The first county magistrate in history

Chapter 252 Strong Woman

A special agent opened a box filled with bound account books.

Qin Zheng asked the special agent to push the contents of the box in front of Zhang Jinyuan and shouted coldly, "Zhang Jinyuan, take a look for yourself."

Everyone stared at the account books in amazement. How could they not know what was recorded in them?

Zhang Jinyuan opened an account book tremblingly.

Qin Zheng said at this moment: "Zhang Jinyuan, your crimes are too numerous to list. You colluded with grain merchants to hoard grain, set your own prices, and bought it at the autumn harvest at a price that was almost the lowest cost to the tenants, continuing to hoard it. The more difficult it was to sell grain during the lean season, the more reluctant you were to sell it, using high prices to gain leverage."

You openly do good deeds, but secretly engage in shameful things. For example, recently, you fell in love with the newly married wife of Xu You, the owner of the cloth shop, Xu Zhao. You secretly had a gambling house swindle all of Xu You's property, and then drowned him in a well to create the illusion of suicide.

"You paid off Xu Jiaqing's gambling debts in the name of charity, but the condition was to take Xu Zhao as your concubine. You are such a good person, you did such a good thing!"

The whole place was silent, but few people were surprised. Only people in their circle knew what kind of person Zhang Jinyuan was.

Zhang Jinyuan broke out in a cold sweat. How did the God of Plague know this?

Zhang Jiahe was also terrified, it was all over!

"Zhang Jinyuan, it turns out that you killed my husband." Suddenly, a woman's crying voice came from the back hall.

A young woman in silk clothes ran out, but was stopped by two burly maids who were chasing her and trying to pull her back.

Qin Zheng waved his hand.

A special agent flashed over and kicked the two maids unconscious.

The young woman pounced on the kneeling Zhang Jinyuan and started scratching him.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Jinyuan raised his hand to stop him.

"You shrew, how dare you!" Zhang Jiahe shouted and was about to stand up to help.

Qin Zheng shouted coldly: "Zhang Jiahe, did I ask you to get up?"

Zhang Jiahe's face changed and he quickly knelt down again, watching his father and Xu Zhaoshi entangled.

After all, Zhang Jinyuan was old, and soon the young woman scratched his face until it was covered with bruises.

Suddenly, the woman took out a pair of scissors from her arms, poof!

It pierced Zhang Jinyuan's heart.

As if he was afraid that Zhang Jinyuan was not dead, he stabbed him more than ten times in a row.

Elder Zhang Jinyuan opened his eyes wide and looked at Xu Zhaoshi in disbelief.

The incident happened too suddenly!

Everyone in the room was stunned.

Qin Zheng was stunned.

However, when Qin Zheng looked at Xu Zhaoshi, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

What a strong-willed woman!

At this moment, Xia Bitu also looked at Qin Zheng.

The two looked at each other.

No one spoke.

There was no stopping.

It's no longer necessary.

Zhang Jinyuan was already dead and fell to the ground.

"You bold and wicked woman, you killed my father?" Zhang Jiahe was furious and stood up and rushed towards the woman.

puff!

Suddenly, a cold light flashed.

A special agent sheathed his sword.

Qin Zheng's voice sounded coldly: "Did I ask you to get up?"

It's so arrogant!

You are not allowed to get up. Even if your father dies, you can't get up!

Disobeying orders means death!

Everyone kneeling in the room was stunned.

This imperial envoy didn't kill the woman who killed someone, but killed Zhang Jiahe whose father died?

Just as the legend says, he is a madman!

Xia Bitu's face twitched. This guy did it on purpose. He wanted to kill Zhang Jiahe.

Suddenly, the woman cried out in sorrow, "My dear husband, I have avenged you!"

puff!

The scissors in his hand suddenly stabbed into his chest and he slowly fell to the ground!

Everyone was shocked.

Qin Zheng frowned slightly.

Xia Bituo was thoughtful.

The two neither tried to help nor tried to stop the attack.

