Chapter 166 Luo Sheng
Cai Yong told Zhang Chong that this letter was sent out by Ying County Magistrate when he was sent out to send Dong. In the letter, the case of Guo Si's death took on a different look, and even Magistrate Ying's own behavior in the case became excusable.
The first is Wen Yu's account of Meng Qi, a local tycoon of the Guo family. Although Meng Qi is the most powerful person in Guo's wall, there is actually very little land in Guo's wall. Their family mainly relies on the medicinal material store in Ying County. Although the family is well off, they are good to the people and not only have no He has lent money and often helped some households in his hometown who could not afford medicine. Therefore, it has a very good reputation in Guo's Wall.
Then there is the narration of the five Zhang brothers. The five Zhang brothers were named in order from Bo, Zhong, Shu, Ji and Shao. These five brothers are also known as the Five Tigers in Guo's wall. Because the brothers are united, hard-working and capable, and have many livestock, they quickly accumulated a lot of land. Therefore, although the richest family in Guo's wall is the Meng family, the land On the contrary, the Zhang family has the most. These five tigers granted loans, but they also helped the poor in their own country. Those who could not afford the court's calculations and grain taxes came to borrow from him, and their families paid the advance.
Therefore, although the Meng family and the Zhang family are outsiders, because they either support the poor or have a prosperous population, they have formed a quite prestigious family reputation in the Guo family wall. Although both families are wealthy and have a large number of people, they seldom do anything to bully others. Right now, there are still many residents who are grateful to the two families and thank them for being able to support their family.
On the contrary, it is Guo Si. Guo Si has been idle since he was a child, not engaged in production, but he is good at talking and talking. On weekdays, he would go to Tongli's house to have food, but if he was rejected, he would make bad remarks, so his reputation in Guo's wall was very bad.
After Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County at that time, found out the situation of these families, he focused on the biggest dispute between Guo Si and Meng Qi, which was Guo Si's ten acres of farmland by the Yingwen River.
According to what he learned from Meng Qi's confession at that time, in the winter of the fourth year of Guanghe, Guo Si was hung up by the Han court officials and the nearby pavilion chief because he owed ten shi of millet for his servants and thirteen shi of tax millet. He was beaten severely on the locust tree and asked to sell his land to raise food. At that time, there were only two households with surplus grain in the whole wall, one was the Zhang family and the other was the Meng family. At that time, those village officials ordered the Meng family and asked Guo Si to sell the land to the Meng family. Meng Qi was not in Bili at that time, but at the Yingxian medicinal material store.
Then the Meng family replenished grain for Guo Si, and Guo Si sold ten acres of land by the Yingwen River to the Meng family for 40 shi of millet, and signed a death contract. After excluding the twenty-three stone that Guo Si owed, he finally got seventeen stone of millet. Later, when Meng Qi returned home and found out about this, he told Guo Si privately that he didn't want the land and asked Guo Si to take it back. Then he took back the remaining seventeen shi of millet, and finally said that he had paid two Thirteen stones should be regarded as owed by Guo Si, and it will depend on Guo Si's own conscience when to pay him back. Guo Si didn't say anything at that time and acquiesced.
But later, Guo Si joined the Shijia Army, became a groom, and got to know people in the army. Finally, he was accused of blackmail. Instead, he, Meng Qi, was taken away and beaten severely, and then returned to the land.
Seeing this, Zhang Chong suddenly became suspicious. Didn't Meng Qi say that he had returned the land? Why did you return it now after being beaten? There were still ten acres of good land, but they were sold for forty shi of millet at a low price. No matter how you looked at it, it was a cheap sale. Didn't Meng Qi take advantage of it? Will he really retire?
Then Zhang Chong continued to look down, and Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu not only had Meng Qi's confession, but also interviewed the confessions of some people who participated in the public trial of Guo Si at that time.
A claimed that when Ding Yong was recruited in Ying County in the fifth year of Guanghe, he and Guo Si formed a team. After Guo Si deserted the army and joined the Taishan Army, he was implicated by this man, suffered greatly, and was caught in prison. , if Guan Yu hadn't captured Ying County and released him after seeing that he had not committed any crime, he might have died in prison now.
Then there is the confession of Uncle Zhang, who is the eldest brother of the Five Tigers of the Zhang family. According to him, he once advanced one stone of millet for Guo Si in the first year of Guanghe, but Guo Si later denied it and has not paid it back to this day.
A more important confession was recorded by two rangers in this wall. They acted as matchmakers for Guo's fourth sister-in-law, and the dowry they received for their remarriage totaled ten shi of millet, of which one was given to each of the rangers, leaving the remaining eight shi. Sister-in-law Guo Si stayed for herself. Guo Si was not at home at the time. When he heard this, he made a fuss. It was not until he asked for another two shi of millet from his husband's family who married Guo Si's sister-in-law that Guo Si gave up. He even wants to be greedy for his sister-in-law's dowry, which shows how bad this person is.
There is also a confession about Yi, who lives in the same room. This is also a person who joined the army with Guo Si in the fifth year of Guanghe and became a civilian husband. At that time, because Guo Si ran away alone, he was also arrested, and even his nephew was detained for this. This child was almost frightened to death because of his timidity. After a serious illness, he is still not smart now.
There are many other confessions, some of which were borrowed from Guo Si and Guo Si refused to pay them back. There are also some cases where Guo Si went to various houses to eat for free and scolded them if they didn't eat.
In short, in a word, Guo Si is the evil person of the Guo family. He is idle and evil with his neighbors. He uses his participation in the Shi Family Army to dominate the local area and oppress the good people.
