In Chaoyang City, the sound of public trial in the past few days, one after another, returned to the square in front of the inner city government office.
"Thank you, General Wang..."
"Thank you for the virtual master..."
"Wish to put a longevity card to remember it..."
This is the continuous voice and testimony of the family members of the parties who gathered and wandered around in the prefectural yamen waiting to recognize each other, and then were sent out one by one.
As the driving force behind all of this, Zhou Huaian is also listening to reports from Zakon on the recent results of home ransacking and arrest, as well as some things that came out of surprise and torture. As for the public trial of criminals and the reputation and reputation of being the master of the people, it is Under his suggestion, the head Wang Pan was accepted; it can be regarded as a reward for his consistent support behind his back.
From time to time, the corresponding name and location were newly tortured and sent along with the confession as a further screening and decision on the next action; occasionally, a certain stronghold and hiding place was found and discovered, and then checked or breached The news came back, and the former guest, Qing Shui Wanghan, who had just decided to commit a crime anyway, stood on the sidelines and waited for consultation at any time.
As a well-known land of poor mountains and evil waters, in the coastal areas from Fujian to Lingnan, it is no longer a matter of news that powerful households go out privately to kidnap people as slaves, or even rob and kill past business travelers and pedestrians. In the historical records and local chronicles of later generations, some places even have officials colluding with large households, specializing in abducting and selling children and castrating them for personal confession, selling records for profit;
And in front of these traffickers who are intrigued by profit and have intricate relationships, even if it looks like Gao Lishi, the world's first eunuch in the Kaiyuan period, the descendant of the Feng family of the Lingnan giant from his childhood, and the official home of a local county lieutenant. It is hard to escape.
He was regarded as a special product of Lingnan in his childhood as a private confidant, and he was offered to the palace with King Huo Jin. He began to prosper in Li Longji’s Linzi Palace. He was finally able to regain his incomplete body after his power was overwhelmed by the world. After recognizing the ancestors and returning to the ancestors, they have been given away for several generations with time, but the resentment and tragedy caused by this has been going on for years.
You must know that his great-great-grandfather Feng An was already a figure like a Tu emperor who had segregated Lingnan in fact during the period of Nanchen, that is, in the once-popular martial arts fantasy novel "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", there are four great figures in the world. One of the archetypes of the Lingnan Song family; even in the history textbooks of later generations, it is also a positive figure to promote national unity with Mrs. Xian.
His descendants would actually fall to this point, which shows how rampant human traffickers in Lingnan were at that time.
Zhou Huaian always thought that this was just a piece of historical allusion, but he didn't expect that it would happen to him, and he experienced it personally. Although the official government no longer exists, the big households who have colluded with it are still left behind; and taking advantage of the brief period of chaos brought about by the rebels’ see-saw fighting with the official army, they rampantly abducted and looted the population for profit.
So now, their hoarding of young children and teenagers who are going to be castrated as confidants, plus the women they have obtained from other places, has reached more than 1,000 people; they accounted for 30% of the permanent population of this state city. One is more than one, involving thousands of households; plus their various relatives and friends are old and old, more people are indirectly involved.
Moreover, even some original wealthy or middle-aged homes are not immune to the results; because the quality of the people produced by these families is higher and more people suffer more in the process, it is really full of evil and heinous guilt. .
And as the behind-the-scenes and general backstage behind all this, it is known as Chao, Xun, the underground three mountains and five associations, the nine social groups and fifteen lines on the face of the fish family; and those who are worthy or worthy on the face The prestigious Xingdong and the head of the meeting are not outdated, such as the veteran tycoon who has been entrenched in Zhoucheng for many years, and the agent or external relations supported by it.
It is said that their ancestors were the great eunuchs and Quan Huan in the Qianyuan period. Yu Chaoen, who was known as "the emperor but stayed in the ban, paid the old slave for foreign affairs", was one of the additional adopted children; later Yu Chaoen After losing power, the assassin was killed in a cesspool, and his adopted sons were also liquidated and held accountable. One of them has since been exiled in Lingnan, and has become a veritable leader of this trendy underground for several generations.
Therefore, as the larger local tigers, this tribe not only extracts profits from various open operations on the surface, but also controls and monopolizes huge profits and outlets in various underground businesses that will not be used.
