Chapter 853： strange reunion

Chapter 853 Strange reunion

Seeing her son lying in a pool of blood, Dugu's face turned pale with fright, staggered and fell to the ground immediately, crying hysterically: "Liulang, my Liulang."

Chu Nanzhi never thought that Ji Rongheng would be so reckless, and directly killed Mu Liulang.

At any rate, there is an iron bond to avoid death, so if you don't give face to the Mu family, you have to give some face to the court.

As the empress of the dynasty, she didn't have the courage to do so, and this directly disrupted all her plans.

Fortunately, now that she has figured out how to support the trilogy of the honorable sect of Qinghe Land, she no longer needs to swallow her anger and be an undercover agent.

Since Ji Rongheng opened this hole, he only needs to use the Mu family, Sun You, Sun Li and his son to test Ji Huaizhang. If he really has a different heart, he will first use Dangyang City as a base, and everyone can advance or retreat.

After making up her mind, she silently glanced at Li Sanmu and asked in a low voice, "How many people did you bring with you this time?"

Li Sanmu approached her and replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty ordered the two thousand elites who led the Xiaoqi Battalion to lurk in Tanzhou as business travelers. As long as the Queen gives an order, the last general will immediately take this Zhoukang County."

"it is good."

Chu Nanzhi smiled and nodded.

Together with this strong team led by Ji Rongheng, it is enough to solve the urgent need.

At this moment, there was another commotion in the crowd.

Chu Nanzhi looked along the place where the noise came from, and saw that it was Ji Huaizhang leading Sun You, Sun Li and his son who came late.

Seeing the chaotic situation on the street and Mu Liulang, who was decapitated in a different place, all three of them were shocked.

After discovering Ji Rongheng's blood-stained saber, Ji Huaizhang immediately understood what was going on, and reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Rong Heng, you are so courageous. After the Mu family is loyal and meritorious, even if there is a fault, it should be judged by His Majesty. You How can you kill someone?"

Ji Rongheng knew that Cai's actions were a bit reckless, but he didn't regret his decision.

What he hated the most in his life was this kind of bullying and oppressing kind people, and he said with righteous words:

"I am going to eliminate harm for the people today. Mu Liulang is not guilty of all crimes and death. My nephew will plead guilty to your majesty before my nephew's crimes. But uncle, my nephew would like to ask, as a governor of a state, you are not diligent in governing and loving the people. Indulging the nobles and powerful people to wantonly slaughter the people and treating human life like nothing, can uncle be worthy of His Majesty's trust, and my martyrs of the Ji family?"

"What is General Rong Heng talking about?"

Sun You rushed over to excuse her brother-in-law.

Looking at Dugu who was crying to death and Mu Liulang who was lying in a pool of blood, he secretly glared at his son Sun Li, and couldn't help showing a bitter face.

I originally wanted to use Mu Liulang's hand to get rid of the Zhao family's caravan. I never thought that Mu Da's shopkeeper and his party were unscathed, but Mu Liulang was killed first.

"General Rong Heng, Liulang of Mu's family is a bit flamboyant on weekdays, but he won't end up like this. Besides, many unruly people in Tanzhou want to use the famine to confuse people's hearts. He will get rid of these miserly people for the court. It's not a bad thing to serve as a warning to others, General Rong Heng doesn't want to see the land of green grass being used by those who want to make trouble again."

"Prefect Sun is really eloquent."

Ji Rongheng looked at the refugees, grinning lightly and kept sneering: "Open your eyes and take a good look at them, but they are all starving people who are oppressed by you and can't eat. They just want to find a way to survive. What's wrong?"

Dugu was paralyzed on the ground, weeping so weakly that he felt even more annoyed hearing the quarrels of the crowd, glaring at Ji Huaizhang, Ji Rongheng and Sun's father and son, he yelled: "Lord Governor, my son was killed by you Ji family bastard!" The killing was witnessed by everyone, my Mu family died in the line of duty for the country, and Liu Lang is the only blood of my Mu family, if you don’t uphold justice for my son today, don’t blame the slave family for turning their faces and refusing to recognize anyone.”

Ji Huaizhang was also extremely embarrassed at this time.

On one side is the imperial envoy who is his nephew, and on the other side is the imperial court honorable, a prominent family in Tanzhou who cannot afford to offend.

After thinking for a while, he had no choice but to throw the problem on his brother-in-law Sun You: "How did you manage Dangyang County, and what did Mu Liulang do to make Rong Heng beat him so hard? Is there some misunderstanding?"

"Since the governor doesn't know what the Mu family has committed, let me explain it for you?"

Chu Nanzhi was a little curious about Ji Huaizhang's sudden arrival, and was even full of doubts about many things that happened today.

It was only a temporary decision to come to Zhoukang County by myself. Why did Ji Rongheng and Ji Huaizhang come here together as if they had discussed it?

This really confuses her.

Could it be the person behind the scenes who did it again?

She couldn't bear to think about it, she looked at Ji Huaizhang with a lazy posture, and first asked: "Master Inspector took the land of a state, don't you know how the people of this state make a living?"

"Who are you, why do I need to tell you when I am in charge of politics?"

Ji Huaizhang dismissed the unknown person who suddenly appeared, and immediately turned his head away with a cold sneer, continuing to think about how to deal with this matter.

However, Chu Nanzhi continued provocatively: "Cao Min is a lowly businessman, and it is true that he shouldn't ask about this matter, but he can't help but want to ask more questions when he sees injustice. This Tanzhou population is five There are more than a million taels, but the arable land is only more than 8 million mu, and the total amount of various taxes and silver is less than two million taels a year. Hasn’t Lord Inspector ever thought about the reason for this?”

"Why, do you still want to question the official's ability to govern states and counties?"

Ji Huaizhang scolded angrily.

"Don't dare, I just want the governor to take a good look at the specific situation in the state."

As he spoke, Chu Nanzhi looked at Old Man Wang, and motioned, "Old man, today you can tell me how the Mu family taught you how to hide the land and exploit you."

After pondering for a long time, the old man Wang told the truth about the fact that the Mu family forcibly merged their household registrations and occupied everyone’s land and refused to return it, and then added:

"In order to pay less taxes, the Mu family also underreported a lot of people in each of the merged household registrations. According to the law of my court, all unmarried men can reduce their personal tax by half, and minors and the elderly are not required to pay taxes. Caomin is nearly 40 years old this year, but Caomin is only a boy who has just turned 18 in the tax book."

Hearing this, many people present blushed.

Sun Huai also smiled embarrassingly, and sighed softly in front of Chu Nanzhi's ear: "Cough, this is not an anecdote, Brother Yu's grandson can walk now, but isn't he single in the government's household registration book?" .”

"Listen, listen."

Chu Nanzhi squinted her eyes and sighed again and again: "Master Ji, as the governor of a state, indulged the honorable family in this way, let them deceive the upper and lower, not only stealing the court tax money, but also exploiting the people layer by layer under clever pretexts, It makes the treasury empty and the people have no food left, and the people are enslaved by the nobles, and become a bargaining chip that can only be attached to them against the imperial court."

At this time, Ji Huaizhang realized that the recent rumors that Tanzhou raised tribal groups were not groundless, and looked at Sun You with a sullen expression: "Is what they said true?"

(end of this chapter)