sinovels Chapter 407 One Conspiracy to Rebel
Chapter 407 One Conspiracy to Rebel
Chapter 407
Above the restaurant, there was an uproar.
The originally relaxed and noisy atmosphere suddenly became extremely tense.
Su Zhaodao: "Kang Heng, you are fighting against the New Deal and conspiring to rob and kill the imperial envoys. Now that the Dou family has confessed, do you still want to argue?"
The Patriarch of the Kang family, whose original name was Kang Heng, had a pale face at the moment. How could he have imagined that the banquet, which was supposed to be a sound test, would end in a situation where his face would be torn apart.
For a while, there was no way to advance or retreat, and Nene couldn't be right.
On the other hand, the Patriarchs of Che, Shen and Wang looked at each other, knelt down and pleaded guilty, and said, "Marquis Su, we really have never resisted the New Deal."
Among them, the Patriarch of the Wang family raised his head and said anxiously: "Marquis Su, my Wang family will definitely cooperate with Qingzhang Tianmu, check the household registration, and do a great job for the king to reform the great government."
As soon as this remark came out, several other Patriarchs followed suit and expressed their opinions one after another.
Su Zhao snorted coldly and said, "Are you serious about what you said?"
The tactics just now were mostly intimidation. With the collection of intelligence from various sources in the past few days, the power of Dangjun County Wang in the local area is even greater than imagined.
It's not that they can't be wiped out, but this is still a county, and the clan forces in the counties and counties are intertwined. If they all act like this, the turmoil caused will spread to the entire Su country.
All the patriarchs clasped their hands and said: "We will never dare to obstruct the great progress of the New Deal, and I ask Marquis Su to observe our heart."
Su Zhao waved his hand, and said lightly: "Then just listen to what you say and watch your deeds, everyone, get up, prepare a table of good food, if you don't eat it, it will be wasted."
Several Patriarchs stood up with their arms, and wiped the sweat from their foreheads, but the next sentence made the prefect present raise his heart to his throat.
"Come here, bring Kang Heng back to the county office for questioning." Su Zhao shouted.
The Patriarch of the Kang Family was still in shock, when he suddenly heard this, his expression changed, and he said in shock: "Marquis Su, the grassroots will never dare to obstruct the New Deal..."
However, the soldiers of the forbidden army who were waiting in the hall came forward and took the head of the Kang family away without any explanation.
When the head of the Kang family was taken away by the imperial army, everyone on the second floor looked at each other in blank dismay, terrified to the extreme.
However, there were also some who began to think in a more general way, why were the Patriarchs Shen and Wang, who were also involved in the case, safe and sound?
So, the meal was finished in uneasiness.
Su Zhao didn't stay any longer, left the restaurant and went straight to the county office.
As soon as Su Zhao left, some prefectures also disappeared in twos and threes. In the box with messy cups and dishes and overflowing with alcohol, the head of the Wang family, who had shown fear on his face, gradually disappeared the flattery on his face. The head of the family exchanged glances, and said angrily: "Excessive and tyrannical, so far?"
The Patriarch of the Che family, Che Li, is a middle-aged man wearing a beam crown and a long robe. Hearing these words of resentment, his complexion changed drastically, and he said in shock, "Brother Wang, be careful with your words."
The Patriarch of the Wang family's face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "My virtuous brothers, do you really want to watch with your own eyes, when I have accumulated several generations of achievements and amassed family assets, will be wiped out by him?"
Che Li sighed, and said, "Man is a knife and I am a fish, even if he is not willing to do so, what can he do? Since he took the throne, he has been ruthless in his methods and killed with sincerity. He hasn't even had a year. The situation in the city is changing, how many important people have their families ransacked and exterminated? Brother Wang, let’s save money and avoid disaster.”
Che Li was obviously frightened by the recent ups and downs.
"Isn't he afraid that the people in Dangjun County will be in chaos, and there will be smoke everywhere?" The old face of the Patriarch of the Wang family showed a ruthless look, which can be said to be completely different from the appearance of kneeling down and begging for mercy just now.
It is clearly the way for a gentleman to change.
Shen Ji, the Patriarch of the Shen family beside Che Li, sighed, and said, "Old Wang, there is a saying that a good man never fights with officials. This Marquis Su only took Mr. Kang and left us here, just to prevent There is great chaos in the county, and the tactics have been restrained, Mr. Wang, don't fight for a moment."
