Qin Official

The reason why Nanjun is called "South" is because it is relatively south of Guanzhong in the State of Qin, and the summer here always seems to be extremely long. In early June, as the plum rain dissipated, the heat wave returned. Amid the rising high temperatures, the ancient Yunmengze seemed to be boiling...

In this hot weather when everyone wanted to hide at home and not go out, it happened to be Heifu's turn to take a bath, so he hid at home and didn't want to go anywhere, but the charioteer Sangmu couldn't sit still.

"Lord, Yun Man and Li Ping are going to be executed in the market today. Don't you go and see?"

Hei Fu was sitting in front of an empty slip of paper with a pen in his hand, thinking. Hearing this, he said: "From the moment I arrested these two people, their fate was destined. What's so good about them?"

Then he waved his hand: "You can go alone, I am not traveling today."

Sang Mu responded and went out. He had been involved in this matter from the beginning to the end. He also helped Heifu send a message to Li Xian as a messenger, so he really wanted to go and see it today. Heifu and the others had been planning it for more than half a year. "results".

At this time, half a month had passed since Anlu Zuowei Yunman and Jiushui Township's third elder Liping were "double-regulated" by Hei Fu on the spot. Because Heifu asked Li Xian to frame Yun Man and Li Ping together and arrest them on the spot, which ruled out the possibility of arresting the two families by force. The guests and servants of the Yun family fled after hearing the inquiry, while Li Shi honestly did not dare. rash.

Heifu left some county soldiers to assist Anlu County in arresting the Yun family's children and guests who had escaped. He escorted the two of them to Jiangling without stopping, and handed them over to the thieves and jailers, thus completing his mission.

During Heifu's absence, Dou Ran, a tough guy, couldn't bear the water torture and resorted to all the tortures he could.

From the letters seized from Li's house, they were all ordinary human greetings. There is a saying these days, "Three generations of family affairs, the king is his; after the next life, he is the master." It means that as a retainer, if you serve a person for three generations, you must treat him or her as your own king and must not betray him. As a master, life and death are all determined by his words.

The Li family has served the Ruo Ao family for more than ten generations, and the deep friendship cannot be separated by national boundaries.

However, this is the Qin State where the law overrides human feelings. Stealing a mulberry leaf is also a crime of theft, and it is also illegal to pick up gold without knowing it. Lee's behavior is just like that in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was in mainland China but kept writing letters to Taiwan, he could easily be accused of espionage.

There are many cruel officials in the county who are best at picking up details. Those recounting the friendship between the two families can be considered as nostalgia for Chu and dissatisfaction with the Qin government.

Those seemingly ordinary greetings can be considered as revealing the current situation in Anlu, especially the details of the Ruo Ao tomb robbery case that Heifu solved, which almost put Heifu and Li You in danger...

Hei Fu remembered that after checking the matter, Lieutenant Li was very angry: "If this old man talks more, maybe I and Hei Fu are Dou Ran's prisoners!"

Soon, Li Ping's "crime of interfering with the princes" was confirmed, and he was sentenced to abandon the market. Because his son and Li Xian reported meritoriously, the crime ended with him, and his family members did not need to be implicated. When he learned of the verdict, Old Mailiping laughed loudly and said that he deserved to die, which made Heifu feel sympathy for him...

The case of Yun Man was somewhat different. The cautious Yun Man had long destroyed all the documents. According to Dou Ran's confession, although the two families had contacts, they were all on a commercial level. They used their respective powers to establish a relationship during the peace period between the two countries. Whether there is mutual exchange...

The Yun family sent their excess grain and leather to Hubei in exchange for more gold, tin, and lacquerware from Chu! All transactions were carried out secretly in Yunmeng Daze. Because of this, the Yun family became rich and called Anlu, known as "Yun Ban County"!

Yun Man's crime was no longer simply "connecting with the princes", but taking advantage of his position to carry out smuggling activities. Fortunately, the all-encompassing Qin law also had corresponding provisions.

Xi, who was in charge of hearing the case, first apologized to the county magistrate and county magistrate in shame, saying that he had been in Anlu for many years and did not know that the Yun family was secretly doing this kind of thing, which was his dereliction of duty. Then he held the legal order and said seriously:

"Shang Jun once said that when millet is born, gold dies, and when millet dies, gold is born. If one tael of gold enters the territory, twelve stones of millet will be lost outside the territory! If gold and jewels are accumulated in the territory, and they are exchanged for grain, the granary will be empty. , The country is weak! The gates are not strict, the forbidden nets are too leaky, and the rice and grain are all owned by the enemy!"

"Yun Man is a prince. This is the first crime. As a county captain, he knows the law and breaks the law and trades with foreign countries privately. This is the second crime. The law prohibits grain from leaving the country. This is the third crime!"

Xi, who couldn't hold the sand in his eyes, angrily rebuked the court: "The county governor once wrote "The Way of Being an Official", which said that there are five mistakes in officials. One is that they are cheap people and valuable goods, the other is that they are uneasy about their dynasty, and the third is that they live in The fourth is to be disrespectful when receiving orders, and the fifth is to settle down and forget about the government. One of the five is a bad official, and three of the five are dismissed. Now there are five of the five who are full of people. It is really a great evil. The body is close to death."

"All the above crimes will be investigated together and they will be cut in half!"

At this time, it was too late for Yun Man to quibble. Together with Liping, he was sentenced to be executed today.

