Chapter 553 I am Tiqi, how could I lie to others?
There are 604 polders in the entire Baoding Prefecture, and there are 604 polder owners. Lin Fucheng listed the situation of these 604 polder owners in detail.
Zhu Yijun had a complete version of the interview in his hand. Lin Fucheng could not write about the government forcing the people to rebel, so he could only list it all. The reason why he wrote it down in a small notebook was to prevent himself from forgetting, and this The small notebook was transferred to Mr. Huang.
Zhu Yijun gave it to Cui Min, the internal money eunuch, and asked Cui Min to conduct some data analysis. The internal money eunuch was originally in charge of accounting, so doing data analysis is considered part of his job... I guess.
After several months of investigation and supplementation by Tiqi, these 604 polder households were finally classified.
Eunuch Cui Min divided them into four categories.
First of all, the crimes were so heinous that even according to the extremely tolerant laws of the Ming Dynasty, there were 230 households that could make enough compost.
How did these 230 village owners start their business? How did they become the village owners? What kind of bad habits did they have, how did they criticize the villagers, and what is the current situation? In the booklet in Zhu Yijun's hand, they are all There are detailed records.
The Yan family in Qizhou is just one of them, just one thing.
Of the 230 heinous companies, only about 30 do not have gambling houses, or Tiqi has not investigated the gambling houses belonging to them. The remaining 200 are all operating gambling houses in the city. They He runs a gambling house, and he also likes gambling.
There were two villagers who lost everything in their family through gambling and lost their wives and children to others.
The gambling house is the biggest means of annexation in the entire Baoding Prefecture, and it is also a tool for fighting against each other.
In addition to gambling houses, there are also money banks.
Each of the 230 Wei main households has a money bank and a rice bank. In the countryside, they mainly borrow rice and grow grain. In this process, the Daming Prefecture Yaxian Yamen sent potato seedlings , has also become a tool for their profit-making, and due to disease degradation, potato seedlings need to be cured (passivated at 40° high temperature) and pinched to raise seedlings in the breeding room.
Using the emperor's good governance to make money, isn't this the same as putting one's nine tribes in front of the Lord of Hell?
The Ming Emperor Zhu Yijun, the tyrant who was still in prison at the Meridian Gate before his wedding! The makers of the four major cases, the Confucius Mansion in Yanzhou, all had their people executed by the Ming Emperor! Such a violent emperor has nothing to fear from the village owners!
Did Zhu Yijun’s performance not be ruthless enough? Of course not, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The Ming Emperor lives in the ninth heaven and is a heavenly being. Why should these polders be afraid? They have been doing this for so many years, so many of the village owners have done this!
Besides the gambling houses and banks, there are prostitutes. The operation of brothels is systematic. Usually several brothels share one brothel. Most of them are in county towns. Only those like Yan from Qizhou Only a powerful and powerful family is qualified to open a brothel in Fucheng, and there are four brothels in Baoding Prefecture.
Where do prostitutes come from? The 230 families who committed the most heinous crime of forcing good girls into prostitution all had rogues, and every household had rogue dealers, and the sources of their 'supplies' were extremely wide.
Coming from gambling houses, there are many losers who lose their wives, children and children;
There are also money-lending banks and rice banks. Those who cannot repay the money for the rice can only use their family members to pay off the debt;
The last thing is the mergers and sales caused by natural and man-made disasters. Some village owners may not have any human teeth. Okay, but it also supports Ren Yazi. During disaster years, people will naturally sell their sons and daughters. Ren Yazi pulls a rice cart and trades rice for people.
Xu Jie at least acted as a fig leaf for Huishan Tang. Huishan Tang’s Abandoned Baby Tower was an outcry among people and gods, but at least Xu Jie raised all the children who were not deformed, even though the purpose was to sell them. But it can be regarded as finding a way to survive.
Green rice money means that when the rice is still green, the common people have no surplus grain in their homes and have even eaten up all the grain. They have no choice but to borrow money from wealthy families. Basically, there is no way to escape the fate of being reduced from a farmer to a tenant, and from a tenant to a refugee.