It wasn't because there wasn't enough time, but because the two of them knew that even if they saved this strong-willed woman, it would only be temporary.

This woman will definitely commit suicide to follow her husband!

Saving her would only increase the woman's suffering, and she would certainly have lost her innocence.

Since she has made up her mind to die, we might as well fulfill her wish.

This is respect for women's dignity and choice!

The woman's action was even more abrupt than the stabbing of Zhang Jinyuan just now, and no one could react.

Even the Zhang family members were still shocked by the woman's assassination of Zhang Jinyuan and the imperial envoy's killing of the Zhang family.

I was so scared that I didn't expect the woman to commit suicide.

The smell of blood spread.

Those kneeling were all trembling with fear.

Qin Zheng sighed deeply and said calmly, "Zhang Jinyuan and Zhang Jiahe, they are both extremely evil and should be torn into pieces. Since they are already dead, let's leave it at that. However, it's a pity for the victim's life..."

Qin Zheng's gaze suddenly turned to Zhang Jinyuan's family members, young and old.

These family members are already trembling like sieves.

The Zhang family has done a lot of evil over the years.

Zhang Jinyuan and Zhang Jiahe are both dead, and they cannot escape their fate.

Qin Zheng said, "For years, your Zhang family has manipulated grain prices in Guanxi, hoarding them and causing countless deaths of starvation. Every year, the imperial court allocates silver and grain to stabilize grain prices and provide disaster relief. The losses are incalculable, and the impact is extremely devastating. Many members of your Zhang family are involved. According to the laws of Daqian, the main culprit should be executed. The entire clan will be implicated, exiled, and all property will be confiscated!"

Exile?

The Zhang family was shocked. How could they, who had lived a life of luxury, endure the pain of exile?

"Sir, please spare my life!"

"Please have mercy, sir. I know I was wrong. Please give me a chance to reform!"

"Sir, these are all done by the men. We women did nothing!"

"Sir, I report..."

It was a mess, and in the end, they started to fight each other.

Seeing that Qin Zheng was unmoved.

Someone shouted, "Sir, we plead guilty and accept the punishment, but the child is innocent. Please don't send me, the descendant of the Zhang family, into exile as well!"

There was another burst of barking.

"Shut up!" Qin Zheng suddenly shouted.

These people were immediately frightened into silence.

Qin Zheng said, "This is already too easy for you. For all the evil you've done, you deserve to die! Don't you like food? Then go and cultivate the land, and never leave the place where you were exiled!"

As he spoke, he waved his hand and said, "All the main culprits of the Zhang family will be executed on the spot. The rest will be exiled to the Eastern Wasteland."

Puff puff……

The special forces swung their machetes, and more than a dozen heads fell to the ground...

Many people were frightened and screamed, and some even fainted!

"Come here, drive out all the Zhang family members, notify the Fenghua garrison, and escort them to the Eastern Wasteland. Anyone who resists will be killed on the spot!"

"Yes!" The special agents rushed forward and began to drive them away.

The Zhang family never dreamed that this would be the outcome.

The Eastern Wasteland is a primitive wasteland where wolves roam. Going there to open up wasteland and farm will result in death.

It would be better for the entire family to be executed immediately and end it quickly.

There were cries and pleas for mercy.

Very tragic.

But Qin Zheng remained expressionless and unmoved.

There was a strange look in Xia Bitu's eyes. Qin Zheng was so cruel!

If these people arrive in the Eastern Wilderness, none of them will survive.

This tactic of killing the chicken to scare the monkey will definitely scare many unscrupulous businessmen to death.

In fact, Qin Zheng did not agree with sending children into exile from the bottom of his heart.

Hongtong County abolished this law.

However, he is an imperial envoy and must act according to the law!

What the Zhang family did is indeed outrageous to both humans and gods. Without severe punishment, it will not be enough to appease the public anger.

Qin Zheng saw so many tragic scenes along the way that he felt that even exterminating all nine generations of his family would be too light a punishment.

