GBP Chapter 905 Am I really that hated?
Chapter 905 Am I really that hated?
He was preceded by the ruthless and vicious Imperial Guards, and followed by his own younger brother who was as stupid as a pig.
Xu Zhen suddenly felt that life was bleak.
"Why is it that your Embroidered Uniform Guard is treating a country bumpkin like me like this?"
Like a defeated dog, Xu Zhen barely raised his head and looked at Zhu Da, asking, "I, Xu, have always been law-abiding and have never offended anyone, let alone provoked your Embroidered Uniform Guard. There must be a plausible reason why you have pinned so many charges on me?"
Zhu Dahe sneered, walked up to Xu Zhen, and whispered, "You paid for the Yang Gong Ancestral Hall in your county, didn't you?"
As soon as Zhu Da finished speaking, Xu Zhen became anxious: "I'm not the only one building the Yang Ancestral Hall!"
"Moreover, how could building the Yang Ancestral Hall bring so many charges?"
Zhu grinned broadly. "So, you're not the only one who's having bad luck."
At this point, Zhu Da clicked his tongue again, "First, you should know that the Imperial Son-in-Law is the Commander of our Embroidered Uniform Guard."
"If you dare to provoke the Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, you should be prepared to suffer retaliation from them."
"Secondly, our garrison commander has always disliked you. Even without the Yang Gong Temple incident, he was already thinking about how to deal with you."
"The matter of Yang Gong Temple is nothing more than you yourselves handing the knife to our garrison commander."
"Third, the Embroidered Uniform Guard will not wrong an innocent person, nor will it let a bad person go free."
“Since I, the commander, accuse you of treason, I must have sufficient evidence.”
Zhu Da turned his head and glanced at the Imperial Guard captain beside him, and scolded, "Why aren't you going to search Master Xu's bedroom for armor and seals?"
What the hell?
Xu Zhen stared at Zhu Da with a completely bewildered expression.
There are armor and seals in my bedroom?
Why don't I even know this myself!
Xu Zhen glared at Zhu Da and shouted, "You're framing me!"
Zhu Da sneered again and said, "That's right. You yourselves said that the Embroidered Uniform Guard are the lackeys of the loyal and good, and they will stop at nothing to frame and slander people."
"If I don't use some methods to frame someone, wouldn't I be taking this infamy for nothing?"
"Of course, my garrison commander is kind-hearted and has specially left you a way out."
Xu Zhen ignored Zhu Da.
They said the pacification commissioner was kind-hearted.
It's nothing more than a cat playing with a mouse, manipulating people's hearts.
Zhu Da said to himself, "As long as you honestly confess to all these crimes, you will die and your family property will be confiscated, but the rest of your Xu family will be able to go to Liaodong alive."
"Of course, you can refuse to acknowledge it."
"If you don't acknowledge it, the Xu family won't be on His Highness the Crown Prince's list of pardons."
"Your whole family went to the Yellow Springs together, and your nine generations of relatives went to Liaodong."
Xu Zhen suddenly raised his head and stared intently at Zhu Da: "As long as I confess to these crimes, my wife, children, and elderly parents can live?"
Zhu nodded with a smile, "Of course, my garrison commander guarantees they will make it to Liaodong alive."
As for whether I can survive after arriving in Liaodong, that depends on how Hu Weiyong arranges things; it has nothing to do with my family's garrison commander.
However, thinking about the records kept by the Embroidered Uniform Guard, especially the records about how Hu Weiyong treated the officials and gentry who were exiled to Liaodong, Zhu Da felt that the Xu family might as well be dead.
At least we don't have to go to Liaodong and suffer that kind of torment.
Xu Zhen gritted his teeth, steeled his resolve, and shouted, "I confess! I confess everything! Furthermore, I want to confess!"
"It is true that the people here started the construction of Yang Gong Ancestral Hall, but it was Xie Yang, a scholar from Xiejiazhuang, who instigated them to build it."
"The reason I took out money to help them build the Yang Ancestral Hall was partly because Xie Yang asked me for help, and partly because Wu, a wealthy man in our county, instructed me to do so."
"Wu Ji, the eldest son of the Wu family, is currently serving as the county magistrate in our county."
"..."
Xu Zhen rattled off a long list of names, then looked expectantly at Zhu Da and asked, "Wouldn't this count as redeeming myself through meritorious service? Could I beg for a lenient sentence?"
Zhu laughed and looked at Xu Zhen, asking, "How do you want to treat him leniently?"
Xu Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "I know I am going to die, and I don't ask to live. I only ask that after my family arrives in Liaodong, they can arrange a clean background for my son. Don't worry, sir. My son is only one year old and doesn't remember anything. I only ask that you send him far away so that he doesn't know about his background."
As Xu Zhen finished speaking, Zhu Da couldn't help but shake his head.
How did such an idiot survive?
"You really don't read the 'Hongwu Great Proclamation' that the imperial court issued to you at all?"
"You idiot."
Zhu Da sneered without any restraint: "Your Majesty is kind-hearted and benevolent. Apart from the forced labor and mutilation, let alone the crimes I have arranged for you, even if they were crimes of treason or disrespect, you would not implicate the elderly or children over seventy or under seven."
"Your son, who has just turned one year old, will be sent to the orphanage and raised by the imperial court. He will be allocated land when he is due, and he will be allowed to study when he is due."
“Apart from not being able to become an official or join the army, they are no different from ordinary people.”
"As for those people you just confessed about..."
Zhu Da glanced at Xu Zhen and said sarcastically again, "These people have been watched for a long time. You'll probably see them first thing tomorrow morning."
……
Yang Shaofeng was completely bewildered as he held the report sent back by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
Um, can someone explain to me why the number of officials and gentry involved in the Yang Gongci case far exceeds that of the previous blank seal case, plow case, missing child case, ironware outflow case, and a whole host of other cases?
Am I really that hated?
Zhu Biao glanced at Yang Shaofeng with schadenfreude, then stroked the fluffy Northeast Golden Shaded dog and said with a smile, "Provincial Governor Hu should be very happy."
"Tens of thousands of people, wow."
“In the past, a major case would only involve 20,000 to 30,000 people.”
"As a result, this one case of Yang Gongci is equivalent to four or five major cases in the past."
"My brother-in-law is really something else."
As soon as Zhu Biao finished speaking, Li Shanchang immediately shrank back.
Knowing full well that Yang Dianfeng was ready to kill, His Highness still dared to provoke him. He was far too brave.
Hu Weiyong wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.
Over 100,000 people.
Damn it, even if only 30% of the 100,000 people are able-bodied, Liaodong can suddenly have 30,000 to 50,000 more able-bodied people!
Even if each person can only manage one mu of waterlogged and hilly land per year, they can still cultivate 30,000 to 50,000 mu of fertile land next year.
Developed!
Most importantly, these people were all officials and gentry from Jiangnan.
Hehehe...
No.
Sending only two golden shaded dogs before made me seem too stingy.
I'll catch two bears for Yang Dianfeng to play with later.
Yeah, deer blood is pretty nutritious, I'll catch a few more deer for him while I'm at it.
It would be wonderful if Yang Dianfeng could personally lead a trip to Liaodong, so that I could at least show some hospitality as a host.
At the very least, Yang the Madman should see with his own eyes what happens to those officials and gentry under Hu's rule.
Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong turned his gaze to Zhu Biao and tentatively said, "Your Highness, I would like to invite the Imperial Son-in-Law to Liaodong next spring. I wonder..."