The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 1051 Bloody Night, Fire Village

The demonic private soldiers and demonic iron knights rushed into Changxi Village like a torrent.

All the scholars behind Fang Yun were shocked.

There were too many demon barbarian private soldiers and demon iron knights, blocking the view so that no one could see what was going on.

Not long after, Fang Yun's private army stopped and lined up on both sides of the road.

Corpses were everywhere, blood flowed everywhere, and the pungent smell of blood spread in all directions.

Many children cried loudly and passed out while crying.

The woman who dropped her weapon first lay on the ground, shaking like a sieve.

"The demon iron knight dismounted, cleaned the streets, registered the corpses, and prepared for burning. The government soldiers arrested the rest and took them to the county government for interrogation. Except for the mother and child who could not be separated from each other, they took away all the children and sent them to the county liberal arts academy to be raised by the county government. ! If parents harm their children, are imprisoned, or abandon their children, the parents should temporarily take care of the children."

Some scholars nodded slightly, but there were also many scholars who were keenly aware that the statement "parents harm their children" clearly meant something.

Legalists, in particular, have even realized Fang Yun's intentions. I am afraid that Fang Yun will soon be piloting legislation. Once it is determined that parents have harmed their children, local officials can take away their children.

Many Legalist scholars frowned, but relaxed their brows when they thought of the word "temporary", which shows that Fang Yun will not have his own way when it comes to custody rights, and there will be certain restrictions.

The leader of the Demon Iron Cavalry carried the trembling Village Chief Diao to a nearby place, and threw him to the ground. There was a click, and Village Chief Diao's leg was broken. Then he covered his leg and screamed, rolling on the ground in pain. .

"Sir, the criminal has been brought here!"

Fang Yun nodded and was about to speak when Tao Dingnian, the county magistrate, suddenly stepped forward and said, "My lord, I have something to report to you."

All the officials' eyes were focused on Tao Dingnian. This county magistrate is a famous tumbler. He once served as a subordinate to eight county magistrates and is still standing. He used to be a partisan of the Left Prime Minister, but now that the Left Prime Minister has lost power, because He knows how to measure things, and his fortune needs to be stable, so he has not been touched.

But everyone knows that once the palace examination is over, the first person Fang Yun will solve is Tao Dingnian.

"What's wrong with Prime Minister Tao County?" Fang Yun looked at him calmly.

Tao Dingnian said: "Village chief Diao Zhili manipulated human traffickers, organized abduction and trafficking, set up private prisons, secretly hid weapons, colluded with bandits, raped women, harmed the people, resisted the law and killed officials, and gathered people to conspire. His crimes were extremely heinous. , He is still evil, even if he gives up his position as county magistrate, he will be severely punished! Today, regardless of your permission, he will be imprisoned in Diaojia Water Prison and let him taste the taste of torture! "

All the officials were silent, this was a strong man's broken wrist.

If Fang Yun really sent Village Chief Diao to a water prison for punishment, it would be a lynching, which in name would be more serious than killing all the rebels. Tao Dingnian simply shouldered the infamy for Fang Yun. He would definitely be dismissed afterwards, but he also saved the Tao family.

This is a pretty big petition.

Fang Yun looked at Tao Dingnian, nodded slightly, and said, "Go."

"Come down and accuse me!" Tao Dingnian selected several officials and servants who had been with him for many years, escorted Village Chief Diao, and found a woman to lead the way to Diaojia Water Prison.

Fang Yun stood at the entrance of Changxi Village and waited quietly.

The demonic private soldiers have returned. Although they killed people, they did not eat them. The human demon iron knights were cleaning up the corpses and dealing with the blood stains.

Afterwards, groups of government troops came out of the village one after another, and there were more women and children beside them.

Most of these women had messy hair and torn clothes wrapped in new clothes. Most of the women had dull eyes, more than half of them were injured, and some were chained. The chains dragged the floor and made a clattering sound when they walked.

Some government soldiers were carrying bedding, and some of the bedding had been stained with blood and was slowly dripping with blood.

These government soldiers were extremely sad and angry.

The Jinshi on the side couldn't stand it anymore, so they cut off the chains with sharp words.

A young soldier wiped his tears and walked up to Fang Yun and cried: "Fang Xusheng, it's so miserable, it's so miserable. The house I went to had a cell with seven living people, three dead people, and corpses. They were all rotten! After we rescued the seven women, two of them told their names and locations and asked to be buried. Then one of them hit the wall and died, and the other took our knife and committed suicide. It was so miserable, so miserable... ...Woooooooooo..." After saying that, the young soldier squatted on the ground and cried loudly.

Another soldier gritted his teeth and said: "You let the private soldiers kill before, and I blamed you for killing too many people. Now, I only blame you for why you didn't let us kill those beasts! You are really scum that is worse than maggots! This is simply You’re just a bastard! Damn it, Ji Zhibai, and the former county magistrates are all a bunch of bastards! Fortunately, Ning’an has Qingtian!”

Many soldiers followed and cursed, and the women all lowered their heads, not letting others touch or look at them.

Fang Yun sighed softly, Suppressing the anger in his heart, Chun Lei said: "My official destiny is the magistrate of Ning County. He came a step late and caused everyone to suffer. It is hard to escape the blame. I would like to apologize to you. After returning to Ning'an, I will write a letter to apologize. In addition, I The county will prepare some residences for you in Ning'an without outsiders. When you recover a little, you can leave. If you don't remember where your home is, I will arrange for you to work in the workshop and no one will know where you are. thing."

