Chapter 858 (II) Sweet Power
Everyone must be responsible for his own actions. This is the lesson that society taught Jiang Qingzhi in his previous life.
He has taken over the power of the new policy, so he should bear this kind of retaliation.
But the counterattack that follows is also his right.
Standing in front of the house, Jiang Qingzhi asked, "Have you notified the local officials?"
"I've been notified. They said... send someone over here immediately to take orders." Mo Zhan said.
Hu Zongxian sighed: "But they are late."
Jiang Qingzhi nodded, "Let's do it!"
Sun Bu Tong was eager to make a contribution, so he rushed forward and kicked him.
Bang!
The wooden door was very thick and sturdy. Sun Bu Tong was bounced back, holding his ankle and howling silently.
Sun Chonglou walked over, stopped, and raised his leg.
踹！
Bang!
The door was kicked open suddenly.
Sun Chonglou looked back at Sun Bu Tong and shook his head.
In the smoke and dust, more than a dozen big men suddenly stood up.
Sun Chonglou walked in from the smoke and dust.
"I am Sun Chonglou. If you want to die, stand up."
In an instant, five people knelt down.
The other six were stunned.
The leading man looked bleak, "Is it Long Wilbur?"
Jiang Qingzhi walked in, "Were you waiting last night?"
Just as Zhu Xun was about to speak, someone suddenly rushed over from behind.
"Old Five, don't go!"
Zhu Xun shouted.
This group of people were brave and aggressive in the past, and they were rampant for a while. Later, Yang Jiang paid to bring them to his home to be guards. Over time, their banditry gradually faded, but today when they suddenly encountered a crisis, some people still chose to resist.
"Why do this?" Jiang Qingzhi narrowed his eyes and a knife flashed beside him.
"kill!"
Then step back.
Mo Zhan seemed to have not moved. The big man who rushed over to him covered his chest with his hands, his cheeks trembling, and said softly: "Brother, I... should listen to you..."
The big man fell down, and Jiang Qingzhi said slowly: "Sixteen houses were burned down in the village last night, three people were seriously injured, and dozens were slightly injured. These people... break their legs! Hand them over to the local authorities."
"No!"
Someone among the big men shouted, "Since life is worse than death, let's fight him."
Several big men rushed over with swords drawn.
Mo Zhan said in a deep voice: "Don't leave any one behind!"
As he opened his mouth, Sun Chonglou had already rushed over.
The thick-backed long sword was swung, making a powerful whistling sound.
Blood donations surged and screams of pain were heard everywhere.
"I am willing to surrender!"
Amidst the screams, a knife flashed and a human head flew in front of Zhu Xun.
He looked at Jiang Qingzhi who was walking towards him, and slowly knelt down, his eyes filled with despair.
The knife light stopped behind him.
Sun Chonglou wiped his long knife on the corpse's clothes and muttered, "There's no prohibition at all. If I had known this, I wouldn't have done it."
Mo Zhan sighed, "Can you at least leave a few for us?"
"It's easy to kill." Sun Chonglou said.
Killing people is easy. These words made the remaining men dare not even think of resisting. They knelt there with their heads lowered and trembling all over.
"It's a nice house." Jiang Qingzhi walked past the big men, walked into the lobby, and came out, "It's burned down."
He walked out of the house, and Mo Zhan shouted from behind: "Light the fire!"
Jiang Qingzhi was standing outside the gate of the house, with flames blazing behind him.
"It's gone."
When the villagers rushed out of their homes, they saw more than a hundred sturdy men standing outside the master's house, with a young man in the middle.
"Mind your own business and don't bring trouble upon yourself!" Sun Bu Tong said.
"Come in!"
"Da Lang, stop looking and come in."
"The master's house is on fire."
"It has nothing to do with us!"
"Less trouble, more hunger."
These are the farmers of the Yang family. On weekdays, they either eat bran or wild vegetables or just struggle to make ends meet. In winter, every household is worried about the food they have. Housewives calculate carefully how much they can eat every day to survive the lean period and wait until the next wheat harvest.
"Old Hu!"
"Uncle!"
"I have no intention of becoming a saint, nor can I become one. But I have always been puzzled as to why, among all human beings, some are human and some are not? I acknowledge that there are class differences, which are inevitable. But among all human beings, why can a small group of people enslave the majority?"
In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was at the top, followed by princes, generals and ministers. Below him were officials, scholars, scholars, petty officials... This was one class. Below that was another class.
This class worked hard every day, but they were not well fed and clothed. They lived through the spring, summer, autumn and winter in a numb manner. As long as they were not starving to death, they would shout for the arrival of a prosperous era under the teachings of the literati.
"What is a prosperous age?" Jiang Qingzhi asked, but more importantly, he was asking himself.
“Why the New Deal?”
For the sake of the country?
In his mind, the purple energy deep in the cauldron suddenly moved and became a little thicker.
"The country has lasted for thousands of years, but what is the point of maintaining this country? Is it just to allow those meat eaters to enslave the majority of people?"
Jiang Qingzhi stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the farmers who were rushing into their homes in panic, and said self-deprecatingly, "I never thought that there would be a day when I would scare the people."
Hu Zongxian sighed, "Master, this has been the case in every dynasty. It was like this in the Han and Tang dynasties, and it was like this in the Ming dynasty. It will certainly be like this in the future. Master himself said that meat eaters are mean and greedy... Desires are endless. As long as they are given an opening, they will desperately drill in and devour the flesh and blood of this dynasty."
