kingnovel Chapter 1196: One sentence makes you live, one sentence makes you die
Chapter 1196: One sentence makes you live, one sentence makes you die
Pointing at the trembling constable beside him, he said: "Put him in jail. No visitors are allowed. If he dies in jail, you will die with him."
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Several constables dragged the county magistrate away at great speed.
She sent the other detectives to the backyard, and her family was also sent to prison.
After dealing with these, she led her men to surround several wealthy households.
In fact, this county is much better than Fengfei County. There is a small family in the county that has lived here for generations. They have deep roots and almost half of the people in the county are related to them.
To touch this family would be like scraping bones.
But they have to take action. If they don't fall, the people in the county will not be able to live a good life. They are like the king of hell in the county. Whoever they want to die will die, and the people suffer greatly from them.
It was similar to what happened in Fengfei County. On the afternoon of the day she arrived, after surrounding the house, she opened the door of the county government office and ordered people to beat drums to protest their grievances.
She will not let go of any parasite, but she will never wrongly accuse any innocent person.
The first thing the county residents knew about was the posted notice.
There were people who could read who read the notice over and over again with great excitement, and more and more people were attracted.
This is the county magistrate’s crime!
So fresh!
Normally, it was ordinary people whose crimes were posted here, but I never expected that one day, the county magistrate’s crimes would also be posted here.
Then there was the incident where several big households were surrounded.
The whole county was in an uproar, and the people were telling each other that someone had come from above to deal with these corrupt officials who were oppressing the people in the village, and that someone had come to take care of them.
The gate of the county government office was almost broken by the crowd.
Zhou Guo asked the county magistrate and the chief clerk to sit in the court and try the cases one by one.
The lights in the county government office were on all night, the gates were open day and night, and crowds of people came in waves.
It only took two days, but they uncovered hundreds of lives taken by aristocratic families. They came from all walks of life in the county, including many wealthy families. Their ancestral treasures were coveted by others, and entire families died.
From morning till night, the county government office was filled with miserable cries, each sounding like blood-stained weeping.
Zhou Guo frowned as he listened. These people were thrown into prison before the case was even over.
Some people saw that the situation was not right and wanted to escape at night, but the city gates had been guarded and they could not escape.
Fortunately, this county jail is large and has many rooms, so it can accommodate so many people.
The money, antiques, houses, land and grain of several families were all confiscated. They had to pay what should be compensated, return what should be paid back, and collect what should be confiscated.
She collected grain and distributed it at the same time, allowing people from all over the county to come and get the relief grain.
When the grain was put down, the people knelt on the ground and kowtowed. These were grains and grain seeds, and they would have a source of food for this year.
Even so, the county government's granary was full, and so much grain had been distributed but it had not been consumed.
"Families are different. The wealth they have accumulated over hundreds of years is so huge that it's almost as much as the grain I have!"
What she had in her hands were the surplus grains of the four prefectures in the north, plus the fertile Nanhe River, and nearly 90% of the people's homes in the five prefectures. Although it could not be compared with the tax revenue, perhaps in this world, only the tax revenue could be compared with it.
Aristocratic families are really different, and even small aristocratic families are different.
It took ten days to clear up almost all the wrongful cases.
Those who had killed too many people were beheaded as a public display. Before their beheading, they were dragged around the county town again and again, and people threw feces and spit on them. If no one had stopped them, they would have been beaten to death before they reached the execution platform.
After Zhou Guo and others finished their work here and arranged the rest, he took his people to the next place.
This is a big county. Wu Jiang had already left several people here before. Now a farm and shop have been set up. Soon, they will start preparing fertilizers for spring plowing.
She followed the footsteps of Qian Duo and Wu Jiang and took down everything they could. As for what they couldn't take down, they had no choice but to wait for her to take action.
But the city was too big, and she might have to spend a year traveling around by herself.
Therefore, she divided out most of the list in her hand and asked people to deliver it to the two lords of the mansion. She couldn't be the only one doing such a thing. The two lords of the mansion were more suitable for this job than her.
She was not afraid that they would be partial to their own interests. The people always had sharp eyes and would be able to find out the truth when the time came.
Moreover, she felt that at this critical juncture, the Lord of the Mansion might not have the courage to commit a crime against the wind. If he really went along with the gang, she wouldn't mind at all. It would be fine to send one more person away. Anyway, there were a group to be sent away, so one more person wouldn't hurt.
In this way, the pressure on my shoulders was immediately relieved.
A month and a half passed, and all the cases in her hands were settled, so she went directly to the next city.
Qian Duo and Wu Jiang have been working here for a month.
She also knew this Lord of the Mansion. They had dealt with each other before. He was much more convenient to deal with than the previous one.
Point east to the east and point west to the west.
Within three months, every county town was massacred. Either the county magistrate was replaced, or the local tyrants and evil gentry were eliminated, or both were eliminated. The common people felt unusually bright and everyone applauded and was very happy.
The more Zhou Guo dug, the more silent he became, and the smile disappeared from his face.
Dashu and the others were very worried. They didn't know what had happened and why she was like this. They wanted to secretly write a letter to Wu Jiang, but they didn't dare to.
Xiaoshu asked cautiously: "Master, what's wrong with you?"
"Xiaoshu, look, the sky is square, just this big." Zhou Guo stood in the yard, looking at the sky above her head. It was so small. She could only see this piece of sky while sitting here.
But her hands have been stained with so much blood during these days.
At first, she thought these people deserved to die, but as more and more people died and more and more people were implicated, and she saw these people’s families broken up and people killed because of her arrival, she began to doubt herself. Was this the right thing to do?
After all, she is just an ordinary person.
Just because she became the adopted daughter of General Xu and became the vain Xu Anbei, she elevated herself to such a high position, as if she was slightly above these people.
A word can bring life, and a word can also bring death.
But she is not the emperor!
who is she?
She was a little dazed and felt that the sky above her head was so far away, too far away!
……
Zhou Guo fell ill!
I was in a daze and couldn't wake up. My body kept floating around, unable to land. I didn't know where I was or where I was going.
Doctors came in one after another and gave the patient medicine one dose after another, but it had no effect at all and there was no sign of the patient waking up.
Dashu and his friends were terrified and wrote a letter to Qian Duo and Wu Jiang crying, asking what they would do if something happened to their master.
Several people came very quickly, and within a few days, they all arrived one after another.
Wu Jiang, Qian Duo, Wu Lazi and several other leaders from the south had all arrived. Seeing Zhou Guo lying on the hospital bed with a pale face, they were extremely anxious.
Wu Jiang's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He suppressed his anger and asked Dashu and Xiaoshu, "What's going on? Why is the master like this?"