The entire business of forcing good-looking girls into prostitution is run in a systematic manner. Ren Ya Xing found the source of goods, selected the good-looking ones, and sold them to prostitutes in the county, and the bad-looking ones were sold to poor families as wives. , called a blind date, the prostitutes in the county sent the best girls to the brothels of the government offices.
The fairies in Fuya brothels are not all from Baoding Prefecture. For example, in the ninth year of Wanli, the Yan family of Qizhou bought three red-haired girls from Songjiang Prefecture, and it immediately became the largest brothel in Baoding Prefecture. , rare things are valuable, red-haired prostitutes are relatively rare in Songjiang Prefecture, but no one has ever seen them in Baoding Prefecture.
When another family saw this situation, they immediately bought Gao Liji back as a gimmick. For a time, the two families became very popular.
The government brothel mainly buys Yangzhou thin horses, Datong aunts, West Lake boat girls, and Taishan aunts. Among them, Yangzhou thin horses are the most expensive and rarest, and Datong aunts have the most.
With the help of gambling houses, loan sharks, dental shops, prostitutes and brothels, etc., the owners of the village have completed the merger, and the annexation of local land can reach more than 80%. The high concentration of production materials has brought strong personal dependence. relationship, so the tenants had no way to object when the owners of the commune asked them to compost people.
In addition to these 230 households that committed serious crimes, there are 28 households that reformed after the Wanli Reform, or to be precise, after the Qingtian Period. There are many reasons for reforming.
Some were afraid, mainly because the whole process of clearing up the cadastral of the imperial court showed that the administrative power of the court was recovering. In addition, Anda Khan had declined, and the Ming army became more and more powerful. In short, after much consideration, he closed down his gambling houses and people. In Yaxing, people are becoming more and more cautious about only placing money and food. Some are even timid and don't even dare to come to the door to press for rent.
For example, these potato seedlings were distributed to the people in all twenty-eight households. These are the potato seedlings given by the emperor to the people. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was a student who must retaliate against Zhang Juzheng. According to rumors, His Majesty is more thoughtful than others. The needle was still small, and a wealthy family in Liyang, Jiangsu annexed the wasteland cultivated by Ma Yilong. Later, Gao Qiyu went to Liyang, Jiangsu and ordered it to be returned.
Zhu Yijun proved that this is not a rumor.
Some village owners suffered losses. Their sons were killed by bandits and they were unable to retaliate. If there was a fire at home, everyone was a troublemaker who wanted to harm me; Clean, all the ancestral graves have been lost, and I no longer have the ability to continue to be tyrannical.
In addition to committing serious crimes and reforming, there are 230 living people in the family.
People just live their lives, and they are not too harsh. Although they complain about the imperial decrees, they are still implemented. It’s just that the implementation is not in place. When the father-in-law is cleared, some are concealed, and when the potato seedlings are distributed, they are secretly I deduct some money, but I don’t dare to gamble big, and I put money out because I am afraid that the poor and hardworking people will not be able to make it, and they are not as shameless and shameless as the criminal gang. People who don’t want to force their families will be ruined, and the cause and effect cycle will be repeated.
The remaining 114 households can be regarded as rural gentry, and these people are not poor. They regard their own polder as their own home, and their hometown is in a mess, which is harmful to them. It is unacceptable, and among these 114 households, more than 70 of them have strong men serving as elite soldiers in the capital camp. This is the basic foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the good family.
It seems that the ratio of 114 households to 604 households is only 18.8%, but the population base of Ming Dynasty is here. The ratio of nearly 20%, plus the wavering 230 households, is definitely enough to stabilize the country. .
Chen Mo, the Fusi of the North Town of the Ming Dynasty, was sentenced to death for thousands of households. He ordered Tiqi and planned to go to Qizhou to fulfill His Majesty's holy mandate. While ransacking the Yan family in Qizhou, he investigated thoroughly. Among the criminals.
Xiaoyao Yiwen was published in the morning, and Chen Mo set off in the afternoon. They rode a total of 600 taels, each with three horses. They traveled day and night to Qizhou. Thanks to the smooth road, it only took one day. In half an hour, the Tiqi led by Chen Mo arrived at the border of Qizhou.