Therefore, Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group at that time, determined that although this person was not a powerful person, he was equally harmful and was not tolerated by the villagers. It turns out that Meng Qi did not seize Guo Si's land. He was forced to buy it by the local officials at that time. Moreover, the family had very little land and should not be among those to be divided. Therefore, Zhang Qing punished Guo Si, and then accidentally beat him to death.
Therefore, Wen Yu concluded from the above confession that Guo Si had great resentment among the people and was indeed the party that needed to be punished. As for Zhang Qing, the leader of the field division group, he only had problems with his personal morality and he should not have any relationship with Meng Qi. His sister-in-law and his wife were entangled with each other, which caused the Taishan Army to hand over the local land distribution to others. In addition, Zhang Qing did follow the land allocation regulations, but acted excessively, so he made a judgment to deprive him of his position.
So far, the above are all the confessions and reasons for the verdict made by Ying County Magistrate Wen Yu. The regulations are very clear, that is, Guo Si is indeed very angry among the people, and Zhang Qing only has personal ethics issues, and does not care about human life.
After reading this, Zhang Chong sneered in his heart, are you here to play Rashomon with him? Okay, then I will investigate these rats and their dealings. After that, Zhang Chong ordered the general of the flying army to call Meng Ju, and asked him to send a team of capable flying troops to carry the flag and go to Guo's wall in Ying County to conduct an on-the-spot visit and investigate in many ways to find out what happened to Guo Si. Who is responsible for this case?
Three days later, Meng Ju brought more details about the death case of Guo Si prepared by several Feijun.
The first one is about Guo Si. Although Guo Si is poor and has three people in his family, his family actually owns nearly a hundred acres of land, of which sixty acres were left behind by his deceased brother. His brother was also quite lazy, so Most of these fields are barren. Later, after Guo Si took over, he also gave up because of laziness. So the whole family still lives in the cave. Now because of Guan Yu's care, his wife and children have been raised by the Taishan Army, and his son has also joined the Liehai Camp.
Guo Si had indeed participated in the Taishan Army before, and this had been confirmed by Tian Xiong, the Tuqi general. In addition, Guo Si did support the Shi family's military policy, and he was also grateful for the care of the robes in the army. Therefore, as soon as he returned to Guo's Bi, he began to oppose Meng Qi, the local tycoon in the wall at that time, and the Zhang family who controlled Guo's Bi society. The Five Tigers. Therefore, Guo Si became enemies with the latter.
Although the Five Tigers of the Zhang family also helped the poor and solved the difficulties of the villagers in the wall, their loan sharking and exploitation were even more severe, just because everyone was begging for his family and taking advantage of his family's power, so I dare to be angry but dare not speak.
But these things changed after Guo Si returned from serving as a soldier. Guo Si led a group of people to fight against the Zhang family's five tigers repeatedly. Later, as Guan Xiaowei divided the fields, they had almost reached Guo's wall. If they take the initiative to donate soil, they will be hanging on the locust tree when the time comes, so they will donate the soil. After that, no one was in trouble with Zhang anymore. After all, the latter had indeed helped the villagers.
After that, Zhang Qing took the field division group into Guo's wall and lived in Meng Qi's home. Meng Qi and Zhang were related by marriage and already stood together. Afterwards, Meng Qi entertained Zhang Qing with honey water and beef, accompanied by his sister-in-law. Later, Zhang Qing indeed pointed the finger at Guo Si at the public trial. Guo Si believed that the field division group belonged to the Taishan Army. At that time, he had received news from the villagers that the Zhang Five Tigers were going to join forces to arrest him. However, Guo Si finally went.
The last thing he said to his family when he went out was:
"Why don't you go? They are all good people."
Afterwards, he was beaten to death on the river beach by Zhang Qing.
According to what the flag-bearers secretly heard from the households, Zhang Qing mentioned that he was in charge three times at that time.
One is that the residents did not want to come at that time. Zhang Qing said at that time that he would not attend the event together with Guo Si. Then the people in the house were forced to come. After they came, with the Five Tigers of the Zhang family and the Meng family as the core, they bewitched and coerced some people who had grudges against Guo Si, and finally positioned Guo Si as evil at the meeting. Finally, Zhang Qing said that if anyone doesn't want to be beaten, he will do it with Guo Si. With no other choice, many villagers just hit him with small stones from a distance. Only Zhang Qing and others actually smashed Guo Si to death. After Guo Si was beaten to death, Zhang Qing said that anyone who complained for Guo Si would be guilty of the same crime as him.
The flag bearers concluded that most villagers were held hostage by these three sentences, but many of them were also motivated by self-interest. Although Guo Si's family was very poor, they still had a hundred acres of land, which was just abandoned. And now that Guo Siyi is dead, will the land in his hands be indistinguishable? When the land later is assigned to them, with their diligence, they will naturally be able to take good care of Guo Si's idle fields.
In addition, under Zhang Qing's kindness and power, some people who had been unhappy with Guo Si came forward to release all their accumulated dissatisfaction to Guo Si. It is certain, but they should not have thought about putting Guo Si to death.
They originally only expressed their dissatisfaction with Guo Si at the meeting, and it was more of a criticism. However, they did not expect that Zhang Qing would use this to beat Guo Si into a bad evil, and use the regulations of the field division group to kill civilian thieves. , the regulations that vented public anger killed Guo Si.
At this point, the fact that Zhang Qing committed evil is clear and conclusive. It is unknown whether Wen Yu, the magistrate of Ying County, deliberately concealed and protected him even though he knew this.
All this made Zhang Chong furious, and he called the prefect Cai Yong again.
Do you know why I wrote this case
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