Chapter 102 The culprit of the Bloody Case
Inspector Xiao Tianjian waited for half a month in Lianhuazhai, and did not hear that Shanxi officials sent a large number of officers and soldiers to come to Yangcheng County to find him trouble. During this period, he waited for a lot of other news.
After Fan Xi's secret operation, the Fan family's sub-colon in the small county of Yangcheng finally opened after the Shangyuan Festival, and the first batch of goods was also successfully shipped from Pingyang Prefecture to the boundary of Yangcheng.
Of course, as soon as the caravan appeared, it immediately fell into the eyes and ears of Xing Tianjun. Of course, Xiao Tianjian rudely 'robbed' the caravan and robbed all the goods and pulled them back to Lianhuazhai.
In Yangcheng County, Fan Xi also pretended to go to the county government and asked the county government to give him a reply. What answer can the county magistrate give him? He can't control nearly half of the territory in Yangcheng County. What's the matter if a caravan is robbed on his territory?
Therefore, Wang Jinsong, the magistrate of Yangcheng County, ostensibly promised to help the Fan family strictly investigate the culprit of the robbery, but behind his back, he directly put the case to the high pavilion and no longer asked about it. He just asked the patrol to arrange someone to go to the place of the accident. As for what the patrol can do, he will not ask. If the Fan family continues If he urges the progress of the case, he will directly push it to the inspector to deal with the unfavorable situation.
After all, Xing Tianjun did not cause him too much trouble in Yangcheng County. On the contrary, the south of Yangcheng County has won the hearts of the people, attracting a group of people who were originally squeezed in the city. At present, the situation in Yangcheng County is even better than before, and the number of exiles has been greatly reduced, making The public security in the city seems to be much better. This makes Wang Jinsong have a good impression on this Xing Tianjun. The key is that the thousand taels of silver given to him by Xing Tianjun plays a role in the dark. He doesn't want to provoke Xing Tianjun. In case he rushes the strong men of Xing Tianjun and sends troops to attack his county, Then isn't he asking for fun?
So although the Fan family is hard in the background, after all, it is only a merchant, which can't threaten his life. If they lose some goods, let them lose some goods! As long as Xing Tianjun doesn't cause big things, he will pass with his eyes closed.
So this matter was so. After asking twice, the Fan family saw that there was no response from the county government, so they stopped to continue to investigate the matter. However, Fan Xi secretly received the final payment from Xing Tianjun and received the second business from Xing Tianjun.
In the procurement list issued by Xing Tianjun this time, grain seeds have become an important procurement item. In addition to spring wheat seeds, there are also common seeds such as sorghum seeds and buckwheat seeds. Fan Xi knew that Xing Tianjun was going to work in this area in spring.
At the end of the first month, Fan Xi also heard the news of Fengyang in Zhongdu and was immediately shocked. What Xiao Tianjian said to him after the Spring Festival really came true. The refugees gathered in Henan did an earth-shaking event, which shocked the whole country, which made him doubtful. Xiao Can Tianjian be regarded as a guy? Unexpectedly, such a big thing can be expected by him. He can't help but be awed by Xiao Tianjian.
At the same time, he also followed Xiao Tianjian's requirements and took advantage of the Fan family's connections to pay attention to the news of the First World War I in Jiang County. When the incident broke out in Fengyang, Zhongdu, he also knew that the disaster caused by Xing Tianjun in Jiang County should not be a big problem.
When the news reached Lianhuazhai, Xiao Tianjian listened to the news sent by Fan Xi and laughed loudly. He immediately relaxed, and the stone in his heart seemed to have been moved down and became much brighter.
"Haha! It's just as I expected! Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are really bold. This time, they have made a hole in the sky! Now we don't have to worry about anything. I guess Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the capital, should cry very painfully. His ancestors' graves have been stolen. How can we take care of the little thing we did in Jiang County! Ha ha! Wu Xiong and others in Shanxi estimated that they could take the opportunity to take a breath. Who still has time to pay attention to this matter?
You can relax. You don't have to be so nervous in the previous few days. The government has no energy to trouble us now!" Xiao Tianjian immediately summoned his men to the gathering hall and told them the news.
As soon as the generals heard this, they all smacked their tongues and began to talk about it in the Juyi Hall. They all said that Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were really brave. Unexpectedly, they even went to pick up the emperor's ancestral grave. This time, they were sure to poke the hornet's nest. Today's emperor Zhu Youjian will definitely not. If you give up, you will definitely mobilized provincial officers and soldiers to retaliate against them crazily.
"We don't have to worry about this matter. Since they dare to do this, they are not afraid of the revenge of the court. We can be sure that at present, the court and several provincial governments have turned their attention to Henan, Nanzhili and Huguang, which is enough for Hong Chengchou, the governor of these five provinces! And the bigger they are, the better it is for us. Now the troops in Shanxi will definitely be quickly transferred to Henan and participate in the encirclement of Gao Yingxiang and others. There is no danger on our side!