Chen Mo rested at the Jintai Horse Station on the Guandao Post Road until the early morning of the next day. After Chen Mo had regained his energy, he was ready to move on.
What surprised Chen Mo was that the capital city was in turmoil, while the ground in Qizhou was quiet, as if nothing happened. The speed of information transmission these days is indeed very slow, also because of the reaction of the imperial court. The speed was too fast. Lin Fucheng had already prepared it and asked Lin Fucheng to publish it. Naturally, it was extremely fast.
Chen Mo set out at dawn in the morning and arrived at the Yan family compound in Qizhou at just noon.
The Yan family compound is three miles outside Qizhou City. This is not because the Yan family has no ability to buy land in the city, but because there are 350,000 people in Qizhou City, a mixed bag of good and bad. Living in the city makes life convenient, but there are some things It is not so convenient, such as the curfew. To blatantly violate the prohibition is to step on the face of the imperial official. For example, once the plague breaks out in the city, the water will be drawn from the water hole, and the plague will definitely spread.
When Chen Mo arrived, he did not attack easily, nor did he directly knock on the door with the imperial edict. Instead, he observed the Yan family compound with a telescope.
Chen Mo followed Lin Fucheng to Qizhou, Baoding, and of course he knew the strong folk customs here. Chen Mo had five years of experience as a tyrant at Yuanhou, and he also participated in Wang Rulong's battle to regain Kaipingwei. Chen Mo led After his death, he was ready to fight a war. In his opinion, this was counterinsurgency.
Disrespecting the court's orders and His Majesty's imperial edict are no longer virtuous gentry, not even evil gentry, or even ordinary bandits, but bandits!
The compound is divided into two parts, the east and west. Counting the gardens and landscapes, it covers an area of 5,000 acres, but the Yan family’s buildings are inside the polder wall. At a rough look, it only covers 50 acres of land. The two parts of the courtyard are separated by a central gate. In front of the gate are two large stone lions squatting. Behind the stone lions are three animal-headed gates, with a gate in the middle and corner gates on both sides.
The gate is not open, and everyone uses the corner door to enter and exit. The polder wall is the focus of Chen Mo’s observation. This kind of polder wall with a military nature is actually difficult to break. It is very likely to cause heavy casualties. Tiqi Because I was traveling quickly, I didn’t bring too many heavy firearms.
Chen Mo could actually wait for the governor of Baoding to bring over the artillery, but after careful observation, Chen Mo decided to launch a sneak attack.
With the emperor's order and leading the most elite Tiqi in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Mo, who was sentenced to a thousand households, actually decided to sneak attack on a rural gentry in Qizhou. This was not a difficult decision for Chen Mo to make.
When he was working as a tyrant in the grassland, he even attacked the happy roe deer in order to survive.
The purpose of sneak attack on the roe deer on the grassland is to save physical strength. Now the sneak attack on Yan's mansion is also to reduce casualties and carry out a frontal surprise attack. While it is easy for the opponent to defend, it is also possible for the opponent to fight to the death and resist to the death. In order to defend The captured polder wall is what Chen Mo must consider. It is Chen Mo's decision to use a sneak attack to control the opponent's gate.
The invasion is already a thing of the 29th year of Jiajing. Thirty-three years have passed so far. Tuman Khan’s invasion in the first year of Longqing was mainly in the Jimen and Zunhua areas, and spread to After reaching Tianjin Wei, it did not affect Baoding Prefecture.
After a long period of peace, the door of the Yan family in Qizhou is wide open. There is no precaution at all. The front door is not particularly lively. This is a mansion, not a gambling house. The Yan family’s business is not conducted in the mansion. Most of them are in Qizhou City.
The two Tiqiu dressed up in disguise, wearing tops and trousers, and headed towards the gate of the Yan family in Qizhou.
Both these two Tiqi are from Duntai Yuanhou. It is a necessary skill to dress up in disguise and sneak into the prison camp to collect information. The two Tiqi are obviously not worthy of entering the gate of Yan Mansion. Soon the two Tiqi had some verbal conflicts with the concierge and were kicked out by several servants.
