Chapter 233 The Butcher's Knife Holds High
The next morning, the genius was in a dawn, and the chief officials of several important yamen were woken up by a knock on the door.
With dark eyes, the group rushed to the photographing government in a hurry. Hou Xuanyan had been waiting for a long time.
If you have something in your heart, you can't sleep well. Hou Xuanyan, a big-sleeping golden sword, sat in front of the hall, looking at the panda eyes all over the hall, and said sternly: "The Navy Admiral Zhang Mingzhen, recently handed a memorial, saying that Yangzhou's ramblings exploited refugees from the north, is such a cool history, you can take a look."
Several personal soldiers sent the copied memorials to the Ministry of Justice, several important officials of the Jinyiwei and the Nanjing garrison magistrate.
Several officials from the Ministry of Justice, looking at the contents of the memorials, complained inwardly that this was a psychopath. They had known about the above things for a long time, but they had no choice but to punish a few leaders as a warning.
The court allocated silver to encourage big businessmen to hire refugees, and made these refugees who received wages but did not have family protection, becoming fat sheep in the eyes of local sluts. The profit was so high that it was impossible to ban the punishment if the torture was light. I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out that knocking on the door in the middle of the night was just for this little thing.
Hou Xuanyan turned them into half-dead, and he didn't get angry. He slapped the table and said angrily: "I've repeatedly told you that stabilizing people's hearts is the top priority. The northerners fled south and did not want to surrender to the Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, and they had national integrity. From now on, Yingtian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huguang will eliminate evil and eliminate traitors. Although evil is small, it is a big deal at this time. Who dares to reach out and beat me to death!"
Zhang Xiaoqi, the head of the Ministry of Justice, had no trace of tiredness on his face, stood up and asked, "Duke, some thieves who were robbed and robbed, have committed a few big money. The punishment according to the law will not hurt them, and continue to do evil after they come out. In this way, it may be useless to waste people and damage money."
Hou Xuanyan's face darkened and said, "From today on the job, I will take charge of myself, first cleanse Jinling, and then go to Yangzhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. All crimes will be punished, and it will be severe and severe. However, if there are criminals, the punishment will be ten times more than the punishment. Let me see if the thief is hard, or my sword is hard."
The officials looked upright, and they all knew that Duke Yue was so angry that he was moved.
Hou Xuan was furious when he acted as Thunder, and Jinling's little girl suddenly became unlucky for eight lifetimes.
Before it was dawn, all the officials from various yamen, Jinyiwei, and the defenders in the city were mobilized. The people of Jinling, who were not sure of the truth, thought that the court was going to send troops again, stopped to watch.
Soon, among the brothels and taverns, the notorious rogues were escorted back to the yamen. Although they were a bully in the market and a little person unknown to the court, they were powerful among the people and knew them.
Soon, everyone realized that the court was going to rectify these people.
The people dare not openly applaud, but those who are kind and law-abiding, bullied by them, or those who are disliked by these people have all their joy on their faces.
At noon, everyone was secretly discussing which big brother and gangster this time would probably be beaten to how many boards.
A drum sounded on the street. In front of the soldiers of the Military and Ma Si were wearing armor and holding sharp edges, leading the way in front. In the prison cart behind, several gangsters who had been evil for many years, and the villain who was a mighty man in Jinling City were taken to Caishikou.
These people have a criminal record in the yamen, and their crimes have always been sheltered and condoned, because there are too many major events in the past and do not have the energy to deal with them.
The people surrounded him one after another. A civil servant opened the silk roll in his hand and said loudly: "At the time of extraordinary times, the extraordinary method is implemented. Now the country is in trouble, the north is falling, and the iron cavalry is in front. In order to stabilize the rear, Empress Xiaoyixiang issued an order to grant the Duke of Yue to establish temporary laws and strictly and severely punish evil."
After reading, the civil servant rolled up the silk scroll, looked up at the people below the stage, and said loudly: "These bullies in Jinling City, plus the leaders of his subordinates, have a total of 300 people. They have been causing trouble for many years, and have been verified that there are no unjust cases. According to the temporary elimination of evil, they were beheaded. Noon has arrived and the beheading begins!"
The executioner threw away the card of death behind them, and the bright steel knife fell down. The three hundred evil men were alive and separated in a blink of an eye.
It was not until the smell of blood came and the cry of several children that the people realized that this time it was not a matter of hitting a few boards...
The evil people still need to be punished by evil people. These people do many evil things, but they didn't expect to meet a bigger evil star. If they have any disagreement, they will chop people's heads.
Soon, those who bought and sold people in brothels, especially those involved in northern refugees, were arrested. Some unscrupulous teeth went to the pile of refugees who fled in the north, bought their daughters who could not be raised at a low price, and secretly sold them to brothels. They also deceived their parents to give them to rich families as maids. The madams in brothels used all their means to obey them and obediently comb their way to pick up customers. These madams, madams, brothel thugs, were arrested.
There are also many unscrupulous businessmen who raise a group of thugs, specially recruit these refugees to work, and then deduct wages for no reason. They also ask them to do fake things together to defraud the court of three parts of the wages. No matter how meticulous these things are, there will be rumors. Qianxiang Camp and Jinyiwei want to investigate, it is like taking things out of their pockets.
Some bullies who bully the market, fish and meat villages, and act as a mighty bully were purely suffering from undesirable disasters. They were also arrested in batches, and the entire Jinling prison cell was already overcrowded. The same thing happened in nearby prefectures and counties. In prefectures and counties, more local tyrants and bad gentry passed down from generation to generation were recorded one by one.
The bloody smell of three hundred people had not yet dissipated, and soon the Caishikou welcomed another seven hundred guests. They knelt on the stage in rows and raised their swords. According to Mr. Qin, a senior executioner in Jinling, his arms and heads were swollen in the past few days.
The executioner, Mr. Qin, wanted to rest for two days, but was scolded by the yamen. It was just when there was a shortage of personnel and he wanted to send them to a remote county town with a shortage of executioners.
On the fifth day, Hou Xuanyan finally went out in person. Duke Yue brought people to various yamen. He secretly accepted bribes, or because of his kinship, he sheltered and connived about bullies and raspy officials and was arrested.
Although there were only a few dozen people in this group, it was even more shocking. The people in Jinling City were very open. Except for the old stories of Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, there was no murderous aura in any dynasty that had been passed down from his ancestors.
At this time, in a dark corner of Jinling City, two female thieves hugged each other and shivered.
Qin Qingqing lowered her voice and said, "I didn't expect that he was so cruel. We had no way to live. We used up all the money we saved to treat you."
"Don't you know him? Didn't that little Taoist priest named Hong call us to the Qianxiang camp? I think we should be good at it."
"We are thieves, can we do it when we are soldiers?"
Chapter completed!