Many officials nodded lightly. How could these people not remember where their home was? Fang Yun was afraid that these people would not dare to go home and commit suicide.

In Shengyuan Continent, if a woman returns home after suffering such torture and insult, she will probably suffer double torture and pain.

Not to mention Fang Yun, even a half-saint cannot eliminate such a deep-rooted concept.

Except for a few women who are still numb, most women sob.

As for the children, most of them cried from the beginning, and only a few sensible children did not speak and waited quietly.

Some government soldiers gently put the rolled-up quilts on the ground and slowly spread them out, more and more.

Blood seeped into the soil.

Fang Yun gritted his teeth and continued to wait.

It took two hours for thousands of troops to check Changxi Village from beginning to end, and even brought some well-informed village women with them. With their help, they found seven secret dungeons and rescued dozens of people.

Finally, the great scholar of the War Hall who protected Fang Yun personally came out to confirm that there were no living people in the village.

The government army calculated a terrible data. There were more than 900 women and children who were trafficked in Changxi Village, and more than 100 women committed suicide after being rescued.

There were more than 200 young women. In order to sell them at a good price, the people of Changxi Village did not have many injuries on their bodies.

The government soldiers not only rescued people, but also found a lot of gold and silver, accounts and letters under the guidance of the village women.

While the government soldiers were dealing with the village, Fang Yun looked through the accounts and letters while listening to the confessions of the surviving village women, reporting those traffickers or Changxi villagers who were still in other places.

After the matter in Changxi Village was basically dealt with, Fang Yun asked the officials of the Criminal Hall to report, and on the pretext of suspecting that the rebels were manipulating the traffickers, he asked the Criminal Hall to issue an order requiring the government of the entire Mizhou to take action and start to arrest people related to Changxi Village.

Based on those letters and confessions, Fang Yun locked in many people, including not only the sons of merchants and officials, but also some officials and prominent families.

Most of the people who were connected with Changxi Village were from Qingwu Prefecture. Fang Yun had no scruples and sent a letter directly to Sai Zhixue, the new governor of Mizhou. He started very formally and finally hinted that if the matter was not resolved by thunder and lightning this time, he would personally lead his private soldiers to arrest people in various places in Qingwu Prefecture!

Sai Zhixue immediately replied that since there was an order from the Criminal Palace, he would join forces with Yu Xingshu, the governor of Mizhou, to ask the Grand Marshal's Office to mobilize the state army to arrest people.

Not long after, Tao Dingnian, the county magistrate, came back with some blood on his body.

"The torture instruments in the water prison were only half used, and Village Chief Diao died. I am incompetent." Tao Dingnian said.

Fang Yun nodded and said nothing.

Before leaving, Fang Yun asked a university scholar to write a war poem, calling for continuous rain of fire, turning Changxi Village into a sea of ​​fire.

In the sky-high flames, the convoy headed towards Ning'an City.

When they arrived in Ning'an City, it was already a sunny morning. Fang Yun made arrangements one by one before returning to the back court.

After dinner, Fang Yun chatted with Yang Yuhuan, played with Nunu for a while, and then returned to the study to write documents.

The first document recorded the process of going to Changxi Village to handle the case. Fang Yun told the truth that Changxi Village first killed the women of the yamen with weapons, and then gathered people to resist the law and intend to rebel. In order to rescue the innocent people who were imprisoned, he had no choice but to order the killing of the rebels.

The document recorded in detail the situation of Changxi Village in recent years.

Fang Yun sent a copy to the prefect, the governor, the cabinet and the criminal hall.

After that, Fang Yun thought for a moment and wrote a letter of apology. As a county magistrate, he took more than half a year to deal with the matter, and he was to blame. After the palace examination, he apologized and was demoted by one level, one rank, and fined for three years.

After writing his own letter of apology, Fang Yun wrote a letter to formally impeach the county magistrates of Ning'an County, Tong County and Hu County in the past thirty years, the prefects of Qingwu Prefecture, and the governors of Mizhou!

Left Prime Minister Liu Shan was once the governor of Mizhou.

The current Minister of Personnel and classmate of Left Prime Minister were also the governor of Mizhou.

Jingguo, the capital.

Many officials in the cabinet were in a panic.

Fang Yun's first letter shocked all officials. They didn't expect that someone in the human race would do such a thing!

Some officials looked at their colleagues with a sad look, because some officials were not shocked by the evil deeds of the villagers of Changxi Village, but by Fang Yun's order to kill people.

Some officials of the Left Prime Minister's party were not angry, but could not hide their joy, because this was a good opportunity to attack Fang Yun, which might ruin Fang Yun's several palace examinations, and there was even a very small chance that Fang Yun's top scorer would be cancelled.

The second letter did not cause much problem, but all officials thought that Fang Yun's apology was too heavy, but a few officials tasted the intention hidden in the apology.

When the third letter appeared, many officials suddenly realized.

Fang Yun, as an acting county magistrate who had been in office for less than a year, solved the problems of Changxi Village, but still asked for a reduction in rank. The crimes of the previous officials must be extremely serious.

Because Mizhou has been run by Zuo Xiang for many years, almost all the people impeached by Fang Yun are Zuo Xiang's people.

In these years, thousands of people were trafficked in Changxi Village, and more than 300 people died in Changxi Village. From the county to the prefecture to the state, the three-level government offices did not care about such serious dereliction of duty. Zuo Xiang must hand over a minister of the Ministry of Personnel to appease it! .

Well, Lao Huo said one more thing. The Internet control is too strict now. Some details cannot be written. Please forgive me.