Tiqi did it on purpose. The concierge and the servants were cursing. They thought they had driven away the gangsters who came to ask for reward money, so they returned to the house talking and laughing.
At this time, two teams of twenty cavalrymen had already approached the gate from both sides amid the noise. After the concierge and the servants returned to the house, these twenty cavalrymen suddenly rushed forward. , pressing the concierge to the ground.
The reason for acting is to ensure that the servants will not come to the concierge's position in a short period of time and issue a warning. Obviously, the Tiqi's actions were very successful. After the gate was successfully controlled, the Tiqi began to enter the house. , the hit was a surprise.
The Tiqi led by Chen Mo divided into three teams of thirty people into twenty groups. They started from the gate and began to attack the Yan family mansion. The armored Tiqi were well-trained and cooperated with each other effortlessly. , took control of the entire Yan family compound, and controlled everyone without any casualties.
"Who are you? Go, go, where can you break into this place? Tell the kitchen to have dinner later at noon today." Yan Chongyi had just finished smoking the opium, and he was a little dizzy, looking at Chen Mo strangely His face was a little wary, but he didn't take it to heart. There were many poor coolies who wanted to kill him, but none of them succeeded. Chen Mo and Tiqi had already rushed in front of Yan Chongyi. Yan Chongyi didn't even know that he had been visited by a bad visitor.
The Yan family has a great cause. Whenever someone plots against the Yan family, they will always know the news in advance, even if it is a bandit or even the court, so Yan Chongyi can only treat it as a servant and run wild. When he arrived in front of him, he regarded the noise outside as the servants making a noise and didn't take it seriously.
As long as Yan Chongyi didn't smoke opium, he could tell who he was from his clothes and armor, but he couldn't care less. He was puffing away, drunk and dreaming.
Chen Mo looked at the study. There were various strange stones, antiques, teapots, and two potted plants on the museum shelves. They were very unique. The bookshelves on both sides of the study were filled with books. The windows of the study were bright and clean. , and even used glass, but judging from its neatness, the Yan family never read these books.
Chen Mo has seen His Majesty’s study. His Majesty’s study is a bit messy.
It’s not that the maids and eunuchs were disrespectful, but that the emperor refused to clean it up, which looked messy in the eyes of others, but in Zhu Yijun’s eyes, every item was where it should be.
Once tidied up, Zhu Yijun would not be able to find the things he needed. Even if the eunuchs were waiting in front of him, he would have to look for them. Therefore, the imperial desk in the imperial study room seemed messy, and some books had stickers on them. With the floating ticket, it is a study room in normal use.
Obviously this study and these books are just for show.
There was another bed in the study, and Yan Chongyi was lying on that bed, puffing away. He was so anxious that he couldn't even wait for time to drive Chen Mo away. Opposite Yan Chongyi was Yan Youli. This opium ball was Yan Youli spent a lot of money to buy it in Songjiang Prefecture. In the ninth year of Wanli, Yan Youli came into contact with this thing for the first time when he went to Songjiang Prefecture to buy Hongmao Fan.
The two maids shivered under Tiqi's sharp knife. They were waiting for the Yan family and his son to finish smoking the opium, and then served them wholeheartedly. However, before the father and son finished smoking, Tiqi came.
The opium seller told Yan Youli that this stuff can aphrodisiac, and Yan Youli immediately bought five opium balls. In fact, this stuff can't aphrodisiac, it's just a gimmick.
Chen Mo was not in a hurry, carefully looking at the furnishings in the study, waiting for the Tiqi to take control of the entire compound.
Capture the thief first and capture the king first. When he saw Yan Chongyi and Yan Youli gathering together, Chen Mo knew that the emperor's mission had been completed this time.
Chen Mo stood outside the study and looked at the father and son looking like they were enjoying themselves. He knew that the Yan family would have been defeated even if they had not suffered this fate. Chen Mo was also in Fusi, Beizhen. I have seen a lot of reports, but no one who comes into contact with this thing will end well.
It has nothing to do with money. For ordinary people, two thousand taels of opiate balls are indeed ridiculously expensive, but for some powerful people, they can still afford it. of.
