Changyun Villa with those Zhuang Ding, the officials of the Governor's Mansion also rushed in, fearing that they would fall, and the servants of the Governor's Mansion also guarded the gate of Changyun Villa to maintain order , Do not let those restless common people enter together.
"Where are the kidnapped children, take me there!" Xia Pingan said directly as soon as he entered Zhuangzi.
The servants in the Zhuangzi saw a group of officials and servants from the Governor’s Mansion rushing in murderously. The "armed" Zhuang Ding in the Zhuangzi was as pale as a quail in fright, and no one dared to stop him. He bowed his head and stood aside. .
The Zhuangzi is very large, with a certain aura of prosperity. After a group of Zhuang Ding led around, Xia Pingan finally came to the backyard of the Zhuangzi, and saw the children who had been taken captive.
Even a hard-hearted person can't help trembling when he sees the scene in the backyard of the Zhuangzi.
It is recorded in the history books that Daozhou trains dwarves by putting the snatched children in jars to restrict the growth and development of the children, making the children grow into dwarfs and making them artificially disabled. Xia Pingan was a little skeptical when he saw it in the history books before, but now he sees it , couldn't help but almost wept.
This method of training dwarves is simply horrific...
There were fifty or sixty children that Xia Ping'an saw, each of whom was packed in large and small iron cans. The tallest iron can was less than three feet high, and the smallest iron can was only more than one foot high. Only the children The head of the child can be exposed from the tin can, and all the hands and feet of the children are all curled up in the tin can, like pickled pickles, unable to move at all.
Someone is watching here, and those children who dare to cry will be slapped with a board if they are put in iron cans.
In addition to the children packed in tin cans, there are twenty or thirty gnomes less than one meter tall, just like clowns in a circus, who are being trained to learn all kinds of fancy juggling skills—— Playing with swords, jumping balls, standing upside down, walking ropes, dancing giant beasts, playing with big sparrows, poles on the upper edge of carts, jacking poles, fighting between humans and animals, five cases, seven discs, prowling fish and dragons, playing lions, swallowing knives, breathing fire And so on skills.
An old man was in charge of training here. When the old man heard Zhuang Ding say that Zhuang Chao had been beheaded by the new governor, he immediately knelt down in fright, and those who were training the dwarves also knelt down, one by one. Kowtowing in front of Xia Ping'an, his face turned pale with fright.
The dwarves who were being trained were all at a loss and just stood aside hesitantly.
"My lord, it's really none of our business. I'm here to listen to the owner of the villa and help the owner train the dwarf figurines that will be presented to the court. We really don't know about the rest..."
Xia Pingan took a deep breath, "Get up first, and release those children trapped in the tin can..."
"Yes Yes Yes……"
Those people quickly released the children who were trapped in the tin can one by one.
Those children were trapped in small tin cans, and they defecated and urinated in the cans. Many children's bodies were festered, and most of them had various skin diseases.
In an iron can, along with the child, there were also snakes and insects. The child who was packed in the iron can had already been bitten by snakes and insects.
"Why are there snakes and insects in the tin can..." Xia Pingan asked the old man.
"My lord... this... This is the method of training people passed down from our ancestors. If you are disobedient, throw the snakes and insects into the tin can. The snakes and insects will bite but will not kill you..." The old man gave Xia a trembling body. Ping An explained, "Other children see that disobedient children will be thrown into tin cans, and they will be obedient, and they will not feel uncomfortable being locked in tin cans..."
Throwing snakes and worms into tin cans is a psychological training. Originally, keeping children in tin cans would make those children feel unacceptable, but if those children find that there are no snakes and worms in their tin cans, they will feel very lucky and feel very happy. Fortunately, little by little, people develop the habit of being obedient, and become dwarfs physically and psychologically.
"How long are these children going to stay in the tin can?"
"When they are 16 years old and their bodies don't grow any longer, they don't need to be kept in tin cans anymore, and then they can be released to train various juggling skills..."
"Where do they usually sleep?"
"Just sleep standing up in the tin can..."
It took more than 20 or [-] years to destroy live and healthy children into dwarfs and send them to Chang'an City as "tributes" and "special products" for the entertainment of the emperor and those wealthy and powerful families. The ugliest scene in ", and it has lasted for hundreds of years.
The emperors in Chang'an City had a dispensable pleasure after tea and dinner. When they arrived in Daozhou City, it became a big mountain pressing on the heads of countless people in Daozhou City. To be an enemy of the emperor is to be an enemy to the officials, local tyrants and evil gentry in Daozhou City.
The local officials in Daozhou City, in order to get promoted and get rich to please their superiors, regardless of the life and death of the local people, launched this "project" abruptly, turning Daozhou, which did not "produce" dwarves, into the "hometown of dwarfs" of the Tang Dynasty. .
Xia Pingan wants to kill, but he no longer knows who to kill...
After calming down, Xia Pingan directly ordered the officials around him, "Go to the city to find a doctor, treat the children here, and at the same time seize and check the property of Changyun Villa, and then find the families and parents of these children, let them come Leader..."
Hearing this, an official next to him couldn't help taking a step forward, and reminded in a worried voice, "My lord, it's time to pay tribute. Daozhou used to pay tribute to dwarfs to the court every year. If your lord releases these people Now, the observers and the imperial court questioned why there is no tribute in Daozhou, and I don’t know how the adults should deal with it? This is not a trivial matter..."
In this era, if a local official dared to give up tribute to the court and the emperor, it was not just a simple admonition, but a challenge to the order of the entire court and officialdom.It will definitely set off monstrous waves, and at the same time, it will also bear tremendous pressure.
The official who reminded Xia Pingan just wanted Xia Ping'an to pay attention, and this matter was not so easy to handle.
It's easy to let these people go now, but what about the tribute from Daozhou?For officials, paying tribute is a big deal.
"Daozhou won't do it this year, and it won't turn the children of the people in Daozhou City into dwarves to pay tribute to the imperial court. The matter of paying tribute will be done by myself, and the higher authorities will investigate it. I will take care of all the problems and won't hurt you. Even if the imperial court takes my head away, my decision will not change..." Xia Pingan said loudly to all the officials in the governor's mansion, "When you serve as an official, you must benefit one party. This is my creed. , I encourage you all!"
The officials of the governor's office were stunned when they heard Xia Ping'an's words. The governor dared to give up the tribute.
The suspension of tribute in Daozhou City will definitely shake the entire Tang Dynasty officialdom and Chang'an.
After being shocked, the officials of the governor's office looked at Xia Ping'an again and had a different feeling. For the sake of the people of Daozhou City, the new governor had put life and death aside.
An official was silent for a moment, with complicated eyes, and suddenly bowed to Xia Ping'an, "As long as my lord is still serving as the governor for a day, I will let my lord dictate..."
"I will let my lord dictate..." The other officials of the Governor's Mansion bowed to Xia Ping'an and said in unison.
The truth behind Chapter 199
"Mother……"
"Stone, stone, come here and let mom see, let mom see..."
The man who blocked the way to file a complaint hugged his wife tightly, crying loudly, and kowtowed to Xia Ping'an while hugging the child, "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir..."
The crowd and common people outside the villa were already boiling.
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