At this point in Jiang County, it is estimated that the Shanxi Chief Secretary can only suffer a dumb loss and put this matter on hold, so now we can go out to get food again! Yan Chongxi, this time it's your turn and Zhao Erlu. If you go out this time, you might as well do more work and get more food. All parts of Shanxi must be empty. We might as well do more! Anyway, we have to solve the problem of spring food as soon as possible. You can't always sit and eat like this!" Xiao Tianjian ordered Yan Chongxi with a relaxed face.
Yan Chongxi and Zhao Er donkey immediately received the order and said that there was no problem. They immediately prepared to set out and get another batch of ploughing cattle or mules before spring ploughing.
And Xiao Tianjian turned his head and asked Li Lingfeng, "Ling Feng, how is the investigation of Yujia'ao after the Spring Festival? Now many people have known about the Yujiaao blood case, and some people are already panicked. You should always be a little confused!"
Li Lingfeng also just came back from the outside and didn't have time to report it to Xiao Tianjian. When he heard Xiao Tianjian ask him, he immediately replied, "General Qi, the matter of Yu Jia'ao has just been basically ascertried. It was done by a group of mountain thieves in the Houpogou in the north of the county!
He brought a few brothers the day before yesterday, touched the Houpogou area, and caught one of them first. After forcing him to ask, he also admitted that the thing of Yu Jia'ao was done by their head!"
"What? Why did they do this? We didn't provoke them. Yujiaao is a small village. What can the villagers offend them? Why did they come to our place to do such a sinful thing? After hearing this, Xiao Tianjian was furious and immediately stood up and asked Li Lingfeng.
Li Lingfeng lowered his head slightly, and then said to Xiao Tianjian, "General, listen to the words of the humble position. This matter has also been clarified. I also forced the man to ask why they did this, and the man also confessed to the truth.
Speaking of this matter, the cause of this matter is also very simple. It turns out that the fields of several villages around Yujia'ao used to be from a big family surnamed Tian nearby. This big family surnamed Tian had hundreds of hectares of land in our jurisdiction earlier, and the land of several small villages around Yujia'ao was basically the fields of their Tian family.
Later, after Yangcheng's three murderers grew up in the early years, they gradually controlled the area. Because the Tian family offended Xiao butcher, Zhuangzi was attacked by Xiao butcher many times. He was untenable here and had to move to another Zhuangzi in the north of the county. Their manor was later set on fire by Xiao butchers, but Xiao butcher did not care about the fields here. The people still grow the fields of the Tian family. Therefore, although the Tian family did not dare to return to this area, he still secretly sent people to collect rent in the area of Yujiaao every grain harvest season. This area is his land. Although he did not dare to stay here, he still had to collect the land rent, and Xiao The butchers didn't care much about the Tian family, and the people did not dare not deliver food to the Tian family, so it has been maintained in the past few years.
And this time they came to collect the rent arrears of the people here a year ago. First, the villagers of Yujiaao had no food to pay, and second, the original Tian family's fields were also divided with us to the people, so the people refused to give them, and they also ganged up to collect the rent and told the Tian family that this land was no longer his Tian family's land. He also said that these fields have been given to us, and they will not pay rent to the Tian family in the future.
After the Tian family knew about it, they held a grudge for it. Although they did not dare to come to revenge on the villagers of Yujiaao, they were also afraid that after a long time, it would be equivalent to losing more than 1,000 mu of land here, so they could not urge the rent, and they did not dare to come to revenge blatantly, so they used their brains, which secretly bought through Houpo. The group of mountain thieves in the ditch paid to hire them and asked them to come to Yujiao to harm the people who control Yujiao. By the way, they also knocked on the mountains and shocked the tigers, so that the surrounding people who occupied their land knew his strength, and also let the surrounding villagers know that the fields they planted were still their fields, and they would be given to them in the future. The Tian family paid the rent!
But I didn't think that this group of mountain thieves were too cruel. After arriving at Yujia Pass, they wanted to beat the villagers of Yujia'ao, but several young descendants in Yujia'ao were a little bloody. They fought with them on the spot and hurt two mountain thieves, so the angry mountain thieves made a fierce action, which made a bloody wash of Yujia'ao. Love!"
As soon as Li Lingfeng's words fell, Xiao Tianjian became furious, patted the table angrily, and scolded, "Daily, that's what happened!" His Tian family slaughtered the people in Yujia'ao village just for these lands! If I don't get this hatred for Yu Jia'ao's people, I won't have the surname of Xiao!"
The generals were also very angry when they heard it. Unexpectedly, the old wealth of the Tian family was so crazy that he colluded with the mountain thieves to kill so many people for the sake of land and land rent.
So Luo Lidang, who returned from his injury and was released from confinement, even came out and said, "General, let me go!" I will definitely bring back the old man surnamed Tian!"
Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and said, "Don't jump out in a hurry. Let's find out the situation first!" Ling Feng, let's talk about the situation of that group of mountain thieves, and also talk about the situation of the Tian family in the north of the county!"