The main thing is that opium balls are physiologically damaging to human functions. Once the head of a family is infected, the whole person becomes like a demon. He is irritable and has no patience. Indifferent to other things, such a person cannot be the head of the family.
The Tiqi closed the door and imprisoned the people by category. Six hundred people were not very crowded in this mansion. They searched like digging three feet into the ground to make sure that no fish escaped the net. Finally, the Tiqi began the interrogation without wasting a moment.
The courtyard has two courtyards, the east and the west. They are arranged in four rows of quadrangles. Each row has three entrances. All quadrangles are connected from front to back and connected from left to right. From south to north, there are Donghua Hall, Shangli Hall, and Zunyi Hall. , the West Flower Hall, outside the easternmost polder wall, is a huge garden.
The reason for closing the door was to prevent Li Anren, the magistrate of Qizhou.
In Tiqi's eyes, local officials are not trustworthy, especially when the Yan family in Qizhou caused sores like composting, the local officials in Qizhou turned a blind eye.
This shows that the Qizhou area is very likely to have colluded with the Yan family. Therefore, if the door is closed, even if the Qizhou magistrate leads the Yamen to attack, they can still wait for reinforcements from Baoding Prefecture.
When Chen Mo took control of the Yan Mansion, the Ming Dynasty’s capital camp had just set out. Even Xin Zixiu, the governor of Baoding, was in the same camp as the Yan family, and Chen Mo was sure to hold on until the Ming Dynasty’s capital camp arrived.
Chen Mo waited outside the study. He waited until the smoke inside was not so strong, then took two Tiqi, covering their mouths and noses, and took the two people who were like dead fish out of the study. After dragging them out and tying them up, they stuffed their socks into their mouths.
The two men kept mumbling and didn't know what they were talking about. Chen Mo got upset and blocked their mouths.
"Qianhu, maybe Qianhu should go and have a look in person." A Tiqiu said with a solemn expression.
The interrogation has begun. According to the confessions of the losers in the mansion, the evidence that the Tiqi wanted is in the house. It is in the three wing rooms in the backyard. The Tiqi people went to the three wing rooms and found the armor, Bows and arrows, long and short weapons, fire blunderbuss, and some gunpowder are all prohibited items, but the original purpose of building the polder wall was to let the people build earth as a polder and build weapons for self-defense.
These can be considered as the category of repairing weapons for self-defense. Later, when the world became peaceful, they could be fooled if they were not destroyed in time.
But in the three wing rooms, the Tiqi discovered something else.
When Chen Mo arrived, he found a cellar behind an empty cabinet. It was dark in the cellar. When the cellar door was opened, it was full of stench. The smell of decay and feces could be smelled from a distance, except for the torches of the Tiqi. The fire was flickering. From the flickering fire, Chen Mo saw a purgatory on earth. There were a total of twelve cells with several people in them. There were corpses in the cellar, and they already stinked.
"The Commandment Hall." A Tiqi said with a heavy face. There are men and women here. If someone in the house disobeys, he will be thrown in and locked up for two days. After he comes out, he will naturally be very obedient. The Commandment Hall is A place to teach people.
This is very conclusive evidence that the village owners are abusing lynching.
“Bring everyone out.” Chen Mo spit out a thick breath.
Fusi Yamen in North Town of the Ming Dynasty does not have the complete range of torture instruments here, and it is not as spooky and terrifying as here. Fusi's five poison punishments in Beizhen are shocking in the world. After the five punishments of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, there is no one who will not open his mouth and be honest. explained.
However, because the Emperor of Ming Dynasty often went to Beizhen Fusi Yamen to meet criminals, Beizhen Fusi often came for inspection, and the gloomy atmosphere of Beizhen Fusi had long been wiped away by the general cleaning.
Moreover, those five poison punishments cannot be used.
It was very unlucky to make things bloody, and His Majesty went there often, so naturally it couldn't be unlucky. Later, the Fusi Yamen in Beizhen simply stopped punishing people, and criminals who didn't confess honestly were all taken to the room in the prison. , look at Zhang Siwei in that room, naturally he explained everything, even when he was six years old, he peeped at his neighbor's bath, he could explain it clearly.