"Yes!" Jiang Qingzhi was not a moral purist, but he felt a little disappointed at this moment.
"How can I guarantee that this world will be fair? To be honest, I can't even guarantee what kind of person Dapeng will become in the future. And..."
Jiang Qingzhi smiled bitterly, "Power is tempting, I don't know if I will change in the future."
Seeing that the farmers were afraid of him, Jiang Qingzhi felt disappointed but also somewhat complacent and elated.
He was aware of this emotion, so he felt so melancholy.
Jiang Qingzhi warned himself, I am just a mortal, I will make mistakes, and I have seven emotions and six desires. So, don't overestimate yourself.
Don’t indulge yourself.
The strong north wind fanned the fire, which in turn pushed the north wind forward, and the fire was now approaching from behind.
Jiang Qingzhi felt the warmth on his back and took a deep breath. "It's not like me to be so sentimental."
He pushed those thoughts out of his mind.
The local officials arrived.
Jiang Qingzhi glanced at him and saluted. "Lei Yi greets you, sir!"
Lei Yi pointed at the fire and said, "The thieves were surrounded and they were so desperate that they set fire."
Jiang Qingzhi's eyebrows twitched, and Hu Zongxian said seriously: "The follow-up matters will be left to you."
Lei Yi looked upright, "Please rest assured, sir. I will make all the arrangements properly. By the way, sir, those thieves... I heard they were arrested? I think they should be killed!"
Look!
Even the subsequent troubles are cleared away for you.
In other words, just do what you do, no matter what it is, and don't worry about the subsequent troubles, because there will be someone to smooth it out for you.
You are still that upright senior official.
Flawless white jade!
Jiang Qingzhi thought of some officials who became so inflated after taking office that they lost their minds, and wondered, when they encounter such subordinates or when they are in such an environment, how many of them can restrain themselves and be cautious?
This is just a big dye vat!
Once you jump in, it's hard to clear your name.
Jiang Qingzhi waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"
Not long after, Lei Yi's roar was heard from the village, "The Yang family set fire to destroy the evidence. Send someone back to the county to report to the county magistrate. Send someone to the Yang family to arrest them!"
This is the posture.
Yang family.
Yang Jiang was talking to a man.
The man's name is Li Ning. He has been a teacher in the Yang family for three years. He has done a great job in educating Yang Jiang's sons, so Yang Jiang intends to keep him at home for a long time as a think tank.
Although they are called think tanks, they are actually one level higher than managers.
But the pay is good and the status is somewhat detached.
If it fits, stay; if it doesn’t, disperse.
Yang Jiang was over 40 years old, with a fair complexion, only slightly less fair than Cui Fu Ma. He stroked his well-maintained beard and said slowly, "Since this has been done, don't say you regret it."
Li Ning nodded, "Dong Weng, Jiang Qingzhi is a new official, so he will definitely take someone down. I think those ten or so people are the trouble."
"Hmm?" Yang Jiang was impulsive in the raid on Jiangjiazhuang, and Li Ning was unaware of it. After Yang Jiang informed him today, Li Ning advised Yang Jiang and said that Dong Weng was reckless in this matter.
Li Ning sighed, "Zhu Xun and his men are wild and are the best of the rangers. They are outspoken and will keep their mouths shut for the sake of their own lives. Once the news has died down, these people love to drink and may leak some information after drinking. Dong Weng, what will Jiang Qingzhi do when he hears the news?"
Li Ning stared at Yang Jiang. He was just a teacher, and it was not his job to give advice at this moment. If Yang Jiang persisted, he would find a chance to leave the Yang family.
That's Jiang Qingzhi!
Li Ning didn't want to be implicated.
"The Yang family has lived on those few acres of thin land for generations. Jiang Qingzhi is going to cut off our livelihood. How many people in the world want to kill him now? Even the officials in the court are enough to make him suffer. How can he have the time to pursue us? As for afterwards..."
Yang Jiang didn't notice the disappointment in Li Ning's eyes, and said confidently: "I predict that the new policy will repeat the mistakes of the previous Song Dynasty. What happened to Fan Zhongyan? What happened to Wang Anshi? They were all too busy to take care of themselves and fell into poverty. By then, even if he knew that I was the one who did it, everyone in the world would know it too."
Yang Jiang smiled and said, "At that time, I will become a righteous man and hero in the eyes of the world. How could they let me suffer any harm? This move will make the Yang family rich for generations. Sir, please teach my sons well. When they go to work in the future, they will have a smooth career with my heroic deeds last night!"
"Mr. Dong has foresight and foresight. I admire him!"
Li Ning is an expert in teaching, but he is a layman in this field, so he couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this.
If several of his disciples could enter officialdom, his circumstances would also improve.
The more Li Ning thought about it, the more excited he became. He stood up and said, "I just remembered that I have an article to tell you young gentlemen."
"There's no need to rush." Yang Jiang said with a smile.
But Li Ning was impatient, as if he had learned the article thoroughly and would be able to take the imperial examination with ease.
Watching him go out, Yang Jiang shook his head and chuckled, with a smug look in his eyes.
"Jiang Qingzhi, I have been watching you from the dark, watching you prosper, watching you fall, and watching your family and children leave you..."
boom!
There was a sudden loud noise from the direction of the gate.
Yang Jiang was angry, "Go and see who it is. Take it first."
"Yes." said the servant outside the door.
"Ah!" There was a scream, followed by a shriek, "Mercy!"
(End of this chapter)