This large-scale human abduction and trafficking activities that have lasted for many years, as well as the secret production behind the scenes, are among the main items; it even exceeds the smuggling of imported goods and the distribution and trafficking of illegal coastal salt; it is also their collusion. The government and the important means to please the court. And this time the rebels went south to sweep the Lingnan region, and the war and movement brought about by the locals also gave these underground forces a variety of space and opportunities to take advantage of the chaos and make a big profit.
In a sense, since Zhou Huai'an seized and controlled Fengling Port, the largest port on the coast, it was inevitable that it would inevitably compete with Yushi, who holds a large portion of the gray interests in it, and directly have correspondingly opposed interests. The relationship is related; the people, goods and other resources that they have hoarded cannot be transported out, and a large number of them are stranded; therefore, there are really unexplained and unclear coincidences in the midst of it.
Despite this, these underground forces found shelters among the rebels within a short period of time as daily cover methods; for example, they had eyeliners and partners in the city gates to inform the daily movement of rebels.
Therefore, what made Zhou Huaian even more distressed was that some people in this rebel army were getting corrupt and degenerate too quickly, and he had just turned around outside and came back, and the rebel army became like this.
However, this is the scope of Wang Pan's power to deal with the aftermath. As for whether he will attack other uneasy existences in the army or unstable factors, it is not an issue that Zhou Huaian needs to consider. . Regardless of how complicated the ideas of those leaders might be, most ordinary soldiers obviously welcome this kind of big-ticketing and follow-up public trial activities.
What he cares more about is the practical benefits of making a fortune in silence. Because copying these nine societies and fifteen lines and their behind-the-scenes gains is another great harvest, even no less than the big plundering when the city was broken. Although most of them have to be confiscated, it is also a sense of fun and accomplishment to watch so many things.
Among them, dozens of industries and corresponding facilities in the city and their related practitioners are involved; and when some hidden strongholds are checked, they may even encounter different levels of resistance, or different levels of evidence of destruction and signs of flight. This is further proof that the opponent's long-term energy and power in this city is not as simple as what can be seen on the surface.
Although there is some flaw in it, even though the majority of people were controlled on the night of the banquet in the business hall, the biggest culprit behind the scenes was the patriarch and head of the Yu clan. Still ran out of the secret door reserved in the side wall and disappeared;
However, this has nothing to do with the overall situation. With this full-scale thunder sweeping momentum, most of the Yu clan still in the city and the backbone members who rely on minions and lackeys have been captured in one fell swoop, and they have been sent off one after another. Go to the beheading stage on the execution ground, or join the hard labor team to make atonement.
With their death or punishment, the underground network and channels that the Yu clan controlled and the local control and influence were destroyed and destroyed from the root. After all, without these middle and lower-level manpower who can drive things, and the specific affairs and maintenance channels they are responsible for, it is impossible to find out for a while only by escaping with a bare rod and some slippery fish outside. What big storm is coming.
Moreover, Zhou Huai'an also symbolically let people be at the scene of the execution, solemnly executed a deceptive substitute left behind by the other party after going through the process of correcting the punishment in the Ming Dynasty. This completed the so-called "Qing Ban". The master fish and officials of the city have died in terms of jurisprudence and people's hearts.
In this way, even if this person has the opportunity to come up again in the future, he will find that his family has been woven by wealth and power for generations, and the fear and awe that have shrouded most people's psychology have long since disappeared. And he can no longer be a "dead man", or get more help and influence.
In addition, Zhou Huai'an had an unexpected collateral gain, that is, he was supplemented by a large number of craftsmen and apprentices in the major squad; mainly from the people who have been enslaved and suppressed for a long time under these guilds controlled in disguise. Although there are almost no experienced craftsmen, they are all young and strong who are dissatisfied with the status quo, which is more convenient for subsequent transformation and re-education.
And through the performance and feedback of the three teams of investigation, census, and work, Zhou Huaian also initially summed up new experiences and mature models; for example, the power of mobilizing and recruiting people in these cities, and those who work mainly in agriculture There are also great differences in the situation in the countryside, or in the cities and towns that have been gathered due to circulation.
Except for the undifferentiated crude coolies at the lowest level, even other laborers, hired laborers and the like, actually have corresponding guilds and merchants, or gang-like associations, or township gangs. Carry out varying degrees of personal control.
So if you want to mobilize and use their power, you have to compromise and exchange with the existence of these vested interests in the name of cooperation; but now there is a better opportunity. By liquidating these guilds and related people, it can be justified to break them. The inertia that has been used to control the daily life and has been exploited for a long time lies in the shackles built on them. (End of this chapter)