"What do you mean, this is surrender?" The Patriarch of the Wang family changed his face slightly and asked.
If he was the only one fighting alone, with little power, he would not be able to fight against the New Deal.
The Patriarch of the Liang family was also an old man with gray hair and over fifty years of age, and sighed: "Brother Wang, don't be anxious and be patient."
"You really want to hand over [-]% of your property?" The head of the Wang family said in shock.
Shen Ji sighed: "Otherwise? Is it really necessary to kill the officials and rebel? Finally, we can still do business in the county. This land... is for the safety of the family, so just hand it over."
At the end, his face was full of heartache.
Compared with the Dou and Wang families, although the Shen family did not purchase much land, they still had eight or nine thousand hectares. This was bought from the people of Dang County after ten years of accumulation.
According to Yan Chang's "redemption and purchase" policy, the imperial court will buy one hectare at the price of 20 gold for any land deed purchased from the common people, that is, the land transaction that pays the deed tax in the government. Those who have no delivery deed tax are illegal transactions and will be confiscated directly. For those who come from robbery and robbery, they will be investigated for [-] years.
Needless to say, some of the land purchased by Hao in the counties and counties was purchased in times of disaster, but a lot of them were acquired by force.
No way, there are still some murder cases involved!
Where can stand scrutiny?
This is not over yet, each family hiding hidden households must first declare, and then be checked by the county officials and sergeants, and then pay the Dingkou tax according to the hidden household registration, which has been evaded for nearly 20 years.
This would cost their own lives. Their family hid in hiding and sheltered them from the per capita tax. There were tens of thousands of adult child servants in total. Adding the child servants and their family members, the number was really huge.
After this and that, the government would not pay any of the gold obtained from the land redemption, and each of their families might even make up for it.
This is simply driving people to a dead end!
Taking the risk and attacking and killing the imperial envoys are the options at hand.
The Patriarch of the Wang family took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, if you want to hand over your property and population, we will take care of the benevolent. Now there are still tens of thousands of young and strong family members in our family. ..."
Shen Ji's face changed slightly, and he said anxiously: "Mr. Wang, this conspiracy is about confiscating the family and exterminating the family!"
Even if Yan Chang came here, they were only colluding with bandits, intimidating and obstructing him from carrying out the New Deal, gathering rioters to attack the government, and taking a huge risk.
At the beginning, the several families had an agreement that once the incident happened, they would not admit it even if the family was exterminated.
At that time, the heirs of each family hidden in the county will be protected by the other heads of the family to help them revive the family business.
But even though it is so thorough, it did not attract the imperial court's scruples, and Wen Yi did not accuse Yan Chang of "acting in a hurry and inciting civil uprisings". Instead, he ushered in a more severe blow——Su Hou dear!
Since then, all of them have regretted it.
"Several virtuous brothers," the Patriarch of the Wang Family lowered his voice, "I have asked someone to inquire about it. The one who came to Dang County only brought five hundred forbidden troops..."
As soon as these words came out, the expressions of several people in the room changed slightly.
Spying on the guards, this is obviously a long-planned plan.
But, is it true that Wang Ji really disregarded the life and death of more than 4000 members of the Wang family and conspired against him?
At this time, the Patriarch of the Liang family's expression changed, and he said, "Guys, I'm not feeling well, so I'll take my leave first."
As he said that, he was about to leave, and his Liang family must not participate in the matter of treason.
Wang Ji said quietly: "Brother Liang, this is the end of the matter, is there any way out for the Liang family? You and my two families have many in-laws. Once the crime happens, can your Liang family survive?"
And behind the screen, several burly men with gloomy faces turned out, drew out half of the horizontal knife at their waists, and blocked the way of the Patriarch of the Liang family with cold eyes.
"Wang Ji, what do you mean?" The Patriarch of the Liang family's expression changed slightly, and he asked.
"The six families in Dang County and I were originally united in the same spirit. Now that the Dou family has collapsed, the Liang family is about to follow suit. These days, I have been thinking about it. Since that person will not give us a way out, we don't want to die either." Sit back and wait for death, and kill yourself!"
"Crazy! You are crazy! That person is so easy to provoke. Since he succeeded to the throne, look at whoever opposes him, which one will end well?" The Patriarch of the Liang family said anxiously.
(End of this chapter)