Hei Fu should have been happy that the old grudge was avenged, but for some reason, he felt a little unmotivated afterwards, and he didn't even want to see the death of his old enemy.

In the evening, Sang Mu came back. During the meal, he excitedly recounted how many people were onlookers during the execution. On a hot day, Anlu's county magnates and country magnates were dressed in Chu clothes and were killed like livestock in the market. …

"Li Ping was calm and went to the execution calmly, but Yun Man was greedy for life and afraid of death. He struggled for a while, with feces and urine flowing out, and was finally knocked unconscious and carried to the execution platform."

Sang Mu described the scene of Yun Man's murder: "The ax was not fast enough, and it took three cuts before breaking his waist. Yun Man's upper body struggled to crawl forward two or three steps, and then he stopped, his eyes widened. I can’t close it no matter what, it’s really scary!”

Heifu listened quietly, his mouth full of food, but there was no fluctuation in his heart. Maybe Yunman felt that he was wronged, but it was a pity that there were many "miserable" signs in the seal script. I wonder how many he could write...

After swallowing the corn with the fish soup, Heifu said: "He really should die with his eyes open, because after all, only one clan leader died in the Li family, but the whole tree withered with all the branches and leaves in the Yun family."

The evil must be eradicated. After arresting Yun Man, Heifu also instructed Li Xian and Ji Ying to hand over all the Yun family's black materials collected in the past six months and start a detailed investigation from top to bottom.

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, which immediately triggered a wave of turmoil. In Anlu County and Jiangling, there were countless people who sued the Yun family for adultery, private fights, purchasing people from Chu as slaves, killing cattle, drinking, and playing games. Every crime is well documented.

As a result, the Yun family, whose descendants spread all over Anlu County, fell overnight. Except for Yun Man's nephew Yun Xiong, who was resourceful enough to bring a few people with him on the day Heifu went to Anlu to arrest Yun Man. Individuals fled from Yunmengze, and almost no one in the Yun family was spared.

All those who were officials were investigated. Some of them were guilty of serious crimes and were to be executed together with Yun Man. Most of them lost their official positions and even became prisoners and tortured in the city.

It is no exaggeration to say that one-third of the officials in Anlu County were vacated overnight!

The cause of all the consequences was planted at the beginning. The old grudge was over, and it was no longer Heifu's concern.

When Sang Mu went to watch the execution, he had already considered the words and wrote a short and easy-to-understand official document...

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The next day, when Heifu went to work at the county captain's house, everyone was still talking about yesterday's execution. Li Youyi brought up the old story again, and praised Heifu for designing the arrest of Yun Man and Li Xian. He was able to eliminate a chaos that might have caused unrest in the border county without a single blow.

But Heifu told Li You seriously: "Jun Lieutenant, Anlu's peace is just an illusion. The Yun family's fall has removed a cancerous tumor for Anlu, but it also cut off a piece of flesh and hurt Anlu." It's not small. Now in the Anlu County Lieutenant's Office, half of the officials have been dismissed because of their involvement with the Yun family, and there are not enough manpower to handle daily affairs. And the right lieutenant of Anlu County is a foreigner, and it is difficult to convince the public. Anlu The county's recruitment and training may be affected, and may even become Nanjun's weakness, giving Chu an opportunity..."

Anlu is a large county in Nanjun. It has a household registration of tens of thousands and can recruit more than a thousand soldiers. In addition, in last year's war, everyone in Anlu led by Heifu performed brilliantly, so Li You planned to let the Anlu soldiers join the county soldiers. As the main force of the Nanjun Corps, if this incident affects the recruitment, this is not what he wants to see.

"Since Mr. Hei told me about this matter, he must have a countermeasure, but it doesn't matter!"

Heifu took out the slip in his arms and placed it in front of Li You's case.

Li You took a look and found that they were some suggestions based on the current situation in Anlu, including quickly calming the people's hearts and recruiting outstanding grassroots officials and those with titles to fill the gap left by the collapse of the Yun family.

Heifu repeated the thoughts in the article and said: "The presence of powerful leaders in the place is not only found in Anlu, but has always been one of the stubborn diseases of Nanjun. Governor Ye once went to the county to clean up, killing hundreds of people in a row. Only powerful leaders in various counties have this problem." It has been restrained, but the tail is still too big to fall off. Although I dare not harm the place, there are many people like Yun Man who use public weapons for private use."

"Take Anlu as an example. Now that the Yun family has fallen, and the Li family has also died, it is a good opportunity to eliminate the power of the powerful leaders in one fell swoop! Those little Shengdou who have no family background and cannot find a way out are buried in the pavilions. Officer, this gives me hope of getting ahead!"

Heifu saw clearly that small peasant families of five to eight people were the foundation for Qin's country and army. Compared with clan leaders, these people were the biggest beneficiaries of military merit.

"Well said! In this way, if there are capable people to coordinate the execution, Anlu will be able to recover quickly and be better than before!"

Li You raised his hands and praised, but then hesitated: "Anlu is a large county, and the vacant position of Zuo Lieutenant must be filled by a suitable candidate..."

Speaking of which, why didn't he understand the unspoken meaning of Heifu's speech today? Then he smiled and said: "The right lieutenant must serve as an official in a different place, but the left lieutenant can be held by a local. Heifu, you are from Anlu. You are familiar with Anlu's situation and know military affairs. If I remove you as the left lieutenant of Anlu County, , can you stabilize the situation in Anlu and train the more than a thousand disciples of Anlu into a powerful force for me?"