I even feel that Daqian's law of exterminating nine generations of a family is quite good.

If there weren't such harsh laws, the crime rate in this world would probably be higher and more chaotic.

These people knew that they would be severely punished and that their descendants would be harmed, but they still dared to commit crimes. It is obvious that they have been blinded by greed and are beyond redemption. They deserve to die.

As for those children, what do they know? They are definitely not guilty.

However, if you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze.

Exterminate the clan and send them into exile.

These are all great vengeance and great hatred.

If you are too soft-hearted, you will indeed cause endless trouble.

Therefore, the extermination of nine clans and the exile of nine clans were still foresighted.

Of course, this is only suitable for this world, this era of lack of education.

Under correct ideological education, some laws in Hongtong County can be abolished.

Although exterminating nine clans and sending them into exile are cruel, they are very satisfying!

But this cannot be done for other grain merchants.

If all those involved in the case were exiled, it would probably force all the grain merchants in Guanxi to make a desperate bet and fight him to the death.

The food shortage in Guanxi cannot be solved.

After all, the food is now in the hands of these grain merchants.

If you push things too far and start a fire, the result will be more trouble than gain.

And the impact is too great, there is no way to handle it this way!

The work must be done smoothly and without causing any unrest!

The purpose of the two imperial envoys, him and Xia Bitu, was to control the food shortage and stabilize food prices, and not to cause chaos in the entire Guanxi area.

What's more, Guanxi is the territory of Liang Heng, the King of the Western Border, and you have to look at the owner before beating the dog.

If killing could solve the problem, the empress would have solved the food crisis in Guanxi long ago and would not have waited until today.

These unscrupulous businessmen can be made obedient by just a little scare.

But, this is just Qin Zheng’s temporary plan!

Soon, all the members of the Zhang family were driven out of the Zhang Mansion. Soon, the Fenghua garrison arrived.

Qin Zheng had the imperial sword and could mobilize local garrisons. The Fenghua garrison immediately took the Zhang family and others away.

Not only that, the defending troops divided into several groups to capture the nine members of the Zhang family who did not attend the birthday banquet and sent them all into exile.

This move indeed shocked many people.

This is worse than beheading. The Zhang family will be exiled to the Eastern Wilderness for life.

Everyone is in danger!

A prosperous family was destroyed in just a short while?

Everyone knows the reason.

It's impossible not to be touched and not to be afraid.

What's the point of making so much dirty money? In the end, it only harms the entire family.

At this moment, not only grain merchants, but also people doing other businesses were scared to death. Some people even decided not to make money from dirty tricks anymore.

At this moment, these people were still kneeling, and no one dared to stand up without Qin Zheng's order.

At this moment, Qin Zheng looked at the fat and big-eared Fenghua prefect Qi Baishun.

Qi Baishun was so scared that he was sweating profusely and his fat body was shaking non-stop.

He lowered his head and knelt there, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into and escape.

As the prefect of Fenghua City, he colluded with corrupt officials and businessmen to drive up grain prices and embezzle the imperial government's disaster relief funds. These crimes were absolutely serious crimes that would lead to the confiscation of property and extermination of the clan.

Since the Plague God Qin Zheng even has evidence of Zhang Jinyuan's guilt, then there must be evidence of his guilt in the remaining boxes as well!

As an official, he received a salary from the court. If he committed the same crime, his crime would be even more severe!

He is the prefect, an official appointed by the court. How could he not know the laws of Daqian?

It's over. For these crimes, he will definitely die. What's more, he has taken human lives many times. I believe that the box also contains evidence of this.

If he is punished for multiple crimes, his property will be confiscated and his entire family will be exterminated!

Qi Baishun almost peed his pants.

Just when he was panicking, Qin Zheng spoke: "Fenghua Magistrate Qi Baishun!"

"I'm here to greet the Imperial Envoy!" Qi Baishun knelt and walked out of the line, knowing that it was his turn.