One house, a strange and currently existing measurement unit, is really a bit too scary.
"Bring the portrait." Chen Mo suddenly frowned and asked someone to bring the portrait. After careful confirmation, Chen Mo was sure that this person was the adopted son in the Qizhou composting case, that is Yan The leader of the family's bastards, this adopted son is now imprisoned in the prison hall and seems to have suffered a lot.
"Are you Yan Zhixiao?" Chen Mo waved his hand in front of the adopted son. Yan Zhixiao was the name given to the adopted son by the Yan family's father and son.
Yan Zhixiao said feebly: "Yes."
"Why were you imprisoned? Aren't you the one imprisoning others?" Chen Mo asked with a cruel smile. , his eyes looked at Yan Zhixiao not at a living person, but at fertilizer. This was the fertilizer that His Majesty ordered. Chen Mo would definitely send the Yan family into the compost pit with his own hands.
Chen Mo was born in poverty and left his hometown. He was bullied by such bullies and was forced to leave his hometown.
Chen Mo surrendered to the army in Xuanfu and became a guest soldier. Later, he was selected as Duntai Yuanhou. Chen Mo also thought about betraying the Ming Dynasty and defecting to Anda Khan. This was the most helpless thing for the border people. It is also the last choice.
However, Chen Mo did not choose that choice in the end. Instead, he chose to fight to the end with Bei Lu. There was no reason why, but he just didn’t want to be a dog to Bei Lu.
Soon Wang Chonggu returned to the Xuan Mansion in embarrassment and blocked the holes in the Xuanda section of the Great Wall. The Ming Dynasty began to prosper.
Chen Mo, Wei Mo’s Mo.
"I was imprisoned in the prison hall because I had an affair with the maid in the young master's room and the young master found out about it." Yan Zhixiao frowned. These people are not bandits, but the legendary Jin Yiwei. !
"What about the maid?" Chen Mo asked not caring much.
Yan Zhixiao shook his head and said: "She was dragged to be matched with a servant. I don't know what her situation is."
"Very good, he Yan Chongyi is unkind and unjust, why do you have to fulfill your filial piety to him? Give him these things Everything you did in Nian must be explained clearly." Chen Mo said with an increasingly kind face, "I forgot to introduce myself. I am Chen Mo, the Fu Si of Beizhen. I can guarantee you. Explain clearly the situation of Yan and his son, and I will keep you safe."
"Is this true!" Yan Zhixiao was so frightened that his legs went weak.
He is arrogant and domineering on weekdays when he bullies poor people and coolies. Now it is his turn to face the violence of the Ming Dynasty. His legs are shaking and his whole body is sweating. The embroidered spring knife, flying fish suit, and riding gun , long and short guns, and tiger squatting cannon cannot be faked.
When Ti Xing Qian Hu promised to explain everything clearly, Yan Zhixiao's heart ignited a flame of hope.
Of course Chen Mo lied to him. How could it be possible? When composting, he would definitely use a wooden stick to poke these scum to the bottom.
"Of course, I am Tiqi, how could I lie to others?" Chen Mo did not lie to others. Things like Yan Chongyi, Yan Youli, and Yan Zhixiao are not human at all.
The interrogation went very smoothly. With the explanation of Yan Zhixiao, the number one lackey, the Tiqi's raids became more efficient. The Yan Mansion seized a total of 270,000 taels of cash and 1,400 taels of cash. Gold, seventeen land deeds of Qizhou City, twenty-four thousand acres of land, three restaurants, one brothel, seven banks, IOUs totaling 110,000 taels of silver, a number of various gold and stone objects, everything can be Escort the internal funds instead of buying and discounting them on the spot.
This is all industry.
What is surprising is that Chen Mo found seventy-two personal deeds. These deeds were re-signed after the imperial court abolished the slave status. They were all brand new deeds, including Yan Zhixiao is included.
This is very conclusive evidence that the owners of the polder are disobeying His Majesty’s imperial edict and the imperial decree.
(End of this chapter)